2020年昆明市第三中学空港实验学校高三英语期末考试试题及参考答案

2020年昆明市第三中学空港实验学校高三英语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
The Internet can provide a wealth of educational resources for small children, if you know where to look.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted learning is a great website for children, and I know several teachers who rely on it for materials for their classrooms. Most of the information is free, but for $ 20.00 per year, you can purchase a membership that allows you to have access to the site without the advertising. The pages here are great. There are color1 ed pages and worksheets for toddlers (学步儿童) and school-age children.
Starfall
Starfall is another good educational website for small children. Teachers often use this website in classrooms. It emphasizes reading skills for early learners. The website is aimed at first-grade-level learners, but it has tools that can help all children from pre-K to second grade. The website has reading activities, worksheets to download, and a store where you can purchase educational materials for your children.
Sesame Street Workshop
Kids loveSesame Street, and it is always educational. This is one of the funniest websites online for children because it is very well animated and has great sound effects. The website has games and stories for small kids, and they can create letters at the post office and mail them to their favorite characters.
1. Why does Enchanted Learning offer purchasing memberships?
A. Charging for the information.
B. Charging for downloading materials.
C. Giving access to the site without the ads.
D. Providing unlimited search for more pages.
2. Where can you buy educational materials for your children?
A. Enchanted Learning
B. Starfall
C. Sesame Street Workshop
D. Colored pages
3. What is the purpose of this text?
A. To introduce.
B. To discuss.
C. To persuade.
D. To educate.
B
About a billion birds die from flying into buildings each year inNorth America. Suspicions havebeen that birds may regard the open areas behind glass as safe passageways. Or they may mistake the reflected trees for the real thing.
Researchers would like to reduce collisions, which requires a solid understanding about what makes a bird more or less likely to die by crashing into a building in the first place.
“There was ly little known at a broad scale. Previous studies were at one small study site.'' Jared Elmore, a graduate student in natural resource ecology and management atOklahomaStateUniversity. So he and his colleagues used a previously created data set of building collisions for birds at 40 sites throughoutMexico,Canadaand theU.S.
The first finding was obvious: bigger buildings with more glass kill more birds. But the details were more remarkable. "We found that life history predicted collisions. Migrants(候鸟), insect-eaters and woodland-inhabiting species collided more than their counterparts(同类).”
Most migratory species travel at night, when lights near buildings can distract or disorient(使迷失方向)them. And Elmore thinks that insect-eating birds might be attracted to buildings because their insect prey(猎物)is attracted to the lights. He suspects that woodland species get tooled by the reflections of trees and bushes in the windows. The results are in the journal Conservation Biology.
By understanding which birds are more likely to collide with buildings, researchers can perhaps determine the best way to adapt buildings, or their lighting, to help prevent such accidents. And by knowing risks, along with migration timing and behavior, building managers can better predict when birds are at their greatest danger - and improve lighting strategics accordingly.
Elmore's next project will use radar to help predict bird migrations. " I think that would maybe go a long way in terms of providing information to people, to the public, to building managers, on when they can get the most benefit in terms of lights-out policies."
4. What is the possible reason for birds' crashing into buildings?
A. They didn't see the buildings.
B. They took reflections for reality.
C. They assumed the windows to be open.
D. They considered buildings as safe routes.
5. What is Jared Elmore's study different from the previous ones?
A. It created a new data set.
B. It went beyond national borders.
C. It covered a wider range of sites.
D. I’ll studied some specific bird species.
6. What was the most noticeable finding of Jared Elmore's study?
A. Migratory species travel at night.
B. Birds tend to be misled by glasses.
C. Bigger buildings cause more collisions.
D. Birds living habits give rise to collisions.
7. Which of the following can help reduce bird collision?
A. Adjust the lightening system.
B. Attach radars to each building.
C. Adopt strict lights-out policies.
D. Ban using glasses on buildings.
C
This past year, I've found myself returning again and again to lines of poetry by Emily Dickinson. Like many people, I've needed the curing effects of reading more than ever. As scientists and psychologists will tell you, books are good for the brain and their benefits are particularly vital now.
Books expand our world, providing an escape and offering novelty, surprise and excitement. They broaden our view and help us connect with others. Books can also distract us and help reduce ourmental chatter.When we hit the “flow state" of reading where we're fully lost in a book, our brain's mode network calms down. It's a network of brain that is active and gets absorbed in thinking and worrying endlessly when we are not doing anything else.
