广东省广州市天河区2022-2023学年高二上学期2月期末统考英语试题.pdfVIP

2022学年第一学期天河区期末考试

高二英语

本试卷共8页，满分为150分，考试用时120分钟，

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第Ⅰ卷

第一部分阅读理解(共两节，满分45分)

第一节(共10小题;每小题3分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A，B，C，D)中，选出最佳选项，

并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Humpbackwhalesaresuperbsingerswithcomplexvocalperformancesthatlastfortens

ofminutes,oftenrepeatedformanyhours.Analbumoftheirsongsgainedworldwidefamein

the1970sandisstillthebest-sellingrecordingofnaturesoundsevermade.

Onlymalehumpbackssing,andallthesingersinawideseaareadeliverthesamesongs

inthesamewayduringeachyear.Butsongsvarybetweenpopulations.NorthAtlantic

humpbacks,forexample,singdifferentonestothoseintheNorthPacific.Songsalsovary

everyyear,sometimesslightly,sometimeswithmoreradicalshifts.

ThesesongpatternsallowedateamfromtheUniversityofQueensland,Australiatosee

howpreciselyhumpbacksindifferentgeographicalpopulationscanmatcheachother’ssongs.

Usingsevenyearsofrecordings,theresearcherstookadeepdiveintothedetailsofsixsong

typesmadebyhumpbacksfromeasternAustralia,whichwerelearnedayearlaterbywhales

aroundNewCaledonia—anislandgrouparound1,200kmaway.

“Wefoundtheyactuallylearnedtheexactsounds,withoutsimplifyingorleaving

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anythingout,”saysJennyAllen,wholedthestudy.“Eachyearweobservedthem,theysanga

differentsong,soitmeanshumpbackwhalescanlearnanentiresongpatternfromanother

populationveryquickly,evenifit’scomplexordifficult.”