广东惠州市2019届高三第二次模拟考试
英语试卷
2019.4.
注意事项:
1. 本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第I卷(非选择题)两部分。答卷前，考生必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。因考试不考听力，第I卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题序号从“21\开始。
2.回答第I卷时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答题标号涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。写在本试卷上无效。 3.回答第II卷时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。 4.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第I卷
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。
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Are you seeking for some charming places in the world? Here are some destinations for you to explore. Basilicata, Italy
This is a chance to visit Italy's southern region before the world catches on. Between the heel that is Puglia and the toe that is Calabria, you will find Basilicata, the arch (拱状物) of Italy's foot.
Despite a storied and ancient past, the region has been overlooked in modern times. Easily Italy's best-kept secret, Basilicata is reserved for beautiful beaches and ancient towns. In 2019,the town of Matera, a UNESCO site, will host the European Capital of Culture. It is also known for its ancient caves - once used for livestock, later as primitive homes, and today, as private residences or hotels beautifully restored. Iceland
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seeking over-the-top,only-in-Iceland experiences. Trophy Lodge.
properties
money-consuming, from Edition Hotel opening in 2018 in Reykjavik to the super-private
An advanced hot-springs, the Retreat at Blue Lagoon Iceland, is set to open in May 2019 at the Blue Lagoon. And on the remote northern Troll Peninsula, Deplar Farm is a former sheep farm where adventurers can fly-fish and helicopter. Top End, Australia
Australia's
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Top
End-the
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Northern Territory is experiencing an upgrade of tourism to its aboriginal communities, the world's oldest civilizations,according to 2017 DNA analysis.
The region's small cities--Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine are seeing new markets and aboriginal centers, giving visitors a perfect place to appreciate the vast region's diverse cultures.4.Seattle, Washington
Seattle takes a bold turn in 2019, not ltting you down with a high budget. Multiyear reconstructions at the Space Needle are underway, including a restaurant complete with as pinning glass floor scheduled to open this spring.
Downtown, tours of the huge NBBJ-designed Amazon Spheres filled with hundreds of plant species begin in early 2019，which will see the opening of the Pacific Northwest's largest hotel, the 45-story Hyatt Regency Seattle. 21. What can you know about Basilicata, Italy?
A. It is located in top end of southern Italy. B. It is an ancient region without many tourists. C. There are beautiful beaches and ancient hotels. D. There are livestock in the ancient caves 22. What might travellers do in Iceland?
A. They can enjoy an advanced hot-springs. B. They can visit a sheep farm. C. They can take a helicopter.
D. They can appreciate the diverse cultures. 23. Which places might cost you much money?
A. Basilicata, Italy and Iceland
B. Basilicata, Italy and Top End, Australia C. Top End, Australia and Seattle, Washington D. Iceland and Seattle, Washington
B
Humans and elephants don't always get along. In Africa and Asia, elephants damage infrastructure, farmers' crops, and natural habitat important for other species. If an elephant becomes a problem, humans may kill it. So local people and conservationists are trying to find better ways to keep elephants away from sensitive places. Now, researchers think they have a good tool to prevent elephants: honeybee pheromones(信息素).
\dislike being stung in the trunk, so it's an extremely sensitive organ. Imagine being stung in your nose by a bee, and multiply that a few thousand times.\Mark Wright, a professor of entomology at the University of Hawai at Manoa.
Kenyan farmers have long known that if they hang live beehives(蜂箱) around their farms,they will drive elephants away. \problem is how to manage hundreds of thousands of hives,if you have a huge area to protect. And then the idea came up t8 look at the alarm pheromones,which are chemicals that the bees release to launch an attack on something that's damaging the hive.\
So the researchers tested out an artificial mixture of chemicals that imitates honey bees' alarm pheromones. In Greater Kruger National Park in South Africa, the team hung white socks treated with the artificial mixture as well as untreated control socks around an elephant watering hole, and then observed the animals' behavior. \really curious creatures. They'll walk along and see something like a sock hanging on a branch in the environment, and they'll inspect it, and if it's not treated with the alarm pheromones, they'll pick it up, throw it around,and try to taste it, things like that. And in the case of the treated ones, we found that they would show immediate signs of unease or uncertainty, and they'd eventually back off from them. Very seldom would they go pick them up and play with them.\
In order to avoid the elephants more effectively, the researchers plan to make the pheromone mixture purer. That way, these remarkable animals will stay far away from wherever they should not be going- -and both elephants and humans can coexist a bit more peacefully.
24. What can we infer from the underlined words in Paragraph 2?
A. Bees enjoy stinging elephants. B. Elephants' trunk is a sensitive organ. C. Your nose is frequently stung by bees.
D. Being stung in the trunk is unbearable to elephants.
25. Why didn't the researchers hang live beehives to keep elephants away from crops?
A. Because it's of no use to elephants. B. Because it's impractical.
C. Because elephants like the taste of honey. D. Because they prefer to invent new chemicals. 26. Paragraph 4 mainly tells us______
A. how to imitate honeybee alarm pheromones B. elephants' reaction to the white socks C. how the experiment was carried out
D. why the team hung two different white socks 27. The research was aimed at
广东省惠州市2019届高三模拟考试(含答案)(Word精校版)
