2019~2020学年度高三年级下学期第二次模拟考试英语试卷时间：120分钟分值：150满分命题人：高三英语研课组审核人：陈合舜注意事项：1. 答卷前，考试务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2. 回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，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，再选涂其他答案标号。

3. 在答题卡上与题号相对应的答题区域内答题，写在试卷、草稿纸上或答题卡非题号对应的答题区域的答案一律无效。

第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节听下面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。

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 is the boy going to do?A. Post a letter.B. Go shopping.C. Meet some friends.2. Where are the speakers probably?A. In an office.B. In a hospital.C. At the man's home.3. What does the girl think of her exam?A. It was tough.B. It was interesting.C. It was successful.4. Why does the man refer to Tom Barlow?A. To give back a book.B. To appreciate the name.C. To ask for sick leave.5. What probably made the woman react this way?A. That the man opened the door at once.B. That the man matched the key's teeth quickly.C. That the man broke the key inside the lock.第二节听下面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. What are the speakers mainly doing?A. Getting food.B. Taking pictures.C. Visiting a zoo.7. Where are the monkeys according to the man?A. On the other side of the food court.B. Next to the Insect Garden.C. In the Reptile Caves.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the man do?A. He's a bank clerk.B. He's a salesperson.C. He's a front desk clerk.9. How much should the woman pay per night?A. $305.B. $360.C. $400.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why does Amy call Tony?A. To ask for help.B. To express thanks.C. To make an apology.11. What is the problem with Amy's car?A. It has small space.B. It doesn't appeal to her.C. It uses too much petrol.12. What is Tony going to do this evening?A. Have dinner with Amy.B. Take Amy to see a car.C. Clean his car.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why is the boy unwilling to join the army?A. He would rather accompany his grandpa.B. He wants to become an actor.C. He would get in trouble.14. How old is the boy?A. 15 years old.B. 16 years old.C. 18 years old.15. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Mother and son.B. Brother and sister.C. Grandmother and grandson.16. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The army experience.B. A romantic story.C. The family tradition.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When did Mister Rogers Neighborhood stop?A. In 1969.B. In1978.C. In 200l.18. What did Fred Rogers want to create most of all?A. The shows to teach people something.B. The shows to make money for others.C. The interview shows for famous people.19. What do we know about Fred Rogers?A. He thought parents should learn from children.B. He hosted an interview show lasting for a year.C. His show only taught children about complex issues in society.20. Which of these books sounds like one Fred Rogers would write?A. Making Friends.B. Looking for a Job.C. Driving a Car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）A“Changing the world” might seem like an unrealistic goal. When faced with huge problems such as air pollution or energy shortages, where do you start? Taoyuan-based Gogoro believes you start with a scooter（踏板车）.Proof of conceptIn 2015, Gogoro broke onto the scene by releasing an electric scooter called the Smart-scooter. Unlike most electric scooters. This one wouldn't need to plugged in to recharge. Instead, users would stop by GoStations to exchange drained batteries for fully charged ones.Gogoro was taking a risk. If people were not happy with the system of changing batteries, the whole project could fail. They didn't need to worry, though. Only one year later Gogoro sold their 10,000th Smart-scooter!Setting the barFast forward to 2019 and the release of the Series 3 Smart-scooter. Gogoro scooters are as popular and revolutionary as ever. Their bright colors are chosen by Beatrice Santiccioli, a famous color designer who helped shape major brands like Apple, Nike and Swatch. In addition to the scooters' bright colors, plenty of cool accessories（配件）are available so you can make your scooter your own. But most important of all, Gogoro continues to pave the way toward a future of responsible energy consumption.21. Compared with other electric scooters, the Smart-scooter___________.