2020年清华大学附属中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案

2020年清华大学附属中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案
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
A Lifelong Devotion to Keeping People Fed
Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the hybrid rice varieties.
Yuan graduated from the Southwest Agriculture Institute in 1953 andbegan his teaching career at an agriculture school.
In the 1960s, when a serious food shortage sweptChina, Yuan decided to devote himself to studying how to increase the yields of rice. He then began a lifelong connection with rice.
Yuan succeeded in growing the world’s first high-yielding hybrid rice varieties in 1973, which could reach a yield of over 500 kg per mu (about 0.067 hectares), rising from the previous yield of only 300 kg per mu. For the next four decades, he continued to work on research and development of hybrid rice, achieving increasingly higher outputs. In 2020, hybrid rice developed by Yuan’s team achieved 1,500 kilograms per mu in two growing seasons, a new world record.
InChina, where rice is the main food for the majority of the 1.4 billion people, the planting area of hybrid rice has reached 16 million hectares, or 57 % of the total planting area of rice, helping feed an extra 80 million people a year.
Hybrid rice has also been grown in over 40 countries, including theU.S.,Brazil,India,Vietnam, thePhilippinesandMadagascar. The total planting area of the hybrid rice has reached 8 million hectares overseas.
Even after a great success, Yuan never held himself back from making new breakthroughs. In 2017, his team started to grow seawater rice inQingdao. The rice was designed to grow in saline-alkaline land and survive even after being completely in seawater. His team planned to develop a type of seawater rice that could be planted in 6.67 million hectares of saline-alkaline land acrossChinato boost the country’s rice harvest by about 20 %. In 2018, Yuan’s team was invited to plant the saline-alkaline tolerant rice in experimental fields inDubai, which achieved huge success. In June 2020, his team started to grow seawater rice on a farm at an altitude of 2,800 meters in northwestChina’sQinghaiProvince. The experiment succeeded.
Yuan had two dreams — to “enjoy the cool under the rice crops taller than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the global food shortage.
1. What made Yuan Longping decide to study rice?
A. A serious food shortage.
B. Agriculture development.
C. His interest in the rice experiment.
D. His wish to plant the tallest rice in the world.
2. From the passage, we know that Yuan Longping ________.
A. developed a variety of hybrid rice
B. worked as a scientist after graduation
C. started to grow seawater rice inDubaiin 2017
D. grew the first high-yielding hybrid rice varieties in 1953
3. We can infer from the passage that Yuan Longping’s most outstanding qualities are________.
A. modest and outgoing
B. honest and creative
C. generous and optimistic
D. responsible and devoted
B
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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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
C
Mikah Frye, a 9-year-old boy, was walking down the streets with his grandmother discussing Christmas gifts when he saw some homeless people struggling to stay warm in the cold night. Then he was thinking about a way to help the homeless to spend a warm Christmas.
That thought stayed in Mikah Frye’s mind and when he reached home, Mikah informed his parents not to buy the Microsoft XBox gaming device he had asked for earlier. Mikah realized that by not buying the $300 device, he could instead donate over 30 blankets to the homeless. He knew how much it meant to be warm in the cold holiday season.
Three years ago, Mikah and his parents were the ones living in a homeless shelter. Having suffered a financial crisis, they too had lost their house, not knowing where their next meal would come from and sharing a blanket
every night. Mikah was six years old then but he remembered what it was like to have to give back that precious blanket every morning.
Reaching out to the emergency shelter programme that looked after them 3 years ago, the family donated 60 blankets in the end, each with a personalized message of hope in Mikah’s handwriting stating: “They gave me a blanket, but I had to leave it. That’s why I want you to have your own blanket. Today, I live in my own house, and someday you will too. Your friend, Mikah.”
The homeless people at the shelter may not have been able to give Mikah a Christmas gift in return but his gesture was noted by the billion dollar company Microsoft who made sure that Mikah was fooled into visiting their store so that Santa Claus could personally deliver an XBox from the company to him as a reward for making the top of “Santa’s list of nice boys” that year.
8. Why did Mikah give up his Christmas gift?
A. The device was out of date.
B. His parents had a tight budget.
C. He wanted to spend a warm Christmas.
D. He decided to do something charitable.
9. What made Mikah have a better understanding of the situation of the homeless?
A. His own experience.
B. His parents’ education.
C. His visiting to the emergency shelter.
D. The cold weather during the holiday season.
10. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. The homeless gave Mikah a gift in return.
B. He finally got the gift he wanted on Christmas.
C. The company Microsoft fooled Mikah into buying an Xbox.
D Mikah wrote a thank-you note to the emergency shelter he lived in.
11. What might be the best title for the text?
A. Mikah’s Precious Christmas Gift
B. Mikah’s Giving Warmth on Christmas
C. Microsoft Rewarded Nice Boys on Santa’s List
D. The Homeless Needed Blankets on a Cold Christmas
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Many people want to be famous and live the life of a celebrity. The singing competition is just one out of hundreds that people hope to make a success of themselves.____16____.
Tip 1 : Realize your dreams by visualizing them first
You should have a clear vision of what you'd like to achieve.____17____. If you can clearly hold a picture of success in your mind, your subconscious can bring it to pass. In the best-selling book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, author Joseph Murphy said, "If I act as though I am …I will be.
Tip 2 :Analyze your career motivations
By understanding your true motivations, you'll stand firm about what you are, willing to give up in order to succeed.____18____. Without this level of self-awareness, you can easily go astrayin this business. As they say, if you don't stand for something，you can easily fall for everything.
Tips 3:____19____.
Expect to be knocked down , but learn how to get up quickly and see the lesson in every negative experience. Realize you can't controleverything that happens in this crazy business, but you can definitely control your attitude. You must focus on the positive. To survive in the biz. you must be prepared to fight forward.
Tip 4 : Adapt to change by diversifying yourself now
____20____How true! It really docs pay to broaden your career opportunities to increase your earning potential and “staying power" in the music business.
A. Expect the worst to happen
B. Every career requires qualifications and special training.
C. You must see, feel and believe in the potential outcome.
D. You'll also willingly accept the consequences of your actions.
E. Remember that finding your passion is a blessing within itself
F. If you are determined to pursue a career in the music industry, you can read these tips.
G. It was Charles Darwin who once said, “It is not the strongest of species that tend to survive: It is those that are
most adaptable to change."
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He came from somewhere south ofRome. I didn't know when or how he got toAmerica,____21____maybe. But one evening I found him standing in the driveway, behind my garage, extremely thin.
＂My name Tony Trivionno and I mow（割）your lawn. "he said. It was hard to comprehend his___22___English. "I mow your lawn, "he said again and walked away. Yes, these Depression days were___23___，but how could I_____24_____a person who had come to me for help? When I got home the next evening, the lawn had been mowed, the walks_____25_____and the garden weeded.____26____, my wife assumed I had_____27_____him. I told her of my____28____the night before and we thought it strange that he had not asked for_____29_____。

