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2019-2020年高一英语暑假阅读天天练 第十七天(2)New York, September 15. During a heavy rainfall last night a bus carrying 42 passengers slipped off the road on Highway 28, killing 36 of the passengers and the driver. A spokesman for the Highway Patrol(巡逻队) who arrived at the scene shortly after 11:30 p.m. estimated(估计) that the accident had happened about half an hour before. The injured and the dead were sent to the nearest town of Valley View.At the point where the accident happened the road has a three-lane(三条行车线) highway with many curves(弯道). Cause of the accident has not been fully found out.1. It was very likely that the accident happened _.A. after 11: 30 p.m. B. in the city of New YorkC. at or about 11: 00 p.m. D. in the town of Valley View2. How many people died in the accident?A. 37B. 36C. 43D. 423. In consideration of what caused the accident, one should pay attention to _.A. the careless driverB. the nearest town of Valley ViewC. Highway 28D. the road with many curves(3) Yong Liang, two years old, is the first giant panda raised from birth in the zoo. Last month zoo keepers found the panda was suffering from serious anemia(贫血), calling for urgent blood transfusion.The best way, according to the zoos experts, to save Yong Liang from anemia would be to transfuse blood from another panda. But it was the breeding season for giant pandas, and such a transfusion would be very difficult.But the experts found that there exits a close consanguinity(血缘) between giant pandas and black bears, and so they decided to try to take blood from black bears in the zoo and transfuse it to Yong Liang.With the help of hospitals and the Beijing Blood Donor Station, they made an experiment which proved that the red blood cells in the blood of black bears can be used.On the afternoon of February 15th, the first red blood cell transfusion was given to the giant panda about 600 ml blood from the black bear. Immediately the young panda started to recover.1. Which of the following is NOT true to the article?A. Giant pandas and black bears are of the same race.B. The transfusion was based on scientific research and experiments.C. After the transfusion, the young panda began to regain health.D. The 2-year-old panda was probably born in the Beijing zoo.2. They decided to try another way to save the panda because _.A. it was difficult to find other pandasB. the blood of pandas was too expensiveC. it was the breeding season for the panda, Yong LiangD. other pandas were producing young at that time3. The best title of the article should be _.A. Protecting Giant PandasB. Yong LingA Giant PandaC. Bear Blood Saved PandaD. A Successful Transfusion(4) CHENGDU New towns are rising rapidly in the countryside of Sichuan Province, southwest China. Over the past two years, some 200 towns have been set up, bringing the total to 5, 600. The towns are located at places with transport(交通运输) facilities(设施条件). They serve as a link between cities and countryside, through which farm product is transported to the big cities and all kinds of goods brought from the cities to the countryside. Datang, on the Sichuan Tibet(西藏) Highway, in Pujiang county(蒲江县) used to be a market. Now it has bee an economic and mercial(商业的) centre of four counties nearby, and a link between these counties and the provincial(省的) capital of Chengdu.1. This passage was probably taken from _.A. a travel bookB. a history magazineC. a newspaperD. a textbook2. Which of the following is the closest to the number of the towns in Sichuan two years ago?A. 200.B. 5 400.C. 5 600.D. 5 800.3. The new towns serve to help _.A. add more transport facilitiesB. make peoples cultural life richC. business and the exchange of productsD. economic mercial center
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