浙江省丽水市2021-2022学年高二英语下学期期末试卷（Word版附答案）

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丽水市2021学年第二学期普通高中教学质量监控
高二英语试题卷
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）。第Ⅰ卷1至8页，第Ⅱ卷8至10页。考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Where is the man’s phone now?
A. In the car. B. In the gym. C. In the woman’s bag.
2. What will the man do next?
A. Play basketball. B. Wash hands. C. Cook dinner.
3. How does the woman probably feel now?
A. Tired. B. Hungry. C. Angry.
4. What color shirt is the man wearing today?
A. White. B. Blue. C. Red.
5. What does the woman want the man to buy?
A. A cake. B. Some sugar. C. Some chocolate.
第二节
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. How long has the man been in pain?
A. For five days. B. For one week. C. For two weeks.
7. Who suggested the medicine to the man?
A. His doctor. B. His friend. C. His coach.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a café. B. In an office. C. In a classroom.
9. What does Jim do?
A. He is a lawyer. B. He is a teacher. C. He is an engineer.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Who began to work after graduation?
A. The woman’s father.
B The woman’s mother.
C. The woman’s brother.
11. Where does the woman want to work?
A. At a senior school. B. At a junior school. C. At a university.
12. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Try to change her father’s mind.
B. Ask her teacher for advice.
C. Make a list of her options.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What kind of restaurants might the speakers be in?
A. An Italian restaurant.
B. A Chinese restaurant.
C. A French restaurant.
14. What is the purpose of the woman’s coming to the U.S.?
A. To experience the local food.
B. To meet the man’s parents.
C. To attend university.
15. Why does the woman feel nervous?
A. She can’t use knives and forks skillfully.
B. She hasn’t met the man’s parents before.
C. She can’t afford the meal.
16. What does the man eat with after the food is cut up?
A. Chopsticks. B. A knife. C. A fork.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the talk mainly about?
A. An introduction to a new lesson.
B. A presentation about sea pollution.
C. An announcement during a school trip.
18. What will the class do this morning?
A. Visit the Sea Life Center.
B. Practice math and spelling.
C. Work on their science topic.
19. How much will each student pay for the trip?
A. £5.00. B. £10.00. C. £20.00.
20. What season is it?
A. Fall. B. Winter. C. Summer.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Wander through Edinburgh and you will find Walter Scott, Scotland’s most famous novelist, everywhere: pubs named after characters or places in his books, his walking cane and slippers in The Writers’ Museum. Just outside the Waverley train station, Scott’s statue stands beneath a monument affectionately nicknamed the Rocket.
Built in 1840, eight years after his death at the age of 61, the Scott Monument captures the extreme regard for this international bestselling writer and son of Edinburgh. Scott’s adventurous historical stories, set against a dramatic background of high mountains, dark lakes and deep valleys, brought a vision of Scotland to the world.
As his friend, Jane Austen once remarked, Scott had two careers in literature. He quickly became Europe’s most famous poet in 1805 with immediate success of his first narrative poem, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the tale of two lovers on opposite sides of a family conflict.
A 1810 book-length poem of King James V’s struggles with the powerful family Douglas, The Lady of the Lake would have obtained his reputation on its own. Selling 25,000 copies in eight months, it broke records for poetry sales and brought its setting, the fantastic Lake Katrine, to the attention of a novel (新颖的) tourism industry.
Scott also wrote songs and collected ballads for future, but after the success of his poetry, he turned to novel writing in his 40s. For nearly 20 years he produced a series of fat novels, which spread his reputation around the globe further still. Although involving in the gothic style popular at the time, Scott favoured historical themes, not only set in Scotland but also England, France, Syria and elsewhere, as far back as the 11th century. However, these days, Scott’s writing has fallen out of fashion thanks in part to the absolute length of the novels.
Waverley, Scott’s exploration of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, lends itself to political as much as literary analysis. The Highland Widow captures the conflicted mood of a young lad who, seeking better fortune, joins in the Black Watch, upsetting his mother. Drugging her son so he misses his appointment, she sends him to military execution (处决). Although written in a sentimental (伤感的) style popular at the time, the story finds much to say about national tensions, military occupation, and cultural conflict in the lives of post-Union Scots.