There is so much noise in the world right now and the very act of reading is kind of meditation. You disconnect from the chaos around you.You reconnect with yourself when you are reading. And there's no more noise.
In 2020, the NPD Group recorded the best year of book sales since 2004. Yet even as people are buying more books,many are reporting they're having a harder time getting through them. It's difficult for your brain to focus on a book when it's constantly scanning for threats to keep you alive.Our fight-or-flight response has been
consistently activated.
Sometimes I picture my brain as a cartoon brain with little arms and legs, fighting with a book I am holding and screaming: “Can't you see I'm busy!” Anxiety causes our brain to produce a flood of stress,which consumes our energy and makes it harder to concentrate.
Then one day in December sitting on my couch, I remembered how much I like to read"The House of Mirth" every few years around the holidays. The memory inspired me to pick up the familiar book, opened it up and started reading.I just kept going.The comfort and distraction and brain-opening experience gave me peace.So return to something familiar.
8. What does the underlined part “mental chatter” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Getting lost in a book.
B. Non-stop inner anxiety.
C. Chatting with the author.
D. Powerful network of brain.
9. What do we know about reading according to the text?
A. It can treat our headache.
B. It can calm down the noisy people.
C. It forces us to concentrate.on thinking.
D. It makes us communicate with ourselves.
10. Why was it difficult for people to finish reading books in 2020?
A. People bought too many books.
B. The books were too difficult to understand.
C. People just wanted to escape from the threat.
D. The life threat disturbed people's focus on books.
11. Why is the author's experience mentioned in the last paragraph?
A. To rid people of concern for safety.
B. To present an effective reading way.
C. To wake up memories of an old book.
D. To recommend the book he/she reads.
D
An anti-obesity program for Australian girls didn’t lead to any improvements in their diet, physical activities
or body weight a year later, according to a new report.
Findings from the school-based intervention (介入), which involved exercise sessions and nutrition workshops for lower-income girls, are the latest disappointment in a lot of research attempting tohead offadult obesity and the disease risks that come with it.
Especially during the middle-and high-school years, girls’ physical activity reduces obviously, according to lead researcher David Lubans, from theUniversityofNewcastleinNew South Wales,Australia. He said, “In the future we need to make the programs more interesting and exciting and present information in a way that is meaningful to adolescent girl.”
Lubans and his workmates conducted their study in 12 schools in low-income areas ofNew South Wales. At the start of the study, girls in both groups weighed an average of close to 130pounds, with about four in ten considered overweight. Over the next year, adolescents in the intervention group were given pedometers (计步器) to encourage walking and running and invited to nutrition workshops and regular exercise sessions during the schoolday and at lunchtime. Participation in some of those activities were less than ideal. For example, the girls went to only one-quarter of lunchtime exercise sessions, and less than one in ten completed at-home physical activity or nutrition challenges, the researchers reported. At the end of the year, girls in both groups had gained a similar amount of weight and there was no difference in their average body fat.
Preventive medicine researcher Robert Klesges said that although some anti-obesity programs have helped adults lose weight, the teen population has always been a source of failure for researchers. “The common belief is: nothing works,” he said. “And we have got to get beyond that.”
“We need to think outside the box,” said Klesges, who wasn’t involved in the new study. “That could include learning from what has worked in adult studies, such as giving meal replacement drinks or prepared foods to teens who have trouble making changes to their diet. Or, it could mean using a “step-care” method — rather than researchers or their doctor telling them to keep doing the same thing.” Klesges said.
12. The underlined words “head off” in Paragraph 2 can best be replaced by “________”.
A. damage
B. defend
C. prevent
D. affect
13. The methods used in the program to stop obesity don’t include ________.
A. walking and running
B. inviting them to nutrition workshops
C. joining exercise sessions regularly
D. giving meal replacement drinks
14. The main reason for the failure of the anti-obesity program is probably that ________.
A. the participants didn’t take an active part in it
B. the program was not interesting and exciting to participants
C. the participants didn’t get extra nutrition or exercise help
D. the program didn’t pay attention to healthy exercise
15. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. As researchers, it is important to have creative research methods.
B. Researchers need to give meals or prepare foods to participants.
C. Teen girls have no difficulty in making changes to their diet.
D. Some ant-obesity programs have not helped adults lose weight.
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As a teen, have you ever been called childish or “immature” by adults or older peers in your life?____16____. If you want your behavior to reflect maturity, start off with:
