2020届洛阳市第二中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案

2020届洛阳市第二中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案
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
If your Spanish is good enough, many Spanish gossip magazines being published around the world will provide entertainment and, at the same time, help you practice your language.
Diez Minutos: The magazine is a classic Spanish gossip feast with dailynews based on many stories of love, separation, divorce and death. The two main parts are headlined "love" and "partners". They also have an online version of the magazine for serious gossip addicts.
Hola: It isSpain's top weekly magazine and the leader of the gossip world. It contains many pictures and a round-up of well-known and less well-known nobles and people in show business. Apart from edited highlights from the present and past issues, there is a report of the week and photo of the week. There is also a French version called OhLa!
Revista CUORE: As the third best-selling gossip magazine inSpain, it is mainly aimed at younger teenage readers who look not only for current celebrity gossip, but also for fashion and TV news. It uses a lot of oral terms.
Revista SEMANA: It is a Spanish magazine covering the latest news on the famous inSpainandHollywood. It also offers its readers information on fashion, beauty, cooking and travel.
Marujeo: It is a blog serving up a daily diet of national gossip news on Spanish and international celebrities and the celebrity world from a particular point of view.
Revista CARAS: It is a magazine published in various countries ofLatin America. It is also exported to certain parts of theUnited States, bringing together strange and wonderful news from around the world and the famous Latin community.
1.Which magazine is also published in French?
A.Marujeo
B.Revista SEMANA.
C.Revista CARAS.
D.Hola.
2.How many of the magazines mentioned in the text can be read on the Internet?
A.Four.
B.Three.
C.Two.
D.One.
3.What can be learned from the passage?
A.Diez Minutos presents its readers weekly pictures
B.Revista CUORE can help improve one's spoken Spanish.
C.Revista SEMANA is intended for readers in teens
D.Revista CARAS mainly reports news fromLatin America.
B
As I was walking home，a boy seemed to be singing a song in a very low voice，walking infront of me and carrying some of the same high school books I had with me.I caught up to him，and said “Hello”．I could tell he wasstartled，and dropped one of his books.I picked it up and as I handed it to him，he said “Thank you.” in a strange way，like witha strong accent.
We soon began walking together and talking.It turns out he was in my science class，and I didn’t even know it!
His name was Ahmad，and his family had just moved here this school year.He invited me into his house，and his family treated me like a special guest，which made me feel very welcome.He said hospitality (好客) is very basic to his culture，and strangers were always treated very kindly.His mom brought out some great food，and offered me some tea.Ahmad’s father and two sisters wanted to hearall about me and my family，and my schooling.
Ahmad’s whole family had to leave their lifelong home because war had broken out，and it wasn’t safe there anymore.They left with only what they could carry.His family was happy to feel safe，and they got used toAmerican culture quickly.They seemed pleased that Ahmad had brought a friend home to meet them.
And as my friendship with Ahmad has continued，I now realize that the world is so much bigger than I thought！I also realize that your friends don’t have to be just like you.Differences make the world go round.
4. What does the underlined word “startled” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Excited.
B. Moved.
C. Surprised.
D. Interested.
5. Why was the writer treated like a special guest by Ahmad’s family?
A. They liked strangers who came to their home for help.
B. They wanted to know more information about the writer.
C. Strangers were always treated very kindly in their culture.
D. The writer was an American and knew much about their culture.
6. Where does the writer probably come from?
A. Canada.
B. America.
C. China.
D. Australia.
7. What can we learn from the passage?
A. People from different countries can be good friends.
B. Friends need different cultures and different accents.
C. Your friends should have a lot of things the same with you.
D. You can’t make friends with people from other countries.
C
Scientists have recently discovered thatAndean condors (秀鹫)— some of the world’s largest birds——barely flap their wings at all while flying. Instead, they use rising air currents to remain in the air for hours.
The Andean condor is the world’s largest soaring bird. They can weigh up to 15 kilograms. Their wings, when spread out, measure up to three meters. Their main food source is the meat of large animals which have died. Soaring high in the sky allows condors to easily spot possible meals on the ground.
Scientists worked together to study the flight patterns of these huge birds and how much effort the birds use when flying. To study the birds while they were in the sky, the researchers attached special devices which could record every beat of their wings.
The scientists learned that most of the condors’ flapping— over 75%— came when the birds were taking off. Once in the sky, the birds flew for very long periods of time without flapping at all. In fact, they only flapped their wings for 1% of the time they were in the air. One bird flew for over five hours without flapping, covering nearly 117miles.
Soaring without flapping is important because birds bum energy every time they flap their wings.
The birds’ soaring isn’t magic. They use the fact that hot air rises to keep themselves up. As hot air rises, it often creates “thermals”— currents of warm air moving upward. The condors soar by making use of these thermals. The tricky part is finding thermals and moving between them.
