2019-2020学年武汉六中高三英语第四次联考试题及答案解析

2019-2020学年武汉六中高三英语第四次联考试题及答案解析
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
Staying-at-home proves to be effective in slowing the spread of the virus, but loneliness can be tough for many. Luckily, in the age of social media, we are never truly alone. And with the extra time spent indoors, artists are stepping up to help us all with the following clubs.
Drawing from Distance by Sarah Beth Morgan
Let’s shine some light during this trying time and encourage social distancing! I’m starting this tomorrow myself — but from what I offer, take whatever you please. No rules! Just have fun!
Stayathome Art Club byCarsonEllis
Hello! I’ll be posting art homework here every weekday morning when I can. They’ll be designed for kids and grownups alike. Here is your first homework: Draw a picture of yourself from the shoulders up. You can follow some useful examples. If you want to share or see other people’s self-picture, use these hashtags: #Stayathomeartclub# QACselfportrait
30-Day indoor Art by Danielle Krysa
One month of avoiding crowds? I’m in! I challenge you to use this time inside to make one piece every day from now until mid April. Please join me in playing around with some painting ideas that have been rolling around in my head but haven’t found their way onto paper yet. Stay at home, make art, save someone’s life.
DIY from Illustoria Magazine
We have been so inspired to see our community come together to provide easy art projects for families during this stay-at-home-time! DIY is actually a fantastic way tosparkyour imagination without breaking a sweat. A video every day will teach you how to DIY something.
1. What do we know about Sarah Beth Morgan?
A. She is a strict artist.
B. She aims at training more artists.
C. She prefers to work at home office.
D. She will provide a wide range of choices.
2. What are you expected to do if you join Stayathome Art Club?
A. Hand in homework every day.
B. Share other people’s pictures.
C. Draw a picture of yourself.
D. Show up in person occasionally.
3. What does “spark”in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Set off.
B. Set down.
C. Set aside.
D. Set about.
B
Avi Loeb, a scientist, believes that we are not alone in the universe. The belief fits withLoeb's alien spaceship theory that at least one alien spaceship might be flying over the orbit of Jupiter, which won the international attention last year.
Astronomers inHawaiifound the first known interstellar object in late 2017. It was a bit of light moving so fast past the sun that it could only have come from another star. Almost every astronomer on the planet was trying to figure out how the object, called “Oumuamua” got to our far-away part of the Milky way galaxy. “One possibility is that ‘Oumuamua’ is debris from an advanced technological equipment,” Loeb said. “Technology comes from another solar system just showed up at our door. ”
“‘Oumuamua’ is not an alien spaceship,” Paul Sutter, another scientist wrote. He suggested Loeb was seeking publicity. Most scientists think “Oumuamua” is some sort of rock. They think it could be an icy wandering comet.
Loeb says that “Oumuamua's” behavior means it can't be a block of rock shaped like a long photo. He thinks it's more likely an object that's very long and thin, perhaps like a long pancake or a ship's sail. Loeb says that if someone shows him evidence thatcontradictshis beliefs, he will immediately give in.
Loeb believes himself a truth-teller and risk-taker in an age of very safe, too-quiet scientists. “The worst thing that can happen to me is that I would be relieved of my management duties, and that would give me even more time to focus on science,” Loeb says. He said he wouldn't mind giving up all the titles he had and returning to the Israeli farming village where he grew up.
4. What does Loeb say about “Oumuamua”?
A. It is an icy comet.
B. It looks like a long photo.
C. It is actually some sort of rock.
D. It may come from another alien civilization.
5. What does the underlined word “contradicts” in paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.Goes against.
B. Relies on.
C. Turns to.
D. Searches for.
6. What do you think of Loeb?
A. He is foolish.
B. He is unsatisfied with his titles.
C. He is a firm believer in scientific truth.
D. He is uncertain about his career future.
7. What's the best title for the text?
A. Have Aliens Paid a Visit in Spaceships?
B. Do We Really Know about Space Theory?
C. Scientists Are Working on High Technology
D. Astronomers Are Encouraging Space Travel
C
For decades, an organization, called Ulum Dalska, based in a small Swedish town called Alvdalen, hasbeen working hard to help save a language called EIfdalian. Elfdalian sounds nothing like the country's national language, Swedish, which press secretary Bjorm Rehnstrom said affected the language about 100 years ago. At that point, Elfdalian declined. Ulla Schitt, also a Ulum Dalska member, experienced the change while growing up in Alvdalen.
