2020年聊城市水城中学高三英语二模试卷及答案

2020年聊城市水城中学高三英语二模试卷及答案
第一部分阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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
A
Four remarkable inventions
For more than half a century, the Consumer Electronics Show(CES) has been the place for companies and inventors to display their newest and coolest gadgets.
Here are our picks for some of the most interesting and creative inventions.
The Sweet Little Rolling Robot
Samsung has released Ballie, a tennis-sized robot that can follow you around the house, answer your questions, and entertain your pets. Since it's equipped with a camera, it can keep an eye on your home while you're away. It's like a smart assistant that goes wherever you do, rolling into your bedroom to ring your wake-up alarm, rolling to the kitchen to turn on the toaster and giving you the weather report as you brush your teeth.
The Insoles to Pick Up Your Pact
Any runner knows the right shoes are key to your speed. But Nurvv insoles promise more than mere cushioning. The insoles transmit data to a coaching app, which offers information on your technique and performance. It measures your foot strike and assesses your injury risk. The app then generates personalized workouts to set targets and help you beat your best speeds. Half marathon, here you come!
The No-Studio-Needed Yoga Class
Can't keep up your commitment to a yoga studio membership? The Yoganotch personal yoga assistant lets you drop into a virtual class any time you want. Follow along with a set series while 3-D sensors tell you whether you need to straighten your legs a bit more. The idea it that it improves your form while reducing the risk of injury.
The Dau-Enhanced Grill
While working by sight, smell and feel, a chef may appreciate Weber's new Smart Grilling Hub. It can monitor your pork and turkey while an app gives advice about cooking technique and safe temperatures.
1. What can the Sweet Little Rolling Robot do?
A. Feed your pets.
B. Hay tennis with you.
C. Take you wherever you want.
D. Assist you to do your housework.
2. Which of the following is suitable for a runner?
A. Ballie.
B. Nurvv.
C. Yoganotch.
D. Smart Grilling Hub.
3. What do we know about the Weber’s invention?
A. It uses virtual reality.
B. It is convenient for cooking.
C. It makes meals for you automatically.
D. It helps you do well in your yoga exercises.
B
Have you ever imagined that your simple T-shirt could cool you down by up to5℃on these hot summer days? Thanks to a recent discovery, the possibility is getting closer. While there are many alternatives that manage to keep the body warm, this amazing invention aims to offer real relief for those who are eager to feel comfortable and fresh in the outdoors on extremely hot days.
Its inventors, engineers Ma Yaoguang of Zhejiang University and Tao Guangming of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, look a completely innovative approach. They designed a special textile dial can absorb body heat and re-emit its energy into space as mid-infrared radiation (MIR). This textile cools both the objects and their surroundings through a technique that is known as radiative cooling, Science reveals. This means that even when it looks like you are wearing a regular shirt, you are actually wearing a device that works like a mirror.
Research conducted at Stanford University in 2017 had already managed to cool the wearer by 3℃, but this previous trial was limited. So researchers still need to test the new approach to determine how effectively the new fabric cools while the wearers are standing or walking, and not directly facing the sky, like in their trials. They also need to examine and measure how well it works when T-shirts are not in close contact with the skin.
Inventors Yaoguang and Guangming are now looking out for textile manufacturers and clothing brands that are interested in using their fabric. They estimate that the new material will increase clothing manufacturing costs by just 10 percent. “We can make it with mass production which means everybody can get a T-shirt and the cost is basically the same as theirs,” old Yaoguang said.
So if you are an athlete or simply someone that has to deal with the extremely high temperatures, be patient because your days of feeling hot and bothered may be corning to an end!
4. What is the purpose of the new invention?
A. To warm up people's body.
B. To cool people off in hot weather.
C. To detect the wearers' temperature.
D. To protect clothes from becoming wet.
5. How does the special product work?
A. By turning sunlight into energy.
B. By sending out absorbed heat.
C. By keeping heat out completely.
D. By using light color1 s to reflect sunlight.
6. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?
