题目列表(包括答案和解析)
读写任务
阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The dodo(渡渡鸟)was a kind of pigeon which only lived on the little island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.There were no dangerous animals on Mauritius, so the dodo had stopped being able to fly.It simply walked around the forest for food and lived a safe and easy life.
This all changed in the 16th century when Portuguese(葡萄牙的)sailors first arrived on the island.The birds were so trusting and slow that the sailors called them “dodo”, which means “a stupid person” in Portuguese.Thousands were killed and eaten, and soon the dodo became an important source of food for all passing ships.Very quickly, the number of dodos started to fall.
By 1681, only(200 years after people first set foot on Mauritius, the last dodo had died.The greedy and selfishness of people had destroyed their peaceful lifestyle.The bird which was given the name “stupid”, is now a symbol for the stupidity of human beings.
[写作内容]
1.概括短文的内容要点,该部分的词数大约30。
2.就“是否应该保护野生动物”发表你的看法,明确表明反对屠杀野生动物。至少包括以下的内容要点,该部分的词数大约120:
(1)介绍野生动物被大肆捕杀现象并分析原因。
(2)提出你的建议。
[写作要求]
你可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子。
请阅读下列应用文及其相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息。
下面是几条与节日有关的报道,首先请阅读这些报道的标题和插图:
(注意:如果选择E,则在答题卡上同时填涂A和B选项;如果选择F,则在答题卡上同时填涂C和D选项。)
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Father’s Day Shortchanged? Humble History, Fewer Gifts With Father’s Day 2011 here, find out how the holiday started, why Dad doesn’t mind being shortchanged on gifts, and more. |
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Why Mother’s Day Horrified, Ruined Its Own Mother Born of war, Mother’s Day grew to horrify its own mother, whose fight to fix the holiday “cost her everything, financially and physically.” |
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Valentine’s Day Facts: Gifts, History, and Love Science Where did Valentine’s Day come from? What does it cost? And why do we fall for it, year after year? |
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Thanksgiving 2010 Myths and Facts Before the big dinner, debunk the myths—for starters, the first “real” Thanksgiving wasn’t until the 1800s—and get to the roots of Thanksgiving 2010. |
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4th of July Facts: 1st Fests, Number of Fireworks, More How did Founding Fathers Celebrate 4th of July? How many 4th of July fireworks explode each year? Answers and more. |
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Earth Day at 40: What Good Is It Now? After 40 years, outsourced activism is replacing traditional Earth Day activities, and green’s gone mainstream, experts say. So what’s the point? |
以下是这些报道的简要内容介绍,请配对它们的标题。
1.Where did this most popular day for couples come from? And how does it come into beings, year after year? Noel Lenski, professor of the University of Colorado, said the lovers’ holiday traces its roots to raucous annual Roman festivals held every year on February 15 and remained wildly popular well into the fifth century A.D.
2.The first Earth Day in 1970 was a raucous, radical teach-in that helped spur clean-air, clean-water, and endangered species legislation in the United States. Now, 40 years later, Earth Day is every day, as the saying goes. The thing is, it’s also everyday- environmentalism that has become a routine with greenness as much a marketing tactic as a moral pursuit.
3.Some 242 million turkeys were raised in the U.S. in 2010 for slaughter, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Last year’s birds were worth about U.S. $3.6 billion. Before the big dinner, debunk the myths, we need to know that the first “real” U.S. Thanksgiving wasn’t until the 1800s and get to the roots of Thanksgiving 2010.
4.Father’s Day traditionally takes a backseat to Mother’s Day, and, for the most part, dads are cool with that, experts say. Nevertheless, as traditional roles around the house gradually change, fathers are gaining more attention on their special day, at least as measured in the monetary value of gifts estimated to be given on June 19, 2011, when the holiday will be celebrated in dozens of countries.
5.Cookouts, fireworks, and, of course, a chance to wish Uncle Sam a big “happy birthday” —the day means summer in full swing across the United States and beyond. Besides the founders of the US, Fireworks, first authorized by Congress in 1777, are another legacy. More than 14,000 fireworks displays light up U.S. skies each year.
