2020-2021学年珠海市第九中学高三英语第一次联考试题及答案

2020-2021学年珠海市第九中学高三英语第一次联考试题及答案
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
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Bill Gates on how to fight future pandemics
WHEN HISTORIANS write the book on the covid-19 pandemic, what we've lived through so far will probably take up only the first third or so.The bulk of the story will be what happens next.
I believe that humanity will beat this pandemic, but only when most of the population is vaccinated(接种疫苗）.Until then, life will not return to normal.
As the pandemic slows in developed nations,itwill accelerate in developing ones.Their experience,however,will be worse.In poorer countries,where fewer jobs can be done remotely,distancing measures won't work as well.The virus will spread quickly,and health systems won't be able to care for the infected.
Wealthy nations can help.But people in rich and poor places alike will be safe only once we have an effective medical solution for this virus,which means a vaccine.
My hope is that,by the second half of 2021,facilities around the world will be manufacturing a vaccine.If that's the case,it will be a history-making achievement: the fastest humankind has ever gone from recognizing a new disease to immunizing（免疫）against it.
Apart from this progress in vaccines,two other big medical breakthroughs will emerge from the pandemic.One will be in the field of diagnostics.The next time a novel virus crops up,people will probably be able to test for it at home.Researchers could have such a test ready within a few months of identifying a new disease.
The third breakthrough will be in antiviral drugs.We haven't been as effective at developing drugs to fight viruses as we have those to fight bacteria.But that will Researchers will develop large diverse libraries of antivirals,which they'll be able to scan trough and quickly find effective treatments for novel viruses.
All three technologies will prepare us for the next pandemic by allowing us to intervene(干预）early when the number of cases is still very low.
Our progress won't be in science alone.It will also be in our ability to make sure everyone benefits from that science.In the years after 2021,I think we'll learn from the years after 1945. With the end of the Second World War, leaders built international institutions like the UN to prevent more conflicts.After covid-19, leaders will prepare institutions to prevent the next pandemic.
These will be a mix of national,regional and global organizations.I expect they will participate in regular"germ games”in the same way as armed forces take part in War games.These will keep us ready for the next time a novel
virus jumps from bats or birds to humans.
I hope wealthy nations include poorer ones in these preparations,especially by devoting more foreign aid to building up their primary health-care systems.This pandemic has shown us that viruses don't obey border laws and that we are all connected biologically by a network of microscopic germs,whether we like it or not.
The best analogy(类比）for today might be November 10th 1942.Britainhad just won its first land victory of the war,and Winston Churchill declared in a speech: “This is not the end.It is not even the beginning of the end.But it is,perhaps,the end of the beginning.”
4. What are the three technologies that will prepare us for the next pandemic?
①manufacturing a vaccine fast
②diagnosing a virus at home
③developing antiviral drugs
④allowing us to intervene early
A. ①②③
B. ①②④
C. ①③④
D. ②③④
5. As far as poorer countries areconcerned,which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?
A. pandemic disease is more likely to begin in poorer countries
B. Working from home can work well in poorer countries.
C. Health systems are sufficient to care for the infected in poorer countries.
D. Virus will cross borders if poorer countries fail to contain it.
6. Why is the Second World War mentioned in Para.8?
A. The fight against the COVID-19 is similar to the Second World War.
B. People are suffering just as they were in the Second World War.
C. We should cooperate globally just as we did after the Second World War.
D. Countries are fighting each other like in the Second World War.
7. What is the tone of this passage?
A. pessimistic
B. optimistic
C. neutral
D. indifferent
C
The headmaster of a primary school showed on television to support her idea that parents should “dress appropriately in daywear” when they drop off and pick up their kids from school.
Kate Chisholm, head teacher atSkerneParkAcademyin Darlington, theU.K., sent a letter home asking parents to set a better example for their children.
“I have noticed there has been an increasing tendency for parents to drop off and pick up their kids from school while still wearing their pajamas (睡衣),” Chisholm wrote.“Could I please ask that when you are sending your children, you take the time to dress appropriately in daywear that is suitable for the weather conditions?”
Kate Chisholm wants parents at her school to dress nicer. She appeared on British television station ITV to further explain her decision, saying she had started noticing the pajama trend had been picked up by “30 or 40” parents at school.
Despite her determination to make school a nicer place to be, Chisholm admits that she can't demand that parents dress up-such as Karen Routh, 49, who wore pajamas to drop off her 8-ycar-old daughter Holly, because she was running late and didn't feel well.
“I imagine there might be some people who keep up wearing pajamas for the next six months to prove a point,” Chisholm said. “I can't force people to get dressed but I will keep sending letters home in the hope that they decide to put on a pair of jeans.”
Wearing pajamas in public has also become a hot issue for some schools and States in theU.S.In 2015, aFloridaschool board member insisted on a dress rule for parents who showed up in the school in sleepwear.
8. The headmaster asks parents to pay attention to ______.
A. the way they dress
B. the relations with teachers
C. the way they treat their kids
D. the clothes they buy for their kids
9. How does Chisholm try to change this situation?
A. Asking kids to set examples.
B. Keeping them out of school.
C. Sending letters to persuade them.
D. Forcing them to change by laws.
10. Why did Kate Chisholm appear on ITV?
A. She wanted to force Karen to dress properly.
B. Parents spent less time on their clothes.
C. She wanted to explain her decision about the parents' dress.
D. She wanted to tell us more and more parents wear pajamas to school.
11. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______.
A. strict laws should be passed to stop pajamas
B. aFloridaschool will force parents to wear jeans
C. people wearing pajamas in public will be punished
D. more and more people are concerned about dressing properly in public
D
One weekend I went toBuffaloto talk at a writers' conference organized by a group of women writers. The women were serious about their writing skills, and the articles they had written were solid and useful. They asked me to take part in a radio talk show earlier in the week to publicize the conference-they would be with the host in the studio and I would be on a telephone linking from my apartment inNew York.
The appointed evening arrived, and my phone rang, and the host came on and greeted me. He said he had three lovely ladies in the studio with him and he was eager to find out what we all thought of the present state of literature and what advice we had for all his listeners who were members of the literati and had literary ambitions themselves.This hearty introduction dropped like a stone among us, and none of the three lovely ladies said anything, which I thought was the proper response.
