2020年苏州市吴中区东山中学高三英语下学期期末试卷及答案

2020年苏州市吴中区东山中学高三英语下学期期末试卷及答案
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
On a rainy afternoon, maybe one of the following books will keep you company leisurely, allowing you to spend your time alone as well as stepping into a different world.
Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets,by Patricio Pron
In April 1945,Italy, a writer disappeared at a conference and was found dead at another place. Thirty years later, a young man interviewed survivors from the conference, trying to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. This novel, by a well-known Argentine writer, explores art, crime and politics.
When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
At thirty-six, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed (诊断) with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient. This autobiography finds hope and beauty in the face of death as Kalanithi attempts to answer the question “What makes a life worth living?”.
To Killa Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Set in a smallAlabamatown in the 1930s, the story focuses on honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch who puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson, a black man accused of committing a crime.
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) storyby Bess Kalb
Bess Kalb saved every voicemail from her grandmother Bobby Bell who died at ninety. In this book, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as loving as it ever was in life and brings us several generations of brave women. They include Bobby’s mother, who traveled alone fromBelarustoAmericato survive, and Bess’s mother, who always fought against convention.
1.What type of book is the first novel?
A.Sci-fi.
B.Biography.
C.Detective books.
D.History books.
2.Which book explores life and death?
A.To Kill a Mockingbird
B.When Breath Becomes Air
C.Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets
D.Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story
3.Who is the main character in the last novel?
A.Bobby Bell.
B.Bess Kalb.
C.Bess’s mother.
D.Bobby’s mother.
B
If you've ever had a dog, you know just howdeep a connection you can develop with “man's best friend”. But a dog's life is much shorter than humans, about 12 to 15 years long, which means every dog owner has to go through the heart­breaking moment when their loving pet passes away.
Why not make a clone of that dog then? This is the solution offered by a South Korean company, Sooam Biotech Research Foundation. The company has already successfully cloned at least 400 dogs, mostly for US customers, ever since it pioneered the technique in 2005. Now, Sooam Biotech has introduced its business toUKdog owners as well, offering them dogs that look just like their lost ones.
To clone a dog, researchers first need to take a skin cell from a living dog or one that has just died. Meanwhile,another dog is selected to supply an egg. Researchers then replace the DNA in the egg with that from the skin cell and implant the egg into the womb (子宫) of a female dog. The egg grows into a puppy over the following two months. The whole process takes less than a day, but it comes at a shockingly high price — around ￡63,000.But if you can't afford it now, you can also save the cell in a laboratory andaccess it at a later date.
However, magical as cloning might sound, there is no guarantee that the cloned dog will be a perfect copy of the original one. Just like identical twins of humans, they share the exactly same DNA but there will still be small differences between them. “The spots on a Dalmatian (斑点狗) clone will be different, for example” Insung Hwang, head of Sooam Biotech, told The Guardian.
Dog owners will also have to accept the fact that personality is not “cloneable”. Apart from genes, personality is also determined by upbringing and environment, which are both random elements that cloning technologies simply cannot overcome, Professor Tom Kirkwood atNewcastle University,UK, told The Telegraph.
Perhaps bringing our dogs back by cloning is not the best way to remember them after all.Kirkwood, a dog owner himself, pointed out, “An important aspect of our relationship with them is coming to terms with the pain of letting go.”
4. What service does Sooam Biotech Research Foundation offer?
A. Making copies of pet dogs.
B. Giving pet dogs identical twins
C. Helping dogs give birth to more puppies.
D.Helping dog owners love their dogs more.
5. Which order is correct in the dog cloning process?
a. An egg is taken from another dog.
b. A skin cell is taken from the pet dog.
c. The egg grows into a puppy in two months.
d. The egg is placed in the womb of a female dog.
e. The DNA in the egg is replaced by the DNA from the skin cell.
A.a→d→b→e→c.
B. a→e→b→d→c
C. b→a→d→e→c.
D. b→a→e→d→c.
6. What can we learn about dog cloning from the passage?
A. It has not been put into practice until recently.
B. It is very popular among US andUKpet owners.
C. It might not give the owners an exactlysame dog.
D. It is very expensive and usually takes half a year to complete.
7. What doesKirkwoodthink of dog cloning?
A. He disagrees with it.
B. He supports it.
C. He is curious about it.
D. He thinks it unbelievable.
C
Older adults with a better sense of smell may live longer than thosewho have a poor sense of smell, a new study suggests. The study was a project of researchers in theUnited Statesthat was ongoing for over 13 years. They asked nearly 2,300 men and women to identify 12 common smells. All the subjects were from 71 to 82 years of age. The researchers gave the adults scores, from 0 to as high as 12, based on how many smells they identified correctly.
During the years of follow-up investigation, over 1,200 of the subjects died. When the study was launched, none of the adults were weak. They could walk a little under half a kilometer, climb 10 steps and independently complete daily activities. In the latest findings, the researchers noted that those with a weak nose were 30 percent more likely to die than people with a good sense of smell. The findings were reported last month in the scientific publication Annals of Internal Medicine.
