2019-2020学年昆明市第一中学高三英语上学期期末考试试卷及答案

2019-2020学年昆明市第一中学高三英语上学期期末考试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
You have to praise the smoothness（顺畅）of ants on the move. No matter how many of them are going toward a place, there's never a hold-up. A new research paper shows how ants keep traffic flowing by changing their behavior to meet changing conditions.
For their experiments, researchers from the University of Toulouse focused on Argentine ants, animals that often move from colony（群落）to colony depending on where the food is. Making use of Argentine ants' talent for fast travel, the researchers built bridges connecting their colonies. The bridges were different in width from a fifth to three-quarters of an inch. The colonies, too, were of different sizes, ranging from 400 to more than 25,000 ants.
Then the researchers sat back andmonitoredthe traffic. To their surprise, even when those narrower bridges were full of ants, there were no "traffic accidents". "When the number of ants on the bridge increased, ants seemed to be able to understand the situation and adjusted（调整）their speed accordingly to avoid making the traffic flow stop. "the authors note. "Moreover, ants avoided entering a busy road and made sure that the bridge was never too packed to cross.”
The lesson for humans? The traffic problem may lie in our inability to adjust our driving habits for the good of the whole. Driving is fun when there are few cars on the road. Then the traffic moves very slowly. And yet, some impatient driver still acts like he's alone on the road.
The research suggests that projects, like the ever-widening of highways, may never free us from traffic jams. As long as we drive along with our own habits, no matter how many other people are on the road, we'll always end up in a traffic jam. Indeed, less space may actually be a good thing. It leaves less room for individual choice and forces us to take a page from the driving book of ants.
1. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. The results of the experiments.
B. The purpose of the experiments
C. The preparation of the experiments.
D. The requirements of the experiments
2. What does the underlined word "monitor" in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. watch and check.
B. seek and improve
C. design and plan
D. discuss and practise
3. What is the best title for the text?
A. Is widening highways a solution?
B. Why don't ants need traffic lights?
C. Can we learn safe driving from ants?
D. What can ants teach us about traffic jams?
B
Narasimha Das is on his way to feed 169,379 hungry children. Das is in charge of a kitchen in Vrindaban. The town is about a three-hour drive fromIndia’s capital,New Delhi. Das gets to work at 3:00 a.m. Thirty workers are already working to make tens of thousands of rounds of bread. It will be brought to 1,516 schools in and around Vrindaban.
A Growing Problem
Going to school is difficult for more than 13 million children inIndia. They must go to work instead, or go hungry. That’s whyIndiabegan the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the largest school-lunch program in the world. A free lunch encourages children to come to school and gives them the energy they need for learning. The program began in the 1960s.
The kitchen in Vrindaban is run by the Akshaya Patra Foundation. It is one of the lunch program’s biggest partners. “Just $11.50 can feed one child for an entire year,” said Madhu Sridhar, president of the Akshaya Patra Foundation.
Lunch Is Served!
The Akshaya Patra food truck arrives atGopalgarhPrimary School. Since the program started, the number of underweight children has gone down. The children get foods they need — as long as they finish what’s on their plates.
4. What does Narasimha Das do？
A. A waiter.
B. A salesman.
C. A cook.
D. A shopkeeper.
5. The kitchen in Vrindaban supplies food to ________.
A. the poor
B. school children
C. college students
D. the old
6. Why is it difficult for children to go to school inIndia?
A. Because they have to work to make money.
B. Because there are not enough schools.
C. Because there are not enough teachers.
D. Because their parents refuse to send them to school.
7. Which of the following about the Mid-Day Meal Scheme is NOT true?
A. It is to encourage children to go to school.
B. It has been carried out for about 50 years.
C. It is run by Narasimha Das.
D. It is the largest school-lunch program in the world.
C
I’ve never been the kind of person to say, “it’s the thought that counts” when it comes to gifts. That was until a couple of weeks ago, when my kids gave me a present thatblew me away.
For years now, I’ve been wanting to sell our home, the place where my husband and I raised our kids. But to me, this house is much more than just a building.
