河南省周口市扶沟县2020届高三下学期开学考试 英语
展开扶沟高中2019－2020 学年度下期开学考试
高三英语试卷
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A、B、C 和D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Student Scholarships
5 Strong Scholarship
Application Deadline: August 20th
Scholarship Description: The 5 Strong Scholarship Foundation is a team of experienced educators that have over 30 years of experience in helping minority nationality students get into college. We have teamed up to form a foundation that’s going to be devoted to building groups of 5 college ready scholars and placing them on the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Contact: Andrew H. Ragland; 770-873-6621
$1,000 College JumpStart Scholarship
Application Deadline: October 8th
Scholarship Description: The $1,000 College JumpStart Scholarship is a virtue-based competition that is open to 7th-12th graders and college students and non-traditional students. Applicants must be juniors or seniors or adult students.
Contact: Adrian Monk; 650-319-8441
ACF Andrew Piech Memorial Scholarship
Application Deadline: July 9th
Scholarship Description: One or more scholarships are awarded each year to New Mexico graduating high school seniors and continuing college students. Students must go after a degree or certificate from a non-profit public or technical professional institution including community college.
Contact: Daniel White; 505-883-6240
"Species On The Edge 2.0" Social Scholarship
Application Deadline: September 19th
Scholarship Description: Conserve Wildlife Foundation invites high school student from across the state to submit an original social media campaign showing why wildlife is important to protect. The fun and educational contest provides students with the opportunity to show their talent, creativity and love for nature. The students may get scholarships if they perform well.
Contact: Stephanie Dalessio; 609-984-6021
21. What’s the $1,000 College JumpStart Scholarship mainly based on?
A. Virtue. B. Certificate. C. Protecting wildlife. D. Helping black students.
22. Who can minority nationality students call for help if they want to get a scholarship?
A. Andrew H. Ragland. B. Adrian Monk.
C. Daniel White. D. Stephanie Dalessio.
23. Which of the following is intended for New Mexican students?
A. 5 Strong Scholarship.
B. $1,000 College JumpStart Scholarship.
C. ACF Andrew Piech Memorial Scholarship.
D. “Species On The Edge 2.0” Social Scholarship.
B
A bunch of strangers showed up at the gym in the early morning of the last Sunday of April. A few athletes were already stretching their arms, but most of us could barely focus. As I was burning off last night’s wrong decision—a big meal, I spotted a poster about a gym’s 21-day workout challenge, and I immediately signed up. I always wanted to train for a marathon, so I considered this as my warm-up. Besides, I needed to stop being lazy and this was my chance to make a change.
It was easy to promise on paper, but three weeks of recommended exercise routines and diet restrictions wouldn’t be easy. I stuck to working out 30 minutes a day, and I didn’t disturb my normal routine. Instead, I had to be faced with the tough work of being more creative in my spare time, thus breaking some bad habits.
Overcoming weaknesses with willpower was my goal for the next part of the journey. But the difficult part about making a challenge is realizing that “wanting” and “doing” are two very different things. Just like a career, you have to physically work for it rather than just wait for it to happen. But that’s hard. Throughout the 21 days, I often told myself that the challenge was meaningless and tried to sabotage myself from exercising. However, finally I overcame that negative thought and kept working out.
At the end of the challenge, I learned something even more important: Feeling the results is better than seeing them. I had fewer headaches and more energy, and was simply happier. I even felt a little smarter as I researched which foods were better for my body, and learned how to make healthier meals. I felt a sense of accomplishment, too, because even though I wanted to give up dozens of times, I didn’t. I felt my waist got smaller and my arms got stronger, and I no longer felt guilty after having a piece of cake or a drink.
24. What was the author’s wrong decision?
A. Going to the gym early. B. Training for a marathon.
C. Eating a lot the previous night. D. Stopping being lazy for a change.
25. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. Some of the author’s bad habits.
B. Some ways of the author’s killing his spare time.
C. The importance of sticking to the normal daily routine.
D. The difficulty of the author’s keeping on with the workout plan.
26. What does the underlined word “sabotage” in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Improve. B. Hear. C. Prevent. D. Distinguish.
27. What did the author learn from the workout challenge?
A. Eating healthy food is more important than exercising.
B. Overcoming a challenge could bring good feelings to him.
C. It’s more important to see what he likes than just feel it.
D. There was no need to feel guilty about things he disliked to do.
C
A new study shows that air pollution can cause a huge reduction in our intelligence. The study was a project involving researchers at Peking University in China and Yale University in the United States.
The researchers reported that long-term exposure to air pollution can affect a person’s mental abilities in two areas: Language and math.
The researchers studied about 25,000 people from across China. Between 2010 and 2014, these Chinese men, women and children were given language and math tests. Then researchers compared the test results with measurements of pollution in the air, namely nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide(二氧化硫).