When birds are forced to land and take off again often, it costs them a lot of energy. The researchers learned that to avoid having to land, the condors did most of their non-take-off flapping when they were closer to the ground and looking for a new thermal.
The scientists reported that even though all of the condors they studied were young, they knew well how to take advantage of the air currents.
8. What can we learn about the Andean condor from the text?
A. They live mairly on small animals.
B. Their wingspan is at least three meters.
C. They rely on hot air to remain high in the sky.
D. They are the birds with the strongest flying ability.
9. Why was the equipment tied to the birds?
A. To measure how far they could fly without flapping.
B. To keep track of how often they flapped while flying.
C. To calculate the energy required for their flight.
D. To confirm their flight patterns.
10. Which of the following acts consumes the most energy for a condor?
A. Hunting for food.
B. Flying in the sky.
C. Getting off the ground.
D. Landing on the ground.
11. What can we infer from the text?
A. Condors flap the most when looking for a new thermal.
B. No condor can fly for more than five hours without flapping.
C. Condors don’t need to look for thermals when soaring in the sky.
D. Soaring by using thermals is probably a natural ability of condors.
D
Tourism is often about seeking deeper emotional and personal connections with the world around us. Not all travel experiences, however, need to take place in the real world. With the evolution of virtual reality(VR) technology, tourism will increasingly become a combination of physical and virtual worlds. VR may even remove the need to travel entirely.
But can a VR experience really equal a real world one? Many experts believe it can. Studies have shown that our brains have an inbuilt VR-like mechanism that enables us to live imagined experiences. Much of our waking life is spent thinking about either the past or the future. This is known as" mind wandering". During these events we' re not paying attention to the current world around us. Instead, we' re recalling memories, or creating and processing imagined futures.
When engaged in mind wandering, our brains process these mental images using the same pathways used to receive inputs from the real world. So, the imagined past or future can create emotions and feelings similar to how we react to everyday life. VR can create these same feelings.
While critics might argue that a virtual experience will never match reality, there are several ways VR tourism could make a positive contribution. Firstly it could help protect sensitive locations from over-tourism. In recent
years famous sites such as Maya Bay in Thailand, and Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temples have had to limit the number of visitors because of their negative impact. These places are now producing their own VR experiences that will allow tourists to pass through virtual models of the sites.
Virtual reality may also allow people back in time, to experience historical events, visit ancient cities, and even to walk among dinosaurs.
Finally, in a world where many people suffer from stress and depression due to overwork, virtual tourism may provide a cheap and convenient way for people to take brief holidays to otherwise unreachable destinations and recharge their batteries, without ever leaving their homes.
It sounds like science fiction but it's already happening. As virtual technology improves and as people continue to demand new and interesting experiences, expect more virtual tourism, both in combination with the real world and instead of it.
12. What is driving the development of virtual tourism?
A. Companies seeking to make more money.
B. Improvements in virtual reality technology.
C. People's demand for more shared experiences.
D. People's deeper understanding of the physical world.
13. Which of the following best describes "mind wandering"?
A. The brain processes which help people think VR is real.
B. The way the brain processes inputs from the real world.
C. Brain activities focusing on past or future events.
D. Experiences coming from a person's imagination.
14. What does the underlined word "it" in the last paragraph refer to?
A. Science fiction.
B. Virtual technology.
C. Virtual tourism.
D. The real world.
15. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To describe the advantages of VR tourism.
B. To give suggestions for reducing over-tourism.
C. To encourage people to develop VR technology.
D. To argue VR tourism will replace the real world travel.
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Happiness is like a pebble(卵石)dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples. As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty.
____16____. Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons. The key is not wealth or physical well-being, since we find beggars, invalids and so-called failures, who are extremely happy.
Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend(额外收获). But staying happy is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character.____17____. It is, indeed, a duty to others and us.
____18____. It causes people to shrink away from the sufferer. He soon finds himself alone, miserable and embittered. There is, however, a cure so simple as to seem, at first glance, ridiculous; if you don’t feel happy, pretend to be!
It works.____19____, you attract them. You discover how deeply rewarding it is to be the center of wider and wider circles of good will.
Then the make-believe becomes a reality.____20____, and can forget yourself in being of service to others.
Being happy,once it is realized as a duty and established as a habit, opens doors into unimaginable gardens thronged with grateful friends.
A. Before long you will find that instead of repelling people
B. Happiness is a state of mind
C. It is not selfish to strive for it
D. You possess the secret of peace of mind
E. We need to know and understand happiness before we finally get it
F. There is no exact definition of the word happiness
G. Being unhappy is like an infectious disease
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Mr. Bean quickly shut the back door of the ambulance and started the engine. Inside were the___21___parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green. She was holding their baby daughter Sally. The little girl had___22___food stuck in her throat and could hardly breathe.
