2019-2020学年北京市第四中学高三英语上学期期末考试试题及参考答案

2019-2020学年北京市第四中学高三英语上学期期末考试试题及参考
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
Many workers have had no choice but to adapt to working from home in recent months since offices shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic (新冠疫情). And the noisy situation and endless housework may result in a terrible emotion. A new option is waiting foryou. That is WFH: work from a hotel.
Hotel Figuero
A special program titled Work Perks aims to reposition some of 94-year-old Hotel Figuero’s 268 rooms as day-use offices.
According to Managing Director Connie Wang, the set-up launched in June and is a great opportunity to get out of their houses with high-speed Wi-Fi, unlimited printing privileges and free parking. The 350-square-foot rooms sell for $ 129 per day, with an option to extend to an overnight stay for an additional $ 20.
The Wythe
A boutique hotel in Brooklyn. The hotel recently announced a partnership with co-working office space company Industrious through which it is recycling 13 second-story guest rooms to serve as offices for up to four people.
Each of the rooms has a small outdoor platform, and dogs are welcome. Pricing starts at $ 200 and goes up to $ 275, depending on how many people use the space.
The Sawyer
The Sawyer, in Sacramento, California, is offering pool cabanas (更衣室) for use as outdoor offices, complete with fast Wi-Fi, free parking and catered lunch for $ 150 per day.
HotelsByDay
Yannis Moati founded HotelsByDay back in 2015. That company has grown to include more than 1,500 hotels, and has seen a significant increase in the number of inquiries for day-use bookings lately.
Moati said the current situation will force hotels to upgrade themselves to stay alive, and he predicted that offering rooms for day-use only is one of the directions they will go.
1.How much should one pay for a 24-hour stay in Hotel Figuero?
A.$ 129.
B.$ 149.
C.$ 150.
D.$ 200.
2.Which hotel allows pets in?
A.The Wythe.
B.The Sawyer.
C.HotelsByDay.
D.Hotel Figuero.
3.What do we know about Yannis Moati?
A.He started a program titledWork Perks.
B.He has upgraded at least 1,500 rooms.
C.He usually predicts everything correctly.
D.He is optimistic about the WFH trend.
B
In Colombia a group, named WebConserva, is carrying out a project in the San Lucas Mountains with the help of coffee growers.
The San Lucas area is one of the most unexplored places in Colombia, which is home to many thousands of species of animals and plants. Yet gold mining and coca farming have dealt a blow to its ecosystem. To limit additional development in the San Lucas area, the group helps coffee growers by linking them with processors from around the country.
Colombia has more different kinds of living things than any other country except neighboring Brazil. In 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ending years of civil war. As a result, more land became accessible for use, with deforestation(毁林) coming along. Government information shows that in 2017, almost 220,000 hectares of forest were destroyed compared to around 124,000 hectares in 2015.
To date, the project includes 10 families who farm 400 hectares of coffee plants, which costs about $77,000 dollars a year. WebConserva hopes that, in time, 200 families will be included. At that level, 20,000 hectares of untouched forest could be protected. In San Lucas, the families promise not to cut down trees to expand their crops or to hunt wild animals from the forests. In return, they receive $ 250 to $ 300 per 125 kilograms of coffee, an enviable amount there. Arcadio Barajas is among those taking part. His new coffee plantation(种植园) makes a barrier between cattle farms and forests where wild animals like the jaguar live and hunt. In this way, he doesn't have to kill wild animals to protect his cattle.
Barajas said that pulling down the forest to plant coca and killing wildlife were against his will. Now he feels that growing coffee lets him be astewardof the land. "I'm taking care of the environment, the forest and the
animals," he said.
4. Why does WebConserva set up the project?
A. To help local farmers make money.
B. To expand areas of coffee growing.
C. To link processors with coffee growers.
D. To conserve biodiversity in the Mountains.
5. What happened after Colombia’s civil war was over?
A. Colombia helped many needy families.
B. Colombia lost lots of areas of forests.
C. Colombia started to save damaged forests.
D. Colombia became more peaceful than Brazil.
6. Which is probably a function of Barajas's coffee plantation?
A. A method of protecting cattle and wildlife.
B. A substitute for hunting of wild animals.
C. A barrier between man and wild animals.
D. A shelter for cattle against human hunters.
7. What does the underlined word "steward" mean in the last paragraph?
A. Farmer.
B. Master.
C. Guardian.
D. Explorer.
C
Jennifer Mauer has needed more willpower than the typical college student to pursue her goal of earning a nursing degree. That willpower bore fruit when Jennifer graduated from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and became the first in her large family to earn a bachelor's(学士) degree.
Jennifer grew up on a farm in a family of 10 children. Her dad worked at a job away from the farm, and her mother ran the farm with the kids. After high school, Jennifer attended a local technical college, working to pay her tuition(学费), because there was no extra money set aside for a college education. After graduation, she worked to help her sisters and brothers pay for their schooling.
