(word完整版)2018年广州市高三毕业班综合测试(二)英语(2018广州二模英语卷)

2018

年广州市普通高中毕业班综合测试（二）

英

语

第二部分

阅读理解（共两节，满分< /p>

40

分）

第一节

（共

15

小题；每小题

2

分，满分

30

分）

阅读下列短 文，从每题所给的四个选项（

A

、

B< /p>

、

C

和

D

）中，选出最佳选项，

并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Zoo Exhibit Game

Each

animal

exhibit

will

haven

formation about the animal located

there.

You

will

get

to

learn

about

each

animal's

habitat,

their

conservation status and some other

quick facts. As you explore the zoo

check

off

all

the

endangered

animals

you

discover

from

the

list

below. Find them all and win a free

T-shirt

o Mountain Gorilla

o Chinese Alligator

o Snow Leopard

o white-winged Wood Duck

o Red Panda

o Giant Turtle

o Koala

o Tree Kangaroo

o Red wolf

o Tiger Snake

o African Wild Dog

o Giant Anteater

Zoo Manners

The

zoo

is

a

smoke

free

area

No

balloons, balls, bikes, or roller skates

allowed.

Pets

are

not

allowed-

excepting guide dogs for blind

Stay

on

the

pathways

and

do

not

place

children

on

railing.

Do

not

throw

anything

into

the

animal

exhibits.

Please

help

our

conservation

efforts

by

depositing

trash and recyclables properly.

Lost Persons

If separated from your group ask any

zoo

employee

or

security

guard

for

immediate

assistance,

or

go

directly

to

the

Administration

Building

reception desk

Facilities and Services

Enjoy a delicious meal at one of our

two

animal-themed

café

restaurants.

Our

Visitor

Centre

offers

cards,

books

and

toys

so

you

can

always

remember you day at the zoo. There

is also an hourly animal presentation

near

the

Main

Entrance

where

you

can learn more about the animals, pet

them

and

even

take

a

picture

with

them

Roger

Williams

Park

Zoo

Visitor Guide and Map

1000 Elmwood Avenue

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21. How can a person get a free t-shirt at the zoo?

A Follow all the zoo rules

B. Visit all the zoo's exhibits

C. Bring along another guest

D Identify all the animals in danger.

22. Where should a lost person go for help?

A. Main Entrance

B. Visitor Centre

C. Administration Building.D Nursing Centre.

23. Which of the following is allowed at the zoo?

A Riding your bike

B Taking your camera

C. Feeding the animals D Smoking cigarettes

B

I saw it first, Amy said, as she ripped the old leather wallet out of Charlies hands.

Without saying a word, as if they both understood that this was a secret they didn’t

want to share with anyone, they slipped into the alley, where no one could see them

look inside

pile of hundred- dollar bills. Amy, the more realistic of the two, did a quick estimate,

thumbing through the wad of cash.

ice shaking

in disbelief.

They'd found the wallet in a flowerbed by the sidewalk, when Charlie dropped his

cell phone while he was trying to talk and eat a slice of pepperoni pizza at the same

time. Amy stuffed the wallet into her backpack and pulled Charlie along by his elbow

toward her house. As they rushed toward Viceroy Avenue, they talked excitedly about

what they could do with the money-buy gifts for parents and friends, get new clothes,

travel to the rainforest in Costa Rica, and adopt a whale. It looked like all of their

dreams would come true. For the last block, however, they didn’t talk. Each began to

suspect that the other one was silently adding to the list of things they could buy.

They finally reached Amy s house, but instead of going inside, they walked

around the house to the back porch. They opened the wallet and counted the money

into piles of ten. The total wasS2400- more money than either of them had ever seen.

Then they both started talking at once.

sinking from the high of being rich for fifteen minutes to resigning themselves to what

they must do next. For in the wallet's clear plastic compartment, there was a driver's

license. They knew what they had to do. Although they would lose their newly-found

treasure, in a way, they felt relieved.

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24. Where did Amy and Charlie find the wallet?

A. In an alley

B In a backpack

C. Among some flowers

D On the sidewalk

25. In paragraph 2, why was Amy’s voice shaking?

A. She was afraid that they would be seen by others

B. She was disappointed there wasn't a million dollars

C. She was fearful that Charlie would tell someone else

D. She felt nervous because she'd never seen so much money

26. On their way to Amy’s house, the chil

dren's mood changed from

A excited to suspicious

B. happy to angry

C relieved to worried

D. nervous to disappointed

27. What did the children decide to do at the end of the story?

A. To keep the money a secret from others

B. To return the wallet to its rightful owner

C. To put the wallet back where they found it.

D. To buy many different things with the money.

C

An article published in the prestigious scientific journal

Nature

sheds new light

on an important, but up-to-now little appreciated, aspect of human evolution. In this

article Professors Dennis Bramble and Daniel Lieberman suggest that being able to

run was the necessary condition for the development of our species which enabled us

to come down from the trees. This challenges traditional scientific thinking, which

claims that the distinctive, upright body form of modern humans has come about as a

result of the ability to walk, and that running is simply a by-product of walking.

