题目内容
long time- fifty or sixty years. They can remember things very well. 2 If a female elephant dies, her
daughters and her grand daughters are sad for many months. They stay with the dead body. Then they carry a
bit of it away with them. They never forget a dead friend.
Elephants are like us, but they are also different. They live in families of females. 3 But the females will
soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers and its great grandmothers.
The females stay together for fifty, sixty...,a hundred years. The older animals look after the younger ones.
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And what happens to male elephants? Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a time. Then they
must leave the family. The females just send them away. A male elephant does not often have a friend. 5
Sometimes the females call a male elephant. He can visit them then, and stay for a time. But soon his "wife" and
sisters send him away again. The females have a very happy family life. What do the male elephants think about
it? We don't know.
B. He lives apart away from the family, and often away from other male elephants.
C. They like to play with each other and sometimes are injured.
D. There will be a few young males-a few "baby boys".
E. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.
F. The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world.
G. The male elephants want to stay with female ones, but they are not welcome.
III. 完形填空(Cloze)(共15小题,计15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从方框内选择适当的单词或短语填空。方框内有多余的词或短语,每个词或短语限用一次。(答案写在答题纸上)
found, may, of, led to, sometimes, rather than, mad, in fact, even if, different, water, part, drink, as well as, natural, include, important, wherever |
Many tourists nowadays walk around carrying plastic bottles of water, even in cities. The bottles seem to have become an (71)________ fashion accessory(配件), and not only for tourists. (72)________, nowadays everyone seems to carry a bottle of water with them (73)________ they go. This fashion for being seen with bottled water, (74)________ called “designer water”, has (75)________ a massive(大量的) increase in sales over the past few years. There are now so many (76)________ brand names available in the shops that it is hard to choose. |
It is advertised as clean and (82)________, while tap water (83)________ be viewed with suspicion (怀疑).
But is there really any difference between bottled and tap (84)________? Surprisingly, in the USA it was (85)________ that bottled water was not always as pure as most ordinary tap water.
完形填空 (共20小题,满分33分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从16-35各题所给的四个选项中,选择最佳答案。
Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist(打击乐器独奏演员) though she was a disabled woman.
“Early on I decided not to allow the 16 of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began 17 piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion(酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my 18 . Doctors told me that the nerve (神经) damage was the 19 and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never 20 me.”
“My 21 was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I 22 to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play using my feet and can 23 the pitch of a note(音调高低) by the vibrations(振动). I feel through my body and through my 24 . My entire sound world exists by making full ___25___ of every sense that I have.”
“I was 26 to be considered as a musician, but not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had 27 this before and some teachers were ___28___ to admit me. However, based on my performance, I was 29 admitted and went on to 30 with great honour.”
“After that, I became a full-time solo percussionist. I 31 a lot of musical pieces since 32__ had been written specially for solo percussionists.”
“I have been a soloist for over ten years. 33 the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t 34 that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be 35 by others’ attitude. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”
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