2020届北京八中高三下自主检测1英语试题

北京八中高三英语学习质量自我检测
高三英语
第一部分：知识运用（共两节，45 分）
第一节语法填空（共10 小题；每小题1.5 分，共15 分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。

在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1 个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

A
I spent my summer holiday in London last year. I left on July 25 with some of my teachers and classmates. We stayed with some British 1 (family) for two weeks. Most people we met there were friendly and 2 (help). During weekdays we had English lessons and on weekends we went sightseeing. We visited universities and museums. The beautiful country
3 (leave) us a lot of good memories. We did have a wonderful experience. It was really a nice summer: we not only improved our English but also learned a lot about the people and culture of the country.
B
“Fake it till you make it” is a common piece of advice given to people who worry that they aren‟t good enough at their jobs and hobbies. But a st udy recently 4 (publish) in Psychological Bulletin says that you might want to try faking a smile, too. According to research
5 social scientist Nicholas Coles and his team at the University of Tennessee, US, forcing yourself to smile can actually make you feel
6 (happy), if only just a little bit.
C
I am very worried about McDonald‟s building a restaurant in our hometown. We are a small community and we enjoy our local dishes. I am not sure if McDonald‟s food is as healthy as they say in 7 (they) advertisements. When scientists look at it 8 (careful), they find high levels of fat, sugar and salt. This is very 9 (worry). Too many young people are getting fat through eating too much fatty food. McD onald‟s is not giving young people a good idea of 10 a healthy diet should be. Local Chinese food, on the other hand, is full of fresh vegetables and fresh meat and fish.
第二节完形填空（共20 小题；每小题1.5 分，共30 分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在
答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The Little Angel
Sally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She asked, “How is my little boy?”
The surgeon said, “I‟m 11 . We did all we could, but your boy didn‟t 12 it.”
Sally 13 into the chair. The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time with your son before he was transported to the 14 ?” Sally nodded. While saying goodbye, she ran her fingers 15 through his thick curly hair. “Would you like a lock of his hair?” the surgeon asked. Sally nodded yes. The surgeon cut a few hairs, and handed them to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy‟s idea to 16 his body to the university for study. He said it might 17 somebod y else. “I said no at first, 18 Jimmy said, …Mom, I won‟t be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.‟”
“My Jimmy had a heart of19 , always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could.” she went on.
Sally walked out of the hospital. She put the bag with Jimmy‟s 20 on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was 21 . It was even harder to enter the 22 house. She carried Jimmy‟s belongings, and the lock of his hair to her son‟s room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room 23 where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, 24 herself to sleep.
It was around midnight when Sally 25 . Lying beside her on the bed was a letter. The letter said,
“Dear Mom,
I know you’re going to 26 me, and me too. I will always love you, Mom, even
more
27 each passing day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to
28 a little boy so you won’t be so lonely, that’s OK with me. He can have my room and old toys to play with.
Don’t be sad thinking about me. I don’t hurt any more. The cancer is all 29 . I don’t have to stand that 30 any more. The angels in Heaven are so tender. They say I’m a Special Angel!
I love you, Mom.”
11. A. worried B. sorry C. happy D. grateful
12. A. make B. pass C. win D. like
13. A. knocked B. looked C. sank D. got
14. A. house B. church C. hospital D. university
15. A. anxiously B. lovingly C. patiently D. angrily
16. A. donate B. move C. show D. lend
17. A. affect B. help C. protect D. impress
18. A. for B. and C. so D. but
19. A. gold B. stone C. wisdom D. bravery
20. A. toys B. clothes C. belongings D. letters
21. A. long B. smooth C. difficult D. dangerous
22. A. empty B. familiar C. big D. old
23. A. roughly B. exactly C. especially D. possibly
24. A. put B. sent C. cried D. buried
25. A. wrote B. spoke C. slept D. awoke
26. A. understand B. forgive C. leave D. miss
27. A. with B. around C. on D. in
28. A. save B. host C. visit D. adopt
29. A. lost B. gone C. cured D. spotted
30. A. depression B. sadness C. pain D. stress
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，40 分）
第一节（共15 小题；每小题 2 分，共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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
Sharing Beauty
It was in October. I was aimlessly wandering down the street, heading into a most gloriously beautiful sunset. I had an urge to speak to someone on the street to share that beauty, but it seemed everyone was in a hurry.
I took the next-best action. Quickly I ducked into a department store and asked the lady behind the counter if she could come outside for just a minute. She looked at me as though I were from some other planet. She hesitated, and then seemingly against her better judgment, she moved toward the door.
