福建省厦门市2020届高中毕业班线上质量检查（英语）

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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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Membership Card

Fighting Fit is a members-ouly club. When you first join, we give you a computerized card. It has your name, photo and membership number on.

Please have your card with you every time you use Hie club. The card is for

your use only, and there is a small charge to provide a new one if you lose it. Members are permitted to bring guests to use the facilities at the club. A visiting guest fee is chaiged for each guest Fitness Programs

Your Fitness Program includes a meeting with one of our skilled instructors. This will happen two or three weeks after you have joined. The instructor looks at your health, your current needs and the way you live, and oiganizes a program suitable for you. Gymnasium

Our gymnasiums are the most modem in the area and have high quality exercise equipment. For safety reasons, you must wear sportswear and trainers while exercising, and please remember to take a small towel too. It is one of our rules that you wipe the equipment after use.

There is no limit to how long you spend in the gymnasiums, but we ask you to respect other members by only spending 20 minutes on each piece of equipment. There are experimced staff helping you in the gymnasiums at any time. Locker Rooms

We have large male and female locker rooms. Please ensure that your property is kept in your locker at all times. Any belongings which are found in a locker overnight will be removed and taken to Lost Property. Caf6

The Cafe offers free tea, coffee and soft drinks. Suggestion Box

M?ribers, suggestions are always welcome, and the suggestion box and forms can be found at reception. We try to respond within two days.

21. What does the Fighting Fit Health Club provide for its members?

A. A personalized program on their first visit. C. Help from the staff all the time. 22. At the Fighting Fit Health Club, you can.

A. share your membership card

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B. A second membership card for free. D. Certain kinds of clothes and towels. B. have free drinks in the Caf6

C. leave personal items in the locker for 24 hours D. spend as long as you like on all equipment

23. Where is the information most probably from?

A. A news report. B. A notice board.

B

Street art is visual art created in public places, usually outside of traditional art venues. The term became popular during the graffiti (涂鸦）art boom of the early 1980s. The average person on the street would associate street art with run-down urban centers and New York's graffiti explosion of the 1970s and 1980s. During that period, graffiti artists often painted subways, benches, and other urban surfaces. But artists who choose the streets as their gallery often do so because they prefer to communicate directly with the public at large and be free from the confinement of the formal art world. Therefore, most major cities now have what is called a “wall of fame”一a public space where street artists come to paint, compete, and connect with other artists.

Located near Dubai International Airport, Dubai Festival City, for example, was host to street art from 2007 to 2011. At an event sponsored by Montana, a popular spray paint brand, a wall was designated as a canvas for international artists to work on. After the event, officials allowed the wall to remain, and creative art workers would get together there every weekend. Since then, Dubai has made a name for itself in the art world. It has a respected annual art fair called Art Dubai，which, having celebrated its thirteenth year in March 2019, is widely regarded as one of the highlights of the Middle East’s art calendar.

The street art scene in Dubai operates with the approval of the authorities. Planned works on buildings or murals painted on wood panels are beginning to pop up on blank walls and at art events all over the city, thanks largely to the support of art galleries and institutions. Corporate collaborations, though frowned (MM) upon by some artists, are also helping to make street art more visible in Dubai. 24. Why would artists choose the streets over traditional art galleries to exhibit their work?

A. It is very expensive to have their work displayed in art galleries. B. They can talk to other artists from around the world on the streets. C. They can more freely express their concepts of art through street art. D. It is more fim to paint on surfaces like park benches and blank walls.

25. What does “Corporate collaborations，though frowned upon by some artists...” mean in the last

paragraph?

A. Some artists think corporate collaborations make street art visible. B. Some artists regard corporate collaborations as a promotional activity. C. Some artists donJt approve of the idea of collaborating with corporations. D. Some artists don?t like those art galleries that are supported by corporations. 26. Why is Dubai mentioned in the passage?

A. To introduce a new art form. C. To explain how to do street art.

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C. A guide book. D. A reference book.

B. To promote the Dubai Festival City. D. To illustrate a recent trend in street art.

27_ What is the author’s attitude toward street art?

