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1、秘密启用前2020年重庆一中高2020级高三下期5月月考英 语 试 题英语试题卷共9 页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。注意事项：1. 答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。2. 答选择题时，必须使用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。3. 答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。4. 所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。第卷.听力部分 （共二节，每小题1分，满分20分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给
2、的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）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。A Welwitschia mirabilisTitle: the worlds most resistant plantIts not pretty to look at, but welwitschia mirabilis is unique. It consists of only two
3、 leaves and a strong stem with roots. Two leaves continue to grow and the stem thickens and can grow to be almost 2 meters high and 8 meters wide. Its lifespan is 400 to 1,500 years. It can survive up to five years with no rain. The plant is said to be very tasty either raw or baked in hot ashes. Di
4、onaea muscipulaTitle: the Venus Fly Trap Dionaea muscipula is the most famous carnivorous(肉食性的) plant due to the active and efficient nature of its unique trap. It may be famous, but its also threatened. It produces a short leaf that forms two sides of a trap. Each side contains some sensitive hairs
5、. When it is touched two to three times, the trap will shut in less than a second, fast enough to catch flies and other insects. The leaf, once closed, produces some enzymes(酶) that slowly dissolve the insects and supply the plant with food. Rafflesia arnoldiiTitle: the worlds largest flowerRafflesi
6、a arnoldii, the largest flower in the world, is an exotic and rare plant. The flower is 3 feet across and weighs 15-24 pounds. However, you wouldnt want to grow it in your garden. In a rainforest-type environment, it gives off a most unpleasant smell, which is somewhat like rotten meat. This is why
7、it is often called the Corpse Plant by some natives of Indonesia where it comes. Its flowers only last for three days to a week. Euphorbia obeseTitle: the Baseball PlantEuphorbia obese is known as the Baseball Plant. Over-harvesting by plant collectors for its interesting and curious appearance has
8、severely reduced the wild population. However, it has become very common now. By growing euphorbia obese in large numbers, many gardens have been working to ensure that the plants being traded and sold among plant collectors are not wild plants.21. From the passage, we know that _.A. welwitschia mir
9、abilis is very beautifulB. dionaea muscipula is famous for its trapC. rafflesia arnoldii feels like rotten meatD. euphorbia obese can be used as baseball22. According to the passage, rafflesia arnoldii _.A. shuts its trap two or three times in one second.B. gives off a special smell to attract flies
10、 and insectsC. smells bad in a hot and wet environmentD. has a big flower, a strong stem and two leaves23. Plant collectors like euphorbia obese because _.A. it looks strangeB. it tastes deliciousC. it can be planted in the gardenD. it is worth a big fortuneBThe tough challenge of a six-month, 3,200
11、-kilometer walk across the South Pole, in the long darkness of the Antarctic winter when temperatures can fall to -90, proved irresistible to the experienced British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.Fienness hero, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, wrote “great God, this is an awful place” when he reached the
12、 South Pole a century ago, before freezing and starving to death with his team on the return journey.That journey was made in summer. Nobody before has attempted to cross the pole in winter. In a statement, Fiennes said, “This will be my greatest challenge to date. We will stretch the limits of huma
13、n endurance. ”However, Fiennes could not explain why anyone should consider such a venture, still less a man aged 68 who has survived cancer, heart surgery and the loss of most of the frozen fingertips on one hand. “Its what I do,” he said, looking slightly puzzled at the question.Fiennes, the world
14、s greatest living explorer, according to the Guinness Book of Records was the first to cross the Antarctic continent unsupported; the first to cross both polar ice caps; and the first to travel across the globe from pole to pole.Fiennes admitted his wife, Louise, and their six-year-old daughter were
15、 not thrilled. “But Ive never done anything else; its how I earn my living. And youre much more likely, statistically, to die on the roads than on the polar ice,” he said.After training in the Swedish Arctic in a relatively balmy -40, Fiennes team will set sail from London on Dec.6 on a South Africa
16、n research ship. The ice trek will begin on Mar.21, the spring equinox(春分) that marks the official start of the polar winter, from the Russian base of Novolazareskaya. Fiennes and his five team members must then climb more than 3,000 meters on to the inland plateau, walk for several hundred kilometers using an ice tractor to pull all
