2020届新高考英语模拟卷(山东卷)第四卷1 > An Arizona mom says none of her son's kindergarten friends showed up for his birthday party after she sent 32 invitations to his classmates.The boy, Teddy, held a birthday party on Sunday at Peter Piper Pizza in Tucson, where he and his mother, Sil Mazzini, had expecting dozens of little girls and boys—as well as the children's parents—to join them at the restaurant. Mazzini said a few people told her in advance that they couldift make it, but she wasn't prepared for everyone to be no-shows.Mazzini shared a photo of her son sitting alone in front of several pizzas on her social media page. That brought dozens and dozens of birthday wishes from around the country, as well as other gifts and offers.H I live near Tampa, Florida, and heard about you via my local news/1 one woman wrote on social media/1I hope you have a wonderful year and I'm sending you a big hug." The biggest unexpected birthday present for Teddy came from the Phoenix Suns, who invited him to watch Wednesday night's game at the Talking Slick Resort Arena against the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James. The cit/s professional soccer club, the Phoenix Rising FC, also invited Teddy to join 7.000 of his closest friends at a playoff game on Friday.But sonic on social media questioned Mazzini's decision to broadcast her son's humiliating day. "Don't embarrass this kid even more than he already is," one woman wrote on the social networking website. M This is so wrong.M(l).How may Teddy feel about his birthday party?A.Relaxed.B.Disturbed.C.Disappointed.D.Bored.⑵.What did the Phoenix Suns invite Teddy to do?A.Play a playoff game on Friday.B.Watch Wednesday nighfs game.C.Join the professional soccer club.D.Spend a weekend with them.(3).What can we infer about Sil Mazzini from the last paragraph?A.She is not supported by all the people.B.She cares little about her son's feelings.C.She regrets having posted her son's image.D.She has removed the comments on social media.2 、 My wife and I went to this vegan (严格的素食主义的)restaurant to give it a try. As we were eating our pepper and salt tofu, a young lady named Debra walked in. She wasn't aware that the place is vegan and was looking for some meat. My wife and I talked up the place and invited her over to try some of our tofu. Debra tried it, nodded and went out.After a few minutes, she and her mother both walked back in. We were having the rest of our meal at that time, so we told her what we had ordered. Debra then asked the waitress to just repeat our order for them. Next, Debra said, H And we want to pay for their meal u . pointing to my wife and me. We tried to say no, but Debra wouldn't listen.That was not the end of it. Hugs were in order. Debra came over to our table and my wife got up to hug her. Debra hugged my wife and put $ 100 into her hand. My wife firmly said NO. but Debra insisted. Debra kept talking about our kindness, and we did the same about hers and her mother's. With tears in the eyes, the workers were blown away by this whole exchange between four strangers. I left the waiters and waitresses a tip that would cover all of our meals and we were on our way.rve been witnessing so much kindness, especially over the last few years, as I began to pay more attention. We now have a new favorite restaurant and every time we go there my plan is to pay for someone else*s meal.1 .Why did Debra go out after trying some tofu?3 .How did the workers feel when seeing the exchange between four strangers?A.To bring her mother in.C.To get away from the food.2.What did Debra insist on?A.Hugging the authors wife.C.Treating the author and his wife.B.To look after her mother. D.To look for another restaurant. B.Ordering a meal for the author. D.Tipping the waiters and waitresses.A.Curious.B. Funny.C.Surprised.D.Touchcd.4.What can we know about the author and Debra?A.They ve been friends.B.They were both vegans.C.They met for the first time.D.Tlicy once worked together.3、No one knows who invented the button. It has existed as early as 2000 BC. When it first started, it was just something pretty yet replaceable sewn onto your clothes. About 3, 000 years later, someone finally invented the buttonhole, and buttons were suddenly useful and applied to clothes universally.Before buttons, clothes were bigger — they had no fixed shapes. People felt as if they wrapped themselves in things. Because of the buttonhole, the fashion moved closer to the body as we discovered uses for the button. At one time, it's the very way to make clothes fit well for the body. People are completely secure.The pattern of a button hasn't changed much since the Middle Ages. Ifs one of die most lasting designs in history, because it actually works to keep our clothes shut. Zippers easily break and are hard to fix. Velcro is rackety > and it wears out after a while. However, if a button breaks, you just exactly sew another on. And you ran do up your buttons without disturbing others.A button is there for the long run. It's not just the most important design ever, but it's thought to be a decisive factor in the development and innovation of clothes. Present design of clothes shows its influence obviously. If you're wearing a take a look at the position of buttons on it. Ifyou're a male, the buttons would likely be on the right side, but for a female, the buttons are usually found on the left.Once the buttons were all on the right, and the trend of buttons-on-the-left was set by wealthy women of the Victorian era. Their clothes were complex, consisting of corsets, petticoats, buttons and a wide range of beautiful accessories（配饰）.Therefore, they needed assistance while getting dressed. Keep this in mind, clothing makers made innovation and designed articles of clothing that were simplefor servants to button up. Such designs of clothing became more and more popular over time, and eventually became the standard still being followed to