新疆兵团第三师第一中学2015届高三上学期高考模拟卷（八）英语试题
第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、c和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
0n the Florida coast，the sun is setting like a huge。range ball an old man‘s walking down the beach carrying a basket. He stands on the dock(码头)and you notice he i§looking up into the sky and all of a sudden you see a mass of dancing dots• You soon recognize that they are seagulls． The man takes out his basket handfuls of shrimp(虾)and begins to throw them the seagulls come and land a11 around him Some land on his shoulders。Some land on his hat，and．they eat the shrimp．Long after the shrimp are gone his feathered friends linger.
One man m the scene was Ralph，a famous World War II pilot． His plane crashed in 1 942 and nobody thought he would be rescued．Perhaps you have read or heard how he and his eight passengers escaped death by climbing into two rafts(充气船)and staying there for thirty days．They fought the sun and sharks•But what nearly killed them was starvation．Their supplies of food went out within eight days and they didn’t have anything but some drinking water left．
One day，Ralph tried to get some sleep with his hat over his eyes．With—in a few moments he felt something on his head．H e knew instantly it was a seagull which had landed on his raft．But he knew that they were hundreds of miles out to sea．Where did。this seagull come from?He was also certain that if he didn’t get that seagull he would die．Soon all the others on the two rafts
noticed the seagull．No one spoke，no one moved．Ralph quickly caught the seagull and they ate the flesh of the bird．They used the intestines(肠)for fishing and survived．
Ralph never forgo that visitor who came from a foreign place .Every week,he came to the dock with a basket of shrimp and kept on saying“Thank you!"
21•What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A..The old man makes his living mainly by fishing．
B .The old man feels shocked at seeing the seagulls．
C．The seagulls have been very familiar with the old man
D．The seagulls are afraid to come
22•The underlined word‘‘1inger’’in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to“______”
A.escape B．Remain C．Struggle D：survive
23•Which of the following Words can best describe Ralph’s feelings on seeing the seagull on the raft?
A.Surprised and annoyed．
B．Puzzled‘and excited．
C Disappointed and Worried
D．Anxious and frightened．
