2020届高三最新适应性考试英语试题-含答案

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13

至

16

题。

13. What subject is the woman interested in?

A. History.

B. Mystery.

14. Why is the shop closing next week?

A. The owner is retiring.

B. The shop needs some repairs.

C. Many new books will be arriving.

15. What month is it now?

A. August.

B. January.

16. How will the woman probably get her next books?

A. She’ll check them out from the library.

B. She’ll ask the man for them in advance.

C. She’ll buy them at another bo

okstore.

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段材料，回答第

17

至

20

题。

17. What part of the body will the class be drawing today?

A. Hands.

B. Feet.

C. Faces.

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C. Excited.

C. Science fiction.

C. October.

18. How many students are there in this class?

A. 15.

19. What’s the color of Joan’s eyes?

A. Green.

B. Blue.

C. Yellow.

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. How does the speaker feel about the students’ performance?

A. Nervous.

B. Embarrassed.

C. Confident.

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15

小题；每小题

2

分，满分

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阅读下列短 文，从每题所给的四个选项（

A

、

B< /p>

、

C

和

D

）中，选出最佳选项，并在答

题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

How It Feels to Float

by Helaia Fox

If you're looking for a moving story that explores themes of mental illness, grief (

悲痛

),

and love, pick up a copy of

How It Feels to Float

and follow Biz as she comes of age. This

moving novel will stay with you long

after you finish reading it.

Two Can Keep a Secret

by Karen M. MeManus

Put on your crime-solving cap and get swept away in this thriller about a girl, a boy,

and a string of unsolved murders. As threats and clues pile up, you’ll be burning the

midnight oil trying to finish the book before dawn.

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B. 30.

C. 33.

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

by Julie C. Dao

The first book in the Rise of the Empress series takes the bones of a traditional fairy

tale

—

a poor girl fated for power, an evil queen determined to stop her, love for someone

who doesn't love back and magic

—

and

gives them a richly imagined East Asian setting.

Dune

by Frank Herbert

If the Star Wars movies have made you fall in love with the space opera, eventually

you're going to read Frank Herbert's most famous creation. The story of centuries-old

political plotting

—

about warring factions

(

派系

) battling over control of the extremely valuable planet Arrakis

—

is a classic and

remains a wonderful introduction to the larger, more complex world of science fiction just

beyond the Star Wars trilogies.

21. What is

How It Feels to Float

mainly about?

A. The murder of a teenage girl.

B. A girl's space adventures.

C. Challenges of growing up.

D. A poor girl with special powers.

22. What kind of book is

Two Can Keep a Secret

?

A. A fairy tale.

B. A science- fiction story.

C. A love story.

D. A detective story.

book is about battling for control of another planet?

A.

How It Feels to Float

B.

Two Can Keep a Secret

C.

Forest of a thousand Lanterns

B

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D.

Dune

As a kid, Joan

na Buckley wasn’t interested in science —

until she had a chance to try it.

That happened when she got a chemistry set for Christmas.

“Over the course of a few weeks, I’d completed every experiment. But in the process, I

polluted

my

parent’s

dining

room

ca

rpet

and

burnt

the

kitchen

worktop

with

the

spirit

burner,” she says.

Now science is Buckley’s job. She works in the chemistry department at the University

of

Sheffield

in

England.

“I

realize,

first

-hand,

how

important

it

is

to

have

something

or

someone to

show you why science is so great,” she says. Now the good news is that citizen

science appears.

Citizen

science

takes

the

fun

of experimenting a

step further

than Buckley’s

at

-home

chemistry kit. That’s because these experiments are real, looking for

novel answers.

“Compared with a one

-

off experiment, what’s cool about citizen science is that students

get that this has a purpose,” says Prunuske

，

who teaches microbiology and immunology at a

medical college . “Students want to do a good job, because t

hey know scientists are going to

use the new data in their own research.”

Jennifer

Long’s

job

is

to

coordinate(

协调

)

education

and

outreach.

She

agrees

with

Prunuske.

“Kids

like

that

it’s

real.

And

they

like

that

it’s

important,

that

it

matters.”

Citizen-science projects have made big discoveries. One found a previously unknown galaxy

cluster

（星系团）

. Another project helped assess how much damage a big earthquake had

caused in Japan. And one of the first citizen-science projects helped scientists learn where

Monarch butterflies go every winter.

Some adults worry about teens losing interest in science. That’s one reason they hope

that fun, exciting citizen-science projects can help them keep engaged, Long says. And she

has

some

evidence

that

it’s

working,

“Last

year,

we

did

have

a

couple

of

students

say,

‘I

really think I want to be a scientist now. ”

24. What is the purpose of paragraph 2?

A. To support trials can make teens interested in science.

B. To prove failure is the mother of success in science.

C. To state Buckley has a talent for science.

D. To praise Buckley for her strong will.

25. Why is citizen science more fun?

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A. It needs to seek for new solutions.

