2019-2020学年广州市执信中学高三英语第二次联考试题及答案

2019-2020学年广州市执信中学高三英语第二次联考试题及答案
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
“Why do I feel cold when I have a fever?” “Why does the sun rise in the east?” I knew the day would come when my little girl Sophie would learn to talk and inevitably (不可避免地) start askingthose questions. The questions themselves weren’t worrying me. I was actually looking forward to seeing where her curiosity would lie.
What was bothering (烦恼) me was whether or not I would know the answers. In the age of the smartphone, this may seem like a silly worry. The answers to almost everything would be just one Google away.
Still, I struggled with how I was going to prepare to become an all-knowing mother. Then one day, it struck me: I didn’t need to have all the answers. What a great example I could set if I let my daughter know that I, too, was still learning. And I realized how much more I could learn if I took another look at things I thought I already knew the answer to with the curiosity of a child. My little girl’s mind is a beginner’s mind--- curious, open to new ideas, eager to learn, and not based on knowledge that already exists. I decided that I would deal with her questions with a beginner’s mind, too.
Once I decided to become more curious, I started noticing that curiosity was becoming more important in the workplace, too. It seems that leaders don't need to have all the answers, but they do need to be curious.
Curious about curiosity, I searched for answers and found Albert Einstein’s famous words, “I have no special talent. I am only passionately (热情地) curious.” We mightquibble overthe view that Einstein had no special talent, but there is one thing for certain---he wouldn't have solved the puzzles of the universe without his passionate curiosity. Then I came across another Einstein quote, “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason or existence.”
1. The advantage of having a beginner’s mind is that ________.
A. people can learn much faster.
B. people won't be afraid to make mistakes.
C. people are willing to receive new things.
D. people won't be expected to answer all questions.
2. What does the example of Einstein’s words show?
A. Einstein was passionate about curiosity.
B. Einstein’s quotes are very famous.
C. Curiosity is of great significance.
D. Curiosity is more necessary than talent.
3. What does the underlined phrase “quibble over” in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Fight against.
B. Argue about.
C. Work out.
D. Agree with
B
Not long after the first fitness magazine was published, a list probably followed soon after, ranking the best fitness equipment. This tradition has continued, with the implied message: usethisand exercise willbe yours.
And that's part of the problem, says Dr. Lieberman, a professor of Harvard University. There isn't one “best” anything to achieve fitness. Besides, people understand exercise is good for them. Knowledge about exercise still doesn't motivate.
Before you can answer why, it helps to look at history. Before the Industrial Revolution, people fetched water and walked up stairs because they had to. But then technology made life and work easier. Exercise has become something that people have to carve out time for. “It's a fundamental instinct to avoid physical activity when it's neither necessary nor rewarding,” he says.
It would seem like being healthy would qualify as necessary, but a doctor's prescription to exercise “can make it like taking cod liver oil,” Lieberman says. “Sometimes it works, but more often than not, it doesn't. And it's still coming across as an order, and “not having a heart attack in five years is not an immediate reward,” says Dr. Beth Frates, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
People might not want to exercise because it's never been enjoyable. Most of us probably have memories of gym class, not being picked for a team, or being in a fitness center that's filled with in-shape people. The majority don't feel excited. They feel that exercise isn't for them, but it can be. Coaching people in an empowering and motivating way can work much better than ordering someone to exercise. It starts with an expanded definition of what counts as exercise, and an injection of what's rarely used to describe exercise, but is certainly allowed: namely, fun.
4. What does the underlined “this” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A. The magazine.
B. The tradition.
C. The equipment.
D. The message.
5. What can we infer about technology?
A. It improves life quality.
B. It saves people's time.
C. It drives social progress.
D. It makes exercise less likely.
6. Why does the author mention “cod liver oil” in paragraph 4?
A. To attach importance to health.
B. To present a doctor's prescription.
C. To explain exercise is considered inessential.
D. To introduce the latest medical application.
7. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Exercise should be made more joyful.
