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高三三模考试
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II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:
After reading the passage below, fill
in the blanks to make the passage coherent
and grammatically correct. For the
blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with
the proper
form of the given word; for
the other blanks, use one word that best fits each
blank.
Can Indoor Plants Really Purify
the Air?
Plants are very important to
human life. Through
photosynthesis
(
光合作用
), they
transform
carbon dioxide into fresh
oxygen. They ___21___(assume) to remove toxins
from the air we
breathe
—
but is
this true?
One famous NASA experiment,
published in 1989, has found indoor plants can
clean the air by
removing
pollutants
___22___(cause)
cancer.
Later
research
has
found
soil
micro-
organisms
in
the
potted plant also ___23___(play) a part
in cleaning indoor air.
Based
on
this
research,
some
scientists
say
house
plants
are
effective
natural
air
purifiers,
and
the
bigger
and
leafier
the
plant,
the
better.
The
amount
of
leaf
surface
area
influences
the
rate of air purification. ___24___,
however, say the evidence that plants can
effectively
accomplish this feat
(
功绩
) is far from conclusive.
“There
are
no
de
finitive
studies
to
show
that
having
indoor
plants
can
significantly
increase
the air quality in your home,”
___25___Luz Claudio, a professor of
environmental medicine and
public
health. “There’s no question
___26___plants are capable of removing
volatile
(
易挥发
的) chemical
toxins from the air under laboratory conditions,”
says Claudio. But in your home
or
office
space,
the
notion
that
putting
a
few
plants
together
can
purify
your
air
doesn’t
have
much hard science ___27___(back) it up.
Most research efforts to date,
including the NASA study, placed indoor plants in
small,
___28___(seal)
environments
to
assess
how
much
air-
purifying
power
they
have.
“But
those
studies
aren’t
really
applicable
to
what
happens
in
a
house.
In
many
cases,
the
air
in
your
home
compl
etely
turns
over
—
that
is,
exchanges places with outdoor
air
—
once
every
hour. In most
instances, air
exchange
with
the
outside
has
a
___29___
(great)
effect
on
indoor
air
quality
than
plants.”
says
Stanley Kays, a professor of
horticulture
(
园艺学
).
Disappointed
____30____many
people
may
be
by
what
Kays
said,
the
professor
also
made
it
clear
that
he
believes
house
plants
are
beneficial.
Studies
have
shown
plants
can
knock
out
stress
and
make
people feel happier. More research shows spending
time around nature has a positive effect
on a person’s mood and energy
levels.
【答案】
21.
are assumed
22. causing
23. play 24. Others
25. according to
26.
that 27. to back
28. sealed
29. greater
30. as
Section B
Directions:
Fill in each blank with a proper word
chosen from the box. Each word can be used
only once. Note that there is one word
more than you need.
Smart Homes Around the Corner
Internet-connected lights, locks and
laundry machines are close to becoming everyday
household items, thanks in part to
voice-
activated speakers such as
Amazon’s Echo and Google
Home.
The
market
has
witnessed
increasing
sales
of
lights
that
turn
off
when
you
say
“good
night
”
,
smart locks that let in
your friends before you get home, and other smart-
home
gadgets
(
小配
件
).
Smart speakers and their digital assistants also
have been growing in ___31___. From your
couch, you can ask these smart
assistants to play your favorite music, check the
weather, order
pizza or___32___flights.
While the devices are still relatively
expensive
—
you can get six
___33___light bulbs for
the
price
of
a
single
smart
one
—
___34___is
likely
to
pick
up
further
as
prices
fall
in
the
future.
Moreover, the more people use such
speakers, it turns out, the more things they want
them
to do. In some cases, that leads
___35___to other smart gadgets for the home.
People who own an
Echo
are___36___
more likely to install other
smart gadgets, said David Limp, Amazon’s senior
vice
president
of
devices
and
services.
“They
don’t
start
by
rewiring
the
whol
e
home.
They
start
with a
switch.” That switch, known as a smart plug, can
make any appliance remote
-controllable
by cutting or___37___its
power
—
just ask an assistant
to turn it off or on.
