高考英語閱讀訓(xùn)練習(xí)題

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高考英語閱讀訓(xùn)練習(xí)題

　　The Antarctic（南極地區(qū)）is actually a desert．It is the only continent on the earth without a river or a lake．

高考英語閱讀訓(xùn)練習(xí)題

　　The Antarctic is all ice all year round．The warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero, at the south Pole．Explorers 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（水分） falls in parts of the Sahara．

　　The little snow that falls in Antarctica（南極）never melts．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 the snow above it．

　　1．Antarctica is called a desert because it ______．

　　A．is sandy

　　B．has the same temperature as desert

　　C．has little moisture and no lakes or rivers

　　D．a(chǎn)ll of the above

　　2．The Antarctic has ______．

　　A．ten times as much moisture as the Sahara

　　B．the same amount of moisture as the Sahara

　　C．a(chǎn)bout one-tenth the moisture of the Sahara

　　D．none of these

　　3．The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it ______．

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