If you want to act in a mature fashion, you need to respect authority. No matter where you go home, school, or work—you will have to obey rules set by authority figures.____17____, so comply with them. It's normal for teens to want to push back against authority sometimes. If you want to discuss rules with authority figures, argue your case in a respectful manner. That way, the adult is more likely to listen.
____18____. Follow through with commitments and take care of yourself and your responsibilities on your own as much as you can. If you do get in trouble for some reason, be honest and accept whatever consequences might follow. By holding yourself responsible for your own actions, you can show your maturity to your parents and others.
Improve your manners. Having good manners shows respect.____19____. Good manners cover a wide range of behaviors: saying “yes, sir/ ma'am”, answering the phone with “hello”, not interrupting others' conversations, chewing with your mouth closed, and holding the door for the person walking behind you.
Develop smart and healthy habits. A mature teen knows to say “no” to delinquent behaviors. Using alcohol and drugs, lying, stealing, fighting, acting recklessly, or destroying others' property will only get you into trouble or hurt.____20____. And stay away from negative influences.
A. Be responsible
B. Manage your time wisely
C. In most cases, these rules are set to keep you and others safe
D. Proper behavior also helps adults see you as more mature
E. Instead, be drug-free, and wear your seat belt when driving a car
F. If you have, I'd bet you'd love nothing more than to prove them wrong
G. Become more mature by improving emotional responses and communication style
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Mr. Bean quickly shut the back door of the ambulance and started the engine. Inside were the___21___parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green. She was holding their baby daughter Sally. The little girl had___22___food stuck in her throat and could hardly breathe.
Mr. Bean,___23___his siren (报警器), and started speeding towards the nearest hospital, fighting against___24___. The cars ahead of him pulled out of the way as he drove through the___25___street. From the back of the___26___the parents were shouting at him to___27___, since Sally had almost___28___breathing. In front of him he saw some traffic lights, with the red “STOP” light shining. Mr. Bean knew that he had no time to___29___, so he drove straight past the traffic lights,___30___his left and right as he did so.
Coming towards him from his right was a taxi. The driver had the windows___31___, since the car was air-conditioned, and he was listening to the radio. He did not___32___the ambulance. The lights were green, so he drove straight___33___into the path of the ambulance. Mr. White tried to stop his ambulance but it was too late. It hit the taxi. Luckily, no one was hurt. Mr. Bean looked back to see___34___Sally was. He was astonished to see relief instead of___35___on the faces of the parents.
“Look! “ cried Mrs. Green. “She is___36___again.”
“It must have been the___37___.” said Mr. Green. “It___38___the food out of her throat.” The baby’s color1 was turning to normal, and she was crying in a loud but healthy___39___. They were all joyful, and___40___forgot about the accident, the taxi, and the lines of cars all around them.
21. A. worried B. angry C. happy D. surprised
22. A. any B. some C. none D. no
23. A. turned down B. turned on C. turned off D. turned up
24. A. police B. enemy C. lights D. time
25. A. empty B. deserted C. busy D. large
26. A. street B. car C. road D. ambulance
27. A. hurry B. continue C. ride D. drive
28. A. kept B. stopped C. prevented D. forbade
29. A. think B. look C. lose D. shout
30. A. looking to B. looking at C. looking for D. looking out
31. A. open B. clean C. closed D. down
32. A. hear B. see C. find D. notice
33. A. away B. on C. off D. out
34. A. who B. what C. where D. how
35. A. pleasure B. anger C. fear D. surprise
36. A. breathing B. crying C. smiling D. speaking
37. A. traffic B. policeman C. car D. crash
38. A. took B. picked C. knocked D. made
39. A. sound B. voice C. tone D. noise
40. A. immediately B. eventually C. hardly D. completely
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 iceberg____41.____was for a time the biggest in the world is no more. A68, as it was known,____42.____(cover) an area of nearly 6,000 square kms when it broke away____43.____Antarctica in 2017. That's like____44.____small country.____45.____satellites show the mega-berg has now virtually(实际上) gone, broken into____46.____(count) small fragments(碎片) that the US National Ice Center says are no longer worth tracking . Most glaciologists(冰川学家) regard A68 as the product of a very natural process, and it has nothing to do with human-induced climate change.
British Antarctic Survey also put a couple of robots in the ocean in February____47.____(study) up close some of A68's latter-day segments(碎片). One went missing soon after, and the other____48.____(actual) got stuck under the ice for two weeks before managing to free____49.____(it) and continue its observations. This robot will be recovered in May to pull down(收集) its data. It should reveal information about_____50._____icebergs affect their surroundings by, for example, dumping fresh water into the ocean as they melt.
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句子,请你修改你同桌写的以下句子。

