2019-2020学年西安陕西师范大学万科中学高三英语第一次联考试题及答案解析

2019-2020学年西安陕西师范大学万科中学高三英语第一次联考试题
及答案解析
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
AQUILA Children’s Magazine is the most intelligent read for curious kids. Full of enthusiastic articles and challenging puzzles, every issue covers science, history and general knowledge. AQUILA is a quality production, beautifully illustrated with contemporary artwork throughout.
● Intelligent reading for 8-12 year-olds
● Cool science and challenging projects
● Inspires self-motivated learning
● Exciting new topic every issue
AQUILA is created and owned by an independent UK company. It has 28 pages,printed on high-quality paper and there are no advertisements or posters. Instead it is full of well-written articles, thought-provoking ideas and great contemporary artwork. Each monthly issue is centred around a new topic.
AQUILA works as a superb learning extension to current primary (or KS2 and KS3) curriculum (课程), but it is much more than that! Entertaining and always surprising, AQUILA is recommended because it widens children’s interest and understanding, rather than encouraging them to concentrate only on their favourite subjects. It gives children a well-rounded understanding of the world, in all its complexity.
The concepts in AQUILA can be challenging, requiring good comprehension and reading skills. 8 years is usually a good age to start. Some gentle interest from an adult is often helpful at the start.
In 2020 AQUILA will have been in publication for 28 years, but it has never appeared in newsstands or shops. We are subscription only.
AQUILA Subscription
UK: 12 Months £55 - 4 Months £30
Europe: 12 Months £60 -4 Months £35
World: 12 Months £70 - 4 Months £35
Birthdays
Select the Birthday option, write a gift message and choose the birthday month. We will dispatch to arrive at
the start of the month you have entered. The package posts in a blue envelope marked ‘Open on your birthday’.
1.What is special about AQUILA?
A.It is available in shops.
B.It is for kids of all ages.
C.It has no advertisements.
D.It prints readers’ artworks.
2.What does AQUILA offer its readers?
A.Articles on modern art.
B.Family reading materials.
C.Ideas on improving readingskills.
D.Knowledge beyond school subjects.
3.AQUILA is intended for ________.
A.foreign language learners
B.children with learning difficulties
C.parent-child reading lovers
D.curious kids with good comprehension
B
Learning to say “yes, and”
When I first heard about the improvisation (即兴交流) class, I was hesitating. As a quiet and shy girl, I feared improvising in front of strangers. However,I knew I wanted to work as a science communicator after finishing my Ph.D., so it seemed like a perfect opportunity to learn how to speak and communicate with others effectively. I signed up, knowing the experience would give me help.
During our first class, we learned an important concept of improvisation: “yes, and.” It means that, as improvisers, we’d better accept what fellow performers say. If someone says that rhinos (犀牛) are librarians, for example, then rhinos are librarians. We do not question the logic; we say “yes” and then continue with the scene as if nothing is wrong.
The first few scenes were hard, but as weeks turned into months, I became more comfortable andeven started to enjoy our classes. I became better at listening, relating to my conversation partners, and communicating clearly in the moment. Once when I was giving a presentation about my science, an audience member surprised me with a question that didn’t grow out of the information I’d presented. Instead of getting confused and nervous, I took the “yes, and” approach—accepting the question and letting my mind focus on why it was asked. That helped me find an appropriate answer. I got pretty excited about it.
The benefits of improvisation go beyond communication. Before attending the class, I would get stuck when my experiments produced unexpected data, thinking that I had made a mistake. But now, instead of getting discouraged, I will stay open to the possibility that the results are real, keep exploring the data and end up identifying a new type of cell—one that isn’t behaving as expected.
I think all scientists can benefit from this lesson. If the data say rhinos are librarians, then it’s worth findingout whether rhinos are, in fact, librarians. As scientists, our job isn’t to challenge data that support a preconceived (先入为主的) story, but to say “yes, and.”
4. Why did the author attend the improvisation class?
A. To get a different experience.
B. To finish her Ph.D. at university.
C. To give up her job as a science communicator.
D. To improve her speaking and communicating ability.
5. What was the author’s change after attending the improvisation class?
A. She formed her own idea quickly.
B. She came up with lots of creative responses.
C. She paid more attention to the logic of answers.
D. She became a good listener before giving an opinion.
6. The author mentions applying the “yes, and” approach to her scientific experiments to ______.
A. explain the process of using the method
B. prove the benefits of the improvisation class
C. share her own research experiences with readers
D. attract fellow scientists to attend the improvisation class
7. What can be inferred about scientists from the last paragraph?
A. They should attend the improvisation class.
B. They should question all preconceived ideas.
C. They should carry on research by admitting earlier data.
D. They should try to improve their professional knowledge.
C
Salad plants have already been grown in old sheltersand tunnels. Urban farming is a regular topic of interest at places like the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, where leaders consider whether the world's food system,
blamed for causing both obesity and malnutrition, can be fixed. There are already plenty of urban farming projects around the world, particularly in the US, Japan and the Netherlands, from urban fish and plant farms to vertical farming.
