2017年吉林高考英语完型填空专题模拟4

　　Ed Viesturs grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where the tallest thing on the horizon was the water tower. But on Thursday, Viesturs became the only American to climb to the top of the world's 14 highest mountains.

　　His last hike was up Mount Annapurna, in Asia's snowcapped Himalayas. At 26,545 feet, its peak is the 10th highest in the world. It is the mountain that inspired him to start climbing.

　　"It tends to be the trickiest, the most dangerous," said Viesturs. "There's no simple way to climb it. There are threatening avalanches (雪崩) and ice falls that protect the mountain."

　　In high school, Viesturs read French climber Maurice Herzog's tale of climbing the icy Annapurna. Herzog's story was of frostbite (冻伤) and difficulty and near-death experiences. Viesturs was hooked right away.

　　Viesturs got his start on Washington's Mount Rainier in 1977, guiding hikes in the summer. Fifteen years ago, he set out to walk up to the world's highest peaks. Finally, he's done.

　　The pioneering climber talks about mountains as if they were living creatures that should be treated with respect. "You have to use all of your senses, all of your abilities to see if the mountain will let you climb it," said Viesturs. "If we have the patience and the respect, and if we're here at the right time, under the right circumstances, they allow us to go up, and allow us to come down."

　　What's next for a man who can't stop climbing? "I'm going to hug my wife and kids and kind of kick back and enjoy the summer," says Viesturs. But for a man who's climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains, he will probably soon set off on yet another adventure.

　　1. What record has Ed Viesturs set?

　　A. He has succeeded in climbing to the world’s 14th highest mountain.

　　B. He has been to the top of the world’s 14 highest mountains.

　　C. He has become the first to climb to the height of 26,545feet.

　　D. He has become the first man to climb to the top of 14 highest mountains in the world.

　　2. The underlined word “hooked” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by “______”.

　　A. frightened B. discouraged C. interested D. upset

　　3. The author used Viestures’ words in Paragraph 6 to support a view that ______.

　　A. mountain climbing is a dangerous sport

　　B. mountains should be regarded as living creatures

　　C. mountain climbing needs more skills than physical energy

　　D. those who like mountain climbing won’t stop climbing

　　4. What’s the next probably plan of Viestures?

　　A. Stopping climbing and staying with his family.

　　B. Climbing to the top of the world’s 14 tallest mountains again.

　　C. Climbing another one of the highest mountains.

　　D. Writing down the experiences about his adventure.

　　(B)

　　Although hurricane season doesn't begin until June 1, a Pacific storm has already struck. El Salvador, which was ruined by a Caribbean storm in 1995, was hit by Hurricane Adrian on Friday. This is the first Pacific-born hurricane to ever reach land in this Central American country.

　　Some 14,000 people left from the western coast of El Salvador. The storm weakened as it crossed land, heading east. Heavy rains created deadly flooding problems in the hurricane's wake.

　　Adrian is the first Pacific storm of the season. It reported maximum continuous winds of 75 miles per hour, the minimum strength of a hurricane. A Category 3 hurricane, Adrian also caused damage and flooding in Honduras. It is expected to break up before reaching the Caribbean Sea on the eastern coast of Central America.

　　Hurricane season typically begins June 1 and lasts through November 30. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted (预告) seven to nine hurricanes for the 2005 season.

　　"It is difficult to make any kind of an exact prediction of how many of these will strike land," NOAA administrator Conrad Lautenbacher said. He predicts two to three hurricanes will strike the U.S. this season.

　　Last year, six of nine hurricanes reached Category 3 strength or higher. Four of those hit Florida within a six-week period. Altogether, Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne caused more than $40 billion in damage in the Sunshine State.

　　This year's forecast is based on ocean temperatures. Warmer temperatures produce more tropical storms, which can then turn into hurricanes.

　　"The issue, really, this year is the unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic," said Frank Lepore of the National Hurricane Center.

　　5. Which of the following is the 2005 first hurricane?

　　A. Charley. B. Adrian. C. Jeanne. D. Frances.

　　6. How many countries struck by the hurricane are mentioned in the text?

　　A. Six. B. Nine. C. Five. D. Three.

　　7. We can infer that warmer ocean temperatures ______.

　　A. have nothing to do with the hurricane

　　B. cause less hurricane

　　C. are more likely to cause the hurricanes

　　D. do a lot of damage to the areas along the coast

　　8. The passage implies that _______.

　　A. hurricane season comes early this year

　　B. every hurricane formed in oceans could cause great damage to the land

　　C. hurricane often comes in winter and spring

　　D. tropical storm is more severe than hurricane

　　(C)

　　It's not quite a rat. Nor is it a squirrel, or a mouse. It's definitely a rodent (啮齿目动物), and it's also a brand-new family of mammals.

　　The locals of the Southeast Asian country of Laos call the creature a kha-nyou (ga-nyou). The kha-nyou have long body hair, short legs, and a hairy tail less thick than a squirrel's. They're vegetarians living in the rocky hills of Laos, and they come out at night, but for more information, you'll have to ask the Lao people.

　　"It was for sale on a table next to some vegetables. I knew immediately it was something I had never seen before," said Robert Timmins, a researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Timmins was working in Laos to stop people from selling endangered animals when he spotted the species. Criminals who trade illegal wildlife can make a lot of money, but they also push the animals closer to disappearing from the planet.

　　The kha-nyou live in karsts, or rough rock. Mark Robinson, a scientist with the World Wildlife Foundation, set out with Lao villagers to find a few more of the rodents for study. They climbed onto a karst, trapped with rice, and caught several.

　　"To find something so unusual in this day and age is just extraordinary," said Timmins. "For all we know, this could be the last remaining animal family left to be discovered."

　　It's a big deal to discover an entirely new family of animals. Humans, for instance, belong to the same family as great apes, chimpanzees, and gorillas. So even though kha-nyous look like rats, they're really very different. The last time scientists discovered a new family of mammals may have been in the 1970s, when they found new bats in Thailand.

　　Timmins seems to have the gift for finding new animals in Laos—he discovered a new species of rabbit there in 1999.

　　Scientists call the kha-nyou Laonastes aenigmamus, which means "mysterious mouse that lives among the stones." But if that's too hard, Timmins and Robinson suggest you call them "rock rats."