2020-2021学年珠海市实验中学高三英语第一次联考试卷及参考答案

2020-2021学年珠海市实验中学高三英语第一次联考试卷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
Alex Palmer says he'll never forget his 13th birthday, not because of a gift or a party, but fire. “It made me realize how valuable life is,” said Alex, a seventh grader atMonroeDemonstrationSchoolinTulsa,Oklahoma.
On April 18, Alex and many other kids from his school were riding home on a school bus when they suddenly saw smoke coming from the bus’ engine. “It was jaw-dropping,” he told reporters.
By the time Alex and some other kids made it out the bus’ back door, the bus was already on fire. And some of their schoolmates were still inside. So he and some of the other older kids took action.
“One little kid was slowing everyone down with his big backpack, ” eighth grader Destiny Fain said, “so I got it off and threw it to the side and helped to make sure all the little kids weren’t fighting or pushing. ”
As that was going on, sixth grader Marketez Doyle-Smith reportedly helped another classmate who had trouble in breathing because of the smoke. “We saw our friend lying on the ground,” he said, “so we took our shirts off and waved them to get him some air to breathe.”
Marketez also reportedly stopped a younger kid trying to get back on the bus to search for something he’d left behind. “We're all a family,” he told reporters. “So I went back to help the little kid.”
Finally everyone made it off safely, thanks to Alex, Destiny, Marketez and several other kids. By later that day, they were already being called heroes. “I really don’t see it as being a hero,” Alex said, according to The World. “I see it as the right thing to do—helping others before you help yourself.”
1. What happened on Alex’ s way home?
A. The school bus was on fire suddenly.
B. There was a party for Alex’s birthday.
C. He received a gift from his classmate.
D. Some classmates quarreled with each other.
2. By saying "We're all a family.” Marketez probably meant
A. We’re brothers in the same family.
B. It’s our duty to help each other.
C. We’re classmates in the same class.
D. The thing left on the bus is mine.
3. According to the last paragraph, Alex thought that he
A. was not a brave student.
B. had the right to do anything.
C. had just done what he should do.
D. hated to be called a hero by others.
B
Not long after the first fitness magazine was published, a list probably followed soon after, ranking the best fitness equipment. This tradition has continued, with the implied message: usethisand exercise willbe yours.
And that's part of the problem, says Dr. Lieberman, a professor of Harvard University. There isn't one “best” anything to achieve fitness. Besides, people understand exercise is good for them. Knowledge about exercise still doesn't motivate.
Before you can answer why, it helps to look at history. Before the Industrial Revolution, people fetched water and walked up stairs because they had to. But then technology made life and work easier. Exercise has become something that people have to carve out time for. “It's a fundamental instinct to avoid physical activity when it's neither necessary nor rewarding,” he says.
It would seem like being healthy would qualify as necessary, but a doctor's prescription to exercise “can make it like taking cod liver oil,” Lieberman says. “Sometimes it works, but more often than not, it doesn't. And it's still coming across as an order, and “not having a heart attack in five years is not an immediate reward,” says Dr. Beth Frates, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
People might not want to exercise because it's never been enjoyable. Most of us probably have memories of gym class, not being picked for a team, or being in a fitness center that's filled with in-shape people. The majority don't feel excited. They feel that exercise isn't for them, but it can be. Coaching people in an empowering and motivating way can work much better than ordering someone to exercise. It starts with an expanded definition of what counts as exercise, and an injection of what's rarely used to describe exercise, but is certainly allowed: namely, fun.
4. What does the underlined “this” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A. The magazine.
B. The tradition.
C. The equipment.
D. The message.
5. What can we infer about technology?
A. It improves life quality.
B. It saves people's time.
C. It drives social progress.
D. It makes exercise less likely.
6. Why does the author mention “cod liver oil” in paragraph 4?
A. To attach importance to health.
B. To present a doctor's prescription.
C. To explain exercise is considered inessential.
D. To introduce the latest medical application.
7. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Exercise should be made more joyful.
B. It's more fun to work out with others.
C. We may encounter bad workout experiences.
D. Orders work well to motivate people to exercise.
C
Concerns about health, animals and the environment are leading more people to remove meat from their diet. Plant-based meat alternatives (替代品) increasingly appear in supermarkets and restaurants. But what some people call clean meat-meat grown from cells in a laboratory—is still an idea that is just beginning.
More than 24 companies are testing lab-grown fish, beef and chicken. These businesses hope to enter the alternative meat market, which could be worth $140 billion by 2029. One of the companies, Shiok Meats, grows its product by taking shrimp cells and keeping them at a fixed temperature. They are then given nutrients in a solution (溶液). The cells become meat in four to six weeks.
This lab-grown meat’s price is high. One kilogram of it now costs $5,000, said Shiok Meats’ chief executive Sandhya Sriram. At that cost, a single pork and shrimp dumpling could be as much as $300. Sriram, avegetarian, hopes to cut the cost to $50 for one kilogram by the end of this year. “We are looking at next year, so we might be the first ever company to launch a cell-based meat product in the world,” Sriram said. “Shiok Meats still needs approval from the city’s food regulator, and that matters the most at present.”
Although people increasingly demand meat alternatives, cell-based meat companies still faceresistance(抵制) to their products. In Singapore, some people said they would give lab grown meat a second thought. “I may not exactly dare to eat it, but I do find the idea appealing because the animals in the oceans are declining,” said 60-year-old Pet Loh, while sheshopped for shrimps in a Singapore market.
Any alternative way of making animal protein without harming the environment is positive, said Paul Teng, a specialist in agriculture technology at Nanyang Technological University. But, he added, more studies are needed to understand any negative result of making cellular protein.
8. Why are more people eating less meat?
A. Because lab-grown meat has more nutrition.
B. Because plant-based food is getting popular.
C. Because meat in the market is increasingly expensive.
D. Because health and the environment are their concerns.
9. What is the most important for Shiok Meats at present according to Sriram?
A. Bringing down the price.
B. Gaining consumers’ acceptance.
C. Obtaining official permission.
D. Getting ahead of other companies.
10. Which word best describes Pet Loh’s attitude towards lab-grown meat?
A. Doubtful.
B. Uncaring.
C. Negative.
D. Positive.
11. What is the text mainly about?
A. A new way to make a fortune.
B. Negative results of lab-grown meat.
C. New research findings on healthy diet.
D. A meat alternative grown in labs.
D
Global food demand will double by 2050, according to a new projection, and the farming techniques used to meet that unprecedented(空前的) demand will significantly determine how severe the impact is on the environment, researchers said.
The study researchers warned that meeting the demand for food would clear more land, increase nitrogen(氮) use and significantly add to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
“Agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions could double by2050 if current trends in global food production continue,” study researcher David Tilman, of theUniversityofMinnesota, said in a statement. “This would be a major problem, since global agriculture already accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions.”
