2020年山东临沂实验学校高考英语模拟试卷（十四）（Word版附答案）

2020 年山东临沂实验学校高考模拟卷(十四) 英 语 （考试时间：100 分钟 ） 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 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. 考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 50 分） 第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A What’s On? Electric Underground 7.30pm-1.00am Free at the Cyclops Theatre Do you know who’s playing in your area? We’re bringing you an exciting evening of live rock and pop music from the best local bands. Are you interested in becoming a musician and getting a recording contract( 合同 )?If so, come early to the talk at 7.30pm by Jules Skye, a successful record producer. He’s going to talk about how you can find the right person to produce your music. Gee Whizz 8.30pm-10.30pm Comedy at Kaleidoscope Come and see Gee Whizz perform. He’s the funniest stand-up comedian on the comedy scene. This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest. Gee Whizz really knows how to make you laugh! Our bar is open from 7.00pm for drinks and snacks(快餐). Simon’s Workshop 5.00pm-7.30pm Wednesdays at Victoria Stage This is a good chance for anyone who wants to learn how to do comedy. The workshop looks at every kind of comedy, and practices many different ways of making people laugh. Simon is a comedian and actor who has 10 years’ experience of teaching comedy. His workshops are exciting and fun. An evening with Simon will give you the confidence to be funny. Charlotte Stone 8.00pm-11.00pm Pizza World Fine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta(面食).Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine. 1.Who can help you if you want to have your music produced? A.Jules Skye. B.Gee Whizz. C.Charlotte Stone. D.James Pickering. 2.What do we know about Simon’s Workshop? A.It requires membership status. B.It lasts three hours each time.C.It is run by a comedy club. D.It is held every Wednesday. 3.When will Charlotte Stone perform her songs? A.5.00pm-7.30pm. B.7.30pm-1.00am. C.8.00pm-11.00pm. D.8.30pm-10.30pm. B A call came into Jimmy Gilleece’s bar. A newly married woman, who had spent the afternoon at his bar, couldn’t find her wallet. She didn’t care about her ID, credit cards, or 150 in cash-but her wedding ring was inside. Gilleece, 42, didn’t like the idea that a theft could have occurred at his place. So he determined to find the wallet. He spent hours on videos from surveillance (监控) cameras, watching the woman’s every step in the bar. Within minutes, a young man approached the bar, put something in his pocket, and walked off. Gilleece posted a clip (视频片段) on the bar’s Facebook page to find out who the young man was. Within hours, Gilleece got a text from 17-year-old Rivers Prather, who said he’d done it because he hadn’t eaten in two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was fake, so he took the money and threw the wallet into the ocean. Then he bought a sandwich. Gilleece told the teen to meet him at the docks (码头). There they talked a lot and Gilleece knew that Prather was from a poor family. Seeing the teenager’s small build, Gilleece thought he was more of a kid than a criminal. However, because of the missing ring, Prather could be put into prison. Gilleece decided to help the kid. He hired two local divers to search the waters where the wallet had been thrown. More than an hour passed, with no sign of the ring. Gilleece grew worried. And then a diver popped up. In his hand was the wallet, and inside was the ring. When Gilleece called the wallet’s owner, she burst into tears and immediately dropped the charge against Prather for stealing the ring. 4. What did the woman value most in her wallet? A. Her ID. B. Her credit cards. C. Her money. D. Her wedding ring. 5. What did Prather do after getting the wallet? A. He kept the ring. B. He spent the money in it. C. He threw it in a dustbin. D. He returned it to the owner. 6. Why did Gilleece help Prather? A. To teach the child a lesson. B. To meet the customer 's demand. C. To save the forgivable child. D. To win back the reputation of his bar. 7. What would happen to Prather next? A. He would be sent to prison. B. He would not be accused by the woman. C. He would get a job in Gilleece’s bar. D. He would live a better life ever after. C This season, the bushfires in Australia have burned more than 12.35 million acres of land. At least 25 people have been killed and 2000 homes destroyed. According to the BBC, this is the most casualties(伤亡) from wildfires in the country since 2009. The University of Sydney estimates that 480 million animals have died in South Wales alone. Zeke Hausfather, an energy systems analyst and climate researcher at Berkeley Earth, said warmer temperatures and extreme weather have made Australia more susceptible to fires and increased the length of the fire season. “The drier conditions combined with record high temperatures in 2019 created main conditions for the disastrous fires. Australia’s fires were worsened by the combination of those two. 2019 was the perfect storm for being the warmest year on record for Australia and the driest year on record for Australia,” Hausfather added on Friday. Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, said warmer ocean temperatures are also contributed to more variable weather around the world. Trenberth believes that global warming contributed to energy imbalances and hot spots in the oceans, which can create a wave in the atmosphere that locks weather patterns in places, causing longer rain events in Indonesia, for example, and at the same time contributing to drought in Australia. He said that once an area experiences drought conditions for two months or more, it increases the risk of fires catching and spreading. Those changing weather patterns due to global warming make drought events longer. Climate experts stress that climate change is not the only factor in the severity of wildfires. How land is managed can also impact the amount of fuel available for fires. Practices like controlled burns and other factors can impact the risk to people and property, such as warning systems and the type of development in a given area. Changing those policies has great potential to limit future damage from wildfires along with changes to how fire management resources are dispatched(派遣). 