2020年广州市天河中学高三英语一模试卷及答案解析

2020年广州市天河中学高三英语一模试卷及答案解析
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
Electric Shocks Can Be Fatal
Government statistics recently showed that in theUK, more than 3,000 people a year experience electric shocks in their homes. A smaller number of people are killed after they touch the power lines outside their homes. Electric shocks can cause a person's heart or breath to stop and are potentially fatal. It is essential for people to learn basic techniques to deal with such emergencies.
What to do?
● If you are the first person to reach someone who has an electric shock, don't touch him or her!
● If the victim is still holding the appliance that gives him or her the shock (e.g. a hair dryer), unplug it or turn off the power at its source.Under no circumstances can you try to move the appliance with your hands!
● Ifyou can't turn off the power, use a piece of wood, like a broom handle or a chair, to separate the victim from the appliance or the power source. You may even be able to do this with a folded newspaper.
● The victim must remain lying down. If he or she isunconscious, the victim should be placed on his or her side. But he or she should not be moved if there is a possibility of neck or spine injuries unless it is ly necessary.
● It is essential to maintain the victim's body heat, so make sure you cover him or her with a blanket before you do anything else. If the victim is not breathing, apply mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (人工呼吸). Keep the victim's head low until professional help arrives.
● If the electric shock has been caused by an external power line, the dangers to the victim and to anybody providing first aid are much greater.
1. What kind of passage is it?
A. An advertisement.
B. A horror story.
C. A news report.
D. First aid emergency advice.
2. The underlined sentence implies that ________.
A. you should move the appliance
B. you should pick up the appliance and turn off the electricity
C. it is very dangerous to touch the appliance with your hands
D. it is unnecessary to unplug the appliance with your hands
3. When a person has got an electric shock, you should ________.
A. separate the victim from the appliance and let him sit up
B. keep the victim warm and help him or her breathe again
C. move the victim onto his or her side if he or she has got neck injuries
D. keep the victim's head high until professional help arrives
B
Compared to dogs, cats are often considered to be aloof（冷漠的）with respect to their human owners. It is usual for them to be indifferent（无动于衷的）when humans calltheir names. Are we sure that they don’t understand human voices at all?
A recent study published in the journal of Scientific Reports suggests that we’ve been fooled. Japanese scientists found that cats can recognize their names if their owners regularly use them. In the study, scientists recruited 78 domestic cats. They played recordings of voices of their owners saying five words: the first four words were random nouns thatresembledtheir names while the final word was the cat’s name. Then they observed the cats’ responses, if there were any.
Most of cats moved their ears or heads when they heard their names, while they made no response to other words. That suggested, “cats were paying attention to you, what you say and what you do,” John Bradshaw, an expert on human-animal interactions（互动）at the University of Bristol, UK, told The Times. “And cats were just as good as dogs at learning,” she added.
In the study, when people called their names, cats often associated (联系) the words with rewards, such as food or play, or with “punishments” such as having a bath or going to the vet . This made cats sensitive (敏感的) to words. After the cats had been called several times, they could respond to the words. But the scientists added that while dogs have evolved（进化）to follow their owners’ orders, cats have not. Although cats appear to be distant, they do have special relationships with their owners.
According to study co-author Atsuko Saito, cats have evolved not to show their emotions as a survival method. One example is illness, which they tend to hide because “in the wild, no one can rescue them” and predators (捕食性动物) are more likely to pay attention to them, Saito explained.
However, technology may help bridge the communication gap between cats and us. There are now mobile apps available to explain what their meows mean. So, the next time you hear “meow, meow”,your cat may be telling you: “Hi, you haven’t cleaned my litter box recently.”
4. What did the recent study find about cats?
A. Cats can recognize their names.
B. Cats are cleverer than dogs.
C. Cats learn more slowly than dogs.
D. Cats are willing to follow orders.
5. What does the underlined word“resembled”in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. were limited to
B. were different from
C. were similar to
D. were away from
6. Why do cats appear distant to their human owners?
A. They associate words with punishments.
B. They want to protect themselves from harm.
C. They are not sensitive to the human voice.
D. They don’t pay much attention to their surroundings.
7. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. It is difficult to understand cats’ meows.
B. Interaction with your cats is very important.
C. Cats do have good relationships with their owners.
D. We may know cats better with the help of technology.
C
Most teenagers are still trying to find their passion and purposes in life. However, not Gitanjali Rao. The 15-year-old girl has been coming up with innovative solutions to worldwide problems since she was ten. It is, therefore, not surprising that the teenager has won the honor of “America's Top Young Scientist”.
In the third grade, Rao was inspired to build a device after witnessing the shocking story unfold in Flint, Michigan, where cost-cutting measures led to the use of a polluted river as the city's primary water supply and incredibly high levels of lead made their way into people's drinking water.
