2020海淀高三英语二模试题+答案word精校版

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How Running Helped Me Turn My Life Around

I've never been an athlete. Aside from excelling at all academic disciplines at school, my main goal was

to 11 PE at all costs. In my twenties, I went for an occasional yoga or Zumba class, but that was really the

summary of all my athletic accomplishments.

That was until the end of 2016, when I was unexpectedly laid off. The 12 of getting a new job soon were

not in my favor and 13 thoughts of not being good enough started to kick in. I was feeling quite depressed

but pushed myself to go and 14 for the TCS NYC Marathon runners as the course was going through our

neighborhood.

However,

while

being

there,

I

got

phenomenal

15

from

all

the

runners,

smiling,

applauding

and

high-fiving constantly. Not a runner myself, I thought maybe I could give running a 16 , just to try, to use my

neglected gym membership and see where it

17

me. And so I tried. I went to my local gym the next morning

and got on a treadmill

（跑步机）

.

I was out of breath by minute five, but I__18 down, walked for a bit and

then restarted. I came back the next day, hoping to 19 a few minutes longer. By the end of two weeks, I could

run for 30 minutes, which was a huge 20 .

While I saw my body starting to look more toned, I also noticed my negative thoughts didn't occur that

21 And it sparked a thought

—

what if I could set a running 22 and sign up for my first- ever race? I did and

races sort of became a new hobby.

In the meantime, I was able to 23 a few freelance

（自由职业的）

projects. They offered me a good 24 ,

and, most importantly, the time to work out for the big race. Also, when I was going for interviews, I started

to feel very 25 in my abilities, experience and skills.

I

got

my

full-time

job

26

at

my

dream

company

just

a

couple

of

weeks

before

the

halfmarathon.

Although I got an 27 from overtraining right before the race, I still went for it and still finished within my 28

time.

I still have a long running 29 ahead of me

—

I'd love to work on my speed, my technique and I dream of

running a marathon outside of the US. Running gives me 30 that I can do anything I set my mind to.

11. A. attend

12. A. options

13. A. dark

14. A. call

15. A. sympathy

16. A. lift

17. A. meets

18. A. came

19. A. last

20. A. credit

21. A. readily

22. A. goal

23. A. create

B. avoid

B plans

B. deep

B. look

B. pleasure

B. shot

B. leaves

B. fell

B. walk

B. impact

B. frequently

B. limit

B. secure

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C. pursue

C. hopes

C. critical

C. cheer

C. luck

C. break

C. takes

C. went

C. rest

C. success

C. normally

C. record

C. approve

D. postpone

D. odds

D. random

D. stand

D. energy

D. choice

D. drops

D. slowed

D. function

D. opportunity

D. occasionally

D. standard

D. continue

24. A. service

25. A. absorbed

26. A. offer

27. A. award

28. A. appointed

29. A. show

30. A. faith

B. position

B. interested

B. permit

B. honor

B. expected

B. route

B. consideration

C. future

C. confident

C. schedule

C. injury

C. original

C. distance

C. evidence

D. income

D. confused

D. application

D. issue

D. spare

D. journey

D. guidance

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You may have seen the term

“

bullet journal

”

floating around online, but what exactly is a bullet journal?

This article will highlight the uses for a bullet journal and why they're great for people who wish to be more

organized.

What is a bullet journal?

A bullet journal is a planner system which allows you to plan for the future, track the past and keep your

life organized with lists separated by bullet points. It is a place for you to create clear, yet simple to-do lists

and a place to keep a note of your life goals and aspirations.

What does it help with?

A bullet journal is perfect for people who like writing lists to keep themselves organized. They're great

for doing as a hobby and you can get creative with the way you present your lists. They

’

re also perfect for

people who constantly write down to-do lists or make hand-written notes.

Why is it important?

A bullet journal is important because we all feel better when our life is organized. Organization can

reduce stress and make you happier. Having your life in order, you will know exactly what you have to do

every day so that you can remember all of your life goals.

How to create a bullet journal?

The instructions will help you embark on your bullet journal.

Step 1. Find or buy a blank notebook

Any notebook with blank pages will do because if you are someone who is creative and artistic, you can

decorate the notebook any way you like.

Step 2. Find or buy pens

It's

best

to

start

off

simple

and

choose

a

pen

that

you

find

easy

to

use

and

that

you

would

feel

comfortable writing with every day.

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Step 3. Monthlies

In this section, you can put a list of important dates for that particular month.

