（本试卷共 8 页，全卷满分：150 分，考试用时：120 分钟）
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。
例：How much is the shirt? A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.18. C. ￡9.15. 答案是 C。
1. What is the man going to do this afternoon?
A. See a friend. B. Give Lucy a ride. C. Head for the library. 2. How long will the man stay in Europe? A. 3 days. B. 5 days. C. 8 days.
3. What does the woman suggest the man do?
A. Go to sleep early. B. Read the advertisement. C. Watch the movie tomorrow. 4. Where did the woman’s husband work?
A. At a bank. B. At a toy company. C. At a college. 5. What does the woman think of the video content? A. Interesting. B. Inspiring. C. Unreasonable.
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 might be the relationship between the two speakers? A. Workmates. B. Classmates. C. A couple. 7. What are they talking about?
A. The man’s future job. B. The man’s favorite subjects. C. The man’s major in college. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8. When do they hope to send out the first shipment? A. In May. B. In June. C. In August.
9. What would the woman like to do in the meeting? A. Make some arrangements for the next week. B. Go over the marketing plan. C. Meet some ad companies.
10. Which way of advertising does the woman show special interest in? A. TV. B. Radio. C. Brochures.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。 11. What does the woman intend to do? A. Invite the man to a basketball match. B. Invite the man to do sports. C. Invite the man to see a movie.
12. What can we learn about the club? A. People can skate or dance there.
B. People can stay there till 12:00 at night. C. People can play computers games there. 13. Where does the man work?
A. At the Workers Club. B. At a high school. C. At a computer center. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。 14. What is the man famous for?
A. Teaching math. B. Collecting coins. C. Doing business. 15. How does the man get the coins for his collection? A. He trades for some.
B. He asks for some from his friends. C. His uncle often gives him some. 16. Who is the woman?
A. A student. B. A teacher. C. A journalist.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What is the woman most probably doing?
A. Teaching a history class. B. Giving a presentation. C. Hosting a radio program. 18. Where is the woman from? A. China. B. Scotland. C. Denmark.
19. How do people in Panama celebrate the new year?
A. Use fireworks. B. Burn certain pictures. C. Walk under fireballs. 20. What do the traditions have in common? A. They all involve fire. B. They make promises.
C. They’re mostly for good luck.
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。
A
Teen & Adult Activities Yoga-Fundamentals Teen, Adult & Senior Min/Max: 4/20
June 4—June 25 Mon 11:00—12:00 pm $30 Instructor: Laurie McElroy
If you are curious about yoga and would like to learn the basics in a non-threatening, nurturing environment, this class is for you. Gain confidence in the basic poses and salutations. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a sticky yoga mat.
Laugh Yourself Happy! Adult & Senior Min/Max: 1/30
June 4—June 11 Mon 9:30—10:30 am $20 July 23—August 6 Mon 10:30—11:30 am $30 Instructor: Chele Howell
Come experience the healing benefits of laughing together! Join us for an hour of laughter & deep breathing, music & movement, affirmations, meditation and more! Interactive classes filled with fun, creativity and living in the moment offer a way to reconnect, center and upgrade your mindset. Take home a new tool to help you relax and unwind, deal with everyday stresses, negative thinking, aches and pains and experience greater clarity, well-being and joyfulness! Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, or towel to lie on for meditation.
Line Dancing-Intermediate Ages 18 & Up Min/Max: 8/30
June 3—June 24 Sun 4:30—5:30 pm $20 July1—July 29 Sun 4:30—5:30 pm $25 Aug5—Aug 26 Sun 4:30—5:30 pm $20 Instructor: Randy Lattimer
If you know the basic patterns and steps to line dancing, if you have mastered syncopation and are ready to move into phrasing and longer patterns with restarts and tags, then you are ready to join us in our intermediate level line dance class. So bring your talent and join in. We will see you in our next class.Students under 18 will be accepted with parental consent.
Teen Acrylic Painting Ages 11—16 Min/Max: 4/8
July 30—July 31 Mon/Tue 12:30—3:00 pm $50 Instructor: Taylor Gosney
Anyone can learn to paint! This class encourages students to explore the medium of acrylic painting through a variety of techniques emphasizing concepts of shape, volume and color. This class is designed to encourage confidence and creative expression through paint. 21. Which activity will be held even if there is only one member? A. Teen Acrylic Painting. B. Line Dancing-Intermediate. C. Yoga-Fundamentals. D. Laugh Yourself Happy!
22. If a pair of twins learns line dancing in July, they should pay ________. A. $40 B. $50 C. $60 D. $100
23. What do we know about Teen Acrylic Painting? A. It is designed for senior people.
B. It encourages students to relax and unwind. C. It lasts 2.5 hours for each lesson. D. It has space for at least 8 members.
