2020届高考英语模拟预测卷(六)含答案

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A

Cities all over the world celebrate Christmas in unique and memorable ways. The following

international destinations are just a few of the countless choices to consider.

Quebec city

Quebec city has long drawn admirers to its historic district the famed city wall, strange cobblestone

lanes

（鹅卵石小路）

and handsome stone houses. This area transforms into a scenic Christmas village each

December. The 403-year-old capital of Quebec province takes pride in the outdoors at Christmas time,

when stone buildings shine with lights. Consider cross-country ski on the Plains of Abraham, or skate at the

place D’ Youville square.

Edinburgh

Edinburgh, a magic city full of staircases and hills as well as Georgian and neo- Classical buildings, is

famous for its mixture of the modern and the old. This is evident in winter, when Scotland’s capital puts on

a six-week festival lasting until Jan. 6 that goes way beyond Christmas markets. You can ride roller coasters,

climb a wall of ice and attend a vivid Christmas themed show by the cabaret troupe

（剧团）

La Clique.

Zurich

If buying gifts is on your travel schedule, Zurich is an impressive shopping center, particularly around

the holidays, from multiple Christmas markets and the luxury

（奢侈品）

dress shops of Bahnhofstrasse

Street, to the independent designers and antique shops in the merging industrial zones. Another annual

lighting spectacle

（壮观场面）

, Lichterschwimmen, on Dec. 21, includes hundreds of tiny lanterns that are

sent floating down the River Limmat.

Sydney

A lack of snow does not dampen the Christmas spirit in Sydney. One great and free way to feel the

holiday is to take this Dec. 21 walking tour of G

eorge Street, which promises “the most sharable window

displays and coloured lights.” One advantage over other destinations: warm, sandy beaches that lie just

minutes from downtown, where the natural beauty of Australia’s most popular city will be waiting.

1

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What can you do in Quebec city during Christmas?

A

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Ride roller coasters.

B

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Take part in a walking tour.

C

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Enjoy cross- country ski.

D

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Watch a Christmas-themed show.

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Where should you go if you want to enjoy a Christmas without snow?

A

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Quebec city.

B

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Edinburgh.

C

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Zurich.

D

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Sydney.

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Where is this text most likely from?

A

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A guidebook.

B

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A diary.

C

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A novel.

D

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A research paper.

B

We’ve known that sitting for long periods of time every day has countless health consequences, like a

higher risk of heart disease. But now a new study has found that sitting is also bad for your brain.

A study published last week, conducted by Dr. Prabha Siddarth at the University of California, showed

that sedentary

（久坐的）

behavior is associated with reduced thickness of the medial temporal lobe

（中颞

叶）

, a brain area that is critical to learning and memory.

The researchers asked a group of 35 healthy people, ages 45 to 70, about their activity levels and the

average number of hours each day spent sitting and then scanned their brains. They found that the subjects

who reported sitting for longer periods had the thinnest medial temporal lobes. It means that the more time

you spend in a chair the worse it is for your brain health, resulting in possible damage to learning and

memory.

What is also interesting is that this study did not find a significant association between the level of

physical activity and thickness of this brain area, suggesting that exercise, even severe exercise, may not be

enough to protect you from the harmful effects of sitting.

It then surprisingly turned out that you don’t even have to move much to enhance cognition

（认知）

;

just standing will do the trick. For example, two groups of subjects were asked to complete a test while

either sitting or standing. Participants are presented with conflicting stimuli

（刺激）

, like the word “green”

in blue ink, and asked to name the color. Subjects thinking on their feet beat those who sat by a 3-milicond

margin.

The cognitive effects of severe physical exercise are well known. But the possibility that standing

more and sitting less improves brain health could lower the bar for everyone.

I know, this all runs counter to received ideas about deep thought, from our grade school teachers, who

told us to sit down and focus, to Rodin’s famous “Thinker,” seated with chin on hand.

They were wrong. You can now all stand up.

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What can we infer from Paragraphs 3 and 4?

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Severe exercise can lessen the damage of sitting.

B

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Severe exercise can greatly improve our brain health.

C

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Sedentary behavior will possibly damage our brain.

D

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Brain health has nothing to do with sedentary behavior.

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What does the underlined word “margin” in Paragraph 5 mean?

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blank.

B

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edge.

C

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decrease.

D

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difference.

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What is the received idea about deep thought?

A

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Sitting more is good for our mental health.

B

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Sitting is better when we think.

C

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Exercise more can improve our cognition.

D

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We should stand while thinking.

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The passage mainly tells us ________.

A

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people tend to sit while thinking

B

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standing more can make our brain healthier

C

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physical exercise can improve our brain health

D

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sedentary behavior leads to countless health problems

C

Throughout history, music spread among people of different cultures. In today's technological

advanced society, however, people spread music online, sometimes without an artist's permission. This can

lead to many problems, and music companies are now cracking down on this practice. Sharing music

online without permission is theft.

Sharing music online prevents recording companies from making money from their efforts. They say

that sharing music online has resulted in a huge drop in profits and sales over the past 10 years. People who

find music for free online are not paying for CDs or every MP3 downloaded. To truly understand the

influence of music piracy on creators, one must understand how many people are involved in the recording

process. For the sale of each album, profits must be shared between musicians, sound engineers, music

producers, managers, advertisers, and the company selling the product. Many people believe sharing music

only affects the recording artist, but the reality is that sharing hurts business for all companies involved.

There are many people who don't see the harm in sharing music online and even think they have the

right to do it. One online blogger states that he originally paid for an entire CD and that he should be able to

do with the material whatever he wants. While he may have legally paid for the music, he does not have the

right to provide permission, which means people like the blogger are thieves.

Although we don't spread today's music the same way we did before, there's no doubt that people

around the world love to share music. However, internet piracy would prevent musicians from continuing

producing albums for fear of theft. Therefore, if people want to continue listening to their favorite artists,

they need to buy their music so that artists will make enough profit to continue their music careers.

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The underlined phrase “cracking down on” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

A

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bringing up carefully

B

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speaking highly of

C

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dealing seriously with

D

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destroying completely

9

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We can learn from the text that ________.

A

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sharing music files online affects a lot of people

B

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artists are taking action to protect their right

C

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online music sharing increases sales of music CD

D

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a person who bought a CD has the right to share it online with others

10

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How is the text organized?

A

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Topic-Argument- Explanation.

B

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Introduction- Supporting statements-Conclusion.

C

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Main idea- Comparison-Supporting statements.

D

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Opinion- Discussion-Description.

11

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What is the author’s attitude toward music piracy?

A

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Indifferent.

B

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Favorable.

C

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Disapproval.

D

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Skeptical.

D

A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly.

The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do

what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the

air and perform controlled flight tasks.

“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch

of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harva

rd engineering professor who has been working on

the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing

together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those

c

omponents are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.

They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system

which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of

which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,”

said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood

says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and

manufactured.

While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off- board power source, the goal is eventually to

equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites,

in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he

said.

Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the

power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can

start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that

would be difficult with

the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of

technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”

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Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly?

A

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They did not have sufficient fund.

B

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No ready-made components were available.

C

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There was no model in their mind.

D

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It was hard for them to assemble the components.

13

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What can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4?

A

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The robotic fly has been put into wide application.

B

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The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.

C

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Information from many sources can be collected by the robotic fly.

D

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The robotic fly can just fly in limited areas at present.

14

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Which of the following can be learned from the passage?

A

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Wood’s design can replace animals in some experiments.

B

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Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.

C

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The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects.

D

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There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.

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Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A

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The Development of Robotic Fly