2019-2020学年四川省金堂中学高三英语下学期期末试卷及答案解析

2019-2020学年四川省金堂中学高三英语下学期期末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
Design a science holiday to win a science holiday
Is there a scientific holiday,tour,vacation or experience in your list that you dream of making a reality? We might just be able to help with that! We are the crowd sourcing thoughts and suggestions onnew tours,and the winner will receive two free places on their tour when it's launched.
Starting entries 1st May 2020
Deadline 31st August 2020
ENTER NOW
---Write a brief description of your ideal science holiday,tour,vacation or experience.
---No matter how big or small,we are looking for brilliant, unique thoughts.It can be a complex multi-location overseas holiday tour,a weekend away deep-diving,or a simple walking tour(and everything in between).
---Our current tours are mainly individual-focused but we would love to hear ideas for families and schools.
---Creations that have environmentally friendly themes and a low carbon impact are also welcome.
---Your entry can be as simple as a great title but writing more specifies will improve the possibility of walking off with the prize.
---The competition doesn't close by September,2020,so plenty of time to brainstorm your entry.
---We will launch the best idea in late 2020 or at the beginning of 2021. The winner will receive the award once the result is published.
If you want to submit more than 3,999 words,include photos/maps with your entry, or submit multiple entries then send it to tours @ . The competition guidelines and other related information are available at .
1. When will the winner probably be announced?
A. In August,2020.
B. In September,2020.
C. In January,2021.
D. In May,2021.
2. What kind of entries might be more likely to win?
A. Those producing a low carbon impact.
B. Those with a long and unique title.
C. Those providing detailed information.
D. Those for individual-focused tours.
3. What is the purpose of this text?
A. To give guidance on a competition.
B. To advertise a science holiday.
C. To inspire creativity in teenagers.
D. To collect the ideas for tours.
B
You've probably heard it suggested that you need to move more throughout the day, and as a general rule of thumb, that "more" is often defined as around 10,000 steps. With many Americans tracking their stepsvia new fitness-tracking wearables, or even just by carrying their phone, more and more people use the 10,000-step rule as their marker for healthy living. Dr. Dreg Hager, professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins, decided to take a closer look at that 10,000-step rule, and he found that usingitas a standard may be doing more harm than good for many.
“It turns out that in 1960 in Japan they figured out that the average Japanese man, when he walked 10,000 steps a day burned something like 3,000 calories and that is what they thought the average person should consume so they picked 10,000 steps as a number” Hager said.
According to Hager, asking everyone to shoot for 10,000 steps each day could be harmful to the elderly or those with medical conditions, making it unwise for them to jump into that level of exercise, even if it's walking. The bottom line is that 10,000 steps may be too many for some and too few for others. He also noted that those with shorter legs have an easier time hitting the 10,000-step goal because they have to take more steps than people with longer legs to cover the distance. It seems that 10,000 steps may be suitable for the latter.
A more recent study focused on older women and how many steps can help maintain good health and promote longevity (长寿).The study included nearly 17,000 women with an average age of 72. Researchers found that women who took 4,400 steps per day were about 40% less likely to die during a follow-up period of just over four years: Interestingly, women in the study who walked more than 7,500 steps each day got no extra boost in longevity.
4. What does the underlined word "it' in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. The phone recording.
B. The 10,000-step rule.
C. The healthy living.
D. The fitness-tracking method.
5. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
A. How many steps a Japanese walks.
B. How we calculate the number of steps.
C. If burning 3,000 calories daily is scientific.
D. Where 10,000 steps a day came from.
6. Who will probably benefit from 10,000 steps each day according toHager?
A. Senior citizens.
B. Young short-legged people.
C. Healthy long-legged people
D. Weak individuals.
7. How many steps may the researchers suggest senior citizens take each day?
A. 4,400 steps.
B. 10,000 steps.
C. 2,700 steps.
D. 7,500 steps.
C
We touch our faces all the time, and it had never seemed to be a big problem—until COVID-19 arrived. Touching our faces—the "T-zone" of our eyes, nose and mouth in particular—can mean giving ourselves the deadly virus.
This is why organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have suggested that we avoid touching our faces. "Just stop this simple behavior," William Sawyer, founder of Henry the Hand, a nonprofit organization that promotes hand hygiene (卫生), told The Washington Post. "It's the one behavior that would be better than any vaccine (疫苗) ever created."
Yet, stopping this "simple" behavior might be harder than you think because it's already hardwired (固定存在于) into our system.
Some face touchingis an automatic reflex (反射) —like when there is an itch (痒) on your nose, you'll scratch (挠) it without thinking. According to CNBC, a 2014 study found that touching your face also helps to reduce stress and regulate emotions. For example, you're more likely to do it when you feel awkward or embarrassed. According to Dacher Keltner, a psychologist at the University of California Berkeley, US, this action may also come with a social function: When you are talking to someone and want to change the subject, for example, touching your face is like "the curtains on a stage, closing up one act of the social drama, ushering (引导) in the next," Keltner told the BBC.