“It's becoming an expanding industry,” said Richard Ballard, one of the founders of the farm Growing Underground. “There're several other businesses starting up in London in containers, and there are other vertical farms around the country now.”
Growing Underground is not a standard farm. The rows of crops could be in almost any tunnel, but these plants are 100 feet below Clapham High Street and show that urban agriculture is, in some cases at least, nota fad. The underground farm has occupied a part of the Second World War air-raid shelters for nearly five years, and Ballard is planning to expand into the rest of the space later this year.
Growing Underground supplies herb and salad mixes to grocery shops, supermarkets and restaurants. Being in London creates an advantage, Ballard says, as they can harvest and deliver in an hour.
He adds other advantages. Being underground means temperatures never go below 15℃surface greenhouses need to be heated. They can do more harvests: 60 crops a year, compared with about seven in a traditional farm. Electricity to power the lights is a major cost, but the company believes renewable energy will become cheaper.
Similar British companies include the Jones Food Company in Lincolnshire, while in the US AeroFarms has several projects in New Jersey, and Edenworks in Brooklyn.
8. What do we know about urban farming?
A. It leads to a healthier lifestyle.
B. It is rarely discussed at the WEF.
C. Different farming methods are used.
D. Local governments pay efforts to develop it.
9. Which of the following best explains "a fad" underlined in Paragraph 3?
A. A dream that's easy to realize.
B. A field controlled for a long time.
C. An approach to a serious problem.
D. A fashion that’s popular for a short time.
10. What can we learn about the underground farm?
A. It is more productive than a traditional farm.
B. It provides food directly to the customers.
C. Its major products are herbs and salads.
D. It uses less energy than a greenhouse.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Current food system causes health problems
B. Growing Underground attracts more people
C. Traditional farming will be replaced soon
D. Urban farming isstill thought costly and time-consuming
D
Born in 1954, Oprah Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show as the most influential woman in the world. It's no surprise that her recognition can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns. The star features about 20 products each year on her "Favorite Things" show. There's even a term for it: the Oprah Effect.
Her television career began unexpectedly. When she was 16 years old, she had the idea of being a journalist to tell other people's stories in a way that made a difference in their lives and the world. She was on television by the time she was 19 years old. And in 1986 she started her own television show with a continuous determination to succeed at first.
TIME magazine wrote, "People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey's swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of big size. As interviewers go, she is no match for Phil Donahue. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plainspoken curiosity, rich humor and, above all understanding. Guests with sad stories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah's eye. They, in turn, often find themselves exposing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience."
"I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are likely to fall if you' re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you' re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages, you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction" as Oprah addressed graduates at Harvard on May 30.
12. What does the Oprah Effect refer to in the first paragraph?
A. the influence on talk show hosts
B. the power of Oprah's opinions.
C. the effect on a business.
D. the audience of Oprah's talk show.
13. What can be inferred about Oprah's television career?
A. She must have been challenged a lot
B. She gained fame as planned.
C. It lives up to her parents' expectation.
D. She once gave up on her choice.
14. What message did Oprah give to Harvard graduates?
A. Success comes after failure.
B. Pushing physical limits makes no sense
C. Aiming higher hurts
D. Failure is part of life.
15. Which of the following best describes Oprah Winfrey?
A. Friendly.
B. Humorous
C. Determined.
D. Patient
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Failure is probably the most exhausting experience one ever has. There is nothing more tiringthan not succeeding.
We experience this tiredness in two ways: start-up fatigue (疲惫) and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it is either too boring or too difficult.___16___
Such start-up fatigue is very real, evenif not actually physical. The solution is obvious though perhaps not easy to apply: always handle the most difficult job first.___17___Using my own rule, I determined to write them in alphabetical (字母) order and I always started the day's work with thedifficult task of essay-writing. Experience proved that the rule works.
___18___Its difficulties appear so great that we fail again and again. In such a situation, I work as hard as I can and then let the unconscious take over. When planning Encyclopedia Britannica, I had to create a table of contents. Nothing like this had ever been done before so that my fatigue became almost unbearable. I tried to convince myself that the trouble was with the problem itself, not with me.___19___An hour later, I woke up suddenly with the solution which had come up in my unconscious mind and proved correct at every step.
___20___Success was now as exciting as failure had been depressing. Human beings, I believe, must try to succeed. Success, then, means never feeling tired.
A. Feeling relieved, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.
B. Hard as I worked as before, l felt no fatigue.
C. This feeling finally weighed me down.
D. Performance fatigue is more difficult to handle.
E. And the longer we delay it, the more tired we feel.
F. I racked my brains day and night and wrote the essays desperately.
G. I once was asked to write quite a lot of essays on some famous authors.
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
Four years ago Rita Gaviola was a beggar in a small Philippine town. Now she works as a fashion___21___，starring on TV shows and___22___many Instagram followers. It all started with a (n)___23___photo.
