2020 年高等学校招生考试英语模拟试题
第一部分：2019 年高考听力真题
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 35 分）
第一节：单项填空（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答
题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. ––Why does Jack Ma still work so hard he has already owned so much money?
–– Maybe he pursues more than money.
A. while B. as C. when D. before
22. Be careful about the boundary between your work and your life, or your attitude and emotion in
one area will affect the other.
A. randomly B. negatively C. confidentially D. arbitrarily
23. One afternoon, as I was sitting with a book in my hand, my eyes, __________ in abstraction to
the window, caught sight of a figure just passing.
A. raising B. to raise C. raised D. having raised
24. Local police said a large number of civilians are among the victims and many of the bodies
were reportedly burned __________.
A. beyond control B. beyond description
C. beyond repair D. beyond recognition
25.—How did you find your way here？
—It was by following the travel brochure _____ the route is clearly clarified.
A. that B. how C. where D. which
26.—Is nobody else going to_____?
—3.5 million $!
A. bid B. charge C. bargain D. evaluate
27. I hate to say this but you need to stop doing things like this because they __________ me all the
time.
A. disturb B. have disturbed C. disturbed D. are disturbing28. The youth like me mostly take a liking to pop music more than classical music, which really
______us .
A. turns...down B. turns...in C. turns...over D. turns...off
29. –– Can you tell me the subtle difference between the words “fragile” and “delicate”?
––______. Let’s refer to the dictionary.
A. You’ve really got me there. B. You bet.
C. You can say that again. D. You don’t say.
30. What a pity! The parents could have survived the earthquake __________ to save their child.
A. hadn’t they come back B. have they come back
C. didn’t they come back D. did they come back
31. Meeting all the ______applied to Earth’s seven other continents, Zealandia is on its way to
becoming a new continent.
A. criteria B. curricula C. data D. phenomena
32. I __________ to give you just a surprise quiz but on second thought I chose to let you reflect on
your exercises.
A. had intended B. has intended C. intended D. has been intended
33. The setting of the film Zootopia may be limited in the city full of kinds of animals, but
__________ it exposes about human nature is quite broad.
A. which B. that C. what D. whether
34. — Learn from past mistakes or history is bound to repeat ________.
— Thank you for your reminding.
A. it B. that C. something D. itself
35. When the new employee started to speak with customers, his natural abilities as a sales man
were __________.
A. as sharp as a spear B. as plain as day
C. as stupid as a goose D. as sly as a fox
第二节 完形填空 (共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，
并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I’m from California, where I have the honor of serving as an ocean lifeguard. The ocean is 36 for its massive currents. If you want to 37 lives, that’s where you work.
One day, I was working in 38 Fifteen. Mike, working in Seventeen, 39
me over the phone and said, “Hey, I got a couple kids and got to give them a(n) 40 . Keep
an eye on us.” 41 you get out of your tower, you should let somebody else know, 42
a situation develops. As soon as he grasped his buoy (救生圈), a current was snapped under these
two kids, and they were getting 43 into the currents. Mike saw it before it happened, and
he ran toward the ocean. I 44 the water with my binoculars (双筒望远镜). 45 , the
mother of the kids had realized what was happening. She was on her 46 and screamed.
Mike told me later that he got the boy first, and when he turned to the girl, he had to 47
down into the water and catch her by the hair to 48 her back. When I reached their
mother, Mike was in waist-deep water. These kids were so exhausted, so Mike got one under each
arm.
I saw the 49 start to drain out of the kids’ mother. Then she got her first look at
Mike, I saw a new kind of panic 50 over her as though there was some new, equally
dangerous 51 to her kids’ lives. She rushed up to Mike, 52 her kids and left
the beach without a thank you.
Mike had a rough upbringing, and his shaved head showed the 53 he got from a
broken bear bottle. Although he lacks something, he 54 it with lifesaving ability. As I
jogged back, I promised I’d never let my own fear or 55 prevent me recognizing a hero
when I see one.
