2022届辽宁省沈阳市第二中学高三第二次模拟考试英语试题

沈阳二中 22 届第二次模拟考试

英语学科

说明：1. 测试时间：120 分钟 总分：150 分

2. 客观题涂在答题纸上，主观题答在答题纸的相应位置上

第Ⅰ卷（95 分）

第一部分 ：听力（共两节，满分 30）

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第二部分 阅读理解 （共两节，满分 50 分）

第一节 （共 15 小题； 每小题 2. 5 分，满分 37. 5 分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Films for you!

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving（1973）

A true classic，this Peanuts cartoon gives many viewers a sense of nostalgia（怀旧）．Return to the iconic moment when Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown right as he's about to kick it．Life is hard，but in this animated film，sweetness wins when the Peanuts group prepares a Thanksgiving feast，complete with jelly beans．

Planes，Trains and Automobiles（1987）

This John Hughes comedy starring Steve Martin and John Candy is already a Thanksgiving classic for many．Neal ends up rerouting the plane because of a snowstorm．Ashe struggles to find a way home for Thanksgiving，he gets stuck with extremely positive Del．

One True Thing（1998）

Meryl Streep was nominated（提名）for an Academy Award for her performance in this movie as a wife and mom who struggles with cancer．Renée Zellweger plays the grown daughter who has to come home to help with the holiday．The two try to hold the family together，especially during a tense Thanksgiving meal when guests get all the attention．

The Gold Rush（1925）

Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp eats his shoe for Thanksgiving dinner while trapped in a snowstorm in this endearing silent film classic fro m 1925．Watch this one if you're in the mood to see a leather shoe prepared and

eaten as if it were a delicious turkey．It makes you grateful for what you have!

1. What could A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving remind many viewers of？

A. Birth of animated films． B. History of football games．

C. Taste of jelly beans． D. Sweet memories of old days．

2. Which film best suits people who want to see a leather shoe eaten？

A. The Gold Rush． B. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

C. One True Thing． D. Planes，Trains and Automobiles．

3. What do these four films have in common？

A. They are related to Thanksgiving．

B. They tell interesting family stories．

C. They describe the holiday activities．

D. They are based on the authors' own life．

B

Animal rescuer and cinematographer Douglas Thorn’s passion for animals began when he was a little kid. “I started rescuing orphaned baby animals,” Thorn says. “And I wanted to be a wildlife cinematographer.”

When Thron grew up, he did just that, working for shows like Discovery Channels Shark Week, filming the great white sharks off the coast of Santa Cruz, California. But Thron says it was the Paradise Fire in California in 2018 that “pushed” him to do animal rescue activism work, putting his aerial cinematography skills to good use.

At the time, Thron was filming a man who was rescuing cats after the fire using an infrared hand-held camera. The camera uses heat to detect the animals at night Thron and the man talked about how incredible it would be to put one on a drone to detect animals more easily. “The animal's body temperature will glow on the screen and you can pick them out among the bricks and stones,” explains Thron.

The first animal Thron ever rescued was a dog in the Bahamas after a category-5 hurricane hit, which wiped out hundreds of houses. Thron tested out putting an infrared scope on a drone and found the dog.

“The drone really shaves off critical time so that the really badly hurt animals are able to be rescued,” Thron says. Once the scope picks up the “heat signature of an animal”, Thron turns a spotlight on the animal and zooms in on it, so he and the rescue crews can go and save the animal.

Thron has basically been “going non-stop since then”. His TV show, Doug to the Rescue, shows some of his heart-warming animal rescues, including after Hurricane Laura in Louisiana in 2020 and after fires in Northern California and Oregon. Thron also helped rescue koalas after fires damaged parts of Australia in 2020.

4. What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A. Researching rare animals. B. Rescuing homeless animals.

C. Becoming a disaster rescuer. D. Working as a wildlife cinematographer.

5. What's Thron's purpose for attaching the infrared camera to the drone?

A. To locate an animal quickly. B. To shoot more inviting photos.

C. To take animals' body temperature. D. To give warnings of dangers timely.

6. What's the fifth paragraph mainly about?

A. The difficulties Thron has to overcome.

B. The skills Thron will need to operate the drone.

C. The way Thron uses the drone to rescue animals.

D. The reason why Thron chooses his present job.

7. According to the passage, which word can best describe Thron?

A. Modest. B. Creative. C. Generous. D. Outgoing.

C

To fight against the ballooning waistlines among people, several U. S. cities have instituted taxes on drinks with added sugar aiming to reduce consumption, but new research suggests these policies currently have one fundamental flaw.

The study found sugary drink only reduce purchasing if price tags at stores mention consumers are paying that tax when they buy the drink.

The research included a field study at two convenience stores in San Francisco, which currently has a tax on sugary drinks of 1 cent per ounce. Researchers varied the price tags placed on the sugary drinks over the eight-week study: one tag that simply said the price for the 12-ounce drink ($1.52) and one that had the price and the message “Includes SF Sugary Drink Tax”. All non-sugary drinks, which weren’t subject to the tax, simply had the price of the drink ($1.40).

The researchers compared sales of the drinks during the study period to the two weeks before the study began when the sugary drink tax was in effect but there were no price tags on any drinks. Results showed sales of sugary drinks weren't lower during the two weeks, compared to sales before the tax, indicating the tax itself didn't reduce purchases of sugary drinks.

The researchers then looked at the effects of the two different price tags. Results showed the share of sugary drinks purchased when the tags simply showed the price wasn’t significantly different from the two-week period before the study, but did decline slightly when the tags mentioned the price included the added tax.

In a separate online study, the researchers asked participants to estimate what the tax would be on a can of