The silence lengthened, and finally I said, “I think we should stop mentioning the words literature and literary and literati. We're here to talk about the skills of writing.” Iknew that the host had been given information about what kind of writers we were and what we wanted to discuss. But he had no other preparation. "Tell me what insights do you have about the literary experience inAmericatoday?” Silence also greeted this question.
He didn’t know what to do with that, and he began to mention the names of authors like Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow and William Styron, whom we surely regarded as literary giants. We said those writers didn't happen to be our models, and we mentioned people like Lewis Thomas and Joan Didion and Gary Wills, whom he hadn't heard of. We explained that these were writers we admired. “But don't you want to write anything literary?” our host said We were speechless.
It was one of the all-time upset radio talk shows.
12. What do we know about the talk show?
A. It was organized by women writers.
B. It was publicized at the conference.
C. The author went toBuffaloto take part in it.
D. The author participated in it inNew York.
13. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean?
A. The introduction struck us heavily with a stone.
B. The introduction received embarrassing response.
C. The introduction increased the listeners' interest.
D. The introduction carried the host's praise for us.
14. What was the author's reaction when the host mentioned the three great literary- giants?
A. Excited.
B. Inspired.
C. Uninterested.
D. Satisfied.
15. Who may be the author's model?
A. Joan Didion.
B. Ernest Hemingway.
C. Saul Bellow.
D. William Styron.
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Tiny homes are being used for housing in costly areas of theUnited States. InLos Angeles,California, tiny homes are now being used as temporary shelters for people, serving as a welfare for citizens.___16___Similar projects went up in otherCaliforniacities, includingSan JoseandSacramento, and also across theUnited StatesinSeattle,Washington;Minneapolis,Minnesota; andDes Moines,Iowa.
___17___That number is an increase of more than 12 percent from a year earlier. Over 150,000 people are homeless across the state ofCalifornia. The pandemic has forced even more people onto the streets. Homeless shelters had to turn away people to maintain social distancing rules. Thus, it’s urgent for officials to find a way out.
City officials selected the land onChandler Streetfor the tiny home village, because it could not be used for anything else.___18___The officials had to promise nearby neighbors that the village would be safe and clean. Ken Craft is head of the non-profit Hope of the Valley which operatesChandler Streetvillage. He asked worried neighbors if they would rather have the tents or the tiny homes on the land. He said the village offers services that can help people out of homelessness.___19___
The tiny homes cost $7,500 each. And the cost for the entire project was $5 million. Hope of the Valley is building two more villages inNorth Hollywood.___20___AtChandler Street, the housing is temporary, whose goal is for people to stay a few months and then move on to permanent housing.
A. More are planned in other neighborhoods.
B. The locals are in crucial need of tiny homes.
C. However, not everyone supported the plan.
D. In 2020, there were about 66,400 homeless people inLos Angeles.
E. They include mental health treatment, legal aid, and help with job searches.
F. A large number of citizens were recorded homeless in the country the year before.
G. The project is part of an emergency effort to solve the worsening homelessness crisis.
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Steve and Mark were good friends. They decided to spend their vacation in Haiti. Since they___21___noFrench, they took a French word book with them and hoped it would help them in difficult situations.
The flight was___22___, and the hotel was very comfortable. Each day after breakfast, Steve and Mark___23___a picnic lunch and dinner and went off to visit interesting places. After a while, the boys became___24___of eating picnic meals and decided to eat a big fish dinner in a good restaurant. Unfortunately, they___25___their word book in the hotel.
They___26___the menu carefully. After ten minutes, Steve said to Mark: “I don’t understand this menu.” “Neither do I,” said Mark. “I see poison on this menu. Are they___27___here?” “Maybe. They even spelled poison___28___. They spelled it p-o-i-s-s-o-n instead of p-o-i-s-o-n. But it___29___mean the same thing. Maybe we should go to another restaurant. I don’t____30____to eat something that will kill me.” But Mark was____31____, so he said, “There is no other restaurant near here, and I’m tired of walking around the city. Let’s order something else instead. It’s____32____here, so the food must be good.”
The boy looked at the menu again. They finally decided to order steak,____33____they really wanted fish. The boys just pointed to the word steak, and the waiter____34____.
As they were eating, they____35____some tourists speaking English. This____36____is delicious.” “We’re lucky we picked a restaurant that’s famous for its fish.”
Steve and Mark wondered about what they____37____. “Famous for its fish? There was no fish on the____38____!” said Mark.
Finally, Steve decided to find out what all this was about. “Excuse me, how did you order fish when it wasn’t on the menu?” “Sure it’s on the menu. It’s right here. Poisson.” The boy shouted, “Poisson. That’s poison! We were____39____why a restaurant like this could have poison on the menu.”
The tourists____40____one of them said, “No. Poisson is French for fish.”
21. A. spoke B. inspected C. taught D. commanded
22. A. terrible B. straight C. swift D. excellent
23. A. selected B. replaced C. packed D. reserved
24. A. tired B. frightened C. grateful D. fond
25. A. held B. kept C. left D. lost
26. A. studied B. learnt C. remembered D. observed
27. A. familiar B. crazy C. confident D. official
28. A. fluent B. wrong C. simple D. native
29. A. can B. should C. must D. would
30. A. want B. recognize C. request D. recover
31. A. scared B. swapped C. tired D. endangered
32. A. active B. comfortable C. peaceful D. crowded
33. A. since B. although C. unless D. because
34. A. understood B. escaped C. realized D. commanded
35. A. found B. sensed C. noticed D. heard
36. A. steak B. insect C. fruit D. fish
37. A. released B. rewarded C. concerned D. discovered
38. A. table B. menu C. show D. track
39. A. determining B. wondering C. expressing D. admitting
40. A. stopped B. shocked C. laughed D. shouted
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
SPACE:THE FINAL FRONTIER
“Are we alone? What's out there? ”___41.___(look) up at the stars, people have always wanted to learn more about space, and scientists work hard to find answers. They make___42.___(vehicle) to carry brave people into space to find out the secrets of the universe.
Before the mid-20th century, most people felt travelling into space was an___43.___(possible) dream.___44.___, some scientists were determined to help humans realize their dream to explore space.
On 4 October, 1957, the Sputnik 1 satellite___45.___(launch) by theUSSRand___46.___(success) orbited around Earth. Afterwards, theUSSRfocused___47.___sending people into space, and on 12 April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin
became the first person in the world___48.___(go) into space. Over eight years later on 20 July, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong___49.___(step) onto the moon, famously saying,“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.” Following this, many more goals were achieved. For example,America's NASA space agency launched Voyager 1 on 5 September 1977 to study deep space,____50.____it still transmits data today.
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( \ )划掉。

