2020届德州中学高三英语第一次联考试卷及答案

2020届德州中学高三英语第一次联考试卷及答案
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
During ancient times, children didn’t have smartphones, iPad or computers to entertain themselves. Instead, they came up with interesting games to play.
★Stone balls
During the Qing Dynasty, kicking a stone ball around was a popular sport in the northern part of China, and it was often played in the winter to protect kids from the cold. Stones were carved into small balls and kicked along with feet. In 1999, the sport was included in the 6th National Ethnic Group Traditional Sports Meeting held in Beijing.
★Flying kites
Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood, instead of paper. Nowadays, the four most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite , Weifang kite and Nantong kite, of which each has distinctive features. The kite which resembles a swallow is a well-known Beijing style.
★Hide-and-seek
Hide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the nation. There are two ways to play: covering a child’s eyes while other kids run around to tease(戏弄) him or, more commonly, participants hide and one child must try to find them.
★Playing diabolos
A diabolo is always made of wood or bamboo and has empty space in the center. By juggling(边抛边接) the diabolo on the rope, the high-speed spinning diabolos will make a sound like a whistle. Playing diabolos is an interesting folk game, especially popular in North China. Playing diabolos was also included in the first group of national intangible cultural heritage(非物质文化遗产).
1.Why did ancient children often play stone balls in the winter?
A.To practice their feet.
B.To warm themselves.
C.To train their skills.
D.To relax themselves.
2.Which kites are swallow-shaped?
A.Weifang kites.
B.Tianjin kites.
C.Beijing kites.
D.Nantong kites.
3.Why does playing diabolos make a sound?
A.Because the diabolo’s center is empty.
B.Because the high-speed spinning diabolo is light.
C.Because the diabolo is equipped with a whistle.
D.Because ropes’ surface moves against the diabolo’s.
B
Sport is not only physically challenging, but can also be mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches, parents and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create too much anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress canbe physical, emotional, or psychological and research has indicated that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.
The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their feedback to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take their parents and coaches’ criticisms to heart and find faults in themselves.
Coaches and parents should also pay attention that youth sport participation does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today’s youth sport setting young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game many parents and coaches focus on the outcome and find faults with youngsters’ performances. Positive support should be provided regardless of the outcome. Research indicates that positive support motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout.
4. An effective way to prevent the burnout of young athletes is_____________.
A. to make sport less competitive
B. to increase their sense of success
C. to reduce their mental stress
D. to make sport more challenging
5. According to the passage, sport is positive for young people in that_____________.
A. it can help them learn more about society
B. it enables them to find faults in themselves
C. it can provide them with valuable experiences
D. it teaches them how to set realistic goals for themselves
6. Many coaches and parents are in the habit of criticizing young athletes_____________.
A. believing that criticism does good to their early development
B. without realizing criticism may destroy their self­confidence
C. in order to make them remember life’s lessons
D. so as to put more pressure on them
7. According to the passage parents and coaches should_____________.
A. pay more attention to letting children enjoy sport
B. help children to win every game
C. train children to cope with stress
D. enable children to understand the positive aspect of sport
C
In a world simultaneously on fire and underwater thanks to climate change, scientists have announced some good news: Several important tuna (金枪鱼) species have stepped back from the edge of extinction.
The unexpectedly fast recovery speaks to the success of efforts over the past decade to end overfishing. But tuna are not the only species scientists are discussing at the 2021 World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France, which is organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Researchers caution that many other marine species remainimperiled. For instance, more than a third of the world's sharks remain threatened with extinction due to overfishing, habitat loss, and climate change.
“I think the good news is that sustainable fisheries are possible,” says Beth Polidoro, a marine biologist at Arizona State University. “We can eat fish in a proper way and without driving the population to the point where it is on the road to collapse or extinction."At the same time, she warned that the changes in status should not be an reason to catch as many fish as we want.
The IUCN, which ranks the world's most endangered species on its Red List of Threatened Species and is backed by 16,000 experts across the globe, also announced at the meeting that some animals are moving in the other direction, onto the Red List. One notable example is the Komodo dragon, an island-living lizard at particular risk from climate change.
For the better part of two decades, Polidoro has been part of a specialist group tasked with assessing the
statuses of more than 60 species of tuna and billfishes for the IUCN.Her team announced its first comprehensive findings in 2011, mentioning that a number of commercially fished tuna species were dangerously close to disappearing.According to the new data, the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), once listed as endangered, now qualifies for a status of least concern. As does the yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga), which were both considered near-threatened the last time they were assessed.
