初2英语江苏省泰州市2020届高三第二次模拟考试(5月)英语试卷word版

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(

)21.

Foreign

students

and

their

families

can

sample

the

charm

of

traditional

Chinese

culture through ________ Peking Opera performance.

A. authentic

B. autonomous

C. artificial

D. ambiguous

(

)22. The punishment a criminal deserves should be in proportion to the ________ of the

offence.

A. gravity

B. division

C. analysis

D. composition

(

)23. If talks about a new deal ________

，

the football player will have to leave the club

with the end of his current contract.

A. break off

B. break out

C. break down

D. break through

(

)24. ________

，

Chinese cuisine is served in shared plates

，

but now individual portions

are recommended.

A. Gradually

B. Typically

C. Approximately

D. Occasionally

(

)25. After

experiments

on

CO VID-

19

，

medical

experts

conclude

that

the

chances

of

survival will be great, ________ the infected person tests positive twice.

A. as though

B. even if

C. in case

D. so that

(

)26.

His

new

invention

is

beyond

all

praise

and

has

quickly

occupied

the

market

________ its superior quality.

A. in terms of

B. by virtue of

C. on behalf of

D. on top of

(

)27. The spokesman noted ________ some individuals apparently lack is not the means

to get the correct information, but the courage and conscience to admit the truth.

A. which

B. that

C. whether

D. what

(

)28. As a scientist puts it, a virus is color blind, which does not ________ on the basis

of skin color, religion, or social status.

A. comprehend

B. interpret

C. correspond

D. discriminate

(

)29. ________ in the wonderful world of words, students will increase their vocabulary

and boost their reading competence.

A. Being involved

B. Involving

C. Having involved

D. Involved

(

)30. The Education Department of Zhejiang Province ________ a draft regulation on

cutting workload for pupils, which has aroused fierce discussions.

A. published

B. is publishing

C. had published

D. was publishing

(

)31. Morrison said not until national testing capacity had been increased ________ in

Australia.

A. the rules would be relaxed

B. would the rules be relaxed

C. that the rules would be relaxed

D. that would the rules be relaxed

(

)32. People often turn to , ________ they'll find valuable information

regarding

everything they'll be or are going through.

A. which

B. where

C. when

D. why

(

)33.

—

I'm fed up with the wet, cold weather here

！

I wish tomorrow a sunny day!

—

Exactly. Actually, it ________ every day in the past two weeks.

A. rained

B. was raining

C. has rained

D. has been raining

(

)34.

A

recent

survey

has

demonstrated

that

a

large

number

of

victims

during

the

COVID-

19 outbreak ________

，

if they had worn masks.

A. should have been saved

B. must have been saved

C. need have been saved

D. could have been saved

(

)35.

—

It's said that your family will move to another city, why?

—

________. The environment in this city is wonderful and relaxing.

A. That depends

B. That's for sure

C. It's not the case

D. It's hard to say

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Joe spent 16 years as a fireman and emergency medical technician. He has been honored for

his __36__ in risking his life on numerous occasions to save others. However, one emergency call

__37__ him to poisonous chemicals that later led to repeated strokes(

中风

). At only 38, the

man

who had grown __38__ to having the physical strength and mobility to save lives was now __39__

to tie his own shoes or button his own shirt. Worst of all

，

the strokes left him __40__

sei zures(

痉

挛

) that would strike __41__

．

Before

his

health

__42__

，

Joe

was

known

for

being

active

and

optimistic.

But

after

his

strokes,

he

spent

day

and

night

in

bed,

dangerously

__43__.

One

of

his

only

__44__

joys

was

Lucky,

his

12-

year-

old

Dalmatian,

but

Joe's

wife

Kim

__45__something

terrible

would

happen

to Joe when Lucky __46__. She didn't want to wait to find out, so she suggested a new dog should

be __47__ to the family.

Then entered Meatball. He was saved as a puppy from an Afghan war zone and brought to

the United States for __48__ by Puppy Rescue Mission. Joe and Kim went to the airport to meet

Meatball upon his arrival. The moment Meatball came out of his cage, he peed(

撒尿

) all over Joe

－

and Joe __49__ his first genuine laughter in months!

