浙江省杭州地区（含周边）重点中学2020-2021学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛.docVIP

第 PAGE 12 页 共 NUMPAGES 13 页 浙江省杭州地区（含周边）重点中学2020-2021学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛 姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________ 题型 选择题 填空题 简答题 xx题 xx题 xx题 总分 得分 评卷人 得分 第 1 题：It was two in the morning. A koala(考拉)was caught in barbed(带刺的)wire on a fence. A phone rang in the home of Megan Aitken in a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. She ran a volunteer organization devoted to rescuing wild koalas. Before she was even told the location, she had thrown her clothes on over her nightdress. When Aitken arrived on the scene, Jane Davies and Sandra Peachey, two other volunteers were already there. The koala was holding on tightly to a chain-link fence. Its fur was caught in barbed wire Standing in the bright light of car headlights, Aitken put on heavy leather gloves. Despite their cute appearance, koalas can be fierce if they feel threatened. They will fight and bite，and Aitken has the scars to prove it. Next，she placed a cage on the ground near the animal and opened up a thick blanket. Then the three rescuers rapidly got to work. Davies threw the blanket over the animal. Peachey opened the cage, while Aitken firmly grasped the koala through the blanket, freed it from the fence, and dropped it into the cage. “Well done, ladies!” Aitken shouted. Looking down at the koala they had just rescued, Aitken checked the animal’s physical condition. In an event that the koala was sick or injured, it must be taken to an animal hospital nearby. However provided it was healthy, like this one in most cases, it would be released somewhere near the place it was found. This was because koalas lived within such a small area and fed in the same trees over and over. However, this was a highly populated suburb with few areas with trees, so finding a suitable area was not easy. The women studied a map with flashlights. “This is the whole problem,” Aitken said, “There are so few places left for the koala,” In the end, they took the animal to a small park nearby. Standing back, t