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1、2020年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试题（新课标I，解析版）第一部分听力（略）第二部分阅读理解 （共两节，满分60分）第一节 （共15小题;每小题3分，满分45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 ，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity ChallengeDare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you of the six
2、th annual CuriosityChallenge. The challenge invites , even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to createartwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their world.Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or wr
3、ite a poem that shows what they are curious about. To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, 265 Mass Avenue,Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honor at a special ceremony during
4、the CSF on Sunday, April 21st. Guest speakers will also present prizes to the students. Winning entries will be published in a book. Student entries will exhibited and prizes will be given. Families of those who take part will be included in celebration and brunch will be served.Between March 10th a
5、nd March 15h, each winner will be given the specifics of the closing ceremony and the Curiosity Challenge celebration. The program guidelines and other related information are available at :http:/ cambridgesciencefestival.org.21. Who can take part in the Curiosity Challenge?A. School students. B. Ca
6、mbridge locals.C. CSF winners. D. MIT artists.22. When will the prize-giving ceremony be held?A. On February 8th. B. On March 10th.C. On March 15th D. On April 21st.23. What type of writing is this text?A .An exhibition guide. B. An art show review.C. An announcement. D. An official report.【答案】21A 2
7、2D 23C【解析】试题分析：本文是一篇应用文。叙述了第六届剑桥科技节的通知，通知要求5至14的学生可以报名参加，参赛作品可以是一张画、一篇文章、一张照片或一首诗，作品能够鼓励人们探险世界。将在大桥科技节4月21日给优秀作品颁奖。21A考查细节理解。谁能够参加好奇心的挑战？根据The challenge invites,even dares school studenrs between the ages of 5-14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity。可知是514岁的学生可以参加比赛。故选A
8、。22D考查细节理解。颁奖仪式什么时间举行？根据Students who enter the Cambridge Challenge and are selected as winners will be honorned at a special ceremony during the CSF on Sunday,April 21st.可知颁奖仪式在4月21日星期天举行，故选D。23C考查判断推理。这篇是属于什么体裁的文章？根据短文的内容及The program guidelines and other related information are available at:http:/c
9、ambridgesciencefestival.org.可推知这是一个通知，如果想了解更多的信息可以登陆这个网址。故选C。选项A展览指导或说明，如果是这一项的话，短文应该写出展览的时间及地点，那么让学生参加比赛及颁奖部分的内容就是多余的；故不符合原文；选项B艺术展回顾或评论，它的内容应该写的是对这种展览过后的评价，因而短文的句子的时态不会用将来时，而应该用一般过去式；而这篇短文用的是将来时；故排除B。选项D一个官方的报道。根据The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is pleased to inform you Of the sixth annual Cur
10、iosity Challenge.可知这里是剑桥科技节的名誉写的通知，而并非官方，故排除D。考点：广告类短文阅读。BPassenger pigeons (旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers.Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群)so large that they the sky forhours.It was calculated that when its population reache
11、d its highest point ,they were more than 3billlionpassenger pigeonsa number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1
12、 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds weremost abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands,Commercial hunters attracted them t
13、o small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.By the closing decades of the 19th century ,the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested hadbeen d
14、amaged by Americans need for wood, which scattered (驱散) the flocks and forced the birds togo farther north, where cold temperatures and storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flockswere gone, never to be seen again.In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of p
15、assenger pigeons but by then,no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wi pigeon in the UnitedStates was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time , a few birds survived under humancare. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the C
16、incinnati Zoological Garden onSeptember 1, 1914.24. In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons_.A. were the biggest bird in the worldB. lived mainly in the south of AmericaC. did great harm to the natural environmentD. were the largest bird population in the Us25. The underlined word “ undoing” p
