浙江省杭州外国语学校2019年高考考前保温卷(一)英语试题

浙江省杭州外国语学校2019年高考考前保温卷(一)

英语试题

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）；满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

第 I 卷

第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）略 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共10小题：每小题2.5分，满分25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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。

A

Stephen Hillenburg the US animator whose childhood summers on a Maine island laterinspired him to create the famous cartoon Sponge Bob SquarePants (《海绵宝宝》), passed awayon Nov. 26 at the age of 57.

Hillenburg was interested in the ocean as a child and developed a love for art. He studiedNatural Resource Planning and Interpretation at college, with an emphasis on marine resources.“It dawned on me that ifI was going to do a show on animals, I’d do a show about underseaanimals--all the ones that I’m interested in and know a lot about,” Hillenburg told EnterlainrmentWeekly in 2010. “I focused on the sponge because it’s one of the more special creatures.”

But although he wasn’t sure whether people would like a cartoon about the ocean, he stuckwith it.“We just try to make ourselves laugh, then ask if it’s appropriate for children,”Hillenburg told The Associated Press in 2001. “The essence (精华) of the show is thatSpongeBob is an innocent in a world of worldly characters.”

What Hillenburg probably didn’t expect was that the adventures of this “innocent” characterin his underwater hometown would be such a success. There have been nearly 250 episodes todate. It has won several Emmy Awards, and has been shown in more than 60 languages.

SpongeBob was popular because he appealed not only 10 children but to older viewers aswell, including college students, who held viewing parties for the show. Children likedSpongeBob’s innocence, teenagers and young adults

loved the show’s humor, while the moremature enjoyed it as part of meme culture. But it was above all the character’s innocence thatattracted people.

The show’s most important message, Hillenburg once said, “is that innocenceprevails--which I don’t think it always does in real life”.

21. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Hillenburg created Sponge BobSquarePants especially for children. B. Hllenburg was sure that Sponge Bob SquarePants would be a success at first. C.Hillenburg’s educational background contributed to Sponge-Bob SquarePants. D. Hillenburg’s childhood summers had nothing to do with Sponge Bob SquarePants. 22. What makes Sponge-Bob SquarePants popular?

A. It attracts children, adults and old people. B.It has won Emmy Awards for many times. C.It focuses on the innocence of SpongeBob. D. It is about very unusual undersea creatures.

23. The underlined word in the last paragraph can be replaced by“.”

A. wins

B. happens

C. counts

D. grows

B

Imagine you enter a car with no steering wheel, no brake or accelerator pedal (加速踏板)Under a voice-activated command, you say an address.“The fastest route will take us 15.3minutes. Should Itake it?” You say “yes” and you are on your way. The car responds and startsmoving all by itself. Allyou have to do is sit back and relax.

How wonderful would i be if one day in the future, everyone had such a car? No crazydriving no cutting in; traffic laws would be respected and driving much safer. On the other hand,imagine the cost savings for local police enforcement (强制) and town budgets without all thosespeeding and parking tickets.

There’s no question that self-driving vehicles could be an enormous benefit.The potentialforsafer cars means

accident statistics e would drop. Older drivers and visually-orphysically-disabled people would gin a new level of freedom. Maintaining safe speeds andbeing electric, self-driving cars would greatly reduce pollution levels and dependency onnon-renewable fuels.

But we must also consider the impact of the new technology on those who now depend ondriving for their living. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in May 2015 there were505,560 registered school bus drivers. The American Trucking Association lists approximately3.5 million professional truck drivers in the U.S.

The companies developing self-driving vehicles should be cooperating with state andfederal authorities to offer retraining for these people, many of whom will be replaced by thenew technology This is similar to what's happening in the coal and oil industries, a situation thatfuels much of the current political dissatisfaction in this country.

New technologies will, and should, be developed. This is how society moves forward.However, progress can't be one-sided. It is necessary for the companies and state agenciesinvolved to consider the moral consequences of these potential changes to build a better futurefor all. 24. What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A. Drivers do not have to do anything to get the car started. B. Imagination plays an important role in developing new cars. C. Self-driving cars provide people with comfort and relaxation. D. Future cars are able to communicate freely with their owners. 25. What would be the positive impact of self-driving cars?

A. Local governments could save a lot of money. B. Disabled people could go anywhere they want. C. Traffic regulations would be a thing of the past. D. The environment would be totally free of pollution.

26. What docs the author advise businesses and the government to do?

A. Keep pace with technological developments. B. Make new technologies affordable to everyone.

C. Enable people to benefit from new technologies. D. Popularize the use of new technologies and devices.

C

It is National Sleep Awareness Week and reflecting on the importance of this basic act is timely. As a preventive cardiologist (心脏病专家), I work with patients who want to improve their health and lengthen their lives. Many of them have major risk factors for heart disease; others already have full-blown heart disease or have experienced a heart attack. Traditionally, patients who want to improve their heart health have received four main suggestions from their doctors: Eat a healthy diet, get more exercise, quit smoking, and enjoy proper amounts of alcohol. Plenty of research backs up these four pieces of advice: Large studies have found that making improvements in these four areas lowers the chance of dying of heart disease by 67 percent.

But lately, researchers are starting to recognize that there should be five recommendations on that list, not just four. They’re discovering that getting enough sleep is a powerful health protector as well. When researchers include enough sleep in their studies as a fifth cardio-preventive behavior change, they find that it lowers the chance of dying of heart disease even more: Adding a good seven hours of sleep a night in addition to making positive changes in diet, exercise, smoking, and alcohol intake lowers the chance of dying of heart disease by 83 percent.

When that news started coming out, doctors began tagging (添加) sleep onto their list of recommended health behavior changes. But I don’t think sleep belongs at the bottom of the list. I think it should be at the top! I believe that getting enough sleep — at least seven to eight hours per night for most people — is the most important health behavior change you can make to improve the health of your heart and your overall health.

Sure, I’d prefer that everyone make all of the big five lifestyle changes, but if I could only choose one, I’d pick sleep because when you are well-rested, you have more power to make the right choices about what you eat and drink, and you have more energy to exercise and you have the resilience you need to kick bad habits such as smoking and overeating. But when you’re exhausted, everything in life is more difficult.

27. What does plenty of research show about the 4 common suggestions?

A. They should be reconsidered. B. They are the best ways found so far. C. They are not as helpful as expected. D. They help improve people’s health. 28. What does the latest research show? A. Various factors lead to good heart health. B. Enough sleep contributes to good heart health. C. Seven hours’ sleep is most important to the heart.