1. Why will you find Walter Scott everywhere when wandering through Edinburgh?
A. Because the characters or places in his books are set only in Scotland.
B. Because pubs in Edinburgh are fond of being named after Walter Scott.
C. Because Walter Scott’s cane and slippers are displayed in the Writers’ Museum.
D. Because Walter Scott is an international bestselling author and son of Edinburgh.
2. Nowadays, Walter Scott’s novels are no longer so fashionable partly because they are too ________ .
A. lengthy B. novel C. uninteresting D. complicated
3. Which of the following is about the story of two lovers’ family conflict?
A. Waverley. B. The Lady of the Lake.
C. The Highland Widow. D. The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
B
Sixteen miles off the windswept coast of northern Scotland, the future of renewable energy is taking shape. Turning rhythmically in the breeze, the five enormous turbines of the Hywind Scotland wind farm look like any other off-shore wind project, except one major difference — they’re floating.
While conventional offshore turbines sit atop mental and concrete towers fixed into the seabed, Hywind’s turbines rest on floating steel structures that rise and fall with waves. Carefully balanced, they remain upright despite the waving conditions. This simple sounding, yet extremely complex design is changing the way green developers view offshore wind.
It could prove to be an important development as the world attempts to meet the net zero carbon emission targets that countries committed to in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The energy department as a whole currently accounts for around three quarters of all the greenhouse gases emitted by human activity.
To cut those emissions, green electricity will need to be at the main source of global energy, according to the International Energy Agency. It says that by 2024, half of the world’s energy needs will have to be met by electricity produced in a net zero way.
With growing numbers of electric vehicles, combined with increased demand for electricity to replace fossil fuels in domestic and industrial uses, electricity networks will also need to become far more flexible with more ways to generate and store energy. It means that by 2045, our energy network could look thoroughly different to the way it does today. Projects like Hywind’s floating wind farm offer a present-day glimpse of what the future could look like.
While floating turbines overcome some of the issues that make offshore wind farms in deep waters impossible, there are still challenges to be overcome. There are some concerns about what impact large wind turbines might have on the marine environment. The price of floating wind projects is also still high — costing almost twice as much per megawatt hour of electricity produced compared to bottom-fixed offshore wind. But those costs are expected to drop as the technology becomes increasingly advanced, as has been seen with other wind energy projects, helping pave the way towards net zero emissions, and a future powered by carbon-free fuel.
4. Which of the following words can replace the underlined word “emitted” in the third paragraph?
A. Released. B. Replaced. C. Wasted. D. Influenced.
5. What is the author’s opinion on floating wind projects?
A. Disapproving. B. Objective. C. Doubtful. D. Indifferent.
6. What is the author’s purpose of writing this text?
A. To share his research on energy. B. To call on people to save energy.
C. To replace the traditional fossil fuels. D. To introduce a clean renewable energy.
C
In 1810, during his first Grand Tour of Europe, Byron carved his name into a column base of the Temple of Poseidon on the Aegean coast. Although Byron himself might not have actually written the name that is left there, the story has become part of the history of the monument, searched for by his admirers among the hundreds of other names carved all over the temple.
Modern graffiti, however, is met with a very different reaction. In 2014 a Russian tourist was fined €20,000 for carving a large “K” on a wall of the Colosseum in Rome, the fifth such incident that year.
What is the thinking behind such acts? Are tourists aiming for ill fame to become part of the monument’s history? Or is it simply part of the experience of visiting the site? And, further, why is historical graffiti, which was equally destructive, considered historic heritages? The motives behind them are, after all, probably the same, however, graffiti comes to tell us about lives and moments that might otherwise have been lost.
The earliest graffiti of a person’s name on a monument has been identified by the historian Lionel Casson in a cave at Wadi Hammamat in Egypt in 2000 BC. The name of Hena is cut into the sandstone alongside a list of his achievements. In ancient Greece, too, stoas (柱廊) were the meeting places of philosophers and the places for school boys’ lessons. We therefore often see alphabets and Homeric poems written on their walls.
And it is not just monuments and buildings: Miltiades, a general from the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, carved his name into the helmet he wore. In the Athens, too, a Spartan shield (盾) was found with words noting that the Athenians captured it during the Battle in 425 BC. Without such graffiti, the objects would still be impressive, but far less useful for historians, as their writing provides an exact original place.
