山西省大同一中、同煤一中2020┄2021届高三上学期期末联合考试 英语试题

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第一部分阅读理解（共两节，20小题；每小题3分，满分60分）

第一小节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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,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。

A

Do You Want To Change the Future of Education？

Our goal is to give a world-class education to everyone, everywhere, regardless of gender, income or social status.

Today, , a not-for-profit website, provides hundreds of thousands of people from around the globe with access to free education .We offer amazing quality classes by the best professors from the best schools. We enable our members to find out a new passion that will transform their lives and their communities.

Around the world from coast to coast, in over 192 countries, people are making the decision to take one or several of our courses. As we continue to grow our operations, we are looking for talented passionate people with great ideas to join the edX team. We aim to create an environment that is supportive ,diverse, and as fun as our brand.If you’re hardworking and ready to contribute to an unparalleled member experience for our community, we really want you to apply.

As part of the edX team, you’ll receive:

·Competitive compensation

·Generous benefits package

·Free lunch every day

·A great workplace where everyone cares and wants to change the world

While we appreciate every applicant’s interest, only those under consideration will be contacted .We regret that phone calls will not be accepted. We promise that every applicant will be treated fairly.

All positions are located in our Cambridge offices.

1.What’s the aim of the text？

A. To give an introduction to edX.

B. To encourage people to join edX.

C. To predict the future of education.

D. To advise us to choose quality education.

2. What does edX mainly do？

A. Providing free courses.

B. Studying people’s learning habits.

C. Discovering people’s new passion.

D. Researching the trend of education .

3. According to the text, edX____？

A. aims to change the world

B. tries to build more schools

C. has schools in nearly 200 countries

D. teaches people how to choose their courses

B

Apparently everyone knows that global warming only makes climate more extreme. A hot, dry summer has caused another flood of such claims. And one of the players that benefit the most from this story is the media：the idea of “extreme” climate simply makes for more

exciting news.

Consider Paul Krugman writing breathlessly in The New York Times about the “rising incidence of extreme events.”He claims that global warming caused the current drought in America’s Midwest, and that supposedly record-high corn prices could cause a global food crisis（危机）。

But the United Nations’s latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite—there has an overall slight tendency toward less dryness in North America. Moreover, there is no way that Krugman could have identified this drought as being caused by global warming without a time machine since climate models estimate that such detection will be possible by 2048, at the earliest.

And, fortunately, this year’s drought appears unlikely to cause a food crisis, as global rice and wheat supplies are plentiful. Moreover, Krugman overlooks inflation（通货膨胀）：Prices have increased six-fold since 1969.So, the inflation-adjusted price of corn was higher throughout most of the 1970s.

Finally, Krugman forgets that concerns about global warming are the main reason that corn prices have skyrocketed since Nowadays 40 percent of corn grown in the United States is used to produce ethanol（乙醇），which raises the price of corn –at the expense of many of the world’s poorest people.

Bill Mickbben similarly worries in The Guardian About the Midwest drought and corn prices.He confidently tells us that fierce wildfires from New Mexico and Colorado to Siberia are “exactly” what the early stages of global warming look like.

In fact, the latest study on global wildfire suggests that fire incidence has declined over the