2020届长沙市湘府中学高三英语上学期期末试卷及参考答案

2020届长沙市湘府中学高三英语上学期期末试卷及参考答案
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
Located inLos Angeles,UniversityofSouthern Californiais in the heart of a leading city. Although LA ranks highly in The Economist’s Safe Cities Index, navigating and city calls for certain safety precautions (预防措施) along with practicing common sense.
♦Mobile Safety App Powered by LiveSafe
The Mobile Safety App powered by LiveSafe, manage by the USC Department of Public Safety and the USC Department of Emergency Planning, is a free downloadable app that mobile users can use to initiate contact with emergency responders around the campus. Features include: immediate “push button” calls to DPS, easy reporting for suspicious activity or crimes in progress, and location services to notify friends of your route through campus.
♦Blue Light Phone Locations
TheUniversity Parkhas multiple blue light phones that are strategically placed throughout campus. Take note of where the closest ones are on your route. They come in handy in case you lose your phone or in an emergency. These phones are directly connected to USC’s Department of Public Safety’s 24-hour communications center. Besides emergency needs, it can also be used to report suspicious activity, request for an escort (护送) if you feel unsafe and to report a crime.
♦Trojans Alert
Trojans Alert is an emergency notification system that allows university officials to contact you during an emergency by sending messages via text message or email. When an emergency occurs, authorized USC senders will instantly notify you with real-time updates, instructions on where to go, what to do (or what not to do), whom to contact and other important information. All members of the USC community, as well as parents and regular visitors to campus, are strongly encouraged to sign up for Trojans Alert.
1. What do blue light phones do for students?
A. Guide students through campus.
B. Alert students to crime activities.
C. Light up the way if students feel unsafe.
D. Connect them with the safety department.
2. How does USC send out instructions during an emergency?
A. With blue light phones.
B. Via text message or email.
C. Through mobile safe app.
D. By calling all USC members.
3. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To encourage students to fight crime.
B. To introduce USC’s safety department.
C. To provide safety services for USC students.
D. To inform parents of safety risks on campus.
B
This year researchers expect the world to snap 1.35 trillion photographs, or about 3.7 billion per day. All those pixels (像素) take up a lot of room if they are stored on personal computers or s phones, which is one reason why many people store their images in the cloud. But unlike a hard on drive which can be encrypted to protect its data, cloud storage users have to trust that a tech platform will keep their private pictures safe. Now a team of Columbia University computer scientists has developed a tool to encrypt (加密) images stored on many popular cloud services while allowing authorized users to browse and display their photographs as usual.
Malicious (恶意的) attempts to access or leak cloud-based photographs can expose personal information. In November 2019, for example, a bug in the popular photograph storage app Google Photos mistakenly shared some users' private videos with strangers. Security experts also worry about employees at cloud storage companies on purpose accessing users' images.
So the Columbia researchers came up with a system called Easy Secure Photos (ESP), which they presented at a recent conference. “We wanted to see if we could make it possible to encrypt data while using existing services,” says computer scientist Jason Nieh, one of the developers of ESP. “Everyone wants to stay with Google Photos and not have to register on a new encrypted-image cloud storage service.”
To overcome this problem, they created a tool that preserves blocks of pixels but moves them around to effectively hide the photograph. First, ESP's algorithm (算法) divides a photograph into three separate files, each one containing the image's red, green or blue color1 data. Then the system hides the pixel blocks around among these three files (allowing a block from the red file, for instance, to hide out in the green or blue ones). But the
program does nothing within the pixel blocks, where all the image processing happens. As a result, the files remain unchanged images but end up looking like grainy black-and-white ones to anyone who accesses them without the decryption (解密) key.
4. What's probably the main purpose for people to store images in the cloud?
A. To save storage room.
B. To make photos beautiful.
C. To try a new storage way.
D. To keep their privacy safe.
5. Why might employees in cloud storage companies be distrusted by experts?
A. They sell users' passwords.
B. They have invented new tools.
C. They often let out personal information.
D. They may steal a glance at users' images.
6. What's the advantage of ESP?
A. It can provide clear images.
B. It can decrease the upload time.
C. It can classify images automatically.
D. It can encrypt data on the original platform.
7. What does paragraph 4 mainly talk about?
A. Method of decryption.
B. Image-processing technique.
C. Separate files of images.
D. Data analysisof color1 s.
C
Born in 1954, Oprah Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show as the most influential woman in the world. It's no surprise that her recognition can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns. The star features about 20 products each year on her "Favorite Things" show. There's even a term for it: the Oprah Effect.
Her television career began unexpectedly. When she was 16 years old, she had the idea of being a journalist to tell other people's stories in a way that made a difference in their lives and the world. She was on television by the time she was 19 years old. And in 1986 she started her own television show with a continuous determination to succeed at first.
TIME magazine wrote, "People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey's swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of big size. As interviewers go, she is no
match for Phil Donahue. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plainspoken curiosity, rich humor and, above all understanding. Guests with sad stories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah's eye. They, in turn, often find themselves exposing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience."
"I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are likely to fall if you' re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you' re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages, you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction" as Oprah addressed graduates at Harvard on May 30.
8. What does the Oprah Effect refer to in the first paragraph?
A. the influence on talk show hosts
B. the power of Oprah's opinions.
C. the effect on a business.
D. the audience of Oprah's talk show.
9. What can be inferred about Oprah's television career?
A. She must have been challenged a lot
B. She gained fame as planned.
C. It lives up to her parents' expectation.
D. She once gave up on her choice.
10. What message did Oprah give to Harvard graduates?
A. Success comes after failure.
B. Pushing physical limits makes no sense
C. Aiming higher hurts
D. Failure is part of life.
11. Which of the following best describes Oprah Winfrey?
A. Friendly.
B. Humorous
C. Determined.
D. Patient
D
The idea of low material desire, low consumption and refusing to work, marry and have children, concluded as a “lying down” lifestyle, recentlystruck a chord withmany young Chinese who are eager to take pause to breathe in this fast-paced and highly-competitive society.