In the 21st century, however, with the rapid increase in tourism, if everyone decided to leave their mark, these sites would be irretrievable (不可挽回地) destroyed. Perhaps Beijing’s controversial new free graffiti zones on certain sections of the Great Wall of China will satisfy the desire to carve our own piece of history into the limited resource of the monument, though it seems unlikely that it will easily be contained to one area. Regardless, it is important that we protect these monuments — and the graffiti that some of them already contain.
7. Why is Baron’s carving his name into the column base mentioned in the first paragraph?
A. To introduce the related topic. B. To attract more people to copy him.
C. To show his admirers to search. D. To become part of the story of the monument.
8. What can we infer from the passage?
A. It was actually Byron that wrote and carved his name there.
B. It was the fifth time that the Russian tourist had been fined that year.
C. Ancient graffiti was carved more than on monuments and buildings.
D. The motives behind ancient and modern graffiti are completely the same.
9. Where was the earliest graffiti of a person’s name on a monument discovered?
A. In a cave in Egypt. B. In a temple on the Aegean coast.
C. On a wall of the Colosseum in Rome. D. In an ancient meeting place in Greece.
10. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?
A. What was the Earliest Graffiti? B. What’s the Way to Protect Graffiti?
C. What Can We Learn From Ancient Graffiti? D. What was the Motivation of Ancient Graffiti?
第二节（共5个小题；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。
My Buddhist teacher once told me that insomnia was “the process of trying to fall asleep”. He said falling asleep isn’t something you try to do. ____11____ It will occur naturally in the absence of obstacles preventing it.
Sounds right but what does that mean for those of us who continually come across these obstacles? Sleep is our birthright. But we must focus less on creating the perfect external conditions and more on cultivating an internal environment within our bodies that allows sleep to occur. ____12____ An over activated nervous system.
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of the nervous system that controls any bodily functions that aren’t consciously directed, of course sleep included. ____13____ The answer is literally right under our noses — change the way we breathe, one of the most effective ways to treat insomnia.
____14____ It has a profound effect on the ANS — and it might just change your life. Coherent breathing involves breathing at a relaxed rhythm of five breaths per minute, around 70 percent slower than we usually breathe. Scientific research has found that for most adults, breathing at around five breaths per minute is the best human breath rate and leads to a near-perfect balance in the nervous system. If you make it part of your night-time routine, it might just transform the third of your life that you spend asleep. ____15____
A. And what is the main internal obstacle?
B. Instead, it is an automatic biological process.
C. So how can we breathe our way to better sleep?
D. So how can we reduce this constant activation of our nervous system?
E. There is a powerful breath work technique called “ coherent breathing ” .
F. Coherent breathing can create a relaxation response within just a few minutes.
G. And it might allow you to live the other two thirds feeling happier and healthier.
第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共20个小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We had been practicing for weeks to make our final day special. Last year, our drama teacher had put in lots of effort to ____16____ us to perform a “ flashmob (快闪) ” on the ____17____ day of school in front of 400 children and their parents and teachers.
It took us a while to decide the right ____18____ , and the right moves for the ____19____ . At the time, everyone ____20____ the song “ Champagne Showers ” , and we finally decided that was our song. Every Thursday all the year-six classes would gather to ____21____ the movements and, as it got closer and closer to the final day of school, we got more ____22____ than we’d ever been.
When the day finally arrived, we were more ____23____ than newborn pups, and we were also so nervous that our little hearts were beating fast and our stomachs were full of butterflies. Acting ____24____ we were totally calm in front of the ____25____ was not easy. ____26____ “ Champagne Showers ” blared (响) across the great hall. My heart was beating so fast. Everyone got up and started ____27____ . I think we were more surprised than the audiences that were ____28____ us. Standing still once again, we got a huge round of applause. It made us feel so ____29____ on that final day. We got so much ____30____ afterwards.
At least I don’t have to ____31____ that anymore. That was the best day I’ve ever had, and the best performance that ____32____ at our school have ever given on their final day. I will never ____33____ how I felt on that final day of school, from my stomach being full of butterflies to leaving the stage full of ____34____ . It was the most ____35____ final day!
