2019-2020学年汕尾田家炳中学高三英语期末试题及答案解析

2019-2020学年汕尾田家炳中学高三英语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
We are proud to present a showcase for kid inventions from children chosen from the Kid's Forum at Blue Print Earth. We hope you enjoy the ideas expressed here and join us in supporting the next generation.
Eater of Natural Disasters
My invention cansave your home by sucking up all-natural disasters. The government will not own this machine, but by you so there will be no taxes on it. Order Now! The Eater of Natural Disasters will run on renewable batteries. It will cost 50 dollars to make and I will sell it for just $ 75.
Created by Matthew Szekeresh —Mt.WashingtonElementary, 5th Grade.
Pick-up-Pollution Bomb
My invention is called the Pick-up-Pollution Bomb. It will just pick up pollution and it won't hurt anything else like people, animals, property, playgrounds, and parks. The reason why I made it is that I think there is too much pollution on the Earth. It sells for $100 apiece, and if you buy this now, I will send you another one for free.
Created gratefully by Lauren Newberry — Mt. Washington Elementary, 5th Grade
Flying House
My invention is a home that will blast off in space. For example, if there were an earthquake people would immediately blast off, or if there were a flood it would take off. Only for $ 400.99.
Created by David Turner —Mt.WashingtonElementary, 5th Grade
Bug Robot
My invention is a robot that catches little bugs, eats little bugs, sucks up pollution, sucks up natural disasters, and turns them into food solving the problems of too many little bugs, natural disasters, pollution and starvation. My product is worth $500. My invention works on 2 triple — A batteries. And if you order one today I'll throw in 4 rechargeable triple-A batteries.
Created by Cassie Courtey —Mt.WashingtonElementary, 5th Grade
1. Why is the Flying House created?
A. To explore the space.
B. To clean the air.
C. To prepare people for earthquakes.
D. To help people escape from natural disasters.
2. Which invention can turn pollution into food?
A. The Bug Robot.
B. The Pick-up-Pollution Bomb.
C. The Flying House.
D. The Eater of Natural Disasters.
3. What can we infer about the four inventions?
A. They are very easy to build.
B. They are ideas from kids in the same school.
C. They are expensive but of practical use.
D. They are being used by people.
B
We are in lack of enough sleep, according to Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. And thishas great consequences on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed, she ly declares, is nothing short of a sleep revolution. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.
In her bestseller Thrive, Arianna wrote about our need to redefine success through wellbeing, wisdom, wonder, and giving. Her discussion of the importance of sleep as a gateway to this more fulfilling way of living struck such a powerful chord (弦) that she realized the mystery and transformative power of sleep called for a fuller investigation (调查).
The result is a scientifically sweeping and personal exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation (剥夺), and the new golden age of sleep science that is showing the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health — from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna shows how our cultural removal of sleep as time wasted damages our health and our decision-making and our work lives and shortens our personal lives. She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She decides the dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways of our addiction to technology disturb our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep.
In today’s fast-paced, always-connected and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important than ever. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
4. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The importance of sleep.
B. The necessity of improving sleep.
C. The way to improve our sleep.
D. The effect of sleep on health.
5. What can be inferred about Arianna’s attitude to success?
A. She thinks good sleep is more important.
B. She doesn’t think much of becoming successful.
C. She thinks it wrong to sacrifice health to success.
D. She is concerned about the nature of success.
6. What can be said about Arianna’s investigation?
A. It is really of great value.
B. It is scientific and historical.
C. It costs Arianna’s sleep in practice.
D. It covers all necessary aspects scientifically,
7. What influence does TheSleep Revolution have on society?
A. It helps to slow down the pace of modern life.
B. It warns people against taking sleeping pills.
C. It warns the harm of inadequate sleep of people.
D. It helps to stress the value of sleep to success.
C
My school appeared on the news last week because we had made an important change in our local area. Our class had planted a large garden in what was once only a vacant lot. It was a lot of work but it was all worth it. I got blisters(水泡) from digging, and we all got insect bites, too.
I learned a lot about gardening and collaboration(合作), and then I learned about the media. Our teacher telephoned the TV station and informed them of what we had accomplished. She spoke with the producer. The producer checked with the directors, but they said there were plenty of stories similar to ours. They wanted to know what was special about our particular garden, since many schools plant them.
The teacher explained that, after going on the Internet to learn about the prairie(大草原), we had made a prairie garden. We had gone to a prairie and gotten seeds from the plants, and then we planted them. We did not water the garden, but we did weed it. We decided to let nature water it with rain, since that was how prairies grew in the past. We sent a picture of the garden to the news station. In the picture, the grass was so high that it stood taller than the fourth grade students.
As a result, the producer sent a reporter to our school. He interviewed the headmaster and asked him many
questions about the garden. After that, they interviewed us, and we explained to them what we had learned through this project.
That night, we watched the news, and there we were. The news reporter told our story. It was only two minutes long, but it was us. We were famous. All that work, all those blisters, it was worth it. We knewthatwhen we saw the garden every day, but now we knew that the whole city thought so, too.
8. What seemed to be the TV directors’ initial reaction to the garden?
A. They were excited.
B. They were surprised.
C. They were worried.
D. They were uninterested.
9. What is special about the garden?
A. Weeds were allowed to spread naturally.
B. The grass grew faster than common grass.
C. The seeds came from the plants of a prairie.
D. Underground water was used for the plants.
10. What does the underlined word “that” refer to in the last paragraph?
A. We got blisters on our hands.
B. Our hard work was worthwhile.
C. The garden would be famous.
D. The project would be finished.
11. How did the author feel about the project?
A. Annoyed.
B. Curious.
C. Proud.
D. Regretful.
D
If you’re looking for a reason to care about tree loss, this summer’s record-breaking heat waves might be it. Trees can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to arecent study. But tree cover in US cities is shrinking (缩减). A study published last year by the US Forest Service found that we lost 36 million trees annually from urban and rural communities over a five-year period. “If we continue on this path, cities will become warmer, more polluted and generally unhealthier for inhabitants,” said David Nowak, a senior US Forest Service scientist and co-author of the study. Nowak says there are many reasons why our tree cover is declining, including hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, insects and disease. But the one reason for tree loss that humans can control is sensible development.
