2020年南汇区第二中学高三英语二模试卷及答案解析

2020年南汇区第二中学高三英语二模试卷及答案解析
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
This online course is designed to provide you with work-ready skills including responding to job advertisements，writing application letters and resumes（简历）and developing inter-view skills．What topics will it cover?
● The recruitment（招聘）and selection process
● The job application
● Planning for the interview
● Developing interview skills
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course，you'll be able to...
● Assess the recruitment and selection process from an employer's point of view
● Interpret an advertisement，job description and selection criteria correctly
● Model a well-written job application
● Plan for a job interview
Who is the course for?
While this course appeals to trainees and graduates，it also applies to job seekersin the broader community looking to increasing their confidence and success rate when applying for work．
Who develops the course?
Central Queensland University．It is Australia's leading regional university．Our courses are designed alongside industry andmany include hands-on learning experiences and project-based learning．Our commitment to making real-world knowledge and skills accessible to all has seen us being awarded global recognition．
1. What will students learn if they take the online course?
A. The way to write a resume．
B. The way to put an advertisement．
C. The skills of talking with others．
D. The skills of improving reading．
2. Who is the online course intended for?
A. Trainers．
B. Interviewers．
C. Job seekers．
D. College students．
3. Which ofthe following best describes the online course?
A Cheap． B. Practical． C. Long-standing． D. World-class．
B
Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism. Their critics(批评家)seem to hate them because they have so much money to throw around. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays.
The poor old consumer! He'd have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn't create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods is largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway byelaws while waiting for a train? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or a newspaper full of the incidents and disasters.
We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmers is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!
Another thing we mustn't forget is the “small ads.” What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the “hatch, match and dispatch” column(栏目) but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or “agony” column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It's the best advertisement for advertising there is!
4. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Advertisements steal money from our pockets
B. The critics get the wrong idea of advertisements.
C. Advertisers perform a useful service to communities.
D. Advertisements are everywhere.
5. What is the attitude of the author toward advertisements?
A. He appreciates the role of advertisements.
B. He doubts the effect of advertisements.
C. He believes what is said in advertisements.
D. He complains too many advertisements in daily life.
6. Which of the following is Not True?
A. The personal or “agony” column makes us know more about human nature.
B. The only purpose of advertising is to sell goods.
C. A newspaper will cost us more if there is no advertisement on it.
D. Advertisement makes our life color1 ful.
7. Whicof the following shows the structure of the passage?
( ①=" Paragraph" 1, ②=" paragraph" 2, ③=" paragraph" 3, ④=" paragraph" 4 ⑤=" paragraph" 5)
A B.
C. D.
C
When I was a kid, my mom set aside some breakfast food for supper every nowand then. I remember one
night after a long, hard day at work, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage, and a plate of extremely burnt biscuits on the table. I waited to see if my dad would get annoyed.
All my dad did was to reach for the biscuits, smile at my mom and ask me how my day at school had been. I don't remember what I told him that night but I do remember watching him add butter and jelly on that ugly burnt biscuit and ate every bite of that thing. He never made a face nor uttered a word about it!
When I rose from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for overcooking the biscuits and I will never forget what he said, “Honey, I love burnt biscuits every now and then."
Later that night, I went to say good night to my daddy, and I wondered if he really liked his biscuits burnt. He wrapped me up in his arms and said gently, "Your mom put in a hard day at work today and she is really tired. Besides, a little burnt biscuit never hurt anyone!
As I have grown older, I've thought about that many times. Life is full of imperfect things and imperfect people. Learning to accept each other's faults and choosing to celebrate each other's differences contribute to a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship. We could extend this philosophy to any relationship, such as a husband-wife, parent-child, or friendship. Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket. Keep it in your own. So, please pass me a biscuit, and yes, the burnt one will do just fine.
8. How did the author's dad react to the burnt biscuit?
