2020年滨海第二高级中学高三英语一模试卷及参考答案

2020年滨海第二高级中学高三英语一模试卷及参考答案
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
There are different types of money-saving apps, such as JD Finance, Yu’E Bao, Ant Financial, and all of them work in different ways. Here are 3 of the best apps that can help you save much money.
Capital One Shopping
Capital One Shopping can compare prices automatically as you shop online. As you add items to your cart at an online seller, this app will search the web for better deals and coupon codes(优惠码). You can follow the links to other sellers offering a better price and use the available codes tosave. You can even use this app while shopping at physical shops.
Paribus
There’s nothing more upsetting than buying something and then seeing it for sale at a lower price a few days later. Wouldn’t it be nice to get that money back? Now you can. Paribus helps you get money back by tracking your purchases from major stores and discussing refunds. It also helps you get compensated (补偿) for late deliveries and makes sure you don’t leave it too late to return anything you bought.
Digit
If you can’t figure out how much you can afford to save, Digit will analyze your spending habits and spare a certain amount to your savings. If the appknows you have spare money to save, then it will be moved automatically, and if you don’t, it will stop, so there’s no risk of being left with no cash for the basics. You can sign up for a free trial for a month, and after that, the monthly service charge is $5.
1. If you want your money back, what app will you choose?
A. Digit.
B. Paribus.
C. Yu’E Bao.
D. Capital One Shopping.
2. What can you do by using Digit?
A. Offer the most favorable price.
B. Track detailed information of goods.
C. Analyze spending habits to save money.
D. Compare prices of products while shopping.
3. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To introduce useful apps for saving money.
B. To advertise various products online.
C. To improve the power of spending.
D. To help to manage spare money.
B
For years video games have been criticised for making people more antisocial, overweight or depressed. Bui now researchers are finding that video games can actually change us for the better and improve both our body and mind.
Games can help to develop physical skills. Pre-school children who played interactive games have been shown to have improved motor skills, for example they can kick, catch and throw a ball better than children who don’t play video games. A study found that those who played video games were 27 percent faster and made 37 percent fewer errors than those who didn't.
Games also benefit a variety of brain functions, including decision-making. People who play action-based games make decisions 25 percent faster than others, according to one study. It was also found that the best gamers can make choices and act on them up to six times a second, four times faster than most people. In another study by researchers from the University of Rochester in New York, experienced gamers were shown to be able to pay attention to more than six things at once without getting confused, compared with the four that most people can normally keep in mind.
There is also evidence that gaming can help with psychological problems. At the University of Auckland in New Zealand, researchers asked 94 young people diagnosed with depression to play a 3D fantasy game called SPARX and in many cases, the game reduced symptoms of depression more than conventional treatment.
4. In what way playing video games benefits very young children?
A. Muscle control.
B. Social interaction.
C. Decision-making.
D. The ability to focus.
5. Which type of video game improves the decision-making speed?
A. Interactive games.
B. Action-based games.
C. 3D fantasy games.
D. Violent games.
6. What is the authors attitude to video games?
A. Indifferent.
B. Objective.
C. Worried.
D. Critical.
7. What is the text mainly about?
A. The effects of different types of video games.
B. The negative effects of playing video games.
C. The beneficial effects of playing video games.
D. The effects of games on people's behavior.
C
Put your hand over your heart and sit very still. You may notice that the sound of your heartbeat is similar to the beat of a drum. Your heart starts beating before you are born and continues throughout your life. For this reason, the beating of a drum stands for the rhythm of life for many people around the world.
InGhana, a country inAfrica, many schools use drums instead of bells to show the beginning and ending of class. Through the drum, the children ofGhanaalso learn about their history and culture. They hear old stories passed on through the music of the drum. The stories of the drum also teach children games, rules and lessons about behavior.
For thousands of years inAfrica, drums have been used to tell stories of daily life and history. Drums told the coming of a king, the start of a war, or the birth of a child. They also allowed people to share messages. But how does a drum tell a story?
InWest Africa, the most common drum used for communication is called a “talking drum”. By making higher orlower drum sounds, the drummer can make the drum “talk”.
In many African languages, words go up and down in pitch (高音) when they are spoken, almost like a song. Depending on the pitch or tone (音调), the same sound can have many different meanings. For example, when spoken with two low tones, the African word “ilu” means “drum”. When spoken with one high and one low tone, “ilu” means “town”.
Drum language works in the same way. Just as in spoken language, the word “ilu” has different meanings depending on how it’s drummed. When “ilu” is drummed with two beats using low tones, the word means “drum”. When “ilu” is drummed with two beats using one high and one low tone, it means “town”.
