2020年青海省平安县第一高级中学高三英语月考试题及参考答案

2020年青海省平安县第一高级中学高三英语月考试题及参考答案
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
On a rainy afternoon, maybe one of the following books will keep you company leisurely, allowing you to spend your time alone as well as stepping into a different world.
Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets,by Patricio Pron
In April 1945,Italy, a writer disappeared at a conference and was found dead at another place. Thirty years later, a young man interviewed survivors from the conference, trying to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. This novel, by a well-known Argentine writer, explores art, crime and politics.
When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
At thirty-six, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed (诊断) with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient. This autobiography finds hope and beauty in the face of death as Kalanithi attempts to answer the question “What makes a life worth living?”.
To Killa Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Set in a smallAlabamatown in the 1930s, the story focuses on honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch who puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson, a black man accused of committing a crime.
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) storyby Bess Kalb
Bess Kalb saved every voicemail from her grandmother Bobby Bell who died at ninety. In this book, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as loving as it ever was in life and brings us several generations of brave women. They include Bobby’s mother, who traveled alone fromBelarustoAmericato survive, and Bess’s mother, who always fought against convention.
1.What type of book is the first novel?
A.Sci-fi.
B.Biography.
C.Detective books.
D.History books.
2.Which book explores life and death?
A.To Kill a Mockingbird
B.When Breath Becomes Air
C.Don’t Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets
D.Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story
3.Who is the main character in the last novel?
A.Bobby Bell.
B.Bess Kalb.
C.Bess’s mother.
D.Bobby’s mother.
B
TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told the media on Monday if any places hosting events of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics declare a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 epidemic during the games, the events will continue to beheld but without spectators (观众). With one month to go before the games are due to begin on July 23, Suga is again showing his administration’s determination to hold the Olympic Games as planned, despite so much pressure from various parties urging it tocancel the event.
Although the Japanese government regards the Tokyo Olympics as an important opportunity to improve its soft power, the Japanese people’s enthusiasm for the Games has been continuously dented (挫伤) since they were postponed last year. The resurgence (再猖獗) of the novel coronavirus in some places is Japan in recent months has cast a shadow over people’s confidence that the Olympics will not give rise to new clusters (群) of infections, and there are fears that the Games will provide new channels for the virus’ global transmission.
Some torchbearers from Japan have withdrawn from the Olympic torch relay in the country. And the latest survey indicates only 34 percent of Japanese people support holding the games as scheduled. Predictably, the Suga administration will do all it can to try to ensure the games go ahead. But it remains to be seen whether it can stand the tests of the uncertainties related to epidemic prevention and control that might happen during the Games.
Since it has not yet got the virus under control at home, the people have reasons to question is ability to deal with the prevention and control work when large numbers of participants will be flocking to Japan from around the world in a short time. It is to be hoped that Japan can draw lessons from the organization of epidemic prevention and control work during the ongoing UEFA European Championship, carry out strict epidemic prevention and control measures, and be prepared for emergencies to guarantee the safety and success of the Olympics at this special time.
It should be a common wish of the whole world that the Tokyo Olympics can become a stage showing unity and resolve of human beings in their fight against the virus. That willendowthe games with special meaning beyond sports.
4. What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A. The virus’ global transmission.
B. People’ worry about the infections.
C. The resurgence of the novel coronavirus.
D. The benefit of holding the Tokyo Olympics.
5. How do about one third of Japanese people like holding the games as planned?
A. Uncertain.
B. Negative.
C. Approving.
D. Indifferent.
6. Which of the following words can replace the underlined word “endow” in the last paragraph?
A. Compare.
B. Equip.
C. Provide.
D. Charge.
7. What can be the best title for the news report?
A. Japan can ensure Olympics go ahead
B. Olympics big test for Japanese government
C. Japanese people’s enthusiasm for the Games
D. Japan to carry out strict epidemic prevention during the Games
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
Children's average daily time spent watching television or using mobile device increased from 53 minutes at age 12 months to more than 150 minutes at 3 years, according toan analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). By age 8, children were more likely to log the highest amount of screen time if they had
been in home-based children or were born to first-time mothers.
“Our results indicate that screen habits begin early, ”said Edwina Yeung, an investigator in National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).“This finding suggests that interventions(干涉) to reduce screen time could have a better chance of success if introduced early.”
In the research, mothers of 4, 000 children responded to questions on their kids' media habits when they were 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months of age.
TheAmericanAcademyof Pediatrics recommends avoiding digital media exposure for children under 18 months of age, introducing children 18 to 24 months of age to screen media slowly, and limiting screen time to an hour a day for children from 2 to 5 years of age. In the current study, researchers found that 87% of the children had screen time exceeding (超过) these recommendations. However, while screen time increased throughout toddlerhood, by age 7 and 8, screen time fell to under 1.5 hours per day. The researchers believe this decrease relates to time consumed by school-related activities.
