2020-2021学年深圳南山外国语学校高新部高三英语月考试题及参考答案

2020-2021学年深圳南山外国语学校高新部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
I started working with my hands at a young age. The youngest of five brothers, I took on the role as a “maintenance (维修) man” at an early age for our family’s small grocery store. Often my dad wouldn’t give me a clear idea of how something shouldbe done, so I just had to figure it out by researching or through trial and error.
Fast forward to 2016 and those problem-solving skills would become the focus of Tippecanoe High School’s Homebuilding class. I knew I wanted to teach the students skills that went beyond just being able to hammer nails or cut pieces of two-by-fours. The problem was that we didn’t have the resources at the time to do much else. The idea of attracting some type of funding seemed very important. Designing, building and selling a tiny house on wheels seemed like the perfect project to accomplishthe task. I reached out to a number of local businesses and most of them responded with the greatest support for what x k w we were doing.
This year we added a new element to the program. Through one of our partners, we were able to connect with the nonprofit Veteran’s Ananda Incorporated. Students in the Homebuilding class are leading the design and production of micro houses to be donated to this organization. The new partnership gives the students another focus to consider when designing and building the houses.
There has been no shortage of students since our first year. Three years ago we had 41 students, the next 191, and this year it was limited to just over 160 students so we could have a safe and manageable classroom environment. The number of girls taking the class has risen steadily over the last few years as well. This class offers something for everyone and the skills are universal.
1. How can we describe the young author?
A. He opened a small grocery store.
B. He did a lot of research in the lab.
C. He enjoyed doing hands-on activities.
D. He learnt about maintenance from his father.
2. What do the underlined words “the task” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Getting some financial support.
B. Selling a tiny house on wheels.
C. Reaching out to many local businesses.
D. Offering the students some problem-solving skills.
3. What can be inferred about the Homebuilding class from the last paragraph?
A. Its size needs increasing.
B. Itis popular with the students.
C. It has caused some safety concerns.
D. Its classroom environment is hard to manage.
B
A new study finds almost one third of the world’s population is overweight. Since 1980, obesity rates(肥胖率)in children and adults have doubled in 73 countries, making people more worried. And rates are increasing in many other countries. Obesity is increasing faster in children than adults in many nations, including Algeria, Turkey and Jordan, the report said. But the world's weight problem is growing in both rich and poor countries alike. Researchers say an increasing number of people are dying of related health problems in what they called a "disturbing global public health problem."
Researchers studied health information from 1980 through 2015. They examined obesity rates, average weight gain in 195 countries. They found that obesity rates are three times greater among youth and young adults in countries like China, Brazil and India. Almost 108 million children and more than 600 million adults were found to be overweight. Egypt had the highest number of overweight adults in 2015. Vietnam had the least. In the same year, the United States had the highest number of overweight children, and Bangladesh had the least.
Yet hunger remains a problem in many areas. The United Nations said that almost 800 million people, including 300 million children, go to bed hungry each night. Experts said poor diets and lack of physical activity are mainly to blame for the rising numbers of overweight people.
Growing populations have led to rising obesity rates in poor countries. Often, poor people will eat processed(加工的) foods instead of choosing a diet rich in vegetables.
The London-based Overseas Development Institute studied the price of food in five countries: Britain, Brazil, China, Mexico and South Korea. It found that the cost of processed foods like ice creamand hamburgers has fallen since 1990. But the cost of fresh fruits and vegetables has gone up.
4. What do we know about obesity in the world?
A. It is worrying
B. It is given no attention
C. It has been successfully solved
D. It is more serious among old people
5. Which country has the most overweight children in 2015?
A. America
B. Vietnam
C. Egypt
D. Bangladesh
6. What is one of the reasons why people get overweight?
A. Hunger
B. Poor diet
C. Diets with vegetables
D. Eating too much fruit
7. Which ofthe following can be the best title for the text?
A. It’s Important to Have a Balanced Diet
B. How Can We Lose Weight and Keep Fit?
C. Is It Necessary for Us to Eat Fresh Vegetables?
D. Nearly One Third of People in the World Are Overweight.
C
Most teenagers are still trying to find their passion and purposes in life. However, not Gitanjali Rao. The 15-year-old girl has been coming up with innovative solutions to worldwide problems since she was ten. It is, therefore, not surprising that the teenager has won the honor of “America's Top Young Scientist”.
In the third grade, Rao was inspired to build a device after witnessing the shocking story unfold in Flint, Michigan, where cost-cutting measures led to the use of a polluted river as the city's primary water supply and incredibly high levels of lead made their way into people's drinking water.
After two months' research, Rao designed a small and portable device that used sensors to instantly detect lead in water. Called Tethys, after the Greek Goddess(女神) of freshwater, it attaches to a cellphone and informs the residents via an app if their drinking water contains lead. The design earned her the 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2017. She is currently working with scientists and medical professionals to test Tethys' potential and hopes the device will be ready for commercial use by 2022.
Later, Rao took on another social issue-drug addiction. Her app, called Epione, which won the Health Pillar Prize at the TCS Ignite Innovation Student Challenge in May 2019, is designed to catch drug addiction in young adults before it's too late.
More recently, the teenager has developed an app named Kindly, which usesartificial intelligence technology
to detect possible signs of cyberbullying(网上欺凌). When users type in a word or phrase, Kindly is able to pick it up if it's bullying, and then it gives the option to edit it or send it the way it is. It gives them the chance to rethink what they are saying so that they know what to do next time.
All kinds of awesome, Gitanjali Rao has been selected from 5,000 equally impressive nominees(被提名人) for TIME Magazine's first-ever “Kid of the Year”.
8. What gave Rao the idea of inventing the device Tethys?
A. The incident of lead pollution.
B. The issue with drug addiction.
C. The shortage of water supplies.
D. The high cost of purifying water.
9. What is Rao expecting of Tethys?
A. It'll remove metal from water.
B. It'll make it to market soon.
C. It'll win her a higher prize.
D. It'll be fitted to cellphones.
10. What will Kindly allow users to do?
A. Receive pre-warning signals of threat.
B. Input words into a computer automatically.
C. Choose from secure social networking sites.
D. Weigh their words before posting them online.
