2020届东莞市东华高级中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案

2020届东莞市东华高级中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案
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
How to Look at Shape
Take a seat at the virtual(虚拟的) table. At our new, monthly membership program, you'll join MoMA staff and fellow members for lively discussions about our collection and exhibitions. Ask questions, share your thoughts, and broaden the mind. A live Q&A, with Michelle Kuo and Anny Aviram, about shape and its role in MoMA's collection is also arranged.
Draw, Write, and Connect with Others
Experiment with drawing and writing exercises as ways to connect with others, even when physically distant, in this 45-minute online workshop. This workshop is part of the Creativity Lab at Home plan. This session is led by Francis Estrada, Assistant Educator, and Hannah Fagin, Coordinator. Ifs open to anyone, but registration is limited and space is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Storytelling Through Art
There are many ways to tell a story — through words through theater and dance, or through visual art, for example. Discover how artist Jacob Lawrence shared the history of an important event by combining words and art in a series of paintings calledThe Migration Series. For kids ages seven to fourteen. Parent participation is encouraged in this online event. Don' miss the opportunity to spend meaningful time with them.
The Human Shelter
In 2016, MoMA opened Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter, an exhibition that examined how contemporary architecture arid design addressed ideas of shelter in light of global refugee(难民) emergencies. Danish Boris Benjamin Bertram documented the exhibition, and the result is a movie by him asking what makes a home, and, perhaps more importantly, when shelter becomes home. This online event is part of Member events.
1.What is special about How to Look at Shape?
A.It provides an interactive part.
B.It is accessible to everyone.
C.It is organized by Michelle Kuo.
D.It focuses on MoMA's new collection.
2.Which event is family-friendly?
A.The Human Shelter.
B.How to Look at Shape.
C.Storytelling Through Art.
D.Draw, Write, and Connect with Others.
3.In which aspect might Bertram do well?
A.Shelter design.
B.Storytelling.
C.Art education.
D.Film-making.
B
A Bridge Linking Art and the Audience
According to a 2018 report, people aged between 16 and 24 make up about 15 percent of the population but only 10 percent of museum-goers. Similarly, people aged over35 go half as much as you would expect from their population size. We have reached the point of recognising the disconnection between art and the audience but haven’t yet determined how to bridge the gap. Two answers to tackling this challenge lie in telling a greater diversity of art histories and communicating these stories in more accessible ways.
In 2018, a radio program called Art Matters was started with the aim of discussing art from a pop-culture viewpoint with topics that would engage younger and more diverse audience. It offers an accessible pathway to art history with conversations on different topics. Art history is about storytelling; art content shines when there is an effort to bring audience along for the discussion.
More traditional institutions are paying attention. Recently theGettyMuseumissued a social-media challenge for people to recreate paintings using items they had at home. Users displayed incredible creativity, and the museum was flooded with submissions. This reaction proves that there is a potential desire for the audience to engage with art topics if the format is appealing. Since many people feelintimidatedand think that there’s a base level of understanding required to join the conversation, the Getty initiative serves as a reminder that there are many pathways to engaging with it.
Another result of the Getty challenge was the exposure given to a diversity of artworks. The famous opera singer Peter Brathwaite, for example, made scores of attractive recreations highlighting centuries of black paintings. His efforts opposed the idea that there were not many historical paintings of black figures. It is extremely important that we do a better job of showing the complex and diverse stories that are represented in art.
Social media have offered a platform for people who have not traditionally had a seat at the table. Anyone can recognise a gap in the field and address it. Accounts have gathered tens of thousands of followers. They are the proof that there is hunger to hear these art histories, and these themes work brilliantly for museum programming.
But there is only so much that can be done without the museums and galleries changing meaningfully from within. We need to see a better balance of these stories represented in permanent collections. We also need a much wider diversity of people and interests represented on board. Ensuring that art-and writing and talking about art-is able to continue on the rising generation of storytellers, inside and outside of institutions, getting the funding and support they need to paint a brighter picture for the part.
