南通市2020届高三第一次调研测试英语(含答案)

About The Postal Museum

There

’

s nothing ordinary about the story of the post. From five -wheeled cycles and rockets to a lioness

and flintlock pistols

（手枪）

，

the award- winning Postal Museum offers a surprising and entertaining half day

out for all ages.

See a restored Mail Coach that thundered across 1800s Britain, get up close to the only existing sheets of

the

world

5

s

first

postage

stamp,

the

Penny

Black,

and

explore

Mail

Rail

—

one

of

London's

hidden

gems

—

with a 15-minute ride through the underground tunnels of the Post Office

5

s own 100-year-old railway.

Forget what you think you know about the post and visit one of London's newest museums to discover

just what it took to keep us all in touch.

Know Before You Go

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Mail Rail is a miniature railway designed to carry post, not people. As such, it's not suitable for everyone

and we^re unfortunately unable to accommodate wheelchair users on the ride itself.

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The Postal Museum is open 10am-5pm every day (closed at Christmas).

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Please ensure you arrive at least 15 minutes before the end of the one-hour Mail Rail timeslot shown on

your ticket. Failure to arrive on time may result in being unable to ride Mail Rail.

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Re-entry is permitted any time between 10am and 4:30pm on the date stated on the ticket.

56.

A visitor to the Postal Museum will have the chance to

A.

take the restored Mail Coach

B.

ride Mail Rail for 15 minutes

C.

get a copy of the Penny Black

D.

hear an unusual story of the post

57.

From the advertisement, we can know that

.

.

A.

re-entry is not permitted during the opening hours

B.

the museum reduces the opening hours at Christmas

C.

unpunctual visitors may not get the most out of the tour

D.

wheelchair users cannot ride Mail Rail without attendance

B

According to new health guidelines, even a minute or two of physical exercise is better than nothing: just

walking upstairs and down again, before continuing your otherwise entirely sofa-based afternoon of crisps and

television, makes for a healthier life than if you hadn' t bothered. The previous recommendation was for a

10-

minute minimum, but for years’ the general direction of research has been toward the conclusion that there

is no minimum at all. This doesn

5

1 just go for exercise^ either. Five minutes in nature can boost your mental

health; and while one daily serving of vegetables may be too few, it's definitely preferable to zero. If you are

wondering whether or not some tiny but healthful activity is worth it, the answer^ almost always, is yes.

It' s a little strange^ actually, that this is even a topic of debate. Of course anything is better than nothing.

For one thing, it's a good start for building habits. For another, tiny actions are valuable in themselves. Human

bodies aren't digital devices, and health generally isn't a matter of reaching fixed thresholds

（

「

［槛）< /p>

；

what is

good for the organism in large quantities is usually good in smaller ones, too.

The real reason for the debate is not that the facts are in dispute

（

争议）

.

It's that information is dangerous.

When public bodies recommend^ say, a 10-minute minimum, it's because they worry that if they don't, people

who might otherwise have exercised for 10 minutes will stop after two.

Even this column risks making things worse. If you had truly been planning to spend all day on the sofa,

perhaps I have inspired you to take a five-minute walk; but if there is a chance that you would have gone to the

gym for an hour, reading these words might persuade you to settle for the stroll

（散步）

instead.

Ideally, we would stop thinking about healthy behaviours in terms of minimums: within reason, you

should be doing as much exercise as you can, not as little as you can get away with

—

while remembering that

nothing is too minor to be not worth the bother. This is a sensible approach to much of life, I would say, from

being a good friend or paying attention to your kids, to saving money or reducing your environmental impact.

However much you do

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it will never be enough. But that is not a reason to do nothing

—

on the contrary^ it' s a

reason to do something.

58.

Tiny healthy actions are worthwhile because

A.

they contribute to good habits and health

?

B.

they provide abundant choices for fitness

C.

they add a new dimension to people

,

s lives

D.

they are easily conducted in people

5

s daily lives

59.

Why don public bodies recommend a minimum time for exercise?

A.

