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　　2016-2017学年度湛江一中高二级英语10月月考试题
　　命题人：程 功
　　第一部分：英语语言知识运用（共两节，满分40分）
　　第一节：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
　　阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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　　You may have seen a talking parrot on a TV show, in a movie, or even in someone’s home. The parrot has learned to copy sounds that people make. Birds are not the only animals that can copy the noises they hear. Dolphins, bats, and some apes also copy sounds. Now we can add elephants to this list of copycats.
　　Dr. Joyce Poole is a zoologist. She studies the sounds of elephants. While she was in Kenya, she would hear strange noises made by Mlaika after sunset. Mlaika was a 10-year-old African elephant.
　　Mlaika lived near a highway. Dr. Poole says, “I could not tell the difference between Mlaika’s call and the distant truck noise.” She and other scientists studied Mlainds. It turned out that Mlaika was copying the sounds of the trucks driving by. Why would Mlaika copy trucks that she heard going by on the highway? Animals that are able to copy sounds may enjoy practicing new sounds. When they are tside of their natural environment, they may copy unusual sounds. That may be why an elephant would copy the sound of a truck.
　　“Mlaika was not the only copycat elephant,” Dr. Poole says. Calimero is a 23-year-old male African elephant. He spent 18 years with two female Asian elephants. Asian elephants make chirping sounds (sounds made by birds) to talk with one another. African elephants usually do not make chirping sounds. But Calimero now does. He is copying his Asian elephant friends. Dr. Poole says that elephants need to form bonds with their family and friends. She says, “They mands to communicate with each other. When they are separated, they use sounds to keep in contact.”
　　Parrots, dolphins, humans, and elephants show that being a copycat is one way that animals and people make new friends and keep old ones.
　　1. According to Dr. Poole, what does Mlaika copy?
　　A. The sound of people.
　　B. The sound of trucks.
　　C. The sound of Calimero.
　　D. The sound of birds.
　　2. From paragraph 4, we can know ________.
　　A. Calimero is a 23-year-old male Asian elephant
　　B. African elephants never make chirping sounds
　　C. Asian elephants make chirping sounds to talk with birds
　　D. Elephants mands to keep in touch with each other
　　3. According to the passage, animals like to be copycats because they need_______.
　　A. To keep in touch with nature.
　　B. To please people and other animals.
　　C. To make new friends and keep old ones.
　　D. To avoid danger from the outside world.
　　B
　　Malka and Shaindle are sisters. Although they live an hour's drive from each other and don’t see each other often, they are in touch. Malka has a large family. Shaindle, however, has had difficulty having children.
　　Malka had just given birth to another son. Shaindle , married three years and still childless, was receiving fertility(生育) treatments. Involved with work, doctor’s visits, and medical treats, she was unable to make the trip to visit her sister after she had given birth.
　　Malka knew her sister’s problem and was quite understanding. Shaindle and her husband Feivel would be at the haptismal (洗礼) ceremony，of course.
　　On the day of the haptism, Shaindle and Feivel arrived early, earlier than Malka and her family. Malka’s mother-in-law, Yehudit, was already at the hall. “Hello,” said Shaindle cheerfully, never thinking what was about to happen.
　　Yehudit turned to her angrily and said, “What a selfish sister you are! Never once did you see fit to visit Makla this entire week! No wonder you have no children!”
　　Shaindle went into shock at her words. She turned away, her eyes filled with tears. The accusation（控诉） had cut Shaindle like a knife. She was psychologically bleeding. Poor Shaindle couldn’t calm down. It took a while before she could regain her calmness. She couldn’t look at Yehudit; it was just too painful for her to do so.