Honglei Chen, a doctor withMichiganStateUniversityinEast Lansing,Michigan, was the lead writer of a report
on the study. He said the connection between a poor sense of smell and an increased risk of dying was limited to adults who first reported good-to-excellent health. This suggests that a poor sense of smell is an early and sensitive sign for worsening health before it is recognizable in medical tests. With a poor sense of smell, people are more likely to die of brain and heart diseases, but not of cancer or breathing disorders.
The results also suggest that a poor sense of smell may be an early warning for poor health in older age that goesbeyond dementia or other neurodegenerative(神经变性的) diseases. These often signal the beginning of a weakening of the mind or body.
8. What do you know about the study mentioned?
A. The study involved researchers from the world.
B. All the participants were of different ages.
C. The study began to be performed about 13 years ago.
D. 2 ,300 men and women were young and healthy.
9. What was the situation like at the beginning of the study?
A. More than 1,200 of the participants passed away.
B. Many of the subjects were found with health problems.
C. All the subjects were independent of others when walking.
D. One third of the participants had a poor smell sense.
10. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. People with a poor sense of smell have heart disease.
B. You should be careful with your health if you smell poorly.
C. People with a poor sense of smell won't suffer from cancer.
D. Most of the elder people may have the dementia disease.
11. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Strong Sense of Smell May Be Linked to Longer Life
B. Old People Tend to Have a Poor Sense of Smell
C. A Number of Factors Result in Longer Life
D. Being Ill Means Losing the Sense of Smell
D
Every day, millions of shoppers hit the stores in full force, searching wildly for the perfect gift.Aside from purchasing holiday gifts, most people regularly buy presents for other occasions throughout the year, including
weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations. This frequent experience of gift-giving cancause uncertain feelings in gift-givers. Many enjoy the opportunity to buy presents because gift-giving offers a powerful means to build stronger bonds, while many worry that their purchases will disappoint rather than delight the intended recipients (接受者).
Anthropologists describe gift-giving as a positive social process, serving various political, religious, and psychological functions. Economists, however, offer a less favorable view. According to Waldfogel, gift-giving represents an objective wasteof resources. People buy gifts that recipients would not choose to buy on their own, or at least not spend as much money to purchase (a phenomenon referred to as‘‘the deadweight loss of Christmas”).
What is surprising is that gift-givers have much experience acting as both gift-givers and gift-recipients, but nevertheless tend to overspend each time they set out to purchase a meaningful gift. In the present research, we propose a unique psychological explanation for this overspending problem — gift-givers link how much they spend with how much recipients will appreciate the gift. Though it seems natural to gift-givers, such an assumption may be unfounded. Indeed, we propose that gift-recipients will be less likely to base their feelings of appreciation on the value of a gift than givers assume.
Why do gift-givers assume that gift price is closely linked to gift-recipients’ feelings of appreciation? Perhaps givers believe that more expensive gifts communicate a stronger sense ofthoughtfulness and consideration. According to Camerer and others, gift-giving represents a symbolic ritual (习俗), by which gift-givers attempt to signal their positive attitudes towards the recipient and their willingness to invest resources in a futurerelationship. In this sense, gift-givers may be motivated to spend more money on a gift in order to send a “stronger signal”. As for gift-recipients, they may not interpret smaller and larger gifts as representing smaller and larger signals of thoughtfulness and consideration.
The idea of gift-givers and gift-recipients being unable to account for the other party’s viewpoint seems confusing because people slip in and out of these roles every day. Yet, despite the experience as both givers and receivers, people often struggle to apply information gained from one role in another. In theoretical terms, people fail to use information about their own preferences and experiences to produce more efficient outcomes in their exchange relations. In practical terms, people spend hundreds of dollars each year on gifts, but somehow never learn to estimate their gift expense according to personal insight.
12. The author uses “the deadweight loss of Christmas” in Paragraph 2 to express ________.
A. gift-givers don’t spend much money during holidays
B. gift-givers don’t ask recipients what gifts they prefer
C. gift-givers buy improper and expensive gifts
D. gift-givers have difficulty in choosing gifts
13. According to the passage, people buy gifts to ________.
A. receive gifts in return
B. enjoy the feeling of shopping
C. help recipients to save money
D. better relationships with recipients
14. What can we learn from the passage?
A. People’s high living standards require expensive gifts.
B. Gift-givers buy gifts based on their experiences as recipients.
C. Anthropologists think gift-giving meets different human needs.
D. Recipients judge the depth of friendship according to the gift price.
15. Why did the author write this article?
A. To criticize people’s gift-buying habits.
B. To analyze people’s gift-giving behaviors.
C. To offer advice on how to improve relationships.
D. To remind people not to overlook others’ preferences.
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
