2020届梅州市梅县高级中学高三英语下学期期末考试试卷及参考答案

2020届梅州市梅县高级中学高三英语下学期期末考试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
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a global stage where the world’s next-generation inventions are introduced towards the marketplace, and lots of companies are participating. Here are several of the amazing inventions that were introduced at the showin 2020.
August Wi-Fi Smart Lock
It's an intelligent door lock to protect your home, and it works on Wi-Fi. The lock doesn’t require any additional hardware to attach to it and can be used with the existing door lock. The owner can remotely access the door from anywhere to lock or unlock and can provide guest keys to family or friends. It keeps statistics and records of your door’s “lock”, “unlock”, and who have visited.
Motion Pillow
It’s a pillow developed for anyone who has a snoring (打鼾) problem. The solution box detects, records, and analyses the sleeping person’s snoring patterns. By changing the internal airbag’s pressure, it fixes the position of the sleeping person’s neck and head gently to improve his breathing. Three layers of noise-reducing material minimize the user’s sleeping disturbance.
Ao Air
It’s a high-tech face-covering wearable air purifier with no tight seal on the mouth and nose. The purifier pulls air inside through a filtration (过滤) process and uses fans to createa clean area in front of the device. It’s designed in such a way that it can clean more than 98 % of PM2.5 through filtration.
Transparent Hood
The company Continental showed off this revolutionary invention at CES 2020 that got the Best Vehicle Intelligence and Transportation Award. It’s a technology that gives the driver the ability to see barriers and blind spots from the driving seat. Four cameras take surrounding pictures so that the driver can see the real-time blind spots and prevent even parking damage too.
1.Who is the text mainly intended for?
A.The general public.
B.The science lovers.
C.The electronic companies.
D.The college students.
2.Which of the following descriptions of Motion pillow is correct?
A.It’s intended for all those who can’t sleep well.
B.It can help sleepers breathe smoothly.
C.It can remove the noise around to help people sleep.
D.Its pressure is changed by sleepers themselves.
3.What can we infer from the text?
A.August Wi-Fi Smart Lock helps improve the safety of homes.
B.Ao Air produces fresh air for its users.
C.Motion Pillow reduces material to minimize sleeping disturbance.
D.Transparent Hood helps make driving safer and easier.
B
In ancient times, Chinese used plant leaves or bird feathers as a fan during the summer time. This was the earliest form of the fan. The first real fan was made back in the era of Yao and Shun period thousands of years ago. Since then,Chinese-made fans have become a vital part of Chinese art and culture. At the beginning, the fan functioned as a tool to generate a current of air in the hot weather. Now electric fans such as ceiling fans and other technological breakthroughs have taken the place.
Long ago, fans caught the attention of ancient Chinese artists by chance. Thereafter, a unique fan art gradually took shape in the history of Chinese culture. Fan art usually includes Chinese calligraphy, paintings, or poems on the sectors（扇区）. Special skills are needed to write or paint on them.
Due to its history and partly because of its unique shape, Chinese would soon develop the tradition of using fans as ornaments（装饰品）. Fans are made in different sizes and different color1 s to meet the needs of each request. Other Chinese ornaments, such as the Chinese knot, the green jade, and the Spring Festival picture, are often combined in each design.
The value of fans depends mainly on the materials used and the level of craftsmanship that is involved during the process. Feather, paper, jade, bamboo and silk have all been used as ideal materials to make fans. Ancient Chinese even made iron fans to serve as deadly weapons（武器）in Chinese martial arts. Fans made by famous craftsmen are often characterized by pretty designs and detailed workmanship, and thus become favorites of collectors. Fans with masterpiece fine art like calligraphy or paintings are even more valuable.
4.What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The origin of fans.
B. The materials of fans.
C. The popularity of fans.
D. The production of fans.
5. Why do Chinese use fans as ornaments?
A. They are made of valuable materials.
B. They reflect the beauty of Chinese culture.
C. They convey literature works on the sectors.
D. They are often combined with other ornaments.
6. Which of the following makes a fan favored by most collectors?
A. Its advanced function.
B. Its complex character.
C. Its artistic handicraft.
D. Its various applications.
7. What can we infer about the fan from the text?
A. Chinese send fans to their friends as gifts.
B. Chinese ornaments can meet different requests.
C. Traditional fans have lost their functional value.
D. The fan plays different roles with the change of time.
C
I was in the second year of my Ph. D. program when a colleague asked what I would do if I had an extra hour every day. Without much consideration, I said I would use it to help others. The question kept coming to my mind. Like many graduate students, I was overwhelmed (难以承受的) with research, teaching, coursework, and some attempt at a personal life. Still, I asked myself, "Do I really need a 25th hour to help other people-or do I need to make better use of the 24 hours I have?"
