1、1 / 20 安徽省六安市第一中学2020届高三英语下学期线下考试自测卷（六） 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分阅读理解（共两节，满分 4040 分）分） 第一节第一节（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，选出最佳选项。 A A Hiring a Car Online Online car hire promises to be cheap, quick and convenient. But is it? Neil McDougall clicks his mouse. A Autos.cA om Just c
2、lick on the reservations button, fill in your home country, destination and dates, pick a car and youre into the booking form without any trouble and with all the charges laid out. Theres also a detailed rental guide explaining your contract. B CaC .uk One to consider if youre going to the States fo
3、r a visit, although, after Id worked through half the booking process, it returned an error message without telling me which part of the process needed adjusting. I got there in the end. There is a useful section with detailed directions for some of the great drives of America. C Expeed.org.ukExpeed
4、.org.uk Book a flight with Expeed and when you continue on to the car-hire section, the software already knows where you are going and when. However, you seem to be limited to cities with airports for your car hire, and additional taxes are presented. D C C Another site offering discounts for bookin
5、g online, but also special late deals. Prices are fully inclusive of insurance. It is now offering a lowest rates guarantee, an extra discount for former clients and a package of free gifts to sweeten the deal. E C .ukC .uk Avoid unnecessary complexity online but the booking process is as good as it
6、 gets. Very quick and smooth, so much so that people with older computers may have trouble getting this information. Enter how many miles you expect to drive and tick your insurance, driver and child-seat choices and they will all be included in the final price. You must contact the location directl
7、y if you need a car within three days. And to hire a car abroad, theres a dull email form to fill in and theyll get back to you. 21. Which of the following websites presents some driving routes? A. C .uk. B. A . C. Expeed.org.uk. D. C . 22. What limitation does Expeed.org.uk have? 2 / 20 A. Customer
8、s have to pay high-rated taxes. B. Customers can hire a car only in certain places. C. Customers can hire only certain types of vehicles. D. Customers can hire a car only if youve booked a flight there. 23. What is the disadvantage of C .uk? A. The final price is too high. B. Its online booking proc
9、edure is complex. C. People have to wait for three days to get the car. D. Its unsuitable for customers with out-of-date computers. B B Mathew Brady tried to end war for all time. He used a new, powerful weapon. He used a camera. Brady opened his first photograph studio in 1844. The images he produc
10、ed were daguerreotypes ( 银 版 照 片 ), not the photographs he would take later. Daguerreotypes recorded images on sheets of copper coated with silver. They required long exposures, so the person being photographed would have to stay perfectly still for 3-15 minutes. That made daguerreotypes impractical
11、 for portraits. By 1855, Brady was advertising a new type of image that had just been invented: a photograph made on paper. From the beginning of his career, Brady believed that photography could serve an important purpose. His images could create a record of national life. When the Civil War broke
12、out, he wanted to document the war as a part of that record. His friends discouraged him, but Brady started to take photographs of war scenes. He gathered a group of photographers who worked in the field, taking photographs of battle scenes and military life. He also bought photographs from others w
13、ho were returning from the field. His efforts culminated (达到顶点) in an 1862 display of photographs made after the Battle of Antietam. The bloodshed (人员伤亡) shocked the visitors to the exhibit, most of whom had never seen a field of battle. Brady did not stop war with his work, but he did raise the awa
14、reness of the costs of war among common citizens. After the Civil War, people lost interest in his record of the war. Because he could find few buyers for his photographs and did not earn enough money to pay for his wartime work, Brady went bankrupt ( 破产的). Years after the war, the government bought
15、 Bradys collection. It is now considered a priceless documentation of the War between the States. Other photographs by Mathew Brady sell for thousands of dollars and are considered national treasures. 24. By 1855, the new technology . A. allowed Brady to open his first photography studio B. made dag
16、uerreotypes have shorter exposure time 3 / 20 C. allowed photographs to be recorded on paper D. made Brady begin to take photos of people 4 / 20 25. When the Civil War broke out, Mathew Brady . A. began to take and collect pictures of the war B. started to realize the purpose of photography C. estab
17、lished his exhibition center D. went to the battlefield to report 26. According to the text, Mathew Bradys photographs . A. helped stop the Civil War B. made people realize the cruelty of war C. were bought by the government during the war D. were considered national treasures right after the war 27
