2020 年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试
英语·模拟预测卷(三)
本试卷 7 页，满分 120 分。考试用时 120 分钟
注意事项：
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第一部分 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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项
涂。
A
Going to college was not optional. In my family, it was just another step toward the American dream.
As soon as I graduated, I enrolled (入学)in the English Department of Colorado State University. I went on
to earn two scholarships, and membership in the National Honor Society. I truly believed the hard work was
worth it.
It wasn't until a few months ago that I realized how clueless I was. I had been combing through the
classifieds when my eyes fell upon my dream job: “National College Magazine looking for writers ”.
Thrilled, I spent the weekend composing a resume . Needless to say, I was stunned when the
interviewer barely took one glance before throwing it aside.
"No experience," he said flatly.
I felt like screaming, "What do you mean, no experience? Look at these grades."
I was left to absorb the shock of rejection, thinking that nobody ever told me that a 4. 0 student would
be turned down for a job.
Didn't all of my hard work count for anything?
I see plenty of demands for two years of experience at a print publication, but none requiring extensive
knowledge of how to write academic papers. Yet 95% of my energy in school went toward the latter, leaving
me little time to devote to anything else. If career preparation is supposed to be the point of college, then
why isn't it the focus?
Has a college degree just become another societal status symbol like fancy cars or designer clothes?
Given my experience, I feel that a college degree would be a lot more valuable if students were required
to get some outside experience to supplement their in — class knowledge. Instead of requiring four science
classes, why not three science classes and an internship? In my college career, I took one class that taught
me how to write and submit essays for publication. This ever — so — brief taste of the real world was like
holding an ice cream sundae in front of a child and only giving her a small bite.
1．Why did the author study so hard at college?
A．To maintain a family tradition. B．To land an ideal job.
C．To fulfill parents' expectations. D．To win scholarships for the tution2．What accounted for the author's failure in job hunting?
A．His dull resume. B．His misjudgment in high scores.
C．His lack of experience. D．His poor performance in the interview.
3．What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph imply?
A．Academic writing is a small part of college life.
B．College education always covers unimportant things.
C．Competition in college is not as fierce as that in the real world.
D．The author feels held back by his lack of real — world experience.
4．What does the author want to tell us by writing this article?
A．Get a college degree and you will go far.
B．College students should make the best of their time.
C．Career preparation is a necessity for college education.
D．Landing a successful career is better than a college degree.
B
Although it has been indicated in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and smelling,
they are still usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, Itzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel
Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made ultrasonic(超声的)sounds at
frequencies humans can't hear when stressed by a lack of water or when their stem is cut.
Microphones placed 10 centimeters from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to
100 kilohertz. Human hearing usually ranges from 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz. " These findings can alter the
way we think about the plant kingdom , " they wrote in their study, which has not yet been published.
On average, drought - stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tobacco plants made 11.
When plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour, and tobacco
plants 15. Unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour. It is even possible to distinguish
between the sounds to know what the stress is. The researchers trained a machine — learning model to
separate the plants，sounds from those of the wind, rain and other noises of the greenhouse, correctly
identifying in most cases whether the stress was caused by dryness or a cut, based on the sound's intensity
and frequency. Water — hungry tobacco appeared to make louder sounds than cut tobacco, for example.
Although Khait and his colleagues only looked at tomato and tobacco plants, they believe other plants may
make sounds when stressed.
Enabling farmers to listen for water — stressed plants could " open a new direction in the field of
precision(精准) agriculture", the researchers suggest. They add that such an ability will be increasingly
important as climate change exposes more areas to drought.
Khait's study also suggests that insects and some mammals can hear and respond to from as far as 5
metres away. A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water - stressed. Edward Farmer
at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland thinks the idea that moths might be listening to plants is “a little
too speculative”. After all, there are already plenty of explanations for why insects avoid some plants and not
others.
5．What were tomato and tobacco plants' reactions to different stresses?
A．They reacted to different types of stress with the same sound.
B．Cut tomato plants produced more sounds per hour than water — hungry ones .
C．Cut tobacco plants seemed to make lower sounds than drought - stressed ones.
