2019-2020学年株洲市第四中学高三英语下学期期末考试试题及参考答案

2019-2020学年株洲市第四中学高三英语下学期期末考试试题及参考
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
Many workers have had no choice but to adapt to working from home in recent months since offices shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic (新冠疫情). And the noisy situation and endless housework may result in a terrible emotion. A new option is waiting foryou. That is WFH: work from a hotel.
Hotel Figuero
A special program titled Work Perks aims to reposition some of 94-year-old Hotel Figuero’s 268 rooms as day-use offices.
According to Managing Director Connie Wang, the set-up launched in June and is a great opportunity to get out of their houses with high-speed Wi-Fi, unlimited printing privileges and free parking. The 350-square-foot rooms sell for $ 129 per day, with an option to extend to an overnight stay for an additional $ 20.
The Wythe
A boutique hotel inBrooklyn. The hotel recently announced a partnership with co-working office space company Industrious through which it is recycling 13 second-story guest rooms to serve as offices for up to four people.
Each of the rooms has a small outdoor platform, and dogs are welcome. Pricing starts at $ 200 and goes up to $ 275, depending on how many people use the space.
The Sawyer
The Sawyer, in Sacramento, California, is offering pool cabanas (更衣室) for use as outdoor offices, complete with fast Wi-Fi, free parking and catered lunch for $ 150 per day.
HotelsByDay
Yannis Moati founded HotelsByDay back in 2015. That company has grown to include more than 1,500 hotels, and has seen a significant increase in the number of inquiries for day-use bookings lately.
Moati said the current situation will force hotels to upgrade themselves to stay alive, and he predicted that offering rooms for day-use only is one of the directions they will go.
1. How much should one pay for a 24-hour stay in Hotel Figuero?
A. $ 129.
B. $ 149.
C. $ 150.
D. $ 200.
2. Which hotel allows pets in?
A. The Wythe.
B. The Sawyer.
C. HotelsByDay.
D. Hotel Figuero.
3. What do we know about Yannis Moati?
A. He started a program titledWork Perks.
B. He has upgraded at least 1,500 rooms.
C. He usually predicts everything correctly.
D. He is optimistic about the WFH trend.
B
As an eco-minimalist, Su Yige has maintained an environmentally friendly and sustainable lifestyle for the past three years while studying in Canada. She takes her own bag when she goes grocery shopping and uses second-hand items as often as possible. She avoids almost all paper-related products unless she has to use a public toilet while away from home.
Diligence and thrift are time-honored traditional Chinese virtues. Su's family is a good example of this, according to the native of Weihai, Shandong province. Although they have little formal “green” knowledge, her parents lead a very environmentally friendly life.
For example, the family has used the same hair dryer for more than a decade, and Su remembers many of her mother's clothes from as far back as kindergarten. “As long as something can still be used, my mother will not replace it with a new item,” she said.
“I frequently asked my father to bring the plastic bag back home after dumping our waste in the trash bin. He was unhappy, and argued that instead of making that request, I should go downstairs to dump the waste myself” she said. In another move, her father criticized her for doing too much shopping online. Eventually, they both made steps toward becoming better environmentalists. Her father brings the bag back for reuse and she has only bought two pieces of clothing online in the past six months.
Back in Canada, Su is looking forward to finding a job related to sustainable development in China after she graduates as a computer science major in the summer.
4. Which of the following best describes Su Yige?
A. Conservative.
B. Nostalgic.
C. Economical.
D. Productive.
5. What can be found about Su's mother according to the third paragraph?
A. She has a lot of formal green knowledge.
B. She regards using the same items as a lifestyle.
C. She always wears old clothes due to lack of money.
D. She will not replace the old items until they are out of style.
6. What can be inferred about Su and her father?
A. Both of them like to criticize each other.
B. Su's father is particular about her clothes.
C. The relationship between them is very tense.
D. They urge each other to become more environmentally friendly.
7. What can we learn about the author soon after she graduates in Canada?
A. She will stay there to look for a job.
B. She will put effort into computer science.
C. She will devote herself to her motherland's future.
D. She will come back to China to stay with her parents.
C
Mikah Frye, a 9-year-old boy, was walking down the streets with his grandmother discussing Christmas gifts when he saw some homeless people struggling to stay warm in the cold night. Then he was thinking about a way to help the homeless to spend a warm Christmas.
That thought stayed in Mikah Frye’s mind and when he reached home, Mikah informed his parents not to buy the Microsoft XBox gaming device he had asked for earlier. Mikah realized that by not buying the $300 device, he could instead donate over 30 blankets to the homeless. He knew how much it meant to be warm in the cold holiday season.
Three years ago, Mikah and his parents were the ones living in a homeless shelter. Having suffered a financial crisis, they too had lost their house, not knowing where their next meal would come from and sharing a blanket every night. Mikah was six years old then but he remembered what it was like to have to give back that precious blanket every morning.
Reaching out to the emergency shelter programme that looked after them 3 years ago, the family donated 60 blankets in the end, each with a personalized message of hope in Mikah’s handwriting stating: “They gave me a blanket, but I had to leave it. That’s why I want you to have your own blanket. Today, I live in my own house, and someday you will too. Your friend, Mikah.”
