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2017~2018学年广东广州荔湾区高二下学期期末 英语试卷 From old times,crows (乌鸦) have been famous for their cleverness.

They use tools, work out problems, and even enjoy playing. Scientists have studied carefully how crows go about these activities. To make tools, crows cut off leaves with their mouths , shape them, and use them to look for bugs (虫子) in wood or plants. Just as a carpenter carries his tools with him, a crow will carry its tool around. When the leaf isn'

t needed for the moment, the bird stores the tool at its feet or somewhere else. To test wild crows5 abilities to work out problems, scientists placed food outdoors in covered bowls. They watched with interest as the birds smartly opened the bowls to get the food. Scientists also found out that crows can make use of the traffic. For example, crows would drop a nut on the road and wait for a car to run over the nut to break it. Besides, crows seem to enjoy playing. Young crows will carry a stick or nut into the air, drop it, and fly to catch the object as it falls. So just how smart are crows? Perhaps a crow will never do tricks as a dog will. But scientists agree that there'

s a lot going on in the brain of a clever crow.

1 A. B. C. D. We learn from Paragraph

2 that a crow may store the at its feet or somewhere else. leaf mouth wood bowl (1) A. B. Why did scientists place food outdoors in covered bowls? To test whether crows make tools. To test whether crows enjoy playing. (2)

一、阅读理解(每题2分,共30分) C. D. To test how much crows like the food. To test how crows work out problems. A. B. C. D. What does this passage mainly discuss? The tricks of crows. The foods of crows . The happiness of crows. The cleverness of crows. (3) Driving to a friend'

s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend'

s roof-tops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors. My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life. I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me most deeply. Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, phones, papers, electricity, heaters, ovens, air-conditioners, cars, computers and etc. Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of which was spent - doors, I thought that before long I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables, read books, walk in the mountains, and perhaps write, but not in anger.

1 may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.

2 A. B. C. D. The writer felt sorry for himself because . there was too much pollution he usually failed to see the full moon and nature he didn'