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1、名校试题届福建省厦门市高三第二次质量检查英语试题解析版 1厦门市2020届高中毕业班第二次质量检查英语试题第二部分阅读理解 (共两节，满分40分)第一节(共15小题:每小题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。AHere are app that can help you make a schedule and a budget, take better notes, organize a big project, and stay safe. Check out these apps to get a head-start on being on

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11、ooks应用程序可以帮助你获得最低的价格，当你准备出售时，帮助你获得最高的价格)由此可推知，文章主要是写给学生的。故选A。BChinas 40-year-long process of reform and opening up meant foreign influences gaining a foothold in the country. But now, the process can also be viewed in the opposite way. The outside world is opening up as a receptacle for Chinese cult

12、ure. Where once it was all a matter of Chinese people fascinated by Hollywood movies, a new “soft power” trend is taking Chinese pop music, TV series and novels to appreciative audiences abroad.Englishwoman Hollie Sowden and American Nora Wilson developed a website called “Written Chinese,” with a C

13、hinese woman named Chamcen Liu. The website provides a dictionary and other Mandarin learning tools. Wilson says, “At the beginning, it was just a Facebook page where we posted characters, their meanings and example sentences. That page expanded like crazy, with nearly 280,000 followers. Thats why w

14、e decided to develop a dictionary app and then the website.”Sowden and Wilson arent the only eager to tap world interest in China.Years ago, groups formed in the US to provide English subtitles for popular Chinese TV dramas. There are also websites translating Chinese novels, especially fantasy seri

15、es. Wuxiaworld and Gravity Tales are two examples, with tens of thousands of followers on their Facebook pages.Chinese music, too, is walking through the open door that once was a one-way street. Melody C2E is a student club at the Shanghai International Studies University, which is trying to spread

16、 Chinese pop songs to the world. It now has around 300,000 subscribers. The inspiration is rooted in 2016, when Pan Jianghao heard a youth envoy (公使) for the United Nations say that the world wanted to hear more from Chinese young people. Motivated by his words, Pan and Lin Hongying decided to found

17、 a new musical group and share Chinese pop, songs with the rest of the world via English translation.4. What does the underlined word “receptacle” in paragraph 1 probably mean?A. Container. B. Source.C. Center. D. Foundation.5. What do we know about Written Chinese?A. It has nearly 280,000 followers

18、. B. It helps learn Chinese characters.C. It involves daily living in China. D. It is developed by two foreigners.6. Why was Melody C2E set up?A. To motivate Chinese young people.B. To preserve Chinese traditional songs.C. To improve its members translation skills.D. To introduce Chinese pop songs t

19、o the globe.7. What is the best title for the text?A. Foreign Websites with a Chinese TouchB. Competition Leading to a Culture BoomC. Chinas Cultural Footprint on Foreign ShoresD. Reform and Opening up Shaping a New Generation【答案】4. A 5. B 6. D 7. C【解析】本文是说明文。文章介绍了随着中国改革开放的不断推进，外界也在接受中国的文化。英国人Hollie

20、 Sowden和美国人Nora Wilson与中国人Chamcen Liu共同开发了一个网站，以供外国人了解和学习中国文化。【4题详解】词义猜测题。根据第一段中的“Chinas 40-year-long process of reform and opening up meant foreign influences gaining a foothold in the country. But now, the process can also be viewed in the opposite way.”可知，中国长达40年的改革开放进程意味着外国将在该国有一定的影响力，但现在，也可以用相反

21、的方式看待这一进程。即下一句意为：外部世界正在成为中国文化的容器，即外界也在向中国开放来接受中国的文化。结合选项可知，A项（容器）可以解释划线词，表示外国也成为了接受中国文化的“容器”。故选A。【5题详解】推理判断题。根据第二段中的“ The website provides a dictionary and other Mandarin learning tools. Wilson says, “At the beginning, it was just a Facebook page where we posted characters, their meanings and exampl

22、e sentences. That page expanded like crazy, with nearly 280,000 followers. Thats why we decided to develop a dictionary app and then the website.”可知，该网站提供了词典和其他普通话学习工具。威尔逊说：“一开始，它只是一个Facebook页面，我们发布了汉字，它们的含义和例句。该页面后来拥有近280,000的关注者。这就是为什么我们决定开发字典应用程序，然后再开发这个网站的原因”。由此可知，这个网站帮助了外国人学习汉字。故选B。【6题详解】细节理解题。

23、根据第五段中的“Melody C2E is a student club at the Shanghai International Studies University, which is trying to spread Chinese pop songs to the world.”可知，Melody C2E是上海外国语大学的一个学生俱乐部，它正打算向世界传播中文流行歌曲。即上外建立Melody C2E俱乐部的原因是向世界介绍中国流行歌曲。故选D。【7题详解】标题判断题。通读全文可知，文章介绍了随着中国改革开放的不断推进，外界也在接受中国的文化。英国人Hollie Sowden和美国人N

24、ora Wilson与中国人Chamcen Liu共同开发了一个网站，以供外国人了解和学习中国文化。即C项(具有中国特色的外国网站)可以作为文章的标题。故选C。CIt was a red-letter day in the history of medicine-“Target Zero Day”, May 8th, 1980, marking the complete removal of smallpox, a terrifying disease. It was untreatable but, luckily, it turned out that vaccination (接种疫苗)

25、 provided good protection- -and that mass immunization (免疫) could wipe out the small- pox virus by blocking its spread.According to legend, vaccination was invented by Dr Edward Jenner. Jenner showed that healthy children vaccinated with cowpox, a mild infection of cattle, could not catch smallpox.

26、He was supposedly inspired by a comment from a local milkmaid, but there is evidence that the idea came from a medical friend, John Fester, who had experimented with cowpox. Nevertheless, Jenner deserves credit for introducing vaccination into the medical mainstream with his paper published in 1798.

27、In 1966, 160 years after the prediction that vaccination would clean off the disease, the World Health Organization launched its Smallpox Eradication Programme. This heroic 1-year drive was directed by two American public health doctors, DA Henderson and Bill Forge. Their hardships were enormous: On

28、e WHO official even promised to eat a tyre if smallpox was removed; Henderson promised to send him the tyre and wished him good appetite. But Henderson and Foeges hard work paid off-three years after the last smallpox case was informed (to make sure no outbreaks had been missed) Target Zero Day was

29、declared.40 years on, should we remember Target Zero Day? First, to celebrate victory of preventative medicine and freedom from a cruel disease. Then, we must remember the victims of smallpox. It had previously killed 1 in 12 worldwide. In 1914, a Canadian professor warned against forgetting smallpo

30、x, which was fast disappearing from North America. It went on to kill at least another 250 million people - three times more than both world wars combined. Target Zero Day also reminds us of undefeated infections, including polio, measles, malaria, and of course the coronavirus Covid-19. Lets recogn

31、ize Target Zero Day for what it is: a milestone in world history and a monument to the art of the possible.8. What inspired Jenner to invent the vaccination?A. A medical friend. B. A local milkmaid.C. Cattle. D. Children.9. What is the writers purpose of mentioning the WHO officials promise?A. To in

32、troduce the support from the WHO.B. To stress the importance of good appetite.C. To suggest the difficulty in removing smallpox.D. To show his determination to carry on the drive.10. Where can you find the figures that best support “smallpox is a terrifying disease?A. In paragraph 1. B. In paragraph 2.C In paragraph 3. D. In paragraph 4.11. What message does the text convey?A. A promise made is a debt unpaid. B. A trouble shared is a trouble halved.C. Something is better than no