2020届西宁市第四中学高三英语期末考试试题及参考答案

2020届西宁市第四中学高三英语期末考试试题及参考答案
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
Four remarkable inventions
For more than half a century, the Consumer Electronics Show(CES) has been the place for companies and inventors to display their newest and coolest gadgets.
Here are our picks for some of the most interesting and creative inventions.
The Sweet Little Rolling Robot
Samsung has released Ballie, a tennis-sized robot that can follow you around the house, answer your questions, and entertain your pets. Since it's equipped with a camera, it can keep an eye on your home while you're away. It's like a smart assistant that goes wherever you do, rolling into your bedroom to ring your wake-up alarm, rolling to the kitchen to turn on the toaster and giving you the weather report as you brush your teeth.
The Insoles to Pick Up Your Pact
Any runner knows the right shoes are key to your speed. But Nurvv insoles promise more than mere cushioning. The insoles transmit data to a coaching app, which offers information on your technique and performance. It measures your foot strike and assesses your injury risk. The app then generates personalized workouts to set targets and help you beat your best speeds. Half marathon, here you come!
The No-Studio-Needed Yoga Class
Can't keep up your commitment to a yoga studio membership? The Yoganotch personal yoga assistant lets you drop into a virtual class any time you want. Follow along with a set series while 3-D sensors tell you whether you need to straighten your legs a bit more. The idea it that it improves your form while reducing the risk of injury.
The Dau-Enhanced Grill
While working by sight, smell and feel, a chef may appreciate Weber's new Smart Grilling Hub. It can monitor your pork and turkey while an app gives advice about cooking technique and safe temperatures.
1. What can the Sweet Little Rolling Robot do?
A. Feed your pets.
B. Hay tennis with you.
C. Take you wherever you want.
D. Assist you to do your housework.
2. Which of the following is suitable for a runner?
A. Ballie.
B. Nurvv.
C. Yoganotch.
D. Smart Grilling Hub.
3. What do we know about the Weber’s invention?
A. It uses virtual reality.
B. It is convenient for cooking.
C. It makes meals for you automatically.
D. It helps you do well in your yoga exercises.
B
We are in lack of enough sleep, according to Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. And thishas great consequences on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed, she ly declares, is nothing short of a sleep revolution. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.
In her bestseller Thrive, Arianna wrote about our need to redefine success through wellbeing, wisdom, wonder, and giving. Her discussion of the importance of sleep as a gateway to this more fulfilling way of living struck such a powerful chord (弦) that she realized the mystery and transformative power of sleep called for a fuller investigation (调查).
The result is a scientifically sweeping and personal exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation (剥夺), and the new golden age of sleep science that is showing the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health — from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna shows how our cultural removal of sleep as time wasted damages our health and our decision-making and our work lives and shortens our personal lives. She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She decides the dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways of our addiction to technology disturb our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep.
In today’s fast-paced, always-connected and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important than ever. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
4. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The importance of sleep.
B. The necessity of improving sleep.
C. The way to improve our sleep.
D. The effect of sleep on health.
5. What can be inferred about Arianna’s attitude to success?
A. She thinks good sleep is more important.
B. She doesn’t think much of becoming successful.
C. She thinks it wrong to sacrifice health to success.
D. She is concerned about the nature of success.
6. What can be said about Arianna’s investigation?
A. It is really of great value.
B. It is scientific and historical.
C. It costs Arianna’s sleep in practice.
D. It covers all necessary aspects scientifically,
7. What influence does TheSleep Revolution have on society?
A. It helps to slow down the pace of modern life.
B. It warns people against taking sleeping pills.
C. It warns the harm of inadequate sleep of people.
D. It helps to stress the value of sleep to success.
C
I waschecking out at the supermarket counter on Wednesday night, ready to pay for my bananas, when all of
a sudden, fear came upon me. My wallet was gone. And I could only have left it one place: the G9 bus, from which I had gotten off minutes earlier and which was now speeding to some stops. The moment of realizing it was gone was followed by mental math. How much time and money would it cost to replace the credit cards, the driver's license, the expensive lipstick ($ 55!).
Two hours after I was back at my house, I heard a knock on the door. My husband answered while I sat in the dining room on the phone with a credit card company. "Does Jennifer live here?" I heard someone say. In her hand was my wallet, without a penny missing. She left before I could offer my gratitude to her.
After I posted the story, I heard from her boyfriend, who identified the good citizen as Erin Ball, a 26-year-old girl working for a trade organization.
Once I figured out her, I called to thank her. She said she spotted my wallet and thought that it's more dangerous to go to a stranger's house than leaving the wallet with the driver, but she still decided to take the
chance. "If I were in that situation, I would want someone to try to find me," she said. Ball doesn't find her actions particularly excellent. She added, "It's not hard to do small things for people."
After Ball found my wallet, she decided to post a picture of my driver's license online before going to my house, trying to see if anyone knew me. No sooner had she left my doorstep than I got emails from two neighbors who recognized my face, both offering to help me find my missing property.
Ball found my house on a bitterly cold night,for which I was extremely grateful. Looking back, I'm not surprised someone had wanted to help a stranger. A warm current of honesty and harmony is running through this town.
8. What do we know about the author according to paragraph 1?
A. She missed the G9 bus.
B. She paid for her bananas.
C. She replaced the credit cards.
D. She found she had left her wallet on the bus.
9. Who helped the author find Ball?
A. The G9 driver.
B. The girl's boyfriend.
C. The author's neighbors.
D. The author's husband.
10. What did Ball do first after finding the wallet?
A. Ball called the author.
B. Ball went to the author's house.
C. Ball gave the wallet to the bus driver.
D. Ball posted a photo of the author's driving license.
11. Which of the following best describes Erin Ball?
A. Humorous and kind.
B. Generous and demanding.
C. Honest and warm-hearted.
D. Caring and outgoing.
D
In Japan many workers for large corporations have a guarantee of lifetime employment. They will not be laid
off during recessions or when the tasks they perform are taken over by robots. To some observers, this is capitalism at its best, because workers are treated as people not things. Others see it as necessarily inefficient and believe it cannot continue if Japan is to remain competitive with foreign corporations more concerned about profits and less concerned about people.
Defenders of the system argue that those who call it inefficient do not understand how it really works. In the first place not every Japanese worker has the guarantee of a lifetime job. The lifetime employment system includes only “regular employees.” Many employees do not fall into this category, including all women. All businesses have many part time and temporary employees. These workers are hired and laid off during the course of the business cycle just as employees in the United States are. These “irregular workers” make up about 10 percent of the nonagricultural work force. Additionally, Japanese firms maintain some flexibility through the extensive use of subcontractors. This practice is much more common in Japan than in the United States.