18、. This text mainly talks about . A. new inventions recording national life B. photographs taken during the Civil War C. a soldier who took photographs at the battlefield D. a photographer who wanted to stop war with his photos C C Math can be as scary as spiders and snakes, at least in the brain of
19、an 8-year-old child. And that early anxiety about dealing with numbers can put a child at a significant disadvantage, not only in school but in negotiating life and a career. Fortunately, a study of third-graders, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests an intervention (干 预 ) that can hel
20、p. One-on-one tutoring does more than teach kids. It can help reduce the fear of math anxiety. “The most exciting aspect of our findings is that cognitive ( 认知的) tutoring not only improves performance, but is also anxiety-reducing,” says Vinod Menon. Menon and his colleagues knew from their earlier
21、research using MRI scans (核磁扫 描) of the brain that math anxiety activates much the same network of cells that some other common fears activate-fear of snakes or spiders or heights, for example. And they knew that a behavioral treatment known as exposure therapy helps some people solve the anxiety of
22、 those other phobias. Could the same thing be happening with math tutoring? To find out, the scientists invited 46 third-graders who answered questions about math worries and were also tested on simple addition problems while having their brains scanned via functional MRI. Based on their answers, sc
23、ans and scores in each of the tests, the children were divided into two groups: one considered to have higher levels of math anxiety and one with lower levels. Afterward, both groups received eight weeks of one-on-one tutoring in basic arithmetic, a few sessions a week. Both groups did better in mat
24、h at the end of the tutoring, Menon says. But most importantly, he says, the kids who had been anxious about math were 20 percent less anxious at the end of the eight weeks-a finding their brain scans confirmed. 5 / 20 The tutoring was highly personalized-if a child got stuck on a particular concept
25、, the 6 / 20 tutor would work with the student to “get beyond the bottleneck in a non-negative, encouraging way”. Menon hopes to next study whether computerized tutoring can produce similar benefits and whether the reduction in math anxiety continues to exist as the children advance to more complex
26、problem-solving skills. 28. According to the text, early math anxiety may affect childrens . A. intelligence quality B. ability to harmonize life and work C. life skills D. career choices 29. What does the underlined word “phobias” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Scans. B. Tutors. C. Fears. D. Symptoms. 30.
27、 Why did scientists test those 46 third-graders? A. To check the function of MRI scans. B. To help them get higher grades in math. C. To find out what addition problems they have. D. To prove whether one-on-one tutoring can reduce math anxiety. 31. What does the author want to tell us in the last pa
28、ragraph? A. Computers can help reduce math anxiety. B. Menon will make a further study about the reduction in math anxiety. C. One-on-one tutoring is useful for solving difficult problems. D. Scientists have applied one-on-one tutoring to social research. D D For the past few months, artificial inte
29、lligence (AI) has been a much talked about topic in the worlds of both pop culture and science. Last November saw the release of Oscar-nominated ( 奥斯卡奖提名的) and winning movie, “The Imitation Game”, about the father of the modern computer, Alan Turing. Last month, another Hollywood film about clever r
30、obots, “Chappie”, hit theaters. Is artificial intelligence a good fortune or a bad luck for humans? In their book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, authors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, both of whom come from MIT, US, could barely hide
31、 their excitement toward the rise of machines. According to the authors, were entering an age of accelerated development of artificial and robotic technology. “Digital machines have escaped their narrow confines limits and started to show broad abilities in pattern recognition, complex communication
32、, and other areas that used to be only human,” write the authors. “Weve recently seen great progress in natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, and many other areas.” Already AI can help blind people see and deaf people hear. And wheelchairs have been invented that can be con
33、trolled by thoughts. Well witness more innovations and wonders made possible by AI, according to the authors. 7 / 20 However, not all are equally enthusiastic about AI. A February report from the Global 8 / 20 Challenges Foundation listed AI, along with extreme climate change, nuclear war and ecolog
