辽宁省葫芦岛市2020届高三英语5月联合考试试题

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    Wet 'n' Wild Water Amusement Park, Gurgaon

    Like any other city, Gurgaon has some of the thrilling and exciting water amusement parks. Wet 'n' Wild Water Amusement Park was established in 1994 which is made for audiences of all age groups and is one of India's first water park resorts. It is the best place for your much-needed rest and relaxation purposes.

    Main Attractions

    The main attractions include the tornado, pendulum, slides for different age groups, billiard, discotheque, bowling alley, food spots for a picnic. The place also offers both indoor and outdoor adventures. They offer complete entertainment activities that will cater to all your needs.

    Timings

    Park is open every day from 1: a.m. to 8 p.m.

    Entry Fee

    For children below 3 years. tickets and entry are free.

    For 3 to 10 years old children，the entry fee is 300 Rupees per person.

    For adults, entry fee is 400 Rupees per person.

    How to Reach

    Wet 'n' Wild is just one kilometer inside from the main NH 8. It is located 26 km away from the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The nearest railway station to the park is the Parthi railway station which is 60 km away and the nearest bus stop is at Rampura.

    Tel: +91-124-4812100

    Website： www.wetnwildresorts.com

    Email: infc@wetnwildresorts.com

    Therefore, if you are thinking about visiting a fun-filled amusement park with your family, then stop now because Wet 'n' Wild is waiting for you! This non-stop fun ride will help you in experiencing a new dimension of thrill.

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    Not long ago, my wife and I spent a weekend together without any of our three children. This was the first time we had been alone for more than a few hours since our oldest was born four years ago.

    What did we do on our short vacation? My wife read the first hundred or so pages of Tom Jones, a book she has been meaning to read for ages. There was takeout and a nice long walk along the shore of Lake Michigan. Football was watched. But mostly? We slept, without worrying for once about whether a shrill voice might awaken us between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. to demand a glass of water ("No，not that one，the Tinkerbell cup!''). We were too relaxed to do anything else.

    As parents, we might tell other people that given the chance for even a short child-free break we would love to do some reading or take in a concert. This is not true. The truth is that what most of us really want is a chance not to think about how well we are using our time.

    By admitting this，I realize the myth (错误的看法) of the brain-dead parents. Being brain-dead is what a parent like me looks forward to rather than something to be accused of. The novelist Lucy Ellmann recently provided a convenient summary in an interview：

    You watch people get pregnant and know they'll be emotionally and intellectually absent for 20 years. Thought, knowledge, adult conversation, and vital political action are allput on hold. With a kiddo, you become a human koala while your old friends continue to have "interests". They do art and literature and science, you see, not diapers (尿不湿）.

    When you become responsible for the life of a very small person, nothing is more important than shouldering that responsibility. In that sense, parenting is a chance to reconsider the value of an extra 20 minutes in bed or a short phone conversation with an old friend. As to my wife and me, we spent the weekend eating steamed dumplings and drinking wine until we fell asleep.

We value the all-too-rare experience of being brain-dead.

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    In the future, we may not need to rely on human donations for life-saving skin grafts(移植）.

    That's the goal of Xeno Therapeutics, a biotech non-profit organization. The US Food and Drug Administration approved the group's initial application for temporary skin grafts removed from genetically modified(基因改良）pigs. This means that they can start testing pig skin grafts on people who have experienced severe burns.

    Skin, the body's largest organ, plays an important role in blocking pathogens(病原体) from reaching our organs inside. It also helps the body keep a constant temperature. People with severe skin damage are at a high risk of developing deadly infections as a result of changes in temperature.

    At the moment, the only skin grafts available in the US come from the dead people who have agreed to be organ donors, or patients who have gone through surgery to remove skin after large weight loss. These human skins used for grafts are not easy to find.

    Xeno Therapeutics, which gets its name from animal-to-human transplants, has raised pigs that have skin remarkably similar to our own. Grafts from these pigs are therefore more likely to hide without being detected by the host's immune system—at least temporarily. The idea is that they could be used for immediate burn treatment, followed human skin graft treatment later.

    "I'd say that just like comparing a Coke with Pepsi，it would be hard to tell which was the human skin and which was the pig graft," said Xeno Therapeutics CEO Paul Holzer.

    The non-profit organization has been working to conduct the clinical trials, which will only be testing the grafts' safety and tolerability in six patients with severe burns. Assuming the results are positive after a month, the grafts will need to pass through two more stages of testing before they can be approved for widespread clinical use.

    Several other groups around the world are working to make animal organs suitable for clinical medicine. In Brazil, researchers are exploring using tilapia skin as temporary bandages for burn victims whose skin is regrowing.

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    Giant, krill-eating whales could grow even bigger if the size and availability of their prey (猎物) could keep up, a new study finds.

    Whales are the heaviest animals to have ever lived on our planet. These marine giants evolved from dog-sized four-legged land creatures and grew nearly 10,000 times bigger in the past 50 million years or so, according to Nicholas Pyenson, head of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

    Creatures benefit from having a bigger size in a number of different ways, whether it's not getting eaten by smaller creatures or having the ability to keep warm and travel great distances more efficiently. Still, some whale species are bigger than others, and they do have some limits to their size.

    To find out what these limits are, researcher attached multisensor equipment to many types of whales. The researcher also assessed prey type and quantity using different methods. For baleen whale prey，they used acoustic(声学的) equipment to test the density (密度) of krill patches. For toothed whales, they looked at the size and quantity of squid (鱿鱼) beaks and otoliths (parts of the inner ear) found in the stomachs of beached whales.

