2019-2020学年北京八一中学高三英语期末考试试卷及参考答案

2019-2020学年北京八一中学高三英语期末考试试卷及参考答案
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
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
In order to develop the pandemic-stricken economy, China recovered the street vendors（商贩）in a new nation-wide method known as “street stall economy'', allowing residents to set up open-air shops on the sidewalks or other available public spaces.
Street vendors were once an important part ofChina's economy and urban landscape. However, sinceChina's economy took off in the last decade, street vendors have gradually disappeared from the streets and many of them opened shops of their own.
Fast forward to today, street vendors have come into our sight again after cities such asChengduand Yantai succeeded in creating hundreds of thousands of jobs by giving street stalls permission to operate.China's tech industry was quick to jump on the street vendor trend, with tech giants including Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan and flocking todish outcheap loans, offer support and payment solutions to millions of owners of newly established small businesses.
Ant Financial, Alibaba's fintech arm, promised its mobile wallet app Alipay will give interest-free loans to 30 million vendors, and 70 billion RMB of interest-free credit line to consumers to make purchases everywhere, including street vendors.
provided 50 billion RMB worth of quality goods for street vendors, and provided each one of them with a maximum 100,000 RMB interest-free loan to stock up.
Tencent's WeChat announced to offer payment solutions, marketing supports and even training for up to 50 million street vendors, with the end goal of digitally transforming them to increase their income.
Guangzhoucity partnered with WeChat this month to hold a live streaming shopping festival to improve sales of local produce. In attempts to promote various live streaming platforms, many tech CEOs also made their own live streamed e-commerce debuts（首次亮相）selling goods coming from all over the country.
4. What does the underlined part “dish out" in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. turn down.
B. provide with.
C. pay off.
D. apply for.
5. Compared with and Tencent, what unique measure did Ant Financial take?
A. It provides interest-free loans for vendors.
B. It offers interest-free credit line to customers.
C. It provides quality goods for street vendors.
D. It offers marketing support to businessmen.
6. What's the purpose of the cooperation between WeChat andGuangzhoucity?
A. To volunteer to train street vendors.
B. To give away free goods to the poor.
C. To promote to develop the local economy.
D. To help CEOs make their own streaming platforms.
7. What can be the best title for the text?
A. Chengdu and Yantai Succeeded in Creating Job Opportunities
B. "Street Vendor Economy” Greatly Increases People's Income
C. The Whole Nation Are Involved in a New Economy Model
D.China's Major Tech Companies Are Helping With "Street Vendor Economy”
C
Faming is a tradition among many in South Dakota, one that is not always easy to keep in the family. But one family has survived four generations and hopes to continue long into the future. The year was 1933 when Ed VanderWal's father first stepped onto the farm. Now 80 years later, Ed carries the passion(热情) his father gave him for farming every daywhile working the fields on the family farm in Volga.
“Well, I was in the first grade when my dad moved here to this farm and I grew up on the farm. And that's what I was interested in doing more,” Ed said. But that love of working the land didn't stop with Ed. He's passed it down to his six sons. Some of them run farms of their own now, but two of them, Scott and David, still work side by side with their dad every day.
Some people might worry that working sun up to sun down with family seven days a week would lead to a few family spats(争吵). But for the VanderWals, the constant time together works just fine.
“When families work together on a farm, it's a challenge at times getting along. Everyone has to pull their weight and do their share. And that, of course, transfers from one generation to the next,” Scott said.
And while they all get along like any family, with good days and bad, it's tradition that keeps each generation teaching the next.
“But we taught them to work with animals at a young age, like most farmers do. So it's nice to be able to pass
that tradition onto the next generation,” Scott said.
The youngest generation of the VanderWals, Ed's three grandsons and a granddaughter, all started learning farming techniques at a young age.
8. Why did Ed VanderWal devote himself to the farm?
A. Because he grew up on the farm.
B. Because he was affected by his father.
C Because he could do nothing but work on the farm.
D. Because he wanted to set a good example for his sons.
9. What can we know from Paragraph 2?
A. Managing a farm is a real challenge.
B. Ed has divided his farms into six parts.
C. Ed taught his sons how to work on farms.
D. Scott and David own their own farms now.
10. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. The VariderWals have strict family rules.