修改:在错的词下画横线，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词；
只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

The other day my brother and I went to the cinema by bicycle. My brother were riding with I sitting on the seat behind. As we got the first crossroads, a young man and a girl came up but stopped us. "We've found you at last," they say. But we didn't know them. Point to a policeman not far away, the young man explained, "He stopped us about half an hours ago and made us catch the next offender. Hope you don't have to wait as long as we did. Just be patience. Good a luck." We realized final that we had broken the traffic rules.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.你班将进行一场关于中国高铁(high-speed railway)的作用及意义的班会，班主任请你做一个简单发言。

现请你结合以下要点写一篇英语发言稿。

1.高铁让出行更加方便快捷；
2.高铁让世界变小。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. D
6. C
7. B
8. A 9. C 10. C 11. D
12. D 13. B 14. C 15. A
16. G 17. D 18. C 19. E 20. A
21. A 22. D 23. C 24. A 25. C 26. A 27. B 28. B 29. C 30. A 31. C 32.
D 33. B 34. A 35. D 36. D 37. D 38. B 39. B 40. C
41. Looking
42. vehicles
43. impossible
44. However
45. was launched
46. successfully
47. on 48. to go
49. stepped
50. and
51.(1). were → was
(2). I → me
(3). got后加to
(4). but → and
(5). say → said
(6). Point → Pointing
(7). hours→ hour
(8). patience→ patient
(9). 去掉a
(10). final→ finally
52.略。