Xi Chen of the Yale School of Public Health led the study. He and his team found that breathing polluted air can reduce a person’s education level by about one year.
Chen said that the effect generally is worse for those over 64 years of age, for men and for those with little or no education.
"The older persons-they are more affected. And we find, quite amazingly, males are more affected than females. And people working outdoors are more affected than people working indoors."
He noted that the youngest people in the study were 10 years old, while the oldest was 90 years old. They came from China’s 33 provinces. In his words, the data and facts are convincing and this range of ages and locations across the country provided a real, objective and representative sample.
The researchers noted that the effect of air pollution on verbal ability is even more serious as people age, especially among men and the less educated. The researchers also stressed that every country, whether developed, developing or poor, should focus on air pollution or humans will face a bad situation.
28. What is the result of the study?
A. Females are more affected by air pollution than males.
B. Air pollution has a bad effect on people’s intelligence.
C. Americans are more affected by air pollution than Chinese.
D. People working indoors are actually not affected by air pollution.
29. What did Chen say about the study?
A. It is doubtful. B. It is extremely unfair.
C. It is common and not representative. D. It is relatively objective and persuasive.
30. What did the researchers emphasize in the last paragraph?
A. The data from the 33 provinces is convincing.
B. The whole world should pay attention to air pollution.
C. The less educated take more responsibility for air pollution.
D. Air pollution’s influence on verbal ability is less serious as people age.
31. Where is the text most likely taken from?
A. A life diary. B. A guidebook. C. A biography. D. A science magazine.
D
Stories are shared in many ways. They are described in books and magazines. They are read around the campfire at night. They are randomly distributed from stand-alone booths. But what else?
To revive(复兴)literature in the era of fast news and smartphone addiction, Short Edition, a French publisher of short-form literature, has set up more than 30 story dispensers(分发机) in the USA in the past years to deliver fiction at the push of a button at restaurants, universities and government offices.
Francis Ford Coppola, the film director and winemaker, liked the idea so much that he invested in the company and placed a dispenser at his Café Zoetrope in San Francisco. Last month public libraries in some other cities announced they would be setting them up, too. There is one on the campus at Penn State. A few can be found in downtown West Palm Beach, Fla. And Short Edition plans to announce more, including at the Los Angeles International Airport.
"Everything old is new again," said Andrew Nurkin, the director of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which is one of the libraries that set up the dispensers. “We want people to be easily exposed to literature. We want to advance literacy among children and inspire their creativity.”
Here’s how a dispenser works: It has three buttons on top indicating choices for stories that can be read in one minute, three minutes or five minutes. When a button is pushed, a short story is printed. The stories are free. They are chosen from a computer category of more than 100,000 original submissions by writers whose works have been evaluated by Short Edition’s judges, and transmitted over a mobile network. Offerings can be tailored to specific interests, like children’s fiction or romance. Short Edition gets stories for its category by holding writing contests.
Short Edition set up its first booth in 2016 and has 150 machines worldwide. “The idea is to make people happy,” said Kristan Leroy, director of Short Edition, “There is too much unhappiness today.”
32. What do we know about the stories sent by dispensers?
A. They are expensive. B. They are short in form.
C. They can be read on smartphones. D. They are mainly taken from magazine literature.
33. Where can you find the popularity of story dispensers in America?
A. In paragraph 3. B. In paragraph 4. C. In paragraph 5. D. In paragraph 6.
34. Which is the main purpose of setting up the dispensers according to Andrew Nurkin?
A. To make people have access to literature. B. To get rid of people’s smartphone addiction.
C. To reduce the financial stress of libraries. D. To advertise the network literature.
35. What is the best title for the text?
A. Online Reading: a Virtual Tour B. Short Edition, a French Publisher
C. Everything Old Will Be Popular Again D. Taste of Literature, at the Push of a Button
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。
A science teacher’s job is teaching science to his students. A person who decides to become a science teacher may have many career choices available to him. He may decide to work in a primary to teach a range of subjects, including science. 36 Some even choose to earn advanced degrees that allow them to work as college professors.
37 They may cover such basic science subjects as biology, chemistry, physics and earth science as well as a full range of other subjects. The subjects a science teacher covers may vary, depending on such factors as where he teaches and the age of the students he’s instructing.
A person who wants to become a science teacher for primary-aged students may find it necessary to teach other subjects in addition to science. 38 In such classroom, one teacher may instruct students not only in science, but also math, history, language and other subjects.
At the high school level, science teachers usually have the opportunity to focus on their chosen subject. Typically, teachers at this level are required to earn bachelor’s degree in the subjects they want to teach in addition to teaching certifications. 39
College science teachers usually need more advanced degrees to secure their positions. Typically, a full-time science professor needs a doctoral degree in order to do so. 40 That is because colleges typically need teachers in basic and highly-specialized courses.
