2019-2020学年威海九中高三英语下学期期末试卷及参考答案

2019-2020学年威海九中高三英语下学期期末试卷及参考答案
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
Theatre and film fans will be excited about what's on stage and on screen.
THEATRE
☆Take in a Broadway show at Mirvish Venues. The Grand Theatre hosts plays and musicals in London, Ontario. The building dates back to 1901 and starts a rare architectural feature.
☆In the heart of Ontario's bread-basket, treat yourself to uniquely Canadian modern productions at the Blyth Festival in Goderich.
☆Ontario becomes popular on the stage as theatre festivals. The Stratford Festival produces classic productions mainly on Shakespeare in Stratford. Works by Bernard Shaw, the founder of social realism in English literature enrich the stage at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
FILM
☆Expand your mind with great modem, independent film during the Reel Asian FilmFestival or visit the TIFF Bell Lightbox for exhibitions related to film and theatre.
☆Making productions that don't reach half an hour by new filmmakers, the Breakthroughs Film Festival provides some of the most video movies.
☆Five amazing programs feature films from across the globe during the Durham Region International Film Festival.
☆One of the top film festivals in the world, the 'Toronto International Film Festival features everything from mainstream Hollywood productions to international cinema.
COMEDY
☆For a laugh, head to a comedy club. Absolute Comedy, Second City and Yuks Yuks all specialize in finding your funny bone.
☆The Toronto Alliance for the Peforming Arts will keep you up to date on what 's playing on
Toronto's stages; you can look through their “TOnight” for on-the-go performing arts tickets, reviews and searches on your mobile.
1. Where should those preferring realistic dramas go?
A. London.
B. Stratford.
C. Goderich.
D. Niagara-on-the-Lake.
2. What does the Breakthroughs Film Festival focus on?
A. Short films.
B. Films across the world.
C. Modern films.
D. Films by young directors.
3. What might “TOnight” be?
A. A comedy.
B. An application.
C. A guidebook.
D. An organization.
B
Everyone can be angry. But if you take the time to actually examine your anger instead of just “feeling” angry, you’ll have a better understanding of yourself. Knowing why you feel so angry can provide you with some surprising answers. These answers can enable you to suddenly grow spiritually and mentally.
I can give you a personal example. I went to a meeting once and I was verbally attacked over an application I supported at my workplace. Various people went on and on about how terrible this system was and that it never worked. That didn’t bother me that much. I was used to that but one of the comments that was said was, “Your job is pointless.” This really upset meand at the time, I was ly furious(发怒地) with that comment.
I was so angry and upset that they would treat me that way. Once I took the time to think about what was really making me so mad. I learned a lot. I realized that the comment was more truethan I wanted to admit. In the big scheme of things, my job was pointless. It wasn’t what I really wanted to be doing with my life and this was what frustrated me the most. Here I was pouring part of my heart and soul into a job I didn’t even really want to do. I was using it as a crutch(拐杖) because I didn’t have the confidence in myself to take the scary road towards what I really wanted to do. As soon as I realized that, a lot of my anger just melted away. I also realized that I needed to start focusing on what I really wanted to do.
I now consider this incident as a great gift It got me back on track to moving in the direction I wanted to go with my life. I probably wouldn’t be where I am today if I hadn’t taken the time to figure out why I was really so angry.
4. What made the author angry at the meeting?
A. The system of the company was terrible.
B. Someone said his job is insignificant.
C. The policy of the company didn’t work.
D. The application he supported was of no effect.
5. What brought down the anger of the author?
A. The apology someone made at the meeting.
B. The crutch he used to take the scary road.
C. His awareness of the fact that the comment was true.
D. The courage he had to overcome the challenges.
6. Why did the author consider the incident as a gift?
A. It brought him back on track to the goal.
B. It helped him get promoted to a higher position.
C. It helped him change his character since then.
D. It provided him with confidence in his career.
7. What can be the best title of the passage?
A. How to Cope with Verbal Attack in a Company
B. Avoid Being Pointless at Work
C. Anger Is Harmful to Health
D. Understanding Yourself Better Through Anger
C
I dropped out of college after my first year. Three years later, I returned to college after having been stuck in a dead-end job, working at a department store. I saw school as my way out. But I quickly found myself up against the same problems that had caused me to give up before. I was in over my head with college-level algebra (代数) and a heavy workload of reading and writing homework. In addition, I was still unsure of my career (职业) direction。

