2020届密云区第二中学高三英语第一次联考试卷及答案解析

2020届密云区第二中学高三英语第一次联考试卷及答案解析
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
If you are looking for recommendations on biographies(传记) that will educate you, comedies that will make your belly ache or stories that present the unique challenges women face every day, read on.
“Pride and Prejudice”by Jane Austen
A classic thatnever gets old. Set in ruralEnglandin the early 19th century, this tale centers around the Bennet family, a family of five daughters and their two parents who are desperate to find at least one of the daughters a wealthy match. Austen’s story focuses on the tension between marrying for love instead of just for power and fame, and also the unique pressure on women to find financial security by way of marriage at the time.
“Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldWomen in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World”by Rachel Ignotofsky
It is a sweetly illustrated and educational book that highlights the contributions of 50 women in the fields of technology, science, engineering and mathematics, from present day all the way back to 360 AD.
“Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsGood Night Stories for Rebel Girls”by Elena Favilli
It tells the stories of female heroes from years ago and present day. With color1 portraits and biographies that are short and sweet, this book is a page-turner for anyone wanting to learn about influential women in the past and present.
“Becoming”by Michelle Obama
We wouldn’t be able to write this list without including Michelle Obama’s memoir. “Becoming” has the former FLOTUS discussing her childhood, family, motherhood, her own FLOTUS impact, the pressures of being part of the first Black family in the White House and balancing her public life now. And of course she writes all about meeting her husband and the many unique challenges they faced too.
1. What didthe Bennetsintend to do?
A.To marry their daughters to rich men.
B.To lessen pressure on their daughters.
C. To help their daughters marry for true love.
D. To make their daughters financially independent.
2. Whose book will attract a teen interested in science?
A. Jane Austen’s.
B.Rachel Ignotofsky’s.
C.Elena Favilli’s.
D.Michelle Obama’s.
3.What do the four books have in common?
A.They are all classics.
B.They are all biographies.
C.They are all related to the female.
D. They are all about heroes.
B
Bob, a Burroughs junior high school football player, always had his mom cheering him on. He didn’t play exciting positions. He played as a linebacker(中后卫球员). Sadly, he often found himself at the bottom of the piles, where everyone would jump onto each other at the end of every play. Bob's mom realized it was hard for her son to hear her cheering. She hadto find a solution, but couldn't find one.
Then one day the coach from the school team asked him if he wanted to join the team. Bob wasecstatic, because he was only a ninth grader. His mom was also excited, since she loved football and especially loved watching her son play. She kept considering a way for him to hear her. A cowbell! That was it. Now from the bottom of the piles Bob would hear his mom shaking her cowbell crazily, knowing she was there for him.
Bob's team finally made it to the state championship game. What exciting time to play at Busch Stadium under the lights! This experience made Bob appreciate all the years that his mom had sacrificed everything to get him to practice every day, to wash his uniforms, and to never miss a game. He had to do something.
On the night of the state championship game, the loudspeakers introduced Bob, and as he walked onto the field his mom shook the cowbell, hard. However, it didn’t sound right. She looked its inside, and found a note saying,”Thank you, Mom.” Bob had left her a note expressing his appreciation for always being with him, filling her heart with warmth.
Finally Burroughs claimed the title of State Champion. While others were cheering and admiring the state championship cup, Bob' s mom clutched(紧握) her cowbell happily.
Years later, Bob’s mom died. While digging through her belongings, he found the cowbell with the note. Bob took it to his mom's funeral and rang it, whispering, "Thank you, Mom.”
4. What does the underlined word "ecstatic” mean in Paragraph 2?
A. Curious
B. Disappointed
C. Anxious
D. Delighted
5. Why did Bob's mom want to get a cowbell?
A. To amuse her cow.
B. To teach her cow
C. To attract his attention.
D. To make him hear her
6. What can be learned from Paragraph 3?
A. Bob's mom devoted much time to him
B. Bob was the best player in his team
C. Bob owed his success to his coach
D. Bob's mom was a football player at college
7. Why didn’t the cowbell sound as usual that night?
A. The mother was very weak.
B. Bob had put a note inside the bell.
C. The weather became terrible suddenly
D. The bell had been broken deliberates.
C
Parents and math teachers regularly asked by their school-aged charges whether math matters inreal life now have an answer.
In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research this week, Harvard Kennedy School Policy Professor Joshua Goodman took a look at what happened to students whose high schools were required in the 1980s to increase the minimum level of coursework required to graduate. What he found is that the students were more likely to increase the number of math courses they took as a result of the change in standards and that translated into higher earnings down the line.
Put simply: About 15 years after they graduated, the high school graduates who went to school when these changes took effect saw their average earnings increase about 10% for every extra year of math coursework. The findings may add fuel to the steady drum of education experts, policy makers and others calling for an increased focus on science and math education.
