2020届滨海第二高级中学高三英语一模试卷及答案解析

2020届滨海第二高级中学高三英语一模试卷及答案解析
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
Come and enjoy Vivaldi's TheFour Seasonsperformed by live musicians!
Tickets
△Zone A Sating (Excellent Visibility, $75)
△Zone B Seating (Great Visibility, $60)
△Zone C Seating (Good Visibility, $45)
△Zone D Seating (Restricted Visibility, 30)
Zone A and Zone B audiences will get the chance to take pictures with the performers on the stage after the show.
Highlights
* A beautiful venue bathed in candlelight.
*Classical music performance by the Angel Strings quartet
*A safe and socially-distanced event, ensuring you are comfortable and at ease.
General Info
*Dates and times: Various dates, at 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm (select during purchase).
*How long: 65 minutes. Doors open 45 minutes before the start time. We recommend you arrive at least 30 minutes before the start of the event, as late entry is not permitted.
*Where: Events on Oxlade
*Age requirement: Must be 8 years old or older to attend. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
*Please note: The 6:30 pm seating will take place during daylight hours outdoors, and the space will not be that dark. In the case of rain, the event will be moved to the indoor area of the venue.
Description
Whether you're looking for a beautifully unique classical music performance or a romantic candlelit experience, this performance is for you. You don't need to know all things about Vivaldi to enjoy the evening; simply sit back and admire the wonderful atmosphere and the pieces you'll hear.
Join our musicians for an evening under the stars, and prepare to be taken into the clouds with Vivaldi' s most treasured masterpieces!
1.What can someone with a $45 ticket do?
A.Perform on the stage.
B.Enjoy good visibility.
C.Select a seat in Zone B.
D.Take photos with the musicians.
2.What should potential audiences keep in mind?
A.Arrive at the venue on time.
B.Learn about Vivaldi in advance.
C.The performance lasts 45 minutes.
D.The event will be canceled if it rains.
3.What do we know about the 8:30 p.m. performance?
A.It welcomes children under the age of 8.
B.Its performers differ on different dates.
C.Its stage will be decorated with candles.
D.It will be shown in the indoor area of the venue.
B
Where doyou usually put your toothbrush?Do you keep it in the bathroom? How’s your toothbrush looking these days? Even if you can’t see it with a naked eye, experts say it may be saturated(使饱和)with millions of toilet germs!
Dr. Charles Oerba, a germ expert, is amicrobiology professor at the University of Arizona. He says there are approximately 3 million bacteria per square inch in most toilet bowls, and every time you flush it without closing the lid, those millions of bacteria droplets spray into the air as far as twenty feet away and dirty everything in their path. And a common victim is your poor toothbrush, usually, left out on the bathroom sink, right?
So, what do we do? Dr. Gerba says it’s easy. Close the toilet lid before you flush—that’ll greatly cut downthe germs, which will otherwise float in the air. And wash your toothbrush every few days in mouthwash or peroxide to get rid of any germs hiding in it. You can even put it through the dishwasher to sanitize(消毒)it. And always store your toothbrush in a closed cabinet.
Here’s one more tip from Dr. Gerba, who says our kitchen sink is probably dirtier than our toilet. “If an alien came from space and studied the bacterial counts, he probably would conclude he should wash his hands in your toilet and go to the bathroom in your sink.” He says that’s because the kitchen sink is a great place where E. coli(大肠杆菌)to live and grow since it’s wet and damp. Bacteria feed on the food that people put down the drain or—that’s left on dishes in the sink. To reset your sink’s bacteria count back to zero, you’d better regularly wash it
with hot water and sanitize yoursink with special chemicals. In fact, you may want to do it every day or before preparing dinner.
4. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To show how to brush your teeth.
B. To tell people the importance of health.
C. To warn people of the invisible germs.
D. To introduce a microbiology professor.
5. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. Bathroom sinks are the dirtiest places.
