高二英语期中考试前训练试题(编辑修改稿)

高二英语期中考试前训练试题(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

54. A. technical B. different C. difficult D. valuable 55. A. nearby B. close C. busy D. alive 第三部分：阅读理解 (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 British Red Cross volunteer Philip Roberts showed how important basic first aid Philip was driving down the M6 motorway early one morning when he came across a serious road accident. A truck had crashed into a car, driving it off the motorway As the first person on the scene, Philip made sure it was safe to approach the vehicle and found an unconscious woman inside, slumped (陷入 ) forward and with her airway blocked. As another driver approached, he shouted for them to call the emergency services. Then Philip acted fast. He recalls： “Climbing into the car, I immediately lifted the woman’s head and opened her airway, so she would be able to breathe. I then kept my hands on her head to keep her neck steady, as the crash could have caused spinal (脊柱的 “When the emergency services arrived, they asked me to stay inside the car and maintain the woman’s airway while they cut off the roof of the car.” By the time the woman was freed from the vehicle, half an hour later, she was starting to regain Philip said, “The simple first aid techniques I used can be learned in five minutes, yet they probably saved the driver’s life. Surely that’s a worthwhile “It shows that you don’t necessarily need a big first aid kit full of medical equipment Thousands of people are killed on UK roads every year and over half of road accident deaths occur before the emergency services arrive. It can take less than four minutes for a blocked airway to cause death, while it takes around eight minutes for emergency services to arrive. 56. What would be the best title for this passage? A. The Importance of First Aid Skills B. Philip Roberts, a British Red Cross Volunteer C. Simple Skills Save Crash Victim D. It’s a Worthwhile Way to Spend Five Minutes 57. What do we learn about the accident? A. Philip was driving a motorbike when he saw the accident. B. The car crashed into a truck and then blocked the way. C. Philip was the only person on the scene of the accident. D. The woman’s car was driven into a bank by the truck. 58. The underlined word “he” in the third paragraph stands for ________. A. the truck driver B. another driver C. Philip D. the woman’s husband 59. How did Philip help save the woman’s life? A. By helping her to breathe. B. By calling the emergency services. C. By stopping the bleeding. D. By cutting off the roof of the car. 60. “A first aid ki t” most probably means ________. A. a box with first aid tools inside B. a vehicle with doctors and nurses inside C. a simple bed on which first aid is offered D. a hospital with many first aid equipments B A small town in southwest Britain is banning plastic bags in an attempt to help the environment and cut waste – a step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe. Shopkeepers in Modbury agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday. They said paper bags sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead. Last month, San Francisco became the first . city to ban plastic grocery bags. Internationally, laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland, where governments either tax shopper who use them or fine panies that hand them out. Banladesh already bans them, and so do at least 30 remote Alaskan villages. Modbury, about 225 miles southwest of London, has also declared a bag amnesty(宽限期 ) , allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that have piled up at home. They will be sent for recycling. The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking, who saw the effects of bags on marine life while working in the Pacific as a。