湖北省孝感20xx-20xx学年高二下学期期末考试英语试题

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ere and I thought he had played a joke on me. Later that month, Granddad gave me a book. For school, he said seriously. I opened it to where he39。 d written Watermelons! and laughed at another of his jokes. Claire listened quietly to the story and asked to plant seeds too, so I took her to buy some seeds. On the walk home, I realized for the first time that Granddad could have met my childish enthusiasm with some disappointing facts such as that watermelons don39。 t grow well in Nebraska or that it was too late to plant them anyway. But instead of doing that, he had stolen back into town that afternoon and bought the biggest melon on the market. That night, after I was asleep, he had awkwardly unloaded it and, with a painful bend, placed it exactly above my seeds. He made sure I experienced the wow. I had always thought the midnight miracle（奇迹） was just one of Granddad’s jokes. Now I real ized he had planted hope that day. As Claire planted the seeds happily, I watched my grandfather39。 s joy take fresh root in her life. And that was the biggest miracle of all. 28. Claire was shocked at the mark on the page because_____. A. her greatgrandfather did something her parents forbad B. someone preferred watermelons to cabbages C. she thought her parents didn39。 t act as they said D. there should be a mistake in the book 29. Why did Granddad put a watermelon where the author planted seeds? A. Because he didn39。 t want to waste the watermelon. B. Because he didn39。 t want to disappoint the author. C. Because he wanted to make fun of the author. D. Because he wanted the author to be a farmer. 30. Which of the following best describes Granddad? A. Talented and reliable. B. Generous and patient. C. Determined and happy. D. Caring and humorous. 31. What39。 s the best title for the text? A. Grandfather39。 s great love B. Set children a good example C. The day we planted hope D. Happy memories of childhood D Hippos（河马） have always attracted people39。 s interest. Modern hippos in Walt Disney movies can dance lightly. A stone hippo in a 13thcentury church in France has wings. And in ancient Egyptian fairy tales, the hippo was a goddess that guided the dead to the afterworld. Despite their popular appeal, hippos, as well as other animals, have difficulty when their needs conflict with those of humans. The early Egyptians liked to hunt hippos for their teeth and because they were dangerous animals. Amulets（护身符） to protect babies from demons（恶魔）were made from hippo bones. About 4,000 years ago, there were so many hippos in Egypt that they caused serious crop damage. Egyptian farmers killed them routinely, and by the beginning of the 19th century, all the hippos in Africa had been killed. People used to see hippos fight in the arenas（角斗场） of ancient Rome. After the fall of the Roman Empire, hippos weren39。 t seen in Europe again until a few zoos began to exhibit them in the mid 1800s. All the various uses and abuses of hippos through the centuries have made their population fall greatly. Where they do occur, mostly in national parks, they live in such high density that they make the grasslands bare. This causes other grasseating animals to go farther for food, and hippos, which can39。 t live far from water, destroy their own feeding grounds. 32. In Africa, hippos became extinct _____. A. around the 1850s B. in the 13th century C. about 4,000 years ago D. in the early 19th century 33. Apart from protecting crops, what39。 s the main reason for people to kill hippos? A. To save other animals. B. To satisfy personal demands. C. To look for guida nce after death. D. To follow the routine established by the Egyptians. 34. The underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced by _____? A. concentration B. altitude C. level D. temperature 35. What problems do hippos lead to? A. They eat up the grass in their habitats. B. They always destroy other animals39。 food. C. They stop other animals from drinking water. D. They grow too quickly for the land to support. 第二节（ 共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分 ） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 Awardwinning novelist Jamaica Kincaid is talking with Time about her new book See Now Then. Your new book, See Now Then, features a Caribbean writer whose husband is a poser and who lives in the Northeast with two kids. Sounds like you. How autobiographical（自传的） is it? 36 But I wasn39。 t thinking of myself. My own self,。