高三一轮复习：高考英语阅读理解100篇(48)

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　　2015年高考正在紧张的备考阶段，高考英语的学习依然至关重要，不仅靠知识的积累和运用，同时也需要学习的方法和做题的技巧，为了帮助广大考生攻克高考英语的学习，新东方在线高考网为大家整理了高考英语复习资料和解题技巧，以下是《高三一轮复习：高考英语阅读理解100篇(48)》，供考生们参考学习。

　　The Antarctica is a actually a desert. It is the only continent on the earth without a river or a lake.

　　The Antarctica is all ice all year round. The warmest temperature ever recorded (所记录的) there is zero, at the South Pole. Explorers (探险家) used to think that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten inches of snow falls each year. That is less than half an inch of water. Ten times that much moisture (水份) falls in parts of the Sahara.

　　The little snow that falls in Antarctica never melts (融化). It continues to pile up deeper and deeper year after year and century after century. When the snow gets to be about eighty feet deep it is turned to ice by the weight of snow above it .

　　1. Antarctica is called a desert because it

　　A. is sandy. B. has the same temperature as a desert.

　　C. has little moisture and no lakes or rivers. D. there are no people there.

　　2. Antarctica has

　　A. ten times as much moisture as the Sahara.

　　B. the same amount of moisture as the Sahara.

　　C. about one—tenth of the moisture of the Sahara.

　　D. none of the above.

　　3. The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it

　　A. never stops falling. B. piles up year after year.

　　C. never melts. D. both B and C.

　　4. The snow turns to ice when