届高考二轮英语专练检测四 Word版含答案.docx

1、届高考二轮英语专练检测四 Word版含答案2020届高考英语专练之自我检测（四）1、The annual Hong Kong Book Fair is one of the largest of its kind in Asia,attracting the attendance of several hundred thousand book lovers. The Fair gives readers an opportunity to have a preview of new books and to communicate with book writers. It also aim

2、s at promoting local reading culture through the organization of various activities.During the seven-day event, its also hoped that visitors would respond and contribute to the Fairs appeal for environmental protection to make the Hong Kong Book Fair a green spotlight.Download app to reduce papersTh

3、e HK Book Fair app is newly developed this year to provide instant fair updates for visitors. Go green and reduce the use of paper maps.Green travelTo prevent serious traffic jams and reduce air pollution, ask your friends to visit the Hong Kong Book Fair together using public transport.Carry own sh

4、opping bagsPlastic shopping bag charging has been fully conducted in Hong Kong. Exhibitors shouldn t distribute plastic bags to customers for free. Theyll have to charge customers no less than 50 cents for each plastic bag. Therefore, visitors are encouraged to carry their own bags!Waste recycleCate

5、gorized waste recycle bins are placed inside. Please support waste recycle.Share the love for forestsDuring and after the Fair,you must be eager to share many photos with your friends, but please try to do so through your blogs or e-mails in order to reduce paper consumption, thus contributing to th

6、e protection of our forests. Also, drinking machines and paper cups are available inside. But please be environmentally friendly and try to bring your own bottle.1.According to the text, the Hong Kong Book Fair_.A.takes place every year B.lasts a whole fortnightC.has had an app since its beginning D

7、.just attracts thousands of book writers2.What are visitors to the Fair encouraged to do?A.Rent a car with their friends. B.Bring water bottles themselves.C.Stop using shopping bags. D.Share photos with friends in any way they like.3.What is the purpose of the text?A.Introducing activities of a book

8、 fair. B.Increasing attendance to a book fair.C.Providing details about a book fair. D.Offering green tips for a book fair.2、I had very good parents. My mother came to this county from Scotland by herself when she was 11, and she didnt have much of an education. My dad was kind of a street kid, and

9、he eventually went into the insurance business, selling nickel policies door-to-door. It was the 1930s, a time when America was a lot more racist and segregated (被隔离的)than it is now.One day, my dad asked his boss, “Whats the toughest market to sell?” and the insurance guy replied, “Well, black peopl

10、e. They dont buy insurance.” My dad thought, they have kids; they have families. Why wouldnt they buy insurance? So he said, “Give me Harlem.” He took the Harlem territory and sold nickel policies; every Friday, he would go around and collect the nickel and give his customers a receipt on the policy

11、.When my dad died in 1994,I talked about him on The Tonight Show. I told the story of how he worked in Harlem and how he always taught us to be open-minded and not to say or think racist things. Then one day, I got a letter from a woman who was about 75 years old.She wrote that when she was a little

12、 girl, a man used to come to her house to collect on policies, and he would always bring her a lollipop. She said this man was the only white person who had ever come to dinner at their house and the only white person she had ever had dinner with until she got to be almost an adult. The man was very

13、 kind to her, she said, and his name was Angelowas this my father?The letter made me cry. I called her up and said yes, that was in fact my dad, and she told me how kind he had been to her family. Her whole attitude towards white people was based on that one nice man she met in her childhood, who al

14、ways treated her with kindness and respect and always gave her a piece of candy and asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. From this experience, I learned a valuable life lesson, to never judge people and to be open-minded and kind to others.1.Why did the woman write the letter to the aut

15、hor?A.To buy nickel policies. B.To teach a lesson to the author.C.To share her story about Angelo. D.To find out if Angelo was still alive.2.Whats the womans attitude towards white people?A.Favorable. B.Indifferent. C.Ambiguous. D.Negative.3.What can be inferred from the passage?A.Harlem is an area

16、full of white people.B.The authors father had a good education.C.The author is the host of the show The Tonight Show.D.Black people were looked down upon in America in the 1930s.4.What can be the best title of the passage?A.My dads greatest lessons. B.An unexpected letter from a black woman.C.The li

17、fe story of an insurance guy. D.The help a woman received from my father.3、Imagine someone who has spent the majority of their life sitting with a sign on the side of the road and that very person giving someone their last 20 dollars. Thats exactly what Marine Corps veteran (退伍军人)Johnny Bobbitt,34,d

