2020届沙河市第一中学高三英语下学期期末试题及参考答案

2020届沙河市第一中学高三英语下学期期末试题及参考答案
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
It looks like 2017 is shaping up to be a record-breaking year in movie History. Here is a list of some of the year’s biggest blockbusters so far.
Kong: Skull Island
A reboot (重启) of King Kong would normally get laughed at in this day and age, but it looks like this modem version of the story will be worth watching. With US actress Brie Larson and UK actor Tom Hiddleston in the mix, this film is set to be this year’s biggest monster tale.
Release Date:3/10/17
Beauty and the Beast
Director Bill Condon is bringing back a part of our childhood in live action, complete with the songs we all remember and love. With British stars Emma Watson and Dan Stevens leading thecast, the classic Walt Disney story already sounds like it’ll be a delight for both children and adults.
Release Date:3/17/17
The Fate of the Furious
There was doubt that we’d even get a Fast 8, especially after the fitting ending US actor Paul Walker’s character was given at the end of Furious 7. Fans thought they’d never see Dom and the rest of the crew back in action, but thankfully, US star Vin Diesel himself confirmed that The Fate of the Furious is fueling up for another go.
Release Date:4/14/17
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider Man is heading home to Marvel Studios for the first time. The movie will show us Peter Parker’s high school days, and will continue the threads we saw formed during his initial appearance in Captain America: Civil War. We know that Michael Keaton is playing The Vulture in this story, and that both Happy Hogan and Tony Stark, played by US actors Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr., are along for the ride.
Release Date:7/7/17
1.Which of the following movies can’t you see on May Day?
A.Kong: Skull Island.
B.Beauty and the Beast.
C.The Fate of the Furious.
D.Spider-Man: Homecoming.
2.What can we know about Beauty and the Beast?
A.It is fueling up for another go.
B.It is produced by Marvel Studios
C.It’ll show us Peter Parker’s school days.
D.It’ll be enjoyable for both children and adults.
3.What does the underlined word “cast” probably mean?
A.Characters.
B.Actors.
C.Directors.
D.Teachers.
B
In a recent survey of 2000 Americans, housecleaning was shown to have some mood-boosting effects — but that doesn't mean everybody is willing to do it.
The majority of respondents (受访者) said cleaning gave them a sense of accomplishment (65%) and helped them clear their mind (63%). Half of these adults said they are most often motivated to clean when they're happy. In fact, 63% of those surveyed find the experience of cleaning to be relaxing - even more so than getting fresh air (61%).
But that's not the only reason people clean. A big 70% admitted that tidying their home was a way of putting off having to do other things, with the average procrastinator (拖延者) using that trick four times a week. The survey showed that 86% of respondents do feel on top of their housework, but the last deep clean of their kitchen happened over a week and a half ago. That's no surprise because the kitchen is most terrible of all.
Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of DishFish, the survey investigated people's attitudes toward dirty dishes and how they get through tricky task. More than two-thirds of people (69%) let their dishes pile up between washings with 20% saying “always” letting them be placed in the sink, which left them feeling stressed. More than any other room, the kitchen was rated as “very difficult” to cope with. And most people enjoy cleaning their toilet or taking out the garbage more than washing dishes by hand.
How do they get through it? 66% listen to music while they clean. 72% have a best-loved song that they sounded while tidying up their home, with “Uptown Funk,”“Read All About It” and “Work” being the three favorite tunes on America's cleaning playlist.
4. What is the result of the survey?
A. Housecleaning may contribute to a good mood to some extent.
B. Housecleaning may strengthen people's willingness to volunteer.
C. Housecleaning may cause anxiety and concern for some people.
D. Housecleaning may improve people's motivation to other housework.
5. What is the top reason why people undertake housecleaning?
A. They can entertain themselves.
B. They can take in fresh air.
C. They get a sense of achievement.
D. They can delay other things.
6. What are respondents' attitudes to dirty dishes?
A. Many would rather wash dishes than throw out the rubbish.
B. Half are under pressure with dirty dishes lying in the sink.
C. A quarter will let dirty dishes pile up after their meals.
D. Most prefer cleaning their toiletto washing dishes by hand.
7. What column does the text belong to?
A. Feature Story.
B. Family Life.
C. Scientific Hotspot.
D. Finance Focus.
C
Happiness is not a warm phone, according to anew study exploring the link between young life satisfaction and screen time. The study was led by professor of psychology Jean M. Twenge at San Diego State University (SDSU).
To research this link, Twenge, along with colleagues Gabrielle Martin at SDSU and W. Keith Campbell at the University of Georgia, dealt with data from the Monitoring the Future (MtF) study, a nationally representative survey of more than a million U. S. 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders. The survey asked students questions about how often they spent time on their Phones, tablets and computers, as well as questions about their face-to-face social interactions and their overall happiness.
On average found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices — playing computer games, using social media, texting and video chatting — were less happy than those who invested more time in
non-screen activities like sports, reading newspapers and magazines, and face-to-face social interactions.
"The key to digital media use and happiness is limited use," Twenge said. "Aim to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media, and try to increase the amount of time you spend seeing friends face-to-face and exercising — two activities reliably linked to greater happiness."
