2020年宁波市鄞州区正始中学高三英语第四次联考试卷及参考答案

2020年宁波市鄞州区正始中学高三英语第四次联考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
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
Jules Verne was born on 8 February1828 inthe French city of Nantes. From an early age, he had a fascination with exploration and discovery. When he was six, his teacher, Madame Sambin, told him stories about her husband, who disappeared while traveling the world on a ship 30 years before. She told her class that he was like Robinson Crusoe, a fictional castaway who lived on a desert island. Verne would later write stories about similar characters.
In 1847, Verne was sent by his family to study law at a university in Paris, but he preferred to write novels, poems and plays. After graduating, he realized he wanted to write adventure stories based on science and technology.Thishad never been done before, but Verne was sure that it would be a success. His first story, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was published in September 1862. His career lasted for more than 40 years, during which time he wrote more than 60 gripping stories.
To begin with, Verne wrote positive and optimistic books. Many of these were to be his most popular creations. Although some included fantastical elements, they were usually based in scientific fact, making them believable. These happy stories weren’t to last. As he got older, Verne became less confident in the idea that science and technology were always good for the planet. His books started to include more scientists who used technology for their own-sometimes evil - purposes. Verne died on 24 March 1905, but new books continued to be published until 1919. These stories were based on ideas Verne had written about while he was still alive, but featured new characters and plots created by his son, Michel.
In the 20th century, his books were translated into more than 140 languages and several successful film versions were released. His creations have been recognized as an inspiration for many scientists and inventors. Many of the futuristic ideas from his most popular books have since come true.
4. What is the purpose of Paragraph 1?
A To show Verne’s discovery.
B. To offer the background information of Verne.
C. To tell of the adventure of Sambin’s husband.
D. To explain how Verne began his writing career.
5. What does the underlined word “This” refer to in Paragraph 2:
A. Writing novels, poems and plays.
B. Studying law.
C. Graduating from university.
D. Wring adventure stories.
6. What can be learned about Verne’s late works?
A. They covered happy elements.
B. They were unbelievable stories.
C. They revealed Verne’s doubt on science.
D. They were partly written by Berne’s son.
7. Which of the following best describes Verne?
A. Talented and productive.
B. Popular and caring.
C. Optimistic and generous.
D. Friendly and honest.
C
Tofight for the conservation of forest ecosystem, several ecologists including Daniel Janzen convinced Del Oro, an orange juice producer, to donate part of their forestland to a national park. In return, Del Oro was allowed to throw large amounts of waste in the form of orangepeels(皮) on a 3-hectare piece of land within the national park at no cost. Dealing with tons of leftover peels usually involved burning them or paying to have them poured into a landfill, so the proposal was very attractive.
But a year later, another juice company challenged the deal in court, arguing that their competitor was "polluting a national park". They ended up winning, and the deal between Del Oro and the national park fell through.
Then in 2013, while discussing possible research avenues（途径，手段）with Timothy Treuer, Daniel Janzen mentioned the orange story. Feeling interested, Treuer decided to stop by that piece of land that had been covered with fruit waste 15 years earlier. What he found shocked him.
"While I would walk over exposed rock and dead grass in the nearby fields, I'd have to climb through undergrowth and cut paths through walls ofvines(藤) in the orange peel site itself," said Timothy Treuer.
Treuer and his team spent months picking upsamples(样品), analyzing and comparing them. They found great differences between the areas covered with orange peels and those that were not. The area withorange waste had richer soil.
The effect that the orange peels had on the land is probably not that surprising to people familiar withcomposting(施肥), but what is really shocking is that a judge actually thought the waste of orange "mined" a
national parkand stopped it from going forward. Now that Timothy Treuer's study has received worldwide attention, this type of "ruining" is being seriously considered as a way of bringing forests back to life.
8. What did Del Oro usually do with orange peels?
A. Add them to fuel.
B. Feed them to animals.
C. Burn or bury them.
D. Make them into cakes.
9. What can we know about the deal between Del Oro and the national park?
A. It lasted 15 years.
B. It was signed by Treuer.
C. It was made in about 1998.
D. It was broken by Del Oro.
10. What was Treuer's finding?
A. Orange peels contain much fibre.
B. Orange peels can make soil richer.
C. Orange peels rot away in a short time.
D. Orange waste ruined the national park.
11. What is the author's attitude toward the judge mentioned in the last paragraph?
A. Disapproving.
B. Positive.
C. Worried.
D. Admirable.
D
The far side of the moonis a strange and wild region, quite different from the familiar and mostly smooth face we see nightly from our planet. Soon this rough space will have even stranger features: it will be crowded with radio telescopes.
