广东省广州市天河区2022-2023学年高二上学期2月期末统考英语试题

2022学年第一学期天河区期末考试 高二英语 本试卷共8页，满分为150分，考试用时120分钟， 注意事项： 1.答卷前，学生必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的学校、班级、姓名、座位号和考号填写在答题卡相应的位置上。 2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B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，再选涂其它答案;不能答在试卷上. 3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上;如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案;不准使用铅笔或涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效. 4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回. 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分45分) 第一节(共10小题;每小题3分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C，D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Humpback whales are superb singers with complex vocal performances that last for tens of minutes, often repeated for many hours. An album of their songs gained worldwide fame in the 1970s and is still the best-selling recording of nature sounds ever made. Only male humpbacks sing, and all the singers in a wide sea area deliver the same songs in the same way during each year. But songs vary between populations. North Atlantic humpbacks, for example, sing different ones to those in the North Pacific. Songs also vary every year, sometimes slightly, sometimes with more radical shifts. These song patterns allowed a team from the University of Queensland, Australia to see how precisely humpbacks in different geographical populations can match each other’s songs. Using seven years of recordings, the researchers took a deep dive into the details of six song types made by humpbacks from eastern Australia, which were learned a year later by whales around New Caledonia — an island group around 1,200 km away. “We found they actually learned the exact sounds, without simplifying or leaving anything out,” says Jenny Allen, who led the study. “Each year we observed them, they sang a different song, so it means humpback whales can learn an entire song pattern from another population very quickly, even if it’s complex or difficult.” Such copying is remarkable — a bit like a human hearing opera, then singing it back perfectly. It also suggests cultural sharing. Songs are likely being learned on migration routes or at feeding grounds. 1. Why does the author mention the album of wha