2020届湖北省十堰市高三上学期元月调研考试英语试题
展开十堰市2020年高三年级元月调研考试
英 语
本试题卷共12页，全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟。
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注意事项：
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4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后,只交答题卡。
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。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。
例:How much is the shirt?
A. £ 19. 15. B. £ 9. 18. C. £ 9. 15.
答案是C.
1. What happened to the woman?
A. She woke up late.
B. She got to work late.
C. She went to sleep late.
2. What is the woman doing now?
A. Baking cookies.
B. Shopping for groceries.
C. Making a list.
3. How does the man feel about some zoos?
A. Happy.
B. Disappointed.
C. Satisfied.
4. What does the man want to do?
A. Reserve a cheap hotel.
B. Go to Mexico on business.
C. Relax and enjoy himself.
5. What will the woman do in the park today?
A. Play basketball.
B. Play volleyball.
C. Walk with her friends.
第二节（共15小题;每小题L 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。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、7题。
6. What is the weather like now?
A. It's fine.
B. It's raining.
C. It's windy.
7. Why do the speakers like rain?
A. It brings perfect weather.
B. It makes the air cleaner.
C. It does good to all people.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What is Anna's chemistry grade now?
A. B+.
B. B.
C. D.
9. When does Anna's study group meet?
A. After school.
B. On the weekends.
C. During lunch hour.
10. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Mother and son.
B. Husband and wife.
C. Father and daughter.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Who is Thomson?
A. Linda's husband.
B. The man's cousin.
C. A cook.
12. How many years have the speakers been married?
A. 25.
B. 35.
C. 40.
13. What do we know about Linda?
A. She won't be invited to the party.
B. She doesn't eat chicken.
C. She is a good cook.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Why does the woman always sleep late in the morning?
A. She works late into the night.
B. She doesn't work.
C. She needs more sleep than most people.
15. When does the man get to work?
A. Around 9.
B. Around 7.
C. Around 10.
16. What does the woman invite the man to do?
A. Go to the gym.
B. Take a hike.
C. See a movie.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. Where do the pandas mainly live?
A. In bamboo forests of western China.
B. In the mountains of eastern China.
C. In the high mountains of southern China.
18. How much food does a panda eat every day?
A. 330 pounds.
B. 6 kg.
C. 12-38 kg.
19. When can a panda climb trees by itself?
A. About 6 months old.
B. When it is just born.
C. After growing up.
20. How long can a panda live for?
A. At most 14 years.
B. At least 20 years.
C. Up to 30 years.
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
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21. What's the $ 1,000 College JumpStart Scholarship mainly based on?
A. Certificate. B. Virtue.
C. Protecting wildlife. D. Helping black students.
22. Who can minority nationality students call for help if they want to get a scholarship?
A. Stephanie Dalessio. B. Adrian Monk.
C. Daniel White. D. Andrew H. Ragland.
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. Prevent. B. Hear.
C. Improve. 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. Air pollution has a bad effect on people's intelligence.
B. Females are more affected by air pollution than males.
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 science magazine. D. A biography.
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 Cafe 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 get rid of people's smartphone addiction.
B. To reduce the financial stress of libraries.
C. To make people have access to literature.
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 concepts.
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 语言知识运用（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。
Entrepreneur （企业家）Brian Hamilton used to occupy himself with a six-figure job. But his life 41 in a prison. He wasn't 42 prison； he was accompanying his friend, Robert J. Harris, who went to local prisons to do ministry work frequently. During the 43 ,
Hamilton started talking to a prisoner and 44 what he was going to do when getting out. “He said he was going to get a job," Hamilton recalls. “I 45 myself, wow, that's going to be 46 with a criminal background. ”
The 47 made Hamilton consider how the prisoners could 48 from entrepreneurship. So in 2008， Hamilton 49 a nonprofit organization called Inmates to Entrepreneurs that 50 people with criminal backgrounds to start their small business. He and Harris taught their 51 .
course at a minimum security prison called “How to Start Your Own Business when You Get Out".
At the time, Hamilton was 52 his own company, Sageworks. As Sageworks grew, so did Hamilton's time 53 on entrepreneurship courses. 54 , Hamilton decided it was time to transfer his 55 to the courses. In 2018, he sold his stake （股份）in Sageworks to ensure his 56 to Inmates to Entrepreneurs.
He planned to 57 the nonprofit as well as change the model to include online curriculum options. In addition? he visited schools and 58 the curriculum to at-risk students as a preventative measure against imprisonment and provided loans （贷款）to small businesses.
