2020高考英語三模前閱讀理解專題練09(學(xué)生版)三年真題研讀專練

1、三年真題研讀專練re hoping to help your teen make better choft i|r熊三模前閱讀理解專題練09題組一Top 4 Motivational BooksWhether you ' re looking for a graduation gift idea, or you motivational book might be the answer.DAVE PELZERHELP V OU RS BL F FOR TEENS精品資源戰(zhàn)勝高考,this book i)Who Moved My Cheese? for TeensWho Moved My

2、 Cheese? has been a life changing book for many adults. The teen version will surely create positive change in their lives as well.Adolescence is filled with change and uncertainty and this book focuses on the skills needed to adapt and develop increased resilience.Help Yourself forTeens: Real-Life

3、Advice for Real-Life ChallengesWritten by Dave Pelzer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Child Called"It "'part se-lhelp book and part inspirational memoir.Pelzer shows teens how they can overcome whatever challenges they face in life.The Code: The Five Secrets of Teen Succ

4、essThe author, Mawi Asgedom, grew up during a civil war in Ethiopia. He overcame adversity and was awarded a scholarship to Harvard. In this quick read, your teen will learn valuable lessons on resilience.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective TeensSean Covey, son of the author of The 7 Habits of Highly E

5、ffective People, provides a teen-friendly version of this classic book. Helping your teen develop these habits at an early age will set him up for future success in life.56. Who is the passage intended for?三年真題研讀專練A. Parents.B. Teachers.C. Teenagers.D. Graduates.57. Which of the following is TRUE ac

6、cording to the introductions of the four books?A. Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens appeals to adults and teenagers alike.B. Help Yourself for Teens: Real-Life Advice for Real-Life Challenges is the #1 New York Times bestseller.C. The Code: The Five Secrets of Teen Success touches on achieving academic

7、 success against a background of military conflict.D. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is written by Sean Covey with the help from his father.B“ Be afraid. Be very afraid,” says a character in The Fly, a horror film about a man who turns into an enormousinsect. It captures the unease and disg

8、ust people often feel for the kingdom of cockroaches, Zika-carrying mosquitoes and creepy crawlies of all kinds. However, ecologists increasingly see the insect world as something to be frightened for, not frightened of. In the past two years, scores of scientific studies have suggested that trillio

9、ns of murmuring, droning, honeybees, butterflies and beetles are dying off.“ If all mankind were to disappearE.O.Wilson, a respectable entomologist,“the world would 怕geectstwere to va nish, the environmentwould collapse into chaos. ”Most of the studies describe declines of 50% and more over decades

10、in different measures of insect health. The immediate reaction is shock. Insects enable plants to reproduce, through pollination（ 授粉 ）, and are food for other animals, so a collapse in their numbers would be catastrophic.But a second look leads to a different assessment. Rather than causing a panic,

11、 the studies should act as a timely warning and a reason to take precautions. That is because the worst fears are unproven. There are no studies at all of wild insect numbers in most of the world. Reliable data are too scarce to declare a global emergency.Moreover, where the evidence does show a col

12、lapse in Europe and America agricultural and rural ecosystems are holding up. Farm production still remains high. As some insect species die out, others seem to be moving into the niches（ 生態(tài)位 ）they have left, keeping ecosystems going, although with less biodiversity than before. It is hard to argue

13、that insect decline is yet causing significant economic damage.But there are complications. Agricultural productivity is not the only measure of environmental health. Animals have value, independent of any direct economic contribution they may make. The more species make up an ecosystem, the more st

14、able it is likely to be. The extinction of a few insect species among so many might not make a big difference. The loss of hundreds of thousands would.And the scale of the observed decline raises doubts about how long ecosystems can remain resilient（ 能復(fù)原 精品資源戰(zhàn)勝高考). An experiment in which researchers

15、 gradually pulled out insect pollinators from fields found that plant diversity held up well until about 90% of insects had been removed. Then it collapsed. Given the lack of data, it is impossible to know how close Europe and America are to an ecosystem collapse. But it would be reckless to find ou

16、t by actually triggering one.58. What does the underlined sentence in the first paragraph imply?A. Ecologists have long been afraid of those disgusting insects.B. Ecologists are worried about the disappearance of some insects.C. Ecologists have already got rid of the prejudiced feeling about insects

17、.D. Ecologists are respectful of the insects abiliteymtoserelvgvgeesnn.erate th59. What conclusion can we draw from the studies conducted in the past 2 years?A. Though there is a decline in the number of insects, we still have the reason to be optimistic.B. Biodiversity can cause immediate damage so

18、 that we should take precautions right away.C. Data collected from all over the world is convincing to prove our environment is at risk.D. The consequence of decreasing biodiversity may be more serious than we can imagine.60. What is the purpose of writing the passage?A. To show the magical power of

19、 our mother nature.B. To analyze why insects are on the edge of extinction.C. To draw people s attention to the decreasing insects.D. To urge the scientists to collect more data about insects.CThe advent of warm weather here in Maine calls for a seasonal ritual that, for me, puts an end to winter fe

