新疆生产建设兵团第七师高级中学2017-2018学年高一英语下学期第二次月考试题本试卷满分：150分 考试时间：100分钟第一节阅读（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。AEmily and Zach are confused! Their parents told them they could choose betweenMassachusettsandArizonafor their vacation this summer.Emily has always wanted to visitBoston, the capital ofMassachusetts. Zach and she both agree that walking along the Freedom Trail would enable them to seeBostons most famous places of historic interest, like the site of the school Ben Franklin attended and the Old State House. If Emily and Zach went toMassachusetts, they could spend a few days at the beaches onCape Cod. Emily loves body boarding, and Zach is great at body surfing. They both enjoy building sandcastles with their mom and dad. Zach finds learning about Native Americans wonderful and has always wanted to travel along the Apache Trail inArizona. This mountain highway passes Native American ruins inTontoNational Forest. Emily is not as interested in traveling along this trail as Zach, but they both would like to visit Phoenix, the capital, and then travel to Grand Canyon National Park and Meteor Crater (陨石坑). Zach learned in science class that Meteor Crater is a hole over 4,000 feet wide and 520 feet deep that was created when a huge object from space fell to Earth. The object went so deep that it has never been found. Zach would really like to try to discover it. But Emily thinks if experienced scientists and researchers cannot find it, Zach might as well not even bother (费工夫) to try. The onlydrawbackfor Zach and Emily if they chooseArizonawould be the heat. It is very hot and dry in this southwestern state.Massachusetts, on the other hand, is in the northeasternUnited States. Here Zach and Emily and their parents could enjoy mild (温和的) temperatures. Their parents love hot weather, but Zach and Emily do not really like to sweat. How will they ever decide to which state they should travel? If only they could take two trips!1. Emily and Zach will spend their summer vacation _.A. visiting their parentsB. learning how to swimC. doing some sightseeingD. living with Native Americans2. Compared to Emily, Zach is more interested in _.A. design B. sportsC. beaches D. history3. The underlined word “drawback” in Paragraph 4 means _.A. value B. reasonC. interest D. disadvantage4. What would be the best title for the text?A. A difficult choice B. An interesting planC. An unforgettable trip D. A personal experienceB In theU.S., speaking more than one language fluently is not very common except inLos Angeles,California. The city has one of the largest populations in the U.S. of young people between the ages of 18 and 34. More than half of them in Los Angeles are bilingual (会说两种语言的). Maria Elena Burgos, a mother of two American-born daughters, is cooking a Mexican breakfast. She says making Mexican food is just one of the many traditions in her home. Another is speaking Spanish to her children. “We want to keep Spanish somewhere in their learning too, not only at home.” Ms. Burgos thinks being bilingual will give them more opportunities in the future. Knowing Spanish also means the children can talk with their relatives inMexico. Ms. Burgos daughters both want to know their familys culture. “We are doing this in order to go back to our roots because thats part of who we are,” they say. The U.S. Census Bureau (人口普查局) says more than half the adults in theLos Angelesarea between 18 and 34 years old speak a language other than English at home. For the whole country, the number of bilingual adults is only 25 percent. The number of bilingual speakers has gone up since the 1990s. University of California Los Angeles professor Raul Hinojosa says that in the past, the children and grandchildren of immigrants (移民) did not continue to speak the parents native language. But now the opposite is true. In the last ten years, more immigrant parents say they want their children to keep speaking their native language. Mr. Hinojosa calls their choice the “path of pride”. The decision to keep a native language is clear inLos Angelesnow. And, as the number of minorities in theU.S.continues to grow, he thinks bilingualism will spread to the rest of the country.5. Ms. Burgos hopes her two daughters can _.A. have a healthy dietB. become true AmericansC. develop many good habitsD. have a competitive advantage6. Whats the attitude of Ms. Burgos daughters towards speaking Spanish?A. Bored. B. Worried.C. Interested. D. Surprised.7. From the last three paragraphs, we can learn that more people in theU.S._.A. are proud of their new countryB. speak English very fluentlyC. are learning a sec