2020届济南市第十四中学高三英语下学期期末试卷及参考答案

2020届济南市第十四中学高三英语下学期期末试卷及参考答案
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
Bob and Sue Harvey spent nine years as resident fellows in a dormitory at Sanford and in their bookVirtual Reality and The College Freshman, they write “The Freshman oftenfaces an identity problem during the first semester.” College is a more pressured environment than it used to be, in part because the academic gap between high school and college has increased. Many college freshmen have never had to make independent decisions about sex, drugs and alcohol. Most don’t know how to manage their time or money. They often feel lonely and overwhelmed, resulting in anxiety and depression.
Nancy Corbin, director of clinical service for student-counseling (咨询) services at Iowa State University, says her office is seeing a significant increase in requests for counseling from freshmen who are having trouble making the adjustment to college life. She says older teenagers increasingly lack the skills to deal with personal problems that aren’t easily defined or fixed. And they get homesick but have a hard time admitting it.
Parents and high schools can make things easier on freshmen by preparing them differently. For example, by teaching them to budget their hours and dollars. The Harveys think high schools should offer a college-life course. “Parents need to focus more on relationship and personal issues and less on how many sheets and towels to take,” they say. Many homesick freshmen think they’ll be regarded as failures if they come home before Thanksgiving. So parents can help by letting them know they’re welcome to return if they feel the need. In the meantime, parents have to find new ways to keep in touch with their college kids. One of the best ways is e-mail. It’s less unpleasant and less expensive than constant phone calls and is more likely to be answered than a handwritten letter.
1. Why is the first semester difficult for freshmen in college?
A. Because they often fail in exams.
B. Because they lack time and money.
C. Because they are too homesick to make new friends.
D. Because they have to settle personal issues on their own.
2. In the last paragraph, it is suggested that ________.
A. parents should stop buying anything for their kids
B. parents should develop a good relationship with their kids
C. parents should be taught how to send e-mails to their kids
D. parents should work with high schools in college-life courses
3. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
A. Hard Life of College Freshmen
B. Approaches to Trouble in College
C. Freshmen’s Adaptation Problems
D. A Strange Phenomenon in College
B
We've all heard it before：to be successful, get out of bed early. After all, Apple CEO Tim Cook gets up at 3：45 am, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne at 3：30 am and Richard Branson at 5：45 am﹣and, as we all know, "the early bird's catches the worm. "
But just because some successful people wake up early, does that mean it's a trait most of them share？And if the idea of having exercised, planned your day, eaten breakfast, visualized and done one task before 8 am makes you want to roll over and hit snooze till next Saturday, are you really doomed to a less successful life？
For about half of us, this isn't really an issue. It's estimated that some 50% of the population isn't really morning or evening﹣oriented, but somewhere in the middle. Roughly one in four of us, though, tend more toward bright﹣eyed early risers, and another one in four are night owls. For them, the effects can go beyond falling asleep in front of the TV at 10 pm or being regularly late for work.
Numerous studies have found that morning people are more self﹣directed and agreeable. And compared to night owls, they plan for the future more and have a better sense of well﹣being.
Although morning types may achieve more academically, night owls tend to perform better on measures of memory, processing speed and cognitive（认知）ability, even when they have to perform those tasks in the morning. Night﹣time people are also more open and more creative. And one study shows that night owls areas healthy and wise as morning types﹣and a little bit wealthier.
Still think the morning people sound more like CEO material？Don't set your alarm for 5 am Just yet. As it turns out, overhauling（全面改革）your sleep time may not have much effect
"If people are left to their naturally preferred time, they feel much better. They say that they are much more productive. The mental capacity they have is much broader, " says Oxford University biologist Katharina Wulff. On the other hand, she says, pushing people too far out of their natural preference can be harmful. When they wake early, for example, night owls are still producing melatonin（褪黑素）. "Then you disrupt it and push the body to be in the daytime mode. That can have lots of negative physiological consequence. " Wulff says, like a different
sensitivity to insulin and glucose（葡萄糖）which can cause weight gain.
4. What does the authordo in the first three paragraph？
A. raising the problem→analyzing the problem → solving the problem
B. leading in the topic→challenging a viewpoint → discussing about the topic
C. presenting a viewpoint → providing supporting proofs→making a conclusion
D. introducing a viewpoint →raising the question→presenting author's viewpoint
5. What can we know from the 4th and 5th paragraph？
A. Morning types tend to have clear goals and better mood.
B. To beat night﹣time people ask them to do math calculation in themorning.
C. Night owls tend to sacrifice their health for their wealth.
D. Neither night owls nor morning persons perform better than the middle ones.
6. Which of the following does Katharina Wulff support？
A. Don't fall sleep in front of the TV.
B. Avoid being regularly late for work.
C. Stop setting your alarm for 5 am.
D. Better not overhaul your sleep time.
7. Why does the author write this article？
A. To explain why some people are more successful.
B.To compare the differences between early risersand night owls.
