【名校试题】临川一中2020届高三模拟考试英语试卷
临川一中2020 届高三模拟考试
英语试卷
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。
1.What did the woman do last weekend?
A.She went to see a doctor.
B.She visited her grandparents.
C.She looked after her brother.
2.Who is the woman most probably speaking to?
A. Her boss.
B. Her husband.
C. Her son’ s doctor.
3.What language does the man want to study?
A. German.
B. French.
C. Spanish.
4.How does the man react to the woman’s suggestion?
A. Pleased.
B. Surprised.
C. Uninterested.
5.What are the two speakers talking about?
A.The woman’ s new roommate.
B.The woman’ s apartment.
C.The woman’ s character.
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。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.When will the man go to the cinema?
A. On Friday.
B. On Saturday.
C. On Sunday.
7.How much change will the man get?
A. $2.
B. $9.
C. $11.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8.What happened to the man two months ago?
A.He was likely to be out of work.
B.He was determined to resign as manager.
C.He was required to start a new department.
9.What will the man do this weekend?
A. Visit the new manager.
B. Prepare a big dinner.
C. Take a short trip.
10.What’s the man’ s attitude towards the new manager?
A. Grateful.
B. Worried.
C. Indifferent.
听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。
11. What is the man’s doctor doing now?
A. Taking a holiday.
B. Visiting his family.
C. Going on a business trip.
12.What will the man do this afternoon?
A. Go to a drugstore.
B. Visit a friend.
C. See a doctor.
13.How will the man get to his destination?
A. By bus.
B. By car.
C. By subway.
听第9段材料,回答第14至17题。
14.What has the man done to the house recently?
A.Having it decorated again.
B.Making it bigger than before.
C.Changing the study into a bedroom.
15.Why does the man want to sell the house?
A.He wants to change to a bigger one.
B.He decides to move abroad.
C.He needs money badly.
16.What will the man discuss with his family?
A.The buyer for the house.
B.The time to sell the house.
C.The asking price of the house.
17.Where does the conversation take place?
A. In the man’s house.
B. At a tourist attraction.
C. In a house agent’s office.
听第10段材料,回答第18至20题
18.What did the speaker like doing before the age of 20?
A. Playing ball sports.
B. Writing short stories.
C. Running long distances.
19.What helped the speaker most in improving his writing ability?
A.Easy access to the Internet.
B.Lessons from published writers.
C.Guidance from marketing experts.
20.Where is most probably the speaker?
A. At a radio studio.
B. In a lecture hall.
C. At home.
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，从每题给出的四个选项（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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Do you like watching movies? The following movies are coming on soon. Please check and find the one you like. Click the name of each movie to get more information.
Brahms: The Boy II
Horror | Mystery |Thriller
Soon after a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their only son makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
Director: William Brent Bell
Stars: Katie Holmes, Ralph Ineson, Owain Yeoman, Christopher Convery
Little Joe
Drama | Sci-Fi
Alice, a single mother, is a devoted senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against the company policy, she takes one plant home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. The plant was created by genetic engineering and anyone touching it will become strange. Director: Jessica Hausner:
Stars: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Conor
The Aeronauts
Action | Adventure I Biography | Romance
Pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) and scientist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) find themselves in a hard fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon. Director: Tom Harper
Stars: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Phoebe Fox
Apparition
Horror | Adventure
A group of young people, guided by an APP that connects the living with the dead, find themselves at an abandoned castle, a place with a horrific history tied to each of them, for reasons they’ll soon discover.
Director: Waymon Boone
Stars: Mena Suvari, Kevin Pollak, Megan West, Jon Abrahams
21.What can we learn about Brahms: The Boy II?
A.William Brent Bell is in charge of it.
B.Brahms can live a life as a man does.
C.The audience may be amused by the movie.
D.The story was created by William Brent Bell.
22.Which movie will be favored by a science fiction lover?
A. Brahms; The Boy II.
B. The Aeronauts.
C. Apparition.
D. Little Joe.
23.What do Brahms: The Boy II and Apparition have in common?
A.They are liked by teenagers.
B.Their plots are both horrible.
C.They are played by young actors.
D.Their characters all behave strangely.
B
Something strange happened when I was 14 years old. Every previous year on Thanksgiving Day I’d woken up early, filled with excitement. But that Thanksgiving, for some reason I saw no reason to celebrate. None of my family were really thankful, I realized. The whole thing was a lie! During the dinner time, I left, hiding in the guest room and cried. My mom came to see what was wrong. “No one is really thankful!” I sobbed, “They just pretend for one day because that’s what they’re supposed to do!”
After I finished talking, she nodded. “Y ou’re right,” she told me. “It’s fake until you find the truth for yourself.”She said it was my choice whether to celebrate with them or not. She said Thanksgiving is a time to reflect because we don’t always get to see loved ones and eat a good meal. Then she left.
I didn’t listen to her, thinking that every holiday was a lie and I could never find joy celebrating again. But giving in to my starving stomach, I went back to the dining room in a few minutes. I couldn’t believe what I saw. My entire extended family was waiting for me with wide smiles and concerned looks, and the table was covered with untouched plates.
“And y,” my aunt said, “We can’t eat without you. W e’re waiting for your turn. Now you can start it.” I didn’t know what to say first. Finally, I said I was thankful for having a younger brother
to teach, play with, and see grow.