16. A. help B. want C. order D. warn
17. A. first B. same C. final D. next
18. A. instrument B. stage C. voice D. music
19. A. performance B. journey C. interview D. competition
20. A. liked B. composed C. purchased D. envied
21. A. teach B. create C. practice D. discuss
22. A. humble B. nervous C. curious D. dynamic
23. A. dangerous B. excited C. interested D. violent
24. A. now that B. so that C. as if D. even if
25. A. visitors B. civilians C. operators D. audiences
26. A. Particularly B. Suddenly C. Strangely D. Precisely
27. A. singing B. dancing C. laughing D. judging
28. A. admiring B. slapping C. criticizing D. justifying
29. A. similar B. useful C. necessary D. special
30. A. change B. praise C. advice D. power
31. A. put off B. give up C. worry about D. prepare for
32. A. actors B. passengers C. foreigners D. students
33. A. express B. guess C. forget D. describe
34. A. pride B. hope C. upset D. fear
35. A. international B. awful C. amazing D. crowded
第Ⅱ卷
第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节（1 个小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
In the 20th century, baguettes became less popular as fast food and supermarkets became more common. Shoppers began buying ____36____ (freeze) bread at their local supermarkets as an alternative to baguettes. Therefore, in 1993, the French government passed another law ____37____ (protect) the future of the traditional baguettes. The law stated that baguettes must only contain four ____38____ (ingredient): water, yeast, salt, and wheat flour.
Recently, a group of French bakers took ____39____ (far) steps to protect their national bread. They ____40____ (send) an application to the UN requesting that baguettes be recognized as ____41____ UNESCO cultural treasure. The bakers believe that gaining UNESCO ____42____ (recognize) will save their tradition and bring attention ____43____ the special baking techniques they’ve developed over the years. The road to UNESCO probably won’t be an easy ____44____ , though. Baguettes will have to beat out the beautiful Paris roofs and a popular French wine festival in order to win the honor. The past two years have been difficult for baguette bakers. COVID-19 restrictions have forced thousands of bakeries to close down for good. However, chances are ____45____ the demand for fresh baguettes will remain high and these stores will reopen once things get to normal.
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：应用文写作（满分15分）
46. 假设你校英语报正向全校学生征稿，主题为“My Favourite Artwork”。请你写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：
1.对艺术的看法；
2.艺术作品名称；
3.喜爱的原因。
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
第二节：读后续写（满分25分）
47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。
“ Rachel Pettingill! ”
As Truman came home from school he repeated the name in his head. Throughout third grade and the year before, Rachel Pettingill had earned the highest science grade in the class. Truman was used to being second best.
“ But science is my thing, ” he declared.
Truman’s parents were scientists, and he would be a scientist. That was just a fact. Somehow, with only one week and one assignment left before break, they were neck and neck. Dead even.
The subject of the project was beehives (蜂窝). As his teacher had explained, to earn an A+, he needed a “ new angle. ”
Truman pushed open the front door to find his four-year-old brother, Bryan, playing his paper towel tubes on the living room floor, hard at work.
Bryan leaped to his feet. “ Truman, help me build a city! ”
“ I’d like to, but I have to do a report on beehives. Bry. Sorry. ” Truman stepped carefully between the tubes. He went to his room, dropped onto the bed, and studied the ceiling.
“ Rachel Pettingill! ”
Her report would be extraordinary.
“ Truman? I know where there’s an old beehive. ” Bryan poked his head in. “ Follow me. ”
They marched to the firewood. Bending down, Bryan pointed out the hive deep inside the tree. Truman carefully removed the hive from its hole.
Back in his room, Truman sat at his desk, turning the delicate hive under a lamp. Each cell was a perfect hexagon (六角形). How did the bees fit the cells together so neatly? And how did they make each cell six-sided? Could they count?
“ Boys, dinner’s ready! ” his mother called.
As he walked to have dinner, his foot came down on something strange.
“ Truman! You’re ruining my city! ” Lost in thought, Truman hadn’t seen Bryan settle in behind him with a mess of paper tubes. Bryan began to cry. Loudly. He gathered an armful of his tubes, threw them into a sink and ran sobbing into the living room.
Truman sighed and gathered the rest of the tubes in both hands.
注意：
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
As he held the tubes over the wastebasket, they suddenly reminded him of something.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paragraph 2:
Truman ran to the living room and gave his brother a big hug.
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听力答案：1-5 CBABB 6-10 CBBAC 11-15 CAACA 16-20 CACBA

丽水市2021学年第二学期普通高中教学质量监控
高二英语试题卷
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）。第Ⅰ卷1至8页，第Ⅱ卷8至10页。考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Where is the man’s phone now?
