D. Listen to the passage and complete the table（听短文,完成下列表格。每空不超过三词）
Otters
Where they live
• both in water and on land
Body features
• having 16. bodies
• strong tails and webbed feet
• thick fur to 17.

Food
• many kinds of small animals
• sea otters even 18.
Their situation
• otter populations decreasing because of 19. and habitat loss
• more countries cleaning rivers, creating 20. , and raising public awareness to protect them

16. long and flexible 17. keep warm 18. using tools 19. water pollution 20. safe living areas

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer（选择最恰当的答案）
Detective Helen Gray was famous in her town for solving difficult cases. One rainy morning, she received a message from a teacher from a local middle school. He said 21 was happening on campus: students kept losing their notebooks, and some notebooks later appeared with pages missing. No one knew who did it or why.
Helen arrived at the school, which was filled with thousands of students 22 to class. The teacher showed her a notebook that was found behind the library, and Helen noticed something. The pages 23 were torn out were not random — each page had old newspaper passages taped inside. The newspapers were so old that they were clearly out 24 date, printed many years ago.
Helen decided to visit the library. Inside, she met Leo, a quiet student who often stayed after school 25. He looked nervous when Helen asked him about the old newspapers. Then he suddenly ran away. Helen followed him across the soccer field. She finally found him behind a storage room. Its windows were all broken. Inside the room 26 boxes filled with old newspapers. Helen realized Leo had been collecting these newspapers for months.
After some gentle questioning, Leo told the truth. He had discovered a hidden letter inside one of the old newspapers — a letter written by a former student asking for help. Curious and worried, Leo wanted to find out what 27 to that student, so he got 28 in the investigation by searching through every old newspaper he could find.
However, he didn’t know 29 to protect the notebooks he borrowed, and his actions made the school think someone was stealing.
Helen praised Leo, but she also explained that secretly taking notebooks was wrong. Working together, they found the missing student, who had simply moved away years ago and forgotten about the letter. With the mystery solved, Helen promised to put 30 stop to the confusion and cleared Leo’s name.
() 21. A. strange something B. something strange C. strange thing
() 22. A. hurry B. to hurry C. hurrying
() 23. A. that B. who C. what
() 24. A. for B. of C. on
() 25. A. to read B. read C. reading
() 26. A. was B. be C. were
() 27. A. happened B. has happened C. would happen
() 28. A. involved B. be involved C. involving
() 29. A. what B. how C. which
() 30. A. / B. a C. the

21. B 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. A 26. C 27. A 28. A 29. B 30. B

【分析】
本题为完形填空式单项选择题，需结合语法规则、固定搭配及上下文语境逐一分析每个空：
1. 21题：考查不定代词的修饰规则，形容词修饰不定代词需后置，结合选项排除错误形式；
2. 22题：考查非谓语动词作定语，现在分词表主动，修饰students；
3. 23题：考查定语从句关系词，先行词为物，选择合适的关系代词；
4. 24题：考查固定搭配out of date；
5. 25题：考查不定式作目的状语；
6. 26题：考查倒装句的主谓一致，主语为复数，对应be动词；
7. 27题：考查宾语从句的时态，主句为过去时，从句用相应过去时；
8. 28题：考查固定搭配get involved in；
9. 29题：考查疑问词+不定式，结合句意选表方式的疑问词；
10. 30题：考查固定搭配put a stop to。
【解析】
1. 21题：形容词修饰不定代词something需后置，排除A；C项应为a strange thing，语法错误，故选B；
2. 22题：现在分词hurrying作后置定语，表students与hurry的主动关系，意为“匆忙赶往课堂的学生”，故选C；
3. 23题：定语从句先行词the pages指物，关系代词在从句中作主语，用that；who指人，what不引导定语从句，故选A；
4. 24题：固定搭配out of date意为“过时的”，故选B；
5. 25题：不定式to read作目的状语，表stay after school的目的，故选A；
6. 26题：地点状语提前的倒装句，主语为复数boxes，be动词用were，故选C；
7. 27题：主句为过去时（wanted），宾语从句用一般过去时，happen的过去式为happened，故选A；
8. 28题：固定搭配get involved in意为“参与”，故选A；
9. 29题：根据句意，Leo不知道“如何”保护笔记本，用how，故选B；
10. 30题：固定搭配put a stop to意为“制止”，故选B。
【答案】
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. A 26. C 27. A 28. A 29. B 30. B
【知识点】
不定代词用法、定语从句、固定搭配
【点评】
本题为初中英语常见的完形填空型单项选择题，聚焦核心语法与固定搭配的应用，需结合语境与语法规则逐一判断，注重基础知识的掌握与运用。
【难度系数】
0.6