2020年安徽省“江南十校”综合素质检测 英 语 2020/4/13
第一部分 听力（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。
A
New York’s best classes for kids include sports classes, performing arts classes, art classes, language programs and baby classes. Make sure your kids are ready for new adventures with these super-cool offerings!
92nd Street Y Classes
At this institution your musician can learn how to play an instrument. After-school classes examine different musical pieces and encourage work in a group setting.
At the end of the program, mini Mozarts can impress their family and friends at open-house performances. Plus, when they're not jamming, kids can take advantage of homework help in the Clubhouse, where they are divided up by grade level. Ages 5-15.
The Cliffs at LIC
After a day of fighting the academic obstacle course at school, your favorite achievers can reach new heights on a rock-climbing wall. The Cliffs, offerings allow developing bodies to build muscle strength. For example, introductory sessions teach climbers how to tie safety knots (结) as well as other basics, mastering them with hands-on games and activities. The Cliffs at LIC, Long Island City. Ages 6-18.
Staten Island Skating Pavilion
This large area maintains its year-round frosty temperatures for ice-skating fun. Courses are offered every day for a variety of interests and skill levels, and public and freestyle sessions are available for children who want to spend some afternoons there without instruction. Ages 4 and up.
West Side YMCA
If your child wants to learn how to swim, you'd be pressed to find more options than those offered at the Y. Kids are grouped by age and capability. The courses cover personal safety and stroke techniques. If your offspring prefer dry land, the Y also offers dance, basketball and football. Visit website for class descriptions and detailed price information. Ages 5-18. 1. Which of the following offers homework help? A. The Cliffs at LIC.
Which event will you attend for occasional B. West Side YMCA.
academic help? C. 92nd Street Y Classes.
D. Staten Island Skating Pavilion.
2. What can participants do at Staten Island Skating Pavilion?
A. Learn basic climbing skills. B. Enjoy skating all the year around. C. Try a variety of outdoor sports. D. Start skating at the age of three. 3. Who is the text intended for? A. Senior high school teachers.
B. Children around school age. C. Adults looking for attraction.
D. Parents with children of school age.
B
Decided to get her money’s worth out of the wedding dressed she spent over $1,000, an Australian woman has been wearing her wedding dress everywhere, a year after her wedding.
43-year-old Tammy Hall adopted a new lifestyle--- anti-consumerism(反对消费主义)
lifestyle in 2016, after a trip to India opened her eyes to how much we as a society consume. She decided not to buy any new clothes or footwear for a whole year after she returned home to Adelaide, in Southern Australia, and she managed to make it.
But last year, as her wedding day approached, she faced a puzzling dilemma. She wanted to look good on the most important day of her life, but how could she justify spending a small fortune on garment she would only wear on that day?
“In the end I decided that if I was going to get a wedding dress, I’d make sure I wore it again and again,” Tammy told PA Real Life.
“The first time I wore it after the wedding was to vote in the Australian election in early
2019,” the 43-year-old added. “Since then, it’s been to all sorts of places. Wearing it on a crowded commuter train was especially funny, but I’ve worn it to cook and do chores, to football games, to the gym.”
Hall says that she has gotten some weird looks from people, but no irritating comments. It may have something to do with the fact that the dress is not the most fanciest, but she believes people are just too reserved to say anything. Anyway, she doesn’t really care, as wearing the dress multiple times was the most reasonable way she could think of to make the most of her wedding dress.
Hall now plans to wear her wedding dress on a trip to Iceland that she and her partner will take next summer.
24.Why did Tammy Hall adopt a new lifestyle?
A.To adopt herself to Indian life. B. To cut down her consumption. C. To save money for her next trip. D. To get prepared for her wedding.
25. What did Tammy Hall do to get her money’ worth out of her wedding dress? A. She brought fun to people with it. B. She tried to wear it to earn money. C. She wore it repeatedly in daily life. D. She got it exchanged again and again. 26. Which of the following best explains the word “irritate” underlined in paragraph6? A. Thrilling B. Annoying C. Amusing D. Confusing 27. What can we infer about Tammy Hall?
A. She is determined to turn her ideas into practice. B. She values her wedding dress less than her trips. C. She has been struggling to make ends meet. D. She has influences people’s lifestyle widely.
C
Ants keep traffic flowing by changing their behavior to meet changing conditions, according to new research.
For their experiments, researchers from the University of Toulouse and the University of
Arizona focused on Argentine ants, which are only 2-3 millimeters long and frequently move from colony to colony depending on how far food is. Tapping into the Argentine ants' talent for fast commutes(通勤), the researchers constructed bridges between their colonies. The bridges varied in width from a fifth to three-quarters of an inch.