In the front room, there’s a wall that has hundreds of pencil lines, marking the progress of my children’s growth. Every growth stage is marked in grey, with each child’s name and the date they were measured. Of all the objects and all the memories, it’s this one thing in a home that’s the hardest to leave behind. Friends I know have returned home after work only to discover their wall of heights has been freshly painted over. A new paint job wouldn’t normally be greeted by tears, but erasing that evidence of motherhood hurts more than it should. Our kids grow in so many ways, but the wall is physical evidence of their progress, right there for everyone to see. Over the years, I’ve talked about how much I would hate leaving that wall behind when I moved, even though the last marks were made 10 years ago when my kids stopped growing.
So one day, while I was at work, my childrendecided to do something about it.
They hired Jacquie Manning, a professional photographer whose work is about capturing (捕捉) the beautiful things in life, from clear lakes and skies to diamonds and ballgowns (舞会礼服).
She came to our house while I was at work, and over several hours, took photos of the hundreds of drawings and lines, little grey fingerprints (手印), and old marks. Somehow, she managed to photograph all those years of memories perfectly. Afterwards, she put all the photos together into one image, transforming them into a beautiful history of my family.
Three weeks later, my children’s wonderful gift made its way to me—a life-size photo of the pencil lines and fingerprints that represents entire lifetimes of love and growth.
8. The underlined phrase in Para. I “blew me away” probably means “________”.
A. attracted me
B. surprised me
C. accepted me
D. refused me
9. What does the house really mean to the author?
A. A house.
B. Buildings.
C. An object.
D. Memories.
10. What surprised the friends I know after work?
A. Finding the wall repainted.
B. Erasing the fingerprints.
C. Greeting them by tears.
D. Leaving the wall unfinished.
11. What is the best title for the text?
A. Gift Made with Love
B. Buildings Made by Children
C. A Very Wonderful Painting
D. A Family History
D
A city inSouth Korea, which has the world’s largest number of people using smartphones, has placed flashing lights and laser beams at a road crossing to warn “smartphone zombies” to look up and drivers to slow down, in the hope of preventing accidents.
The designers of the system were motivated by growing worry that more pedestrians glued to their phones will become victims in a country that already has some of the highest road death and injury rates among developed countries. State-run Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) believes its system of flashing lights at zebra crossings can warn both pedestrians and drivers.
In addition to red, yellow and blue LED lights on the pavement, “smombies” - smartphone zombies - will be warned by laser beam projected from power poles and a warning sent to the phones by an app that they are about to step into traffic.
“Increasing number of smombie accidents have occurred in pedestrian crossings, so these zombie lights are essential to prevent these pedestrian accidents,” said KICT senior researcher Kim Jong-hoon. Drivers are warned by the flashing lights, which have shown to be effective 83.4 percent of the time in the institute’s tests involving about 1,000 vehicles.
In 2017, more than 1,600 pedestrians were killed in auto related accidents, which is about 40 percent of total
traffic deaths, according to data from the Traffic Accident Analysis System. For now, the smombie warning system is placed only in Ilsan, a suburban city about30 kmnorthwest of the capital,Seoul, but is expected to go nationwide, according to the institute.
Kim Dan-hee, a 23-year-old resident of Ilsan, welcomed the system, saying she was often too absorbed in her phone to remember to look at traffic. “This flashing light makes me feel safe as it makes me look around again, and I hope that we can have more of these in town,” she said.
12. What do the underlined words “smartphone zombies” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Drivers driving after drunk.
B. Pedestrians buried in their phones.
C. Passengers crazy about phones.
D. Policemen in charge of traffic.
13. What do we know about the warning system?
A. It has reduced death rate by 83.4%.
B. It has been spread nationwide.
C. It gives a warning to the smartphones.
D. It is being tried out in many places.
14. What was the residents’ attitude to the traffic system?
A. Negative.
B. Unconcerned.
C. Disapproving.
D. Favorable.
15. What is the best title for the text?
A.South KoreaWarns Smartphone Zombies of Traffic
B. Flashing Lights Are Used to Prevent Accidents
C. Smartphone Zombies Are Causing Traffic Accidents
D.South KoreaUses a New Traffic System
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Finding motivation, especially study motivation, is not always easy.___16___Here are some ways of doing it.
Offer yourself encouragement.
Yes, you should give yourself a prize or some kind of reward when you've done atask.___17___Remember, you have to know the exact conditions that you need to meet in order to receive the wonderful cake.
___18___
You need to feel confident about your studies. I am sure all of us have succeeded on several occasions. Remember these past successes and you will feel more motivated to continue!