After about a week in community college, I was feeling the same upset and fear I’d felt a few years earlier. I was ready to drop out again. Then a smartly dressed woman with grey hair walked confidently to the front of my English composition class. “Look at you! You’re here because you want to change your lives for the better. And you’re going to make it!”
Mrs. Peters didn’t know me from any of the other 40 faces in her classroom, yet I felt she was speaking directly to me. She knew exactly what I was feeling and what many of my classmates were probably feeling as well, and she lessened our fears. I came out of that class making up my mind to succeed.
Having trouble keeping up with the workload? Break it down into small manageable pieces, and set up a schedule that works for you, she told us. Professors teaching too fast for you to take notes? Interrupt (打断) them with a question so you can catch up on your notes before they continue, she advised. If college algebra is too
difficult, drop back to introductory college math, she suggested. As for English composition which can be hard and boring, she gave us interesting writing homework.
She never let us lose sight of our dreams. “Go for the best: you’re worth it” she said when we graduated.
I left that community college with high grades and went on to do further studies. Mrs. Peters wouldn’t know that when she gave that talk, she made a huge difference in my life.
8. Why did the author go back to college?
A. He was out of a job.
B. He was dissatisfied with his job.
C. He tried to start his own business.
D. He hoped to learn more about algebra.
9. What troubled the author at college?
A. He did badly in recent exams.
B. He was forced to leave school.
C. He failed to manage his studies.
D. He was beaten by bitter memories.
10. How did Mrs. Peters affect the author?
A. By showing favor to him.
B. By talking with him directly.
C. By setting him extra homework.
D. By givinghim inspiration and skills.
11. What advice did Mrs. Peters offer to her students on their careers?
A. Have fun.
B. Start small.
C. Dream big
D. Think twice
D
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (麻省理工学院) have turned spider webs into music——creating an strange soundtrack that could help them better understand how the spiders output their complex creations and even how they communicate.
The MIT team worked with Berlin-based artist Tomas Saraceno to take 2D (two-dimensional) laser (激光) scans of a spider web, which were linked together and made into a mathematical model that could recreate the web in 3Din VR (virtual reality). They also worked with MIT’s music department to create the virtual instrument.
“Even though the web looks really random (随机)，there actually are a lot of inside structures and you can visualize (可视化) them and you can look at them, but it’s really hard to grasp for the human imagination or human brain to understand all these structural details,” said MIT engineering professor Markus Buehler, who presented the work on Monday at a virtual meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Listening to the music while moving through the VR spider web lets you see and hear these structural changes and gives a better idea of how spiders see the world, he told CNN. “Spiders use vibrations (振动) as a way
to locate themselves, to communicate with other spiders and so the idea of thinking really like a spider would experience the world was something that was very important to us as spider material scientists,” Buehler said.
Spiders are able to build their webs without shelves or supports, so having a better idea of how they work could lead to the development of advanced new 3D printing techniques. “The reason why I did that is I wanted to be able to get information really from the spider world, which is very weird and mysterious,” Buehler explained. In addition to the scientific value, Buehler said the webs are musically interesting and that you can hear the sounds the spider creates during construction. “It’s unusual and eerie and scary, but finally beautiful.” he described.
12. What have MIT scientists done according to the passage?
A. They have translated spider webs into sounds.
B. They have made a mathematical model to produce webs.
C. They have created a soundtrack to catch spiders.
D. They have known how spiders communicate.
13. What can we know about spider webs from paragraph 3?
A. Their structures are beautiful and clear.
B. Professor Markus Buehler knows them well.
C. The American Chemical Society presents the result.
D. They are complex for people to figure it out.
14. In which field will the study be helpful?
A. virtual reality
B. printing
C. painting
D. film-making
15. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. It tells us that the music created by spiders is scary.
B. It shows how the researchers carry out the experiment.
C. It presents a new and creative way to study spiders.
D. It explains why scientists did the experiment.
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___16___
Have you ever found yourself waiting at the stop for your bus to arrive and have a stranger ask a commonplace question? Perhaps you've stood in line waiting for a coffee and feel the need to just look over to the
person next to you and ask about the weather.
This is small talk, it's actually a big part of daily life.
"Small talk may seem unimportant, but it's a natural way for people to connect. It may seem like a waste of time.
___17___Big relationships are built on small talk," Lindy Pegler, who has a master's degree in psychology, wrote on Medium.
___18___Often, we find ourselves making small talk with the same people on a regular basis. Coming up with small conversations is the foundation of these relationships.
The benefits of such conversations can actually contribute to our happiness and benefit our lives as a whole.___19___It can be as simple as complimenting（称赞）one's shirt, asking about their day or commenting on the traffic.
Who knows where this can lead?_____20_____You might find someone who has a common interest, or maybe even someone who turns out to be a close friend. There is one thing for sure: Making small talk can brighten our day—even if it's just a nice comment or a thoughtful question.
So the next time you find yourself waiting for the bus or checking your watch while you wait in a line, take the opportunity to look up and talk to someone around you. After all, it takes a small connection to lead to a larger one.
A. Scientists suggest that small talk can have a lasting effect on our happiness.
B. In fact, we spend a lot of our time making small talk.
C. Our small talk is our chance.
D. So how does one start making small talk?
E. But it plays a vital role in our social interactions.
F. The small connections can lead to big results.
G. Small talk, large impact.
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I′ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.
One morningI___21___a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its___22___, so I jumped out of the tractor to___23___it while Don stayed
in his seat.
Lamb and mother___24___, I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so___25___because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out.___26___Don had somehow made the___27___move
My heart froze in my chest as I___28___the tractor heading towards the___29___.I ran desperately but failed to____30____. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The____31____thing I saw was Don′ s face, looking calmly back at me. Heart in mouth, I____32____the fence and looked over. The tractor was____33____against the crashbarrier in the central reservation (中央分道带), having crossed the____34____road with fast-flowing traffic by a miracle. I couldn′t see Don, but as I____35____the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently____36____, and dashed back to me.
The police____37____and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn′t quite believe my____38____. It turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been____39____. Don was given a special____40____that night — I didn′t want him to think I was angry with him.
21. A. dropped B. carried C. spotted D. returned
22. A. kids B. friends C. owner D. mother
23. A. ask about B. tend to C. play with D. run into
24. A. freed B. switched C. reunited D. examined
25. A. unexpected B. dangerous C. embarrassing D. difficult
26. A. Fortunately B. Obviously C. Immediately D. Generally
27. A. lamb B. fence C. seat D. vehicle
28. A. saw B. stopped C. remembered D. drove
29. A. crowd B. motorway C. field D. hill
30. A. take off B. catch up C. hold back D. get out
31. A. real B. best C. basic D. last
32. A. reached B. noticed C. fixed D. closed
33. A. parking B. running C. resting D. turning
34. A. steep B. long C. rough D. busy
35. A. abandoned B. approached C. recognized D. repaired
36. A. unclean B. uncertain C. unhurt D. unhappy
37. A. arrived B. replied C. survived D. waited
38. A. ability B. dream C. luck D. idea
39. A. awful B. guilty C. desirable D. common
40. A. lesson B. test C. job D. meal
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
A loyal Liverpool Football Club fan is always making sure to cheer on his beloved team whenever they play and thanks____41.____a letter from his loving older brother, the team was recently able to return the favor.
Ian, a Liverpool City native,____42.____hoped his hometown soccer team would do something special for his brother David,____43.____(write) a letter to the club about David’s condition. Since David was starved of oxygen as an infant, he developed differently than other kids. Though David struggled____44.____(academic), his enduring loyalty to Liverpool FC never left him, and he is well known in the community as being a great kid and a passionate fan.
David is a season ticket holder who _____45._____(try) to go and see Liverpool play as many times as he can. He could never have expected that one of the____46.____(great )members of the team would go to see him while he was at work.
Liverpool FC defender Virgil Van Dijk,_____47._____(consider)to be the best defender and one of the best players in the world, visited David’s place of work to give him the surprise of a lifetime:___48.___trip to Liverpool FC’s training ground to meet the team.
NOT only that, Van Dijk presented David with____49.____(ticket )for all the rest of the game to make sure they had his support from the stands for every oneof the 25______50.______remain) gamesthis season.
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。

