2019-2020学年大连市第十五中学高三英语一模试题及答案解析

2019-2020学年大连市第十五中学高三英语一模试题及答案解析
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
Juanito Estrella has been a housekeeping manager on the US-based large passenger ship Carnival Spirit for 18 months and feels he has found the suitable position in his career(职业). He has always wanted to travel. “I guess I am a really restless spirit.I like traveling, so when the chance came, I jumped at it,” he says.
The chance came in the form of a newspaper advertisement for work on cruise ships（游船）. At the time Estrella was the housekeeping manager at a Melbourne hotel. He applied and, after two interviews, a medical check and police clearance, the job was his.
Estrella is responsible(负责的)for the cleanliness of the ship, making sure that 160 crew work properly. “I enjoy it because there is no other work-you wake up each day in a different place anda different culture. It’s exciting when you go to the next country and you don’t understand the language,” he says.
Estrella likes being busy and getting to know people from all over the world. The 1,000 crew come from 94 countries, and Estrella has learnt Spanish and a little Croatian.
But there is adownside. “You cannot get really drunk...because you have safety responsibilities to yourself and others,” he says. “You don’t really think about home.You start to think about home only when you get closer to your vacation and wonder what you’ll be doing.”
Life on the ship is anything but cruising. Estrella and his fellows work at least 10 hours a day, seven days a week. He warns the job is not for everybody. “You have to love being busy and be prepared to work every day-and to give up drinking too much alcohol.” In his spare time, if the ship sails into a port, Estrella explores it, otherwise he works out in the crew’s gym, goes on the internet or calls home.
1.Which of the following is true?
A.He has been a housekeeping manager for 18 months.
B.He doesn’t drink wine now.
C.He cannot speak a foreign language.
D.He used to be a housekeeping manager.
2.The underlined word“downside”in paragraph 5 probably means ________ .
A.disappointment
B.disadvantage
C.failure
D.loss
3.In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that life on the ship is ________.
A.not a tiring journey at all
B.just an interesting voyage
C.far from a voyage for pleasure
D.more than a pleasant travel by sea
B
Nowadays medical technology seems to be advanced enough for doctors to perform brain transplants (移植). Though this procedure (程序) has only been successfully performed on animals so far, doctors are still hopingto perform this procedure on humans. However, in my opinion, brain transplants should not be performed at all, especially not on humans because of the large number of problems and side effects that could come along with. Hopefully these dangerous side effects will convince doctors not to perform this procedure on humans.
Despite many benefits technology brings. I do not think this medical technology of brain transplants will help. We were all born with one brain and through childhood to adults our mind developed into who we are, so if with a different brain we would no longer be unique. A person with a different brain would seem to be a total stranger and in many ways they would be. No one should steal our identity from us, even if we are seriously injured, and change it to a completely new one. Also for the people who have died with healthy brains, that was their identity and it should not be given to anyone else.
Another problem with brain transplants is how doctors can choose what are “healthy” or “normal” brains. An elderly person who has died would have an aged brain that would not be as efficient as younger person’s brain. Then would doctors have to find healthy brains of the same age as the person who needs it? This could also bring up other factors such as intelligence, sex, or physical problems that a person might have had before death. Also another problem might be how long a brain can be kept “alive” after death and how it can be kept “alive” without damage.
Overall. my feelings about this operation are that it should not be done on humans until doctors have overcome all the problems and challenges that stand in their way of making human brain transplants successful.
4. Why does the author think brain transplants should not be performed at all?
A. The cost of the operation is extremely high.
B. Doctors are not able to perform brain transplants.
C. A good many problems and side effects may arise.
D. This procedure has only been successful on animals
5. What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A. People shouldn’t give their healthy brains to others.
B. Having a brain transplant means losing one’s identity.
C. Transplanting brains is changing old brains into new ones.
D. Having brain transplants indicates stealing identity from others.
6. What is the writers’ attitude towards brain transplants an humans?
A. indifferent
B. favorable
C. disapproving
D. objective
7. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To encourage brain donation.
B. To stress the importance of brain operation.
C. Toargue against brain transplants on humans.
D. To introduce the technology of brain transplants.
C
Your house may have an effect on your figure.Experts say the way you design your home could play a role in whether you pack on the pounds or keep them off. You can make your environment work for you instead of against you. Here are some ways to turn your home into part of your diet plan.
Open the curtains and turn up the lights. Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self­conscious (难为情) when they’re in poorly lit places—and so more likely to eat lots of food. If your home doesn’t have enough window light, get more lamps and flood the place with brightness.
Mind the color1 s. Research suggests warm color1 s fuel our appetites. In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room. Warm color1 s like yellow make food appear more appetizing, while cold color1 s make us feel less hungry. So when it’s time to repaint, go blue.
Don’t forget the clock—or the radio. People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories (卡路里) per meal than those who rush through their meals. Begin keeping track of the time, and try to make dinner last at least 30 minutes. And while you’re at it, actually sit down to eat. If you need some help slowing down, turn on relaxing music. It makesyou less likely to rush through a meal.
Downsize the dishes. Big serving bowls and plates can easily make us fat. We eat about 22 percent more when using a 12­inch plate instead of a 10­inch plate. When we choose a large spoon over a smaller one, total intake (摄入) jumps by 14 percent. And we’ll pour about 30 percent more liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.
8. The text is especially helpful for those who care about ____________.
A. their home comforts
B. their body shape
C. house buying
D.healthy diets
9. A home environment in blue can help people ______________.
A. digest food better
B. reduce food intake
C. burn more calories
D. regain their appetites
10. What are people advised to do at mealtimes?
A. Eat quickly.
B. Play fast music.
C. Use smaller spoons.
D. Turn down the lights.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Is Your House Making You Fat?
B. Waysof Serving Dinner
C. Effects of Self­Consciousness
D. Is Your Home Environment Relaxing?
D
From Mozart to Metallica, tons of people enjoy listening to various types of music while they paint, write, or draw. Most believe that music helps increase creativity, but an international study conducted by English and Swedish researchers is challenging that view. The study results wereechoedby scientists fromLancasterUniversity, and theUniversityofGavle, saying their findings show music actually weakens creativity.
To reach their conclusions, researchers had volunteers complete verbal problems designed to inspire creativity while sitting in a quiet room, and then again while music played in the background. They found that background music significantly weakened the volunteers’ ability to complete tasks connected with verbal creativity. The team also tested background noises like those commonly heard in a library, but found that such noises had no influence on subjects’ creativity.
