河南省郑州市2020届高三毕业班第二次质量预测英语试卷

英语试题卷
本试卷分四部分，考试时间120分钟，满分150分（听力成绩算作参考分）。 考生应
首先阅读答题卡上的文字信息,然后在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上作答 无效。

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将 试卷上的答
案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项 中选出最
佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的 时间来回答有关小题
和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What might Amy be?
A. A car saleswoman.
2. How was the concert?
A. Boring.
3. What are they talking about?
A. A film.
4. What is the girl's trouble?
A. She can't hear clearly.
B. She doesn't know the answer.
C. She can't see the blackboard.
5. What can be known about Bill?
A. He has finished his paper.
B. He is going to write a paper.
C. He seldom finishes his work on time.
第二节（共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A、 B、C三个
选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白 前，你将有时间阅读各
个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作 答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
B. An artist. C. A painting.
B. Exciting. C. Interesting.
B. A customer. C. A waitress.

听第6段材料,回答第6、7题。
6. What made Jack feel upset?
A. Losing a lot of money.
B. Making a big mistake.
C. Quarreling with his boss.
7. What does Jack decide to do?
A. Be more careful. B. Make an apology.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Why will the woman put on a show?
A. To have fun. B. To earn money.
9. What does the woman think of the man?
A. He has many talents. B. He dances well.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What did Bill worry about at first?
A. Suitcases. B. Long queues.
11 . Who offers to carry the suitcases?
A. Bill. B. Alice.
12. How will they probably go to the bus stop at last?
A. By bus. B. On foot.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Where did Tony go last year?
A. The Channel Islands.
B. Some European countries.
C. The seaside near his house.
14. Which country is close to the Channel Islands?
A. France. B. Spain
15. Why will Tony visit George tomorrow?
A. To change his plan.
B. To borrow some money.
C. To persuade him to travel together.

C. Leave the company.
C. To perform on stage.
C. He can sing well.
C. Heavy traffic.
C. The taxi driver.
C. By taxi.
C. England.

16. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A travel plan. B. Famous places. C. Their travel experiences.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How was John Curtis' gum (口香糖）at first?
A. Soft. B. Hard. C. Sweet.
18. What did William Wrigley think of chewing gum?
A. It made people less tired.
B. It helped people work better.
C. It was popular among children.
19. What will the speaker talk about next?
A. Why gum is popular.
B. How people feel about gum .
C. How to deal with chewed gum.
20. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The history of gum.
B. The attitude to gum.
C. The reason for chewing gum.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题;毎小题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
Time magazine listed its top inventions of 2019, some of which will surely become a big
part of our everyday lives over the next decade . Here are some we're most looking forward to.
■Virtual （虚拟的）surgery
According to Harvard Business Review, our current system of training surgeons can't keep
up with the speed of technological development. “Even after 4 years of college, 4 years of medical
school and 5 years of advanced training after working, 30% of graduates still can't operate on their
own,” said Justin Barad, who is the
CEO and co — founder of Osso VR.

This VR software is made to give doctors virtual operating-room experience so they can
practice and prepare for surgeries. Apparently, it works. Gideon Blumstein of California
University conducted a study on using Osso VR. His team found that participants' overall surgical
performance improved by an astonishing 230% over traditional training methods.
■ Vending veggies （出售素食）
happier. ” That's the Farmers Fridge advertising message. It is a good one, as this
company wants to bring fresh, healthy food to people on the go.
It's trying to change more than just food, though. It also wants to change the delivery
method. Farmers Fridge has created its very own automatic machines. They can be placed in
high-traffic areas. These super-smart vending machines can know their contents at any moment,
and can allow customers to reserve and pay in advance. They can even learn about what customers
want. Shayna Harris is the company's Chief Growth Officer. “We have developed salads,
sandwiches and breakfast items that taste as fresh as if you were to make them in your home
kitchen,” she said in an interview with Insider Trends.
■ Recycling pollution
When we write with black ink, we're writing with soot — a powder made by burning coal or
oil. Cars are machines that produce soot. To collect the soot, Anirudh Sharma, creator of AIR-INK,
made a device called Kaalink, which attaches to a vehicle’s exhaust pipe （排气管）.Once
collected, it's made into ink color and mixed with vegetable oil to create inks, markers and paints
with the brand AIR-INK.
“I don't know if it's pollution, but the quality of the ink is really special,” said artist
Kristopher Ho. “It's black, really thick and dries extremely quickly.”
The Guardian describes AIR-INK as green”. Each 30-milliliter pen contains
between 40—50 minutes of air pollution, while each 6-liter spray can hold 2,000 minutes of diesel
exhaust （柴油废气）. In the past year, Sharma said, his team has cleaned nearly 1.7 trillion （万
亿）liters of air in India and Hong Kong.
21. What can be known about Osso VR?
A. It is an assistant to help surgeons do operations.
B. It can perform operations on patients automatically.
C. It offers doctors a virtual environment to practice surgeries.

