2024年5月13日发(作者：苹果4价格)

2020届高三上学期英语10月阶段性检测试卷

一、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

1. 阅读理解

Best Ways to Quit Smoking

Not sure how to quit smokingcigarettes? Try the following ways to stop

smoking and start your path towardsa healthier, smoke-free life.

Post this list in a visible location in your house.

Whenever you’re tempted to light up, take a look at all the ways

smoking can damage your health:

Increases risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure.

Reduces levels of folate, low levels of which can increase the risk of heart

disease, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Affects mental capacity and memory.

Contributes to thin bones.

Affects ability to smell and taste.

Increases risk of depression in adolescents.

To minimize cravings , change your routine.

Sit in a different chair at breakfast or take a different route to work. If you

usually have a drink and cigarette after work, change that to a walk. If you’re

used to a smoke with your morning coffee, switch to tea, or stop at Starbucks

for a cup of java—the chain is smoke-free. You might even work better in

coffee shops！

Tell your friends, coworkers, boss, partner, and kids how you feel.

Don’t bottle up your emotions. If something makes you angry, express it

instead of hiding it with cigarette smoke. If you’re bored, admit to yourself

that you’re bored and find something energetic to do instead of lighting up.

Make an appointment with an acupuncturist .

There’s some evidence that auricular acupuncture controls cigarette

cravings quite successfully. You can even do it yourself by taping “seeds”

onto the acupuncture points and squeezing them whenever cravings arise.

Acupuncture can treat these other conditions, too.

（1）What is the function of the first suggestion?

A . To encourage you to desert smoking.B . To show you how to quit

smoking.C . To prevent all kinds of diseases.D . To warn you of risks of smoking.

（2）What are you suggested to do when you have a bad mood?

A . Go to a coffee shop.B . Change your life style.C . Smoke to relieve

stress.D . Share it with people around.

（3）What is special about the fourth suggestion?

A . It turns to treatment.B . It tells human relations.C . It is about eating

habits.D . It is the best way to quit smoking.

2. 阅读理解

WhenKim Chil-doo was young, he says, he wanted to be a model. But he

gave up thatidea to make money. Now, at age 65, he appears in television

advertisements andfashion magazines. With his gray beard and long hair, he is

South Korea’s firstsenior model.

Kimis one of many older people in South Korea the country has the

world’s fastestgrowing ageing population. Almost half of the country’s

older people live inpoverty. Some take low-paying jobs to support themselves

after retiring. ButKim and some other seniors have shown how older South

Koreans can find unusualjob opportunities later in life.

YouSung-lae is 59. When she was a child, she wanted to be an actress. But

instead,she says, she got married and had children. Now she is training to

appear on acatwalk to show clothes. She was wearing a bright blue jacket,

orange highheeled shoes and designer sunglasses.

Youis also helping the fashion business by attracting older buyers. Older

buyershave become big players. While many older people do not have much

money, othershave bought their homes and built savings. Now, those seniors

are ready tospend some of their money on themselves.

Somebusinesses are also trying to use older people’s skills and

experiences. Forexample, Cho Young-min started a company using Skype to

connect olderinstructors in Korea with students around the world. The

students areinterested in learning Korean, and the instructors are interested in

sharingtheir knowledge.

Anotherman, Ji Byung-soo found success by performing a dance song on

a televisedsinging contest. He is 77. Now he earns enough money to donate to

a localsupport center. Last month, he danced nonstop at a youth festival in

Seoulwhile young people called his name. “Life begins in your 70s,” Jisaid.

“Let’s be happy and have fun.”

（1）What do Kim and You Sung-lae have in common?

A . They had to make money as a young person.B . They are living in

poverty like other old people.C . They realized their childhood dreams in old

age.D . They take low-paying jobs to support themselves.

（2）What made You Sung-lae go against her will?

A . Poverty.B . Laziness.C . Mistake.D . Marriage.

（3）Why does Cho Young-min’s company employ older instructors?

A . To show respect to the old.B . To attract students overseas.C . To help

the fashion business.D . To guide the old to spend their savings.

（4）Which of the four persons does charity?

A . Ji Byung-soo.B . You Sung-lae.C . Kim Chil-doo.D . Cho Young-min.

3. 阅读理解

Thesaying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover, means you should not

guess theworth or value of something based on how it looks. That message

was clear at arecent event called the Human Library Project. The event took

place at theNorthern Virginia, or NoVa, Community College, outside of

Washington. D. C.

TheHuman Library began 19 years ago in Denmark. It grew from a youth

organizationcalled “Stop the Violence”. Today, it is a worldwide movement.

At theNoVa event, students got the chance to learn from a person—a

“humanbook”—instead of a library book.

Patricia Cooper organized the event. She said that human books

celebratevariety by telling their life stories in an easy-going setting. “The

goalof the human library is to talk to people in your community who you

mayotherwise not speak to because you have your own prejudices and

hopefully to break down some ofthese barriers.”

Thisis the third year that NoVa has held such an event. The collection of

humanbooks included a civil rights activist, a scientist from the American

spaceagency NASA, and an opera singer.

Artist Brian Dailey was a human book. He spoke about his travels to

113countries in seven years. Dailey said that, during his travels, he asked

peoplewhom he took pictures of for a one-word answer to a series of other

words—suchas love, freedom and war. He discovered that people in different

countriesoften had very different reactions to the same word.

WhenDailey asked people in Africa about the word “war” they used

wordslike justice, liberation and peace. When he asked the same question to

peoplein Syrian refugee camps, the answer was: “tears, hunger,

fear,destruction”.

（1）Why was the human library organized?

A . To replace the traditional libraryB . To offer a lot more information to

readers.C . To make people communicate with each otherD . To improve the

living conditions of neighbors.

（2）What do we learn from the human book of Brian Dailey?

A . His struggle for human rights.B . His reactions to different cultures.C .

His great achievements in science.D . His international travel experiences.

（3）What was the attitude of African people towards war?

A . Positive.B . Critical.C . Disapproving.D . Uncaring.

（4）What can be a suitable title for the text?

A . Prefer a Human Book rather Than a Real BookB . Talk With a Fellow

Human from This LibraryC . Treat Each Other Kindly to Avoid the ViolenceD .

Enjoy Reading with the Help of Others

4. 阅读理解

Theworld’s oceans will likely lose about one-sixth of their fish and

othercreatures within 100 years if climate change continues on its current

degree Celsius that the world’s oceans warm, their biomass

isexpected to drop five percent, a study found.

Thestudy predicts that if there is no change in the rate of worldwide

greenhousegas production, there will be a 17-percent loss of biomass by the

year , if the world reduces carbon pollution, biomass losses could be

limited toonly about 5 percent.

Warming temperatures are the biggest issue. But climate change

alsoproduces oceans that are more acidic and have less oxygen. This also

harms sealife. Much of the world depends on the oceans for food or work.

Thefindings make sense and the possible effects of the predicted losses

of animallife are huge. “Climate change has the potential to cause serious

newconflicts over ocean resource use as the human population continues to

grow,”said scientists.

Marine biologist Boris Worm, who helped run the study, added that

the”building blocks of marine life—plankton and bacteria—may decline

lessheavily.”

“Those marine animals that we use directly, and care about mostdeeply,

are predicted to suffer the most,” said Worm. He works at

Canada’sDalehousie University.

Scientists had already believed climate change would likely reducefuture

ocean life. But past computer-based studies looked at only part of thepicture

or used only one model. The latest study used six different computermodels to

give the best picture look yet, William Cheung said.

University of Georgia marine biologistSamantha Joye was not part of the