I needed something to help me return to my old self. After that conversation with my colleague, I googled (谷歌搜索) “volunteer opportunities near me”. A local organization that drives people to stores or appointments was looking for volunteers. Having grown up in a rural village where everyone knew oneanother and my grandparents were always close by, I thought serving senior citizens in my new hometown might be just what I needed.
A short time later, I started to volunteer for an organization that provides transportation for senior citizens and people with disabilities. To my surprise, adding this activity to my busy life was just what I needed to calm the confusion I was feeling as a first-generation international graduate student.
I started to volunteer about 3 hours every weekend, the time I otherwise would have wasted oversleeping or scrolling (滚屏) through social media. Sharing stories with my riders was much more rewarding. What they told me about their lives helped me realize that in every corner of the world, humans are connected with the
languageof emotions. And seeing how eager my riders were to spend time out and about inspired me to think about how to spend my time, which used to slip away. My previously overwhelming schedule began to feel manageable.
I'm proud of who I have become, and I continue to reflect on how I'm using the most valuable thing in life: my time.
8. Why did the author ask himself the question in Paragraph 1?
A. He wanted to return to normal life.
B. He was busy but wanted to help others.
C. He couldn't bear too much school work.
D. He couldn't answer his colleague's question.
9. How did the author find the volunteer job?
A. A colleague recommended it.
B. A local organization offered it.
C. He got it from his grandparents.
D. He got it by surfing on the Internet.
10. What made the author feel his volunteer job was worth doing?
A. Communicating with his riders.
B. Improving his language learning.
C. Meeting his grandparents often.
D. Realizing his previous dream.
11. How did volunteering influence the author?
A. It helped himbecome confident and efficient.
B. He found a good way to live a free and quiet life.
C. He realized he had wasted too much time pursuing his Ph.
D.
D. It inspired him to spare more time to accompany his grandparents.
D
Mark Twain,the famous American writer,was once traveling in France.He went by trainto Dijon.He was very tired and wanted to sleep.He therefore asked the conductor to wake him up when the train came to Dijon.
But first he explained he was a very heavy sleeper,“I may possibly protest(抗议)loudly when you try to wake me up,” he said to the conductor.“But don’t take any notice of what I say.Just put me off the train anyway.”
Then Mark Twain went to ter,when he woke up it was night time and the train had reached Paris already.He realized at once that the conductor had forgotten to wake him up at Dijon.He was so angry that he ran to the conductor and began to shout at him.
“I have never been so angry in my life,” Mark Twain said.
The conductor looked at him calmly(平静地).“You are not half so angry as the American whom I put off the train atDijon,” he said.
12. Mark Twain knew that he was a heavy sleeper,so ________.
A. he protested loudly to the conductor
B. he did not sleep before he arrived inDijon
C. he told the conductor to wake him up no matter how loudly he might protest
D. he slept lightly that time
13. The conductor didn’t wake up Mark Twain atDijonbecause ________.
A. he didn’t take Mark Twain’s words seriously
B. he forgot Mark Twain’s words when the train came toDijon
C. he did not want to bear his protest
D. he mistook another American traveler for Mark Twain
14. The American whom the conductor put off the train ________.
A. did not want to get off atDijon
B. wanted to get off atParis
C. wanted to get off atDijon
D. did not want to get off atParis
15. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The conductor didn’t take Mark Twain’s words seriously.
B. The conductor did take Mark Twain’s words seriously.
C. The conductor was a heavy sleeper.
D. Mark Twain must get off atParis.
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Trees are one of the oldest living things on earth. Trees are important for life as they provide food and oxygen. The importance of trees continues to increase and more benefits of trees are being discovered as their role expands to satisfy the needs created from us human beings. The forests and trees are planted to make the world look better and more beautiful.___16___Some of them are as follows.
Trees can clean soil and control soil erosion (侵蚀). Poisonous chemicals and pollutants from various factories enter into the soil, thus causing soil pollution.___17___Trees and plant roots bind (捆绑) the soil and thus reduce
soil erosion. Also they store rainwater and reduce sediment (沉积) deposits.
Trees play an important role in reducing the greenhouse gases. They consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.___18___For example, a fully grown tree produces oxygen which is sufficient for10 people for a complete year. Also, they act as filters of the air that we breathe.
Trees are of commercial importance. Trees satisfy the need of fuel for cooking in many areas around the world. Trees also provide wood for furniture and hundreds of household items.___19___Also, trees produce a number of fruits and nuts which are sold at market. Some trees are even used to make medicines.
___20___They provide shelter and food for a number of animal species across the globe. Trees are especially important as they form green corridors connecting habitats with each other and with the countryside beyond.