The study authors classified the children into two groups based on how much their average daily screen time increased from age 1 to age 3. The first group, 73% of the total had the lowest increase, from an average of nearly 51 minutes a day to nearly an hour and 47 minutes a day. The second group, 27% of the total, had the highest increase, from nearly 37 minutes of screen time a day to about 4 hours a day. Higher levels of parental education were associated with lower odds of inclusion in the second group.
12. Who use mobile device longest according to the NIH's analysis?
A. 10-year-old born to first-time mothers.
B. 3-year-old children in low income families.
C. 8-year-old children in home-based childcare.
D. 1-year-old children with parents poorly educated.
13. What does the research suggest according to Edwina?
A. Parents should stop their children using media.
B. Parents should limit the use of digital media themselves.
C. Parents should reduce their children's screen time earlier.
D. Parents should avoid their children using digital media at infancy (婴儿期).
14. Why does children's screen time fall when they age 7 and 8?
A. They are studying at school.
B. They can control themselves.
C. They are tired of using them.
D. They are forbidden to use them.
15. Which of the following may be the best title?
A. Keep Away from Media
B. Screen Habits Begin Early
C. Urgency of Parental Education
D. Harm of Home-based Childcare
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
How to Teach kids About Setting Goals
___16___It can become an easy process for a lifetime if kids are taught goal setting at anearly stage. They need to be offered a project to make them work on accomplishing something personal.
Set smart goals. A goal needs to be measurable, specific, realistic and timely in order to be effective. Kids prefer generalizing(泛化)when it comes to goalsetting. For example, one may want to be the best basketball player in the team.___17___What exactly does a goal like this mean? You need to ask them to be specific. Begin with scoring two baskets in each game (or however many; just something measurable!) so that they can continuously push the barriers to accomplish greater goals.
Write down goals.___18___Recent studies show that when goals are written down, the individual is likely to achieve them.
___19___Kids have the habit of choosing goals that just seem impossible to achieve. You need to teach them the concepts of short and long-term goals and give your child reality checks.
Set up review points. You can ask them to write their main goal on the poster and mention the steps they would take for attaining their goal.___20___It is important to help your children have their own checkpoint systems that actually work for them.
A. Goals can’t be accomplished ly unless they are written down.
B. This tip is supported by science as well.
C. How isa goal like this measured?
D. Ask them to track their progress once a week or month.
E. Face goals that are not realistic.
F. Is it a really big goal?
G. It is essential for everybody especially for kids, to set goals in life.
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At age three, I was inseparable from my parents. Where they went I went, always reaching out for their hands
to ensure their___21___.
As we approached my preschool for the first time, one of my hands___22___my father's hand, the other___23___grasped my mother's. We walked past the___24___sign out front which read “Welcome to theLakeschool!”. I was happy and curious. Soon enough, I was introduced to my teachers and as they warmly greeted me, they pried（撬开）my hands from my parents'. They___25___me and my parents towards a window, complete with a small window seat full of___26___animal toys, pillows, and blankets. As we___27___across the room, my parents suddenly broke away from our little___28___. Theyseemed,___29___, to be heading toward the door. When I realized what was happening, I_____30_____to run after them, only to be held back by my teachers. Tears began to_____31_____my cheeks. My mouth opened and a（an）_____32_____cry escaped, loud enough for my parents, who were now outside, to_____33_____. I stared at them,_____34_____up against the glass, my tears now rushing down my face. "We call this The Crying Window,“ my teachers had told my parents. "Children are often upset when they see their parents leave the school without them. " My parents stood outside_____35_____, tormented（折磨）by having to stand by while their little girl_____36_____.
But soon another little girl appeared in the window. She was taller and older and she_____37_____her arms around me until I stopped crying. The_____38_____was the most comforting feeling I hadever experienced,_____39_____the comfort of my own parents. Then she took my hand and led me away from the crying window. My parents breathed a sigh of_____40_____.
21. A. presence B. arrival C. safety D. dependence
22. A. shook B. felt C. squeezed D. scratched
23. A. leisurely B. nervously C. wildly D. unwillingly
24. A. cheerful B. unhappy C. depressed D. unique
25. A. accompanied B. moved C. invited D. guided
26. A. local B. magic C. stuffed D. joyful
27. A. progressed B. processed C. came D. observed
28. A. room B. access C. group D. procedure
29. A. in fact B. in the meantime C. in all D. in general
30. A. managed B. attempted C. expected D. scheduled
31. A. flood B. erupt C. occupy D. cover
32. A. annoyed B. horrible C. desperate D. incredible
33. A. leave away B. leave off C. turn around D. turn up
34. A. defended B. struggled C. broke D. pressed
35. A. frozen B. hopeless C. frustrated D. satisfied
36. A. swore B. suffered C. wandered D. withdrew
37. A. showed B. reached C. wrapped D. attached
38. A. body B. smile C. girl D. hug
39. A. next to B. superior to C. junior to D. close to
40. A. appreciation B. gratitude C. satisfaction D. relief
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
You might think that good-looking men have every advantage in life.____41.____a new study suggests that being handsome may not always work in a man's favor — at least____42.____it comes to his career. The research claims that attractive men are____43.____(little) likely to be given a job in a competitive workplace because they threaten____44.____(boss). “It's not always an advantage to be pretty,” says Marko Pitesa,____45.____assistant professor at the University of Maryland. “It can backfire (适得其反) if you____46.____(consider) as a threat.”____47.____(interesting), in Pitesa’s study, it was male attractiveness in particular, rather than female beauty, that made the most____48.____(different).
If the interviewer expected____49.____(work) with the candidate as part of a team, then he______50.______(prefer) good-looking men.
However, if the interviewer saw the candidate as a potential competitor, the interviewer discriminated in favor of unattractive men.
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。