D．Tobacco plants might make louder sounds than tomato plants when short of water.6．What's the main idea of Paragraph 4?
A．The potential applications of the research.
B．Challenges facing farmers in the future.
C．Farmers' contributions to the research.
D．The future development of agriculture.
7．What does the underlined word "speculative" in the last paragraph probably mean?
A．Practical. B．Surprising.
C．Unsupported. D．Complicated.
8．What may be the best tide for the text?
A．Silent scream B．Mysteries of nature
C．Inner voices D．A yet - to-be - published study
C
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♦ Vampirina at the Beach by Anne Marie Pace
Vampirina and her best monster friend head to the beach during the full moon on a perfect summer
night to enjoy all the fun and festivities the beach has to offer. Along the way, Vampirina’s beach adventures
highlight the importance of beach safety to ensure a heroic adventure for all.
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♦ Summer by Alice Low
Summer brings so many things to a spirited boy, an eager girl, and an excited little dog. The season is
filled with adventure. With clever rhyming words, clever phrasing, and playful images, children will love
following along as this energetic trio (三重唱) takes in all the sunshine, big beach waves, fireworks, and
sweet treats of this truly memorable time of year.
Available from Amazon, $6.23
♦ Waiting for Pumpsie by Barry Wittenstein
Summer is the season of baseball, and there’s no better way to celebrate summer than with the true
story of Pumpsie Green’s rise from the minors to the Boston Red Sox in 1959. As the final major league
team to include black athletes, young Bernard and his family travel to Fenway Park to witness Pumpsie
Green take the field in this inspirational tale of equality and progress.
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♦ The Night Before Summer Camp by Natasha Wing
Sure, camp sounds fun, but when you don’t quite know what to expect, it’s only natural to feel a little
nervous away from Mom and Dad. With rhyming prose (散文) and cheerful illustrations (插图), this
cheering story of an unwilling boy who comes to enjoy all the fun summer camp will have children ready to
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9．What benefit can children get from Vampirina at the Beach?
A．Enjoying the excitement of sports.
B．Making friends with pets more easily.
C．Strengthening the sense of shore safety.
D．Gaining the courage to enjoy summer camp.
10．Which of the following book is related to human rights?
A．Summer. B．Waiting for Pumpsie.
C．Vampirina at the Beach. D．The Night Before Summer Camp.11．What do the four books have in common?
A．They tell what happens in the hot season. B．They introduce camp adventures.
C．They describe sweet music. D．They have the same price.
D
Smile! It makes everyone in the room feel better because they, consciously or unconsciously, are
smiling with you. Growing evidence shows that an instinct for facial mimicry(模仿) allows us to empathize
with and even experience other people’s feelings. If we can’t mirror another person’s face, it limits our
ability to read and properly react to their expressions. A review of this emotional mirroring appears on
February 11 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
In their paper, Paula Niedenthal and Adrienne Wood, social psychologists at the University of
Wisconsin, describe how people in social situations copy others’ facial expressions to create emotional
responses in themselves. For example, if you’re with a friend who looks sad, you might “try on” that sad
face yourself without realizing you’re doing so. In “trying on” your friend’s expression, it helps you to
recognize what they’re feeling by associating it with times in the past when you made that expression.
Humans get this emotional meaning from facial expressions in a matter of only a few hundred milliseconds.
“You reflect on your emotional feelings and then you generate some sort of recognition judgment, and
the most important thing that results in is that you take the appropriate action—you approach the person or
you avoid the person,” Niedenthal says. “Your own emotional reaction to the face changes your perception
of how you see the face in such a way that provides you with more information about what it means.”
A person’s ability to recognize and “share” others’ emotions can be prevented when they can’t mimic
faces. This is a common complaint for people with motor diseases, like facial paralysis(瘫痪) from a stroke,
or even due to nerve damage from plastic surgery. Niedenthal notes that the same would not be true for
people who suffer from paralysis from birth, because if you’ve never had the ability to mimic facial
expressions, you will have developed compensatory ways of interpreting emotions.
