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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2020年云南省高考英语第二次模拟试题与答案本试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟。注意事项:1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号等信息填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3.考试结束，考生将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30分) （略）第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，

2、选出最佳选项。AAccording to the International Ecotourism Society, eco-travel is “responsible travel to natural areas that protects the environment, maintains the well-beings and involves education”. Eco-travel is on the rise, as more and more people become conscious about their carbon footprint.Expert from

3、 Boundless Journeys, Matt Holmes, who works-on travel experiences towards conserving areas said, “As scientists and non-scientists learn more about how we human beings are impacting the planet, I think. more people want to do what they can while still exploring the world. Our guests are definitely i

4、nterested in that aspect of our journeys. Travelers can farm their own food in Italy, managing their use of water and using solar or wind power. They can also visit n family-run camp that cares for retired logging elephants in Myanmar, know a park entry fee goes to a conservation organization in Cos

5、ta Rica, employ and train members of the local community or partner with a protection group. There are lots of options for seeking out greener holiday.”Most people believe that eco-travel is expensive and it is true. Matt explained “Anti-poaching patrols (巡逻) need to be paid, solar energy equipment

6、costs a lot to install, building with environmentally friendly, materials is more expensive and so on. The extra cost is necessary, as you re paying to minimize your footprint and protect the places you visit, which is exactly what eco-travel is about. The financial success and sustainability (可持续性)

7、 of an eco- focused operation doesnt come from thin air.” The industry is trying to make eco-travel affordable and make it accessible to the common people.1. What is the positive influence of eco-friendly travel?A. It enables travelers to protect the environment while travelingB. It keeps human bein

8、gs healthy and happy in a friendly atmosphere.C. It teaches us to be responsible for the development of economy.D. It offers some valuable education about the knowledge of gardening.2. According to Matt Holmes, travelers will be interested in _.A. eating delicious food in ItalyB. visiting elephants

9、in the zooC. working together with a protection groupD. raising park entry fee in Costa Rica3. What will probably be talked about in the next paragraph of the passage?A. Why eco-travel is expensive.B. How we can make eco-travel less expensive.C. What material are used in eco-travel.D. Where we can g

10、o for eco-travel.BScience is finaly beginning to embrace animals who were, for a long time, considered second-class citizens.As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. Whe

11、n given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend die.Pigs respond meaningful to human symbols. When a research team led by

12、 Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the Os. Then the team switched from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols. Sti

13、ll, the pigs walked only toward the O-shirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a two-dimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat of reasoning.Ive been guilty of prejudiced expectations, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys an

14、d apes out-think and out-feel other animals. Theyre other primates(灵长目动物), after all, animals from our own mammalian(哺乳动物的) class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning wit

15、h their social companions. Long-term studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure kin laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at t

16、heme parks.Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will the new science of food animals bring an ethical (伦理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catc

17、h up with the development of our science?Animal activists are already there, of course, committed to not eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attention to the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us to make changes in who we eat?4. According to Annie Potts, hens have

18、 the ability of_.A. interactionB. analysisC. creationD. abstraction5. The research into pigs shows that pigs_.A. learn letters quickly B. have a good eyesightC. can build up a good relationship D. can apply knowledge to new situations6. Paragraph 4 is mainly about_.A. the similarities between mammal

19、s and humansB. the necessity of long-term studies on mammalsC. a change in peoples attitudes towards animalsD. a discovery of how animals express themselves7. What might be the best title for the passage?A. The Inner Lives of Food Animals B. The Lifestyles of Food AnimalsC. Science Reports on Food A

20、nimals D. A Revolution in Food AnimalsCWhy does time seem to fly by faster as we get old? Youve got your aging brain to blame. This is likely due largely to the physical changes of our nerves and neurons(神经元). New research suggests rapid fire abilities of the young brain allow us to process more inf

21、ormation during youth, causing the days to seem longer earlier in life. However, as we get old, researchers say the older brain takes more time to process information.The new finding put forward by a Duke University researcher was published in a paper in the journal European Review this week Accordi

22、ng to Adrian Bejan, the J. A Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke, the physical changes of our nerves and neurons play, a major role in our perception(知觉) of time as we get old. Over the years these structures become more complex and eventually begin to degrade.Little babies, for exampl

23、e, move their eyes much more often than adults because theyre processing images at a faster rate, Beian says, For older people, this means fewer images are being processed in the same amount of time, causing experiences to seem as though theyre happening more quickly.8. What causes time to fly faste

24、r as we get old?A. Changes of our nerves and neurons.B. Information in our brain .C. The electrical signals.D. Rapid fire abilities.9. What is unavoidable in the process of getting old?A. Longer days.B. Aging brains.C. More images.D. Less experience.10. Why do the days seem longer earlier in life?A.

