江西省赣州市20xx届高三上学期期末考试英语试题word版含答案

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e. 30. What can we know from Paragraph 4? A. Many job opportunities are created by wind industry. B. The UK would not accept many panies’ investment. C. Over the last ten years the UK has attracted little investment. D. Other industries are less important than wind industry. 31. What is the most important thing for the government to achieve its goal by 2020? A. Attracting more investment. B. Getting enough support from ministers. C. Improving the technology a lot. D. Listing the advantages of wind power to the public. D Wild elephants can tell whether a voice es from a man, woman or boy, a new study says. That’s what researchers found when they played recordings of people for elephants in Kenya. Scientists say this is an advanced thinking skill that other animals haven’t shown. It lets elephants figure out who is a threat and who isn’t. The result shows that the clever animals are also studying people, said study author Karen McComb. “ Basically they have developed this very rich knowledge of the humans that they share their habitat with,” said McComb, a professor at the University of Sussex in England. “Memory is key. They must build up that knowledge somehow.” The study was released on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It’s close but not quite like the Dr. Seuss book, where the elephant Horton hears something that others can’t hear. McComb and colleagues went to Amboseli National Park in Kenya, where hundreds of wild elephants live among humans, sometimes ing in conflict over scarce water. The scientists used voice recordings of Maasai men, who on occasion kill elephants, and Kamba men, who are less of a threat to the elephants. As a result, the elephants reacted defensively — retreating and gathering in a bunch — more to the Maasai language recording because it was associated with the more threatening human tribe, said study coauthor Graeme Shannon. They repeated the experiment with recordings of Maasai men and women. Since women almost never spear elephants, the animals reacted less to the women’s voices. The same thing happened when they substituted young boys’ voices. “Making this kind of fine distinctions in human voice patterns is quite remarkable,” said Emory University animal cognition expert Frans de Waal, who was not part of the study. 32. Who were the people taking part in the study? A. Frans de Waal and Karen McComb. C. Dr. Seuss and Graeme Shannon. B. Graeme Shannon and Frans de Waal. D. Karen McComb and Graeme Shannon. 33. What can wild elephants benefit from their special ability? A. Identifying and avoiding possible danger. B. Growing much faster than any other animals. C. Having a better understanding of humans. D. Developing their language skills. 34. How did the elephants feel of young boys’ voices? A. They are extremely exciting. B. They are very depressing. C. They are less threatening. D. They are gentle and kind. 35. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. Wild elephants can distinguish between human languages. B. The conflict between humans and wild elephants is growing. C. Wild elephants use language skills to make discrimination. D. Wild elephants can build up good memory and learn tricks. 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。 Reading plays an important role in the development of an individual. 36 One needs to, however, understand that reading does not mean making it through your school textbooks to prepare for the approaching tests. You can read almost anything, including novels, newspapers, magazines, and so on. 37 Sadly, people nowadays seem to have lost interest in this activity. Children are busy with puter games and television. 38 Reading does have its loyal fan following, but this fan base is fast disappearing. It seems that people have fotten the importance of reading. If that’s the case, it calls for a revision. The most important thing is that reading improves your vocabulary and munication skills and idioms. Reading books of a variety of subjects helps add to your knowledge. 39 You can look at the things from a different view. 40 An individual who doesn’t read will always experience a lack of words when it es to writing. Reading nonfiction is no doubt important as it helps you gain knowledge, but reading fiction is a must for people in all walks of life as it gives them a glimpse of different views. A. Every coin has two sides. B. It is also believed to improve creativity. C. Adults are addicted to their puter screens. D. Therefore it is considered a top task in primary education. E. What you read is not important as long as you like doing it. F. Good reading skills are directly related to good writing skills. G. Reading books can be better and give more chance than watching TV. 第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45分） 第一节 完形填空（共 20小题；每小题 ，满分 30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（ A、 B、 C和 D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 There are many things I am gr。