【高考押题卷】2025届高考英语模拟预测卷四 新高考Ⅱ （含答案与解析）

2025届高考英语模拟预测卷（新高考Ⅱ） 一．阅读理解（共4小题） 1．（2025 毕节市模拟） Honeybees are busy.They need to locate food sources first，and then return to the hive （蜂巢） to communicate the location to other bees.This requires them to make efforts to repeatedly travel back and forth between the hive and the food source while navigating any unavoidable barriers in their flight paths. "Honeybees encounter numerous difficulties when choosing efficient routes through crowded environments，and we are initially interested in understanding how they select the safest and least energy﹣consuming paths，" said Marielle Ong，a researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia.To study the bees' navigation，Ong and her team set up small barrier courses for over a hundred honeybees.The bees had to choose between two openings of different sizes along the way.As a group，the bees generally preferred the larger opening，which is logical—it reduces the risk of crashing with walls. However，when Ong examined the choices made by individual bees，she found something interesting. "We discovered that 55 percent of the bees had no preference，while the remaining 45 percent were divided between bees that favored the left and those that favored the right." In other words，some honeybees exhibit a form of sidedness.Although they don't have hands，let's consider them as either left﹣handed or right﹣handed.For example，a right﹣handed bee would choose to navigate through the narrower right﹣side opening rather than the larger and safer left﹣side one.Sometimes，bees with a sidedness would even land and walk through the smaller opening to use their preferred side. These forms of sidedness actually help the bee members of a large group navigate complex environments without crashing into each other.If all bees were right﹣handed，it would take much longer for the entire group to pass through a small opening，such as a hive entrance.But with a mix of left﹣and right﹣handed bees，the group can move more quickly when encountering barriers. Ong believes that this finding could one day be applied by engineers.They could design robotic drone swarms to navigate barriers more efficiently.They could even program self﹣driving cars to operate more like an orderly group of honeybees rather than a chaotic group of humans. （1）Which of the following words best describes the honeybees' work？ 　 　 A．Dangerous. B．Easy. C．Boring. D．Challenging. （2）What is the primary focus of Ong's research on honeybees？ 　 　 A．How bees share food locations with others in hives. B．How bees use their sight to avoid barriers. C．How bees choose safe and energy﹣saving paths. D．How bees choose the fastest routes. （3）What does the underlined word "sidedness" in Para.3 refer to？ 　 　 A．A preference for one direction. B．The size for the opening. C．The skill of avoiding crash. D．A habit of landing and walking. （4）What potential field could Ong's finding be used in？ 　 　 A． ... ...