Jennifer now is married and has three children of her own. She decided to go back to college to advance her career and to be able to better support her family while doing something she loves: nursing. She chose the UW-Eau Claire program at Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield because she was able to pursue her
four-year degree close to home. She could drive to class and be home in the evening to help with her kids. Jennifer received great support from her family as she worked to earn her degree: Her husband worked two jobs to cover the bills, and her 68-year-old mother helped take care of the children at times.
Through it all, she remained in good academic standing and graduated with honors. Jennifer sacrificed(牺牲) a lot to achieve her goal, giving up many nights with her kids and missing important events to study. “Some nights my heart was breaking to have to pick between my kids and studying for exams or papers,” she says. However, her children have learned animportant lesson, witnessing their mother earn her degree. Jennifer is a first-generation graduate and an inspiration to her family—and that's pretty powerful.
8. What did Jennifer do after high school?
A. She helped her dad with his work.
B. She ran the family farm on her own.
C. She taught her sisters and brothers.
D. She supported herself through college.
9. Why did she choose the program at Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital?
A. To learn from the best nurses.
B. To take care of her kids easily at night.
C. To save money for her parents.
D. To find a well-paid job there.
10. What did Jennifer sacrifice to achieve her goal?
A. Her health.
B. Her chance of promotion.
C Her reputation. D. Her time with family.
11. What can we learn from Jennifer's story?
A. Hard work pays off.
B. Love breaks down barriers.
C. Time is money.
D. Education is the key to success.
D
After almost an entire year of not going shopping and vacationing, you find the numbers reflected by your bank account meet your heart’ s desire.
Now the most important question comes, what to do with the earnings? Should you fulfill dreams of the present, invest in preserving the future or perhaps keep saving it for a rainy day?
Our elders always try to teach us the value of money and its moral weakness. One may be on a winning streak (连续成功) now, but it will not always be so. One will have days when there will be no sunshine but only rain, and their luck will hide behind those thick grey clouds. Save for those rainy days, they say. Do not spend too much, live within a budget,refrain fromcredit no matter how small and save for the future.
Since the very first time we earn our own money from a summer job or earning our first salary, the lessons
start. In fact, the pocket money that we receive when we are children begins the process of learning how to best manage one’ s money.
People often think like this — one day when I have enough money, I will travel the world. Then, once we do earn enough money, tomorrow’ s plans start shadowing our present ones. However, is it wise to keep living for that future? Will we still enjoy or even be able to backpack in our 50s? How will we ever enjoy our present if we are constantly living for the future?
Good questions, aren’ t they? I say travel but don’ t let yourself run dry, treat yourself to some luxuries but also keep enough for your necessities, and enjoy your present but with a plan for the foreseeable future. Life is for the living, so live it sensibly.
12. Why do elders teach us to save money?
A. Because there are more rainy days in life.
B. Because no one can win streak.
C. Because good days may end.
D. Because money can’t buy everything.
13. What does the underlined phrase “refrain from” mean in Paragraph 3?
A. select from
B. hold back
C. rely on
D. prefer to
14. Which of the following opinions would the author agree?
A. To enjoy yourself in the right time.
B. To wait to travel until we have enough money.
C. To go backpacking in our 50s.
D. To live for the future.
15. What should we do with the earnings according to the author?
A. We should save all for rainy days.
B. We should fulfill our dreams.
C. We should entertain ourselves.
D. We should live the present wisely.
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In the world of trade, the Internet is king as it never sleeps and continues to take deal after people have
rested for the night.___16___, the Internet world has taken large steps to make consumers and investors feel safer with the funds which are being processed.
___17___, do you hope your information will be stolen? I bet it is “No”. Perhaps you trust those network businessmen, for you’ve bought from them before or know someone who has.
When it comes to online deal, safety is still important. Just a few weeks ago over $150 million were frozen by what seems to have been a mistake.___18___. Believe it or not, this was the second dangerous bug for this agreement. Back in May, when the first fault was discovered, some “white hat” hackers saved most of the signs and returned them to their owners.
Zen Protocol, one of a block chain is built for finance.___19___. It works with a language designed to prove what agreements do-a method called “formal verification”. It also has uncovered some of the basic faults in the system and has solved these issues making it easy and safe for you.
Zen Protocol isn’t the first block chain to offer different choices.___20___. Technology talk aside, the great thing is that it can inform about the scenery and develop with the nowadays atmosphere of the online deal scenery.
A.One thing is certain
B.With the development of online deal
C.A smart agreement is a set of promises
D.However,it’s one of the most safe choices for financial investors
E.When you press the “BUY” button onyour favorite clothing line
F.It takes steps to solve the safety issue by ensuring the code works for you
G.The reason is that an agreement, used to store funds, contained a simple bug
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High school students have a lot more power than they may realize.
Belscher____21____a dollar on the floor when having his English class. When the school day____22____, Belscher walked back to the classroom. He could easily have____23____it, for the wrinkled (皱巴巴的) bill was still there.____24____, he brought the old bill to his English teacher, —Mattison.