“My parents spoke Efdalian with each other, and with my grandma and my aunts and uncles and everyone around,”Schit said. “But when they turned to me, they spoke Swedish.” Schitt said her parents spoke Swedish with her because that's what was spoken in schools.
But people are getting creative in the fight to change that trend. Musicians are creating new songs with Elfdalian. Several children's books were also translated into EIfdalian, including Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Additionally, Bjorm Rehnstrom helps run a popular Facebook group that offers courses in the Elfdalian language, where he offers lessons to the group's 1,800 global members from America, Australia, South America, Indonesia, Haiti and Cape Verde.
The local government supports the teaching and preservation of Elfdalian. Bjom Rehnstrom said they eagerly paid for a sign that reads: “Welcome to Alvdalen” in Elfdalian. But the national government of Sweden is a different story. They currently consider Eidalian a dialect of Swedish, not its own language.
Schitt said every time a language dies it is a sad moment. To her, losing Elfdalian would be an especially tragic (悲剧的) loss. “It's a part of our identity. It's part of our culture,” she said. “And if part of your identity and culture dies, a part of yourself dies.” Getting Elfdalian recognized as a language by the Swedish government, she added, is key to making sure that death doesn't come.
8. Why was Ulum Dalska founded?
A. To teach Swedish.
B. To save Elfdalian.
C. To improve Alvdalen.
D. To help schools.
9. Why Schitt's parents spoke Swedish with her?
A. They could only speak Swedish fluently.
B. Schitt longed to speak Swedish at home.
C. Swedish was the language of schools.
D. It was required by her school teachers,
10. What can we infer from paragraph 4?
A. Many people are trying to help to save Elfdalian.
B. Songs in Elfdalian are becoming more popular.
C. Le Petit Prince was translated into various languages.
D. Courses in Eldalian are provided to the world freely.
11. What does Schitt think of preserving Elfdalian?
A. Satisfactory.
B. Vital.
C. Dangerous.
D. Meaningless.
D
A single toy catches a child's attention for a limited period of time, but a box of items that allows a child to build their own toys will catch their imagination for years to come. This brilliant idea already exists in real product form, and it's called Toyi.
Toyi is described as an eco-friendly creative building kit, and it recently won the well-known IF Design Award. It came from Istanbul, Turkish, where a young female designer named Elif Atmaca first came up with the idea for it when she wanted to help the kids living in disadvantaged areas. These children do not have access to the variety of interesting toys that wealthier children do.
Toyi Atmaca's design allows children to transform what are around them into clever toys. It consists of sticks, junction parts, flexible connectors, toy body parts like feet, eyes, hands, and wheels that can be used to turn old water bottles, cups, boxes, towels, etc. into cute, clever, and unique playthings. This toy kit upcycles(升级利用) materials that would otherwise go to waste, turning a recycling bin into a treasure container.
“Our initial target was to deliver Toyi kits to only disadvantaged children in Turkish,” Atmaca told the media. But during a research conducted with around300 children, .she realized that the restriction on being creative went beyond any boundary. “I saw that everything was planned and shaped by grown-ups, blocking the kids' imagination in a significant way,” said Atmaca.
Atmaca concluded that each kid needed space where he or she could freely create. She explained the entire process should be left to kids’ creativity, reminding teachers and all grown-ups that child-led play was an excellent way for children to develop lifelong skills.
Toyi's creators are now considering distributing the kits to as many children as possible around the world through different international NGOs. Atmaca notes that for each Toyi kit sold out, they will also donate one kit to a disadvantaged child through different partnerships around the world.
