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河南省焦作市第一中学2024学年普通高考第二次适应性检测试题英语试题

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第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

1．

“Drive-ins” have large parking lots ________ customers are served in their cars by waitresses.

A．who B．when C．which D．where

2．

--- Are you free now? I have something interesting to tell you.

---OK, you make it short I will have to work on this term paper due tomorrow.

A

．

now that B

．

as soon as

C．every time D．as long as

3．

The climate conference was attended by 11,000 people, it the largest UN gathering ever held.

A．making B．to make C．made D．to be making

4．

I hope that we will be able to make it through the tough times and back to the business of working together ________

our common goals.

A．on behalf of B．in honor of

5．

-My computer doesn't work!

-Robert is a computer expert. How I wish he______ with me.

A

．

came

C．is coming D．has come

6．

Mr. Smart is believed to be a capable person, who is equal_____ charge of the company very well.

A．to take B．to taking C．to be taken D．taking

B

．

had come

C．on top of D．in search of

7．

_____ the lawyers, volunteers from the Libyan Red Cross Society also joined the efforts in helping the Chinese go

home safely.

A．Except for B．In spite of C．Apart from D．Instead of

8．After ________________ a sandstorm warning on Sunday evening, meteorologists forecast that dusty weather will

continue in parts of the country on Monday.

A． breaking off B．calling off C．leaving off D．putting off

9．

It is well known _____Confucius was born in the city of Qufu in Shandong province, China.

A

．

whether

C．that D．what

10．

___________ and they will finish off the challenging job.

A．In a week B．A week later C．After a week D．Another week

B

．

where

11．

The problem with the current system allows anyone to commit a similar crime without . It needs to be fixed.

A

．

being punished B

．

punished

C．to punish D．punishing

12．

Have you read the book

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

by Mo Yan, _____ that won him the 2012 Nobel Prize in

Literature?

A．the one B．one C．those D．ones

13．

---Where is the plane

？

I can't see it.

---It went off its ________________ to keep away from the sudden storm.

A

．

course

C．flight D．direction

B

．

road

14．

—When did you get to know your girlfriend?

—It was in 2015 ________ she was working as a volunteer in Africa.

A

．

that

C．when D．then

B

．

which

15．

In view of rapidly aging population,the second-child policy at the start of 2016.

A．is adopted B．was adopted C．has been adopted D．was being adopted

16．

— I am so glad to find you at home. Can you do me a favor?

— Sure. _______?

A

．

Why not

C．How come D．How is it going

B

．

What’s up

17．

The days are gone physical strength was all you needed to make a living

．

A

．

that

C．where D．which

B

．

when

18．

The bus would not have run into the river ________ for the bad tempered lady.

A

．

if it were not

C．if it would not be D．should it not be

19．

—What a consequence!

—Yes. I ________ him about it, but without success.

A

．

will remind B

．

would remind

C．was reminding D．had reminded

20．

—Did Linda see the traffic accident?

—No, no sooner ________ than it happened.

A

．

had she gone

C．has she gone D．she has gone

B

．

she had gone

B

．

had it not been

第二部分 阅读理解（满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Nearly 20 U.S. states have started carrying out former president Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan,

21．（6分）

which places limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in an effort to reduce the impacts of climate change.

The plan has been in legal limbo (

边缘

) for the past year. Yet scientists have now calculated another outcome of the

policy: harm to crop yields (

产量

) if the plan is cancelled. Along with carbon pollution, coal-fired power plants spew (

喷

出

) pollutants that form what we know as smog. The contribution of smog to increased rates of asthma (

哮喘

) and

premature deaths was already known. The new research estimates the extent to which smog, under air-pollution

policies-4n place before the Clean Power Plan, would limit production in 2020 of four major crops: corn, cotton,

potatoes and soybeans.

Led by environmental engineer Shannon L. Capps, now at Drexel University, the team also sketched the extent to

which those crop production losses would reduce under three nationwide scenarios (

方案

). One improved the efficiency

of individual power plants. Another modeled a policy similar to the Obama plan, setting state CO

2

emissions goals for

the electricity department. A third established a tax on carbon emissions, under which emissions fell the most. But the

greatest drop in smog-forming pollutants—and greatest gains in crop yields—came from policies such as the Clean

Power Plan.

Researchers calculated how well each scenario would reduce the potential productivity loss (PPL) of each crop. PPL

is a projected value for 2020 and indicates how much crop growth would suffer because of smog. Scenario 2 most closely

agrees with results expected from the Clean Power Plan.

1

、

What’s the main purpose of The Clean Power Plan?

A

．

To offer clean power,

C

．

To slow climate change.

B

．

To limit CO

2

emissions.

