2023届广东省普宁市第一中学高三下学期英语第9次限时训练

广东省普宁一中2022-2023学年度高三级第二学期英语科 第17周限时训练 （满分50分，用时45分钟） 一、语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 To observe the Dragon Boat Festival, people 1 (usual) gather to appreciate boat displays, eat zongzi and watch dragon boat races in memory of Qu Yuan, 2 died over 2,200 years ago. But because of some COVID-19 (新冠疫情) restrictions，the boat races couldn’t 3 (hold) in 2020 and 2021. Luckily, the tradition 4 (return) in parts of China in 2022 since the start of COVID-19. On June 3, 2022, residents in the Lychee Bay area in Guangzhou were glad to enjoy the 5 (celebration) again after they had been canceled the previous two years, and many people came 6 (watch) the crews from Pan Tang village — 7 ancient village in the Lychee Bay area — paddle (用浆划) the boats. “The Dragon Boat Festival brought tourists and their money to us, 8 (promote) our business,” said Ji Tuhui, the owner of a small shop selling 9 (tradition) local food. “The dragon boat tradition has a history 10 500 years in Pan Tang and residents began displaying beautiful dragon boats as an art event 100 years ago,” said Liu Yongzhou, head of the Dragon Boat Association. 2． 阅读理解（共4小题；每小题2.5分，满分10分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 Why zebras have stripes(条纹) has long been something of a mystery. We have a pretty good idea they’re used as protection, but we don’t know how. I mean, why would evolution result in something like that? The black on white is like a signal for predators (捕食者), saying Eat at Joe’s wherever the zebras go. Charles Darwin himself mentioned that the “stripes cannot afford any protection in the open plains of South Africa.” Thanks to a computer simulation(模拟), researchers now have a better idea. A pair of researchers from the University of Queensland and the University of London simulated the movements of a herd, and determined that the stripes provide zebras with not one, but two, optical illusions(视错觉) that keep other