1、山西临汾高三英语下册模拟考试试卷（1） 1 / 14 山西省临汾市 2020 届高三英语下学期模拟考试试题（1） 共 150 分，考试时间 120 分钟。 第卷 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案 转涂到答题卡上。 第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分） 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳 选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和 阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1What time is t
2、he mans appointment? A2:15 p.m. B2:30 p.m. C2:45 p.m. 2What does the man mean? AHe likes the womans idea. BThe deal sounds impossible. CHe has some questions to ask. 3What did the man take out of the cupboard? AA cake. BBowls. CSome sugar. 4What are the speakers talking about? ASightseeing. BWeather
3、. CFishing. 5What is the relationship between the speakers? ABoss and secretary. BSalesgirl and customer. CDoctor and patient. 第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分） 听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选 项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小 题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6
4、、7题。 6What is the girl likely to be? AA waitress. BA student. CA teacher. 7What does the man think of having breakfast? AVery Important. BConvenient. CInteresting. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8How many songs is the womans iPod supposed to hold? A1000. B300. C10. 9What is wrong with the iPod? AIt is the wrong si
5、ze. BIt doesnt play any songs. CIt plays a small number of songs. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10What helps the woman do her job? AStudying the movement of hands. BWorking with a team of experts. CMaking many copies of documents. 11What does the man think of the womans job? AIts not very common. BIts not that
6、interesting. CIts not hard to do. 12How long did the woman study to prepare for the job? 山西临汾高三英语下册模拟考试试卷（1） 2 / 14 ASix months. BEight months. CEighteen months. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13What does the woman suggest? ATaking fewer classes. BMaking time for exercise. CSpending more time with his friends. 1
7、4Whats wrong with the man? AHe feels stressed out. BHe doesnt like his school. CHe doesnt get along well with his roommates. 15How many classes is the man taking? AFour. BFive. CSix. 16What are the mans friends like? AThey are very kind. BThey are quite smart. CThey worry a lot about school. 听第10段材料
8、，回答第17至20题。 17Whats the theme for today? AIntroducing some famous writers. BDiscussing the issue for environment protection. CDiscussing the growth of worlds economy. 18What is Jessica Flemings new book about? AThe economic effects of natural disasters. BHow people are affecting the oceans. CWhy tre
9、es are important to the plant. 19What does the speaker like most about Prof. Thomass book? AIt is easy to understand. BIt includes many interesting interviews. CIt has even more details than his last book. 20What suggestions will Prof. Thomas give next? AHow to talk with whales. BHow to protect the
10、underwater environment. CWhat the government should do about oil spills. 第二部分 阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A A This summers top four European music festivalsThis summers top four European music festivals LONDONLONDON LOVEBOXLOVEBOX Where: Victor
11、ia Park When: July 15-16 No other country does a festival like the British and few festivals are as fun as Lovebox in Hackneys Victoria Park. Dancing, disco balls, and more dancing. Dont miss local acts Stormzy, Kano and Katy B who represent our homegrown talent. Good food is at the heart of Lovebox
12、: go on an empty stomach to taste pizza from Voodoo Rays, hamburgers from Le Bun and cheese sandwiches from The Cheese Truck. BUDAPESTBUDAPEST SZIGETSZIGET Where: Obudai-sziget 山西临汾高三英语下册模拟考试试卷（1） 3 / 14 When: 10-17 August On an island in the middle of the Danube is one of Europes most atmospheric f
13、estivals. 40,000 people crowd into 266-acres（英亩）of woodland for a week-long party. This years big-name acts will hold you there all day or you could check out the riverside beach, or the artworks there. PARISPARIS ROCK EN SEINEROCK EN SEINE Where: Domaine National de Saint-Cloud When: August 26-28 R
14、ock and roll and Paris arent typical partners but Rock en Seine puts them together with excitement. As this is a great event where theres even an art exhibition. All this plus wonderful views of the Parisian skyline（地平线）and Marie Antoinettes rose garden. BERLINBERLIN LOLLAPALOOZALOLLAPALOOZA Where:
15、Treptower Park When: Sept 10-11 Held in Treptower Park in the east of Berlin, 60,000 mostly local people come for the rock music and the friendly atmospherekids are just as welcome as grown-ups. Take a break from the music to seek out the rose garden. Keep it going all night in some of Berlins coole
16、st clubs in neighbouring Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg. 21Which of the following festivals lasts the longest? ALollapalooza in Berlin. BRock en Seine in Paris. CLovebox in London. DSziget in Budapest. 22What is the characteristic of the Lollapalooza music festival? ASome of its performers are homegro
