2020届高三最新适应性考试英语试题（本试题卷共12页。
全卷满分150分。
考试用时120分钟。
）注意事项：1．答题前，考生务必在试题卷、答题卡规定的地方填写自己的准考证号、姓名。
考生要认真核对答题卡上粘贴的条形码的“准考证号、姓名”与考生本人准考证号、姓名是否一致。
2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用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。
回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。
3．考试结束，考生必须将试题卷和答题卡一并交回。
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 does the man say the woman should do with the rain?A. Wear a raincoat.B. Buy an umbrella.C. Use a large leaf.2. What could the girl borrow from the boy?A. An eraser.B. A pencil.C. Some paper.3. What probably happened to the car?A. Someone stole it.B. It was removed.C. The woman forgot its parking place.4. Where are the speakers?A. On the subway.B. In a taxi.C. On a bus.5. What’s the distance of the whole trip?A. 30 miles.B. 40 miles.C. 42 miles.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，并标在试卷的相应位置。
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. Why won’t the man buy a new keyboard?A. He already has too many.B. He doesn’t have enough money.C. He doesn’t want to throw the old one away.7. Which keyboard does the woman have?A. The Lenovo.B. The ASUS.C. The Samsung.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the conversation mainly about?A. Preparing a dinner party.B. Paying for a large meal.C. Cleaning the kitchen.9. What will the woman do first?A. Get the dishes.B. Bring the wine.C. Cover the table.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Friends.B. Strangers.C. Husband and wife.11. How did the woman feel about dancing at first?A. Comfortable.B. Uncertain.C. Excited.12. Why does the woman want to stop?A. She is tired.B. She is thirsty.C. She is embarrassed.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What subject is the woman interested in?A. History.B. Mystery.C. Science fiction.14. Why is the shop closing next week?A. The owner is retiring.B. The shop needs some repairs.C. Many new books will be arriving.15. What month is it now?A. August.B. January.C. October.16. How will the woman probably get her next books?A. She’ll check them out from the library.B. She’ll ask the man for them in advance.C. She’ll buy them at another bo okstore.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What part of the body will the class be drawing today?A. Hands.B. Feet.C. Faces.18. How many students are there in this class?A. 15.B. 30.C. 33.19. What’s the color of Joan’s eyes?A. Green.B. Blue.C. Yellow.20. How does the speaker feel about the students’ performance?A. Nervous.B. Embarrassed.C. Confident.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黑。
AHow It Feels to Floatby Helaia FoxIf you're looking for a moving story that explores themes of mental illness, grief (悲痛), and love, pick up a copy of How It Feels to Float and follow Biz as she comes of age. This moving novel will stay with you long after you finish reading it.Two Can Keep a Secretby Karen M. MeManusPut on your crime-solving cap and get swept away in this thriller about a girl, a boy, and a string of unsolved murders. As threats and clues pile up, you’ll be burning the midnight oil trying to finish the book before dawn.Forest of a Thousand Lanternsby Julie C. DaoThe first book in the Rise of the Empress series takes the bones of a traditional fairy tale — a poor girl fated for power, an evil queen determined to stop her, love for someone who doesn't love back and magic — andgives them a richly imagined East Asian setting.Duneby Frank HerbertIf the Star Wars movies have made you fall in love with the space opera, eventually you're going to read Frank Herbert's most famous creation. The story of centuries-old political plotting — about warring factions(派系) battling over control of the extremely valuable planet Arrakis — is a classic and remains a wonderful introduction to the larger, more complex world of science fiction just beyond the Star Wars trilogies.21. What is How It Feels to Float mainly about?A. The murder of a teenage girl.B. A girl's space adventures.C. Challenges of growing up.D. A poor girl with special powers.22. What kind of book is Two Can Keep a Secret?A. A fairy tale.B. A science-fiction story.C. A love story.D. A detective story.23.Which book is about battling for control of another planet?A. How It Feels to FloatB. Two Can Keep a SecretC. Forest of a thousand LanternsD. DuneBAs a kid, Joan na Buckley wasn’t interested in science — until she had a chance to try it. That happened when she got a chemistry set for Christmas.“Over the course of a few weeks, I’d completed every experiment. But in the process, I polluted my parent’s dining room ca rpet and burnt the kitchen worktop with the spirit burner,” she says.Now science is Buckley’s job. She works in the chemistry department at the University of Sheffield in England. “I realize, first-hand, how important it is to have something or someone to show you why science is so great,” she says. Now the good news is that citizen science appears.Citizen science takes the fun of experimenting a step further than Buckley’s at-home chemistry kit. That’s because these experiments are real, looking for novel answers.“Compared with a one-off experiment, what’s cool about citizen science is that students get that this has a purpose,” says Prunuske，who teaches microbiology and immunology at a medical college . “Students want to do a good job, because t hey know scientists are going to use the new data in their own research.”Jennifer Long’s job is to coordinate(协调) education and outreach. She agrees with Prunuske. “Kids like that it’s real. And they like that it’s important, that it matters.” Citizen-science projects have made big discoveries. One found a previously unknown galaxy cluster （星系团）. Another project helped assess how much damage a big earthquake had caused in Japan. And one of the first citizen-science projects helped scientists learn where Monarch butterflies go every winter.Some adults worry about teens losing interest in science. That’s one reason they hope that fun, exciting citizen-science projects can help them keep engaged, Long says. And she has some evidence that it’s working, “Last year, we did have a couple of students say, ‘I really think I want to be a scientist now. ”24. What is the purpose of paragraph 2?A. To support trials can make teens interested in science.B. To prove failure is the mother of success