2019-2020学年郑州外国语学校高三英语上学期期末试题及答案解析

2019-2020学年郑州外国语学校高三英语上学期期末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
San Francisco Bay Area is a great place if you're a sports fan as you'll find several events all year round and plenty of team pride. If you are anywhere close to the area during a game,these fantastic sports events are here for you.
San Francisco Giants Baseball
The San Francisco Giants baseball team plays in SF at Oracle Park. This is a fun ballpark because it's always packed with great energy and offers views of the bay. It's one of the most popular San Francisco sports events. The Giants are part of the National League West Division. Since their arrival here in 1958,they have been World Series Champions three times.
Golden State Warriors Basketball
The fan base of the Golden State Warriors distributes the whole San Francisco Bay Area as this region's only NBA team.Their regular season runs from late October through mid-April, and all home games are played at the Chase Center in San Francisco.In total, the Warriors has won six NBA championships.
San Francisco 49ers Football
The 49ers are San Francisco's NFL team, though they have recently moved to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, about an hour south of SF. The football team was named for the prospectors (探矿者) who arrived in the area in 1849 for the Gold Rush. They’ve won 5 Super Bowl championships, all between 1981 and 1994.
San Jose Sharks Hockey
The San Jose Sharks represent the Bay Area in hockey (冰球).They were founded in 1991 as the only Bay Area team to compete in the NHL. Sharks fans love going to these San Francisco sports events at the SAP Center,which they call the Shark Tank,located about an hour southeast of SF.
1.Where can a sports fan have a good view of the area?
A.The Oracle Park.
B.The Chase Center.
C.Levi's Stadium.
D.The SAP Center
2.Which team has claimed the most titles according to the text?
A.The Giants.
B.The Golden State Warriors.
C.The 49ers.
D.The San Jose Sharks.
3.Where is the passage probably taken from?
A.A book review.
B.A news report.
C.A science fiction.
D.A tourist magazine.
B
Being an Olympian (奥运会选手) demands focus, determination, and a competitive spirit. Plus, representing your country is a lot of pressure. However, two athletes recently showed the world another quality that is definitely worth championing.
Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi were competing in the high jump on Sunday when they reached a stalemate (僵局). Both men had managed to jump over a surprising 2.37 meters with no faults along the way. However, after three attempts neither managed the next level of 2.39 meters.
An Olympic official suggested ajump-offbetween the two friends and rivals (竞争对手) to determine who would get the gold medal. But Barshim had another plan to reward their efforts.
“Can we have two golds?” he asked the official.
The official agreed and the two men jumped for joy. This was the first time a gold medal had been shared since 1912. “He is one of my best friends, not only on the track, but outside the track. We work together. This is a dream come true.” shared Barshim.
The decision to share the medal was particularly meaningful to Tamberi. The Italian had suffered an ankle injury that prevented him from competing in the Rio Olympics in 2016, and it nearly put an end to his career altogether. So this year he brought along his cast to this year's Olympics with “Road to Tokyo 2021” to inspire him along the way.
For Barshim, the gold has topped off his already impressive medal collection, having received a bronze and a silver medal in 2012 and 2016 respectively.
Despite all the glory of receiving a gold medal for their countries, their achievement means so much more. These two individuals, trying to do their very best for their countries, have provided a wonderful example to all those competing in sports. They've summed up exactly what it means to take part in a global event with a generous and compassionate (有同情心的) spirit.
4. What happened to Barshim and Tamberi in the competition?
A. They ended in a tie.
B. They quit the competition.
C. They set a new record.
D. They ran out of strength.
5. What does the underlined word “jump-off” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Debate.
B. Vote.
C. Celebration.
D. Extra round.
6. Why was the gold medal particularly meaningful to Tamberi?
A. It could bring him a lot of money.
B. It may make up for his regret in 2016.
C. It was a glory for his country.
D. It could complete his medal collection.
7. What does the author mainly want to convey in the text?
A. The importance of sharing.
B. The glory of winning gold medals.
C. The valuable and special team spirit.
D. The considerate and sharing Olympic spirit.
C
Why isn’t science better? Look at career incentive(激励).There are oftensubstantial gaps between the idealized and actual versions of those people whose work involves providing a social good. Government officials are supposed to work for their constituents. Journalists are supposed to provide unbiased reporting and penetrating analysis. And scientists are supposed to relentlessly probe the fabric of reality with the most rigorous and skeptical of methods.