20、tching the wooden screen door.Note that I wrote«I»wooden ”. The aluminum models just wonthey clos e ttodoonietatlyand keep theirperfect form for decades. In the 1960s, a time of imperfection, there was no perfect house, no perfect car, no perfect kids or parents. Why should a screen door b

21、e an exception?I grew up with my siblings in a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey. When the warm weather arrived, my dad would pull out the wooden screen door and install it over the back door, which could then be left wide open, admitting a refreshing breeze(we had no air conditioning).My fat

22、her was a Mr. Fix-it, so keeping the screen door serviceable was one of his hobbies. Every few years he gave it a fresh coat of paint and fixed it a bit. I distinctly remember him putting the last screw in the last hinge( 鉸 精品資源戰(zhàn)勝高考三年真題研讀專練鏈 ）, and swinging the door shut with a “ crack! ”A good, woo

23、den screen door, unsightly as it was, had an invaluable function in the age of the stay-at-home mom: It alerted her to the coming and going of the kids. My siblings, and my friends ran in and out of the house, tearing the screen door open and letting it slap shut behind us. A hundred times a day. It

24、 was all good, and my mom never complained about the noise, because that was the purpose of a wooden screen door to slam shut and thereby announce that her children were within earshot.Several years ago, in a fit of nostalgia（ 懷舊 ）, I went shopping for a wooden screen door. I was disappointed in the

25、 choices available. They looked a bit too solid, too well made. But I found one online, and within a week it was delivered to my doorstep.The firm had sent me one with the wrong dimensions, so I asked my carpenter to make the necessary adjustments. Ozzie worked away at it for a couple of hours until

26、 he got it to sit neatly in its frame. I gave it a test: I pulled it open and let go. It closed in a lazy fashion.“ Not good, ” I pronounced. “ Please removcloser and adjust the door so it swings shut with a good crack.”O(jiān)zzie went about his work and a short while later the task was done. The door wa

27、s uneven in its frame, and the screen no longer lay flat. But when I pulled open the door and released it, the thing clapped shut like a rifle shot. “ What do you think? ” I asked. “ It looks like hell,” said Ozzie. “ But it sounds like heaven,owner of the door and the memory had the final word.61.

28、What particular function did the wooden screen door perform in th e writer s childhood?A. It functioned as an air conditioner in summer.B. It helped sharpen his father s repairing skills.C. It was more like a toy that kids often played with.D. It made Mom aware that the kids were close by.62. The re

29、ason why the writer asked the carpenter to continue to adjust the door is that .A. the door was not the right size for the frameB. the door was poorly made that it didn t suit himC. he wanted to see how the door was supposed to shutD. he was determined to seize the ownership of the door63. What does

30、 the wooden screen door mean to the writer now?A. It is a reminder of the imperfect things.B. It is a symbol of his memory of summer.C. It is a contributor to the better life he leads.D. It is an antique worth cherishing in the museum.精品資源戰(zhàn)勝高考64. What is the best title for the passage?A. The good ol

31、d days are gone.B. Never judge a door by its appearance.C. Summer announces itself with a crack.D. Every single imperfection adds to beauty.British economist and philosopher, TR Malthus, wrote An Essay on the Principles of Population in 1798 and created shock waves around the world saying that popul

32、ation would grow in a geometric progression（like 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64.）while food production would increase in an arithmetic progression（like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.）. Malthus had said that it is biologically inherent（ 固有的 ）in all living organisms to multiply fast.Now, after more than 200 years of Ma

33、lthus s theory, we see that the world population has increausted from abo1 billion to about 7.6 billion, but at a much slower rate than that predicted by Malthus. This is because of various contraceptive（ 避孕的） methods adopted in many countries and also the adoption of policies regulating birth. Worl

34、dfood production has increased from about 500 million tonnes in 1960 1961 to about 2,600 million tonnes in 2017 2018. This is because of increase in production and cultivated（ 用于耕作的）areas as well as innovations inagricultural technology.My intention is not to prove Malthus wrong. Rather, it was his

35、alarming prediction that created an awakening worldwide regarding adoption of family planning programmes. Having said that, one must realize that even an increase from about 1 billion to about 7.6 billion today is causing serious damage to the planet, which will definitely not be able to support lar

36、ger populations. Imagine, what it would be like if the world population increases to 11 billion by 2100, as has been predicted under some models.Let me now discuss how this population explosion has given rise to environmental pollution. There are three main reasons: First, the larger the population,

37、 the larger the demand for food, and thus, the higher the requirement of cultivable land. Second, changing lifestyles has led to evolving consumption patterns; more and bigger cars, TVs, refrigerators, mobile phones, packaged foods, furniture items, and electrical devices of several types are being

38、consumed widely and in greater numbers with each passing day. Third, we need to create housing for ever-increasing populations. All this puts a pressure on the environment and land. Thus, forests and bodies of water are being destroyed to meet the requirement of land, more so in poor countries. As a

