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题型:填空题 题类:真题 难易度:普通

2016年中考英语真题试卷(浙江衢州卷)

阅读下面短文,从A、B、C三个选项中选择正确的选项填入①②③后的空格中,并在④⑤空白处填入适当的内容。

    There are world records at the Olympic Games. But what are the word records in animal kingdom?

    The largest and heaviest animal on earth is the blue whale. It weighs between 110 and 120 tons. Its heart is the size of a Mini Cooper, It's got the biggest mouth in the world as well. About 100 people can fit inside it. But it doesn't eat people! In fact, the biggest thing it can eat is the size of an apple.

The giraffe is smaller than the blue whale but it is also a record breaker. It's the tallest living land animal. It's got the longest neck-about 2 metres long, and it's got the longest legs-about 1.8 metres long. Drinking is difficult, but eating from the top of trees is easy! And its tongue is 50 c m long!

    The most dangerous animal in the world isn't a lion or a bear. It's an insect! The mosquitoes (蚊子) that carry malaria kill over 1 million people a year. After that, the most dangerous animal is the venomous snake. They kill 50,000 to 125,000 people a year.

     A. the mosquito           B. the giraffe                C. the blue whale

Animal

the heaviest:①

the tallest:②

the most dangerou:③

: 110 to 120 tons

neck: 2 metres long

carry malaria

heart: size of a Mini Cooper

leg: 1.8 metres long

kill ⑤ people a year

mouth: hold 100 people

tongue: 50cm long



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阅读理解

   Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

    “I think we are knocking at the door of immortality(永生),” said Michael Zeya, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and that's a conservative estimate(保守的估计).”

    At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Luria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years,” he said. “Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”

    However, many scientists who study in ageing are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.

    Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Pooh, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”

阅读理解

    Why don't birds get lost on their long flights (飞行) from one place to another? Scientists have studied this puzzle for a long time. Now they're starting to fill in the blanks(空白).

    Not long ago, experiments showed that birds use the sun to guide them during daylight hours. How do birds fly at night? Tests with artificial stars, which are made by people, have proved that certain night-flying birds are able to follow the stars in their long-distance flights.

    They found a bird that spent its lifetime in a cage and never flew under a natural sky. But it was born with the ability to use the stars to look for the direction. This bird's cage was placed under the sky filled with artificial stars. Any change in the position of the artificial stars caused a change in the direction of the bird's flight. From the experiment, they found that the bird tried to fly in the same direction as those artificial stars moving under the natural sky.

    But the stars are of course birds' main ways of navigation (航行), when the stars are hidden by clouds, they can still find their way by such landmarks (路标) as river courses, mountain ranges (山脉), coast lines and so on. Because of this ability, people use the dove (鸽子) to send messages in some fields. For example, the doves were used to send messages in both World War I and World War II. During that time, thousands of doves were used to carry important messages in order to save the lives of many thousands of people. So it is also the symbol of peace.

    But when it's too dark to see these things, the doves are not able to find their way. They only circle helplessly and get lost.

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