2020届上海长宁国际学校高三英语二模试题及答案

2020届上海长宁国际学校高三英语二模试题及答案
第一部分阅读（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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
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1. What do the classes mainly focus on?
A. Daily conversations.
B. Work - related topics.
C. Grammar rules.
D. Area - based accents.
2. Which is NOT offered to the students?
A. Native English - speaking teachers.
B. Personalized courses.
C. Choice of class time and teacher.
D. Offline learning materials.
3. What should a student do first if he decides on either of the packages?
A. Arrange a free class with LOI English.
B. Bargain with LOI English for lower fees.
C. Choose an experienced LOI English teacher.
D. Make a promise to sit through each class.
B
Joshua Nelson, 18, fromMissouri, is graduating fromSt. CharlesWestHigh Schoolthis week and will be attendingSoutheastMissouriStatein the fall. He had saved upmoney to pay for his tuition, but when he received the college's President's Scholarship, he decided to take his savings and donate it to other students in need.
“It comes from my family education and faith," Nelson said. "I've always lived by strong principles as far as being a cheerful giver andhaving an open handwhen it comes to giving back so I feel like that really motivated me.”
SEMO's President's Scholarship is the school’s most celebrated, and is only awarded to five top students annually. Nelsonsaid he sat down and outlined how a scholarship could work to help future students who need financial assistance for college. Originally the plan was to give away $ 1,000 the one time, but then he met up with his counselor (顾问), Yolanda Curry, to work outa game plan.
“I wasn't expecting it at all!” Curry said. "He told me he had a great idea and wanted to share it with me. I could tell he was really excited.
Nelson, in association with his high school, set up the Joshua Nelson Leaders In Action Scholarship fund. Each year, $1,000 will be awarded to a senior. The money will come from donations, of which there have been $16,000 so far — for a total of $17,435 at last count, according to the school. With the money already in the fund, there's enough to give out a scholarship each year for over a decade. The first scholarship was awarded on June 1 to Darrell Montalvo-Luna. As the first recipient, his scholarship was $2,000.
“Joshua has the heart of a servant leader. He leads by example and he's genuinely excited when good things happen for other people," Curry said. "He's an encouragement — he's good at building others up and does what he can to help encourage and motivate those around.
4. What did Nelson's initial donation come from?
A. His scholarship.
B. His savings.
C. His pocket money.
D. His wages.
5. What does the underlined phrase "having an open hand" in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Ambitious.
B. Courageous.
C. Generous.
D. Cautious.
6. How did Curry feel when hearing Nelson's idea?
A. Shocked.
B. Confused.
C. Excited.
D. Delighted.
7. What can be inferred about the Joshua Nelson Leaders In Action Scholarship fund?
A. It never supports high school students.
B. It was set up more than ten years ago.
C. It was founded by Nelson and Curry.
D. It is going very smoothly.
C
Your best friend that follows you around when the sun comes out - your shadow - doesn’t serve an important function like your heart or brain, but what if you could use shadows to create electricity? When using solar panels (电池板) that are powered by light, shadows can be boring because it means electricity can’t be created. However, researchers from the National University of Singapore have engineered a way to create power from the shadows present everywhere.
A team of the university created a machine that can collect energy from shadows. It is created by placing a thin coating of gold onto silicon (硅). Like in a normal solar panel, when put in light, the silicon electrons (电子) become energized and the energized electrons then jump from the silicon to the gold. The voltage (电压) of the part of the machine that is placed in the light increases to the dark part and the electrons in the machine flow from high to low voltage. They are sent through an external circuit (外电路) creating a current that can be used to power another machine. The greater the contrast between light and dark, more energy is provided by the machine.
The team isworking on improving the performance of the machine, borrowing approaches from solar panels to gather light. Increasing the amount of light the machines can receive allows them to better make use of shadows, as well as developing shadow energy collecting panels that can successfully gather from indoor lighting. The team is also researching the use of other materials other than gold to drop the price of the machine, meaning they would be more cost effective and easier to apply in society.
Shadows are present everywhere and perhaps one day in the future we will be able to collect energy from them by placing the shadow-effect energy machine around the world in places that have been considered unfit for solar panels to work, or indoors. “A lot of people think that shadows are useless,” Tan says, but “anything can be useful, even shadows.”
8. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?