A. The invention needs further testing.
B. The previous studies lack evidence.
C. The new fabric has a good cooling effect.
D. The new fabric applies to various situations.
7. The invention of the T-shirt may hean example of ________.
A. barking up the wrong tree
B. robbing Peter to pay Paul
C. killing two birds with one stone
D. pulling the cart before the horse
C
UK physicist Isaac Newton once said, ''Nature is pleased with simplicity and nature is no dummy (傻子). '' Indeed, Mother Nature can provide almost everything human beings need if we follow her rules. But if we break the rules, she is likely to be cruel andlash out at us.
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (新型冠状病毒肺炎, NCP) in China and some other countries at the beginning of this year is an example. According to Xinhua News Agency, the new coronavirus is similar to a virus found in a bat in 2017 and probably has an intermediate host (中间宿主). It's believed that the virus originated from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei province, where live wild animals were sold.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Dr Peter Daszak, president of the US-based health organization EcoHealth Alliance, said, ''This outbreak is a lesson for us. On a global scale, human population density, wildlife diversity, and land use change are what drive new pandemics (流行病). ''
In ancient times, people needed to rely on nature to survive so they held it in awe (敬畏). For example, the American Indians believed that humans are a part of nature and nature is a part of humans. Chinese ancients always pursued the harmony between nature and human beings.
However, as human beings master more knowledge and make more advanced tools, people try to change and even conquer nature. They use more land to make buildings, genetically modify (改变) plants, capture some wild and rare animals to suit their own needs. In this process, humans gradually lose contact with nature and even throw it out of balance. For example, cutting a large number of forests means carbon dioxide must build up in the atmosphere and it contributes to global warming.
Although we don't know for sure what first caused the NCP outbreak, Brian Lamacraft at Medium said it's
time for people to ''reflect on our relationship with our planet'' and ''reconnect with this world and everything that we've been given''. After all, according to US poet Gary Snyder, ''Nature is not the place to visit. It's our home. ''
8. What does the phrase ''lash out at'' in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. punish
B. control
C. test
D. challenge
9. What lesson did Daszak think human beings should learn from the NCP outbreak?
A. Bats are one of the most dangerous wild animals.
B. It's impossible to prevent new pandemics globally.
C. We should stop the wildlife trade around the world.
D. Humans should live peacefully with nature.
10. What is the main idea of Paragraph 5?
A. How human beings become their own masters.
B. How human activities cause global warming.
C. How human beings break the balance of nature.
D. How humans use technology to improve their lives.
11. What is the author's purpose in writing this article?
A. To reflect on the NCP outbreak.
B. To explain what led to the NCP outbreak.
C. To describe experts' predictions on new pandemics.
D. To compare ancient and modern attitudes toward nature.
D
Tourism is often about seeking deeper emotional and personal connections with the world around us. Not all travel experiences, however, need to take place in the real world. With the evolution of virtual reality(VR) technology, tourism will increasingly become a combination of physical and virtual worlds. VR may even remove the need to travel entirely.
But can a VR experience really equal a real world one? Many experts believe it can. Studies have shown that our brains have an inbuilt VR-like mechanism that enables us to live imagined experiences. Much of our waking life is spent thinking about either the past or the future. This is known as" mind wandering". During these events we' re not paying attention to the current world around us. Instead, we' re recalling memories, or creating and
processing imagined futures.
When engaged in mind wandering, our brains process these mental images using the same pathways used to receive inputs from the real world. So, the imagined past or future can create emotions and feelings similar to how we react to everyday life. VR can create these same feelings.
While critics might argue that a virtual experience will never match reality, there are several ways VR tourism could make a positive contribution. Firstly it could help protect sensitive locations from over-tourism. In recent years famous sites such as Maya Bay in Thailand, and Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temples have had to limit the number of visitors because of their negative impact. These places are now producing their own VR experiences that will allow tourists to pass through virtual models of the sites.