Moreover, face-touching in almost all of these occasions is subconscious, which means it's very hard to
change "because you don't even know you're doing it", said Sawyer. But you're not alone. In a 2015 study, wherea group of medical students were filmed in class, it was found that they touched their faces an average of 23 times an hour—with 44 percent of the touches being in the "T-zones". That was particularly surprising since medical students were supposed to know better.
Since it's so hard to shake the habit, maybe the easiest way is to wash our hands more often. This way, we can be sure that our hands are free from the novel coronavirus.
8. What do the first two paragraphs talk about?
A. The best way to fight COVID-19
B. How organizations are fighting COVID-19.
C. Typical hand hygiene problems in the fight against COVID-19.
D. The necessity to avoid touching our faces to fight COVID-19.
9. Why is it hard for people to stop touching their faces?
A. It makes people feel more confident.
B. Many are unaware of this behavior's risks.
C. They usually do it automatically and subconsciously
D. Many think the action helps them express their emotions.
10. Which of the following is a social function of touching faces, according to the text?
A. Using it as a sign to change the topic
B. Bringing a conversation to an end.
C. Showing an interest in the ongoing subject.
D. Making others feel relaxed while talking.
11. What is the author's purpose in mentioning a 2015 study on a group of medical students?
A. To give tips on how to stop touching faces.
B. To prove that it is common for people to touch their faces.
C. To show it is impossible to shake the habit of touching your face.
D. To show how hygiene awareness helps people avoid touching their faces.
D
Did you know that horses talk? Well, they do, and you can lean to understand “horse talk” if you pay close attention to the horses you see.
When horses live in the wild, other animals try to eat them, so a lot of horse talk is about staying alive. Even
now, when most horses live on farms, they watch for danger. For this reason, never walk behind a horse. If you surprise it, the horse might mistake you for a mountain lion or wolf and give a dangerous kick.
By watching the ears of a horse, you can get clues to what it's hearing. A horse can tum each ear in a different direction. For a wild horse, this trick is important for survival. The horse can hear something sneaking up behind it while also checking out a threatening noise in front. When a horse lets its ears down, it's feeling safe and relaxed. If horses becomeisolated, they neigh, or “whinny,” calling for company. They're saying, “Where are you? I'm over here!” If a horse snorts(哼) while holding its head high and staring at something, it's saying, “That looks dangerous. Get ready to run!” When two horses meet, they put their noses together and smell each other's breath. It's their way of asking, “Are you a friend?” Horses nicker,too. Nickering is a quiet sort of sound. This friendly noise means they're feeling secure and saying, “Clad to see you.”
In the wild, horses live in herds, with all members watching for danger. In a herd, only one horse is the leader, the “boss hoss”. The “boss hoss” is usually an older female. She watches for threats and teaches younger horses how to behave. However, others may want her job. When that happens, she pins her ears back against her head and may even bite or kick to get challengers to back off. She's using body language to say, “Hey, I'm in charge here!” All horses know that the one who makes others move is the leader. Horses relate to people that way, too.
Horses have a language of their own. Now you know a bit of what they might be saying.
12. What is the general idea of this passage?
A. Horses can talk with their owners.
B. You can know a bit of horses' language.
C. Horses can “talk” in their own way.
D. Other animals can also learn language.
13. What does the underlined word “isolated” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Lonely.
B. Glad.
C. Sad.
D. Frightened.
14. What will a horse do when he wants to know whether another horse is a friend?
A. He will let his ears down.
B. He and another horse will put their noses together and smell each other's breath.
C They both will hold their heads high and stare at something.
D. He will give another horse a dangerous kick.
15. How will the “boss hoss” deal with her challengers?
A. By warning or fighting.
B. By watching for threats.
C. By teaching younger horses how to behave.
D. By relating to people.
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Much meaning can be conveyed clearly with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.
Do you have such kind of experience?___16___, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at,he may feel uncomfortable.
___17___. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down to see if there is anything wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry toward other's stare with you that way. Eyes do speak, right?
___18___. But things are different when it comes to staring at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds, his intentions are obvious, that is, he wishes to attract her attention to make her understand that he is admiring her. In fact, continuous eye contact occurs between lovers only, who will enjoy looking at each other tenderly for a long time to show affection that words cannot express.
However, the normal eye contact for two people engaged in conversation is that the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time, in order to make sure that the listener is attentive.___19___, as if he tries to control you, you will feel uncomfortable. A poor liar usually exposes himself by looking too long at the victim, since he believes in the false idea that to look straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication.___20___.
Evidently, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the specific situation.
