【解析】江苏省徐州市2019届高三考前模拟检测英语试卷

徐州市2018～2019学年度高三年级考前模拟检测
英语试题
说明:1.本试卷共12页，满分120分，考试时间120分钟。

2.在答题纸的密封线内填写学校、班级、姓名、考号等，密封线内不要答题。

3.请将所有答案均按照题号填涂或填写在答题卡/纸相应的答题处，否则不得分。

第一部分听力(共两节，满分20分)
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节 (共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1.
What does the woman want to know?
A. The weather.
B. An accident.
C. Train time.
【答案】C
【原文】W: Excuse me, I’m waiting for the ten o’clock train. Is it leaving on time? M: It is running thirty minutes late due to strong winds which blew a tree onto the line at three o’clock this morning.
2.
Why is the man worried?
A. He may be turned down.
B. He was required to apply to Cambridge
C. He failed to be among the top five.
【答案】A
【原文】W: Bob, you decided to apply for a graduate degree in Cambridge, didn’t you? M: I want to, but I’m worried that I’ll not be admitted to that school. You know, the school is among the top five.
3.
What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Relatives.
B. Friends.
C. Classmates.
【答案】B
【原文】M: Is your conference in Prague? Could I ask you a favor? W: Sure, as long as it isn’t about picking out dolls for all your relatives. M: No, I broke a drinking glass I bought there, so could you get me one? W: OK.
4.
Where is the Blue Ocean Restaurant?
A. Beside the Blue Sky Restaurant.
B. Opposite the Blue Sky Restaurant.
C. Opposite the Blue Bay Restaurant.
【答案】C
【原文】W: Where are you going for your birthday tomorrow? M: I have booked a room in the Blue Bay Restaurant. W: You mean the Blue Sky Restaurant? M: No, that’s the Blue Bay. Just across from the Blue Ocean Restaurant.
5.
What does the man dislike?
A. Old bookcases.
B. Newly painted wall.
C. Old paintings. 【答案】B
【原文】M: I think I preferred things as they were. Where are those old bookcases? W: They were moved out. Don’t you like the newly painted wall? M: No I thought the old paintings on the wall were good.
第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

6. When will the plane land?
A. At 3:00.
B. At 4:00.
C. At 12:00.
7. What will the man do?
A. Get some sleep.
B. Write a report.
C. Stay awake.
【答案】6. B 7. A
【原文】M: How long before w e land? Do you know? W: It’s three o’c lock now, so there is still an hour left. Why don’t you get some sleep in the meantime? I’ll wake you up when we reach Kennedy Airport. M: OK. I stayed up past midnight writing the report.
I am a bit worn out. W: Why d on’t you put the seat back? You will f eel more relaxed. 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

8. What does the man think of the woman?
A. She is always late for work.
B. She likes daydreaming very much.
C. She is passive about her work.
9. What is the woman?
A. A waitress.
B. A salesgirl.
C. A cashier.
【答案】8. C 9. B
【原文】M: Katie, have you looked at your evaluation yet? W: Yes, I have. M: Let’s go over some of these areas. You are always available to work, but you’ve arrived late several times. Since I’ve spoken to you about this, you have improved. W: I’ve
been trying. I was o nly late once last month. M: That’s good. One more thing, Katie, when you don’t have a customer, you’re always standing there daydreaming. If I ask you to do something, you’re always willing. But when you don’t have customers, I expect you to polish the jewelry and the mirrors, put new paper in the cash register, restock the boxes, and do other things without being asked. W: OK.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

10. Why does the man like the quiz show?
A. The presenter is funny.
B. The questions are easy.
C. His friends all like it.
11. What do we know about the woman?
A. She doesn’t think Frank Jones is funny.
B. She thinks the questions are really easy.
C. She is bad at general knowledge questions.
12. What kind of questions is the man good at?
A. Pop music and movie stars.
B. History and literature.
C. Math and science.
【答案】10. A 11. A 12. C
【原文】M: Sophie! Did you see that quiz show last night? The one presented by Frank Jones? W: No. Was it any good? M: It was great. Frank Jones always makes me laugh. I’ve been watching it for the past couple of weeks. W: Do you think so? I don’t understand why so many people think he’s funny. M: Well, you’re the fifth or sixth person I’ve told to see it. Some of my friends thought it was going to be too serious so they didn’t bother watching. W: So are all the questions really easy and just about pop music or movie stars? I’m not interested in watching it if all the questions are like that. M: Actually they start off a bit easy but they get harder and harder
as the show goes on. W: Usually I’m not bad at general knowledge questions –especially ones about history or literature. M: Yeah, but I’m better at math and science.
听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

