2020届陈经纶中学保利分校高三英语期末考试试卷及答案解析

2020届陈经纶中学保利分校高三英语期末考试试卷及答案解析
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
Vienna Concerts 2021
Every day, one to three dozen Vienna concerts are staged. You can use this checklist to find a fantastic Vienna concert that is worth its money.
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
The Vienna Chamber Orchestra has existed for more than 70 years. The international reputation of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra is documented by worldwide tours. The length is 65 minutes.
Date: 20th June
Location: Minoritenkirehe, Minoritenplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
Tickets: 30 Euros per adult and free admission for children
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
In 2021, famous conductor Gustavo Dudamel will lead the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Expect an amazing show with top quality classical music and fireworks. The concert lasts one and a half hours. You have to arrive at least 20 minutes early to find a place to sit.
Date: 4th and 5th October
Location: Schonbrunn Palace, palace gardens, in front of Naptune fountain, Schonbrunner Schlossstrasse 47, 1130 Vienna.
Tickets: 30 Euros（students, children and senior citizens will receive a 10% discount per ticket）
Mozart Piano Sonatas（奏鸣曲）
On Saturdays and Sundays, the St. Peter’s church opens its basement to a small group of Mozart fans. In simple but elegant surroundings, international pianists perform Mozart piano sonatas on a Steinway piano. The concerts start in the early evening and last 90 minutes.
Date: throughout the year
Location: St. Peter’s basement, Petersplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
Tickets: 29 Euros for adults and 16 Euros for children between 8 and 14（children below 8 can enterfor free.）Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
To point out Vivaldi’s connection to Vienna, the Italian violinist lived in the city for some time, and eventually died there. Closer to where he was buried, the church St. Charles Borromeo regularly stages The Four Seasons, Vivaldi’s main work. The concerts start at 8:15 pm on weekends and last 60 minutes. People can arrive and enter anytime during the performance.
Date: throughout the year
Location: Church St. Charles Borromeo（Karlskirche）, Kreuzherrengase 1, 1040 Vienna
Tickets: 25 Euros for all ages（free cancellation 24 hours before the event）
1.For a couple with their 10-year-old child, which is the cheapest?
A.Mozart Piano Sonatas.
B.Vienna Chamber Orchestra.
C.Vivaldi: The Four Seasons.
D.Vienna PhilharmonicOrchestra.
2.What do the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Mozart Piano Sonatas have in common?
A.They last one and a half hours.
B.They are held in closed surroundings.
C.They offer a discount for students and the aged.
D.They are suitable for people who prefer pop music.
3.What can we know about the concert—The Four Seasons?
A.It forbids people to enter after 8:15 pm.
B.It describes Vivaldi’s stories related to Vienna.
C.It allows you to return your ticket for free a day in advance.
D.It was created by the Church St. Charles Borromeo to memorize Vivaldi.
B
Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most complex learning system-the mind of a baby. Babies might seem like no match for artificial intelligence (AI). They are terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text, and awful at video games. Then again, babies can do things beyond the reach of any AI. By just a few months old, they’ve begun to grasp the foundations of language, such as grammar. They’ve started to understand how to adapt to unfamiliar situations.
Yet even experts like Spelke don’t understand precisely how babies or adults learn. Consider one of the most impressive examples of AI, Alpha Zero, a programme that plays board games with superhuman skill. After playing thousands of games against itself at a super speed, and learning from winning positions, Alpha Zero independently discovered several famous chess strategies and even invented new ones. It certainly seems like a
machineeclipsinghuman cognitive abilities. But Alpha Zero needs to play millions more games than a person during practice to learn a game. Most importantly, it cannot take what it has learned from the game and apply it to another area.
To some AI experts, that calls for a new approach. In a November research paper, Francois Chollet, a well-known AI engineer, argued that it’s misguided to measure machine intelligence just according to its skills at specific tasks. “Humans don’t start out with skills; they start out with a broad ability to acquire new skills,” he says. “What a strong human chess player is demonstrating is not only the ability to play chess, but the potential to fulfill any task of a similar difficulty.”
4. Compared to an advanced AI programme, a baby might be better at ________.
A playing games B. identifying locations C. labeling pictures D. making adjustments
5. What does the underlined word “eclipsing” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Imitating.
B. Beating.
C. Limiting.
D. Promoting.
6. According to the text, Francois Chollet may agree that ________.
A. AI is good at completing certain assignments.
B. AI is likely to gain abilities with less training.