A.Without trees our planet cannot be considered a place for living.
B.In fact, trees play different roles in our environment.
C.This lowers global warming.
D.Wood pulp (浆) is used for making paper in industries.
E.Trees have the ability to store them or change them into less harmful forms.
F.Trees have beautified our planet.
G.Trees act as the habitat for wild animals.
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 I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a faraway village. One day, on the road, I found the___21___pieces of a mirror. There was a German motorcycle accident.
I tried to find all the pieces and put them___22___, but it was not possible, so I kept only the___23___piece and I made it round. I began to___24___with it as a toy and became greatly attracted by the___25___that I could reflect(反射)light to dark places where the sun would never shine—in___26___holes and some other dark places. It became a ___27___for me to get light into the darkest places I could find.
I ___28___the little mirror, and, as I___29___up, I would take it out when Ihad nothing to do and___30___the game, As I became a ___31___, I grew to understand that this was not ___32___a child’s game but a metaphor（象征）for what I might do with my life. I came to ___33___that I am not the light or the source(来源) of light. But light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is ___34___, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.
I am just a single piece of a mirror whose____35____design and shape I do not know. ___36___, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this___37___—into the black places in the ____38____of
men—and change some things____39____some people. Perhaps others may see and do the same. This is what I am about. This is the____40____of my life.
21. A. pointed B. dropped C. broken D. sharpened
22. A. together B. down C. back D. up
23. A. best B. largest C. smallest D. longest
24. A. talk B. share C. flash D. play
25. A. idea B. reason C. decision D. fact
26. A. pretty B. big C. deep D. empty
27. A. game B. task C. job D. trouble
28. A. forgot B. hid C. kept D. lost
29. A. grew B. stood C. came D. went
30. A. watch B. change C. remember D. continue
31. A. father B. boy C. man D. grandfather
32. A. always B. just C. really D. completely
33. A. understand B. doubt C. announce D. expect
34. A. absent B. there C. far D. home
35. A. half B. most C. whole D. other
36. A. So B. Certainly C. Besides D. However
37. A. world B. village C. country D. city
38. A. hands B. hearts C. eyes D. brains
39. A. on B. like C. with D. in
40. A. way B. meaning C. quality D. standard
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
You may remember back at the start of December,____41.____Chinacarried out their unmanned Chang’e-5 mission and the spacecraft touched down on the moon to collect samples for research. Now it____42.____(success) returned to the Earth. This is the most significant event inChina’s space field, and also one of the most notable space____43.____(activity) globally. Chang’e-5,____44.____(launch) by a Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket early on Nov 24, is the nation’s____45.____(large) and most complex lunar probe. It returned with 1,731 grams of lunar rock and soil to the Earth,____46.____(mark) a historic accomplishment 44
years after the last lunar substances were taken back. The 23-day mission wasChina’s first space journey to claim extraterrestrial samples, making____47.____the third country to accomplish the task, the first being theUSAin the1960’s and the secondSoviet Unionin the1970’s.
The spacecraft____48.____(enter) the Earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of around120km. As soon as it was10kmabove land, it released its parachute and landed smoothly inChina'sInner Mongolia. Now the spacecraft has been air lifted toBeijingwhere the samples____49.____(examine) by scientists very soon.
The mission’s results will contribute____50.____mankind’s deeper understanding of the moon’s origins and the evolution of the solar system.
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。

Last year I went to seaside to spend my summer holiday with my family. We stay there for about two weeks. The weather was much more hotter than that in my hometown, but I got used to it. Every morning, I got up early but went for a breakfast ahead of time. Then I went to the beach and talked with John, that was my new friend and I came across him in my first morning there. John was warm-hearted and she seemed to be very familiarly with the seaside village. Soon we became very good friend. We have kept write to each other ever since then.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）于1995年宣布每年的4月23日为“世界读书日（World Book Day）”。

假设你是校学生会主席，请你写一篇演讲稿予以介绍，要点如下：
1.简述“世界读书日”（发起时间及目的）；
2.讲述读书的益处；
3.呼吁多读书。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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参考答案
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. B
6. C
7. D
8. B 9. D 10. A 11. A
12. C 13. D 14. A 15. B
16. B 17. E 18. C 19. D 20. G
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. D 26. C 27. A 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. B 35.
C 36.
D 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. B
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42. successfully
43. activities
44. launched
45. largest
46. marking
47. it 48. entered
49. will be examined
50. to
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(2).stay→stayed
(3).more去掉
(4).went前but→and
(5).that→who
(6).in→on
(7).she→he
(8).familiarly→familiar
(9).friend→friends
(10).write→writing
52.略。