    Putting all the data together, they could determine how much energy the whales were likely to get back from the food. For toothed whales, the limiting factor seems to be the size of their prey. Sperm whales were found to feed mostly on medium-sized squid—possibly because there aren't as many giant squid in the ocean. Baleen whales, like blue whales swallow massive mouthfuls of krill or other small creature. But these small creatures only appear in large concentrations for a few months per year in some areas, which may be the limiting factor for the growth of the largest whales.

    A researcher said that it's not completely clear that baleen whales have finished growing. "Perhaps several million years into the future we'll see something even larger than a blue whale."

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    Sales motivation is about being able to get yourself or your sales team to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done. It's the ability to get yourself to take action whether you feel like it or not. In sales, one of the toughest aspects is having to deal with constant rejection.

    Guess what the lowest paid profession in the world is? That's right，also sales. Anyone can get a jobs that pays on salary or by the hour and make a certain secure amount of money every month but it takes a certain type of person to be able to control the amount he or she earns each year. The profession of sales is not for the weak minded person.

    Mental toughness in sales is about the ability to have 99 people say "No" to you and still be fully confident that the 100th person will say "Yes". How many people do you think can go in and talk to the 100th potential client with the same enthusiasm and excitement that he or she had with their prospect?

    Sales is truly one of the few professions where a person with no educational background, with no talent or skilIs, can become one of the highest paid，most respected people around. What it really take isn't brains, or a nice expensive suit, or even knowing the right people to begin with. It's that sales person who will not stop making cold calls until he/she gets the amount of appointments necessary to achieve his/her goal.

    If you are in sales, then you can literally change your entire life around, from poverty and broke, to wealthy and fulfilled. If you are in a leadership position, realize that you have the opportunity to help change people's lives. Learn everything you can about motivation and there will be no limits to what you can achieve.

A. Not many at all.

B. Sales can be a life changing profession.

C. This is why most people fail to be a success in the field of sales.

D. The ability to inspire confidence in your team will make you a true leader.

E. Sales happens to be the number one highest paid profession in the world.

F. Here are some videos that may help take your sales career to the next level.

G. What it takes to be successful in sales is a burning desire to be the best at it.

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A parent's hopes for 2030

    When 2010 arrived, my son was only a year old—tiny. 1, the master of a few basic words, but still mostly the baby we'd 2 into the world.

    Now my baby has grown into an 3 —tall, strong, stout, and smart, a(n) 4 of Akira Kurosawa samurai movies.

    A 5from now, in 2030, he will be an adult. I expect the next 10 years to fly by, and be filled with 6 . As 2020 begins. I am thinking about the kind of world my son will 7 and experience. I 8 for him, and for all the young people of his age. So I have several 9 for the world my son and his generation will live in：

    I hope we finally get10 about climate change. Polar ice is melting. The oceans are 11 . The question is 12 whether we can stop climate change，but whether we're willing and able to do anything to 13 it.

    I'm not sure what a warming planet will14 for my son's life. I suspect it means he will live in a world where nations and groups 15 limited resources like clean water and food, which means that the danger of climate change won't come just from rising oceans, but from other humans competing for control over what's 16 

    The world is always going to be full of 17 about how to solve the challenges we face. I hope，too，that my son's generation learns to 18 justice—but to do so with big heart and humility，recognizing our common humanity(人性) even with people who 19 us.

    The world of 2030 won't 20 itself. We are creating it now, so my final wish is that we build the kind of world we actually want our children to live in.

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    Around 200 more warriors from ancient China's Terracotta Army (兵马俑）have been unearthed at the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. The discovery was made during the (late) round of excavations} (挖掘) of No. 1 Pit in an area covering 400 square meters.

    Shen Maosheng, who led the dig, said most of the newly found warriors can be divided into two groups. One group is carrying poles, while other carries bows.

    The Terracotta Army, (build) around 2,200 years ago, was intended to protect Emperor Qin Shi Huang in his afterlife. The army, consists of about 130 chariots， over 500 horses，8，000 soldiers，was gathered in three main pits near to the emperor's tomb.

    It was first discovered in 1974 by farmers (dig) in northwest China. The tomb is believed (cover) around 38 square miles and, along the Terracotta Army, contains a large grave of laborers and craftsmen. The (construct) is believed to have taken around 30 years to complete.

    Archaeologists started a new excavation at No. 1 Pit in 2009. The 200 new warriors (find) as a result of this effort. (scientist) are still working to understand how this vast army was created.

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增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

    The reasons why I expect to studying in your university are as follows. The first thing that occur to me is its excellence in finance, which I am interested in it as my major. Varieties of strengths allow me the courage apply for admission. Firstly, good social skills and strong organizing ability are that I have acquired in high school thanks for the experience of serving as monitor. I have learned to keep the good balance between work and study. I also get the award of Outstanding Student Leader last year. Besides. I have several hobby，such as dancing, playing erhu , and playing badminton.

    I will feel great honored if I can be admitted.

假定你是李华，你的好友印度留学生Ajay来信, 邀请你在本周末与他一起去本地的博物馆看印度文化展。请用英语回信，内容包括：

1）感谢邀请；

2）表示对展览的兴趣；

3）确定会面时间和地点。

注意：1）词数100左右；

2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。