华南师大附中2019届高三考前热身试题(英语)

华师附中2019届高三考前热身试题英语本试卷共8页，满分120分。

考试用时120分钟第二部分阅读理解（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。

AEmbassy Suites by Hilton Santa Ana Orange County AirportHotel DescriptionBeing close to airport and freeway access makes the Embassy Suites a top choice for our guests in the area. The 300-room Embassy Suites offers homey comforts for those on business and vacation alike—suites with separate living and sleeping areas, refrigerators, microwaves, coffeemakers, Wi-Fi access and two TVs. Wake up to a free cooked-to-order breakfast and enjoy the indoor pool and fitness center. A two-hour evening reception offers drinks and appetizers and the on-site restaurant serves American favorites. The property also has a business center with copy and fax services. Parking is available for an additional fee. Less than two miles from I-405, the Embassy Suites is within a half-mile of various restaurants and just three miles from John Wayne Airport. Our guests say the Embassy Suites’ loc ation, “brilliant” breakfast and “friendly” staff make it one of their favorite Santa Ana properties.Guest RatingsGood Feb 8, 2019By: HaroldPros: Loved the breakfast and the friendly, helpful staff. Spacious accommodations made this a very good value.21. _____ makes the Embassy Suites a top choice for its guests in the area.A. The convenient locationB. The friendly staffC. The business centerD. Wi-Fi access22. According to the guest ratings, all the guests are satisfied with its _____.A. heating systemB. accommodationsC. breakfastD. parking fee23. This advertisement is made more believable by _____.A. interviewing the guestsB. using guests’ commentsC. analyzing its pros and consD. providing the exact addressBRobot Surgeon(外科医生) Succeeds without Help from Human Doctors Humans make mistakes. Even surgeons with years of experience are not infallible. But what if these doctors could pool their knowledge and experience together and create a surgical standard of care, to be carried out by machines?That’s the idea behind surgical robots, which may soon perform most surgeries, from sewing up tiny wounds to performing heart procedures. Many of these operations are, in fact, already completed with the assistance of robots. But a recent test suggests that robots in the operating room may soon go a step further, performing on soft tissue completely on their own, from start to finish.The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR), successfully completed surgeries on pigs. “We’re the first group to develop autonomous robotic surgery with soft-tissue surgery, and when c ompared to standard operation, it’s better,” says Peter Kim, professor of surgery. “The idea is not to replace surgeons; it will make the surgeons better and make the procedures safer.”Recent Mayo Clinic study found that major surgical errors—including operating on the wrong site or side of the body, or even leaving tools or objects inside the patient—occur every one out of 22,000 procedures. That’s rare, but robots like STAR w ould aim to lower the number even further.In the da Vinci surgical system, surgeons place their arms inside instruments and use their hands to control the movement of robotic tools on the operating table from afar. The robot’s every major move is controll ed by surgeons, and thus its results may vary based on the surgeon’s training or experience.STAR, on the other hand, is entirely autonomous. It’s not only able to work on its own and perform surgeries with a more flexible “hand”, but it’s able to react to the unexpected incidents. Cutting into hard tissue like bones is one thing, but operating on moving soft tissue is far more complex. STAR reacts to a changing environment, similar to how self-driving cars are programmed to not only drive on the highway, but also react to another driver making a mistake and getting in your way.24. The underlined word “infallible” in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.A. always rightB. really creativeC. rather responsibleD. quite smart25. We can learn from the passage that STAR _____.A. has been widely used in the operating roomB. can perform the operation on its ownC. can make surgeries much fasterD. will take the place of surgeons26. In the da Vinci surgical system, _____.A. robots are trained from afarB. surgery results depend on surgeonsC. robots always make mistakesD. surgeons have trouble controlling robots27. In the last paragraph, the author mentions self-driving cars in order to show _____.A. how bad getting in another driver’s way might beB. how difficult self-driving on the highway isC. how smart an autonomous robot can beD. how dangerous operating on people isCPeople become quite illogical when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot. If you lived in the Mediterranean, for instance, you would consider octopus (章鱼) a great delicacy (美味佳肴). You would not be able to understand why some people find it repulsive. On the other hand, your stomach would turn at the idea of frying potatoes in animal fat—the normally accepted practice in many northern countries. The sad truth is that most of us have been brought up to eat certain foods and we stick to them all