1、2012019 920202020学年度学年度( (上上) )期末质量监测期末质量监测 高三英语高三英语 本试卷分四部分，卷面分数150分。考试用时120分钟，听力不计入总分。 第一部分第一部分：听力（共两节，满分听力（共两节，满分 30 分）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) 请听下面 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
2、段对话仅读一遍。 1. What are the speakers probably going to tell Jennifer? A. Not to worry about what people think. B.To spend more time on her studies. C. To get them tickets to the volleyball game. 2. What does the man imply about Paul? A. He has already asked for help. B. He was the last one to use the c
3、omputer. C. He doesnt know a lot about the computer. 3. Whats the mans job now? A. He works in a car factory. B. He works in an office. C. He is out of work now. 4. Where are the two speakers? A. In Britain. B. In USA. C. In France. 5. What can be inferred about the man? A. Tonights exam is the easi
4、est one. B. He wishes he could go to a concert. C. He did well in two of his exams. 第二节 (共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分) 请听下面 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 秒钟的做答时间，每段对话或独白读 两遍。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 8 题。 6. What is Charlie looking for?
5、 A. His tie. B. His wallet. C. His socks. 7. How was Charlie last night? A. He was ill. B. He felt too hot. C. He was drunk. 8. How did he come home last night? A. On foot. B. By taxi. C. By bus. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 9 至 11 题。 9. Why is the man going to the States? A. To visit interesting places. B. To visi
6、t his friends. C. To attend a meeting. 10. When will the man leave for America? A. In two weeks. B. In mid-January. C. On January 10th. 11. What is the man? A. A scientist. B. A writer. C. A traveler. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 12 至 14 题。 12. What is the main subject of the conversation? A. Saturdays game. B. Mic
7、higans defense. C. Getting into the coachs office. 13. Where does this conversation most likely take place? A. In the coachs office. B. On the playing field. C. At the doctors office. 14. Where does the woman tell the man to go? A. To the hospital. B. To his home. C. To her office. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 15 至
8、 17 题。 15. When was the White House built? A. 1600. B. 1800. C. 1812. 16. What did the presidents wife save during the fire? A. Her best white dress. B. Her son. C. A picture of George Washington. 17. Who owns the White House? A. Each president. B. The Washington family. C. The American people. 听第 1
9、0 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。 18. Where can you find the telephone number of the city council in a telephone book? A. In the white pages. B. In the blue pages. C. In the yellow pages. 19. Where can you find an area code map of the U.S.? A. On the first page of the telephone book. B. At the end of the telepho
10、ne book. C. In the front of the white pages. 20. What are you advised to do when you get a wrong number in making a long distance call? A. Check your number and call again. B. Tell the operator what has happened. C. Ask the operator to put you through. 第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）分） 第一节（共15小题
11、；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，并在答题 卡上将该项涂黑。 A Modern people are paying more attention to exercise and many celebrities are leading the trend, while in ancient China there were also many fitness lovers. Lu You: chosho As a noted productive poet, Lu You from the Song Dynasty wrote m
12、ore than 20,000 poems in his lifetime. According to historical records, he lived to 85 years old, the longest living poet in the Song Dynasty. However, Lu You was weak as a child. During his later years, Lu You started the body building called chosho. Chosho was quite popular in ancient times, which
13、 was not roaring or whistling, but an elegant, serious and skillful health method. People opened their body, breathed in deep and then breathed out with a long and loud cry in rhyme. Su Dongpo: long run, five kilometers per day The great Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo, or Su Shi preferred to take long
14、runs, and he thought that only by moving your body regularly could you have a strong body. He would slow down when he breathed hard, and speed up when his breath balanced. Su Dongpo would run until he was sweaty, hot, blood circulating and limbs feeling refreshed. Huyan Zan: cold bath There was an a
15、nnual festival in November during the early Tang Dynasty (618-907) called Pouring cold, where a group of strong men, nearly bare, sang and danced in the street while crowds poured cold water on them. The festival, a sacrifice to god, was thought to be helpful to body building. During the Song Dynast
16、y, Huyan Zan recovered the tradition by removing the singing and dancing parts and keeping the pouring cold water part, as a way to exercise his kids physical bodies. 21. What would Lu You do when doing chosho exercise? A. Scream after opening his body. B. Make a long and loud roar. C. Whistle for a