The increase in required math courses didn’t necessarily produce rocket scientists, Goodman notes, because the extra coursework wasn’t at a particularly high level. But becoming familiar with and practicing ly basic math skills allowed high school graduates to pursue and excel at jobs that required some level of computational knowledge, he said.
Goodman acknowledged that the earnings boost for the students connected with the up tick （上升）in math education may be dependent on the state of the economy. When Goodman checked in the late 1990s and early
2000s on the earnings of the students who graduated in the late 1985，he found that their earnings increased significantly if they took more math.
8. What does Joshua Goodman’s study find?
A. High school graduates earn more.
B. High school students prefer math.
C. Math matters a lot in one’s income.
D. Math is a compulsory course in school.
9. Why is increase in required math courses useful?
A. It produced rocket scientists.
B. It makes high school students smarter.
C. It meets the requirements of the government.
D. It enables high school graduates to get better jobs.
10. What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To give a warning to policy makers.
B. To seek help for high school students’ problems.
C. To show the great importance of learning math.
D. To tell a struggling history of high school students.
11. What could be the best title for the text?
A. Efforts matter most
B. Math makes money
C. Earnings of different graduates
D. Changes of high school courses
D
Salad plants have already been grown in old sheltersand tunnels. Urban farming is a regular topic of interest at places like the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, where leaders consider whether the world's food system, blamed for causing both obesity and malnutrition, can be fixed. There are already plenty of urban farming projects around the world, particularly in the US, Japan and the Netherlands, from urban fish and plant farms to vertical farming.
“It's becoming an expanding industry,” said Richard Ballard, one of the founders of the farm Growing Underground. “There're several other businesses starting up in London in containers, and there are other vertical
farms around the country now.”
Growing Underground is not a standard farm. The rows of crops could be in almost any tunnel, but these plants are 100 feet below Clapham High Street and show that urban agriculture is, in some cases at least, nota fad. The underground farm has occupied a part of the Second World War air-raid shelters for nearly five years, and Ballard is planning to expand into the rest of the space later this year.
Growing Underground supplies herb and salad mixes to grocery shops, supermarkets and restaurants. Being in London creates an advantage, Ballard says, as they can harvest and deliver in an hour.
He adds other advantages. Being underground means temperatures never go below 15℃surface greenhouses need to be heated. They can do more harvests: 60 crops a year, compared with about seven in a traditional farm. Electricity to power the lights is a major cost, but the company believes renewable energy will become cheaper.
Similar British companies include the Jones Food Company in Lincolnshire, while in the US AeroFarms has several projects in New Jersey, and Edenworks in Brooklyn.
12. What do we know about urban farming?
A. It leads to a healthier lifestyle.
B. It is rarely discussed at the WEF.
C. Different farming methods are used.
D. Local governments pay efforts to develop it.
13. Which of the following best explains "a fad" underlined in Paragraph 3?
A. A dream that's easy to realize.
B. A field controlled for a long time.
C. An approach to a serious problem.
D. A fashion that’s popular for a short time.
14. What can we learn about the underground farm?
A. It is more productive than a traditional farm.
B. It provides food directly to the customers.
C. Its major products are herbs and salads.
D. It uses less energy than a greenhouse.
15. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Current food system causes health problems
B. Growing Underground attracts more people
C. Traditional farming will be replaced soon
D. Urban farming isstill thought costly and time-consuming
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Have you ever found that you were able to sleep better with an air conditioner or fan running or perhaps with the sound of rain falling outside?___16___It acts as a way to mask distracting sounds. White noise is used as
background noise that is created to drown out annoying noises.
One of the things that makes noise annoying is that the mind notices changes in the sounds of the environment. No doubt this ability helped keep our ancestors alive, by warning them of the faint sound made by a fierce animal.___17___It keeps us awake or keeps us from being able to concentrate.
White noise changes the background sound. The overall level of sound in the environment is higher, which raises the volume boundary over which noises must pass in order to be noticed.___18___. So there are no details for the mind to notice. That is why it has a comforting quality--- it allows the mind to relax.
___19___It is popular for helping people sleep, and it's also useful for helping students study, or for anyone who needs to concentrate. It calms and comforts babies, and is useful for travelers who find it hard to get to sleep in different environments with their unfamiliar noises. If traffic sounds, ticking clocks, and other people's conversations are bothering you, white noise can be a good solution.
Many office environments install white noise systems to help minimize distractions for office workers, and also to maintain speech privacy. A specialized use for white noise is in treating tinnitus (耳鸣).___20___When used as part of a well-designed treatment program, it can help in training the brain' s neurons (神经元) to ignore the sounds.
A. White noise has many benefits.