What can help us when we fail?
Failure is a part of life since our earliest moment of life. We often think of failure as something bad.___16___,whichis neither bad nor good. However, what can help us when we fail?
● Don't be afraid of failure
___17___. If we never fail at something, we probably haven't learned all that life has to teach us. So failure means taking something away from the experience.
● Never stop trying
Trying or learning something new is often half the battle, don't give up trying. You may get disappointed because of failure.___18___
●___19___
Nobody can be our safety nets all the time in our livesonly we can act as our own safety nets . Become your own best friend, do everything that you can possibly do for yourself.
● Don't look back
We spend too much of our lives looking back. There's nothing back there to see. ___20___and I'm sure that you'II find yourself in a better position.
A.Try to avoid failure
B.Failure is how we learn
C.Learn to depend on ourselves
D.We are often unwilling to accept our failure
E.But failure is a normal and natural part of life
F.But if you give up, your progress will come to an end
G.Spend just 10 percent more of your time looking forward to what life holds for you in the future
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The moment happened 30 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had____21____up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Just before my first___22___of the day my eyelids (眼皮) were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a___23___. A few minutes’ nap (小睡) time before class couldn’t____24____, I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my___25___beating wildly trying to find the cause of the____26____. My young professor was looking at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had____27____dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!” he said still____28____. “I am glad to see everyone is____29____. Now let’s get started. ”
For the next hour I wasn’t_____30_____at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock. It was instead from the_____31_____discussion he led. With knowledge and good______32______he made the material come______33______. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he____34____with were contagious (有感染力的). I_____35_____the classroom not only wide_____36_____but a little smarter and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not_____37_____in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with_____38_____. What a wonderful place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk through your_____39_____. Wake up! Let your love fill
your work. Life is too_____40_____not to live it well.
21. A. took B. divided C. stayed D. put
22. A. class B. test C. task D. lecture
23. A. platform B. pillow C. carpet D. wall
24. A. benefit B. help C. last D. hurt
25. A. heart B. mind C. thought D. head
26. A. trouble B. noise C. failure D. incident
27. A. angrily B. carelessly C. purposely D. accidentally
28. A. smiling B. talking C. complaining D. shouting
29. A. active B. curious C. present D. awake
30. A. excited B. sleepy C. awake D. panicked
31. A. fascinating B. boring C. confusing D. frightening
32. A. gesture B. sense C. humor D. design
33. A. strange B. natural C. handy D. alive
34. A. taught B. collected C. struggled D. started
35. A. explored B. filled C. left D. entered
36. A. asleep B. awake C. negative D. unfamiliar
37. A. discussing B. speaking C. cheating D. sleeping
38. A. joy B. speed C. aim D. determination
39. A. job B. life C. journey D. college
40. A. hard B. complex C. short D. simple
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
It's not uncommon for teenagers to get into heated____41.____(argue) and cold silences with their parents. There are several reasons____42.____this situation. For one thing, teenagers' physical changes are likely to give rise to family tensions. For another,____43.____(enter) a strange middle ground, you may find____44.____tough to keep your developing mental needs____45.____(balance).
____46.____, you can take action to improve the situation. Most____47.____(importance), you can create regular and honest communication with your parents..
It's better for you and to parents____48.____(work) together to improve your relationship. Everything will
turn out all right in the end,____49.____the struggles you have been going through______50.______(prepare) you for adulthood.
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.单句改错
It won’t be long before we will know the result of the experiment.
I think happy depends on our attitude to life.
Under the help of the computer, it is now easy to deal with and share information.
His teacher succeed persuading him to change his mind.
It is of great important that you arrive on time.
Great attention must be paid to develop education,especially in the countryside.
It was great relief for him to find nothing had been stolen.
We are not sure when the universe came into been.
Protecting the environment is not only a person concern but also a public one.
His failure resulted in not working hard enough.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.全国正在掀起一场停止浪费粮食的运动．假定你是学生会主席李华，请你写一封将在学校广播站英语之声播出的倡议书，内容包括：
1．主题：节约粮食,停止浪费；2．原因：……；3．建议：……
注意：1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．开头已为你写出，不计入总词数；
3．请按如下格式在答题卡的相对位置作答．
Dear schoolmates,
A campaign targeting stopping wasting food is being carried out across the country．
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. D
6. C
7. A
8. C 9. C 10. B 11. A
12. C 13. D 14. C 15. B
16. E 17. B 18. F 19. C 20. G
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. A 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. C 36. B 37. D 38. A 39. B 40. C
41. arguments
42. for 43. entering
44. it 45. balanced
46. However
47. importantly
48. to work
49. and 50. will prepare
51.(1). 去掉will
(2). happy→happiness
(3). Under →With
(4). succeed 后加in
(5). important →importance
(6). develop→developing
(7). great 前加a
(8). been →being
(9). person→personal
(10). in→from
【56题详解】
考查时态。

