【正文】 hich remains hidden in a protected area of Thailand despite the fact that scientists are studying there for 40 years,”the report said. The tigerstriped pit viper was discovered accidentally on an island off the coast of Vietnam when a scientist was looking for a lizard and his son pointed out that his hand was on a rock right next to the snake’s fangs.“We caught the snake and the gecko and they both proved to be new species,”researcher Lee Grismer of La Sierra University in California was quoted as saying in the leopard gecko,found on another Vietnamese island,has the colouring of a leopard and bizarre orange,catlike eyes and thin legs. The Greater Mekong region has proved a rich area for WWF said in December 2021 that it had found 1,068 new species there between 1997 and 2021. is special about the newly discovered bird? usually walks. likes walking and flying. can eat other birds. can eat frogs. 答案 :A 解析 :細節(jié)理解題。由文章第二段第一句可知 ,這種新發(fā)現的鳥的獨特之處是它喜歡行走 ,而不是飛翔。 Chapman believes that . of the newly discovered species can adapt to climate change change can cause massive extinction of the newly discovered species newly discovered species are not so vulnerable to climate change species have already died out because of climate change 答案 :B 解析 :細節(jié)理解題。由文章第四段可知 ,這些新發(fā)現的物種很少能適應氣候變暖 ,因此會出現大量滅絕的情況。 Lee Grismer discovered the tigerstriped pit viper,he probably felt . 答案 :C 解析 :推理判斷題。由文章倒數第二段可知 ,這種蛇的發(fā)現很偶然 ,而且后來被證明是一個新的物種 ,因此發(fā)現者應該感到 “ 驚喜 ”, 故選 excited。 does the passage mainly tell us? Greater Mekong region is a rich area for scientists. rare species remain to be discovered in the Mekong region. have discovered many new species in the Mekong region. change threatens Mekong new species. 答案 :D 解析 :主旨大意題。由文章第一段可知 ,本文重點在于說明大湄公河次區(qū)新發(fā)現的物種面臨受氣候變暖瀕臨滅絕的危險 ,而不是強調新物種的發(fā)現 ,故選 D項。 第二節(jié) (共 5小題 。每小題 2分 ,滿分 10 分 ) 根據短文內容 ,從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。 Urbanization Until relatively recently,the vast majority of human beings lived and died without ever seeing a first city was probably founded no more than 5,500 years ago. 36 In fact,nearly everyone lived on farms or in tiny rural(鄉(xiāng)村 的 ) was not until the 20th century that Great Britain became the first urban society in history— a society in which the majority of people live in cities and do not farm for a living. Britain was only the beginning. 37 The process of urbanization— the migration(遷移 )of people from the countryside to the city— was the result of modernization,which has rapidly transformed how people live and where they live. In 1990,fewer than 40%of Americans lived in urban ,over 82%of Americans live in about 2% live on farms. 38 Large cities were impossible until agriculture became in advanced agricultural societies,it took about niyfive people on farms to feed five people in cities. 39 Until modern times,those living in cities were mainly the ruling elite(精英 )and the servants,labourers and professionals who served survived by taxing farmers and were limited in size by the amount of surplus food that the rural population produced and by the ability to move this surplus from farm to city. Over the past two centuries,the Industrial Revolution has broken this balance between the city and the country. 40 Today,instead of needing niyfive farmers to feed five city people,one American farmer is able to feed more than a hundred nonfarmers. kept cities very small. rest live in small towns. effects of urban living on people should be considered. many other industrial nations bee urban societies. even 200 years ago,only a few people could live in cities. drew people to the cities and made farmers more productive. cities have destroyed social relations and the health of human beings. 答案 : 第三部分 英語知識運用 (共兩節(jié) ,滿分 45分 ) 第一節(jié) 完形填空 (共 20小題 。每小題 ,滿分 30分 ) 閱讀下面短文 ,從每題所給的四個選項 (A、 B、 C 和 D)中 ,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。 On the top of a tree which had lost all its other leaves,two still remained hanging from one branch:Ole and some reason unknown to them,Ole and Trufa had 41 all the rains and Ole and Trufa believed the answer 42 in the great love they bore one leaf can do 43 for another when the wind blows,and the rain pours. 44 ,Ole encouraged Trufa at every opportunity. At times during cold and stormy nights,Ole would 45 ,“My time has e,Trufa,but you hang on!” “What for?”Trufa asked.“Without you,my life is 46 .If you fall,I’ll fall with you.” One day just as Trufa spoke these words,what they two had 47 all these months happened— a wind came up and tore Ole 48 from the Ole disappeared from sight and Trufa was left all alone on the tree. As long as it was still day,Trufa managed somehow to 49 her when it grew dark and cold,she 50 she felt that the blame for all the leaves’ 51 was laid on the fell,but the trunk stood tall,and was 52 rooted in the wind,or rain could 53 it. One night,Trufa dozed next morning,to her 54 she found that she was no longer 55 on the wind had blown her down while she was 56 now that she wasn’t just a leaf that 57 the wind,but that she was 58 of the universe. Next to her lay Ole,and they 59 each other with a wasn’t a love that depended on chance,but a love as powerful and 60 as the universe itself. 答案 :B 解析 :文章一開始就提到了只有兩片樹葉還留在樹上 ,因此此處用 survive 表示 “ 幸免于 ,幸存 ” 。 suffer“ 遭受 ”。escape “ 逃脫 ,避開 ”。avoid“ 避免 ” 均不符合語境。 答案 :C 解析 :lie in“ 在于 ” 。語境表示 “ 他們認為答案在于他們之間產生的愛 ” 。 答案 :A 解析 :根據句意可知 ,在大風大雨中一片樹葉能為另一片樹葉所