A. Doubtful. B. Reserved.

C. Welcoming.

C

West Nile is a tropical disease that begins in birds, which pass it on to mosquitoes that then go on to infect human beings with a bite. Most people who contract West Nile do not experience any symptoms at all，but, if they do, symptoms typically develop between 3 to 14 days after a mosquito bite. About 1 in 5 persons suffers fever, headaches, and body aches, usually lasting a week or so. A far less lucky 1 in 150 experiences high fever, tremors, paralysis, and coma. Some~especially the elderly and those with weak immune systems—die.

That is what made the major outbreaks of West Nile in the U.S. in the summer of 2012 so scary. The situation was particularly bad in Dallas, Texas, where the West Nile virus killed 10 people and sickened more than 200. The city declared a state of emergency and began aerial spraying of a pesticide to kill the mosquitoes, even though residents argued that the pesticide could be more dangerous than the disease.

Why was the simmer of 2012 so hospitable to the West Nile virus and the mosquitoes that carry it? Blame the weather. An extremely mild winter allowed more mosquitoes than usual to survive, while the unusually high temperatures in that scorching srnmner further increased their number by speeding up their life cycle. The economic crisis may have also played a role: Homeowners who were not able to pay their bank loans were forced to abandon their properties, sometimes leaving behind swimming pools that made excellent mosquito breeding grounds.

The severity of tropical diseases is also a matter of whether governments are capable—and willing—to defend their populations against infections. Dallas County was not doing some of the key things to slow the spread of West Nile, such as testing dead birds and setting mosquito traps to test for the presence of the disease. Tropical infections are thus as much related to government inaction as they are to climate.

28. What is this passage mainly about?

A. West Nile and methods to fight it. B. West Nile and governmental efficiency. C. West Nile and its relation to tropical diseases.

D. West Nile and the conditions its virus spreads rapidly in. 29. Which of the following statements is true about West Nile?

A. Its symptoms usually appear within two weeks.

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D. Disapproving.

B. It is spread through air and water in tropical areas.

C. Over 20% of people who contract it will suffer severe symptoms. D. It comes from direct human contact with birds infected with the virus. 30. What did Dallas County do to fight off West Nile?

A. They asked citizens to stay away from dead birds. B. They drained the swinuning pools in the county. C. They encouraged citizens to get vaccinations. D. They sprayed pesticide from the air.

31. Which of the following is a reason why Dallas was hit most seriously in the U.S. in 2012?

A. The weather of the previous winter was not as cold as usual. B. The residents worried about the county’s decision and action. C. The government did not issue a warning about the disease in time.

D. The increasing population in Texas raised the risk of contracting the disease.

D

Fancy your own satellite? Arizona State University is working towards making this a reality with its SunCube FemtoSat project. Smaller than a standard CubeSat, the low-cast student-designed spacecraft is aimed at providing greater access to space for scientists and hobbyists alike.

Assistant professor Jekan Thanga and a team of students have been developing the SunCube FemtoSat for the past two years. The small 3><3x3cm cube weighs in at just 35g and a longer (3><3x9cm, lOOg) model has also been designed, which includes storage space.

Each SunCube FemtoSat has its own communication，data collection and propulsion (推进) systems and is powered by solar panels. It is made of off-the-shelf parts that are available in shops, and the energy-efficient solar panels are cut from scrap (碎片)，which makes it save energy，sold at a discount by manufacturers. <(With a spacecraft of this size, any university can do it/5 says Thanga. “That’s part of our major goal-space discovery for everybody.”

The team says that while launching your own satellite would usually cost between US $ 60,000-70,000 per kilo, it would only cost $ 1,000 to send a SunCube FemtoSat to the International Space Station, and $ 3,000 to send it into low earth orbit. Leaving the earth?s gravity would cost an estimated $ 27,000.

The FemtoSat would be packed with a 6tjack in the box59 style system that matches standard CubeSat sizes (around 10 cubic cm)，simplifying the process of getting the tiny satellite into orbit.

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