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肇庆
市
2020
届高中毕业班第二次统一检测
英
语
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第二部分
阅读理解（共两节，满分
40
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第一节
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15
小题；每小题
2
分，满分
30
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的
A
、
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、
C
和
D
四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Attractive
lakeside cottages and cabins
Lafitte’s
Landing Guest Quarters, Uncertain,
Texas
There are five
cottages featuring high ceilings and spacious
bedrooms. Lafitte’s is a
certified
Backyard
Wil
dlife
Habitat,
so
you
don’t
have
to
go
far
for
bird
-watching.
Explore the lake on a steamboat, or
head to Caddo Lake State Park for night adventures
such as Owl Nights and Bat Watches.
Rates: Summer nightly rates range from
$$559 to $$1, 899
Lake Placid Lodge, Lake
Placid, New York
With
17
cabins
sitting
along
the
shores
of
Lake
Placid,
the
arts-and-crafts-style
Lake Placid Lodge offers an exciting
summer lake experience. Lakefront cabins come
outfitted
with
hand-built
beds
and
stone
fireplaces.
Go
for
a
hike,
or
hit
the
lake
for
swimming, fishing, or boating.
Rates:
Rates
are
$$120
per
night
for
double
occupancy;
each
additional
person
is
$$20 per night.
Lake Crescent Lodge, Olympic National
Park, Washington
Its
cottages
and
cabins
are
listed
on
the
National
Register
of
Historic
Places.
Choose
between
one-and
two-bedroom
Singer
Tavern
Cottages,
or
stay
in
the
always
favored (and often booked) Roosevelt
Fireplace Cabins. Spend your days hiking in the
surrounding Olympic National Park, or
exploring Lake Crescent by boat.
Rates:
Nightly rates for cottages and cabins range
between $$317 and $$398.
Tamarack Lodge Resort, Mammoth Lakes,
California
It
is
on
the
peaceful
shores
of
the
Twin
Lakes.
Choose
between
recently
built
Deluxe Cabins and old wood-and-stone
cabins. Swimming, fishing, boating, biking, and
hiking are popular pastimes.
Rates: Summer cabin rates range from
$$369 to $$999 per night.
21. Where can
you observe bats at night?
A. At Caddo
Lake State Park
B. At Lake Placid
C. At Olympic National Park
D. At the Twin Lakes
22. If three people share one room in
Lake Placid Lodge, how much will they pay?
A. $$60
B. $$120
C.
$$140
D. $$360
23. Which of the
following is difficult to reserve?
A.
Cottages at Lafitte’s Landing Guest
Quarters
B. Cabins at Lake
Placid Lodge
C. Deluxe Cabins
D. Roosevelt Fireplace Cabins
B
Growing up, I
thought
math class was something to be
endured
, not enjoyed. I
disliked memorizing formulas
(
公式
)
and taking
tests,
all for the dull
goal
of
getting a
good
grade.
One
of
my
teachers
told
my
mother
that
I
was
“slow”.
But
my
problem
wasn't with math itself. In fact, when
a topic seemed particularly interesting, I would
go
to the library and read more about
it.
By high school, no one told me that
I could become a professional mathematician.
What
I
wanted
to
do
then
was
to
play
college
football.
My
ambition
was
to
get
an
athletic scholarship to attend a Big
Ten school.
The
chances
of
that
happening
wer
e
very
low.
But
that
didn’t
stop
my
coaches
from encouraging me
to believe I could reach my goal, and preparing
and pushing me to
work
for
it.
They
made
video
tapes
of
my
performances
and
sent
them
to
college
coaches around the country.
In the end,
a Big
Ten school,
Penn State, did
offer me
a
scholarship.
I
wish
math
teachers
were
more
like
football
coaches.
Students
are
affected
by
more
than just the quality
of a lesson plan.
They also
respond to
the passion
of their
teachers
and
the
engagement
of
their
peers,
and
they
seek
a
sense
of
purpose.
They
benefit from specific
instructions and constant feedback
(
反馈
)
.
Until I got to college, I didn't really
know what mathematics was. I still thought of
it
as
laborious
(
耗时费力的
)
calculations.
Then
my
professor
handed
me
a
book
and
suggested that I think about a
particular problem. It wasn't easy, but it was
fascinating.
My
professor
kept
giving
me
problems,
and
I
kept
pursuing
them,
even
though
I
couldn’t
always
solve
them
immediately.
The
mathematical
research
I
was
doing
had
little in common with
what I did in my high school classrooms. Instead,
it was closer to
the math and logic
puzzles I did on my own as a boy. It
gave me that same sense of
wonder
and
curiosity,
and
it
rewarded
creativity.
I
am
now
a
Ph.
