郑州市2020届高中毕业年级第一次质量预测
英语试题卷
本试卷分四部分，考试时间120分针，满分150分（听力成绩算作参考分）。考生应首先阅读答题卡上的文字信息，然后在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上作答无效。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30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1．5分，满分7．5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 did the man do last night?
A. He went to visit Lily. B. He attended a concert. C. He worked on his project. 2. What are the speakers going to do?
A. Go out for dinner. B. Hold a dinner party. C. Send out invitations. 3. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a parking lot. B. In the street. C. In a restaurant. 4. Why is the woman angry? A. Her son failed the exam. B. Her son cheated in the exam.
C. Her husband misunderstood her.
5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Teacher and student. B. Boss and secretary. C. Coach and player. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1．5分，满分22．5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. What are the speakers doing now?
A. Preparing for a visit. B. Checking a camera. C. Taking photos. 7. What will they do this Saturday?
A. Visit Rosa’s parents. B. Look after their baby. C. Go shopping for a present. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Why doesn’t the man feel tired? A. He started climbing later. B. He is a professional climber.
C. He often does much exercise.
9. When does the conversation probably take place?
A. In the late afternoon. B. In the late morning. C. In the early morning. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is Jane interested in about the volunteering work?
A. Helping the audience. B. Guiding athletes around. C. Meeting her favorite sports stars.
11. What will the games volunteers get for free?
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A. Meals. B. Uniforms. C. Hotel rooms. 12. Why can’t Jane apply for the position now? A. She is under 18 years old.
B. She wants to get paid for the work.
C. She doesn’t know much about the Games. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What does the woman probably do?
A. She is a teacher. B. She is a manager. C. She is a hostess. 14. What advice does the man give first on writing a CV?
A. To make it brief. B. To make it full. C. To make it creative. 15. What does the man say about the first CV?
A. It contains 6 pages. B. It is difficult to read. C. It has too much space. 16. Who wrote the third CV?
A. The man. B. The woman. C. The man’s colleague. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is Greta Thunberg’s nationality?
A. American. B. Malaysian. C. Swedish. 18. Where did Greta Thunberg first learn about global warming from? A. Newspapers. B. Films. C. Movements. 19. What does Greta Thunberg’s mother do?
A. A singer. B. A pilot. C. A businesswoman. 20. What did Greta Thunberg do in 2018? A. She arranged a 20-day debate.
B. She organized a national movement. C. She met several world-famous leaders. 第二部分 阅读理解（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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Looking for work?
Tutors Wanted: Math / Science / Humanities ＋ Test Preparation Job Posted: 2 days ago Wage: $27-30 per hour Job Type: Part-time
Schedule: Afternoons, evenings, weekdays, weekends Job description:
We’re looking for tutors to join us before the next school year starts.
Our suitable candidate will be able to assist middle and high school students with test preparation and academic work in Math, Science and / or Humanities.
We’ll pay for your training before this fall and can also offer flexible summer tutoring chances, including teaching group classes.
Once our fall semester starts on August 21, we’ll have even higher demand for tutoring sessions on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. as well as from 3 p.m. to 9 p. m. Monday-Thursday. What we offer:
※ Flexible scheduling. Tutors work from 15 to 30 hours per week depending on availability and student demand.
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※ Free Sunday dinners during the academic year. ※ Fun staff gatherings.
※ Health insurance reimbursement（补偿）for staff working over 30 hours per week. ※ We are 5 minutes’ walking distance from the Menlo Park Caltrain Station. Applicants must:
※ Have a good command of the subjects they tutor.
※ Be willing to tutor students through the full academic year. Application instructions:
※ Email us your resume（简历）.
※ Tell us why you want to join Academic Trainers and describe your experience of tutoring students if you have any.
※ Let us know your scheduling preferences and potential start date.
※Tell us which of the subjects you are able to tutor - Math, Science and / or Humanities. 21. Which period of time needs the most tutors during the academic year?
A. Saturday and Sunday mornings. B. Friday afternoons and evenings. C. Monday and Thursday mornings. D. Sunday afternoons and evenings. 22. What can a tutor enjoy who works more than 30 hours per week?
A. Comfortable accommodation. B. Free job training every month.
C. Health insurance reimbursement. D. Free meals during the academic year. 23. What qualification should a suitable candidate have? A. He / She must tutor all the subjects part-time. B. He / She must be good at the subjects they tutor. C. He / She must have a previous tutoring experience.
D. He / She must work every evening through the academic year.
B
If there was a subject at school that made me anxious, it was science. Maybe that’s because in my tenth grade, I couldn’t understand my physics teacher’s instructions, causing me to accidentally set fire to the classroom. So, when my husband and I decided to home-school our daughters, we made a deal: he would teach science, while I would handle everything else. But that’s not how things have been going these past few weeks, since my husband has been too busy to teach the girls.
Recently, while out on my morning hike before starting lessons, I noticed that the sky was a beautiful blue, and the air was filled with the sweet smell of flowers. That’s why I decided that the day’s lessons would be taught outside, although I remembered that my daughters hadn’t had any science classes from my husband for a while.
I returned to the house to get the girls ready. We headed up into the forest, settling ourselves by a pond that rarely has any visitors. My daughter Saoirse started to pick up pond weeds and catch frogs, while my other daughter Ula looked at me, waiting to be instructed. I handed her a drawing board and colored pencils. “We wait,” I told her, “and see if something comes along. In the meantime, just draw what’s around you.”
