2019-2020学年青海省平安县第一高级中学高三英语下学期期末考试试卷及答案

2019-2020学年青海省平安县第一高级中学高三英语下学期期末考试
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
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Japan
October 2021
A centre for technology with natural beauty, Japan is a must-see destination for science and nature lovers. Join us on a special journey across the country during its fantastic autumn to see its amazing landscapes, visit leading scientific institutions and experience robotics and AI.
Antarctica
April to September 2021
Join us aboard the Magellan Explorer for an exciting adventure to South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula, exploring the world's largest ocean reserve and best ocean ecosystem. Follow in the footstepsof the great scientists while marveling（惊叹）at icebergs, ancient glaciers and ice flies onto volcanic beaches.
Italy
March and June 2021
Encounter the great scientific minds and discoveries of the Renaissance on a cultural adventure across two of its cities, Florence and Bologna. Enjoy beautiful surroundings as you take in the wonderful collections, buildings and churches that demonstrate the period across architecture and paintings.
Czech Republic
May and July 2021
Discover the legacy（遗产）of Kepler and Brahe in Prague, a city where astronomy, maths, medicine and architecture connect. Kepler became the father of modern astronomy supported by the observational data from Brahe.
1. What can travelers do in Japan?
A. Experience space travel.
B. Enjoy its spring landscape.
C. Visit its scientific institutions .
D. Learn about its traditional culture.
2. Which of the following can you choose if you are free in August?
A. Japan.
B. Italy.
C. Antarctica.
D. Czech Republic .
3. What do Italy and Czech Republic havein common?
A. Astronomy.
B. Architecture.
C. Paintings.
D. Medicine .
B
Saroo Brierley, a 4-year-old boy, livedin ruralIndia. One day, he played with his brother along the rail line and fell asleep. When he woke up, he found himself alone. So he got on the train in front of him to search for his brother.
That train took him a thousand miles across the country to a totally strange city. He lived on the streets, and then in an orphanage (孤儿院), where he was adopted by an Australian family and taken to Tasmania.
Brierley is a famous writer now, and in his new book,A Long Way Home, he wrote he couldn’t help but wonder about his hometown back inIndia. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn’t know his town’s name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country seemed impossible.
Then he found a digital mapping program. He spent years searching for his hometown in the program’s satellite pictures. In 2011, he came across something familiar. He studied it and realized he was looking at a town’s central business district from a bird’s-eye view. He thought, “On the right-hand side you should see the three-platform train station”—and there it was. “And on the left-hand side you should see a big fountain”—and there it was. Everything matched!
Standing in front of the house where he grew up as a child, he saw a lady standing at the entrance. It took him a few seconds but he finally remembered what she used to look like.
In an interview Brierley says, “My mother came forth and walked forward, and I walked forward, my eyes filled with tears and my brain blank. I just didn’t know what to say, because I never thought seeing my mother would ever come true. And here I am, standing in front of her.”
4. Why did Brierley get on the train when he was a little boy?
A. To go back to his home.
B. To look for his brother.
C. To travel toTasmania.
D. To follow a stranger.
5. What made it difficult for Brierley to find his hometown?
A. The vast area ofIndia.
B. The fact that he was nobody then.
C. His not remembering the town’s name.
D. The distance betweenAustraliaand his hometown.
6. How did Brierley find his hometown?
A. By studying digital maps.
B. By analyzing old pictures.
C. By travelling all aroundIndia.
D. By spreading his story via his book.
7. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Love for Mother
B. Union with Brother
C. Memory of Hometown
D. Long Way back Home
C
Until quarantine (隔离期) ends, we are left picturing what sport we might do: working out at the gym, playing on a competitive sports team, swimming, biking, or rock climbing. However, we don’t often think of martial arts as possible activities; instead, we rule it out because we think it’s dangerous, uncommon, and even, impossible. Martial arts aren’t considered a sport, right?
Well, here’s some good news: you’re wrong! Martial arts aren’t much more common than people think, and you can start learning at any age. Practicing martial arts is a great way to keep in shape, both physically and mentally. They’re much less boring and much lessarduoussport than they’re usually described as in movies, so do not worry that they need a lot of effort.
Martial arts generally require you to focus on the position and movement of every one of your legs and arms, sometimes even your breathing too. Think about it: when you leave the gym, your mental state has improved and you are much calmer. This is because you’ve only paid attention to one activity. It is a great way to clear your head.
Andpracticing it can help you learn to stay more focused, which is the greatest advantage of martial arts training.
Martial arts also improve your coordination (协调性), and greatly improve your posture (姿势). I have personally seen students go from slouching (没精打采) to walking tall with their shoulders back in just a couple of months.
There are many styles and countless kinds of martial arts. Whichever one you like better, know that all of them are good choices.
