2022-2023学年北京市西城区高二下学期期末考试英语试卷
1. The Belfast community was busy helping a deaf woman find her beloved dog “Ruthie” the past couple of days.
Ruthie went ________ several days ago when she jumped out of the car wearing her retractable leash (伸缩皮带). Marina Delune, her ________, posted on her community website that she needed help looking for her lost dog. She thought only a few people would ________. So she was surprised when help started to pour in. “The response that I got was literally overwhelming,” Marina said. “It was extraordinary. I couldn’t even ________ all the responses.”
A doctor named Kimberly Mitchell headed to Marina’s house to help her out. When she pulled into the driveway, she sensed that Ruthie was just nearby. Despite the cold rain, Kimberly ________ the yard. Later on she expanded her ________ to the neighbors’ yards, but ________ came up empty-handed.
It was dark by the time she rounded the corner of a neighbor’s house and saw a small hole in the bottom of their deck. Kimberly used her cell phone flashlight to look around in the darkness. “Right there under the deck, I ________ her little face. She was looking right at me.”
It turned out Ruthie’s leash was stuck. The house’s owner, Collin Brewster Cunning, crawled under the deck and ________ her. The reunion of Ruthie and Marina was nothing but emotional. Marina cried and held on to Ruthie and her two rescuers. “We were in a three-way ________ with Ruthie in the middle. It was absolutely amazing,” Kimberly said.
1.
A．racing
B．missing
C．crying
D．hunting
2.
A．doctor
B．neighbor
C．owner
D．driver
3.
A．returnretractable
B．respond
C．research
D．remember
4.
A．keep up with
B．put up with
C．come up with
D．end up with
5.
A．crossed
B．checked
C．cleaned
D．visited
6.
A．plan
B．service
C．program
D．search
7.
A．once
B．even
C．still
D．only
8.
A．saw
B．hid
C．covered
D．studied
9.
A．found
B．caught
C．freed
D．located
10.
A．tie
B．contest
C．deal
D．hug
2. Uses of Banana Peels (皮) You Probably Ignored
Soothes the itchy (发痒的) insect bites
With the good weather approaching, various bugs, insects and mosquitoes multiply. If you want to relieve the sting or bite of these insects naturally, banana peel can help you. Rub the red, inflamed bites with the inside of the banana peel. The banana polysaccharides (多糖) infiltrate the skin and reduce the swell.
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Spring then summer is coming, and there’s one little annoying thing: the flies. To catch them, you can make a trap made of natural ingredients. All you will need is a large yogurt cup, banana peels, a hammer and a nail. Make holes at the bottom of the yogurt cup with the hammer and nail, place the banana peels inside, turn it over, and place it near the food that you are trying to protect. Flies will get into the sweet smell in the holes, but there is no way out of the yogurt cup.
Cheap and simple teeth whitening
You don’t have to spend a huge amount of your salary on aesthetic dentistry to make your teeth whiter. Simply rub your freshly-brushed teeth with the inside of the banana peel every day for about 2 minutes. Salicylic acid in bananas gently bleaches teeth, effectively eliminating dirt which causes discoloration.
Water purification
This effect was the most surprising for us. The Sao Paulo Research Foundation, led by G
ustavo R. Castro, tested the suitability of banana peels for the treatment of wastewater from industrial plants. It turned out that the banana peel adsorbs heavy metals such as lead and copper from the water.
Erases the ink stain (污点)
If ink gets on your skin, it is difficult to clean it off. Only with water and soap is it almost impossible to make your hands clean. But the good news is that the banana peel is good for that—rub the patches on the inside of the peel and see how they disappear.
1. According to the passage, in which of the following situations can banana peels be of some help?
A．You are disturbed by mosquitoes flying nearby.
B．You are bitten by a bee in the garden.
C．You are suffering from a toothache.
D．Your coat is stained with oil.
2. Which of the following is the best heading for paragraph 2?
A．Facial mask
B．Pain Reliever
C．Natural fly trap
D．Reduces wrinkles
3. How can banana peels help purify water?
A．By protecting the water from insects.
B．By reducing some chemical elements.
C．By adding some nutrition to the water.
D．By removing the smell of the wastewater.
3. South Africa’s viniculture industry employs around 270,000 people, producing some of the world’s most sought-after wines. But not all jobs are best left to humans. In some cases, it’s better to get your ducks in a row, and then put them to work.

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