2020届石家庄市第二中学高三英语下学期期末考试试卷及参考答案

2020届石家庄市第二中学高三英语下学期期末考试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
In the age of social distancing, using robots for some health care interactions is a promising way to reduce in-person contact between health care workers and sick patients. However, a key question is how patients will react to a robot entering the room. Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently set out to answer that question.
In a study, the team found that a large majority of patients reported that interacting with a health care provider through a video screen fixed on a robot was similar to an in-person interaction with a health care worker.
“We’re working on robots that can help provide care to ensure the safety of the patient and the health care workforce. The results of this study give us some confidence that people are ready and willing to join us. In a larger online survey carried out nationwide, we also found that a majority of respondents were open to having robots perform small tasks such as taking a nose swab (拭子).” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor and the senior author of the study.
After the COVID-19 pandemic began early last year, Traverso and his colleagues turned their attention toward new strategies to reduce interactions between potentially sick patients and health care workers. To that end, they created a mobile robot that could interact with patients as they waited in the emergency department. The robots were equipped with sensors that allow them to measure vital signs, including skin temperature, breathing rate, and pulse(脉搏) rate. The robots also carried an iPad for remote video communication with a health care provider.
The study suggests that it could be worthwhile to develop robots that can perform tasks that currently require a lot of human effort, such as turning a patient over in bed. These days, turning COVID-19 patients onto their stomachs requires several people. Doing Covid-19 tests is another task that takes a lot of time and effort from health care workers, who could be arranged for other tasks if robots could help.
1. Why did the researchers from MIT and BWH carry out the studies?
A. To shorten the social distance between doctors and patients.
B. To figure out the response of patients to robotic doctors.
C. To reduce the risk of being infected with coronavirus.
D. To ensure the safety of patients during the pandemic.
2. What could be learned from the study?
A. Robots are not welcomed by patients.
B. Robots will soon replace doctors.
C. Robots may help to deal with Covid-19 patients.
D. Robots can operate on different patients.
3. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A. StrengthsAnd Weaknesses In Robot Care
B. The Robotic Doctor Will See You Now
C. The Robots Speed Up COVID-19 Testing
D. The Development Of Robots In Hospitals
B
In Colombia a group, named WebConserva, is carrying out a project in the San Lucas Mountains with the help of coffee growers.
The San Lucas area is one of the most unexplored places in Colombia, which is home to many thousands of species of animals and plants. Yet gold mining and coca farming have dealt a blow to its ecosystem. To limit additional development in the San Lucas area, the group helps coffee growers by linking them with processors from around the country.
Colombia has more different kinds of living things than any other country except neighboring Brazil. In 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ending years of civil war. As a result, more land became accessible for use, with deforestation(毁林) coming along. Government information shows that in 2017, almost 220,000 hectares of forest were destroyed compared to around 124,000 hectares in 2015.
To date, the project includes 10 families who farm 400 hectares of coffee plants, which costs about $77,000 dollars a year. WebConserva hopes that, in time, 200 families will be included. At that level, 20,000 hectares of untouched forest could be protected. In San Lucas, the families promise not to cut down trees to expand their crops or to hunt wild animals from the forests. In return, they receive $ 250 to $ 300 per 125 kilograms of coffee, an enviable amount there. Arcadio Barajas is among those taking part. His new coffee plantation(种植园) makes a barrier between cattle farms and forests where wild animals like the jaguar live and hunt. In this way, he doesn't have to kill wild animals to protect his cattle.
Barajas said that pulling down the forest to plant coca and killing wildlife were against his will. Now he feels
that growing coffee lets him be astewardof the land. "I'm taking care of the environment, the forest and the animals," he said.
4. Why does WebConserva set up the project?
A. To help local farmers make money.
B. To expand areas of coffee growing.
C. To link processors with coffee growers.
D. To conserve biodiversity in the Mountains.
5. What happened after Colombia’s civil war was over?
A. Colombia helped many needy families.
B. Colombia lost lots of areas of forests.
C. Colombia started to save damaged forests.
D. Colombia became more peaceful than Brazil.
6. Which is probably a function of Barajas's coffee plantation?
A. A method of protecting cattle and wildlife.
B. A substitute for hunting of wild animals.
C. A barrier between man and wild animals.
D. A shelter for cattle against human hunters.
7. What does the underlined word "steward" mean in the last paragraph?
A. Farmer.
B. Master.
C. Guardian.
D. Explorer.
C
People saved a 20-foot orca (虎鲸) that was stuck between rocks on an Alaskan shore by continuously pouring water over it and protecting it from birds who circled above the defenseless whale.
The whale was ultimately saved after a six-hour, labor-intensive life-saving operation. Someone spotted the large whale on the Prince of Wales Island near the coast of British Columbia on the morning of July 29th. The Coast Guard was called around 9 a.m. local time. Chance Strickland, the captain of a private yacht in Alaska, and his crew anchored and began life-saving action that were videoed by Aroon Melane and posted on the Internet.