Though he has received much praise, Hamilton insists he's not a（n） 59 person as a once profit-seeking businessman. “I just did what I knew to do. As an entrepreneur, there was a 60 , and I wanted to find a solution. he said.
41.A. began | B. ended | C. extended | D. changed |
42. A. dropping by | B. put in | C. taken to | D. researching into |
43. A. visit | B. recovery | C. check | D. trade |
44. A. knew | B. asked | C. found | D. guessed |
45. A. reminded | B. come to | C. thought to | D. blamed |
46. A. absurd | B. difficult | C. unnecessary | D. great |
47. A. prison | B. question | C. line | D. conversation |
48. A. expect | B. start | C. benefit | D. rise |
49. A. created | B. joined | C. contacted | D. managed |
50. A. permits | B. invites | C. helps | D. employs |
51. A. first | B. successful | C. last | D. popular |
52. A. preparing | B. planning | C. considering | D. running |
53. A. valued | B. saved | C. spent | D. wasted |
54. A. Fortunately | B. Ridiculously | C. Especially | D. Eventually |
55. A. interest | B. focus | C. view | D. experience |
56. A. devotion | B. role | C. love | D. career |
57. A. donate | B. assign | C. expand | D. dismiss |
58. A. sold | B. presented | C. lent | D. owed |
59. A. good | B. selfish | C. important | D. attractive |
60. A. chance | B. community | C. job | D. problem |
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。
Nezha is the subject of the latest cartoon film, which 61 (official) opened in cinemas in China on July 26. Nezha has got wonderful reviews and is rated higher than Monkey King : Hero is Back. Since July 26, the film 62 (earn) more than 140 million yuan at the box office, and the film has a score of 8. 8 63 (point) (out of 10) on China's largest filming rating site, Douban.
Yang Yu, 64 is the director of it, made up his mind 65 (produce) a film on the theme of breaking old rules and changing fate. Yang chose Nezha as his character, the 66 (combine) of the rebellious (叛逆的)but straight youth. The film is loosely based on the Chinese novel The Investiture of the Gods. In the novel, Nezha is born during the Shang dynasty and is famous 67 fighting against the Dragon King.
It took Yang Yu two years to polish the script, and the film was in production for three years. It is 68 most complex cartoon production ever 69 (make) in China. It has more than 1 ,300 special effects shots, and it took over 20 Chinese special effects studios,
70 (employ) more than 1, 600 people, to realize the film's fairy tale setting, the
mysterious Dragon King's palace. One spectacular scene alone took two months to complete.
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:把多余的词用斜线(\)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。
Dear Peter,
I am pleasing to tell you that we have returned to China safely. I'm writing to express our appreciations for your reception.
We were impressed with our warm entertainment. With your careful preparation, the journey couldn't have been so successfully. We benefited a lot from the visit. We get a precious chance to learn British culture and history. It also offered us a platform where we could displayed traditional Chinese culture such as like paper-cutting and Chinese painting to more foreigners. We would like to invite you visit China this summer holiday, so you can experience the Chinese culture in person and have a deeper understand of it.
Yours,
Li Hua
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，外教Smith先生下周即将来你班任教。请你用英语写一封电子邮件向他介 绍你班的基本情况,内容包括：
1.班级人数；
2.英语学习的现状；
3.大家对他教学的建议。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mr Smith,
I'm Li Hua, a student from Class 1, Grade 3.
We are looking forward to your coming!
Yours,
Li Hua
十堰市2020年高三年级元月调研考试
英语参考答案
1〜5 ACBCB 6 〜10 ABAAC 11 〜15 CCBAB 16 〜20 BACAC
21 〜23 BDC 24 〜27 CDAB 28 〜31 ADBC 32 〜35 BACD 36 〜40 EAGFC
41 〜45 DBABC 46 〜50 BDCAC 51 〜55 ADCDB 56 〜60 ACBAD
61. officially 62. has earned 63. points 64. who 65. to produce
66. combination 67. for 68. the 69. made 70. employing
短文改错
书面表达
One possible version：
Dear Mr Smith,
I'm Li Hua, a student from Class 1, Grade 3. I'm glad to hear you will come to teach us. I will give a brief introduction of our class to you.
There are 60 students in our class, including 36 boys and 24 girls. Most of us are fond of studying English, but the abilities of listening and speaking are relatively weak, especially when communicating with foreigners. Although the academic atmosphere is great, we always can't get good grades.
We hope you will give us more opportunities to express ourselves in English and enjoy more English videos in class. In addition, if a variety of English activities, such as English short plays and English speech contests, can be held regularly, our English will improve greatly.
We are looking forward to your coming!
Yours, Li Hua
