2020届高考英语原创猜题模拟卷（八）
英语
本试卷6页，满分120分。考试用时120分钟 注意事项：
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第一部分 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。
A
I feel it a great honor that you choose to stay at Central International Hotel. We are ideally situated in Zhenru Center, one of the four centers in Shanghai, next to Shanghai West Railway Station. Tube Line 11 is only six minutes walk to our hotel by the sixth exit that can reach Shanghai Disneyland in a beeline. On the east side of our hotel lie bus No. 107 to the downtown People's Square, bus No. 762 to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, bus No. 869 to the National Exhibition Center and Tube Line 2 to Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
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1．How do you reach Disneyland directly from the hotel? A．By bus No. 762. B．By bus No. 869. C．By subway No. 2. D．By subway No. 11. 2．What can you do to join in the environmental protection program? A．Press the button. B．Let us know your needs. C．Read the related information card. D．Fill in the customer satisfaction survey. 3．How can you get free daily necessities? A．By clicking Please Clean Up. B．By eyeing the robot’s 2D code. C．By calling the Operator. D．By calling the Room Service.
B
The Swedish Academy has named Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. It also announced that it was honoring Austrian Peter Handke with the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Academy cancelled the prize last year after many members fled the organization following sexual abuse accusations linked to it.
The Academy said it awarded Tokarczuk for imaginative writing that “represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
The Polish writer’s first published work came in 1989, a book of poetry called Cities in Mirrors. Her first novel, The Journey of the Book-People, was published in 1993. Last year, Tokarczuk became the first Polish writer to win Britain’s Man Booker Prize for International Literature for her novel Flights. Her novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, was on the short list of nominees for the 2019 prize as well. That prize went to another writer. Tokarczuk spoke Thursday with readers hours after she won the Nobel. “I can only write.” She said.
The Swedish Academy said it named Peter Handke winner of the 2018 prize for “influential work that with linguistic gift has explored the boundary and the specificity of human experience.” Handke’s first novel was published in 1966. He also writes plays and is a political organizer. The Austrian writer was an opponent(反对者) of NATO’s air attacks against Serbia in the Kosovo war of thelate1990s.He was a supporter of the Serbian government under the leadership of Slobodan Milosevic. He has denied that
Bosnian Serb troops carried out a campaign killing of 8, 000 locals in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. As a result, some critics are angry that he was given the Nobel Prize.
At home in Paris Thursday, Handke called the decision to give him the literature award “courageous.” He said the recognition gave him “a strange kind of freedom.” 4．Which of Tokarczuk’s works won Britain’s Man Booker Prize? A．Cities in Mirrors. B．Flights. C．The Journey of the Book-People D．Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. 5．What does the underlined word “nominees” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A．A candidate to be selected to an office. B．A candidate seeking a kind of position. C．A candidate chosen by a political party. D．A candidate being considered for an honor. 6．How does Peter Handke find the Nobel committee? A．Fearless. B．Awesome. C．Strange. D．Embarrassed. 7．What’s the best title of the text?
A．Peter Handke from Austria Win 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. B．Olga Tokarczuk from Poland Win 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
C．Writers from Austria and Poland Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. D．Writers from Poland and Austria Win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
C
Pangolins (穿山甲) are the most trafficked (非法交易) mammals in the world and are facing
extinction. To draw attention to these scaly (有鳞片的), anteater-like animals, a new wildlife documentary, Eye of the Pangolin, is attempting a unique way to inspire action and conservation. Partnering with the non-profit organization Pangolin. Africa, the documentary was made available on YouTube in May 2019. The intention is to reach communities wherever the Internet is available, especially African communities, who live near the animal’s habitats.
Over two years, the documentary crew traveled to South Africa, Ghana, Central African Republic and Gabon in search of the four unique species of pangolin, which has never been achieved before. Filmmakers Bruce Young and Johan Vermeulen say that they went into the shoot knowing relatively little about
pangolins, but grew to respect and appreciate the animals. Getting close to the creatures over two years was a crash course in these secretive creatures. Johan Vermeulen said, %unimportant is that they are actually quite fussy eaters. You would think they would eat any type of ant, but they all prefer a specific type ant.\
Pangolins are hunted illegally across Africa for their scales, which are used for traditional medicine, and their meat. In April 2019, Singaporean customs officials conducted two separate seizures of 24 tons of pangolin scales, which equals to the death of 69,000 pangolins.
Though the documentary focuses less on the trafficking of pangolins, and more on the animals in their natural habitat, the aim of the documentary is to inspire viewers around the world to call for action to end trafficking and protecting these unique creatures.
Filmed on location in South Africa, Ghana, Central African Republic, and Gabon, this powerful
documentary is the story of two men on a mission to get all four species of African pangolin on camera for the very first time.
8．What is the purpose of the documentary? A．To study the situation of pangolins. B．To collect fund to protect pangolins.
C．To raise awareness of pangolin protection. D．To propose setting up pangolin reserves.
9．What is the meaning of the underlined word “fussy” in paragraph 2? A．Picky. B．Messy. C．Showy. D．Heavy. 10．What’s the documentary mainly about? A．The illegal trade of pangolins.
B．The medical function of pangolin's scales. C．The life of pangolins in their natural habitats. D．The efforts of Pangolin, Africa to save pangolins. 11．Where is the text most likely from? A．A brochure. B．A diary. C．A novel. D．A magazine.