A. In the car. B. In the gym. C. In the woman’s bag.
2. What will the man do next?
A. Play basketball. B. Wash hands. C. Cook dinner.
3. How does the woman probably feel now?
A. Tired. B. Hungry. C. Angry.
4. What color shirt is the man wearing today?
A. White. B. Blue. C. Red.
5. What does the woman want the man to buy?
A. A cake. B. Some sugar. C. Some chocolate.
第二节
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6 How long has the man been in pain?
A. For five days. B. For one week. C. For two weeks.
7. Who suggested the medicine to the man?
A. His doctor. B. His friend. C. His coach.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a café. B. In an office. C. In a classroom.
9. What does Jim do?
A. He is a lawyer. B. He is a teacher. C. He is an engineer.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Who began to work after graduation?
A. The woman’s father.
B. The woman’s mother.
C. The woman’s brother.
11. Where does the woman want to work?
A. At a senior school. B. At a junior school. C. At a university.
12. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Try to change her father’s mind.
B. Ask her teacher for advice.
C. Make a list of her options.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What kind of restaurants might the speakers be in?
A. An Italian restaurant.
B. A Chinese restaurant.
C. A French restaurant.
14. What is the purpose of the woman’s coming to the U.S.?
A. To experience the local food.
B. To meet the man’s parents.
C. To attend university.
15. Why does the woman feel nervous?
A. She can’t use knives and forks skillfully.
B. She hasn’t met the man’s parents before.
C. She can’t afford the meal.
16. What does the man eat with after the food is cut up?
A. Chopsticks. B. A knife. C. A fork.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the talk mainly about?
A. An introduction to a new lesson.
B. A presentation about sea pollution.
C. An announcement during a school trip.
18. What will the class do this morning?
A. Visit the Sea Life Center.
B. Practice math and spelling.
C. Work on their science topic.
19. How much will each student pay for the trip?
A. £5.00. B. £10.00. C. £20.00.
20. What season is it?
A. Fall. B. Winter. C. Summer.
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
【1~3题答案】
【答案】1. D 2. A 3. D
B
【4~6题答案】
【答案】4. A 5. B 6. D
C
【7~10题答案】
【答案】7 A 8. C 9. A 10. C
第二节（共5个小题；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。
【11~15题答案】
【答案】11. B 12. A 13. D 14. E 15. G
第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共20个小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
【16~35题答案】
【答案】16. A 17. C 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. C 22. B 23. B 24. C 25. D 26. B 27. B 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. C 32. D 33. C 34. A 35. C
第Ⅱ卷
第三部分：语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节（1 个小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
【36~45题答案】
【答案】36. frozen
37. to protect
38. ingredients
39. further
40. sent 41. a
42. recognition
43. to 44. one
45. that
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：应用文写作（满分15分）
【46题答案】
【答案】My Favorite Artwork
The creation of art has aesthetic value, but is more often used to express oneself.
Six Gentlemen, a landscape painting by the artist Ni Zan, ranked top in my favorite artwork list. The work portrays six trees along a river bank, symbolizing integrity in an era of violent upheaval. A large but quiet river in the middle expresses his love for simplicity and innocence. In the distance were high and looming mountains, leaving room for interpretation.
The artwork is an expression of himself, communicating simplicity, innocence and distance, which are the life principles I appreciated most.
第二节：读后续写（满分25分）
【47题答案】
【答案】One possible version:
Paragraph 1:
As he held the tubes over the wastebasket, they suddenly reminded him of something. The beehive! Looking closer, he noticed the tubes were arranged with one in the middle, surrounded by six others. Truman tore open the drawer near the sink, grabbed a handful of paper clips, and clipped the tubes together. As he suspected, the wet center tube formed a hexagon, just like the cells of the hive. Just to be sure, he tried five and then seven surrounding tubes, but neither way fit. Six was the only number that worked. He said aloud, “ Bees just build round tubes and stick the sides together. The cells have to be six-sided. ”
Paragraph 2:
Truman ran to the living room and gave his brother a big hug. “ Bryan, you did it! I’ve got my angle! ” he gushed. “ And a real beehive. And now I can build a model beehive with your tubes! I mean — if it’s OK with you. ” “ Well…” Bryan pulled away, still sobbing. “ You can help me glue them, ” Truman offered. Bryan beamed and began picking out his finest tubes. Rachel Pettingill didn’t stand a chance.
听力答案：1-5 CBABB 6-10 CBBAC 11-15 CAACA 16-20 CACBA