Furthermore, humans have usually been regarded as poor runners compared to such

animals as dogs, horses or deer. However, this is only true if we consider running at

high speed, especially over short distances. But when it comes to long-distance

running, humans do astonishingly well. They can keep a steady pace for many

kilometres, and their overall speed is at least the same as that of horses or dogs

Bramble and Lieberman examined 26 physical features found in humans. One of

the most interesting of these is the nuchal ligament(

项韧带

). When we run, this

ligament prevents our head from moving back and forth or from side to side.

Therefore, we are able to run with steady heads, held high. The nuchal ligament is not

found in any other surviving primates, such as apes and monkeys. Then there are our

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Achilles tendons (

跟腱

) at the backs of our legs, which connect our calf muscles to

our heel bones

—

and which have nothing to do with walking. When we run, these

tendons behave like springs, helping to push us forward. Furthermore, we have low,

wide shoulders virtually disconnected from our skulls(

颅骨

), a physical development

which allows us to run more efficiently.

But what evolutionary advantage is gained from being good long-distance runners?

Perhaps it permitted early humans to obtain food more effectively.

features and facts appear to be telling us is that running evolved in order for our direct

ancestors to compete with other meat- eating animals for access to the protein needed

to grow the big brains that we enjoy today,

forward the theory that early humans chased animals for great distances in order to

exhaust them before killing them.

controversial,

many researchers to reevaluate and further investigate how humans learned to run and

walk and why we are built the way we are.

28. In paragraph 1, what do the two professors suggest about humans' ability to run?

A. It is an evolutionary by- product of walking.

B. It helps to form people's ability to climb trees.

C. It has played an important role in human evolution.

D. It has not been adequately studied by scientists before.

29. What is true about the physical characteristics examined by the professors?

A. Achilles tendons assist people to walk long distances.

B. The human skull helps people to run more efficiently.

C. people's shoulders allow them to look from side to side.

D. The nuchal ligament enables people to hold their head steady.

30. According to paragraph 3, scientists believe that early humans_________.

A. always came across dangerous situations in life

B. ran after animals for long distances when hunting

C often failed to find food because they couldn't run fast

D developed their hunting skills by running long distances

31. Professor Lieberman thinks the new theory will _________.

A completely explain how running developed

B revolutionize the theory of human evolution

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C. encourage more in-depth studies on the topic

D. be widely supported within the scientific community

D

Scientists have solved the mystery of why the

overwhelming

majority

of

mammoth

fossils(

化

石

)are male.

Much

like

wild

elephants

today,

young

male

Ice

Age

mammoths

probably

travelled

around

alone

and

more

often

got

themselves

into

risky

situations where they were swept into rivers, or fell

through ice or into mud, lakes or sinkholes that preserved their bones for thousands of

years, scientists say.

Females, on the other hand, travelled in groups led by an older matriarch who

knew the landscape and directed her group away from danger.

the

benefit

of

living

in

a

herd

led

by

an

experienced

female,

male

mammoths had a much higher risk of dying in natural traps such as mud holes, rock

cracks

and

lakes,

co-author

Love

Dalen

of

the

Swedish

Museum

of

Natural

History in a report published on Thursday in the journal

Current Biology

.

The study used genetic data to determine the sex of 98 woolly mammoth fossils

in

Siberia

Researchers

found

that

69%

of

the

samples

were

male,

a

heavily

unbalanced sex ratio, assuming that the sexes were fairly even at birth

fossil

record,

said

first

author

Patricia

Pecnerova,

also

of

the

Swedish

Museum

of

Natural History.

Therefore,

researchers

believe

that

something

about

the

way

they

lived

influenced the way they died.

Most bones, tusks, and teeth from mammoths and other Ice Age animals haven't

survived,

preserved because they have been buried, and thus protected from weathering.

These giant, tusked plant eaters disappeared about 4,000 years ago. While there

is

no

scientific

agreement

about

the

causes

of

their

disappearance

from

the

planet,

most

believe

that

climate

change,

excessive

hunting

by

humans

and

the

spread

of

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