2019-2020学年天津南开翔宇学校高三英语上学期期末考试试卷及答案

2019-2020学年天津南开翔宇学校高三英语上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
Children under the age of 18 will be allowed up to three hours per week to play video games, according to a notice issued by China's National Press and Publication Administration. Online game companies are required to provide services to minors — from8 to 9 p. m. on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays — as a way to safeguard their physical and mental health. Children are playing more and more online games these days. Is it time to limit their online gaming time? What role do parents have? Readers share their opinions.
Rizlared
Online games are addictive, but if children are taught how to manage in a sensible and responsible manner then it is no longer a threat(威胁).To achieve this, parents need to set examples for not being glued to their phones. Teaching is and always will be the best solution to such problems.
Andrew
Good policy. By limiting time spent on online games, kids can spend time doing more useful things to develop their potential. They can go outside and run, jump and swim instead of sitting on a couch at home and playing with a smart phone.
Adam
It is often seen that parents argue with children over cellphones. Most parents can hardly set and enforce the time limit for its daily usage. Some forcibly take away their cellphones, but it will ruin trust and relationship. Even worse, it will make their kids hate them.
Pink
Excessive(过度的）gaming is purely a waste of time and energy for minors and has a negative effect on both physical and mental health. The gaming industry should not put profit- flaking interests as its priority (优先事项) . They should act in a socially responsible way toprovide an environment for children to ensure their well-being and development.
Lauren
There would be a loophole(漏洞). Children could use their parents’ or other adults’ IDs to avoid real-name
registration, thus making it impossible to put this policy in effect. Parents ly need to strengthen guidance and supervision to keep their children from gaming addiction.
1. What should kids do according to Andrew?
A. Play online games.
B. Play with a smart phone.
C. Study all the time.
D. Go in for outside activities.
2. What does Pink advise the gaming industry to do?
A. Pay attention to its profit.
B. Focus on kids’ health.
C. Be responsible for kids’ surroundings.
D. Persuade kids lo play more games.
3. What role do parents have according to the passage?
A. They keep hold of their phones.
B. They set examples for their kids.
C. They limit their kids’ time.
D. They blame kids for addiction.
B
Brown cows may not actually make chocolate milk, but pink silkworms（蚕）do produce pink silk, a team of scientists has discovered. To see if they could produce pre-dyed silk-silk that comes color1 ed, straight from the source-the team fed ordinary silkworms mulberry（桑树）leaves that had been sprayed（喷洒）with fabric（织物）dyes（染色剂）. Out of seven tested dyes, only one worked, producing a thread that reminded me of pink-dyed hair.
And yes, the worms themselves take on some color1 before they produce silk. Their color1 ful diets did not affect their growth, the team, which included engineers and biologists from the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in India, reports in the journalACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. (The researchers didn't look too deeply into how the dyes affected the silkworms' health. After all, silkworms die when people harvest their silk.)
The team made dyeing silk this way because color1 ing fabric normally uses large amounts of fresh water. The water gets polluted with dangerous chemicals in the process, requiring costly treatment before factories can send it back into waterways. Dyeing silk directly by feeding silkworms would avoid those water-washing steps. Scientists are just starting to study this idea. However, it remains to be seen if it's commercially successful. In this experiment, the Indian team tested seven dyes, which are cheap and popular in the industry.
The scientists found different dyes moved through silkworms' bodies differently. Some never made it into the worms' silk at all. Others color1 ed the worms and their silk but the color1 disappears before the silk is turned into fabric. Only one dye, named "direct acid fast red", showed up in the final, washed silk threads. By the time it made
it there, it was a pleasant, light pink.
4. The text is most probably a(n) ________.
A. science report
B. tourist guide
C. animal experiment
D. fashion advertisement
5. Silkworms can produce pink silk because ________.
A. they are born pink
B. they are dyed pink
C. they grow in pink water
D. they are fed dyed food
6. Where is the experiment carried out?
A. In America.
B. In India.
C. In Israel.
D. In China.
7. How many dyes have been proved successful in the experiment?
A. One.
B. Three.
C. Five.
D. Seven.
C
The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. Recent studies have found positive effects. A study conductedin Youngstown，Ohio，for example, discovered that greener areas of the city experienced less crime. In another，employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their workplaces were decorated with houseplants.
The engineers at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology(MIT)have taken it a step further changing the actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse，even unusual functions. These include plants that have sensors printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect harmful chemicals in groundwater.＂We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to replace functions of the things that we use every day,＂explained Michael Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.
One of his latest projects has been to make plants glow(发光)in experiments using some common vegetables. Strano’s team found that they could create a faint light for three-and-a-half hours. The light，about one-thousandth of the amount needed to read by，is just a start. The technology, Strano said, could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps.