Strickland could hear the orca calling out to killer whales swimming in the area. People on other boats stopped with water and buckets to pour water over the animal. “There were tears coming out of its eyes,” Mr. Strickland told the local newspaper. “It was pretty sad.”
The group of people formed a chain that passed buckets of seawater back and forth and poured the water on the orca, which seemed to liven it up. It made a noise and raised its tail when it got water.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was called in, which can be seen on the video using a machine to spray amist of seawater on the orca, which doubled as a way to keep the whale cool and scare the large group of birds that were hoping to feast on the beast.
Melane said in her video that the orca was stranded (搁浅) for about six hours until the tide came in andswept it back into the ocean. The group efforts of Strickland’s crew and the NOAA saved the 13-year-old killer whale.
8. Why did birds circle above the orca?
A. They were eager to eat it.
B. They wished to protect it.
C. They were attracted by the people.
D. They wanted to find a place to rest.
9. What did Strickland do immediately after finding the whale?
A. Posted pictures online.
B. Called friends for help.
C. Took action to save it.
D. Videoed the trapped animal.
10. Why did the whale make a noise and raise its tail?
A. To express its eager for water.
B. To extend its thanks to people.
C. To call out to its fellow whales.
D. To show its power and sadness.
11. Which can be the best title for the text?
A. Killer Whale Got Saved
B. The Orca Inspired Kindness
C. Combined Efforts Wanted
D. Animals and Humans United
D
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us todo things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder. This increase in complexity, often called "feature creep," costs consumers time, but it also costs business money. Product returns in the U.S. cost a hundred billion dollars a year, and a recent study by Elke den Ouden, of Philips Electronics, found that at least half of returned products have nothing wrong with them. Consumers just couldn't figure out how to use them. Companies now know a great deal about problems of usability and consumer behavior, so why is it that feature creep proves unstoppable?
In part, fieature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audience problem: the people who design and sell product are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what's best for consumers. The engineers tend not to notice when more options make a product less
usable. And marketing and sales departments see each additional feature as a new selling point, and anew way to attract customers.
You might think, then, that companies could avoid fieature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want. But that's where the trouble begins, because although consumers find overloaded gadgets（配件）unmanageable,they also find them attractive. It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store we tend to think that the more features there are, the better. It is only once we get the product home and try to use it that we realize the virtues of simplicity.
It seems strange that we don't expect feature tiredness and thus avoid it. But, as numerous studies have shown, people are not, in general, good at predicting what will make them happy in the future. As a result, we will pay more for more features because we systematically overestimate how often we'll use them. We also overestimate our ability to figure out how a complicated product works.
The fact that buyers want bells and whistles but users want something clear and simple creates an unusual problem for companies. A product that doesn't have enough features may fail to catch our eye in the store. But a product with too many features is likely to annoy consumers.
12. What does the first paragraph mainly discuss?
A. The benefits brought by the advanced technology.
B. The recent study conducted by Elke den Ouden.
C. The loss caused by the feature creep of technology.
D. Many problems of usability known by the consumers.
13. Which of the following is true according to the second paragraph?
A. It is the audience problem that leads to feature creep.
B. What matters to designers and marketers is not good for consumers.
C. Feature creep brings blessings to the people in marketing and sales.
D. The engineers will not pay attention to the quality of the product
14. What do we know about the buyers in paragraph 4?
A. They are deeply convinced that all the products work in simple way.
B. They are fed up with the more and more features of the products.
C. They are too confident of their ability to use the complicated products.
D. They are quite clear about the products which will make them happy.
15. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Saying No to Feature Creep is No Easy Thing
B. Feature-heavy Products in Demand
C. The More Features, the Better
D. Simplicity Outweighs Complexity
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The Lomax family needed a dog. Though their house wasalready full with seven people, they knew a dog would truly make the house a home. So they settled on a dog whom they named Jack.____16____ It was Jack’s protective instinct (本能) that would eventually save the lives of Lomax family. Indeed, if it wasn’tfor him, the family may never have survived the terrible accident that would eventually befall (降临到头上) them one cold January day in 2017.
It was a night like many others. Autumn, the family’s youngest child and her mother Ashley had settled into bed in oneof the bedrooms on the second floor. Jack, who rarely left Autumn’s side, had settled in there as well.____17____At some point during the night, while the family was fast asleep, a fire had started in one of the other second-floor bedrooms, Jack had picked up a whiff (些微的气味) of the smoke in the next room. In an instant, the brave dog jumped into action.
The four-legged family member knew something was wrong but had no way of telling his owners.____18____She pushed him off her and tried to roll over but he began again.Then he went to Autumn and did the same thing until both were up.
____19____She screamed at the top of her lungs as she ran from the room, alerting (使警觉) the rest of the family to the disaster that was taking place. Jack did his part again too, barkingas loudly as he could. Ashley’s scream woke the four other adults and two more children.____20____
In no time at all, the fire had engulfed (吞没) nearly the entire home, but luckily, all of the Lomax had made it out alive, with Jack leading the way.