Then they sat back and monitored the traffic. To their surprise, even when those narrower bridges reached near-capacity, there were no 20-ant pile-ups. And traffic remained steady regardless of how crowded the bridges were because they were able to adjust to the flow of road conditions.
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The lesson for humans? The traffic problem may lie in our loss of the quality that the ants have. You've probably noticed it on your own commute to work. Driving is fun when there are few cars on the road — a lane-change(车道变换) here, a little acceleration there. Then traffic slows down. But some impatient drivers still constantly move between lanes.
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personal objectives,\colony, thus they are expected to act cooperatively to get food.\
The research also suggests that the ever-widening of highways may never free us from traffic jams. As long as we motor along with our own agendas, no matter how many other people are on the road, we'll always end up in a traffic jam. Indeed, less space may actually be a good thing. It leaves less room for individual choices and forces us to take a page from the driving handbook of ants.
28. What did the researchers do to the ants in the experiment?
A. They fed them with much delicious food. B. They trained them to avoid heavy traffic. C. They built bridges linking their colonies. D. They improved their colonies constantly. 29. How did the ants behave during the experiment? A. They worked together to remove the road blocks. B. They sped up to get out of the traffic jam quickly. C. They made their way carefully in the given direction. D. They adjusted themselves for the flow of the traffic.
30. What is the biggest cause of the traffic jam in human society? A. Poor road construction. B. People’s inability to adjust. C. People’s selfish driving. D. Too many vehicle on roads. 31. What is the text mainly about?
A. What ants help us do for driving safety. B. What ants can teach us about traffic jams. C. Why ants drive much better than humans. D. Why ants are best at handling traffic jams.
D
A new device works like a solar panel, except it doesn’t harvest energy from the sun to produce electricity. Instead, it uses energy from the cold night sky.
In the center part of this device is a thermoelectric generator(热电发电机), which uses the temperature difference between Earth and outer space to create electricity.
As long as one side of it is cooler than the other, the generator can produce electricity. The cooler side faces the sky and is attached to an aluminum plate. That plate is sealed beneath a
transparent cover and surrounded with materials that keeps heat out. It stays cooler than the surrounding air by getting rid of any heat it absorbs as infrared (红外线的)radiation. That radiation can zip up through the transparent cover and on toward outer space.
The bottom of the generator is attached to an exposed aluminum plate. That plate is warmed by the local air. At night, the top plate can get a couple of degrees Celsius cooler than the bottom of the generator.
Researchers tested a 20-centimeter prototype one clear December night in Stanford, Calif. The generator produced up to about 25 milliwatts of power per square meter of device. That was just enough power to light a small electric tramp. Further improvements might develop its production to at least 500 milliwatts per square meter.
“It’s a very clever idea,” says Yuan Yang. A materials scientist, he works at Columbia University in New York City . “the device still needs improving,” he notes. “ But this new
generator may be useful for backup power,” Yang says. “ It might also provide a bit of energy to people living in areas that lack electricity.
“The device also could help power remote weather stations or other environmental devices,” says Aaswath Raman. He is a materials scientist who worked on the device at the University of California, Los Angeles. What’s more,this may be useful in areas that don’t see sunlight for months at a time, Raman says. 32. How is the device designed?
A. It includes two aluminum plate with different functions. B. It is equipped with a heat-resistant generator in the center. C. Its two aluminum plates are exposed to air to keep heat out. D. Its generator is sealed by a transparent cover to remain cool. 33. What is the limitation with the tested device?
A. It won’t be expanded to be much larger. B. It fails to produce electricity fast enough. C. It is unable to power small electric lamps. D. It produces a limited amount of electricity. 34. In paragraph 6, Yuan Yang mainly intends to _____.
A. Evaluate the device on a positive basis B. point out the problems with the device C. Explain the research work for the device D. comment on Aaswath Raman’s prediction 35. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Lamps Are Powered by the Energy From the Cold Night Sky
B. A Generator Producing Electricity Has Been Applied in Many Energy C. Scientists Have Made a Breakthrough in Harvesting Green Energy D. A Device Uses Energy From the Cold Night Sky to Produce Electricity 第二节（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。有两项为多余选项。
It can be difficult to start a hobby. You may not have any idea where to begin or you may have come across one that requires you to go buy costly equipment. 36 To find a low-cost hobby, pick something that is interesting to you, doesn’t require a lot of materials to start, and is available to you in your area.
Begin a collection. Many different collections can be started with little to no cost. 37 Look for rocks, plant leaves and flowers, or insects you can preserve and keep. Another way is to begin to invest in an object you wish to collect, such as saving bottle-caps
38 Youtube contains a vast quantity of music you can listen to for free. In