People have their own concept of time.

B.

It contradicts with new health guidelines.

C.

There is a lack of scientific research on it.

D.

People may misinterpret its real intentions.

60.

What does the writer want to stress in the passage?

A.

Life lies in movement.

B.

All roads lead to Rome.

C.

Actions speak louder than words.

D.

Anything is better than nothing.

c

We

like

to

think

that

the

human

mind

is

special.

One

sign

of

our

superiority

is

self-awareness,

which

is

generally

seen

as

the

peak

of

consciousness. Only a select group of species has passed the test of being able

to

recognise

themselves

in

a

mirror.

Most,

including

elephants,

apes

and

dolphins, are smart. But now a little fish, the cleaner wrasse has become the

first fish ever to pass the mirror test

——

a classic experiment used to judge self-awareness in animals. What

are we to make of this?

Admittedly^ the mirror test is a questionable way of probing

（探究）

the minds of other animals. But the

finding does fit with a new idea that the ability to recognise oneself is more related to an

animal

’

s

lifestyle

than

to

its

brain

size.

Self-awareness

is

likely

to

occur

in

creatures

whose

survival

is

dependent on reading the minds of others. In fact, by this way of thinking, it is nothing more than an accidental

by- product of evolution^ a simulation

（模拟）

created by the brain, or even just a hall of mirrors giving the

illusion of complexity.

The cleaner wrasse lives on coral reefs and provides a service by biting parasites

（

寄

生虫）

off the scales

of bigger fish gently, a delicate relationship that may require insight into the minds of its clients. Such “theory

of mind” has long been seen as another cornerstone of human me

ntal superiority. The possibility that fish

possess it is not, however, the only threat to our human exceptionalism

（例外）

.

It may not be long before

computers give us a run for our money , too.

Researchers have created a set of tests to look for theory of mind in artificial intelligence

—

and some

systems

are

on

the

point

of

passing.

No

AIs

have

passed

the

tests

yet,

but

one

got

extremely

close.

We

probably don't need to worry about robots that can recognise themselves in mirrors. But we might want to be

more open to the idea that human intelligence isn't quite as special as we like to think.

61.

What can we learn from the mirror test?

A.

Mammals have a more adaptive body system.

B.

A species of fish is capable of self-recognition.

C.

The human mind is just as special as expected.

D.

Humans have reached the peak of consciousness.

62.

According to the passage, self-awareness

.

A.

is formed during evolution by chance

ponds with the size of the brain

B.

isn't a hall of mirrors but a simulation

ts the typical mental complexity

underlined part in Paragraph 3 probably means

A.

bring us huge profits

B.

cost us a lot of money

C.

have great control over us

D.

challenge our exceptionalism

' s the main idea of the passage?

A.

Fish possess no level of intelligence.

B.

Humans are not unique in intelligence.

C.

AIs will be able to understand our thoughts.

D.

Self-awareness is a big mystery of the mind.

D

For me, Christmas was always complicated. As a child, it was joyful, yet a bit bittersweet. On the one

hand, there was my Scottish mother, who went all -out for tradition. On the other hand, there was my Bengali

（孟加拉）

father. He was a reluctant participant in our Christmas celebration.

To five-year-old me, the idea that someone might not love Christmas was unbelievable. It was years

before I realised that my father

’

s own childhood had been a Santa-free zone. I was vaguely aware of the

Bengali equivalent

（等同物）

to Christmas. Every September or October, airmail parcels would arrive, and

ambitious plans were hatched to acquire syrupy cottage-cheese dumplings. But for me this was an addition to

25 December^ not a substitution.

Matters were further complicated by my father

5

s job. After going to medical school in Kolkata, he had

got a posting as a junior doctor at a hospital in Glasgow, where he met my mother

9

a nurse.

（

She gave up

work after having children.

）

He often had to work on Christmas Day, which would make Mum angry. My

sister and I were largely unaware of this tension, thrilled to go to work with Dad and see actual Santa visiting

sick children on the wards.