（）A. can recharge itself in Gostations in mega-citiesB. only needs to change batteries in GostationsC. wouldn't need to be recharged at all in lifeD. can be recharged by its users in Gostations22. Gogoro scooters are popular and revolutionary mainly because__________. （）A. their colors are chosen by a famous color designerB. their colors are different from those of othersC. it is a good way for people to consume energyD. it can help us solve the problem of energy short23. What can we conclude from the passage? （）A. More GoStations may appear in more and more cities.B. GoStations will soon entirely take the place of traditional stations.C. People need not go to GoStations especially during peak hours.D. More big cities will appear throughout the world in the future.BA butterfly's wings can have many jobs besides keeping the insect high up in the air. They may be used to attract mates, or to warn potential attackers to stay away. All of these roles, though, depend on their unchanging colouration. This plays into the idea that butterfly wings are dead tissue, like a bird's feathers. In fact, that's not true. For example, in some species males' wings have special cells releasing some chemicals which attract females.Nanfang Yu. a physicist at Columbia University, in New York, has been looking into the matter. Together with Naomi Pierce, a butterfly specialist at Harvard University, he has now shown, in a paper published in Nature Communications in February, 2020, that butterfly wings are, indeed, very much alive.In their experiments. the two researchers used a laser（激光）to heat up spots on the wings of dozens of butterfly species. When the temperature of the area under the laser reached 40℃or so, the insects responded within seconds by doing things that stopped their wings heating up further. These actions included a butterfly turning around to minimize its outline to the laser, moving its wings up and down or simply walking away.Butterflies engaged in all of these heat-minimising activities even when the researchers blinded them. That suggested the relevant sensors were on the wings themselves. Dr Yu and Dr Pierce therefore searched those wings for likely looking sensory cells. They found some, in the form of neurons（神经元）that were similar to heat detectors known from other insects. They also uncovered disc-shaped calls that appeared to be similar to pressure-sensitive neurons. They guess that these are there to detect deformation of the wing---information an insect could use to control its flight pattern.The third discovery they made to contradict the “dead wing" idea was that some butterfly wings have a heartbeat. A butterfly's wings have veins（静脉）. These carry a bloodlike liquid which, researchers have now found in males, shows a pulse（脉搏）of several dozen beats per minute. The source of this pulse appears to be the scent （气味）pad, a dark spot on the wings that produces the female-attracting chemicals. Apparently, this "wing heart" acts as a pump that helps bloodlike liquid through the scent pad.In all their experiments simulating different environmental conditions, Dr Yu and Dr Pierce consistently found that, different parts of the wing are covered by different sorts of scales（鳞屑）. In particular, tubes pass through scales over the scent pads. This improves their ability to spread heat away and helps keep the living parts of a butterfly's wings alive.24. A bird's feathers are mentioned in Paragraph I to__________. （）A. introduce the latest research findings on a birdB. highlight the special feature of a bird's feathersC. show common knowledge about butterfly wingsD. stress the difference between a butterfly and a bird25. What can we learn from Dr Yu and Dr Pierce's experiments? （）A. Butterfly wings are complicated living organs.B. Butterfly wings have little reaction to external heat.C. The scent pads on some male butterfly wings are their hearts.D. Heat-minimising activities help detect deformation of the wings.26. What is the function of scales over the scent pads? （）A. Attracting mates.B. Increasing blood flow.C. Covering powerful tubes.D. Producing the cooling effect.27. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? （）A. Seeing Is BelievingB. More Than Meets The EyeC. Nothing Seek, Nothing FindD. Fine Feathers Make Fine BirdsCAs we grow old, we realize that we have so little time to read and there are so many great books that we've yet to get around to. Yet re-readers are everywhere around us. For certain fans, re-reading The Lord of the Rings is a conventional practice annually. One friend told me that Jane Austen's Emma can still surprise him, despite his having read it over 50 times.New sudden clear understandings can be gained from the process of re-reading. Journalist Rebecca Mead, a long-time English woman in New York, first came across George Eliot's Middlemarch at 17. Since then, she has read it again every five years. With each re-reading, it has opened up further; in each chapter of her life, it has resonated（引起共鸣）differently. Mead evidenced the large number of ways in which really good books not only stand the test of repeat reads, but also offer fresh gifts each time we crack their spines. These kinds of books grow with us.Scientists have also recognized the mental health benefits of re-reading. Research conducted with readers in the US found that on our first reading, we are concerned with the "what" and the “why”. Second time round, we're able to better appreciate the emotions that the plot continues to express. As researcher Cristel Russell of the American University explained. returning to a book “brings new or renewed appreciation of both the great book and its readers."It's true that we often find former selves on the pages of old books（if we're fond of making notes on the pages）. These texts can carry us back to a time and place, and remind us of the