广西钦州市高新区2016-2017学年高二12月月考英语试卷_高中英语试卷

广西钦州市高新区2016-2017学年高二12月月考英语试卷

　　D．he was her most honest listener

　　23．We can learn from the text that the writer believes ________.

　　A．keeping stuffed animals is babyish

　　B．maturity doesn’t mean growing up and taking on more responsibility

　　C． one should keep to his childhood and act young sometimes even when he has grown up

　　D．human beings should be kind to animals

　　24．We can infer from the text that _________.

　　A．the writer is still a teenager

　　B．the writer is now a middle-aged woman

　　C．Monkey Ian got angry for being left alone

　　D．Uncle Ian has a monkey-like face

　　The Hawaiian Islands are situated about two thousand miles away from North America, right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Despite(尽管) the distance the islands actually make up the fiftieth state of the United States. The islands were all formed by volcanic eruption and on the largest of the islands, Hawaii, or the Big Island, there are still two active volcanoes, the Mauna Loa and the Kilauea, which still erupt every few years.

　　On the Hawaiian islands the natives have a particularly strange way of indicating directions. They don’t use the north, south, east and west system common to the rest of the world. They use the mauka and makai system. Mauka means “mountain”. The mountains in Hawaii are always at the center of the islands, as these are volcanic islands. Makai means “the sea”. The islands are small and the system is simple. Wherever you want to visit, it can always be described in terms of where it lies in relation to the mountains and the sea. A typical conversation between a native Hawaiian and a tourist might go as follow.