The next two days were busy, and I_____30_____about him. But on Friday, I saw him, behind my garage again and busy around.
I managed to_____31_____some small weekly pay for him and each day he cleaned up the yard and took care of any little_____32_____. He was very helpful whenever there were any heavy objects to lift or things to fix in my factory.
＂I want to be an apprentice（学徒），”he said one day._____33_____we had a good Prentice school that trained laborers, I doubted whether he had the ability to____34____blueprints and micrometers（千分尺）.Therefore, he took a_____35_____in pay to become an apprentice.
Many years later, I found him in our____36____ meeting spot, much_____37_____than he used to be and taking on a look of_____38_____. He wasa millionaire now!
Tony came toAmericaseeking the American Dream. But he did not find it-he____39____it himself. Tony didn't begin on the bottom rung（横档）of the ladder. He began in the_____40_____. Tony' s affairs were tiny, and all he had were 24 hours a day. He wasted none of them and succeeded finally.
21. A. swam B. cycled C. drove D. jogged
22. A. repeated B. broken C. strange D. simple
23. A. special B. boring C. ordinary D. difficult
24. A. give away B. turn away C. pick up D. cheer up
25. A. swept B. decorated C. blocked D. marked
26. A. Hopefully B. Fortunately C. Apparently D. Secretly
27. A. hired B. warned C. scared D. promoted
28. A. impression B. experience C. doubt D. anxiety
29. A. trouble B. award C. pay D. leave
30. A. wandered B. thought C. worried D. forgot
31. A. bring in B. leave out C. work out D. take in
32. A. tasks B. kids C. animals D. arguments
33. A. Now that B. In case C. Even if D. Ever since
34. A. read B. record C. copy D. draw
35. A. rise B. cut C. step D. break
36. A. casual B. memorable C. formal D. familiar
37. A. happier B. luckier C. heavier D. paler
38. A. astonishment B. confidence C. amusement D. confusion
39. A. discovered B. acknowledged C. deserved D. created
40. A. office B. school C. hotel D. basement
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
Paul Grisham returned home from his 13-month assignment in Antarctica in 1968,____41.____his wallet didn’t. Grisham, 91, joined the Navy in 1948 as a weather technician before being shipped to the frozen continent____42.____(work) as a meteorologist.
After five decades, Grisham was reunited with his wallet — which he forgot all about. Inside the wallet____43.____(be) Grisham’s navy ID, driving license, a recipe, a tax with holding statement, and receipts for money orders sent to his wife. He was surprised by____44.____young he looked at his old ID card that was put inside. “It brought back____45.____(memory). Oh yeah, I had dark brown hair at that time,” the 91-year-old said____46.____a laugh.
The recovered wallet____47.____(find) by Stephen. Stephen saw the wallet in a shop and bought it. With the help of McKee’s organization, he saw____48.____online post to help find the owner.____49.____(lucky), Grisham and his wallet were together again. Grisham said that his time in Antarctica was “_____50._____(usual) and memorable.” The temperature in the winter months would drop as low as -65 degrees.
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（∧），并在该句下面写出该加的词。

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。

Wang Lin is a child who has grown up in the SOS Children’s Village. It was in 1992 he was sent there. At that time she was only four years old. Fortunately, he met many kind and warm-hearted worker. They took good care of him and he lived a happily life. Two years ago, he was admitted to an university. Upon hear the news, all the people in the village feel very glad. “He is an intelligent but hard-working boy. He sets a good example to the children here, and we are all proud for him,” one worker said. Wang Lin loves the village and the people there, so he often returns back to see them whenever he is free.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你校学生会正招聘英语节主持人（host），请你用英语给负责学生会的老师写一封申请信，内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.自己的优势；
3.表达期望。

注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Sir/Madam,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. A
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. D 9. A 10. B 11. B
12. C 13. D 14. C 15. D
16. F 17. C 18. D 19. A 20. G
21. A 22. B 23. D 24. B 25. A 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. C 30. D 31. C 32.
A 33. C 34. A 35.
B 36. D 37.
C 38. B 39.
D 40. D
41. but
42. to work
43. were 44. how
45. memories
46. with 47. was found
48. an 49. Luckily
50. unusual
51.(1). 在1992后加that
(2). she→he
(3). worker→workers
(4). happily→happy
(5). an→a
(6). hear→hearing
(7). feel→felt
(8). but→and
(9). for→of
(10). 删除back
52.略。