D

．

To increase crop production.

2

、

The latest research shows that smog may cause .

A

．

asthma

C

．

heart disease

3

、

What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A

．

Scenario 3 was intended to increase taxes.

B

．

Scenario 2 increased crop yields most.

C

．

Scenario 1 didn’t have any effect on crop yields.

D

．

The three scenarios were made at Drexel University.

4

、

What’s the best title of the passage?

A

．

U.S. states restart the Obama’s Plan.

B

．

early deaths

D

．

crop production loss

B

．

The Clean Power Plan was called off.

C

．

Three scenarios benefit crop yields.

D

．

Smog does harm to people’s health.

22．（8分）

I have had a lifelong fascination

﹣

call it obsession if you like

﹣

with communication

，

with making

links to other places

，

other cultures

，

other worlds

．

The roots of this obsession have often puzzled me

．

I am not

﹣

never have been

﹣

a gregarious person

．

Quite the opposite

，

I was a solitary child and my classmates at school and

university always thought of me as a loner

．

I was never crazy about the noisy solidarity of social gatherings

．

So why

was I possessed of a desire to make contact with distant places

？

It can partly be explained by the start I had in life

．

I grew up on what seemed at the time like the edge of the world

﹣

in a remote part of rural Ireland

，

in a household with few books or magazines

，

and no television

．

Foreign travel

was unheard of

．

Apart from those who emigrated to Great Britain or the United States

，

virtually nobody we knew had

ever been abroad

．

Nobody ever went overseas on holiday

，

and no foreign languages were taught in the schools I

attended

﹣

with the exception of Latin

．

We lived in a closed society that thought of itself as self

﹣

sufficient

．

There was however one chink of light in the suffocating gloom

﹣

the radio

，

which we called "the wireless

．

" It was

，

by modern standards

，

a huge apparatus powered by valves

﹣

which is why it took some time to warm up

﹣

and a

"magic eye" tuning indicator

﹣

a greenish glass circle that winked at you as the signal waxed or waned

．

The best thing

about our wireless

，

though

，

was that it had a shortwave band

．

This was the source of endless fascination to me

，

because it meant that even with this primitive device one could listen to the world

．

At first I couldn't understand how it

worked

．

Why was reception so much better at night

？

Why was it so infuriatingly variable

？

I asked my father

，

who

looked evasive and just said it had something to do with "the whachamacallit sphere"

（

he always called complicated

things the whachamacallit

），

but this gave me enough of a steer to go to the local library and start digging

．

In due

course I discovered that he was referring to the ionosphere

﹣

a layer of charged particles high up at the edge of the

Earth's atmosphere that acts as a kind of reflector for radio waves of certain frequencies

．

The reason shortwave radio

could travel such huge distances was that it used the ionosphere to bounce signals round the world

﹣

which was why

radio hams in Latin America or Australia could sometimes be heard by a young boy on the western seaboard of

Ireland

．

Signals from such distant shores were more likely to get through at night because then the ionosphere was

higher and transmission over longer distances was possible

．

I was spellbound by this discovery of how technology could piggyback on a natural phenomenon to push forward

low

﹣

power signals through immense distances

．

But most of all I was entranced by the idea of shortwave radio

，

for

this was a technology which belonged not to great corporations or governments

，

but to people

．

It was possible

，

my

father explained

，

to obtain a license to operate your own shortwave radio station

．

And all over the globe people held

such licenses

，

which enabled them to sit in their back rooms and broadcast to the whole world

．

The world suddenly

seemed wide open to me

．

1

、

The second paragraph primarily serves to

．

A

．

reveal the author's attitude toward foreign cultures

B

．

present information that sheds light on a certain preoccupation

C

．

to display the author's nostalgia for his adolescence

D

．

foreshadow the crucial difference between the author and his father

2

、

The author considers his father's answer

（

in Paragraph 3

）

to be

．

A

．

incomplete but helpful

B

．

humorous but meaningful

C

．

lighthearted yet concerned

D

．

silly and confusing

3

、

Which of the following

，

if true

，

would most weaken the claim of operating a shortwave radio station

？

A

．

Many governments around the world do not regulate shortwave users

B

．

Shortwave equipment is very inexpensive and is getting cheaper all the time

C

．

Most individuals who apply for shortwave licenses are turned down

．

D

．

Communications experts predict that the Internet will eventually replace shortwave radio

．

4

、

The passage is primarily about the author's

．

A

．

decision to pursue a career in science

B

．

acceptance of his family's sheltered outlook

C

．

devotion to the study of emerging technology

D

．

discovery of a medium's liberating potential

Young sunflowers turn and swing every day. New findings add to evidence that the plants are animal-like.

