2020届大连市第三十七中学高三英语三模试卷及参考答案

2020届大连市第三十七中学高三英语三模试卷及参考答案
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
Some colleges have started offering their own gap year programs to support students who want to take a year off in a meaningful way. Below, we’ll look at four of these programs.
American University Gap Program
When to apply: By July 15 or November 15
Is there funding available? No.
In American University Gap Program, students spend three days per week with a government or business organization in the city. Students go on field trips, listen to guest speakers, take part in hands-on lessons and work on service projects as a group. Students who complete the program can earn seven credits.
Duke University Gap Year Program
When to apply: By early May of each year
Is there funding available? Yes, $5,000 to $15,000.
Though Duke University has no course of study or experience for its gap year program, it encourages students to have an independent plan for their year off, particularly one that promotes personal growth. Independent experiences may include community service, personalized experiential learning opportunities and others.
Florida State University Gap Year
When to apply: By February 24
Is there funding available? Yes, up to $5,000.
Florida State University offers gap year funding to students wishing to work or volunteer before starting college. In order to get the momey, students must explain their plans for their gap year. The experience must last over one year.
St Norbert College Bridge Year Experience
When to apply: not specified
Is there funding available? Not specified.
Students taking part in the Bridge Year Experience can travel to locations such as New Mexico, Wisconsin and Guatemala during the fall term, where they learn about the local cultures, take courses and get service
opportunities.
1.What does Duke University advise students to do during their gap year?
A.Focus on their personal growth.
B.Be independent of their parents.
C.Apply before the end of November.
D.Contact some off-campus organization.
2.How can students get gap year funding from Florida State University?
A.By having extra credits.
B.By organizing several projects.
C.By showing their gap plans.
D.By doing volunteer work.
3.If you are interested in travelling, you can choose ________.
A.Florida State University Gap Year
B.American University Gap Program
C.Duke University Gap Year Program
D.St. Norbert College Bridge Year Experience
B
The Rise of Voice Technology
Voice technology has come a long way. Just a few years ago, it would have been unusable. But now, those who follow the technology know that it has got considerably better.
Writing with your voice raises several interesting questions. How difficult is it actually? Human speech involves a lot more starting and stopping with errors and the need for repairing broken sentences than you may think. Even gifted speakers make mistakes. To turn the spoken word into reasonable writing requires lots of planning. You’ll need some kinds of notes or other organisers to make it work.
Another question turning speech into writing raises is the style. How would writing make the change that people speak their writing rather than type? Chances are that it would come up with many more short sentences and more concrete language, which is good. It would probably also rely on prepared phrases a lot more often, which is not available when you are speaking quickly.
To confirm this, a column was not written, but dictated (听写). It was composed from brief notes written down for structure only, and it was edited for length, with all of the original errors kept in. Here were the results. The first was that the literal accuracy was extremely high. There weren’t many cases wherethe software had heard one word incorrectly and written down another. But the other result was that the readability of this column was rather bad. Obviously, the blame is not with the technology at all, which turns out to be rather good. Speaking into writing relies on a better human brain than the one we currently possess. Writing is hard. There’s a reason it can’t
be done at the speed of speech, in real time.
To clarify the matter, this time paragraph breaks were added after the whole writing. Punctuations (标点) had to be spoken aloud, and after a full stop, the first word in the new sentence was capitalized automatically. Some minor punctuation marks were added to make it clearer. To improve accuracy, people “trained” the software beforehand, reading a prewritten passage aloud. Actually it turns out to be more effective. All of these ensure the satisfactory completion of turning speech into writing.
Language is the most important tool for human interaction, and voice is one beautiful part of language. With the maturity of modern technology, it has given birth to a great change in the human-computer voice interaction.
4. According to the passage, which helps to turn speech into writing in terms of style?
A. There is careful planning in advance.
B. Errors and broken sentences are avoided.
C. People type words as fast as they say them.
D. The writing contains more prepared phrases.
5. To achieve better results, the author mentions some changes for ______.
A. processing errors in a column.
B. adding minor punctuation marks.
C. increasing the number of brief notes.
D. integrating short paragraphs in writing.
6. The author suggests that ______.
A. human brains are responsible for poor dictated writing.
B. writing with voice promises to improve the quality of writing.
C. writing is an unnatural act that can hardly be learned and improved.
D. technology has a long way to go in the human-computer voice interaction.
7. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Why people fully intend to turn speech into writing.
B. What role voice technology plays in improving readability.
C. Where the human-computer voice interaction is at an advantage.
D. How voice technology enables the change from speech into writing.
C
Recycling plastic has always been a stop-start effort, and the wide variety of plastics we produce, the
pollution from waste, and other limitations make recycling an economic(经济) problem. It’s estimated(估计)only 9% of plastic ever created has been recycled. But with the help of a chemical process, Canadian Miranda Wang and her company BioCellection want to change that.
