湖南省娄底市2024届高三上学期1月高考模拟试卷英语试题（含解析）

娄底市2024届高三上学期1月高考模拟试卷英语试题 第二部分 阅读(共两节，满分50分) 第一节(共15小题：每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Quick Hits U.S. Ocean temperatures off Florida spiked to a record 100 degrees Fahrenheit, causing the worst coral-bleaching event in the state’s history. Conservationists say some reefs face “100 percent coral mortality,” meaning the reefs won’t recover without active, ongoing restoration work. GREENLAND A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland melted during a period of moderate warming416,000 years ago, sediments show. This overturns long-held beliefs that the island remained an icy fortress for the past 2.5 million years, revealing its vulnerability to today’s human-induced climate change. AUSTRALIA Australia is the first country to legalize psilocybin and MDMA for the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. As clinical trials for these and other psychedelics gain momentum worldwide, Australia could be a model for governments considering regulation of these substances as medications. LAOS Human skull and shinbone fossils found in a Laos cave suggest modern humans arrived in mainland Southeast Asia up to 36,000 years earlier than thought. This discovery challenges hypotheses that humans rapidly spread from Africa through Asia 80,000 years ago. CHINA A 125-million-year-old fossil of a badger like animal biting a beaked dinosaur was unearthed in northeastern China. Most paleontologists thought mammals only scavenged dinosaur remains, but the find suggests early mammals hunted live dinosaurs several times their size. What did the rise in ocean temperature off Florida generate 100 % coral mortality. B. Terrible coral-bleaching. C. Impossible coral recovery. D. Ongoing restoration work. 22.What was people’s impression of Greenland before A. It has stayed icy for a long time. B. There are sediments in Greenland. C. It has vulnerability to today’s climate change. D. The mile-thick ice sheet once melted 416,000 years ago. 23. What does the fossils mentioned in the Quick Hits suggest A. Early mammals only fed on dinosaur remains. B. Modern humans arrived in Asia 36,000 years ago. C. Modern humans reached Asia from Africa 8,000years ago. D. Early mammals chased several times their sized dinosaurs for food. B Scott Johnson,a composer and guitarist who created an original style involving the rhythm of speech and the gestures and tones of popular music, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 70. Mr.Johnson immersed himself in music and art from an early age and played in rock bands in high school. His artistic breakthrough came with“John Somebody,” a playfully inventive work for solo electric guitar with taped accompaniment, which he assembled from 1980 to 1982, and which, as performed regularly and recorded in 1986, won him considerable acclaim. To create that work, Mr.Johnson adapted into approximate musical notation portions of a friend’s telephone conve ... ...