2020年中华人民共和国普通高等学校

        联合招收华侨、港澳地区及台湾省学生入学考试

英 语 试 卷

II.英语应用（共35小题，每小题1分，满分35分）

A）单项填空（共15小题）

21. A boy and a girl were sitting on a bench.______ boy was smiling but ______girl looked angry.

A. The, the        B. The, a        C. A, a       D. A, The

22. I take your point on this problem, _____my views on the matter remain the same.

A．if            B. but           C. so        D. because

23. Simply______ the form and return it to me and I shall personally reserve the hotel room for you.

A. completed       B. to completed      C. completing      D. complete

24. The last time I went to Harbin was in December,______ the weather was so cold.

A. whether        B. where            C. when            D. how

25.______ She perform out of our expectations, but she added great value to the team.

A. Not did only  B. Did not only     C. Only not did    D. Not only did

26. He couldn't help feeling sorry for ______when he heard how she'd been treated.

A. him           B. her          C. himself          D. herself

27._____you book weeks in advance, you won't get a flight.

A. After         B. If           C. Unless           D. For

28. we had a man _____to us as we sat in the restaurant having our meal.

A. sang         B. singing        C. was singing     D. had sung

29.Something you need to knows is _____Kate is working hard to get a promotion at the moment.

A. that          B. when         C. how          D. while

30._____you need any help, you can always phone me at the office.

A. Could         B. Must         C. Should       D. Would

31.They were all laughing when _____came a knock at the door.

A. it           B. here          C. there        D. that

32.______worries me the way he keeps changing his mind.

A. One          B. that          C. He           D. It

33.Go after what you want,______ you may not believe that it is possible. A. as          B. even though     C. when          D. in case

34._____ by local volunteers, staff at the museum have spent many years sorting out more than 100,000 photographs.

A. Helped      B. Helping         C. To be helped  D. To be helping

35.She looked out and _______, walking along arm in arm with Goldie.

A. there Pamela was                B. was Pamela there

C. Pamela was there                D. Pamela there was

B)完形填空（共20小题）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

At first sight. Action Hunger’s  vending machine(自动售卖机) appears just like any other. However, look closer, and you will __36__ that the products inside have no__37__. That's because the goods are to provide the area’s with free goods like socks, toothbrushes ,fresh fruit and water.

Khaled, the founder,__39__ the idea after talking to the many homeless people he befriended .He realized that there __40__to be a more effective way of __41__ensuring the necessities were always available.

To get the goods, the person __42__has to obtain a card from The Friary,__43__for the homeless that has been in__44__ for over 30 years .To ensure everyone gets a__45___ share, each card holder is__46__ only three items of their choice a day.__47__ that may sound cruel. Khaled says,“ The __48__is that users don't become __49__on the machines, and are working towards a Long-term plan for __50__the streets.” 

The machine is refilled__51__ by volunteers, who also keep track of the most __52__items. Fifty percent of the food is donated(捐赠) while the rest is__53__ from local restaurants. Though it has been a few months since the machine was put into use in December 2017,the early__55__ and feedback has been extremely encouraging.

 Khaled next plans to roll out the machine to other location within the UK and for US cities.

III.阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2.5分；满分50分）

阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目。从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

A

Hacking isn't just for computers. According to a study published in the journal science, scientists have found a way to hack a plant's genes in order to make it use sunlight more quickly. Someday ,the results could increase the amount of food produced around the world.

Photosynthesis is the word used to describe how plans use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to make their own food .Scientists who conducted the new study say this is a very slow process. Plants use less than 1% of the energy available to them. But by hacking a plant's genes, the scientists were able to increase the amount of leaf growth on plans between 14 and 20 percent.

    Specifically, scientists hacked the plant's protective system. Normally, this system becomes active when a plant gets too much sunlight. When the plant senses the light, it gets rid of extra energy and creates more leaves. When the plant is shade, the protective system is turned off. But the process is slow. 

Stephen Long is the lead author of the study. He compared a plant's protective system to light- adjusting glasses .When a person wears a glasses outside during the day, the lenses darken and lighten depending on how sunny it is. Plans do the same thing ,he said. But in plants adjustment can take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour.This makes it hard for plans to get the right amount of sunlight needed to create food.

The new study sped up the process. By changing the plant’s genes, the protective system turned on and off more quickly than normal. As a result, leaf growth on the plants scientists used in the study increased. Leaf growth into plants increased by 20 percent, while leaf growth on a third plant increase by 14 percent. Scientists conducted the study on tobacco plants. But they think the genetic genetic modifications(转变) would produce the same results in plans such as corn and rice. 

 “Now that we know it works， it won't be too difficult to do it with other crops，” said Long.“if you look at crops around the world, ” he said,“it would increase many million tons of food.”It will be at least 15 years before scientists can adjust crops on a large scale, Long says. But he believes the study is the first step in that direction.

56. What does“hacking”mainly refer to in the text?

A. Getting information secretly     B. Changing plans’ genes.

C．Breaking down proactive system.  D. Making full use of sunlight.

57. What do scientists in this study say about photosynthesis?

A. It is an important protective system.

B. Its process could be much faster.

C. It’s wasting too much energy.

D. it helps leaves to grow quickly.

58. What is the most important value of the study?

A. To increase food production    B. To develop better plant genes 

C. To grow better tobacco        D. To save energy.

59. Where does the text most probably come from? 

A. A text book           B.A magazine    

C. A computer menu       D.A a gardening guidebook.

B