25、 Young people are more energetic in their life.B. The younger brain takes less time to process informationC. Old people have fewer things to do than young people.D. Little babies move their eyes much more often.11. What is the best title of the text?A. Nerves and NeuronsB. Time Flies FastC. The Olde

26、r, the FasterD. The Function of the BrainDHONG KONG-Cross-border buses operated by Hong Kong companies on Friday started trial runs on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) in preparation for the bridges upcoming opening.“The trial runs, arranged by the governments of the Chinese mainland, the Ho

27、ng Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and the Macao SAR, would last for three days and aimed at testing the readiness of boundary crossing facilities (设施) of the three places,” the Hong Kong SAR governments Transport and Housing Bureau told Xinhua.Two major cross-boundary coach trade associati

28、ons in Hong Kong were invited to send buses and members to participate in the trial runs.Freeman Cheung, secretary of Hong Kong Guangdong Boundary Crossing Bus Association, said his association would run one bus with about 10 passengers on Friday and Saturday respectively as part of the trial runs.“

29、Our bus started at noon from the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities and ran all the way to Zhuhai in about 40 minutes,” he said, adding that “the journey was smooth.”Alan Chan, secretary of another trade association who participated in the trial runs as a passenger, said the clearance procedures

30、 at boundary crossing facilities of the three places all went on well and smoothly.“The boundary crossing facilities of Zhuhai and Macao, in particular, are operated in a collaborative (合作的) way, which helps remarkably shorten the time needed for the clearance procedures,” he said.The HZMB, situated

31、 at the waters of Lingdingyang of Pearl River Estuary, is a mega-size sea crossing linking the Hong Kong SAR, Zhuhai city of Guangdong Province and the Macao SAR.The 55-km bridge is the longest bridge-and-tunnel (隧道) sea crossing in the world.The bridge is meant to meet the demand of passenger and f

32、reight land transport among Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland and Macao, and to establish a new land transport link between the east and west banks of the Pearl River.12. We learn from the passage that _.A. Alan Chan participated in the trial runs as a driverB. two coach trade associations in Zhuhai t

33、ook part in the trial runsC. the HZMB is located at the waters of Lingdingyang of Pearl River EstuaryD. the 55-km bridge is the second longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing in the world13. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?A. The route of the trial runs. B. The effect of the trial runs.

34、C. The purpose of the trial runs. D. The evaluation of the trial runs.14. What does the underlined word “freight” in the last paragraph mean?A. Goods that are transported by trucks, trains, ships, or planes.B. Lines of raised water that moves across the surface of the sea.C. Parts of the sea where f

35、ish are caught in large numbers.D. The regular rising and falling of the level of the sea.15. Which of the following can be the best title for the news report?A. HZMB Is to Establish New Land Transport LinkB. Cross-border Buses Start Trial Runs on Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao BridgeC. Mega-size Sea Crossi

36、ng Linking Hong Kong SAR, Zhuhai and Macao SARD. Boundary Crossing Facilities of Zhuhai and Macao Operated Collaboratively第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Imagine an area 34 times the size of Manhattan. Now imagine it covered ankle-deep in plastic waste- a total of abou

37、t 19 billion pounds of garbage. _16_.“Were being overwhelmed(淹没)by our waste，”said Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer who led the 2015 study that determined this astonishing number. _17_, unless something is done to stop the tide of garbage.Plastic-a widely-used material-has in many ways been

38、a benefit to humans but it has also caused a growing problem. Today, plastics are the No.1 type of garbage found in the sea. Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit that organizes an annual coastal cleanup event worldwide, said plastic waste makes up around 85 percent of the garbage collected from beaches an

39、d oceans.Ocean Conservancy says plastics are believed to threaten(威胁)at least 600 different wildlife species(物种). _18_ ; a growing body of evidence suggests humans are consuming plastics through the seafood we eat. A research suggests some plastics could be poisonous to humans, and could potentially

40、 increase the risk of health problems._19_. At the Economist World Ocean Summit this week, ten nations announced to reduce plastic sea liter as part of UN Environments CleanSeas campaign. _20_Corporations also have a role, as do individuals. We can start by thinking twice before using single-use pla

41、stic products-and when we do use them, we should take care to properly throw them off or recycle.A. The following is what we should doB. And its not just wildlife thats threatenedC. And this figure is likely to double by 2025D. But its not just countries that need to do their partE. By 2050,that fig

42、ure is expected to rise to 1000 piecesF. Thats how much plastic waste ends up in our oceans every yearG. All of us have an important role to play in dealing with the problems第三部分 语言知识运用(共两节，满分45分)第一节 (共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。It was a Wednesday night. A middle-

43、aged man came in for a tooth extraction (拔牙）.He was sitting_21_in the waiting hall when I took his blood pressure, which was_22_at 160I was a little worried because we are not supposed to extract teeth from patients with high blood pressure. Understanding my_23_, he explained that he was just_24_. I

44、 led him to the dental chair, trying to calm him down.Most patients are a little nervous before treatment, so we normally_25_with them to help them relax. I said, Extraction can be scary, but we will try to make it less_26_.”He said, No, you dont understand. After a while, he_27_, My father died of

45、heart attacks on the dental chair. And last week I was_28_with cancer. So its hard for me to_29_.”1 was_30_I tried hard to say something to_31_him, but I failed and sank into silence.The doctor came in. He_32_the patient and started to talk about the extraction. The patient, _33_. told his story. Th

46、e doctor_34_and said, Okay, I see. Let me know if you dont feel well during the_35_. He started the procedure, constantly asking the patient how he_36_. When we successfully pulled his tooth, I_37_a sigh of relief.We doctors will meet different patients in our_38_.Sometimes they come with_39_memorie

47、s of treatment. What we can do is to try our best to help them. To be a doctor means serving patients with a_40_heart.21. A. happilyB. excitedlyC. anxiouslyD. breathlessly22. A. highB. lowC. strongD. weak23. A. roleB. concernC. desireD. behavior24. A. curiousB. lonelyC. cautiousD. nervous25. A. speakB. informC. chatD. tell26. A. effortlessB. painlessC. unbearableD. uncomfortable27. A. addedB. explainedC. thoughtD. evaluated28. A. diagnosedB. checkedC. examinedD. infected29. A. cheer upB. come inC. set outD. calm down30. A. speechlessB. noiselessC. soundlessD. wordl