13. Who is the man?
A. An interviewer.
B. An agent.
C. An actor.
14. In which show did the girl play the leading role?
A. Olivia.
B. The Sound of Music.
C. Annie.
15. How did the girl prepare for her performance?
A. Her mother helped her with the lines.
B. She memorized nine lines a night.
C. The management team encouraged her.
16. What happened to the girl after her performance?
A. She went to live in London.
B. She became less shy.
C. She took over an agency.
【答案】13. A 14. C 15. A 16. B
【原文】M: I’m talking to Jackie Gould, who’s a very proud mother. Her daughter Olivia appeared on the stage of London Palladium Theater, in the musical The Sound of Music last month. So how did it all come about? W: Well, until last year, the idea of her appearing at the London Palladium would have been unthinkable for our family. Things started to happen when Olivia got the leading role for the show Annie at the local theater. For Annie, Olivia had to learn more than 200 lines. She was on stage for most of the two-hour show. I decided th at we’d do ten pages a night. After memorizing it, I gave her a line, and she would have to tell me what the next line was. She picked it all up even better than her homework. M: And she did well in the part? W: She was great in the part. She had always been shy, and she suddenly became less shy and more confident. A member of the stage management team for the show was
taking over a local agency and asked her to sign up. So then she had an agent to represent her and try to get roles for her.
听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

17. Why was the butcher impressed by the dog?
A. He has a five-dollar bill.
B. He was able to buy meat.
C. He barked at the butcher.
18. What did the dog do after entering an apartment house?
A. Scratched at the door.
B. Barked at the door.
C. Opened the door.
19. Who was the woman?
A. The butcher’s wife.
B. The butcher’s neighbor.
C. The dog’s owner.
20. Why did the woman yell at the dog?
A. The dog led the butcher to her house.
B. The butcher asked her to stop.
C. The dog forgot his key again.
【答案】17. B 18. A 19. C 20. C
【原文】M: A black dog walked into a butcher’s shop with a five-dollar bill in his mouth. He spent several minutes looking at the meat on display. He finally fixed his eyes on the lamb and barked, showing that he wanted to buy some of them. The butcher was deeply impressed and decided that he would like to own a clever dog like that. He followed the dog to see where he went. The dog entered an apartment house, and began to scratch on the door. With that, the door opened and an angry woman started yelling at the dog. As she did so, the butcher stepped forward to ask the woman to stop. ‘That’s the smartest animal I’ve ever seen! Surely it doesn’t deserve this kind of treatment." The woman said, "I don’t think he’s so intellige nt. You see, this is the third time this week he’s forgotten his key."
第二部分:英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)
第一节:单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
请认真阅读下面各题，从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21.Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, only today is a gift, and that is ______ we call it present.
A. how
B. when
C. why
D. where 【答案】C
【详解】考查表语从句。

句意：昨天是历史，明天是未知，只有今天是一份礼物，这就是为什么我们称“今天”是“礼物”。

______ we call it present.是一个表语从句，引导词在从句中作原因状语，用why引导，故选C。

22.The whole nation is struggling to work out an inexpensive ______ effective solution to smog.
A. yet
B. still
C. or
D. though 【答案】A
【详解】考查连词辨析。

句意：全国上下都在努力寻找一种便宜，然而却有效的雾霾解决方案。

A. yet然而；B. still仍然；C. or或者；D. though尽管，根据题意，故选A。

23.She runs on average about 15 miles a day every day, ______ the circumstances.
A. whatever
B. wherever
C. whichever
D. however 【答案】A
【详解】考查让步状语从句。