C. AI lacks the ability of acquiring specific skills.
D. AI performs better than humans in cognitive ability.
7. Whichwould be the best title for this passage?
A. What is exactly intelligence?
B. Why is modern AI advanced?
C. Where is human intelligence going?
D. How do humans face the challenge of AI?
C
Jennifer Mauer has needed more willpower than the typical college student to pursue her goal of earning a nursing degree. That willpower bore fruit when Jennifer graduated from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and became the first in her large family to earn a bachelor's(学士) degree.
Jennifer grew up on a farm in a family of 10 children. Her dad worked at a job away from the farm, and her mother ran the farm with the kids. After high school, Jennifer attended a local technical college, working to pay her tuition(学费), because there was no extra money set aside for a college education. After graduation, she worked to help her sisters and brothers pay for their schooling.
Jennifer now is married and has three children of her own. She decided to go back to college to advance her
career and to be able to better support her family while doing something she loves: nursing. She chose the UW-Eau Claire program at Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield because she was able to pursue her four-year degree close to home. She could drive to class and be home in the evening to help with her kids. Jennifer received great support from her family as she worked to earn her degree: Her husband worked two jobs to cover the bills, and her 68-year-old mother helped take care of the children at times.
Through it all, she remained in good academic standing and graduated with honors. Jennifer sacrificed(牺牲) a lot to achieve her goal, giving up many nights with her kids and missing important events to study. “Some nights my heart was breaking to have to pick between my kids and studying for exams or papers,” she says. However, her children have learned animportant lesson, witnessing their mother earn her degree. Jennifer is a first-generation graduate and an inspiration to her family—and that's pretty powerful.
8. What did Jennifer do after high school?
A. She helped her dad with his work.
B. She ran the family farm on her own.
C. She taught her sisters and brothers.
D. She supported herself through college.
9. Why did she choose the program at Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital?
A. To learn from the best nurses.
B. To take care of her kids easily at night.
C. To save money for her parents.
D. To find a well-paid job there.
10. What did Jennifer sacrifice to achieve her goal?
A. Her health.
B. Her chance of promotion.
C Her reputation. D. Her time with family.
11. What can we learn from Jennifer's story?
A. Hard work pays off.
B. Love breaks down barriers.
C. Time is money.
D. Education is the key to success.
D
Naomi Cooke was walking with a friend and their dogs through her local park in Burnside, on Tuesday when she heard someone shout to watch out. Cooke turned and hardly had time to react before a flying disc hit her in the face with a "big bang”, leaving her right cheek swollen almost to the size of a golfball.
Two men playing disc golf at the course in Jellie Park were about 20 metres fromthe pairwhen one of them threw the disc hard, aiming for a nearby goal.
After being hit Cooke immediately went to the emergency department, where two CT scans on her face and cheek found she had escaped any broken bones. "I'm lucky it didn't hit my eye because I think I would have lost
it." Cooke said.
Cooke often walks her dog at the park and said it was always busy with people playing disc golf, but it was not until after Tuesday that she became concerned about public safety there.
There were no signs about the disc golf course in the park, she said, and the area is shared with children and people walking their dogs.
“If it had hit one of the kids in the head, it could have killed them.” Cooke did not think she was the only person who had been hit before, and said there would be others who share her concerns.
Cooke planned to go to the council, saying it needed to realise how dangerous it was for the space to be shared by everyone and to provide disc golfers with a space where they can play safely. "There should be rules about how it's done, making it safe for everyone.”
12. What happened to Cooke on Tuesday?
A. She was struck by a golf ball.
B. She was hit by a flying disc.
C. She was beaten by two men.
D. She was frightened by a mad dog.
13. What do the underlined words "the pair" in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Cooke and her friend.
B. Cooke and her dog.
C. The two disc golfers.
D. The two CT scans.
14. How did Cooke feel about people playing disc golf in the park?
A. Acceptable.
B. Shocked.
C. Angry.
D. Worried.
15. Why did Cooke plan to go to the council?
A. To get the two men in trouble.
B. To call for a ban on disc golf.
C. To ask for personal protection.
D. To call for safer places for disc golf.
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
Magazine Activities for Learning English
Even if you just read the magazines and enjoy their content, you will be learning new words, sentence structuresand common sayings.___16___Here are some activities you can do with English magazines that will help you study English actively. You can do these out loud by writing, through discussion with someone else or even just silently in your head.