A. Quite the contrary
B. The same is in daily life
C. In a bus you may look at a stranger
D. Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude
E. This shows the listener is interested in your speech
F. If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking
G. Sometimes it doesn't matter to look at someone too long
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
完形填空（共20小题；每小题21.5分，满分30分）
Bringing a baby home is always a special moment, but it was made even sweeter for Dustin and Caren Moore on a Southwest Airlines flight. When the new parents flew home with their adopted newborn daughter, they were___21___to a special baby shower(迎婴派对).
Sharing details of what happened, Dustin___22___to bring some positivityto Twitter and remind people there is___23___in this world.
On Nov. 8. 2019, theMooresflew fromColoradotoCalifornia. As first-time parents, they felt___24___but determined in their new___25___. When their daughter needed a diaper (尿布)change, a flight attendant named Jenny___26___space in the back of the plane to make it___27___for them. Then, Jenny and another passenger praised their beautiful daughter and___28___asked why they took such a(n)___29___baby on the plane. Dustin gave them the shortened adoption story, to which they offered____30____, and shared a few more kind____31____. Suddenly, they heard the____32____, “Ladies and gentlemen, there’s a very special guest on the flight today. She’s only 8 days old and she’s____33____home with her parents.”
Flight attendants then____34____napkins(餐巾纸) and asked passengers to share any words of____35____they may have for the new parents. Finally, 60 napkins were handed to the Moores, who were____36____by the kindness of strangers. And someof the tips have already been____37____.
Dustin really likes the one that says get sleep when the baby sleeps. Another____38____that the family adopt a dog, which is something Dustin would love to do.
“Those____39____helped us realize everything will be____40____,” Dustin said. “We believe our daughter will live a good life and be a wonderful person.”
22. A. delivered B. referred C. treated D. interrupted
23. A. hesitated B. intended C. demanded D. regretted
24. A. desire B. sorrow C. burden D. goodness
25. A. depressed B. threatened C. nervous D. guilty
26. A. role B. edge C. skill D. record
27. A. occupied B. cleared C. displayed D. explored
28. A. obvious B. different C. worthwhile D. convenient
29. A. thankfully B. hopefully C. politely D. definitely
30. A. young B. ordinary C. sick D. moody
31. A. congratulations B. chances C. rewards D. codes
32. A. reviews B. remarks C. choices D. programs
33. A. explanation B. protest C. argument D. announcement
34. A. accompanying B. contacting C. leaving D. traveling
35. A. passed out B. knock out C. hold out D. find out
36. A. forgiveness B. wisdom C. justice D. welcome
37. A. relieved B. confused C. impressed D. abandoned
38. A. enough B. shocking C. optional D. helpful
39. A. suggested B. determined C. required D. replied
40. A. attendants B. strangers C. s D. audiences
41. A. messy B. ready C. fine D. true
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
Du Fu (712—770) is____41.____(consider) to be one of the greatest poets of the Tang Dynasty in China.His mother died in his early childhood and his aunt helped to raise him.Du Fu studied hard for the civil service exam to become a civil servant like his father,____42.____he failed to pass and spent many years travelling.His early poems combined incidents from his travels ____43.____the hardships he experienced.
Du Fu ____44.____(appoint) registrar (登记员) in the prince’s palace, but the Ah Lushan Rebellion (叛乱) of 755 prevented him from____45.____(occupy) the post.The rebellion,____46.____lasted for nearly eight years, severely disrupted Chinese society.In these years, he struggled for life, writing____47.____(poem) about the events he witnessed.
Du Fu____48.____(final) moved to Sichuan, where he lived in a cottage and wrote many poems describing his ly happy life.His last years were spent moving from place to place, including____49.____two-year period at Kuizhou.He is described as a poet-historian, and his works record many_____50._____(politics) and social events.
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。

Yesterday, Miss Li told us about that we were going to make an advertisement for our club. She asked us to plan ours advertisement carefully. Most students found it difficulty to come up with ideas, but I don’t. I decided that I would have interviews with the students they used to go to the club, recording how they had benefited from go to the club. When I called them and explained what I wanted to do, they willing to help. On Friday’s morning, I’m going to visit them with a tape recorder or record what they say. I believe it will be a interesting advertisement.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的英国网友Peter上周在邮件中提到想阅读中国著名的小说，就此请你用英语给他写封回信。

内容包括：
1.推荐一本小说；
2.此书内容简介；
3.给出阅读建议。

注意:1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. C
2. C
3. D
4. B
5. D
6. C
7. A
8. D 9. C 10. A 11. B
12. C 13. A 14. B 15. A
16. C 17. B 18. D 19. F 20. A
21. C 22. B 23. D 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. A 31. B 32.
D 33. D 34. A 35. B 36. C 37. D 38. A 39. B 40. C
41. considered
42. but 43. with
44. was appointed
45. occupying
46. which 47. poems
48. finally
49. a 50. political
51.(1). 去掉about
(2). ours → our
(3). difficulty → difficult
(4). don’t → didn’t
(5). they → who / that
(6). go → going
(7). willing 前加were
(8).Friday’s → Friday
(9). or → and
(10). a → an
52.略。