B. Bacteria are bad for people’s health.
C. Why bacteria spread through the air.
D. How bacteria spread in the bathroom.
6. What does the underlined word“that”in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. The food.
B. The toothbrush.
C. The sink.
D. The chemical.
7. Why does Dr. Gerba mention the example of an alien?
A. To tell us a fiction story of an alien studying bacteria.
B. To show our kitchen sink may be dirtier than our toilet.
C. To teach us how to reset sink’s bacteria count back to zero.
D. To prove coli prefers to live in the kitchen and the drain.
C
Thermoelectric generators turn waste heat into electricity without producing greenhouse gas emissions, like a free lunch. But the high cost of these devices has prevented their widespread use. Now, researchers have found a way to make cheap thermae-lectrices that work just as well. The work could pave the way for greener car engines, and other energy-generating devices.
“This looks like a very smart way to realize high performance,” says Li-Dong Zhao, a materials scientist. He notes there are still a few more steps before these materials can become high-performing. However, he says, “This will be used in the not too far future.”
Thermoelectrics are semiconductor devices placed on a hot surface. That gives them a hot side and a cool side. If a device allows the hot side to warm up the cool side, the electricity stops flowing. A device’s success at
preventing this, as well as its ability to conduct electrons, feeds into a score known as the figure of merit, or ZT.
Researchers have produced thermoelectric materials with increasing ZTs. The record came in 2014 when Mercouri Kanatzidis came up with a tin selenide with a ZT of 3.1. Yet the material was too fragile to work with. “For practical applications, it’s a non-star-ter,” Kanatzidis says.
Getting through that door will still take some time. The tin selenide the team makes is mixed with Na, creating a “p-type” material that conducts positive charges. To make working devices, researchers also need an “n-type” version to conduct negative charges.
Zhao’s team is now working on making an n-type version. Once successful, researchers should have a clear path to making a new generation of super-efficient thermoelectric genera-tors. Those could be installed everywhere from automobile exhaust pipes to water heaters and industrial smelters toscavengesome of the 65% of fossil fuel energy that winds up as waste heat.
8. The first paragraph wants to tell us________.
A. The wide use of thermoelectric generators
B. The devices of current thermoelectric generators
C. The reason why researchers make cheap thermoelectrics
D. The greener car engines that contribute to environmental protection
9. How does Li-Dong Zhao feel about cheap thermoelectric generators?
A. Indifferent.
B. Optimistic.
C. Critical.
D. Worried.
10. What do you know about the research in 2014 from paragraph 4 and 5?
A. It was far from a success for practical applications.
B. A tin selenide with a ZT of 3.1 can be easy to work with.
C. Researchers made an “n-type” version to make working devices
D. A “p-type” material made from the tin selenide conducts negative charges
11. What does the underlined word “scavenge” in the last paragraph mean?
A. Recycle.
B. Produce.
C. Clean.
D. Increase.
D
AnOntarioteen is making waves by turning old fishing gear into new treasures. Since last year, Natalie, 15, hasbeen taking lost or thrown — away fishing nets and rope and transforming them into bracelets, rope art, mats, baskets and necklaces.
Last year, Natalie was working on an assignment for her science, technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM) class. As part of the assignment, she learned about “ghost nets”, which are fishing nets that have been left or lost in the ocean by people who fish.
“They have huge effects on our environment. They can kill coral reefs and many animals,” said Natalie. “46 percent of the Pacific garbage is ghost gear.” The Great Pacific Garbage is a huge collection of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean betweenHawaiiandCalifornia.
Natalie told her mom she wanted to do something to help. She got in touch with a handful of charities, including the Sea Protection Society and Coastal Action.
After getting some shipments of ghost nets and rope from those organizations, Natalie, with the help of her family, started turning thediscardedgear into new artworks. “We've made bracelets, rope art, mats, baskets, and we've made necklaces, which also use beach glass in them,” she said. Natalie then started selling the artworks online, the crafty buying and selling website.
She donated all her profits-minus a small sum of change to cover supplies — to the charities that donated fishing supplies to her. She's also been donating all the income from her non-profit business, called Nautical Waters, to charity. Natalie said she hoped to continue her passion for ocean life, with plans to study marine biology in university.