D
candidate
in
mathematics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
24. Why did
the writer think math clas
s in school
was “something to be endured” before
entering college?
A. Because
he wasn’t interested in math.
B. Because his math teachers didn't
care to push him.
C. Because he was too
smart and talented for math class.
D.
Because he was training hard for an athletic
scholarship.
25. According to the
writer, students are affected by the following
things from teachers
or coaches EXCEPT
________.
A. a sense of purpose
B. constant feedback
C. passion
D. specific instructions
26.
We can conclude that after entering college, the
writer ________.
A. was busy looking
for math problems to solve
B. studied
on his own just as he was in high school
C. met with laborious calculations in
his studies
D. began to realize what
mathematics really is
27. What is the
best title for the text?
A. Interest is
the best teacher
B. Be the
best
—
you can make it
C. Math, taught like football
D. Once your teacher, always your
teacher
C
You
have
probably
read
about
robots
replacing
human
labor
as
a
new
era
of
automation takes root in one industry
after another. But a new report suggests humans
are not the only ones who might lose
their jobs.
In New Zealand,
farmers are using drones
(
无人机
)
to herd and monitor cows
and
sheep, taking up a position that
highly intelligent dogs have held for more than a
century.
The
robots
have
not
replaced
the
dogs
entirely,
Radio
New
Zealand
reports,
but
they
have
appropriated
(
盗用
)
one
of
the
animal’s
most
powerful
tools:
barking.
The
DJI
Mavic Enterprise, a $$3,500 drone
favored by farmers, has a feature that lets the
machine
record sounds and play them
over a loudspeaker, giving the machine the ability
to act as
the dogs.
Corey
Lambeth,
a
shepherd
on
a
farm,
told
RNZ
the
machines
are
surprisingly
effective.
“That’s the one thing I’ve noticed when you’re
mov
ing cows that the old cows
stand up to the dogs, but with the
drones, they’ve never done that,” he said, noting
the
drones move cows faster, with less
stress, than the dogs do.
The drones
come in handy for more than just herding
(
放牧
)
cows and
sheep. The
robots allow farmers to
monitor their land from afar, monitoring water and
feed levels
and checking on the
animals’ health without disturbing them. Jason
Rentoul told RNZ
that a two-hour
herding job that used to require two people and
two teams of dogs could
be accomplished
in 45 minutes using a single drone. “Being a hilly
farm where a lot of
stuff is done on
foot, the drones really saved a lot of man hours,”
he said.
For now, farmers
say, there is still a need for herding dogs,
primarily because they
have
a
longer
life
span
than
drones,
can
work
in
bad
weather
and
do
not
require
an
electrical socket every
few hours to recharge.
28.
What is the main advantage of the drones over
herding dogs?
A. The drones
can take up a job that the dogs hardly do well any
longer.
B. The drones can frighten the
old cows which are not afraid of the dogs.
C. The drones can finish a herding job
more efficiently than the dogs.
D. The
drones can work on a hilly farm and extreme
weather while the dogs
ca
n’t.
29. Which
of the following statements is true according to
the passage?
A. Herding dogs will
gradually lose their position on the farmland.
B. The drones can only copy the dogs'
barking with the current technology.
C.
The drones are multi-functional and leave the
animals undisturbed.
D. The market for
the DJI Mavic Enterprise is pretty small because
of its high price.
30.
According to the passage, why can’t the drones
replace the dogs entirely?
A. Because the drones can't bark as
loudly as the dogs do.
B. Because cows
are not used to seeing the drones.
C.
Because the drones are much more expensive than
the animal.
D. Because the drones’
power is limited and they need charging from time
to time.
31. What
is
the
author’s
attitude
towards the drones in the passage?
A. supportive
B. objective
C. critical
D.
doubtful
D
Recently
I
rolled
into
a
local
restaurant
to try
an
Impossible Burger, an
all-plant
patty
(<
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人造肉饼
)
invented by
Impossible F
oods. It’s well known for
having an strangely
chewy
(
有咀嚼感
)
,
even
bloody,
meat-like
quality,
a
surprising
veri
similitude
(
逼真
)
that
has made it
“perhaps the country’s most famous burger,” as New
York magazine wrote.
One bite into its
wonderful, smoky taste and, damn, I was convinced.
This is good news, because the time has
come to consume fake meat. In the fight
against
climate
change,
meat
replacement
is
something
we
can
try.
A
University
of
Oxford study recently
found that, to keep global warming below 2 degrees
this century,
we need to be eating 75
percent less beef and 90 percent less pork.
However, diets are
culturally enshrined
, so changing them
will be hard. It isn’t easy
to
replace
75
to
90
percent
of
beef
and
pork
with
fake
meat.
The
first
taste
of
an