2019-2020学年郑州第八中学高三英语上学期期末考试试题及答案

2019-2020学年郑州第八中学高三英语上学期期末考试试题及答案第一部分阅读（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
Bored with your life? Dreaming of something different? I always wonder what life would be like400 kmabove my head. That's where the International Space Station orbits the earth, with six astronauts living and working on board, for months at a time.
How do they sleep? They spend the night floating in a sleeping bag inside a small cubicle (小隔间) on the ceiling. American astronaut Sunita Williams explains, “It's like a little phone booth, but it's pretty comfortable and it doesn't matter if I turn overand sleep upside down. I don't have any sensation (感觉) in my head that tells me I'm upside down.”
Brushing your teeth in a place where you can't have a tap or a sink can be a challenge. Can you imagine the mess that running water would make in zero gravity? Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield uses a straw to put a big blob of water from a sealed bag onto an ordinary toothbrush and adds a little toothpaste which he has to swallow when he's done.
Daily exercise is essential. The lack of gravity makes bones more fragile and muscles lose strength — so astronauts are encouraged to work out for at least two hours a day.
The role of astronauts in the International Space Station is to act as lab technicians for scientists back on earth. So they spend their time maintaining their environment and performing and monitoring experiments in a confined space about the size of a Boeing 747. Almost every task is carefully planned by mission control — although most astronauts spend their first days losing things until they get used to sticking everything they use to the walls with Velcro, duct tape (强力胶带) or clips (夹子)．
One of their most valued perks (额外待遇) is the view from “the office”, dominated by that gigantic blue ball down there, sitting in the darkness of space. Wow! Absolutely breathtaking!
1. When they sleep upside down, the astronauts willnot get dizzy because ________.
A. they don't feel it
B. they sleep in the daytime
C. they sleep in special sleeping bags
D. they are trained to adapt to the conditions of weightlessness
2. What parts become weak if astronauts don't exercise?
A. Their teeth and bones.
B. Their brains and bones.
C. Their bones and muscles.
D. Their teeth and muscles.
3. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The Problems We Met in Space.
B. Living and Working in Space.
C. How to Become an Astronaut.
D. The International Space Station.
B
Did you know people who live in different parts ofChinahave different habits and preferences? For example, people from southernChinaprefer to eat vegetables, while people from northChinalike to eat meat. According to a new study in a journal, gene variations (变异) might be responsible for these differences. Researchers fromChina’s BGI collected genetic information from 141,431 Chinese women, who came from 31 provinces and consisted of 36 ethnic minority groups.
They found that natural selection has played an important role in the ways that people living in different regions of China have developed, affecting their food preferences, immunities (免疫力) to illness and physical features.
A variation of the gene FADS2 is more commonly found in northern people. It helps people metabolize (新陈代谢) fatty acids, which suggests a diet that is rich in flesh. This is due to climate differences.Northern Chinais at a higher latitude. This weather is difficult to grow vegetables in. Therefore, northerners tend to eat more meat.
The study also found differences in the immune systems of both groups. Most people in southernChinacarry the gene CR1, which protects against malaria. Malaria was once quite common in southernChina. In order to survive, the genes of people in the south evolved to fight against this disease. However, people in the south are also more sensitive to certain illnesses, as they lack the genes to stop them.
Genes can also cause physical differences between northerners and southerners. Most northerners have the ABCC11 gene, which causes dry earwax, less body smell and fewer sweats. These physical differences are also more beneficial to living in cold environments. Southerners are less likely to have this gene, as it did not develop in their population.
4. What did the new study focus on?
A. Regions.
B. Eating habits.
C. Gene variations.
D. Ethnic minority groups.
5. What is the main function of the gene FADS2?
A. It helps store fat.
B. It helps digest meat.
C. It helps gain weight.
D. It helps treat an illness.
6. According to the study, most northerners ________.
A. sweat less frequently
B. are immune to malaria
C. prefer vegetables to meat
D. are more sensitive to climates
7. How many differences did the study find related to genes?
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. Four.
D. Five.
C
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.
8. This passage can be most likely found in a ________.
A. science survey
B. nature magazine
C. zoo advertisement
D. travel journal
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
D
A team of engineers atHarvardUniversity in trying to create the first robotic fly. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
"The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of its components is off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own’ said Robert Wood, a Harvard engineering professor.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings hasa number of interdependencies (相互依赖）on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it d connected to,” said Wood.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites，in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. "Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around，” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications.“You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animal，but using these robots instead” he said. "So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.”
12. What is the typical characteristic of the robotic fly?
A. It's automatic.
B.It's very small.
C. It's controllable.
D. It's quite powerful.
13. We can infer from the passage that the robotic flyer can____ .
A. act as a spy plane
B. help do farm work
C.fly at a very high speed
D. answer many scientific questions
14. What is Wood's idea about the robotic fly according to the last paragraph?
A. It is highly questionable.
B. It has wide practical applications.
C. It gives scientists interest in flying machines.
D. It points to a new direction in studying biology.
15. What can be the best title for the passage?
A. Harvand's Study in the Field of Insects.
B. A Breakthrough in Engineering Science
C. An Interesting Invention一Robotic Fly
D. Robotic Fly一a Copy of Real Life Insect
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Not only do smart-phones provide unlimited access to information, they provide perfect opportunities to multitask (doing two unrelated things at the same time). Any activity can be accompanied by music, selfies or social media updates. Of course, some people pick improper time to text and lawmakers have steeped in.___16___In Hawaii, it’s illegal to text or even look at your phone while crossing the street, and in the Netherlands they’ve banned texting while biking.
___17___.So you need learn to self-control. Understanding how the brain multitasks and why we find multitasking so appealing will help you realize the danger of pulling out your phone.
