1、高三年级阶段性监测英语试题2020.10考试时间：120分钟 试卷满分：150分注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂 黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写 在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。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
2、、C三个选项 中选出最佳选项。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。1.Why did the man go to see a doctor?A. He can only see things up close.B. His glasses no longer work.C. He is going blind.2. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Basketball practice.B. The mans new ball. C. Training games.3. How man
3、y people are probably eating with the man?A. Two.B. Three.C. Four.4. Where are the speakers?A. At a gym.B. At a health store.C. In a doctors office.5. How does the woman describe her dog?A. Hes good at protecting her.B. Hes not very nice sometimes.C. Hes too small to do any harm.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分
4、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。听完每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每 小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给岀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、7题。6. What are the speakers mainly discussing?A. A computer museum.B. Advances in computer technology.C. A library with examples of old technology.7. What is the PowerBook
5、 100?A. A $700,000 computer.B. A machine from 1976.C. The original portable computer. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. Who will be on the face of the $20 bill?A. Susan B. Anthony.B. Harriet Tubman.C. Alice Paul.9. What did Susan B. Anthony do?A. She saved many slaves.B. She helped pass a new law.C. She started an
6、 important conversation.10.Why are the speakers excited?A. The 19th Amendment just passed.B. Women will be featured on U.S. money.C. Alexander Hamilton wont be on the $10 bill.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11.How did the speakers find out the restaurant?A. From a friend.B. From a website.C. From the newspaper.12
7、.What does the woman want to do after the meal?A. Talk to the owner of the restaurant.B. Get another drink.C. Eat some pizza.13. What will the woman probably do this week?A. Get some money from Brian.B. Go back to the restaurant.C. Talk to Susan.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. When does the man need to turn in
8、 his application?A. By January 2nd.B. By May 1st.C. By September 3rd.15. How many people applied last year?A. Fifty.B. Twenty.C. Seventeen.16. Who might the woman be?A. A professor.B. A current student.C. An administration assistant.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What did Milton do?A. He caught a thiefB. He
9、went to a theme park.C. He traveled across the country.18. What happened on Monday?A. Some cars were stolen.B. A roller coaster stopped working.C. The Johnson family moved to New York.19. Where is Six Flags located?A. In Orange County.B. In Union City.C. In New York.20. What will viewers see next?A.
10、 An advertisement.B. An interview.C. A weather report.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AEarlier this year, we asked our readers to vote for their favorite childrens museums. Shortly after announcing the winners, these museums had to close their doors to
11、 help protect their communities from the spread of COVID-19. But they also bring some of their programming online.The Magic House | St. Louis, MissouriThe folks at The Magic House in St. Louis are sharing their expertise through their Magic at Home series. Each edition features a project that kids a
12、nd their parents can do with household materials, like making a banjo or animal figures.City Museum | St. Louis, MissouriWhile the City Museum is closed to visitors, the museum staff, artists and historians have launched City Museum on Air. This series takes place each weekday with an eclectic lineu
13、p of programming - everything from free art classes, storytelling sessions and museum tours at upcoming exhibits.Kohl Childrens Museum | Glenview, IllinoisThis winning childrens museum calls itself The place where awesome lives, and would-be visitors can bring that awesome into the home through its
14、library of online teaching resources, story time sessions and Home Zone projects. Kids can learn how to fold paper airplanes, learn about the physics of wheels or make their own recycled paper.21.What results in the closing of childrens museums?A. The spreading of a disease.B. The decrease of would-
15、be visitors.C. The readers votes on museums.D. The development of digital programming.22.When is online programming of City Museum accessible?A. At weekends.B. At any time.C. On weekdays.D. On holidays.23.What do The Magic House and Kohl Childrens Museum have in common?A. Stressing hands-on experien
16、ce. B. Demonstrating how 4 wheel works.C. Offering story-telling courses.D. Teaching how to copy animal figures.BMy parents owned a neighborhood bar called the M Ninety-Seven, named for a nearby highway, on the comer of State Fair and Hoover Avenues in Detroit. Built in the 30s, ithad a long wooden