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（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。

In order to celebrate the eighty anniversary of the founding of our school, a big celebration was held in our school last Sunday. All the teachers and students attended a ceremony.
Full preparations were being made in advance. We decorate our school with flowers and balloons, but we prepared some eye-catching programs. Finally, the day we had been looking forward came. In the morning, the opening ceremony was held on the playground as scheduling. After that, they attended a special class meeting. In the evening, the teachers and students gave different kinds of wonderful performance. I was happily that I joined in the chorus of our school song.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的好友Jimmy报名了校书法俱乐部，但因人数已满而未成功，请给他写一封邮件，内容要点如下：
1.告知报名未成功；
2.推荐其他俱乐部。

注意:1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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参考答案
1. D
2. A
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. B 9. C 10. D 11. C
12. D 13. A 14. C 15. C
16. G 17. E 18. B 19. D 20. F
21. C 22. D 23. B 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. B 31. D 32.
A 33. C 34. D 35.
B 36.
C 37. A 38. C 39. A 40. D
41. to 42. who
43. wrote 44. academically
45. tries 46. greatest
47. considered
48. a 49. tickets
50. remaining
51.(1).eighty→eightieth；
(2).a→the；
(3).去掉being；
(4).decorate→decorated；
(5).but→and；
(6).在forward后加to；
(7).scheduling→scheduled；
(8).they→we；
(9).performance→performances；
(10).happily→happy
52.略。