2020年高考全国1卷英语模拟试卷满分120分。
考试用时120分钟第一部分阅读理解(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．A．have a night time journeyB．become a member of the zooC．stay in one of Chester and Cheshire’s hotelsD．join one of the daily animal talks in the zoo2．What is special about LANTERN MAGIC?A．Animals can be adopted.B．Visitors can get cheaper zoo tickets.C．Festive characters and lanterns can be seen.D．Visitors can do voluntary work for the zoo.3．You can get the information about the membership at ________.A． B．/hotelsC．/talks D．/christmasBPlants go into a state of complete “panic” when it rains, according to surprised scientists. This response is so unusual because plants obviously need water to live. The researchers think that the “panic” response is due to the fact that moisture creates the number one way for diseases to spread in vegetation.Biochemist Harvey Millar from the University of Western Australia explained: “When a raindrop splashes across a leaf, tiny droplets of water go in all directions. These droplets can contain bacteria, or viruses. A single droplet can spread these up to 10 meters to surrounding plants.” The longer a leaf is wet, the greater the chance that a disease can take hold.So this is why the researchers think plants react to rain like humans would react to someone sneezing on them. They conducted an experiment in which they mimicked rain with a spray bottle and noticed rapidmicroscopic reactions from the plants that are invisible to the human eye. After the first 10 minutes of artificial raining, over 700 genes in the plants were said to respond in a panic-like manner and most of them continued to do so for around 15 minutes. In this time chemical reactions like how the plant creates proteins and its hormone balance were affected.A single touch of water activated an immediate response from plants. The reactions created warning signals that travelled from leaf to leaf and resulted in the plant producing a range of protective measures. Plants that were repeatedly watered eventually suffered from stunted growth and delayed flowering.Interestingly, the plants were also found to be communicating their “fears” with nearby vegetation. They did this by producing airborne chemicals that can be picked up by other plants and inform them what’s going on and how they’re coping. Millar said: “If a plant’s neighbors have their defence systems turned on, they are less likely to spread disease, so i t’s in their best interest for plants to spread the warning to nearby plants.”4．Paragraph 2 mainly talks about ________.A．how droplets spread bacteria or virusesB．why plants get into a “panic” when it rainsC．how tiny drops of water go in all directionsD．that longer leaves can take hold of more diseases5．The underlined word “mimicked” is closest to ________ in meaning.A．poured B．fetchedC．contained D．imitated6．Why does the author mention the experiment in Paragraph 3?A．To question the ideas mentioned above.B．To introduce a new topic for discussion.C．To offer additional topic-related information.D．To compare it with previous experiments.7．Which of the following statements is TRUE?A．Plants respond to water slowly.B．Plants shut their defence systems when it rains.C．Plants only communicate within their own species.D．Plants may not grow well when watered too frequently.CPeople speak English in different parts of the world. The same words can be used in different ways, depending on where you live. People can also have completely different ways of saying the same thing.The Oxford English Dictionary(OED) is asking the public to help it add new words. Editors want to find the regional differences in English around the world. They want to expand its record of the language.Last year, the OED, BBC Radio and the Forward Arts Foundation teamed up to find local words in the United Kingdom. It resulted in more than 100 regional words and phrases being added to the dictionary. One was “cuddy wifter”, which m eans a left-handed person.Now, the OED is widening its search to English speakers around the world. Eleanor Maier, an editor at OED, said the response has been great. Editors are listing a bunch of suggestions to include in the dictionary.These include H awaii’s “hammajang”, which means “in a disorderly state”. Another is the word for a swimming costume, “dookers” or “duckers”. It is used in Scotland.The OED also might include the word “frog-drowner”, which Americans might use to describe a downpour of ra in. Another possibility is “brick”. It means “very cold” to people in New Jersey and New。