2019-2020学年韶关市南雄市南雄中学高三英语下学期期末考试试题及参考答案

2019-2020学年韶关市南雄市南雄中学高三英语下学期期末考试试题
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
In his 402nd anniversary year, Shakespeare is still rightly celebrated as a great language master and writer. But he was not the only great master of play writing to die in 1616, and he is certainly not the only writer to have left a lasting influence on theater.
While less known worldwide, Tang Xianzu is considered one of Chinas greatest playwrights and is highly spoken of in that country of ancient literary and dramatic traditions.
Tang was born in 1550 inLinchuan,Jiangxiprovince. Unlike Shakespeare's large body of plays,poems and sonnets (十四行诗), Tang wrote only four major plays: The Purple Hairpin, Peony Pavilion (《牡丹亭》), A Dream under the Southern bough, and Dream of Handan. The latter three were constructed around a dream narrative, a way through which Tang unlocked the emotional dimension of human desires and ambitions and explored human nature beyond the social and political limits of that time.
Similar to Shakespeare, Tang's success rode the wave of a renaissance (复兴) in theater as an artistic practice. As in Shakespeare'sEngland, Tang's works became hugely popular inChinatoo. During Tang'sChina, his plays were enjoyed performed, and changed. Kunqu Opera, a form of musical drama, spread from southernChinato the whole nation and became a symbol of Chinese culture. Combining northern tune and southern music, kunqu Opera was known for its poetic language, music, dance movements and gestures. Tang's works benefited greatly from the popularity of kunqu Opera, and his plays are considered classics of kunqu Opera.
While Tang and Shakespeare lived in a world away from each other, there are many things they share in common, such e humanity of their drama, their heroic figures, their love for poetic language, a lasting popularity and the anniversary during which we still celebrate them.
1. Why is Shakespeare mentioned in the first paragraph?
A. To describe Shakespeare's anniversary.
B. To introduce the existence of Tang Xianzu.
C. To explain the importance of Shakespeare.
D. To suggest the less popularity of Tang Xianzu.
2. What's possibly one of the main theme of Tang's works?
A. Social reality.
B. Female dreams.
C. Human emotions.
D. Political environment.
3. What does the author mainly tell us in Paragraph 4?
A. The influence of Kunqu Opera on Tang's works.
B. Tang's success in copying Shakespeare's styles.
C. The way Kunqu Opera became a symbol of Chinese culture.
D. Tang's popularity for his poetic language and music.
B
In the past, most people received their news from newspapers, magazines, radio and TV. But now, almost anyone can report and publish on the Internet and share it as news through social media. But the problemis that not all of the information is true and not all of the reporting is trustworthy.
Howard Schneider, a former editor of the newspapersNewsday,started the Center for News Literacy (素养) at Stony Book University in 2007. The center has multiple projects, but the most famous one is a course to teach news literacy. The course trains students to look for various details that may indicate the truth of the story.
Michelle Sheng is a third-year student at theUniversityofMichigan. Sheng finds that students either just stop reading the news or only take news from one source that they trust. "A lot of people are tired of the news. People are too busy to keep up with the news, and it is really easy to take whatever news is given to you because you don’t have the time to figure it out yourself,“ she says.
For her part, Sheng recently created a digital exhibit for the university library of images to educate students on steps they can take to better analyze the news.
It is important to educate an even larger audience, beyond American university students. The Center for News Literacy has developed teaching resources, as well as a free online news literacy course. It is also trying to reach a younger audience. It has partnered with several secondary schools in the American state ofNew Yorkto teach news literacy.
People should research and confirm what they read online. However, to change human behavior is a difficult thing, but that really is the only thing that is going to help. The biggest problem is not getting people to be able to recognize bad journalism or false news, but getting people to want to recognize it. Our brains are wired to the Internet to seek out information that agrees with our current beliefs.