C. To advise people to get up neither too early nor too late.
D. To argue against this view that the Carly bird catches the worm.
C
I had just delivered a memorable speech, and I was about to learn how the judges decided my performance. The audience leaned forward and a period of silence fell across the room. I felt the drum rolled in my heart.
The third-place winner was announced. The name was not mine. Then the second-place winner, still not me. At last, the moment of truth came. I was about to either enjoy the warmth of victory or regret the months’ preparation. My heart felt closer to the latter.
Losing is a part of life, and I have dealt with it on more than one occasion. However, it was an indescribable feeling to drive a 200-mile round trip, get up very early on a freezing Saturday morning, and yet still finish fourth out of four competitors in my group. After Lincoln lost the 1858 Illinois Senate race, he said, “I felt like the
12-year-old boy who kicked his toe. I was too big to cry and it hurt too bad to laugh.” Oh yeah, I could relate.
I had spent many hours in front of a computer and in libraries doing research for the Lincoln Bicentennial Speech Contest. After not placing in the first year of the contest, I really wanted to compete again. Lincoln had many failures, but he never allowed them to defeat his spirit or ambition, so I was not going to give up on a second contest! I reworked my speech for the following year, but again I did not place.
I couldn’t accept the fact that I failed twice in something that I had worked so hard on, until I thought about my hero. Never mind the lost prize money and praise—through learning stories about Lincoln, I discovered that I can fail successfully.
8. How did the author feel after finishing his speech?
A. Delighted.
B. Annoyed.
C. Thrilled.
D. Nervous.
9. What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?
A. He was regretful about his not being fully prepared.
B. He felt upset for getting up early on a chilly morning.
C. He once kicked and hurt his toe when he was 12 years old.
D. He turned out to be the last one of his group in the contest.
10. Why did the author decide to enter the second contest?
A. He was eager to prove himself to be the best contestant.
B. He was inspired by the never-give-up spirit of Lincoln.
C. He was willing to enjoy the warmth and joy of victory.
D. He was determined to win the prize money and praise.
11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. A memorable hero in my life
B. Never mind others’ judgments
C. Losing is an indescribable feeling
D. Stand up from where we tripped over
D
Scientists have long sought to prevent sharp memories from dulling with age, but the problem remains unsettled. Now research published in Scientific Reports suggests virtual reality might help older people recall facts and events based on specific details.
The study involved 42 healthy older adults from the San Francisco Bay Area. Half spent a dozen hours over four weeks playing a virtual-reality game called Labyrinth; they wore headsets and walked in place, walking virtual neighborhoods while completing small tasks. The other half, in the control group, used electronic tablets to play
games that did not require recalling details. After 15 sessions (期), the latter performed roughly the same as before on a long-term memory test. But the Labyrinth players gain an improvement in memory through the VR game. A scientist Peter Wais of the University of California said the improvements brought them up to the level of another group of younger adults taking the same memory tests.
Meredith Thompson, an education researcher, studies learning through VR games but was not involved in the new study. It would be great to actually follow people over time and see what this type of game does for long-term memory. She says, adding VR can provide greater involvement than other games. Wais's team is now investigating how long the observed effects last and which elements of the training have the most impact.
A cognitive (认知)psychologist, Daniel Simons, who was also not involved in the study, notes experiments with other games that claim to train the brain have often failed to evaluate this. And it remains unclear how test performance in a laboratorysetting might translate to real-world situations. The outcome, Simons notes, “needs to be repeated, ideally with a much larger group, before it’s treated as a strong finding.”
For now, Wais says, the team hopes its studies with similar-sized groups will help draw funding to test the game in a larger pool of participants.
12. What is the passage mainly about?
A. People's memory gradually fails as they age.
B. People of different ages should play VR games.
C. Virtual reality changes people's memory.
D. Virtual reality improves older adults' memory.
13. What is Meredith Thompson's attitude toward the research?
A. satisfied.
B. enthusiastic.
C. cautious.
D. concerned.
14. According to the scientists, the research needs to be improved due to ________.
A. the lack of financial support.
B. the limited pool of participants.
C. the unsatisfying test performance.
D. the impractical application in real world.
15. Where may the passage come from?
A. A novel.
B. A review.
C. A magazine.
D. A guidebook.
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
七选五（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）
When you have got a lot of stuff，decluttering(整理)your home canbe really necessary.Decluttering is just about putting new systems into place in your life.___16___，you realize how great you feel about it，and you want to keep going.
Getting rid of things gives you time to look after yourself.___17___，or looking for the potato peeler—because everything has a home and you know exactly where it is—you’re free to spend that time on yourself and your family. It’s liberating.
___18___.It has taken you a long time to get everything，and you won’t be able to get rid of it all straight away.If you’re pushed for time，there are easy ways of introducing decluttering into your life.Spend 10 minutes a day decluttering or，if that’s not manageable，declutter three items a week.
Have three piles:one for things you’re going to keep，one forthings that are a maybe，and one for things you’re going to give away.You will also need some bin bags，for rubbish.A revisiting pile is important if you’re struggling to get rid of things.___19___.More often than not，you end up saying，actually，I don’t needthat.