Stability is one of plastic greatest qualities and downside. There's limited evidence that some plastics can biodegrade (生物降解)but largely photo-plastics degrade in the sun. It’s a long process, and the truth is that we can only estimate how long it takes. Wang is looking to break the inaction and BioCellection's task is to make most plastic waste recyclable.
She outlines two current methods. One is to take plastics like water bottles, wash them, cut them, melt and reconstitute them. “That's a very limited process” she says, due to the requirement that plastics be “clean” . The other, which can handle dirtier plastics and a level of pollution, is called hydrolysis(热解). Intense heat is applied to break down plastics so they can be reused as oils for energy, but “it’s not economical,’’ she says.
BioCellection’s solution builds on research from over ten years ago, Wang explains, when a US studydiscovered pure polyethylene powder (聚乙烯粉)could be broken down by a catalyst (催化剂). Wang and her co-founder Jean hit upon a bacterium being able to eat plastic. In the years since, they engineered a comparable catalyst capable of doing the same job, only faster, which even works on plastics no one else can recycle at present. “We have now found a catalyst that is much cheaper than the one that was used before, Wang says.
Currently focusing on plastic films like shopping hags, the three-hour process breaks clown plastic into chemicals that can act as the building blocks for more complex plastic products.
“Right now we’re able to achieve about 70% transformation from plastic waste material to these chemicals,” she adds, saying they’re working to increase that figure.
8. Why has so little plastic been recycled?
A. Plastic is chemically stable.
B. Recycling plastic led to pollution.
C. We produced various plastics.
D. Most photo-plastics degrade in the sun.
9. What does Wang think of the two current methods?
A. Highly effective and dynamic.
B. Expensive and pollution-causing.
C. Limited and energy-consuming.
D. Widely used and recognized.
10. What did BioCellection find effective to recycle plastics?
A. Polyethylene powder.
B. Chemical products.
C. Plastic films.
D. A catalyst.
11. What is the text mainly about?
A. Miranda Wang and her company.
B. A new plastic recycling method.
C. The greatest downside of plastic.
D. Transformation of plastic waste.
D
Scientists have discovered a new behaviour among bumblebees that tricks plants into flowering early.
When lack of pollen, bumblebees will bite little by little on the leaves of flower-less plants. The damage seems to fool the plant into flowering, sometimes up to 30 days earlier than normal.
With their hairy appearance and special sounds, bumblebees are hard to miss in gardens all over the world. Their hairy bodies make them excellent pollinators for crops like tomatoes and blueberries. They are among the first bees to appear each year and work a long season.
But despite their key role, bumblebees, like many other pollinators have seen their numbers decline suddenly in recent decades. One recent study pointed to climate change, reporting that an increasing number of hot days in Europe andNorth Americawas raising local bumblebees extinction rates.
But researchers have now made a discovery about bumblebees that could have something to do with their long term survival. Scientists inSwitzerlandfound that when the bumblebees were out of pollen, they started to bite on the leaves of plants that hadn't yet flowered. They used their mouths to cut clearly-shaped holes in the leaves. But the creatures didn't eat the material or use it in their nests.
The damaged plants responded by flowering earlier than normal--in some cases up to 30 days ahead of schedule. Researchers also found that the bee damaged plants flowered 30 days earlier than undamaged plants and 25 days earlier than ones damaged by the scientists.
“I think everything that we've found is consistent with the idea that the bumblebees are damaging the plants and that that's an adaptation that brings flowers earlier and that benefits the bees,” said Dr Mark Mescher, one of the authors from ETHZurich.
12. How do bumblebees fool plants into flowering earlier?
A. By making use of the hot weather.
B. By putting the false flowers on the leaves.
C. By attacking the leaves of flowerless plants.
D. By taking away the pollen from the other flowers.
13. What's bumblebees’ key role?
A.Making plants flower early.
B. Spreading pollen to flowers and plants.
C. Sending information about weather change.
D. Finding out whether the plant has flowers.
14. What has happened to bumblebees in the past the years?
A. They are becoming homesick.
B. They are not as friendly as before.
C. There is a sharp decrease in number.
D. They have been busy year by year.
15. What's Dr Mark Mescher's attitude towards the behaviour of bumblebees?
A. Uncaring.
B. Skeptical.
C. Tolerant.
D. Objective.
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
I am a very nostalgic(怀旧的) person. When I go on trips I keep everything from bus tickets to leaflets and I always take hundreds of photographs to look at when I get home. I love thinking of exciting adventures I have had.___16___One of the most interesting ways to remember things is to read old letters, either ones you have sent to yourself or those you have received from someone else.
Living abroad this year has really made me think about how I keep in contact with my family and friends.___17___It forces me to think about all the amazing things that have happened and by writing them down, reminds me of how lucky I am to be able to experience so many new things.
Not only is writing letters an excellent thing to do, but I always think the best bit is when you receive a letter in reply! There is something so exciting about receiving letters, especially when the address is handwritten.___18___It is so special to have a box full of old letters. In a world where we update our friends constantly over social media, it is easy to forget to reach out to people personally.___19___In ten or twenty years, is social media still going to be around and are we still going to be able to look back at our memories and see what we were doing? Nobody knows.___20___
A.Having something physical to look at makes it easier.
