2019-2020学年枣庄市滕州第三中学高三英语上学期期末考试试卷及答案解析

2019-2020学年枣庄市滕州第三中学高三英语上学期期末考试试卷及
答案解析
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
You have to praise the smoothness（顺畅）of ants on the move. No matter how many of them are going toward a place, there's never a hold-up. A new research paper shows how ants keep traffic flowing by changing their behavior to meet changing conditions.
For their experiments, researchers from the University of Toulouse focused on Argentine ants, animals that often move from colony（群落）to colony depending on where the food is. Making use of Argentine ants' talent for fast travel, the researchers built bridges connecting their colonies. The bridges were different in width from a fifth to three-quarters of an inch. The colonies, too, were of different sizes, ranging from 400 to more than 25,000 ants.
Then the researchers sat back andmonitoredthe traffic. To their surprise, even when those narrower bridges were full of ants, there were no "traffic accidents". "When the number of ants on the bridge increased, ants seemed to be able to understand the situation and adjusted（调整）their speed accordingly to avoid making the traffic flow stop. "the authors note. "Moreover, ants avoided entering a busy road and made sure that the bridge was never too packed to cross.”
The lesson for humans? The traffic problem may lie in our inability to adjust our driving habits for the good of the whole. Driving is fun when there are few cars on the road. Then the traffic moves very slowly. And yet, some impatient driver still acts like he's alone on the road.
The research suggests that projects, like the ever-widening of highways, may never free us from traffic jams. As long as we drive along with our own habits, no matter how many other people are on the road, we'll always end up in a traffic jam. Indeed, less space may actually be a good thing. It leaves less room for individual choice and forces us to take a page from the driving book of ants.
1. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. The results of the experiments.
B. The purpose of the experiments
C. The preparation of the experiments.
D. The requirements of the experiments
2. What does the underlined word "monitor" in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. watch and check.
B. seek and improve
C. design and plan
D. discuss and practise
3. What is the best title for the text?
A. Is widening highways a solution?
B. Why don't ants need traffic lights?
C. Can we learn safe driving from ants?
D. What can ants teach us about traffic jams?
B
For years, life went something like this: We’d grow up in one place, head off to college, and then find a city to get a job and live there for a few years. The final goal was to find somewhere to settle down, buy a house, start a family, and begin the whole cycle all over again. But now some people are increasingly choosing to move from city to city throughout their entire lives, sometimes as frequently as every month.
Just ask Alex Chatzieleftheriou, who has had a front-row seat watching this evolution unfold. Six years ago, he launched a startup called Blueground that rents out beautifully designed, fully furnished apartments for a month at a time, at rates that are cheaper than hotels. And it aims to make each one feel unique and comfortable,rather than standardized, like what you might find in a traditional hotel.
Today, the company has 3,000 properties(房地产) in six U.S. cities, along with Dubai, Istanbul, London, Paris, and Chatzieleftheriou’s native Athens, and a staff of 400. With the helpof the Series B round of funding, the company landed $ 50 million, plus its previous total of $ 28 million, to continue its rapid expansion. It hopes to have 50,000 properties in 50 cities over the next three years.
Chatzieleftheriou first came up with the idea for Blueground while he was working as a management consultant for McKinsey. “The accommodation of choice for consultants is the hotel,” he says. “I had to spend five years in hotel rooms, living in 12 different cities. I loved seeing the world, but I didn’t love feeling like I didn’t have a home.” And what’s more, hotels aren’t a particularly cost-effective solution for companies either. In Chatzieleftheriou’s case, McKinsey sometimes paid $ 10,000 or more for him to stay in a major city for a month.
4. What does the author intend to tell in the first paragraph?
A. A new lifestyle is appearing.
B. Life is just like a circle for people.
C. Most people are used to an easy life.
D. People live in different places in life.
5. What is the goal of Blueground?
A. To compete with hotels.
B. To create standardized hotels.
C. To make renters feel at home.
D. To rent out long-term apartments.
6. What do we know about Blueground?
A. It got a total investment of $ 78 million.
B. Its business is anything but satisfying.
C. It expanded to every corner of the world.
D. It has 50,000 properties in 50 cities.
7. What does the last paragraph focus on?
A. High costs of hotels.
B. Chatzieleftheriou’s former work.
C Strengths of Blueground.
D. The inspiration for Blueground.
C
Move over, helicopter parents. “Snowplow (扫雪机) parents” are the newest reflection of an intensive (强化的) parenting style that can include parents booking their adult children haircuts, texting their college kids to wake them up so they don’t sleep through a test, and even calling their kids’ employers.
Helicopter parenting the practice of wandering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some rich mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines moving ahead, clearing any difficulties in their children’s path to success, so they don’t have to suffer failure, frustration (挫折) or lose opportunities.
