1、广东省东莞市届高三英语模拟自测试题广东省东莞市2020届高三英语4月模拟自测试题本试卷共10页，满分120分。考试用时120分钟。注意事项： 1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名和考生号、试室号、座位号填写在答题卡上，并用2B铅笔在答题卡的相应位置填涂考生号及试卷类型(B)。因听力另考，试卷从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始，试题序号从“21”开始。 2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案信息点涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。写在本试卷上无效。 3回答非选择题时，必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，
2、然后再写上新答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。写在本试卷上无效。 4考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A For travelers looking to get fully involved in a new destination, our hiking expeditionsoffer the perfect opportunity to enjoy your surroundings-and engage in a
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11、xpect to see her again so soon. After a tearless farewell with my daughter, weleft her new dorm room but then in the campus we saw her jogging against the August heat. Iquickly rolled down the car window and Sarina didnt miss a step as she turned, nodded at usand waved goodbye. I was in disbelief wh
12、y the tears hadnt come when we parted on her firstday in university. Our first separation, the day she left my body, was a nightmare of pain and suffering.While all births are amazing, not all women feel amazed about the births. However, ourtogetherness in the days and months that followed was so sw
13、eet that I felt her small body stillseemed to be attached to mine. In the years to come, the sound of her feet running across thewooden floors of our house was like the gentle pounding that reminded me my little girl washere and that someday she would run to the paths I couldnt follow. Last year Sar
14、ina turned 16 and decided to pursue art in college. She was in excitementabout college life with so much to expect but I was uneasy because it would be a long planeride away from home. I tried to imagine what separation would be like, but I couldnt.Separation, although on the horizon, still felt dis
15、tant. Thats why it wasnt until the next morning when I awoke in a house absent of herfootsteps that the tears finally came-and wouldnt stop. I understood that Sarina had left thehouse, and I held onto the memory of her running. When the tears stopped, I was relieved thather body knew what it needed
16、on separation day, and that with our love and support, she hadthe courage to run into an unfamiliar distance, to glance back, yet to keep moving forward.24. What happened to the author on her daughters first day in college? A. She burst into tears and had a painful farewell. B. She appeared calm and
17、 didnt cry at their departure. C. She asked her daughter to show them around the campus. D. She was cross that her daughter went jogging when they departed.25. What is the purpose of Paragraph 2? A. To expect her daughters bright future. B. To remind herself of her daughters pounding steps. C. To re
18、call the suffering during her daughters growth. D. To show the strong attachment between mother and daughter.26. Which of the following best describes the author when separation was approaching? A. Excited. B. Worried. C. Relieved. D. Frustrated.27. What can be the most suitable title for the passag
19、e? A. A heartbroken separation B. The story of a successful mom C. How to deal with homesickness D. Moving forward with love and support C A simple, yet powerful UK program has been fighting elderly loneliness by recruitingyoung adults as volunteers to read to seniors with vision problems and mental
20、 diseases. Lily has benefited from the program having her vision restored by 15-year-old Amy, aschool girl who was paired with Lily through the Reading Friends project. Lily was a librarianand enthusiastic reader who would read two to three books every week. After developing aterrible disease, howev
21、er, Lily found herself unable to read or watch television for any lengthof time without her eyes hurting. Not only have Lilys regular reading sessions with Amy helped to reconnect her with herpassion for literature, they have also built a strong intergenerational friendship between thetwo ladies. I
22、chose a book and she would come along and read it to me, Lily said. But wehave only got through two books so far because we end up chatting too much. We have readtwo historical novels and get on very well. Research shows that reading together can help older people to build social networks andconnect
23、 with others. Evidence also shows that reading has a positive impact on the elderlyswellbeing and can reduce the risk of developing mental diseases. Rose, a teacher, is responsible for connecting schoolchildren like Amy with theprogram and she says that it has had an amazing impact on the youngsters
24、. We havewonderful young people at our school and we wanted to get them into the community, Rosesaid. It has been fantastic to see them blossom as well as improving their literacy and socialskills. They are meeting community members like Lily that they are making friendships with,and library staff c
25、an help them, not only with education but outside as well.28.What is the main responsibility of volunteers according to the passage? A. Read books to seniors. B. Have a chat with seniors. C. Fight diseases for seniors. D. Make friends with seniors.29. What can we learn from Lilys reading sessions wi
26、th Amy? A. They benefit Lily a lot by restoring her vision. B. They help Amy pick up her love for literature. C. They help Lily volunteer in the reading project. D. They build up the friendship between two ladies.30. How does the program mostly benefit the elders? A. By reducing elderly loneliness.
27、B. By curing the elders of vision problems. C. By improving their literacy and social skills. D. By enabling them to read books for a long time.31. Where is this text most likely from? A. A diary. B. A guidebook. C. A magazine. D. A novel. D Next time you throw away rotten lettuce or smelly berries
28、you should think about this.Globally, we waste more than a third of the food we produce. That is according to the Foodand Agriculture Organization. A group of Swedish graduate students is working to fight that fact. They are in the FoodInnovation and Product Design program and have come up with a wa
29、y to use produce that isabout to go to waste. They turn the food into non-perishable (不易腐烂的) powder. It mayhelp people who have limited access to food. They are calling it FoPo Food Powder. It is exactly what it sounds like. It is dried,powdered, shelf-stable fruits and vegetables. The powder can be
30、 dropped into relief effortsafter natural disasters. Or it can be given out in low-resource areas where fresh food andrefrigeration are hard to come by. Ngo, one of the students who developed it, says they are not making somethingground breaking . Powdered food has been around since the early days o
31、f astronauts. But theyare rethinking the waste and delivery channels. Their development team reached out tofarmers and retailers to source fruit. Today a relief bag for humanitarian disasters contains various foods such as strawberryjam, peanut butter and peas in tomato sauce. We think that an easil
32、y transported pack of cheapdried food powder with high nutritional value would fit in perfectly, Ngo says. The team hasbeen trying to keep its prices down, too. That would aid low-budget humanitarian groups andnon-governmental groups. Freeze-dried food keeps most of the nutritional benefits of raw food. It loses some