___17___Most magazines have a lot of pictures. Choose some pictures and describe what you see in them, out loud or in writing. You can find more ideas on how to learn using pictures in this article.
Add speech and thoughts. Are there any people or animals in the pictures?___18___Then write on the magazine their words or thoughts in your imagination. It is like a film showing in your mind.
Summarize the articles. You can test how well you understand an article by trying to summarize it.___19___If you can’t, try reading it again and take care to see the meaning instead of the individual words.
Discuss the articles. If you read about an event that just happened, or even if you just find something interesting, share it with someone. Have a conversation about it. It will be a great way to practice your understanding of the article and your conversation skills. Some-times reading an article leaves you with more questions. If you could ask the author anything, what would it be? What else would you want to know about the topic?___20___
A. Describe the pictures.
B. Diversify your reading practice.
C.Imagine what they would be saying or thinking.
D. You can also search for words that you found in magazines.
E. Actually, you can take your learning a step further with them.
F.Can you describe what the article is about in a sentence or two?
G. Talking about an article with its author is the best way to understand it.
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We climbed Mount Kinabalu the other day. It was our first____21____toSabah. It was a slow drive along country roads as we____22____Ranau. Ranau was a picturesque mountainside town where people____23____vegetables and fruit. At almost 5000 feet above sea level, the air was____24____cool.
The next morning, we were____25____and set off to a breakfast. Then we were assigned guides before our____26____, excited and fearful of what____27____ahead of us. By 6:30 a. m. , we were on a trail that climbed vertically into the jungle. The going was slow as we mounted up the narrow steep____28____. Although it was____29____, it wasn’t as bad as I had imagined. So I was in front of the group most of the_____30_____. There were exotic plants and curious monkeys that made the trip_____31_____.
As we climbed, we had to take several_____32_____regularly. Then finally we reached the hut at Panar Laban. The night we spent there was miserable but_____33_____as the temperature dropped to minus 1. We tried to sleep as we had to_____34_____the climb at 2:45 a.m. the next morning.
With only the comforting voice of_____35_____, we grabbed our torches and_____36_____our way up rocks
in the dark. As the hours passed, we watched the night grow_____37_____and as we reached the summit, dawn_____38_____over the horizon like a scene from a National Geographic Special. I was_____39_____the clouds at 13,000 feet or more. This is a day I will always remember, the day I_____40_____Kinabalu.
21. A. meeting B. trip C. reply D. task
22. A. looked B. hoped C. headed D. longed
23. A. grew B. selected C. gathered D. tasted
24. A. hardly B. eventually C. occasionally D. pleasantly
25. A. shouted B. awakened C. caught D. raised
26. A. voyage B. ride C. reach D. climb
27. A. lay B. came C. roared D. drove
28. A. paces B. entrances C. paths D. cliffs
29. A. impossible B. tough C. disturbing D. hopeless
30. A. road B. mountain C. way D. distance
31. A. exciting B. convenient C. imaginary D. safe
32. A. places B. steps C. positions D. breaks
33. A. cold B. warm C. memorable D. tragic
34. A. continue B. quit C. interrupt D. experience
35. A. leaders B. guides C. villagers D. tourists
36. A. overlooked B. planned C. demonstrated D. felt
37. A. noisier B. quieter C. darker D. brighter
38. A. broke B. became C. started D. turned
39. A. below B. above C. against D. beyond
40. A. arrived B. left C. conquered D. expected
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
Do you really want to be happy? Everyone says yes, but do you know the approach___41.___happiness is giving to others? Some of us may feel that if we give too much, our generosity will____42.____(take) advantage of by others. However, people who see your good intentions as weakness are in the____43.____(minor).
Danny Thomas said, “Success in life has____44.____to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” So why not start with you and me right now?
You can donate anything without____45.____(seek) reward. This is good for you and those____46.____receive your acts of____47.____(kind). Every time you give, you will receive — even if you are not looking for a reward. You will find your donations won’t make you poor. As a result of this, you will see most people, naturally, pay you back.
You should also take the time to be polite to all of the people____48.____(perform) services for you. Once you do, you would be surprised at how many of them will go out of their way to give you good service. If you establish sincerity and trust___49.___you go, you will be loved by your fellow man. As Mohammed said, “A person’s true wealth is the good he or she____50.____(do) in the world.”
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处错误，每句中最多有两处。