The researchers studied various ways in which the increasing food demand could be mentioned. They found that the most environmentally friendly and cost-effective approach would be for more food producers to adopt the nitrogen-efficient “intensive” farming method, which involves the heavy use of labor and the production of more crops per acre.
This approach was shown to be more effective than the “extensive” farming currently practiced by many poor nations, a method that includes clearing more new land to produce more food.
Different farming methods produce significantly different yields, the researchers found — in 2005, the crop yields for the wealthiest nations were more than 300 percent higher than what the poorest nations produced.
According to their analysis of the effects of extensive farming, if poorer nations continue using this method,
by 2050theywill have cleared an area larger than theUnited States, about 2.5 billion acres. However, if wealthy nations help poorer nations to improve food yields by incorporating(吸收) intensive farming practices, that number could be reduced to half a billion acres.
The researchers stress that the environmental effects of meeting future food demand depend on how global agriculture expands and develops.
“Our analyses show that we cansave most of the Earth’s remaining ecosystems by helping the poorer nations of the world feed themselves,” Tilman said.
12. What is the best title of this passage?
A. The World Will Need Double Food by 2050
B. Man Will Face the Risk of Lacking Food in the Future
C. Future Farmers Hold Environment’s Fate in Their Hands
D. Different Farming Methods Produce Significantly Different Yields
13. The character of the extensive farming is ________.
A. very cost-effective
B. to produce more crops per acre
C. at cost of more new land to produce more food
D. very environmentally friendly
14. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. poorer nations mainly use the intensive farming
B. wealthy nations mainly use the extensive farming
C. the intensive farming needs less food producers
D. the extensive farming has a worse effect on ecosystems
15. According to the passage, the underlined word “they” in the 7th paragraph refers to “________”.
A. poorer nations
B. the effects of extensive farming
C. wealthy nations
D.future food demand
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To an outsider，any culture can seem confusing.And the UK's got a thing or two that raises a few
eyebrows.However，understand the why and things might be less puzzling.___16___.
Ina world where 61％of nations drive on the right，Brits drive on the left.Why? Most people think it goes back to Medieval，maybe even Roman times.___17___when you remember that right-handed people wear a sword on their left hip.Travelling on the left allowedyou to keep your weapon arm toward your opponent，who would be on your right.This practice continued until the 18th century when a law was passed requiring all traffic crossingLondonBridgeto keep to the left.
Visitors to the UK that have just washed their hands in an old-fashioned sink might be wondering why one tap is only for hot water，the other cold.___18___.So，why this oddity? It relates to a time when hot and cold water were kept separate to prevent pollution.Drinkable cold water came from a mainssupply，but hot water came from attic tanks and was not considered suitable for consumption.So they were kept apart.
Millions of people drink tea worldwide，but the odd Brits put milk in theirs.Why? This mysterious practice relates to the quality of china cup used in the 18th century when tea was first imposed.For the majority of Brits，the cups available couldn’t stand the heat of the boiling water and would break，so milk was added first.___19___.And this practical tweak soon became a national habit.
___20___.As you can see，these odd Brits have perfectly clear reasons for left-hand driving，two-tap sinks and tea with milk.Even if they still seem strange，at least now you’re in the know.
A. This makes it difficult to improve
B. There is a method to the madness
C.This unusual behavior makes sense
D. You can know the origins of the practices
E. Either can make washing very uncomfortable
F. This cooled the cup enough to resist the boiling water
G. Here are the reasons for three ofBritain’s more puzzling practices
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
Taking back my life
I received a private message on Facebook. It began harmlessly enough："Hey, girl. Wanted to invite you to____21____my next challenge group--- we'll be focusing on fitting in 30 minutes.”
It was all becoming too much. Facebook was____22____my life? not me. But what killed Facebook for me was when I____23____a photo and five minutes later my four—year—old son asked me how many “likes“ it had
got. His question was a____24____call.
“Likes“ are signs of____25____. I had forgotten that it need to come from within and I had____26____set my son a bad example.
At that moment, I set up my mind to____27____my Facebook account.
I'd been in the____28____of checking Facebook many times a day, so I had to____29____some new habits. I carried a novel, rediscovered knitting（针织）and took yoga classes.
I started to remember a few things. I have friends who will help me out when I'm in____30____. Our son is happy and____31____. And we are very lucky to be able to____32____two vacations a year.
I stopped looking at the world through my cellphone. I felt completely____33____in the moment. The break____34____me feeling better about my life.
After a few weeks, I____35____Facebook. Now I keep my____36____on the photos of my friends' kids growing up and____37____how social media allows me to keep in touch with family____38____and wide. I am____39____with the desire to post updates. It is not an____40____anymore.
21. A. celebrate B. join C. check D. hold
22. A. developing B. running C. ruining D. improving
23. A. described B. took C. posted D. saw
24. A. wake-up B. warm-up C. mind-up D. hold-up
25. A. reality B. power C. identity D. acceptance
26. A. unlikely B. impossibly C. unknowingly D. unusually
27. A. close B. fix C. lose D. load
28. A. form B. shape C. habit D. way
29. A. run out B. result from C. make use of D. come up with
30. A. class B. trouble C. silence D. advance
31. A. ordinary B. healthy C. weak D. famous
32. A. imagine B. waste C. afford D. miss
33. A. present B. lost C. absent D. blank
34. A. blocked B. encouraged C. forced D. left
35. A. broke through B. returned to C. ended up D. dated from
36. A. impression B. opinion C. balance D. eyes
37. A. value B. predict C. examine D. search
38. A. heavy B. high C. long D. far
39. A. more often B. no longer C. right now D. once in a while
40. A. dream B. doubt C. addiction D. inspiration
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
Exercise might seem like a chore sometimes,___41.___(particular) when we get told so often that we should exercise more. But we need to get up and start moving. Many of us spend too much time___42.___(stare) at screens. Most teen girls don't meet the standards for physical activity. Getting___43.___(scold) about this, though, doesn't really help. And that's too bad, because exercise can be both fun and good for the body and the brain.
Exercise is not only good for your muscles___44.___good for your bones. Getting exercise___45.___(help) teens build tough bodies. And teens who exercise more often grow up into adults with much___46.___(strong) bones.
Exercise can increase how much oxygen and blood gets to the brain, and even how the brain is structured. Working___47.___can produce chemicals in our bodies that might help prevent depression. And a workout after learning something can help us form and keep a great number of___48.___(memory).
So maybe it's no surprise___49.___so many scientists study exercise. There are some scientists, for instance, who study what makes winning runners so fast.____50.____(other) study running lizards and astronauts in space to find out how to keep humans healthy both on and off planet Earth.
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.假定英语老师上课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。

