2020-2021学年西安市远东第一中学高三英语一模试题及参考答案

2020-2021学年西安市远东第一中学高三英语一模试题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
My wife Hilary andI were on the beach, with three of our children, taking pictures of shore birds near our home in Alaska when we saw a bear. The bear was thin and small, moving aimlessly.
Just a few minutes later, I heard my daughter shouting, “Dad! The bear is right behind us!" An aggressive bear will usually rush forward to frighten away its enemy but would suddenly stop at the last minute. This one was silent and its ears pinned back the sign of an animal that is going in for the kill. And it was a cold April day. Thebear behaved abnormally, probably because of hunger.
I held my camera tripod(三脚架)in both hands to form a barrier as the bear rushed into me. Its huge head was level with my chest and shoulders, and the tripod stuck across its mouth. It bit down and I found myself supporting its weight. I knew 1 would not be able to hold it for long.
Even so, this was a fight I had to win: I was all that stood between the bear and my family, who would stand little chance of running faster than a brown bear.
The bear hit at the camera, cutting it off the tripod. I raised my left arm to protect my face; the beast held tightly on the tripod and pressed it into my side. My arm could not move, and I sensed that my bones were going to break.
Drawing back my free hand, I struck the bear as hard as I could for five to six times. The bear opened its mouth and I grasped its fur, trying to push it away. I was actually wrestling with the bear at this point. Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the fight ended. The bear moved back towards-the forest,before returning for another attack the first time I felt panic.
Obviously satisfied that we caused no further threat, the bear moved off, destroying a fence as it went. My arm was injured, but the outcome for us could hardly have been better. I'm proud that my family remained clear-headed when panic could have led to a very different outcome.
1. How did the writer feel when faced with the brown bear?
A. Fearful but confident.
B. Nervous but brave.
C. Upset but determined.
D. Awful but hopeful.
2. The bear finally went away after it
A. got injured
B. felt safe
C. found some food
D. took away the camera
3. What does the author want to tell us?
A. We should keep calm when troubles come
B. We should rise to the challenge when faced with difficulties.
C. We should not risk ourselves in some dangerous areas.
D. We should learn to take advantage of anything at hand when in trouble.
B
A world in which extinct creatures could be brought back to life came a step closer yesterday. Australian scientists have managed to extract a gene from a preserved sample of a Tasmanian tiger and make it active. Thebreakthroughhas left them dreaming that one day they will be able to recreate the animal, which died out more than 70 years ago. And if it can be done with the Tasmanian tiger, it may also be possible to resurrect (复活) creatures that have been extinct for far longer.
“There used to be a time when extinction meant forever, but no more, ” said Professor Mike Archer. “We are now able to seriously challenge whether those animals that have gone for ever. What has been achieved is a very important step in bringing back those animals that are extinct. And while I think that technically it is still pretty difficult at the moment, we can now see the possibilities. I’m personally convinced that the Tasmanian tiger will be brought back to life in my lifetime.”
The breakthrough came after nine years of experiments by scientists at the University of Melbourne, who extracted a gene from one of several tigers preserved in alcohol in a Melbourne museum. They removed the equivalent gene from a mouse embryo implanted the tiger gene and then watched as the mouse continued to grow normally, suggesting the tiger gene had been activated.
Team leader Dr. Andrew Pask said it was the first time DNA from an extinct species had been used to “induce (引起) a functional response in another living organism”.
However, the animal’s entire gene structure would have to be revived in the same way to even begin the possibility of bringing the Tasmanian tiger back from the dead.
Mick Mooney, a wildlife officer ofthe Tasmanian Government, was worried that such developments could encourage people’s indifference to the protection of endangered species.
“If people think that we can bring animals back to life after they’ve gone, they will start saying that there is nothing to worry about because we can fix it up later.”