8. What do the numbers in paragraph 1 show? A. The causes of Australian fires. B. The results of Australian fires. C. The damaged areas of Australian fires. D. The property destruction of Australian fires. 9 Which of the following best explains “more susceptible to” underlined in the second paragraph? A. Quick to adapt to. B. Sure to cause. C. Sensitive to. D. Easy to be protected from. 10. What can we infer from Trenberth's research? A. Global warming is the root cause of the bushfires. B. Longer dry weather contributes to global warming. C. Warmer ocean temperatures promote fires spreading. D. The imbalanced energy leads to the temperature rising. 11. What does the author intend to do in the last paragraph? A. To stress the effects of Australia fires. B. To show the methods for controlling burns. C. To predict the seriousness of Australia fires. D. To provide some advice about reducing damage. D Lawns（草坪）are very common in the world. But why do people keep such uninteresting little plants outside their homes? They're not beautiful like flowers, they don't provide food and you have to cut them constantly. Israeli world history professor Yuval Noah Harari looked into their history and ended up “unearthing" a strange story that goes back to the Middle Ages. No one had considered putting patches of grass outside of their homes in ancient times. That changed when French and English kings started putting carefully cropped patches of grass at their castle entrances. Peasants could never afford their time or land on lawns, so these artificial lawns were a perfect status symbol of nobility. You could even assess a nobleman's wealth by looking at his lawn: if a lawn was massive and well kept, it indicated a powerful family dynasty. If it was in bad shape, the nobleman was probably broke. Humans therefore came to identify lawns with political power, social and economic wealth," wrote Harari. When the Industrial Revolution took place in the 18th and 19th centuries, the middle classes started being able to afford their own suburban houses. And guess what became their status symbol? A perfectly kept lawn. The popularity of lawns continued to grow, taking over public event spaces and sportsmen. In the past, people played sports on all kinds of surfaces dirt, ice, and sand. But in the last couple centuries, they made the switch to green grass or something made to imitate green grass. Nowadays people use tons of water on lawns, even during droughts, without realizing they care for the lawns only because centuries ago kings just wanted to show off their wealth by intentionally planting something useless. “When you now come to plant your dream house, you might think twice about having a lawn in the front yard sale," wrote Harari. “You can plant something useful or imagine for yourself a Japanese rock garden, or some altogether new creation." 12. Why does the author raise the question in Paragraph 1? A. To carry out a survey. B. To rethink the use of the lawn. C. To lead in the topic. D. To add fun to the text. 13. Why did kings grow lawns in front of their castle? A. To beautify the environment. B. To feed some animals. C. To prove their good use. D. To show off their status. 14. How might Harari feel about the lawns? A. They are creative. B. The are useless. C. They are beautiful. D. The are necessary. 15. What can be the best title for the passage? A. Various ideas on lawns. B. The significance of lawns. C. The development of lawns. D. The effect of lawns on social status. 第二节 (共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 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。 A memorable science project If someone tells you to remember a phone number or address, it feels like an easy task at first. You repeat the numbers to yourself, either aloud or in your mind. But after just a few seconds you might find yourself starting to doubt your own memory. ___16___ Thus, it will try to throw away information that seems old or irrelevant. There are ways of helping our minds retain (记住) information, however, and in this activity you will explore ways that we lose and keep memories Short-term, or working memory, is a way of describing most people’s abilities to store a small amount of information for a brief period of time in a readily accessible form ___17___ People don’t have to stop and think to remember something in short term memory. ___18___ Such techniques include visualizing (观察) the information in a surprising way or linking pieces of information together so that one reminds you of the other. In the case of visualizing information, this could be as simple as remembering you parked your car on the fifth floor in the D section by picturing five dogs sitting in your car! ___19___ If you need to purchase cereal (谷物), milk, fruit, cheese and eggs, you could imagine the cereal in a bowl, with milk pouring over it and pieces of fruit on top. Then imagine cracking an egg over everything, and it’s full of melted cheese! These may seem simple or even silly. ___20___ In this activity you’ll test the recall of a few friends or family members, and learn a few tricks for improving memory! A. There are many techniques for improving memory. B. Our brain is always seeking new and useful information. C. Short-term memory has a short duration but is quickly and easily accessed. D. In addition, linking information could help you remember your grocery list. E. Retaining that information over longer periods of time becomes difficult yet. F. Your short-term memory has a limited amount of space to store information. G. However, they are proved to be good ways for improving memory by scientist. 