11. Which of the following can best describe Gitanjali Rao as a young scientist?
A. Ambitious and humble.
B. Optimistic and adventurous.
C. Talkative and outstanding.
D. Creative and productive.
D
“Snowplow(扫雪机) parenting” is the newest parenting style that can include parents booking their adult children haircuts, calling their college kids to wake them up so that they don’t sleep through a test, and even calling their kids’ employers.
“‘Helicopter (直升机) parenting’ means monitoring their kids’ every activity,which is out of date.” Claire Cain Miller and Jonah Engel Bromwich wrote in The New York Times. “Some rich mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: clearing any problems in their children’s path to success so that they don’t have to meet failure or lose
opportunities.”
There is a mother who started a charity in her son’s name to try to raise his chances of being accepted to the college. Another parents spent years helping their daughter avoid foods with sauce, which she didn’t like. Once she got to college, she had problems with the food in her school because it was all covered in sauce.
A survey says that three-quarters of parents of children between the ages of 18 and 28 ask for doctor visits or haircuts for their children, and 11% say they would call their kids’ bosses whether their children are having an issue at work.
As reported, wealthy parents try to get their children into top colleges by giving a large amount of money to a school, such as paying for a building. This parenting has become the most popular way to raise children, whatever the income, education, or race is.
Julie, a teacher at Stanford, told the Times that “snowplow parenting” is not a reasonable approach. “The parents should prepare the kid for the road, instead of preparing the road for the kid,” she said.
12. How does Julie like “snowplow parenting”?
A. It is unreasonable.
B. It is advanced.
C. It is accepted by teachers.
D. It is refused by rich people.
13. What is the character of “helicopter parenting”?
A. Parents make kids popular.
B. Parents provide little money for kids.
C. Parents ask kids to care for themselves.
D. Parents watch over kids’ every activity.
14. What should parents do according to Julie?
A. Do as wealthy parents do.
B. Make kids be prepared.
C. Make roads be prepared.
D. Do as little as possible.
15. What’s the best title for the text?
A. Helicopter Parenting.
B. The Similarity in Parenting.
C. A Research on Parenting.
D. A New Kind of Parenting.
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Living with an animal is like living with a human friend. Here are some suggestions for a pet owner.
Be calm. Try to always be calm when dealing with your pets, whatever they’ve done. If you’re upset at them, take a moment to calm yourself down first.___16___Also make your movements gentle and slow.
Be the boss.___17___Set aside time to practice these rules with your pet each day. If your pet breaks a rule,
use body language to let them know it is not okay.
___18___Just be in the same room with them. Let them be near you while you make dinner, watch TV or read a book. The more you’re around one another, the better chances you have of becoming friends.
Never use violent actions or language. If your pet does something you disagree with, don’t physically hurt them or scream at them.___19___However, what you really want is not their fear but love.
See the world through your pet’s eyes. Be empathetic(设身处地的) when dealing with your pet. You don’t know what’s going on in its mind. So it’s best to try to read its body language and imagine what it must be going through.___20___
A. Be patient.
B. Set rules and stick to them.
C. Stay with your pets often.
D.Hurting them will make them likely to fear.
E. In these ways you can treat it as well as possible.
F. Taking a deep breath is a useful way to keep calm.
G. Body language is different depending on the animals.
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Last July 4th, three police officers went into a supermarket to get something cold to drink.
Once inside, the cops were___21___by a store security guard who asked for___22___with a suspected thief. The woman in question didn’t have the look ofan___23___criminal. She was obviously scared, and her cheeks were wet with___24___.
The cops looked___25___her bag. “We just saw containers of___26___. Nothing else,” Mike told CBS New York.
“I’m hungry,” she explained___27___.
Being caught, the woman no doubt expected to be taken to jail for the___28___of being hungry while poor.___29___the cops had other ideas. “We’ll___30___for her food,” Sojo told the___31___security guard.
The three men had no discussion at all. It went___32___. Instead, each of them___33___out 10 dollars to pay the tab. She would not be arrested today.
The woman wept in___34___. Drying her eyes with a kerchief, she___35___, “Thank you, thank you.”
She wasn’t the only one touched by this act of___36___. “It was a very beautiful,___37___moment,” says
Paul, who was at the store. He was so___38___by what he’d seen that he posted aphoto on Twitter for all to see.
But attention was___39___what the officers wanted. They were driven by a far more common emotion. As Sojo told CNN, “When you look at someone’s face and see that they need you and they’re actually hungry, it’s pretty___40___as a human being to walk away from something like this.”
21. A. questioned B. examined C. approached D. required
22. A. help B. information C. permission D. trouble
23. A. unskilled B. experienced C. intelligent D. active
24. A. paint B. water C. rain D. tears
25. A. outside B. inside C. around D. down
26. A. food B. fruit C. drinks D. sweets
27. A. anxiously B. shamelessly C. fearfully D. angrily
28. A. action B. mistake C. habit D. crime
29. A. And B. But C. So D. Still
30. A. pay B. look C. apologize D. account
31. A. annoyed B. excited C. surprised D. confused
32. A. unchanged B. uninformed C. unsaid D. uncalled
33. A. took B. brought C. worked D. pointed
34. A. delight B. sorrow C. regret D. gratitude
35. A. recalled B. repeated C. responded D. requested
36. A. thinking B. choosing C. sharing D. caring
37. A. brave B. genuine C. painful D. terrible
38. A. moved B. amazed C. bored D.influenced
39. A. sometimes B. finally C. never D. always
40. A. simple B. natural C. complex D. difficult
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
Many of van Gogh’s paintings were inspired by warm, yellow sunlight because he loved how it could light up the world in different ways. His paintingSunflowers, for example,____41.____(fill) with vivid yellows and browns. These color1 s give____42.____painting a feeling of warmth and well-being.____43.____, the sunflowers are actually dead and dying.
The result is a painting that combines the warmth of life that van Gogh loved with the feelings of sadness that were all around him. It is a painting that is warm, beautiful and sad, all at the same time.
Van Gogh’s most famous painting,The Starry Night, takes this____44.____(mix) of joy and sadness one step further. It is a landscape full of deep blues and shadows____45.____represent the sadness van Gogh was feeling as he____46.____(paint), rather than what he was actually seeing.
This is why van Gogh’s____47.____(image) in his painting look more imagined____48.____real. The stars and moon inThe Starry Nightare____49.____(unusual) bright, their light swirling (旋动) above the darkening hills. A tree that looks like black fire cuts through the view of the night,_____50._____(interrupt) its beauty.
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（Ʌ），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）画掉。