D
You know the saying “You’re as young as you feel.\to researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist who studies how the mind influences the body, and colleagues reviewed the scientific literature for evidence that a person’s perception of their age might influence their
health. They published their results in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
In one study that Langer led, 47 women had their hair done. The women who thought their new hairdos made them look younger did look younger to objective observers, who were shown
before-and-after pictures. The women who thought they looked younger also showed a drop in blood pressure. Another study involving 4,421 men found that those who became bald at a relatively young age were more likely to get cancer and heart disease than men who did not. Similarly, another study involving 2,017 men found that those who lost their hair early were more likely to develop heart disease. “We believe that the feelings associated with being older than one’s real age account for some of these health outcomes,” the researchers wrote.
The researchers also described studies that found that women who had children later in life were more likely to be healthier and live longer than those who had children early, which they attributed to the fact that these mothers tend to spend more time with younger women. Similarly, people who marry younger partners tend to live longer than those who marry older partners, according to other studies.
Taken together, the research “supports the general mind-body hypothesis (假说) that when a younger mind is prepared, a younger body can accompany it.” While the mechanism(机制) remains unclear, the researchers figured that suggestions associated with aging can “make one unconsciously or consciously aware of old age and set in motion a series of physiological processes that can have real effects on short-term and long-term health.\
12．What’s the author’s attitude towards the research results? A．Negative. B．Indifferent. C．Supportive. D．Objective.
13．Which of the following statements is true according to paragraph 3? A．Blood pressure is highly related to hairdos.
B．Getting cancer or heart disease is the cause of hair losing. C．Feeling older than real age may be tied to health problems. D．The women who love hairdos look younger than those don’t. 14．It can be inferred from Paragraph 4 that ________.
A．often staying with younger people can benefit people's health B．the younger one of a couple lives much longer C．a younger mother is more likely to live longer D．people who want to live longer need to marry 15．The passage mainly tells us that ________. A．Getting bald too early is not good for health
B．People’s feeling of their age may have an effect on their own health C．Feeling younger to a couple is very important to their health D．Women had better give birth later in their life
第二节 (共5小题:每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Leonardo da Vinci and Nature
In the modern world, art and science are two very separate activities, but in Leonardo’s time they were closely connected. Science meant mathematics and medical studies. 16． Mathematics included practical work like surveying land for making maps as well as measuring the movements of the stars in the sky. An artist might need to measure the different parts of the body. He could also use mathematics to place things in relationship to each other in a drawing or painting so the scene looked correct. 17．
Mathematics was also connected to music because musical sounds have a fixed relationship with each other that can be described in numbers. 18． More than this, though, Leonardo believed that numbers were a part of all things in the world, including music, and he said that “without them nothing can be done.”
“Nature has kindly given us things everywhere to copy,” wrote Leonardo. In all his activities,
Leonardo was trying to discover the rules that control nature. In his search for those rules, he looked very carefully at a lot of examples and details. Actual experience was more important to him than opinion, and he worked from facts to ideas. 19． His purpose was to examine the world so he could copy it in beautiful paintings and sculptures. He also wanted to learn from the clever solutions of nature.
20． His quick little sketches (素描), often done while wandering outside, helped him to catch a movement or a shape. More careful drawings would be done at a desk with a pen and ruler. In July 2001, a small drawing by Leonardo was sold for $12 million. It was the most expensive drawing in the world. A．Leonardo was always drawing.
B．How could these be connected with art?
C．Leonardo’s ideas were vastly ahead of his time.
D．Mathematicians and doctors worked to discover the unknown. E.Above all, Leonardo wanted to understand how and why things worked.
F.You will see a good example of such positioning in the painting of The Last Supper. G.Leonardo himself was a very good musician and liked to play an instrument and sing.
第二部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题:每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，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。
Three years ago, I participated in Model United Nations (MUN) held by the Education Department, which was a mock (模拟的)UN activity. During the two days, students are separated in different groups which 21 different countries to debate and try to solve problems. MUN has 22 awards: best delegates (代表)，honorary mentions, and verbal mentions.
Each time I participate in MUN, I made good 23 and undoubtedly got a few awards. But I often felt as if I'd 24 because I had never won the best delegate award. I 25 those who didn't deserve to win the award but won it various times, and I was just filled with 26 at their success. I thought about why they shouldn't have won and why I should have. This 27 me to ask the director. 28 the director, he helped me patiently and 29 my weakness. Later I realized that it was also 30 not to get the award because I could actually 31 something, and that I shouldn't 32 the best delegate award until I was the best delegate I could be. It made me 33 that if I had won the best delegate award easily, I wouldn't have learned how to become a better delegate and I wouldn't have 34 my short- comings and turned failures into victories.
Failures are completely subjective-we can look at a result as a failure or a 35 Any failure can be regarded as a(n) 36 because you can always learn something from it and do 37 next time. This is supported by John Locke's theory that we are born with blank views ; knowledge and ability are learned from our 38 . That's true. If I make a mistake in the life practice, then I probably won't 39 that next time. I believe this is 40 the best way to become better. 21．A．strengthen B．condemn C．inspire D．represent 22．A．various B．temporary C．identical D．false 23．A．appointments B．preparations C．predictions D．explanations 24．A．accelerated B．exited C．failed D．succeeded
高考英语猜题模拟卷（八）
