深圳市2020届高三年级第二次调研考试(英语)

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深圳市2020届高三年级第二次调研考试

英 语

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Life under lockdown is strange and lonely but people are finding ways to come together and support those in need by volunteering. Here are just a few more ways you can take part in. NHS Responders

After asking retired medical professionals to return to work, the government has also put out a call for 250,000 volunteers to support the NHS （National Health System）. You can apply to be a community response volunteer, collecting and delivering supplies for those in isolation（隔 离）；a patient transport volunteer, helping patients who are dismissed from hospital get home and settled; and an NHS transport volunteer, to assist with delivery of medical supplies. GAILY’s Bakery

As well as baking breads and pastries for the general public, GAILs is supplying front-line NHS teams with fresh food, and they need more help to get it where it needs to be. If you want to lend a hand, drop them an email.

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Re-engage

Re-engage is a voluntary group that helps reduce loneliness among old people and given that so

many people are isolated because of the virus outbreak, they need more volunteers to become call companions. If you want to join them in the telephone befriending service, contact them at 1811 2256. A Plate For London

This online platform helps match volunteers with Londoners in need. Now they are focusing on doorstep deliveries of food parcels and hot meals to children who rely on free school meals and those who have lost their jobs as a result of the widespread disease. 21. What is the duty of a patient transport volunteer?

A. Picking up patients. B. Sending patients home. C. Moving patients to clinics. D. Delivering supplies for patients.

22. Which volunteer group especially cares for the senior?

A. NHS Responders. C. Re-engage. A. The aged. C. The patients.

B

School is still out for the summer, but at Eastern Senior High School, students are hard at work. In a garden bursting with vegetables and herbs, nearly a dozen teenagers are harvesting them for the weekend's farmers market. They work Tuesday through Saturday with City Blossoms, a non-profit that brings community gardens to schools and other places where kids gather in urban areas.

Roshawn Little, going into her junior year at Eastern, believes that working in the garden has taught her to try all sorts of new things — like eating different kinds of vegetables more often. And she has taken those healthy behaviors home with her and her family now buy more fruits and vegetables. “We mainly live around liquor （酒）stores and snack stores. There aren't that many grocery stores. They're way out, and you have to drive so far\——a common problem in low-income urban areas .

City Blossoms is one of many groups across the country teaming up with local communities to establish school gardens, like the one at Eastern. These gardens, advocates say, are really outdoor classrooms where kids learn valuable lessons — not just about nutrition, but also about science and math, even business skills. For example, the gardens can be used for math lessons — like calculating the area of a plant bed — or learning the science of how plants grow.

On a recent weekend at the Aya farmers market, the kids work at a table decorated with handmade signs that read \and \inviting people to try their herbed salt with bread. Working at the market helps them practice public speaking skills and business skills.

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B. GAIL's Bakery. D. A Plate For London. B. The volunteers. D. The unemployed.

23. Who may be offered food by the online platform?

Nadine Joyner of a nutrition education company has a food table next to the kids' at the market and often buys produce from them. She is constantly impressed by the kids' knowledge of what they're selling — they know how to grow it, how to prepare it, and how to cook it. 24. What do students at Eastern do with the harvested vegetables?

A. Sell them on market. B. Take them to school. C. Give them to fanners. D. Share them at home.

25. What can we infer about the area Little lives in?

A. It is inconvenient in traffic. B. It is crowded with grocery stores. C. It has poor access to fresh foods. D. It suffers from income inequality.

26. Why does City Blossoms establish school gardens?

A. To provide nutritious food. B. To improve classroom conditions C. To cooperate with local community. D. To create outdoor learning chances. 27. Which may be the best title for this text?

A. Green Vegetables, Healthy Gardeners B. School Garden: a Promise Land in Summer C. Young Gardeners, Knowledgeable Minds D. City Blossoms: an Exciting Garden Project

C

The terrible El Nino strikes the globe every 2 to 7 years. As warm waters in the tropical（热带的）Pacific Ocean switch eastward and trade winds weaken, the weather pattern stretches through the atmosphere, causing drought in southern Africa, wildfires in South America, and flooding on North America's Pacific coast. Climate scientists have struggled to predict El Nino events more than 1 year in advance, but artificial intelligence （Al）can now extend the latest forecasts to 18 months, according to a new study.

The new research uses a type of Al called a convolutional neural network （卷积神经网络），which is adept in recognizing images. Researchers feed the neural network a large number of training images and the Al becomes skilled at identifying fundamental patterns of those images. For example, the neural network can be trained to recognize cats in photos by identifying characteristics shared by all cats, such as hairs and four legs.

Part of the problem with earlier researches on El Nino forecasts is that they rely on a relatively small set of historical statistics for factors such as ocean temperature. To get around this shortage, the scientists fed the program re-creations of historic ocean conditions produced by a set of reliable climate models, ones frequently used for studies of climate change, says the study's lead author, Yoo-Geun Ham, a climate

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scientist in South Korea. As a result, the scientists could show the computer system not just one set of actual historic data, lasting from 1871 to 1973, but several thousand reproductions of that same data by the climate models.

But it's not clear how much real-world benefit will come from pushing forecasts beyond I year, cautions Stephen Zebiak, a climate scientist at Columbia University. ‘The kind of lead time that is actionable is probably less than a year because decision-makers are unlikely to take action further in advance，” he says.

28. What is the advantage of the latest Al forecasts?

A. Faster response。 B. Higher accuracy. C. Wider application. D. Longer time range.

29. What does the underlined word \

A. Carefully-chosen. C. Newly-developed.

30. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. Improvement on previous studies. B. Requirements for weather forecast. C. Procedure for analyzing image data. D. Problems with early climate models.

31. What does Stephen Zebiak think of the new Al prediction?

A. It has unclear impacts. B. It calls for effective action. C. It may not be of actual help . D. It should be treated with caution.

D

People often plan to receive medical exam but don't, resulting in increasing health care cost. A surprising number of citizens mean to complete tax forms in time but forget to, forcing them to pay unnecessary fines. Many families miss the government deadline to complete financial aid forms, losing out on aid available for child care.

How can policymakers help people follow through on important tasks? They use carrots and sticks: bonuses, late fees, or regulations. These methods can be clumsy, and often aren't effective for the situation at hand. Reminding people to form simple plans, however, provides a low-cost, simple, and powerful tool. Evidence is growing that providing prompts （提示），which push people at key times to think through how and when they will follow through, make people more likely to act on tasks of importance. In one early randomized study on tetanus vaccination （破伤风疫苗）rates, for example, a team of social psychologists showed that 28% of Oxford University seniors got the shot after being encouraged to review their weekly schedules and to select a possible time to stop by the health center. They were also given a list of times when shots were available and a map showing the health center's location. Only 3% of the seniors

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B. Well-trained. D. Wide-spread.