2019-2020学年肇庆中学高三英语下学期期末试题及参考答案

2019-2020学年肇庆中学高三英语下学期期末试题及参考答案
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 the age of social distancing, using robots for some health care interactions is a promising way to reduce in-person contact between health care workers and sick patients. However, a key question is how patients will react to a robot entering the room. Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently set out to answer that question.
In a study, the team found that a large majority of patients reported that interacting with a health care provider through a video screen fixed on a robot was similar to an in-person interaction with a health care worker.
“We’re working on robots that can help provide care to ensure the safety of the patient and the health care workforce. The results of this study give us some confidence that people are ready and willing to join us. In a larger online survey carried out nationwide, we also found that a majority of respondents were open to having robots perform small tasks such as taking a nose swab (拭子).” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor and the senior author of the study.
After the COVID-19 pandemic began early last year, Traverso and his colleagues turned their attention toward new strategies to reduce interactions between potentially sick patients and health care workers. To that end, they created a mobile robot that could interact with patients as they waited in the emergency department. The robots were equipped with sensors that allow them to measure vital signs, including skin temperature, breathing rate, and pulse(脉搏) rate. The robots also carried an iPad for remote video communication with a health care provider.
The study suggests that it could be worthwhile to develop robots that can perform tasks that currently require a lot of human effort, such as turning a patient over in bed. These days, turning COVID-19 patients onto their stomachs requires several people. Doing Covid-19 tests is another task that takes a lot of time and effort from health care workers, who could be arranged for other tasks if robots could help.
1. Why did the researchers from MIT and BWH carry out the studies?
A. To shorten the social distance between doctors and patients.
B. To figure out the response of patients to robotic doctors.
C. To reduce the risk of being infected with coronavirus.
D. To ensure the safety of patients during the pandemic.
2. What could be learned from the study?
A. Robots are not welcomed by patients.
B. Robots will soon replace doctors.
C. Robots may help to deal with Covid-19 patients.
D. Robots can operate on different patients.
3. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A. StrengthsAnd Weaknesses In Robot Care
B. The Robotic Doctor Will See You Now
C. The Robots Speed Up COVID-19 Testing
D. The Development Of Robots In Hospitals
B
Some of my earliest memories involve sitting with my dad in his study every evening when he came home from the office. I’d watch as he put his personal items away: his watch, wallet, comb and car keys would always occupy the same spot on the table every time.
Dad’s comb was bought when he married Mum. Every evening, he would smile, hand me the comb and say: “Be a good girl and help Daddy clean it, OK?” I was more than happy to do it. This seems amundanetask, but it brought me such joy at that time. I would excitedly turn the tap on, then brush the comb with a used toothbrush as hard as I could. Satisfied that I’d done a good job, I would proudly return the comb to Dad. He would smile at me, and place the comb on top of his wallet.
About two years later, Dad started his own business. I started primary school. That was when things started to change. Dad’s business wasn’t doing so well, and he didn’t come home as much as he used to. Over the years, I stopped waiting for him to come home.
Today, I’ve graduated from college and Dad’s business are better now. Yet the uncomfortable silence between Dad and me continued. Two days before my birthday last year, Dad came home early and said to me, “Hey, would you like to help me clean my comb?” I looked at him a while, then took the comb and headed to the sink. It’s a new comb. I hadn’t noticed that he’d changed it. I brushed the comb, and it hit me then: why, as a child, helping my dad clean his comb was such a joy.
I passed the clean comb back to Dad. This time, I noticed my day has aged. But his smile is still as heartwarming as before. Dad carefully places his comb on top of his wallet. After so many years, I guess some things never change. And for that, I’m glad.
4. As a child, the author helped her dad clean his comb happily because ________.
A. she was good at cleaning the comb
B. she thought that she should do that as a good girl
C. her dad was home early to spend the evening with her
D. the comb was important for her father and her mother
5. Which of the following words can best replace the underlined wordmundanein paragraph two?
A. important
B. exciting
C. unnecessary
D. uninteresting
6. When the author said, “It’s a new comb. I hadn’t noticed that he’d changed it.”, she felt ________.
A. disappointed
B. impatient
C. tired
D. sorry
7. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Evenings With Dad.
B. How to Clean the Comb.
C. My Memory with My Dad.
D. I Love My Family Members.
C
We all use different ways to remember ideas, facts and things we need to store. Remembering is an extremely important part of our learning experience. Information process, storage and recall encourage purposeful learning.
But the brain doesn’t store everything we want or need for future use. It makes choices and tends to remember information that forms a memorable pattern. Things you learned recently can be particularly difficult to remember because they haven’t taken root in your mind.
“Forgetting allows us to remember what is really important to our survival. We forget much of what we read, watch, and think directly every day.” writes John Medina in his book, Brain Rules.
How do you avoid losing 90%of what you’ve learned? An inspiring writer and speaker Zig Ziglar once said: “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”
Repetition has been a remembering skill for ages. When you hear or read something once，you don’t really learn it-at least not well enough to store the new information for long. The right kind of repetition can do wonders for your memory. People learn or remember better by repeating things or getting exposed to information many times. Othersrepeat particular steps or processes deliberately a number of times or even years to become better at certain skills.