4. What challenge is the author trying to tackle?
A. People doubt a great diversity of artworks.
B. Fewer and fewer young people go to museums.
C. Art appears too distant from common audience.
D. Adult audience has a different understanding of art.
5. What does the underlined word “intimidated” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Tired.
B. Worried.
C. Annoyed.
D. Surprised.
6. In the author’s opinion, the museums and galleries should ________.
A. make the art history stories accessible in a traditional way.
B. change meaningfully for activities like the Getty challenge.
C. limit the number of storytellers both in and out of institutions.
D. improve the permanent collections by adding famous artworks.
7. We can conclude from the passage that common audience ________.
A. lacks the channels to understand and talk about art history.
B. prefers to view artworks and hear art stories on social media.
C. feels satisfied with people and interests represented on board.
D. refuses to engage with diverse art topics and art history stories.
C
Trees are “social creature” that communicate with each other in cooperative ways that hold lessons for humans, too, ecologist Suzanne Simard says. Simard grew up in Canadian forests as a child of loggers before becoming an ecologist. She's now a professor of forest ecology at theUniversityofBritish Columbia.
Trees are linked to neighboring trees by a network of fungi below the surface of the earth that resembles the nervous networks in the brain, she explains. In one study, Simard watched as a Douglas fir tree that had been injured by insects appeared to send chemical warning signals to a pine nearby. The pine tree then produced defense enzymes to protect against the insect.
“This was a breakthrough,” Simard says. The trees were sharing “information that actually is important to the health of the whole forest.”
In addition to warning each other of danger, Simard says that trees have been known to share nutrients at critical times to keep each other healthy. She says the trees in a forest are often linked to each other via an older tree she calls a “mother” or “hub” tree.
“In connecting with all the trees of different ages, the mother trees can actually ease the growth of these young trees,” she says. “The young trees will link into the network of the old trees and benefit from that huge resource capacity. And the old trees would also pass a little bit of carbon and nutrients and water to the young trees, at crucial times in their lives, that actually help them survive.”
The study of trees took on a new resonance for Simard when she suffered from breast cancer. During her treatment, she learned that one of the medicines she relied on was actually obtained from what some trees produce for their own mutual defense. She explains her research on cooperation in the forest, and shares her personal story in the new bookFinding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of theForest.
8. How could a Douglas fir tree send chemical warning signals to a pine nearby?
A. By an underground network of fungi.
B. By the nervous networks in the brain.
C. By making cooperation with each other.
D. By holding lessons to it as human beings.
9. According to Simard, what was a breakthrough?
A. Simard was-brought up in Canadian forests.
B. She became a professor of forest ecology.
C. The pine tree produced defense enzymes.
D. Vital information was shared among trees.
10. What helped Simard understand trees further?
A. Her rich knowledge of trees.
B. Her childhood in the forest.
C. Her medicine gained from trees.
D. Her research on cooperation.
11. In Simard's book we may discover the wisdom of the forest except .
A. communicating cooperatively
B. warning each other of danger
C. sharing nutrientsat critical times
D. sacrificing mother trees for survival
D
Scientists have recently discovered thatAndean condors (秀鹫)— some of the world’s largest birds——barely flap their wings at all while flying. Instead, they use rising air currents to remain in the air for hours.
The Andean condor is the world’s largest soaring bird. They can weigh up to 15 kilograms. Their wings, when spread out, measure up to three meters. Their main food source is the meat of large animals which have died. Soaring high in the sky allows condors to easily spot possible meals on the ground.
Scientists worked together to study the flight patterns of these huge birds and how much effort the birds use when flying. To study the birds while they were in the sky, the researchers attached special devices which could record every beat of their wings.
The scientists learned that most of the condors’ flapping— over 75%— came when the birds were taking off. Once in the sky, the birds flew for very long periods of time without flapping at all. In fact, they only flapped their wings for 1% of the time they were in the air. One bird flew for over five hours without flapping, covering nearly 117miles.
Soaring without flapping is important because birds bum energy every time they flap their wings.
The birds’ soaring isn’t magic. They use the fact that hot air rises to keep themselves up. As hot air rises, it often creates “thermals”— currents of warm air moving upward. The condors soar by making use of these thermals. The tricky part is finding thermals and moving between them.
When birds are forced to land and take off again often, it costs them a lot of energy. The researchers learned that to avoid having to land, the condors did most of their non-take-off flapping when they were closer to the ground and looking for a new thermal.
The scientists reported that even though all of the condors they studied were young, they knew well how to take advantage of the air currents.