After two months' research, Rao designed a small and portable device that used sensors to instantly detect lead in water. Called Tethys, after the Greek Goddess(女神) of freshwater, it attaches to a cellphone and informs the residents via an app if their drinking water contains lead. The design earned her the 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2017. She is currently working with scientists and medical professionals to test Tethys' potential and hopes the device will be ready for commercial use by 2022.
Later, Rao took on another social issue-drug addiction. Her app, called Epione, which won the Health Pillar Prize at the TCS Ignite Innovation Student Challenge in May 2019, is designed to catch drug addiction in young
adults before it's too late.
More recently, the teenager has developed an app named Kindly, which usesartificial intelligence technology to detect possible signs of cyberbullying(网上欺凌). When users type in a word or phrase, Kindly is able to pick it up if it's bullying, and then it gives the option to edit it or send it the way it is. It gives them the chance to rethink what they are saying so that they know what to do next time.
All kinds of awesome, Gitanjali Rao has been selected from 5,000 equally impressive nominees(被提名人) for TIME Magazine's first-ever “Kid of the Year”.
8. What gave Rao the idea of inventing the device Tethys?
A. The incident of lead pollution.
B. The issue with drug addiction.
C. The shortage of water supplies.
D. The high cost of purifying water.
9. What is Rao expecting of Tethys?
A. It'll remove metal from water.
B. It'll make it to market soon.
C. It'll win her a higher prize.
D. It'll be fitted to cellphones.
10. What will Kindly allow users to do?
A. Receive pre-warning signals of threat.
B. Input words into a computer automatically.
C. Choose from secure social networking sites.
D. Weigh their words before posting them online.
11. Which of the following can best describe Gitanjali Rao as a young scientist?
A. Ambitious and humble.
B. Optimistic and adventurous.
C. Talkative and outstanding.
D. Creative and productive.
D
I was at my parent’s dinner table. Before me was a worn journal of thin and discolor1 ed pages. It was my grandfather’s journal and now belonged to my father. My grandfather had passed away in the months leading up to my birth. I never got to visit the places he had frequented and the people who had been a part of his life’s journey.
I was now about to enter his world, through the words he had left behind. Within minutes, I wascaptivatedby the power of the written words. In the magical script (笔迹) before me, I was transported to another age when food was an everyday art, planned, prepared and enjoyed in the company of others, and a time when people had the heart to pause their own lives to embrace (拥抱) each other’s struggles. All this was conveyed to me in the beauty of the words that flowed together to connect with the writer’s mind and understand the world they lived in.
That kind of writing seems to be lost on us today. We have gotten used to writing in bite-sized pieces for a public looking for entertainment, and hungry for information. No wonder, there are nearly 200 million bloggers on the Internet and a new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second. Instead of adding to our collective wisdom, most of these writings reflectthe superficiality (肤浅) and impatience of our day and age.
This not only robs us of the skill of writing impressive essays, it also prevents us from exploring what is indeed important. Writing humbles (使谦卑) us in a way that is vital for our character growth, by reminding us about the limits of the self and our appropriate place in the vast flow of life. Writing frees us by helping us explore the unknown so that we really open up to magic of the world around us. I saw all of this in the writing of my grandfather. And I’ve seen it again and again in the writings of the greatest thinkers of humanity. Their writing reflect deep thought on issues of human importance.
12. The underlined word “captivated” in the second paragraph can be replaced by “________”.
A. puzzled
B. frightened
C. attracted
D. defeated
13. In the author’s grandfather’s age, people ________.
A. lived a hard life
B. cared about each other
C. were fond of writing
D. treated food as an art
14. The author begins the text with her grandfather’s journal in order to ________.
A. show her respect to her grandfather
B. present the importance of good writing
C. express her interest in reading as well as writing
D. raise the problems with today’s writing
15. In the last paragraph, the author is trying to _________.
A. discuss what good writing is like
B. express her strong desire to learn writing skills
C. stress the effects of her grandfather’s journal on her
D. show her admiration for her grandfather’s writing
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
How to Write a Paragraph
Writing can seem likea challenge, but it doesn't have to be difficult! These suggestions will help you write a good paragraph in no time.
◆Planning Your Paragraph
Decide what the main topic of the paragraph is going to be. Before you begin writing your paragraph, you must have a clear idea of what the paragraph is going to be about.____16____Without a clear idea of what the main topic is, your paragraph will lack focus and unity.
___17___
Once you have a clearer idea of what you want to address in your paragraph, you can start organizing your thoughts by writing down your ideas. There's no need to write out full sentences. Just set down some key words and phrases.
Figure out how you want to structure your paragraph. Now that all of your thoughts, ideas, facts and figures are laid out clearly in front of you, you can start to think about how you want to structure your paragraph.____18____
◆Writing Your Paragraph
Write a topic sentence. The first sentence of your paragraph needs to be the topic sentence. A topic sentence is an introductory line that addresses what the main idea of the paragraph is going to be.____19____ Fill in the supporting details. Once you have written and are happy with your topic sentence, you can start to fill in the rest of your paragraph.____20____Make sure that each sentence connects with the next and that everything flows nicely as a whole.