Nowak says there is a downside to trees too, such as pollen allergy (花粉过敏) or large tailing branches in storms, and people don’t like sweeping leaves. But, he says, there are ways cities and counties can manage trees
to help communities thrive (繁荣). Urban forests especially need our help to replace fallen trees. Unlike rural areas, it is very difficult for trees to repopulate themselves in a city environment with so much pavement and asphalt (沥青). “A lot of our native trees can’t actually find a place to drop a seed so they can regenerate,” explains Greg Levine, co-executivedirector of Trees Atlanta. “That’s why the community has to go in and actually plant a tree because the areas just aren’t natural anymore.”
Nowak says the first step is caring for the trees on your own property (财产). “We think we pay for our house, and sowe must maintain it. But because we don’t pay for nature, we don’t need to. And that’s not necessarily true.”
12. Why does the author mention “trees can lower summer daytime temperatures”?
A. To tell the temperatures in summer are high.
B. To explain the reason of tree loss.
C. To tell trees are helpful.
D. To introduce the topic.
13. How can humans control tree loss according to Nowak?
A. Develop cities in reasonable ways.
B. Prevent fires form damaging trees.
C. Improve climate to let trees grow.
D. Decrease insects in cities.
14. Why do forests in cities need our help?
A. Because trees don’t grow in a city environment.
B. Because native trees don’t drop seeds any more.
C. Because trees in urban areas can’t regenerate naturally.
D. Because humans want to plant more trees.
15. What is the purpose of this passage?
A. Describe the importance of trees in cities.
B. Appeal people to protect trees in their surroundings.
C. Ask people to plant trees with the author.
D. Show the number of trees in theUSis declining.
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
One of my earliest memories was watching my mom talking on our old phone. I was fascinated that she could talk to someone who wasn't actually in the room with her.___16___Iwas wondering how she managed to talk with someone she couldn't see.
___17___Later, we had mobile phones that could be carried around the room. Then came computers and smart phones. These days I can send an e-mail around the world in a second. My daughter's smart phone has a hundred apps and a dozen social media accounts. She stores all of her information in a mysterious place known as "the cloud", where she can take it out at any time. It seems that we are more connected in this world than ever before.
___18___Few take time to talk face to face. Instead of looking into eyes of our beloved ones, we stare at our screens. It seems as if the most connected generation is also the loneliest.
Don't let technology take our time and ruin our life. Make the time to meet and to communicate with each other. Take a walk on the beach with a friend. Have a long conversation with the phones off and the hearts on.___19___
Remember that we are here to love each other, help each other and make this world a better place.___20___But when it can't, turn it off.
A. That was a long time ago.
B. Connect offline as well as online.
C. We should communicate with each other with phones off.
D. Smart phones have both advantages and disadvantages.
E. When your technology can help to do these things, then use it.
F. However, what bothers me is that we rarely associate with each other nowadays.
G. When she left the room, I slowly walked over to the phone and stared at it for a while.
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One dark morning during my walk, I fell and had my___21___broken. I received several___22___ over two years. It was no fun for a busy mother! More_____23_____, I was left with certain physical limitation. My doctor told me to live life to the______24______, but not to do things that would be too much for my arm. As I recovered from the last surgery, I fell in_______25_______ over all the things I would never get to do that I had wanted to try, like boating. However, I_____26_____ so much on what I couldn’t do that I didn’t___27___what I could do was right in front of me all along.
My fourteen-year-old son, Matthew, was fond _____28_____ archery(射箭). I loved watching him shoot arrows and I had learned quite a bit about the____29____. I had never tried his bow. I was sure my arm would never allow for such____30____ equipment, anyway. Then during one of my son’s ________31________, the coaches had a “fun day” and ________32________ encouraged the typically sedentary（久坐的)parents to ________33________ a bow. Before I realized what I was doing, I shot my___34___arrow. And it hit the___35___—6 points!
From then on, I often practiced. The more I did it, the more I knew I could do it. I realize that not only will my body not _____36_____ this new adventure, but neither will my family—my husband has taken up archery and my other son has tried it as well! I think the sport has made my family___37___ in some way. I never______38______ something like archery would be possible for me. I guess being faced with the concept of “limitations” pushed me forward. No more______39______ and no more fears, I just had to take___40___and shoot—and find my way.
21. A. head B. leg C. arm D. eye
22. A. operations B. occupations C. qualifications D. certifications
23. A. luckily B. importantly C. unfortunately D. happily
24. A. fairest B. fullest C. cheapest D. easiest
25. A. love B. sympathy C. embarrassment D. desperation
26. A. depended B. figured C. insisted D. focused
27. A. appreciate B. realize C. confirm D. describe
28. A. of B. with C. in D. on
29. A. club B. sport C. job D. injury
30. A. interesting B. frightening C. challenging D. deserving
31. A. competitions B. vacations C. practices D. performances
32. A. enthusiastically B. patiently C. honestly D. violently
33. A. take away B. pick up C. break down D. sort out
34. A. first B. second C. third D. last
35. A. distance B. enemy C. air D. target
36. A. suffer from B. benefit from C. adapt to D. take to
37. A. busier B. clearer C. closer D. richer
38. A. suspected B. insisted C. concluded D. imagined
39. A. excuses B. responsibilities C. permissions D. motivations
40. A. care B. aim C. action D. defeat
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
A 63-year-old Chinese grandpa's traditional carpentry skills are delighting tens of millions of viewers online as he creates woodwork___41.___glue, screws or nails.
The Chinese master carpenter, Wang Dewen,___42.___(know)as “Grandpa Amu” on YouTube, has been called the modern day Lu Ban, thanks to his vast carpentry knowledge. His___43.___(huge) popular video, which shows him making a fantastic wooden arch bridge, becomes a hit online on the platform,___44.___(gain) more than 42 million views. Grandpa Amu follows an ancient Chinese mortise and tenon(榫卯) technique, which means that no glue or nails___45.___(involve) in the entire process of building the arch bridge.
Grandpa Amu has also made several wooden___46.___(toy) for his grandson using the same technique. He created a folding stool(凳子),___47.___looked like the China pavilion from the 2010 Shanghai Expo. “A block of wood transforms into a stool. It's so___48.___(amaze) to see him at work,” a YouTube user named Rey Rey commented under the video.
Among all the items, a walking Peppa Pig and a bubble blowing toy are his grandson's favorites. The master carpenter___49.___(attract) over 1.18 million subscribers since his video was posted on YouTube. Popular____50.____Grandpa Amu is on social medias, he insists that he is not an internet celebrity but just an ordinary farmer.
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.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。

