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郑裕彤中学2021学年度第二学期期中教学质量检测高二年级
英语试题
考试时长:120分钟 满分:150分
第一部分 听力理解(共两节;每小题2分,满分20分)
第一节(共6小题;每小题2分,满分12分)
材料及问题播放两遍。每段后有两个小题,各段播放前有5秒钟的阅题时间。请根据各段播放内容及其相关小题的问题,在5秒钟内从题中所给的A、B、C项中选出最佳选项。
听第一段材料,回答第1-2题。
1. A. Under the sofa. B. Behind the piano. C. Under the clothes.
2. A. Dishonest. B. Selfish. C. Untidy.
听第二段材料,回答第3-4题。
3. A. In Orchard Road. B. In Cherry Lane. C. In Newfield Avenue.
4. A. Intercard. B. The airline offices. C. The shipping company.
听第三段材料,回答第5-6题。
5. A. Its location. B. Its swimming pool. C. Its entertainment program.
6. A. It is an old building. B. It is surrounded by forests. C. Its price goes up in November.
第二节 回答问题(共4小题;每小题2分,满分8分)
听下面一段材料,然后回答问题。材料及问题读两遍。
7. A staff member of _______________________
8. ______________________________________
9. ______________________________________
10. _____________________________________
第二部分 阅读(共40分)
第一节 阅读理解(共10小题,每小题2分,满分20分)
A
I live in a second-floor flat with an ancient tree right on the corner of the house. House and tree have been here, side by side, for well over a century. No one really knows how old the tree is, but it was already there when builders started on the house at the beginning of the 1900s.
It was still rather young and flexible back then, so it easily welcomed the new :structure into its path. It bent and adjusted itself to make room, and to find the space to grow big and strong and wise, which means that some hundred years later, the solid, strong branches of the tree reach around two full sides of my home. It’s covered in moss (苔藓), which is, in turn, crawling with all sorts of insects. I have never seen the insects, by the way, I just know that they’re there because of all the birds trying to pick them out. They are always hopping around, looking for this and that and singing songs.
I feel like I have become part of the ecosystem. When I’m eating breakfast or making dinner in the kitchen, I can look out and see a bird hopping around skillfully, gathering its own meal while I tend