D. It is a piece of software to help medical students do research.
22. What makes Farmers Fridge different and special?
A. Why its advertisement works.
B. What its vending machines sell.
C. How its vending machines operate.
D. Where its vending machines serve.
23. What attitude does Kristopher Ho hold toward AIR-INK?
A. Doubtful. B. Casual. C. Disapproving. D. Positive.
24. What is the authors main purpose in writing the passage?
A. To encourage scientists to make technological inventions.
B. To tell readers some of the latest inventions in technology.
C. To call on people to keep up with technological development.
D. To raise everyone's awareness of the environmental protection.
B
When I heard that Vitaminwater is giving away $$100,000 in a contest where the winner has
to give up their cellphone for a year in favor of a 1996-era app- free version, my immediate
thought was: I could never do that. Even a day would be very difficult for me. I admit that I'm
addicted to my iPhone.
I sleep with it under my pillow. It's the first thing I reach for in the morning. I've never
counted how many times I pick it up during the day, but it's at least several per hour, and often I
can't go 5 minutes without looking at it.
What am I doing on my phone? Everything, it feels like： making to-do lists, searching for
random information, checking e-mails and so on. I've also become attached to social media
because somehow it's become vital that I know exactly what my childhood best friend’s cousin is
doing.
I know the importance of communication in theory. But in practice, I've been scolded more
times than I can count by my boyfriend, love your phone more than me.” I feel anxious
when my phone isn't easily within reach, like life is happening without me. My already high
general level of anxiety increases if I don't feel as informed as I can possibly be. I'm tricked by my
phone’s simplicity. I'll just look at it while I'm in the bathroom or waiting in line at a store. Those

few minutes that seem harmless enough likely represent the whole days’ worth of time when I
could have been reading books or simply letting my mind relax.
The possibility of going even a day without my smartphone fills me with fear. And yet it
upsets me that I've become completely dependent on this technological advancement.
So, on second thoughts, I'm going to enter the contest. And even if I don't win, I promise to
limit my phone usage to 15 minutes a day in May, for a start. So this May, I'm going
conservative. I hope I remember how.
25. How did the author react when hearing about the contest?
A. She declared it would be meaningless.
B. She decided to participate in it eagerly.
C. She thought it would be a challenge for her.
D. She was quite confident of winning a great prize.
26. What is the result of the author's frequent use of her cellphone?
A. It gets her dependent on her cellphone.
B. It makes her do shopping online easily.
C. It helps her keep in touch with her friends.
D. It gives her an easy way to get information.
27. What can be the best tide for the passage?
A. Getting Addicted To Cellphone
B. Entering Cellphone-free Contest
C. Bringing Cellphone Under Control
D. Laying Down Cellphone For Contest
C
Every morning I walk outside and bring in the morning newspaper. There was a time when
every house on both sides of the street had a newspaper in the driveway. There was also a time
when every house had a landline telephone, but not anymore. Not for a long time.
My husband is less willing to accept the downward trend of print- edition newspapers, as he
has worked in newspapers since the age of 16. Even before that, he was what you would call an
“independent publisher”.
Recently, we were at a Chicago park with our grandchildren. My husband had a newspaper

