新疆兵团第三师第一中学 2014-2015 学年第一学期高考模拟卷英语试卷( 八) 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,从每题所给的四个选项(A 、B、c和 D) 中,选出最佳选项。 A 0n the Florida coast , the sun is setting like a huge 。 range ball an old man ‘s walk i ng down the beach carrying a basket . He stands on the dock( 码头)and you notice hei§ looking up into the sky and all ofa sudden you see a mass of danc i ng dots · You soon recognize that they are seagulls . The man takes o ut his basket handfuls of shrimp( 虾)and begins to throw them t he se agull e and land a11 around him Some land on his shoulders 。 Some land on his hat , and . they eat the shrimp . Long after the shrimp are gone his feathered friends lin ger. One man m the scene was Ralph ,a famous Wo rld War II pil ot. His plane c ra shed in1 942 and nobody thought he would be rescued . Perhaps you have read or heard how he and his eight passengers escaped death by climbing in to two rafts( 充气船)and staying there for thirty days . They fought the sun and sharks · But what nearly killed them was sta rv ation . Their supplies of food went out within eight days and they didn ’t have anyt hi ng but so me drinking water l eft . One day , Ralph tried to get some sleep with his hat over his eyes . With — ina few moments he felt something on his head .He knew instantly it was a seagull which had landed on his raft . But he knew that they were hundreds of miles out to