Astronomers are planning to make the moon's distant side our newest and best window on the cosmic(宇宙的) dark ages, a mysterious era hiding early marks of stars and galaxies. Our universe was not always filled with stars. About 380,000 years after the big bang, the universe cooled, and the first atoms of hydrogen formed. Gigantic hydrogen clouds soon filled the universe. But for a few hundred million years, everything remained dark, without stars. Then came the cosmic dawn: the first stars flickered, galaxies came into existence and slowly the universe's large­scale structure took shape.
The seeds of this structure must have been present in the dark­age hydrogen clouds, but the era has been impossible toprobeusing optical(光学的) telescopes—there was no light. And although this hydrogen produced long­wavelength(or low­frequency) radio emissions,radio telescopes on Earth have found it nearly impossible to detect them. Our atmosphere either blocks or disturbs these faint signals; those that get through are drowned out by humanity's radio noise.
Scientists have dreamed for decades of studying the cosmic dark ages from the moon's far side. Now multiple space agencies plan lunar missions carrying radio­wave­detecting instruments—some within the next three
years—and astronomers' dreams are set to become reality.
“If I were to design an ideal place to do low­frequency radio astronomy, I would have to build the moon,”says astrophysicist Jack Burns of the University of Colorado Boulder. “We are just now finally getting to the place where we're actually going to be putting these telescopes down on the moon in the next few years.”
12. What's the purpose of building radio telescopes on the moon?
A To research the big bang. B. To discover unknown stars.
C. To study the cosmic dark ages.
D. To observe the far side of the moon.
13. What does the underlined word “probe” in Paragraph 3 possibly mean?
A. Explore.
B. Evaluate.
C. Produce.
D. Predict.
14. Hydrogen radio emissions can't be detected on Earth because ________．
A. there was no light in the dark ages
B. they cannot possibly get through our atmosphere
C. gigantic hydrogen clouds no longer fill the universe
D. radio signals on Earth cause too much interference
15. What can we infer from theunderlined sentence in the last paragraph?
A. Scientists have to rebuild the moon.
B. We will finally get to the moon's distant side.
C. The moon is a perfect place to set up radio telescopes.
D. A favorable research environment will be found on the moon.
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Have you ever bought a gift for a friend, simply because it’s a gift that you like yourself?___16___Such activity is called “social projection (投身寸)” and is the focus of new marketing research.
The study, “ILove the Product, but Will You? The Role of Interpersonal Attachment Styles in Social Projection,” is authored by David, an assistant professor of marketing, and published inPsychology & Marketing.Research results are based on the surveys of 1,272 people.
The research reveals that people who are “secure” in interpersonal settings are the ones most likely to engage in social projection. Conversely(相反)，those who are “anxious” in such settings are less likely to assume that others share their own preferences.___17___
“You’d think that secure people who tend to be older, in a committed relationship and earn a higher-income with lots of friends and healthy personal relationships would have a better idea of what someone would like as a gift.___18___David said. “This research shows that individuals who are anxious in interpersonal situations and who have fewer close, personal relationships are better at predicting what a person may like.”
___19___Anxious individuals, on the contrary, tend to be younger and earn a lower income. Securely attached persons, who are people expecting others will be available and supportive when needed, are more likely to choose a gift based on their own preferences, while an anxious one more likely to consider what the recipients(接收者) may like.
Gifts should be thoughtful. Therefore, secure people should be mindful of their choice of gifts. They need to take caution when selecting and buying gifts.___20___
A. But that’s not the case.
B. However, anxious individuals may not always be the best.
C. Secure individuals tend to be older and earn a higher income.
D. If so, it’s likely that you projected your own attitudes onto your friend.
E. Secure individuals make choices on behalf of others based on their own preferences.
F. Thus, they are less likely to make choices for a friend based on their personal attitudes.
G. Preferably, these individuals should put their own preferences aside when choosing gifts.
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My mom only had one eye. I hated her. She was such a(n)____21____.
She____22____a small shop at a flea market and collected old clothes and other things to sell for the money we needed. Once during elementary school, my mom came. I was so embarrassed and____23____how she could do this to me. I____24____her a hateful look and ran out.
I told myself that I would become____25____in the future, so I studied very hard. Later I was____26____into the Seoul University. I left my mother and came to Seoul to study. I bought a house of my own. I was living____27____as a successful man.