The use of both subcontractors and temporary workers has increased markedly in Japan since the 1974-1975 recession. All this leads some people to argue that the Japanese system really is not all that different from the American system. During recessions Japanese corporations lay off temporary workers and give less business to subcontractors. In the United States, corporations lay off those workers with the least working experience. The difference then is probably less than the term “lifetime employment” suggests, but there still is a difference. And this difference cannot be understood without looking at the values of Japanese society. The relationship between employer and employee cannot be explained in purely contractual terms. Firms hold on to the employees and that employees stay with one firm. There are also practical reasons for not jumping from job to job. Most retirement benefits come from the employer. Changing jobs means losing these benefits. Also, teamwork is an essential part of Japanese production. Moving to a new firm means adapting to a different team and at least temporarily, lower productivity and lower pay.
12. According to the passage, a woman in Japan _________.
A. cannot get a lifetime job
B. is impossible to get a part time job
C. will be employed for life
D. is among the regular workers
13. Which of the following is NOT the reason why Japanese workers stay with one firm?
A. They don’t want to lose their retirement benefits.
B. They are not adaptable people.
C. Any change of jobs will make them less paid.
D. They get used to the teamwork.
14. It can be inferred from the passage that _________.
A. those who want to change jobs frequently in Japan should think twice
B. those who are first laid off by American corporations are temporary workers
C. the use of subcontractors makes Japanese firms less flexible
D. the Japanese system is totally different from the American system
15. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The extremely hard situation during recessions.
B. The extensive use of subcontractors in Japan.
C. The characteristics of corporations in the United States.
D. The features of lifetime employment in Japan.
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
How to Live a Healthy Lifestyle
You probably more or less know the basics on how to live a healthy lifestyle. Some obvious steps include eating more greens and superfoods and cutting back on sugars and alcohol.___16___how many of us can say that we're practicing these things on a regular basis? In fact, it's possible to take a simple, realistic approach towards living a healthy lifestyle.
Take time off
You know those vacation days that have been piling up at work? Use them! Or at the very least, take a sick or personal day. Taking time away from work can have both physical and psychological health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart attacks, depression, and stress._____17_____
Read anything
Just read. It stimulates the brain and enhances brain function. Reading,____18____can help keep decrease mental decline in old age and possibly even keep Alzheimer's at bay.
___19___.
We do almost everything on our phones, computers, TVs, and tablets, so a digital break might seem impossible, but taking time away from it every day is a good thing. It can improve sleep, increase productivity, and deepen your personal connection with those around you. It doesn't have to be a long break, either. 30 minutes is OK.
Stop caring what other people think
It's not worth expending your energy on the opinions of others, especially when they become detrimental to you.___20___. You'll attract people who genuinely like and value you for who you are.
A. Be true to yourself
B. which exercises your brain
C. Take a Break From Technology
D. Turn Off AllTechnology Apps
E. And when you remember all these things
F. But while it's easy to write all these things down
G. Further, a little break from your job can actually increase your productivity.
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The phone rang, but I was annoyed to answer it. Seeing the____21____number, I supposed it was the endless_____22_____to sell me something I had ly no____23____in.
“Daddy.” It’s Alyce, my 12-year-old daughter. “Mommy was just in a car accident.” My heart____24____and then began pounding. A deep____25____came, “I’m all right, but Mommy...”
I sprinted (全速跑) a few blocks to what looked like a shoot for a____26____movie. Fire engines, police cars, and ambulances were____27____parked in the street; helicopters circled. A bus was on the wrong side of the road. In front of it were the____28____remains of Susan’s car. Susan was____29____under the dashboard (仪表盘). It____30____she had broken nearly every bone, and she spent three months in the____31____.
Two years later, we were attending an event in____32____of Martin Luther King when Alyce____33____at a woman, rushed to and returned with her. She told us she lived in the building by where the____34____had happened. That night, she rushed to the street, still in her bathrobe and saw Alyce standing by the wrecked car,____35____. She approached her, hugged her and took Alyce’s hand to her chest, saying, “Let’s pray together.” Alyce’s phone was out of____36____inside the car. So the woman lent Alyce her phone.
When saying goodbye, we realized we hadn’t been formally____37____, so I told her my name wasDouglas. She paused,_____38_____she hadn’t heard me. So I____39____. She looked at us and said, “Wait, your name is Susan?” Susan_____40_____. The woman put her hand over her heart, saying,“My name is Susan Douglas.”
21. A. regular B. simple C. strange D. concrete
22. A. attempts B. appeals C. appointments D. applications
23. A. interest B. faith C. confidence D. talent
24. A. beat B. rose C. broke D. stopped
25. A. scold B. cry C. scream D. ring
26. A. documentary B. comedy C. disaster D. detective
27. A. suddenly B. eventually C. illegally D. randomly
28. A. broken B. harmful C. tough D. unfit
29. A. bathed B. trapped C. buried D. involved
30. A. worked out B. figured out C. found out D. turned out
31. A. street B. school C. hospital D. church
32. A. memory B. need C. celebration D. consideration
33. A. glared B. glanced C. aimed D. concentrated
34. A. occasion B. mistake C. accident D. dilemma
35. A. rolling B. withdrawing C. choking D. trembling
36. A. control B. reach C. place D. date
37. A. greeted B. treated C. described D. introduced
38. A. as if B. even though C. due to D. in spite of
39. A. approved B. assessed C. repeated D. exchanged
40. A. waved B. nodded C. agreed D. replied
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
Why do mosquitoes prefer biting some people____41.____others? Experts estimate that around 85% of the reason why mosquitoes prefer you is genetic. Mosquitoes will especially come after you, if you have the perfect ____42.____(combine) of genetics and scent. There’s also stuff on your skin____43.____attracts them. You’ll____44.____(probable) suffer more____45.____(bite), if you happen to produce more lactic acid（乳酸）which comes from your sweat glands（腺体）. Mosquitoes that carry malaria（疟疾）are most attracted to sweat that____46.____(sit) on skin for a day or two, rather than fresh sweat. They’ll also prefer you if you have more of these bacteria____47.____(live) on your skin.
People who produce more carbon dioxide when they exhale（呼气）are also more likely____48.____(get) bitten. A mosquito can smell this, so____49.____will go after them. Larger people and pregnant women suffer most for this. Another interesting group that happens to get bitten more often is beer-drinkers. This might be related to carbon dioxide production as well. People tend to breathe____50.____(hard) after drinking a beer.
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.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。