4. What’s purpose of the course “News Literacy”？
A. To get rid of false information on the Internet.
B. To make people realize the risk on the Internet.
C. To train students to tell true information from the false.
D. To teach students good habits of using information online.
5. Why do students have difficulty judging the truth of news?
A. They are too lazy.
B. They are bored with news.
C. They lack news resources.
D. They lack time to check its realness.
6. What does the Center try to do besides teaching university students?
A. Educate the public.
B. Improve the service online.
C. Prevent children going online.
D. Set up several secondary schools.
7. What did the author suggest doing to solve the problem of false news?
A. Believing whatever you see.
B. Changing human behaviors.
C. Questioning all the news online.
D. Only trusting reliable information.
C
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us todo things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder. This increase in complexity, often called "feature creep," costs consumers time, but it also costs business money. Product returns in the U.S. cost a hundred billion dollars a year, and a recent study by Elke den Ouden, of Philips Electronics, found that at least half of returned products have nothing wrong with them. Consumers just couldn't figure out how to use them. Companies now know a great deal about problems of usability and consumer behavior, so why is it that feature creep proves unstoppable?
In part, fieature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audience problem: the people who design and sell product are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what's best for consumers. The engineers tend not to notice when more options make a product less usable. And marketing and sales departments see each additional feature as a new selling point, and anew way to
attract customers.
You might think, then, that companies could avoid fieature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want. But that's where the trouble begins, because although consumers find overloaded gadgets（配件）unmanageable,they also find them attractive. It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store we tend to think that the more features there are, the better. It is only once we get the product home and try to use it that we realize the virtues of simplicity.
It seems strange that we don't expect feature tiredness and thus avoid it. But, as numerous studies have shown, people are not, in general, good at predicting what will make them happy in the future. As a result, we will pay more for more features because we systematically overestimate how often we'll use them. We also overestimate our ability to figure out how a complicated product works.
The fact that buyers want bells and whistles but users want something clear and simple creates an unusual problem for companies. A product that doesn't have enough features may fail to catch our eye in the store. But a product with too many features is likely to annoy consumers.
8. What does the first paragraph mainly discuss?
A. The benefits brought by the advanced technology.
B. The recent study conducted by Elke den Ouden.
C. The loss caused by the feature creep of technology.
D. Many problems of usability known by the consumers.
9. Which of the following is true according to the second paragraph?
A. It is the audience problem that leads to feature creep.
B. What matters to designers and marketers is not good for consumers.
C. Feature creep brings blessings to the people in marketing and sales.
D. The engineers will not pay attention to the quality of the product
10. What do we know about the buyers in paragraph 4?
A. They are deeply convinced that all the products work in simple way.
B. They are fed up with the more and more features of the products.
C. They are too confident of their ability to use the complicated products.
D. They are quite clear about the products which will make them happy.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Saying No to Feature Creep is No Easy Thing
B. Feature-heavy Products in Demand
C. The More Features, the Better
D. Simplicity Outweighs Complexity
D
Sam, I say to myself as I start across the bridge, you must stop these thoughts and start thinking about what to do now that you have lost your falcon, Frightful.
Life, my friend Ban do once said, is meeting problems and solving them whether you are an amoeba or a space traveller. I have a problem. I have to provide my younger sister Alice and myself with meat. Fish, nuts, and vegetables are good and necessary, but they don't provide enough fuel for the hard physical work we do. Although we have venison now, I can't always count on getting it. So far this year, our venison has been only road kill from in front of Mrs Strawberry's farm.
I decide to take the longest way home, down the flood plain of the West Branch of Delaware to Spillkill, my own name for a fast stream that cascades down the south face of the mountain range I'm on. I need time to think. Perhaps Alice and I should be like the early Eskimos. We should walk, camp and hunt, and when the seasons change, walk on to new food sources. But I love my tree and my mountaintop.
Another solution would be to become farmers, like the people of the Iroquois Confederacy who once lived here. They settled in villages and planted corm and squash, bush beans and berries. We already grow groundnuts in the damp soil and squash in the poor land. But the Iroquois also hunted game. I can't do that anymore.
I'm back where I started from.
Slowly I climb the Spillkill. As I hop from rock to rock beneath shady basswoods and hemlocks, I hear the cry of the red-tailed hawk who nests on the mountain crest. I am reminded of Frightful and my heart aches. I can almost hear her call my name, Cree, Cree, Cree, Car-ree.
Maybe I can get her back if I beg the man who is in charge of the peregrines at the university. “But it's the law,” he would say. I could write to the president of the United States and ask him to make an exception of Alice and me. That won't work. The president swore to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States when he took office.