错误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：在错的词下划一横线，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。

Learning is very important for each individual because we have to acquire new and advanced knowledge every day. So it will bring many advantage all through our life to be the successful learner.
Successful learners are similar to many ways. They are independent thinkers but have a positive attitude towards their study. Besides, they have the competence of applying how they have learnt to practice. How can we be successful learners? In my opinion, first of all, we should develop for our interest in study, as an old saying went, “Interest is the best teacher.” Second, we should form the habit of make plans for our study and keep a good balance between study and entertainment. Finally, remember not to depend our teachers or textbooks only. A good learner often have a lifelong habit of teaching himself.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是来自晨光中学的高二学生李津。

英语竞赛中，获得一等奖。

请你分享学习英语的经历，要点如下：
(1)小时候就开始学习英语。

最初，认为学习英语很难，语法让人困惑，发音不准经常让我陷入尴尬的境地，记不住单词使我受挫等；
(2)之后，在老师的帮助下，找出自己英语没学好的原因:缺乏科学的方法，懒惰等；
(3)最后，改变学习英语的方法与态度，凭借不懈努力，学会英语。

(4)此次经历的感悟。

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参考答案
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. D 9. B 10. D 11. A
12. B 13. A 14. D 15. D
16. E 17. A 18. C 19. F 20. G
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. B 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. C 31. A 32.
D 33. C 34. A 35. B 36. D 37. D 38. A 39. B 40. C
41. to 42. be taken
43. minority
44. nothing
45. seeking
46. who 47. kindness
48. performing
49. wherever
50. does
51.(1).考查名词复数。

根据many可此知后面用名词复数，故把advantage--- advantages。

(2).考查冠词。

句意：它将给我们的生活带来许多优势，使其成为一个成功的学习者。

故把the---a。

(3).考查习惯用法。

in many ways在许多忙面，故把to---in。

特别注意：be similar to（与---相似）句意不符。

(4).考查并列连词。

句意：他们是独立的思考者，对他们的学习有积极的态度。

此处是递进的并列关系，故把but---and。

(5).考查宾语从句引导词。

句意：他们有能力运用所学到的知识去实践。

此处apply后面是一个宾语从句，从句没有引导词，practice缺少宾语，故把how---what。

(6).句意：我们应该培养我们对学习的兴趣。

此处develop（发展），是及物动词，后面直接跟宾语，故把for 去掉。

(7).考查时态。

句意：正如谚语所说，---。

句子应该用一般现在时态，故把went---goes。

(8).考查非谓语动词。

句意：我们应该养成为我们的学习制定计划的习惯。

form the habit of doing sth.养成做---的习惯。

介词后面用动名词做宾语，故把make---making。

(9).考查固定词组。

句意：记住不要只依靠我们的老师或教科书。

depend on依赖，依靠，故在depend后加on。

(10).考查主谓一致。

句意：一个好的学习者经常有自学的习惯。

句子用一般现在时态，主语是A good learner，单数第三人称，故把have---has
52.略。