4. What does the underlined word “breakthrough” in the l paragraph refer to?
A. Scientists have recreated new animals.
B. Scientists have resurrected endangered animal.
C. It has turned out that some creatures would not go extinct.
D. A tiger gene has been extracted successfully and activated.
5. Scientists are carrying out the experiments in order to ________.
A. bring extinct animals back to life
B. transplant the genes of tigers into other animals
C. find out what factors lead to the animals’ extinction
D. find a new way to extract animals’ DNA
6. Mike Archer thinks that ________.
A. scientists now have no technological difficulty reconnecting extinct animals
B. it’ll be a century or so before a Tasmanian tiger walks on the earth again
C. humans have come closer in reconnecting extinct animals
D. reconnecting extinct animals is impossible
7. We can learn from Mick Mooncy’s words that_________.
A. he thought it unnecessary to worry about endangered animals
B. his opinion is in contrast with that of the Tasmanian Government
C. he thought people should be encouraged to protect endangered animals
D. he is concerned that bringing extinct animals back to life may have a negative effect
C
While the start of a new school year is always exciting, this year was even more so for some elementary school students inAuckland,New Zealand. They became the world’s first kids to be “taught” by a digital teacher.Before you start imagining a human-like robot walking around the classroom, Will is just an avatar that appears on the student’s desktop, or smartphone screen, when ordered to come.
The autonomous animation platform has been modeled after the human brain and nervous system, allowing it to show human-like behavior. The digital teacher is assigned to teach Vector’s “Be sustainable with energy”— a free program forAucklandelementary schools.
Just like the humans it replaced, Will is able to instantly react to the students’ responses to the topic. Thanks to a webcam and microphone, the avatar not only responds to questions the kids may have, but also picks up
non-verbal cues. For instance, if a student smiles at Will, he responds by smiling back. This two-way interaction not only helps attract the students’ attention, but also allows the program’s developers to monitor their engagement, and make changes if needed.
Nikhil Ravishankar believes that Will-like avatars could be a novel way to catch the attention of the next generation. He says, “I have a lot of hope in this technology as a means to deliver cost-effective, rich, educational experience in the future.”
The program, in place since August 2018, has been a great success thus far. Ravishankar says, “ What was fascinating to me was the reaction of the children to Will. The way they look at the world is so creative and different, and Will really captured their attention.” However, regardless of how popular it becomes, Will is unlikely to replace human educators any time soon.
8. What was special for some elementary school students inAuckland?
A. A digital teacher taught them.
B. They first saw something digital.
C. This was the start of a new school year.
D. They could get close to smartphone screen.
9. What is the benefit of this two-way interaction?
A. It can smile back.
B. It can use microphone.
C. It can talk any topic for free.
D. It can change if necessary.
10. What’s Ravishankar’s attitude to Will’s replacing Human educators soon?
A. Optimistic.
B. Doubtful.
C. Unclear.
D. Disapproving.
11. What might be the best title for the passage?
A. New High-tech Contributes to Education
B. The World’s First Digital Teacher Appears in Classroom.
C. The World’s First Digital Teacher, a Help to Students
D.New ZealandWill Replace Teachers in Classrooms
D
With their tiny brains and excellent ability to memorize nectar locations, honeybees are a favorite model organism for studying learning and memory. Such research has indicated that to form long-term memories—ones that last a day or more—the insects need to repeat a training experience at least three times. By contrast,
short-and mid-term memories that last seconds to minutes and minutes to hours, respectively, need only a single learning experience.
Exceptions to this rule have been observed, however. For example, in some studies, bees formed long-lasting memories after a single learning event. Such results are often regarded as circumstantial anomalies, says Martin Giurfa of the University of Toulouse. But the anomalous findings, together with research showing that fruit flies and ants can form long-term memories after single experiences, aroused Giurfa’s curiosity. Was it possible that honeybees could reliably do the same? Giurfa reasoned that the ability to form long-term memories might depend on the particular type of bee and the experience. Within a honeybee colony, there are nurses, who clean the hive and feed the young; guards, who patrol and protect the hive; and foragers, who search for nectar.