Many millennials (千禧一代) and generation Zs complained to the Global Times that burdens, including work stress, family disputes (纷争) and financial strains, have pushed them “against the wall”. They said they hate the “involution (内卷),” joking that they would rather give up some of what they have than get trapped in an endless competition against peers.
“Instead of always following the ‘virtues’ of struggle, endure and sacrifice to bear the stresses, they prefer a temporary lying down as catharsis (宣泄) and adjustment,” said a scholar. “It is no wonder that some young people, under the growing pressures from child-raising to paying the mortgage (按揭) today, would try to live in a simple way and leave the worries behind.”
Interestingly, the majority of millennials and Gen Zs reached by the Global Times, who claim to be big fans of the lying down philosophy, acknowledged that they only accept a temporary lying down as a short rest. It is true that with the great improvement of living conditions, some Chinese youth have partially lost the spirit of hardship and are not willing to bear too much hard work. But in fact, lying down is not entirely comfortable. Young people who lie down always feel guilty about their constant loss of morale (士气) far beyond their reach.
“Young people on campus have both aspirations and confusion about their future, but most of us have rejected setting ourselves up in chains to waste opportunities and challenges,” a postgraduate student told the Global Times. “It’s no use running away. I have to ‘stand up’ and face the reality sooner or later.”
12. What does the underlined phrase in paragraph 1 mean?
A. Warned.
B. Criticized.
C. Touched.
D. Amused.
13. What might have caused the “lying down” lifestyle among the young?
A. Improvements in living conditions.
B. Growing pressure from family and social life.
C. Increasing material possessions from families.
D. Temporary adjustment to failure in competitions.
14. What’s the scholar’s attitude toward the “lying down” group?
A. Understanding.
B. Intolerant.
C.Supportive.
D. Unclear.
15. What can be inferred about the young generation from the text?
A. They never really drop their responsibilities.
B. They really enjoy the “lying down” lifestyle.
C. They find their dreams far beyond their reach.
D. They would rather escape than take challenges.
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
Most people don’t change. They just become morethe way they already are. While there are exceptions, most people find change difficult for several reasons.
____16____Few people have an accurate view of who they are and therefore don’t recognize the aspects of themselves that need improvement. Most people want to believe they’re well-balanced and even outstanding in many ways.____17____
Then there is the human tendency to explain one’s difficulties, short-comings and failures by blaming somebody else. You may find many people around you blame their poor performance on others.____18____ You will probably never hear anyone tell you, “I got fired because I was doing a terrible job.” Few people are willing to accept that their own character traits (弱点) and choices are the main causes of the kind of lifethey lead.
Finally, most people find it too challenging to change as it involves a lot of hard work and difficult choices. Even when you have learned enough about your true nature, you then need to do something about it.___19___Meanwhile, the reality can be really discouraging: you do much hard work but the results are never the sort of ideal change you’re looking for.
No matter how difficult it is, you still need to find your own way to change.
____20____Real change begins with the recognition of these ways in which you have remained the same and made the same unfortunate choices your entire life.
A. And you need to do that over and over again.
B. However, you have little choice but to change.
C. They don’t know themselves very well, to begin with.
D. They all want to think of themselves as special and gifted.
E. At first, they don’t think change can bring about encouraging results.
F. You can review the past and make a list of the ways in which you haven’t changed.
G. They are likely to paint themselves as victims but never recognize their own problems.
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It was my first day at school. I felt nervous and___21___.
I went to all my classes with no___22___. It felt like no one cared.
I listened___23___to all the lessons and waited for the lunch break at one. Then finally the bell___24___. It was time to talk and have fun.
In the lunch line I met a new friend who___25___a hijab（穆斯林女性戴的面纱）on her head, and___26___I
am Jewish, we got along well, and I was so___27___when she said, “Sit with us, at our table. " She___28___to the table next to the door.
So I___29___, and took my tray（托盘）and was about to___30___with her across the floor when suddenly I felt a push, "Hey, I saw you on the bus,“ said a tall girl in a long skirt, "I saw your Jewish star necklace. You should___31___with us. ”
At that moment I___32___, and that's when I noticed, to my___33___the nations of the world___34___themselves. That’s what I saw through my own eyes.
The Spanish only sat with the Spanish, the Hindus only with Hindus, the Russians always with Russians, and never the Arabs with the Jews.
I saw the reason why___35___gets started. Everyone___36___to their own kind. The___37___room was a map of the world. Why was everyone so___38___?
And so I turned down this girl, and went with the first, and there was no___39___. I built a bridge between two worlds when I sat with those who were___40___from me.
21. A. happy B. scared C. tired D. relaxed
22. A. teachers B. passions C. goals D. friends
23. A. anxiously B. carefully C. casually D. sadly
24. A. failed B. broke C. fell D. rang
25. A. designed B. wore C. made D. put
26. A. unless B. when C. though D. if
27. A. worried B. relieved C. angry D. grateful
28. A. led B. faced C. viewed D. pointed
29. A. ignored B. agreed C. refused D. promised
30. A. walk B. run C. communicate D. meet
31. A. joke B. learn C. talk D. sit
32. A. looked out B. looked down C. looked around D. looked on
33. A. disappointment B. horror C. surprise D. delight
34. A. enjoying B. isolating C. connecting D. helping
35. A. love B. help C. quarrel D. war
36. A. objects B. refers C. sticks D. adds
37. A. sitting B. living C. cafe D. lunch
38. A. cold B. blind C. bored D. mean
39. A. confidence B. hurt C. trouble D. demand
40. A. different B. separate C. far D. free
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
Ball games are a big source of modern amusement. But they're nothing new. For instance, consider a 4,500-year-old ball___41.___(find) in a child's tomb in Egypt or 3.600-year-old rubber balls from Central America-where the competitors were asked to play the balls with their hips(臀部）.
So far, researchers___42.___(make) sure of a date of the oldest sporting balls in Europe or Asia: three balls, dug up from the tombs of horsemen in the deserts of northwesternChinaand crafted three thousand___43.___(year) ago.
＂We are quite sure they were used in some sort of bat-and-ball game."Patrick Wertmann is an expert at theUniversityofZurich___44.___analyzed the ancient sporting equipment. The balls are about three inches in diameter and filled___45.___leather hair. “And then, also,___46.___(look) at the Chinese character of "ball" itself, you'll find it quite___47.___(interest) because this character is made up of the ideograms(表意文字）of hair and leather.”
As for how this ancient ball-and-stick game___48.___（play)? “lt could be something like polo. But it could also be something like___49.___early form of golf.
Since we don't have any textural evidence and we don't have any sticks from the same period, we don't really know____50.____（exact).”
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们交换修改作文，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。