The family shared, and everyone had something beautiful to say. Listening to what they said, I suddenly understood what my mom meant about finding out my own reason for celebrating. For me, this holiday was a chance to pause and reflect on everything I cared about.
And with that, I took a huge and satisfying bite of food.
24.Why did the author hide himself and cry on the Thanksgiving Day?
A.Because he got up too late
B.Because some of his family were absent.
C.Because he thought the dinner was tasteless.
D.Because he doubted the sincerity of others’ thankfulness.
25.What can we know about the author’s mother according to the text?
A. She is very understanding.
B. She is strict with the author.
C. She disagreed with the author.
D. She showed great worry about the author.
26.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A. Having dinner.
B. Expressing thankfulness.
C. Giving a performance.
D. Making a wish.
27.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. My loving mother
B. Love and lies
C. An inspiring Thanksgiving
D. An unforgettable dinner
C
Recently according to a new research, humans have had a link to starches (含淀粉的食物) for up to 120,000 years — that’s more than 100,000 years longer than we’ve been able to plant them in the soil during the time of the ice Age’s drawing to an end. The research is part of an ongoing study into the history of Middle Stone Age communities.
An international team of scientists identified evidence of prehistoric starch consumption in the Klasies River Cave, in present-day South Africa. Analyzing small, ashy, undisturbed hearths(壁炉) inside the cave, the researchers found “pieces of burned starches” ranging from around 120,000 to 65,000 years old. It made them the oldest known examples of starches eaten by humans.
The findings do not come as a complete surprise — but rather as welcome confirmation of older theories that lacked the related evidence. The lead author Cynthia Larbey said that there had previously only been genetic biological evidence to suggest that humans had been eating starch for this long. This new evidence, however, takes us directly to the dinner table, and supports the previous assumption that humans’digestion genes gradually evolved in order to fit into an increased digestion of starch.
Co-author Sarah Wurz said, “The starch remains show that these early humans living in the Klasies River Cave could battle against their tough environment and find suitable foods and perhaps medicines. And as much as we all still desire the tubers (块茎), these cave communities were gilling starches such as potatoes on their foot-long hearths. They knew how to balance their diets as well as they could, with fats from local fish and other animals.”
As early as the 1990s, some researchers started to study the hearths in the Klasies River Cave. Scientist Hilary Deacon first suggested that these hearths contained burned plants. At the time, the proper methods of examining the remains were not yet available. We now know human beings have always been searching for their desired things.
28.When did humans begin to farm starches?
A. After the Ice Age.
B. After the Middle Stone Age.
C. About 20,000 years ago.
D. About 100,000 years ago.
29.What was the previous assumption of starches?
A. Starch diet promoted food culture.
B. Starch diet shaped humans’ evolution.
C. Starches had a variety of functions.
D. Starches offered humans rich nutrition.
30.What can we learn about the early humans described by Sarah Wurz?
A. They were smart and tough.
B. They preferred plants to meat.
C. They were generally very healthy.
D. They got along with each other.
31.What’s the best title for the text?
A. Great Civilization of South Africa
B. The Evolution of Foods in History
C. Starches--the Important Food of Today
D. Big Findings--the Starches in Ancient Times D
A book is so much more than mere ink and paper. So insist French booksellers, who for nearly four decades successfully persuade the government to keep the forces of the free market at bay. A law passed in 1981 bans the sale of any book at anything other than the price decided by its publisher. Authorities are cracking down on those trying to sell the latest Thomas Piketty or J.K Rowling at a discount.
The fixed-price rule is meant to keep customers loyal to their local bookshop and out of the control of supermarkets and corporations. But the arrival of e-commerce and e-readers has promoted questions worthy of their own tomes(大部头著作). Can you fix the price of a book if it is part of an all-you-can-read subscription service? Are audio-books books at all? And what of authors who self-publish?
Changes have been made to preserve the principle of “one book, one price”. In 2011, the rule began to apply to digital tomes. Free delivery by online sellers was prohibited because it implied a subsidy(补贴) on the delivered books (encouraging online sellers to charge only €0.01 for postage). But a new challenge to the policy is proving more difficult to deal with.
Used books are exempted from the pricing rule. Third-party sellers on Amazon are accused of using this as a way to apply forbidden discounts: selling brand-new books as “second hand” to make them cheaper. So fans can purchase a copy of the latest Michel Houellebecq novel Serotonine for 11.71 pounds on Amazon, roughly half of its original price. Its seller claims it is in “perfectly new”condition.
Amazon claims its practices are legal. But books sellers are upset, and their political allies with them. “This is a major concern,” said Franck Riester, the culture minister, at a bookseller’s conference this week. He says new laws may be needed.
Defenders of the fixed-price principle (which has spread to other parts of Europe) say it helps keep independent bookshops alive. Others are not so sure. Books are expensive in France — an odd way to encourage people to buy more.
32.What was the function of the law passed in 1981?
A.To stop publishers from publishing poor books.
B.To prevent the random price of books in the market.
C.To help book consumers benefit from the free market.
D.To encourage French booksellers to sell cheaper books.
33.What’s implied about the arrival of e-commerce and e-readers in Paragraph 2?
A.It greatly changed people’s reading habits.
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