Two years later, one night, Kim was awakened by Meatball's __50__ barking. She went to

see

what

was

wrong

and

found

Joe

having

a

__51__

seizure.

Joe

was

__52__

to

the

hospital

—

Meatball had saved the day. And it wasn't the only time.

“

He's always there __53__

me, helping me, making sure I'm okay

，

”

says Joe.

“

Since I got sick, some of my friends have

fallen

by

the

wayside,

__54__this

beautiful

dog

always

stays

with

me.

That

means

I'm

worth

__55__ after all. Pets are the emotional, physical, and spiritual gift we didn't know we needed.

”

(

)36. A. fear

B. luck

C. bravery

D. hesitation

(

)37. A. reduced

B. shifted

C. exposed

D. attracted

(

)38. A. committed

B. accustomed

C. addicted

D. abandoned

(

)39. A. afraid

B. ashamed

C. unable

D. unwilling

(

)40. A. to

B. by

C. for

D. with

(

)41. A. painfully

B. separately

C. randomly

D. automatically

(

)42. A. recovered

B. improved

C. infected

D. declined

(

)43. A. depressed

B. puzzled

C. excited

D. embarrassed

(

)44. A. accessible

B. remaining

C. selective

D. meaningful

(

)45. A. anticipated

B. suspected

C. predicted

D. worried

(

)46. A. passed away

B. hung out

C. fell out

D. turned away

(

)47. A. contributed

B. offered

C. added

D. devoted

(

)48. A. profit

B. adoption

C. release

D. memory

(

)49. A. fell into

B. dived into

C. burst into

D. ran into

(

)50. A. confused

B. panicked

C. surprised

D. shocked

(

)51. A. violent

B. tough

C. common

D. slight

(

)52. A. loaded

B. rushed

C. transferred

D. admitted

(

)53. A. praying

B. guiding

C. tolerating

D. watching

(

)54. A. so

B. if

C. and

D. but

(

)55. A. something

B. anything

C. everything

D. nothing

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Today scientists are creating cool designs with smoother 's check out the science

behind four awesome robots.

TYPES

T-

HR3

imitates the way people move.

A human operator wears a

headset with cameras that show

what the robot “sees”. The

human can then control the

robot's actions with his or her

own human movements.

When a scientist programs in a

< br>SHAPE-

SHIFTING

shape, the motors change

secretly observe animals, the

could assist people in medical

facilities, burning buildings,

construction sites, and even

space. Its creators hope that

T-

HR3 will learn to do some

tasks itself one day... like, say,

your chores, maybe

？

In addition to helping scientists

HOW IT WORKS

The two-

legged walking robot

WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

With a human helper, T-

HR3

different parts of the surface to

make it look like whatever the

scientist wants! The

shape-

shifting robot can be

programmed to look like just

about anything small and enter

tiny space.

Rescuers have long used

SALTO

remote-

controlled robots to

search through rubble. But

shape-

shifting robot might one

day be used to create more

immersive virtual reality

experiences. Imagine being

able to touch objects in your

VR game and not just see

them

！

Salto's not just helpful in

emergencies. Its technology

what's special about Salto is its

might one day help fetch things

jumping ability, enabling it to

reach places humans can't.

Twisted rubber bands in its legs

make it bouncy enough to leap

to high spaces.

The four-

legged robot is

SPOTMINI

designed to help with house

have robots doing chores so

chores. With its extendable

that people have more free

arms, Spotmini can unload

time. Instead of earning your

dishes and put them in high

allowance by taking out the

shelves, grab debris(

碎片

) in

garbage, you might be doing

hard-

to-

reach places. It can

robot repairs instead.

even climb stairs.

Experts say future homes will

from hard-

to-

reach places in

your home, like that candy bar

you hid on the top shelf of the

cupboard.

(

)56. If you want to take a close picture of a poisonous snake, which robot is the most

suitable?