Drummers create “words” to build ideas, sentences and stories. The next time you hear a song, listen for the heartbeat within the music. Can you hear the story of the drum?
8. The first paragraph mainly tells us________.
A. drums beat like our hearts
B. drums have a long history
C. drums are widely used in the world
D. drums are important for many people worldwide
9. From the text, we learn that inGhanadrums________.
A. are not as useful as before
B. teach children a lot of things
C. help bring the war to an end
D. are used in class by teachers
10. The example of the African word “ilu” is used to show________.
A. how a word can have different sounds
B. how to speak African languages
C. how a drum tells stories
D. how to beat a drum
11. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Know the history of the drum
B. Listen to the story of the drum
C. Beat the drum of life
D. Love me, love my drum
D
If you have ever tried to catch a resting butterfly, you know it is surprisingly difficult. A new study helps explain why.
Previous research had suggested that a butterfly's overhead wing clap forces the insect forward. Researchers thought the wing clap likely formed a pocket of air that shoots out like a jet, but no one had tested that until now.
To understand their flight, they placed six butterflies one at a time inside a wind tunnel which was filled with smoke and then used a laser to light up the smoke just behind the butterfly. Four high-speed cameras were placed in the tunnel to take photos of the movement of the butterfly and the-smoke as the butterfly was taking off. This let the researchers create a 3D picture of that air movement as the insect flapped its wings.
They observed a total of 25 takeoffs by six butterflies. Each included up to three wing beats after takeoff.The butterflies proved more likely to clap their wings together during the first few wing beats than later in flight.
The photos show that forces created by the wings give rise to a flight path. The butterflies rise as their wings move down and shoot forward as their wings move up. A wing clap on takeoff, paired with a quick tum, allowed the butterflies to fly away quickly. They also noticed the wings formed an air pocket just before clapping and that the wings' flexibility and this pocket improved the jet force created by the clap.
“The study is exciting,” says Ayodeji Bode-Oke, a mechanical engineer in Charlottesville. That means “we have solved the longtime puzzle about how butterflies fly, and it proves nothing is impossible on the road of scientific research. I can't wait to learn about how the study might inform designs for small aerial vehicles.”
12. Why was laser used in the experiment?
A. To frighten the butterflies into lying.
B. To help researchers observe the butterflies.
C. To help take clear photos of air movement.
D. To guide the butterflies through the smoke.
13. What is the finding of the research-according to paragraph 5?
A. Butterflies fly forward as wings move down.
B. An air pocket forms after butterflies clap wings.
C. Butterflies beat wings three times before taking off.
D. Upward wing movements help butterflies fly forward.
14. According to the writer, the finding of the research can be used for .
A. helping catch a resting butterfly more easily
B. helping do research on other butterfly-like insects
C. helping provide inspiration for making small flying vehicles
D. helping widen the applications of small flying vehicle
15. What can be the best title for the text?
A. Why Can Butterflies Fly Like a Jet?
B. How Can Butterflies Make Wing Claps?
C. How Can Butterflies Make Quick Tums?
D. Why Can Butterflies Run Away Quickly?
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Have you ever complained about your to-do list but still kept busy with it? Me too.____16____Here’s how to get things done but enjoy yourself at the same time.
Rename it.My friend Jim Kwik says, “Call your ‘got-to-do’ list your ‘get-to-do’ list.”____17____Think about it. What a nice day if you get to, rather than “have got to”, walk your dog, choose fantastic food for dinner and go to a job that affords you the life you have!
____18____Instead of writing plain reminders down as memory ones, like “Dentist” and “Report”, add some verbs and result-based benefits, like “Book dentist and get teeth shining white!” or “Complete report and breathe.”____19____
Trust there’s time. Have you ever noticed when you’re in a rush, you make mistakes? For example, when you’re late for work, you can’t find your jeans, you hit your foot on the bed and you misplace your phone as you
head down the lift. When we operate from a place of calm, things happen faster.____20____We don’t burn the toast. It can be as simple as sitting up in bed, taking ten deep breaths when you wake up and setting a simple goal for the day, not reaching straight for WeChat and email.
A. Add some action.
B. Make your list simple.
C. Never put off your to-do list.
D. It’s a small revision, but a big change.
E. We find what we need with little difficulty.
F. However, life is more than getting through the boring tasks.
G. Imagine the good feeling attached to each item and let it cheer you up.
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Loida Guillen Strong couldn't be prouder of her mom Mercedes，who has always put her family first.
Growing up in the Dominican Republic , Mercedes wanted to become a___21___. But when her father died, she must make a___22___choice:stay in school or take care of her brother and sister. She___23___the latter.