The homeless people at the shelter may not have been able to give Mikah a Christmas gift in return but his gesture was noted by the billion dollar company Microsoft who made sure that Mikah was fooled into visiting their store so that Santa Claus could personally deliver an XBox from the company to him as a reward for making the top of “Santa’s list of nice boys” that year.
8. Why did Mikah give up his Christmas gift?
A. The device was out of date.
B. His parents had a tight budget.
C. He wanted to spend a warm Christmas.
D. He decided to do something charitable.
9. What made Mikah have a better understanding of the situation of the homeless?
A. His own experience.
B. His parents’ education.
C. His visiting to the emergency shelter.
D. The cold weather during the holiday season.
10. What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?
A. The homeless gave Mikah a gift in return.
B. He finally got the gift he wanted on Christmas.
C. The company Microsoft fooled Mikah into buying an Xbox.
D Mikah wrote a thank-you note to the emergency shelter he lived in.
11. What might be the best title for the text?
A. Mikah’s Precious Christmas Gift
B. Mikah’s Giving Warmth on Christmas
C. Microsoft Rewarded Nice Boys on Santa’s List
D. The Homeless Needed Blankets on a Cold Christmas
D
ElonMusk is a symbol of passion, hard work and success. A person may work hard in his life, but when hard work goes along with passion and a new idea, then something is created that astonishes the world. As the founder of big companies like PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk is a guide and inspiration for the youth around the world.
Elon Musk was born on June 28,1971 inPretoria,South Africa. He was the eldest of three children. His father Errol Musk, a British-born South African, was an engineer. Musk spent his childhood inSouth Africaand at the age of 9, he got his first personal computer. This got Elon interested in programming and he started to learn on his own. At the age of 12, he made his first computer game, Blaster, which earned him $500 when he sold the source code to a magazine.
When he was 17, he decided to leave home and had wanted to move to theUnited Statesafter graduating from a secondary school inPretoria. However, he was unable to move to theUnited States. In 1989, Elon Musk moved toCanada, where his mother’s s lived. After obtaining Canadian citizenship, Musk went toMontreal. Due to a lack of money, he found a low-paying job. At the age of 19, he enteredQueensUniversityinKingston,Ontario, studying there for two years. Finally, in 1992, his dream came true—he moved to theUnited States.
As a teenager, Musk struggled with depression. But then he realized that the most important thing was presenting himself with the right questions. The day he started doing this, everything started to get easier.
Musk thought that a human being had to expand the limits of his consciousness—to ask the right questions and get answers to them; thus he asked the best question of all: what will have the greatest impact on the future of humans? Musk found that these things were the Internet and space exploration.
The life of Elon Musk is inspiring. He found success on the Internet, without much formal learning. By reading books and using his willpower and dedication, he reached a level of knowledge that is difficult to imagine. He did not give up until he achieved his dreams. Elon Musk truly stands out among other billionaires because of his leadership abilities, positive attitude, ability to know when to take risks, and belief in futuristic technologies.
12. According to the passage, Elon Musk gained knowledge of computer by ________.
A. teaching himself
B. learning from his father
C. taking online courses
D. studying inQueensUniversity
13. What made things easier for Elon Musk when he suffered from depression?
A. Expanding knowledge by reading books.
B. Asking himself the right questions.
C. Achieving success on the Internet.
D. Designing computer games.
14. What can we learn from the passage?
A. It’s never too late to learn.
B. Youth means limitless possibilities.
C. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
D. He who doesn’t advance falls backward.
15. Which words can best describe Elon Musk according to the passage?
A. Optimistic and generous.
B. Ambitious and determined.
C. Independent and helpful.
D. Adventurous and realistic.
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Finding motivation, especially study motivation, is not always easy.___16___Here are some ways of doing it.
Offer yourself encouragement.
Yes, you should give yourself a prize or some kind of reward when you've done atask.___17___Remember, you have to know the exact conditions that you need to meet in order to receive the wonderful cake.
___18___
You need to feel confident about your studies. I am sure all of us have succeeded on several occasions. Remember these past successes and you will feel more motivated to continue!
Write down your goals.
Don't just think about them, don't just say them, write them down!___19___And that's why you find salesmen always want you to write something down before you actually buy something. By writing your name down, you are in a sense giving your support for their cause. If then you are asked to buy what they are selling, you are more likely to do that than if you hadn't signed the paper!
See your goals.
___20___Put them up on the wall and paste small post-it notes all over the place. You have to keep on reminding yourself of the purpose behind your studies and what type of results you're expecting to achieve.
A. Remember past successes.
B. The written word is very powerful.
C. Don't forget about buying yourself a gift.
D. Don't just write them down and leave them like that.
E. Moreover, talking about your goals with others helps a lot.
F. However, with a little effort we can learn how to increase our motivation.
G. It could be something as simple as sweets or something greater like a vacation.
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 on Father's Day, 20. 17. When I climbed up the final hill of the 13,0. 41 -foot-highGrandTraversePeak, my new running____21____, Merle - a one-year-old shepherd dog — was____22____to be seen.
