2020 年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 英语 模拟预测卷 六 本试卷 6 页 满分 120 分 考试用时 120 分钟 注意事项 1 答卷前 考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的校名 姓名 考号 座位号等相关信 息填写在答题卡指定区域内 2 选择题每小题选出答案后 请用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑 如需改动 用 橡皮擦干净后 再选涂其他答案 不能答在试卷上 3 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答 答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相 应位置上 如需改动 先划掉原来的答案 然后再写上新的答案 不准使用铅笔和涂改液 不按以 上要求作答的答案无效 4 考生必须保证答题卡的整洁 第一部分阅读理解 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 从每题所给的四个选项 A B C和 D 中 选出最佳选项 并在答题卡上将该项 涂 A Cities all over the world celebrate Christmas in unique and memorable ways The following international destinations are just a few of the countless choices to consider Quebec city Quebec city has long drawn admirers to its historic district the famed city wall strange cobblestone lanes 鹅卵石小路 and handsome stone houses This area transforms into a scenic Christmas village each December The 403 year old capital of Quebec province takes pride in the outdoors at Christmas time when stone buildings shine with lights Consider cross country ski on the Plains of Abraham or skate at the place D Youville square Edinburgh Edinburgh a magic city full of staircases and hills as well as Georgian and neo Classical buildings is famous for its mixture of the modern and the old This is evident in winter when Scotland s capital puts on a six week festival lasting until Jan 6 that goes way beyond Christmas markets You can ride roller coasters climb a wall of ice and attend a vivid Christmas themed show by the cabaret troupe 剧团 La Clique Zurich If buying gifts is on your travel schedule Zurich is an impressive shopping center particularly around the holidays from multiple Christmas markets and the luxury 奢侈 品 dress shops of Bahnhofstrasse Street to the independent designers and antique shops in the merging industrial zones Another annual lighting spectacle 壮观场面 Lichterschwimmen on Dec 21 includes hundreds of tiny lanterns that are sent floating down the River Limmat Sydney A lack of snow does not dampen the Christmas spirit in Sydney One great and free way to feel the holiday is to take this Dec 21 walking tour of George Street which promises the most sharable window displays and coloured lights One advantage over other destinations warm sandy beaches that lie just minutes from downtown where the natural beauty of Australia s most popular city will be waiting 1 What can you do in Quebec city during Christmas A Ride roller coasters B Take part in a walking tour C Enjoy cross country ski D Watch a Christmas themed show 2 Where should you go if you want to enjoy a Christmas without snow A Quebec city B Edinburgh C Zurich D Sydney 3 Where is this text most likely from A A guidebook B A diary C A novel D A research paper B We ve known that sitting for long periods of time every day has countless health consequences like a higher risk of heart disease But now a new study has found that sitting is also bad for your brain A study published last week conducted by Dr Prabha Siddarth at the University of California showed that sedentary 久坐的 behavior is associated with reduced thickness of the medial temporal lobe 中颞叶 a brain area that is critical to learning and memory The researchers asked a group of 35 healthy people ages 45 to 70 about their activity levels and the average number of hours each day spent sitting and then scanned their brains They found that the subjects who reported sitting for longer periods had the thinnest medial temporal lobes It means that the more time you spend in a chair the worse it is for your brain health resulting in possible damage to learning and memory What is also interesting is that this study did not find a significant association between the level of physical activity and thickness of this brain area suggesting that exercise even severe exercise may not be enough to protect you from the harmful effects of sitting It then surprisingly turned out that you don t even have to move much to enhance cognition 认知 just standing will do the trick For example two groups of subjects were asked to complete a test while either sitting or standing Participants are presented with conflicting stimuli 刺激 like the word green in blue ink and asked to name the color Subjects thinking on their feet beat those who sat by a 3 milicond margin The cognitive effects of severe physical exercise are well known But the possibility that standing more and sitting less improves brain health could lower the bar for everyone I know this all runs counter to received ideas about deep thought from our grade school teachers who told us to sit down and focus to Rodin s famous Thinker seated with chin on hand They were wrong You can now all stand up 4 What can we infer from Paragraphs 3 and 4 A Severe exercise can lessen the damage of sitting B Severe exercise can greatly improve our brain health C Sedentary behavior will possibly damage our brain D Brain health has nothing to do with sedentary behavior 5 What does the underlined word margin in Paragraph 5 mean A blank B edge C decrease D difference 6 What is the received idea about deep thought A Si