2020届聊城市实验中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案

2020届聊城市实验中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案

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A

Courtyard Stay with Your Dogs

As autumn approaches, we are inviting you to join us on our August dog event—Courtyard Stay with Yoga &

Hike from August 21st to August 22nd nearQinglongLakein Fangshan district. This event will continue to raise fund

for our Pre-treatment Guidance Project (PGP).

Check out our full itinerary below:

Day 1: Saturday, August 21st

At 9 am in the morning, you will be picked up by car or bus and head to Fangshan district. We have arranged

a private courtyard house for a comfortable stay for the Saturday night. We will enjoy some local dishes for lunch,

while enjoying the peaceful views of theQinglongLake. After lunch, we will go together for a light hike to the

nearby mountain and water tracks with our dogs. For dinner, enjoy the coziest, home-style BBQ with both

vegetable and meat options.

Day 2: Sunday, August 22nd

After breakfast, we will join a yoga teacher for a deeply relaxing yoga session, with the company of the

morning sun. You can choose to hike a bit more afterwards in theforest park. We will be checking out around 4 pm

in the afternoon, returning to our homes.

Reservation: Please add our event manager, Diana, on Wechat to reserve a spot for yourself and your dog, a

full payment will be required upon signing up. If you don’t have a dog but would still like to hang out with dogs,

you are more than welcome to join too!

Pricing:

Early Bird Fee: 1400 RMB per human for the first four participants only before 7th August.

Children Price: 800 RMB (4—13 years old).

Full Price: 1600 RMB per human.

All surplus funds and donations will go to our Pre-treatment Guidance Program.

Please bring your ID, your dog’s ID and vaccine proof for any potential security check.

We can’t wait to see you soon！ 1. Who would be most interested in the weekend activity?

A. Taxi drivers. B. Yoga coaches. C. Pet dog owners. D. The PGP

members.

2. According to the itinerary, on August 22nd, you can ________.

A. join a teacher to do some yoga B. have some local dishes for lunch

C. enjoy the coziest, home-style BBQ D. go together for a hike to the water tracks

3. The purpose of the countryside stay activity is to________.

A. promote theQinglongLake B. raise fund for a public project

C. teach skills of BBQ and keeping dogs D. provide access to dogs for people without pets

B

Plastic is piling up in ecosystems all over the world. Although its harmful impacts on both species and

ecosystems have been documented, a few animals—like bowerbirds and hermit crabs—are doing what they can to

recycle it. And according to a recent study, wild bees in Canada have joined the effort, which is a rare observation

of behavioral flexibility in species especially insects, in increasingly plastic-rich environments.

The researchers found two species of leafcutter bees putting plastic into their nests. One of the bees they

studied, the alfalfa leafcutter bee, normally bites off pieces of leaves and flowers while the second bee gathers

sticky substances from trees. Leafcutter bees don't build big nests or store honey like honeybees, choosing instead

small nests in underground holes, tree holes or cracks（裂缝）in buildings. But the researchers found that three of

eight brood cells（育雏巢室）contained pieces of plastic bags, replacing 23 percent of the cut leaves in each cell on

average.

While they don't make honey,alfalfa leafcutter bees still make money for theU. S. and Canadian farmers by

pollinating（给......传授花粉）crops including alfalfa , carrots and melons. The European insects were introduced to

North America in the 1930s for that purpose, and they've since become wild, joining the continent's many native

species of leafcutter bees.

In a separate study conducted in Argentina between 2017 and 2018, researchers found a bee nest made

entirely of plastic, which consisted of three separate cells. It's the first known example of such construction

worldwide. Compared to the other nests the researchers examined, which were made of natural materials, this

one had a pretty lower success rate of the bees' survival. One of the cells had a dead baby bee , another seemed

to have housed an adult that had left the nest, and the third was unfinished.

4. What does the animals' use of plastic show according to the study? A. How widely plastic is used.

B. How strange the behavior of wildlife is.

C. How some wildlife is adapting to plastic.

D. How plastic pollution has harmed them.

5. What do leaves mean to alfalfa leafcutter bees?