B. The most enjoyable way to keep memories is writing letters.
C. One of the things I enjoy doing most is writing them letters.
D. By writing a letter, you remind people that you are thinking of them.
E. You can see that somebody has put time and effort into contacting you.
F. Reading them years later reminds you of all the exciting things you once did.
G. However, having some letters to read means you will always have those memories.
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No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own____21____
I learned this lesson from a(n)____22____many years ago. I took the head____23____job at aschool
inBaxley,Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.
It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the____24____team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to_____25_____the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t____26____I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to____27____that my team might not be the number one team inGeorgia, but they were_____28_____me. I had to change my____29____about their ability and potential.
I started doing anything I could to help them build a little______30______. Most important, I began to treat them like______31______. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their______32______, we met every day and_______33_______passing and kicking the football.
Six months after suffering our_______34_______on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to______35______. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a______36______for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest______37______of my life！
From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can______38______the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and_______39_______them. I helped them to see themselves______40______, and they built themselves into winners.
Winners are made, but born.
21. A. luck B. tests C. efforts D. nature
22. A. experiment B. experience C. visit D. show
23. A. operating B. editing C. consulting D. coaching
24. A. successful B. excellent C. strong D. new
25. A. cheer for B. prepare for C. help with D. finish with
26. A. believe B. agree C. describe D. regret
27. A. realize B. claim C. permit D. demand
28. A. reacting to B. looking for C. depending on D. caring about
29. A. decision B. attitude C. conclusion D. intention
30. A. pride B. culture C. fortune D. relationship
31. A. leaders B. partners C. winners D. learners
32. A. rewards B. vacations C. health D. honor
33. A. risked B. missed C. considered D. practiced
34. A. defeat B. decline C. accident D. mistake
35. A. relax B. improve C. expand D. defend
36. A. shame B. burden C. victory D. favor
37. A. chances B. thrills C. concerns D. offers
38. A. surprise B. serve C. interest D. affect
39. A. encouraged B. observed C. protected D. impressed
40. A. honestly B. individually C. calmly D. differently
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
When an important holiday comes, I___41.___(usual) think of what gifts to buy or prepare for my family____42.____(member). It is the act itself rather than the thing you buy that matters. Either a small present, a text message or a phone call can mean a lot to the receivers. However, I had never got anything from my son,___43.___is a university student. Parents never forget to celebrate their children's birthday, but___44.___(they) children seem to be very forgetful. They seldom do something in return.
Life is unpredictable(不可预测的), and you never know what will happen tomorrow. When my son came back during the summer vacation, my wife and I, as usual, met him at the station. When I____45.____(arrive) home, much to my____46.____(amaze), my son took out a wrist watch and gave it to me, saying it was a birthday gift for me. It is a very fashionable watch, which shows not only hours, minutes and seconds but days as well. You can imagine how surprised and____47.____(excite) I was at that moment.
Some people say children get too much care and love from their parents and just take them for granted. It is natural___48.___people to have such concerns and worries, but things may not turn out as badly as expected. We need___49.___(look) more at the positive side of life, as a famous writer once said, "Life is the____50.____(good) classroom one can never get.”
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同交换修改作文，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。

There are many reasons why helping others are good. Not only does this behavior make us feel satisfying, but also this satisfaction leads to sense of belonging. I learn this lesson by helping a totally stranger out last Friday. When I was walking back home after school on last Friday, I came across an old man lain beside the street, who had tripped over because of stepping on a banana skin. By his side scattered his purchase out of a shopping bag. Seeing this, I quickly came to him and helped himself stand up. I didn’t leave until I made sure whether he recovered. Now I think I did the easiest thing of all to make myself happy!
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你所在的城市即将举办国际贸易博览会，有关部门现在向全社会招聘志愿者。

请你写信应聘，内容包括：
1．具有为国际友人服务的热情；
2．掌握丰富的中国文化知识，既是服务人员，也是文化的传播者；
3．具有流利的英语表达能力，能做好沟通工作。

注意：
1．字迹工整；
2．词数：80左右；
3．开头和结尾已写好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：国际贸易博览会the International Trade Exposition传播者disseminator服务员attendant 热情enthusiasm
Dear Sir/Madam，
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely，
Li Hua.
参考答案
1. A
2. C
3. D
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. A 9. C 10. D 11. B
12. C 13. B 14. C 15. D
16. A 17. C 18. E 19. D 20. G
21. C 22. B 23. D 24. D 25. B 26. A 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. A 31. C 32.
B 33. D 34. A 35. B 36.
C 37. B 38.
D 39. A 40. D
41. usually
42. members
43. who 44. their
45. arrived
46. amazement
47. excited
48. for 49. to look
50. best
51.(1).are→is
(2).satisfying→satisfied
(3).sense前加a
(4).learn→learned
(5).totally→total
(6).去掉on
(7).lain→lying
(8).purchase→purchases
(9).himself→him
(10).whether→that
52.略。