安徽省六安市第一中学2020届高三下学期自测卷（六）线下考试英语试题 Word版含答案

六安一中 2020 届高三年级英语自测试卷（六）

命题人： 时 间：90 分钟

审题人：

满 分：120 分

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。

A

Hiring a Car Online

Online car hire promises to be cheap, quick and convenient. But is it? Neil McDougall

clicks his mouse.

A Autos.com

Just click on the reservations button, fill in your home country, destination and dates, pick a car and you’re into the booking form without any trouble and with all the charges laid out. There’s also a detailed rental guide explaining your contract.

B Cash.com.uk

One to consider if you’re going to the States for a visit, although, after I’d worked through half the booking process, it returned an error message without telling me which part of the process needed adjusting. I got there in the end. There is a useful section with detailed directions for some of the great drives of America.

C Expeed.org.uk

Book a flight with Expeed and when you continue on to the car-hire section, the software already knows where you are going and when. However, you seem to be limited to cities with airports for your car hire, and additional taxes are presented. D Cars.net

Another site offering discounts for booking online, but also special late deals. Prices are fully inclusive of insurance. It is now offering a lowest rates guarantee, an extra discount for former clients and a package of free gifts to sweeten the deal.

E Cheapandcheerful.net.uk

Avoid unnecessary complexity online but the booking process is as good as it gets. Very quick and smooth, so much so that people with older computers may have trouble getting this information. Enter how many miles you expect to drive and tick your insurance, driver and child-seat choices and they will all be included in the final price. You must contact the location directly if you need a car within three days. And to hire a car abroad, there’s a dull email form to fill in and they’ll get back to you.

21. Which of the following websites presents some driving routes? A. Cash.com.uk. B. Autos.com. C. Expeed.org.uk. 22. What limitation does Expeed.org.uk have?

D. Cars.net.

A. Customers have to pay high-rated taxes.

B. Customers can hire a car only in certain places. C. Customers can hire only certain types of vehicles.

D. Customers can hire a car only if you’ve booked a flight there. 23. What is the disadvantage of Cheapandcheerful.net.uk? A. The final price is too high.

B. Its online booking procedure is complex.

C. People have to wait for three days to get the car.

D. It’s unsuitable for customers with out-of-date computers.

B

Mathew Brady tried to end war for all time. He used a new, powerful weapon. He used a camera.

Brady opened his first photograph studio in 1844. The images he produced were daguerreotypes ( 银 版 照 片 ), not the photographs he would take later. Daguerreotypes recorded images on sheets of copper coated with silver. They required long exposures, so the person being photographed would have to stay perfectly still for 3-15 minutes. That made daguerreotypes impractical for portraits. By 1855, Brady was advertising a new type of image that had just been invented: a photograph made on paper.

From the beginning of his career, Brady believed that photography could serve an important purpose. His images could create a record of national life. When the Civil War broke out, he wanted to document the war as a part of that record. His friends discouraged him, but Brady started to take photographs of war scenes. He gathered a group of photographers who worked in the field, taking photographs of battle scenes and military life. He also bought photographs from others who were returning from the field. His efforts culminated (达到顶点) in an 1862 display of photographs made after the Battle of Antietam.

The bloodshed (人员伤亡) shocked the visitors to the exhibit, most of whom had never seen a field of battle.

Brady did not stop war with his work, but he did raise the awareness of the costs of war among common citizens. After the Civil War, people lost interest in his record of the war. Because he could find few buyers for his photographs and did not earn enough money to pay for his wartime work, Brady went bankrupt ( 破产的). Years after the war, the government bought Brady’s collection. It is now considered a priceless documentation of the War between the States. Other photographs by Mathew Brady sell for thousands of dollars and are considered national treasures. 24. By 1855, the new technology .