in science.C. To state Buckley has a talent for science.D. To praise Buckley for her strong will.25. Why is citizen science more fun?A. It needs to seek for new solutions.B. It carries out experiments frequently.C. It must carry out experiments in groups.D. It demands to handle complex problems.26. What can we know from what Prunuske said?A. She participated in the experiment.B. She took pride in what students took up.C. Citizen science is popular with students.D. Scientists are willing to employ students.27. What is Long’s attitude towards citizen science?A. Concerned.B. Supportive.C. Doubtful.D. Unclear.CYour circle of friends may help you get a better reading on your overall health and wellness rather than just using wearable devices such as a Fitbit, according to researchers.The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, analyzed what the structure of social networks says about the state of health, happiness and stress."We were interested in the topololgy (拓扑学) of the social network — what does my position within my social network predict about my health and well-being said Nitesh V. Chawla, a professor at the University of Notre Dame in the US.“What we found was the social network structure provides a significant improvement in predictability of wellness states of an individual over just using the data obtained from wearables, like the number of steps or heartrate,” Ch awla said.For the study, participants wore a Fitbit to capture health behavior data about walking, sleeping, heart rate and overall activity level. They also completed surveys andself-assessments of their stress, happiness andpositivity.Cbawla and his team then analyzed the data with a machine learning model, alongside the connections and characteristics of an individual's social network.The study showed a strong correlation (相关性) between social network structures, heart rate, number of steps and level of activity.Social network structure provided significant improvement in predicting one's health and well-being compared to just looking at health behavior data from the Fitbit alone.For example, when social network structure is combined with the data from wearables, the machine learning model achieved a 65 percent improvement in predicting happiness.The model also achieved a 54 percent improvement in predicting one's self-assessed health prediction, a 55 percent improvement in predicting positive attitude and a 38 percent improvement in predicting success.This study asserts (断言) that without social network information, we only have an incomplete view of an individual's wellness state, and to be fully predictive or to be able to obtain interventions (干扰). It is critical to be aware of the social network, Chawla said.28. What did the study find?A. How people choose their friend circles.B. What factors decide your friend circles.C. How your circle of friends influences youD. What your circle of friends says about your health.29. How did the researchers draw their conclusions?A. By comparing data.B. By giving examples.C. By analyzing cause and effectD. By describing personal experiences.30. What does the underlined word “critical” mean in the last paragraph?A. Easy.B. Common.C. Important.D. Challenging.31. What do Chawla's words in the last paragraph tell us?A How fitness devices can connect your circle of friendsB. That a person's social network is part of his health picture.C. The best ways to make friends and keep a healthy social circleD. That wearable devices are not useful for understanding someone's health.DWhile many of us may have been away somewhere nice last summer, few would say that we’ve “summered.” “Summer” is clearly a noun, more precisely, a verbed noun.Way back in our childhood, we all learned the difference between a noun and a verb. With such a tidy definition, it was easy to spot the difference. Not so in adulthood, where we are expected to “foot” bills, “chair” committees, and “dialogue” with political opponents. Chances are you didn’t feel uncomfortable about the sight of those verbed nouns.“The verbing of nouns is as old as the English language,” says Patricia O’Conner, a former editor at The New York Times Book Review. Experts estimate that 20 percent of all English verbs were originally nouns. And the phenomenon seems to be snowballing. Since 1900, about 40 percent of all new verbs have come from nouns.Even though conversion (转化) is quite universal, plenty of grammarians object to the practice. William Strunk Jr. and E.B.White, in The Elements of Style — the Bible for the use of American English —have this to say: “Many nouns lately have been pressed into service as verbs. Not all are bad, but all are suspect.” The Chicago Manual of Style takes a similar standpoint, advising writers to use verbs with great care.“Sometimes people object to a new verb because they resist what is unfamiliar to them,” says O’Conner. That’s why we’re comfortable “hosting” a party, but we might feel upset by the thought of “medaling” in sports. So are there any rules for verbing? Benjamin Dreyer, copy chief at R andom House, doesn’t offer a rule, but suggests that people think twice about “verbifying” a noun if it’s easily replaceable by an already existing popular verb. Make sure it’s descriptive but not silly-sounding, he says.In the end, however, style is subjective. Easy conversion of nouns to verbs has been partof English grammar for centuries; it is one of the processes that make English “English.” Not every coinage (新创的词语) passes into general use, but as for trying to end verbing altogether, forget it.32. What can we learn about the verbing of nouns?A. It hasn’t recently been opposed by many grammarians.B. It is more commonly accepted by children than adults.C. It hasn’t been a rare phenomenon in the past century.D. It is easily replaced by existing verbs in practice33. What is most leading experts’ attitude towards the practice of the verbing of nouns?A. Cautious.B. Satisfied.C. Disappointed.D. Unconcerned.34.What does the author think of ending the verbing of nouns?A. Predictable.B. Practicable.C. Approaching.D. Impossible.35. What is the best title for the text?A. Are 40 Percent of all new verbs from nouns？B. Are Summering and Medaling Annoying?C. Are You Comfortable about a New Verb?D. Are There Any Rules for Verbing?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。