《2026年水木金卷高考模拟试卷精编英语》

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In the 1880s, long before she became her era's greatest female explorer, eight - year - old Harriet Chalmers traveled through the Sierra Nevada on horseback with her father. When she was 24, Chalmers married Franklin Pierce Adams, and they set off for Latin America, where they covered 40,000 miles on a horse, by boat and on foot. When they returned nearly three years later, she gave a lecture at National Geographic and launched a 30 - year career as a contributor.
Adams made it her mission to visit every country that was or had been a Spanish colony, and revisited the places where Christopher Columbus had stayed from Europe to the Americas. She traveled around Asia and attended Haile Selassie's coronation (加冕礼) as the emperor of Ethiopia. During World War I, she was the first female journalist allowed to photograph the French trenches (战壕), where she stayed for months.
She wrote 21 articles detailing her experiences for National Geographic, more than any other woman published in the magazine's first half - century. In those pieces, she criticized the injustices that she'd observed. "Where were the blessings the Europeans claimed they brought to millions of Latin Americans? I could barely find them," she wrote after a visit to Peru. "What have they not suffered under the control of the Europeans?"
Adams had no professional training as a geographer and had never been to college, but her color photo slides and adventurous travel style won her invitations to speak around the world, often from organizations that had never invited a woman in before. She was the third American woman asked to join the Royal Geographical Society in England. However, the New York - based Explorers Club gave her and other outstanding female adventurers the cold shoulder.
"Men have always been so afraid that some mere woman might get into their panels of discussion that they don't even permit women in their clubhouses," Adams once said, "much less allow them to attend any meetings for discussions that might be significantly helpful."
Several female explorers decided to form their own club. In 1925 the Society of Women Geographers was launched with Adams as president. She served until moving to France in 1933, where she died four years later at 61.
56. What did Adams do during the first three years of her marriage? (no more than 8 words)
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57. What was Adams allowed to do during World War I? (no more than 5 words)
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58. What did Adams want to express through her words in Paragraph 3? (no more than 10 words)
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59. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 mean? (no more than 5 words)
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60. How would you describe Adams in terms of personalities? Please explain. (no more than 20 words)
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答案： 56.She explored Latin America with her husband.
57.To photograph the French trenches.
58.Europeans brought lots of suffering to Latin Americans.
59.Rejected the female adventurers coldly.Or：Didn’t accept/Refused the female adventurers.
60.She was/is an outspoken woman. She dared to criticize the injustices she saw and faced.