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' m sorry for my lately reply. But it was New Year's Day and I celebrated them with my whole family. I went toBeijingwith my dad and mom who is working as doctors inShanghai. It was really crowded celebration. My grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins were all there. We prepare and ate various and delicious foods together. We played games and told story to each other. We've been back now. I' m so tiring but I couldn't help write to you. Do you have special days when are celebrated by all the people? If yes, please tell me how and when do you celebrate them. I' m looking forward to your letter.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，最近你的美国朋友John在与父母相处的过程中遇到一些困惑，沟通出现问题。

他心情不佳，来信寻求你的帮助。

请根据以下要点给他写一封信：
1.安慰John；
2.提出建议；
3.恰当的结尾。

注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. B
4. A
5. A
6. B
7. D
8. A 9. B 10. D 11. D
12. A 13. D 14. B 15. D
16. F 17. B 18. C 19. D 20. E
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. B 26. A 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. A 31. C 32.
C 33. A 34.
D 35. B 36. D 37. B 38. A 39. C 40. D
41. is filled
42. the/his
43. However
44. mixture
45. which/that
46. was painting
47. images 48. than
49. unusually
50. interrupting
51.(1).lately→late
(2).them→it
(3).is→are
(4).was后加a
(5).prepare→prepared
(6).story→stories
(7).tiring→tired
(8).write→writing
(9).when→that/which
(10).去掉do
52.略。