U.S.
sales
of
smart
speakers
have
more
than
tripled
(
增至三倍
)
to
nearly
25
million
in
2017,
as shown by a CTA (Commodity Trading
Advisors) ___38___
. They’re expected to
grow further this
year, to about 36
million, as Apple’s HomePod joins the
competition.
Smart-home
products such as lights and security cameras are
lagging behind, but they have
been
catching
up.
“We’re
still
in
the
early
stages,”
said
Jeff
Patton,
a
smart
-home
executive
at General
Electric. “While the gadgets aren’t yet
___39___
” he said, “average
people are
much more aware of
them”.
Alex
Hawkinson, CEO of Sam
sung’s
Smart Things smart
-home business, said
that about
half of
his new
customers are coming because of smart speakers
“
____40____
a lot of
excitement.” Once
people
get
their
first
smart
product,
such
as
a smart
plug,
they
are
likely
to
buy
more,
market
researchers say. They
also tell friends and neighbors about them, and
might buy some as gifts.
【答案】
31. B 32. K
33. C 34. H
35. A
36. J
37. F 38. G
39. I 40. E
III. Reading
Comprehension Section A
Directions:
For
each
blank
in
the
following
passage
there
are
four
words
or
phrases
marked
A,B,C
and D. Fill in each
blank with the word or phrase that best fits the
context.
Children’s books are filled
with fantastic friendships between humans and
beasts. From a
young age, we learn that
if a tiger comes for tea we should expect it to
eat all our sandwiches,
and
if
a
Peruvian
bear___41___for
lunch
we
had
better
have
some
marmalade
(
柑橘酱
)
in
the
cupboard.
In
this
fantasy
world,
we
can
coexist
peacefully
with
large
mammals.
___42___,
in
real
life,
young people are having fewer wild
interactions than ever before. In part this is a
result of
___43___
screen
time and decreased access to wild spaces. Perhaps
it doesn’t help that many
countries
drove out their most exciting ___44___
—
bears and
wolves
—
centuries ago.
Had
they
not,
more
people
in
the
developed
world
might
now
be
facing
similar
problems
to
those
in Novaya Zemlya. The playgrounds of
this remote
Russian archipelago
(
俄罗斯半岛
) were
recently___45___by
a
group
of
hungry
polar
bears,
driven
into
human
settlements
in
search
of
food
and
___46___after
rising
temperatures
destroyed
the
last
hospitable
slices
of
the
Arctic
sea
ice.
It’s
the
same
story
we
see
across
the
world:
habitat
___47___
driving
elephants
to
attack
crops,
human settlements spreading into tiger
territory, and people losing their lives to big
cats.
The
Incident
of
the
Polar
Bear
in
the
Playground
is
not
a/an
___48___consequences
to
The
Humans
Who Melted the Ice Caps
. We
have known for years that Arctic temperatures are
rising
at___49___rates.
It
should
come
as
no
surprise
that
the
polar
bears
we
have
forced
to
leave
their
natural homes have
____50____
shouting at humans’ front
doors in search of their basic
requirements for survival.
Unfortunately, they are more ____51____ to be met
with the business
end
of
a
shotgun
than
a
marmalade
sandwich.
And
who
can
criticize
the
people
in
the
main
settlement,
Belushya Guba, for wanting to protect
themselves?
We’ve had years
to
____52____these issues. This is not
an unusual ____53____but the latest
in
a
list of
increasingly
frequent
human/polar
bear
incidents.
And
it’s
part
of
an
even
longer
list
of
rapidly
growing
areas
where
there
is
human/wildlife
conflict.
We
can’t
____54____the
local
residents of Novaya
Zemlya for their quiet town becoming a bear
refugee camp. They are not the
ones
burning fossil fuels, ____55____farming cows and
flying across the world for business
meetings.
It’s
almost
always
the
case
that
those
making
the
decisions
that
are
most
serious
for
the environment are the
furthest from the consequences.
41. A.
drops in
42. A. Therefore
43. A. accumulated
44. A.
immigrants
B. makes up
B.
Meanwhile
B. wasted
B.
citizens
C. carries on
C.
Otherwise
C. increased
C.
locals
D. reaches out
D.