17、 long time. D. Breathe deep and shout with a rhyme. 22. While Su Dongpo was running, he_. A. adjusted his running speed according to his breath B. kept running at a high speed all the way C. would run until his body was tired D. practiced Qigong during the course of running 23. Why did Huyan Zan hav
18、e his kids do a cold bath? A. To teach them the hardship of life. B. To honor his general-inherited family. C. To make them have a healthy body. D. To expect them to have a long life. B Growing up in England with a British father and a Chinese mother, Ive enjoyed food from both countries ever since
19、I was able to hold a knife and fork and chopsticks! Mum has sweet memories of the food from her home town in Sichuan, and often cooks spicy dishes. Thanks to this, Dad has come to love hot pot! But there are still some dishes that Dad dare not try even after many years of marriage to my mother. Even
20、 today he still does not take to eating things like chicken feet. But I enjoy that sort of food myself. Last week, I went to the butchers and asked, Do you have pigs ears? No, the butcher said, pulling at his own ears, just these ordinary ones. He must have thought I was joking. Dad can cook a super
21、 full English breakfast of bacon, eggs, beans, sausages and toast with butter. Mum and I just have to find a way to get him into the kitchen! He also does a typical Sunday roast. We all love roast beef and vegetables. Ill never forget my first visit to China. Mum encouraged me to try different kinds
22、 of food. But just when I thought I could deal with all Chinese food, I came across stinky tofu, a horrible grey thing that looked and smelt like a burnt sports shoe. I gathered all my courage to take a bite and was amazed to find it wasnt so bad. It reminded me of blue cheese, a similarly strong sm
23、elling type of food you either love or hate. Maybe Ill fall in love with stinky tofu, someday. People say that one mans meat is another mans poison, but I feel at home with food from both my cultures. 24. What can we learn from this passage? A. I have enjoyed the food from two cultures since a littl
24、e child. B. Because of my Mum, Dad loves all kinds of Chinese food.来源:学科网 C. We all like roast beef and vegetables except Mum. D. I have fallen in love with the stinky tofu now. 25. What kind of person did the butcher probably think the author was? A. Generous. B. Mean. C. Humorous. D. Serious. 26.
25、What does the underlined part in paragraph 2 probably mean? A. Resist. B. Like. C. Allow. D. Mind. 27. Whats the passage mainly about? A. Comparing two different cultures. B. Trying some different foods. C. Different eating habits in China and Britain. D. The eating experiences of a mixed-race famil
26、y. C The development of a V-shaped fuel-efficient airplane design known as the Flying-V will be funded by Dutch national carrier KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.来源:163文库 To improve the sustainability (持续性) of air travel, the Flying-V was developed by researchers at Delft Univers ity of Technology in the Ne
27、therlands, also known as TU Delft. Its futuristic design puts the passenger cabin into the wings. Its said the plane will use 20% less fuel than the Airbus A350-9while carrying a similar number of passengers. In recent years, KLM has developed as a pioneer in sustainability within its airline indust
28、ry, said Pieter Elbers, CEO and president of KLM. We are proud of our progressive relationship with TU Delft. Air travel is contributing about 2.5% of global CO emissions (排放物), and the industry is still growing, so we really need to look at more sustainable airplanes, said TU Delft project leader R
29、oelof Vos. We cannot electrify planes, as electrified airplanes become way too heavy and you cant fly people across the Atlantic on electric airplanes not now, not in 30 years, Vos said. So we have to come up with new technologies that reduce fuel burning in a different way. Weve been flying traditi
30、onal airplanes for decades now, but it seems like they are reaching the limit in terms of energy efficiency, he said. The new design actively contributes to the lift of the airplane, and creates less air drag. The planes increased fuel efficiency is largely a result of its design, Vos explained. The
31、 researchers hope to fly a model this September, Vos said, while the new cabin design will be open to the public at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in October. The completed plane is expected to enter service between 2040 and 2050. 28. What can we infer from the text? A. Flying-V was developed by KLM Roy
32、al Dutch Airlines. B. Researchers at TU Delft have raised enough money. C. 20% of the passengers will sit in Flying-Vs wings. D. KLM plays an important role in sustainability. 29. Why sustainable planes are needed? A. To save electricity. B. To reduce global CO emissions. C. To make air travel more
33、affordable. D. To develop air industry. 30. How does the Flying-V save energy? A. Its the V-shaped design that makes a big difference. B. The idea of electrified airplanes is applied to its development. C. It depends on a kind of more efficient fuel. D. Its futuristic design leads to a limited numbe
