2019年高考英语模拟试题（二十）含答案及解析

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第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）(略) 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

It’s a white Christmas in the United States today, with snow falling from Seattle to Maine. ? Northeast

Biting winds with snow swept the Northeast.

Earlier, up to 15 inches of snow fell during a snow storm in Maine, while up to one foot fell in New Hampshire. Winds reached 76 mph on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while up to 61 mph winds tore through Long Island, New York. Falling snow collected on the runways at Boston’s Logan International Airport, causing temporary flight delays.

The wind was so severe in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that the annual (重演) of George Washington and his soldiers’crossing the Delaware River was canceled, the Washington Crossing Historic Park told ABC News.

? Midwest

Heavy lake effect snow fell in western Michigan.

The National Weather Service has issued a wind-chill warning and advisory (公告) from Montana to Michigan. Bitter cold air in the Midwest produced wind chills Monday morning as low as minus 48 degrees in North Dakota and minus 47 in northern Minnesota.

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As this bitter cold made its way east overnight, it was expected to move over relatively mild Great Lakes, producing intense lake-effect snow bands capable of producing 2 to 4 inches of snow in an hour.

? West Coast

That storm system moved overnight through the Rockies, bringing more snow and the threat of avalanches(雪崩). The National Weather Service has issued an avalanche warning for the Wasatch Range Mountains outside Salt Lake City.

21. Why was the annual reenactment of George Washington and his soldiers’ crossing the Delaware River canceled?

A. Because the river was frozen.

B. Because the wind was too strong.

C. Because the snow was too thick. D. Because the temperature was too low. 22. Which of the following is the bad weather that has set in according to the passage?

A. The avalanches.

B. A white Christmas.

D. Heavy snow, biting wind and chills.

C. A mess of people’s life. 23. What is the style of the passage?

A. Weather report.

B. News about the effect of bad weather. C. News about bad weather.

D. A bad-weather warning and advisory. 【答案】21. B 22. D 23. C

【解析】本文是一篇关于极端天气的新闻报道。文章主要报道了美国圣诞节这一天的极端的天气情况。

21. 细节理解题。根据文章第5段The wind was so severe in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that the annual reenactment (重演) of George Washington and his soldiers’ crossing the Delaware River was canceled, the Washington Crossing Historic Park told ABC News.可知，因为宾夕法尼亚和新泽西的风极强，所以取消。故选B。

22. 细节理解题。根据文章可知，坏天气已经造成了Heavy snow, biting wind and chills（大雪，刺骨的寒风和寒冷），故选D。

23. 推理判断题。文章主要报道了美国圣诞节这一天坏的天气情况，并非重点讲坏天气的影响。故选C。

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B

Every pet owner loves his pet. There is no argument here.

But when we asked our readers whether they would clone their beloved animals, the responses were split almost down the middle. Of the 228 readers who answered it, 108 would lone, 111 would not and nine weighed each side without offering an opinion.

Clearly, from readers’ response, this is an issue that reaches deeply into both the joy and eventual sadness of owning a pet. It speaks, as well, to people’s widely differing expectations over the developing scientific procedure.

Most of the respondents who favored the idea strongly believed it would produce at least a close copy of the original; many felt the process would actually return an exact copy. Those on the other side, however, held little hope a clone could never truly recreate a pet, many simply didn’t wish to go against the natural law of life and death.

Both sides expressed equal love for their animals. More than a few respondents owned “the dog/cat in the world”. They thought of their pets as their “best friend”, ‘‘a member of the family,” “the light of my life.” They told moving stories of pets’ heroism, intelligence and selfless devotion.

Little wonders the loss is so disturbing---and the cloning so attractive. “People become very lose to their animals, and the loss can be just as hard to bear as when a friend or family member dies,” says Gary Kowalski, author of Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet. “For me, cloning feels like an attempt to turn death away... It’s understandable. Death is always painful. It’s difficult to deal with. It’s hard to accept.”