My father and I stayed at the South Lake Hotel for a week when we visit Beijing last month. It is in the downtown area, but it is easy to go to anywhere from the hotel by public transport.
We lived in a comfortably double-room with a big bath.What I liked best were the free high-speed Internet connection in the room. I checked my email messages every day. I also shared for my friends many photos taking
in Beijing. The food was wonderful, and we enjoyed several local dish.
It is such great hotel that I would recommend it to any friend of me who is going to Beijing.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是李华，昨天你参加了学校组织的英语演讲比赛，并获得了一等奖。

由于刚回美国度假的外籍教师Broke为你的参赛提供了许多帮助，现在你想用英语给他写一封电子邮件。

要点包括：
1.介绍参赛情况；
2.告知获奖；
3.表达获奖感受。

注意：1.词数80左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Brooke,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. D
2. A
3. B
4. B
5. D
6. D
7. C
8. D 9. C 10. B 11. C
12. D 13. A 14. C 15. B
16. G 17. A 18. F 19. B 20. E
21. C 22. A 23. C 24. B 25. D 26. D 27. B 28. A 29. B 30. C 31. C 32.
A 33.
B 34. A 35. D 36. B 37.
C 38.
D 39. A 40. C
41. without
42. known 43. hugely
44. gaining
45. are involved
46. toys 47. which
48. amazing
49. has attracted
50. as/though
51.(1).vist→visited
(2).but→and
(3).去掉to
(4).comfortably→comfortable
(5).were→was
(6).for→with
(7).taking→taken
(8).dish→dishes
(9).such后添加a
(10).me→mine
52.略。