2020-2021学年郑州中学高三英语第三次联考试卷及答案解析

2020-2021学年郑州中学高三英语第三次联考试卷及答案解析
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
It’s a tempting habit for them to look at their smartphone rather than make eye contact with someone. There is so much to look at: photographs, social media feeds, messages and emails. No wonder they are glued to their screens. But is it good for them?
There have been many claims about the damage looking at screens does to our eyesight. Some people feared staring at a small bright box could make us short-sighted. This is a particular concern for children and young people, who spend a higher percentage of time using electronic devices. BBC reporter, Rory Jones, says, “There is enough evidence that no matter how long teenagers are spending looking at screens, they come across information about issues such as anorexia and self-harm that could prove damaging to their mental health.”
But a new study says time in front of computers and phones might not be as bad for young people as many think. Research by the Oxford Internet Institute examined data from more than 17,000 teenagers in theUK,Irelandand theUnited States. Their study concluded that most links between life satisfaction and social media use were tiny, accounting for less than 1% of a teenager’s wellbeing. Professor Przybylski, director of research, said, “99.75% of a person’s life satisfaction has nothing to do with their use of social media.” The research found that family, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing.
So, does this mean young people can spend longer looking at social media? TheOxfordresearchers are confident about its findings and that any connection between screen time and mental health is very small. Dr. Max Davie, officer for health improvement at theRoyalCollege, calls the study a “small first step”, but he says there are other issues to explore, such as screen time’s interference(干预) with other important activities like sleep, exercise and time with family or friends. Perhaps for now, the “right” amount of screen time is only a matter of personal judgement.
1. What is people’s common belief concerning screen time?
A. Looking at screens does harm to young people.
B. Screen time provides a chance for teenagers to learn.
C. Most teenagers get near-sighted due to looking at screens.
D. A small amount of time online does little harm to teenagers.
2. What can we learn from the new study by the Oxford Internet Institute?
A. Screen time has a great influence on people’s daily activities.
B. The right amount of the screen time is related to its content.
C. There is a close link between social media and self-satisfaction.
D. Social bonds play a more significant role in people’s wellbeing than social media.
3. Where is the passage most probably taken from?
A. A science fiction.
B. A science magazine.
C. A research paper.
D. An economics book.
B
Each year, the women of Olney and Liberal compete in an unusual footrace. Dressed in aprons (围裙) and headscarves, they wait at both towns’starting lines. Each woman holds a frying pan with one pancake inside. At the signal, the women flip (轻抛) pancakes and they’re off!
This “pancake racing” tradition is said to have started on Shrove Tuesday, 1445, in Olney. Shrove Tuesday is the day beforethe Christian season of Lent (大斋戒) begins. During Lent, many people decide to give up sugary or fatty foods.
Legend says that in 1445, an Olney woman was making pancakes to use up some of her sugar and cooking fats before Lent. She lost track of time and suddenly heard the church bells ring, signaling the beginning of the Shrove Tuesday service. Realizing that she was going to be late for church, she raced out the door still wearing her apron and headscarf and holding her frying pan with a pancake in it. In the following years, the woman’s neighbors imitated her dash to church, and pancake racing was born.
The rules are simple. Racers must wear the traditional headscarf and apron. They must flip their pancakes twice - once before starting and once after crossing the finish line. After the race, there are Shrove Tuesday church services. Then Liberal and Olney connect through a video call to compare race times and declare a winner.
In both towns, the races have grown into larger festivals. Olney’s festival is an all-day event starting with a big pancake breakfast. Liberal’s festival lasts four days and includes a parade, a talent show, and contests that feature eating and flipping pancakes. Although the women’s race is still the main event, both towns now hold additional races for boys and girls of all ages.
4. How did pancake racing start?
A. A woman in Olney created it.
B. Women made pancakes before Lent.
C. A woman dashed to church with a pancake.
D. People followed the suit of an interesting incident.
5. What should racers obey during the race?
A. They can wear fashionable headscarves and aprons.
B. They must flip their pancakes once in the race.
C. They must flip their pancakes at the beginning of the race.
D. They can flip their pancakes in the middle of the race.
6. What can we learn about the race from the last paragraph?
A. People can show their talent in Olney festival.
B. People can enjoy a one-day holiday in Liberal.
C. The race is not only intended for women now.
D. People can have a big pancake breakfast in both towns.
7. What is the text mainly about?
A. The origin of pancake racing.
B. The history of pancake racing.
C. The development of pancake racing.
D. The introduction to pancake racing.
C
Tofight for the conservation of forest ecosystem, several ecologists including Daniel Janzen convinced Del Oro, an orange juice producer, to donate part of their forestland to a national park. In return, Del Oro was allowed to throw large amounts of waste in the form of orangepeels(皮) on a 3-hectare piece of land within the national park at no cost. Dealing with tons of leftover peels usually involved burning them or paying to have them poured into a landfill, so the proposal was very attractive.
