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清远市2022~2023学年第一学期高中期末教学质量检测高三英语注意事项：1.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号、座位号填写在答题卡上。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。A2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year AwardsA yearly contest for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year was held in London this year.The contest had 38,575 entries from around the world.Let's have a scanning of four of thisyear's best works.The great prize this year belonged to Karine Aigner of the US for an incredible shot of aball of bees.The "ball"was formed with a lot of male bees fighting to win a single femalebee.The picture was taken in southern Texas.Ms Aigner says that soon after the picture wastaken,a female bee flew off with one of the males.Dmitry Kokh of Russia won the award for Urban Wildlife.His picture of polar bears inan old house was taken on an island in the Chukchi Sea,between Russia and Alaska.Mr Kokhwas on a boat when he noticed polar bears walking through an area where no one had lived foryears.To get the picture without disturbing the bears,he used a quiet drone (to takethe picture.Fernando Constantino Martinez Belmar of Mexico had to wait in the dark in a cave filledwith bats and snakes to get the image.Rat snakes in Yucatan hang from cracks in the ceilingof the cave,hoping to grab one of the many bats that are flying out of the cave for the night.Using a red light that wouldn't disturb the animals,Mr Martinez Belmar waited until just theright moment to take the picture.He won the Amphibian and Reptile Behavior prize.Nick Kanakis of the US took the picture of a wood wren ()-a bird that spends mostof its time on the ground.The bird has its ear to the ground,listening for insects to catch andeat.After spotting a bird looking for food farther away,he stayed very still to get the shot,which won the prize for Bird Behavior.21.Why do the bees develop a ball in Ms Aigner's picture?A.To protect them from being shot.【高三英语第1页（共8页）】·23-190C·