B. It's more fun to work out with others.
C. We may encounter bad workout experiences.
D. Orders work well to motivate people to exercise.
C
Most animals living in crowded conditions have particularly strong immune systems, so it long puzzled researchers that honeybees do not.
Part of the answer, discovered in 2015, is that queen bees vaccinate their eggs by moving parts of proteins from disease-causing pathogens to them before they are laid. These act as antigens totriggerthe development of a protective immune response in the developing young. But that observation raises the question of how the queen receives her antigen supply in the first place? Dr. Harwood wondered if the nurse bees were taking in parts of pathogens and passing them to royal jelly they were producing while eating the food brought to the hive.
To test this idea, he teamed up with a group at theUniversityofHelsinki, inFinland, led by Dr Heli Salmela. Together, they collected about 150 nurse bees and divided them among six queenless mini hives equipped with baby bees to look after. Instead of honey, they fed the nurses on sugar water, and for three of the hives they added P. larvae, a bacterium causing a hive-killing disease, to the sugar water.
In this case, to stop such an infection happening, Dr Harwood and Dr Salmela heat-treated the pathogens and so killed them in advance. They also labelled the dead bacteria with a fluorescent dye, to track them easily. And, sure enough, it was confirmed that parts of P. larvae were getting into royal jelly released by those bees which had been fed with the sugar water containing that.
All told, these findings suggest that nurse bees are indeed, through their royal jelly, passing antigens onto the queen for vaccinating her eggs. They also mean the nurses are vaccinating baby bees as well, because baby bees,
too, receive royal jelly for the first few days after they come out.
8. What does the underlined word “trigger" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Cut out.
B. Set off.
C. Slow down.
D. Put off.
9. Which is the main experimental subject in Paragraph 3?
A. Queen bees.
B. Nurse bees.
C. Bee eggs.
D. Baby bees.
10. Why was P. larvae added to the sugar water?
A. To test if it would cause a hive-killing disease.
B. To check how the bacterium would affect the hive.
C. To see whether the target bees would favor the taste.
D. To confirm the bees would pass pathogens to royal jelly.
11. What is the text mainly about?
A. How bees multiply.
B. How antigens function.
C. How bees get vaccinated.
D. How immune system works.
D
Imust have always known reading was very important because the first memories I have as a child deal with books. There was not one night that I don’t remember mom reading me a storybook by my bedside. I was extremely inspired by the wonderful way the words sounded.
I always wanted to know what my mom was reading. Hearing mom say, “I can’t believe what’s printed in the newspaper this morning,” made me want to grab it out of her hands and read it myself. I wanted to be like my mom and know all of the things she knew. So I carried around a book, and each night, just to be like her, I would pretend to be reading.
This is how everyone learned to read. We would start off with sentences, then paragraphs, and then stories. It seemed an unending journey, but even as a six-year-old girl I realized that knowing how to read could open many doors. When mom said, “The C-A-N-D-Y is hidden on the top shelf,” I knew where the candy was. My progress in reading raised my curiosity, and I wanted to know everything. I often found myself telling my mom to drive more slowly, so that I could read all of the road signs we passed.
Most of my reading through primary, middle and high school was factual reading. I read for knowledge, and to make A’s on my tests. Sometimes, I would read a novel that was assigned, but I didn’t enjoy this type of reading.
I liked facts, things that are concrete. I thought anything abstract left too much room for argument.
Now that I’m growing and the world I once knew as being so simple is becoming more complex, I find myself needing a way to escape. By opening a novel, I can leave behind my burdens and enter into a wonderful and mysterious world where I am now a new character. In these worlds I can become anyone. I don’t have to write down what happened or what technique the author was using when he or she wrote this. I just read to relax.
We’re taught to read because it’s necessary for much of human understanding. Reading is an important part of my life. Reading satisfies my desire to keep learning. And I’ve found that the possibilities that lie within books are limitless.