Step 4. Dailies and Weeklies

Put all of your daily or weekly tasks in this section so that you don't forget anything that you have to do

during that day or week.

Step 5. Life Goals

Keep a life goals section. This can include different collections of goals, such as career, relationships,

places you wish to visit and so on.

Now start your bullet journal!

Bullet journals are intended for those who hope to

.

A.

keep life in order

B.

lead a relaxing life

C.

highlight their progress

D.

reduce their workload

.

32.

Keeping bullet journals helps people

A.

develop artistic taste

B.

get rid of stress

C.

build a better mood

D.

give up a hobby

33.

Which of the following is most likely to be included in a bullet journal?

B.

Appointments with a dentist.

A. Weekly expenses.

D. Passwords to your computer.

C. Weather forecasts.

B

Stuttering

（口

吃）

has nothing to do with intelligence. I know this because I stutter. If it takes me a

while longer to say a word, it's not because I can't remember the word; it's because the neural

(

神经

的）

pathway that transforms words in my head into sounds in my mouth is wired differently. And differences, of

course, are the best way to get negative attention in our society. Taking extra time to get my words out can

surely be frustrating, but that's nothing compared to the misery of dealing with people's reactions.

Almost all children who stutter are discouraged from speaking in one way or another. It's usually not as

direct as someone walking up to them and saying, “Hey, stuttering kid! Keep your mouth shut!” But when

your voice causes adults and peers to snicker

（窃笑）

or roll their eyes, it's pretty discouraging.

Growing up, I learned to avoid speaking whenever possible. I hated what came out of my mouth, full of

awkward breaks and pauses. I figured whatever future I had, it probably involved a vow of silence.

Today Fm a touring author and comedian. It took me 30-something years to get over stuttering. Did I

stop stuttering? No! I couldn't stop if I wanted to. But I stopped wanting to stop. Instead of wasting all my

time and energy trying to meet unattainable standards, I learned that it's OK to stutter. And I learned by

example.

I

attended

the

National

Stuttering

Association

conference

and

met

all

kinds

of

people

who

stutter

—

people who didn't hate themselves, who didn't silence themselves. They stuttered, and they were

OK with it! I remember watching them and thinking,

There's a popular saying in comedy:

open-mic scene, I was quickly met with some

remember

introducing

myself

to

one

comedian

and

stuttering

on

my

name,

as

I

usually

do.

Eager

to

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demonstrate his smartness, he replied,

like that, I had created a joke as the result of someone making fun of my stutter.

To this day, whenever I need inspiration for a new joke, I just think about all the ridiculous comments I

get from non- stuttering people. It's a comedy gold mine!

34.

It takes the author longer to say a word because she has

A.

a comparatively low IQ

C.

a relatively small brain

.

B. trouble in organizing ideas

D. problems in her neural system

.

35.

What annoys the author most about her stuttering is

A.

the unfriendly reactions of others

B.

the difficulty in memorising words

C.

her unpromising future as a stutterer

D.

her embarrassing pauses during talks

36.

The author got over stuttering by

A.

adjusting her attitude towards it

B.

getting help from non-stutterers

C.

telling herself constantly to stop it

D.

silencing herself whenever possible

37.

Paragraph 5 is mainly about the author

’

s

A.

success as a comedian

B , respect for other comedians

C.

resistance to others

5

strength

D.

acceptance of her imperfection

C

.

.

The ancient tale of the Country Mouse and the Town Mouse was only the first to emphasize rural folk's

supposed

simplicity

when

compared

with

more

sophisticated

urbanities.

However,

neuro-scientists

announce that, in fact, it is city living that can dull the wits.

The new study led by Dr. Spiers at Nantes University describes how they used a dataset from 4 million

people of a computer game, which tests navigating skills by asking players to memorise a map showing the

location of checkpoints and then measuring how well players can find them, guided only by their mental

map. Dr. Spiers and his colleagues examined the 4 million people from 38 countries, and found that the

strongest

indicator

of

a

high

score

was

a

player's age

—

older

people performed

relatively

poorly,

which

agrees with what researchers know about age-related cognitive decline. But the benefit of rural living was

strong enough to

offset

some of that. Data showed that a 70-year-old who grew up in the countryside had the

navigational abilities of an average 60-year-old across the dataset.

There is a huge gap between the navigation skills of rural and city people, and the researchers think they

know why. Dr. Spiers says that the brain's navigational abilities probably weaken in the less challenging city

environment because they are not being used as much. Although cities may appear more elaborate, they also

feature more clues to help residents find their way, such as numbered streets. In the countryside, however,

one field tends to look much the same as another, so there are fewer external landmarks to help guide the

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way.

