2020届浙江省慈溪中学高三英语下学期期末试卷及答案

2020届浙江省慈溪中学高三英语下学期期末试卷及答案
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
One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem inability to read.
In the library,I found my way into the "Children's Room." I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle. Without opening the book—Amos, the Beagle with a Plan ,1 borrowed it from the library for the summer.
Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.
My mother's call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book.
I never told my mother about my “miraculous” experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later ,she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the words has held.
1. The author's mother told him to borrow a book in order to ________.
A. let him spend a meaningful summer
B. encourage him to do more walking
C. help cure him of his reading problem
D. make him learn more about weapons
2. The book caught the author's eye because .
A. it reminded him of his own dog
B. he found its title easy to understand
C. it contained pretty pictures of animals
D. he liked children's stories very much
3. Which one could be the best title of the passage?
A. Mum's Strict Order.
B. My Passion forReading.
C. Reunion with My Beagle.
D. The Charm of a Book.
B
At the foot of the Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, a homestay (民宿) is attracting travelers from far and wide, which has won architectural (建筑学的) medal at the 2021 German iF Design Awards.
The owners of the homestay are a couple in their late 30s who decided to return to their hometown three years ago. Li Xiumei used to be in charge of a division at a company in Hangzhou, and her husband was a sales director. It was an ordinary situation where Li’s husband was on business trips a lot and Li worked overtime on weekends. City life sometimes is not easy.
In 2018, they quit jobs and went back to Dongtianmu village, which lies in a forest of bamboo. The first time they drove into the village was one late afternoon. The cooking smoke was rising from the foot of the mountain, which gave them a very different feeling form thecity.
The homestay was built beside her husband’s old countryside house. The old house is preserved (保留), while a brand-new building was built on its side and the whole site is made up of for courtyards. It has been updated to have a hall, a tea room, a kitchen, a dining room. Japanese cherry trees are planted in the east courtyard. A swimming pool is placed in the west courtyard, with a bar located on one side.
Li and her husband love gardening and music, and their new home gives them enough space to continue their interests and relax in the heart of nature. Li wants to share the quiet country life, so she makes her new home a homestay. In 2019, the homestay became an online hit after guests shared their experiences on social media. “The longer I stay here, the more I feel it was the right choice to come back, and this is more meaningful than making money,” Li says.
4. How did Li feel about city life?
A. Satisfied.
B. Tired.
C. Attractive.
D. Noisy.
5. What impressed the couple when first driving to the village?
A. The smoke of cooking.
B. The forest of bamboo.
C. The smell of the village.
D. The feeling of loneliness.
6. What can we infer about the homestay from paragraph 4?
A. It is ancient and broken.
B. It can hold many guests.
C. It has been rebuilt bythe couple.
D. It must have been carefully designed.
7. What’s more meaningful than earning money according to Li?
A. Continuing their music dream.
B. Staying at the old house.
C. Living in the countryside.
D. Developing the economy of cities.
C
Every day in the United States animals are beaten, ignored, or forced to struggle for survival. Left in poor conditions with no food or water, they have little hope as they live out their days without the mercy they deserve. Some are found and rescued, given the chance to experience how great life and humans can be; others aren't so lucky. To grow as a nation, we must fight for these abused(受虐待的) animals’ rights and seriously punish heartless owners.
One of the first steps in protecting animals and creating effective cruelty laws is to know what animal cruelty actually is. There are two categories: passive cruelty and active cruelty. The first involves acts of omission, meaning the abuse happens as a result of ignorance or lack of action. Passive cruelty might seem less serious, but that is not the case; it can lead to terrible pain and suffering, and finally death. Examples include starvation, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and the failure to get medical care. Passive cruelty is sometimes due to the owner's ignorance, so many animal control officers will first try to educate ignorant owners on how to properly care for animals before giving them a citation(传票) or putting them in prison.
Active cruelty, on the other hand, is more well-known and disturbing. Sometimes referred to as non-accidental injury, this type of abuse involves purposeful harm on an animal in order to feel more powerful or gain control. Active cruelty against animals should be taken very seriously, since it can be a sign that a person has serious psychological issues and may commit more acts of violence---possibly against humans.
It is hard to tell just what drives people to harm innocent animals. Most animal abusers find some sort of achievement or power in torturing a victim that they know can't fight back. While not all animal abusers become serial killers, it is important to take every case seriously.