B. Besides, the sound quality has no special characteristics.
C. What types of sounds are exactly included in white noises?
D. If so, then you're already familiar with the concept of white noise.
E. To us, however, becoming sensitive to every tiny noise can be a problem.
F. White noise can often bring immediate relief from the annoying sounds of tinnitus.
G. Studies suggest that using sound masking in the workplace leads to higher productivity.
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Timmy and Tammy loved playing the piano. They both practiced____21____, so they were getting better and better. One day, their teacher had some____22____news. There was a concert coming up and they both had the ____23____to play in public for the first time. Timmy and Tammy looked wide-eyed at each other with a mix of excitement and____24____.
The big day arrived. As they sat in the audience ,worrying that their names would be____25____.Then Timmy's name was ____26____. His mum looked at him with ____27____, but he sank lower and lower in his seat.
“Come on, Timmy, it's your turn," she encouraged him, but he shook his head,____28____he wouldn't be playing today. The teacher moved to the next____29____on the list, "Tammy will now play for us ". "Come on, Tammy, it's your tum," her dad said. With a deep sigh, Tammy slowly____30____her way up to the piano on the stage. Her legs and fingers____31____; she was nervous. She wanted to escape from the stage so quickly at the end that she almost____32____to bow (鞠躬)，but she did it.
After that Timmy and Tammy kept ____33____, improving at the same rate and the teacher was pleased with their____34____. After a few months, the teacher announced there would be another concert. When the concert came around again, Timmy couldn't stand up from his seat____35____Tammy walked up to the stage with more____36____than last time. These two children show us an important____37____. If you allow fear to____38____you once, it'll be more likely to____39____you. But if you have the____40____to take action although you fear, you'll feel more and more confident.
21. A. normally B. easily C. naturally D. hard
22. A. different B. exciting C. boring D. strange
23. A. duty B. right C. chance D. dream
24. A. fear B. curiosity C. doubt D. relief
25. A. discussed B. called C. replaced D. changed
26. A. recognized B. spread C. removed D. announced
27. A. hope B. shock C. anger D. mercy
28. A. instead B. however C. anyhow D. therefore
29. A. expression B. name C. order D. form
30. A. made B. lost C. judged D. marked
31. A. hurt B. rested C. recovered D. shook
32. A. refused B. stopped C. forgot D. returned
33. A. waiting B. practicing C. preparing D. writing
34. A. progress B. experience C. character D. invention
35. A. unless B. if C. after D. while
36. A. patience B. interest C. confidence D. pressure
37. A. purpose B. choice C. motto D. lesson
38. A. guard B. win C. discover D. miss
39. A. hold B. record C. report D. check
40. A. freedom B. need C. courage D. honor
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
We live in a world of plastic. Shopping bags, drink bottles, your toothbrush and even your clothes are among the everyday items____41.____(make) from plastic. But plastic isn’t fantastic, and neither is the current state of our environment.
Humans____42.____(produce) plastic on a large scale (大规模地) since the 1950s. We produce hundreds of millions of tons of plastic every year and production is only increasing.___43.___(fortunately), most of it is used only once and then thrown away. Only a small part of plastic____44.____(recycle). The majority ends up in our oceans.
A Plastic Ocean is a documentary film directed by the Australian journalist Craig Leeson. It investigates the serious harm plastic has done____45.____our oceans. What starts off as an adventure to film the blue whale, the___46.___(large) animal on the planet, leads to the shocking discovery of a thick layer (层) of plastic____47.____(float) in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The film sends the message that our actions and choices can severely influence the planet.
Plastic is so widely used because it is durable (耐用的) and cheap. However, this durability is the same quality that makes it so___48.___(harm) to the environment. Most plastics do not break down chemically. Instead, they break into smaller pieces___49.___can remain in the environment for____50.____long time.
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：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I like running. Ever since I am in third grade, I have been trained as a long-distance runner. Last year I decided run in a ten-kilometer race, for which I practiced hard. At the day of the race, I ran fast than I ever had in the past. When I approached to the last kilometer, I was one of thefirst runner tofinish. I picked up the pace and quick reached second place. With all my strength, I went dashing to thefinish line, and I wasn’t fast enough. As the result,
I got a silver medal, that I thought was the same as the one that the guy who came infirst place had.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你在伦敦某校做交换生。

学校准备成立一个以中国文化为活动主题的俱乐部，请你用英语写一篇短文，向同学们介绍你希望成立的俱乐部。

内容包括：
1.情况简介；
2.目的和意义；
3.你的期待。

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。

What I have in mind is
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
A B C
[语篇导读]
1. D
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. D
7. C
8. B
9. C 10. D 11. A 12. B
16. D 17. E 18. B 19. A 20. F
21. D 22. B 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. A 31. D 32.
C 33. B 34. A 35.
D 36. C 37. D 38. B 39. A 40. C
41. made
42. have produced
43. Unfortunately
44. is recycled
45. to 46. largest
47. floating
48. harmful
49. that / which
50. a
51.(1).am→was
(2).decided 后加to
(3).At→On
(4).fast→faster
(5).去掉approached 后的to
(6).runner→runners
(7).quick→quickly
(8).and→but
(9).the→a
(10).that→which
52.略。