Furthermore
D. fixed
D.
inhabitants
45. A. invaded
46. A. caves
47. A. range
48. A. profound
49. A.
moderate
50. A. stuck to
51.
A. reluctant
52. A. examine
53. A. occurrence
54. A.
admire
55. A. intensively
B.
searched
B. territory
B.
formation
B. severe
B.
horrifying
B. gone on
B.
likely
B. report
B. escape
B. reward
B. realistically
C. deserted
C. companions
C. loss
C. unexpected
C. similar
C. ended up
C. desperate
C. identify
C. presence
C. respect
C. specifically
D.
surrounded
D. shelter
D.
selection
D. upset
D.
varying
D. protested at
D.
confident
D. address
D.
exploration
D. blame
D.
practically
【答案】
41. A 42.
B 43. C 44. D 45. A 46. D 47. C
48. C 49. B 50. C
51. B 52.
D 53. A 54. D 55. A
Section B
Directions: Read the following three
passages. Each passage is followed by several
questions
or unfinished statements. For
each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C
and D. Choose
the one that fits best
according to the information given in the passage
you have just read.
(A)
When
I
was
a
puppy,
I
entertained
you
and
made
you
laugh.
You
called
me
your
child,
and
despite
a
number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered
pillows, I became your best friend. Whenever
I was “bad”, you’d shake your finger at
me and ask “How could you?”—
but then
you rolled
me over for a
belly
(
腹部
) rub.
I remember those nights of rubbing you
in bed and listening to your secret dreams, and I
believed that life could not be any
more perfect.
Gradually, you began
spending more time at work and on your career, and
more time searching
fo
r
a
human
mate.
She,
now
your
wife,
is
not
a
“dog
person”—
still
I
welcomed
her
into
our
home,
tried
to show her affection, and obeyed her. I was happy
because you were happy.
Then
the
human
babies
came
along
and
I
shared
your
excitement.
I
was
fascinated
by
the
pinkness,
how they smelled,
and I wanted to mother them, too. Only she and you
worried that I might hurt
them, and I
spent most of my time in another room.
There had been a time, when others
asked you if you had a dog, that you produced a
photo of
me
from
your
wallet
and
told
them
stories
about
me.
These
past
few
years,
you
just
answered
“yes”
and changed the
subject. I had gone from being “your dog” to “just
a dog”.
Now, you have a new
career opportunity in another city, and you and
they will be moving to
another
apartment
that
does
not
allow
pets.
You’ve
made
the
right
decision
for
your
“family”,
but there was a
time when I was your only family.
People in the animal shelter are
attentive to me, but I lost my appetite. At first
whenever
anyone
passed,
I
rushed
to
the
front,
hoping
it
was
you
—
that
this
was
all
a
bad
dream
or
I
hoped
it would at least be someone who cared,
anyone who might save me.
56. How did
the dog’s owner treat the puppy when it was at a
younger age?
A. He
entertained the puppy with jokes and gestures.
B. He treated the puppy as if it were a
family member.
C. He disciplined the
puppy when it made a mess.
D. He kept
the puppy at a distance for the chewed shoes.
57. Why was the puppy excluded from the
room after the babies were born?
A.
The puppy was tempted by the babies’
pinkness and sweet smell.
B.
The puppy poses a serious danger to the health and
well-being of babies.
C. The couple
were concerned that the babies would be in danger.
D. The master envied the natural
affection between the babies and the puppy.
58. What can we infer from the last 3
paragraphs?
A. It was hard for the
puppy to accept the fact that it was ignored.
B. The master had a mixed feeling for
the advancement in career.
C. The puppy
felt relieved for the master’s
es
tablishment of a new family.
D. It was urgent for the master to give
up the puppy and move to another city.
59. Which of the following could be the
best title for the passage?
A. A Good
Heart to Lean on
C. The Words of an
Abandoned Dog
【答案】
56. B
57. C 58. A 59. C
(B)
With
the
lure
(
诱惑
)
of
high
salaries
and
strong
job
prospects,
a
lot
of
students
enter
college
thinking
they
will
major
in
engineering.
If
you
think
engineering
might
be
a
good
choice
for
you,
B. New Member of the Family
D. Animal Shelter: the Last Home for
Puppies