The tasks were simple word games. For example, volunteers were given three words, such as dress, rise, and flower. Then, they were asked to find a single word connected with all three that could be combined to form a common phrase or word. The single word, in this case, would be “sun” (sundress, sunrise, sunflower). Volunteers completed the tasks in either a quiet room, or while listening to two different types of music: rock music or light music
“We found strong evidence of weakened performance when playing background music in comparison to quiet background conditions,” says co-author D. Neil McLatchie ofLancasterUniversity. He and his colleagues find that music negatively influences the verbal working memory processes of the brain, preventing creativity. Also, as
far as the library background noises having seemingly no effect, the study’s authors believe that was the case because library noises create a “regular state” environment that doesn’t affect concentration.
“To conclude, the findings here challenge the popular view that music increases creativity, and instead show that music, whatever type it is, is always a disadvantage for creative performance in problem solving,” the study reads.
12. The underlined word in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by ________.
A. challenged
B. accepted
C. doubted
D. heard
13. What were the volunteers asked to do in the study?
A. To play music.
B. To combine given words.
C. To create new words.
D. To connect words with music.
14. What can we infer from the study?
A. Quiet background inspires creativity best.
B. Library noise does no harm to creativity.
C. Music has a bad effect on language ability.
D. Music types matter in creative performance.
15. Which is the main idea of the passage?
A. Quiet Environments Prevent Concentration.
B. Background NoiseAffects Concentration.
C. Composing Music Weakens Creativity.
D. Listening to Music Reduces Creativity.
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Around the world, people are leaving their small towns and villages for big cities.___16___
How can we make our cites more livable for so many people?
___17___These cities will use 5G networks and the “internet of things（IoT）” to make everyday life more convenient and safer. Places like Boston and San Diego, in the UnitedStates, and Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, are using smart technology to improve city life.
___18___San Diego, meanwhile, uses sensor-packed streetlights which can track activities around them, while also monitoring temperature, humidity（湿度）and other characteristics of the air. In Amsterdam, traffic flow and energy usage are monitored and adjusted using real-time data gathered from sensors around the city.
Smart cities will be interactive, allowing people to feel like they’re shaping their environment, instead of just existing in it. “One of the most important reasons to have a smart city is that we can actually communicate with our environment in a way that we never have in the past,” Mrinalini Ingram, head of the “Smart City” initiative（倡议）at telecom company Verizon, told Tech Republic.
___19___By using sensors and 5G networks to monitor water and electricity use, city managers can figure out how to better distribute and save these resources.
Of course, it will take time and money to turn our current cities into the smart ones of the future.___20___China, for example, is investing in some cities to make them smarter. It won’t be long until even more cities start to develop their own smart infrastructure（基础设施）.
A. Smart cities will alsoallow us to save resources.
B. The answer lies in using technology to create smart cities.
C. The answer is that our life is full of wisdom, skills and technology.
D. Over 60 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in cities by 2050.
E. A smart city needs networks, communication equipment and information resources.
F. But as we’ve already seen, places around the world are using smart technology in small ways.
G. In Boston smart trash cans can inform cleaning workers when they are full and need to be emptied.
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
I have worn two wedding hands for more than a dozen years. The____21____seldom get noticed, but when I am asked about them, I respond, “I have two____22____,” an answer that is met with a smile or a strange look.
Recently, after leaving of business meeting, I stopped in the hallway to____23____text messages on my phone. As I was typing, a stranger stopped and____24____“Why are you wearing two wedding bands?” “I have to wives,” I said. “Why?” he asked.
I explained that I’d____25____my father in 1999, shortly____26____the turn of the century, which he was really looking forward to experiencing. At his funeral, as we were saying our____27____goodbye, my mother, his wife of 50-plus years,____28____his wedding band and____29____it to me.____30____, I placed the gold band on my left middle finger,____31____my wedding band. There it has____32____.
I told the____33____that I wore my father’s wedding band to____34____my father and my parents’ marriage. I also wear it to____35____myself to be the son, brother, husband and dad that my father wanted me to be. I am now 60 years old and have been married for 30 years.
The stranger nodded and, without a word, turned and walked down the stairs to the parking lot. And I returned to my____36____. However, at the____37____of my eye, I noticed the stranger walking____38____toward me. He said, “Sir you know, I have my father’s wedding band in my sock drawer at
home, and starting from today, I’m going to start wearing it.” I____39____nodded, and the stranger quietly turn and walk back down to the____40____. And I smiled.
21. A. rings B. hands C. fingers D. wedding
22. A. bands B. wives C. fathers D. mothers
23. A. click B. receive C. catch D. check
24. A. inquired B. commented C. cared D. demanded
25. A. left B. lost C. cheated D. admired
26. A. with B. after C. before D. in
27. A. content B. anxious C. disappointed D. final
28. A. fixed B. removed C. recommended D. destroyed
29. A. threw B. handed C. put D. held
30. A. Horrible B. Pleased C. Annoyed D. Surprised
31. A. related to B. due to C. next to D. ahead of
32. A. grown B. covered C. designed D. stayed
33. A. stranger B. mother C. brother D. son
34. A. miss B. honor C. praise D. reward
35. A. stress B. request C. remind D. force
36. A. messages B. rings C. hands D. meeting
37. A. expression B. eyebrow C. corner D. look
38. A. forward B. around C. over D. back
39. A. silently B. fluently C. anxiously D. equally
40. A. bus station B. shopping mall C. parking lot D. train station
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
Science experiments can help you to understand the reason behind anything and everything. As we grow up, we get to know many things which we would be____41.____(astonish) to see as kids.___42.___(make)a kid understand the difference between magic and reality, you need to show him the science behind it. You will not face any difficulty in doing so as they are always eager to know about it. It is a basic human ability to remember things which he___43.___(watch) and does by himself. Therefore, practical exercises are very important for children in their daily life.
Here are a few things you should keep in mind while____44.____(select)the experiments for kids. The___45.___(much)important thing is to take a simple concept. If the concept is too difficult,____46.____will be difficult for children to finish that experiment. So you should select simple experiments which are right for their age.___47.___other thing is that you need to choose the experiments which are not poisonous and with easy____48.____(equip) and that car be handled____49.____(easy) by your kids. The child's safety should be your priority(优先考虑的事情). I am going to give you some science experiments that will help you to make these small kids understand simple facts with complete safety_____50._____my next article.
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。

