英语周报高三上学期期中检测2023-2024第十期

英语周报高三上学期期中检测2023-2024第十期

Mary _______as a secretary in this company for twenty years and now she stays at home taking care of her own garden.

A. has served B. had served

C. is serving D. served

英语周报高三上学期期中检测2023-2024第十期试题答案

D

【解析】

试题分析：考查时态。本句容易错选A项，现在完成时表示过去发生的事情对现在的影响，或者过去发生的事情产生的影响。句意：Mary在这家公司里做了20年的秘书，现在她在家里照看自己的花园。本句表示的是过去发生的事情。所以使用一般过去时。故D正确。

考点：考查时态

Along the river banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco there lives a bird that swims before it can fly, flies like a fat chicken, eats green leaves, has the stomach of a cow and has claws (爪) on its wings when young. They build their homes about 4.6m above the river, an important feature for the safety of the young. It is called the hoatzin.

In appearance, the birds of both sexes look very much alike with brown on the back and cream and red on the underside. The head is small, with a large set of feathers on the top, bright red eyes, and blue skin. Its nearest relatives are the common birds, cuckoos. Its most striking (显著的) feature, though, is only found in the young.

Baby hoatzins have a claw on the leading edge of each wing and another at the end of each wing tip. Using these four claws, together with the beak (喙), they can climb about in the bushes, looking very much like primitive(原始的) birds must have done. When the young hoatzins have learned to fly, they lose their claws.

During the drier months between December and March hoatzins fly about the forest in groups of 20 to 30 birds, but in April, when the rainy season begins, they collect together in smaller living units of two to seven birds for producing purposes.

1.What is the text mainly about?

A．Hoatzins in dry and rainy seasons.

B．The relatives and enemies of hoatzins.

C．Primitive birds and hoatzins of the Amazon.

D．The appearance and living habits of hoatzins.

2.Young hoatzins are different from their parents in that_________ ．

A．they look like young cuckoos

B．they have claws on the wings

C．they eat a lot like a cow

D．they live on river banks

3.What can we infer about primitive birds from the text?

A．They had claws to help them climb.

B．They could fly long distances.

C．They had four wings like hoatzins.

D．They had a head with long feathers on the top.

4.Why do hoatzins collect together in smaller groups when the rainy season comes?

A．To find more food. B．To protect themselves better.

C．To keep themselves warm. D．To produce their young.

英语周报高三上学期期中检测2023-2024第十期试题答案

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.D

【解析】

试题分析: 本文主要介绍了生活在亚马逊和奥里诺科河河岸的小鸟hoatzins，它们的外貌很漂亮，幼鸟和成熟的鸟的生活习性不同以及它们的繁殖习性。

1.主旨大意题，根据第二段提到In appearance, the birds of both sexes look very much alike with brown on the back and cream and red on the underside. Baby hoatzins have a claw on the leading edge of each wing and another at the end of each wing tip.可知文章讲的是hoatzins的外表和生活习性，故选D项。

2. 细节理解题。根据第一段has claws(爪)on its wings when young,和第三段可知，hoatzin在幼年期是有爪子的，而长大学会飞之后就没有了，故选B项。

3. 细节理解题。根据第三段提到Using these four claws, together with the beak (喙), they can climb about in the bushes, looking very much like primitive(原始的) birds must have done.可知选A项。

4. 细节理解题。根据最后一段提到but in April, when the rainy season begins, they collect together in smaller living units of two to seven birds for producing purposes.在四月，雨季来临时，他们会聚集在一起为了生产的目的，故选D项

考点：科普类阅读。

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