12. Why did Atmaca design Toyi at first?
A. To win the famous IF Design Award.
B. To help poor kids make their own toys.
C. To protect the environment in Istanbul.
D. To recycle all the waste in the dustbin.
13. Which is probably the product made with the toy kit of Toyi?
A. A new picture of a young boy.
B. A computer with high technology.
C. A treasure container from a dustbin:
D. A six-armed “robot” from a water bottle.
14. How do the toy kits help improve the children's ability?
A. It provides the kids various types of toys.
B. It offers space for the kids’ creative minds.
C. It changes the poor kids' living conditions.
D. It teaches the kids to share joys with others.
15. What is the new target for Atmaca and her partners?
A. Donating toykits to more poor children.
B. Selling toy kits to every kid in the world.
C. Designing new toy kits for kids and adults.
D. Doing further research on the kids' demands.
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
Can you move 11 minutes a day? You’ll live longer if you do
There is no denying that 2020 has reduced activity levels. Between the Zoom meetings, Netflix binges and virtual cocktail hours, increased sitting is a pandemic-driven reality for many.____16____But there is good news! Despite all that sedentary time, with as little as 11 minutes of movement a day, you can increase your life span, a recent study has found.____17____It's true; past studies, including a popular study from 2016, had originally put the daily exercise target at 60 to 75 minutes for mortality benefits. However, that study was based on self-reported data, which this latest study, published in theBritish Journal of Sports Medicine, found to be flawed due to people misremembering their actual activity levels.
Taking a more objective approach, scientists at the Norwegian School of Sports Medicine based their research on the use of activity monitors to track exercise versus sedentary time. The results showed that participants who
exercised 35 minutes per day saw the biggest statistical difference on life span. Yet just 11 minutes of moderate exercise — equivalent to a brisk walk — still had a noticeable positive impact.____18____
Here is a way to consider—4 sets of a 3-minute body-weight exercise sequence. Depending on the exercises you use, you may go at a slightly different pace during each round, making it about 11 minutes. When selecting your exercises, try to pick a sequence of movements that will equate to a full-body workout of moderate effort.____19____Ideally, do a combo, determining the number of repetitions for each exercise based on your fitness level and maintaining a three-minute sequence for the time frame.
See how easy it is to fit in 11 minutes of daily exercise? You can do it.____20____Although no one can give you a do-over of 2020, you can make up for lost time by adding a little more to your life span.
A. In fact, you owe it to yourself after getting through this past year.
B. And studies have revealed the great health risks of prolonged sitting.
C. The simplest way is with a walk outside or on the treadmill at your local gym.
D. A lower barrier makes it easier to get even the most inactive among us moving.
E. You might wonder about the hour-per-day measurement you've been hearing about for years.
F. What's more, both time frames were positively impactful, regardless of the amount of sitting.
G. Avoid doing only upper-body movements unless you do lower-body movements the next day.
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
I got on the bus to go toschool as normally do. Today, however, was quite____21____. As we approached the next stop, a little girl got on. She____22____her wallet to find the＄2 to pay the driver, but I could____23____by her expression that she didn’t have the correct____24____toride the bus. Therefore, I stood up, took out＄2 from my wallet, and paid____25____the girl. Then I walked back and sat down. The girl____26____me, sitting down next to me. She said “thank you” in a sweet little voice and we began to chat. I found out thatshe was trying to get toState Street.
I felt____27____to think about a girl in such a young age____28____around in the city with no money or guardian. When my____29____approached, I instructed her to get off with me and she agreed. As we got to the_____30_____, the little girl took my hand, and I_____31_____her across the street to safety._____32_____, I had some spare time, so I____33____the girl to State Street, gave her＄5, told her how to get home, and said good bye.
As I_____34_____out my hand to shake, she ran to me and gave me the biggest and_____35_____hug. We
pulled away and she looked at me with the sweetest blue eyes, then she skipped away_____36_____the street.