As a nation we need to make it our right to come together and ensure the safety of our beloved pets. As Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
8. What is the first step to do with the passive cruelty abusers?
A. To throw them into prison.
B. To bring the case to the court.
C. To teach them how to treat animals.
D. To give them a strong warning.
9. We can learn from Para.3 that active cruelty ______.
A. is actually a sign of power or control
B. has been taken seriously in the nation
C. may lead to serious psychological problems
D. may cause acts of violence against humans
10. What is the author’s attitude towards animal cruelty?
A. Uncertain.
B. Doubtful.
C. Concerned.
D. Pessimistic.
11. The author wrote this passage to ______.
A. warn those heartless pet owners
B. tell people the harm of animal cruelty
C. explain the reasons why people harm animals
D. call on people to fight for the abused animals
D
With their tiny brains and excellent ability to memorize nectar locations, honeybees are a favorite model organism for studying learning and memory. Such research has indicated that to form long-term memories—ones that last a day or more—the insects need to repeat a training experience at least three times. By contrast, short-and mid-term memories that last seconds to minutes and minutes to hours, respectively, need only a single learning experience.
Exceptions to this rule have been observed, however. For example, in some studies, bees formed long-lasting memories after a single learning event. Such results are often regarded as circumstantial anomalies, says Martin Giurfa of the University of Toulouse. But the anomalous findings, together with research showing that fruit flies and ants can form long-term memories after single experiences, aroused Giurfa’s curiosity. Was it possible that honeybees could reliably do the same? Giurfa reasoned that the ability to form long-term memories might depend on the particular type of bee and the experience. Within a honeybee colony, there are nurses, who clean the hive and feed the young; guards, who patrol and protect the hive; and foragers, who search for nectar.
While previous studies have tested bees as a whole, Ciurfa and his colleagues focused on foragers, tasking them with remembering an experience relevant to their role: an odor associated with a sugary reward.
The researchers observed that a single exposure to a reward-paired odor was enough for most forager bees to remember that specific odor the following day. Many foragers could even remember the odor three day later.
The results do not mean that all prior research was wrong, says André Fiala of the University of Göttingen. “People have done the experiments in a different way.” Still, the new results do show that “the commonly held
belief that one needs multiple training trials to achieve long-term memory is not always true,” he says, and this “really advances the field.”
12. What does the author want to tell us through Paragraph 1?
A. A model for memory research.
B. The classification of memories.
C. New research on learning and memory.
D. Previous findings on memory formation.
13. Which factor might influence a bee’s memory of an experience, according to Giurfa’s research?
A. Whether the bee's role is related.
B. Whether the bee is introduced or native.
C. How often the bee repeats the experience.
D. How long the bee is exposed to the reward.
14. What is Andre Fiala’s attitude towards the new results?
A. Doubtful.
B. Favorable.
C. Intolerant.
D. Unclear.
15. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A. Learning and Memory: How Honeybees Remember
B. Honeybee Memory: Honeybee Knows What to Do
C. Honeybees Remember after Just One Lesson
D. Honeybees Use Memory for Communication
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Listening to music is considered a good thing for adults. Indeed it is. Scientific studies have proved it. Music has so many good effects on our body, mind and mood that this world would certainly not be a good place without music.____16____Some parents think so and let their children learn or listen to music. But some parents don’t know the importance of music to children. Here are some reasons why music is important to children.
First, music is good for children's intelligence. Studies have proved that children who learn music are likely to have higher intelligence than those who have no interest in or dislike music.____17____
Music also has comforting effect on children and helps remove their stress. Today’s children are under a lot of stress from schoolwork. Being under too much stress harms children’s health.____18____
____19____Some children are sad by nature. They seem to be lost in their own thoughts and don’t take interest in their surroundings. In such cases, a method known as “music therapy” comes to their rescue. It changes their moods and places a new kind of spirit in them.
Music is also a universal language that children ought to learn. Our world has become a global village.____20____Music can help them in understanding foreign cultures.
Now we can say that music is very important not only to adults but also to children. So children should be encouraged to learn music or listen to music.
A. Then, is music good for children?
B. Music can improve children’s moods.
C. Luckily, listening to music can help them feel better.
D. Music is shared between every culture and generation.
E. Music can help you recognize and remember information better.
F. This is because the brain gets inspired by the rhythm (节奏) and tone of music.
G. People are getting more and more interested in other cultures and countries.
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Menninger took the hard way to climb Everest—the world’s tallest peak___21___hike it up, he decided to climb as a non-native Everest porter(挑夫), which meant___22___packs weighing up to 220 pounds along rough, high altitude trails(小路).
Menninger came up with such a(n)___23___after spending a season as a guide inNepal, and becoming___24___with life of these porters. “My goal was to have the same experience”,he explains.
The physical and emotional___25___of the jobis laid___26___as Menninger is filmed struggling with a pack consisting of multiple bags tied together,___27___trying to sleep at night in crowded freezing porter houses.
A typical day___28___waking up at around 7:30 am and going to the client’s hotel to___29___their bags and beginning to trek(长途跋涉). Porters have to____30____for their own accommodation during treks. Some even regularly go without____31____to keep costs down. As they aren’t____32____until the last day, they have no idea whether the trek has been economically worthwhile until they’ve____33____it.
Life is never____34____for them. Last year was one of Everest’s deadliest climbing seasons, largely____35____difficult weather conditions, and lack of experience.____36____the problems is a lack of communication between the porters and their mostly wealthy clients.
