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广东省深圳市2020届高三年级
第二次教学质量检测英语卷
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New York’s best classes for kids include sports classes, performing arts classes, art classes, language programs and baby classes. Make sure your kids are ready for new adventures with these super-cool offerings!
92nd Street Y Classes
At this institution your musician can learn how to play an instrument. After-school classes examine different musical pieces and encourage work in a group setting. At the end of the program, mini Mozarts can impress their family and friends at open-house performances. Plus, when they're not jamming, kids can take advantage of homework help in the Clubhouse, where they are divided up by grade level. Ages 5 - 15.
The Cliffs at LIC
After a day of fighting the academic obstacle course at school, your favorite achievers can reach new heights on a rock-climbing wall. The Cliffs， offerings allow developing bodies to build muscle strength. For example, introductory sessions teach climbers how to tie safety knots （结） as well as other basics, mastering them with hands-on games and activities. The Cliffs at LIC, Long Island City. Ages 6-18.
Staten Island Skating Pavilion
This large area maintains its year-round frosty temperatures for ice-skating fun. Courses are offered every day for a variety of interests and skill levels, and public and freestyle sessions are available for children who want to spend some afternoons there without instruction. Ages 4 and up.
West Side YMCA
If your child wants to learn how to swim, you'd be pressed to find more options than those offered at the Y. Kids are grouped by age and capability. The courses cover personal safety and stroke techniques. If your offspring prefer
dry land, the Y also offers dance, basketball and football. Visit website for class descriptions and detailed price information. Ages 5-18.
1. Who is the passage intended for? A. Elementary school teachers. C. Families looking for attraction.
2. Which event will you attend for occasional academic help? A. The Cliffs at LIC. B. West Side YMCA. C. 92nd Street Y Classes. D. Staten Island Skating Pavilion.
3. What does Staten Island Skating Pavilion provide?
A. A mini open-house performance at the end of the program. B. Cold temperatures all the year round for ice-skating. C. Teaching of skating in divided groups according to their age. D. Introductory lessons on how to overcome the learning obstacles.
B. Children around school age. D. Parents with under-age children.
B
That morning, I dropped our eldest at kindergarten and returned home to let our two younger children play while I worked on my medical report. It was wonderful, but it hit me that my career in hospital wasn't making a difference in anyone's life. I needed something that would stretch my limits and push me to grow. My career enabled me to work from home. I could work from home, and become a foster（领养）mother, providing safety for a child who needed it desperately.
On Monday morning, I picked up the phone and dialed the number I had googled for the nearest Department of Children's Services. The man on the other end was receptive to my questions and explained the next step of training, involving eight weeks of classes designed to prepare and educate foster parents. We continued through all the classes, the home visits, background checks, and seemingly endless steps.
Five long months after we were approved, the phone rang. In the middle of the night, I woke my husband and rushed to East Tennessee Children's Hospital. Our placement was waiting for us in the emergency room, sick and lack of nutrition. It didn’t take long for us to realize the full depth of her suffering. Six months later, her half-brother came to us by our request. We now had five children under our care.
On August 12, 2016, our family of seven walked into a small courtroom. The children's lawyer and social
worker were there. With just a few words, our adoption was finalized. These two amazing children weren't going home, because they were already home. We are their forever family, and they are our forever children. We may not be able to change the entire world, but we have changed the world entirely for our new children. 4. How did the author feel about her hospital work? A. lacking in motivation. C. Filled with challenges.
5. What led the author to decide to adopt children? A. She felt sympathetic for abused children she knew. B. She wanted to make a difference in other people. C. She felt confident about her ability to raise children. D. She experienced training to raise children properly. 6. What does the underlined word \A. The child to be adopted. C. The approval of adoption.
7. Why did the author appear at the courtroom? A. To put the adopted kids elsewhere. C. To make the adoption officially legal.
B. To receive another adopted child. D. To begin the kids' adoption in her home. B. The need to get trained. D. The official at the hospital. B. Unusually demanding. D. Packed with chances.
C
The kakapo, a bird that lives in New Zealand, is not designed for survival. Weighing up to 4 kilograms, it is the world's fattest parrot. It mates（交配）only when the rimu tree is in fruit, which happens every few years. It developed gradually in the absence of land-based natural enemies, so instead of flying above the trees it walks like a duck across the dry forest floor. When it moves unsteadily across something that might kill it, it will stand still.
Such unusual characteristics turned it into fast food for human settlers, and for the cats and rats they brought with them. It seemed to have disappeared by the 1970s, until scientists came across two undiscovered populations in the country's south. These survivors were eventually moved to small enemy-free islands, where researchers have spent decades trying to get them to breed （繁殖）.
The scientists' patience is finally rewarded. The rimu was in fruit this year, and more than 80 chicks hatched, making this the best breeding season on record. Many have survived into adolescence, increasing the number of adult kakapos by a third, to 200 birds.
Another danger to the kakapo is a lack of genetic diversity. This is one reason why fewer than half of kakapo eggs hatch. By arranging the genome （基因组）of every living bird, scientists can identify closely-related individuals and put them on different islands. Every bird is fitted with something to track its slightest movement. If a female mates with an \
All these efforts cost almost New Zealand $1.3 million this breeding season. Yet the kakapo's future still looks unsafe. Earlier this year a severe disease tore through the population. And tiny as the number of kakapos is, space is running out on the two islands where most of them live. New enemy-free settlement must soon be found. 8. Which of the following is a danger for the survival of the kakapo? A. It is the smallest bird in the world. C. It adapts slowly in genetic development.
9. In what way may the scientists' patience be rewarded? A. They hatched 80 kakapos' eggs this year. B. They tried to make the rimu tree in fruit this year. C. Two survivors were moved to enemy-free islands. D. 50 chicks hatched have survived into adults this year. 10. Why did the scientists put kakapo in different islands?
A. To stop closely-related kakaposmating. C. To stop females mating
withmales.
B. To increasethe population
of kakapo.
B. It lacks exercise and usually stands still. D. It can't respond actively when facing danger.
D. To hatch more kakapos' eggs.
11. According to the author, the efforts to protect the kakapo in New Zealand are _______________ .
A. successful C. doubtful
B. unsafe D. inadequate
D
“New and improved. ” These words are put in so many marketing campaigns that we tend to accept them as linked. But many new drugs aren't an improvement over the best existing drug for a given condition, and the fast drug-approval processes in recent years have added to the uncertainty about their advantages.
A recent report in the British Medical Journal, \Better?” analysed the issue. The authors looked at 216 drugs approved between 2011 and 2017; 152 were newly developed, and 64 were existing medicine approved for new uses. Only 25% offered a major advantage over the established treatment, and fully 58% had no confirmed added benefit to reduce symptoms or improve health-related quality of life.