江西省上饶市横峰中学2020届高考英语下学期适应性考试试题【含答案】

1、江西省上饶市横峰中学2020届高考英语下学期适应性考试试题第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30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，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。1. How long is the girls fathers business trip?A. Five weeks. B. Three weeks. C. Two weeks.2. Where is the man going next

2、?A. To his dormitory. B. To the library. C. To the lecture room. 3. How will the woman deal with the machine?A. She will repair it herself. B. She will ask the man to repair it.C. She will find a repairman to repair it.4. Why does the woman leave home earlier?A. She starts work an hour earlier. B. S

3、he wants to avoid the traffic jam.C. It takes her more time to walk to work.5. Where are the speakers?A. On the road. B. At a police station. C. In a garage.第二节(共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分) 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. Who will go to see the movie with the woman?A. Her son. B. Her husband. C. Her friend.7. Wha

4、t kind of movie is the woman going to see?A. A thriller. B. A comedy. C. A science fiction movie.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Why doesnt the man like his new neighbors?A. Their dogs bark loudly. B. Theyve destroyed his yard.C. They like to watch him through the window.9. What does the man think of dogs?A. The

5、y are lovely. B. They are frightening. C. They are in danger.10. What does the woman advise the man to do?A. Talk with his neighbors. B. Say hello to his neighbors.C. Call the police as soon as possible.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What is the evidence of a mental problem?A. One thinks life is difficult. B.

6、 Ones daily life is disordered.C. One gets the blues now and again.12. What caused the mans problem?A. The pressure of work. B. Over-use of drugs.C. His family history of mental illness.13. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Think positively. B. Have regular meals. C. Do some exercises and ac

7、tivities.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。14. What does the man say about Trade Me?A. It offers some rare records. B. He often buys books and CDs on it.C. He can buy things from other users on it.15. What did the man buy for his mother as a Christmas present?A. A golf bag. B. A coat. C. A sofa.16. What is the man c

8、oncerned in the end?A. When the sofa will arrive. B. How the sofa will be delivered.C. How much the delivery will cost.17. What is the mans opinion about online shopping?A. The delivery is a bit too slow. B. Returning goods is difficult. C. It is quite convenient.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. What is the ma

9、in topic of the talk?A. Living conditions in Massachusetts in the 1800s.B. The difference between sheep and cattle feeding.C. Animal raising on early American farms.19. What activity did the settlers consider the least important in the early 1800s?A. Planting crops. B. Caring for animals. C. Buildin

10、g houses.20. What did the 19th-century farmers do with most of their farm products?A. They consumed them themselves. B. They sold them to people in cities.C. They traded them with neighboring farms.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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 AAre you drive

11、n to create change in bettering kids futures? Here are a few options.EducationGoing after a career in education is sometimes overlooked. Yet teaching is an important path to creating change. You will educate the young minds responsible for the future. In addition to presenting basic school subjects,

12、 you can teach them to be leaders. You can motivate them to want to make a difference themselves.A career in education doesnt have to mean leaching in a classroom. You can help them to learn in a way that works for them and be a friend to them as well.Social workAs a social worker, you can directly

13、change the lives of children in need as well advocate for services for drug abusers, family-violence survivors, mental-health patients, and more. You will provide them with the necessary resources to succeed and advise them through trauma (精神创伤), unemployment, education difficulties, addiction and p

14、overty.Many social workers are associated with governmental agencies, but there are also jobs in schools, nonprofit organizations and hospitals.Child psychologyStudying child psychology may lead to a career option. Psychologists can provide support for children with mental-health problems and give t

15、hem a place to be open about their feelings.You may wish to become a school psychologist and guide children (and their parents) through the education system while dealing with mental illness or trauma. As a psychologist, you will help your patients find the source of trauma or stress and discover wa

16、ys of reducing or removing the problem. You may even conduct your own research on new treatment methods.21Which educational concept does the author support?AWorking with students group leaders.BTeaching children according to their interests.CKeeping teaching children in the classroom.DEncouraging st

17、udents to make a change themselves.22Who will social workers help most probably?AGovernmental officials.BLocal business agents.CChildren with education difficulties.DWomen suffering from family violence.23Which career mainly deals with children with mental illness?AEducators. BSchool leaders.CSocial

18、 workers. DSchool psychologists. B I was 11 years old when I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010. We were in the fallout of the recession (经济衰退). She said a polite “no”. That didnt stop me. I Googled the measurements for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I wou

19、ld click notes on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without touching a real piano. Once my mom saw that I was serious, she borrowed money and bought me 10 lessons.I still remember the first one.