A. Your best friend always stays with you after the sunrise.
B. The shadow has the same function as the heart and brain.
C. Shadows can stop solar panels from creating electricity.
D. Researchers have found a way to create power from shadows.
9. What is the key working principle of the machine mentioned in the text?
A. The silicon produces electricity when it is in the light.
B. The gold produces power with the help of the silicon.
C. The energized electrons flow from high to low voltage.
D. An external circuit creates current using another machine.
10. How does the team improve the performance of the machine?
A. Using solar panels in the machine.
B. Increasing the amount of light received.
C. Developing light energy collecting panels.
D. Bringing down the price of gold.
11. Which of the following is the best place to apply the machine?
A. A gym.
B. A park.
C. A farm.
D. A playground.
D
Chinese archaeologists（考古学家）announced on Saturday that some new major discoveries have been made at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Southwest China, helping uncover another start of the Chinese civilization.
Archaeologists have found six new sacrificial pits（祭祀坑）and unearthed more than 500 treasures dating back 3,000 years at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan Province. So far, archaeologists have unearthed masses of important cultural items from four of the pits, including pieces of gold masks, gold foil, bronze（青铜）masks, bronze trees and large numbers of ivories. The rest of the newly discovered pits arc still being dug up.
“Surprisingly, we have unearthed some never — heard — of — before bronze items," said Lei Yu, from the Sichuan Archaeology Research Institute. 'Tor instance, some large and well-made bronze items have
strange-looking dragon or cow designs on them.”
In another major discovery, relics of silk products were found for the first time at Sanxingdui, which shows “the ancient Shu Kingdom was one of the important starts of silk in ancient China" according to Tang Fei, head of the digging team.
The new pits sit next to two sacrificial pits discovered in 1986, with areas ranging between 3o square meters and 19 square meters. Together they form an area in which people of the ancient Shu civilization held ceremonies to offer sacrifices to heaven, earth and their forefathers, and prayed for good luck and peace.
The Sanxingdui Ruins is regarded as one of the greatest archaeological finds of mankind in the 20th century. The site was accidentally discovered by a farmer in the 1920s. The ruins are located in the city ofGuanghan, about 60 kilometers fromChengduand are believed to be the relics of theShuKingdom.
12. What can we learn from the text?
A. Totally there are 500 treasures unearthed.
B. Six new sacrificial pits are under repair.
C. The unearthed treasures date from 3000 years ago.
D. There are six sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui.
13. What does the discovery of the relics of silk products mean?
A. Chinese civilization was widely influential.
B.AncientShuKingdomwas also the home of silk.
C. Chinese silk has a much longer history than known.
D.ShuKingdombelonged toChinasince ancient times.
14. What was the main function of the sacrificial pits?
A. To celebrate festivals.
B. To store valuable items.
C. To bury important figures.
D. To hold sacrifice ceremonies.
15. Who first discovered the Sanxingdui Ruins?
A. A farmer.
B. Lei Yu
C. Tang Fei.
D. Archaeologists.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项
Things Polite People Don't Do While Shopping
We all wantto be polite. But sometimes we may have some bad manners in the store. Where do you start?
Here are some things you shouldn’t do while shopping.
●Text and shop. Everyone is trying to accomplish the same thing—surviving holiday shopping in one piece and inpeace. So focus on the shopping plan, not sending texts._____16_____If you're texting while shopping. you may be disrupting the flow of other shoppers.
●Be angry with staff. Don't take any built up anger or stress out on staff during your shopping trip.____17____You all would like to get everything on your list as quickly as possible, but remember that being rude will not get you where you need to go any quicker,
●Cut the line._____18_____Always be polite to other shoppers because they're also just trying to pay for their purchases, Don't try 10 cut the line to leave sooner or get the answer to a question. Be respectful of all the other shoppers patiently waiting in line for their turn, .
●____19____Rude shoppers, in general, tend to act out, but donot to take this personally. Even though the holidays can cause the stress of loss, or even money，shoppers shouldn't argue as there could be a risk of anger. So if someone rudely skips the line or acts like a crazy, impatient shopper. don't add to the anger with your own rude behavior._____20_____
A. Argue with other shoppers.
B. Run the risk of losing money.
C. Say thank you to the shoppers who help you.
D. Polite shoppers don't text and shop at the same time,
E. It's attractive to steal into an open place ahead of the line, but it 's rude.
F. Kindness and thankfulness are keys to getting through the hard situation.
G. They try to ensure each shopper has a pleasant holiday shopping experience.
第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
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After my husband's Chinese kung fu school was open for about a week, my daughters and I decided to see how it was going. We were deeply_____21_____to see there wasn't a single student in the school. My husband was standing_____22_____in the school waiting for customers.
