《2025年高考冲刺优秀模拟试卷汇编45套英语通用版》

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Green Line Performing Arts Center
329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Upcoming Programs Include:
First Monday Jazz Series: Crosswind
Monday Feb 5 onwards 7 - 9 pm
First Monday Jazz is a free monthly event showcasing local Chicago jazz artists.
GreenLight Series: South Side Story Time
Sunday Feb 18 10 - 11 am
Bring your kids to listen, learn, sing, dance, and interact! South Side Story Time is a small gathering that centres on readings for its young attendees along with the chance for their parents to socialize. Open to families with children of all ages.
Sistergirls and Freedom Fighters: Stories in Celebration of Women's Power and Grace
Wednesday Feb 21 7 - 8:30 pm
Join us for an evening of storytelling featuring the dynamic singing, In the Spirit by Emily Hooper Lansana. This performance will highlight a range of stories that demonstrate women's creative and political genius from folk heroines to Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Family Saturdays: Make Art Together
Every 1st Saturday of the Month 13 - 5 pm
Explore your child's artistic curiosity with hands - on art workshops designed to stimulate creativity and play. These interdisciplinary workshops are exciting for the entire family, offering activities from music to arts and crafts. Come to learn something new! Appropriate for families with children. Registration is encouraged.
Follow Arts + Public Life on social media sites for more event details and a full list of all upcoming performances.
21. When can people enjoy jazz?
A. At 8 pm every first Monday.
B. At 4 pm every Saturday.
C. At 7 pm on Wednesdays.
D. At 9 pm on Mondays.
22. What do we know about Sistergirls and Freedom Fighters?
A. It lasts two hours.
B. It is organized by Emily.
C. It is a prize - winning performance.
D. It celebrates women's achievements.
23. What do GreenLight Series and Family Saturdays have in common?
A. The forms of arts.
B. Target participants.
C. The duration of activities.
D. Registration requirements.

答案： 21. A。理解具体信息。根据First Monday Jazz Series: Crosswind部分中的“Monday Feb 5/onwards 7 - 9pm”和“First Monday Jazz is a free monthly... jazz artists”可知，该活动在2月5号晚上七点到九点举行，每个月第一个周一都是这个时间段。 22. D。理解具体信息。根据Sistergirls and Freedom Fighters: Stories in Celebration of Women's Power and Grace这一活动名称和该部分的“This performance will highlight... creative and political genius”可知，Sistergirls and Freedom Fighters这一活动是用来庆祝女子的力量与优雅的，即庆祝女性成就的。 23. B。理解具体信息。根据GreenLight Series: South Side Story Time部分中的“Bring your kids to listen, learn, sing, dance, and interact!”和Family Saturdays: Make Art Together部分中的“Explore your child's artistic curiosity... and play”可知，这两项活动都适合孩子参加，即它们的目标参与者一样。

B
I was the only kid in college with a reason to go to the mailbox, because my mother never believed in email, or cell phones in general. I was literally waiting by the mailbox to get a letter with a warmest comfort from her.
So when I moved to New York and got depressed, I did the only thing I could think of. I wrote those same kinds of letters like my mother for strangers, and tucked them all over the city: in cafes, in libraries, and even in the subway. I blogged about those letters and promised if asked for a handwritten letter, I would write one.
Overnight, my inbox became this harbor of heartbreak - a single mother in Sacramento, a girl being bullied in Kansas, a 22 - year - old immigrant, all asking me to write them and give them a reason to wait by the mailbox. And this is how I initiated the act The World Needs More Love Letters.
Today I run a global organization fueled by those trips to the mailbox. It is a miracle. But the thing about these letters is that most of them have been written by people brought up in a paperless world where some best conversations happen on a screen. We have learned to record our pain onto social media, and we speak swiftly on the Internet.
Therefore, I've been carrying this mail crate(大木箱) with me these days, which is a magical icebreaker. So I get to tell total strangers about a woman whose husband was traumatized(受精神创伤的) from war, and how she left love letters throughout the house saying, “Come back to me.” And a man, who had decided to take his life, slept safely with a stack of letters just beneath his pillow, handwritten by strangers who were there for him.
These stories convince me that letter - writing will never need to be about efficiency, because it is an art now. All of it is the signing and the scripting and the mailing.
24. Why did the author share her experience in college?
A. To show her care for her family.
B. To convey her love for writing letters.
C. To express her feelings attached to letters.
D. To prove her consistency in writing letters.
25. What caused the author to launch the act?
A. She advocated the paperless lifestyle.
B. She intended to provide professional aid.
C. She tried to improve her communication skills.
D. She aimed to give emotional support with letters.
26. Why does the author call the mail crate “a magical icebreaker”?
A. It cures people of mental diseases.
B. It serves as a conversation starter.
C. It has magic power to melt ice.
D. It empowers people to be brave.
27. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Family Letters Are Priceless
B. Love for Writing Never Declines
C. World Needs More Love Letters
D. Handwritten Letters Improve Efficiency