12. Why did the author want to grab the newspaper out of mom’s hands？
A. She wanted mom to read the news to her.
B. She couldn’t wait to tear the newspaper apart.
C. She couldn’t help but stopmom from reading.
D. She was eager to know what had happened.
13. According to Paragraph 3, the author’s reading of road signs shows___________.
A. her own way to find herself
B. her eagerness to develop her reading ability
C. her growing desire to know the world around her
D. her effort to remind mom to obey traffic rules
14. The author takes novel reading as a way to___________.
A. explore a mysterious land
B. develop an interest in learning
C. get away from a confusing world
D. learn about the adult world
15. What could be the best title for the passage？
A The Pleasure of Reading B. Growing Up with Reading
C. The Magic of Reading
D. Reading Makes a Full Man
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
Stage Fright
Imagine that you are an actor performing in a play for the first time. You have learned all your lines and you know where to walk on stage. Waiting behind the closed curtain, you can hear the audience whispering and taking
their seats.
Then your big moment arrives! The curtain goes up, and the crowd falls silent. All you can see is the spotlight shining down on you.____16____The inside of your mouth is dry, and your hands are wet.
If you have experienced a moment like this, you know all too well what it means to have stage fright. It is one of the most common types of fear and tends to strike people when they find themselves at the center of attention._____17_____People experience this fear when playing sports, giving a presentation, or even speaking in class. A person who suffers from stage fright may get sweaty hands, a dry mouth, a tight throat, or shaky knees. Stage fright is actually a form of panic, and these feelings are very real.
___18___The experience differs from person to person, but the same chemical process occurs in each of us. In reaction to anxiety, our bodies produce a chemical that prepares us to either fight or run away quickly. Scientists refer to this as our bodies’ “fight or flight” reaction. As a result, we feel great energy that makes our hands sweat, our hearts race, and our knees shake.
___19___Practicing your performance and following some simple tips can help calm nerves and manage the feelings caused by anxiety. First, dress comfortably and appropriately. Second, before the performance, take deep breaths and stretch to help relax your body. Third, stay away from drinks that contain caffeine._____20_____Instead, try a banana! Some doctors believe that eating a banana can help calm your heart and the rest of your body. Finally, when you look into a crowd, try to focus on particular people instead of the whole group. These tips have helped many people learn to deal with their fears.
A. These might make your heart race even faster.
B. You don’t have to be onstage to get stage fright.
C. Stage fright is part of the body’s reaction to stress.
D. You try to speak your lines, but nothing seems to come out.
E. With practice, we can learn how to relax while playing sports.
F.The good news about stage fright is that here are ways to deal with it.
G. However, there is a time when stage fright prevents you from stepping onstage.
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It was 15 years ago that one of the most upset things in my life happened. In a clean, clinical room, my best friend was dying in my arms. His eyes, dark brown and trusting, would soon____21____forever. Heartbroken, I said, “Flash, you____22____so much happiness to me. I will do something good as a(an)____23____.”
Flash came into my____24____when I was nine. From the moment my parents brought this cute dog home, he____25____my family with joy.
Then,____26____happened. My mum was diagnosed with (被诊断出) breast cancer when I was 11. Then my grandma, who was my strength,____27____for lung cancer. My sister____28____Crohn’s Disease and while being tested, suffered a heart attack. I was being bullied at school and started to____29____classes and avoid seeing people.
Flash soon gave me all the comfort he could offer. There were times when I felt there was no____30____, but a pair of brown eyes and loving face would somehow____31____me. I knew he was____32____there for me. I knew he understood.
Now after 15 years, Flash was____33____. I thought doing charity work was the best reward for him. I____34____in a non-profit organization inSouthamptonand contributed about 3,500 hours to____35____children with special needs, which completely changed my life. I learned to love the____36____I had been on, and even accept the____37____bits.
