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2021湖南省普通高中学业水平合格性考试
英语
第一部分阅读技能(共两节,满分45分)
第一节阅读理解(共12小题;每小题3分, 满分36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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
BBC: Top 4 Wonderful English Novels
Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens, 1861
Mrs Dalloway
By Virginia Woolf, 1925
Middlemarch
By George Eliot, 1874
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Bronte, 1847
1. Which of the following might be the purest British novel?
A. Great Expectations. B. Mrs Dalloway.
C. Wuthering Heights. D. Middlemarch.
2. When was the novel of Mrs Dalloway published?
A. In 1847. B. In 1861. C. In 1874. D. In 1925.
3. What can we learn about Middlemarch?
A. Its plot is very simple.
B. It describes the hero’s events in one day.
C. It is powered by more psychological energy than any other book.
D. It is the greatest social and psychological novel written in English.
4. Who wrote the novel of Wuthering Heights?
A. George Eliot. B. Virginia Woolf.
C. Emily Bronte. D. Charles Dickens.
B
Popcorm Park Zoo is not like most zoos. It is a very special place.
This unusual place was not originally a zoo. At first it was called the Forked River Animal Care Center. The workers there looked after lost or unwanted cats and dogs. Today the center is part of the zoo but now many other kinds of animals are helped there, too.
The changes to the center began in 1977 when a raccoon(浣熊)needed help. One of its front paws(爪子)had been badly hurt. The workers cared for the animal. Finally it was better, but it could not care for itself. The raccoon was allowed to live there. Then a hurt deer was brought there for help. It, too, stayed there after it got well.
Once people heard about the wonderful work being done at the center, they began taking all kinds of hurt or homeless animals there. Soon it was no longer just a home for cats and dogs. So many animals were living there that it became more like a zoo.
Popcorn Park Zoo got its funny name because many of the animals there like to eat popcorn made without oil or salt. The popcorn is sold there to help ma