答案： 24. C。推断。根据第一段的内容可知，作者是大学里唯一的有理由去邮箱拿信的孩子，因为作者的妈妈通常从来都不相信电子邮件或者手机。作者真的在邮箱边上等妈妈给自己带来最温暖的安慰。所以可推知，作者写到大学的经历是为了说明她对信件充满了期待，有种特殊的感情。 25. D。推断。根据第三段的“Overnight, my inbox became this harbor of heartbreak... And this is how I initiated the act... Letters”可知，作者的收件箱一夜之间成了伤心人的港湾，一个单亲妈妈、一个受胁迫的女孩、一个22岁的移民，他们都请求作者写信给他们，给他们一个在邮箱边上等的理由。这就是作者为什么开始这个运动。所以可推知，作者是想通过写信给予人们情感支持，所以才发起这个运动。 26. B。推断。读题：题目问为什么作者将信件大木箱叫作“一个神奇的破冰者”。解题：根据第五段内容可知，这些天作者一直随身携带一个信件大木箱——一个神奇的破冰者。作者告诉陌生人一个老公在战争中受精神创伤的女子是怎么把情书散落在家里并说着“回到我这儿吧”和一个本来打算自杀的男人，枕着支持他的陌生人给他的一摞来信睡得很香。所以推测作者将该木箱称为神奇的破冰者，是指它能让作者和陌生人有话说，是个引起谈话的东西。 27. C。理解文章主旨要义。文章围绕作者发起The World Needs More Love Letters的背景和目的来展开叙述，记叙了她因为自身的经历，用手写信的方式去帮助那些需要情感帮助的人。故C项既能呼应运动标题，又能反映作者的主张，最适合作为全文标题。

C
Nanako Hama was holding a light envelope. When she tore it open with care, locks of hair emerged. Many strangers send Hama locks of their hair, hoping to recycle it.
People generate a huge amount of hair waste. Nearly all of that waste ends up in landfill, where it can release harmful greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. But hair possesses useful qualities that it's a shame to simply throw it away. That's why people all around the world, like Hama, have been collecting hair and finding innovative ways to recycle it, including making mats(垫子) out of it for removing oil leaks in the ocean.
Hama is part of the nonprofit Matter of Trust (MoT) members working at more than 60 centers dotted across 17 countries, using machines to make hair donated from local salons and individuals into square mats, which are then used to clean up the floating oil. “Hair is particularly well - suited for this,” says MoT co - founder Lisa Gautier. “That's because its rough sort of outer layer lets oil stick to it.” MoT's mats have been used in major oil leaks, including the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 2007 Cosco Busan incidents.
In a 2018 study, Murray, an environmental scientist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia found that mats made of recycled human hair could absorb 0.84 grams of oil onto its surface for every gram of hair - significantly more than polypropylene(聚丙烯), a type of plastic that's typically used to clean up the floating oil. Besides, hair is also useful as fertilizer(化肥). Hair contains relatively high nitrogen(氮), a chemical element crucial for plant growth, and each lock of hair is made of roughly 16 percent of this essential nutrient. Last year, more than 560 gallons of liquid fertilizer made from human hair was sold to farmers in northern Tanzania and the feedback from the farmers has been very encouraging.
“It's just a great way to use hair in a productive way. Hair is an answer literally hanging in front of our eyes - for oil and soil,” Hama says.
28. How does the author introduce the topic?
A. By presenting a scene.
B. By detailing the background.
C. By describing the usage of hair.
D. By praising an environmentalist.
29. What can the mat made of human hair do?
A. Improve soil.
B. Prevent oil leaks.
C. Take in harmful gases.
D. Clear the sea of oil.
30. Which qualities of hair contribute to its innovative use?
A. Its color and strength.
B. Its length and amount.
C. Its weight and flexibility.
D. Its structure and component.
31. Which best describes the future of hair waste as fertilizer?
A. Uncertain.
B. Promising.
C. Doubtful.
D. Worrying.

