2019-2020学年南京市第九中学高三英语期末考试试题及参考答案

2019-2020学年南京市第九中学高三英语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
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
Two young brothers fromMalden.Massachusettswere in the spotlight Thursday after being named “heroes" by a national organization that recognizes young people doing great things. For the Bennett brothers, the goal of their work is nothing less than helping researchers find a cure for cancer. And their inspiration came from a friend.
Thirteen-year-old Hany Bennett and his nine-year-old brother Heath run their business out of their family kitchen. "We're making lip balm（润唇膏），"Harry says. They got the idea two years ago when their friend, Timmy, was diagnosed（诊断）with cancer. brothers wanted to do something. We learned that cancer patients（lips and skin can get really dry because of chemotherapy（化疗），Hany says.
A light bulb went off in both of their young heads,and " Bennett Brothers Balm was born. "We make lip balm, which is kind of like our main product/ says Heath. They also make and sell different body balms, all natural, all handmade, while the profits benefit cancer research. "We've raised S 15,000/ Heath says.
And with the great optimism of children, they don't just want to help；they wont to win. We want to find a cure. We want to help doctors find a cure, Harry explains, The brothers are also Gelding a team for the Light the Night Walk, to fight cancer.
"I think it's great to raise money and help people who have cancer," says Heath. Their parents play a big role as well, but it's the boys who provide the most enthusiasm with a message we can all learn from. "If you want to do something... do it," Harry says. "I just feel very glad that we're helping. It feels very good”，adds Heath.
Harn and Heath just received the S 10,000 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes. Hwy intend to save some of il for college, invest some of it in their business and give the rest to charity. And their friend Timmy? "He's doing great. He's all better, Harry says.
4. What encouraged the Bennett brothers to make lip balm at first?
A. Helping a friend with cancer.
B. Finding a cure for cancer.
C. Raising public awareness of cancer.
D. Collecting money for cancer patients.
5. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. The two brothers finished their first product.
B. The two brothers came up with an idea.
C. The two brothers struggled for a stress-free life.
D. The two brothers found an effective way to study.
6. What do the Bennett brothers think of their work?
A. It is quite competitive.
B. It is well worthwhile.
C. It fails to satisfy their parents.
D. lt helps them make a big profit.
7. What does the author intend to tell us with the two brothers' story?
A. Great minds think alike.
B. Two headsare better than one.
C. Young kids can make a big difference.
D. The longest journey begins with the first step.
C
I’ve been putting my passport to good use lately. I use it asa coaster and to level unsteady table legs. It makes an excellent cat toy.
Welcome to the pandemic (疫情) of disappointments. Canceled trips or ones never planned in case they would be canceled. Family reunions, study-abroad years, lazy beach vacations. Poof. Gone. Ruined by a tiny virus, the list of countries where our passports are not welcome is long.
It is not natural for us to be this sedentary (定居的). Travel is in our genes. For most of the time our species has existed, we've lived as nomadic (游牧的) hunter-gatherers. But what if we can't move? What's a traveler to do? There are ways to answer that question. "Despair," though, is not one of them.
We are an adaptive species. We can tolerate brief periods of forced sedentariness. We pass the days glancing through old travel journals and Instagram posts. We gaze at souvenirs. All this helps. For a while. Then, what hope do we have?
I think hope lies in the very nature of travel. Travel involves wishful thinking. It demands a leap of faith, and of imagination, to board a plane for some faraway, land. Travel is one of the few activities we engage in not knowing the outcome and are drunk in that uncertainty. Nothing is more forgettable than the trip that goes exactly as planned.
That's one reason why I have faith in travel's future. In fact, I'd argue travel is an essential activity. It's not essential the way hospitals and grocery stores are essential. Travel is essential the way books and hugs are essential. Food for the soul. Right now, we're between courses, enjoying where we've been, expecting where we'll
go. Maybe it'sZanzibarand maybe it's the campground down the road that you've always wanted to visit.
8. From the first paragraph we learn that the author is _______ .
A. desperate
B. humorous
C. bored
D. worried
9. From the author's perspective, what's the point of travel?
A. To feel hopeful.
B. To make a wish.
C. To take adventures.
D. To broaden horizons.
10. How is the passage mainly developed?
A. By showing evidences.
B. By providing examples.
C. By making comparisons.
D. By interpreting opinions.
11. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Where to go for a trip.