But a year later, another juice company challenged the deal in court, arguing that their competitor was "polluting a national park". They ended up winning, and the deal between Del Oro and the national park fell through.
Then in 2013, while discussing possible research avenues（途径，手段）with Timothy Treuer, Daniel Janzen mentioned the orange story. Feeling interested, Treuer decided to stop by that piece of land that had been covered with fruit waste 15 years earlier. What he found shocked him.
"While I would walk over exposed rock and dead grass in the nearby fields, I'd have to climb through
undergrowth and cut paths through walls ofvines(藤) in the orange peel site itself," said Timothy Treuer.
Treuer and his team spent months picking upsamples(样品), analyzing and comparing them. They found great differences between the areas covered with orange peels and those that were not. The area withorange waste had richer soil.
The effect that the orange peels had on the land is probably not that surprising to people familiar withcomposting(施肥), but what is really shocking is that a judge actually thought the waste of orange "mined" a national parkand stopped it from going forward. Now that Timothy Treuer's study has received worldwide attention, this type of "ruining" is being seriously considered as a way of bringing forests back to life.
8. What did Del Oro usually do with orange peels?
A. Add them to fuel.
B. Feed them to animals.
C. Burn or bury them.
D. Make them into cakes.
9. What can we know about the deal between Del Oro and the national park?
A. It lasted 15 years.
B. It was signed by Treuer.
C. It was made in about 1998.
D. It was broken by Del Oro.
10. What was Treuer's finding?
A. Orange peels contain much fibre.
B. Orange peels can make soil richer.
C. Orange peels rot away in a short time.
D. Orange waste ruined the national park.
11. What is the author's attitude toward the judge mentioned in the last paragraph?
A. Disapproving.
B. Positive.
C. Worried.
D. Admirable.
D
Even as Google plans to test its fleet (车队) of self-driving cars on public roads this summer, its business model remains abit of a mystery. By 2025, as many as 250,000 self-driving vehicles could be sold each year globally, according to a study by an industry research firm.
“Vehicles that can take anyone from A to B at the push of a button could transform mobility for millions of people,” said Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car project. For now, Google has no plans to sell any of its self-driving cars. They are strictly for research. But they will hit public roads this summer near Google’s headquarters inMountain View,California. Previous testing has taken place only on closed courses.
The cars are built to operate without a steering wheel, accelerator (油门) or brake pedal. “Our software and sensors do all the work,” Urmson said. “The vehicles will be very basic — we want to learn from them and adapt them as quickly as possible — but they will take you where you want to go at the push of a button.” The prototype
(雏形) is the first of a 100-car fleet the tech giant is building.
In the long run, Urmson sees a future of safer roads — the majority of auto accidents are caused by human error — and fewer traffic jams. Robotic cars could also shuttle people who can’t drive because of age or illness.
Google has said that self-driving cars could launch new business models in which people buy the use of vehicles they don’t own. The company has already tested other types of self-driving cars on public streets, including modified Lexus sport-utility vehicles, under a special permit program by the California Department of Motor Vehicles that requires a human driver at the controls.
The state has issued six other companies permits to operate such cars, includingDelphi, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Tesla, Bosch and Nissan. The vehicles that will be tested on open roads this summer will have removable steering wheels, accelerators and brake pedals to allow “safety drivers” to take control if needed.
12. According to Chris Urmson, __________.
A. self-driving cars can give driving orders to humans
B. self-driving cars are specially designed for the elderly
C. software and sensors are vital for self-driving cars
D. ordinary vehicles will be replaced by self-driving cars
13. Paragraph 4 is meant to tell us that __________.
A. many traffic accidents are caused by human error
B. some people can’t drive because of illness or age
C. Urmson has promised to create safer roads in the future
D. self-driving cars will probably help to make safer roads and decrease traffic jams
14. The underlined word “issued” in the last paragraph can probably bereplaced by__________.
A. given
B. claimed
C. awarded
D. prohibited
15. What’s the author’s attitude towards self-driving cars?
A. Objective.
B. Indifferent.
C. Subjective.
D. Favorable.
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
Dealing with conflicts with friends
Great friendships are characterized by a mutual (相互的) understanding that you will support each other
through the highs and lows of your lives. When you get into an argument with your friends, it may have a bad influence on you.____16____. Here are some helpful tips for dealing with conflicts with friends.
Don’t be quiet.
____17____. If you have had a serious argument, it may get worse if you choose to keep quiet and not talk about it. Keeping things to yourself and not being open about it creates misunderstandings. Talking about the causes of the argument will help you figure out whether it is just a misunderstanding or something serious. Once you talk about issues, you get a fair idea about how to resolve a particular conflict.____18____.
Think before you speak.
When you have decided to talk about your issues, you need to keep the anger aside and talk peacefully to each other.____19____. So, you should choose your words wisely while you are trying to resolve conflicts with friends.