As the years went by, though, my father began to accept Christmas. He was promoted to consultant, so he

didn't have to work on the day. Everyone was joyful. Somehow, the more Dad engaged with Christmas, the

more I disliked it. It was as if happy atmosphere was one of the infectious diseases he specialised in

—

I had

caught a terminal case” while he had gone on to make a full recovery.

Things probably became worse in adulthood by the fact that bad events had a habit of happening to me at

Christmas: losing a job, a breakup, a health emergency. My symptoms worsened and I gave up on sending

cards or putting up decorations.

But then, one day everything changed. In October 2012, my father died. He had been in good health;

nothing could have prepared us for such a loss. I have no memory of Christmas that year, except that it was the

worst of my life.

During that period,one of the only things that kept me sane

（

理智的）

was weekly choir

（

唱诗班）

practice.

However, as anyone who has ever been in a choir knows, Christmas is non-negotiable.

So I dragged myself out on that freezing night. The lights were sparkling; London had never looked so

beautiful. I was totally lost in the music, so I started dancing, laughing and doing jazz hands, carrying on like

the naughty 15-year-old chorister I had been at school.

It was then that a woman appro

ached me.

（支吾）

，

“You were wonderful up there—

I

wanted to thank you.” I made a joke about how we didn't sound as out of tune as normal, but she shook her

head. “N@ I wanted to thank you?

I couldn't think what she meant.

moment,” s

he told me.

I looked at her more closely. What I saw in the woman

5

s watery blue eyes was grief. It dawned on me

then that while I missed my father very much, the loss had come after 48 years of his devoted attention. What

I had was a rare gift. Because of it, I would find my way back to myself. Not everyone was that lucky.

But the woman was still talking.

“

Seeing you up there having such a good time, it made me realise I've

forgotten how to enjoy myself.

”

She made a show of jazz hands:

.”

Six years

皿

I am the one buying wrapping paper in July and making my own Christmas cards. It might

sound

strange^,

but

that

generous

conversation

somehow

gave

me

permission

to

get

back

to

the

serious

business of enjoying life

——

and Christmas. Not only was it what my father would have wanted, but doing so

could have a positive impact on others

—

even perfect strangers.

mas was complicated for the author as a child because

.

A.

it was celebrated at a different time

B.

her parents couldn't afford decorations

C.

her parents had their own social customs

D.

it was reduced to being abandoned in his family

was to blame for the author s tense parental relationship at Christmas?

A.

Mum's loss of job.

B.

A junior doctor's workload.

C

?

Dad's absence from Christmas.

D. Children

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s curiosity about Santa.

did the author have a negative feeling towards Christmas in her youth?

A.

Her father' s change touched her.

B.

She matured and lost interest in it.

C.

She was infected with an incurable disease.

D.

Her misfortunes always came with Christmas.

does the author mean by saying

Christmas is non- negotiable

”

in Paragraph 7?

A.

She changed her attitude towards Christmas.

B.

She was fascinated with the merry atmosphere.

C.

Her father

’

s sudden death was a heavy blow to her.

D.

She had to join in the celebration as a choir member.

was the woman grateful to the author?

A.

She was inspired by the author.

B.

The author made her feel lucky.

C.

The author taught her how to dance.

D.

They were both in the same situation.

can be learned from the last paragraph?

A. The woman' s remarks helped the author regain passion for life.

Be The author makes Christmas gifts with paper to make a living.

C.

The author fails to live up to her father

?

s high expectations.

D.

Positive mind made little difference to people's well-being.

第四部分

任务型阅读（共

小题；每小题

1

分， 满分

10

分）

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的单词。

注意

:

每个空格只填

1

个单词。请将答案 写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

The things we can really learn from books

It's believed that everything you need to know you can find in a book. People have always received

life- guiding wisdom from certain types of non-fiction, often from

help” books. But actually all sorts of

books can carry this kind of wisdom. A random sentence in a thriller will give you unexpected insight.