A. T-

HR3

B. SHAPE-

SHIFTING

C. SALTO

D. SPOTMINI

(

)57. What these robots have in common is that they ________

．

A. work by using a remote-

control

B. are designed to help with the housework

C. enable people to see whatever they

“

see

”

D. carry out tasks where humans are hard to reach

B

A

scientific

approach

to

reducing

poverty's

many

harmful

effects

via

field

experiments

in

schools and other real-

world settings has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both of MIT

，

and Michael Kremer of Harvard

University

will

receive

equal

shares

of

the

prize

of

9

million

Swedish

is

only

the

second woman ever to be awarded the economics Nobel.

“

Poverty has deep roots

，

and we use an

experimental

approach

to

examine

particular

aspects

of

this

problem

and

determine

what

interventions(

干预

) work

，

”

Duflo said.

More than 700 million people globally live in extreme poverty. Half of the world's children

leave

school

without

basic

language

or

math

skills.

Roughly

5

million

children

under

age

5

annually die from diseases that could have been prevented with inexpensive treatments.

The three winners design and test interventions aimed at specific ways to alleviate poverty's

effects

on

education,

health

care

and

other

studies

are

especially

important

because

policies intended to fight poverty can often cause opposite results.

In the mid-

1990s, Kremer led a team that tested a range of interventions aimed at improving

learning

among

students

attending

schools

in

western

Kenya.

Banerjee

and

Duflo,

often

with

Kremer

，

then

performed

similar

studies

in

other

important

line

of

research

developed

“

Teaching

at

the

Right

Level

”

programs,

which

enable

teachers

in

low-

income,

developing

nations

to

target

instruction

to

students'

learning

levels.

Teachers

in

these

programs

learn ways to keep students from falling behind rather than forcing them through a one-

size-

fits-

all

curriculum for each grade.

A 2011 study led by Duflo, for instance

，

found that grade 1 test scores in a Kenyan school

increased when teachers divided students into smaller classes based on their initial learning levels.

A string of studies in the same vein led by the 2019 winners took randomized controlled trials

and field experiments from ignored status to standard practice in developing nations.

These

studies

showed

that

the

virtually

unanswerable

question

“

How

can

we

fight

global

poverty

？

”

could be broken into smaller

，

testable questions such as

“

Why do children not attend

school

？

”

and

“

Why

do

small-

scale

farmers

not

use

technologies

such

as

modern

seeds

and

fertilizer(

肥料

) that are known to be profitable

？

”

(

)58. What does the underlined word “alleviate” in Paragraph 4 most probably mean

?

A. relieve

B. remove

C. control

D. transform

(

)59.

It

can

be

inferred

that

the

method

the

2019

winners

applied

to

education

________

．

A. is more suitable for high-

level students

B. is an intervention initially created by Duflo

C. will surely get rid of the deep roots of poverty

D. takes into consideration students' learning levels

(

)60. What can we learn from the experimenting approach the three economists adopt?

A. The authorities concerned should make policies based on scientific findings.

B. Field experimenting is the most scientific way to find whether interventions work.

C. Education should be paid more attention to due to its important part in fighting poverty.

D.

It may be helpful to narrow down the scale of a problem by focusing on specific aspects.

C

Climate change will bring and has already brought a wide variety of threatening destruction

to human existence. Some of these are well-

known and already operative, like the wildfires racing

along

California's

freeways

or

the

permanent

droughts

that

have

been

upsetting

Mediterranean

farmers. But are these all terrible disasters we can come up with that are brought about by climate

change?

Absolutely not. None of the challenges posed by our warming climate has appeared larger in

the

popular

imagination

than

sea-

level

rise,

as

global

populations

and

wealth

are

heavily

concentrated in low-

lying coastal best available models suggest that 37 million people

currently

live

in

places

that

will

be

below

high

tide

by

2050

—

in

an

optimistic

low -

carbon-

emissions scenario(< /p>

设想

)

．

Or rather

，

that's what such models suggested before this week. On Tuesday

，

a new study

revealed that those alarming statistics were wildly inaccurate. The actual impacts of sea-

level rise

are going to be much, much worse.