B. Why people need to travel.
C. How to fight the pandemic.
D. What people should do at home.
D
Newspapers in Great Britainvarygreatly in their ways of carrying the news. There are serious papers for those who want to know about important happenings everywhere, both at home and abroad. There are popular newspapers for those who prefer entertainment to information.
The London newspaper that is best known outside Great Britain is probably the Times. It began in 1785, and has a high reputation for believable news and serious opinions on the news. It calls itself an independent paper, which means that it does not give its support to a particular political party. Its leading articles give the opinions of the editors, not those of the owners of the paper.
Letters to the editor are printed in the newspaper. These parts of the Times are always interesting. Most of the letters are serious subjects. But from time to time there will be long letters on the subject which is not at all serious, perhaps on a new fashion of dress, or the bad manners of the young people, compared with manners of thirty years ago.
12. If you want to get pleasure, please buy yourself _________.
A. a serious newspaper
B. foreign newspaper
C. any independent paper
D. a popular newspaper
13. The Times has been famous to outside Great Britain for ________ years.
A. 19
B. 85
C. 236
D. 229
14. The Times is an independent paper because ________.
A. it supports no political parties
B. it is not controlled by the British Government
C. it gives special support to all the political parties.
D. the editor’s opinions are not examined by the owners of the paper
15. The underlined word “vary” in the passage probably means “_________”.
A. improve
B. compete with each other
C. are different
D. keep in touch with each other
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Alexander Miles is an African-American inventor who is largely known for his contribution to the elevator industry. He was awarded a US patent in 1887 for his design for the elevator. The design allowed the doors of the elevator to open and close automatically when it stopped on a floor.____16____
Alexander Miles’ invention was an improvement on the previous models of the elevator, mainly due to safety concerns. Older models of the elevator would not close automatically before the elevator started to move.____17____There were accidents where people would fall out of the elevator and into the shaft (电梯通道).
____18____His device worked by attaching a flexible belt to the elevator cage. When the belt bumped against drums that were placed directly above and under the floors, it caused the elevator doors to open and close. The doors were further operated through a series of levers and pulleys (滑轮).
Sometimes, people might mistake Alexander Miles for inventing the elevator door system.____19____The first patentfor elevator doors was given to John W. Meaker. Mr. Meaker was awarded the patent for the creation of the elevator door system in 1874, 13 years before Mr. Miles’ patent.
Despite the confusion, Alexander Miles made a huge contribution to the elevator.____20____His patent for automated opening and closing doors is still used by most elevators today.
A. Actually, it’s not the case.
B. They are located below and above the doors.
C. Before his design, the doors had to be opened by hand.
D. This could be dangerous if someone forgot to close the door.
E. Modern-day elevator doors are still designed based on his basic principles.
F. At this time, Miles was inspired to work on elevator door mechanisms.
G. Miles’ improvement to the elevator was basically a matter of structure.
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
A mouse looked through a hole in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. He was very frightened that it was a mousetrap.___21___to the farm yard, the mouse announced the___22___“There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mouse trap in the house! Raising her head, the___23___who was looking for food said, “Mr. Mouse, this is a___24___problem for you, but it is of no importance to me; I cannot be bothered by it.”
The mouse___25___the pig and told him, “There is a mousetrap in the house.” “I am so___26___,Mr. Mouse,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it to___27___you.” The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, “Does a mousetrap have___28___to do with me? Am I in great danger?” The mouse was very___29___and then he returned to the house to____30____the mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound of the mousetrap____31____its prey was heard.____32____the farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught, she was____33____by the poisonous snake the trap had caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a big poisonous snake whose tail the trap had caught. She got a high fever soon, so the farmer killed the chicken to cook____34____chicken soup for her. Her____35____became worse so that friends and neighbors came to____36____with her day and night. To____37____them, the farmer killed the pig. However, the farmer's wife did not get well, unfortunately, she____38____and many people came for her funeral so that the farmer had the cow killed to provide____39____for all of them to eat.
____40____the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem, you should try your best to help him or her because it may concern you in a larger degree.
