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1、湖南省张家界市2024届高三下学期二模考试英语试卷学校：_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、阅读理解Last year, brilliant botanists from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, discovered, identified and named 114 spectacular new species of plants and fungi (真菌) from around the world. Lets find out more about some of Kews most wonderful new finds. ROYAL MUSHROOMNA
2、ME: Queens hedgehog fungusFROM: Surrey, EnglandNamed after the late Queen Elizabeth II, this rare fungus was found in an ancient forest in White Down, Surrey. According to the scientists who discovered it, the soft, white needles under the fungus15cm-wide cap look like hedgehogs needles giving it th
3、e second part of its name. Cool!WORLDS STRANGEST DAFFODILNAME: Sternbergia mishustiniiFROM: TurkeyThe flowers of this rare species are bright yellow, but theyre only 2cm long and dont open up into a visible flower. Just 300 of these plants have been discovered, secret to hide them from illegal plant
4、 collectors. RECORD-BREAKING WATERLILYNAME: Giant Bolivian waterlilyFROM: Bolivia. South AmericaCheck out this huge waterlily its 3m wide leaves are big enough for a kid to float on! The big species has just won three Guinness World Records for largest waterlily, largest waterlily leaf and largest u
5、ndivided leaf. And get this although the giant plant was only named last year, a dried sample has been kept in Kews own Herbarium since 1845! Botanists had thought it was a similar, related species. Thankfully, the case of mistaken identity is all cleared up now. Unbe-leaf-able!1Whats Queens hedgeho
6、g fungus like?A. It has yellow flowers.B. Its native to England.C. It looks like hedgehogs.D. Its critically endangered.2What Guinness record does Giant Bolivian waterlily hold?A. The oldest fungi.B. The biggest leaves.C. The fastest growing plant.D. The largest waterlily species3Where is the passag
7、e most likely to have been taken from?A. A botanical magazine.B. A geographic textbook.C. A historical document.D. Guinness World Records.Growing up in a Jamaican American household, food was an important part of my childhood. I remember my grandmother preparing fried dumplings and curry mutton, jaz
8、z music playing in the background. Food was our greatest treasure. Food brought the family together. Food celebrated new beginnings and eased the wounds of lifes untimely endings. When I was 8, I was diagnosed with a muscle disease, which caused me to spend most of my childhood in hospital. rooms an
9、d wheelchairs, slowly gaining weight by swallowing prednisone (肾上腺皮质激素) hidden inside mint chocolate chip ice cream. My mom made it her duty to help me lose the weight through strict dieting. Ive tried every single one. In fairness, my mother did the best she could. As a single mom, she felt this br
10、ought us closer. However, as an adult, I began to experience a paralyzing fear of food. My “Ill start a new diet on Monday” mind-set lasted for 16 years as I uncontrollably ate and abused my body. I was worried that I was not attractive enough. So obsessed and afraid no one would hire me as an actre
11、ss if I didnt win the battle with the numbers on the scale, in February 2011 I was send to hospital.We do extreme things to our bodies because of those numbers, numbers that cannot talk with us or love us. I have had to stop judging my belly, stop starving myself, stop getting on the scale and stari
12、ng at those numbers. I have come to the realization that my life is more important than those numbers on the scale and that the quality of the life I live is more important than how I look in the mirror.4What role did food play in authors childhood?A. It strengthened the family bends.B. It was a sou
13、rce of family income.C. Its the only treasure the family had.D. Its the way to celebrate Jamaican tradition.5What might be the initial reason of the authors strict dieting?A. The beauty trend.B. Her muscle disease treatment.C. Her mothers expectation.D. Anxiety about her career.6How did the author f
14、eel about her dieting?A. It was fruitful.B. It way useless.C. It made her frightened of food.D. It brought her and Mom closer.7What attitude does the author have to the numbers on the scale now?A. Uncaring.B. Deeply skeptical.C. Dismissive.D. Particularly concerned.We normally think of bacteria as o
15、ur enemies. But they arent all bad. Our bodies are full of them and it turns out we cant live without them. From the moment were born, we acquire, and develop an internal ecosystem of symbiotic bacteria and other microbes (微生物) -they are interdependent players in our body. In fact, there are roughly
16、 as many microbial cells in our bodies as human cells. This microbial world is called our microbiome (微生物组).While some microbes can make us ill, we need our microbiome to survive. Combined, they are every bit as essential as our heart, our lungs, or our brain. Most of the microbiome is found in our gut (肠道). They are es