Mr. Bean,___23___his siren (报警器), and started speeding towards the nearest hospital, fighting
against___24___. The cars ahead of him pulled out of the way as he drove through the___25___street. From the back of the___26___the parents were shouting at him to___27___, since Sally had almost___28___breathing. In front of him he saw some traffic lights, with the red “STOP” light shining. Mr. Bean knew that he had no time to___29___, so he drove straight past the traffic lights,___30___his left and right as he did so.
Coming towards him from his right was a taxi. The driver had the windows___31___, since the car was air-conditioned, and he was listening to the radio. He did not___32___the ambulance. The lights were green, so he drove straight___33___into the path of the ambulance. Mr. White tried to stop his ambulance but it was too late. It hit the taxi. Luckily, no one was hurt. Mr. Bean looked back to see___34___Sally was. He was astonished to see relief instead of___35___on the faces of the parents.
“Look! “ cried Mrs. Green. “She is___36___again.”
“It must have been the___37___.” said Mr. Green. “It___38___the food out of her throat.” The baby’s color1 was turning to normal, and she was crying in a loud but healthy___39___. They were all joyful, and___40___forgot about the accident, the taxi, and the lines of cars all around them.
21. A. worried B. angry C. happy D. surprised
22. A. any B. some C. none D. no
23. A. turned down B. turned on C. turned off D. turned up
24. A. police B. enemy C. lights D. time
25. A. empty B. deserted C. busy D. large
26. A. street B. car C. road D. ambulance
27. A. hurry B. continue C. ride D. drive
28. A. kept B. stopped C. prevented D. forbade
29. A. think B. look C. lose D. shout
30. A. looking to B. looking at C. looking for D. looking out
31. A. open B. clean C. closed D. down
32. A. hear B. see C. find D. notice
33. A. away B. on C. off D. out
34. A. who B. what C. where D. how
35. A. pleasure B. anger C. fear D. surprise
36. A. breathing B. crying C. smiling D. speaking
37. A. traffic B. policeman C. car D. crash
38. A. took B. picked C. knocked D. made
39. A. sound B. voice C. tone D. noise
40. A. immediately B. eventually C. hardly D. completely
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
TheStateHermitageMuseuminSt. Petersburg, is___41.___second-largest art museum in the world after the Louvre,France, both of which are visited by millions of people___42.___(annual). Hermitage holds not only artistic treasures but also a collection of living history___43.___well.
The Hermitage was built as part of the royal Russian family’s Winter Palace. Empress Elizabeth had cats brought in___44.___(rid) the several palace buildings of mice. The cats did their job well and___45.___(give) homes in the basements of the buildings and the title of Hermitage cats.
The 74 Hermitage cats live at the museum___46.___they now lead an extremely___47.___(comfort) life. A press secretary is in charge of the cats, with three full-time caretakers___48.___(attend) to their every need. There are even kitchens for preparing meals for the cats because every cat has its own___49.___(prefer). This may all seem over the top, but Russian and foreign____50.____(visit) alike love seeing the Hermitage cats while admiring some of the world’s greatest artistic treasures.
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.假如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。

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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下面划一横线，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 mother tongue is English, so I like Chinese.I believe that in a decade's time, Chinese will be important as English.Also, I hope to live in Beijing on one day.To make my dream realize, I need to have a high level of fluent.And I must speak it accurate.At the moment, I make too much mistakes.The reason why I want to live in Beijing is because it's where my parents meet.My dad was working here and my mum once traveled to China.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

I could hear footsteps (脚步声) following me. I stopped and turned to see who it was. The dark street light did not allow me to see far and it looked like I was alone. I could not hear anything other than my heart beating wildly. Was it my imagination?
I was returning home after a late music lesson. My parents were attending a meeting so I had to get home on my own. The distance from my music teacher’s house to my home was just 500 meters. The street was darker than I had expected but I was not very worried about the short walk home. I was busy thinking about my upcoming music exam when I became aware that I was being followed.
I continued on my way, keeping an eye out for any sounds. There it was again, the sound of someone walking behind me. Fear came over me and I hurried on. My house was just around the corner. I decided to run. To my surprise, the person following me began to run too. I looked behind me and saw a dark figure catching up with me. Suddenly, I ran into a dustbin by the road and fell over.
I felt a hand catch hold of my arm and I screamed loudly in fear. The hand let go of my arm and I pushed myself off the ground quickly getting ready to run again. It was at that moment that I found myself looking at a young lady dressed in a dark sports suit. It looked like she had been scared by my reaction.
The next moment, there was a lot of footsteps coming from the dark and I could hear someone calling my name. To my surprise, a few seconds later my parents appeared together with a few people who were my neighbors.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The young lady who looked anxious at first now seemed as relaxed as me.
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My new neighbor explained that she was walking behind me when she heard footsteps following her.
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参考答案
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2. C
3. B
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. A
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12. B 13. A 14. D 15. C
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A 33.
B 34. D 35.
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