广东省梅州市2024-2025学年高二上学期期末考试英语试卷

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梅州市高中期末考试试卷 (2025.1)

高二英语

本试卷共6页， 满分130分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：

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第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分30分)

第一节 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)

阅读下列三篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

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                                           CAMDEN MARKET ULTIMATE GUIDE

Whatever your cup of tea is, you' re bound to find something that tickles your fancy at the Camden markets. It consists of more than a dozen of regular markets, with some of the most famous happening in Camden Lock, a legendary area in Camden Town. The Camden markets draw in 250, 000 tourists every week.

But believe it or not, the Camden markets are a relatively new addition to London, as the area surrounding Camden Lock was used primarily for agricultural and industrial purposes since before the 1800s.

Camden Market Highlights

Camden Lock Village   Out of all the markets located in Camden, it is perhaps the most famous. These covered markets are full packed full of all sorts of unique and handmade items.

Camden Lock Market  Not just limited to clothing, here you can also find food stalls offering food from all over the world, as well as handmade jewellery, second-hand clothing, books, and other random household items you won't find anywhere else in the city.

Inverness Street Market   It may not be as big as the other Camden markets but don't let that stop you, as here

you will find a variety of different specialty shops, as well as countless bars and restaurants. It is also a popular hang-out among locals for its fruit and vegetable markets, which have been around since the early 1900s.

Camden High Street   It is a highly popular shopping area, and is packed full of independent shops, pubs and restaurants, many of which feature some interesting designs and logos on their facades (正面) that are worth taking a photo of. As a matter of fact, no Camden Town photo collection would be complete without a shot of the massive dragon at Camden High Street.

Visiting Information

● Open: Every day:10:00AM to 6:00PM

● Time Needed: 2.5 hours

● Price: Free

1. What do we know about the Camden markets?

A. They are open all day long. B. They are new but popular.

C. They are for agricultural uses. D. They are far from Camden Lock.

2. What is special about Camden Lock Market?

A. It sells second-hand jewelry. B. It mainly sells Camden's local produce.

C. It offers unique household items. D. It features countless local bars and restaurants.

3. Which place is most probably favored by photography lovers?

A. Camden High Street. B. Camden Lock Village.

C. Camden Lock Market. D. Inverness Street Market.

B

The crowd holds its breath. High above them on the climbing wall, hanging upside down by the tips of two fingers, is the French climber Francois Lombard. He is competing in the World Cup Climbing Championships at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena.

Until the mid-1960s, climbers practised their skills on cliffs in areas where there was a plentiful supply of good climbing angles. During the winter they would either put up with the cold weather, go walking instead or climb on snow and ice in Scotland.

However, as the sport developed it was increasingly important for top climbers to keep fit. With the cliffs unusable for much of the year, they used brick-edges or stone buildings to work out on. This allowed them to keep their fingers strong, and beat off the boredom of not being able to climb. It wasn’t long before many sports centres started building walls specifically for the task, using bricks with special edges to cling on to. Many of these early

walls followed the example set by Don Robinson. Walls could only be built in a vertical plane (垂直面), while cliffs outside have features like overhangs and angled slabs (石板) of rock. There was the added problem that once the walls were up, their patterns were fixed and climbers would eventually tire of their repetitive nature, despite thinking of every combination of holds possible.

In 1985, a Frenchman, Francois Savigny, developed a material which he made into shapes like those that climbers would find on the cliffs. These could be fixed onto any existing wall and then taken off when climbers got bored with a particular combination.

4. What can be learned about the climbers before the mid-1960s?

A. They relied on stone buildings for practice.

B. They found no place for training in the winter.

C. They practised their skills in a natural environment.

D. They were dissatisfied with their training equipment.

5. What does the underlined phrase “cling on to” in paragraph 3 mean?

A. adapt to B. hold firmly

C. put on D. keep away

6. What problem did the climbing walls developed by Don Robinson have?

A. They were not flexible at all. B. They were not safe enough.

C. They were not challenging at all. D. They looked like natural cliffs.

C

For years, twice a day Aadya Joshi walked past a dump filled with smelly rubbish in her neighborhood of south Mumbai on her way to and from school. Originally it was the garden of the local police station. When she was 15, during her summer holidays, Joshi decided to do something about it. “I walked into the police station and was like, ‘Can I please clean your garden?’” recalls Joshi. “It took three or four weeks to eventually convince them that I was not going to give up halfway and leave them with more work. ”

The plot of land covers an area of 60 square meters, about a quarter of a tennis court. But, over the course of four Sundays in the summer, with help of local residents, Joshi did more than clear it. She replanted it with native Indian plants and trees. Joshi said, “The first day that we cleaned up I made the mistake of not wearing gloves and I was sick for two weeks.”

The idea for native planting came from Joshi’s reading on the Miyawaki method of afforestation (植树造林) and the work of University of Delaware ecologist Douglas Tallamy. These both argue that planting the right trees