句意：不管环境如何，她每天平均跑15英里。

引导让步状语从句，其意相当于no matter what，这里省略了状语从句中的动词be，故选A。

24.When we have a chance to travel, we tend to ______ as many sights into the trip as we can--- seven countries in ten days, for example.
A. squeeze
B. sneeze
C. subscribe
D.
【答案】A
【详解】考查动词辨析。

句意：当我们有机会旅行时，我们倾向于旅途中尽可能多地挤进景点——例如，在十天内游览七个国家。

A. squeeze挤；B. sneeze打喷嚏；C. subscribe 捐款；D. substitute代替，根据题意，故选A。

ck of sleep _______ lead to weakened immunity and memory, and also slow physical growth.
A. shall
B. must
C. should
D. can
【答案】D
【详解】考查情态动词辨析。

句意：睡眠不足会导致免疫力和记忆力下降，还会减缓身体发育。

A. shall将；B. must必须；C. should应该；D. can会，表示理论上或是逻辑判断上，用can，故选D。

26.Abraham set himself up in front of his daughter, hands ________ her hair, and was close to tears, reluctant to tear himself from her.
A. to toy with
B. toyed with
C. toying with
D. being toyed with
【答案】C
【详解】考查独立主格结构。

句意：亚伯拉罕站在他女儿面前，双手拨弄着她的头发，几乎要哭了，他不愿意离开她。

hands ________ her hair是独立主格结构，“手”和“拨弄”之间是主动关系，所以用现在分词，故选C。

27.Rec ently, a programmer criticized the “996” work schedule ______ employees work from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week, with the prospect of ending up in an intensive care unit.
A. where
B. when
C. which
D. whose
【详解】考查定语从句。

句意：最近，一名程序员批评了“996”工作计划，即员工每周工作6天，从早上9点工作到晚上9点，最后可能被送进重症监护室。

______ employees work from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week是一个定语从句，先行词是the “996” work schedule在定语从句中作地点状语，所以用关系副词where。

故选项A。

28.While his approach was a complete ________ from established practices, the result was satisfactory.
A. separation
B. prohibition
C. departure
D. judgment 【答案】C
【详解】考查名词辨析。

句意：虽然他的做法完全背离了既定的做法，但结果令人满意。

A. separation分开；B. prohibition禁止；C. departure违背；D. judgment判断，根据题意，故选C。

29.Most spending that results in debt is like a drug: a quick hit of pleasure that ______, only to drag you down for years to come.
A. takes off
B. wears off
C. sets off
D. shows off 【答案】B
【详解】考查动词短语辨析。

句意：大多数导致债务的消费就像毒品一样:很快的快感就会消退，只会让你在接下来的几年里萎靡不振。

A. takes off起飞；B. wears off逐渐消逝； C. sets off出发；D. shows off炫耀，故选B。

slang is hugely ______ thanks to the many different ethnic groups that have settled in the country.
A. delicate
B. dynamic
C. diverse
D. desperate
【答案】C
【详解】考查形容词辨析。

句意：由于在美国定居了许多不同的
民族，美国俚语非常多样化。

A. delicate 微妙的；
B. dynamic 有活力的；
C. diverse 不同的；
D. desperate 不顾一切的，根据题意，故选C 。

31.—I’m burnt out as I’ve been working on my essay all the time.
— ____________. You’ll surely mak e it.
A. Don’t put on airs
B. Give me a break
C. Don’t get on my nerve
D. Hang in there
【答案】D
【详解】考查情景对话。

句意：——我一直在写论文，累坏了。

——坚持下去。

你一定会成功的。

A. Don ’t put on airs 不要摆架子；B. Give me a break 让我休息一下；C. Don’t get on my nerve 别惹我生气；D. Hang in there 坚持下去。

根据You’ll surely make it.可知这里意思是坚持下去，故选D 。

32.Decades ago, scientists believed that how the brain develops when you are a kid ______ determines your brain structure for the rest of your life. A. sooner or later B. more or less C. to and from D. up and
down 【答案】B 【详解】考查情景交际及习惯表达。