34、r of passengers. 31. Whats the purpose of the text? A. To instruct us the importance of environment protection. B. To inspire us to explore the unknown area of technology. C. To inform us of the fuel-efficient Flying-V. D. To appeal to us to raise fund for technology. D Scientists think they have th
35、e answer to a puzzle that confused even Charles Darwin: How flowers evolved and spread to become the most important plants on earth. Flowering plants, or angiosperms (被子植物), make up about 90 of all living plant species, but how they did this has been a mystery. New research suggests it is due to gen
36、ome (基因组) size. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the earth was dominated by ferns (蕨类) and conifers (针叶树) they were the main plants on the earth. Then, about 150 million years ago, the first flowering plants appeared on earth. They quickly spread to all parts of the world. Why angiosperms were suc
37、cessful and diverse on earth has been debated for centuries. Charles Darwin himself called it a mystery, fearing this apparent sudden change might challenge his theory of evolution. Kevin Simonin from San Francisco State University in California US and other researchers analyzed data held by the Roy
38、al Botanic Gardens, Kew, on the genome size of hundreds of plants, including flowering plants, gymnosperms (a group of plants including conifers) and ferns. They then compared genome size with anatomical (结构上的) features. This provides strong evidence that the success and rapid spread of flowering pl
39、ants around the world is due to genome downsizing. By reducing the size of the genome, which is contained within the nucleus (核) of the cell, plants can build smaller cells. The researchers say genome-downsizing happened only in the angiosperms, and this was a necessary condition for rapid growth ra
40、tes among land plants. 32. What do we know about angiosperms? A. They are superior in number among all living plant species. B. They controlled the earth for hundreds of millions of years. C. They challenge Charles Darwins theory. D. They are extinct plants in the world. 33. It can be implied that_.
41、 A. Simonin works in the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew B. Simonin is probably an American biologist C. Darwin was confident of his theory of evolution D. Darwin succeeded in figuring out the flower evolution 34. What contributed to the success and diversity of angiosperms? A. The weaker ferns and conife
42、r. B. The larger nucleus. C. The stronger cell. D. The smaller genome. 35. What can be a suitable title of this passage? A. Why were gymnosperms successful on earth? B. What puzzle confused even Charles Darwin? C. Why angiosperms dominated the earth? D. When angiosperms outnumbered conifers and Fern
43、s? 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。 During the long holiday, did you feel bored and decided to check social media, only to find that your best friend was at the beach, that your classmate was going hiking, and that your cousin or niece was enjoying a feast? Hav
44、e you got the feeling that others are experiencing things and enjoying life more than you are? Oh, you might feel that you are missing out. 36 FOMO is the anxiety caused by a nagging (难以摆脱的) feeling that you are not taking part in the exciting and worthwhile things going on around you. As is known,
45、comparison is the thief of joy. FOMO makes us check social media more frequently, leading to an addiction and a negative cycle that is hard to break. 37 These include the feelings of depression, loneliness and boredom. 38 You can avoid FOMO by focusing on being mindful, changing your habits, and wor
46、king to be more grateful for your own life. Social media is often what contributes to FOMO more than anything else. If you are feeling very upset when seeing all of the fun that others are having, take a break from your accounts. In this case, youd better stop looking to social media for happiness.
47、39 Besides, one of the best ways to overcome FOMO is to begin to truly appreciate what you value in your life. Make a list of all the things that are important to you, including subjects, people, dreams, possessions or experiences. 40 You will find the true value of your life. Do remember that if yo
48、u miss an opportunity, other opportunities will come. A. Have you ever experienced FOMO? B. What can you do to overcome FOMO? C. Spend some time reflecting on these things. D. You can permanently do so if you feel it helps. E. The feeling is called the fear of missing out or FOMO for short. F. Resea
49、rchers have found that FOMO can cause serious negative results. G. If it controls you, the only thing you really miss out on is your own life. 第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）分） 第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A,B,C 和 D）中，选出可以填人空白 处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 The train wasnt overcrowded when I was on it. Though the fourhour journey was 41 , the experience would be remembered 42 in my memory.