B. Ed's tradition has great effect on the local.
C. Ed's grandchildren will drop out of school.
D. Ed's farms have no lack of successors (继承者).
11. What's the best title of the passage?
A. A Faming Family.
B. A Successful Farmer.
C. The Agricultural 'Tradition.
D. The Agricultural Generation.
D
The Native American of northern California were highly skilled at basketry, using the reeds, graeses, barks, and roots they found around them to fashion articles of all sorts and sizes-not only trays, containers, and cooking pots, but hats, boats, fish traps, baby carriers, and ceremonial objects.
Of all these experts, none excelled the Pomo-a group who lived on or near the coast during the 1800's, and whose descendants continue to live in parts of the same region to this day. They made baskets three feet in diameter and othersno bigger than a thimble (顶针). The Pomo people were masters of decoration. Some of their
baskets were completely covered with shell pendants；others with feathers that made the baskets’ surfaces as soft as the breasts of birds. Moreover, the Pomo people made use of more weaving techniques than did their neighbors. Most groups made al their basketwork by twining--the twisting of a flexible horizontal material, called a weft, around stiffer vertical strands of material, the warp. Others depended primarily on coiling-a process in which a continuous coil of stiff material is held in the desired shape with tight wrapping of flexible strands. Only the Pomo people used both processes with equal ease and frequency. In addition, they made use of four distinct variations on the basic twining process, often employing more than one of them in a single article.
Although a wide variety of materials was available, the Pomo people used only a few. The warp was always made of willow, and the most commonly used weft was sedge root, a woody fiber that could easily be separated into strands no thicker than a thread. For color1 , the Pomo people used the bark of red-bud for their twined work and dyed bullrush root for black in coiled work. Though other materials were sometimes used, these four were the staples in their finest basketry.
If the basketry materials used by the Pomo people were limited, the designs were amazingly varied. Every Pomo basket maker knew how to produce from fifteen to twenty distinct patterns that could be combined in a number of different.
12. The word “fashion” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. maintain
B. organize
C. trade
D. create
13. What is the author's main point in paragraph 2?
A. The neighbors of the Pomo people tried to improve on the Pomo basket weaving techniques.
B. The Pomo people were the most skilled basket weavers in their region.
C. The Pomo people learned their basket weaving techniques from other Native Americans.
D. The Pomo baskets have been handed down for generations.
14. According to the passage, the relationship between red-bud and twining is most similar to the relationship between ______.
A. bullrush and coiling
B. weft and warp
C. willow and feathers
D. sedge and weaving
15. Which of the following statements about Pomo baskets can be best inferred from the passage?
A. Baskets produced by other Native Americans were less varied in design than those of the Pomo.
B. Baskets produced by Pomo weaves were primarily for ceremonial and religious purposes.
C. There were a very limited number of basket-making materials available to the Pomo people.
D. The basket-making production of the Pomo people has been increasing over the years.
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 yourself waiting at the stop for your bus to arrive and have a stranger ask a commonplace question? Perhaps you’ve stood in line waiting for a coffee and feelthe need to just look over to the person next to you and ask about the weather.___16___
Small talk may seem like a waste of time.___17___“Big relationships are built on small talk,” Lindy Pegler, who has a master's degree in psychology, wrote on Medium. In fact, we spend a lot of our time making small talk.___18___Coming up with small conversations is the foundation (基础) of these relationships.
The benefits of such conversations can actually contribute to our happiness and benefit our lives as a whole. Researchers found that having a healthy amount of acquaintances (熟人) and maintaining these relationships contribute toone’s sense of belonging to a community.
___19___It can be as simple as asking about their day or commenting on the traffic. “First and foremost, small talk is an act of politeness,” Pegler noted.
Who knows where this can lead?___20___You might find someone who has a common interest, or maybe even someone who turns out to be a close friend. There is one thing for sure. Making small talk can brighten our day.
A. Some people don’t like small talk.
B. So how does one start making small talk?
C. Small talk is a natural way for people to connect.
D. But it serves an important role in our social interactions.
E. In fact, the small connections we make can lead to big results.
F. This is small talk, and despite the name, it’s actually a big part of daily life.
G. Often, we find ourselves making small talk with the same people from time to time.
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When do you stick with somethingeven if you’re not the best at it?
When people find out my son Sam is a(n)____21____mathlete, they usually ask if my husband and I are “math people”. The answer is definitely not. Sam’s done pretty well____22____his parents aren’t math people. But sometimes I wish I was a math person so I could help him or at least give him better____23____.
