2019-2020学年北京市海淀区教师进修附属实验学校高三英语期中试题及参考答案

2019-2020学年北京市海淀区教师进修附属实验学校高三英语期中试
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 Sweden, McDonald’s is building “bee hotels” on the back of its roadside billboards (广告牌) to help save the country’s decreasing bee population. It launched the campaign together with outdoor advertising giant JCDecaux. Six large wooden bee hotels, with drilled holes on the front, first appeared on the back of a north-facing billboard in Jarfalla in September.
“Without pollination (授粉) from bees, a thirdof the food we eat would be threatened.” McDonald’s said. But it turns out that at least 30 percent of the country’s wild bee population is endangered, according to the fast-food chain. A big problem is that they lack places to live. Based on data released by Chalmers University of Technology, we know Sweden owns 274 species of bees, of which 37 species are bumblebees, and more than a third are decreasing or face the risk of decreasing. Their natural habitats have been damaged by factors including the changes of agricultural activities and fast urbanization (城市化). Fortunately, most bees are able to survive in urban habitats, like the bee hotels.
Every McDonald’s authorized restaurant in Sweden will be allowed to order their own bee hotel billboards and design the messages by themselves, as the fast-food chain says. It is their hope that the number of hotels could grow to a greater extent in the near future. Great efforts in addition to that have been made by the company. On World Bee Day, May 20, it introduced “the world’s smallest McDonald’s”. McHive, which could function as an actual beehive (蜂箱). Designed by set designer Nilsson himself, the creation was sold for $10,000 at a charity fundraiser held for Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Beehives can be found on the rooftops of some McDonald’s restaurants in Sweden, too. This took place in certain areas but is now followed by an increasing number of participants. More McDonald’s restaurants are making an effort to improve the living conditions of wild bees by removing the grass round their restaurants to grow flowers and plants instead.
1. According to the passage, the challenge that wild bees are facing is ________
A. the fast process of industry.
B. the world's Large amount of trash.
C. the rapid development of urbanization.
D. the sharp growth of population.
2. How does McDonald's help wild bees in Sweden?
A. By providing shelters for bees.
B. By offering food to bees.
C. By advertising rescue activities.
D. By putting up more billboards.
3. What is the best title for the text?
A. Wild bees in danger
B. The loss of bees’ habitats
C McDonald’s bee hotels
D. The protection of wild bees
B
If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them. If you don’t, you may get lost. If you get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them findyou. You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help.
Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.
If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches(树枝). Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass.
When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again easily. When you are lost, the most important thing to do is to stay in one place.
4. If you get lost in the forest, you should _________.
A. try to find your friends in no time
B. stay in one place and give signals
C. walk around the forest
D. shout as loudly as possible
5. Which signal is a call for help?
A. Crying twice.
B. Shouting here and there.
C. Whistling everywhere in the forest.
D. Shouting or whistling three times together.
6. When you hear two shouts or two whistles, you know that _________.
A. someone needs your help
B. something terrible will happen
C. people will come to help you
D. someone is afraid of an animal
7. What’s the meaning of the last paragraph?
A. Use branches to make a bed.
B. Drop branches to look for water.
C. Pick off branches to build another house.
D. Leave branches to help you find your way back.
C
If you've ever had a dog, you know just howdeep a connection you can develop with “man's best friend”. But a dog's life is much shorter than humans, about 12 to 15 years long, which means every dog owner has to go through the heart­breaking moment when their loving pet passes away.
Why not make a clone of that dog then? This is the solution offered by a South Korean company, Sooam Biotech Research Foundation. The company has already successfully cloned at least 400 dogs, mostly for US customers, ever since it pioneered the technique in 2005. Now, Sooam Biotech has introduced its business toUKdog owners as well, offering them dogs that look just like their lost ones.
To clone a dog, researchers first need to take a skin cell from a living dog or one that has just died. Meanwhile,another dog is selected to supply an egg. Researchers then replace the DNA in the egg with that from the skin cell and implant the egg into the womb (子宫) of a female dog. The egg grows into a puppy over the following two months. The whole process takes less than a day, but it comes at a shockingly high price — around ￡63,000.But if you can't afford it now, you can also save the cell in a laboratory andaccess it at a later date.
However, magical as cloning might sound, there is no guarantee that the cloned dog will be a perfect copy of the original one. Just like identical twins of humans, they share the exactly same DNA but there will still be small differences between them. “The spots on a Dalmatian (斑点狗) clone will be different, for example” Insung Hwang, head of Sooam Biotech, told The Guardian.
Dog owners will also have to accept the fact that personality is not “cloneable”. Apart from genes, personality is also determined by upbringing and environment, which are both random elements that cloning technologies simply cannot overcome, Professor Tom Kirkwood atNewcastle University,UK, told The Telegraph.