While previous studies have tested bees as a whole, Ciurfa and his colleagues focused on foragers, tasking them with remembering an experience relevant to their role: an odor associated with a sugary reward.
The researchers observed that a single exposure to a reward-paired odor was enough for most forager bees to remember that specific odor the following day. Many foragers could even remember the odor three day later.
The results do not mean that all prior research was wrong, says André Fiala of the University of Göttingen. “People have done the experiments in a different way.” Still, the new results do show that “the commonly held belief that one needs multiple training trials to achieve long-term memory is not always true,” he says, and this “really advances the field.”
12. What does the author want to tell us through Paragraph 1?
A. A model for memory research.
B. The classification of memories.
C. New research on learning and memory.
D. Previous findings on memory formation.
13. Which factor might influence a bee’s memory of an experience, according to Giurfa’s research?
A. Whether the bee's role is related.
B. Whether the bee is introduced or native.
C. How often the bee repeats the experience.
D. How long the bee is exposed to the reward.
14. What is Andre Fiala’s attitude towards the new results?
A. Doubtful.
B. Favorable.
C. Intolerant.
D. Unclear.
15. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A. Learning and Memory: How Honeybees Remember
B. Honeybee Memory: Honeybee Knows What to Do
C. Honeybees Remember after Just One Lesson
D. Honeybees Use Memory for Communication
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Live Every Day Like It’s AHoliday
We feel great on holiday because we let go of everyday stresses and strains.____16____So whether or not you’re going away this summer, there’s plenty you can do to make sure you benefit from that holiday feeling.
Sleep like a holidaymaker
Sleep like a baby when you’re on your holidays but stay awake when you’re in your usual routine?____17____To reset your sleep pattern, avoid bringing problems to bed. That includes your phone, TV or laptop. Make sure the room is dark and cool. Aim for at least seven hours’ —just as you would on holiday.
Get moving
____18____Given that exercise is cheap, healthy and reduces stress, it makes sense to build it into your day.
A walk will release happy hormones, and eases anxiety and mild depression.
____19____
Part of the joy of going away is lingering over delicious food with families. Take up the holiday habit of sitting down as a family for at least one meal a day. Families who eat together experience less anxiety, less depression and less obesity, research has found.
Be a tourist in your own city
Part of the thrill of a holiday is the novelty of discovering a new place and doing new things.____20____At weekends, check out a new music venue, visit a different museum or have a drink in that interesting-looking pub you’re always walking past. It will get you out of routine and make you feel alive. A bit like a holiday, really.
A. Make your meals a celebration.
B. Carve out some dedicated quiet time.
C. If so, you might need to examine your sleep habits.
D. Just make sure you schedule it into your day or week.
E. But it’s also easy to be a holidaymaker in the place you live.
F. Research has even shown that vacations help health and well-being.
G.When you’re travelling, you walk around new cities without a second thought.
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Cecilia Chiang died on Wednesday at her home inSan Francisco. She was 100. HerSan Franciscorestaurant,
the Mandarin,____21____American diners in the 1960s to the richness and____22____of authentic Chinese cuisine.
Ms. Chiang was born in a____23____family. When she was little, children were not allowed in the____24____, but she paid close attention on trips to the____25____markets with her mother and listened carefully as____26____instructions were given to the cooks. After her parents died, she____27____the family business in her teens.
After the Japanese occupiedBeijingin 1939, she was____28____to join s in Chongqin, where she married Chiang Liang, a professor.
Ms. Chiang sailed toSan Franciscoin 1960 to help her sister. There she met two women who wanted to____29____a restaurant that_____30_____Chinese diets. Later, when the two women_____31_____ , Ms. Chiang decided to open a restaurant herself. The early days were_____32_____But little by little, customers came_____33_____for hot and sour soup and pan-fried potstickers. One evening, Herb Caen, the popular columnist forThe Chronicle,_____34_____at the restaurant. In a_____35_____column, Herb Caen_____36_____it “a little hole-in-the wall” that was offering “some of the best Chinese food east of the Pacific.”
