2023江苏省南京市中华中学、南京师范大学附属中学江宁分校等2校一模高三英语试题

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第二部分阅读（共两节，满分 50 分)

第一节（共 15 小题: 每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Roadside Oddities

There are many different types of roadside oddities,from giant museums to a person's garage.

The one thing they have in common is that they all spark people's interest and cause them to stop.

Do you want to know more about those odd roadside attractions? You'll just have to pull off the

road to find out!

What Is The Thing?

Driving between Texas and Arizona, you can't miss the signs for The Thing. Giant billboards

at the side of the road ask,"The Thing? What is it?" They call it the "Mystery of the Desert."

Whatever else it is, The Thing is one of thousands of roadside attractions around the world.

Roadside attractions are weird and wonderful.They invite people to stop and check them out.

Boll Weevil Monument

You've probably heard of monuments for presidents, but have you ever seen one for a bug?

The Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise,Alabama, is one of the only statues in the world

dedicated to a pest. In 1915, the bug destroyed the city's cotton crops, forcing farmers to grow

different types of plants, such as peanuts. In the end, growing crops other than cotton helped the

people of Enterprise. So they built a monument to honor the weevil.

Lucy the Elephant

In 1881,James V. Lafferty built the world's largest elephant to attract people to the land he

was selling. The six-story building in Margate City, New Jersey, is covered with 12,000 square

feet(3,658 sq m)of metal. Today,Lucy the Elephant is one of America's oldest roadside attractions.

You can still climb inside her.

World's Largest Basket

When you're going on a picnic, you often pack a picnic basket, but not one that's seven

stories tall! Employees at the Longaberger Basket Company in Newark, Ohio, get to work inside

the world's largest basket. The building is a replica of Longaberger's Medium Market Basket.

When it was first built, a local pilot flew his small plane through the handles!

21.What is Roadside Oddities mostly about?

A.How to plan a trip to see roadside attractions.

B.How wonderful and odd roadside attractions are.

C.How roadside attractions are built.

D.Where to buy roadside attractions.

22.What caused the farmers to build the monument to the boll weevil?

A. The boll weevil helped farmers decide to grow new plants.

B. The boll weevil ate all the bugs harmful to plants.

C. The boll weevil helped all the cotton to grow.

D. The boll weevil was a roadside attraction.

23.What do the world's largest elephant and the world's largest picnic basket have in common?

A. Both are built the way people can go inside.

B. Both are located in the State of Ohio.

C. Both are no longer open to visitors.

D. Both were built by the same person.

One cold winter day, a dog walked to the edge of an icy river in Poland.Nobody know for

sure where the dog came from or what he was doing there. But he was about to have a big

adventure.

Without warning, the ice that the dog was standing on the broke away from the land. The dog

was swept down down the river on the sheet of ice half the size of football field. The

frightened dog looked for a way to get back to the shore, but he was trapped on the ice. the river

was too cold for him to swim to safety.

Some firefighters saw the dog drifting down the river as he passed through their city.They

tried to help him, but they couldn't reach him.The firefighters could only watched as

the ice carried the dog farther down the river.

On the fourth day, the dog passed the mouth of the river and was swept out into the Baltic

Sea. he had traveled more than 75 miles(120km) from where he began. he was moving farther

away from land and any hope of rescue. The piece of ice he was standing on shrunk to the size of

picnic table.

The dog was facing a deadly end to his an adventure ，but his luck was about to change.

some scientists and sailors aboard a research ship named the Baltica were passing through the

area.They saw an animal moving on the ice in the distance and decide to ascertain.

At first, people on the ship thought the animal was a seal. they were amazing when they got

closer and saw that the "seal" had four legs, floppy ears, and a tail. they had found a dog floating

on the ice 15 Miles(24km) from land.

The Baltica's sailors were able to bring their ship close to the dog.They lowered a net next to

the dog.but he was too scared to climb into it. the dog even slipped and fell into the cold water

while they were trying to help him.Luckily, he was able to climb back onto the slippery ice.

Fearing that the dog would drown, the crew lowered a raft. Adam,the ship's mechanic, used

the raft to get close to the dog.Adam grabbed the dog by the back of the neck and pulled him into

the raft.

Now,Baltic is the mascot of the research ship that found him and travels with the crew

everywhere. He has many fans around the world who learned about his incredible journey and

rescue.The president of Poland even wrote a letter to the crew of the ship,praising them for saving

Baltic's life.Baltic started out cold, wet, and alone on the ice but ended up warm,dry,and

surrounded by new friends.

24. What is the main problem in this story?

A. Tho dog slipped into the water.

B. The dog was trapped on a piece of floating ice.

C. The dog had nothing to eat for days

D. The river was too cold for the dog to swim in.

25.How do you understand the underlined word in paragraph 5?

A. Do some research B. Solve a problem

C. Rescue someone D. Try to find out more about it

26. What can best describe the dog?

A.Adventurous and Lucky B.Brave and Persistent

C.Homeless and Brave D.Scared and Fortunate

27. What can be the best title of the article?

A.A 15-mile Icy Adventure. B.Baltic Rescue

C.An Adventurous Dog D.An Incredible Journey

A comic called Finnish Nightmares has come under the spotlight on Chinese social media an

d generated a new term"jingfen",referring to being“spiritually Finnish". Matti, the main character

in the comic, is a typical Finn who fears small talk and doesn't like people entering his

personal space.

“Matti tries his best to do to others as he wishes to be done to him: to give space, be polite an

d not bother with unnecessary conversations,"Chen Si, 26, who studied in Finland said,“In

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