12. How did Natalie help with ghost nets?
A. By turning them into artworks.
B. By asking support from her mother.
C. By collecting money from charities.
D. By selling ghost nets at a good price.
13. What made Natalie decide to do something with ghost nets?
A. To collect supplies for the artworks.
B. To prepare for her study in university.
C. To protect coral reefs and marine animals.
D. To complete an assignment for her STEM class.
14. What docs the underlined word “discarded" in Paragraph5refer to?
A. Polluted.
B. Rare.
C. Waste.
D. Discovered.
15. What is the best title for the text.
A. Ghost Nets Ready forSale
B. Charities Make a Big Difference
C. Natalie's Passion for Ocean Treasures
D. TeenTurnsOld Fishing Nets into Artworks
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
Leonardo da Vinci and Nature
In the modern world, art and science are two very separate activities, but in Leonardo’s time they were
closely connected. Science meant mathematics and medical studies.___16___Mathematics included practical work like surveying land for making maps as well as measuring the movements of the stars in the sky. An artist might need to measure the different parts of the body. He could also use mathematics to place things in relationship to each other in a drawing or painting so the scene looked correct.___17___
Mathematics was also connected to music because musical sounds have a fixed relationship with each other that can be described in numbers.___18___More than this, though, Leonardo believed that numbers were a part of all things in the world, including music, and he said that “without them nothing can be done.”
“Nature has kindly given us things everywhere to copy,” wrote Leonardo. In all his activities, Leonardo was trying to discover the rules that control nature. In his search for those rules, he looked very carefully at a lot of examples and details. Actual experience was more important to him than opinion, and he worked from facts to ideas.___19___His purpose was to examine the world so he could copy it in beautiful paintings and sculptures. He also wanted to learn from the clever solutions of nature.
___20___His quick little sketches (素描), often done while wandering outside, helped him to catch a movement or a shape. More careful drawings would be done at a desk with a pen and ruler. In July 2001, a small drawing by Leonardo was sold for $12 million. It was the most expensive drawing in the world.
A. Leonardo was always drawing.
B. How could these be connected with art?
C. Leonardo’s ideas were vastly ahead of his time.
D. Mathematicians and doctors worked to discover the unknown.
E. Above all, Leonardo wanted to understand how and why things worked.
F. You will seea good example of such positioning in the painting of The Last Supper.
G. Leonardo himself was a very good musician and liked to play an instrument and sing.
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An old carpenter(木匠)was ready to retire. He told his employer about his plan that he wanted to____21____the house building business and live a more____22____life with his large family. He would____23____ the money he got every month,____24____he needed to retire.
The employer was____25____ to see his good worker go and asked whether he____26____build one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but it was easy to see that his____27____was not in his work. He____28____unskilled workers and used poor-quality materials. It was an____29____ way to end his career.
When the carpenter_____30_____ his work and the employer came to inspect(检验)the house, the employer_____31_____the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house,“ he said, “my_____32_____for you.”
What a_____33_____ ! What a shame! If he had known he was building his own house, he would have done it_____34_____ . Now he had to live in the home he had not built well at all.
Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about building your own_____35_____. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or build a wall. You must build it_____36_____because it is the only life you will build. Even if you live it for only one day, that day_____37_____to be lived with dignity(尊严).
A great thinker once said, “Life is a do-it-yourself_____38_____. “ Your life today is the_____39_____of your attitudes and choices in the_____40_____. Your tomorrow life will come from your attitudes and the choices you make today.
21. A. keep B. manage C. leave D. explore
22. A. independent B. comfortable C. protective D. balanced
23. A. miss B. save C. return D. pay
24. A. and B. so C. but D. or
25. A. happy B. sorry C. willing D. patient
26. A. could B. must C. should D. need
27. A. mouth B. leg C. arm D. heart
28. A. thought highly of B. gave up C. turned to D. paid attention to
29. A. unfortunate B. ordinary C. easy D. interesting
30. A. started B. recognized C. destroyed D. finished
31. A. lent B. introduced C. attached D. handed
32. A. gift B. apology C. belief D. lesson
33. A. treat B. pleasure C. change D. shock
34. A. quickly B. regularly C. generally D. differently
35. A. figure B. house C. habit D. company
36. A. alone B. sadly C. carefully D. late
37. A. fails B. deserves C. stops D. pretends
38. A. project B. dream C. hobby D. competition
39. A. secret B. result C. test D. fame
40. A. future B. present C. past D. moment
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
Lots of cats love having cat companions, but if yours doesn't, it might act out by showing fear or aggression.