Twenty states have bans on driving using a hand - held phone while still allowing hands - free calls. Yet hands - free or hand - held makes no difference.___18___The real problem is the switch(切换)of attention between the conversation and road, and that affects performance.
People sense this and when on the phone they drive slower and increase their following distance, but they are far too confident and think these measures reduce risks.___19___. Everyone knows texting behind the wheel is dangerous, but listening to music or chatting with a passenger seems so undemanding as to be. Yet both measurably affect driving.
People multitask merely because they see no harm in it; they see benefits. ___20___Most people will still choose to multitask. But they should be fully aware of how that choice affects them and the potential consequences for themselves and others. They need to pay attention to how much--or how little --they are paying attention.
A.They multitask for efficiency, to fight boredom or to keep up with social media.
B.But legislation（法律）won’t ban all situations in which multitasking is unwise.
C.Instead of multitasking, they take more rest breaks and get a social media fix during abreak.
D.They damage driving process as equally as external (外部的) dangers go.
E.However, texting while biking seems so undemanding as to be harmless.
F.Forty - eight states have banned texting while driving.
G.This confidence is especially understandable for very simple tasks.
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James Cook and his wife Samantha Jones started their beekeeping work eight years ago and have gained much experience. They are___21___at solving the problems their bees face, which____22____harmful
insect-killing farm chemicals. The year 2020 was their year to___23___their own business after working several___24___for other beekeepers, when they were in California's farms. The farm was always full of white flowers that could____25____into nuts or fruits in the fall. It was____26____because the many beekeepers travelled with their bees to pollinate (授粉)the crops in the summer.
Then the coronavirus health crisis hit. Cook and Jones became____27____. Did they stay or did they go? They were stuck in____28____. Actually by that time, they had planned to____29____their hives(蜂巢)to a valley friendly to beesso as to let the bees_____30_____their contact with farm chemicals. They know agricultural workers are of importance and honey also can be_____31_____on normal condition for a long time. So after struggles, they_____32_____to stay and set out to create their_____33_____Bird and the Bees Honey.
Now, Cook and Jones and their small crew are working day and night in order that they can build their honey____34____. They are____35____tired and in debt because they took a____36____to get the business up and running. But they were also hopeful.
Cook, who is 35, said starting a business in the_____37_____times will he hard. However, they think it____38____to do it and the_____39_____is teaching them a lesson to look for the____40____and appreciate the beauty that you can find.
21. A. confused B. amazed C. sad D. expert
22. A. gather B. avoid C. involve D. focus
23. A. get down to B. get rid of C. give up D. put off
24. A. months B. years C. days D. minutes
25. A. get B. put C. break D. change
26. A. possible B. necessary C. important D. rare
27. A. inspired B. impressed C. concerned D. occupied
28. A. trap B. difficulty C. exam D. mood
29. A. donate B. contribute C. hand D. take
30. A. suffer from B. bring about C. recover from D. get into
31. A. made B. stored C. harvested D. picked
32. A. pretended B. decided C. happened D. promised
33. A. brand B. fame C. solution D. product
34. A. family B. food C. honor D. factory
35. A. merely B. rarely C. extremely D. gradually
36. A. break B. bow C. jog D. loan
37. A. magical B. unique C. stressful D. unforgettable
38. A. practices B. aims C. appreciates D. pays
39. A. tale B. experience C. fact D. truth
40. A. comfort B. optimism C. honey D. dream
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 Spring Festival, which___41.___(fall) on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, is___42.___most important traditional Chinese festival. Before this festival, people always clean and decorate their houses___43.___(careful).
Blood is thicker___44.___water. No matter how far they study or work, all family___45.___(member) will try their best to go home to get together, in order to experience the warmth of a family and show respect for parents and grand-parents. They will also take advantage___46.___this chance to call on s and close friends, especially the old generation.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, family members tend___47.___(eat) jiaozi together, then watch the Spring Festival Gala. Children may feel happiest during this holiday, because they feel like___48.___(wear) new clothes and getting lucky money wrapped in red paper from their close s. Their eagerness is beyond___49.___(describe). In order to celebrate this festival, there are many activities, for example, the lion dance.
All in all, every Chinese wants to enjoy this___50.___(relax) and meaningful festival in his or her own hometown.
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。

My hometown, the small village, are on Guangxi’s border with Viet Nam. It’s well known for a huge and deep spring pool calling Equan in Chinese Pinyin, or Goose Spring. The spring pool, with an ancient stone bridge and golden rice fields around it, had become a hot tourism spot what attracts tourists from home and abroad for
sightseeing every year. The other day, I volunteered clean up the spot. I was collecting rubbish that when I saw some foreigners wandering around taking photos. I actively talked to us in English and recommended more tourist attraction in Baise. To my joy, the foreign visitors were impressed with my fluently English and praised my volunteer work.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你叫李华，你校将举办国际青少年交流活动，邀请你的新西兰笔友Sam参加，请根据以下要点，用英语给他写封邮件：
1.时间，地点；
2.交流内容（谈理想未来，参观艺术作品展等）；
3.期待回复。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：International Youth Exchange Programme 国际青少年交流活动
Dear Sam,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. A
2. C
3. B
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. B 9. D 10. C 11. A
12. B 13. A 14. B 15. D
16. F 17. B 18. D 19. G 20. A
21. D 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. B 32.
B 33. A 34. D 35.
C 36.
D 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. B
41. falls
42. the 43. carefully
44. than 45. members 46. of 47. to eat
48. wearing
49. description
50. relaxing
51.(1).the→a
(2).are→is
(3).calling→called
(4).had→has
(5).what→that/which
(6).volunteered后加to
(7).删除when前的that
(8).us→them
(9).attraction→attractions
(10).fluently→fluent
52.略。