句意：几十年前，科学家们认为，当你还是个孩子的时候，大脑的发育或多或少决定了你今后生活中大脑的结构。

A. sooner or later 迟早；B. more or less 或多或少；C. to and from 来来回回；D. up and down 上上下下，根据题意，故选B 。

33.After she became ill, I felt ______ with her —she was cheery while I felt gloomy. A. out of tune
B. out of breath
C. out of curiosity
D. out of mind
【答案】A
【详解】考查介词短语辨析。

句意：她病后，我觉得与她格格不入——她高兴而我沮丧。

A. out of tune格格不入；B. out of breath上气不接下气；C. out of curiosity出于好奇心； D. out of mind心不在焉。

根据“he was cheery while I felt gloomy.”可知，这里意思是我觉得与她格格不入，故选A项。

34.When you are absorbed in a book or simply trying to rest, it seems that the phone ______ continuously, destroying your momentary peace.
A. rings
B. has been ringing
C. rang
D. is ringing
【答案】D
【详解】考查现在进行时。

句意：当你专心读书或只想休息时，电+话似乎一直在响，破坏了你短暂的平静。

表示现在正在进行的动作，用现在进行时。

故选D项。

35.I'd advise anyone to put aside a proportion of their earnings — ____________.
A. nothing great is easy
B. nothing comes from nothing
C. a bad penny always turns up
D. a penny saved is a penny earned 【答案】D
【详解】考查情景交际及习惯表达。

句意：我建议每个人都把收入的一部分存起来——省一分钱就是赚一分钱。

A. nothing great is easy天下无难事；B. nothing comes from nothing 无中生有；
C. a bad penny always turns up总会有不如意的时候；
D. a penny saved is a penny earned 省一分钱就是赚一分钱。

根据I'd advise anyone to put aside a proportion of their earnings可知这里意思是省一分钱就是赚一分钱，故选D。

第二节: 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上
将该项涂黑。

I spent my childhood collecting and pressing four-leaf clovers(三叶草) into books at my mother’s house. I ___36___ books like the complete works of Shakespeare. In the end, I slipped my ___37___ into anything I could find, even cookbooks.
A few years ago, in Nova Scotia, my husband and I pulled off the road for a ___38___. The ground was thick with clover. Some had four, five, even six ___39___. I lined them up on the picnic table to ___40___ as my husband, never yet having found one four-leaf clover, ___41___ with awe.
Two summers back, in the Munich airport, I picked a tiny four-leaf clover. On the way home, my husband and I were ___42___ to first-class seats. Friends thought we owed our good luck to the clover. I think it’s more ___43___ that we were transferred because a flight cancellation left us ___44___ between two cities and a(n) ___45___ customer service representative took pity on us.
Some people believe the luck is lost ___46___ the four-leaf clover is shown to somebody else, while others think the luck ___47___ if it is given away. I feel lucky to find the clovers so often, but I don’t think they influence my life any more than it does to ___48___ anything a little special. Think about that momentary ___49___ between you and a friend or a stranger, as you all bend forward to ___50___ at a rare find.
People often ask how I do it. Well, I love clover. I have a habit of ___51___ my fingers across a patch(小块土地), momentarily ___52___ the individuals, which brings the ___53___ ones into focus. That’s the ___54___: simply move your hand across a thick patch, letting the clovers reveal themselves. Appreciate the ones that have only three leaves. ___55___ things are beautiful too. And a four-leaf clover may show itself to you.
36. A. referred to B. started with C. caught up on D. got lost in
37. A. bookmarks B. memories C. notes D. treasures
38. A. picnic B. rest C. photo D. check
39. A. flowers B. colours C. leaves D. shoots
40. A. admire B. count C. match D. present
41. A. broke down B. looked on C. came in D. got away
42. A. chased B. upgraded C. induced D. hooked
43. A. comfortable B. disturbing C. explicit D. likely
44. A. puzzled B. annoyed C. caught D. fixed
45. A. kind B. arbitrary C. reliable D.
impatient
46. A. since B. unless C. once D. though
47. A. arrives B. doubles C. departs D. shrinks
48. A. appreciate B. exchange C. recommend D. share
49. A. hopefulness B. awkwardness C. closeness D.
loneliness
50. A. wonder B. laugh C. point D. glare
51. A. spreading B. keeping C. putting D. dragging
52. A. sparing B. separating C. scratching D.
searching
53. A. same B. slim C. irregular D. informal
54. A. trick B. distinction C. insight D. problem
55. A. Broken B. Authentic C. Delicate D. Common
【答案】36. B 37. D 38. A 39. C 40. A 41. B 42. B 43. D 44.
C 45. A 46. C 47. B 48.
D 49. C 50. A 51. D 52. B 53. C
54. A 55. D
【分析】
这是一篇记叙文。