People with social disorders associated with mimicry or emotion-recognition damage, like autism(自闭
症), can experience similar challenges. “There are some symptoms in autism where lack of facial mimicry
may in part be due to limitation of eye contact,” Niedenthal says.
Niedenthal next wants to explore what part in the brain is functioning to help with facial expression
recognition. A better understanding of that part, she says, will give us a better idea of how to treat related
disorders.
12．According to the passage, facial mimicry helps ________.
A．experience one’s own feelings clearly B．change others’ emotions quickly
C．respond to others’ expressions properly D．develop friendship with others easily
13．We can know from Paragraph 4 and 5 that ________.
A．people with motor diseases may also suffer from autism
B．people born with facial paralysis may still recognize emotions
C．people with social disorders can’t have eye contact with others
D．people receiving plastic surgery have difficulty in mimicking faces
14．According to Niedenthal, the next step of the study will focus on ________.
A．how we can treat brain disorders B．what can be done to regain facial mimicry
C．how our brain helps us with emotional mirroring
D．what part of our brain helps recognize facial expression
15．The passage is written to ________.
A．discuss how people react positively to others’ smilesB．draw people’s attention to those with social disorders
C．introduce a new trend in facial expression recognition
D．explain how emotional mirroring affects people’s empathy
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。
Hello! My name is Aurora Carlson. I was born in England, educated in both the French and American
schooling systems, and lived most of my life in various places around the United States.
16．
This undying love for everything Chinese started when I was 16. On somewhat of a whim（奇想）, I
decided to spend a year as an exchange student in Beijing, attending a local Chinese High School
and living with a wonderful Chinese host family.17．After just one year, I became mad about everything
in here.
18． I received a B．A．in Chinese and East Asian Studies from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and can speak and write Mandarin Chinese on a near-native level. Though I am fully
aware of the land and have traveled quite a lot throughout the country, my curiosity in the studies of China
never fades. 19． A place that once upon a time seemed such a faraway land now feels like a second
home; a home with the most welcoming of neighbors.
In my free time, I love to do yoga and cook.20．I hope you join me in Rediscovering China, to
explore this wonderful place from a unique foreign viewpoint.
A．I graduated from University of California, Berkeley.
B．I find it really hard to put down Chinese history books.
C．Unfortunately, I have not yet mastered Chinese cuisine.
D．I have landed at CCTV by way of a strong interest in China.
E.On the contrary, it seems that the more I learn, my interest grows even stronger.
F.Before this, I really had no knowledge or connection to this faraway land, just young curiosity.
G.Since then, my life has seemed to focus on gaining a better understanding of the country and its people.
第二部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分 45 分)
第一节 完形填空(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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I'm not a musician. I haven't been dancing since birth, nor have I been playing the 21 sport for
10 years. I grew up jumping from activity to activity, 22 nearly every sport under the sun. As a
result, I've become a (an) 23 of all trades.
I always felt ashamed of this. I felt like I 24 time on these short attempts. 25 , I stopped
looking into new activities, because I was never going to 26 in any of them.
This is, I now realize, totally 27 .
I did musical theater as a kid, but 28 after getting into high school because I had too many
other 29 . Those years on the stage led me to 30 public speaking. I tried every style of dance,
which let me fall in love with 31 . Later, I signed up for color guard(护旗队) because I 32 being
in front of a crowd. Thanks to my background in 33 , I had a better foundation than other 34 ,
and was able to pick up the basics a little faster and learn the more 35 skills a little easier.
We love the activities we do. Our hobbies are a 36 of who we are. It only makes sense that as
we grow and change, so should our 37 . Old flames can lead to new passions.
38 is never a waste of time. We spend out whole lives 39 . So why not start the guitar at 20, 40, or 75? It's never too late to pick up something new, and it makes you 40 .