36. A. mysterious B. known C. endless D. sacred
37. A. save B. enrich C. find D. cultivate
38. A. tower B. house C. office D. place
39. A. addressed B. emailed C. faxed D. called
40. A. explanation B. caption C. warning D. notice
41. A. Anytime B. Unless C. Anywhere D. While
42. A. as if B. in case C. even though D. or else
43. A. drowned B. pressed C. sucked D. wrapped
44. A. identified B. noticed C. detected D. scanned
45. A. On occasion B. At present C. Until then D. By now 46. A. legs B. feet C. shoes D. back
47. A. bend B. lay C. fall D. reach
48. A. pull B. push C. hug D. scratch
49. A. excitement B. terror C. calmness D. pain
50. A. get B. knock C. wash D. turn
51. A. threat B. challenge C. suffering D. struggle
52. A. protected B. scolded C. comforted D. grasped
53. A. stain B. scar C. wound D. injury
54. A. makes up for B. stands up for C. catches up with D. puts up with
55. A. conservation B. injustice C. prejudice D. definition
第三部分 阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）
请阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在
答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Back in November, we did a study that found (surprise) that Babbel ranks as one of the most
efficient ways to learn a language. The independent study was conducted by researchers at the City
University of New York (CUNY) and the University of South Carolina, and evaluated the overall
efficacy（功效） of Babbel Spanish courses, examining the progress of 391 randomly selected
learners and assessing participants’ knowledge of Spanish at the beginning
STUDY FINDING #1: “Truly novice users（初学者） with no knowledge of Spanish need on
average 15 hours of study in a two-month period to cover the requirements for one college semester
of Spanish.”
STUDY FINDING #2: “The average study time for the final study sample was about 19 hours,
or a little over two hours a week.”
STUDY FINDING #3: “The Babbel app works similarly well for people with different gender,
age, native language, education, employment status, etc.”
Learning a language is about speaking a language, and with the help of Babbel, our novice
challenge participants were able to start having conversations in just three weeks’ time, proving that
Babbel is, indeed, the shortest path to a real-life conversation. 56. How does the writer recommend Babbel to readers?
A. By listing research findings.
B. By introducing some of its contents.
C. By telling stories at the beginning.
D. By comparing it with other apps.
57. What is the purpose of the last paragraph of the text?
A. To introduce Babbel .
B. To appreciate Babbel.
C. To advertise Babbel.
D. To analyze Babbel.
B
Researchers from Pennsylvania University suggest that loud snoring can be caused by having a
fat tongue. Scientists have long known that losing weight can help the condition, but now they know
why. It explains why losing weight reduces the risk of obstructive sleep apnoea (阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂
停).
Improved symptoms are linked to slimming down the unexpected part of the body - opening the
door to better treatments. Professor Richard Schwab, chief of sleep medicine at Pennsylvania
University, said: "Most clinicians, and even experts in the sleep apnoea world, have not typically
focused on fat in the tongue for treating sleep apnoea."Having a large neck was previously believed
to be the culprit(引起问题的事物). Prof Schwab said: "Now we know tongue fat is a risk factor and
sleep apnoea improves when tongue fat is reduced, we have established a unique therapeutic target
that we've never had before.
In sleep apnoea the airways become blocked - leading to snoring . It blights the lives of four
and two percent of middle aged men and women, respectively, in the UK. Long term, sleep apnoea
is linked with a number of chronic diseases, including high blood pressure , heart disease, type 2
diabetes, stroke and depression.
Analyzing MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans of the throat and nose of obese patients,
the researchers found reducing tongue fat is the key. They found that a reduction in tongue fat
volume was the key factor. Weight loss also resulted in a smaller pterygoid - the jaw muscle that controls chewing. This is irrespective of whether they appear to fall into the typical "high-risk" obese
categories, said Prof Schwab.
He added: "Primary care doctors, and perhaps even dentists, should be asking about snoring and
sleepiness in all patients, even those who have a normal body mass index, as, based on our data, they
may also be at risk for sleep apnoea."
Twenty-two million Americans suffer from sleep apnoea, in which breathing repeatedly stops
and starts, causing patients to wake up randomly throughout their sleep cycles. One of the
recommended treatments is CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), which has been free on the
NHS since March 2008.