8. What can we know about martial arts from the first two paragraphs?
A. They often have people hurt.
B. They are difficult to practice.
C. People have a wrong view on it.
D. People practice them more often.
9. What does the underlined word “arduous” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Interesting.
B. Difficult.
C. Friendly.
D. Exciting.
10. What is the biggest benefit of practicing martial arts?
A. Adjusting the breath.
B. Enjoying one’s free time.
C. Correcting the movement.
D. Keeping one’s attention.
11. What does the writer think of martial arts?
A. They are notsports.
B. They attracted many teenagers.
C. They are beneficial and helpful.
D. They were invented to protect others.
D
We use what is known as inner speech, where we talk to ourselves, to evaluate situations and make decisions. Now, a robot has been trained to speak aloud its inner decision-making process, giving us a view of how it responds to contradictory demands.
Arianna Pipitone and Antonio Chella at the University of Palermo, Italy, programmed a humanoid robot named Pepper, with software that models human cognitive(认知的)processes, which allowed Pepper to retrieve (检索)relevant information from its memory and find the correct way to act based on human commands, as well as a text — to — speech processor. It allowed Pepper to voice its decision-making process while completing a task, "With inner speech, we can better understand what the robot wants to do and what its plan is," says Chella.
The researchers asked Pepper to set a dinner table according to etiquette (礼仪)rules they had programmed into the robot. Inner speech was either enabled or disabled to see how it affected Pepper's ability to do what was
instructed.
When instructed to place a napkin on a fork with its inner speech enabled, Pepper asked itself what the etiquette required and concluded that this request went against the rules it had been given. It then asked the researchers if putting the napkin on the fork was the correct action. When told it was, Pepper said, "OK, I prefer to follow your desire," and explained how it was going to place the napkin on the fork.
When asked to do the same task with inner speech disabled, Pepper knew this contradicted etiquette rules, so it didn't perform the task or explain why.
With the potential for robots to become more common in the future, this type of programming could help the public understand their abilities and limitations, says Sarah Sebo at theUniversityofChicago. "It maintains people's trust and enables cooperation and interactions between humans and robots," she says. However, this experiment only used a single human participant, says Sebo. "It's unclear how their approach would compare across a wide range of human participants," she says.
12. Why does the author mention how people make decisions in the first paragraph?
A. To introduce the topic.
B. To make comparisons.
C. To provide an example.
D. To support his argument.
13. How did Pepper react to the contradictory instruction with its inner speech enabled?
A. It failed to complete the task.
B. It followed the etiquette rules.
C. It made a random decision.
D. It communicated with the researchers.
14. What did Sarah Sebo think of the research?
A. It was creative but worthless.
B. It was a good try but the result was a failure.
C. It was inspiring but needed further evidence.
D. It was carefully designed but poorly performed.
15. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A. Robot Taught To Be Polite
B. Robot Can Explain Its Decision
C. Robot Making Decisions: No Longer A Dream
D. Robot-Human Communication: No Longer A Problem
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
People Who Can’t Count
A recent study has discovered that dyscalculia, the mathematical inability in reading, affects about 5% of children in Britain. There is no simple way of finding out the reason and kids with this learning disability are usually labelled unintelligent.
So what exactly is this learning disability in mathematics? Unlike most people, dyscalculics cannot recognise three or four objects.____16____For example, they need to count the books on the table before they can say how many there are. In other words, they have to count them one by one. This is where they are different from others. The majority of us, if shown three or four similar things, can immediately recognise them.
___17___They cannot understand, for instance, why two and three makes five. Another problem is not being able to tell which group contains more objects than the other. Experiments have proved that dyscalculics have not developed the part of the brain responsible for processing numbers.
There are also problems with the abstract concept of time for dyscalculics.____18____If your best friend is always late, he might be suffering from dyscalculia. Dyscalculics cannot keep track of time, and they never know how much time they have spent getting ready and how long it will take them to get to work. In addition, research has shown that dyscalculics behave oddly in social situations.____19____This poor ability can explain why they never know how much change they are due or what kind of budget they need for their holiday.
On the other hand, dyscalculics are very good at creative arts. People suffering from dyscalculia can become painters or poets. Dyscalculia does not seem to delay language acquisition. Dyscalculic children acquire language at the same time as, if not earlier than, most children and have no problem learning to read or write.___20___
A. Dyscalculics have difficulties in using numbers at all.
B. This disability scares children away from learning mathematics.
C. They have to go through the routine of counting even a small number of objects.
D. It is quite reasonable for dyscalculics to solve this kind of specific problem at any time.
E. They never know how much they should tip the waiter or they’ve got left after a shopping trip.
F. We can see that dyscalculia is only a learning disability, not a general indication of intelligence.
G. This can account for their difficulty in reading schedules and remembering the order in which things have happened.
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When 10-year-old Romeo Cox realized what he wanted more than anything else was a hug from his 77-year-old grandmother, he decided to make the journey. He did not let the 1,7000-mile distance and the fact that there were no flights___21___him.