文章作者讲述了自己从小的一个爱好——收集三叶草。

作者对于如何寻找
代表幸运的四叶草，给出了一些窍门。

【36题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。

句意：我从莎士比亚全集这样的书开始。

A. referred to被提及 B. started with开始； C. caught up on赶上；D. got lost in沉迷于……，故选B。

考查名词辨析。

作者把这些标本当作了珍宝，所以这里意思是最后，我把我的珍宝塞进了我能找到的任何东西里，甚至是烹饪书。

A. bookmarks 书签； B. memories 记忆；C. notes 笔记；D. treasures 珍宝，故选D 。

【38题详解】
考查名词辨析。

根据I lined them up on the picnic table to ___5___ as my husband 可知这里意思是几年前，在新斯科舍省，我和丈夫停车野餐。

A. picnic 野餐；B. rest 休息；
C. photo 照片；
D. check 支票，故选A 。

【39题详解】
考查名词辨析。

根据The ground was thick with clover.可知这里意思是有的有四片、五片甚至六片叶子。

A. flowers 花；B. colours 颜色；C. leaves 叶子；D. shoots 嫩枝，故选C 。

【40题详解】
考查动词辨析。

句意：我把它们排在野餐桌上欣赏，因为我的丈夫从来没有发现过一片四叶草，他敬畏地看着。

A. admire 欣赏；B. count 计数；C. match 相配；D. present 呈现，故选A 。

【41题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。

句意：我把它们排在野餐桌上欣赏，因为我的
丈夫从来没有发现过一片四叶草，他敬畏地观看。

A. broke down 打破；B. looked on 观看；C. came in 进来；D. got away 逃离，故选B 。

【42题详解】
考查动词辨析。

根据we were transferred 可知这里意思是在回家的路上，我和丈夫被升到了头等舱。

A. chased 追捕；B. upgraded 提升；C. induced 引诱；D. hooked 用钩固定，故选B 。

【43题详解】
考查形容词辨析。

句意：我认为更有可能的原因是航班取消，我们被困在两个城市之间，一位好心的客户服务代表对我们表示同情。

A. comfortable 舒适的；B. disturbing 令人不安的；C. explicit 明确的；D. likely 很可能的，故选D 。

【44题详解】
考查动词辨析。

根据because a flight cancellation 可知我们被困在两个城市之间。

A. puzzled 困惑；B. annoyed 使烦恼；C. caught 捕捉；D. fixed 修理，故选C 。

考查形容词辨析。

根据took pity on us 可知这位客户服务代表非常好心。

A. kind好心的；
B. arbitrary武断的；
C. reliable可靠的；
D. impatient不耐心的，故选A。

【46题详解】
考查连词辨析。

句意：有些人认为四叶草一旦给别人看就会失去运气，而另一些人则认为如果把四叶草送给别人，运气会加倍。

A. since由于；B. unless除非；C. once一旦；D. though 尽管，故选C。

【47题详解】
考查动词辨析。

句意：有些人认为四叶草一旦给别人看就会失去运气，而另一些人则认为如果把四叶草送给别人，运气会加倍。

A. arrives到达；B. doubles使加倍；C. departs离开；
D. shrinks收缩，故选B。

【48题详解】
考查动词辨析。

句意：能经常找到三叶草，我感到很幸运，但我认为它们对我生活的影响并不比分享任何特别的东西更大。

A. appreciate欣赏；B. exchange交换；C. recommend推荐；
D. share分享，故选D。

【49题详解】
考查名词辨析。

句意：想想你和朋友或陌生人之间短暂的亲密，当你们都弯下腰去惊叹这一罕见的发现时。

A. hopefulness抱有希望；B. awkwardness尴尬； C. closeness亲密；
D. loneliness孤独，故选C。

【50题详解】
考查动词短语辨析。

句意：想想你和朋友或陌生人之间短暂的亲密，当你们都弯下腰去惊叹这一罕见的发现时。

A. wonder at对…感到吃惊；B. laugh at 嘲笑；C. point at 指向；
D. glare at怒视，故选A。

【51题详解】
考查动词辨析。

句意：我有一个习惯，就是把手指拖过一小块土地，暂时把它们分开，这样就能把不规则的部分聚焦起来。

A. spreading传播；B. keeping保持；C. putting放；D. dragging拖动，故选D。

【52题详解】
考查动词辨析。

句意：我有一个习惯，就是把手指拖过一小块土地，暂时把它们分开，这样就能注意到不规则的部分。

A. sparing节约；B. separating分离； C. scratching划伤；
D. searching搜寻，故选B。

【53题详解】
考查形容词辨析。

句意：我有一个习惯，就是把手指拖过一小块土地，暂时把它们分开，这样就能注意到不规则的部分。

A. same相同的；B. slim苗条的；C. irregular不规则的；D. informal非正式的，故选C。

【54题详解】
考查名词辨析。

下文simply move your hand across a thick patch, letting the clovers reveal themselves. 介绍了寻找四叶草的窍门，所以这里意思是那就是窍门。

A. trick窍门；
B. distinction区别；
C. insight洞察力；
D. problem问题，故选A。

【55题详解】
考查形容词辨析。