错误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(∧),并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

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。

I'd like to express my sincere appreciation to you for your kindness and selflessly help. It had been a month since I came to this beautiful school. You offered me so much help the first day when I met you in the school.
Because your warm help and useful pieces of advice, I have got use to the new school life so soon. However, I find it difficult to make the more friends who native language is English. In add, I still have difficulty in speak to my foreign teachers freely. Therefore, I hope you can recommend a club for me to joining so that I can improve my English.
Again, I'd like to express my thank to you, and look forward to your early reply.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是高中生李华，你的交换生朋友Peter回国后，计划创立一个传播中国传统文化的社团。

他写信向你寻求建议。

请根据以下提示给他回信。

1.表示赞同；
2.具体建议；
3.建议依据。

注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. D
6. D
7. B
8. C 9. A 10. D 11. C
12. C 13. B 14. A 15. A
16. C 17. D 18. G 19. A 20. F
21. B 22. D 23. A 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. B 28. D 29. B 30. A 31. D 32.
C 33. C 34. B 35.
D 36. C 37. D 38. B 39. C 40. A
41. found
42. have made
43. years 44. that/who 45. with 46. looking
47. interesting
48. was played
49. an 50. exactly
51.(1). selflessly→selfless
(2). had→have
(3).在Because后加of
(4). use→used
(5).将the删掉
(6). who→whose
(7). add→addition
(8). speak→speaking
(9). joining→join
(10). thank→thanks
52.略。