A. Science teachers teach various science subjects.
B. Science teachers are good at answering mysterious questions.
C. Often, college science teachers have a wide range of subjects choices.
D. A deep knowledge in the field of science will help applicants stand out.
E. He may also choose to teach a particular science subject in high school.
F. For example, a high school chemistry teacher usually needs a chemistry degree.
G. Many primary schools hire teachers to teach all the basic subjects in one classroom.
第三部分 英语知识运用(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，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C 和D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Grady threw down his backpack and slammed the car door shut.
"This is going to be a really 41 week," he said unhappily to no one 42 . He looked around the campground. Hundreds of blue, green fir trees, some as tall as church towers, 43 the mountainside, giving it the appearance of a lush green carpet. The sun would be setting soon. Then, Grady thought, maybe the 44 wouldn't feel so bad. Even up here in the 45 , the hot stickiness of July clung to him.
Grady hated camping, but it was something his family 46 every summer. His father liked cooking over an open fire，telling stories about how to 47 things like bear attacks and swarms of bees. His mother and younger brother Jared liked to hike and take 48 of animals. Jared had a collection of bug pictures that he'd 49 to the walls in his half of their room. Grady thought they were just scary and considered them proof that Jared was a 50 kid.
They set up camp-two 51 , one for his parents and one for himself and Jared. While everyone else started 52 dinner, Grady, looking for some place to cool down, set off for the nearby stream, which was deep enough to 53 in.
As he 54 the stream, something caught his eye. There was a(n) 55 black bear cub-no more than two feet tall with a lovely face. It was playing 56 at the water's edge, 57 its surroundings. Grady moved closer to get a 58 look. Then Grady heard a sound behind him. He 59 his father saying that bear cubs would never be 60 . Then he turned around and saw the cub's mother moving swiftly towards him.
41. A. long B. interesting C. peaceful D. risky
42. A. in advance B. in brief C. in particular D. in silence
43. A. blocked B. covered C. reflected D. scarred
44. A. dust B. campground C. heat D. sun
45. A. mountain B. river C. sky D. tower
46. A. believed in B. insisted on C. came across D. lived through
47. A. encourage B. explore C. recognize D. survive
48. A. care B. control C. pictures D. examples
49. A. guided B. pinned C. taken D. thrown
50. A. sensitive B. smart C. tough D. strange
51. A. beds B. rooms C. tents D. plates
52. A. altering B. hunting C. ordering D. preparing
53. A. dig B. swim C. hide D. sink
54. A. crossed B. imagined C. left D. neared
55. A. adorable B. aggressive C. injured D. large
56. A. cautiously B. joyfully C. forcefully D. nervously
57. A. attacking B. destroying C. hating D. ignoring
58. A. better B. brighter C. fixed D. lasting
59. A. found B. learned C. remembered D. misunderstood
60. A. alone B. awake C. cute D．scared
第二节(共10 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分30 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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。
For some people, walking or running outdoors is a great way 61 (exercise). What may not be so great is seeing trash all over the ground.
Well, some people are doing something about it. They are plogging! “Plogging” 62 (begin) in Sweden. The name combines the Swedish word “plocka”, 63 means to pick up, and the word “jogging” meaning to run slowly.
A Swedish man 64 (name) Erik Ahlstrom, started the movement in 2016. On the World Environment Day website, he says that he moved to Stockholma from a small community in 65 (north) Sweden. Each day he would ride his bike to work. He says he was concerned about the amount of trash and litter he saw each day 66 his way to work. So, he took matters into his own hands. He began picking up the trash. And that is how plogging was born!
Plogging by that term, may have 67 (office) begun in Sweden. 68 many people who exercise outdoors have been doing this for years. Take Jeff Horowitz, for example. He is a personal 69 (train) in Washington, D.C. He says that he would often pick up trash 70 (run) outside. He even turned it into a game; he would try to pick up the trash without stopping.
第四部分 写作(共两节，满分35 分)
第一节 短文改错(共10 小题；每小题1 分，满分10 分)
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(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，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；
2.只允许修改10 处，多者(从第11 处起)不计分。
My village lie in the mountains in southwest China. Although the climate and landscape are pleased, people lead a tough life there. At the beginning of the 21st century, the government began to attach great importance to its development, under the influence of that, people’s living condition began to improve. A lot of roads were built and plenty of trade centers were newly found, which made them convenient to develop economy. What’s more, many student was admitted into famous universities. In a word, thank to the government’s support, great changes have been taken place in the past few years. My village takes up a new look now.
第二节 书面表达(满分25 分)
假定你是李华，你校组建了慢跑俱乐部。请给你的留学生朋友Peter 写信，邀请他加入。内容包括：
1.组建俱乐部的目的；
2.俱乐部的主要活动；
3.报名的时间和地点。
注意：
1.词数100 左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头语和结束语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Peter,
How is everything going?
Yours,
Li Hua