All too often, however, what should be just isn’t so. In a number of scientific fields, published findings turn out not toreplicate(复制), or to have smaller effects than, what was initially claimed. Plenty of science does replicate — meaning the experiments turn out the same way when you repeat them -but the amount that doesn’t is too much for comfort.
But there are also waysin which scientists increase their chances of getting it wrong. Running studies with small samples, mining data for correlations and forming hypotheses to fit an experiment’s results after the fact are just some of the ways to increase the number of false discoveries.
It’s not like we don't know how to do better. Scientists who study scientific methods have known about feasible remedies for decades. Unfortunately, their advice often falls ondeaf ears.Why? Why aren't scientific methods better than they are? In a word: incentives. But perhaps not in the way you think.
In the 1970s, psychologists and economists began to point out the danger in relying on quantitative measures for social decision-making. For example, when public schools are evaluated by students’ performance on standardized tests, teachers respond by teaching “to the test”. In turn, the test serves largely as of how well the
school can prepare students for the test.
We can see this principle—often summarized as “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”—playing out in the realm of research. Science is a competitive enterprise. There are far more credentialed (授以证书的) scholars and researchers than there are university professorships or comparably prestigious research positions. Once someone acquires a research position, there is additional competition for tenure grant funding, and support and placement for graduate students. Due to this competition for resources, scientists must be evaluated and compared. How do you tell if someone is a good scientist?
An oft-used metric is the number of publications one has in peer-reviewed journals, as well as the status of those journals. Metrics like these make it straightforward to compare researchers whose work may otherwise be quite different. Unfortunately, this also makes these numbers susceptible to exploitation.
If scientists are motivated to publish often and in high-impact journals, we might expect them to actively try to game the system. And certainly, some do—as seen in recent high-profile cases of scientific fraud(欺诈). If malicious fraud is the prime concern, then perhaps the solution is simply heightened alertness.
However, most scientists are, I believe, genuinely interested in learning about the world, and honest. The problem with incentives is that they can shape cultural norms without any intention on the part of individuals.
8. Which of the following is TRUE about the general trend in scientific field?
A. Scientists are persistently devoted to exploration of reality.
B. The research findings fail to achieve the expected effect.
C. Hypotheses are modified to highlight the experiments' results.
D. The amount of science that does replicate is comforting.
9. What doesdeaf earsin the fourth paragraph probably refer to?
A. The public.
B. The incentive initiators.
C. The peer researchers.
D. The high-impact journal editors.
10. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?
A. Good scientists excel in seeking resources and securing research positions.
B. Competition for resources inspires researchers to work in a more skeptical way.
C. All the credentialed scholars and researchers will not take up university professorships.
D. The number of publication reveals how scientists are bitterly exploited.
11. According to the author, what might be a remedy for the fundamental problem in scientific research?
A. High-impact journals are encouraged to reform the incentives for publication.
B. The peer-review process is supposed to scale up inspection of scientific fraud.
C. Researchers are motivated to get actively involved in gaming the current system.
D. Career incentives for scientists are expected to consider their personal intention.
D
Sport is not only physically challenging, but can also be mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches, parents and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create too much anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress canbe physical, emotional, or psychological and research has indicated that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.
The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their feedback to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take their parents and coaches’ criticisms to heart and find faults in themselves.
Coaches and parents should also pay attention that youth sport participation does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today’s youth sport setting young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game many parents and coaches focus on the outcome and find faults with youngsters’ performances. Positive support should be provided regardless of the outcome. Research indicates that positive support motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout.