Then, I got married. I had kids of my own. I was happy with my life, my kids and the____28____. Then one day, my mother came to visit me. She hadn't seen me in years and she didn't____29____meet her grandchildren.
When she stood by the door, my children laughed at her, and I yelled at her for coming over____30____. I screamed at her, “How dare you come to my house and scare my children! GET OUT OF HERE! NOW”
And to this, my mother quietly answered, “Oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong____31____.” and she disappeared out of sight.
One day, a letter____32____a school reunion came to my house. I went back to participate in the____33____. After that, I went down to the old____34____house where we used to live, just out of curiosity. There I found my mom____35____on the cold ground, with a piece of paper in her hand. It was a letter to me.
My son,
I think my life has been____36____enough now, and I won't visit Seoul anymore. But I miss you so much.
You see, when you were very little, you got into an____37____and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't____38____watching you having to grow up with only one eye. So I gave you mine. I was so proud of my son to see a whole new world for me with that eye. I was never____39____at you for anything you did.
Don't____40____for me because of my death. I love you so much.
21. A. surprise B. shock C. embarrassment D. pity
22. A. sold B. bought C. entered D. ran
23. A. wondered B. imagined C. thought D. doubted
24. A. got B. took C. left D. threw
25. A. merciful B. wonderful C. successful D. ambitious
26. A. allowed B. admitted C. welcomed D. permitted
27. A. sadly B. excitedly C. happily D. gratefully
28. A. conveniences B. comforts C. wonders D. misfortunes
29. A. even B. still C. ever D. rather
30. A. unnoticed B. untouched C. unexplained D. uninvited
31. A. address B. name C. letter D. house
32. A. regarding B. including C. supposing D. considering
33. A. party B. celebration C. activity D. reunion
34. A. furnished B. equipped C. shabby D. splendid
35. A. laying B. lying C. sitting D. standing
36. A. short B. hard C. easy D. long
37. A. accident B. affair C. event D. matter
38. A. ignore B. stand C. enjoy D. help
39. A. excited B. amazed C. upset D. fulfilled
40. A. cry B. blame C. scold D. honor
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
Personalities are patterns of experience and behavior that can change throughout our lives. Individual changes usually take place slowly as people gradually adapt____41.____the demands of society and their environment. However,____42.____is unclear whether certain personality can also be psychologically influenced in a short-term and targeted manner.
____43.____( researcher) from the universities of Zurich have now investigated this question via a digital application. In their study, around 1, 500 participants were provided with a specially developed smart phone app for three months and then they____44.____( assess) whether and how their personalities had changed.
The participants and their friends alike reported three months after the end of the intervention that the personality changes____45.____( bring) about by using the app had continued. These____46.____( surprise) results show we are not just slaves to our personality, but that we can____47.____( deliberate)make changes to routine experience and behavior patterns.
The findings also indicate that development of the personality structure can happen more quickly____48.____what was previously believed. However, more evidence of the effectiveness of digital interventions is needed. Whether the changes achieved are permanent or only temporary remains____49.____(see). The present findings are not only interesting for research, but can also____50.____(find) application in a variety of areas of life.
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。

I was especial nervous before I arrived my new school. I didn’t know what my school life would be like. I had my own locker, what was something very new to me. Because most of our classes are in the same classroom in China, so we put our things in desks. But in America, students go to certain classrooms for certain class. Everyone
puts things in lockers. When I enter the classroom, the boy invited me to sit with him. She became my first friend at school and I wasn't nervous any more. I was surprising by how small the school was, and I got to knowing almost every student within a week! I enjoyed my new school life.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是你校英语诗社的负责人。

请你写一则启事，发布到学校英文小报，介绍诗社并欢迎大家加入，内容包括：
1.诗社成立的时间和目的；
2.诗社日常活动.
注意:
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。

参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. D
6. C
7. A
8. C 9. C 10. B 11. A
12. C 13. A 14. D 15. C
16. D 17. F 18. A 19. C 20. G
21. C 22. D 23. A 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. C 28. B 29. A 30. D 31. A 32.
A 33. D 34. C 35.
B 36. D 37. A 38. B 39.
C 40. A
41. to 42. it
43. Researchers
44. were assessed
45. brought
66 surprising
46. deliberately
47. than 48. to be seen
49. find
51.(1).especial→especially
(2).在arrive后面加at
(3).what→which
(4).将so去掉
(5).class→classes
(6).enter→entered
(7).the→a
(8).She→He
(9).surprising→surprised
(10).knowing→know 52.略。