2020-2021学年天津市第二南开中学高三英语一模试题及参考答案

2020-2021学年天津市第二南开中学高三英语一模试题及参考答案

第一部分 阅读（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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项

A

Experts say that if food were a country, it would rank second behind theUSas one of the biggest greenhouse

gas polluters. The reason is the rising demand for meat. Animal farming is responsible for 14.5 percent of global

methane emissions. While cowsare the worst contributors, pigs, sheep, donkeys and other animals play a part as

well.

Animal agriculture also causes land to become damaged, water to be polluted and forests to get destroyed.

With the world population forecast to rise to 9.8 billion by 2050, things are only looking worse for our already

decreasing natural resources. While going vegetarian would help, meat consumption is too deep-rooted in most

Western diets to allow for such a sharp, permanent change. That is why experts are advocating substituting some

of the beef, chicken, or pork with ordinary insects!

Insects, which grow into adults within a matter of months, if not weeks, are ready for consumption much

faster than domestic animals. They also require much less room, use less water and food, and produce far less

greenhouse gas than animals.

Of the 1.1 million insect species worldwide, scientists have identified 1,700 as eatable. Among them are ants,

grasshoppers, grubs, and earthworms. Just like animals, each insect has a different taste. Tree worms taste just like

pork, and grubs are similar to smoked meat.

While eating insects might be a new concept for Western people, over 2 billion people worldwide consume

insects as a regular part of their diet. Besides being delicious, insects are high in protein, have very few calories,

and are free of the saturated fat found in animal meat. Insects can be prepared in many ways. Creative cooks can

use them to cook protein-rich soup, make baked treats, and even fry a few with vegetables. So eat insects--- both

your body and Mother Earth will thank you for it!

1. Which of the following animals contribute the most to global methane emissions?

A. Sheep. B. Donkeys. C. Cows. D. Pigs.

2. How is the third paragraph developed?

A. By making comparisons. B. By providing examples.

C. By listing data. D. By asking questions. 3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A.Few people eat insects regularly.

B. Ordinary insects are high in fat.

C. Insects contain various vitamins.

D. Saturated fat is harmful to health.

B

Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism. Their critics(批评家)seem to hate them because they have so much money to throw around. Why don’t they stop advertising and

reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays.

The poor old consumer! He'd have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn't create mass markets for

products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong

idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A

great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods is largely from the advertisements we read.

Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about.

Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding

performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.

Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is

hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway

station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading

railway byelaws while waiting for a train? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or

a newspaper full of the incidents and disasters.

We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. The fact that we

pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmers is due entirely to the money spent

by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!

Another thing we mustn't forget is the “small ads.” What a tremendously useful service they perform for the

community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy

or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the “hatch, match and dispatch”

column(栏目) but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or “agony” column. No other item in a