Daniel Coyle explains in his book, The Little Book of Talent:“...closing the book and writing a summary, even short ones, forces you to figure out the key points, process and organize those ideas so they make sense, and write them on the page. When you pick it back up weeks later, reread all of your notes or highlights to strengthen the ideas even further.”
People learn by repeating things. Better learning is a repetition process. Every time we repetitively access something we already know, we increase the memory’s stored value.
8. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. The brain tends to store 90% of the things we learn.
B. The fresher the information isthe easier to remember.
C. Thinking is more important than remembering in study.
D. The brain tends to choose and keep what it thinks important.
9. How does the writer prove his opinion?
A.By giving examples.
B. By listing numbers.
C. By borrowing words of experts.
D. By providing scientific finding.
10. What does Daniel Coyle want to say in his book?
A. You can’t pay too much attention to repetition.
B. Summarizing is a very effective learning tool.
C. Forgetting forces human brain to make choices.
D. Regular repetition helps to form good habits.
11. Which do you think is the best title of the passage?
A. How the Brain Works
B. Reading for More
C. Fighting Against Forgetting
D. Repeat to Remember
D
When I was 9, we packed up our home in Los Angeles and arrived atHeathrow, London on a gray January morning. Everyone in the family settled quickly into the city except me. Without my beloved beaches and endless blue—sky days, I felt at a loss and out of place. Until I made a discovery.
Southbank, at an eastern bend in the Thames, is the center of British skateboarding, where the continuous crashing of skateboards left your head ringing .I loved it. I soon made friends with the local skaters. We spoke our own language. And my favorite: Safe. Safe meant cool. It meant hello. It meant don't worry about it. Once, when trying a certain trick on the beam（横杆）, I fell onto the stones, damaging a nerve in my hand, and Toby came over,
helping me up: Safe, man. Safe. A few minutes later, when I landed the trick, my friends beat their boards loud, shouting: “Safe! Safe! Safe!” And that's what mattered—landing tricks, being a good skater.
When I was 15, my family moved to Washington. I tried skateboarding there, but the locals were far less welcoming. Within a couple of years, I'd given it up.
When I returned to London in 2004, I found myself wandering down to Southbank, spending hours there. I've traveled back several times since, most recently this past spring. The day was cold but clear: tourists and Londoners stopped to watch theskaters. Weaving（穿梭）among the kids who rushed by on their boards, I found my way to the beam. Then a rail—thin teenager, in a baggy white T—shirt, skidded（滑）up to the beam. He sat next to me. He seemed not to notice the man next to him. But soon I caughta few of his glances. “I was a local here 20 years ago,” I told him. Then, slowly, he began to nod his head. “Safe, man. Safe.”
“Yeah,” I said. “Safe.”
12. What can we learn about the author soon after he moved to London?
A. He felt disappointed.
B. He gave up his hobby.
C. He liked the weather there.
D. He had disagreements with his family.
13. What do the underlined words “Safe! Safe! Safe!” probably mean?
A. Be careful!
B. Well done!
C. No way!
D. Don't worry!
14. Why did the author like to spend time in Southbank when he returned to London?
A. To join the skateboarding.
B. To make new friends.
C. To learn more tricks.
D. To relive his childhood days
15. What message does the author seem to convey in the text?
A. Children should learn a second language.
B. Sport is necessary for children's health.
C. Children need a sense of belonging
D. Seeing the world is a must for children.
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The word "emoji" comes from Japanese, literally meaning "picture character".___16___They come in different categories, such as faces and people, plants and animals, and food and drink.
When first introduced inJapanin 1999, emojis were limited to 176 simple designs. Now there are more than 3,000 emojis. Due to their popularity, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year in 2015 was a pictograph
instead of a traditional word.
In today’s world, emojis have become more and more popular.___17___People like them because they add emotional meanings, and are quick and easy to use. With a smiling or sad face added to a message or post, your reader can "see" your facial expression while reading your words.
___18___For instance, if your friend is moving across the country, you may just send them a string of crying faces to express your sadness over your separation.
___19___A Shakespeare series for young readers has taken William Shakespeare’s popular plays and replaced some words with textspeak and emojis. The intention of these adaptations is to make the classics more accessible to young readers. Some people, however, believe that these new versions have taken away the heart and soul of Shakespeare’s plays.
As we can see, emojis have a tendency to pop up all over the place. Users of emojis say that they facilitate the way we communicate and express ourselves. But this makes others, especially educators, worry that we are losing the ability to communicate properly using the written word, or even the spoken word. After all, how many of us today would rather send a message packed with emojis than make a telephone call?___20___On that day, emojis will have become a real pictorial "language". But, for now, maybe it’s best that we just enjoy using them.