Previous

estimates

of

the

impact

that

rising

tides

would

have

on

coastal

cities

relied

on

essentially a three-

dimensional map of Earth obtained from satellite readings. But those readings

were fundamentally unreliable because they often measured the planet's upper surfaces

—

such as

treetops

and

tall

buildings

—

rather

than

its

ground

level.

These

mistakes

led

scientists

to

overestimate the elevation(

海拔

) of many regions of Earth.

In a new study published by the journal Nature Communications, scientists from Princeton

University

detail

this

methodological

problem

，

then

use

artificial

intelligence

to

determine

the

previous

literature's

error

research

yields

some

amazing

updates

to

our

conventional

understanding of what the next century has in store for our coastlines.

In its optimistic scenario

，

the Princeton study projects that lands currently occupied by 150

million

people

will

lie

below

high

tide

in

as

warming

destroys

many

of

the

world's

agricultural regions, climate change could accelerate migration from rural areas to coastal cities.

The new study does include one piece of slightly encouraging news. While previous models

suggested

that

28

million

humans

currently

live

in

places

that

already

lie

below

high

tide,

the

actual

number

is

closer

to

110

million

—

which

means

seawalls

and

other

barriers

have

proven

sufficient

to

keep

many

cities

dry

even

as

sea

levels

have

risen

around

them.

Still,

the

scale

of

barrier construction necessary to save low-

lying cities from collapse is now, apparently, far greater

than

previously

understood

when

the

task

already

looked

terribly

expensive

，

particularly

for

developing countries.

If the Princeton researchers' projections are correct, avoiding mass death and suffering in the

coming

decades

will

require

not

only

rapidly

reducing

carbon

emissions

and

strengthening

construction

of

seawalls

but

also

furthering

mass

migrations

away

from

low-

lying

cities

and

islands and toward higher ground.

(

)61. The first paragraph is mainly intended to ________

．

A. introduce the topic of this passage

B. show various disasters caused by climate change

C. call on people to fix attention on climate change

D. lay emphasis on the seriousness of climate change

(

)62. All the following statements are true EXCEPT ________

．

A. the Princeton study reveals an optimistic picture of sea rising

B. the three-

dimensional map produced by satellite is not accurate

C. some measures are mentioned by the writer to deal with sea rising

D. more people are likely to live in coastal cities in the coming years

(

)63. We can see something encouraging from the Princeton study that ________

．

A. it's cheap to construct seawalls as well as other barriers

B. the scale of barrier construction is much greater than before

C. developed countries have less trouble in dealing with rising sea levels

D. seawalls do have the function to prevent coastal cities being drowned

(

)64. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A. How to protect cities from rising seas

B. Rising seas are going to drown more cities

C. Climate change is endangering human existence

D. Less emission of carbon, fewer fires and droughts

D

In

January

2017,

snow

began

to

fall

across

the

Apennines.

From

his

home

in

the

Rome

suburbs, Edward watched the weather with concern. He and his wife

，

Caroline, had planned an

overnight

getaway

to

the

hotel.

But

now

he

wondered

whether

they

should

go

with

the

road

covered with snow. Edward phoned the hotel, whose owner, Del Rosso, advised Edward to use

chains on his tyres.

After a short talk

，

Edward and Caroline decided to make the the time they neared the

resort(

度假胜地

) six hours later, they were battling a total whiteout. When they finally reached the

hotel, they were cold and exhausted. They checked into their room, trying to forget their long day

in the car.

Suddenly, the hotel began to shake. The windows rattled, and the water in the tub spilt over

the

edges.

An

earthquake

with

a

magnitude

of

5.7

had

struck

the

mountain.

Edward

had

had

enough.

“

Let's get out of here

，

”

he told his wife, dressing quickly. They were about to head to the

parking lot when the snow on the mountain began to slide.

Martin, the resort's caretaker, had been working in the tiny boiler hut about 30 yards from the

main building when he noticed something abnormal. Standing on an empty snowfield, he gazed at

a

trail

of

complete-

destruction

—

it

was

as

if

a

giant

rake(

耙子

)

had

been

dragged

down

the

mountain, pulling down beech trees, crushing cars, chewing up everything in its path.