As an adult, Mercedes___24___her dream once again to raise Loida and her brother. Their family eventually moved to America, where Mercedes wasted no opportunity to___25___the importance of a good education. She may have___26___to leave school , but she wanted more for her kids.
Thanks to her mom's___27___，Loida grew up to become a doctor, which was her mom's childhood dream. After___28___for 10 years and saving some money，she thought it was her___29___to make her mom proud!____30____,she began to study for a doctor's degree. But Loida____31____to keep it asecret from her mom---for nearly three years !
____32____,on August l, 2020, the time came to____33____her mom. Loida called her mother,____34____that she was ill in the University of Central Florida's College of Nursing. When Mercedes rushed inside____35____and saw Loida standing in a cap and gown(长袍). After learning the____36____, the excited mom fell to her knees. That was a____37____for Loida and herself!
Loida told her,"It is you that____38____me complete my dream. I want you to know that your____39____sacrifice is not in vain. "
Let's send Loida and Mercedes our____40____! They've both worked so hard to make this dream come true !
21. A. doctor B. teacher C. merchant D. politician
22. A. wrong B. possible C. quick D. difficult
23. A. created B. chose C. learnt D. lost
24. A. searched for B. gave away C. put aside D. picked out
25. A. ignore B. remember C. stress D. evaluate
26. A. had B. expected C. happened D. agreed
27. A. influence B. success C. background D. challenge
28. A. waiting B. studying C. working D. resting
29. A. chance B. turn C. curiosity D. interest
30. A. Still B. Even C. Again D. Then
31. A. hesitated B. decided C. failed D. promised
32. A. Quickly B. Naturally C. Finally D. Temporarily
33. A. meet B. surprise C. support D. attract
34. A. lying B. responding C. repeating D. Predicting
35. A. by mistake B. by chance C. in the end D. in a hurry
36. A. truth B. growth C. faith D. strength
37. A. memory B. habit C. dream D. fact
38. A. arranged B. meant C. proved D. helped
39. A. familiar B. unselfish C. unknown D. similar
40. A.explanations B. messages C. gifts D. congratulations
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
China has emerged as an___41.___(increase) important player in the fourth industrial revolution, having patented technologies___42.___a rate that is growing at double the global average, a European Patent Office report released on Thursday said.
From a very low starting point in the late 2000s, China’s innovative activity has increased very quickly, registering___43.___annual average___44.___(grow) between 2010 and 2018 of 39.3 percent, which is twice the global average of 19.7 percent.
China overtook South Korea in 2017 and, after___45.___(generate) more than 6,300 international patent families in 2018, now stands almost on a par with (和……平分秋色) Europe and Japan.
The United States defended___46.___(it) position as the world leader in the fourth industrial revolution
technology with 11,927 international patent families in 2018. China stands in the 4th position.
“Our study shows that Chinese innovation in the field of fourth industrial revolution technologies has increased greatly. China___47.___(display), by far, the___48.___(fast) development of all major innovation centers around the world. Its universities, businesses, and regional hubs (中心,核心) are becoming important players in the global innovation landscape,” said Antonio Campinos, president of the European Patent Office.
The study reveals that China’s innovation in the field of the fourth industrial revolution is specialized in connectivity and software, areas in___49.___companies such as technology giants Huawei and ZTE have become world____50.____(lead).
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。

How time flies! My first term in senior school was coming to an end, but I can remember every day clear. There are many beautiful flowers or tall trees in our school. And at present a new teaching building is built in my school. The school is very attractive that I quite enjoy my study here.
However, I also had some problems. I had difficult in pronouncing English words correctly. As the result, I often made mistakes in class. Luckily, Miss Wang, my English teacher gave me some useful advices on English learning. I also joined in an English club at school, where helped me a lot.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是校英文报小记者，上周日，你校学生会带领交换生参观了当地的历史博物馆。

请你以A Visit to the History Museum为题写一篇新闻报道，要点如下：
1.参加人员；
2.活动经过；
3.活动意义。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

A Visit to the History Museum
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. D 9. B 10. C 11. B
12. C 13. D 14. C 15. D
16. C 17. D 18. A 19. G 20. E
21. A 22. D 23. B 24. C 25. C 26. A 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. D 31. B 32.
C 33. B 34. A 35.
D 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. D
41. increasingly
42. at 43. an
44. growth 45. generating
46. its 47. has displayed
48. fastest
49. which 50. leaders
51.(1).was→is
(2).clear→clearly
(3).or→and
(4).is后添加being
(5).very→so
(6).difficult→difficulty
(7).the→a
(8).advices→advice
(9).去掉in
(10).where→which
52.略。