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湖南省岳阳市高考第二次模拟考试
英语试题
第I卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 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. 答案：C
1. Who is coming for tea? A. Mark. A. Rainy.
B. John. B. Cool.
C. Tracy. C. Hot.
C. Prepare for the dinner quickly.
2. What is the weather like now? 3. What will the man do next? A. Stay for dinner. A. Miami.
B. Go to the railway station. B. New York City. B. It is well-paid.
4. Where will the woman fly to?
C. Washington, D.C C. It is easy.
5. How does the man find his present job? A. It is rewarding.
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 is the woman’s favourite sport? A. Basketball. A. Play tennis.
B. Badminton.
C. Tennis.
C. Watch a badminton match.
7. What are the two speakers going to do today?
B. Go to a basketball club.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What color is the sofa in the shop now? A. Green.
B. Black.
C. Red.
C. Next Wednesday.
9. When can the driver take the sofa to the woman? A. This Thursday.
B. Next Monday.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
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B. ￡9.18. C ￡9.15.
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10. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In an office. A. A trip plan. A. Colleagues.
B. At home. B. Daily work.
C. In a restaurant. C. A healthy diet. C. Friends.
11. What are they mainly talking about?
12. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?
B. Husband and wife.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Why did the man miss the woman’s phone call yesterday? A. His phone was turned off. B. He was taking a shower at home. C. He didn’t take his phone with him. 14. What did the woman do yesterday? A. She went shopping.
B. She went to a concert.
C. She played computer games.
15. Why did the woman call the man? A. To invite him to her wedding warmly. B. To ask something about Megan for a gift C. To invite him to her sister's wedding.
16. When will the woman pick up the man next Saturday? A. At 13:00.
B. At 13:20.
C. At 14:00.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Which of the following does Alexandra Grace work for? A. New Zealand Embassy Beijing. B. QS World University Ranking System. C. The Multi-cultural Environment Organization.
18. What stops some students choosing New Zealand for study? A. Its environment. A. 20.000 dollars.
B. Its size.
C. Its population. C. 45.000 dollars.
19. How much docs a Chinese student spend in total when studying in a New Zealand university for a year?
B. 25.000 dollars.
20. What message about New Zealand docs the speaker mainly convey? A. Its multi-cultural environment is good for Chinese tourists. B. Its higher education is suitable for Chinese students. C. Its breath-taking scenery is absolutely worth seeing. 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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The “happiest place on earth” is a top destination on many families，bucket lists (人生目标清单). But taking a vacation to Disney World can be difficult to do on a budget. There are some considerations that you can make to
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reduce the cost of your Disney World vacation.
1. Come Prepared
Plan ahead so that you don't have to purchase a necessity at Disneyland that you could have brought from home. For example, check the weather so that you don't need to buy a raincoat or an umbrella.
2. Buy Souvenirs in Advance
Disney has influenced practically every industry, which makes it easy to find Disney items anywhere, from Walmart, Target, and your local grocery stores to department stores and Amazon. You can save a lot of money by purchasing items before your trip at these less expensive places than at Disneyland.
3. Make an Autograph Book
An autograph book is seen as a must-have by many Disneyland enthusiasts and is a memory you can take home with you. These books can cost anywhere from S7.95 to $ 19.95 at the Disney Store and up to S30 for the latest-and-greatest autograph book at Disneyland, such as the park’s 60th anniversary editions. Other choices can get the job done for under $5. For example, you can buy a small photo album, cute pads or notebooks.
4. Take Advantage of Discounts Offered to Special Groups
Disney offers a wide variety of discounts, including for military service members, college students, teachers, and youth groups. If you think you might qualify for a special discount or group rate, call the Disneyland Resort to book tickets.
21. Where can it take you more money to buy souvenirs? A. At Amazon A. $30.
B. At department stores B. $19.95.
C. At Walmart C. $7.95.
D. At Disneyland D. S5.
22. How much do you pay for the park’s 60th anniversary autograph book? 23. Who can enjoy the low-priced tickets? A. All the young people. C. All the students.
B. All the teachers.
D. All the army and navy members.
B
According to a statement by the Tibet autonomous region government over the weekend, Tibet’s production of natural drinking water reached 425,600 metric tons in 2016, an increase of 178 percent year-on-year.
The importance of the drinking water industry was included among the topics of the latest working conference on Tibet in August. Tibet began producing bottled water in the early 1990s based on its favorable natural environment, and it has won praise from the drinking water industry.
Xu Fei, an industry- leader, said measures have been taken in the past few years, including the use of strict rules, to protect water resources with the support of the industry.
“It’s a must to make sure that neither people's lives nor the environment are adversely affected by the production of natural drinking water.” said Xu.
Zou Chaodong, leader of the Tibet Food and Drug Administration, said that the government tested the water of most of Tibet's natural drinking water businesses in 2016, and all of them met quality standards, including Tibet Spring. Shengdi and Qomolangma Glacier.
In recent years, some big companies have invested in the region for natural drinking water. Now Tibet owns 28 such companies. The Tibet Spring brand was named Best Sparkling Water at the 10th Global Bottled Water Congress in the United Stales in 2013.