23．（8分）

Harmer, a professor in the University of California at Davis’ Department of Plant Biology, carried out a series of

experiments on sunflowers in the field, in pots outdoors and in indoor growth chambers.

By staking plants so that they could not move, Harmer showed that he could destroy their ability to track the sun.

He also noticed that sunflowers prevented from moving were not as tough and leafy as those that were free to move.

When plants were moved indoor with a settled overhead light, they continued to swing back and forth for a few days.

The indoor plants did start tracking the “sun” again when the apparent source of lighting was moved across the

room. The plants could reliably track the movement and return at night when the artificial day was close to a 24-hour

cycle, but not when it was closer to 30 hours.

When sunflowers track the sun, the cast sides of their stems grew more rapidly than the west sides. Ai night, the

west sides grew faster as the stem swung the other way. The team identified a number of genes that were expressed at

higher levels on the sunward side of the plant during the day, or on the other side at night. A plant growth-regulating

hormone, called auxin, appears to be a key driver.

The “dance” to the sun cycle obviously slows when the sunflower matures and its flowers open up. At that point,

the plants stop moving during the day and settle down facing the sun in the east.

“Bees like warm flowers.” Harmer said, adding that the bees are cold-blooded, so landing on a warm flower saves

them energy and perhaps feels really good.

“The morning warmth changes the flowers in a way to make them more appealing to insects, perhaps causing them

to release more attractive scents earlier in the day.” he said. “We’re currently testing this idea.”

1

、

Why did Harmer do the experiment on sunflowers?

A

．

To see how sunflowers grow up.

B

．

To show what sunflowers’ genes are.

C

．

To study why sunflowers track the sun.

D

．

To check if sunflowers swing in cloudy days.

2

、

What does the underlined word “slaking” probably mean in Paragraph 3?

A

．

Tracking. B

．

Fastening.

C

．

Preserving. D

．

Researching.

3

、

What is the result of sunflowers being stopped from moving?

A

．

They won’t grow well.

B

．

They will grow faster than usual.

C

．

They won’t swing back though set free.

D

．

They will produce a number of new genes.

4

、

What is the advantage of sunflowers’ dance to the sun?

A

．

They attract more insects. B

．

They save more energy.

C

．

They mature more rapidly. D

．

They produce more flowers.

If you’re a book lover

，

you have a pile of books on your bedside

，

or a bookshelf in your library with a“to

24．（8分）

read”sign on it

．

Yet you can’t stop yourself from adding to the pile

．

This can lead to feelings of guilt over your new

purchases

．

But I’m here to tell you to stop worrying

．

What you have is an antilibrary

，

and it’s a very good thing

．

The term comes from writer Umberto Eco

．

He is the

owner of a large personal library

．

He separates visitors into two groups

：

those who react with“Wow! What a library you

have! How many of these books have you read?”and the others who get the point that a private library is not something

to show off but a research too1

．

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones

．

Indeed

，

the more you know

，

the

larger the rows of unread books

．

Let us call this collection an antilibrary

．

If you think you already know everything about a subject

，

you’re cutting yourself off from a stream of information

at an artificial point

．

So a growing library of books you haven’t read means you’re consistently curious about the

unknown

．

And that attitude is a great foundation for a lifelong love of 1earning

．

So don’t feel guilt over your unread books

．

Those books will be there for you when you do want them

，

and as you

build your library of read and unread books

，

you can start using it as you would use a bigger library

．

Certain books

may become references more than read-throughs

．

Or you may find that a book you bought five years ago has special

relevance today

．

Letting the role of books evolve in your life is a healthy sign of curiosity

．

That’s good for you and good

for the world around you

．

1

、

What does the underlined word“antilibrary”in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A

．

Feelings of guilt over new books

．

B

．

A pile of books on the bookshelf

．

C

．

The collection of unread books

．

D

．

A large personal library

．

2

、

According to the author

，

more unread books mean________

．

A

．

your wrong lifelong learning attitude

B

．

you limit yourself from the unknown

C

．

your have no interest in the new world

D

．

your strong desire about new information

3

、

What’s the author’s attitude towards having an antilibrary?

A

．

Favorable

．

B

．

Doubtful

．

C

．

Ambiguous

．

D

．

Contradictory

．

4

、

What can we know from the last paragraph?

A

．

Curiosity is a sign of high IQ

．

B

．

Books are the ladder in our life

．

C

．

Unread books are surely relevant to the present

．

D

．

We should read through every book

．

25．（10分）

Dodder is an unusual and unwanted plant that attacks other plants. Except for its flowers, the plant

looks like spaghetti, a kind of noodles in the shape of long thin pieces that look like string when they are cooked. Its