内蒙古赤峰市2020届高三英语5月模拟考试试题注意事项：1.本试卷分笔试和听力两部分。

考生先作答笔试部分（21 小题开始）, 然后作答听力部分（1—20 小题）。

答卷前, 考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、座位号、涂写在答题卡上。

本试卷满分 150 分。

2.考生将笔试部分答案写在英语笔试答题卡上,听力部分答案写在英语听力答题卡上。

写在本试卷上无效。

3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

笔试部分一、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 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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These ornamental glass balls are suitable for any occasion as a gift, and can be displayed indoors or outdoors, on a desk or shelf.Click Buy Now! for More details2019 National Cherry Blossom Festival Lapel Pin$10.00PRODUCT ID: 1218138The 2019 Cherry Blossom Festival Lapel Pin showcases the beautiful budding of these magnificent trees and celebrates the 107th year since these trees were given to our country. The pin is presented on a card which reads: Celebrating 107 Years of the Gift of Trees.Click Buy Now! for More details21.If a customer is interested in gardening, which product ID will he choose?A．9813108 B. 2271405 C. 1218138 D. 981302022.What do we know about Cherry Blossom Glass Balls?A.Each glass ball is unique.B.They are presented on a car.C.They come in a set of four.D.They are simply designed.23.Where does the advertisement probably appear?A．In a newspaper.B．Over the radio.C．On thetelevision.D．On the Internet.BNicole Ihus’s son John Henry was born last month with a life-threatening disease. Nicole and her husband, who live in Kansas City, contacted doctors from Minnesota and Missouri in hopes of finding a doctor who could treat John Henry for the condition, but to no avail. Luckily, Nicole managed to get in contact with the “best doctor in the world for this condition” at Johns Hopkins All Children’s in St. Petersburg, Florida, so she traveled all the way to the Sunshine State to give her newborn son a fighting chance.After John Henry was into the ICU, Nicole felt alone in the new state, although she knew that she had to leave her son’s side in order to buy him some new clothes. Upon ordering an Uber ride to the nearby Rhea Lana children’s clothing store, she was picked up by a woman named Belinda.Shortly after Nicole got into Belinda’s car, the new mother couldn’t help talking abouther heartbreaking circumstances.“She told me her story,” Belinda said. “She was in tears a couple of times and I really felt for her.” Rather than simply dropping Nicole off at the store, however, Belinda parked the car and insisted on accompanying her passenger into the store so she could treat John Henry to new clothes. Needless to say, Nicole was filled with gratitude.Nicole said, “For this stranger to go completely out of her way —stop what she wasdoing and stop making money—to come be with me for a couple of hours while we shoppedtogether, that was just incredible.” As Nicole cares for her newborn son and raises money for his medical conditions, she hopes to introduce the Uber driver to her son as a thank you for her compassionate gesture.24.Why did the new mother have to travel to Florida?A.Her husband worked there.B.She wanted to have a baby there.C.Her sick son might get cured there.D.She wanted to find a cheap hospital there.25.What did Belinda do to comfort Nicole?A．Drop her off at the hospital.B．Accompany her while shopping.C．Make friends with her son.D．Buy new clothes for her.26.How did Nicole feel about what Belinda had done for her?A.Grateful and astonished.B.Shocked and disappointed.C.Worried and embarrassed.D.Puzzled and regretful.27.Which can be the best title for thetext?A．An unforgettableexperience.B．A heroic helper around you.C．A special shoppingexperience. D．An unexpectedkindness.CProfessor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligent teaching assistant to help handle the enormous number of student questions in the online class, Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence. Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn’t enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from students.Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teaching support. Whenstudents feel ignored or confused and reach out with questions that go unanswered, their motivation to continue begins to taper off. Professor Goel decided to do something to improve this situation and his solution was to create a virtual assistant named Jill Watson.Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson before releasing her to the online forums. At first, the virtual assistant wasn’t too great. But Goel and his team sourced the online discussion forum to find all the 40,000 questions that had ever been asked since the class was launched. Then they began to feed Jill with the questions and answers. After some adjustments and sufficient time, Jill was able to answer the students’ questions correctly 97% of the ti me. The virtual assistant became so advanced and realistic that the students didn’t know she was a computer. The students, who were studying artificial intelligence, were interacting with the virtual assistant and couldn’t tell it apart from a real human b eing. Goel didn’t inform them about Jill’s true identity until April 26. The students were actually very positive about the experience.The goal of Professor Goel’s virtual assistant next year is to take over answering 40% of all the questions posed by students on the online forum. Professor Goel has a much rosier outlook on the future of artificial intelligence.28.What problem did Professor Goel meet with?A.Students’ questions were too many to deal with.B.Teaching assistants were not professional at all.C.Many students were lack of interest in his class.D.He felt confused about how to teach online.29.Which of the following best explains the underlined phrase in Paragraph 2?A.grow dramaticallyB.increase sharplyC.decrease graduallyD.decline unreasonably30.What do we learn about Jill Watson?A.She could answer all questions without mistakes.B.She turned out to be a great success.C.Her performance was remarkable all the way.D.Her true identity was still a secret tostudents. 31．What’s the main idea of thetext?A.A robot gives an online course.B.Virtual assistant is getting popular in school.C.Robots will replace humans in online classes.D.One Georgia Tech’s teaching assistant isn’t human.DHumans really do have a sixth sense that lets us detect magnetic fields (磁场), but we’re not awa re we have it. It has long been known as ESP, Spider Sense, or the ability to see things before they happen. But now scientists have proved that humans really do have a sixth sense—that lets them detect magnetic fields. Tests have shown that mankind may ha ve the same inborn sense of Earth’s magnetic field that has long been proved to exist in animals.By putting a protein from the human retina ( 视网膜) into fruit flies, researchers noticed that the insect adjusted its flight path just as if its eye had not been changed. This suggests that the “sixth sense” does exist in humans but we might not be aware of it. Animals use such sight to navigate long distances during migration or, in the case of birds, to “see” where they are going. The complex tests involved examining the process by which light goes through a bird’s eye, which has interested the scientific community for more than 30 years. In the late 1970s, the physicist Klaus Schulten concluded that birds fly by relying on geomagnetically (地磁) sensitive biochemical reactions in their eyes.Tests have shown that the special cells in the eye carry out this function using the protein cryptochrome ( 蛋白隐色素). Professor Reppert’s team used wild fruit flies, replacing their version of cryptochrome with the human equivalent (等价物), and then put them in a maze (迷宫) with each wing wrapped in a metal coil (金属圈). They then sent electricity through it so that the coil was magnetised in a way which is just like Earth’s electromagnetic field (电磁场). The flies responded in exactly the same way as if they had their own cryptochrome, by either avoiding the magnetic fields or moving towards them if the researchers had placed sugar nearby.The new study was published in the journal Nature Communications.32.What do we know about humans’ sixth sense?A.Humans have been aware of it since ancient times.B.It is quite different from the animals’.C.It is the ability to predict what will happen.D.It is also a sense developed after birth.33.Why did researchers put a protein from the human retina into fruit flies?A.To change fruit flies’ flight path.B.To test if humans have a sixth sense.C.To examine the process of birds’ flying.D.To allow researchers detect magnetic fields.34.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A．the maze B．each wing C．cryptochrome D．the metal coil35.After being replaced the cryptochrome, how are the wildfruit flies? A．They responded normally as if there hadbeen nothing changed.B.They couldn’t avoid the magnetic fields like before.C.They lost the sense of direction completely.D.They couldn’t find the sugar the researchers had placed nearby.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。