It is also believed that there is no book so bad that you can't find something of interest in it. That, actually,

is a paraphrase

（释义）

from the Roman lawyer Pliny the Younger, a viewpoint later adopted by Miguel de

Cervantes in Don Quixote. Admittedly, neither Pliny nor Cervantes were subject to some of the weakest “sex

and shopping

”

books from the 1980s, but people still think it mostly holds true. You can learn something from

the very worst books

—

even if it is just how crass

（粗鲁的）

and base

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or boring and petty

（琐碎的）

，

or cruel

and intolerant the human race can be.

There is a proud tradition of extracting

（摘录）

lines from poetry and songs and using them in this way.

But not everyone is a fan of cherry- picking odd passages from random books and using them to direct your life.

Some people argue that lines from novels and plays are dependent on what surrounds them

—

that it's improper

and self-serving to grab the odd line here and there. Others don't buy this. It ignores the way that your brain

collects, refracts^ sorts and combines information. We can find meaning in everything

——

and everything is

fair game.

We overschedule our days and complain constantly about being too busy; we keep up with hundreds of

acquaintances but rarely see our best friends; we bombard ourselves with video clips and emails and instant

messages; we even interrupt our interruptions.

Books are uniquely suited to helping us change our relationship to the rhythms and habits of daily life in

this world. We can't interrupt them; we can only interrupt ourselves while reading them. They speak to us,

thoughtfully^ one at a time. They demand attention

—

they demand that we briefly put aside our work at hand

and listen to someone else. You can rant

(

< br>咆哮

)

against a book, scribble

(

涂鸦

)

in the margin, or even throw it

out the window. Still, you won't change the words on the page.

We all ask each other a lot of questions:

”

“

Where did you go on your holidays?

”

But

there

’

s one question we should ask of one another a lot more often, and that is:

n

When

we ask one another that, we sometimes discover the ways we are similar; sometimes the ways that we are

different.

“

What are you reading?

”

isn

’

t a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it' s really a way

of finding out, “Who are you now and who are you becoming?

n

The things we can really learn from books

Popular beliefs

?

Books are the (71)

▲

of knowledge and wisdom.

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Any book (72)

▲

its readers regardless of its quality.

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Some think little of it, arguing that extracted lines without

Mixed (73)

▲

(74)

▲

are meaningless.

to lines extraction

?

Others counter that they are meaningful because our brain has

the ability to (75)

▲

information.

People today are (76)

▲

in endless connectivity and tight

Feature of modern life

schedules.

?

Books can help us adapt to the pace of life today. They urge us to

(77)

▲

stay (78)

▲

and listen quietly.

of books

?

However we (79)

▲

books, the words on the book pages remain

the same.

By asking what a person is reading, we can easily determine his or her (80)

▲

and ambition.

Conclusion

第五部分

书面表达（满分

分）

81.

请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇

150

词左右的文章。

Is youth lingo ruining the Chinese language?

Young people often create their own language that goes beyond rigid linguistic rules. This

year's latest slang

（俚语）

terms add a further simplification: the use of pinyin acronyms

（首字母缩略词）

.

“

Awsl,

”

in pinyin, for instance,

means “Ah, wo si

le

”

（

Oh, I'm gonna die

）

, and is used if something is too

cute or adorable to bear.

“Pyq” stands for

“

pengyou quan”

，

the social feed on the popular Chinese social

media app WeChat, and

“nsdd” stands for “ni shuo de dui”

（

you're right

）

.

Teens

want

to

be

different

from

their

parents,

so

it's

natural

for

them

to

create

and

use

their

own

linguistic terms to show that. In doing so, young people are indeed driving linguistic change. They aren't the

only

factor

influencing

language

development,

but

they

can

indeed

transform

how

future

generations

communicate.

Critics fear that Chinese internet slang will have the potential to negatively influence broader linguistic

trends of Mandarin Chinese, in particular, the gradual taking over of pinyin. As pinyin gets widely used when

texting or writing on mobile phone or computer, while less and less people write characters by hand, people

gradually forget how to write them. The phenomenon has got a name in China: Character amnesia

（健忘症）

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