内容正文:
2019—2020 学年广州市第二中学初三一模考试
英语试卷
(满分110)
一、语法选择(共 15 小题,每小题 1 分,满分 15 分)
UK physicist Isaac Newton once said, “Nature is pleased with simplicity and nature is no dummy.” Indeed, Mother Nature ____1____ provide almost everything human beings need if we follow her rules. ____2____ if we break the rules, she is likely to be cruel and punish us.
____3____ outbreak of the COVID-19 in China and some ____4____ countries at the beginning of this year is an example. According to Xinhua News Agency, the new coronavirus is similar ____5____ a virus found in a bat in 2017. And it was widely found on Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei province, where live wild animals ____6____.
Dr. Peter Daszak, president of the US-based health organization Ecohealth Alliance, said. “This outbreak is a lesson for us.”
In ancient times, people needed to depend on nature to survive so they ____7____ it in respect. For example, the American Indians believed ____8____ humans are part of nature and nature is part of humans. Chinese ancients always pursued the harmony between nature and human beings.
However, as human beings get more knowledge and make more advanced tools, people try to change and even control nature. They use more land ____9____ buildings, capture some wild and rare animals to meet their own needs. In this process, humans ____10____ lose contact with nature and even throw it out of ____11____. For example, cutting a large number of forests ____12____ carbon dioxide must build up in the atmosphere and it leads to global warming.
____13____ we don’t know for sure what first caused COVID-19 outbreak, it’s time for people to think about our relationship with our planet and everything ____14____ we’ve been given. After all, according to US poet Gary Snyder, “Nature is not the place to visit. It’s ____15____ home.”
1. A. need B. can C. must D. should
2. A. However B. And C. So D. But
3. A. An B. A C. The D. /
4. A. other B. another C. the other D. others
5. A. as B. with C. to D. in