Mattison was a little____25____he’d turned; in the dollar, knowing a lot of people would have just kept it. She____26____that Belscher tape(d)it to the whiteboard, where she always puts____27____things.
A day or two later, the school shut down for Easter____28____. Neither the teacher nor her student thought
twice about the dollar. After school, a boy named Tom spotted the dollar on the whiteboard. “There was a____29____to it.” Tom says. He asked Mattison why it was there. She replied, “I don’t know.” Then Tom_____30_____a second dollar.
The_____31_____of the two dollar bills side by side triggered (触发) something in Mattison’s students. They started asking about the_____32_____of the money, to which Mattison always gave the_____33_____answer: She didn’t know.
However, the students, among themselves, decided and understood Mattison had some good_____34_____final plan and goal. So, they wanted to be part of whatever this was. They_____35_____their savings and the amount continue to grow. As for the_____36_____dollar, the person who lost it never came looking.
That left Mattison to make the best decision. She thought of her brother-in-law, Jack Hains, who had died of ALS, a_____37_____and deadly disease. His sister died of the same_____38_____. Mattison asked the teens whether they_____39_____if they donated (捐赠) the money. Their answer was that they definitely didn’t. Then, they_____40_____peeled (剥开) the cash off the board and made the donation to the ALS Institute established to find a cure for the disease.
21. A. hid B. lost C. noticed D. dropped
22. A. started B. ended C. arrived D. passed
23. A. discovered B. ignored C. pocketed D. accepted
24. A. Therefore B. Besides C. Instead D. Meanwhile
25. A. excited B. surprised C. frightened D. interested
26. A. realized B. commanded C. recognized D. suggested
27. A. lost B. required C. selected D. damaged
28. A. break B. dinner C. meeting D. activity
29. A. signal B. response C. key D. mystery
30. A. earned B. taped C. missed D. recovered
31. A. sight B. discussion C. idea D. story
32. A. owner B. total C. power D. purpose
33. A. same B. brief C. secure D. different
34. A. unknown B. unchanged C. unspoken D. unexplored
35. A. added to B. broke up C. watched over D. dug into
36. A. former B. important C. valuable D. old
37. A. born B. rare C. common D. mild
38. A. operation B. treatment C. accident D. condition
39. A. wondered B. minded C. agreed D. regretted
40. A. sadly B. calmly C. carefully D. skillfully
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
In my hometown there’s a river. After school, many___41.___(student) went there and swam, but my parents didn’t allow me to swim there. One reason was that almost every year one or two people died in the river and the second was that I was very thin and weak. My parents___42.___(worry) about me.
One afternoon, I didn’t have class; my friends and I went outside to play. We went to the river and they swam there; they___43.___(be) very happy. I stood on the bank. I really wanted to swim, but I was afraid. At that moment one friend smiled and___44.___(persuade) me, “The river is shallow. You can swim here and I can teach you.” I walked down to the river and she taught me. After half___45.___hour she said, You practice here. I want to swim for a while. I practiced___46.___(happy) again and again. When I stood up, I felt the water was deep and I sank in the water. Suddenly a hand caught me. It was one of___47.___( I ) friends.
I went home but I didn’t tell my parents. Soon my parents knew that event, which made them very____48.____(anger). My father has a friend,___49.___knew that thing and told my father, “ Your daughter is so thin, and she needs to do exercise. I can teach her____50.____(swim).” Dad thought he was right and allowed me to swim. Therefore I could swim every day.
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：在错的词下画一横线，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。

One year ago, I was in great trouble. I work hard at English and devoted all my spare time to practise it. But I failed to pass the mid-term exam, which made me great disappointed. So I asked my grandpa for suggestions
when I got to home. Hear what I told him, he said, “Exam results are sometime unexpected . You can't judge your progress by one examination.” He encouraged myself to work hard for long time to check my results. I took my grandpa's advices. Now I realize that the process of learning is much more important and my English is more better than before. From my experience, I feel that we should listen to opinions from old people.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是李明,你遗失了美国好友Tom借给你的一本书,请根据以下提示给他写一封电子邮件表示道歉。

包括以下内容:
1.表示歉意;
2.说明原因;
3.提出补救措施
注意:
1.词数80词左右;
2.可适当加入细节,使内容充实、行文连贯;
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参考答案
1. B
2. A
3. D
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. D 9. B 10. D 11. A
12. C 13. B 14. A 15. D
16. B 17. E 18. G 19. F 20. D
21. C 22. B 23. C 24. C 25. B 26. D 27. A 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. A 32.
D 33. A 34. C 35. D 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. B 40. C
41. students
42. worried/ were worried
43. were 44. persuaded 45. an 46. happily 47. my 48. angry
49. who 50. to swim
51.(1). work → worked
(2). practise → practicing
(3). great → greatly
(4).去掉home前的to
(5). Hear → Hearing
(6). sometime →sometimes
(7). myself → me
(8). for和long之间加a
(9). advices→ advice
(10). more → much 或去掉52.略。