Virtual reality may also allow people back in time, to experience historical events, visit ancient cities, and even to walk among dinosaurs.
Finally, in a world where many people suffer from stress and depression due to overwork, virtual tourism may provide a cheap and convenient way for people to take brief holidays to otherwise unreachable destinations and recharge their batteries, without ever leaving their homes.
It sounds like science fiction but it's already happening. As virtual technology improves and as people continue to demand new and interesting experiences, expect more virtual tourism, both in combination with the real world and instead of it.
12. What is driving the development of virtual tourism?
A. Companies seeking to make more money.
B. Improvements in virtual reality technology.
C. People's demand for more shared experiences.
D. People's deeper understanding of the physical world.
13. Which of the following best describes "mind wandering"?
A. The brain processes which help people think VR is real.
B. The way the brain processes inputs from the real world.
C. Brain activities focusing on past or future events.
D. Experiences coming from a person's imagination.
14. What does the underlined word "it" in the last paragraph refer to?
A. Science fiction.
B. Virtual technology.
C. Virtual tourism.
D. The real world.
15. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To describe the advantages of VR tourism.
B. To give suggestions for reducing over-tourism.
C. To encourage people to develop VR technology.
D. To argue VR tourism will replace the real world travel.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项
Why Do We Like Personality Tests?
This article will explore reasons why we like taking personality tests.
One of the reasons we like to take personality tests is that we want to learn about ourselves._____16_____, we like personality tests, according to a psychologist. For some things, like our emotions, we have access to information about ourselves that others don't._____17_____To find out, we're better off asking our best friends than taking the personality tests.
Another simple reason we tend to take personality tests is that we have an inborn need for a sense of belonging. A friend of mine recently described her experience of taking the personality test for the first time when she was in high school. As an artist, she felt different from her peers, and she said it was a great comfort to know that “there were others out there like me”.____18____
Finally we want simple ways to understand other people. After all, relating to other people is hard. If it were easy, books and services about navigating relationships of all kinds wouldn't be a multi-million-dollar industry.____19____We then respond to him in a way that allows for smooth social interactions.
___20___, we store information about them in something called a schema(模式，计划)－a mental representation of what that person, situation, or object is like. Over time, through many experiences, we develop a rich set of ideas and expectations about people we perceive(察觉，感觉) to be a certain category.
A. This personality type doesn't fit you well
B. When we encounter a person,a situation,or an object
C. If we arc familiar with the personality types in these systems
D. Because we hope they will reveal unknown facts about ourselves
E. Feeling understood and normal, perhaps for the first time, is a powerful experience
F. Knowing someone's personality type allows us to quickly and easily understand him
G. However, there might be things about ourselves we don't know, like how clever or creative we are
第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项Recently, the idea that listening to classical music can increase intelligence, especially in___21___, has caught the attention of the media, researchers, and parents around the globe.In the early 1990s, researchers from France and the US published articles that said___22___Mozart for 10 minutes temporarily___23___performance on IQ tests and challenging tasks.
___24___, the media quickly began reporting on the “Mozart effect”.
In 1997, Don Campbell published a book about this___25___phenomenon.Campbell said that classical___26___could improve health and memory, prevent mental and physical disorders, and___27___stress and depression.He soon___28___withThe Mozart Effect for Children, as well as CDs and products for parents of young children.Today, a wide selection of similar products is___29___, includingBaby MozartandBaby Bach, two bestselling DVDs in the popularBaby Einsteinseries.There are even music players specially___30___for expectant (预产期的) mothers to wear on their stomachs.___31___, babies can listen to classical music before they're even___32___.
___33___, there is some doubt surrounding the “Mozart effect”.Parents___34___whether it is a proven reality or just a fad (潮流) designed to make money.Frances H.Rauscher, a psychologist and author of one of the original studies, is___35___.Much of the original___36___pointed to temporary improvements on specific tasks.She___37___these findings have been incorrectly described as a general increase in___38___.“I don't think it can hurt,” Rauscher said.Yet she added that___39___may still want to think twice___40___spending a fortune trying to make a genius (天才) out of their baby.