根据Appreciate the ones that have only three leaves.可知这里意思是普通的东西也很美丽。

A. Broken破碎的；B. Authentic真正的；C. Delicate微妙的；D. Common普通的，故选D。

【点睛】完形填空的解题技巧之一就是要根据上下文来学会“推理”出最佳选项。

同学们要遵循“上下求索”的原则来查找信息。

例如，小题3根据I lined them up on the picnic table to ___5___ as my husband 可知这里意思是几年前，在新斯科舍省，我和丈夫停车野餐。

A. picnic野餐；B. rest休息；C. photo照片；D. check支票，故选A。

小题19下文simply move your hand across a thick patch, letting the clovers reveal themselves. 介绍了寻找四叶草的窍门，所以这里意思是那就是窍门。

A. trick窍门；B. distinction区别；
C. insight洞察力；
D. problem问题，故选A。

第三部分: 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
EXCURSION DETAILS
$109.99 / Adult (ages 13 and over)
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*Prices may vary with seasons
This adventure begins with a motorcoach ride along the Klondike Highway, parall eling the route used by the explorers during the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. You’ll ascend to the 3,290-foot Klondike Summit, where you can photograph majestic mountains and waterfalls.
Your ride continues as you travel north to the famous Yukon Suspension Bridge. Feel the thrilling sensation of a swaying walkway 65 feet above the churning rapids of the Tutshi River. Finally walk through the museum-quality displays demonstrating the area’s unique history.
By now you’ve worked up an appetite, and the hearty s almon buffet at the Liarsville Trail Camp is sure to tame even the hungriest beast. Savor wild Alaskan salmon grilled over an open alder wood fire, a variety of salads, cornbread and dessert. After your meal, you may return or be dropped off in Skagway for shopping.
Guest Reviews (4)
Palp from Vancouver ★★★☆☆
Great one hour stop at the Suspension Bridge. The salmon bake in Liarsville was the best part! It was a buffet of UNLIMITED salmon that was being freshly cooked over an open fire. Overall good excursion, just a little too expensive for what it is.
Dragon from Los Angles ★★★★☆
Did this on May 1, 2019. Our guide, Glenn, was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable, keeping us entertained all the way by making jokes and explaining the history of the
56. Which of the following shows the correct touring order in the excursion?
A. Skagway →Suspension Bridge → Klondike Gold Rush
B. Liarsville Trail Camp →Klondike Highway→Tutsh i River
C. Klondike Summit →Suspension Bridge → L iarsville Trail Camp
D. Klondike Gold Rush →Liarsville Trail Camp → Suspension Bridge
57. After reading the four reviews, we learn that ______________.
A. Palp thought the price for the excursion is reasonable
B. Dragon thought highly of his humorous and learned guide
C. Plutocrat was not content with the food in Liarsville
D. Rod felt the view around the suspension bridge was great
【答案】56. C 57. B
这是一篇广告布告类阅读。

