2020-2021学年广东省广州市高一（下）期末英语试卷.docVIP

第PAGE1页（共NUMPAGES1页） 2020-2021学年广东省广州市高一（下）期末英语试卷 第一部分　阅读（共两节；满分37.5分）第一节（共3小题；每小题2. 5分，满分37. 5 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 1．（12.5分） France，26 April，2021.Fifteen volunteers have emerged（冒出来）from a cave in the southwest of France after spending 40 days without clocks，phones，or sunlight for a human isolation （隔离）experiment. Eight men and seven women lived in the Lombrives cave as part of a ＄1.4 million project called Deep Time，which set out to explore the limits of human adaptability to isolation.The project ended on Saturday after 40 days.Social media videos from the day shows the smiling volunteers emerging from the cave to a round of applause while wearing special sunglasses to protect their eyes after so long in the dark. During their time in the cave，the volunteers slept in tents and made their own electricity with a pedal bike.They also drew water from a well 146 feet below the earth.Since there was no sunlight，the team had to follow their biological clocks to know when to sleep，eat，or do daily tasks.To no ones surprise，they quickly lost their sense of time. Project director Christian Clot，also part of the team，told reporters Saturday：And here we are!We just left after 40 days...For us，it was a real surprise. One volunteer said he thought he had been underground for 23 days.Another volunteer，math teacher Johan Francois，said he ran 10 ﹣ kilometer circles in the cave to stay fit.He told reporters he couldnt wait to leave the cave，according to the BBC.But other volunteers felt differently，with two ﹣ thirds saying they wanted to stay in the cave for longer. For once in our lives.it was as if we could press pause， Marina Lancon，one of seven women to take part in the experiment said， For once in our lives，we bad time and could stop to live and do our tasks.It was great. However，Lancon did admit to feeling happy to be outdoors and hear birdsong again. French and Swiss scientists monitored the volunteers closely.They would regularly ch