Looking at historical trends from the same age groups since the 1990s, it's easy to find that the increase of screen devices over time happened at the same time as a general drop-off in reported happiness inU. S.teens. Specifically, young peopled life satisfaction and happiness declined sharply after 2012. That's the year when the percentage of Americans who owned a smartphone rose above 50 percent. By far the largest change in teens' lives between 2012 and 2016 was the increase in the amount of time they spent on digital media, and the following decline in in-person social activities and sleep.
8. Which method did Twenge's team use for the study?
A. Calculating students' happiness.
B. Asking students certain questions.
C. Analyzing data from a survey.
D. Doing experiments on screen time.
9. How does the author develop the finding of the study in paragraph 3?
A. By making a comparison.
B. By giving an example.
C. By making an argument.
D. By introducing a concept.
10. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?
A. To draw a conclusion from the study.
B. To offer some advice to the readers.
C. To prove social activities' importance.
D. To support the researchers' finding.
11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Quitting Phones Equals Happiness
B. Screen Time Should Be Banned
C. Teens' Lives Have Changed Sharply
D. Screen-addicted Teens Are Unhappier
D
In the natural habitat, a binge-watcher is a strange sub-species of modern human beings. They are alone and are often found lying on their bed or sofa, still as a rock, looking searchingly into their laptop or at the TV. They rarely get up, only taking occasional breaks for those urgent calls of nature. Unlike so many others of their species, they don’t sleep at the end of every day. They stay up late and are often found to have red eyes.
This, of course, is a little bit exaggerated, but for many of us, binge-watching a show is how we consume our entertainment. With streaming services bringing seemingly endless content to the tips of our finger, creatorstailortheir shows to our needs and tastes, while their marketing team sells it to us as the next most bingeable show. I can’t help but wonder if this way of consuming television does us any good.
We’re advised to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep per day, but staying up all night to finish shows like ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘The Fall’, which Netflix says are binged the fastest, won’t result in 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Netflix’s CEO Richard Hastings told analysts at a conference, “Think about it… when you watch a show from Netflix and you get addicted to it, you stay up late at night. We’re competing with sleep.” And it isn’t only the amount of sleep we get; the quality matters too! A study published in the Journal for Clinical Sleep Medicine reported that those who binged television more often were found to have poorer sleep quality. The mental arousal we get from watching TV doesn’t lend itself to peaceful sleep.
Besides, binging TV can cause weight gain. For every extra hour of TV watched, there was a 2% increase in the prevalence of obesity, according to a study conducted by Harvard that linked TV watching to obesity in children and adolescents.
While it is true that there’s growing evidence that binging isn’t good for us, the results aren’t all hopeless. Binging, occasionally, might have some benefits. For many people, binging is a good way to socialize. It gives people something to talk about at parties and with their friends. Fans of popular shows often hold viewing parties where people can binge-watch shows together and then discuss what they just experienced! This interaction can create a sense of community for many.
For others, binging might just be relaxing. After a long day, a few hours of Friends—still one of the most popular shows on any streaming platform—can ease the stress of a long day. A study followed 240 people through their binging and recorded their stress hormones. They noted for some people that their stress hormone levels decreased during their binging experience.
With binging, there is not a “good” or “bad” answer. Like many things, the key is moderation. Watching TV can be relaxing, but only if it doesn’t stop you from exercising, taking care of your health, and fulfilling your social
responsibilities.
12. What does the underlined word “tailor” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Study.
B. Sell.
C. Adjust.
D. Promote.
13. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The amount of sleep matters more than the quality.
B. There’s no real harm in binge-watching a TV series.
C. Binging may help keep stress hormone levels stable.
D. Binge-watching may help increase social connections.
14. What is the author’s attitude towards binge-watching?
A. Supportive.
B. Unconcerned.
C. Objective
D. Doubtful.
15. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Who Is to Blame for Binge-Watching?
B. Is Binge-Watching Good or Bad for You?
C. Is Binge-Watching Getting out of Control?
D. HowDoes Binge-Watching Affect Your Life?
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Why are some people successful and others aren’t? What’s the secret of success?___16___
Many of Gladwell’s ideas appear in his social psychology bestsellerOutliers.___17___Gladwellthinks that this is just an excuse for not trying… and if you really want to be good at something, you have to work at it. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good,” Gladwell writes. “It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
Central to the book is the “10,000-hour rule”. It means that if you want to be among the best in the world, you need to practise something for 10,000 hours.___18___For example, the Beatles played live inHamburgmore than 1,200 times between 1960 and 1964, which is more than 10,000 hours of playing time. And when Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was 13, he was given access to a high school computer (one of the few available in the country), allowing him to practise computer programming for more than (Yes, you guessed it!) 10, 000 hours.
___19___Take the example of Christopher Langan, who’s mentioned in the book. He’s got an IQ of between 195 and 210 (Albert Einstein’s IQ was estimated to have been between 160 and 180). As a boy at school, Langan
was able to take an exam in a foreign language he’d never studied and pass it after just skim-reading a text book for three minutes. However, Langan never graduated from university and worked in labour-intensive jobs his whole life. This proves that intelligence alone will not lead to success—you need hard work, support, finance and opportunities. Gladwell adds, “No one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.”
