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年广州市高三毕业班综合测试
(
二
)
英语
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日期：
2
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
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
、
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、
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
21. How can a
person get a free t-shirt at the zoo?
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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 bo
th 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.
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.
24. Where did Amy and Charlie find the
wallet?
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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
children'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
Achilles tendons
(
跟腱
) at the backs of our
legs, which connect our calf muscles to
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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
C. encourage more in-
depth studies on the topic
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