发布时间 : 星期一 文章山西大学附中2020届高三上学期第二次模块诊断英语（带答案）更新完毕开始阅读7c07ede12bf90242a8956bec0975f46527d3a787
山西大学附中2020届高三上学期第二次模块诊断
英语试题
考试时间：100分钟 考察范围：高考范围
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60） 第一节（共15小题：每题3分，满分45）
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
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Enter for a Chance to Win a Montana Adventure
Imagine yourself hiking on the same route that Lewis and Clark once explored, fly-fishing and white-water rafting in beautiful lakes and rivers, learning how to speak Blackfoot, digging for ancient dinosaur remains, and standing at the edge of a 6,000-year-old glacier in Glacier National Park. You have the chance to do all of this and much more with the National Geographic Kids Hands-On Explorer Challenge Expedition Team. The Hands-On Explorer Challenge is heading west in 2019 to Montana.
HIKE! Montana is home to many species of plants and animals. Follow in the footsteps of legendary explorers and get a close-up view of waterfalls, wildflowers, and wildlife.
DIG! Some of the most important dinosaur discoveries have been found in Montana. You’ll discover treasures yourself as you dig for ancient dinosaur remains in Montana’s High Plains.
CULTURE! Montana has eleven Native American tribes―each one filled with a unique heritage and lots of rich traditions. View the world as they see it through their dances, songs, food, games, and languages.
HOW TO ENTER 1. Write an original, personal essay in English of no more than 300 words telling us how you explore your world and what it is about exploration that inspires and excites you.
2. Take a photograph of what, where, or how you explored the subject of your essay. 3. Enter by January 7, 2019. Open to kids who will be ages 9—14 as of July 1, 2019.
4. Send your entry (参赛) form, essay, and photo (as described in the Official Rules) to: NG Kids Hands-On Explorer Challenge, National Geographic Kids magazine /CDH, 1145 17th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036.
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COM/KIDS/CONTESTS/EXPLORER - TRIP-2019. 1. What is true about Montana?
A. It has many elephant discoveries. B. It is Lewis and Clark's hometown.
C. Its Native American tribes share the same culture. D. It is home to many species of plants and animals. 2. If you want to enter the contest you must ______. A. be over 14 years old 3. What is the purpose of the passage? A. To provide travel information. C. To announce a kid competition.
B. To describe Montana’s scenery. D. To suggest some outdoor activities.
B
Science is finally beginning to embrace animals who were, for a long time, considered second-class citizens.
As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friends die.
Pigs respond to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O’s. Then the team switched from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the O-shirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a two-dimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat of reasoning.
I’ve been guilty of prejudiced expectations, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes out-think other animals. They’re other primates（灵长目动物）, after all, animals from our own mammalian class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and that elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social companions. Long-term studies on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure in laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks.
Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, 1 started to wonder: Will the new science of “food animals” bring an ethical (伦理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science?
4. According to Annie Potts, hens’ choice of a later and better reward indicates their ability of ______.
B. send a photo with your essay
D. write an English article over 300 words
C. have rich exploration experience
A. interaction B. analysis
C. creation D. abstraction
5. The research into pigs shows that pigs ______. A. learn letter quickly
B. have good eyesight
C. can build up a good relationship 6. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?
A. The similarities between mammals and humans. B. The necessity of long-term studies on mammals. C. A change in people’s attitudes towards animals. D.A discovery of how mammals express themselves. 7. What is the best title for the passage? A. The Lifestyles of Food Animals C. The Inner Lives of Food Animals
B. Science Reports on Food Animals D. A Revolution in Food Animals C
Runners who encounter visual and auditory（听觉的）distractions may be more likely to suffer leg injuries, according to a research by the Association of Academic Physiatrists in Las Vegas. Runners often seek distractions from the task at hand. Whether it is music, texting, daydreaming, taking in the sights, or propping a book up on the treadmill（跑步机）, more often than not, a distraction is welcome. But, researchers from the University of Florida have recently discovered that those distractions may lead to injury.
Daniel Herman, MD, PhD, assistant professor at University of Florida, and his team conducted a research on the effect of visual and auditory distractions on 14 runners to determine what effect, if any, these distractions would have on things such as heart rate, how much a runner breathes per minute, how much oxygen is consumed by the body.
The runners were all injury-free at the time of the study and ran 31 miles each week. Dr. Herman’s team had each participant run on a treadmill three separate times. The first time was without any distractions. The second time added a visual distraction, during which the runners concentrated on a screen displaying different letters in different colors with the runners having to note when a specific letter-color combination appeared. The third time added an auditory distraction similar to the visual distraction, with the runners having to note when a particular word was spoken by a particular voice.
When compared to running without distractions, the participants had faster application of force to their left and right legs, called loading rate, with auditory and visual distractions. They also experienced an increased amount of force from the ground on both legs, called ground reaction force, with auditory distractions. Finally, the runners tended to breathe heavier and have higher heart rates with visual and auditory distractions than without any distractions at all.
“Running in environments with different distractions may unfavorably affect running performance and injury risk,” explains Dr. Herman. “Sometimes these things cannot be avoided, but you may be able to
D. can apply knowledge to new situations
minimize potentially cumulative(积累的) effects. For example, when running a new route in a noisy environment such as during a marathon, you may want to skip listening to something which may require more attention—like a new song playlist.”
Dr. Herman’s team will continue to investigate the potential relationship between distracted running and leg injuries, and any effect this relationship has on different training techniques that use auditory or visual cues.
8. Paragraph 2 tells us the research ______. A. process
B. results
C. questions
D. reflection
9. Based on the research, runners with auditory distractions tended to ______. A. breathe heavier and have lower heart rates B. get an increased amount of ground reaction force C. apply more force with less oxygen consumption D. gain a faster speed with slower loading rates 10. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Running with distractions becomes uncommon nowadays. B. Listening to a new song while running guarantees performance.
C. Runners are more likely to get injured in an environment without distractions. D. Runners are advised to minimize distractions in a destination marathon. 11. What is probably the next task for Dr. Herman’s team? A. What determines training techniques. B. How distractions should be used in training. C. Why runners use auditory and visual cues. D. What effective ways can cure leg injuries.
D
If you have ever had a cat, or have watched one of the many funny cats’ videos online, you’ll know that cats have a mind of their own. A lot of the things they do are hard to understand—they like to climb up tall furniture, fit themselves in small space and attack small objects for no reason at all.
Now scientists have managed to figure out what exactly is going on in the brains of our little friends. According to Tony Buffington, a professor at Ohio State University in the US, cats’ strange behavior largely comes from their way of life back in the wild. “Cats today still have many of the same instincts(本能) that allow them to live in the wild for millions of years,”he said in a TED Talk. “To them, our homes are their jungles.”
In the wild, cats are hunters. Their bodies and great balancing abilities allow them to climb to high spots to better look at the environment. Even though they don’t have to hunt anymore in human houses, they still keep the old habit of viewing the living room from, for example, the top of the refrigerator.
Cats’ hunting instinct is also what makes them attack small things like keys and USB drives. In the wild,