I climb on. I must stop thinking about the impossible and solve the problem of what to do now. I must find a new way to provide for us. Frightful is going to be in good hands at the university, and she will have young.
I smile at the thought of little Frightfuls and lift my reluctant feet.
When I am far above the river, I take off my clothes and moccasins and bathe in a deep, clear pool until I am
refreshed and thinking more clearly. Climbing up the bank, I dress and sit down. I breathe deeply of the mountain air and try to solve my problem more realistically.
12. What does this excerpt main describe?
A. Delicate mental activities.
B. Unique story environment.
C. Everchanging story events.
D. Complicated character relationship.
13. What is Sam's first worry?
A. How to get back quickly
B. How to get enough venison.
C. How to ensure the safety of Frightful.
D. How to provide meat for Alice and himself.
14. What do we know about Frightful?
A. He left Sam and Alice due to lack of food.
B. He helped Sam hunt before being taken away.
C. He is living with the red-tailed hawk happily.
D. He has given birth to babies in the university.
15. Which of the following can best describe Sam?
A. Humorous.
B. Aggressive.
C. Responsible.
D. Unrealistic.
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It is generally believed that tourism is very important for any country.____16____, tourism can finally lead to a series of problems.
Forests are cut down to make way for tourism
Rapid growth of tourism in an area always creates a huge need for more buildings. Forests are cut down to make space for parking lots and theme parks or hotels.____17____, air pollution will become a serious problem in those areas.
Tourism causes noise pollution
Places that attract big crowds of tourists every year produce loud noise either from the cars or loud music played by visitors.____18____. It puts people at risk of developing high blood pressure and heart problems. In some animals, loud noise makes their hearts heat faster and hurts their ability to survive(生存).
Tourism causes light pollution
____19____. Natural light is very important for some animals,especially for baby sea turtles. They are known to stayunder the sand until temperatures get cooler, so they cone out at night. They then move towards the brightest area which is the ocean. But many baby turtles die when they move towards brightly lit places around
beaches and get lost.
Tourists are leaving behind mountains of trash
Seeing plastic cups and glass bottles around sea shores by the beaches isn't something new. It has become a common sight, especially in those places most frequently visited by tourists.____20____. Many fish and other animals in the seas have been killed by them.
A. But without good plans
B. Blinding light hurts humans' health
C. Without enough trees to clean the air
D. Visitors are leaving trash in the mountains, too
E. Much of the plastic trash ends up inside sea animals
F. Light pollution is another serious problem from tourism
G. Such loud sound is very bad for both humans and animals
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Weeks ago, I was traveling by train. After several stations, the delivery man from the cafeteria came along to___21___the pre-booked hot meals and drinks. Just behind him rushed in a 9-year-old girl, who put out her hand,___22___some food. The food supplier was___23___and pushed her out of the coach（旅客车厢）. Something in me made me___24___. I stepped outside and saw the child still standing there and crying. I asked her if she was hungry and she___25___. So I grabbed her hand and said I’d buy her food.
When I took her to the coach with the cafeteria, the people standing there had a(an)___26___expression on their face, seeing the little girl with me.___27___their reaction, I asked her to___28___whatever she wanted. As I pointed to each item, she___29___nodding.
____30____, we collected so much food. When I turned to the cashier to pay the bill, the little girl____31____hurrying down the train. The cashier shook his head in disbelief and said the girl must be laughing for having fooled me into____32____her unhappiness.
As I returned to my coach, the cashier’s____33____made me doubt whether she’d really fooled me. So I_____34_____and went down the train, following the____35____the little girl had taken. After several coaches, I walked to a ly-deserted coach. Here I saw a____36____which left me surprised. This little girl was sitting in a____37____with two other miserable-looking young boys. She had put all the food in the center and was____38____putting food into the hand of a young blind boy. Seeing all this, I couldn’t help____39____. The
little girl taught us that one can be____40____even when poor.