A. Maybe emojis’ best days are ahead.
B. The most popular emojis are classics.
C. The use of emojis has even spread to classical literature.
D. Perhaps people will one day choose to communicate in pictures.
E. It seems that emojis have clear advantages over written language.
F. Emojis are small symbols representing ideas, emotions or feelings.
G. Emojis can also help people express their feelings when they can’t find the appropriate words.
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In the process of celebratingmy 60th birthday with a 60 day kindness challenge, I got the greatest birthday surprise from my daughters. When they asked me what I___21___for my birthday, I said," please do a___22___act for someone in my ___23___"They took it way___24___
They got in___25___with all my friends and family members and asked them to do the___26___thing I had asked of them, as my birthday___27___. Then they asked them to___28___them after they had done their___29___and tell them what they had done. They also askedtheir friends to do the same.
On my birthday,I was presented with a___30___scrapbook(剪贴簿）filled with pictures and all the kindness acts written out in their own words,___31___me what they had done and how it made them feel.
The "acts" ranged from___32___frequent flyer miles(飞行积分）so someone could visit their mom, shortening showers' duration(长度）to help with the water___33___,bringing an elderly neighbor coffee in the morning, stopping to buy a___34___person lunch,___35___at a Red Cross blood drive, to many, many other beautiful gestures.
I cannot tell you how___36___I was by this gift, and even more touched that their young adult friends would___37___with such love and enthusiasm. I cannot____38____a better gift. I share this story with the___39___that many a beautiful "someone” passes on this idea. The joy of it is___40___！
21. A. wanted B. planned C. recommended D. suspected
22. A. brightness B. kindness C. happiness D. politeness
23. A. reputation B. belief C. honor D. trust
24. A. farther B. deeper C. bigger D. greater
25. A. trouble B. agreement C. touch D. tune
26. A.various B. precious C. meaningful D. same
27. A. present B. promise C. contribution D. sacrifice
28. A. talk to B. write to C. stare at D. look after
29. A. behaviour B. responsibility C. matter D. act
30. A. simple B. complicated C. gorgeous D. various
31. A. warning B. reminding C. telling D. explaining
32. A. providing B. donating C. lending D. buying
33. A. shortage B. pollution C. influence D. disaster
34. A. fearless B. homeless C. selfless D. careless
35. A. practising B. instructing C. observing D. volunteering
36. A. disturbed B. satisfied C. touched D. disappointed
37. A. celebrate B. explain C. suggest D. participate
38. A. look into B. think of C. make out D. pick up
39. A. hope B. decision C. fact D. opinion
40. A. challenging B. attractive C. interesting D. astonishing
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
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
The PopularMobileLibrary
Around the world, the mobile library projects are bringing books and even advice to communities with serious and urgent needs.
Every week, two modified blue buses___41.___(stock) with children’s books carefully run down the streets ofKabul. These travelling libraries stop off at schools in different parts of the city,___42.___(deliver) a wealth of reading materials directly to the youngsters who have limited access to books. “A lot of schools in our city don’t have access to something as basic as a library,” says Rim, a 27-year-oldOxfordUniversitygraduate who___43.___(inspire) to start Charm, a non-profit organization, in her home city having grown up without many books herself. “We were trying to understand___44.___we could do to promote critical thinking in our country.”
For many people a bus or train journey presents a rare opportunity to get stuck into a book, and in some cities public transport is being regarded as means of getting books to communities that need___45.___most. The vehicle was rebuilt not only to spread the joy of reading, but also to improve people’s life.
Comic books were left on trains, buses and underground systems in the cities around theUK___46.___(early) this month to mark 80 years of Marvel Comics.
Carriages on the two subway trains inBeijingwere turned into audio book libraries, where passengers were able to download books. To give the train a library feel, the walls are decorated with books,___47.___covers look like bookshelves.
People in theNetherlandsget to travel on trains for free during the country’s annual book week celebrations. Passengers can present a novel___48.___a rail ticket.
In the Greek city ofThessaloniki, the transport ministry installed mini libraries at bus stops___49.___(allow) passengers to read as they wait for the bus, or borrow and read on their journey to be returned at a later date.
Passengers onNew York’s subway_____50._____download free short stories, poems, essays and so on to their devices.
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 little brother is born last year and now he is nearly one year old. Last week, my mother was such busy that she asked me to take care my brother for half a day. I agreed without some hesitation. I thought it would be fairly easy. Two hours late, it turned out that I was wrong. As she was too young to walk, he crawled (爬) everywhere. Once he was out of my sight, and something bad would happen. I needed to focus my attentions all the time. As a result, I was so tiring. Raising a child is never a easy job.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的英国网友Peter上周在邮件中提到想阅读中国著名的小说，就此请你用英语给他写封回信。

内容包括：
1.推荐一本小说；
2.此书内容简介；
3.给出阅读建议。

注意:1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. C
5. D
6. D
7. A
8. D 9. C 10. B 11. D
12. A 13. B 14. D 15. B
16. F 17. E 18. G 19. C 20. D
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. A 25. C 26. D 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. B 35. D 36.
C 37.
D 38. B 39. A 40. D
41. stocked
42. delivering
43. was inspired
44. what 45. them
46. earlier
47. whose 48. instead of / rather than
49. to allow
50. can
51.(1). is→was (2). such→so (3). 在care后加of (4). some→any (5). late→later (6). she→he (7). 删除and (8). attentions→attention (9). tiring→tired (10). a→an
52.略。