Write down your goals.
Don't just think about them, don't just say them, write them down!___19___And that's why you find salesmen always want you to write something down before you actually buy something. By writing your name down, you are in a sense giving your support for their cause. If then you are asked to buy what they are selling, you are more likely to do that than if you hadn't signed the paper!
See your goals.
___20___Put them up on the wall and paste small post-it notes all over the place. You have to keep on reminding yourself of the purpose behind your studies and what type of results you're expecting to achieve.
A. Remember past successes.
B. The written word is very powerful.
C. Don't forget about buying yourself a gift.
D. Don't just write them down and leave them like that.
E. Moreover, talking about your goals with others helps a lot.
F. However, with a little effort we can learn how to increase our motivation.
G. It could be something as simple as sweets or something greater like a vacation.
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Many little kids dream of changing the world, but how does someone so____21____make a difference to a place so big? This 5-year-old boy from the UK may have found a____22____.
Toby is reaching out to every country through letters. He’s___23___to contact at least one person from each country --and get a____24____. Toby’s mission began with a___25___assignment from school. His mother, Sabine, said.
He was asked to read a book called A Letter to New Zealand, which____26____the journey a letter takes.____27____reading it, he asked, “Mummy, can I write a letter to New Zealand?” And while I was still trying to____28____how to answer that, he said, “Can I write a letter to the____29____world?”
At first she thought his_____30_____for the project would_____31_____, but 239 letters later, Toby is still going strong._____32_____he’s written to 187 countries and received many replies. But Toby’s project won’t_____33_____there. The 5-year-old also wants to find a way to help the people he’s_____34_____with.
“When we started writing letters, we_____35_____with easily accessible First World countries,” his mother added. “Suddenly, we got a(n)_____36_____in Somalia. When we researched the country, Toby was_____37_____and asked what he could do to help. Together, we_____38_____a charity whose work was
accessible to children.”
Toby chose the ShelterBox, a charity that provides for families and children who have_____39_____everything due to disasters. Just today, Toby met his_____40_____of raising $ 950. “I want the world to be a better place,”Toby said.
21. A. small B. noisy C. lovely D. clever
22. A. partner B. skill C. friend D. way
23. A. careful B. determined C. satisfied D. proud
24. A. response B. story C. permit D. result
25. A. speaking B. writing C. listening D. reading
26. A. begins B. describes C. explains D. completes
27. A. Until B. Before C. After D. Despite
28. A. show B. understand C. prepare for D. figure out
29. A. free B. new C. whole D. other
30. A. support B. concern C. enthusiasm D. sympathy
31. A. return B. spread C. fade D. develop
32. A. After all B. However C. So far D. Therefore
33. A. pass B. end C. apply D. expand
34. A. connected B. stayed C. played D. competed
35. A. kicked off B. negotiated C. worked D. caught up
36. A. idea B. address C. question D. deal
37. A. scared B. excited C. happy D. sad
38. A. looked for B. set up C. headed for D. dropped into
39. A. requested B. lost C. recorded D. provided
40. A. standard B. match C. challenge D. goal
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 giant panda，also___41.___(know)as panda bear or simply panda，is a bear native ___42.___south central China. In the past many years，the giant panda ___43.___(drive)out of the lowland areas where it once lived as a result of farming，deforestation and other ___44.___ (develop). Wild population estimates vary：one estimate shows that there are about 1，590 individuals___45.___(1ive)in the wild，while a 2006 study estimated
that this figure could be as high as 2,000 to 3,000. Some reports also show that ___46.___ number of giant pandas in the wild is on the rise.
The West first learned of the giant panda on March 11，1869，___47.___the French missionary(传教士)Armand David received a panda skin from a hunter. In 1936，Ruth Harkness became the first Westerner ___48.___(bring)a live giant panda named Su Lin to the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. To protect the pandas，in 2012，Earthwatch Institute，a global nonprofit that teams volunteers with scientists to conduct important ___49.___(science)research，launched a program called“On the Trail of Giant Panda”. This program，based in the Wolong National Nature Reserve，allows volunteers to work up close with pandas cared for in captivity (圈养)，and help them___50.___(gradual)adapt to life in the wild.
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.单句改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
（多改或不按格式要求改不得分）
下面每个句子都只有一处语言错误。