We had to_____23_____! We decided to be his_____24_____until he got some "real" ones. We thought it was better to have five people in the school_____25_____just him if a passerby looked in the window. He started teaching us_____26_____and forms. We found that some of them actually were_____27_____to ballet moves but much more difficult. It was kind of fun but_____28_____, too! We
were attracted by then, so we_____29_____as learners.
___30___, we got actual students in our school. There were many men and teenage boys, and we___31___lots of other girls and women as well. One special student was a_____32_____sevenyear-old girl. She was going_____33_____and had other health problems. With my daughters' help and_____34_____, this little girl got to be a real kung fu kid. Although she is now a sightless, grown adult, I'm confident she can_____35_____herself if she needs to.
I am_____36_____to say my daughters are more confident in every area of their lives. This experience taught me to_____37_____things I never would have_____38_____before kung fu. I haven't been_____39_____in all of my efforts, but I'll give almost_____40_____of niceness a try!
21. A. bored B. upset C. nervous D. moved
22. A. cheerfully B. aggressively C. alone D. forever
23. A. act B. joke C. appear D. learn
24. A. families B. workmates C. consultants D. students
25. A. more than B. in place of C. rather than D. in case of
26. A. speeches B. moves C. manners D. designs
27. A. useful B. accessible C. similar D. comparable
28. A. challenging B. astonishing C. relaxing D. inspiring
29. A. got together B. signed up C. broke away D. stayed on
30. A. Eventually B. Unfortunately C. Obviously D. Regularly
31. A. discovered B. joined C. united D. attracted
32. A. traditional B. homeless C. disabled D. typical
33. A. blind B. deaf C. lame D. stupid
34. A. threat B. encouragement C. adjustment D. approval
35. A. protect B. recognize C. feed D. educate
36. A. stubborn B. proud C. sensitive D. tentative
37. A. apply to B. give up C. try out D. hold back
38. A. appreciated B. predicted C. ignored D. considered
39. A. helpful B. successful C. cheerful D. enthusiastic
40. A. some B. either C. none D. any
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
One day, about ten years ago, while working at the cash register in the gift shop at my University Museum of Natural History, I saw____41.____elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I looked____42.____(close)at this girl, I found that she was fixed on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, a neck and upper body,____43.____(dress)in a little white skirt. As the couple wheeled her up to me, I turned my head toward the girl. When I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back____44.____the girl, who was giving me the most optimistic, largest smile I had ever seen. All of a sudden, her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl,____45.____smile just melted me____46.____almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of____47.____life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and____48.____(bring) me into her world; a world of smiles, love and____49.____(warm). I’m a successful business man now and whenever I think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught_____50._____(I)
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

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；
只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Cantonese is a variety of Chinese. It dated back to more than 2000 years ago. The term “Cantonese” came from Canton, a name formerly used for Guangzhou, that is the capital of Guangdong Province. In China, Cantonese is mainly speaking in Guangdong Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, or Macau. It is also wide used by Chinese people living in Southeast Asia and Western country.
Cantonese is ancient variety and it is also modern. Compared with other Chinese varieties, Cantonese is more difficult to understand it. So it sometimes causes puzzlement and even misunderstanding among people. But, many people show great interest to it.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，近日你校举办了以“中国传统文化之美”为主题的首届校园文化节。

请你根据以下要点，给校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括：
1.举办时间；
2.活动内容；
3.师生反响。

注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. B
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. D 9. C 10. B 11. A
12. C 13. B 14. D 15. A
16. D 17. G 18. E 19. A 20. F
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. A 31. D 32.
C 33. A 34. B 35. A 36. B 37. C 38.
D 39. B 40. D
41. an 42. closer
43. dressed
44. at 45. whose
46. and 47. what
48. brought
49. warmth 50. me
51.(1). dated→dates
(2). that→which
(3). speaking→spoken
(4). or→and
(5). wide→widely
(6). country→countries
(7). ancient前加an
(8).去掉it
(9). But→However
(10). to→in
52.略。