广东省肇庆市2021-2022学年高二上学期期末考试英语试题

保密★启用前 2 In which country are corpse plants found? 肇庆市21-2∞2学年第学期高二年级期末教学质量检测 A South africa B Botswana C. Indonesia D. Ethiopia. 3. What do African Starfish Flower and Hydnora Africana have in common A. They have great sizes 英语 B. They can be used as drugs 注意事项 C. They look like rotting animals 1.答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 D. They change shapes to keep away enemies 2.回答选择题时,选出每小题答案后,用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。 如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时,将答案写在答题卡 Musician Nfamara Badjie came to the United States in 2005 from his native 上,写在本试卷上无效。 country, Gambia to perform and give drumming(iis)workshops. He didnt prospect 3.考试结束后,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 for staying. He was a famous musician back home, who'd grown up rice farming and 第一部分阅读(共两节,满分50分 drumming in a hamlet as his ancestors had done. However, Dawn Hoyte changed his 第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分) plans. 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项 A dancer, Hoyte, attended one of Badjie's workshops. By 2013 they'd become a couple, married, and were looking for a bigger home in the hudson valley of New York Baseball Plant where they could house their combined families. They found a house that seemed large Where it's found: South africa enough. It was sited on what's called a wetland. Badjie wanted a place to grow rice as This is a ball-shaped juicy plant. Unluckily, it was unsustainably harvested he'd done back home. Hoyte, who was born in Queens, N.Y., doubted it because more people around the globe have decided to grow baseball plants around It was a challenge but Badjie made it. Calling their farm the Ever Growing Family them. Luckily, some botanical gardens have started to grow this plant. In this way, it Farm, Badjie and Hoyte consulted Styger, an agronomist of Cornell University, and will no longer ne need to be obtained from the wild so that it does not become extinct they received lots of help from their family and friends. The farm has become the first Corpse Flower commercial rice farm in New York. With a few acres and a bit more than a