17、bar that was on the right as you walked in. I grew up in the bar. When most kids my age were at the park playing ball or riding bikes, I was watching old men shoot pool and play shuffleboard （沙狐球）.My father spent his entire life serving drinks and bringing cheer to customers. There were the white-co
18、llars who would stop in to unwind from the days stress. They would bend elbows with the blue-collars and day laborers on either side of them. It always surprised me that they were able to mingle（交往）.I would sit at the last table by the kitchen, sipping Cokes and eating a bag of Better Made potato ch
19、ips with my twin sister, watching it all.It was the 1960s version of a reality show. There was Big Bill, the tough talking policeman who stood six and a half feet tall and weighed just shy of the beer truck he drank daily. His views on society could be hard to listen to at times. But one night, he s
20、howed that he was all talk. While Bill was on patrol （巡逻）,a call came over the radio about an apartment fire. He raced scout car to the scene, beating even the fire crew. The building was ablaze. He ran up three flights of stairs through smoke and flames to rescue two frightened children. Bill carri
21、ed them out in his arms like each was a carton of eggs. The man with an explosive mouth but a keg-sized heart had saved the day.Years passed, my father died, and the bar was sold. Like secondhand smoke, the words and the scenes from that bar stayed with me.24.What did the author want to tell us by t
22、he underlined sentence in paragraph 1?A. His family built a wooden bar.B. He didnt play with kids at the park.C. He liked making friends with old men.D. He was familiar with everything in the bar.25.Whats the purpose for the white-collars to go to the bar?A. To drink beer.B. To watch others.C. To co
23、mmunicate.D. To relax themselves.26.Which of the following can best describe Bill?A. Rude and careless.B. lough but a little bit shy.C. Complaining but responsible.D. Talkative and narrow-hearted.27.What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. The bar impressed the writer a lot.B. The father didnt m
24、anage the bar well.C. Secondhand smoke is similar to the bar.D. The writer has nothing to do with the bar.CThe food delivery industry now is a hotly competitive business, attracting the worlds biggest moneybags such as Amazon, Alibaba and Soft-Bank. Balancing the needs of diners, cooks and couriers（
25、快递员）is complicated. Most new companies lose money. Yet they have received more than $30bn from venture capitalists （投资家）in the past five years. And they are likely to get more.The food-delivery business can be divided into two camps: mostly profitable veterans（老牌公司）and loss-making newcomers. The vet
26、erans, founded at the start of the century, are led by publicly traded Grubhub in America, and Just Eat and Takeaway in Europe. They account for the largest share of the market, offering customers online access to restaurants. Their relatively simple business model, in which they take a cut of the b
27、ill from the restaurants, has enabled Grubhub and Just Eat to turn a profit for years. Takeaway makes money in its home market of the Netherlands.The newbies, born more recently, have turned a once-tidy business into a food fight. For most of them, delivery is their core business, so they share thei
28、r cut of the bill with riders as well as restaurants. This substantially broadens the market to restaurants but profit suffers.The only mouthwatering aspect of the delivery business is its potential size. According to Bernstein, a brokerage（经济公司），almost a third of the global restaurant industry is m
29、ade up of home delivery, takeaway and drive-throughs, which could be worth $l tm by 2023. In 2019 delivery amounted to $161bn, leaving plenty of room for online firms to expand.Yet it is by no means clear if anyone can make money by delivering meals. In fact, the economics may be even worse. Deliver
30、y businesses have ways to cut their losses. One is to diversify further, by delivering groceries, flowers, booze, and even people, as well as meals. Another is to provide cheaper meals by centrally supplying ingredients to restaurants. In the dog eat dog world of food delivery, it will still be hard
31、.28. How can the veterans make a profit?A. They get lots of support from capitalists.B. They offer customers great convenience.C. They draw a part of profit from restaurants.D. They balance the complicated needs successfully.29.What makes the delivery business attractive?A. Massive profits.B. Develo
32、pment prospect.C. Satisfying service.D. Efficient management.30.What is the authors attitude towards making money by delivering meals?A. Positive. B. Definite. C. Uncertain.D. Confident.31.Which can be a suitable title for the text?A. Delivery businesses balance some complicated needs.B. Meal delive