文中共有10处语言错误,每句只有一处错误，且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(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

He became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people exposing to cholera.
He also noticed that some houses (such as 20 and 21 Broad Street and 8 and 9 Cambridge Street) have had no deaths.
Although he had tried to ignore them, all his mathematical calculations led to the same conclusion which the earth was not the center of the solar system.
Only if you put the sun there the movements of the other planets in the sky make sense.
I have to remind I constantly that I am really in AD 3008.
The next day Pingyu was leaving London to Windsor Castle.
I realized that I had been transported into the future of where was still my hometown.
You have three layers of the skin which acts as a barrier against disease, poisons and the sun’s harmful rays.
The skin will turn white when presses.
It is no doubt that John’s quick thinking and the first aid skills he learned at school saved Ms Slade’s life.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy asSusanmade her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to feel the seats, settled in one of them.
It had been a year since Susan became blind. As the result of an accident she was suddenly thrown into a world of darkness. Susan’shusbandMark watched her sink into hopelessness and he was determined to use every possible means to help his wife.
Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take thebus, but she was now toofrightenedto get around the city by herself. Markvolunteeredto ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening until she could manage it by herself.
For two weeks, Mark accompanied Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other senses, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new environment.
At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip on her own. Mondaymorningarrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband tightly, her eyes filled withtearsof gratitude (感激). She said good-bye and, for the first
time, they went their separate ways. Each day went perfectly, and a wild excitement took hold of Susan. She was doing it!
注意：
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph1：
On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
Paraghaph2:
Tears of happiness poured down Susan’s cheeks.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. B 9. D 10. D 11. B
12. C 13. D 14. A 15. A
16. F 17. C 18. A 19. D 20. E
21. A 22. B 23. B 24. D 25. C 26. D 27. A 28. B 29. C 30. A 31. C 32.
A 33.
B 34. D 35.
C 36. A 37.
D 38. C 39. B 40.
41. that/which
42. covered
43. from 44. a
45. But 46. countless
47. to study
48. actually
49. itself 50. how
51.(1). exposing→exposed
(2). have→had或去掉have
(3). which→that
(4). 在there后面加did/do
(5). I→myself
(6). to→for (7). where→what
(8). acts→act
(9). presses→pressed
(10). It→There
【51题详解】
考查过去分词。

句意：当他想到帮助那些感染霍乱的普通人时，他就受到了启发。

名词people和expose是逻辑上的动宾关系，用过去分词表被动，作名词people的后置定语。

故将exposing改为exposed。

【52题详解】
考查时态。

句意：他还注意到一些房屋（如20号和21号布罗德街，8号和9号剑桥街）没有死亡。

由主句谓语noticed可知，时态为一般过去时，从句谓语动词have此动作发生在主句谓语动作之前，即“过去的过去”，用过去完成时had had；或从句讲的事情已发生，也用一般过去时，去掉have。

故将have改为had或去掉have。

【53题详解】
考查同位语从句引导词。

句意：尽管他曾试图忽它们，但他所有的数学计算都得出了同样的结论：地球不是太阳系的中心。

conclusion后接同位语从句（the earth was not the center of the solar system），从句结构完整，不缺“是否”含义，用只起连接作用、无意义的that引导从句。

故将which改为that。

【54题详解】
考查助动词。

句意：只有把太阳放在那里，天空中其他行星的运动才有意义。

由句意可知，本句即可表过去发生的事，也可表现在发生的事，时态用一般过去时或一般现在时，还原句子为：Only if you put the sun there the movements of the other planets in the sky made/make sense，“only +状语”放句首，主谓部分倒装，即助动词/系动词/情态动词+主语+部分谓语，本句把助动词did/do放在主语the movements of the other planets in the sky前。

故在there后面加did/do。

【55题详解】
考查代词。

句意：我不得不不断提醒我自己，我真的是在公元3008年。

主语I和宾语I都是指“我”，宾语用反身代词myself。

故将I改为myself。

【56题详解】
考查固定搭配。

句意：第二天，萍玉要离开伦敦去温莎城堡。

固定搭配leave…for…（离开……去……）。

故将to改为for。

【57题详解】
考查宾语从句引导词。

句意：我意识到我已经被带到了我家乡的未来。

介词of后接宾语从句（was still my hometown），从句缺乏主语，用what引导。

故将where改what。

【58题详解】
考查主谓一致。

句意：你的皮肤有三层，可以作为抵抗疾病、毒物和太阳有害射线的屏障。

本句讲的是事实，用一般现在时，先行词three layers of the skin（复数）后接定语从句，先行词在从句中作主语，主谓一致，谓语复数形式，用act。

故将acts改为act。

【59题详解】
考查省略句。

句意：按压时皮肤会变白。

本句为状语从句的省略，还原为：when the skin is pressed, 主从句主语相同，且谓语动词为be动词，主语和be动词可以省略。

故将presses改为pressed。

【60题详解】
考查固定句型。

句意：毫无疑问，约翰的快速思维和他在学校学到的急救技能救了斯莱德女士的命。

固定
句型There is no doubt that（毫无疑问……）。

故将It改为There 52.略。