A. He set it aside for breakfast.
B. He ate butter and jelly instead.
C. He uttered his complaints loudly.
D. He ate it up as if nothing happened.
9. Which of the following words can best describe the author's dad?
A. Caring.
B. Determined.
C. Proud
D. Hardworking.
10. What does the author suggest people do in the last paragraph?
A. Show understanding to imperfect things.
B. Ask the children to respect their parents.
C. Enjoy the over-cooked biscuits willingly.
D. Make important decisions on your own.
11. In which section of a magazine may this passage appear?
A. History and culture.
B. Family and relationship.
C. Cuisine and health.
D. Entertainment and sports.
D
Our house was across the street from a big hospital so we rented our spare upstairs room to outpatients (门诊病人). One evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly sick-looking man.
His face looked terrible — it was swollen and red. Yet his voice was pleasant. He told me that he came for treatment and that he’d been hunting for a spare room since noon, but no one would give him one. “I guess it’s my face...”
For a moment, I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: “I will sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.”
The old man had a huge heart inside his tiny body. He told me that he fished for a living to support his daughter, his daughter’s five children and her disabled husband.
He didn’t complain while telling me his story. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was seemingly a form of skin cancer.
The next morning, he said, “Can I come back and stay next time I need treatment?” I told him he was welcome to come again.
On his next trip, as a gift, he brought a big fish and some large oysters (牡蛎). In the years that he stayed with us, there was never a time that he did not bring us gifts like these.
My neighbour warned me that I could lose potential renters after the old man left.
Maybe we did lose renters once or twice. But if they had known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been easier to bear. I know our family will always be grateful to have known him. From him, we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude.
12. Why did the author let the old man stay after hesitation?
A. The old man looks terrible and frightening.
B. The old man is pitifully undemanding.
C. The old man could’t rent room from others.
D. The old man talked happily with the author.
13. Which of the following shows the old man had a big heart?
A.He had a large family to raise.
B. He could sleep in a rocking chair.
C. He did’t care about his disease.
D. He wanted to come back and stay the next time.
14. What can we learn about the author from the last two paragraphs?
A. He was grateful for the neighbour’s warning.
B. He and his neighbor are good friends.
C. He truly appreciated the old man.
D. He lost potential renters happily.
15. What can be a suitable title for the text ?
A. Kindness makes the world beautiful.
B. Happiness is around thecorner.
C. No pains, No gains.
D. Live positively.
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There is no such thing as a “bad memory”, and everyone can improve their memory, as long as you are not suffering from memory loss as medical condition.___16___
Stop thinking that you have a “bad memory”. Convince yourself that you do a good memory that will improve. Too many people get stuck here and convince themselves their memory is bad, that they are just no good with names and that numbers just slip out of their minds for some reason.___17___
Use association to remember facts.____18____For example, if you have a hard time remembering that JFK was the president involved in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, just picture the handsome president swimming in an ocean surrounded by happy, oinking pigs.
Involve multiple senses. You can stimulate (刺激) more parts of your brain by using as manysenses as possible when memorizing information.___19___For example, the process of writing information by hand stimulates your brain and makes it easier to remember the information later.
___20___By developing new mental skills — especially complex ones such as learning a new language or learning to play a new musical instrument — and challenging your brain with puzzles and games, you can keep your brain active and improve its physiological function.
A.Exercise your brain as often as possible.
B.Give yourself some time to form a memory.
C.Erase those thoughts and promise to improve your memory.
D.If you want to improve your memory, there are a number of things you can do.
E.You can create an image in your mind to help you remember a word or an image.
F.This concrete image in your mind will help you link the president with this event.
G.When a larger part of your brain is active, your ability to arouse your memory will increase.
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
Love Is Blind：The Magic of Tabby
In October, 2003I started my work at my local animal shelter’s Adoption Department. Over the years, more than 50, 000 animals have____21____the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. But occasionally there are____22____animals, who touch me so deeply that I could never possibly____23____them. Tabby was one such animal.