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“In 2016, 93 million yuan ($14.3 million) was paid in taxes on total sales income of 390 million yuan,” said Norbu Tsering, chief engineer at Tibet Glacier Mineral Water Company.
The Company has provided about 200 jobs, with more than 95 percent of die workers coming from rural areas, he said.
“Don’t forget the well diggers when you drink from this well,” said Norbu Tsering, adding that the company has been supporting local people.
24. What makes it possible to develop the drinking water industry in Tibet? A. The local people s support.
B. The help from big companies. D. The measures to protect water.
C. Its good natural environment.
25. Which of the following statements is UNTRUE according to the passage? A. Tibet's production of natural drinking water rose in 2016. B. A majority of natural drinking water in Tibet is of bad quality.
C. The well diggers are the people we should remember when drinking from the well. D. Some measures have been taken to protect water resources in the past few years. 26. Which of the words below can replace the underlined word “adversely” in Paragraph 4? A. Suddenly
B. Regularly.
C. Positively.
C
Modern technology has a strong influence on many things we do. In fact, technology is shaping almost every part of our day-to-day existence, including education. Ashok Goel is a professor al the Georgia Institute of Technology. Every term over 300 graduate students lake his class on artificial intelligence (AI). The students never meet in person. All of the classes take place online—through a website.
Having hundreds of students in a class means Ashok Goel has to answer thousands of questions. He has eight teaching assistants to help him. But even that is not enough to give all the students the help they need. So, in January, he decided to try an experiment. At the start of the spring 2016 semester, he added a new member to his teaching team: Jill Watson. She was able to answer questions faster than most other teaching assistants. And she was available 24 hours a day. U was only at the end of the semester that Goel’s students learned Watson s secret: she was not a real person. Jill Watson is an AI computer program. Goel says only two students came close to predicting Watson’s true identity. He was worried about telling his students because he thought they would not like being part of the experiment. But once they learned Watson’s identity, they became very excited.
“Then, you know what happened? They not only asked that question about Jill,” “Is she an AI? Once the identity of Jill was revealed, they also asked if I was an AI.” he said.
Goel now uses Watson in two classes, but still doesn’t tell his students which of his teaching assistants is a computer program. He hopes this technology will make it easier for teachers to create their programs to use in and outside the classroom.
28. How does Goel give his students help?
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D. Harmfully.
27. What is the main advantage of drinking water business according to the passage? A. Providing jobs and developing the economy B. Preventing the local people losing their jobs C. Making the people realize the importance of lax D. Encouraging the locals to protect the environment
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A. Through books. B. By writing to them. C. By face-to-face teaching. D. Through the Internet.
29. Why did Goel decide to try an experiment?
A. Because some questions were difficult to for assitants to answer. B. Because it was hard to answer so many students’ questions. C. Because he was too tired to answer those questions. D. Because he wanted to improve students’ self-study ability. 30. What's the students’ response to Jill Watson? A. Being surprised.
B. Being indifferent.
C. Being excited.
D
No one enjoys hearing the sound of someone else chewing their food. Most of the time, though, it’s not that big a deal but a minor annoyance.
But for a small group of people with misophonia (恐音症), the sound can be painful, causing extreme anger and deep discomfort. The most ordinary sounds of chewing and breathing can drive them crazy. Past attempts to explain the causes of misophonia have suggested everything from compulsive disorder to an easily-annoyed personality --- but according to a study published yesterday in the journal Current Biology, the true criminal is the structure of the brain.
For the study, a team of researchers led by Newcastle University neuroscientist Sukhbinder Kumar recruited (招募) 42 volunteers, of whom around half had extreme misophonia and the other half served as the control group, and played them several different noises: some ordinary; some harsh, like the sound of a person screaming; and some that were ordinary for the control group but known to be annoying for misophonics, people with misophonia, like the sound of breathing. As the participants listened, the researchers monitored them for signs of anxiety, both physical symptoms and behavioral expressions, and observed their brain activity using FMRI scans.
The only significant difference in reaction between the two groups happened, during the misophonia-specific sounds, when those with the condition showed physical changes that suggested they were entering fight-or-flight mode.
Misophonics had increased activity in the AIC, an area known to play a central role in the system that determines which things we should pay attention to. When the trigger sounds were played, there was not only more activity in this region but also abnormally high levels of connection to other regions.
Misophonia, in other words, may be a result of misplaced attention the brain of a misophonic focuses on things that other people normally tune out (不予理会). On a related note, on behalf of misophonics and manners-minded moms everywhere: Please, chew with your mouth closed.
32. What is the true criminal of misophonia? A. Sounds of chewing and breathing. C. An easily-annoyed personality.
B. Compulsive disorder. D. The structure of the brain.
D. Being shocked.
31. What’s the best title of this passage? A. Technology Making Education Easier C. Jill Watson: a Real Teaching Assistant B. Ashok Goel, a Professor Shaping Education D. The Internet Has a Strong Impact on Our Life
33. Which way did researches use to carry out their research?
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湖南省岳阳市2020届高考(二模)英语试题有答案(加精)