17、wn talents. BIt combines rocknroll with an art exhibition. CMany works of art are used for decoration. DMost of the people attending it are locals. 23Where can you go if youre particularly interested in rock music? ABerlin and Paris. BLondon and Paris. CBudapest and Berlin. DLondon and Budapest. B B
18、 When I was a child, I dreamed of becoming many things. Sometimes, I wished I was an astronaut going up into space, finding new planets and jumping around in a cool space suit. Other times, I imagined being a cowboy in the Wild West, wearing stylish cowboy boots. On other occasions, I pretended to b
19、e a famous footballer, using my skills to score lots of goals for my team. Looking back, I realize that imagination is a wonderful thing. I was able to create entire environments and scenariosscenarios in my head, using nothing more than my brain, and to be able to adapt things in my everyday surrou
20、ndings to fit the specific story of the day. Growing up with siblings（兄弟姐妹）also helped, as it meant that even bigger stories could be created, combining our ideas and putting our thoughts into action. It also allowed for more varieties in the stories, as sometimes I could be the hero while on other
21、occasions, I would be the bad guy. One of my all-time favorite memories as a kid was playing in my back garden. I played the role of Indiana Jones, which cleaned up at the cinema at that time, with my younger sister as my assistant and my brother as a bad person. We used everything in our garden, fr
22、om the path to the fence, as part of the storyline 山西临汾高三英语下册模拟考试试卷（1） 4 / 14 to create obstacles that needed to be overcome, and we would keep the story going for hours! My personal favorite game was Indiana Jones and the Stolen Easter Eggs, where my brother hid small chocolate eggs around the gard
23、en and my sister and I had to find them by answering questions or solving a puzzle. It was difficult, but eventually we found all the eggs and shared them together. Since then, I have seen many great things and met many amazing people. The elements of fun and varieties of my creative imaginations ar
24、e what I try to bring into every part of my positive life. So I can enjoy sharing with and hearing about other peoples stories, too. 24What do we know about the author from his childhood? AHe enjoyed living a life full of freedom. BHe was longing to experience adventurous things. CHe was always imag
25、ining a bright life for his future. DHe had a clear picture of what he would do after growing up. 25Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “scenariosscenarios” in Paragraph 2? Aexperiences Bsituations Cpositions Dexcuses 26From the passage, we know that Indiana Jones was . Aan a
26、stronaut Ba famous footballer Ca hot film Da very popular book 27What would be the best title for the passage? AMy Creative Imagination. BMy Childhood. CMy Positive Life Today. DMy Pride in Myself. C C When it comes to making healthy lifestyle changes, which should come first changing your diet or b
27、ecoming more physically active? Previous studies suggested that providing people with too much information about nutrition and physical activity at once tends to be discouraging. That has led to the popularity of advising people to make changes gradually, and set smaller goals. So the scientists div
28、ided 200 inactive participants who were age 45 or older into four groups. One group was instructed about making diet and fitness changes at the same time, the second group was taught about diet changes first, then fitness changes four months later, the third group changed their exercise habits first
29、 and made changes in their eating habits four months later, and the final, control group was not instructed about either diet or fitness changes but about how to manage their stress. The researchers tracked the groups for a full year. Compared to the control group, the three intervention（干预）groups m
30、ade healthy changes in their diet. Those who changed their fitness habits first significantly increased the amount of exercise they received daily compared to the other groups after four months. However, at the end of the year, the group that changed both diet and exercise at the same time was the o
31、nly one that met the nationally recommended targets for both exercise and nutrition levels, while those who worked on improving their nutrition first were unable to meet the recommended levels of fitness after a year. The researchers suspect that changes to diet are easier to make than changes to ph
32、ysical activity. The findings show, however, that pairing diet and exercise changes may help to overcome some of the barriers people face in adding more physical activity into 山西临汾高三英语下册模拟考试试卷（1） 5 / 14 their lives. If folks change diet and exercise orderly, the scientists say, they may end up placi
