2020-2021学年饶平县第四中学高三英语二模试卷及答案解析

2020-2021学年饶平县第四中学高三英语二模试卷及答案解析
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
No one knows when the first printing press was invented or who invented it. but the oldest known printed text originated in China during the first millennium (千年) AD.The Diamond Sutra (《金刚经》), a Buddhist book from Dunhuang, China during the Tang Dynasty, is said to be the oldest known printed book.The Diamond Sutrawas created with a method known as block printing (雕版印刷), which used boards of hand-carved wood blocks in reverse.
It was said that the moveable type was developed by Bi Sheng. He was fromYingshan,Hubei,China, living from 970 to 1051 AD. His method replaced panels of printing blocks with moveable individual Chinese characters that could be reused. The first moveable Chinese Characters were carved into clay and baked into hard blocks that were then arranged onto an iron frame that was pressed against an iron plate.
The earliest mention of Bi Sheng’s printing press is in the bookDream Pool Essays, written in 1086 by Shen Kuo, who noted that his nephews came into possession of Bi Sheng’s typefaces (字体) after his death. Shen Kuo explained that Bi Sheng did not use wood because the texture is inconsistent (不一致的) and absorbs wetness too easily.
By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, which ruled from 1127 to 1279 AD, books had become popular in society and helped create a scholarly class of citizens who had the capabilities to become civil servants. Large printed book collections also became a status symbol for the wealthy class.
1. When was Bi Sheng’s printing press first introduced in history?
A. After Bi Sheng died and his nephews owned his typefaces.
B. When books became popular in the Southern Song Dynasty.
C. After the block printing was replaced by the moveable type printing.
D. WhenThe Diamond Sutrawas printed into a book.
2. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Shen Kuo made great contributions to printing.
B. The moveable type printing was invented earlier than block printing.
C. Printed books were hard to get in the Song Dynasty.
D. By the Southern Song Dynasty, books had helped people get to higher social positions.
3. Why does the author write this passage?
A. To show that Buddhism was popular in the Tang Dynasty.
B. To introduce the early history of printing.
C. To memorize Bi Sheng, developing the moveable type printing.
D. To indicate the advantages of moveable type printing.
B
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says more than half of the world’s wildlife population has been lost, whichthe conservation group says has placed the health of the planet at risk.
The WWF recently released its 10th Flagship Living Planet Report. The group warns the condition of the world's animals is worse than its earlier reports showed, indicating worldwide action is needed.
The WWF is worried about the loss of and damage to Earth’s environment. The report provides information about more than 10,000 animal populations from 1970 to 2010. These populations are called “vertebrate species,” or animals with backbones — like fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles. The report shows these populations have dropped by 52 percent in just 40 years. It warns freshwater species have fallen by 76 percent, which is almost twice the loss of land and ocean species. Most of these losses are in the tropics, with the biggest drop inLatin America.
Marco Lambertini, the WWF’s International Director-General said, “This is about losing natural habitats. This is aboutconvertingforests, grasslands, and wetlands into agriculture mainly, and it is about unsustainable use of wildlife. Illegal hunting has been actually increasing over the last 10 years, which definitely a driving force for extinction, particularly of large species.”
The report also notes what it calls the world’s “Ecological Footprint”, that is, the effect of human activities on the planet. Mr. Lambertini says there has been an increase in carbon dioxide gases and the pouring of nitrogen into oceans and rivers from fertilizers used in agriculture, which certainly cannot continue.
“We are consuming on average every year about the equivalent of about 1.5, one and a half times the resources available to the planet. That means we are cutting trees more quickly than they can be restored. We are fishing the oceans more quickly than fishing stocks can reproduce, and we are emitting in the atmosphere more CO2than the natural systems can actually absorb, which is clearly not sustainable.”
Mr. Lambertini warns climate change affects almost everyone on the planet and that whole species may disappear if the world does not reduce the effects of humans on the climate.
4. According to the passage, what kind of species faces the biggest drop in population?
A. Land and ocean species.
B. Animals with backbones.
C. Freshwater species inLatin America.
D. Freshwater species in the tropics.
5. All the following can contribute to the loss of world’s wildlife population EXCEPT ________.
A. turning wildlife habitats into agriculture land.
B. making sustainable use of wildlife.
C. hunting illegally.
D. emitting CO2 gases and pouring nitrogen.
6. Which does the underlined word “converting” in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Conserving.
B. Conveying.
C. Exchanging.
D. Transforming.
7. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A. Marco is much concerned about human’s current behaviors towards wildlife.
B. what the planet provides now can satisfy human’s sustainable development.
C. more than half of the world’s wildlife population has been lost.
D. if humans reduce the effects on the climate, the whole species will not disappear.
C
In sportthe sexes are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men.That at least is what people say.Women are called the weaker sex, or, if men want to please them, the fair sex. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women’s bodies really weaker?
The fastest men can run a mile in under 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women’s time is always slower than men’s, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 meters in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first ‘Tartan’ in film was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 meters was 4 minutes 49.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone
injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!