21．A．professional B．same C．indoor D．favorite
22．A．watching B．assessing C．trying D．enjoying
23．A．amateur B．volunteer C．leader D．loser
24．A．spent B．saved C．killed D．wasted
25．A．Obviously B．Gradually C．Eventually D．Fortunately
26．A．stand out B．show off C．turn up D．speak out
27．A．necessary B．wrong C．different D．acceptable
28．A．hesitated B．regretted C．forgot D．stopped
29．A．activities B．lessons C．problems D．styles
30．A．avoid B．deliver C．advocate D．love
31．A．singing B．designing C．performing D．sharing
32．A．missed B．admitted C．considered D．suggested
33．A．speech B．dance C．music D．physics
34．A．competitors B．winners C．instructors D．beginners
35．A．practical B．appropriate C．advanced D．common
36．A．sight B．reflection C．direction D．figure
37．A．interests B．ages C．needs D．societies
38．A．Imagination B．Practice C．Curiosity D．Experience
39．A．learning B．working C．searching D．entertaining
40．A．luckier B．richer C．happier D．simpler
第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
China started making animated films (动画片) almost at the same time as Japan. The first full-length
Japanese anime color film, The White Snake Enchantress, an 41． (adapt) of the famous Chinese legend of
the white snake, 42． (release) in 1958. Before that, The Magical Pen, loosely 43． (base) on Chinese
children’s book Ma Liang With the Magical Pen, 44． (win) multiple international prizes. However, in the
following years China’s animation industry fell behind, especially in the 1990s 45． Japanese and U. S.
animations entered the Chinese market.
But in recent years，China’s animation industry has seen fast growth. For instance, recently Ne Zha had
achieved 46． box office of 5.6 billion yuan ($787.5 million) by September 10, 47． (become) the
highest-grossing (票房最高的) animated film made by China. 48．, in spite of the huge amount of capital
poured into the industry, the bubble may burst 49． animated works’ quality doesn’t improve. The industry
shouldn’t be pushed forward by capital 50． by creativity, Lu Wei, producer of Monkey King: Hero Is Back,
said.
第三部分写作(共两节，满分 35 分)
第一节 短文改错(共 10 小题:每小题 1 分，满分 10 分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10 处
语言错误，每句中最多有两处每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（ˆ）, 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改 10 处，多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。On December 30，after two weeks’training，we finally began our work for volunteer guides in a
museum.During the first two weeks，I learnt a lot about the story behind the artworks.In order to do good in
the work，my teammates and I made fully preparations.We first worked out a careful plan.Then we practiced
use proper body language to explain the artworks better.The month-long volunteer work has now come to
end，from what I understand that it isn’t easy to be a good guide.Besides.I also realize that how important
teamwork is.I believed that I will get lifelong benefits from the short and meaningful experience.
第二节 书面表达 (满分 25 分)
假定你是李华, 你的美国交换生同学 Amber 想去参加市博物馆的外籍志愿讲解员选拔活动, 发
邮件向你征求意见。请你回复邮件, 内容包括：
1. 表示支持并说明理由；
2. 参选前需要做的准备。
注意：1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：讲解员 docent
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第一部分 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)
1—15 BCDC CACA CBA CBDD
第二节(共 5 小题:每小题 2 分，满分 10 分)
16—20 DFGEC
第二部分英语知识运用 (共两节，满分 45 分)
第一节 完形填空(共 20 小题:每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分)
21—40 BCADC ABDAD CABDC BADAC
第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
41．adaptation
42．was released
43．based
44．had won
45．when
46．a
47．becoming
48．However
49．if/when
50．but
第三部分写作(共两节，满分 35 分)
第一节 短文改错(共 10 小题:每小题 1 分，满分 10 分)
for→as
story→stories
good→well
fully→full
use→using
end 前面加上 an
what→which
删除 that
believed→believe
and→but
第二节书面表达 (满分 25 分)
Dear Amber,
I’m glad to know that you are interested in the position as a volunteer docent in the city museum. I
surely approve of this idea because this job not only is beneficial to your Chinese study but also enables you
to learn more about the history and culture of the city.
Before the selection, you’d better prepare a self-introduction, where you can show your love and
understanding of Chinese culture. It’s also helpful to learn something about the museum in advance, such as
its exhibitions and activities. You can either visit its website or go to the museum in person.
Feel free to tum to me if there’s any further questions.
Yours,
Li Hua
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