I still miss Flash. It was he that had somehow____38____me to help others. Flash’s death was one of the____39____moments of my life. But it was also an inspiring moment that____40____me in the best possible way—forever.
21. A. open B. fade C. shine D. close
22. A. told B. brought C. saved D. owed
23. A. reward B. award C. bonus D. relief
24. A. world B. room C. mind D. power
25. A. helped B. protected C. filled D. decorated
26. A. wonders B. stories C. disasters D. mistakes
27. A. went away B. passed away C. died away D. flew away
28. A. developed B. caused C. noticed D. gained
29. A. pass B. skip C. take D. enjoy
30. A. use B. time C. money D. hope
31. A. annoy B. ease C. lift D. change
32. A. frequently B. sometimes C. always D. hardly
33. A. aging B. deserted C. missing D. gone
34. A. searched B. volunteered C. competed D. performed
35. A. talking about B. meeting with C. caring for D. bringing up
36. A. earth B. street C. holiday D. journey
37. A. fantastic B. difficult C. awkward D. pleasant
38. A. trained B. forced C. inspired D. persuaded
39. A. fullest B. saddest C. tiniest D. craziest
40. A. explained B. admitted C. transformed D. described
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
"Made in China" is having its moment now and it's a fashionable one. The story of Chinese fashion___41.___( begin) in 2011 when Feiyue and Huili,both Chinese sneaker brands(品牌), suddenly attracted international attention. Last year, Li Ning was at the New York Fashion Week in September.
The latest Chinese brands are no longer selling ___42.___(them) on the basis (基础) of their cheapness. They set a good example in exploring the effect of Chinese aesthetics (美学)____43.____Western fashion and can go forward to head with foreign brands.
Western culture is not so___44.___(attract) as it used to be to China’s young generation. China's young people are now___45.___(confidence) about their own culture than the past generations. "They have a ___46.___(prefer) for Chinese cultural elements(元素)," Jin Qu, vice president of YOHO,___47.___unusual clothing shopping website in China, said at a cultural festival in November.
In fact, a lot of celebrities in the West now have an interest in Chinese cultural elements in fashion. US singer Rihanna, for example, wore a shiny and ___48.___(extreme) graceful yellow gown (礼服) to the 2015 Met Gala to match the gala's theme “China: Through the Looking Glass”，___49.___was from Chinese designer Guo Pei. The Chinese want to take the place of the words “Made in China” with “ ____50.____( design) in China”.
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。

Our school offers all kinds of activities with students after school, especially art activities like music festivals. There are lots of music club on campus. To my greatly joy, I have joined the orchestra which I have made lots of new friends. Sometimes, we represent our school in regional competitions and that is worthwhile to join in these contests. Amazingly we also have a robotics club, which wins a national robot contest last week, so it is getting popular at present. In addition, academic clubs are offered as well as, including the written club and the French film club.
Although we have many homework, we still manage to take active part in various activities after school.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.本届东京奥运会中国队表现精彩纷呈，英语外教Dan要求大家推荐一个让你印象最深的本届赛事短视频，并附上一篇英语推荐文字，内容包括：
1.视频内容；
2.你的观看感受；
3.推荐观看。

注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

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参考答案
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. D
8. B 9. B 10. D 11. C
12. D 13. C 14. C 15. B
16. D 17. B 18. C 19. F 20. A
21. D 22. B 23. A 24. A 25. C 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. B 32.
C 33.
D 34. B 35. C 36. D 37. B 38. C 39. B 40. C
41. began
42. themselves
43. on 44. attractive
45. more confident
46. preference
47. an 48. extremely
49. which 50. Designed
51.(1). with→ to
(2). club→ clubs
(3). greatly→ great
(4). which→ where
(5). that→ it
(6). wins→ won
(7). 去掉well后的as
(8). written→ writing
(9). many→ much
(10). take后加an
52.略。