Joy, a friend of me, was fed up with his increasing weight. All the times he kept thinking of ways to reduce his weight. One day, he went to the shopkeeper and said, "I've come to find a book that tells how reduce weight.
Please give me a copy of that book." The shopkeeper said, “Sir, the last copy of that book got been sold just a few minutes ago. So I have other good book that tells how to gain weight.” Joy said, “You’re kidding! I want to reduce weight, not increasing it.” The shopkeeper replied, “It’s so easily to solve the problem! Just don’t do that is written in the book.”
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华,你的英国笔友Jack来信告诉你，他学习效率很低。

请你给Jack回信，提供一些你提高学习效率的方法。

主要内容包括：
1.安静的学习地点；
2.上课集中注意力（记笔记，回答老师问题……）；
3.适当的运动和休息。

注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jack,
I have received your letter
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____
Yours
Li Hua
参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. C
7. B
8. B 9. D 10. D 11. B
12. C 13. C 14. A 15. B
16. G 17. C 18. B 19. E 20. D
21. A 22. C 23. B 24. A 25. D 26. C 27. A 28. C 29. A 30. B 31. A 32.
C 33. C 34.
D 35. C 36. B 37. C 38. D 39. D 40. D
41. But##Yet
42. when 43. less
44. bosses 45. an
46. are considered
47. Interestingly
48. difference
49. to work
50. preferred
51.(1). me→mine
(2). times→time
(3). shopkeeper前the→a
(4). reduce前面加to
(5). got been sold 中的been去掉
(6). So→But
(7). other→another
(8). increasing→increase
(9). easily→easy
(10). that →what
52.略。