20、I was struck by how real the sound of the piano was. I sat my grade one after eight lessons. Once I started secondary school, we couldnt afford lessons again. I passed grade three, then grade five, practicing only on my piece of paper. One evening, when I was about 13, my mom said she had a surprise

21、 for me; it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more borrowed money. It was the first time Id played for her. She was in shock.My school didnt offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. The tryouts (选拔) were difficult. Some of the questions involved an estimation (评价) o

22、f the composer (作曲家) or when it was written. I felt overwhelmed. To my amazement I was offered a place. At Purcell, I spent two years working as hard as I could. I performed to raise money and saved enough to buy my first piano. When I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior piano prize and senior ac

23、ademic music prize. I am now at the Guildhall School in London. I feel proud: its been 10 years since I drew my paper piano, and Im at one of the worlds leading music schools. The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano: what we call mental practice. The paper piano h

24、elped spark my curiosity about how music works, the building blocks that form the pieces.24. Why did the authors mom buy him lessons at last?A. She suddenly made a fortune.B. She had no doubt of his talent for piano. C. She realized he meant what he said.D. She was shocked by his first performance.2

25、5. Which of the following can best describe the author?A. Honest. B. Determined. C. Humorous. D. Modest.26. The word “irony” in the last paragraph shows that the author was _.A. surprised B. proud C. satisfied D. curious27. Whats the authors main purpose of writing this article?A. To introduce the m

26、ethod of mental practice.B. To share how he convinced his mom to buy a piano.C. To encourage people to stick to their dreams.D. To describe how costly it is to learn an instrument.CAlthough it has been indicated in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and smelling, they are still

27、usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, Itzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made ultrasonic(超声的)sounds at frequencies humans cant hear when stressed by a lack of water or when their stem is cut.Microphones placed 10

28、 centimeters from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz. Human hearing usually ranges from 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz. These findings can alter the way we think about the plant kingdom , they wrote in their study, which has not yet been published.On average, drough

29、t - stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tobacco plants made 11. When plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour, and tobacco plants 15. Unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour. It is even possible to distinguish between th

30、e sounds to know what the stress is. The researchers trained a machine learning model to separate the plants，sounds from those of the wind, rain and other noises of the greenhouse, correctly identifying in most cases whether the stress was caused by dryness or a cut, based on the sounds intensity an

31、d frequency. Water- hungry tobacco appeared to make louder sounds than cut tobacco, for example. Although Khait and his colleagues only looked at tomato and tobacco plants, they believe other plants may make sounds when stressed.Enabling farmers to listen for water - stressed plants could open a new

32、 direction in the field of precision(精准) agriculture, the researchers suggest. They add that such an ability will be increasingly important as climate change exposes more areas to drought.Khaits study also suggests that insects and some mammals can hear and respond to from as far as 5 metres away. A

33、 moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water - stressed. Edward Farmer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland thinks the idea that moths might be listening to plants is “a little too speculative”. After all, there are already plenty of explanations for why insects avoid some

34、 plants and not others.28What were tomato and tobacco plants reactions to different stresses?AThey reacted to different types of stress with the same sound.BCut tomato plants produced more sounds per hour than water hungry ones .CCut tobacco plants seemed to make lower sounds than drought - stressed

35、 ones.DTobacco plants might make louder sounds than tomato plants when short of water.29Whats the main idea of Paragraph 4?AThe potential applications of the research.BChallenges facing farmers in the future.CFarmers contributions to the research.DThe future development of agriculture.30What does th

36、e underlined word speculative in the last paragraph probably mean?APractical BSurprising. CUnsupported. DComplicated.31What may be the best title for the text?ASilent scream BMysteries of natureCInner voices DA yet - to-be - published studyDDespite the negative international headlines that have hit

37、Huawei over the past few months, its consumer business continues to thrive. The Chinese technology giant replaced Apple as the secondlargest smart-phone player by global market share last year. Its firmly the biggest vendor(销售商) in China.Chinese consumers say theyve been attracted to Huaweis newest

38、features, the price points and the fact that its a domestic brand.“Using Huaweis mobile phones is supporting domestic brands. We hope our brands can go international,” Vikey, a Guangzhoubased Huawei user, told CNBC. She added that Huawei phones are “costeffective” and have good features while iPhone