Stay focused.People often get sidetracked when they’re trying to declutter.They start trying on clothes they had forgotten about，or looking at old photos.Another common mistake is to just move things from place to place，instead of getting rid of them.___20___.
A. Once you start decluttering
B. You need time to reflect on what to keep
C. Don’t expect to declutter everything overnight
D. When you’re not always looking for the scissors
E. If you realise that you own six wine openers，keep only one
F. Start the decluttering process before you move in with a new partner
G. You can just leave things there for a few weeks before a final decision
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There was almost no reason for me to sing on my 51st birthday. Being recent “empty nesters”, my husband and I were doing our best to___21___to the too quiet house. This was a day when I___22___all to gather together. The plan, for my___23___day, was to meet our daughters, Jaime and Katie at a fancy___24___.
Our youngest, Katie called to say she might not be able to___25___the celebration dinner. She had heavy___26___earlier that day and, with the long ride ahead, she thought it___27___to stay at her own house
and have a good sleep.
After all, this was my baby. How could she move so far away from me in the first place? But the reality I had to___28___was that she didn’t feel the need to___29___me every day. It made me____30____my abilities as a mother. I felt tears falling as I____31____what she had just said to me. Maybe she felt the____32____in my voice because, on second____33____, she changed her mind.“But”, she warned, “I didn’t have time to____34____you a gift.”
We arrived with Katie already waiting for us to____35____. After dinner in it, Katie handed me a shopping bag. As I opened it, the____36____warmth filled my heart again: a mommy sitting in a rocking chair, holding a____37____in her arms. The all explanations read:____38____never leaves a mother’s arms.
I got the message loud and____39____, my daughter still loves me though she lives far away from me, and____40____much less than I’d like.
21. A. respond B. adjust C. react D. contribute
22. A. attracted B. assisted C. expected D. attached
23. A. special B. painful C. common D. casual
24. A. canteen B. shop C. hotel D. restaurant
25. A. miss B. hold C. prepare D. attend
26. A. weight B. traffic C. work D. rain
27. A. simpler B. better C. worse D. easier
28. A. deny B. stress C. face D. burden
29. A. understand B. teach C. visit D. phone
30. A. possess B. doubt C. acknowledge D. improve
31. A. analyzed B. tasted C. repeated D. memorized
32. A. embarrassment B. confusion C. disappointment D. excitement
33. A. thought B. assessment C. grade D. sigh
34. A. award B. spare C. buy D. show
35. A. stay on B. show up C. set off D. turn away
36. A. complicated B. contradictory C. academic D. previous
37. A. pet B. baby C. toy D. book
38. A. love B. mercy C. comfort D. pity
39. A. B. entire C. quick D. clear
40. A. calls B. compensates C. emails D. cares
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
Yuan Longping,____41.____agricultural scientist in China,____42.____(die) on Saturday at a hospital in Changsha, Yuan spent his life____43.____(research) rice and was a household name in China,____44.____(know) by the nickname “Father of Hybrid Rice. ”
He came up with an idea for hybridizing rice in the 1960s,____45.____a series of natural disasters had made China suffer a great famine that caused many deaths. Hybrid rice recorded an annual yield (产量)about 20 percent higher than____46.____of conventional rice strains. Because of his great work, China____47.____(feed) nearly one-fifth of the world's population____48.____less than 9 percent of the world's total land now.
Yuan is____49.____(wide) popular and respected among his students. "Although Mr Yuan passed away, the content and goal of our previous work will not change. We will transform grief into_____50._____(strong) and carry on the work he left undone, Wang Shigang, one of his students, told the Global Times on Sunday.
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。

Thank you so much for your kind invite to the exhibition，“Ancient India’’，what is now on at the local museum. I’d love join you.
I’d be particular happy to watch this exhibition because the brilliant Indian culture have always been mysterious and attractive to me. India is an old civilization just like China. It would be excited to see all the exhibits that have traveled such that a long way to China! With you as a companion, there is a good chance to have a best understanding of Indian people’s life. Let’s meet at the entrance to the museum at 9：30 am in Thursday, July 23.
Best wishes!
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）于1995年宣布每年的4月23日为“世界读书日（World Book Day）”。

假设你是校学生会主席，请你写一篇演讲稿予以介绍，要点如下：
1.简述“世界读书日”（发起时间及目的）；
2.讲述读书的益处；
3.呼吁多读书。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. D
7. D
8. D 9. D 10. B 11. D
12. D 13. C 14. B 15. C
16. A 17. D 18. C 19. G 20. E
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. D 26. C 27. B 28. C 29. D 30. B 31. C 32.
C 33. A 34. C 35. B 36.
D 37. B 38. A 39. D 40. A
41. an 42. died
43. researching
44. known 45. when
46. that 47. is feeding
48. with 49. widely
50. strength
51.(1).invite→invitation
(2).what→which
(3).love后加to
(4).particular→particularly
(5).have→has
(6).excited→exciting
(7).去掉that
(8).there改为it
(9).best改为better
(10).in→on
52.略。