In the future，the team hopes to develop a version of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves in a one-off treatment that would last the plant’s lifetime. The engineers are also trying to develop an on and off＂switch＂where the glow would fade when exposed to daylight.
Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity consumed in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source(电源)-such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway-a lot
of energy is lost during transmission(传输).Glowing plants could reduce this distance and therefore help save energy.
8. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. A new study of different plants.
B. A big fall in crime rates.
C. Employees from various workplaces.
D. Benefits from green plants.
9. What is the function of the sensors printed on plant leaves by MIT engineer?
A. To detect plants’ lack of water
B. To change compositions of plants
C. To make the life of plants longer.
D. To test chemicals in plants.
10. What can we expect of the glowing plants in the future?
A. They will speed up energy production.
B. They may transmit electricity to the home.
C. They might help reduce energy consumption.
D. They could take the place of power plants.
11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Can we grow more glowing plants?
B. How do we live with glowing plants?
C. Could glowing plants replace lamps?
D. How are glowing plants made pollution-free?
D
It’s a little before8 a.m. when Mathias Schergen pushes open the side door at Chicago’s Jenner Elementary Academy for the Arts. He walks down the hall toward the office to sign in. It’s the same routine he’s had as Jenner’s art teacher for nearly a quarter century. “It’s going to be a good day,” a colleague calls out. “It’s a good day.” They hug. It seems like a typical Friday. Except it’s not. After 23 years at Jenner Elementary, Schergen is retiring. Even on his last day, there are still art projects to finish.
Schergen leaves behind a richlegacyat this school. He’s won grants (拨款) for art projects. He turned an empty classroom into a museum. He’s pushed his students to make art about their lives. And he was awarded a
Golden Apple — the most honorable teaching award in Chicago. But it wasn’t always easy. For years, Schergen taught in one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. “When I first got my room, I noticed there were bullet holes in the window. That made me nervous,” he says. So he stuffed Beanie Babies in the holes to make it “look kind of funny”. “I didn’t even tell my wife for a whole year,” he says. “I didn’t want her to know.”
With one hour to go, Schergen piles the chairs and sweeps the floor. He cleans out the sink for the last time. Fifth-grader Deontae Barnes, one of his best helpers, has watched him say goodbye all day. He wanders in the doorway. “Ah, come here, son,” Schergen says, signaling him over. He bends down for a hug. “Thank you for making these last days special and being a help to me.”
When Deontae leaves, a reporter asks Schergen: When your kids ask why you’re retiring, what do you tell them? “I just tell them that grown people have dreams too,” he says. “I have other things in my life I have to do. It’s time. It’s just time.”
12. Why is it a special Friday for Schergen?
A. He was retiring on that day.
B. He won an honor for his school.
C. He was interviewed by a reporter.
D. He received a Golden Apple award.
13. What does the underlined word “legacy” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Art projects.
B. Great achievements.
C. Respect from students.
D. Change in teaching.
14. What made Schergen nervous when he first got to the school?
A. Safety concerns in the school.
B. The poorly-equipped classroom.
C. Being misunderstood by his family.
D. Students’ poor academic performance.
15. What is the best title for the text?
A.A Typical Day for an Art Teacher
B. Time for Art Projects
C. A Teacher’s Final Day at School
D. The Last Art Class
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Hotels should be as good as their guests think they are. Guest satisfaction is quite important to any hotel.___16___And even in many cases they will haveto go above and beyond to impress the guests.
___17___
In today’s world where everything is available on the Internet, customers tend to get their first information about the hotels online. The guest experience begins long before they arrive at the front desk to check in.
Know your customers.
Customer satisfaction is more than just a smile when you greet them. Knowing the customer base is what matters the most. Connect with your guests before they arrive at the front desk.___18___It will help the hotel to add some touches and details that personalize the guest experience.
Train your staff.
___19___A staff well-trained in dealing with the complaints, but more importantly avoiding them in the first place, will do better overall. Your employees must be friendly, welcoming and approachable.
Respond to guest feedback(反馈).
The hotel industry can be a tough one with requests and complaints coming in online, by email, phone or in person. So it’s important to actively respond to guest feedback.___20___
A. Use social media to learn more about them.
B. A good website improves the customer experience.
C. Hotels need to provide the guests experience as promised.
D. It’s a must-have service that all guests expect when they arrive.
E. Every member of the hotel plays a significant role in the guest experience.
F. You can’t make each person who stays in the hotel feel like they are at home.
G. When you do this, you are showing other travelers that you value the opinion of your guests.
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My very first job was to teach a group of lovely four-year-olds. One day, a woman entered my____21____. She stood next to the door quietly,____22____the children and me, but when I____23____she was gone.