this day.2.What can be learnt about early buttons in the first paragraph?A.They appeared a bit later than buttonholes.B.They served as an essential part of the clothes.C.Their popularity was driven by buttonholes greatly.D.Tliey were invented by someone unknown accidently.3.What does the underlined word “rackety" in paragraph 3 mean?A. Decorative.B. Practical.C. Expensive.D. Noisy.4.Why did the design of buttons on women's clothes change in the Victorian era?A.To innovate old designs of clothes.B.To make it easier to button up.C.To beautify the clothes of women.D.To keep the standard widely followed.5.Which can be the title of the text?A.How buttons changed fashionB.What the real role of buttons isC.Why buttons were inventedD.When buttons came into sight4、 A tiny Alaska village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent year's as polar bears spend more time on land than on Arctic sea ice.More than 2,000 people visited the northern Alaska village of Kaktovik in 2018 to see polar bears in the wild. The far north community lies in an area where increasingly higher temperature has sped up the movement of sea ice, the primary habitat（栖息地）of polar bears. As ice has gradually moved to deep water beyond the continental shelf, more bears are remaining on land to look for food.Polar bears have always been a common sight on sea ice near Kaktovik, but villagers started noticing a change in the mid-1990s. More bears seemed to stay on land, and researchers began taking note of more female bears making homes in the snow on land instead of on the ice to raise their babies. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists began hearing reports of the increasing number of polar bears in the area in the early 2000s. As more attention was given to the plight （困境）of polar bears about a decade ago, more tourists started heading to Kaktovik.The village had fewer than 50 visitors annually before 201L said Jennifer Reed, of the Arctic National Wildlife Refiige. M Today we re talking about hundreds and hundreds of visitors, many from around the world each year,” Reed said. Most tourists visit in the fall, when bears are forced toward land because sea ice is farthest away from the shore. Bruce Inglangasak, a local hunter who sometimes offers wildlife-viewing tours, said been offering polar bear tours since 2004. Most of his clients（客户）are from China and Europe, as well as from the lower 48 U. S. states. Many tourists stay several days in the village, which has two small hotels. The villagers have benefited a lot from that. In turn, they provide more effective protection for polar hears with financial support from tourism development.1.What causes more polar bears to stay on land in Kaktovik?A.Food shortage.B.Climate change.C.Habitats, movement to shore.D.Their preference for land.2.How did common people feci about more sight of bears on land?A.Excited.B.Puzzled.C.Concerned.D.Shocked.3.What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A.Hotels in Kaktovik are in demand in autumn.B.Kaktovik has about 50 visitors annually.C.Inglangasak makes a living as a tour guide.D.Tourism affects the balance of nature.4.Which saying can describe the text? A .The fittest can survive.B.After a storm comes a calm.C.There is always opportunity in crisis.D.Every coin has two sides.5、The Things That Keep Us From SucceedingWe have always been told not to fear failure because it is essential to success. So we should embrace failure or at least the possibility of failure. ①. If you*re not reaching the kind of success you imagine, one or more of the following things might well be true of you, too.NO.l: You don't have a goal. A lot of time we find ourselves struggling through a day-to-day routine that isn*t getting us anywhere because we don*t know where we want to go. Sometimes we had goals when we set ourselves on a particular path, but we've changed along the way and those goal s are no longer that important. ②. figuring out what your goals are is important.NO.2: You don*t have a vision. Setting goals is important but isn't enough to drive you to the finish line; it's important, too, to be able to imagine yourself as the achiever of your goals. If goal s are the end result of a journey, your vision is the fuel to get you there.NO.3: You don f t have a plan. If goals are your destination and a vision is your fuel, your plan is the map to get you there. ③. The world is full of people with goals they have never accomplished because they didn't have a plan-don't be one of them.NO.4: You*re too certain or not certain enough. Too much certainty creates inflexibility. Ifyou're sure that your plan is correct, and refuse to accept the possibility of error, you may well find yourself stuck when an unexpected change comes about. However strong your plan and however sure you are of your goals, make room for periodic reassessment.④. If you refuse to take a step because you aren*t positive that it will move you towards success, you won't make any better progress than if you had no goals at all. Keep your eyes open and be willing to change, but have faith in yourself, too.NO.5: ⑤. Often we close ourselves off from other people not because we're afraid that they will influence us but that we will influence them. We are afraid that our brilliant ideas will be taken up by someone else and no longer be solely ours. So we avoid sharing our passions, and spend our energy jealously guarding our "secret” rather than simply moving forward. In the end, we turn our passionsinto burdens that are difficult to carry instead of a joy.A.Whatever the caseB.Whatever the causeC.You worry about being copiedD.You don't learn from your mistakesE.At the same time, too little certainty will fail youF.However, fear isn't the only thing that keeps us from succeedingG.Without it, you have no idea what immediate steps to take to achieve your goals6、阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