21. A. scientists B. musicians C. adults D. babies
22. A. joining in B. dreaming of C. talking about D. listening to
23. A. improved B. measured C. provided D. enjoyed
24. A. On the whole B. As a result C. On the contrary D. In other words
25. A. common B. natural C. interesting D. alarming
26. A. literature B. music C. world D. education
27. A. cause B. place C. reduce D. limit
28. A. began B. dealt C. agreed D. followed
29. A. useless B. priceless C. available D. changeable
30. A. tested B. designed C. searched D. collected
31. A. By the way B. In this way C. On the way D. All the way
32. A. born B. lost C. trained D. invited
33. A. Besides B. Therefore C. Instead D. However
34. A. check B. question C. determine D. evaluate
35. A. real B. right C. normal D. doubtful
36. A. anxiety B. material C. research D. argument
37. A. cheers B. expects C. remembers D. believes
38. A. costs B. health C. disorders D. intelligence
39. A. teachers B. experts C. parents D. players
40. A. after B. unless C. before D. as
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
Researchers from China's 32nd scientific expedition(考察)to the Antarctic discovered a 1 ,000 kilometre-long canyon under___41.___Antarctic ice sheet. It is now the largest known canyon(峡谷) on the earth's surface. Discovered near the Princess Elizabeth Land, the canyon is over 1,000 kilometres in___42.___(long) and 1 ,500 metres in depth. The maximum width at the top of the canyon is 26. 5 kilometres. This is the first time that any large canyon___43.___(find) in the region.
According to data___44.___( collect) on the site, Chinese scientists have made three major scientific discoveries there, said Sun Bo, vice director of China's 32nd Antarctic expedition team.
The first big discovery is the___45.___( world) largest canyon, which was beneath an Antarctic ice sheet near the Princess Elizabeth Land.
The second big discovery is___46.___there are numerous subglacial lakes and subglacial water channels, also beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. These lakes and bodies of water are interconnected. The width of one of the___47.___(lake) reaches 26.5 kilometres. This discovery will play an important role___48.___future research. The third key finding is that the temperature of deep ice in Princess Elizabeth Land is___49.___(clear) higher than in other regions, which makes it easier for ice to melt,___50.___( mean) that lakes and other water systems form more easily.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文.请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（℃），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:1,每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2,只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

My family was very poorly when I was a child. My parents lost their jobs and lived with heavy pressure. As result, I wanted to studying hard so as to have a different future. During my high school life, I spent all my time studying those difficult subject, which made me to one of the best students in our school. After graduation, I am admitted to a key university where I met a lot of interested friends. Now, I am working on a big company but I am able to afford anything I want. What's more, my parents also have found new jobs. So I believe that our dreams will come true if you try our best.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你受学生会委托为校宣传栏“英语天地”写一份倡议书，题目为：Reduce screen time to protect our eyesight。

内容包括：
1.分析现状；
2.提出建议。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear fellow students,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
The Students’ Union
参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. B
4. B
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. A 9. D 10. C 11. A
12. B 13. A 14. D 15. C
16. D 17. G 18. E 19. F 20. B
21. D 22. D 23. A 24. B 25. C 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. C 30. B 31. B 32.
A 33. D 34.
B 35. D 36.
C 37.
D 38. D 39. C 40. C
41. an 42. length
43. has been found
44. collected
45. world’s
46. that 47. lakes
48. in 49. clearly
50. meaning
51.(1).poorly→poor；
(2).在result前加a；
(3).studying→study；
(4).subject→subjects；
(5).去掉one前面的to；
(6).am→was；
(7).interested→interesting；
(8).on→in；
(9).but→and；
(10).you→we
52.略。