Later I found out the woman was a____24____parent at the school. Her little girl was born with very poor ____25____. She would fall over if she was pushed, even slightly.____26____, she wanted her daughter to be taught in a____27____classroom.
When Kelly arrived at our school, the first day went really____28____; she only fell over twice. After several days of carrying her to and from the yard, I thought, why not____29____her to walk a little by herself? Then I encouraged Kelly to begin her first_____30_____down the hallway. After a few weeks, Kelly_____31_____it all the way to the playground!
One week in December, Kelly was_____32_____for several days. When I called her home I was told she was getting her annual_____33_____with her doctors. When her mom brought her back to school, she asked if I had
been doing anything_____34_____with Kelly. I wasn’t quite sure what she_____35_____. Then came the sudden question, “Have you been forcing Kelly to_____36_____?”
I very_____37_____told her that I had encouraged Kelly to walk by herself. To my_____38_____, the mother said excitedly, “Her legs have gotten more_____39_____in the past few months than in the past four years of her life.” She looked at me with tears in her eyes. “I don’t know how to_____40_____you for everything you have done for my daughter.”
21. A. apartment B. office C. classroom D. house
22. A. observing B. following C. surrounding D. questioning
23. A. looked back B. looked down C. looked out D. looked up
24. A. potential B. single C. common D. popular
25. A. memory B. hearing C. eyesight D. balance
26. A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Meanwhile
27. A. regular B. real C. quiet D. special
28. A. quickly B. well C. safely D. wrong
29. A. warn B. make C. tell D. inspire
30. A. adventure B. journey C. day D. ride
31. A. pushed B. kept C. made D. took
32. A. absent B. lost C. ill D. alone
33. A. appointment B. exam C. checkup D. service
34. A. carefully B. kindly C. cruelly D. differently
35. A. knew B. meant C. heard D. thought
36. A. leave B. practice C. run D. walk
37. A. disappointedly B. simply C. softly D. happily
38. A. surprise B. enjoyment C. annoyance D. sorrow
39. A. advantage B. care C. exercise D. attention
40. A. contact B. thank C. blame D. pay
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
The first on the must-go attraction list of Jiuzhaigou is the Jiuzhai Valley National Park.___41.___(locate) about 460 kilometers away from Chengdu,it has a(n)____42.____(usual) ecosystem with dozens of lakes,
waterfalls, forests and rare animals. There goes a saying____43.____no mountain is worth seeing after the Yellow Mountain and no other water will be____44.____interest after the Jiuzhai Valley. If there are “fairylands” in the world, Jiuzhaigou is___45.___(certain) one of them. This site has been designated as____46.____UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Going west along Jiuhuang Ring Way towards Chengdu, visitors can stop and explore many spectacular scenic____47.____(wonder). The Huanglong National Scenic Reserve is famous for its___48.___(colour) waters, lakes, hot springs, snow-capped mountains, valleys, and forests. It is another must-see for visitors____49.____(come) to Jiuzhaigou. The majestic snow-capped Xuebaoding Mountain,____50.____is 5,500 metres above sea level, stands on the way to Huang Reserve. It is a favourite among mountain climbers and hikers.
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处误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧）,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限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last week, a group of international student visited our school. To help them better understanding Chinese tea culture, we took them to the tea room, where I introduced tea culture, including its history, its rich variety, or the craftsmanship of making tea.
Then I showed them how to make tea. I slowly explain the traditional procedures of making tea in detail. Absorb in every move of mine, they were both amazed. They couldn't help to taking pictures from time to time. Next came the moment which I asked them to have try themselves. I was filled with proud to spread our own culture to people all over the world.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是李华，报名参加了“全市中学生英语口语大赛”（National English speaking English Contest for Middle School Students）并初赛已经通过，下周要进行决赛，但你很紧张。

请给你的外教Mr Lee写封邮件，让他帮忙进行赛前指导并给出建议。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：the preliminary contest初赛
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. B
7. A
8. D 9. A 10. C 11. C
12. A 13. B 14. A 15. C
16. C 17. B 18. A 19. E 20. G
21. C 22. A 23. D 24. A 25. D 26. B 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. B 31. C 32.
A 33. C 34. D 35.
B 36. D 37.
C 38. A 39. C 40. B
41. Located
42. unusual
43. that 44. of
45. certainly
46. a 47. wonders
48. colourful
49. coming 50. which
51.(1).student→students
(2).understanding→understand
(3).or→and
(4).explain→explained
(5).Absorb→Absorbed
(6).both→all
(7).删除to
(8).which→when
(9).have后添加a
(10).proud→pride
52.略。