2020年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试
英语·模拟预测卷(三)
本试卷7页，满分120分。考试用时120分钟 注意事项：
1.答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的校名、姓名、考号、座位号等 相关信息填写在答题卡指定区域内。
2.选择题每小题选出答案后，请用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案；不能答在试卷上。 .
3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域 内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅 笔和涂改液，不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4. 考生必须保证答题卡的整洁。
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
Going to college was not optional. In my family, it was just another step toward the American dream. As soon as I graduated, I enrolled (入学)in the English Department of Colorado State University. I went on to earn two scholarships, and membership in the National Honor Society. I truly believed the hard work was worth it.
It wasn't until a few months ago that I realized how clueless I was. I had been combing through the classifieds when my eyes fell upon my dream job: “National College Magazine looking for writers ”.
Thrilled, I spent the weekend composing a resume . Needless to say, I was stunned when the interviewer barely took one glance before throwing it aside.
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I felt like screaming, \
I was left to absorb the shock of rejection, thinking that nobody ever told me that a 4. 0 student would be turned down for a job.
Didn't all of my hard work count for anything?
I see plenty of demands for two years of experience at a print publication, but none requiring extensive knowledge of how to write academic papers. Yet 95% of my energy in school went toward the latter, leaving me little time to devote to anything else. If career preparation is supposed to be the point of college, then why isn't it the focus?
Has a college degree just become another societal status symbol like fancy cars or designer clothes?
Given my experience, I feel that a college degree would be a lot more valuable if students were required to get some outside experience to supplement their in — class knowledge. Instead of requiring four science classes, why not three science classes and an internship? In my college career, I took one class that taught me how to write and submit essays for publication. This ever — so — brief taste of the real world was like holding an ice cream sundae in front of a child and only giving her a small bite. 1．Why did the author study so hard at college? A．To maintain a family tradition. B．To land an ideal job. C．To fulfill parents' expectations. D．To win scholarships for the tution 2．What accounted for the author's failure in job hunting? A．His dull resume. B．His misjudgment in high scores.
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C．His lack of experience. D．His poor performance in the interview. 3．What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph imply? A．Academic writing is a small part of college life.
B．College education always covers unimportant things.
C．Competition in college is not as fierce as that in the real world. D．The author feels held back by his lack of real — world experience. 4．What does the author want to tell us by writing this article? A．Get a college degree and you will go far.
B．College students should make the best of their time. C．Career preparation is a necessity for college education. D．Landing a successful career is better than a college degree.
B
Although it has been indicated in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and smelling, they are still usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, Itzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made ultrasonic(超声的)sounds at frequencies humans can't hear when stressed by a lack of water or when their stem is cut.
Microphones placed 10 centimeters from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz. Human hearing usually ranges from 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz. \about the plant kingdom , \
On average, drought - stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tobacco plants made 11. When plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour, and tobacco plants 15. Unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour. It is even possible to distinguish between the sounds to know what the stress is. The researchers trained a machine — learning model to separate the plants，sounds from those of the wind, rain and other noises of the greenhouse, correctly identifying in most cases whether the stress was caused by dryness or a cut, based on the sound's intensity and frequency. Water — hungry tobacco appeared to make louder sounds than cut tobacco, for example. Although Khait and his colleagues only looked at tomato and tobacco plants, they believe other plants may make sounds when stressed.
Enabling farmers to listen for water — stressed plants could \
precision(精准) agriculture\as climate change exposes more areas to drought.
Khait's study also suggests that insects and some mammals can hear and respond to from as far as 5 metres away. A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water - stressed. Edward Farmer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland thinks the idea that moths might be listening to plants is “a little too
speculative”. After all, there are already plenty of explanations for why insects avoid some plants and not others. 5．What were tomato and tobacco plants' reactions to different stresses? A．They reacted to different types of stress with the same sound.
B．Cut tomato plants produced more sounds per hour than water — hungry ones . C．Cut tobacco plants seemed to make lower sounds than drought - stressed ones. D．Tobacco plants might make louder sounds than tomato plants when short of water.
6．What's the main idea of Paragraph 4?
A．The potential applications of the research. B．Challenges facing farmers in the future. C．Farmers' contributions to the research. D．The future development of agriculture.
7．What does the underlined word \
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A．Practical. C．Unsupported.
8．What may be the best tide for the text? A．Silent scream C．Inner voices
B．Surprising. D．Complicated.
B．Mysteries of nature
D．A yet - to-be - published study
C
The following picture books are a wonderful way to improve the summer experience with kids. ? Vampirina at the Beach by Anne Marie Pace
Vampirina and her best monster friend head to the beach during the full moon on a perfect summer night to enjoy all the fun and festivities the beach has to offer. Along the way, Vampirina’s beach adventures highlight the importance of beach safety to ensure a heroic adventure for all.
Available from Amazon, $11.50 ? Summer by Alice Low
Summer brings so many things to a spirited boy, an eager girl, and an excited little dog. The season is filled with adventure. With clever rhyming words, clever phrasing, and playful images, children will love following along as this energetic trio (三重唱) takes in all the sunshine, big beach waves, fireworks, and sweet treats of this truly memorable time of year.
Available from Amazon, $6.23
? Waiting for Pumpsie by Barry Wittenstein
Summer is the season of baseball, and there’s no better way to celebrate summer than with the true story of Pumpsie Green’s rise from the minors to the Boston Red Sox in 1959. As the final major league team to include black athletes, young Bernard and his family travel to Fenway Park to witness Pumpsie Green take the field in this inspirational tale of equality and progress.
Available from Amazon, $9.61
? The Night Before Summer Camp by Natasha Wing
Sure, camp sounds fun, but when you don’t quite know what to expect, it’s only natural to feel a little nervous away from Mom and Dad. With rhyming prose (散文) and cheerful illustrations (插图), this cheering story of an unwilling boy who comes to enjoy all the fun summer camp will have children ready to take on their own camp adventure!
Available from Amazon, $3.52
9．What benefit can children get from Vampirina at the Beach? A．Enjoying the excitement of sports. B．Making friends with pets more easily. C．Strengthening the sense of shore safety. D．Gaining the courage to enjoy summer camp.
10．Which of the following book is related to human rights? A．Summer. B．Waiting for Pumpsie. C．Vampirina at the Beach. D．The Night Before Summer Camp. 11．What do the four books have in common?
A．They tell what happens in the hot season. B．They introduce camp adventures. C．They describe sweet music. D．They have the same price.
D
Smile! It makes everyone in the room feel better because they, consciously or unconsciously, are smiling with you. Growing evidence shows that an instinct for facial mimicry(模仿) allows us to empathize with and even experience other people’s feelings. If we can’t mirror another person’s face, it limits our ability to read and
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2020年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语·模拟预测卷(三 )(全国1卷)