It starts early, when parents get on wait lists for excellent preschools before their babies are born and try to make sure their kids never do anything that may frustrate them. It gets more intense when school starts: running forgotten homework to school or calling a coach to request that their children make the team.
Rich parents may have more time and money to devote to making sure their children don’t ever meet with failure, but it’s not only rich parents practicing snowplow parenting. This intensive parenting has become the most welcome way to raise children, regardless of income, education, or race.
Yes, it’s a parent’s job to support the children, and to use their adult wisdom to prepare for the future when their children aren’t mature enough to do so. That’s why parents hide certain toys from babies to avoid getting
angry or take away a teenager’s car keys until he finishes his college applications.
But snowplow parents can take it too far, some experts say. If children have never faced a difficulty, what happens when they get into the real world?
“Solving problems, taking risks and overcoming frustration are key life skills,” many child development experts say, “and if parents don’t let their children experience failure, the children don’t acquire them.”
8. What do we know about snowplow parenting?
A. It appeared before helicopter parenting.
B. It costs parents less than helicopter parenting.
C. It was a typical phenomenon of the 20th century.
D. It provides more than enough services for children.
9. What is mainly discussed about snowplow parenting in Paragraph 4?
A. Its cost.
B. Its benefits.
C. Its popularity.
D. Its ending.
10. Why does the author mention parents’ taking away car keys?
A. To show teenagers are no better than babies.
B. To advise teenagers not to treat their cars as toys.
C. To advise parents not to buy cars for their teenagers.
D. To show it’s appropriate to help children when necessary.
11. What’s the possible result of snowplow parenting according to the experts?
A. Children lacking problem-solving ability in reality.
B. Children mastering more key life skills than parents.
C. Children gaining great success in every aspect of life.
D. Children meeting no problems or frustration after growing up.
D
For years, Zach Ault, a father of three, enjoyed being physically active. He was even training for a half-marathon. But in 2017, he took time off to recover from an infection. After recovering, he tried to continue his runs but could not complete them. He was not able to spend time with his children. He had to cut back his job. Even sleeping as much as 16 hours a day made no difference in his condition.
“His body had literally hijacked him and it wasn't going to allow him to push through, ” said Anne Ault, his wife. After months of testing, doctors announced their result-chronic fatigue syndrome, a disease that makes an individual feel extremely tired.
This fatigue lasts more than six months and becomes worse after any kind of physical exertion (费力活动). Patients may have difficulty standing upright. They also may have trouble thinking, often described as a “brain fog”. There are no approvedtreatments, or even tests to help with diagnosis. There is no way to predict who will recover and who will have a severe case that lasts for years.
Now the doctors at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are conducting a unique study to learn more about the condition. Zach Ault is one of the subjects in the study. When Ault rides an exercise bicycle, scientists measure how his leg muscles use oxygen. Afterward, doctors fit a special cap on Ault's head to measure electrical activity in his brain. They then send him to spend the night in an air-tight room where air has been removed with pipe for additional study. Scientists measure oxygen and carbon dioxide levels to tell how much energy Ault is using, minute by minute. “We're figuring out how his body adjusts to an exercise load, or a stress load.”
“It's hard not knowing if or when I'm going to recover, ” he said. But Ault says the study did help him learn about the disease. And it gave him ideas about how to save up his energy.
12. What was Zach Ault's life like before 2017?
A. He was fond of exercising.
B. He won several half-marathons.
C. He spent much time lying in bed.
D. He was busy looking after his children.
13. How did the infection affect Zach Ault?
A. He lost his job.
B. He was unable to sleep.
C. He became too weak to do sports.
D. He was tired of running a half-marathon.
14. What can we learn about chronic fatigue syndrome?
A. It usually lasts no more than months.
B. It is likely to cause thinking disorders.
C. Patients with it need to stay in bed all day long.
D. Patients with it should avoid any kind of exercise.
15. What does Zach Ault think of the study?
A. It helped him cure his illness.
B. It helped him recover and stay fit.
C. It taught him how to enjoy cycling.
D. It brought him new ideas about fighting diseases.
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 are some of the life lessons I would teach every student, and professional, if I had the chance? Here are four of the most important lessons I wish everyone could have the chance to learn:
Remember communication isn’t natural and doesn’t come easy.
____16____But talking and communicating are two different things. Communication takes focus and energy. It requires active and reflective listening. In other words, you need to actually care about others if you ever really want to communicate effectively.
Learn how to solve your own problems.
Stuck in a rut? Many people are, at some point in their life.____17____It’s a common situation. The question is whether you spend your time complaining how stuck you are, or you devote your attention to finding a way out.
Become curious about people and about the world around you.
Don’t take things at face value or believe everything you hear. Ask “why?” as often as a three-year-old.____18____Where is it coming from? What’s the background or intention? Take a sincere interest in learning.