58. What can we learn from Prof Schwab?
A. People with high tongue fat must be at high risk of obesity.
B. Sleep apnea improves when tongue fat is reduced.
C. Patients with a normal body mass index won’t develop sleep apnea.
D. Most clinicians focus on the fat on the tongue to treat sleep apnea.
59. What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?
A. The shape of tongue fat.
B. The harm of tongue fat.
C. The feature of tongue fat.
D. The cause of tongue fat.
60. What does the underlined word “blight” in the third paragraph most probably mean?
A. harm B. affect C. benefit D. cost
C
My whole career is about clothes – but I have no interest in fashion. What I love doing with
clothes is using them to tell a story. That’s what costume design is all about. I wasn’t one of those
little girls always dressing up dolls. My parents were musicians, so there was never any money, but
our household was artistic.As a child in the 1950s there was no TV, so we drew, painted and made things out of cardboard
boxes. My parents encouraged me and my younger sister to be creative – making a mess was fine,
and we were even allowed to draw on one of the walls at our home in Kensington, west London.
After school I studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art, where I learned how to draw patterns
and cut fabric. Back then it was set design, not costumes, that most interested me.
Thanks to a childhood friend, Nick Young, I was offered some unpaid work on early Merchant
Ivory film productions. For a 1978 movie called Hullabaloo Over Georgie And Bonnie’s Pictures, I
was asked to put together clothes for its star, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, to wear in India. After a
meeting with her, Peggy took me aside. ‘My dear, we’re getting on quite well,’ she said. ‘They’ve
given me a first-class ticket to India, now if I change it for two economy flights, will you come with
me?’ Of course I said yes! No question.
It was before The Jewel In The Crown and A Passage To India, and Peggy had never been to
India. At 70, she was a little nervous, but great fun. We shared a room and I looked after her in every
possible way. At night we sat up in our little beds, having a brandy or whisky and discussing our day.
After the shoot we went on holiday to Goa together. Peggy rode around on the back of my
motorbike!
I became part of the Merchant Ivory team and went on to work on many other period films,
including 1996’s Sense And Sensibility. I’ve known Emma Thompson for 30 years and she’s
hilarious and wonderful.
I had won an Oscar before, in 1987 for A Room With A View, and have been nominated a
further eight times. I keep my Oscars on a desk that belonged to my mother in my study, so they are
very much on display but off the beaten track. Not in the living room and certainly not in the
downstairs loo!
For a career I somehow fell into, it’s provided me with a wonderful life, really.
61. Why did Peggy and the author make friends with each other?
A. They were of the same age. B. They worked in the same theater.
C. They were both good actors. D. They got along very well.62. Which of the following works’ location was not mentioned?
A. The Jewel In The Crown.
B. A Room With A View.
C. Hullabaloo Over Georgie And Bonnie’s Pictures.
D. A Passage To India.
63. Why did the author mention her parents when she was a child?
A. To show she was not talented in designing clothes.
B. To amuse the readers with a funny story.
C. To show her parents inspired her creativity.
D. To share a precious memory in her childhood.
64. Which of the following best describes the author as a designer?
A. Ambitious. B. Dedicated. C. Caring. D. Demanding.
D
In five minutes Buck had made fourteen hundred dollars for Thornton and his friends. The
money made it possible for them to travel east, where they wanted to look for a lost gold mine. Men
said that this mine had more gold than any other mine in the north. Many had looked for it, and some
had died looking for it. The only men who knew where it was were now dead.
Thornton, Pete and Hans, with Buck and six other dogs, started off to the east in the spring.
They travelled up the Stewart River and crossed the Mackenzie Mountains. They did not move
quickly；The weather was good, and the men shot animals for food when they needed it. Sometimes
they travelled for a week, and sometimes they stopped for a week and searched for gold in the
ground. Sometimes they were hungry, and sometimes they had lots of food. They spent all the
summer in the mountains, carrying everything they needed on their backs, sometimes making boats
to go down rivers or across lakes.
In the autumn they came to a strange, flat country, with many lakes. They travelled on through
the winter and met nobody, but once they found an old wooden house, with an old gun in it.
When the spring came, they found, not the lost mine, but a lake in a wide valley. Through the
shallow water the gold showed like yellow butter, and here their search ended. There was gold worth
thousands of dollars in the lake, and they worked every day, filling bag after bag with gold.
The dogs had nothing to do except watch the men and eat the food which the men shot for them. Buck spent many evenings sitting by the fire.
As he sat, he saw again his dream world, where the strange hairy man sat next to him. He also
heard something calling him into the forest. Sometimes, in the middle of the day, he lifted his head
and listened, and then ran off into the forest.