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（^），并在其下面写出该词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

Many parents lack of patience to tell their children why they should behave as told.
During the Second World War, thousands of people flee the country.
He has run out all the money his parents gave him.
It is bad manner to talk with your finger pointing at another person.
I had told them the reason, which I didn’t attend the meeting.
I dare not to go winter swimming alone.
In no circumstance should the will of the minority override the will of the majority of people.
What might he be doing at this time of night?
She insisted that she hear somebody in the house.
Anna has theory knowledge of teaching, but no practical experience.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你校刚刚举办了每年一次的诗歌创作大赛。

请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括：
1．介绍参赛情况；
2．感谢同学参与；
3．宣布结果和领奖地点。

注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．请按照如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The English Poetry Creation Contest
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. B
8. B 9. D 10. A 11. A
12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. F 17. G 18. A 19. B 20. D
21. A 22. D 23. B 24. A 25. D 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. C 30. C 31. C 32.
C 33. B 34. A 35. A 36. B 37.
D 38. A 39. B 40. D
41. known
42. to 43. has been driven
44. development
45. living 46. the
47. when 48. to bring
49. scientific
50. gradually
51.(1). 去掉of
(2). flee→fled
(3). out后加of
(4). manner→manners
(5). which 前加for
(6). 去掉to (7). circumstance→circumstances
(8). might→can/could
(9). hear→heard
(10). theory→theoretical/ theoretic
【81题详解】
考查动词用法。

句意：许多父母没有耐心告诉他们的孩子，为什么他们应该按照别人说的去做。

lack表示“缺乏”为及物动词，可以直接跟宾语。

故去掉of。

【82题详解】
考查时态。

句意：第二次世界大战期间，成千上万的人逃离了这个国家。

根据上文“During the Second World War”可知为一般过去时。

故flee改为fled。

【83题详解】
考查介词。

句意：他把父母给他的钱都花光了。

后跟名词作宾语，表示“花光”应用run out of。

故out后加of。

【84题详解】
考查名词的数。

句意：说话时用手指着别人是不礼貌的。

表示“不礼貌”短语为bad manners，应用复数形式。

故manner改为manners。

【85题详解】
考查定语从句。

句意：我已经把不参加会议的原因告诉他们了。

此处为非限制性定语从句修饰先行词reason，先行词在从句中作原因状语，可用why或for which引导。

which引导非限定性定语从句。

故which 前加for。

【86题详解】
考查固定用法。

句意：我不敢一个人去冬泳。

表示“不敢做某事”短语为dare not do sth.。

故去掉to。

【87题详解】
考查名词。

句意：在任何情况下，少数人的意志都不应凌驾于多数人的意志之上。

结合句意表示“在任何情况下”短语为in no circumstances。

故circumstance改为circumstances。

【88题详解】
考查情态动词。

句意：这么晚了他会在干什么呢？此处表推测，意为“会”应用can或could。

故might改为can/could。

【89题详解】
考查时态。

句意：她坚持说她听到房子里有人。

此处主句为一般过去时，宾语从句也应用相对应的时态，此处用一般过去时。

故hear改为heard。

【90题详解】
考查形容词。

句意：安娜有教学的理论知识，但没有实践经验。

修饰后文名词knowledge应用形容词theoretical/ theoretic，作定语。

故theory改为theoretical/ theoretic
52.略。