Ⅰ.语法选择
[情境素材 弹琴给大象听] 「2026广东广州七中期中」
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从各小题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，使短文连贯完整。
Paul Barto is a musician, and he likes making videos. In his videos, he plays the piano for elephants. He 1 many fans on the Internet. In most of his videos, a nearly-blind elephant named Ampan 2 listens to him playing music.
Ampan lives in an organization called Elephants World. The organization’s task is to rescue elephants. There live some other elephants like Ampan. They were caught and forced to perform before they were rescued. Now Elephants World provides these beautiful animals 3 a comfortable sanctuary（庇护所）. So for the rest of elephants’ lives, they 4 live a happy and peaceful life there.
Paul started playing the piano for elephants there from his fiftieth birthday. He wanted to bring a piano into the sanctuary and 5 to the manager about it. However, carrying a heavy piano was not as easy as he thought. It took him almost two hours 6 the piano into the sanctuary in the wild.
“ These elephants have worked for humans almost all their lives. Some are blind or disabled. Seeing these elephants, I wanted to do 7 for them,” Paul said. “The elephants were so hungry that they were eating all the time. But I noticed a special thing—whenever I played the piano, a blind elephant would always stop to listen, while 8 in the sanctuary kept eating. And it continued eating only 9 I finished playing the piano. I realized 10 important thing. This blind elephant, even
in a world of darkness, loved music.”
1.A.have B.has C.had D.will have
2.A.quiet B.quieter C.quietness D.quietly
3.A.to B.with C.for D.in
4.A.can B.should C.must D.need
5.A.speak B.speaks
C.spoke D.is speaking
6.A.move B.moved C.to move D.moving
7.A.everything B.anything
C.something D.nothing
8.A.another B.the other
C.other D.the others
9.A.while B.although C.until D.after
10.A.a B.an C.the D./

情境 素材 动物母亲 「2026 浙江杭州西湖五校联合期中」
Mothers are very special people. They not only give birth but look after their children until they're old enough to take care of themselves. Mothers don't stop caring about their children even when they grow up. They want to know that they are healthy, happy and safe. Like humans, animals are doing the same. In some ways, they are like human mothers, but there are also some different ways they look after their offspring.
Does your mum drive you to school, your music lesson or sports practice? Can you imagine your mother carrying you and your brothers and sisters on her back all the time? That's what a Surinam toad（苏里南蟾蜍） mum does. She carries as many as 100 babies on her back until they're old enough to swim by themselves.
Does your mum tell you to tidy your room and make your bed? If you were an orang-utan（猩猩）,
your mum wouldn't! Mother orang-utans from Indonesia are the only animal mothers who make a new bed for their babies every night. They collect fresh leaves and build their young beds high in the trees. Mums never let their babies out of their sight for the first two years. And after that, they keep them close until they're six or seven years old. This is longer than any other animal.
The world can be a scary place when you're young, even if you're an alligator（短吻鳄）. That's why mother alligators carry their babies in their mouths when they move through water or other dangerous places. In the past, people thought the mother was eating her babies! But in fact, she was just keeping them safe.
These are just a few examples of animal mums. One thing is clear: without mums to care and protect their offspring, animals all over the world would be in danger!
11. What does the underlined word "offspring" mean in Paragraph 1?
A. Mothers. B. Humans.
C. Animals. D. Children.
12. What do alligator mothers do to protect their babies?
A. Put their babies on their backs.
B. Eat their enemies when in danger.
C. Keep their babies in their mouths.
D. Avoid passing dangerous places.
13. 特色 考法 文章主题题 What is the text mainly about?
A. Human babies. B. Special animals.
C. Animal mothers. D. Caring humans.