12. What can we learn about the Andean condor from the text?
A. They live mairly on small animals.
B. Their wingspan is at least three meters.
C. They rely on hot air to remain high in the sky.
D. They are the birds with the strongest flying ability.
13. Why was the equipment tied to the birds?
A. To measure how far they could fly without flapping.
B. To keep track of how often they flapped while flying.
C. To calculate the energy required for their flight.
D. To confirm their flight patterns.
14. Which of the following acts consumes the most energy for a condor?
A. Hunting for food.
B. Flying in the sky.
C. Getting off the ground.
D. Landing on the ground.
15. What can we infer from the text?
A. Condors flap the most when looking for a new thermal.
B. No condor can fly for more than five hours without flapping.
C. Condors don’t need to look for thermals when soaring in the sky.
D. Soaring by using thermals is probably a natural ability of condors.
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We can all have a bad night of sleep and that’s perfectly normal, but how could we try to improve both the quantity and the quality of our sleep?____16____
Let’s start with regularity.____17____Regularity is king, and it will actually help your sleep, no matter whether it’s the weekday or the weekend or even if you’ve had a bad night of sleep. Many of us use an alarm to wake up but very few of us use a to-bed alarm, and that’s something that can be helpful.
___18___It turns out that your brain and your body need to drop their temperature by about 1℃in order to begin sleep and then to stay asleep. And this is the reason that you will always find it easier to fall asleep in a room that’s too cold than too hot.
The third tip is darkness. We need darkness specifically in the evening to produce a hormone called melatonin（褪黑素）. In the last hour before bed, try to stay away from all of those computer screens and phones.____19____You’d actually be quite surprised at how sleepy that can make you feel.
The final tip is to walk it out. Don’t stay in bed awakefor long periods of time. And the general rule is that if you’ve woken up and you can’t get back to sleep after 25 minutes_____20_____And you can go and do something else. Only return to bed when you’re sleepy. And in that way, gradually, your brain will relearn the relation that your bed is this place of sound and continuous sleep.
A. Next, keep the room cool.
B. Turn off the lights in your room.
C. Here are four tips for better sleep.
D. the recommendation is to get out of bed.
E. Visit your doctor if you have a sleep problem.
F. Go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same time.
G. It doesn’t matter whether you get up or fall asleep again.
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
完形填空(20%)
This is a simple T-shirt, but it has taught me the significance of___21___. Looking at it, I go back into the past.
It wasa warm day when I___22___my elementary school. It made me quite___23___. I lay in my front yard in the warm sun. As I fell into sleep, I vaguely heard my mother’s steps approaching. Then, I sat up,___24___lemonade or some apples. But she was carrying___25___, and her face was just as___26___. There must be something wrong. “Simon is in___27___,” she said.
Simon was my stepfather’s nephew.___28___we were not related by blood, Simon in some way meant more to me than any blood . Being both___29____, we always went hiking and surfing together. I really enjoyed his___30___I wished to attend middle school with him, too.
“He has cancer,” my mom added. When I heard that, my stomach got heavier. “But he will ___31___, right?” I asked. “Because he has a rare case, it’s not clear whether he can defeat it.” My mom replied.
Day by day, Simon seemed to be getting weaker and his___32___was bad, making him lack nutrition (营养). Throughout his___33___, Simon suffered allergic shock (过敏) due to the medicine’s side effects. Somehow, Simon was having a (an)___34___later. The whole family were thrilled.___35___, Simon’s improvement turned out to be a flash in a pan (昙花一现).
Itwas around then that I___36___the “Simon Says…” T-shirt, which was designed with letters, “Simon Says…Cancer is a detour (绕行), instead of a stop sign.” I proudly wore Simon’s present in the summer vacation and___37___wearing it when later attending middle school. That sentence taught me however that challenge fought against us, we shouldn’t___38___.
At last, Simon didn’t___39___it. But his T-shirt would have a lasting positive impact on the world. Simon___40___and inspired countless people with his spirits.
21. A.courage B.understanding C.self-respect D.devotion
22. A.finished B.attended C.visited D.skipped
23. A.amused B.curious C.relaxed D.frightened
24. A.seeing B.presenting C.carrying D.expecting
25. A.something B.anything C.everything D.nothing
26. A.blank B.sour C.confused D.surprised
27. A.relief B.trouble C.sight D.shape
28. A.While B.Because C.As D.If
29. A.kind B.clever C.optimistic D.energetic
30. A.honesty B.encouragement pany D.trust
31. A.live B.succeed C.insist D.struggle
32. A.spirit B.appetite C.look D.behavior
33. A.learning B.exercise C.treatment D.dieting
34. A.disaster B.recovery C.examination D.wish
35. A.Sadly B.Undoubtedly C.Naturally D.Especially
36. A.designed B.received C.bought D.washed
37. A.loved B.started C.stopped D.continued
38. A.show off B.set off C.give up D.take over
39. A.face B.sense C.take D.make
40. A.appreciated B.challenged C.touched D.funded
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
Facial makeup and costumes are two distinguished characteristics of Peking opera. The audience can know what kind of character the role is from the color1 s and___41.___(pattern).