folded under his arm. He sat down and put the paper on the bench beside him. A young girl
walked over, looked at the newspaper, picked it up and asked,
I thought he was going to fall over. The color faded from his face. His eyes rolled back in
his head and his legs were giving out. I rolled up his paper and waved it under his nose. The
smells from the ink woke him up.
Some people simply love paper ― the feel, the portability, and the pleasure of piling them
higher and higher until their wife cries, “Enough! My husband was happy when he spent time
with our youngest daughter and her husband. When they lived with us, they raced to pull the
crossword puzzle from the paper every day. It's hard to do a crossword online. Pencil doesn't come
off a computer screen as easily as you might think.
Now my husband will be very excited that I have found further proof that there may still be
hope for the survival of print. I was chatting with a young mother who subscribes to the daily
newspaper. I asked why she did something so conservatively. She looked shocked.
print!
main number to let them know and the lady said, ' Why don't you just subscribe to the online
version? '” She shook her head in disbelief.
My husband will be so thrilled that he might write this young woman into his will. I say we
leave her all our piles of old newspapers.
28. How did the author's husband feel when a girl asked a question in the park?
A. Shocked. B. Thrilled. C. Disappointed. D. Confused. 29. What does the author
probably mean by saying “his legs were giving out” ？
A. He was feeling tired and needed a rest.
B. He was very old and unable to stand long.
C. He almost lost his balance and became unconscious.
D. He was annoyed with the girl and played a trick on her.
30. What does the author intend to tell us with the example of the young mother?
A. Many young people follow an old-fashioned lifestyle.
B. It's inconvenient for the old to read online newspapers.
C. There're still young people who love printed newspapers.
D. Printed newspapers will be replaced by online newspapers.

31. What does the author mainly talk about in the passage?
A. The new rise of digital newspapers on the line.
B. A man's everlasting love for printed newspapers.
C. The pleasure of looking through daily newspapers.
D. A family's memory of reading printed newspapers.
D

more plastic bags than fish.” These are the words of Boyan Slat, an engineer who designed the
world's first ocean plastic cleanup system.
Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastics end up in our oceans, according to the UN
Environment Programme. It is predicted that the weight of ocean plastics will match the weight of
all the fish in our oceans by 2050. To prevent this from happening, in 2013 Slat created the Ocean
Cleanup, an environmental nongovernmental organization, and put his plan for an ocean cleanup
device into action.
After years of research and development in the
Netherlands, a device called System 001B successfully
started gathering plastics on October 2, 2019. The device
uses a 600-meter-long C-shaped tube to gather all the
floating rubbish. Unlike other cleanup methods, the
system floats freely according to the direction of the
waves, which allows waste to flow into and stay within the device. A sea anchor is attached to
either end. This slows down the system as it floats through the water and allows the faster-moving
rubbish, carried by the waves, to flow into its mouth. System 001B can also collect waste below
the surface using a 3-meter-deep skirt （挡板）attached to the end. After being gathered, the trash
will be dragged back to shore by boat and recycled.
Right now, the system operates in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area that is 3 times
the size of France. Once operational, the Ocean Cleanup expects a full fleet to be able to clear
50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years.
remains to be seen whether this dream will become a reality, but it is undeniable that
humanity must work together to reduce our plastic use and repair the damage our waste has

