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广东省普通高中2020-2021学年高二下学期教学质量联合测评英语试题
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一、阅读选择
advertising1. While known for its Pacific Ocean beaches and fashionable coastal towns, the Golden State is also home to many new and clean lakes where visitors can soak up the sun and cool off.
Shasta Lake
Shasta Lake is the largest rervoir in California at 30,000 acres wide. The lake is in Northern California and is a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Los Angeles. With 370 miles of shoreline, it’s no surpri that renting a houboat is a popular activity. Depending on their location, visitors can enjoy the view of Mt. Shasta, which has snow on its peak year-round.
Big Bear Lake
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Big Bear Lake is another great option for tho wanting to take a day trip from Los Angeles. It takes only two hours to drive there from downtown Los Angeles. Animal lovers can stop by the Big Bear Alpine Zoo to get an up-clo look at the lake’s namesake (同名的物). The lake also has many hiking and biking trails along with plenty of fishing spots.
Lake Havasu
Lake Havasu is divided along the border of California and Arizona and is an oasis (绿洲) in the dert. It’s a five-hour drive from Los Angeles and a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Las Vegas. Visitors can fish or go boating on the lake that was formed from the Colorado River.
Mono Lake
Mono Lake is located in the Sierra Nevada mountains and spans more than 70 miles. It’s a five-hour drive from either Los Angeles or San Francisco. Visitors into fishing should head to a different lake becau this body of water does not have any fish. It’s a salty lak
e, which means that it’s filled with saltwater and is two to three times saltier than the ocean.
【小题1】What can we know about Shasta Lake?
A．It’s the biggest in America. |
B．It’s located in Southern California. |
C．Visitors can watch snow there. |
D．Visitors can e bears there. |
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2011诺贝尔化学奖【小题2】Which is the clost to Los Angeles?
speaker是什么意思A．Shasta Lake. | B．Big Bear Lake. |
C．Lake Havasu. | D．Mono Lake. |
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【小题3】Who is most probably uninterested in Mono Lake?
A．An animal lover. | B．A food lover. |
C．A sports lover. | D．A fishing lover. |
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2. Gitanjali Rao, a teenager who invented a mobile device to test for lead(铅)in drinking water, is Time's Kid of the Year for 2020. The magazine announced the award Thursday, indicating Rao's ability to apply scientific ideas to real-world problems and her desire to motivate other kids to take up their own caus.
It's just the latest recognition for Rao, 15, who was named last year to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list(福布斯30岁以下青年才俊榜).She won prai in 2017 after she created a device named Tehys, using carbon nanotube nsors to detect lead in water. She was named America's Top Young Scientist when she was in the venth grade. She went on to collaborate with scientists in the water industry to try to get the device on the market.
国外幼儿movieMore recently , Rao has developed a phone and Web tool named Kindly, which us artificial intelligence technology to detect possible early signs of cyberbullying(网络欺凌).
Rao was chon in part becau of the way she has followed up her technical work with efforts to get other young people to work on solving the problems they e. "I don't look like the typical scientist. Everything I e on TV is that it's an older, usually white man as
a scientist,” she said. “My goal has really shifted not only from creating my own devices to solve the world's problems, but inspiring others to do the same as well. Becau, from personal experience, it's not easy when you don't e anyone el like you. So I really want to put out that message: If I can do it, you can do it. and anyone can do it.”
博客是什么意思【小题1】What made Rao win Time's Kid of die Year?
A．Her invention and inspiration to others. |
B．Her ability to ensure kids' drinking water. |
C．Her motivation to solve practical problems. |
D．Her way of influencing other young people. |
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【小题2】What did Rao do when she was 12?
A．She developed a tool called Kindly. |
privacy policyB．She created a device called Tehys. |
C．She won America's Top Young Scientists. |
D．She became one of the Forbes 30 Under 30. |
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【小题3】Which can probably replace the word “collaborate” in Paragraph 2?
A．Compete. | B．Exchange. | C．Cooperate. | D．Bargain. |
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【小题4】What can we know about Rao?
A．She wants to be a typical scientist. | B．She once suffered cyberbullying. |
C．She lived a hard life when young. | D．She encourages others to do like her. |
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3. Animals that have never been domesticated (驯养的), such as kangaroos, can intentionally communicate with humans, challenging the belief that this behaviour is usually restricted to domesticated animals like dogs, hors or goats, a study from the University of Roehampton and the University of Sydney has found. The rearch which involved kangaroos, marsupials (有袋类动物) that were never domesticated, at three locations across Australia, revealed that kangaroos stared at a human when trying to access food which had been put in a clod box. The kangaroos ud eye-contact to communicate with the human instead of attempting to open the box themlves, a behaviour that is usually expected for domesticated animals.