We worked for more than an hour, hardly speaking. A bird flew across the water, and then settled in front of a fallen tree. I quickly told Ula, worried that she’d not seen the creature. But she had, and she started drawing it. An hour later, she finished her picture and I stared down at it. She drew the bird on her paper with amazing accuracy. But there was one other interesting fact about this drawing: she also drew me, sitting beside her.
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I realized, as I stared at this child’s drawing of us watching a bird, how I’d lived for 40 years, gathered 10 years of higher education, and never understood the foundation of science before this moment. The foundation of science is a sense of wonder; it isn’t about accurately reciting words from a textbook. It is first and foremost about stepping outside our busy lives and amazing at the world around us.
24. How did the author feel about science when in school?
A. She was nervous about it. B. She was fond of it. C. She was confused about it. D. She was eager for it. 25. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refers to “__________”.
A. the fallen tree B. the forest C. the bird D. the picture 26. Which of the following best describes Ula?
A. She’s very outgoing. B. She’s good at observing.
C. She’s very hard-working. D. She shares interests with her sister. 27. What is the foundation of science in the author’s opinion? A. Attention to accuracy.
B. Curiosity about the outside world. C. Determination to find out the truth.
D. Ability to understand teachers’ instructions.
C
Something strange has been happening to me lately: Women in the street have been telling me I’m brave.
My act of courage isn’t much - I just stopped coloring my hair. I had brown hair that started going gray when I was 30. So, like a lot of women, I started dyeing（染） it. It was expensive and time-consuming. And my hair grows fast, so I needed to go back to the hair salon （美发厅） every 5 weeks.
Many people seem to enjoy holding onto their youth for as long as possible, giving off the impression that they don’t have much wisdom or many accomplishments. But our hair starts to turn gray and suddenly we start spending $500 or more a year to cover something our male colleagues don’t need to cover.
Of course, people should do what they want with their own body - my mother is 91 and still has “blond” hair, and why not? I just wish more of us would feel that it was OK to be ourselves, because going gray has done more for me than saving me time and money.
I like my natural hair, just as it is. I like how it has got curly and full again. It is recovering after years of being damaged by chemicals. I also like that it has given me some needed attitude in a society that makes youth seem so important, while being against maturity. It reminds me that I’m not a kid anymore - and this isn’t a bad thing. Not being a kid anymore means I read the books I want, and not the books I feel I should read. It means not wasting my time at events I don’t need to
attend when I’d rather be with my family and friends.
When I see my hair in the mirror, it’s a reminder that my time is limited, and I should spend it doing what matters. There’s nothing shameful about growing older. And pretending it’s not happening is a way of giving up our power.
I see my gray hair as a little act of rebellion（反叛）against the idea that people lose value as they age, instead of gaining it. I see gray hair as my “flag” and I’m letting it fly proudly. 28. How does the author feel about coloring hair? A. It shows people’s great courage.
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B. It is a good way to hold onto youth.
C. It shows wisdom and accomplishments.
D. It is not worth the time and money spent on it.
29. What should we do when we grow old according to the author? A. Give up our power. B. Pretend to be still young.
C. Accept it and act positively. D. Read as many books as possible. 30. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage? A. To explain why youth is valued.
B. To share her opinion on growing older.
C. To stress the importance of different attitudes.
D. To analyze the advantages and disadvantages of aging. 31. Which can be the best title for the passage?
A. Holding Onto Youth B. Dyeing Your Hair
C. Gaining Value With Age D. Valuing Wisdom Of Age
D
AIDS may be one of the most undesirable diseases in the world. Luckily, there is now hope for AIDS patients.
According to a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Chinese scientists have successfully used CRISPR technology - a method of gene editing - to treat a patient with HIV. While it may not have cured the patient fully, it still represents a huge step forward in fighting the disease.
The patient was a 27-year-old Chinese man who was diagnosed with both AIDS and acute lymphoblastic leukemia （淋巴母细胞白血病）, a type of blood cancer. Despite his bleak situation, doctors offered him a little hope: a bone marrow（骨髓）transplant to treat his cancer and an experimental treatment for his HIV. They used this chance to edit the DNA in bone marrow stem cells（干细胞）from a donor before transplanting the cells into the patient.
Specifically, the treatment involved using the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to delete a gene known as CCRS, which encodes（给……编码）a protein that HIV uses to get inside human cells. Without the gene, HIV is unable to enter cells. Talking about the gene, lead scientist Deng Hongkui told CNN, “After being edited, the cells - and the blood cells they produce - have the ability to resist HIV infection.” Nineteen months after the treatment, the patient’s leukemia was in complete remission（缓解）and donor cells without CCR5 remained, according to the research paper.
Though the transplant didn’t cure the man’s HIV, it still showed the effectiveness of gene-editing technology, as there was no indication of any unintended genetic changes - a major concern with past gene-editing treatment experiments.
Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in the United States, who was not involved in the study, praised the treatment. “They did a very creative experiment, and it was safe,” he told Live Science. “It should be viewed as a success.” Deng believes gene-editing technology could “bring a new dawn” to blood - related diseases such as AIDS and sickle-cell anaemia（镰状细胞贫血）. “Thanks to this new technology, the goal of a functional cure for AIDS is getting closer and closer,” he said.
32. The underlined word “bleak” in Paragraph 3 probably means “__________”. A. hopeless B. unstable C. embarrassing D. unique 33. How did the treatment fight against HIV?
A. By identifying and killing HIV. B. By changing the structure of HIV.
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2020届 河南省郑州市 高三上学期第一次质量预测英语试题