With his film shot during this tough trek, Menninger wishes more were____37____of how much porters rely on their low salaries, and how much they contribute to the overall Everest experience. “____38____, my film could encourage those porters by____39____what they’re able to____40____and how hard they work.”
21. A. Other than B. Simply C. Rather than D. Directly
22. A. carrying B. preparing C. mailing D. wrapping
23. A. approach B. conclusion C. suggestion D. idea
24. A. pleased B. bored C. fascinated D. disappointed
25. A. payment B. price C. enjoyment D. courage
26. A. uncovered B. messy C. untouched D. understandable
27. A. but B. or C. while D. and
28. A. takes B. involves C. indicates D. requires
29. A. search B. collect C. deliver D. repair
30. A. fight B. ask C. work D. pay
31. A. meals B. permission C. money D. limit
32. A. dismissed B. praised C. tipped D. satisfied
33. A. climbed B. experienced C. reached D. completed
34. A. easy B. challenging C. encouraging D. tough
35. A. focusing on B. owing to C. depending on D. leading to
36. A. Responding to B. Bringing about C. Getting rid of D. Adding to
37. A. aware B. informed C. warned D. sure
38. A. Joyfully B. Unfortunately C. Generally D. Hopefully
39. A. examining B. claiming C. showing D. announcing
40. A. understand B. bear C. complain D. imagine
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
Chinahas a very rich and brilliant tea culture. It is one of the most important parts of Chinese tradition. A small cup of tea contains the spirit and____41.____(wise) of the Chinese people. It seems like the most____42.____(enjoy) thing to drink a cup of tea on a quiet day.
Just like coffee, tea grown in different areas____43.____(have) different flavors. Some needs to be drunk with small and delicate tea cups, and some can____44.____(drink) from a big bowl.
Chinese people believe tea needs to be drunk quietly,____45.____many of the tea shops are located in a corner of a hutong, providing customers____46.____a very quiet and comfortable environment,but the fast pace of life sometimes doesn’t allow that. So there are tea shop owners who, just as Starbucks does, locate____47.____(they) shops in the downtown area to provide service for quick customers.
Take HEYTEA as____48.____example. It was just a small tea shop____49.____(locate) in a small lane in a
small city ofGuangdongProvincein 2012. But in only 5 years, it had expanded more than 80 stores overChina, including big cities likeBeijing._____50._____(wait) in lines for more than an hourfor their tea is a common occurrence.
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。

My mom, my dad or my friends don’t know me as much as one person who I admire a lot. He’s my grandfather. My parents are both working busy and I have little chance see them during the week. They left the house at 7:30 every morning and get home around 8 pm. So it is my grandfather who keeps me company. He is the one which takes me for long walks and cycle rides. She plays football with me every Saturday. We share with stories and jokes and spend many happy moment together. If I do something wrong, it is he who saves me from get into trouble with my parents. My life is much rich because of my grandfather.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

I had moved to Arizona about two weeks before the start of my junior year of high school, so not only was this a new school for me, but also a new state and I did not know anyone.
On the first day of school at lunch after getting my meal, I sat down at a table in the courtyard. As I began to eat, I looked around at the other tables and saw another girl sitting alone, so I decided to go and sit with her. Anyway, there was no reason for me to have a whole table to myself, and who knew maybe I could make a friend. I walked to check and said, “Excuse me, do you mind if I sit with you?” She was surprised at first, but then smiled and said, “No, I don't!”
We hit it off immediately and became close friends throughout the next two years. Towards the end of our senior year, she told me that she had been accepted to an out - of - state college and would be moving away after graduation. I was sad that I would miss her but at the same time was really happy for her.
She then shared with me something very moving. “Do you remember the first day of school when you came
over and sat down with me during lunch?” she asked. “Of course! Why do you ask?” I replied.
She continued, “I want to let you know how special you are and that you make a difference. I was severely depressed that day, because something unhappy had happened to me that morning. I had been being sad since the morning and nobody realized my sadness. It had just broken me down. If you hadn't appeared, I would be probably in deep sadness for a long time after I got home from school.”
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Then, she told me something more I hadn't known before.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____
Both of us gained a lot from the incident.
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参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. B
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. C 9. D 10. C 11. D
12. D 13. A 14. B 15. C
16. A 17. F 18. C 19. B 20. G
21. C 22. A 23. D 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. B 30. D 31. A 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. B 36. D 37. A 38. D 39. C 40. B
41. wisdom
42. enjoyable
43. has 44. be drunk
45. so 46. with
47. their 48. an
49. located
50. Waiting
51.(1).or→and
(2).busy→busily
(3).chance后添加to
(4).left→leave
(5).which→who/that
(6).She→He
(7).去掉with
(8). moment→moments
(9).get→getting
(10).rich→richer
52.略。