文章主要介绍了旅行的一些细节。

【56题详解】
细节理解题。

根据You’ll as cend to the 3,290-foot Klondike Summit, where you can photograph majestic mountains and waterfalls.（您将登上3290英尺高的Klondike Summit，在那里您可以拍摄雄伟的山脉和瀑布。

）以及Your ride continues as you travel north to the famous Yukon Suspension Bridge. By now you’ve worked up an a ppetite, and the hearty salmon buffet at the Liarsville Trail Camp is sure to tame even the hungriest beast.（当你向北旅行到著名的Yukon Suspension Bridge，你的旅程还在继续。

现在你已经有了食欲，在Liarsville Trail营地丰盛的三文鱼自助餐肯定会驯服甚至是最饥饿的野兽。

）由此可知，正确的游览顺序是Klondike Summit →Suspension Bridge → Liarsville Trail Camp。

故选C项。

【57题详解】
推理判断题。

答案定位在Dragon from Los Angles部分 Did this on May 1, 2019. Our guide, Glenn, was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable, keeping us entertained all the way by making jokes and explaining the history of the landmarks.（这是在2019年5月1日。

我们的导游Glenn非常热情，知识渊博，一路上讲着笑话，解释着地标的历史，逗我们开心。

）由此推断出，通过阅读这四篇评论，我们了解到Dragon对他的幽默和博学的导游评价很高。

故选B项。

B
Scientists have long known that herbivores (食草动物) affect the plant diversity around them. In highly productive ecosystems, like jungles, animals would favor dominant, fast-growing plants. This would free up nutrients and space, allowing for a greater variety of plants to boom. In contrast, herbivores in regions with low plant biomass, like deserts, would eat whatever they could find, only driving down plant diversity.
Now, a team of scientists has tested this hypothesis(假说). Burkepile, a biology professor in UC Santa Barbara, and his colleagues reviewed 252 studies comparing plant diversity in areas where herbivores were and were not excluded.
Their study revealed that whether herbivores increase or decrease plant diversity depends on what’s on the menu. In general, the correlation (相关性) between herbivory and diversity wasn’t nearly as clear as everyone had expected. However, the team noticed a much stronger association: when the ecosystem hosted a particularly vigorous species of plant, herbivory seemed to be crucial in maintaining biodiversity.
For instance, grasslands in the tallgrass prairie in the American Midwest tend to be dominated (控制) by fast-growing grasses, such as big bluestem. The team discovered that herbivores had an outsized effect on maintaining biodiversity by keeping big bluestem from taking over dozens of smaller, slower growing plant species. However not all herbivores are on an equal foot.The team found that the connection between herbivory and diversity was particularly strong in grasslands where more animals feed on grass than on herbs and bushes. This seems reasonable, since grasses tend to be the dominant species in grasslands, as the name suggests.
These findings are more than aca demic. “We’ve seen three decades of really important papers saying that ecosystems work better when you have more species in them,” Burkepile said. “What our data suggests is that herbivores are especial ly
important for maintaining this biodiversity in places where you have a really dominant plant species.” As biodiversity continues to decline worldwide, conservationists are looking for ways to prevent catastrophic losses. “This suggests that one possible approach to managing ecosystems and biodiversity is to use herbivores to manage these dominant species,” Burkepile added.
58. According to Paragraph 1, how do herbivores help to increase biodiversity?
A. By consuming dominant, fast-growing plants.
B. By destroying jungles and freeing up space.
C. By adding more nutrients to the soil.
D. By eating up low plant biomass.
59. The underlined part in Paragraph 3 most probably implies that ____________.
A. herbivory has nothing to do with biodiversity in a given ecosystem
B. herbivores decrease biodiversity in tallgrass-dominated ecosystems
C. small animals help to protect biodiversity in grasslands without bushes
D. the degree to which herbivores affect biodiversity is related to plant species
60. What is the author trying to tell us in the last paragraph?
A. The limitations of the new study.
B. The potential application of the new study.
C. The contradiction between the past view and the new findings.
D. The importance of maintaining ecosystems and biodiversity.
【答案】58. A 59. D 60. B
这是一篇说明文。