Perhaps bringing our dogs back by cloning is not the best way to remember them after all.Kirkwood, a dog owner himself, pointed out, “An important aspect of our relationship with them is coming to terms with the pain
of letting go.”
8. What service does Sooam Biotech Research Foundation offer?
A. Making copies of pet dogs.
B. Giving pet dogs identical twins
C. Helping dogs give birth to more puppies.
D.Helping dog owners love their dogs more.
9. Which order is correct in the dog cloning process?
a. An egg is taken from another dog.
b. A skin cell is taken from the pet dog.
c. The egg grows into a puppy in two months.
d. The egg is placed in the womb of a female dog.
e. The DNA in the egg is replaced by the DNA from the skin cell.
A.a→d→b→e→c.
B. a→e→b→d→c
C. b→a→d→e→c.
D. b→a→e→d→c.
10. What can we learn about dog cloning from the passage?
A. It has not been put into practice until recently.
B. It is very popular among US andUKpet owners.
C. It might not give the owners an exactlysame dog.
D. It is very expensive and usually takes half a year to complete.
11. What doesKirkwoodthink of dog cloning?
A. He disagrees with it.
B. He supports it.
C. He is curious about it.
D. He thinks it unbelievable.
D
Cuckoos don’t bother building their own nests—they just lay eggs that perfectly imitate those of other birds and take over their nests. But other birds are wishing up, evolving some seriously impressive tricks to spot the cuckoo eggs.
Cuckoos are often know asparasites, meaning that they hide their eggs in the nest of other species. To avoid detection, the cuckoos have evolved so that eggs seem reproduction of those of their preferred targets. If the host bird doesn’t notice the strange egg in its nest, the little cuckoo will actually take the entire nest for itself after it comes out, taking the other eggs on its back and dropping them out of the nest.
To avoid this unpleasant fate for their young, the other birds have evolved a few smart ways to spot the fakes, which we’re only now beginning to fully understand. One of the most amazing finds is that birds have an extra colour-sensitive cell in their eyes, which makes them far more sensitive to ultraviolet wavelengths and allows them to see a far greater range of colours than humans can. This allows cautious birds to detect a fake egg which might be exactly the same to our eyes.
Fascinatingly, we’re actually able to observe different bird species at very different points in their evolutionary war with the cuckoos. For instance, some cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of the redstarts. The blue eggs these cuckoos lay are practically alike to those of the redstarts, and yet they are still sometimes rejected. Compare that with cuckoos who target dunnocks. While those birds lay perfectly blue eggs, their cuckoo invaders just lay white eggs with brown irregular shaped spots. And yet dunnocks barely ever seem to notice the obvious trick.
Biologists suspect these more easily fooled species like the dunnocks are on the same evolutionary path as the redstarts, but they have a long way to go until they evolve the same levels of suspicion. What’s remarkable is that the dunnocks fakes are so bad and the redstart ones so good, and yet cuckoos are still more successful with the former than the latter.
It speaks to just how thoroughly a species’ behavior can be changed by the pressures of natural selection, or it might just be a bit of strategic cooperation on the part of the dunnocks. Biologists have suggested that these birds are willing to tolerate a parasite every so often because they don’t want to risk accidentally getting rid of one of their own eggs.
12. This passage can be most likely found in a ________.
A. science survey
B. nature magazine
C. zoo advertisement
D. travel journal
13. What does the underlined word “parasite” in paragraph 2 most probably refer to?
A. Animals that work together to raise young.
B Small harmful animals such as worms or mice.
C. Animals that can adapt to changing environments.
D. Animals which live on or inside other host animals.
14. Which of the following is TRUE about the dunnock according to the passage?
A. It is colour-blind and therefore cannot identify foreign eggs in the nest.
B. It can easily remove cuckoo eggs from the nest because fakes are so bad.
C. It is a host bird that is more likely to raise a cuckoo chick than the redstart.
D. It is unable to evolve and hence accepts cuckoo eggs that appear in the nest.
15. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Dunnocks may eventually learn to recognise foreign eggs.
B. Redstarts seem to be less suspicious compared to dunnocks.
C. Cuckoo birds are good at taking responsibility for their own young.
D. It is very easy for cuckoos to imitate the colouring of the dunnock’s egg.
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
Human's Greatest Achievements
The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, but the human race has lived on it for just 200,000 years. In that short time, we have achieved amazing things.
___16___The list is almost endless. The invention of the airplane has changed our lives. The discovery of antibiotics has saved the lives of millions of people. Can you imagine living without electricity? What about the printing press? Without the printing press, you wouldn't be reading this. In the last 50 years, there have been great achievements in communication, such as radio, TV, computers, the Internet, and smartphones.___17___ What about the arts? The arts have brought pleasure to many people, but are the Beatles and Bach more important than antibiotics?___18___
Finally, we must not forget humans’ early achievements.___19___We can't imagine modern life without cooked food and cars.
What are humans’ greatest achievements? To answer the question, we need to decide what we mean by “great”.___20___Or is it just something that makes us say “Wow” like the Great Wall? What do you think?