When she got outside I said to her, “Just look at that sunset! Nobody out here was looking at it and I just had to share it with someone.”
For a few seconds we just looked. Then I said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with
the world.” I thanked her for coming out to see it; she went back inside and I left. It felt good to share the beauty.
Four years later my situation changed greatly. I came to the end of a twenty-year marriage. I was alone and on my own for the first time in my life. I lived in a trailer park which, at the time, I considered a real come-down, and I had to do my wash in the community laundry room.
One day, while my clothes were going around, I picked up a magazine and read an article about a woman who had been in similar circumstances. She had come to the end of a marriage, moved to a strange community, and the only job she could find was one she disliked: clothing sales in a department store.
Then something that happened to her changed everything. She said a woman came into her department store and asked her to step outside to look at a sunset. The stranger had said, “God is in his heaven and all is right with the world,” and she had realized the truth in that statement. From that moment on, she turned her life around.
31.The author asked the woman to go outside to .
A.admire the sunset
B. cheer her up
C. offer some help
D. have a chat
32.Four years later, the author .
A.found her dream job
B. put an end to her marriage
C. worked in a laundry room
D. lived in the same community
33.After reading the article in the magazine, the author was probably .
A.disappointed
B. puzzled
C. inspired
D. overjoyed
B
There is a lot of talk these days about how kids should be interested in science. Here‟s an area of science for everyone, and these cool new books might inspire you to discover your inner scientist.
Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled by Catherine Thimmesh, 58 pages, ages 9-12
Seeing a picture or a model of a dinosaur, do you wonder how anybody knows what they look like? After all, nobody has seen a living dinosaur. This book explains how scientists and artists work together to re-create dinosaurs. As scientific discoveries have been made, the models have changed. Scientific tests may one day expose what a dinosaur‟s coloring was, but now artists have to use their imagination to determine how these huge creatures looked.
Beyond the Solar System by Mary Kay Carson, 128 pages, ages 10-13
This book takes readers back to the beginnings of space exploration—thousands of years ago, when people began star observation—and forward to today‟s search for planets in distant
parts of the Milky Way. Along with history lessons, readers get 21 activities, such as making a black hole and creating a model of Albert Einstein‟s universe using a T-shirt. The activities are perfect for cold winter days.
Ultimate Bugopedia by Darlyne Murawski and Nancy Honovich, 272 pages, ages 7 and older If you‟re always o n the lookout for butterflies, this book is for you. Hundreds of color photos of common and unusual insects fill this hardcover. There are fascinating stories related to the photos. For example, do you know an insect feeds on the tears of Asian cattle? The re‟s a question-and-answer section with an insect scientist and advice on how to help preserve endangered insects.
Journey Into the Invisible by Christine Schlitt, 80 pages, ages 9-12
If you use a magnifying（放大的）glass, you know a leaf looks quite different. This book explains what microscopes do and then shows what happens to things around the house when watched with this amazing scientific tool. The bacteria in your mouth, when magnified 20,000 times, look a bit like swimming pool noodles. Fascinating photos are paired with suggestions about how to learn about the world around you, just by looking a little closer.
34.Kids interested in pre-historical animals might read .
A.Ultimate Bugopedia
B. Beyond the Solar System
C. Journey Into the Invisible
D. Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled
35.Beyond the Solar System is mainly about .
A.space exploration
B. the Milky Way
C. history lessons
D. Albert Einstein‟s universe
36.From the passage, we can learn that .
A.butterflies are fond of the tears of Asian cattle
B.scientists have discovered the dinosaur‟s coloring
C.microscopes can present you with an amazing world
D.man has explored the black hole for thousands of years
37.The main purpose of the passage is to .
pare features of different books
B.inspire people to become scientists
C.teach children some knowledge of science
D.recommend new science books to children
C
Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.
People have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.
The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.
I see people trapped in a pathological（病态的）relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money.
What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for proclaiming the wi sdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” But it‟s time to discover that it does not work for technology.
Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.” To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without today‟s overused technology.
38.The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means .
A.advantage
B. attraction
C.adaption
D. attempt
39.From the passage, technology companies aim to .
A.attract people to buy their products
