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2022年6月浙江省高考英语仿真模拟卷03
英语·全解全析
第一部分 听力(共两节,满分30分)
做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题纸上。
听力答案:1-5 ACACB 6-10 BCBAA
11-15 CBBCA 16-20 BBCAC
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分35分)
第一节(共10小题;每小题2.5分,满分25分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
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In April of last year, I found my “spark bird”.
Back then, COVID-19 was spreading around the U.S. I had spent an awful month shut inside a New York apartment with a high-energy 14-month-old. One Saturday morning, eager to stretch my legs, I went out to Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. There were not many people there, so I thought it should be safe.
As I walked around the graveyard, I noticed two sounds. The first was the murmur of five men standing in a half-circle, looking through their cameras like paparazzi (狗仔队). The second was some cheerful chatter that made me follow the men’s gaze upward. And that’s how I, too, became shocked by the monk parakeets of Green-Wood Cemetery. A few light-green birds poked their heads out of holes in their nest. Others flew to and from nearby trees freely. Watching them filled me with a peace I hadn’t felt in weeks.
That evening, I found myself researching parakeets, the bird that set me on the path to birding. Birding is a great way to receive the mental benefits of observing nature. It provides a thrill of discovery that was painfully rare when our lives were disturbed by COVID-19. And there’s such a low barrier to entry ― you don’t even need to leave home to get started. So I found myself one of the birders in the Brooklyn Bird Club.
The feeling I got from my experience made me think of something one birder said about the mindfulness the hobby can provide for everyone. “I’m always a firm believer of being in the present moment, and birding is being very in tune: listening to the trees, the wind, the bird calls, and not thinking about anything else.” Birds have, among many other things, re-taught me how to look and listen.
21.The expression “spark bird” in paragraph 1 refers to a