2022-2023学年浙江省台州市台州山海协作体高二下学期4月期中英语试题.pdf

2022-2023学年浙江省台州市台州山海协作体高二下学期4月期中英语试题

1.Europeisthesecondsmallestcontinentinsizebutthethirdlargestinpopulation.Herearesome

factstoshare.

People

About10%oftheworld’spopulationlivesinEurope.MostoftheEuropeanpopulationgroups,

almost90%,belongtothethreeIndo-EuropeanlanguagegroupsoftheSlavic,Romanceand

Germaniclanguagegroups.AccordingtotheWorldHappinessReportfrom2018to2020,the

World’shappiestpeopleliveinFinland—andtheywonforthelastthreeyearsinarow!

Languages

MostEuropeanlanguagesbelongtoeithertheRomancelanguagefamilysuchasFrench,Italianand

Spanish,theGermaniclanguagefamily,amongwhichareGermanandEnglish,ortheSlavic

languagefamily,amongwhichareRussian,BulgarianandPolish.Russianisthelanguagewithmost

nativespeakers—about100million,whileEnglishisthelanguagespokenbymostpeopleasafirst

languageandasecondlanguage—about270millionpeople.Thefivemostspokennativelanguages

inEuropeareRussian,German,French,EnglishandItalian.

Animals

InEurope,thereare270speciesofmammals(哺乳动物)suchasbats,deerandhares.Ofall

mammalspecies15%areendangered,suchaswolvesandbears.Thereare75speciesof

amphibians(两栖动物)in

Europe,mostofwhichareuniquetoSouthernEurope.Slightlymorethanhalfofthe800European

birdspeciesbreedinEurope,andalltheothersmigratetowarmerregionsduringthecoldwinter

months.

Naturalresources

MetalssuchaszincandsilverandmineralssuchascopperandcoalarefoundinEurope.Someareas

innorthernEuropehavedepositsofnaturalgasandoil.

Agriculture

ThemostcommoncropsinEuropearecereals(谷类植物)suchaswheat,cornaswellassugarbeets,

potatoes,vegetablesandfruits.FranceisEurope’sbiggestproducerofagriculturalproducts.

1.WhatcanweinferabouttheEuropeanpopulationfromthetext?

A．ThepopulationinEuropehasdec