Neuroscientists already know that living and working in more complex environments can influence the

function and structure of the brain. Brain scans of London taxi drivers, who have gained an encyclopedic

memory of the city

’

s streets, show that they tend to have an enlarged hippocampus

—

a region of the brain

acting as a neural GPS, sensing position and path on an internal map of the environment.

The harmful effect of city living on navigation is probably most serious in people under 16

—

18, Dr.

Spiers says, because their still- developing brains respond and change the most according to external stimuli.

And while people who live in cities with young children should not be alarmed, the study does raise some

interesting ideas for urban planners: keep their city designs not so simple perhaps. And for everyone else, it

might be an idea to turn off maps on the phone.

38.

The study led by Dr. Spiers shows that

.

A.

the seniors score higher at computer games

B.

rural life benefits people's sense of direction

C.

participants are better at finding ways in cities

D.

the young remember checkpoints better in maps

39.

The underlined word

“

offset

，

in Para. 2 most probably means

A.

achieve

B. confirm

C. reduce

40.

What is the purpose of the passage?

A.

To introduce a new way of driver training.

B.

To expose the drawbacks of living in the urban area.

C.

To show the contrast between lives in the country and city.

D.

To present environments

’

impact on one's ability to locate places.

41.

What is the best tide for the passage?

A.

Lost in the City

B.

Brain Weakened in Cities

C.

Navigating to the Countryside

D.

The Negative Effects of City Living

D

Communities across the world are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. The efforts are well

intentioned,

but

banning

facial

recognition

is

the

wrong

way

to

fight

against

modem

surveillance

（监

视）

.

Generally,

modem

mass

surveillance

has

three

broad

components:

identification,

correlation

and

.

D. replace

discrimination.

Facial recognition is a technology that can be used to identify people without their consent. Once we are

identified, the data about who we are and what we are doing can be correlated with other data. This might be

movement data, which can be used to

Internet browsing data, or data about who we talk to via email or text. It might be data about our income,

ethnicity, lifestyle, profession and interests. There is an entire industry of data brokers who make a living by

selling our data without our consent.

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It's not just that they know who we are; it's that they correlate what they know about us to create profiles

about who we are and what our interests are. The whole purpose of this process is for companies to treat

individuals differently. We are shown different ads on the Internet and receive different offers for credit

cards. In the future, we might be treated differently when we walk into a store, just as we currently are when

we visit websites.

It

doesn't

matter

which

technology

is

used

to

identify

people.

What's

important

is

that

we

can

be

consistently identified over time. We might be completely anonymous

（

匿名的）

in a system that uses unique

cookies to track us as we browse the Internet, but the same process of correlation and discrimination still

occurs.

Regulating this system means addressing all three steps of the process. A ban on facial recognition won't

make any difference. The problem is that we are being identified without our knowledge or consent, and

society needs rules about when that is permissible.

Similarly, we need rules about how our data can be combined with other data, and then bought and sold

without our knowledge or consent. The data broker industry is almost entirely unregulated now. Reasonable

laws would prevent the worst of their abuses.

Finally,

we

need

better

rules

about

when

and

how

it

is

permissible

for

companies

to

discriminate.

Discrimination based on protected characteristics like race and gender is already illegal, but those rules are

ineffectual against the current technologies of surveillance and control. When people can be identified and

their data correlated at a speed and scale previously unseen, we need new rules.

Today, facial recognition technologies are receiving the force of the tech backlash

（

抵制）

，

but focusing

on them misses the point. We need to have a serious conversation about all the technologies of identification,

correlation and discrimination, and decide how much we want to be spied on and what sorts of influence we

want them to have over our lives.

42.

According to Para. 2, with facial recognition,

A.

one

5

s lifestyle changes greatly

B.

one's email content is disclosed

C.

one's profiles are updated in time

D.

one's personal information is released

43.

We can learn from the passage that

.

A.

discrimination based on new tech surveillance is illegal

B.

different browsing data bring in different advertisements

C.

using mobiles anonymously keeps us from being correlated

D.

data brokers control the current technologies of surveillance

44.

The underlined part “the point”

in the last paragraph probably refers to

A.

people's concern over their safety

B.

the nature of the surveillance society

C.

proper regulation of mass surveillance

D.

the importance of identification technology

45.

The author wrote this passage to

.

A.

call for banning facial recognition technologies

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