句意：不久我们就会知道实验的结果。

before引导时间状语从句，遵循“主将从现”原则，所以去掉will。

【57题详解】
考查名词。

句意：我认为幸福取决于我们对生活的态度。

这里含有一个省了that的宾语从句，作从句主语，用名词，所以happy改为happiness。

【58题详解】
考查固定短语。

句意：在计算机的帮助下，处理和共享信息变得很容易。

with the help of 在……的帮助下，该短语是固定短语，所以Under 改为With。

【59题详解】
考查固定用法。

句意：他的老师成功地说服了他改变了主意。

succeed in doing sth.成功做某事，该用法是固定用法，所以succeed 后加in。

【60题详解】
考查名词。

句意：你准时到达是非常重要的。

be of great importance非常重要，该用法是固定用法，所以important 改importance。

【61题详解】
考查动名词。

句意：必须高度重视发展教育，特别是农村教育。

pay attention to doing sth. 注意做某事，其
中，to是介词，后面用动名词作宾语，所以develop改为developing。

62题详解】
考查固定句型。

句意：发现没有东西被偷，他感到极大的宽慰。

固定句型It is/was a great relief for sb. to do sth.做某事，让某人感到极大的安慰，所以great 前加a。

【63题详解】
考查固定短语。

句意：我们不确定宇宙是何时形成的。

come into being形成，该短语是固定短语，所以been 改为being。

【64题详解】
考查形容词。

句意：保护环境不仅是个人的事，而且是公众的事。

修饰名词concern，用形容词作定语，所以person 改为personal。

【65题详解】
考查固定短语。

句意：他的失败是由于工作不够努力造成的。

result from由……造成，该短语是固定短语，所以in 改为from
52.略。