I am Li Hua, senior high school student. I had recently learnt on the Internet you are helping students with spoken English by offer an online course. I am writing to ask you for some help.
I have learnt English for more than four years and I really like English. However, my spoken English is such poor that I can not communicate with foreigners free. My broken English always discourages you from opening my mouth. I am really worrying. I hope if you can help me with my spoken English. I believe that I can make many progress with your help.
I would appreciate it if you could agree to helping me. I am looking forward to your reply.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，打算申请去英国读大学。

请给你的英国朋友John写封电子邮件，内容包括：
1.你喜欢的大学专业；
2.请他介绍一些英国的大学；
3.表示感谢。

注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已为你写好。

参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. B
4. B
5. D
6. D
7. C
8. D 9. B 10. D 11. C
12. A 13. B 14. A 15. D
16. F 17. G 18. B 19. C 20. A
21. C 22. A 23. A 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. C 32.
A 33.
B 34.
C 35.
D 36. B 37. D 38. A 39. C 40. B
41. to 42. combination
43. that##which
44. probably
45. bites 46. has sat##has been sitting 47. living 48. to get
49. it 50. harder
51.(1).senior前加a
(2).had→have
(3).offer→offering
(4).such→so
(5).free→freely
(6).you→me
(7).worry→worried
(8).去掉if/if→that
(9).many→much
(10).helping→help
52.略。