___20___Even after you’ve put in your 10,000 hours of practice, you still need one other key ingredient — luck. So, you could be the most amazing guitarist in the world, but unless you’re lucky enough to play in front of a record company executive who sees a way of exploiting that talent, you aren’t going to be seeing your name in lights.
A. It isn’t just a question of time and support.
B. Author Malcolm Gladwell thinks he knows.
C. That’s equal to three hours a day for 10 years.
D. Of course, many people argue that you can create your own “luck”.
E. The popular view is that some of us are born talented and others aren’t.
F. The interesting thing is that success has nothing to do with intelligence.
G. Someone who’s willing to practise something for 10,000 hours is probably active.
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When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a faraway village. One day, on the road, I found the___21___pieces of a mirror. There was a German motorcycle accident.
I tried to find all the pieces and put them___22___, but it was not possible, so I kept only the___23___piece and I made it round. I began to___24___with it as a toy and became greatly attracted by the___25___that I could reflect(反射)light to dark places where the sun would never shine—in___26___holes and some other dark places. It became a ___27___for me to get light into the darkest places I could find.
I ___28___the little mirror, and, as I___29___up, I would take it out when Ihad nothing to do and___30___the game, As I became a ___31___, I grew to understand that this was not ___32___a child’s game but a metaphor（象征）for what I might do with my life. I came to ___33___that I am not the light or the source(来源) of light. But light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is ___34___, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.
I am just a single piece of a mirror whose____35____design and shape I do not know. ___36___, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this___37___—into the black places in the ____38____of
men—and change some things____39____some people. Perhaps others may see and do the same. This is what I am about. This is the____40____of my life.
21. A. pointed B. dropped C. broken D. sharpened
22. A. together B. down C. back D. up
23. A. best B. largest C. smallest D. longest
24. A. talk B. share C. flash D. play
25. A. idea B. reason C. decision D. fact
26. A. pretty B. big C. deep D. empty
27. A. game B. task C. job D. trouble
28. A. forgot B. hid C. kept D. lost
29. A. grew B. stood C. came D. went
30. A. watch B. change C. remember D. continue
31. A. father B. boy C. man D. grandfather
32. A. always B. just C. really D. completely
33. A. understand B. doubt C. announce D. expect
34. A. absent B. there C. far D. home
35. A. half B. most C. whole D. other
36. A. So B. Certainly C. Besides D. However
37. A. world B. village C. country D. city
38. A. hands B. hearts C. eyes D. brains
39. A. on B. like C. with D. in
40. A. way B. meaning C. quality D. standard
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
The best time to see____41.____(beauty) lanterns is during the Lantern Festival,____42.____falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. This year it is on Feb. 11th,____43.____(mark) the end of Spring Festival celebrations.
Watching lanterns is a great activity. You see lanterns in any____44.____(size) and shapes that you can imagine, from animals____45.____plants and flowers. To make it more fun, people paste riddles on the lanterns.
In some places, people like releasing sky lanterns, which____46.____(call) Kongming lanterns. A sky lantern is a small hot air balloon made of paper, with an opening at the bottom where there is a small fire source. When the
bright lights fly high in____47.____sky, people bless family members and make wishes.
In old times, the Lantern Festival was also romantic. At that time, young girls were not allowed____48.____(go) out very often except during certain festivals. Therefore, looking at lanterns gave young people a chance to meet each other.
A line from Xin Qiji, a poet during the Song Dynasty, shows this, “Restlessly, I searched for____49.____(she) in thousands, hundreds of ways._____50._____(sudden) I turned, and there she was in the receding light.”
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。

作文中共有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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改的词。

Last week, I went to Guangzhou with my friends. We were so exciting about the trip. It took us three hours go to Guangzhou railway station. At first, we were confused about what to get out of the railway station. Then they saw a big sign, that showed us where to take the subway. When we got to the subway station, a largely picture was shown in the front of us, and we figured out our way quickly. When we were on the subway, we never think it ran so quickly. We just spent ten minute reaching our destination, but we found our hotel soon.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是李华，你校英语俱乐部正在征集有关英语活动的建议，你建议开办英语角(English Corner)。

请给俱乐部负责人Maria写一封邮件,内容包括：
1.活动安排)
2.活动目的和意义。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Maria,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. D
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. D
7. B
8. C 9. A 10. D 11. D
12. C 13. B 14. C 15. D
16. B 17. E 18. C 19. F 20. A
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. D 26. C 27. A 28. C 29. A 30. D 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. B 35.
C 36.
D 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. B
41. beautiful
42. which 43. marking
44. sizes 45. to
46. are called
47. the 48. to go
49. her 50. Suddenly
51.(1).exciting → excited
(2).hours后加to
(3).what → how
(4).they →we
(5).that→ which
(6). largely→ large
(7).删除front前的the
(8).think →thought
(9).minute →minutes
(10).but → and
52.略。