One night he woke up and heard the call again, a long howl. He ran into the forest, following
the sound, and came to an open place in the trees. And there, his nose pointing to the sky, sat a wolf.
The wolf stopped howling and Buck walked slowly towards him. The wolf ran, and Buck
followed. After a time, the wolf stopped and waited, watching Buck, ready to attack. But Buck did
not want to fight, and soon the wolf realized this, and the two animals became friendly. Then the
wolf started to run again, and he clearly wanted Buck to follow him. They ran for hours through the
forest, and Buck remembered again his dream world where he, and others like him, had run through
a much older forest.
Then they stopped to drink, and Buck remembered John Thornton. He turned and started to run
back. The wolf followed him, then stopped and howled, but Buck ran on and did not turn.
Thornton was eating dinner when Buck returned. Buck jumped all over him, and for two days
never left his side. He followed him everywhere, watching him while he ate and while he slept. But
after two days the call of the wild came again, and he remembered the forest and the wolf who had
run beside him.
He started to sleep out in the forest at night, sometimes staying out for three or four days. Once
he was away for a week, fishing and killing animals for food. He ate well, and he grew stronger and
quicker and more alive. His golden brown coat shone with health as he ran through the forest,
learning its every secret, every smell, and every sound.
“He's the finest dog that I've ever seen,” said Thornton to his friends one day as they watched
Buck walking out of camp. “There’11 never be another dog like him,” said Pete.
They saw him walking out of camp but they didn't see the change that happened when he was
inside the forest. At once he became a thing of the wild, stepping softly and silently, a passing
shadow among the trees.
65. How long did it take them to find gold?
A. About a year. B. About two years.
C. About six months. D. About three months.66. What is the best title of this chapter?
A. The call of the wild.
B. The wolf in the forest.
C. The dog’s dream world
D. The lost gold mine.
67. This excerpt is a part of______?
A. a documentary novel.
B. a biography.
C. a fiction.
D. a news report.
68. In this excerpt(节选)we can clearly see that the author is good at______?
A. describing mental activities.
B. visualizing vivid scenes.
C. doing psychological analysis.
D. expressing personal belief.
69. What can we infer from the last four paragraphs?
A. Thornton and Pete noticed the change in Buck.
B. Thornton and Pete thought Buck was the best dog.
C. Buck became more and more obedient.
D. The wild life made Buck become stronger.
70. Which of the following about Buck is right?
A. Buck's hidden wildness was slowly awakened.
B. Buck liked to fight with the wolf in the forest.
C. Thornton and Pete didn't treat Buck well at all.
D. Buck didn't make any money for Thornton and his friends.
第四部分：任务型阅读（共 10小题；每小题1分, 满分10 分）
请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单 词。
注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。
What makes us laugh?
Why do we laugh? Well it’s funny you should ask, but this question is a very interesting one to investigate. For what at first seems like a simple question turns out to require a surprisingly complex
answer –– one that takes us on a journey into the very heart of trying to understand human nature.
Most people would guess that we laugh because something is funny. But if you watch when
people actually laugh, you’ll find this isn’t the case. Laughter expert Robert Provine spent hours
recording real conversations at shopping malls, classrooms, offices and cocktail parties, and he
found that most laughter did not follow what looked like jokes. People laughed at the end of normal
sentences, in response to unfunny comments or questions such as “Look, it’s Andre”, or “Are you
sure?”. Even attempts at humor that provoked laughter didn’t sound that funny.
So if we want to understand laughter, perhaps we need to go deeper, and look at what is going
on in the brain. The areas that control laughing lie deep in the sub cortex(下皮层), and in terms of
evolutionary development these parts of the brain are ancient, responsible for primal( 原 始 )
behaviors such as breathing and basic reflexes(反射). This means laughter control mechanisms are
located a long way away from brain regions that developed later and control higher functions such as
language or even memory.
Perhaps this explains why it is so hard to control a laugh, even if we know it is inappropriate.
Once a laugh is started deep within our brains these “higher function” brain regions have trouble
interfering. And the opposite is true, of course. It is difficult to laugh on demand. If you consciously
make yourself laugh it will not sound like the real thing – at least initially.