B
Global warming does more than just kill plant species—it also changes the way plants grow. Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) joined forces with the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry (IPB) to discover the molecular (分子的) processes of plant growth. In Current Biology, a scientific journal, they presented their findings on high-temperature plant growth. This could lead to developing plants that can survive global warming.
Plants react to even small temperature changes, but they are unable to move to new locations. “When temperatures rise, plants grow taller... to cool themselves off. Their stalks (茎) become taller, and their leaves become narrower and grow farther apart. Yet, this makes the plant more unstable overall,” explains Professor Marcel Quint, an agricultural scientist at MLU. Unstable plants bend faster in the rain and produce less food that’s also less nutritious.
There’s still lots to learn about plant reactions to temperatures. “We are just starting to understand how plants detect the changes in temperature...,” Quint says. Earlier studies have shown that the protein PIF4 directly controls plant growth and is also dependent on temperature. When it’s cold, PIF4 is less active, meaning the plant doesn’t grow. At higher temperatures, PIF4 activates growth-promoting genes, and the plant grows taller. This is new information, says Quint. To understand it, they investigated the growth of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana, 拟南芥) seedlings. Normally, its seedlings form short stems (茎) at 20℃. These stems become considerably longer at 28℃. They discovered a hormone (荷尔蒙) that activates the PIF4 at high temperatures, thus producing the protein. The findings of the Halle group may help to breed plants that remain stable even at high temperatures and produce many crops.
24. Why did the researchers at MLU and IPB conduct their research? A. To study the negative effects of global warming. B. To find out how plants help reduce global warming. C. To observe how global warming affects plant growth.
D. To understand the ways that plants cause global warming. 25. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. Low temperatures have little impact on plants. B. Plants prefer dry weather to rainy weather. C. Plants are very sensitive to changes in soil. D. High temperatures decrease crop production. 26. What do we know about PIF4?
A. It mainly exists in thale cress seedlings.
B. It works differently at different temperatures. C. It is a kind of gene that controls plant growth.
D. It is a plant hormone that works at high temperatures. 27. Who will probably benefit most from the findings?
A. Farmers. B. Botanists. C. Researchers. D. Environmentalists.
C
Joshua Plotnik and his colleagues carried out the tests on six 12-45-year-old Asian elephants living in the grounds of a hotel in northern Thailand. The buckets containing the seeds were not clear enough to see through and had a lid with small holes to let the smell out. In experiments, the elephants chose the greater quantity of seeds in each pair, regardless of the quantity of seeds presented. The accuracy of the prediction was better when the difference between each pair
increased.
This is thought to be the first time that an animal is able to use its sense of smell to make a simple calculation of whether one of two quantities is more or less than another—the most basic form of math.
Many animal species have shown an ability to tell apart between more and less when presented with different amounts of food. But they have used vision to discriminate. Dogs have been unable to show they can perform the same trick in tests of their abilities to smell.
For an elephant this ability could be very important. Elephants often travel long distances to find better-quality food and water, which can differ according to seasonal availability, changes to their environment, and a risk they could be attacked by humans. The best performers were able to get it right more than 80 per cent of the time.
The scientists suggest that male elephants are better at the task because they need to eat more food, making it more important that their sense of smell is keener. Males also have to sniff out females in heat over long distances in order to reproduce.
They say that while elephants do use vision, particularly in close contexts where they react to each other’s body language, they use it mainly to match their more powerful senses—hearing, smell and touch.
That elephants have a powerful sense of smell is perhaps unsurprising. They have more genes related to smell than any other animal: 2,000 compared to around 800 for a dog. 28. What special ability do elephants have? A. Use their trunks to find different smells. B. Distinguish between more and less food. C. Smell the differences of food quality. D. Perform the basic math calculation.
29. What does the underlined word “discriminate” mean? A. Choose. B. Indicate. C. Measure. D. Distinguish. 30. Why do elephants often travel long distances? A. To find where the better food is.
B. To find where humans wait to attack them. C. To find where the environment has changed. D. To find where they can adapt to the climate. 31. What is the best title for the text?
A. Elephants can do simple math puzzles B. Elephants can “count” with their trunks C. Elephants can smell the quality of food D. Elephants can use vision to communicate
D
Have you ever had a burger without meat? You might think that a vegetable burger will take away the real meaning of a burger as it will not have the juicy taste of meat. Despite these concerns, the company, Beyond Meat, has managed to successfully make plant-based meat.
On May 2, the company became the first vegan company to become public. Beyond Meat’s initial share price was expected to range from $19 to $21. Impressively, just hours later, Beyond Meat’s stocks rose to $73!
Instead of killing animals, Beyond Meat obtains these components from different plants and combines them to make vegan meat. It contains pea protein that gives the chewy, meaty texture along with canola oil, coconut fat and other binding agents. In addition, the company uses beet
湖南省湘潭县一中2020届高三5月模拟考英语试题 (含解析)