This doesn’t____41.____(necessary) mean you have to give one up! "Cats show great flexibility in____42.____(they) social behavior,” says Kristyn Vitale, a researcher at the Human-Animal Interaction Lab at Oregon State University, US.
She suggests____43.____(separate) the cats into different areas of the house and slowly reintroducing them to one another using a method____44.____(call) "Scent, Sight (遗臭)，Touch”：Take a toy or blanket from each cat and exchange them. Give each cat the other cat's scent item along____45.____lots of praise and rewards so they connect the smell with good things. After doing this a few times, set up a space____46.____the cats will be able to see one another through a physical barrier, like a screen door or gate. Then feed them, so they start to connect positive____47.____(feeling) with the sight of the other cat. After a few____48.____(success) feeding periods, you can try to introduce the cats without a barrier (障碍)——distract each cat with toys during their first meeting in the same room, so they have less time____49.____(worry).
“If owners go slow and give lots of rewards, many cats can learn to accept_____50._____companion cat," Vitale says.
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 still remember my first presentation in front of my entire class. When it comes to my turn, I was very much nervous! My head went blank and I had no idea that to say. Then I took deep breath and slowly breathed out. I kept do so for some times. That helped me feel less terribly. After a while, I calmed down but began my speech. I did a good job in the end. It was deep breathing that helped me out of anxious. So remember to breathe deeply when you feel nervous in a presentation. Focus on your speech and don't worry with not making my presentation
perfect. The world won't end even if you mess up.
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。

My sister Megan always felt a little afraid while babysitting（临时照看小孩）at the Quinns' house. It was set back from the road by a long, winding driveway, and the yard was filled with so many pine trees that she couldn't see any of the neighbors' lights.
On this particular night, the snow was falling heavily outside. The girls begged her to read them their favorite story, and afterward they fell asleep. Megan settled on the sofa to watch an old movie on television.
Around ten o'clock, a loud knock on the door surprised her. Megan spied through the peephole（窥视孔）and saw a middle-aged man standing in the entryway.
"Who is it?" she asked.
"Your brother Ben."
Megan realized the man had mistaken her for his sister. She replied, "Mrs. Quinn can't come to the door right now. "She thought of her mother's warming: Never open the door for a stranger while you' re babysitting.
"The truth is I'm babysitting," she said through the screen. The words were out of her mouth before she remembered her mother's second warning: Don't advertise that you're alone. Megan quickly added, "Mrs. Quinn will be home soon.”
"It's awfully cold out here. Can I wait inside?" The man asked.
Megan hesitated. "Couldn't you come back in a little while?"
"I drove all the way fromNewport. I don't have anywhere else to go." The man smiled.
"Please let me in. I promise I won't bother you."
"Mrs. Quinn left a number for me to contact her," Megan said. "I'll call her and see what she says."
The smile disappeared from the man's face. "You're going to leave me outside to freeze to death in the meantime? Wait until she finds out you wouldn't let me in! You'll be in so much trouble!" With the words he left.
Megan trembled. Maybe it was true. Maybe she would get in trouble. What if Mrs. Quinn asked her why she didn't let her brother in? How could Megan explain that he was ly rude? Would Mrs. Quinn think she was not mature enough to babysit? Maybe she'd never call her again.
注意：1.续写的词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

A little after eleven, Mrs. Quinn came back.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________
Mrs. Quinn frowned. "My brother? I don't have a brother!"
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________
参考答案
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. B
8. C 9. B 10. A 11. A
12. A 13. C 14. C 15. D
16. B 17. F 18. G 19. C 20. A
21. C 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. D 32.
A 33. D 34. D 35.
B 36.
C 37. B 38. A 39. B 40. C
41. necessarily
42. their 43. separating
44. called 45. with
46. where 47. feelings
48. successful
49. to worry
50. a
51.(1).comes→came
(2).nervous前的much删去
(3).that→what
(4).deep前加a
(5).do→doing
(6).terribly→terrible
(7).but→and
(8). anxious→anxiety
(9).with→about
(10).my→your
52.略。