21. A. take away B. hand out C. throw away D. find out
22. A. begging for B. picking up C. pointing to D. looking at
23. A. frightened B. disappointed C. annoyed D. worried
24. A. doubt B. stop C. watch D. react
25. A. agreed B. signed C. nodded D. refused
26. A. sad B. puzzled C. happy D. excited
27. A. Admiring B. Noticing C. Ignoring D. Analyzing
28. A. list B. slide C. think D. choose
29. A. tried B. kept C. began D. practiced
30. A. Finally B. Nervously C. Immediately D. Suddenly
31. A. finished B. forgot C. started D. risked
32. A. remembering B. believing C. realizing D. missing
33. A. words B. opinions C. thoughts D. attitudes
34. A. turned back B. turned over C. turned up D. turned out
35. A. advice B. food C. train D. direction
36. A. coach B. station C. face D. sight
37. A. group B. team C. circle D. crossroads
38. A. instead B. only C. also D. again
39. A. weeping B. smiling C. shouting D. regretting
40. A. friendly B. generous C. polite D. greedy
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
One day, about ten years ago, while working at the cash register in the gift shop at my University Museum of Natural History, I saw____41.____elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I looked____42.____(close)at this girl, I found that she was fixed on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, a neck and upper body,____43.____(dress)in a little white skirt. As the couple wheeled her up to me, I turned my head toward the girl. When I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back____44.____the girl, who was giving me the most optimistic, largest smile I had ever seen. All of a sudden, her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl,____45.____smile just melted me____46.____almost
instantly gave me a completely new sense of____47.____life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and____48.____(bring) me into her world; a world of smiles, love and____49.____(warm). I’m a successful business man now and whenever I think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught_____50._____(I)
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:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(^) ,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限一词。

只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Dear Jenny,
Welcome to my school! When you arrive, there will be a party for you holding by my classmates. You may attend to English classes to feel a differently learning style. After that, you can go to your host family that you can experience the Chinese way of life. You can have meals together chatting anything that interests us.
The host family will also show us around some famous scenic spot. You can see people selling kites everywhere because our city was home to kites. There are many kinds of kites to choose from.
So isn't it the good idea to buy some for your friends? Write to me unless you have any questions about the schedule.
Best wishes.
Yours,
Zhang Ming 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

The eight-year-old Carol lived with her father David, Mother May and elder brother Rob. The little family happily lived in a beautiful village surrounded with beautiful nature. The village was at the foot of a mountain, with beautiful views of the snowy mountain. The family survived on growing seasonal plants and trees. Their life is totally surrounded by nature and beauty.
While they lived a very happy life, Carol did not love the beautiful atmosphere of the village. She really
wanted to move into the city and enjoy the city life. She wanted to shop, move around the city, watch movies, and eat in fantastic restaurants and cafes, etc.
However, there was hardly any chance that Carol's family moved to the city as they had everything in the village.
One day, Carol fell asleep during the early noon and she had a sound sleep. Of course, she had a strange dream. She saw her grandmother in her dream as a fairy and her deceased grandmother granted her a wish. Carol requested her that she should love to enjoy the city life as she always desired.
Grandmother understood the desire of Carol but still wanted to convince her that the peaceful village life is better than the city life.
She told Carol, “Baby, you cannot have access to fresh fruits and vegetables from plants as you have at your home. You cannot breathe fresh air. You cannot play with animals. You can hardly find any trees. You will not find peace as you see here! Do you still want to go to the city?”
Without hearing the concerns, Carol asked her grandmother to grant the wish. Grandmother granted her wish, but with a condition. Carol was told that she would only have 6 hours to spend in the city. Later, she would return to the village. Carol agreed.
注意：
1)所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2)续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。

Paragraph 1:
Carol then found herself in the city with her friends.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
Paragraph 2:
Carol's brother Rob was calling her for lunch and Carol woke up.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. B
8. C 9. C 10. C 11. A
12. A 13. D 14. B 15. C
16. A 17. C 18. G 19. F 20. E
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. A 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. A 35. D 36. D 37.
C 38. C 39. A 40. B
41. an 42. closer
43. dressed
44. at 45. whose
46. and 47. what
48. brought
49. warmth 50. me
51.(1).holding → held
(2).去掉to
(3). differently → different
(4). that → where
(5). 在chatting后加about
(6). us → you
(7). spot → spots
(8). was → is
(9). the → a
(10). unless → if
52.略。