2020届宁夏吴忠市高三下学期高考模拟联考英语试题

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B

．

Their events occur in the unreal world.

C

．

Their writing styles show desires for freedom.

D

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Their plots encourage people to have adventures.

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Who made a great contribution to the animal fantasy?

A

．

Carlo Collodi.

C

．

William Steig.

B

．

Beatrix Potter.

D

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Hans Christian Andersen.

3

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Which type of fantasy has the longest history?

A

．

The toy fantasy.

C

．

The magical fantasy.

Before my daughter, Evelyn, was born, I eagerly expected her first year of life. I

imagined celebrating every milestone --- bonding with her as a newborn, seeing her smile for

the first time, hearing her say her first word. 1 didn't think of feeding tubes, long hospital stays

or an organ transplant(

移植

). For Evelyn, the first year included all and more.

Evelyn came into this world at just 34 weeks, weighing less than 3 pounds. Genetic testing

revealed she had Alagille syndrome, a genetic disorder that can damage the liver(

肝脏

),heart

and other organs. Soon, we received the news that baby Evelyn needed a liver transplant

.

Our

family moved nearer to UPMC Children's Hospial of Pittsburgh so that we were closer if a liver

was available for Evelyn.

When Evelyn was added to the organ donation wait list, I was under the liver allocation

policy in place at that time,which was map-based. This policy lacks any special consideration

for transplant were told it would likely take three months. Just then, a new

policy for liver allocation was tried the new system, the sickest child patients get first

priority(

优先

)

.

The new policy was only in effect for a litle over a week, but in that period,

Evelyn received her liver transplant. Had it been just one week earler or later, we would not

have received the call.

As Evelyn recovers from her transplant, we are grateful for the change.I am also sad,

because the new policy was short-lived. That means another mom like me might not receive

that phone call with good news.

Other children should have the same opportunity as Evelyn to live healthy, happy lives.

When it comes to liver transplant policy, we can and must do better for children.

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What probably happened to Evelyn shorly after she was born?

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B

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The animal fantasy.

D

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The modern folktales.

A

．

She failed to give a smile.

B

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She had a serious liver failure.

C

．

She said her first word quickly.

D

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She suffered from a heart attack.

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Why did the author's family move nearer to the hospital?

A

．

To save time.

B

．

To have money.

C

．

To see a doctor.

D

．

To get first priority.

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What does the author mean by the underlined sentence?

A

．

Evelyn is healthy now.

B

．

They waited too long.

C

．

They were one week earlier.

D

．

Her daughter is fortunate.

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What does the author want to express in the last pargraph?

A

．

We must guarantee kids have healthy livers.

B

．

Kids should have chances of a liver transplant

.

C

．

The sickest kids should get liver transplants first.

D

．

The old policy lacks special consideration for kids.

On a bright early summer morning, many young swimmers gather at a local

swimming pool in the state of Maryland. They are members of a competitive summer swim

team, and that’s a regular part of their daily life. As they train and cut seconds off their times,

which makes them closer to the championship in the following large- scale (

大规模的

)

competitions, they are getting lots of physical exercise and vitamin D from the sun. However,

the benefits of belonging to a sports team are not just honor or health related. You can learn

useful life skills.

Paul Waas, coach of the swim team, ex

plains, “The discipline (

自制力

) comes into play

when you’re talking about concentrating on the details that your coaches are saying as it makes

you faster rather than going up and down the pool the same way you have every time. When

you focus on what you’re doing right and what you can do better, then you’ll see the

improvement.”

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Besides, there is also responsibility, goals and workings within a group. Again, here is

Coach Waas. “It’s really great! It’s so fun to watch from year to year. I’ve had kids who as

7-year-olds on the team could barely pay attention in practice and were only interested in who

was going first. Now they’ve come back as 8

-year-olds, having set some goals and having

things that they want to achieve. These skills can help them a lot.”

But playing the sports is not without harm. Some can be hard on the body. Young athletes

suffer serious injuries that follow them into adulthood. Coach Waas says that in fact, swimming

is different from most others. First, it poses a lower risk of injury. The second one relates to how

swim teams are structured. Actually, children are not the only ones who can benefit. Adults can

also benefit from team sports.

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Why do the swimmers gather at a swimming pool in the early morning?

A

．

To obtain vitamin D from the sun.

C

．

To join in a large-scale competitive.

B

．

To build practical skills for future.

D

．

To carry out their routine practice.

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What do Paul Waas’ words imply in paragraph 2?

A

．

Swimmers should concentrate on details.

B

．

Members get disciplined and focused in the team.

C

．

Coaches play a key role in layers’ improvement.

D

．

Most swimmers enjoy sinning in the same way.

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What happens to the kids after a year’s training?

A

．

They are more aware of what to do.

C

．

They devote more time to practice.

B

．

They pay less attention to training.

D

．

They care more about who goes first.

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What does the author want to convey in the text?

A

．

Exercise benefits everyone.

C

．

Team sports teach life lessons.

