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河南省2020年普通高中招生英语预测考试卷(八)(含听力音频)

根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项,使文章意思通顺、内容完整。

    Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States.

    In the early years, these schools were much alike. Only young men went to college. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.

    In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard's law school. Soon it began teaching American history.

    As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects.

    Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer it all.

A. In 1825. besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German.

B. Most of them are made up of smaller schools

C. Yale, Princeton and Columbia were opened soon after Harvard

D Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them

E. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew

举一反三
D)阅读短文,然后完成内容摘要。每空不超过三个单词。

    Maciek Czastka was born in Lodz, Poland. He came to China several years ago. So far, he has been working in Chengdu for three years.


    "TheBelt and Road Initiative(一带一路的倡议) is meaningful," he said. "Thanks to it, we are offered more chances." The most powerful support for Chengdu to thrive(兴盛) along the Belt and Road is the Chengdu-Europe express railway( 高速铁路). It provides direct train services between Chengdu and the city of Lodz.

    Because of the express railway, trains can bring things from China to Europe. At the same time, they can bring back European food, wine, meat and so on. In 2016, a total of 460 trains ran between Chengdu and Europe. The number is expected to grow to 1,000 this year.

    Since the Chengdu-Lodz express railway was opened, Chengdu, together with other cities in west China, has developed close trade ties with the European country. Poland is one of the largest apple producers in Europe. Czastka's company helps farmers in Poland sell their apples to China. More and more European products will be sent to China in the future.

The Belt and Road Initiative is meaning

About Maciek Czastka

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 阅读理解

 The greatest wonders of the ancient world art are usually hard to miss. For example, you can't walk past Egypt's pyramids without noticing them. They' re right in your face. But not the Nazca Lines in southern Peru.

 These ancient drawings don't rise before you on huge stones. They' re geoglyphs(地画). They' re seen in the desert sands. There are hundreds of them. Some are so large that the best way to see them is from the window ofa plane. That's how thousands of visitors see them each year.

 Yet these wonders weren't noticed for nearly 1,500 years. A researcher first found some geoglyphs in Nazca(the Nazca Lines) in 1927. But nearly 150 geoglyphs weren't discovered until many years later. It took technology such as drones(无人机) to find them.

 Researchers still have many questions about the geoglyphs. And the answers are unclear. Here's what we do know: The area's pre- Incan Nazca people created the geoglyphs. This was between 500 BCE and 500 CE. How did they make them? By moving away some of the dark rocks that covered the ground. This showed the lighter- colored desert sand below.

 Many of the Nazca Lines show the natural world, like animals and plants. And then there are some that aren't from nature. One example was found in 2019. It's of a strange creature(创造物) with many eyes and mouths. Resenrchers say this shows that the Nazca people may have had a taste for the magical.

 So why were the geoglyphs created in the first place? Researchers think they may have been part of rituals(仪式) for rain and crops. Certain geoglyphs may have shown where the rituals were being held. Others could have led travelers to those places.

 Then again, these are all guesses. Only one thing is clear: The Nazcas found a way to draw lasting lines in the always- changing sands of time.

 阅读理解

①Researchers have used high technology to learn about a famous painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The painting is called Girl with a Pearl Earring. Vermeer was considered as one of the greatest art masters during the Dutch golden age of painting in the 1600s. 

②The researchers' tests have found out important information about how Vermeer did the painting. He began making the work with brown and black paints on a piece of cloth. Then he drew the girl's outline(轮廓) in black before working from the green background to the foreground. 

③A careful examination even showed where some of the paints came from. The white came from the Peak District in England. The blue was made from a valuable stone found in Afghanistan. The red was made from insects living in Mexico and South America. 

④Abbie Vandivere was the leader of the research project. She expressed surprise that Vermeer used so much blue in the painting, saying, " The blue paint was more valuable than gold in the seventeenth century. " Vermeer, however, did not travel around the world to get the paints. He most probably bought them in his home town of Delft. 

⑤The research findings not only show information about Vermeer's paints, but also tell us about Dutch and world trade in the seventeenth century, Sadly the researchers failed to find out whether the girl ever existed(存在). 

仔细阅读下文,用完整的句子回答问题。回答请勿超出限定字数。

 In modern cities, it is now time as much as space that separates urban functions, as people's lives are lived not only to different timetables, but also at wildly different rates. The mass timetable of the industrial city, with 9-5 offices hours and silent Sundays, has gone. In its place is flexible-time, part-time working, Sunday shopping and the 24-hour city.

 European cities are responding to these changes perhaps faster than British cities. In at least half a dozen cities in Italy, for example, you will find the Uffici Tempil— the Offices of Time. What they do is try to reorganise time more flexibly in the city, in order to meet new needs. This is particularly relevant for Italian women, an increasing number of whom have to balance two timetables: work and home. Usually located in the Mayor's office, the Uffici Tempil bring together transport providers, shop-owners, employers, trade unions, the police and other services to see how their efforts might be better harmonised(使…和谐). The main aim in all this is to increase efficiency and productivity of the city. This can mean delaying the starting times in schools, offices and factories to avoid rush hours, or having shops opening later in the day but closing later too. One further benefit is that there can be more police about in the evening, patrolling(巡逻) the streets when people most need them.

 In a number of German cities, people have been debating whether the timetable of the future city should be 6x6 or 4x9 — working hours, that is. Apparently male workers favour a four-day week, while women workers, on the other hand, favour six shorter working days. This would give employees more time in the afternoon to be with children or to get the shopping.

The need for public services to adapt to (适应) our changing lifestyles has been quite difficult for some of the staff involved. After all who likes working evenings or Sundays?

 Nevertheless, many city centres are now open for shopping seven days a week, and a number of them now promote themselves as‘24-hour cities', where those with money can drink, eat, dance and even shop the whole night.

 Time is flexible, but buildings aren't. The mismatch between the structure of the city and its uses, over time, is a serious architectural and planning problem. Adaptability has become the key skill. We are slowly abandoning the terms of dormitory suburbs and industrial districts, in favour of mixed-use areas, out-of-town retailing (零售) and working from home. There is no doubt that planning theory is being challenged by the changing nature of time in the modern.

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