34、ical catastrophe, as “risks that threaten human civilization”. Many scientists share the same concern. Stephen Hawking told the BBC last December that: “It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate, while humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldnt
35、compete, and would be replaced.” Hawkings worry agreed with that of Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, who said in last October at an MIT conference that “we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. Im increasingly inclined (倾向于) to think that there should be some regulatory oversight (监管
36、 ), maybe at the national and international level, just to ensure we dont do something very foolish,” Musk said. 32. Two movies are mentioned in the first paragraph in order to show . A. the popularity of AI around the world B. the development of robotic technology C. the wide public concern about A
37、I D. peoples increasing interest in movies 33. Andrew McAfees attitude towards AI is . A. supportive B. doubtful C. cautious D. disapproving 34. Stephen Hawking views AI as a threat to human beings because he thinks it would . A. be difficult to control B. result in natural disasters C. have the ear
38、th destroyed D. bring an end to the human race 35. The purpose of the passage is to . A. explain how to make AI serve people B. give different opinions about developing AI C. introduce the advantages of developing AI D. show the possible problems with developing AI 第二节第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短
39、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。 It is hard to say how long people have been drinking wine. Wine is far older than recorded history. Some experts say it is as old as civilization itself. 36 People in ancient times might have picked ripe grapes. Some juicy grapes at the bottom of the container
40、were crushed (压碎) together. As the grapes broke open, yeasts (酵母) on the skins went to work turning sugar from the fruit into alcohol. This is the fermentation (发酵) process that turns grape juice into wine. How grapes become wine begins with the harvest. A winemaker must make an important decision a
41、bout the best time to pick the grapes first. 37 Diseased or overly ripe grapes are thrown away. Some winemakers choose to keep the stems of the grapes, while others remove them. 38 In the past, people crushed the grapes with their feet inside large containers. Some winemakers today still use this me
42、thod. The grapes and their liquid 9 / 20 are then stored in 10 / 20 large containers where fermentation takes place. 39 Burial places in ancient Egypt provide information about wine and its importance in Egyptian culture. Egyptian rulers were buried with wine offerings to help them in the afterlife.
43、 Archeological evidence also suggests that some of the earliest known wine producers were in Georgia and Iran thousands of years ago. Today, the top wine producing countries in the world are Italy, France and Spain, followed by the United States. 40 Wine production is even increasing in countries li
44、ke India and China. A. The grapes are then squeezed by machines. B. Next, the grapes are closely examined and sorted. C. Wine was not just about having an enjoyable drink. D. The first wine ever made was probably an accident. E. Winemaking probably began in the ancient Near East and Egypt. F. One th
45、ing was very important for the start of the modern wine industry. G. Although Europe is still important in the wine industry, many other countries around the world are making top wines. 第三部分第三部分 语言知识应用（共两节，满分语言知识应用（共两节，满分 4545 分）分） 第第 一节一节（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，
46、选出可以填入空白处的最佳 选项。 Two summers ago my family went to downtown Chicago to see museums and the Navy Pier. I 41 all the ticket stubs ( 票 根 ) and pictures from our vacation. I didnt know then how 42 they would become to me. A few weeks later, my dad wasnt feeling good and was sent to the 43 . I overheard
47、a phone call and 44 my dad had cancer. In the following weeks, I spent 45 every night at a friends house because my mom spent all her time with my dad. When I 46 got to go and see my dad, we spent all day just being 47 and watching TV together. I was 48 with this, and my dad could tell. I was Daddys
48、 princess and he always told me hed be there for me forever. Thats what he said. Toward the close of the day, I had to 49 because he was starting to feel weak. I 50 to say “I love you” when I left. Some days later, I spent the night at my friend Melanies house because we had camp the next day. We la
49、ughed and giggled until ten oclock. My mom 51 the next day to pick me up. She seemed really 52 . When we got home she 53 asking me if I wanted a snack before she talked to me. Then, she told me that my dad had 54 . The two of us cried together for hours. 55 nothing felt the same. Now when Im 56 and miss my dad, I take out those ticket stubs and pictures, and pretty soon I feel happy. And 57 Ill remember what he told me: Never go to bed 58 at someone, because you never know what can 59 and when you