our lives.No creature has received more praise and abuse than the common garden snail (蜗牛). Cooked in wine, snails are a great luxury in various parts of the world. There are countless people who, ever since their early years, have learned to associate snails with food. My friend, Robert, lives in a country where snails are looked down upon. As his flat is in a large town, he has no garden of his own. For years he has been asking me to collect snails from my garden and take them to him. The idea never appealed to me very much, but one day, after a heavy shower, I happened to be walking in my garden when I noticed a huge number of snails taking a walk on some of my prize plants. Acting on a sudden impulse, I collected several dozen, put them in a paper bag, and took them to Robert. Robert was delighted to see me and equally pleased with my little gift. I left the bag in the hall and Robert and I went into the living room where we talked for a couple of hours. I had forgotten all about the snails when Robert suddenly said that I must stay to dinner. Snails would, of course, be the main dish. I did not fancy the idea and I reluctantly followed Robert out of the room. To my surprise, we saw that there were snails everywhere, they had escaped from the paper bag and had taken complete possession of the hall. I have never been able to look at a snail since then.28. As indicated in the passage, people love different foods mainly because ______.A. they live in different placesB. they are illogical about food choicesC. they have different understandings of delicacyD. they learn to eat certain foods in their families29. We can infer from the second paragraph that when collecting the snails, the author______.A. was glad that he could share them with his friendB. was angry because they might damage his beloved plantsC. was excited about being able to give his friend a surpriseD. was depressed because it was hard to extinguish them all30. The author finds that snails ______.A. are as delicious as octopusB. are disliked in his hometownC. are the most controversial foodD. are as popular as fried potatoes31. The best title of this passage might be “_______”.A. One Man’s Meat is Another Man’s PoisonB. People Are Illogical in Front of DelicaciesC. Snail and OctopusD. Foods and CulturesDA remarkable variety of insects live on this planet. More species of insects exist than all other animal species together. Insects have survived on earth for more than 300 million years，and may possess the ability to survive for millions more.Insects can be found almost everywhere—on the highest mountains and on the bottom of rushing streams, in the cold South Pole and in bubbling hot springs. They dig through the ground, jump and sing in the trees, and run and dance in the air. They come in many different colors and various shapes. Insects are extremely useful to humans, pollinating (授粉) our crops as well as flowers in meadows, forests, deserts and other areas. But ticks and some insects, such as mosquitoes and fleas, can transmit disease.There are many reasons why insects are so successful at surviving. Their amazing ability to adapt permits them to live in extreme ranges of temperatures and environments. The one place they have not yet been found to any major extent is in the open oceans. Insects can survive on a wide range of natural and artificial foods—paint, pepper, glue, books, grain, cotton, other insects, plants and animals. Because they are small, they can hide in tiny spaces.A strong, hard but flexible shell covers their soft organs and is resistant to chemicals, water and physical impact. Their wings give them the option of flying away from dangerous situations or toward food or mates. Also, insects have an enormous reproductive capacity: An African ant queen can lay as many as 43,000 eggs a day.Another reason for their success is the strategy of protective color. An insect may be right before our eyes, but nearly invisible because it is cleverly disguised like a green leaf, lump of brown soil, gray lichen (青苔), a seed or some other natural object. Some insects use bright, bold colors to send warning signals that they taste bad, sting or are poisonous. Others have wing patterns that look like the eyes of a huge predator, confusing their enemies. Some insects also imitate bitter-tasting insects; hungry enemies are fooled into avoiding them.32. The passage mentions that insects ____.A. can be found in any extreme environmentB. have survived longer than any other creaturesC. can be fed on any natural or man-made foodsD. are important for the growth of crops and flowers33. Insects protect themselves from chemicals by ______.A. hiding in tiny spacesB. flying away when necessaryC. having a strong shellD. changing colors or shapes34. Some insects disguise like natural objects so as to ______.A. avoid being discoveredB. frighten away their enemiesC. send warning signalsD. look bitter-tasting35. The passage is mainly about ______.A. how insects survive in different placesB. why insects can survive so successfullyC. what insects can do to the environmentD. where insects can be found in quantity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。