Ninth grade was____24____for Sam, math-wise. He left the____25____of middle school math, where he was kind of a big fish, and started____26____with the high school kids. In the most recent competition, he didn’t do as well as he’d hoped and was____27____by a math camp he’d applied to. He’d set a high goal for himself and hadn’t quite____28____it.
He____29____into my office one day last week, clearly discouraged. “I don’t know why I didn’t do better,” he said,____30____on a chair. “Maybe I should just____31____. I’m not good enough.”
I knew how he felt. The thought____32____us all-that we just aren’t good enough, and that all our hard work won’t____33____in the end and we can’t turn our____34____into success. I don’t have an answer for Sam. I am still____35____. How to____36____difficulty, disappointment, rejection, boredom. How to commit ourselves to something because it’s beautiful and worth our while, not because we’re____37____we’ll succeed.
“Maybe you’re not,” I said, looking at my son. To me, he is incredible and accomplished, but I know he is____38____by doubt just like anyone. “But I, for one, don’t think that’s been decided yet.”
To devote time to something with no guarantee of its____39____is risky and terrifying. But, then again,____40____is everything. And we don’t need to be a math person to know that.
21. A. competitive B. sensitive C. generous D. anxious
22. A. unless B. because C. considering D. providing
23. A. life B. advice C. solution D. taste
24. A. interesting B. attractive C. boring D. tough
25. A. principle B. world C. test D. age
26. A. running B. travelling C. swimming D. hunting
27. A. admitted B. received C. caught D. rejected
28. A. scored B. reached C. pursued D. managed
29. A. stole B. marched C. wandered D. jogged
30. A. sinking B. lying C. sliding D. hiding
31. A. struggle B. experience C. try D. quit
32. A. interrupts B. discourages C. limits D. suits
33. A. mind B. occur C. matter D. differ
34. A. effort B. luck C. support D. belief
35. A. practicing B. risking C. suffering D. learning
36. A. bring up B. go over C. push through D. turn down
37. A. certain B. happy C. optimistic D. anxious
38. A. warned B. troubled C. destroyed D. guided
39. A. quality B. shelter C. virtue D. success
40. A. so B. nor C. such D. it
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
I woke up this morning____41.____(excite) but nervous as today was the day I would begin my journey of senior high school. Thousands of thoughts rushed through my mind.____42.____if I can’t fit in? Will I make____43.____good impression? I couldn’t even enjoy the big breakfast my mom had made for me. Seeing I was____44.____(terrible) nervous, my mom told me I would be fine if I followed the school rules.
So I smiled and hoped for the best possible outcome (结果). The bus ride seemed so long, but soon enough there I was. I stood outside of the school building. It seemed a bit____45.____(big) than what I had imagined, and I went inside.
As soon as I opened the classroom door, all I____46.____(see) were other kids. They all looked anxious and worries spread over everyone’s face. Then I knew I was not the only one feeling this way.
I spent the rest of the day on the____47.____(explore) of what everything was like. The worried faces disappeared as time went on. We got to know____48.____(we) teachers a bit more. They were neither unfriendly____49.____strict.
Before I knew it, the day was over. I don’t know why I felt nervous and worried. Senior high school may seem____50.____(frighten), but it’s just like junior high.
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 mom, my dad or my friends don’t know me as much as one person who I admire a lot. He’s my grandfather. My parents are both working busy and I have little chance see them during the week. They left the
house at 7:30 every morning and get home around 8 pm. So it is my grandfather who keeps me company. He is the one which takes me for long walks and cycle rides. She plays football with me every Saturday. We share with stories and jokes and spend many happy moment together. If I do something wrong, it is he who saves me from get into trouble with my parents. My life is much rich because of my grandfather.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.你校英文报“Growing Pains and Gains”栏目正在进行征文活动。

请高三的你写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：
1.你感受到的压力；
2.你如何看待并应对的。

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。

Live with Pressure
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参考答案
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. B
5. B
6. C
7. D
8. B 9. C 10. D 11. A
12. C 13. D 14. C 15. B
16. F 17. D 18. G 19. B 20. E
21. A 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. B 29. C 30. A 31. D 32.
B 33.
C 34. A 35.
D 36. C 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. A
41. excited
42. What 43. a
44. terribly
45. bigger 46. saw
47. exploration
48. our 49. nor
50. frightening
51.(1).or→and
(2).busy→busily
(3).chance后添加to
(4).left→leave
(5).which→who/that
(6).She→He
(7).去掉with
(8). moment→moments
(9).get→getting
(10).rich→richer
52.略。