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1、此卷只装订不密封班级 姓名 准考证号 考场号 座位号 2020届高三第三次模拟考试卷英 语 （四）注意事项：1. 答题前，先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试题卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上的指定位置。2. 选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。3. 非选择题的作答：用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试题卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。4. 考试结束后，请将本试题卷和答题卡一并上交。第一部分 听力（略）第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，
2、共25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黑。AFrom my hotel room window, I see an oversized billboard with his face on it: Jason, the Great Magician.I absent-mindedly turn the pages of the phone book and come across a city map. Sipping my iced latt, I run my fingers along the streets from the
3、 hotel to the opera hall. Not more than a half-hour walk.I glance at the clock. The show starts in one hour. Plenty of time! I gulp(大口吞咽) the last three sips of my latt and hop in the shower. Soon Im on my way to the show, carrying a fancy black handbag and a genuine smile.The billboard looks even m
4、ore impressive from outside. The Great Jasons eyes seem to be glancing through me. I shiver and walk faster. I feel like a child about to open her birthday presents.The hall is dark when I come in; the show is about to begin. I make my way backstage just as the great magician puts on his top hat.Dad
5、dy, Im so glad to see you,” I say in a half-whisper. Im in town for the writers workshop, but I just couldnt miss your show.” I give him a quick hug and go back into the seating area, leaving him with a startled smile. I settle down in the darkness, and the curtains open.Magically, that show remains
6、 the Great Jasons best performance to this day.21. The underlined sentence indicates the writer is .A. embarrassed and hesitantB. brave and determinedC. nervous and excitedD. surprised and frightened22. Why was the writer in town?A. To go to the workshop.B. To visit the magician.C. To enjoy the perf
7、ormance.D. To help people in need.23. Who is Jason?A. The person the writer will work with.B. The father of the writer.C. The greatest performer ever.D. The unknown magician.【答案】21-23 CAB【解析】这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者观看父亲表演魔术的故事。21. 推理判断题。根据第四段的“The Great Jasons eyes seem to be glancing through me. I shiver
8、and walk faster. I feel like a child about to open her birthday presents.” (Jason似乎看了我一眼，我浑身发抖，走得更快了。我感觉就像一个即将打开生日礼物的孩子)可猜测，作者当时很紧张，但又有点兴奋。C 项(既紧张又兴奋)符合以上说法，故选C项。22. 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的“Im in town for the writers workshop”可知，作者是来参加作家研讨会的。A项(为了参加作家研讨会)符合以上说法，故选A项。23. 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段的“Daddy, Im so glad to se
9、e you”可知，Jason是作者的父亲。B.项(作者的父亲)符合以上说法，故选B项。BWhen she was studying to become a scientist, Megan Strauss rode in a small airplane to study giraffes. While a pilot flew over the Serengeti in Tanzania, Africa, the researchers looked down carefully and counted giraffes.“I am always amazed how easily we c
10、an spot warthogs(疣猪) and other small animals, yet we sometimes have trouble seeing giraffes. Giraffes are slender in shape, and they may not throw a good shadow,” says Dr. Strauss, who has since become a wildlife scientist.The Serengeti is about the size of Vermont, a state in the northeastern US, s
11、o the scientists could not study the entire area. Instead, they surveyed three areas where giraffes were studied in the 1970s. As they expected, they saw far fewer of these animals.To find out if lions had been killing more giraffes in recent years, the team looked at the survival of young giraffes.
12、 Lions kill more young giraffes than adults, but the team found no decrease in young giraffes survival after they are born, compared with the 1970s.The team then looked at whether too many giraffes were being killed by parasites(寄生虫). The researchers counted parasite eggs in giraffe droppings, and t
13、hey found too few to harm the giraffe population.They looked into whether poachers(盗猎者) were killing too many giraffes. Two of the areas they studied are where giraffe meat is sometimes sold in local markets. Poachers catch more adult males than other giraffes. Researchers spotted too few males comp
14、ared with females in those two areas, a sign of poaching.When the food supply is short, the environment supports fewer giraffes and the females have fewer young giraffes. A lot of new trees have grown in the Serengeti, but many are a type that giraffes do not like to eat. The researchers found fewer
15、 young giraffes today than in the 1970s compared with the number of adult females, a sign that food was in short supply.Dr. Strauss is working on an environmental education program for Tanzania including books for students. These materials will educate Tanzanians and help them to help giraffes. As knowledge grows and changes are made, they hope the giraffe population will increase.24. What did Dr. Strauss find while studying giraffes in the Serengeti?A. It was too costly to study giraffes.B. It was hard to spot giraffes from the air.C. The number of giraffes had increased slowly.D