文章主要讲了研究表明，食草动物是增加还是减少植物多样性取决于菜单上的食物。

总的来说，食草动物和多样性之间的关系并不像所有人预期的那样清晰。

【58题详解】
细节理解题，答案定位在第一段In highly productive ecosystems, like jungles, animals would favor dominant, fast-growing plants. This would free up nutrients and space, allowing for a greater variety of plants to boom.（在高生产力的生态系统中，比如丛林，动物更喜欢占优势的快速生长的植物。

这将释放营养和空间，允许更多种类的植物生长。

）由此可知，根据第一段，食草动物通过消耗占主导地位的快速生长的植物，帮助增加生物多
样性，故选A。

【59题详解】
下文In general, the correlation (相关性) between herbivory and diversity wasn’t nearly as clear as everyone had expected. However, the team noticed a much stronger association: when the ecosystem hosted a particularly vigorous species of plant, herbivory seemed to be crucial in maintaining biodiversity.意思是总的来说，食草动物和多样性之间的关系并不像所有人预期的那样清晰。

然而，研究小组注意到一个更强的关联：当生态系统中有一种特别活跃的植物物种时，食草动物似乎对维持生物多样性至关重要。

由此可知，上文Their study revealed that whether herbivores increase or decrease plant diversity depends on what’s on the menu.意思是他们的研究表明，食草动物是增加还是减少植物多样性取决于菜单上的食物。

“whether herbivores increase or decrease pl ant diversity depends on what’s on the menu.”暗含的意思是食草动物对生物多样性的影响程度与植物种类有关，故选D。

【60题详解】
推理判断题。

最后一段These findings are more than academic.（这些发现不仅仅是学术性的。

）是段落主题句，结合整个段落，可知最后一段主要讲了新研究的潜在应用，故选B。

C
Researchers at the University of York in England published their findings on facial recognition that, on average, people can remember as many as 5,000 faces.
There have been many studies recently on facial recognition technology. But the authors of this study say theirs is the first time that scientists have been able to put a number to the abilities of humans to recognize faces. Rob Jenkins, leader of the research, said the researchers’ study centered on “the number of faces people actually know.” and were not able to discover whether there is a “limit on how many faces the brain can handle.”
Jenkins said the ability to tell individual people apart is “clearly important.” In today’s modern world of big cities, we meet and deal with thousands of people. The study suggests our facial recognition abilities help us to deal with the many different faces we see on the screens, as well as those we know. The results of the
study give a baseline for comparing the “facial vocabulary” of humans with facial recognition software.
Today, facial recognition technology is used in many ways, including by law enforcement agencies to prevent crime and violence. Governments use it to keep secret areas secure and, in extreme cases, control populations. Some governments use the software to watch people and find out where they go and what they do. Even Facebook uses facial recognition. For example, when you name a friend, Facebook technology may recognize the person’s face from a different picture you had shared before.
For the human study, people spent one hour writing down as many faces from their personal lives as possible. At first, they found it easy to come up with many faces. But by the end of the hour, they found it harder to think of new ones. Their change in speed let the researchers estimate when they would have run out of faces completely. 1,000 to 10,000 faces remembered. People who took part in the study were also shown thousands of photographs of famous people. Researchers asked them which ones they recognized. To make sure they knew these people, researchers required them to recognize two different photos of each famous person. The results showed that the participants knew between 1,000 and 10,000 faces.
How do they explain such a wide range? Jenkins said one explanation may be that some people have a natural ability for remembering face s. “There are differences in how much attention people pay to faces and how well they process the information.” Also it could be because of different social environments. Some people may have grown up in more populated places. So, they may have had more social contact throughout their lives.
Researchers think age may be an interesting area for further research. “It would be interesting to see whether there is a peak age for the number of faces we know”, Jenkins said. He said it is possible that we gather more faces throughout our lifetime. But, he added, there also may be an age at which we start to find it harder to remember all of those faces.
61. What can we learn from the research?
A. People can remember up to 5,000 faces averagely.。