阅读理解 (本题共计4小题,总分30分)2.(6分)Free Online Drawing ClassesDrawing is a skill you can learn at any age. When you are ready, you can learn the basics of drawing by taking one or more of the free online drawing classes offered here. The websites all offer helpful instruction for beginning artists, and many of them offer classes at intermediate (中级的) or high levels. When you use the websites as your art instructors, you can log on to learn whenever you please.ArtyfactoryThe Artyfactory Art Lessons Gallery offers free online art lessons that include basic drawing classes for pencil, ink and colored pencil. For visitors who want to expand their knowledge of art, the site also offers an Art Appreciation Gallery and a Design Lessons Gallery.Academy of Art UniversityThis free video class from the Academy of Art University called “How to Draw a Head” teaches you how to draw a head from a photo or from memory. The instruction is mainly on facial proportion (比例), expression and drawing basics.How to Draw ItThe How to Draw It website offers a simple approach to drawing animals and people. The animal tutorials (教程) are super easy to do, while the people lessons are a bit more difficult. All are free to visitors and making fast progress in your drawing skills is possible.Free Online Art ClassesThis site covers a range of art classes, but there are several free drawing tutorials for online learners, including: Learn Basic Drawing, Draw with Pen and Ink, and Learn Colored Pencils. Some of the classes are downloadable and some are in video form.1. What is special about the drawing classes offered by How to Draw It?A. They have different levels. B. They are quite hard to learn.C. They focus on people and animals. D. They charge learners a little money.2. Which website provides head drawing lessons?A. Artyfactory. B. Academy of Art University.C. How to Draw It. D. Free Online Art Classes.3. What do the drawing classes on Artyfactory and Free Online Art Classes have in common?A. They are for adult learners. B. They provide download services.C. They have art appreciation classes. D. They teach basic drawing techniques.3.(8分)It all started because Lynn and her two teenage children needed to get from Georgia to Alaska, where Lynn’s husband, an American officer, is stationed (驻扎). Lynn packed up all their belongings, bought a 4x4 truck, and started a cross-country family adventure. The first 3,000 miles of the trip went well.The farther north they traveled, the worse the weather got. Lynn, who was raised in the South, met her first winter white-out conditions. Then she used up windscreen wiping fluid. Slush (雪泥) covered her windows and she couldn’t see to drive. Even scarier — her tires seemed to be sliding on the ground.After changing the summer tires at a tire store, Lynn decided to give up driving. She phoned her husband and asked if he could just come and get them where they were. Her husband was worried but he wasn’t legally able to get them himself. Then the family had to find a motel and went to bed. That’s when the kind people there put out a request on Facebook for someone to drive them the last 1,056 miles to the border.Gary Bath was at home when he saw his friend’s post about the trapped family. After watching the post for a while and seeing no one was able to help, he and his wife made the decision that he would drive them the whole way to the border.Both families met over the Internet, and when they decided they were all comfortable with the plan, the Baths drove to meet the family at the motel. It took Gary two days to drive them to a border checkpoint (边防关卡) where the family was greeted by Lynn’s husband and the new friends parted ways.1.Why did the American family set off for Alaska?A. To enjoy the beautiful scenery. B. To visit an old friend.C. To have an adventure. D. To have a family reunion.2.What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?A. The birth place of Lynn. B. The difficulties Lynn got into.C. The direction of this journey. D. The weather conditions on the way.3.How did the people in the motel help the family?A. By asking for public help B. By telephoning the husband.C. By offering them free meals. D. By driving them to the border.4.Which of the following can best describe Gary Bath?A. Serious and careful. B. Smart and honest.C. Kind and caring. D. Brave and determined.4.