8. Women are called the weaker sex because _________.
A. women do as much as men
B. people think women are weaker than men
C. sport is easier for men than for women
D. in sport the two sexes are always together
9. Which of the following is true?
A. Boys and girls study separately everywhere.
B Women do not run or swim in races with men.
C. Famous Prime Ministers are women.
D. Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe.
10. The underlined part “That at least is what people say” means people _________.
A. say other things, too
B. don’t say this much
C. say this but may not think so
D. only think this
11. In this passage the author implies that _________.
A. womenare weaker than men, but faster
B. women are slower than men, but stronger
C. men are not always stronger and faster than women
D. men are faster and stronger than women
D
Most kids can walk into a library or bookstore and find hundreds of books to read. But it’s not that simple for kids who are blind. They read in a different way. Jenny Lee and other braille (盲文) transcribers take the printed words of a book and change them into a code of raised dots. Blind people can read these dots with their fingers. To know what braille feels like, take a ballpoint pen and press hard onto a piece of paper. Now turn the paper over and touch the raised dot made by the pen point.
When Lee first saw the dots of the braille alphabet, she wondered if she’d ever be able to read and write them easily. She took a class and practised hard for about six months before she passed the final exam: she had to convert 35 pages of a book into braille. Today, Lee works for a publisher. One of her jobs is to change children’s books into braille.
To do this, Lee first types the story into a computer and then uses a computer program to translate it into the braille code. Next, she looks over the translation several times to make sure it’s mistake-free. After that, a copy of the braille story is printed with a special printer. Then Lee and a proofreader work together to find and correct any
mistakes. When a book is ready, many copies of it are printed. Afterwards, some are sold through websites and others are sent to libraries.
Sometimes, going over a story again and again gets tiring. That’s when Lee takes a break. Several of Jenny Lee’s co-workers, who are blind, use guide dogs. When the animals aren’t working, Lee likes spending a few minutes with them. To her, playing with dogs “is always apick-me-upin the middle of the day”.
“I love this mission,” Lee says. “Through my brain power and my fingers, I am putting the dots into some kid’s hands.”
12. How does the writer explain what braille feels like?
A. By explaining what braille words look like.
B. By describing how blind people read books.
C. By asking readers to experience it themselves.
D. By giving examples of different braille words.
13. What was Lee’s first reaction to braille?
A. She was excited to get a new skill.
B. She was amazed at the clever idea.
C. She realized she could teach it herself.
D. She believed it would be difficult to learn.
14. What does the underlined word “pick-me-up” in paragraph 4 most probably mean?
A A discussion to release work stress.
B. Something to improve one’s appetite.
C. Something to help restore one’s spirit.
D. A free ride accompanied with a guide dog.
15. What does Lee think of her job?
A. Profitable and hopeful.
B. Tiring but meaningful.
C. Relaxing and helpful.
D. Boring but challenging.
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
A new urban sport, parkour, is hitting the streets. It has evolved from obstacle course training into a fitness option for young people. In parkour, the outside world is the gym!____16____The goal of parkour is a direct route from oneplace to another. You meet an obstacle, you overcome it.
Mark Toorock, who teaches the techniques of parkour at his fitness gym, says that parkour is a method to train the body and mind using obstacles as the medium. He says that this new sport is demanding and takes years to master._____17_____
But Toorock, who used to be a martial arts expert, says that everyone can benefit from learning the basic skills involved in parkour like running, jumping and crawling (爬行). These are the things that humans used to have to do all the time.____18____The original idea of parkour was to return to running and jumping as basic elements in moving from one place to another.
Georges Hebert, a French navy officer, was so impressed by the effortless athleticism of African tribes that he devised a training method based on running, climbing, jumping, balancing and throwing. The word parkour comes from parcours de combatant, the French term for a military obstacle course.____19____
Dr Kenneth Kao explains that the sport of parkour is not extreme — it is the environment which is extreme and dangerous. Being outside, jumping off railings and flipping over park benches can be quite frightening, so parkour courses in gyms concentrate onpracticing all the individual moves to make everything easier.____20____However, that is not real parkour because it’s indoors with a fixed obstacle. The goal for everyone is to go outdoors.
A.Gyms provide thick floor matting (垫子) for rolling and rubberized boxes for jumping over.
B.The bridges, buildings and railings (栏杆) of each and every city are the equipment.
C.Every action in parkour is natural, so everyone must have the ability to move in this way.
D.Parkour was introduced into china in recentyears and has gained popularity.
E.But today, due to modern transport, these basic skills are no longer used on a regular basis.
F.The French word for people who participate in the sport is traceurs or traceuses.
G.Beginners should realize that they won’t be jumping over buildings any time soon!
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 still remember the elderly lady my friend and I went out to help one evening many years ago.
One day, after we____21____our work and left the office, we felt a little bit____22____. So we stopped at a hamburger shop and____23____some hamburgers and drinks for supper. It was Sunday and there were only a few people. We watched around and found an empty table____24____. Shortly after we sat down and enjoyed our food, we noticed a(n)____25____woman came in and bought some food too.