Tabby was an ancient Cocker Spaniel, probably 14 years old. What's more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby's chances at adoption seemed____24____at best. After all, there weren’t many adopters coming here____25____, “Can you show me all of your really old dogs who are also____26____?” We had all thought that Tabby would live out the rest of her life at the____27____.
One day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, had____28____Tabby’s picture and stories on the shelter’s website at home. They were interested in meeting her! It was the only____29____we ever had from others about Tabby. What could a young child possibly see in a 14-year-old dog who was both blind and deaf？Most boys would want a dog who could grow with them and____30____through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would____31____be able to do that. But after meeting her, Loretta and Gary decided that she was the right dog for their family. They adopted Tabby!
If Tabby's story had simply ended with her____32____adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed.____33____, it was what happened after her adoption that people might regard as “magic”. Gary____34____from seizures. Since Gary and Tabby met, they became____35____. They did everything together. They became so “in tune” with one another that Tabby began to telegraph Gary's seizures____36____they occurred, giving his family a (n)____37____that one was about to strike.What's more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabby's____38____.
How could it be？Nobody could explain____39____Tabby did it. But those of us who were fortunate enough to know her and her family had____40____the magic, the kindthat has its roots in love.
21. A. passed B. broken C. opened D. locked
22. A. strange B. active C. special D. wild
23. A. recall B. forget C. leave D. abandon
24. A. possible B. great C. remote D. bright
25. A. whispering B. asking C. seeking D. explaining
26. A. disabled B. active C. stubborn D. patient
27. A. hospital B. roadside C. farm D. shelter
28. A. posted B. taken C. seen D. drawn
29. A. letter B. concern C. dedication D. donation
30. A. get B. look C. run D. break
31. A. never B. possibly C. frequently D. generally
32. A. temporary B. normal C. successful D. early
33. A. Moreover B. However C. Therefore D. Otherwise
34. A. learnt B. heard C. suffered D. recovered
35. A. unforgettable B. inseparable C. unfortunate D. uncomfortable
36. A. since B. unless C. before D. though
37. A. explanation B. warning C. suggestion D. notice
38. A. return B. birth C. arrival D. recovery
39. A. where B. how C. when D. whether
40. A. performed B. created C. achieved D. witnessed
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
The annual Water Splashing Festival of the Dai ethnic minority falls during the New Year celebrations of the Dai Calendar,____41.____(mark) the traditional beginning of the Dai new year. It is the most important festival____42.____(celebrate) by the people in Xishuangbanna. It involves celebrations that include sincere, yet light-hearted____43.____(religion) rituals (仪式).
The festival lasts for three days from April 13. On the first day, a dragon boat race____44.____(hold) on the Lancang River to ring out the old year. At night, the banks of the river are____45.____(color1 ful) lighted, and locals float river lanterns on the river. Floating river lanterns is____46.____old tradition in China,____47.____is still preserved in many cities today.
The third day, which people attach great____48.____(important) to, is reserved for water splashing. All the Dai people wearing____49.____(they) festive costumes go to temple to wash the Buddha with clear water. Then they express sincere blessings by splashing water to each other. People are pleased_____50._____being poured water which means blessings.
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.短文改错
One of my hobbies are running. I really like running, so first of all it's very cheap. It doesn't cost you some money. You can do it anywhere, as example, on a city street. If you run a lot, maybe three or four time a week, you will definitely stay in shape. After you run, it's very important drink some water. You should drink a little the water before you run and maybe you should drink a little as well when you run, especial if you ran for more than 30 minutes. Naturally, stretches are very important. Most people actually stretch before they run and I like to stretch after I run.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华。

为弘扬传统文化，你校特举办“翰墨书香”书法大赛，邀请外教Peter作英语书法组的评委。

请写一封邀请函。

要点如下：
1.书法比赛的目的；
2.书法比赛的时间及地点。

注意：1.词数100左右。

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：翰墨书香brush and ink
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参考答案
1. A
2. C
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. D
8. D 9. A 10. A 11. B
12. B 13. A 14. C 15. D
16. D 17. C 18. E 19. G 20. A
21. A 22. C 23. B 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. C 31. A 32.
C 33. B 34. C 35. B 36. C 37. B 38. C 39. B 40. D
41. marking
42. celebrated
43. religious
44. is held
45. color1 fully
46. an 47. which
48. importance
49. their 50. with##at
51.(1).are→is
(2).so→because
(3).some→any
(4).as→for
(5).time→times
(6).在drink前面加to
(7).去掉the
(8).especial→especially
(9).ran→run
(10).and→but
52.略。