作文中共有10处错误,每句中最多有两处。

错误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（∧）,并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。

修改：在错的词下面划一横线,并在横线下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改仅限一词；
只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不计分。

On the Monday morning, I was on my way to school when suddenly I saw a boy knock down by a car. In a hurry, I ran over and found the boy was serious hurt with much blood on his face. Immediately, I called an ambulance and the boy is taken to the nearest hospital. For my relief, the boy was fine and would recover in a few day. I went away without giving my name. I was late for class, and I felt happy for all which I had done. As a
proverb says, “ Help others is the source of happiness.” I think our duty to make the world a better place to live in.第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你叫李华,是一名中学生,非常喜欢看某档音乐类节目，你决定和朋友们组建一支乐队,请你写一篇英文演讲稿，内容包括：
1.你非常喜欢这档节目，它能给你带来很多欢乐；
2.正准备和朋友们组建一支乐队；
3.介绍乐队成员、歌曲风格、乐队的排练和演出计划等。

注意:1.词数100左右;2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;3.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。

Dear friends,
I’m very honored to give you a speech on music.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________
Thank you!
参考答案
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. D
8. D 9. C 10. A 11. D
12. C 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. G 17. C 18. E 19. F 20. B
21. B 22. B 23. C 24. A 25. D 26. C 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. B 31. B 32.
C 33. A 34.
D 35. B 36. D 37. A 38. D 39. B 40. C
41. particularly
42. staring
43. scolded
44. but 45. helps
46. stronger
47. out 48. memories
49. that 50. Others
51.(1). 删除Monday前的the (2). knock→knocked (3). serious→seriously
(4). is→was (5). For→To (6). day→days (7). and→but
(8). which→that或删除which (9). Help→Helping (10). think后加it
52.略。