For a few months twice a year, the waters off California are home to gray whales

moving north or south between the coast of Mexico and the Bering Sea. This year, however, it

seems that fewer whales are surviving the journey north. So far this year, a total of 30 dead gray

whales have washed up on the West Coast: Eight in Washington, one in Oregon and 21 in

California. Those numbers are unusually high.

In Northern California, three out of four of the dead whales that have been examined so far

appear to have died of starvation and the fourth was killed by a ship strike, said Barbie Halaska,

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B

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Swimming is better than other sports.

D

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Physical exercise should be a habit.

a research assistant at The Marine (

海洋的

) Mammal Center (TMMC), a nonprofit

organization that rescues and rehabilitates (

使康复

) marine mammals in California. Halaska

and her colleagues examined the four whales

—

three young whales and one adult male

—

and

planned to examine the remaining dead whales in the region in the next couple of days.

Gray whales were once severely threatened by whalers. Only around 2,000 of them lived

in the ocean in 1946, so an international agreement to stop gray whale hunting was signed in

order to help the population recover. Gray whales were removed from the endangered species

list in 1994 when the population reached 23,000 individuals and TMMC predicts there are now

around 26,000 gray whales in the Pacific Ocean, which is about the number before the whaling

boom got up steam almost 200 years ago.

Although the gray whale population has recovered to a certain degree, the number of dead

whales washing up this year is alarming, Halaska said. Climate change and declining fish

stocks are likely key factors in the whales’ poor health, she said .

Halaska stressed that boaters and beachgoers on the West Coast should watch out for gray

whales this time of year.

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What are the statistics in paragraph 3 about?

A

．

Severe conditions facing gray whales.

B

．

An agreement to stop killing whales.

C

．

The evolving development of gray whales.

D

．

The number of gray whales in different times.

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What’s Halaska’s attitude towards

the population of gray whale?

A

．

Worried.

C

．

Optimistic.

B

．

Discouraged.

D

．

Uncaring.

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What may be talked about following the last paragraph?

A

．

The importance of gray whales.

B

．

Gray whales’ living environment.

C

．

Things to do to help gray whales .

D

．

Ways to i

ncrease gray whales’ population.

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What can be a suitable title for the text?

A

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Gray Whales Are Threatened by Whalers

B

．

Why Many Gray Whales Died on California’s Coast?

C

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Gray Whales Are in Great Danger of Dying Out

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D

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Where Gray Whales Move to Avoid Being Hunt?

The

Have you ever met the situation where you kept thinking that there are better opportunities

out there compared to your current one you are having? This is the syndrome when one is

always looking at the other side of the fence and thinks that the grass is greener there.16

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Why are you like this? Uncertainty and curiosity play a big part in creating the

grass

best for us and whether there are any better choices out there.

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In fact, it sometimes does us more harm than good because often looking out for the

at least more dissatisfied.18

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We mostly prefer new over old because new things arc

fascinating and our curiosity keeps reminding us to explore the other side of the are

the two factors that cause us to feel dissatisfied with what we have and always thinking of

finding the greener grass at the opposite side.

If you have this syndrome, chances are you are missing out lots of things you currently

have now. So what can you do to cure the greener grass

recognize that your current job is your best choice right now..19

．

Secondly, always apply your best efforts to your current job. Otherwise, what can you

make out of your job when you hardly devote any effort? Last but not least, always keep this

truth in grass is always greener on the other side, and the other side is always greener

no matter which side you arc at.20

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A

．

Try to focus on

B

．

Such uncertainty causes us to keep looking into alternatives.

C

．

Humans are also curious by nature and we love new things.

D

．

Focus on

a side, stick to it and make the best out of it.

is what I call the

has its own origin, primarily rooted in fantasy and fear.

There is an old suitcase in my house which represents the dreams and hopes of my

family.

I’m always taking photos of the little

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I find in the world around me. A few

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weeks ago, I visited my parents. My father was an

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when he was young. I took a

photo of something that I would

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as a pretty big wonder. At first

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it might

not look like much. It was just a

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brown suitcase with two silver locks up on the top.

But to me, it’s

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what a miracle (

不可思议的东西

) looks like.

That suitcase is the very one my dad brought with him when he

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to the U. S.

from Turkey in 1965. He was just a 19-year-

old boy at the time who didn’t know a

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of English. He

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all his fiends and family,

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that he would become an

excellent engineer one d

ay. That suitcase carried my dad’s most valuable

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—

many

black-and- white photos from home and his science and math textbooks, etc.

As a kid, I was

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aware of the suitcase. It lived on the top of my bookcase. I

never

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to it, though. I

t wasn’t until I got

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that I actually asked my dad

about it. Looking inside, I found tons of photos and the

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my parents wrote to each

other, back and forth between the U. S. and Turkey.

That’s when I

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how beautiful that dirty old s

uitcase actually was. It’s a

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of not only the hardships my parents

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, but also all the wonderful things they

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, how they found love, how their dreams

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and how they got through them all.

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refused

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proud

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engineer

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quickly

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returned

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sign

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called

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grateful

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lessons

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uncleanly