kind of person that we were then. We're changed not only by lived experience but also by read experience—by the books that we've discovered since last reading the one in our hand.More so than the movie director or the musician, the writer calls upon our imaginations, using words to lead us to picture this declaration of love or that unfaithfulness in life. A book is a joim project between writers and readers,and we must pour so much of ourselves into reading that our own life story can become connected with the story in the book.Perhaps what's really strange is that we don't re-read more often. After all, we watch our favourite films again and we wouldn't think of listening to an album only once. We treasure messy old paintings as objects, yet of all art forms, literature alone is a largely one-time delight. A book, of course, takes up more time, but as Mead confirms, the rewards make it adequately worthwhile.28. The two books are mentioned in Paragraph 1 mainly to__________.（）A. attract the attention of readersB. introduce the topic of the passageC. provide some background informationD. show the similarity between re-readers29. The underlined expression "crack their spines" in Paragraph 2 refers to ____________.（）A. recite themB. re-read themC. recall themD. retell them30. It can be learned from paragraphs 3 and 4 that______________.（）A. reading benefits people both mentally and physicallyB. readers mainly focus on feelings on their first readingC. we know ourselves better through re-reading experienceD. we will change writers by reading the books31. The writing purpose of the passage is to______________. （）A. call on different understandings of re-reading old booksB. argue against the mental health benefits of re-readingC. bring awareness to the significance of re-readingD. introduce the effective ways of re-reading old booksDThe great recession（衰退）may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. And eventually, it is likely to reshape our politics, our culture, and the character of our society for years.No one tries harder than the jobless to find silver linings in this national economic disaster. Many said that unemployment, while extremely painful, had improved them in some ways: they had become less materialistic andmore financially prudent（节俭的）; they were more aware of the struggles of others. In limited respects, perhaps the recession will leave society beer off. At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless（鲁莽的）personal spending.But for the most part, these benefits seem thin, uncertain, and far off. In The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, the economic historian Benjamin Friedman argues that both inside and outside the U. S, lengthy periods of economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more mean-spirited and less inclusive, and have usually stopped or reversed（颠倒）the advance of rights and freedoms. Anti-immigrant sentiment typically increases, as does conflict between races and classes.Income inequality usually falls during a recession, but it has not shrunk in this one. Indeed, this period of economic weakness may reinforce class divides, and decrease opportunities to cross them—especially for young people. The research of Till Von Wachter, the economic at Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite（精英）universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise would have been if they had graduated in better times; it is the masses beneath them that are left behind.In the Internet age, it is particularly easy to see the resentment that has always been hidden within American society. More difficult, in the moment, is recognizing precisely how these lean times are affecting society's character. In many respects, the U. S. was more socially tolerant entering this recession than at any time in its history, and a variety of national polls on social conflict since then have shown mixed results. We will have to wait and see exactly how these hard times will reshape our social orgnization. But they certainly will reshape it, and all the more so the longer they extend.32. By saying "to find silver linings" (Para. 2) the author suggests that the jobless try to__________. （）A. seek help from the governmentB. explore reasons for the unemploymentC. make profits from the troubled economyD. look on the bright side of the recession33. Benjamin Friedman believes that economic recessions may___________. （）A. place a heavy burden on immigrantsB. bring out more evils of human natureC. promote the advance of rights and freedomsD. ease conflicts between races and classes34. The research of Till Von Wachter suggests that in the recession graduates from elite universities tendto_____________. （）A. fail to keep pace with the others due to decreased opportunitiesB. catch up quickly with experienced employeesC. see their life chances as dimmed as the othersD. recover more quickly than the others35. The author thinks that the influence of hard times on society is___________（）A. certainB. positiveC. unimportantD. destructive第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。