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1、2019届高考英语模拟试卷（四）附解析1、Phillip Island Penguins The Little Penguin has called Phillip Island home for untold generations. Get to Phillip Island in plenty of time to watch a summer sunset at Summerland Beach-the stage is attractively set to see the Little Penguin leave water and step onto land. ?Leave M
2、elbourne at 5:30 pm. for a direct journey to Phillip Island ?See the Gippsland area-Guinness Book of Records place for the worlds longest earthworm ?Journey along the coastal highway around the Bay with French Island and Churchill Island in the distance ?Cross the bridge at San Remo to enter Phillip
3、 Island-natural home for Little Penguins and many animals ?Take your place in special viewing stands to watch the daily evening performance of the wild Little penguinsUltimate Penguins (+U) Join a group of up to 15. This guided tour goes to an attractive, quiet beach to see Little Penguins. You can
4、see penguins at night by wearing a special pair of glasses. Adult $ 60.00 Child $ 30.00Viewing Platform Penguin Plus (+V) More personalized wildlife viewing limited to 130 people providing closer viewing of the penguin arrival than the main viewing stands. Adult $ 25.00 Child $ 12.50Penguin Skybox (
5、+S) Join a group of only 5 in the comfort of a special, higher-up viewing tower. Gain an excellent overview of Summerland Beach. Adult 16 yrs + $ 50.001.What kind of people is the text mainly written for?A.Scientists.B.Students.C.Tourists.D.Artists.2.What can we learn from the text about Little Peng
6、uins?A.They have been on Phillip Island for years.B.They keep a Guinness record for their size.C.They are trained to practice diving for visitors.D.They live in large groups to protect themselves.3.How much would a couple with one child pay for a closer viewing tour?A.$ 37.50.B.$ 62.50.C.$ 150.00.D.
7、$ 180.00.2、As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educatio
8、nal, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations- UNESCO and National Geographic among them have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Ce
9、nter, Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working and rais
10、ing a family in a village in Nepal.Documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before the
11、y disappear without record.At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials- including photographs, films, tap recordings, and field notes- which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.Now, through the two organizations that he has founded
12、-the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project-Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world, available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Tha
13、nks to digital technology and the widely available Internet. Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.1.Many scholars are making efforts to .A.rescue the disappearing languagesB.promote global languagesC.search for language communitiesD.set up langua
14、ge research organizations.2.What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A.Having full records of the languages.B.Writing books on language teaching.C.Telling stories about language users.D.Living with the native speakers.3.What is Turins book based on?A.The cultural studies in India.B.The doc
15、uments available at Yale.C.His language research in Bhutan.D.His personal experience in Nepal.4.Which of the following best describes Turins work?A.Write,sell and donate.B.Record,repair and reward.C.Collect,protect and reconnect.D.Design,experiment and report.3、Youth football team members rescued mo
16、re than two weeks after sudden flooding trapped them in a cave in Thailand are now being well looked after at a hospital in the northern city of Chiang Rai. In addition to treating the boys for potential body fluid loss, inadequate nutrition and lack of oxygen, their doctors also plan to closely monito