“I hadn’t___22___her for a year and a half owing to the pandemic(流行病), so I___23___to go and see her in secret,” he said. “I meant it to be a(an)___24___.”
“I asked my___25___and they said no more than 50 times, but I___26___talked them into letting me do it,” he told The Daily Mail.
Romeo turned his plan into___27___.“I drew a map. I’d walk and take boats and do it naturally to___28___the planet,” he told The Times. “And I’d take Dad. It would be___29___to have an adult.”
Romeo and Phil_____30_____from Sicily, Italy on June 20. They trekked(跋涉)across Italy, Switzerland and France. They spent many nights beneath the stars. They were also_____31_____to fight off wild dogs, got lost a time or two,_____32_____sore feet and so on. But no matter how_____33_____the conditions were, they just kept going.
On September 21, they_____34_____London’s Trafalgar Square, where they spent a two-week mandatory isolation(强制隔离)before being_____35_____to make the final leg of journey to Grandma Rosemary’s_____36_____.
With his grandmother’s house eventually in sight, Romeo_____37_____a joyful run. And he ended up in the_____38_____he had been longing for.
“I can hardly imagine my grandson’s_____39_____trip yet,” she admitted frankly. But more than anything else, love and gratitude_____40_____her heart.
21. A. stop B. destroy C. trick D. challenge
22. A. written B. called C. missed D. seen
23. A. promised B. agreed C. planned D. offered
24. A. surprise B. present C. chance D. option
25. A. friends B. parents C. grandparents D. cousins
26. A. instantly B. shortly C. initially D. finally
27. A. wait B. action C. imagination D. fantasy
28. A. save B. monitor C. help D. explore
29. A. handy B. impressive C. stressful D. troublesome
30. A. walked away B. drove on C. moved out D. set off
31. A. urged B. expected C. forced D. ordered
32. A. sacrificed B. suffered C. enjoyed D. harvested
33. A. punishing B. boring C. favorable D. pleasant
34. A. visited B. passed C. located D. reached
35. A. required B. persuaded C. allowed D. forbidden
36. A. home B. block C. downtown D. district
37. A. thought of B. broke into C. took on D. tried out
38. A. sofa B. house C. welcome D. hug
39. A. arbitrary B. unbelievable C. ridiculous D. tentative
40. A. stole B. broke C. filled D. softened
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
China has landed lunar probe（探测器）on an unexplored area of the moon___41.___（successful）. The probe will remain on the moon collecting soil and rock samples until Thursday, guided by mission control on the ground. The robotic spacecraft___42.___（name）Chang'e 5 after the Chinese goddess of the moon drilled into the surface of the moon to collect soil early Wednesday.
It's the first attempt___43.___（get）rocks from the moon by any country since the 1970s. The samples, which___44.___（expect）to weigh about 2 kilograms, will be sealed（密封）into a container in the spacecraft.
If successful, the mission will make China___45.___third country to have got lunar samples, following the United States and the Soviet Union___46.___（decade）ago.
When the samples are returned to Earth, scientists will be able to analyze the structure___47.___material composition（组成）of the moon's soil. The mission may help answer questions such as how long the moon remained in space, and when the magnetic field（磁场）of it — key to protecting any form of life___48.___the sun — disappeared.
The spacecraft landed on an unvisited area of the moon, known as Oceanus Ocean of Storms. The landing___49.___（mark）the third time a Chinese lunar probe has landed on the surface of the moon,____50.____also makes the whole Chinese proud.
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。

Here is good news for you which a writing competition about “Chinese Dream” is organizing by the Students’ Union. Everyone is welcome to take an actively part in the competition. You are required to writing a story about “Chinese Dream” within 400 word. We had already invited four of our English teachers to be the judges. Of course, your hard work will pay off. The student who wins the one prize will be given a set of famous ancient Chinese works. In a addition, your story will be filmed into a video. As for the deadline, we are expected to hand your story before December 20.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你受学生会委托为校宣传栏“英语天地”写一份倡议书，题目为：Reduce screen time to protect our eyesight。

内容包括：
1.分析现状；
2.提出建议。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear fellow students,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
The Students’ Union
参考答案
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. C 9. B 10. D 11. C
12. A 13. D 14. C 15. B
16. C 17. A 18. G 19. E 20. F
21. A 22. D 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. D 27. B 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. D 35.
C 36. A 37. B 38.
D 39. B 40. C
41. successfully
42. named 43. to get
44. are expected
45. the 46. decades
47. and 48. from
49. marks 50. which
51.(1). which→that
(2). organizing→organized
(3). actively→active
(4). writing→write
(5). word→words
(6). had→have
(7). one→first
(8). 删除a
(9). we→you
(10). 在hand后加in
52.略。