But this does not fully answer the original question. To answer this, perhaps we need to look
outwards, to look at the social factors at play when people laugh. Provine’s study suggests that it
isn’t just some independent process that happens to us while we are talking to someone. He also
found that laughter was most common in situations of emotional warmth and so-called
“in-groupness”.
Perhaps “transmission” is another most important feature of laughter. Just listening to someone
laugh is funny. You can even catch laughter from yourself. Start with a forced laugh and if you keep
it up you will soon find yourself laughing for real.
What these observations show is that laughter is both fundamentally social, and rooted deep
within our brains, part and parcel of ancient brain structures. All these things are true. And biologists
say each time we get closer to an answer for a fundamental question, it deepens our appreciation of
the challenge remaining to answer the others. And there is a long way to go. What makes us laugh?
Introduction Studying laugh is closely (71) ▲ to understanding human nature.
(72) ▲
●The popular (73) ▲ is not true that we laugh because something is funny.
●The study of real conversations reveals that laughter didn’t (74) ▲ follow
funny comments.
Inside
● Ancient areas (75) ▲ for primal behaviors control
laughing.
● “Higher function” regions can’t (76) ▲ with laughing.
Causes
(77) ▲
● Situations of emotional warmth and in-groupness give (78)
▲ to laughing.
●Laughter can be (79) ▲ , which is another most important
feature.
Conclusion
The origin of laugh is associated with both brain structures and (80) ▲
factors.
第五部分 书面表达（满分 25 分）
81. 请阅读下面文字，并按照要求用英语写一篇 150 词左右的文章。
Dear editor,
I was shocked by the news that neighbors of a German university protested to the government
that some students often gathered and shouted at night, disturbing local residents. They demanded if
the students were not dismissed, they would move out of the area.
I want to ask those young people: When you were letting off screams, were you aware that you
were damaging other people’s normal life?
This doesn’t happen by chance. I often witness similar things in our country, too. For example,
throwing waste water onto the streets and spitting in public places can frequently be seen. Some
tourists litter casually or even carve their names on ancient scenic spots! Many young people are
fond of jumping queues and never offer their seats to the elderly.
All over the world, people are beginning to worry that civilized behavior is a thing of the past.
In fact, civilized behavior can help bring trust from others and success in the fierce world market competition. Therefore, increasing the quality of citizens is becoming urgent.
Anonymous
[写作内容]
1. 用约 30 个单词概述上述信息的主要内容;
2. 以约 120 词就“文明礼仪”这一话题谈谈你的认识，内容包括：
(1) 从和谐社会建设和个人成长发展的角度论述“文明礼仪”的重要性；
(2) 联系实际，谈谈你打算如何做一个文明守礼的中学生。
[写作要求]
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
[评分标准]
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
英语模拟试题参考答案
第二部分: 英语知识运用 (共两节, 满分 35 分)
第一节: 单项填空 (共 15 小题; 每小题 1 分, 满分 15 分)
21-25 CBCDC 26-30 ADDAA 31-35 AACDB
第二节: 完形填空
36-40BAADC 41-45ABCDD 46-50BDABC 51-55ADBAC
第三部分: 阅读理解（满分 30 分）
56-60 ACBDA 61-65 DBCBA 66-70 ACBDA
第四部分: 任务型阅读（满分 10 分）
71. related/ relevant 72. Findings 73. belief/assumption 74. necessarily 75. responsible
76. interfere 77. Outside 78. rise 79. transmitted 80. social
第五部分: 书面表达（满分 25 分）
One possible version:
Neighbors of a German university protested and pressed the university to dismiss the students
who made noises and disturbed their lives. Nowadays uncivilized behaviour has become a matter of
common occurrence worldwide and needs to be taken seriously.
It goes without saying that civilized behaviour is of vital significance. On the one hand, our
country is constructing a harmonious society and it is the duty of everyone to make individual
contributions in the transition period. On the other hand, a person’s inner being can surely affect his
development and achievement. Good manners are a magnet for more trust, assistance, and even
contribute greatly to the ultimate success.
As a middle school student, I will conscientiously observe the discipline of my school to truly
maintain the school’s image. Besides, I feel an inner urge to be civilized with my language,
behaviour and appearance to strengthen the bonds with my fellow classmates. (150 w)
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