caused,
sustainable （可持续的）future, but the question still comes down to: Are we going fast enough,
and how much damage will have been done before we get there?
32. The underlined word “match” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ __________________ ”.
A. compare B. equal C. measure D. cover
33. Why did Boyan Slat create the Ocean Cleanup?
A. To collect ocean plastic waste.
B. To help to invent System 001B.
C. To protect the living environment of fish.
D. To do research on the ocean environment.
34. What can we know about System 001B?
A. It can collect and recycle garbage at the same time.
B. It can only gather ocean waste which floats on the water.
C. It aims to clear up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.
D. It is an ocean-cleaning device which has already been put to use.
35. What does Slat want to tell us according to the last paragraph?
A. Young generations care less about the environment.
B. The future ecology of the oceans is deeply worrying.
C. People should work hard to decrease plastic pollution.
D. It's quite difficult to repair the damage to the environment.
第二节（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答 题卡上将该项
涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
As fear exists in China and the world over the spreading COVID-19 （新冠肺 炎），
business owners worldwide are all feeling the pain. Uncertainty and lack of confidence have
always been among the big enemies of economies. And now the universal economy is still under
great pressure. 36
As countries issue warnings and travel bans, the tourism and services are most affected. In
2018, around 140 million Chinese made outbound trips according to the China Tourism Academy.
37 It is thus not surprising that local hotels, restaurants and travel agencies in cities like New York

and London are also suffering losses from the virus fallout.
According to a New York Times report, Chinatown in Manhattan has seen business drop of
50 to 70 percent. A hotel owner who relies on Chinese customers said that the loss could be well
over 100,000 dollars and climbing. Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, is also warning the
outbreak could pose a
The economic cost of the COVID-19 outbreak is growing and hard to estimate （估计）. 38
During the 2003 SARS, which lasted around 7 months, it is estimated that economic losses
worldwide affected by the outbreak were over 30 billion dollars. The ripple effect （连锁反应）
spread across the Atlantic to Toronto, the most severely affected area in Canada. It is estimated
that the city will lose about 950 million dollars due to the restrictions on travel.
39 It started in Mexico and America in 2009. While the Americas were most affected by the
virus, research has also found that the economic cost of the virus in Korea was as high as 1 billion
dollars.
In this interconnected world, any pandemic （流行病）is worldwide. Various economists
have pointed out that most economic costs are not related to the virus directly, but the panic over it.
Lack of confidence can also worsen the fragile world economy. 40
A. But one can always learn from history.
B. It's time to ban the wildlife trade for good.
C. The last thing the world needs is a virus outbreak.
D. China is a much bigger economy than it was in 2003.
E. The same thing also happened during the flu A ( H1N1) outbreak.
F. In recent years they have created about a quarter of tourism jobs worldwide.
G. So, it's very important for countries to work together to control its outbreak.
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题;毎小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填 入空白处
的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
At 36, I have three kids and a great husband, and I'm enjoying a challenging but fun career.
Although this is 41 , sometimes I feel my heart asking if this is who I truly am.
The chaos of the family kitchen 42 my brain: the noise of the kettle, pots and the dishes,

and the conversation demands while I'm making breakfast. I escape 43 to my bedroom. Only in
silence do I hear the self that is 44 from the children and wonder who that person might be.
So, I journeyed, for the first time in a decade, without my husband or kids. I went with a
friend to 45 in Iceland. I hoped the consideration of walking would help me better 46 who I want
to be. For 6 days, I was absorbed in 47 scenery and real weather. The mountains in Iceland 48
black and tall into the heavens against the white of the snow. Looking outside at wild wind and
rain and knowing there's no 49 to make freed the soul. Climbing a mountain against sheets of rain
and returning to a tent for a simple meal 50 me how little I actually needed and how 51 I felt
when uncomfortable.
I found 52 in Iceland, and time to consider “the me” outside of career and kids as I shared
stories with strangers with no 53 past and no expected future. When I stopped talking and just
listened, I was surprised at how my 54 changed — I became more generous. I learned generosity
can 55 more space, more food and more warmth 56 when there may not seem enough to go
around at first glance.
I came home to noise, chaos and love. I know the answer isn't waiting out there on the top
of a mountain or inside my head if I just 57 hard enough to hear, and it isn't in conversation with
other seeking souls. The answer is in front of me with every step on my own life
’
s 58.
I'm not finding myself, but I'm creating myself. I need the storm as much as I need the
quietness. 59 is built under a heavy load. I'm expecting to 60 all of my loads and travel on.
41. A. progress
42. A. disturbs
43. A. instantly
44. A. accessible
45. A. hike
46. A. judge
47. A. changeable
48. A. turn
49. A. picture
50. A. reminded
51. A. stubborn
52. A. confidence
B. reward
B. awakes
B. eventually
B. separate
B. volunteer
B. consider
B. green
B. rise
B. decision
B. warned
B. nervous
B. value
C. success
C. quiets
C. suddenly
C. tired
C. settle
C. question
C. wild
C. form
C. peace
C. convinced
C. satisfied
C. silence
D. encouragement
D. ruins
D. briefly
D. different
D. wander
D. understand
D. surrounding
D. appear
D. promise
D. told
D. strong
D. happiness