12. An effective way to prevent the burnout of young athletes is_____________.
A. to make sport less competitive
B. to increase their sense of success
C. to reduce their mental stress
D. to make sport more challenging
13. According to the passage, sport is positive for young people in that_____________.
A. it can help them learn more about society
B. it enables them to find faults in themselves
C. it can provide them with valuable experiences
D. it teaches them how to set realistic goals for themselves
14. Many coaches and parents are in the habit of criticizing young athletes_____________.
A. believing that criticism does good to their early development
B. without realizing criticism may destroy their self­confidence
C. in order to make them remember life’s lessons
D. so as to put more pressure on them
15. According to the passage parents and coaches should_____________.
A. pay more attention to letting children enjoy sport
B. help children to win every game
C. train children to cope with stress
D. enable children to understand the positive aspect of sport
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Table manners are the ultimate way to show respect or some accidental disrespect to your host.___16___.
In France, you are supposed to use two hands to eat — either fork and knife or fork and bread. Bread isn't meant to be an appetizer.___17___When you eat the bread, tear off a piece of it to eat instead of biting directly into the bread. When not in use, the bread belongs on the table or tablecloth instead of the plate.
Finishing everything on your plate is a no-no in many Asian countries.___18___Leaving a small amount on your plate symbolizes that you've had your fill and acknowledges your host's generosity.
___19___So, tipping, in their culture, is rude. Even if they don’t assume you’re being rude, they can also be very confused by the extra money, thinking you have overpaid. Whether it's a taxi driver, a server, or a bellhop, don't tip them. It's not good manners.
Among the local people of China and the Inuit people of Canada, a light burp（打嗝）at the end of a meal is considered a compliment, as it indicates that you've eaten well.___20___, or never leave them upright in a bowl of rice. For this is how food is offered to the spirit of a dead person.
A.Furthermore,don't lick your chopsticks
B.Instead it serves to assist the food to the fork
C.It suggests that your hosts didn't feed you enough
D.Many people in Japan believe that good service is standard
E.In Brazil, bread and pizza are normally eaten with a fork and knife, too
F.Here are some of the very specific dining do's and don’ts from around the world
G.You may also drink directly from the soup bowl — spoons, however, are uncommon
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As I work in the garden, I take my time. And the garden is____21____me about working with the earth. I recognize that there will be both successes and failuresand there are many factors that____22____them both. The____23____of the seeds can affect the growth of the plants. The____24____can be too hot, too cold, or____25____right. Weeds need to be____26____and thrown away to____27____that the fruits, vegetables, and flowers we have planted grow well.
I take time to stand back and rest, and to____28____the plants. Each plant is____29____and develops in the way that is best for them. Some have large broad leaves to____30____their fruit from the rays of the sun, while other plants are more____31____, their fruit needing the____32____to grow and ripen.
Getting my hands____33____and feeling the sweat on my forehead, as I work under the summer sun, reminds me I am____34____in the ways I wouldn't have remembered sitting on the couch.
I feel attracted to move things around to transplant and to____35____the natural order of how plants grow. The garden teaches me the importance of knowing when to disturb things and when to let them be. The garden's life cycle____36____a pattern that is repeated according to the____37____of nature. Birth, growth, and then death and it teaches me to accept this fact.
Perhaps life is like the____38____, successes and failures, time to be active and time to____39____to let go of what is no longer needed, to cultivate what helps us to grow into our light and power, and to readily____40____life from beginning to end.
21. A. telling B. concerning C. worrying D. teaching
22. A. destroy B. affect C. promote D. exchange
23. A. quality B. color1 C. shape D. weight
24. A. water B. air C. weather D. wind
25. A. approximately B. constantly C. exactly D. occasionally
26. A. pulled B. planted C. guarded D. provided
27. A. make sense B. find out C. work out D. make sure
28. A. tend B. observe C. count D. examine
29. A. beautiful B. average C. amazing D. unique
30. A. prevent B. separate C. shade D. remove
31. A. open B. delicate C. straight D. vivid
32. A. energy B. light C. soil D. space
33. A. empty B. dirty C. broken D. free
34. A. awake B. tired C. alive D. independent
35. A. disturb B. find C. enjoy D. guide
36. A. discovers B. transforms C. draws D. follows
37. A. changes B. reflection C. laws D. development
38. A. plant B. sun C. fruit D. garden
39. A. rest B. quit C. offer D. fight
40. A. expect B. accept C. picture D. receive
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
Some holidays are so much fun that they catch on outside of their culture. The most obvious example is____41.____(probable) Christmas,____42.____is celebrated by people around the world. Similarly, in recent years, the Dragon Boat Festival____43.____(move) beyond China to become an international holiday celebrated by people who may know little about the holiday's origins.