33、ng more importance on the first set of behavior changes and feel less pressured to address the second set. 28The advice mentioned in the second paragraph seemed . Apopular Bdngerous Cscientific Dunsatisfactory 29Which group made progress earlier than other groups in increasing the amount of daily ex
34、ercise? AThe first group. BThe second group. CThe third group. DThe control group. 30The reason why those improving their nutrition first failed to meet the levels of fitness after a year might be that . Athey might be very lazy Bthey wouldnt like to change their behavior Cit is much harder to chang
35、e physical activity Dthey might put on weight before changing their physical activity 31Which of the following does the author probably approve of? APairing diet and exercise changes. BBecoming more physically active first. CChanging diet and exercise following a fixed order. DChanging diet first an
36、d placing more importance on it. D D Curiosity is what drives us to keep learning, keep trying, keep pushing forward. But how does one generate（产生）curiosity, in oneself or others? George Loewenstein, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, offered an answer in the classic1994 paper,
37、 “The Psychology of Curiosity.” Curiosity arises, Loewenstein wrote, “when attention becomes focused on a gap in ones knowledge. Such information gaps produce the feeling of deprivation （匮乏）labeled curiosity. The curious individual is motivated to obtain the missing information to reduce the feeling
38、 of deprivation.” Loewensteins theory helps explain why curiosity is such a force: its not only a mental state but also an emotion, a powerful feeling that drives us forward. Scientist Daniel Willingham notes that teachers are often “so eager to get to the answer that we do not devote enough time to
39、 developing the question.” Yet its the question that stimulates（刺激）curiosity; being told an answer stops curiosity before it can even get going. In his 1994 paper, George Loewenstein noted that curiosity requires some basic knowledge. Were not curious about something we know absolutely nothing about
40、. But as soon as we know even a little bit, our curiosity is aroused and we want to learn more. In fact, research shows that curiosity increases with knowledge: the more we know, the more we want to know. To get this process started, Loewenstein suggests, take steps with some interesting but incompl
41、ete information. Language teachers have long used communication in exercises that open an information gap and then require learners to communicate with each other in order to fill it. For example, one student might be given a series of pictures for the beginning of the story, while the students part
42、ner is given a series of pictures showing how that same story ends. Only by speaking with each other (in the foreign language they are learning, of course) can the students fill in each others information gaps. 32When one notices a gap in his knowledge, he . 山西临汾高三英语下册模拟考试试卷（1） 6 / 14 Adesires to fi
43、ll it Btends to be afraid Cmight get tired and sad Dwill become focused on his learning 33What does Daniel Willingham imply in the article? AAnswers are more important than questions. BTeachers should be eager to get to the answer. CTeachers know how to stimulate students curiosity. DTeachers are pa
44、rtly to blame for students hating school. 34According to George Loewensteins paper, curiosity about something occurs only when you . Ahave read a lot of books Bknow little about something Chave some related information Dare given incomplete information 35What is the article mainly about? AWhy studen
45、ts hate school. BWhy curiosity is important. CHow to stimulate curiosity. DWhat makes people hungry for knowledge. 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余 选项。 An obvious reason for learning a new language is to be able to communicate with the people who speak it. 36 People
46、 in every country prefer it when tourists make an effort to speak the local language, even if all you can say in it is “hello” and “please”. Cultural understandinCultural understanding g Speaking a new language helps you to get to know another people and culture, as language and culture go hand in h
47、and. 37 It shows new ways of looking at the world. In addition, when you speak another language, you can enjoy literature, film, and music in the original language. It is extremely difficult for a translation to be a perfect replica（复制品）of the original. 38 Business and careersBusiness and careers 39
48、 Schools and employers tend to prefer candidates who speak one or more foreign languages. Even though English is widely spoken in much of the world, the fact is that the global economy depends on communication. When dealing with France, for example, someone who speaks French will have an obvious adv
49、antage over someone who doesnt. Language improvLanguage improvementement Learning another language can help you to understand your own. Many languages have contributed to the development of English. 40 Also, in learning how another language differs from your own, you will increase your understanding of your own language. For many p