B. provide the latest information
C. improve people‟s quality of life
D. deal with cultural diseases
40.It can be inferred from this passage that people .
A.consider too much technology wonderful
B.have realized the harm of high-tech devices
C.can regain freedom without high-tech devices
D.may enjoy life better without overused technology
41.What‟s the author‟s attitude towards the overusing of high-tech devices?
A.Neutral.
B. Sceptical.
C. Disapproving.
D. Sympathetic.
D
Did you see American figure skater, Jeremy Abbott, crash to
the ice during the short program at the Sochi Olympics, rolling
into the wall, clutching his side in pain. Ten seconds later, he
got up and continued his skate—despite the pain,
embarrassment and fear. All I could think was: this kid‟s
got
courage. In business we have a word for it—resilience, the ability to gain strengths and confidence from overcoming unpleasant events.
However, opposite examples appeared in Sochi Olympics as well. For them, failure is someone else‟s fault, because they do not accept personal responsibility. Therefore, they have to pay a high price for this attitude. After years of studying failure, I have learned one thing: modesty and open-mindedness in the face of mistakes is the single best thing you can do to improve results. Everyone fails, but not everyone recovers from failure. The key is to learn from it rather than get beaten by it.
The good news is that each of us has the potential to live a resilient life on and off the job. It may be difficult, but that just makes it all the more powerful and important. If you believe the above paragraph to be true, then you‟re probably more resilient than you think you are. It takes confidence to be resilient but that too much confidence is a killer is so true of leadership. For example, Ron Johnson, the ill-fated CEO of JC Penney, was so stubborn that he completely missed all sorts of signals from employees and customers and instead listened to all those who agreed with him, which failed his strategy. Bouncing back from failure requires that you recognize something has gone wrong, and you were the one who made it happen.
The challenge of resilience is not just about our work. When parents help their kids deal with every challenging situation, they are doing an unhelpful action to their children. Parents want to protect their kids from failure, but doing so takes away the opportunity from them to practice not just a life skill but an essential work skill. When self-esteem becomes more important than results, we are accidently training young people to become less adaptable, not more.
Resilience is not just about getting up off the floor, but also being ready for whatever comes
next, even wh en you don‟t know what it is. Failures and setbacks are no longer unusual events, but regular features of a dynamic, competitive and highly demanding work environment. Getting up to finish your skate is no longer optional.
42.The example of Jeremy Abbott shows that one should .
A.recover from failure
B. stick to his own viewpoint
C. take others‟ opinions t o heart
D. challenge difficulties bravely
43.According to the author, what can best build up resilience?
A.Being positive and powerful.
B.Being competitive and helpful.
C.Being modest and open-minded.
D.Being confident and responsible.
44.Which of the following examples shows us resilience?
A.A teacher offers students timely help and care.
B.A determined athlete practices skating hard every day.
C.A confident leader persuades his staff to follow his plan.
D.A student has got a low grade but continues to work hard.
45.Which might be the best title for the passage?
A.An Example of Resilience: Ron Johnson
B. Resilience: A Lesson from Sochi
C. Optional Challenges of Resilience
D. Resilience in Family Education
第二节（共5 小题；每小题 2 分，共10 分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

There is distinction between reading for information and reading for
understanding.
46
The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else.
47 Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don‟t have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.
The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader‟s understanding. 48 Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here “learning” means understanding
more, not remembering more information.
What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding.
49 Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.
50 It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.
A.The writer should have a better communicating skill.
B.Such communication between unequals must be possible.
C.We can get access to the content of those materials easily.
D.The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.
E.Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.
F.Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.
G.Besides gaining information and understanding, there‟s another goal of reading —entertainment.
第三部分：书面表达（共两节，35 分）
第一节（15 分）
假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。

你得知故宫正在招聘暑期义务英文讲解员, 请你给相关部门负责人写一封申请信，内容包括：
1.介绍你的基本信息；
2.说明你的优势；
3.表示你希望被录用。

注
意：1. 词数不少于50；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Sir or Madam,
Sincerely, Li
Hua
第二节（20 分）
假如你是红星中学高三 1 班李华。

寒假期间你和同学们参加了志愿者服务活动。

请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，给校刊“英语角”写一篇英文稿件，介绍你们去阳光福利院
（Sunshine Welfare House）陪伴儿童的经历。

注意：词数不少
于60。

（请务必将作文写在答题卡指定区域内）
英语第11 页（共10 页）。