39、 consequence, species of wildlife are disappearing as their habitats do not exist any more or are completely changed, resulting in the ecological balance getting disturbed. Not only this, given that forests act as carbon sinks, their destruction is worsening global warming. Thus, when it comes to po

40、llution, ever-increasing global population is the criminal.Further, due to the above human activities, our energy consumption is increasing, which is largelyfossil-fuel-based today. This is causing massive emission（ 排放）of greenhouse gases that is responsible for climate change. Heavy vehicular traff

41、ic, besides creating noise pollution, is further contributing to these emissions. The carbon emissions in the atmosphere presently stand at about 380 ppm compared to 280 ppm about a decade back and, at the current rate of emission, the threshold limit of 550 ppm may be breached very soon.Today, we a

42、re facing several types of pollution. I am not discussing them in details as the issues are well known. Poor people are more affected by both increasing population and pollution. Further, poverty itself is the worst kind of pollution. Thus, there is a cause-and-effect relationship between environmen

43、tal pollution and poverty. Climate change is negatively affecting agri-production, and the degradation of forests and oceans is reducing the availability of forest produce and marine products on which about 35% of the global population depends.It is all leading to price rise, affecting the poor the

44、most and on multiple fronts. The loss of rich land to construction also aggravates poverty. Thus, poverty gets worse due to increase in population and pollution. To conclude, the world is in urgent need of stabilization of the population to fight both pollution and poverty.65. According to the passa

45、ge, Malthus believes that.A. there are effective ways to decrease the growth of populationB. food production should increase in line with population growthC. the increase of population would exceed that of food productionD. lack of food supply is likely to bring about pollution and poverty 66. What

46、is implied in the second paragraph?A. Malthus ' s prediction of world population is totally inexact.B. People have realized the necessity to control population growth.C. World food production has increased by about four times since 1960.D. Modern technology contributes most to the increase in fo

47、od production.67. What ' s the author ' s attitude toward Malthus ' s theory?A. Critical.B. Positive.C. Doubtful.D. Opposing.68. Which word can replace the underlined word“ aggaavapesagraplir? the lA. Increases.B. Relieves.C. Exposes.D. Witnesses.69. What is the passage mainly about?A. T

48、he possibility of taking measures to control population.B. The urgency for the whole world to fight against poverty.C. The relationship between population, pollution and poverty.D. The consumption pressure on the environment from rising population.70. How is the passage mainly developed?A. By listin

49、g relevant figures.B. By providing typical examples.C. By comparing opinions from different fields.D. By presenting a cause and analyzing its effects.題組二ASometimes it can be easy to become too satisfied when it comes to living sustainably. We may all have recycling bins in our kitchens, but here are

50、 some ways you can live more sustainably.1. Put an end to plastic water bottles and one-off coffee cupsThe only way this is going to work is that if you have reusable options you really love, invest in a great water bottle. This is an advance payment, but it will save you money in the long run. A 75

51、0ml bottle of Evian costs 90p in Tesco, meaning if you buy one every two days you could save 10 within three weeks by filling up a reusable bottle at home.2. s also aThe high street is problematic on so many different levels. Not only are you buying items with questionable supply chains, but the car

52、bon footprint of each product is shocking as well. Online shopping is even worse, with overpackaging for each item and the emissions from delivery trucks. The answer is to stick to reach-me-down or previously owned items as much as possible. Not only will this save you money, but there satisfaction

53、in finding a hidden treasure from the flea market where you find outstanding bargains or something used, which you simply can't get from shopping in Wal-Mart or on Amazon.3. Think hard about your transportationEven if your car is supposedly a low- emissions model, it ' s still going to be a

54、huge contribution to your carbon footprint. There are times when getting in a car can ' t be avoided, but if you can substitute just one flight a year with a train, one car journey a week with a bus. and one bus a month with a bike ride, you' ll find that mmindful transport decisions can eas

55、ily make your day-to-day life more environmentally friendly with little effort.4. Try to buy local, seasonal produceYou may think buying strawberries in December or courgettes in spring is no big deal, but the chemicals and fuel used to artificially copy the right environment for them to grow create

56、 harmful gas emissions. Similarly, the environmental impact of transporting produce from another country is huge. Buying from local farmers also means you can often ignore the huge amounts of packaging the supermarkets use.56. According to the pa ssage, if we want to lower our carbon footprint, we&#

57、39; d better.A. purchase a 75ml bottle of Evian in Tesco every other dayB. never do some shopping in Wal-Mart or on AmazonC. buy strawberries in December or courgettes in springD. take transport with a low-emissions model if possible57. Which of the following is most suitable to fill in the blank?A.

58、 Avoid too much traffic on the high street. B. Buy items without questionable supply chains.C. Buy second-hand products as much as possible. D. Avoid buying items with excessive packaging.BIt ' s common knowledge that some countries have higher life expectancies than others, but the city you live in can also affect your health.Some cities are hard on their residents. In places with poor city planning, for example Lagos, which was called out recently by the Economist Intelligence Unit, pu