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of three major Chinese holidays, along____44.____the Spring and Moon Festivals. Of the three, it is possibly the oldest,____45.____(date) back to the Warring States Period in 227 B.C. The festival commemorates Qu Yuan. Despairing over corruption at court, Qu threw himself into a river. People jumped into their boats and tried in vain____46.____(save) him. Then, hoping to distract hungry fish from his body, the people scattered rice in the water.
Gradually, the story of Qu’s death transformed into the traditions of racing dragon boats and eating zongzi — a kind of rice____47.____(wrap) in bamboo leaves. The races have certainly captured the____48.____(imagine) of people from all over the world. Every spring there are nearly 60 dragon boat races, which____49.____(hold) outside of China in cities from Vancouver to Sydney, from Gdańsk, Poland to Cape Town, South Africa.
So what is it about the Dragon Boat Festival that appeals to foreigners? “It’s____50.____unusual sport,” says one racer from Germany. “There's such great team spirit in a dragon boat team – everybody feels like we’re doing something special.”
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。

I got extreme excited about my online graduation when I received emails from my school. The school has created a special website for the graduation and a number of activity to make us involved and amused. In the morning of July 15, I woke up early and entered the website for the graduation ceremony. First the school president gave a speech so as congratulate the graduates. Then, we watch the video messages from our family members and teachers instead of sit through several talks. Finally, we shared memories and promised to keep in the touch in the future. How an informal but meaningful ceremony! We all were delight with it.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

More than 30 years ago, As a teenager, I lived with my family in an old farmhouse in the Durham County countryside. I spent my summer days laboring in tobacco fields and my summer evenings shelling（给...去壳）peas in the backyard. My autumn weekends were often spent splitting logs and cutting wood. We had an indoor antenna(天线)which helped us tune into the few television stations we could receive.
Living where we did, we could see three or four other houses from our own, none of them within shouting distance. We knew our neighbors, some of them elderly, we usually offered them our kindness when they needed help.
Jimmy, who was seventy years old, lived alone on the far side of a tobacco field. He lost his wife two years ago. He could hardly supported himself these last couple of years since his body condition was getting even worse. We went to visit him at his home. It was a small wooden cabin with stained windows and a curtain that had been mended countless times. The poor old man would sit in an armchair by the window, holding a faded photo, and with tears in his eyes, recall happy memories of his wife.
One weekend, my father went to check on Jimmy. But a rare heavy snow happened to fall. It was so heavy that he couldn't get his old truck up Jimmy’s rutted, snow-covered driveway, Nobody could understand what made him slog(奋力前行)the 400 yards or so to Jimmy’s house. My brother and I were waiting anxiously at home. After a long time, he came home hurriedly and told us that Jim my was sick and out of firewood.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡上的相应位置作答。

My father asked us if we would like to help.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________
We knocked on Jimmy's door, and he greeted us.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________
参考答案
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. D
6. B
7. D
8. A 9. A 10. B 11. D
12. C 13. C 14. B 15. A
16. F 17. B 18. C 19. D 20. A
21. D 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. A 32.
B 33. B 34.
C 35. A 36.
D 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. B
41. probably
42. which 43. has moved
44. with 45. dating
46. to save
47. wrapped
48. imagination
49. are held
50. an
51.(1).extreme → extremely
(2). has → had或去掉has
(3). activity → activities
(4).In → On
(5).as后加to
(6).watch → watched
(7).sit → sitting
(8).去掉the
(9).How → What
(10).delight → delighted 52.略。