____20____
Communication is necessary but it is only fruitful when it is two-way. If you are dealing with conflicts with friends, there must be communication as well as listening and understanding from both sides. If you have an argument or you have different opinions that lead to a conflict, try to find out what the other person finds offensive. Let your friend speak about things that don’t seem right to them. Apologize if you need to for being wrong on your part or explain to them your point of view to help them understand you better.
A. Listen to your friend’ concerns
B. Actions speak louder than words
C. Communication is the key to every relationship
D. Anger never solves a problem, but it strengthens it
E. Conflicts with friends can be challenging, but usually be resolved
F. A peace path is a guide for students to follow when resolving conflicts
G. This will not only help you solve problems, but strengthen your friendship
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We can’t predict the future, but all we know for sure is thatlife will never be the same.
I had always been____21____about traveling, and in our 8 years together, we made full use of our___22___budget and time, traveling as often as we could near or far, even checkingHawaiioff the bucket list.
___23___, once my husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. I didn’t go back to___24___ at all for over
a year. For 6 months, my life became about being the caretaker, personal doctor and wife I could possibly be. I lived and___25___for him because that’s what he deserved and needed, and I wanted to spend every second I had___26___with him.
Sadly, he was gone. I was___27___. At that time, a family member___28___their apartment inHawaiito me if I wanted to take some___29___for myself. I knew this was what I needed to do. Arriving inHawaiiby myself was quite possibly the___30___feeling ever, second only to leaving the hospital the day he___31___. But I rented a car, I walked the beach, I hiked to waterfalls, and I spent time with old friends who lived there.___32___, I learned I was my own good friend and I could___33___myself. . Being alone with my thoughts and___34___was the hardest thing I could___35___, but I think at the time, it seemed___36___than going back to my old routine with a huge vacancy in my life.
And pretty soon, I was on the go___37___. After numerous trips, I felt it was time to return to work. I started to live life to the___38___, experiencing things I would never have imagined.
.Now I don’t want to wait to___39___my dreams and check things off my bucket list. I hope you don’t___40___.
21. A. crazy B. concerned C. anxious D. worried
22. A. limited B. equal C. enough D. proper
23. A. Anyway B. Besides C. However D. Therefore
24. A. hospital B. school C. exercise D. work
25. A. cried B. smiled C. shouted D. breathed
26. A. enjoyed B. left C. taken D. wasted
27. A. in amazement B. in shock C. at a loss D. at risk
28. A. received B. offered C. sold D. sent
29. A. money B. advice C. energy D. time
30. A. happiest B. loneliest C. most awkward D. most embarrassing
31. A. died B. recovered C. passed D. returned
32. A. Actually B. Obviously C. Gradually D. Generally
33. A. depend on B. check on C. reflect on D. focus on
34. A. comments B. admiration C. surprise D. memories
35. A. forget B. hope C. face D. identify
36. A. harder B. easier C. worse D. safer
37. A. continuously B. anxiously C. safely D. powerfully
38. A. least B. fullest C. busiest D. simplest
39. A. leave B. establish C. follow D. survive
40. A. too B. yet C. neither D. either
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
In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear_____41._____spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it correctly with confidence and without hesitation._____42._____, we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
There is no easy way to success_____43._____language learning._____44._____good memory is of great help, but it is not enough only_____45._____( memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long list of words and_____46._____meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language._____47._____we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of_____48._____(advise) for those_____49._____are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practice speaking and_____50._____(write) the language whenever we can.
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。

A man walked into a bar and had a few drinks. Before leaving, he asked the bartenderhow his bill was. The bartender replied that it is $40.
Hearing this, the man said, "Let's make the bet. If you win, I will give you twice the amount of my bill. If I win, I won’t pay anything. I bet whether I can bite my own eye. ” The bartender was curiously and accepted. Then, the man pulled his glass eye out and bit it.
The man decided have more drinks. And the man bet the bartender he could bite his another eye. The bartender accepted again, know the man couldn't possibly have two glass eyes. To his surprising, the man took out his false tooth and bit his other eye.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Sophia正在中国做交换生，她计划国庆期间到重庆旅游。

请你写一封邮件给她，推荐你的朋友Tom做她的导游。

要点如下：
1.写信的目的；
2.推荐Tom的理由；
3.期待回复。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Sophia,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. C 9. C 10. B 11. A
12. C 13. D 14. A 15. A
16. E 17. C 18. G 19. D 20. A
21. A 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. D 26. B 27. C 28. B 29. D 30. B 31. A 32.
C 33. A 34.
D 35. C 36. B 37. A 38. B 39. C 40. D
41. it 42. Thirdly
43. in 44. A
45. to memorize
46. their 47. If
48. advice 49. who/that
50. writing
51.(1).how→what
(2).is→was
(3).the→a
(4).whether→that
(5).curiously→curious
(6).decided后添加to
(7).another→other
(8).know→knowing
(9).surprising→surprise
(10).tooth→teeth 52.略。