39、s are “more of a trend”. One of the key features that Huawei introduced was a triplelens camera on its P20 Pro, which was launched last year.For the next 12 months, the iPhone lacks one of the most appealing features of current winners in the Chinese smart-phone market, the triplelens camera. The Hu

40、awei P20 Pro led the march.Retailers(零售商) are slashing iPhone prices across China as consumers say the phones arent worth the cost. Apples latest iPhone models are facing huge discounts in China as retailers try to sell the struggling devices. That comes as the topoftheline Apple smart-phones have p

41、osted poor China sales on what experts say are toohigh prices for the worlds largest smart-phone market and a lack of innovative features compared to local competitors like Huawei. The technology giant itself acknowledged earlier this month that unexpectedly low sales in the Chinese market would lik

42、ely lead to worsethananticipated first quarter profits.One of the most recent iPhone cost cuts in the country came from Suning, a large Chinese retailer, which changed the price of the 128GB version of the iPhone XR from 6,999 yuan to 5,799 yuana 1,200 yuan discount.Other retailers in China are also

43、 putting their iPhones on sale. Sunion, an Apple reseller, was advertising 700 yuan off for both the 128GB and 256GB versions of the iPhone XR. Ecommerce site Pinduoduo, which allows thirdparties to sell products, also had hefty(很大的)discounts across all of the latest iPhone models.32What does the un

44、derlined word “thrive” probably mean in the first paragraph?AReduce.BRemain. CThreaten. DIncrease.33Which of the following is one of the Huaweis characters?AMore of a trend. BCosteffective.CToohigh prices. DA lack of innovative features.34Which of the following is a medium?ASuning. BSunion. CCNBC. D

45、Pinduoduo.35What can we infer from the text?AUpdating of technology counts. BAdvertising of the products matters.CThe sale strategy is invisible. DThe iPhone still leads the trend in China.第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，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。 What Teenagers Can Do To Earn More RespectAs te

46、enagers continue to grow and develop into young adults, the transition(过渡) into adulthood has begun. With so many physical and emotional changes going on, certain manners are often forgotten and other adult traits (特征) are not yet accepted as a way of life.36By doing the following things, you will e

47、arn more respect.Contribute to the householdAt the very least, clean up afteryourself. As a teenager, you are old enough to clean up after yourself. When you make a mess, clean it up.This includes, but is not limited to, your dishes and your room. All chores (零星工作) that you do help to reduce the loa

48、d of the person who did them before.Now that youre old enough and capable, why shouldntyou contribute to the household?37Be responsible 38 Whether they are basic things, like brushing your teeth or doing your homework , or more involved chores that contribute to the household, simply fulfill your re

49、sponsibilities on time. When adults know that they can rely on you, their trust and respect for you will increase.39Instead of taking the easy approach and asking for help, make an effort to solve your problems on your own first. The “easy way” is only easy for you, but it is an extra task for the p

50、erson from whom you are seeking help.40Depending on the problem, 15 minutes of effort is usually a good guideline.When you become a good problem solver, you increase your value to the community. A. Everyone has certain responsibilities. B.It will make your life more pleasant. C.The people doing the

51、chores before will greatly appreciate the help. D. By being aware of these manners and traits, you can manage them sooner. E. Solve more of your own problem without asking for help F.Seek help only after you have made an honest effort to solve your own problems.G.When speaking to a group, speak loud

52、 enough.第二部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。A couple of weeks ago, my grandfather was explaining his favorite expression, “Nothing is ever easy.” The following day, as I tried to complete my clays work, I happened to 41 a bumblebee (大黄蜂) on t

53、he skylight (天窗). The skylight was particularly high up, but I thought 42 the bee would take no more than five minutes. An hour later, the bee still remained. All that had 43 was that the living room was a mess and that I was dizzy from 44 into the sunlight. I did not expect to waste an hour on an i

54、nsect so 45 but by doing so, I understood what my grandfather meant.It is not only time that we tend to underestimatewe dont account for unexpected costs. We often imagine what can work in our 46 but we seldom think of all the 47 things that could affect us. However, it is important to remember that

55、 your day or week or year might not go as 48 and that is completely normal. It is 49 acceptable to feel challenged even at a 50 that you thought was simple because that is part of life.If you can 51 that nothing will ever be easy, then 52 might seem slightly more manageable. In middle school, I thought high school might be easier because I could choose the classes I wanted to 53 . In high school, I thought 54 might