Back in 2016, she was___24___on thestreets of Lucban. Her father was a garbage collector and her mother a housewife. The family___25___managed to put food on the table, so Rita often went out to ask for___26___or food donations.
One day a photographer Topher Burgos happened to be attracted by her___27___beauty. He changed the girl's___28___completely by posting the photos of her on the Internet, optionally with a single___29___click of the 'upload' button.
One of the photos became a hit immediately, with people praising her____30____of nature. She was nicknamed “Badjao Girl" and____31____several Filipino beauty queens, who did their best to help the girl____32____. Then she began to model for various clothing brands and____33____small roles in TV series. All the hype (炒作) around Badjao Girl also helped her____34____an online audience, including____35____from abroad, some of whom helped her family financially. In 2018, Rita____36____a YouTube video showcasing her family's new house and thanking a loyal US fan for____37____the construction.
Even though the hype has____38____, she remains very popular on Filipino social media through her own efforts. Rita is seen as proof that Cinderella-like stories are____39____in real-life. In Rita's case, all it took was a photo and her____40____in the right place, at the right time.
21. A.seller B.designer C.model D.guide
22. A.gains B.handles C.resembles D.challenges
23. A.old B.random C.big D.special
24. A.running B.singing C.playing D.begging
25. A.barely B.nearly C.finally D.regularly
26. A.attention B.advice C.money D.work
27. A.artificial B.natural C.potential D.classic
28. B.life C.identity D.figure
29. A.cautious B.long C.silent D.light
30. A.love B.virtue C.beauty D.sense
31. A.attracted B.cheated C.called D.visited
32. A.on the Internet B.out of poverty C.away from home D.with her education
33. A.created B.practiced C.served D.played
34. A.join B.train C.build anize
35. A.fans B.stars C.tourists D.bosses
36. A.recorded B.watched C.received D.posted
37. A.starting B.reporting C.protecting D.sponsoring
38. A.took off B.died down C.paid off D.given up
39. A.ridiculous B.fantastic C.possible D.appreciative
40. A.presence B.performance C.signature D.introduction
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
Wild Chinese sturgeon (鲟) are thought to have lived at the same time as dinosaurs and among the first class of protected animals in China. Last week, a wild Chinese sturgeon, which is believed to be the____41.____(large) ever found in the past two decades, arrived inBeijingfor better treatment. The species is one of the____42.____(critical) endangered fish species inChinaand can be found only in the Yangtze andPearlrivers.
The Chinese sturgeon “Houfu” ,____43.____literally means “good fortune for ever after”, arrived at the Beijing Aquarium on Monday after 22 hours of transport____44.____HubeiProvince.
When the fish____45.____(find) by a fisherman in theYangtzeRiver Basin, it had been suffering from multiple____46.____(injury). It was sent to the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute for treatment immediately. As she was so weak, local care takers had difficulty____47.____(feed) it. The Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute decided to move it toBeijingto receive further treatment.
Nicknamed “Aquatic giant pandas” and____48.____(list) as a wild creature under state protection, the species has been struggling due to water projects, busy waterway traffic____49.____pollution in recent years. The number of Chinese sturgeon living in the wild_____50._____(fall) sharply to about 50 now from about 1,000 in 1982, according to researchers' estimates.
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（℃）,并在其正下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（℃）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线,并在该词正下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均限一词,请严格按照要求格式修改。

只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last month, I borrowed a English novel namedGreat Expectations. To tell the truth, it was the first time that I have read an English novel. It was difficultly because there were many new words. I had to spend much time looking up for new words. However, I forced myself read one page each day. Sometimes I tried guessing the meanings of the words instead of turning to the dictionary, what seemed to help me remember the words better. In this way, I have gradual learnt many new word. I suggest you can read as many English books as you can because it’s a good way to improve my English.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是学生李华，你的英国笔友Smith写信说，他想来中国当一年的英语教师，现征求你的建议。

请给他回信，内容包括：
1.表示欢迎；
2.推荐他来你的家乡；
3.说明理由。

注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
3.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Smith,
Delighted to know that you are determined to teach English inChinafor a year,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. C
2. D
3. D
4. D
5. D
6. B
7. C
8. C 9. D 10. A 11. B
12. C 13. A 14. D 15. C
16. E 17. G 18. D 19. A 20. B
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. A 32.
B 33. D 34.
C 35. A 36.
D 37. D 38. B 39. C 40. A
41. largest
42. critically
43. which 44. from
45. was found .
46. injuries
47. feeding
48. listed 49. and
50. has fallen
51.(1).a→an (2). have→had (3). difficultly→difficult (4). 去掉for (5).在read前加to
(6). what→which (7). gradual→gradually (8). word→words (9). can→should或去掉can (10).my→your 52.略。