(8分)What do you want to be when you are growing up? A doctor, an engineer — or maybe a footballer or actor? We all have big plans for our futures and believe there is a dream job waiting for us — one that will pay well and give great job satisfaction. But how realistic is that?Today, in the UK at least, young people are being warned that some of their career hopes and dreams don’t match the types of jobs available. Research by the charity Education and Employers suggests five times as many 17 and 18 year-olds in the UK want to work in art, culture, entertainment and sport than there are jobs.The excitement of working in these employment sectors (部门) is obviously an attraction. But those looking for these types of job will be disappointed. That’s what the report, Disconnected: Career ambitions and jobs in the UK, says. Writing about this for the BBC, Katherine Sellgren points out that although young people are keen to work in art, entertainment, culture and sport, the economy is unlikely to need them all. At the same time, there is a shortfall of young people wanting to work in careers such as catering and retail(零售).Previous research about the career ambitions of young people by the Office for National Statistics also found a “reality gap” between their dreams and the sometimes disappointing truth by the time they reached their early to late-20s. Apart from those who aimed to go into teaching, fewer than one in 50 were in the jobs they had wanted — such as a doctor, vet, firefighter or actor. Most were working as sales assistants, careers or in sales and marketing.Although it’s good to have ambitions, the aims of young people need to be realistic. This latest report suggests that children need to be made more aware of a wider variety of occupations at a younger age. It also calls for improved career advice in secondary schools. A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions told the BBC that “early careers advice can help young people set out on the right path to the job that channels their interests and unlocks their potential.”(1)Which employment sector in the UK needs more people to work in?A.Sport. B.Service industry. C.Art & culture. D.Entertainment.(2)The underlined phrase “reality gap” in Paragraph 4 refers to the difference between ______.A.ambition and reality B.males and femalesC.theory and practice D.the past and the present(3)What suggestions about employment are NOT given to help young people?A.They ought to be offered better career advice in secondary schools.B.They should know more kinds of jobs at an early age.C.The government should create more jobs for the young.D.Their employment ambition should be realistic.(4)What can be a suitable title for the text?A.Unemployment Problems in Britain B.Young People’s Lifestyles in BritainC.Tips for Finding Dream Jobs in Britain D.Unrealistic Career Ambitions in Britain5.(8分)New observations of the Moon show that lunar water may be more accessible than originally thought. The new data is particularly exciting for NASA, which hopes to make use of the Moon’s resources — especially water ice existing in the soil — to help future astronauts live and work on the lunar surface.In one study, researchers discovered water directly on the lunar surface, finding the molecule on areas of the Moon lighted by the Sun. A second study speculates (推测)that water ice might be trapped in tiny areas or small holes spread all over the Moon’s surface, making water more abundant (大量的) and more accessible than we could have imagined. The two studies were published in the journal Nature.This isn’t the first time water has been discovered on the Moon. But the only water we’ve been able to find until now is really difficult to reach. It seems to be primarily located in large holes at the lunar south pole that are in continuous shadow. The freezing holes are dangerously cold — possibly reaching -400 ℉ — making them almost impossible to access with modern technology.The research published today raises the possibility that astronauts can find water in other areas of the Moon that are far less deadly. “If we find that it’s abundant enough in certain locations, it would be easier to access versus going into these very cold, very dark places,” Casey Honniball, an expert at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author on one of the studies, tells The Verge.It seems to be good news for NASA. But there are still a lot of unknowns related to this research. Though the first study discovered water, the researchers didn’t find a lot. Besides, if the water is existing in the lunar dirt as expected, it’s going to take a lot of work to get it. “The method to get that water would be to melt the glass, so that the water can be released,” Honniball says. “This is a difficult process, compared to some other methods.”(1)Where can we read about the new studies?A.From NASA. B.In The Verge.C.From Space Flight Center. D.In the journal Nature.(2)What can we learn from Paragraph 3?A.The only water found is located on areas lighted by the Sun.B.The deadly cold situation stops people from accessing the holes.C.It is the first time that people have found water on the Moon.D.It can reach a temperature of -400 ℃ in the holes.(3)What is the difficulty when we get the water according to Honniball?A.Great efforts will be needed to melt the glass. B.There is not enough water on the Moon.C.We don’t know where to find the water. D.We don’t know how to get the water.(4)What is the main idea of the text?A.NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon.B.A lot of unknowns exist in making use of the Moon.C.Using water on the Moon will be key to a future lunar base.D.Water ice on the Moon may be easier to reach than we thought..