第二部分 语言运用 (共两节，满分 30 分) 第一节 (共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 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。 The Adams family home has been taken over by origami (折纸)in all sizes and shapes. No one seems to ____21____ though. Those paper creations are ____22____ clean water projects around the world and saving lives. A messy home is a small price to pay ____23____In 2011, Isabelle Adams and her sister Katherine learned that every five seconds a child died from ____24____ of clean water and that girls of their age couldn’t go to school ____25____ they were fetching water all day for their families. They ____26____ to do something. “So we took something that we loved doing - folding origami, with the ____27____ goal to help fund a well in Ethiopia,” explains Katherine. ____28____ , they ended up selling out and raising far more than that to fully ____29____ the cost of the well. Katherine, now 13, adds, “It just snowballed, _____30_____ the founding of the project Paper for Water.” In eight years, this project has _____31_____ more than 2 million for over 200 water projects in 20 different countries. Now, the rest of the Adams family are also _____32_____. But at the heart of it, beneath countless paper decorations sit two bold sisters hoping to _____33_____ other girls and boys. “Kids have an incredible ability to make a real _____34_____ to the world if they’re just given the chance,” Isabelle says, “and if people _____35_____ them in their efforts.” 21. A. mind B. notice C. appreciate D. remember 22. A. decorating B. rewarding C. attracting D. funding 23. A. in exchange B. in turn C. in return D. in response 24. A. pollution B. loss C. lack D. waste 25. A. although B. because C. unless D. while 26. A. hesitated B. decided C. happened D. demanded 27. A. lifelong B. individual C. original D. critical 28. A. Obviously B. Unexpectedly C. Suddenly D. Gradually 29. A. spend B. fill C. offer D. cover 30. A. trying out B. depending on C. contributing to D. appealing to 31. A. saved B. borrowed C. earned D. collected 32. A. involved B. praised C. recognized D. employed 33. A. satisfy B. inspire C. inform D. comfort 34. A. judgment B. sense C. difference D. connection 35. A. support B. persuade C. welcome D. award 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。 A “remote baby-sitter" service 36 (be) mentioned in the plans announced by Google. The service 37 uses cameras and motion sensors(运动感应器)could warn parents when their child is in danger. The smart home system could send 38 text or email to parents if a baby or young child has been left alone for 39 (many) than ten minutes. It could use its sensors to shut off household appliances when a child 40 (walk) near, and lock digital doors to prevent children from 41 (get) out. Other features include flashing lights and warnings such as “Your child is approaching the power." 42 (typical) these risks are avoided with parents' presence in the first place. However, there may be situations where children are left unattended at home due 43 circumstances beyond a parent or guardian's control. In these situations, the parent or guardian may not have had the opportunity to ensure the 44 (safe) of the child, thus putting the unattended children at risk. It would be designed 45 (give) parents peace of mind when leaving their child in another room or with an inexperienced babysitter. 第三部分 写作(共两节，满分 40 分) 第一节 (满分 15 分) 你受学生会委托为校宣传栏"英语天地"写一则通知，请大家观看一部英文短片 Growing Together，内容包括： 1． 短片内容：学校的发展； 2． 放映时间、地点； 3． 欢迎对短片提出意见． 注意： 1． 词数 100 词左右； 2． 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯． 第二节 (满分 25 分) 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为 150 左 右。 An anxious call came into Jimmy Gilleece’s bar. A newly married woman, who had spent the afternoon at the bar, couldn’t find her wallet. She didn’t care about her ID, credit cards, or $150 in cash—but her wedding ring was inside. Gilleece didn’t like the idea that a theft could have occurred at his place. So he set out to find the wallet. He spent hours looking through security-camera videos, watching the woman’s every step in the bar until she went to sit on a chair outside and left when her ride arrived. Within minutes, a young man approached the bench, slipped something into his pocket, and walked off. Gilleece posted a clip (剪辑) on the bar’s Facebook page. “I didn’t want to punish him,” he said. “I just asked if anybody knew who the guy was.” Within hours, Gilleece got a text from 17-year-old Prather, who admitted having taken the wallet and told Gilleece he’d done it because he hadn’t eaten in two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was fake (假的), so he took the money and threw the wallet off the dock (码头) into the oc ean. Then he bought a sandwich. Gilleece, unsure whether he believed Prather, told the teen to meet him at the dock, where they got talking and Prather revealed that he wasn’t getting along with his family and had been living in the woods for a week. Judging from Prather’s small body and red cheeks, Gilleece saw him for what he was: more of a kid than a criminal. But the police were already on the case, and because of the mi ssing ring, Prather could be facing charges. “He would be going to big boy prison. I have to help him somehow,” Gilleece thought. Para. 1：Gilleece paid two divers to search the waters where Prather had thrown the wallet. _______________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Para. 2: Then suddenly a diver came up to the surface of the water. ________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________