18、id in October in Philadelphia.Bobbitt served in the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as a paramedic (医务辅助人员)in Vance County, N. C. before he became homeless. Nobody knew how he got to where he was because he was discreet about that.One night in October, Bobbitt was sitting roadside with a sign in Philad

19、elphia as usual, when Kate McClure of Florence Township, N. J. was driving home down Interstate 95 and ran out of gas. Scared and nervous, she got out of the car to head to the nearest gas station. As McClure was heading to the nearest gas station, she ran into Bobbitt and he told her to get back in

20、 the vehicle and lock the door. Minutes later, he appeared with a red gas can. Hed used his last $20 to buy her gas.After that unexpected meeting, McClure and her boyfriend, Mark DAmico, who both live in New Jersey,visited Bobbitt several times to deliver gift cards, cash, snacks and toiletries. The

21、y then decided to create a fund-raising page so he wouldnt have to spend the holidays sleeping on the street.McClure started the GoFundMe page on November 10. With the page, the couple hoped to raise $10,000, enough money for his rent, a reliable vehicle and up to six months expenses. Bobbitts story

22、 ran in a local paper. By November 15,more than 10,000 local people had made donations through the GoFundMe page and more than $300,000 had been raised.On Thanksgiving,Bobbitt was resting in a hotel,his feet up on the bed,drawing up a grand plan for his new life, thanks to several thousand dollars r

23、aised to repay him for a good deed.1.What does the underlined word “discreet” in paragraph 2 most probably mean?A.Doubtful. B.Cautious. C.Guilty. D.Optimistic.2.McClure met Bobbitt when she_.A.couldnt find a gas station B.got to the way homeC.couldnt unlock her car D.was in search of gas3.It can be

24、known from the text that_.A.Bobbitts story obtained wide attentionB.Bobbitt became world-famous overnightC.the GoFundMe page collected over $400,000 for BobbittD.the GoFundMe page was started to help people like Bobbitt4.What is the best title for the text?A.A Homeless Veteran Paid Kindness Forward

25、B.A Homeless Veteran Had a Generous HeartC.A Homeless Veterans Kindness Paid Off D.A Small Kindness Made a Big Difference4、A research has shown that nearly 90 percent of traffic accidents are caused by human errors. So our aim is a fully autonomous car that gets rid of the cause of most accidents: t

26、he driver. Researcher Hodgson points out, “For safety, the faster you can remove humans, the better, even if there are unfortunately a few accidents from new causes. It s a question of balancing the number injured or killed by autonomous vehicles with the people whose lives are potentially saved.”It

27、s an idea that Elon Musk, chief executive of electric car company Tesla Motors, has long believed. His company are determined to be the first to deliver a fully autonomous vehicle to consumers. Last year, Musk announced that Teslas 2017 goal was “to do an example drive of full autonomy all the way f

28、rom LA to New Yorkand have the car park itself.”However, even Tesla admits that there are problems to overcomethe software needs further validation and the appropriate regulatory approval needs to be in place. Indeed, recent crashes of Tesla vehicles and Google cars confirm that the software isnt re

29、ady yet.The UK government appears committed to encouraging the development of autonomous vehicles. Its supporting four city trials, publishing the Modem Transport Bill to reduce red tape around their introduction and adapting the legal system to take into account problems such as insurance liability

30、 when a human isnt in control of a vehicle.The insurance industry is similarly eager to help increase autonomy in cars. As the Association of British Insurers (ABI) points out, “More than 90 per cent of road accidents are caused by human error.” This costs motor insurers a shocking 20m per day in cl

31、aims.1.What difficulty does the company Tesla Motors have?A.New inventions may cause more injuries and deaths.B.The company lacks confidence to make new creations.C.The software should be made officially acceptable.D.The traffic regulation has proved unreasonable.2.What is the UK governments attitud

32、e to autonomous cars?A.Ambiguous. B.Positive. C.Cautious. D.Disapproving.3.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?A.Insurance companies would like to support autonomous cars.B.Human mistakes may be the key cause of traffic accidents.C.Traffic accidents wastes insurance companies quite a lot.D.Motorists are surprised to hear about autonomous cars.4.What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A.To show his deep love for autonomous cars.B.To introduce a new development in techno