答案： 28. A。推断。根据第一段内容可知，Hama握着一个轻信封，她小心地打开信封，几缕头发出现了。许多陌生人寄头发给她，希望头发能够被回收利用。由此可知，作者是通过描述一个场景来引出本文话题的。 29. D。理解具体信息。根据第三段的“Hama is part of the nonprofit... which are then used to clean up the floating oil”可知，Hama是一个非营利组织的成员，使用机器把当地的理发店和个人捐赠的头发制成正方形的垫子，这些垫子可以用来清除漂浮的石油。 30. D。推断。根据第三段的“Hair is particularly well - suited for this... oil stick to it”可知，头发特别适合清除漂浮的石油，这是因为头发粗糙的外层能够让石油黏附在其表面；再结合第四段中的“Besides, hair is also useful as... this essential nutrient”可知，头发作为化肥也很有用，它的氮含量相对高，氮是对植物生长很重要的一种化学成分。所以可推测是头发的结构和成分让人们对它有了创新性的使用方法。 31. B。推断。根据倒数第二段中的“Last year, more than... has been very encouraging”可知，去年，由人类头发制作的560多加仑的液体化肥被出售给坦桑尼亚北部的农民，农民的反馈很鼓舞人心。由此可知，废弃的头发作为化肥是很有前景的。

D
German physicist Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists of all time, the personification of a genius and the subject of a whole industry of scholarship. In The Einsteinian Revolution, two experts on Einstein's life and his theory of relativity - Israeli physicist Hanoch Gutfreund and German historian of science Jürgen Renn - offer an original and penetrating(精辟的) analysis of Einstein's revolutionary contributions to physics and our view of the physical world.
For the first time ever, by setting Einstein's work in the long course of the evolution of scientific knowledge, Gutfreund and Renn discover the popular misconception about Einstein as an unconventional scientific genius who created modern physics single - handedly and by pure thought alone.
As a large part of the book explains, Einstein typically argued that science progresses through steady evolution, not through revolutionary breaks with the past. He saw his theory of relativity not as something from scratch, but a natural extension of the classical physics developed by pioneers such as Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei and English physicist Isaac Newton in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as nineteenth - century physicists.
The authors highlight how classical physics cannot be separated cleanly from modern Einsteinian physics. The book also includes substantial sections on Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo whose methods inspired Einstein. When Einstein considered himself as standing on their shoulders, he meant that, without their contributions, he would not have formulated(认真阐述) the theory of relativity.
The Einsteinian Revolution is an important and thought - provoking contribution to the scholarly literature on Einstein and his surprising scientific creativity between 1905 and 1925. Gutfreund and Renn might not have given the final answer as to why Einstein, of all people, revolutionized physics in the way that he did. But they argue in fascinating detail that, to understand his genius, one must take into account not just the earlier history of physics but also the history of knowledge more broadly. Although not always an easy read, the book will interest physicists and historians alike.
32. What's the attitude of Gutfreund and Renn to the popular viewpoint on Einstein?
A. Opposing.
B. Favorable.
C. Ambiguous.
D. Indifferent.
33. What does the underlined phrase “from scratch” probably mean?
A. From nothing.
B. Up to a certain standard.
C. By learning from others.
D. With previous knowledge.
34. What does the author mean to say by mentioning the famous physicists?
A. Their ideas were rejected by Einstein.
B. Their devotion to physics impressed Einstein.
C. Their research contributed to Einstein's success.
D. Their hard work deserved the worldwide respect.
35. Where is the text most probably taken from?
A. A guidebook to a course.
B. An introduction to a book.
C. An essay on Albert Einstein.
D. A review of physics development.

答案： 32. A。理解观点、态度。根据第二段“For the first time... Gutfreund and Renn discover the popular misconception... and by pure thought alone”可知，这两个专家首次通过整理在科学知识进化的长长的历程中爱因斯坦的作品，发现对于爱因斯坦大家都有一个错误的观点，大家都错误地以为爱因斯坦单独地、完全靠个人的想法创造了现代物理学。所以可推知，这两个专家对关于爱因斯坦的流行观点持否定态度。 33. A。理解词汇。根据第三段的内容可知，这本书有很大一部分解释了爱因斯坦认为科学的进步是通过稳定的发展，而不是对过去革命性的突破。他认为他的相对论不是横空出世，而是一批先驱者研发的经典物理学的自然延伸。 34. C。推断。根据第三段内容可知，爱因斯坦认为自己的相对论不是横空出世，而是十六世纪和十七世纪意大利天文学家Galileo Galilei和英国物理学家Isaac Newton等先驱以及十九世纪物理学家发展起来的经典物理学的自然延伸。所以作者提到这些著名的物理学家是为了说明爱因斯坦的成功受益于他们的研究成果。 35. B。推断。根据全文尤其是第四段中的“The authors highlight... The book also includes”和第五段中的“Although not always an easy read, the book will interest physicists and historians alike”可知，全文主要为读者介绍了The Einsteinian Revolution这本书，所以本文最有可能摘自图书导语。