B. It carries out experiments frequently.

C. It must carry out experiments in groups.

D. It demands to handle complex problems.

26. What can we know from what Prunuske said?

A. She participated in the experiment.

B. She took pride in what students took up.

C. Citizen science is popular with students.

D. Scientists are willing to employ students.

27. What is Long’s attitude towards citizen science?

A.

Concerned.

B.

Supportive.

C.

Doubtful.

D.

Unclear.

C

Your circle of friends may help you get a better reading on your overall health and

wellness rather than just using wearable devices such as a Fitbit, according to researchers.

The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, analyzed what the structure of social

networks says about the state of health, happiness and stress.

拓扑学

) of the social network

—

what does my

position within my social network predict about my health and well-being said Nitesh V

.

Chawla, a professor at the University of Notre Dame in the US.

“What we found was the social network structure provides a significant improvement

in predictability of wellness states of an individual over just using the data obtained from

wearables, like the number of steps or heart

rate,” Ch

awla said.

For the study, participants wore a Fitbit to capture health behavior data about walking,

sleeping, heart rate and overall activity level. They also completed surveys and

self-assessments of their stress, happiness and

positivity.

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Cbawla and his team then analyzed the data with a machine learning model, alongside

the connections and characteristics of an individual's social network.

The study showed a strong correlation (

相关性

) between social network structures,

heart rate, number of steps and level of activity.

Social network structure provided significant improvement in predicting one's health

and well-being compared to just looking at health behavior data from the Fitbit alone.

For example, when social network structure is combined with the data from wearables,

the machine learning model achieved a 65 percent improvement in predicting happiness.

The model also achieved a 54 percent improvement in predicting one's self-assessed

health prediction, a 55 percent improvement in predicting positive attitude and a 38 percent

improvement in predicting success.

This study asserts (

断言

) that without social network information, we only have an

incomplete view of an individual's wellness state, and to be fully predictive or to be able to

obtain interventions (

干扰

). It is critical to be aware of the social network, Chawla said.

28. What did the study find?

A. How people choose their friend circles.

B. What factors decide your friend circles.

C. How your circle of friends influences you

D. What your circle of friends says about your health.

29. How did the researchers draw their conclusions?

A. By comparing data.

B. By giving examples.

C. By analyzing cause and effect

D. By describing personal

experiences.

30. What does the underlined word “critical” mean in the last paragraph?

A. Easy.

B. Common.

C. Important.

D.

Challenging.

31. What do Chawla's words in the last paragraph tell us?

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A How fitness devices can connect your circle of friends

B. That a person's social network is part of his health picture.

C. The best ways to make friends and keep a healthy social circle

D. That wearable devices are not useful for understanding someone's health.

D

While many of us may have been away somewhere nice last summer, few would say that

we’ve “summered.” “Summer” is clearly a noun, more precisely, a verbed noun.

Way back in our childhood, we all learned the difference between a noun and a verb.

With such a tidy definition, it was easy to spot the difference. Not so in adulthood, where we

are

expected

to

“foot”

bills,

“chair”

committees,

and

“dialogue”

with

political

opponents.

Chances are you didn’t feel uncomfortable about the sight of those verbed nouns.

“The

verbing

of

nouns

is

as

old

as

the

English

language,”

says

Patricia

O’Conner,

a

former editor at The New York Times Book Review. Experts estimate that 20 percent of all

English verbs were originally nouns. And the phenomenon seems to be snowballing. Since

1900, about 40 percent of all new verbs have come from nouns.

Even though conversion (

转化

) is quite universal, plenty of grammarians object to the

practice. William Strunk Jr. and , in The Elements of Style

—

the Bible for the use

of American English

—

have this to say: “Many nouns lately have been pressed into service

as verbs. Not all are bad, but all are suspect.” The Chicago Manual of Style takes a similar

standpoint, advising writers to use verbs with great care.

“Sometimes

people

object

to

a

new

verb

because

they

resist

what

is

unfamiliar

to

them,” says O’Conner. That’s why we’re comfortable “hosting” a party, but we might feel

upset by the thought of “medaling” in sports. So are there any rules for verbing? Benjamin

Dreyer,

copy

chief

at

R

andom

House,

doesn’t

offer

a

rule,

but

suggests

that

people

think

twice about “verbifying” a noun if it’s easily replaceable by an already existing popular verb.

Make sure it’s descriptive but not silly

-sounding, he says.

In the end, however, style is subjective. Easy conversion of nouns to verbs has been part

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