33、ry attracts the worlds biggest moneybags.C. The two camps of delivery businesses compete fiercely.D. The food-delivery business is anything but a tasty business.DHave you ever wondered why hair turns gray as you get older and whether there is something you can do to prevent graying or at least slow
34、it down? Heres a look at what causes hair to turn gray and some of the factors that affect graying.The age at which youll get your first gray hair （supposing your hair doesnt simply fall out） is largely decided by genetics. Youll probably get that first strand （缕）of gray hair around the same age you
35、r parents and grandparents started to go gray. However, the rate at which the graying progresses is somewhat under your own control. Smoking is known to increase the rate of graying. Generally poor nutrition, insufficient B vitamins, anemia, and untreated thyroid （甲状腺）conditions can also speed the r
36、ate of graying.What causes your hairs color to change? That has to do with the process controlling the production of the paint called melanin （黑色素），the same material that tans your skin in response to sunlight. Every hair cell contains melanin cells called melanocytes. The melanocytes produce eumela
37、nin（真黑素），which is black or dark brown, and pheomelanin, which is reddish-yellow, and pass the melanin to the cells which produce keratin （角蛋白）, the chief protein in hair. When the keratin-producing cells die, they keep the coloring from the melanin. When you first start to go gray, the melanocytes a
38、re still present, but they become less active. Less paint is kept into the hair so it appears lighter.As graying progresses, the melanocytes die off until there arent any cells left to produce the color. While this is a normal and unavoidable part of the aging process and is not of itself associated
39、 with disease, some autoimmune diseases can cause premature graying. However, some people start going gray in their 20s and are perfectly healthy.Extreme shock or stress can also cause your hair to go gray very quickly, though not overnight.32.What determines your first strand of gray hair?A. Genes.
40、B. Ages.C. Nutrition.D. Disease.33.What does the underlined wordPans” in paragraph 3 probably mean?A. Avoids.B. Protects.C. Sunburns.D. Covers.34.What do we know about melanin in paragraph 3?A. It helps the hair keep shining.B. It can prevent the hair turning gray.C. It is mainly made of hair protei
41、n.D. It makes the hair look lighter.35.What is the text mainly about?A. The process of hair changes.B. The causes of hair turning gray.C. The factors of hair components.D. Relationship between gray hair and health. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。For many of us, no
42、thing is better than burying our head in a good book. Whether its a crime story or a biography of someones amazing life, its good to read a book to switch off from the distractions of everyday life.36 It can be educational and broaden the mind. A good novel can make us happy, or make us cry as we sy
43、mpathize with characters. A list of books about bibliotherapy” can be offered to patients. 37 Its become so successful that its about to be extended to children as well.Professor Philip Davis, author of a book called Reading for Life, studies people in reading groups and found that its reading liter
44、ature - written work thought to have artistic value, that has the best effect. He told the BBC that when reading something for pleasure, .the brain begins to work from different parts, and it gets excited, it gets pre emotional. 38_”Of course, its easy in our smartphone generation to abandon a good
45、book and play with our phones instead. But opening up a paperback could be a simple way to help maintain our mental health. 39 And they may allow you to see that awkward situation youve been anxious about for weeks from someone elses point of view.40 If the book list doesnt appeal, you could read bo
46、ok reviews, visit a library or bookshop or ask a friend. Once youve found the right text, youll be fascinated!A. You can see the brain coming to life.B. And you could always use an e-reader.C. You can lend it to friends and forget you did.D. It may seem obvious that reading is good for us.E. Its tho
47、ught that they can help you set targets and find focus.F. Reading books is actually being identified as a treatment to sickness.G If youre not a concerned reader, it can be hard to know where to begin. 第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题1分,满分15分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以 填入空白处的最佳选项。A gentle
48、man lost his family when young. He was homeless and went to the local_41 every day. Although the church never let him in, they left one of the windows 42 so he could hear mass （弥撒曲）.It gave him 43 and comfort. Many times we would bring him into our home for a hot shower, or a hot meal. Those were the times when his eyes lit up, almost like he 44 everything he was going through.Every winter I would get nervous for
