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试卷类型：
A
广东
肇庆
2020
届高中毕业班第二次统一检测英语试题
英
语
注意事项
：
1.
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考生务必将自己的姓名、
考生号、
考场号和座位号填写在答
题卡上。因测试不考听力，试
卷从第二部分的
“
阅读理解
”
开始，试题
序号从
“21”
开始。
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第二部分
阅读理解（共两节，满分
40
分）
第一节
（共<
/p>
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
、
< br>B
、
C
和
D
四个选项中，选出最
佳选项。<
/p>
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 Wildlife 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 Y
ork
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
C. At Olympic National Park
B. At Lake Placid
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 were 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
< br>laborious(
耗
时
费<
/p>
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
class
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
orcoaches 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 Enterpri
se, 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
moving 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 can’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(
人造肉饼
)
invented
by
Impossible
Foods
.
It’s
well
known
for having an strangely
chewy(
有咀嚼感
), even bloody,
meat-like quality, a
surprising
verisimilitude(
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 Impossible
Burger
—
a moment when low
expectations
work a powerful magic in
the product’s favor—
is one thing. But
how do
you keep meat-eaters asking for
more after their sixth, and their
26th
？
To
get
to
true
mass
adoption,
fake
meat
will
need
to
compete
favorably with the real thing on
multiple fronts. Impossible Foods’ goal is
to drive the price of its product below
that of Safewa
y’s 80/20 hamburger
meat, at which point people will simply
vote with their wallets. The new
industry also wants to improve on
animal flesh in various ways. Fake meat
has
an
advantage
over
traditional
meat
because
“you
won’t
need
to
refrigerate
it”
cofound
er
Niko
Koffeman
says.
Plus,
custom(
定制的
)
production
could
improve
choice.
“You
could
have
very
soft
and
tender
meat for elderly
people,” Koffeman adds. “You could have a tailored
meat
for whatever you need.”
You can tell the world is
shifting this way, because the
ranchers(
牧场
主
)
are
nervous.
Last
year,
the
US
Cattlemen’s
Association
asked
the
government to define “meat” as a
product “coming directly from animals.”
That anxiety
—
and
the power of the science driving
it
—
goes to show that
this grand shift isn’t
impossible.
32.
According
to
passage,
the
author
was
convinced
by
the
Impossible
Burger because__.
A. it has a special taste that is
different from normal ones.