But would cloning reduce the blow? This question seemed to be at the heart of this problem. 24. So far as the cloning of pets is concerned, a recent survey shows that, of all pet owners, . A. a lot more of them are for it B. a lot more of them are against it

C. very few of them are willing to tell their opinions D. about half of them are for it and the other half against it

25. While talking about the respondents from the readers, the expression “eventual sadness of owning a pet” refers to . A. the troubles one has to deal with in keeping a pet

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B. the high cost of owning a pet C. the death of one’s pet

D. the dangers involved in the cloning of a pet

26. From what Gary Kowalski says, we can know that he . A. has never thought about the problem of cloning B. is in favor of the idea of cloning pets C. is going to write another book on pets D. is all against the cloning of pets

27. What is the key question at the heart of the problem of cloning pets?

A. Can cloning make the pain one suffers less when a pet dies? B. Can pet owners afford the cost of cloning? C. Does cloning go against the law of nature?

D. How reliably does cloning produce an exact copy of one’s pet? 【答案】24. D 25. C 26. B 27. A

【解析】本文是一篇议论文，文中对宠物的克隆发起一份调查问卷。问卷显示：虽然人们对宠物有一样的爱心，但是否愿意克隆宠物，受访者表达了不同的观点看法。

24. 细节理解题。根据第二段最后的Of the 228 readers who answered it, 108 would lone, 111 would not and nine weighed each side without offering an opinion可知，228个受访者人当中，108人表示赞成克隆，111人表示反对克隆。可知，几乎一半的人是赞成，一半的人是反对，故选D。

25. 词义猜测题。根据第三段中both the joy and eventual sadness of owning a pet，关键词both...and…，可知，养宠物最终的悲伤就是宠物的死亡，给养宠物者所带来的伤害。A项意为：人们养宠物所必须要处理的麻烦。B项意为：养宠物的高昂代价。 C项意为：宠物的死亡。D项意为：关于宠物克隆的危险。故选C。

26. 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中For me, cloning feels like an attempt to turn death away... It’s understandable.可知，对我来说，克隆是可以理解的，克隆可以尝试避免死亡。故选B。

27. 推理判断题。根据最后一段would cloning reduce the blow？可知克隆会使宠物死的时候的痛苦变小吗？ B项意为：养宠物者能够负担得起克隆的成本吗？C项意为：克隆违反自然规律吗？D项意为：克隆能够创造出一个人的宠物，有多大把握呢？故选A。

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C

20 years ago, a couple of ecologists, Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs, convinced Del Oro, a large orange juice producer, to donate part of their forestland to a national park in exchange for the right to dump (倾倒) massive amounts of orange peels on a 3-hectare piece of land within the national park, at no cost. Dealing with tons of waste peels usually involved burning them or paying to have them dumped at a landfill, so the proposal was very attractive.

A year after the contract was signed, Del Oro dumped around 12,000 tons of sticky orange waste in the land. However, another juice company and rival of Del Oro challenged the deal in court, arguing that their competitor was “polluting the national park”. They ended up winning, and the deal between Del Oro and the national park fell through. The 3-hectare piece of land virtually covered with fruit waste was completely forgotten.

Then, in 2013, Timothy Treuer, a scientist at Princeton University visited that piece of land 15 years earlier. What he found shocked him. “It was completely overgrown with trees and vines,” Timothy Treuer recently said, “the difference between fertilized and unfertilized areas was visually surprised us a lot! We needed to come up with some really good standards to evaluate exactly what was happening there.”

To confirm that the fruit waste was responsible for the revival of plant life, Treuer and his team spent months picking up samples, analyzing and comparing them. They found “dramatic differences between the areas covered in orange peels and those that were not. The area fertilized by orange waste had richer soil, greater tree-species richness and greater forest coverage. In a sense, it’s not just a win-win between the company and the local park—it’s a win for everyone.”

The effect the orange peels had on the land is probably not that surprising to people familiar with composting (堆肥), but what is shocking is that a judge actually called this particular example polluting the national park and stopped it from going forward. Now that Timothy Treuer’s study has received worldwide attention, this type of polluting is being seriously considered as a way of bringing tropical forests back to life.

28. Why was the deal proposed by the ecologists attractive to Del Oro? A. It would make farmers produce more oranges. B. It would help deal with the orange peel waste for free. C. It would increase the production of orange juice.

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