8. What does the underlined word “imperiled” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Endangered
B. Conserved
C. Extinct
D. Safe
9. What can we infer from Polidoro's words?
A. Too many fish are being eaten by human beings.
B. Eating fish does not necessarily lead to its extinction.
C. Fish species are on the edge of dying out if no action is taken.
D. The situation of underwater species are changing for the better.
10. Which of following statement is true according to the passage?
A. Some Tuna species are wiped out by overfishing.
B. Tuna are ranked as the world's most endangered species.
C. Climate change poses a threat to most species in water and on land.
D. Three tuna species have been saved from extinction according to the data.
11. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. Some tuna species are reported endangered recently.
B. IUCN has helped saved a great many marine species.
C. Improvement has been made in saving marine species.
D. Great efforts should be made to conserve species underwater.
D
There are 195 countries in the world today but almost none of them have purple on their national flag. So what’s wrong with purple? It’s such a popular color1 today. Why would no country use it in their flag? The answer is really quite simple. Purple was just for too expensive.
The color1 purple has been associated with royalty power and wealth for centuries. Queen Elizabeth I forbade anyone except close members of the royal family to wear it. Purple’s high status comes from the rarity and cost of the dye (染料)originally used to produce it. Fabric traders got the dye from a small sea snail (海螺)that
was only found in the Tyre region of the Mediterranean. More than 10,000 snails were needed to create just one gram of purple; not to mention a lot of work went into producing the dye, which made purple dye so expensive.
Since only wealthy rulers could afford to buy and wear the color1 , it became associated with the royal family. Sometimes, however, the dye was too expensive even for royalty. Third century Roman Emperor Aurelio famously wouldn’t allow his wife to buy a scarf made from purple silk because it cost three times its weight in gold. A single pound of dye cost three pounds of gold, which equals 56,000 dollars today. Therefore, even the richest countries couldn’t spend that much having purple on their flags.
The dye became more accessible to lower-class about a century and a half ago. In 1856, 18-year-old English chemist William Henry Perkin accidentally created a man-made purple compound (化合物)while attemptingto produce an anti-malaria drug. He noticed that the compound could be used to dye fabrics, so he patented the dye, manufactured it and got rich. Purple dye was then mass-produced so everybody could afford it.
Till now, a handful of new national flags have been designed and a few of them have chosen to use purple in their flag. So don’t be making any bets just yet.
12. Why was color1 purple expensive in the past?
A. Because only royal families were allowed to wear purple.
B. Because it took a long time to get purple dye from gold.
C. Because purple was worth as much as its weight in gold.
D. Because purple dye used to be rare and hard to produce.
13. Why did Roman Emperor Aurelio forbid his wife to buy a purple scarf?
A. Because of poor quality.
B. Because of long tradition.
C. Because of bad taste.
D. Because of high price.
14. What is purple's situation now?
A. Purple has been widely used on national flags.
B. Purple dye is now affordable to ordinary people.
C. Royal family stop using purple because it’s toocommon.
D. Fewer snails are used to produce purple dye than before.
15. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. No Purple Flags?
B. Purple vs Gold
C. How to Produce Purple Dye?
D. The Birth of Purple Color
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What is your best study time? Do you feel most like studyingin the late hours of the night?______16______But that can be a problem for parents and school officials.
While some students like to get up early in the morning and study, most will say that late night studying is most productive. When it comes to brain power, students will say they perform better at night and the fact that parents might find surprising and interesting is that science seems to agree.
That can be a problem! School starts early in the morning for most students, so the benefits of studying at night can be reduced by the drowsiness (昏昏欲睡) of missing sleep!___17___
Here are a few tips for maximizing study time.
●______18______You might surprise yourself. Try getting up early to study and see if it works out.
● Have a talk with parents to tell them that teen brains do perform better at night, so you won’t have to deal with miscommunication.______19______You might be able to come up with a solution.
● Agree on an “start time” for studying if you need to study late. Turn off the TV! Your brain should be just fine at six or seven o’clock. You don’t need to start after dark.
● Agree on a solid deadline for closing books and getting to sleep.
●______20______You can do all of that early evening and get serious later in the evening if you’re a night owl.
●Upon occasion, you may be able to go to school a little late if you have to study for an afternoon test. As long as you are communicating with your parents, and as long as the tardiness doesn’t hurt your grades, you may be able to work this out.
A.Show them the science.
B.If so, you are not alone.
C.Don’t waste time on texts, games, and social media.
D.If not, adjust your study habits as quickly as you can.
E.Therefore, it’s a good idea to study early in the evening.
F.Figure out if you are a morning person or a night person.
G.Science also shows that the amount of sleep you get will affect your academic performance.
