高中教育高二英语广东省汕头市金山中学2012--2013学年度第二学期期中考试高二英语试题

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• 21Which of the following is NOT a reason why people kill sharks、

  A.People kill sharks for food.

  B.People kill sharks for sport.

  C.People kill sharks out of fear.

  D.People kill sharks because they often attack swimmers.

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• 22According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true、

  A.There are many different species of sharks, but only a few of them are dangerous to humans.

  B.Sharks never get ill.

  C.Sharks are a valuable resource for human.

  D.Sharks play an important role in the ocean ecosystem.

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• 23It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

  A.movies have given people the wrong impression of sharks

  B.most sharks are dangerous to humans

  C.sharks will attack anyone who is wearing black

  D.it is dangerous to swim in the ocean

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• 24The underlined word “prolong” in the last but one paragraph means ______.

  A.save

  B.protect

  C.lengthen

  D.improve

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• 25The best title for the passage would be _______.

  A.Are Sharks Dangerous、

  B.Sharks And Humans

  C.Sharks: Humans’ Friends

  D.Sharks Help Save Human Lives

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• 26What does the passage mainly talk about、

  A.What an earthquake is like.

  B.How to predict earthquakes.

  C.Where earthquakes often happen.

  D.When a fault is formed.

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• 27That scientists study the history of large earthquakes in certain areas is to ultimately_________.

  A.do research on the past frequency of large earthquakes

  B.estimate the magnitude of similar earthquakes

  C.forecast the possibilities of similar earthquakes

  D.judge the specific location of future earthquakes

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• 28Which is TRUE according to the passage、

  A.There were four magnitude 6 earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay region between1979 and1989.

  B.The accumulating strain of the fault to a certain level results in the earthquake.

  C.About 68 years after 1911, no earthquakes occurred in the San Francisco Bay region.

  D.The fast increasing population on the earth is the main cause of the earthquak

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• 29What is the critical factor of forming a fault、

  A.The material of rocks.

  B.The existing time span of the rocks.

  C.The plate movements around the rocks.

  D.The amount of strain released in the last earthquak

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• 30According to the passage, we can know that the San Andreas Fault System____.

  A.has a greater understanding of the causes and effects of earthquakes

  B.stores much more information about the history of large earthquakes

  C.offers the potential for doing research on the faults where strain accumulates

  D.illustrates specifically how rocks along a fault are formed

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