I felt a terrifying attack as I____23____my way down the hill, still seeing no____24____of him. Then, several hundred feet____25____down, I saw his____26____on a five-foot-wide snow. I followed them carefully until they____27____off a steep chute（斜坡）.About 80. 0. feet below, the chute ended in a rock field and a massive cliff（悬崖）.Below that, I could see a wide, empty, snow-covered____28____There was no sign of Merle in the rock field. Then____29____I saw something running in the basin below me. "There he is!" I ran down. Merle was running downhill away from me. I couldn't follow his_____30_____without technical climbing_____31_____, so I
needed to find a safer way down. I could hear the bells on Merle's collar（项圈），but I couldn't see him. Ispent another hour_____32_____around until the bells on the collar and Merle's heavy breathing disappeared. That day, I went home with deep_____33_____
Three weeks later, a woman named Dana Gumber_____34_____a poor dog outside her yard, weak and extremely thin. Luckily, Gumber found the dog still had a collar. That afternoon, she_____35_____a message on my cellphone: "I have Merle. Please_____36_____me. I called her back and got a（n）_____37_____answer : Merle was still alive.
I drove him to the animal hospital from Gumber's house. Merle was skinny weak after the long_____38_____with wounds, but, surprisingly, none of his_____39_____were broken. Over the next week Merle_____40_____beautifully.
21. A. racer B. partner C. traveler D. staff
22. A. everywhere B. anywhere C. somewhere D. nowhere
23. A. picked B. arranged C. lost D. forced
24. A. attention B. belt C. sign D. shelter
25. A. later B. longer C. higher D. farther
26. A. legs B. figures C. footprints D. sledges
27. A. took B. disappeared C. sank D. turned
28. A. house B. basin C. hill D. river
29. A. In turn B. As well C. In addition D. All at once
30. A. route B. words C. goal D. instructions
31. A. organization B. training C. equipment D. preparation
32. A. searching B. coming C. sticking D. getting
33. A. excitement B. sadness C. shock D. confusion
34. A. fed B. treated C. noticed D. heard
35. A. received B. took C. wrote D. left
36. A. help B. appreciate C. record D. call
37. A. extraordinary B. distant C. amazing D. anxious
38. A. journey B. voyage C. adventure D. transport
39. A. spirits B. bones C. goods D. functions
40. A. recovered B. grew C. screamed D. benefited
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
The great scientist Albert Einstein didn’t seem to be bright when he was young. No one ever thought that shy, young, Albert would grow up to change the world. He was so slow in learning to speak that he___41.___(consider) a bit dull. Here is the story of his___42.___(young).
Albert Einstein was never happy in school. He did not like to memorize facts and rules. He answered___43.___(slow) because he was a thinker. And he asked difficult questions,___44.___made teachers think that he was trying to make trouble. However, young Einstein did learn what interested him. He was interested in what lay below the surface of things. When he was five, for example, his father gave him a compass (指南针) with___45.___moving needle. This made Albert Einstein curious___46.___the unseen forces that could keep a compass needle always___47.___(point) north. When he was a teenager, he read a lot about science. He had already started to wonder about the___48.___(mystery) of the universe. When he was 17, Einstein entered the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, where he___49.___(study) mathematics and physics. He stayed away from many lectures and did not impress his professors,____50.____he was actually studying very hard all the time.
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:在错词下划一横线，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。

Dear Jack,
Welcome to my school! Upon your arrival, there will be a party for you organizing by my classmates. You may attend to English classes to feel a differently learning style. After that, you can go to your host family that you can experience the Chinese way of life. You can have meals together chatting about whatever interest you.
The host family will also show you off some famous scenic spots. You can see people selling kites everywhere because our city was home to kites．There are varieties of kites to choose. So isn’t that a good idea to buy some for your friends? Write to me unless you have any questions about the schedule．
Yours,
Li Hua 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是学校学生会的一位干部，近来我国河南省多处遭受水灾，请以学生会的名义就环境保护问题给全校学生写一封英文倡议信并刊登在你校英文报上，内容包括：
1.极端天气频繁的原因及其负面影响；
2.提出具体保护环境的措施。

注意：1.写作词数应为80左右（开头和结尾均已给出，不计入总词数）；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear teachers and fellow students,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________
Students’ Union
参考答案
1. B
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. D 9. A 10. B 11. B
12. A 13. B 14. C 15. B
16. F 17. G 18. A 19. B 20. D
21. B 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. D 26. C 27. B 28. B 29. D 30. A 31. C 32.
A 33.
B 34.
C 35.
D 36. D 37. C 38. A 39. B 40. A
41. was considered
42. youth 43. slowly
44. which 45. a
46. about 47. pointing
48. mysteries
49. studied
50. but
51.(1).organizing→organized
(2).attend 去掉to
(3).differently→different
(4).that→where
(5).interest→interests
(6).off→around
(7).was→is
(8). choose 后加from
(9). that→it
(10). unless→if/when 52.略。