Write a concluding sentence. The concluding sentence strengthens the idea outlined in your topic sentence and has all the weight of the evidence or arguments.
A. Write down information and ideas relating to that topic.
B. It should contain the most important point you wish to make about your topic.
C. To determine the exact topic of a paragraph, you should ask yourself some questions.
D. This is where the detailed, well-structured notes you wrote earlier will come in handy.
E. To achieve this, try to write clear, simple sentences that express what you want to say.
F. Consider each of the points you wish to make and try to arrange them in a proper order.
G. This is because a paragraph is basically a collection of sentences that all relate to one central topic.
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When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a faraway village. One day, on the road, I found the___21___pieces of a mirror. There was a German motorcycle accident.
I tried to find all the pieces and put them___22___, but it was not possible, so I kept only the___23___piece and I made it round. I began to___24___with it as a toy and became greatly attracted by the___25___that I could reflect(反射)light to dark places where the sun would never shine—in___26___holes and some other dark places. It became a ___27___for me to get light into the darkest places I could find.
I ___28___the little mirror, and, as I___29___up, I would take it out when Ihad nothing to do and___30___the game, As I became a ___31___, I grew to understand that this was not ___32___a child’s game but a metaphor（象征）for what I might do with my life. I came to ___33___that I am not the light or the source(来源) of light. But light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is ___34___, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.
I am just a single piece of a mirror whose____35____design and shape I do not know. ___36___, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this___37___—into the black places in the ____38____of men—and change some things____39____some people. Perhaps others may see and do the same. This is what I am about. This is the____40____of my life.
21. A. pointed B. dropped C. broken D. sharpened
22. A. together B. down C. back D. up
23. A. best B. largest C. smallest D. longest
24. A. talk B. share C. flash D. play
25. A. idea B. reason C. decision D. fact
26. A. pretty B. big C. deep D. empty
27. A. game B. task C. job D. trouble
28. A. forgot B. hid C. kept D. lost
29. A. grew B. stood C. came D. went
30. A. watch B. change C. remember D. continue
31. A. father B. boy C. man D. grandfather
32. A. always B. just C. really D. completely
33. A. understand B. doubt C. announce D. expect
34. A. absent B. there C. far D. home
35. A. half B. most C. whole D. other
36. A. So B. Certainly C. Besides D. However
37. A. world B. village C. country D. city
38. A. hands B. hearts C. eyes D. brains
39. A. on B. like C. with D. in
40. A. way B. meaning C. quality D. standard
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
A group of students ranging from Years 9 to 13 are benefiting from a schedule which is run by the Confucius Institute（孔子学院）at Newcastle University, which aims____41.____（build）closer academic, cultural and social ties between China and the North East of England.
Staff at the institute work____42.____（patient）with schools and the other day the pupils took part in weekly after-school sessions with teacher Qiang Xingdi____43.____gave them an introduction to the Chinese language and culture.
Already the pupils____44.____（award）certificates of achievement from the institute. They are making rapid progress in learning Chinese now. Adam said, “I have always had an interest____45.____Chinese culture and this course has been a great way to teach me all about it.”
The Confucius Institute are worldwide non-profit public institutions____46.____（design）by the Chinese government to promote its language and culture through teaching____47.____（plan）and cultural exchanges Confucius Institute at the university was set up in 2013, and it is____48.____first one in the North East.
Student Voice____49.____（say）last week, “Many thanks to the Confucius Institute at Newcastle University for helping to arrange such a memorable experience for the students and Qiang Xingdi for her weekly enthusiasm, which has certainly made a significant____50.____（impress）on them.”
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。

My dream school starts at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. They are three lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We didn’t need to do so many homework. Therefore, we have more time with after-school activities. For example,we can do reading for one and a half hour and play sports for one hour every day.
My dream school look like a big garden. There are all kinds of the flowers and trees around the classroom buildings. We can lie on the grass for a rest, or sat by the lake listening music. The teachers in the school are kind and helpfully. They are not only our teachers but also our friends.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.你班同学集体参加了一次志愿者公益劳动。

请你用英语写一篇班级日志,记录本次活动情况。

内容包括：
1.劳动的过程；
2.劳动的意义。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. B
7. D
8. A 9. B 10. D 11. D
12. C 13. B 14. D 15. A
16. G 17. A 18. F 19. B 20. D
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. D 26. C 27. A 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. B 35.
C 36.
D 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. B
41. to build
42. patiently
43. who ##that
44. have been awarded
45. in 46. designed 47. plans 48. the 49. said 50. impression
51.(1).they→there
(2).didn’t→don’t
(3).many→much
(4).with→for
(5).hour→hours
(6).look→looks
(7).去掉flowers前的the
(8).sat→sit
(9).在listening后加to
(10).helpfully→helpful
52.略。