A. itturned out to be the best decision they ever made.
B. Jack took to little Autumn, the youngest of the family.
C. He jumped upon Ashley’s bed and began touching her face.
D. Their old house had been in the Lomax family for more than 30 years.
E. All of them jumped out of bed and headed out into the cold January night.
F. Little did they know that something terrible was about to happen that night.
G. As soon as she could, Ashley took hold of Autumn and began to move away from the door.
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“One, two, three, four, ...” that is the___21___for six people facing a cold, dark morning at Kamezuka park in Tokyo to bend, stretch, jump, and run on the_______22_______. It has become a___23___of daily life in Japan since the broadcasts, known as radio calisthenics (广播体操).
The three-minute workout is the____24____ way to start the day, says Yukihide, a 79-year-old retired businessman who has_____25_____ the routine nearly every day for a decade. “The exercises aren’t that___26___and afterwards you feel like your body has___27___woken up.”
Today, as Tokyo prepares to______28______ the 2020 Olympics, Japan is hoping to _______29_______ interest in radio calisthenics. Children perform radio calisthenics before school sports days, earning_____30_____ that can be exchanged for stationery (文具). Regular participants_____31_____a broad range of Japanese society: construction, factory and office workers who are encouraged to___32___their desks and start moving at 3pm every weekday.
Studies show that people who exercise this way for just a few minutes a day have improved bone density (密度),______33______ risk of suffering a stroke or heart attack, and are generally in better___34___shape than other people their age who don’t___35___.
“There is evidence that physically activeolder adults have____36____rates of high blood pressure, compared with more___37___adults,” the report said.
The Kamezuka park regulars have finished their workout. “It can be______38______ going on a dark morning, but for some reason we all keep_____39_____ up,” says Maruyama, who has sweated. “And I’d say we’re all in pretty good___40___.”
21. A.topic B.response C.signal D.custom
22. A.spot B.stage C.platform D.move
23. A.routine B.greeting C.feast D.stage
24. A.plain B.perfect C.terrible D.difficult
25. A.analyzed B.celebrated C.studied D.followed
26. A.easy B.cosy C.difficult D.interesting
27. A.hardly B.luckily C.additionally D.properly
28. A.attend B.host anize D.cancel
29. A.raise B.decrease C.absorb D.change
30. A.money B.credits C.fame D.position
31. A.influence B.know C.cover D.visit
32. A.clean B.carry C.mend D.leave
33. A.reduced B.increased C.changed D.brought
34. A.mental B.physical C.logical D.psychological
35. A.work B.travel C.exercise D.think
36. A.higher B.worse C.stronger D.lower
37. A.energetic B.inactive C.knowledgeable D.enthusiastic
38. A.interesting B.hard C.boring D.beneficial
39. A.looking B.doing C.turning D.holding
40. A.shape B.uniform C.sunshine D.peace
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
There are no precise___41.___(criterion) that can be used to judge what is beautiful. As the anthropologist (人类学家) Margaret Mead once put___42.___, standards and ideas of beauty change across time. Nowadays, some costumes and actions once___43.___(regard) as beauty in the 19thcentury are not considered healthy or attractive, while something___44.___(fashion) now had different functions in the past.
There is no consistent view on beauty, as beauty is influenced by culture and it is even___45.___(whole) different in the eyes of beholders. In some countries, young women follow slimming diets to lose extra kilos___46.___preparation for their wedding day. In other cultures, looking thin for a husband-to-be is not___47.___a woman desires at all.
___48.___different, one thing is certain-it is inner beauty that requires us to truly see. Beauty, that is to say,___49.___(accompany) by an attraction to something deeper within a person, ___50.___can be found in a wide range of personal qualities.
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：在错的词下画划一横线，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l0处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I had been longing for my dream house. It will be an one-story wooden house with a huge courtyard, where I can grow whatever I like. It will be a living room, a dining room and three bedrooms. I will decorate my house a green way because it can make me to feel relaxed. With science and technology developing fast, many change will take place and the house will be smarter or smarter. For example, I will control a TV and a light just by talking to all of them. All of the housework will be done by robots, leave me more time to have fun and do something more meaningfully.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的新西兰好友Lucy打算来中国学习中医，发邮件向你询问中医的有关情况，请你回复邮件，内容包括：
1.表示欢迎；
2.简要介绍中医；
3.表达祝愿。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Lucy,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. A 9. C 10. A 11. A
12. C 13. C 14. C 15. A
16. A 17. F 18. C 19. E 20. D
21. C 22. A 23. A 24. B 25. D 26. C 27. D 28. B 29. A 30. B 31. C 32.
D 33. A 34. B 35. C 36. D 37. B 38. B 39. C 40. A
41. criteria
42. it 43. regarded
44. fashionable
45. wholly 46. in
47. what 48. However
49. is accompanied
50. which
51.(1). had→have
(2). an→a
(3). It→There
(4). a前加in
(5). 去掉to
(6). change→changes
(7). or→and
(8). all→both
(9). leave→leaving
(10). meaningfully→meaningful
52.略。