A. allowed Brady to open his first photography studio B. made daguerreotypes have shorter exposure time C. allowed photographs to be recorded on paper D. made Brady begin to take photos of people

25. When the Civil War broke out, Mathew Brady . A. began to take and collect pictures of the war B. started to realize the purpose of photography C. established his exhibition center D. went to the battlefield to report

26. According to the text, Mathew Brady’s photographs A. helped stop the Civil War

B. made people realize the cruelty of war

C. were bought by the government during the war

D. were considered national treasures right after the war 27. This text mainly talks about . A. new inventions recording national life B. photographs taken during the Civil War

C. a soldier who took photographs at the battlefield

D. a photographer who wanted to stop war with his photos

.

C

Math can be as scary as spiders and snakes, at least in the brain of an 8-year-old child. And that early anxiety about dealing with numbers can put a child at a significant disadvantage, not only in school but in negotiating life and a career. Fortunately, a study of third-graders, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, suggests an intervention (干预) that can help. One-on-one tutoring does more than teach kids. It can help reduce the fear of math anxiety.

“The most exciting aspect of our findings is that cognitive ( 认知的) tutoring not only improves performance, but is also anxiety-reducing,” says Vinod Menon.

Menon and his colleagues knew from their earlier research using MRI scans (核磁扫描) of the brain that math anxiety activates much the same network of cells that some other common fears activate----fear of snakes or spiders or heights, for example. And they knew that a behavioral treatment known as exposure therapy helps some people solve the anxiety of those other phobias. Could the same thing be happening with math tutoring? To find out, the scientists invited 46 third-graders who answered questions about math worries and were also tested on simple addition problems while having their brains scanned via functional MRI. Based on their answers, scans and scores in each of the tests, the children were divided into two groups: one considered to have higher levels of math anxiety and one with lower levels. Afterward, both groups received eight weeks of one-on-one tutoring in basic arithmetic, a few sessions a week.

Both groups did better in math at the end of the tutoring, Menon says. But most importantly, he says, the kids who had been anxious about math were 20 percent less anxious at the end of the eight weeks----a finding their brain scans confirmed.

The tutoring was highly personalized----if a child got stuck on a particular concept, the

tutor would work with the student to “get beyond the bottleneck in a non-negative, encouraging way”.

Menon hopes to next study whether computerized tutoring can produce similar benefits and whether the reduction in math anxiety continues to exist as the children advance to more complex problem-solving skills.

28. According to the text, early math anxiety may affect children’s . A. intelligence quality B. ability to harmonize life and work C. life skills D. career choices

29. What does the underlined word “phobias” in Paragraph 3 mean? A. Scans. B. Tutors. C. Fears. D. Symptoms. 30. Why did scientists test those 46 third-graders? A. To check the function of MRI scans. B. To help them get higher grades in math.

C. To find out what addition problems they have.

D. To prove whether one-on-one tutoring can reduce math anxiety. 31. What does the author want to tell us in the last paragraph? A. Computers can help reduce math anxiety.

B. Menon will make a further study about the reduction in math anxiety. C. One-on-one tutoring is useful for solving difficult problems. D. Scientists have applied one-on-one tutoring to social research.

D

For the past few months, artificial intelligence (AI) has been a much talked about topic in the worlds of both pop culture and science. Last November saw the release of Oscar-nominated ( 奥斯卡奖提名的) and winning movie, “The Imitation Game”, about the father of the modern computer, Alan Turing. Last month, another Hollywood film about clever robots, “Chappie”, hit theaters.

Is artificial intelligence a good fortune or a bad luck for humans? In their book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, authors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, both of whom come from MIT, US, could barely hide their excitement toward the rise of machines.

According to the authors, we’re entering an age of accelerated development of artificial and robotic technology. “Digital machines have escaped their narrow confines limits and started to show broad abilities in pattern recognition, complex communication, and other areas that used to be only human,” write the authors. “We’ve recently seen great progress in natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, and many other areas.” Already AI can help blind people see and deaf people hear. And wheelchairs have been invented that can be controlled by thoughts. We’ll witness more innovations and wonders made possible by AI, according to the authors.

However, not all are equally enthusiastic about AI. A February report from the Global