Overnight the_____37_____filled. The Mandarin was on its way. In 1968, Ms. Chiang moved the restaurant to_____38_____quarters, where she could_____39_____300 diners.
“I think I_____40_____what average, people know about Chinese food,” Ms. Chiang toldThe Chroniclein 2007, “They didn't know China was such a big country.”
21. A. attached B. introduced C. presented D. opposed
22. A. patent B. trend C. variety D. fashion
23. A. wealthy B. poor C. typical D. powerful
24. A. kitchen B. restaurant C. market D. hotel
25. A. countryside B. food C. talent D. city
26. A. lame B. formal C. valid D. detailed
27. A. handed over B. handed up C. took up D. took over
28. A. forced B. warned C. trapped D. split
29. A. support B. open C. promote D. attain
30. A. ate B. ordered C. served D. learned
31. A. gave out B. broke down C. backed out D. carried on
32. A. difficult B. acute C. explicit D. lucky
33. A. fluently B. regularly C. relevantly D. sincerely
34. A. invested B. explored C. dined D. cooperated
35. A. rebuilding B. foreseeing C. voting D. following
36. A. showed B. told C. allocated D. called
37. A. targets B. bills C. tables D. counters
38. A. smaller B. larger C. tighter D. cleaner
39. A. accelerate B. participate C. guarantee D. accommodate
40. A. changed B. approved C. identified D. disconnected
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
There may be a new species of fox­like cat.Wildlife rangers(护林员) from France’s National Hunting and Wildlife Agency located 16 of the____41.____(rare) seen golden striped(有条纹的) creatures in mountainous areas of a French island.
The cats are____42.____(big) and more aggressive than a typical house cat，and have highly developed teeth and large，ringed tails.Because of the____43.____(appear)，they are known locally as the “cat­fox”．The creature hunts at night and，from the looks,____44.____(be) just thrilled by all of the attention.The cat could have originated in Africa or the Middle East thousands of years ago,____45.____(belong) to an ancient species.“By looking at the DNA，we could tell it____46.____the European wildcat.It’s close to the African forest cat；however,____47.____isn’t determined is its exact identity，” Pierre Benedetti，who works as the chief environmental technician of the National Hunting and Wildlife Agency，said.
The first “cat­foxes”____48.____(catch) non­violently by the rangers in 2016,____49.____the tales of the forest animal have circulated around the island for generations.The rangers hope by studying and tagging the animals，they can get the “cat­foxes”____50.____(protect) in the next few years.
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.短文改错
I was taking a train to London’s Victoria Station. I had noticed that the carriage was noise and filled with people. Before long, a train inspector comes to check out tickets. A passenger realized he couldn't find his ticket but became quite upset. Then everyone in the carriage began searching the ticket, which was eventually found under a seat several rows from his owner. The person who found a ticket smiled with pleasure at his success. No one in the carriage had previous spoken to or even noticed the ticket-owner before. However, they quickly offered
the strangers their help. If we could show concern to others on need, the world would be a better place to live in.第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。

你和学校英国交换生Chris一起报名参加学校下个月举办的“传统文化节”节目展演，但是你因故不能参加。

请你给Chris写一封邮件，内容包括：
1.表达歉意；
2.不能参加的原因；
3.解决办法建议。

注意：1.词数100字左右；
2.文章开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Chris，
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. B
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. A
6. C
7. D
8. A 9. D 10. D 11. B
12. D 13. A 14. B 15. C
16. F 17. C 18. G 19. A 20. E
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. A 25. B 26. D 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. C 31. C 32.
A 33.
B 34.
C 35.
D 36. D 37. C 38. B 39. D 40. A
41. rarely
42. bigger 43. appearance
44. is 45. belonging
46. from 47. what
48. were caught
49. but 50. protected
51.(1). 去掉had
(2). noise→noisy
(3). comes→came
(4). but→and
(5). searching后加for
(6). his→its/the
(7). a→the
(8). previous→previously
(9). strangers→stranger
(10). on→in
52.略。