A. Do you think it is difficult to have great achievements?
B. Is it something that makes us rich or happy or save lives?
C. We enjoy these things every day because they are free to use.
D. They used fire for cooking and heating and invented the wheel.
E. Many of humans’ great achievements are in science and technology.
F. And is Mickey Mouse as important an achievement as going to space?
G. We could probably live without them, but life wouldn't be as interesting.
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Anna was a 9-year-old girl from a small village. She___21___primary school till 4th grade at her village. For the 5th grade on, she had to get a(n) ___22___to a school in a city nearby. She was very happy knowing that she was___23___by a very famous school in a city.
Today was the first day of her school. Anna went to her___24___after asking fellow students for ___25___. Upon seeing her ___26___clothing and knowing she is from a small village, other students started ___27___her. Luckily, the teacher arrived in no ___28___. She asked everyone to keep ___29___. After that, the teacher_____30_____Anna to the class. Then she told everyone to write down the 7 wonders of the world. When everyone except Anna had _____31_____their answer paper, the teacher came and asked Anna, “What happened, dear?” Don’t _____32_____. Just write what you know as other students have _____33_____learned about it.”
Anna replied, “I was thinking that there are so many things, and which I should_____34_____to write?” When she handed in her answer paper, the teacher reading everyone’s answers and the majority (大多数) had answered it _____35_____.
The teacher was_____36_____as the students had remembered what she had taught them. At last the teacher _____37_____Anna’s answer paper and started reading. “The 7 Wonders are — To be able to see; To be able to hear; To be able to feel; To laugh; To think; To be kind; To love!”
The teacher stood_____38_____and the whole class was speechless. Today, a girl from a small village _____39_____us of the precious (珍贵的) gifts that God has given us, which is truly a _____40_____.
21. A. visited B. attended C. avoided D. left
22. A. gift B. award C. trial D. admission
23. A. rejected B. doubted C. accepted D. introduced
24. A. classroom B. dormitory C. library D. canteen
25. A. advice B. permission C. protection D. direction
26. A. special B. poor C. familiar D. tight
27. A. laughing at B. playing with C. pointing at D. talking with
28. A. way B. case C. time D. hurry
29. A. calm B. quiet C. safe D. friendly
30. A. explained B. announced C. introduced D. mentioned
31. A. submitted B. received C. prepared D. collected
32. A. challenge B. sigh C. pretend D. worry
33. A. even B. hardly C. already D. never
34. A. choose B. agree C. expect D. manage
35. A. timely B. independently C. unwillingly D. correctly
36. A. determined B. pleased C. relaxed D. exhausted
37. A. picked up B. made up C. relied on D. took in
38. A. nervous B. worried C. shocked D. delighted
39. A. warned B. reminded C. searched D. persuaded
40. A. trick B. lesson C. relief D. wonder
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
When you graduate from high school or university, is learning finished? The answer___41.___(be) no. In many countries, people continue learning all___42.___(they) lives. Why is lifelong learning important? How can it help you? Lifelong learning can be useful in many ways. People___43.___want to change jobs often return to study at a university. Some jobs require workers to keep learning new ways___44.___(do) things. For example,___45.___(doctor) must always learn about new illnesses and treatments.
Lifelong learning can prepare people for unexpected changes, such as, losing your job and having to depend___46.___new skills to find work. By continuing to learn, you'll more___47.___(easy) take advantage of new job opportunities (机会). Lifelong learning can help people stay___48.___(health) and independent. Many older people also feel that lifelong learning helps them stay close to young people. Lots of older people are now learning___49.___to use computers.
“I want to remain active...for my own health,” said Mr. Salinas,____50.____91-year-old man taking computer classes. “I see my computer learning as part of an active life and something that I can share with my family.”
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.Nowadays more and more people lives in cities like to keep dogs as pets. Some of my friend believe people can get comfort and develop their patient and love by keeping dogs as pets. Personally, I don’t really like dogs, and sometime I do hate some dog owners. They can be so annoying. They talk about their dogs as if they are actually their little babies. Some dogs make too much noise at night, that makes it hard for people living nearby fall asleep. Beside, not all dog owners think of others while they are walking their dogs. As really makes me angry, though, is the way they let their dogs get out of the control.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，一年一度的荷花展将在北京圆明园公园举行。

请给酷爱摄影的外教Jack写封邮件。

内容包括：
1.花展时间；
2.交通方式；
3.邀请观看。

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。

参考词汇:荷花lotus flower
Dear Jack,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. D
6. C
7. D
8. A 9. D 10. C 11. A
12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A
16. E 17. G 18. F 19. D 20. B
21. B 22. D 23. C 24. A 25. D 26. B 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. C 31. A 32.
D 33. C 34. A 35. D 36. B 37. A 38. C 39. B 40. D
41. is 42. their
43. who/that
44. to do 45. doctors
46. on/upon
47. easily 48. healthy
49. how 50. a
51.(1). lives→living (2). friend→friends (3). patient→patience (4). sometime→sometimes (5). are→were (6). that→which (7). 在fall前加to (8). Beside→Besides
(9). As→What (10). 删除control 前的the
52.略。