第二节 短文改错(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
Have you ever been bored with the busy life in the city? If so, 76______
have glimpse of the primary forest with me. The breath-taking 77______
scenery make you forget everything when you’re exploring what 78______
the forest has to offer. With tens of thousands of trees surrounded 79______
you, you will fee like to floating on the green ocean. Under the 80______
leaves are all kinds of flowers, peacefully and shy. A wide 81______
variety of birds were singing happily in the trees. While you’re 82______
enjoying the scenery on the ground, watching out for the sky! 83______
It will give your eye a feast. Wandering alone in the forest, 84______
we will have the feeling of returning to nature. 85______
Three years ago, five parrots were set free in a wild place of Arizona, thousands of miles from the Channel Islands in Jersey where they had been looked after by zookeepers. No evolutionary strategies informed them how to behave in this new landscape of mountainous pine forest unoccupied by their kind for 50 years. To the researchers’ surprise, they failed to make contact with a group of wild parrots imported from Mexico and set free at the same time. Within 24 hours the reintroducing ended in failure, and the poor birds were back in cages, on their way to the safety of the Arizona reintroduction programme.
Ever since then, the programme has enjoyed great success, mainly because the birds now being set free are Mexican birds illegally caught in the wild, confiscated (没收) on arrival north of the border, and raised by their parents in the safety of the programme. The experience shows how little we know about the behaviour and psychology (心理) of parrots, as Peter Bennett, a bird researcher, points out: “Reintroducing species of high intelligence like parrots is a lot more difficult. People like parrots, always treating them as nothing more than pets or valuable ‘collectables’.”
Now that many species of parrot are in immediate danger of dying out, biologists are working together to study the natural history and the behaviour of this family of birds. Last year was an important turning point: conservationists founded the World Parrot Trust, based at Hayle in Cornwall, to support research into both wild and caged birds.
Research on parrots is vital for two reasons. First, as the Arizona programme showed, when reintroducing parrots to the wild, we need to be aware of what the birds must know if they are to survive in their natural home. We also need to learn more about the needs of parrots kept as pets, particularly as the Trust’s campaign does not attempt to discourage the practice, but rather urges people who buy parrots as pets to choose birds raised by humans.
What do we know about the area where the five parrots were reintroduced?
A. Its landscape is new to parrots of their kind.
B. It used to be home to parrots of their kind.
C. It is close to where they had been kept.
D. Pine trees were planted to attract birds.
The reintroducing experience three years ago shows that man-raised parrots
A. can find their way back home in Jersey
B. are unable to recognize their parents
C. are unable to adapt to the wild
D. can produce a new species
Why are researches on parrots important according to the passage?
A. The Trust shows great concern for the programme.
B. We need to know more about how to preserve parrots.
C. Many people are interested in collecting parrots.
D. Parrots’ intelligence may some day benefit people.
According to the passage, people are advised ______.
A. to treat wild and caged parrots equally
B. to set up comfortable homes for parrots
C. not to keep wild parrots as pets
D. not to let more parrots go to the wild
短文改错(共l0小题;每小题1.5分,满分l5分)
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该
行右边横线上画一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正:
此行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意:原行没有错的不要改。
Have you ever been bored with the busy life in the city?If so, 1.___________
have glimpse of the primary forest with me. The breathtaking 2.___________
scenery make you forget everything when you’re exploring what 3.___________
the forest has to offer. With thousands of trees surrounded 4.___________
you,you will feel like to floating on the green ocean. Under the 5.___________
leaves are all kinds of flowers,peacefully and shy. And a 6.___________
variety of birds were singing happily in the trees. While you’re 7.___________
enjoying the scenery on the ground,watching out for the sky! 8.___________
It will give your eye a feast. Wandering alone in the forest, 9.___________
we will have the feeling of returning to nature. 10.___________
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