20xx年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试考前演练卷二英语试题

20xx年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试考前演练卷二英语试题内容摘要：

asure to keep the author happy. friendly way to make the author see what was good for him. joint effort to persuade the author both kindly and forcefully. may be the best title for the text? from Illhealth Love Hidden from Health Made in Hospital D A new study finds that young females in one group of African chimps (黑猩猩 ) use sticks as dolls more than their male peers (同龄 )do,often treating pieces of wood like a mother chimp caring for a human cultures around the world,girls play with dolls and pretend that the toys are babies far more than boys do. Chimp observations,collected over 14 years of field work with the Kanyawara chimp munity in Kibale National Park in Ugandan,provide the first evidence of a non human animal in the wild that exhibits sex differences in how it finding supports an argument that biology as well as society underlies boys’ and girls’ different toy preferences. Stick play occurred most monly between ages 3 and spent a lot more time carrying sticks than males male chimps occasionally used sticks to mimic (模仿 ) childcare.“Far more often ， they fought with sticks,an infrequent behavior among females,” say Sonya Kahlenberg of Bates College in Lewiston,Maine,and Richard Wrangham of Harvard University. “Biological differences between the sexes make female chimps more receptive to stickmothering than males,” says Wrangham. Consistent with reported cultural traditions among adult chimps,Kanyawara youngsters learned from each other to play with sticks as if caring for play among young chimps showed no evidence of being directly influenced by older females never played with sticks and thus didn’t model such behavior for younger chimps. Young females carried sticks for anywhere from a few minutes to several often rested in nests with their sticks,sometimes playing with them much as chimp mothers play with their babies though they didn’t get any form of teaching from the adults. does a stick seem like to a young female chimp who plays with it? doll. mother. baby. toy. can see from the text that young female chimps . carry sticks with males carry sticks with males use sticks in fighting use sticks in fighting whom do the young chimps pick up the stick play behavior? each other. older chimps. their mothers. male chimps. does the text mainly tell us about young chimps’ stick play? types of stick play and social influence. sex differences and social influence. sex differences and age differences. ways of stick play and age differences. 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。 The art of growing dwarf trees,or “bonsai” （盆景） as their Japanese creators call them,is increasing in popularity in the United bonsai can make a fascinating hobby for anyone who enjoys plants and creating beautiful effects with In growing bonsai,first,one must be careful in choosing the type of tree,as the growing conditions are Varieties of pines with small needles and hardwood trunks are especially suitable. 38 This is necessary because the major growth of bonsai is kept confined (被限制 ) to the tree’s trunk and leaves ， not its root systema process quite unlike what is done with other plants. Another thing the bonsaigrower must do is to trim (修整 ) the roots and branches of the tree this is done,the plant will not have the proper proportions (比例 ) and will look The last thing one must do is to be careful to keep the trees bonsai are grown in smallerthanusual containers,they often need more water than ordinary houseplants do. As can be seen from the above,the art of bonsaigrowing is one which requires a certain amount of time and Imagine having such a tree in your living room and passing it down through several generations of your is exactly what bonsaigrowing is all about： establishing a tradition of beauty which lasts for years and years and is a symbol of the beauties of the natural world. one must be careful in choosing the size of the container. can we meet the goal of making such a kind of art? do so many people take a fancy to the art of bonsaigrowing? one must get well prepared before starting bonsaigrowing. satisfaction that growing bonsai brings can be great,however. ideal bonsai plants are trees just like normal trees in everything but size. all species。