21. A. Traveling B. Leading C. Pointing D. Returning
22. A. idea B. mind C. warning D. story
23. A. cow B. pig C. snake D. chicken
24. A. serious B. different C. strange D. normal
25. A. arrive at B. turned to C. asked for D. moved to
26. A. sorry B. glad C. excited D. honest
27. A. give B. help C. show D. teach
28. A. everything B. anything C. something D. nothing
29. A. tired B. ashamed C. disappointed D. satisfied
30. A. buy B. protect C. hide D. face
31. A. finding B. meeting C. catching D. watching
32. A. Before B. If C. After D. When
33. A. encouraged B. attracted C. bitten D. beaten
34. A. salty B. fresh C. bitter D. sweet
35. A. sickness B. work C. temperature D. problem
36. A. quarrel B. sit C. sleep D. go
37. A. feed B. please C. support D. invite
38. A. died B. escaped C. recovered D. changed
39. A. bone B. bread C. meat D. soup
40. A. But B. And C. For D. So
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
Every insect has its own way of finding____41.____unique kind of food. So do bees though they seem to fly aimlessly when searching for the____42.____(sugar) liquid called nectar (花蜜). Flowers act as the insects’ air-traffic controllers and give bees clues about how much a plant can offer. Those clues can be the color1 , the type and the smell of petals, all of which tell bees whether____43.____(land) or not. Among them the color1 s play the most significant role. The insects keep track of the color1 of the flowers that are____44.____(extreme) rich in nectar.
However, color1 can’t guarantee bees a good meal as it may change according to the angle of sunlight____45.____(hit) its petals. A yellow flower, for example, may look somewhat blue from one angle and red from another.
Beverley Glover, a biologist at the University of Cambridge in England, together with her colleagues,____46.____(study) the effect of the color1 of petals on the flight of bees for many years, guessing that the____47.____(strong) of petals’ iridescence (色彩斑斓) might____48.____(relate) to how bees find the petals.
Glover and her colleagues tested their assumption in the lab.____49.____their surprise, they found that bees felt confused sometimes when the petals were very iridescent_____50._____bees had no problem finding the flowers with more nectar when the petals were not very iridescent.
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。

Dear Jack,
Welcome to my school! Upon your arrival, there will be a party for you organizing 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 about whatever interest you.
The host family will also show you off some famous scenic spots. You can see people selling kites everywhere because our city was home to kites．There are varieties of kites to choose. So isn’t that a good idea to buy some for your friends? Write to me unless you have any questions about the schedule．
Yours,
Li Hua 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Fortune Cookie Friends
Jenny frowned (皱眉)as she helped her mother and father set out the cooking supplies in the shiny steel kitchen. Her family had just moved here from San Francisco, having bought a small restaurant, which was set to open in the next few days.
“Moving here was a dumb idea," Jenny complained mostly to herself
"What's that?” Her mother asked, opening a box and lifting out several pots.
"Nothing," Jenny mumbled（咕哝）.The girl had been angry about the move, but her parents had made the decision and were now too busy getting ready for the grand opening to listen to her complaints.
The first few days at her new school hadn't been easy, either. She found it hard to talk to people she didn't know, and it seemed like the students hadn't even noticed her. Jenny sighed and got back to washing dishes.
On the day of the grand opening, Jenny's parents were all smiles, welcoming customers into the restaurant, brightly decorated in gold and red. Even Jenny was in a good mood as she rushed around, seating guests, handing out menus, and pouring tall glasses of water. This was a big day for her family.
At one of the tables sat a family with two daughters who were about Jenny's age. As she filled their glasses, Jenny realized the twins were in her class. Jenny ducked her head down so her long hair covered her face, and she turned away from the table.
Jenny's mother found her soon after, in the kitchen loading the dishwasher.
"Honey, what are you doing back here? We need you out front with the customers."
"Mom, I don't want to be out there. There are kids from school!"
"So?" her mother asked. "That's good! Go to take them some fortune cookies and say hello!" She said to Jenny, pointing at the fortune cookies paper which read: “Many friends are found with a single 注意：
1.续写的词数应为150左右：
2.请按照如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Jenny absently read the fortune cookie paper.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________
She placed the cookies down, and bravely looked the girls in the eyes.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________
参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. B 9. A 10. D 11. B
12. D 13. C 14. A 15. C
16. C 17. D 18. G 19. A 20. E
21. D 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. A 27. B 28. B 29. C 30. D 31. C 32.
D 33. C 34. B 35. A 36. B 37. A 38. A 39. C 40. D
41. a 42. sugary
43. to land
44. extremely
45. hitting
46. has studied
47. strength
48. be related
49. To 50. while
51.(1).organizing→organized
(2).attend 去掉to
(3).differently→different
(4).that→where
(5).interest→interests
(6).off→around
(7).was→is
(8). choose 后加from
(9). that→it
(10). unless→if/when
52.略。