20xx年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试题及答案-天津卷(编辑修改稿)

20xx年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试题及答案-天津卷(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

C. raise money for patients D. help a foreign country 42. Which of the following is TRUE about charity shops? A. The operating costs are very low. B. The staff are usually well paid. C. 90% of the donations are secondhand. D. They are open twentyfour hours a day. 43. Which of the following may be the best title for the passage? A. What to Buy a Charity Shops. B. Charity Shop: Its Origin amp。 Development. C. Charity Shop: Where You Buy to Donate. D. The Public’s Concern about Charity Shops. C Michael Fish may soon be replaced as a weather forecaster by something truly fishierthe shark(鲨鱼 ). Research by a British biology student suggests that sharks could be used to predict storms. Lauren Smith, 24, is close to pleting her study on shark’s ability to sense pressure. If her studies prove the theory, scientists may be able to monitor the behaviour of sharks to predict bad weather. Miss Smith had previously studied the behaviour of lemon sharks in the Bahamas. She then used their close relatives, lesser spotted dogfish, for further research at Aberdeen University. Her workthought to be the first of its kind to test the pressure theory resulted from the observation that juvenile blacktip sharks off Florida moved into deeper water ahead of a violent storm in 2020. Miss Smith said: “I’ve always been crazy about traveling and diving and this led me to an interest in sharks.” “I was delighted to have been able to research in the area for my degree. I know there’s so much more we need to understand but it certainly opens the way to more research.” It has been discovered that a shark senses pressure using hair cells in its balance system. At the Bimini Shark Lab in the Bahamas, Miss Smith fixed hitech sensors to sharks to record pressure and temperature, while also tracking them using GPS (Global Positioning System) technology. In Aberdeen, she was able to study the effects of tidal(潮汐的 ) and temperature changes on dogfishnone of which were harmed. She also used a special lab which can mimic(模拟 ) oceanic pressure changes caused by weather fronts. She is due to plete her study and graduate later this year. She says she will be looking for a job which will give her the chance to enrich her experience of shark research. The passage is most probably taken from _____. A. a shortstory collection B. a popular science magazine C. a research paper D. a personal diary 45. What do we learn from the first four paragraph of the passage? A. Sharks may be used to predict bad weather. B. Sharks’ behaviour can be controlled. C. Michael Fish is not qualified for his job. D. Lauren Smith will bee a weather forecaster. 46. Lauren Smith conducted her research by _______. A. removing hair cells from a shark’s balance system B. measuring the air pressure of weather fronts C. recording sharks’ body temperature D. monitoring sharks’ reaction to weather changes 47. What is the passage mainly about? A. A popular way of forecasting weather. B. A new research effort in predicting storms. C. Biologists’ interest in the secrets of sharks. D. Lauren Smith’s devotion to scientific research. D We can achieve knowledge either actively or passively（被动地） . We achieve it actively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning. We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive. Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend on it in our everyday munication with friends and coworkers. Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor(谣言 ). Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are pared. Typically, the original message has changed. That’s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping（打上标记） it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know. This process is also found among scholars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be restated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another。 and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed upon those facts. 48. According to the passage, passive learning may occur in _______. A. doing a medical experiment B. solving a math problem C. visiting an exhibition D. doing scientific reasoning 4。