53 . A. shared
54. A. concern
55. A. develop
56. A. indeed
57. A. try
58. A. design
59. A. Pleasure
60. A. think over
B. painful
B. attitude
B. explore
B. just
B. calm
B. choice
B. Strength
B. deal with
C. troubled
C. life
C. offer
C. only
C. move
C. path
C. Spirit
C. lay down
D. glorious
D. character
D. create
D. even
D. manage
D. belief
D. Pressure
D. pick up
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式， 并将答案填
写在答题卡相应的位置上。
At a very young age, Oindrila Basu had no idea of 61 to live with nature. She would climb
trees or destroy the nests of birds just for fun, like other kids. Once her mother caught her and got
angry, and then the girl realized she 62 (do) something terribly wrong.
This is just a way that Basu's parents shaped her understanding and appreciation of nature.
63 ( live) in the countryside, she spent her youth studying ants before the rain, watching sunbirds
drink honey, counting fireflies and watching young plants grow. Then her parents decided to move
to a nearby city 64 better educational chances, and then she stopped having first-hand experiences
with nature.
Later, as she struggled 65 (choose) a college major, her mother suggested a career in
forestry (林业).That's when her journey began, and she fell in love with forestry. Away from the
crowded cities, in the lap of the Himalayas, she graduated in forestry from Kumaun University,
India. When she went on to study a 66 (master) degree in forestry from the Forest Research
Institute, India, she finally got introduced to a like-minded group of people, devoted to the
International Forestry
Students' Association (IFSA).
IFSA is a 67 ( globe) organization connecting students to exchange knowledge and
participate in forestry activities. The youth joining IFSA are 68 (encourage) to undertake its
task ― to enrich forest education and spread a love of nature through events and exchanges.
After 6 months of exciting international conferences and workshops, Basu, then 25, found
her home ― a family that loved forests as much 69 she did. She felt more active, so her passion

had a direction. Now she wanted to do more.
As a key member of IFSA, Basu recalled the experience of joining, “ 70 (deliberate) or
by accident, we chose forestry, or rather, forestry chose us.”
第四部分写作(共两节，满分35分)
第一节短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下 作文。文中
共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单 词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧ )，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线()划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Recently I became addicted to learn more languages apart from English, Once I saw a post
offering a wonderful course in German, and that was just what I decided to take from a new
language. While the room for classes was quite small, but there was a whole world of language to
explore. Our teacher, Mrs. Haus, was a tall, thin and quiet lady. I'll never forget the day which she
introduced herself. She never once raised voice, but the minute she began to speak, the room fell
silently. Why? She loved German and its culture - and everybody in her classes couldn't help but
fell in love with the language, too. We all admire the way she talked about different German foods
and tradition. Then I realized what makes the good teacher. It's someone who is in love with what
he or she is teaching!
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，你的澳大利亚笔友Bella发电子邮件向你询问我国城市生 活垃圾分类
回收的情况,请根据以下要点用英语给她回复。
1.你对生活垃圾分类回收的理解；
2.你们城市生活垃圾分类回收的好做法；
3.你对实施生活垃圾分类回收的看法与建议。
参考词汇:生活垃圾domestic garbage；垃圾分类garbage sorting；可回收利用 的
recyclable

注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Bella,







Yours,
Li Hua