____19____.
For many people the world is small. It’s their family or the place of work they visit each day. There is a world of people out there to connect with, to learn from and to engage with. Keep in touch with people.____20____
A. Find the positive in every day.
B.Never stop networking or making connections.
C. Not sure what to do next or how to get somewhere?
D. Be interested in what’s underneath any information you hear.
E. Yes, we learn to talk at an early age and talking is natural for most people.
F. Instead of blaming others, figure out what you can do to make a difference.
G. You never know when you will need a friend to help you somewhere along the way.
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Long ago I came to the city near my hometown to find a job. I met all kinds of ___21___and so I used upall my money soon.
One day, I ___22___a bus quietly at dusk when most people got off work. Suddenly, a ___23___cried loudly, “Someone has___24___my money!” I felt___25___, because his money was in my___26___. Some people suggested the bus be ___27___to the police station, but some were against it___28___they were in a hurry to go back home. The whole bus was very ___29___. The driver then ___30___the bus by the road and turned on the lights to ___31___the money. At that time, one passenger said, “Turn off the lights and give the thief a chance to
take out the money.” Then the bus got ___32___. When I was still struggling (斗争) in mind whether to take out the money or not, the lights were on again. There was no___33___on the floor. Someone said again, “Give him one more ___34___.” Then the lights were off again. My heart kept beating fast. The lights were on again but they got the ___35___result. The passengers were in heated discussion again. At that time, someone said again, “Give him the ___36___chance!” Suddenly I felt___37___and took out all the money when the lights were off again.
For many years I have felt___38___to the one who gave me three chances to___39___my mistake. When the first and second opportunities come, you may not be prepared well or don’t have enough___40___to act. When the third opportunity comes you should know clearly what you should do.
21. A. difficulties B. strangers C. dangers D. chances
22. A. got on B. waited for C. ran for D. passed by
23. A. thief B. driver C. passenger D. policeman
24. A. borrowed B. received C. paid D. stolen
25. A. sad B. calm C. nervous D. disappointed
26. A. mind B. bank C. house D. hand
27. A. pushed B. driven C. drawn D. carried
28. A. because B. though C. if D. once
29. A. noisy B. dirty C. bright D. empty
30. A. lost B. stopped C. missed D. found
31. A. take out B. give back C. search for D. throw away
32. A. cold B. dark C. clean D. crowded
33. A. money B. water C. paper D. space
34. A. reason B. way C. opportunity D. choice
35. A. strange B. exciting C. second D. same
36. A. last B. only C. fair D. good
37. A. upset B. awakened C. pleased D. interested
38. A. painful B. sorry C. lucky D. grateful
39. A. make B. try C. repeat D. correct
40. A. strength B. skill C. courage D. experience
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
Online shopping is coming into fashion in most cities, where people are able to make full use of the rapidly-developed Internet technology. Nowadays, can we find a person___41.___has not experienced online shopping? Definitely not.
Online shopping____42.____(welcome) by most people due to various reasons. From the perspective of consumer, it can save some time for people who don't have much spare time. Just click the mouse, they can get whatever they want while staying at home. For the retailers, it can cut some costs for those who don't have much circulating funds.___43.___(compare) with the traditional trade mode, they don't have to spend money in renting a house. However, there are still some_____44._____(disadvantage) in online shopping. First, a face-to-face deal makes online shopping less____45.____(rely) and trustworthy. Second, people will lose___46.___fun of bargain.
_____47._____is undeniable that shopping on the Internet has become an irresistible trend in modern society. It's____48.____(true) urgency that we need to make the laws with the rapid growth of online shopping. Only in this way can we enjoy the pleasure and_____49._____(convenient) of online shopping without the concern of_____50._____(cheat).
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节短文改错（满分10分）
st Monday, my father said goodbye to my mother and me but went on a business trip.
He would be away in three days. Just next morning, I found my mother wasn't feeling good. She had a bad cold. I immediately went to get her some drug and then prepared some noodles for her. With my specially care, my mother was recovered quickly. When my father comes back home, mother told him what had happened. He praised me for which I had done.
I feel very happy that I have done anything for my mother.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的留学生朋友Simon在你校举办的中文演讲比赛国外友人专场中获得一等奖。

请你给他写一封邮件。

内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.表示称赞；
3.期待交流。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. A
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. D 9. C 10. D 11. A
12. A 13. C 14. B 15. D
16. E 17. C 18. D 19. B 20. G
21. A 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. C 26. D 27. B 28. A 29. A 30. B 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34.
C 35.
D 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. D 40. C
41. who/that
42. is welcomed
43. Compared
44. disadvantages
45. reliable
46. the 47. It
48. truly 49. convenience
50. being cheated
51.(1).but→and
(2).in→for
(3).next前加the
(4).good→well
(5).drug→drugs
(6).specially→special
(7).删除was
(8).comes→came
(9).which→what
(10).anything→something
52.略。