第9周英语周六测试题 题目

Unit4Astronomy:the science of the stars

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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

No matter how well prepared you are as a traveller,animals can still attack you. Our advice?Keep your distance.

Colin Bristow

I was working as a guide in Botswana.There was a sudden movement to my left, and an elephant crashed through some small trees less than20metres away.Suddenly I was knocked over by one of the tourists crying“run,run”at the top of his voice.My backpack got tangled up(缠绕)in some small trees so I couldn’t move.Elephants have poor eyesight(视力)and this may have been what allowed me to run away.I managed to free myself from my backpack and ran for my life.

Baz Roberts

One night I was just falling asleep when Faul’s voice woke me,“There’s a bear in the camp.I’m serious!”I went to unzip the tent door.Directly in front was a bear about ten metres away.It heard the sound of my tent zip and turned to face me.Then I started shouting.When it got about one metre away,I threw some snacks into the bear’s face.If it hadn’t turned and walked off at that moment,we wouldn’t have survived.

Zebedee Ellis

I was at a zoo with Mummy and Daddy two years ago.In a large open area next to a pond,we saw some big fat pelicans(鹈鹕),all full of fish.I was very pleased and danced up and down in front of them.Then one big pelican tried to eat my T-shirt.I think it went for me because I was moving around so much and that made it nervous, but I really wish it had made some kind of scratch(抓痕)on my skin to show my friends.

21.What saved Colin Bristow’s life?

A.His backpack.

B.Some small trees.

C.The help of a tourist.

D.The elephant’s poor eyesight.

22.What did Baz Roberts do when the bear was one metre away from him?

A.He shouted at it.

B.He threw some food at it.

C.He went back into his tent.

D.He turned to Faul for help.

23.What are the three people talking about?

A.How they protected wild animals.

B.How they got well prepared as a traveller.

C.Their experience of working with animals.

D.Their experience of surviving an animal attack.

B

George Grey was born in Lisbon in Portugal on14April1812.After completing his education at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in England in1826,Grey went to Ireland with the army.He felt sorry for the Irish people and thought it would improve their lives if they moved to Australia.In1836he planned to lead an expedition(远征队)to look for land for a settlement in northwest Australia.

He left England on the Beagle in July1837.In Cape Town he took another ship, the Lynher,and sailed to the north coast of Western Australia.After landing

near Collier Bay his group walked inland.Grey and his men were totally inexperienced and lacked survival skills.The local people were hostile and Grey was injured.It took two weeks before he was well enough to travel.They discovered and named the Glenelg River,Stephen Range and Mount Lyell.The land was not suitable for settlement,so in April they sailed to the island country Mauritius to get some rest.

Grey returned to Australia,and in February1839he sailed from Perth to Shark Bay,Western Australia.His team landed with three whaleboats to go northwards. They lost their food when one whaleboat was damaged in a strong storm.They finally