Although my new friend, Emily, was just a 9-year old girl, she gave me_____37_____that will take her many years to understand. As we huged, none of us said a word;_____38_____, I knew that our hearts had met and a_____39_____was made. No age can limit the_____40_____of one’s heart or the love that they can give.
21. A. frightening B. disappointing C. different D. crazy
22. A. observed B. touched C. presented D. searched
23. A. tell B. realize C. imagine D. base
24. A. ticket B. access C. permit D. fare
25. A. for B. off C. back D. to
26. A. followed B. pushed C. noticed D. excused
27. A. tired B. bored C. troubled D. inspired
28. A. chatting B. looking C. playing D. wandering
29. A. company B. store C. center D. stop
30. A. corner B. crossroads C. destination D. shop
31. A. made B. hurried C. led D. freed
32. A. Usually B. Luckily C. Generally D. Personally
33. A. accompanied B. treated C. invited D. instructed
34. A. pulled B. carried C. made D. held
35. A. toughest B. tightest C. softest D. strongest
36. A.across B. over C. off D. down
37. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything
38. A. otherwise B. however C. besides D. therefore
39. A. connection B. contribution C. conclusion D. decision
40. A. strength B. power C. force D. energy
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
For those who love travel，particularly rail travel，China in 1987 was a can't﹣miss kind of place．In1987，China was still operating steam trains on some rail routes，___41.___made people from many countries amazed．Bruce Connolly，a photographer from Scotland，___42.___（be）one of them．Connolly first came to China in 1987，___43.___（start）his continuous travelling throughout China．Since
then，he___44.___（travel）to most parts of China except Fujian，Zhejiang and Jiangxi．Wherever he went，his camera remained by his side．During his journeys in China，Connolly found China very different from___45.___he saw in photographs，which showed Chinese people very religious in the way they dressed and behaved．___46.___，what he saw was that people were___47.___（friend），welcoming and wore bright clothes．In the early years of his journey，most Chinese people were fascinated with foreigners visiting China，but now that has changed in cities such as Beijing and Shanghai，foreigners are no longer___48.___（curious）．
Another dramatic change that Connolly has felt in China is___49.___widespread use of new technology．China has become one of the most tech﹣savvy（懂技术的）societies．People now do everything with___50.___（they）smartphones，and use of cash is almost disappearing．
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.下面短文中有10处语言错误。

请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

When I was ten years old, I went to Dali with two American. I became their guide. First, we went to the Erhai Lake. They wanted to look around the lake by the boat. After buy the tickets, we got into a boat. We went around seeing the beautiful sight. After that, we went shopping. The sellers couldn’t spoke English. Though it was very harder, I tried my best listen to their words carefully and translate the sentences. They bought some little things with their help. Next, we went to a small zoo but took some pictures. When we felt hunger, we went out and had lunch. After lunch, we visited some old house and learned more about Chinese history.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你班的交换生Tom在中国已经学习三个月，但是他依然觉得学习中文很困难、经常失眠且不知道如何交新朋友。

请你给他写封邮件，给出一些建议。

内容包括：
1.向同学或老师请教学习方法；
2.睡前听点音乐；
3.主动和别人交流并提供帮助。

注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. A
6. C
7. A
8. B 9. C 10. A 11. B
12. B 13. D 14. B 15. A
16. B 17. E 18. F 19. G 20. A
21. C 22. D 23. A 24. D 25. A 26. A 27. C 28. D 29. D 30. B 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. D 35. B 36. D 37. A 38. B 39. A 40. A
41. which
42. was 43. starting
44. has travel（l）ed
45. what 46. Instead
47. friendly
48. curiosities
49. the 50. their
51.(1).American → Americans
(2).去掉the
(3).buy→ buying
(4). spoke→ speak
(5). harder→ hard
(6).try best后加to
(7). their→ my
(8). but→ and
(9). hunger→ hungry
(10).house→ houses
52.略。