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Last Saturday,I went out to have breakfast with a friend. It was____21____. But what wasn’t solovely was the
lady who took our____22____. She spoke in a way that was____23____, unhappy, certainly not friendly and sort of rude. Working in hospitality(服务行业) myself, I____24____. When it was my____25____to approach her and order, I thought to myself, “What can I do here to cheer her up, to appreciate her, to make her____26____?”
I had nothing.
Surely there must be____27____I could sincerely compliment(称赞) her on. Then I____28____instantly. It was her____29____. She had the most incredibly well-spoken and clear voice. It was SO good. And that was what I would______30______her for.
So after she took my order and gave me the same unfriendly attitude, I told her. I said: “I hope you don’t mind me saying so, but you have the most______31______voice. It’s so clear, well-spoken and sounds so______32______.” I told the lady her voice would be______33______for voice-overs(配音) and she could be a hostess for radio programs.
Her face______34______, and she smiled — the first time I had seen her do so, and I noticed her whole attitude______35______. The customer behind me received a totally different kind of______36______, abetter one. And it was all because of what I did. Something so______37______!
There was a time when this sort of thing would have______38______me, or I’d have been too shy and awkward to say such a thing. Not now. Now I must.
Why? Because I have the______39______. The power to completely change someone’s day by something as simple as a few kind______40______. And you have this power too. We all do.
21. A.exciting mon C.lovely D.surprising
22. A.seat B.order C.food D.menu
23. A.impatient B.cautious C.shy D.proud
24. A.understood B.ignored C.considered D.noticed
25. A.chance B.ability C.choice D.turn
26. A.listen B.smile C.talk D.respond
27. A.nothing B.everything C.anything D.something
28. A.remembered B.learned C.knew D.proved
29. A.voice B.hair C.face D.attitude
30. A.thank B.trust C.blame D.praise
31. A.reliable B.amusing C.amazing D.funny
32. A.enthusiastic B.interesting C.professional D.relaxing
33. A.clear B.perfect C.known D.normal
34. A.stayed dark B.lit up C.turned down D.went pale
35. A.change B.adjust C.worsen D.recover
36. A.service B.payment C.menu D.order
37. A.interesting B.different C.simple D.difficult
38. A.excited B.embarrassed C.confused D.touched
39. A.confidence B.passion C.ability D.power
40. A.words B.orders C.suggestions D.activities
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
Tea is one of the___41.___(much) popular drinks in the world. You make it by pouring hot water over the dried leaves of a tea plant. For___42.___(hundred) of years people believed that tea could cure illnesses, and they used___43.___as medicine. Today scientists know that tea contains chemicals that prevent cells from dying. Most teas have caffeine in them,___44.___makes you feel more active. Some people have problems___45.___(drink) tea because it can cause sleeplessness.
The tea plant____46.____(grow) best in tropical and temperate places where rain falls throughout the year. Teas can be grown from sea level____47.____about 2,000 metres, but the best quality grows in higher regions.
Tea comes from the leaves and buds of tea plants. Wild plants can be up to 9 metres high, however, on tea plantations,___48.___( pull ) the leaves____49.____(easy) , people cut them back to a bush of about a metre in height. It takes a plant three to five years before it is ready for picking.
A picker can harvest about 20 kg of tea___50.___day. On large tea plantations the leaves are harvested by machines, but the quality of tea is higher when the leaves are picked by hand.
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：
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。

Wusheng Express is a newly established express company in Shanghai, specializing in hire people with hearing loss. Li Liang was among the first employees to work in company. He hadn’t done delivery works before, so he started learning with practice. To the beginning, he rang the doorbell many times because he can not hear the door open. When he got complaints from customers, he could tell it when customers was saying something unpleasantly from their facial expressions. When this happened, Li and his colleagues would lower his heads and avoid to looking at each other. They signed to comfort each other. They hoped the company could provide which they needed for them.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是中华中学学生会主席李华，你校将于6月28日在和谐湖举行龙舟赛，请给友好学校复兴中学(Fuxing High School)写一封邀请信。

信的内容包括：（1）写信目的；（2）活动时间、地点和意义；（3）回复时间：2021年6月25日前。

注意：（1）词数120字左右；（2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Sir/Madam,
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. A 9. B 10. D 11. C
12. D 13. D 14. B 15. A
16. B 17. G 18. F 19. A 20. C
21. C 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. D 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32.
C 33. B 34. B 35. A 36. A 37. C 38. B 39.
D 40. A
41. most
42. hundreds
43. it 44. which
45. drinking
46. grows 47. to
48. to pull
49. easily 50. a/per
51.(1). hire→hiring
(2). 在company前加the
(3). works→work
(4). To→In
(5). can→could
(6). was→were
(7). unpleasantly→unpleasant
(8). his→their
(9). 删除to
(10). which→what
52.略。