She was dressed in what was probably her best clothes that were____26____and neat(整齐). The
woman____27____the plates and cups very carefully on the table, as if she was serving the most important dinner in the world. We could tell that this ordinary meal was a real____28____for her.
My friend often had dinner in the shop and he was____29____the people who worked there. He was curious about the______30______and went to the people working there. He______31______them. He was told that she came in every______32______, bought the same cheap meal and always ate alone.
We______33______that she lived alone and that this meal was the best food she could afford to buy for herself once a week.
We felt very______34______. Even though we never______35______to her, we decided to do something for her. When we paid our______36______, we also paid hersand then______37______enough money to pay her meals at the shop for a month. The workers were really______38______. After all, she was just a______39______to us.
We didn't want the elderly lady to know what we did,______40______we just left.
21. A. started B. finished C. changed D. lost
22. A. angry B. sick C. hungry D. tired
23. A. added B. sold C. ordered D. made
24. A. finally B. gradually C. easily D. carefully
25. A. old B. young C. rich D. kind
26. A. ugly B. dirty C. expensive D. clean
27. A. held B. washed C. broke D. set
28. A. treat B. preparation C. story D. turn
29. A. satisfied with B. familiar with C. concerned about D. worried about
30. A. woman B. news C. food D. party
31. A. thanked B. ignored C. paid D. asked
32. A. day B. week C. month D. year
33. A. realized B. answered C. dreamed D. meant
34. A. weak B. lucky C. happy D. sad
35. A. ran B. spoke C. wrote D. sent
36. A. hamburger B. work C. bill D. drink
37. A. left B. earned C. saved D. found
38. A. surprised B. grateful C. upset D. excited
39. A. friend B. stranger C. colleague D. cook
40. A. before B. until C. but D. so
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
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
The PopularMobileLibrary
Around the world, the mobile library projects are bringing books and even advice to communities with serious and urgent needs.
Every week, two modified blue buses___41.___(stock) with children’s books carefully run down the streets ofKabul. These travelling libraries stop off at schools in different parts of the city,___42.___(deliver) a wealth of reading materials directly to the youngsters who have limited access to books. “A lot of schools in our city don’t have access to something as basic as a library,” says Rim, a 27-year-oldOxfordUniversitygraduate who___43.___(inspire) to start Charm, a non-profit organization, in her home city having grown up without many books herself. “We were trying to understand___44.___we could do to promote critical thinking in our country.”
For many people a bus or train journey presents a rare opportunity to get stuck into a book, and in some cities public transport is being regarded as means of getting books to communities that need___45.___most. The vehicle was rebuilt not only to spread the joy of reading, but also to improve people’s life.
Comic books were left on trains, buses and underground systems in the cities around theUK___46.___(early) this month to mark 80 years of Marvel Comics.
Carriages on the two subway trains inBeijingwere turned into audio book libraries, where passengers were able to download books. To give the train a library feel, the walls are decorated with books,___47.___covers look like bookshelves.
People in theNetherlandsget to travel on trains for free during the country’s annual book week celebrations. Passengers can present a novel___48.___a rail ticket.
In the Greek city ofThessaloniki, the transport ministry installed mini libraries at bus stops___49.___(allow) passengers to read as they wait for the bus, or borrow and read on their journey to be returned at a later date.
Passengers onNew York’s subway_____50._____download free short stories, poems, essays and so on to
their devices.
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.文中共有10处错误，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(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：
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 little brother and I went shopping in a new opened supermarket in our city last Monday. We tasted much delicious cheese biscuits and bought three boxes of the candies. Seen one of my favorite chocolate cakes, I quickened my steps through the crowd. A couple of minutes later, I can’t find my brother but got anxious. There were so many people in the supermarket that it was quite tough for us to find him. I had to ask a salesman for some advices. It wasn’t long after the salesman found a loudspeaker and started to search my brother. Thanks to the salesman, I managed to find my brother at last.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，为庆祝建党100周年，你校英语网站举办“学雷锋树新风”英语征文比赛活动，请你以“Volunteer activities keep Lei Feng spirit alive”为题，写一篇短文投稿参加比赛，内容如下：
1.活动目的；
2.活动内容；
3.活动感受。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.适当增加内容,使行文流畅。

Volunteer activities keep Lei Feng spirit alive
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. B
6. D
7. A
8. B 9. B 10. C 11. C
12. C 13. D 14. C 15. B
16. B 17. G 18. E 19. F 20. A
21. B 22. C 23. C 24. C 25. A 26. D 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. A 31. D 32.
B 33. A 34. D 35. B 36.
C 37. A 38. A 39. B 40. D
41. stocked
42. delivering
43. was inspired
44. what 45. them
46. earlier
47. whose 48. instead of / rather than
49. to allow
50. can
51.(1). new→ newly
(2). much→ many
(3).去掉candies前的the
(4). Seen→ Seeing
(5). can’t→ couldn’t
(6). but→ and
(7). us→ me
(8). advices→ advice
(9). after→ before
(10). search 后加for
52.略。