___42.___(general) speaking, red faces, have a positive meaning symbolizing the brave, upright and wise men. Black faces usually have a neutral meaning,___43.___represent the just men and uprightness. Blue and green___44.___(one) also have neutral meanings that symbolize the hero or some kind of evil leaders. Meanwhile, yellow and white ones represent the crafty men with negative meanings such as acts of betrayal and dishonesty. Performers have gold or silver facial makeup___45.___(stand) for the monsters or super natural power. Good-natured people___46.___(paint) with ly simple color1 s___47.___the makeup of doubtful characters, such as robbers, rebels and alike, bears complex marks.
Costumes of Peking opera are based mainly on the official and civilian costumes of the Ming Dynasty style, with___48.___frequent use of deep red, green, yellow, white, black and blue. The rules for costumes are strictly based on rank,___49.___(occupy) and life style, and there are costumes specially made in different color1 s and
designs____50.____each role.
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.请找出下列短文中的错误，并直接在短文中改正。

改错格式（要求）：
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11处起）不计分。

My school schedule is tight than ever because I’m in the final year of high school. Therefore, I still manage to do what I can help with the housework. I’ve gotten into the habit of cleaning up after dinner when I turned nine. I also do thing like sweeping and washing clothes. I even begin to cook for my family last month. Doing the housework makes I learn to take responsibility at home, and in a long term, in society. For another, I find the time spend doing the housework with my parents really fun and rewarding. We chat with and sometimes even sing together!
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

续写的词数应为150左右。

“Want to go to the pool tomorrow?” Rosa asked Stephanie during recess. The pool at the YMCA was one of their favorite places, where they learnt and practiced swimming.
Rosa and Stephanie did everything together. They rode the school bus together. They sat together during lunch. They took dance lessons together and they even went to the same summer camp. Their classmates called them “twins”. They were best friends. Most of the time.
Sometimes, though, when Stephanie was with other friends, she ignored Rosa or treated her like a little kid, even though they were the same age. Rosa and Stephanie had played together since they were babies, but sometimes Stephanie didn't act like a friend.
Today was one of those times.
“Sorry. I’m already going to the pool,” Stephanie said. “Toni and Vanessa and I are going.” She gave a broad smile, but in Rosa’s eyes, it wasn’t her nice smile. Saying nothing more, she walked straight away to join Toni and Vanessa, and Rosa was left standing alone, with her face burned and an angry tension coming into her limbs.
After school, at dance class, Stephanie talked and giggled with the other dancers as they stretched in front of the mirror. When Rosa came in, Stephanie didn’t say hello to her, but just another smile. Rosa hesitated for a while about whether she should join them, but she still felt too upset.
Then she noticed Kiara, the new girl. Rosa joined her and began stretching, too. Kiara smiled and Rosa smiled back. The two girls began to talk. Rosa discovered that Kiara was not the quiet girl she had thought she was. Kiara talked a lot — about her little brother, about the tree house her uncle had built and even about swimming. “I love swimming,” Kiara said. “I will hold a pool part at the YMCA. Would you like to come?” “Yes. It’s awesome.” Rosa responded. She tried not to check the mirror to see if Stephanie had noticed. She hoped Stephanie felt left out.
注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

After the dance class, when Rosa boarded the bus, Stephanie was waiting in their usual seat.
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When Rosa saw Stephanie in low spirits, her heart sank.
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参考答案
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3. D
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6. B
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8. A 9. D 10. C 11. D
12. A 13. A 14. D 15. B
16. C 17. F 18. A 19. B 20. D
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B 33.
C 34. B 35. A 36. B 37.
D 38. C 39. D 40. C
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(2).Therefore→However；
(3).在help前加to；
(4).when→since；
(5).thing→things；
(6).begin→began；
(7).I→me；
(8).a→the；
(9).spend→spent；
(10).去掉with
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