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1、英语 四 注意事项 1 答题前 先将自己的姓名 准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上 并将准考证 号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置 2 选择题的作答 每小题选出答案后 用2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案 标号涂黑 写在试题卷 草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效 3 非选择题的作答 用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内 写在试题 卷 草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效 4 考试结束后 请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交 第一部分听力 略 第二部分阅读理解 共两节 满分35 分 第一节 共15 小题 每小题2 5 分 共 25 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
2、并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑 A From my hotel room window I see an oversized billboard with his face on it Jason the Great Magician I absent mindedly turn the pages of the phone book and come across a city map Sipping my iced latt I run my fingers along the streets from the hotel to the opera hall Not more than a ha
3、lf hour walk I glance at the clock The show starts in one hour Plenty of time I gulp 大 口吞咽 the last three sips of my latt and hop in the shower Soon I m on my way to the show carrying a fancy black handbag and a genuine smile The billboard looks even more impressive from outside The Great Jason s ey
4、es seem to be glancing through me I shiver and walk faster I feel like a child about to open her birthday presents The hall is dark when I come in the show is about to begin I make my way backstage just as the great magician puts on his top hat Daddy I m so glad to see you I say in a half whisper I
5、m in town for the writer s workshop but I just couldn t miss your show I give him a quick hug and go back into the seating area leaving him with a startled smile I settle down in the darkness and the curtains open Magically that show remains the Great Jason s best performance to this day 21 The unde
6、rlined sentence indicates the writer is A embarrassed and hesitant B brave and determined C nervous and excited D surprised and frightened 22 Why was the writer in town A To go to the workshop B To visit the magician C To enjoy the performance D To help people in need 23 Who is Jason A The person th
7、e writer will work with B The father of the writer C The greatest performer ever D The unknown magician B When she was studying to become a scientist Megan Strauss rode in a small airplane to study giraffes While a pilot flew over the Serengeti in Tanzania Africa the researchers looked down carefull
8、y and counted giraffes I am always amazed how easily we can spot warthogs 疣猪 and other small animals yet we sometimes have trouble seeing giraffes Giraffes are slender in shape and they may not throw a good shadow says Dr Strauss who has since become a wildlife scientist The Serengeti is about the s
9、ize of Vermont a state in the northeastern US so the scientists could not study the entire area Instead they surveyed three areas where giraffes were studied in the 1970s As they expected they saw far fewer of these animals To find out if lions had been killing more giraffes in recent years the team
10、 looked at the survival of young giraffes Lions kill more young giraffes than adults but the team found no decrease in young giraffes survival after they are born compared with the 1970s The team then looked at whether too many giraffes were being killed by parasites 寄生虫 The researchers counted para
11、site eggs in giraffe droppings and they found too few to harm the giraffe population They looked into whether poachers 盗猎者 were killing too many giraffes Two of the areas they studied are where giraffe meat is sometimes sold in local markets Poachers catch more adult males than other giraffes Resear
12、chers spotted too few males compared with females in those two areas a sign of poaching When the food supply is short the environment supports fewer giraffes and the females have fewer young giraffes A lot of new trees have grown in the Serengeti but many are a type that giraffes do not like to eat
13、The researchers found fewer young giraffes today than in the 1970s compared with the number of adult females a sign that food was in short supply Dr Strauss is working on an environmental education program for Tanzania including books for students These materials will educate Tanzanians and help the
14、m to help giraffes As knowledge grows and changes are made they hope the giraffe population will increase 24 What did Dr Strauss find while studying giraffes in the Serengeti A It was too costly to study giraffes B It was hard to spot giraffes from the air C The number of giraffes had increased slow
15、ly D Giraffes lived in smaller areas than in the 1970s 25 How did the team study the lion giraffe relationship A By analyzing giraffe droppings B By comparing young giraffes with adults C By comparing male giraffes and females D By surveying the survival of young giraffes 26 What is Dr Strauss doing
16、 to help giraffes A She is founding a national park in Tanzania B She is counting giraffes in the entire Serengeti C She is educating students to write about giraffes D She is raising environmental awareness in local people C Wood has many great characteristics that make it the perfect building material It is cheap durable 耐 用 的 easily available and most importantly environmentally sustainable The one thing it is not is transparent 透明的 Now thanks to a team of scientists at Stockholm s KTH Royal