Sun Yang is known for a famous Chinese swimmer. Born in 1991, he is 1.98 meters in height and 89 kilos in weight. As swimmer, he always trains hardly. That’s why he could win two gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics, which were a great honor for our country. Although he once makes mistakes in the view of the public, but in the 2013 World Swimming Championships he made amazed achievements. Sun Yang is very brilliant that he has many fans. We should be pleased to take her as our role model.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。

你校将举办主题为“创意点亮校园”学生手工作品展。

请给你校的交换生Jim写一封邮件，邀请他参观展览。

内容包括：
1.介绍展览信息(例如：时间、地点、内容等)；
2.询问对方意向。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.邮件的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

提示词：手工作品handicraft
Dear Jim,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. B
6. C
7. C
8. B 9. A 10. D 11. C
12. B 13. C 14. B 15. D
16. D 17. B 18. G 19. A 20. F
21. A 22. B 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. B 29. B 30. D 31. C 32.
D 33. A 34. B 35. C 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. C
41. astonished
42. To make
43. watches
44. selecting
45. most 46. It
47. The 48. equipment
49. easily 50. in
51.(1). for→as；
(2).在swimmer前加a；
(3).hardly→hard；
(4).medal→medals；
(5).were→was；
(6).makes→made；
(7).去掉but；
(8).amazed→amazing；
(9).very→so；
(10).her→him。

52.略。