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临颍一高高三下学期周日测试
英语试题
2020.3.8
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
In an effort to inform our citizens of clearing the street snow，the city adopts a snow removal
plan.
Routes used by City Emergency Services come first.Secondly，connected streets will be
cleared，which allows citizens the greatest access to public roads.And thirdly，roads within
neighborhoods will be cleared
Snow removal and ice control will start when：
* Snow accumulates 4 inches or more.
* Weather conditions do not endanger the safety of the road crew.
* Snow falls during peak traffic periods of heavy use of main streets.
Snow and ice removal will be delayed or cancelled when：
* There is severely cold，significant wind and limited visibility.
* The snowfall occurs on the weekend or a holiday and is not considered a threat to public
safety.In that case，snow and ice removal may take place on the next normal weekday.
*Snow and ice may be left on roadways if melting is obvious.
Your cooperation is requested during snow removal and these suggestions may apply：
* Limit travel during storms.Travel is possible once roads have been cleared or salted by the
road crew.
* Avoid removing snow from your driveway into the road.Pile the snow in your yard.
* Park your vehicles in your driveways and off the road or walks.
* Keep public sidewalks next to your house clear of snow and ice.
* Be responsible for removing this snow which is thrown by the snow plough (犁) from your
driveways.Hopefully，you can understand this inconvenience.
21．When will the snow have to be removed?
A．If it reaches a certain thickness. 2
B．If the main streets are not busy.
C．If the snow and ice begin to melt.
D．If extreme weather makes roads dangerous.
22．What should citizens do to cooperate in the snow removal?
A．Help to put the salt on the road.
B．Pile the snow nearby to the road.
C．Throw the snow into the driveways.
D．Clear the sidewalks close to their houses.
23．Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A．Clearance of emergency routes has a priority.
B．Snow and ice must be removed on the weekends.
C．Citizens play the most important role in snow removal.
D．The poster is to inform citizens of an oncoming heavy snow.
B
The Today show's Kathie Lee Gifford is hoping to bring the story of David to a new generation
with her latest musical project，The Little Giant.
The 13song album tells the story of the shepherd (牧羊人) boy who defeated a giant with five
stones and a slingshot and became a king. The idea of the record came after Gifford and her
husband Frank went on a lifechanging trip to the Holy Land back in 2012.
Gifford hoped to shine light on David's story to help a new generation find their own purpose；
it's why she decided to compose this album that invites kids to hear the tale of the shepherd in a fun
and educational way.Gifford based the record's opening track What Is Your Stone on bravery and
faith.She hopes the songs can help children find confidence in themselves.
Though the album is aimed at families and children，Gifford found recording the story of
David to be an exercise in healing after the death of her beloved husband Frank who passed away
two years ago.
“I catch myself saying that I lost him sometimes，” Gifford says.“No，he hasn't been gone.The
trip took root in my husband's life，because he truly came to understand exactly what David did.”
Gifford says the trip and the teachings stayed with her husband until his death.“For the next
three years，when people came to visit us，they'd always see Frank's trophy (奖杯) room because it's
like a museum，” Gifford explained.“He would take them over.Instead of all of his trophies，he
would point to the stones we brought back from the travelling destination and talk about them．” 3
Gifford expects her own journey，her new album and her commitment to bringing a bit of joy
to people through her show can help inspire children to discover their own faith and purpose.
24．What was Gifford's main intention of making the album?
A．To honor the meaningful trip.
B．To show her love to her husband.
C．To help children find faith and purpose.
D．To make children understand David's story.
25．How did the album benefit Gifford?
A．It made her become a superstar.
B．It made her win lots of trophies.
C．It helped her plan to have a trip to the Holy Land.
D．It helped her recover from the pain of losing Frank.
26．What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 6 refer to?
A．The visitors. B．The stones. C．The trophies. D．The trips.
27．What do we know from the text?
A．David was the hero of many children.
B．Gifford finished recording the album in 2012.
C．Frank had won much glory when he was alive.
D．The author liked Gifford's songs very much.
C
We humans love to stare into our smart devices.We gaze for hours—about 10 hours and 39
minutes a day—at our computers，smartphones，tablets and televisions.Is all this staring bad for
us？It might be，mainly because as we stare at our devices we are exposing ourselves to blue light.
Blue light is a type of electromagnetic radiation with a very short wavelength that produces a
high amount of energy.While it's true that light can damage our eyes under certain circumstances，
there's no scientific evidence suggesting that blue light is harmful to our eyes.But many people still
think it is，which is why blue lightblocking glasses are so popular.So do the glasses work?
“Everyone is very concerned that blue light may be causing damage to the eye，but there's no
evidence that it may be causing serious damage，” Dr.Rahul Khurana，clinical spokesman for the
American Academy of Ophthalmology，told Business Insider.
Blue light exposure is nothing new.In fact，the sun is the largest source of blue light.Moreover， 4
blue light is also present in LED lights.But if blue light isn't harmful，then why are we constantly
rubbing our eyes when we're looking at our screens？The answer is eyestrain (眼疲劳)：More than
60 percent of people experience eye problems associated with digital eyestrain.And blue light，it
seems，isn't the cause.Instead，our eyes are so strained because most of us blink less when we stare
at our digital devices.So if eyestrain is the real issue，blue lightblocking glasses are probably of
little use.
28．What do we know about blue light?
A．It is a kind of nuclear radiation. B．It has the shortest wavelength.
C．It may come from electronic devices. D．It consumes a great deal of energy.
29．What causes the popularity of blue lightblocking glasses?
A．Evidence of their benefits to eyes.
B．Belief in blue light's harmful effect.
C．Widespread use of smart devices.
D．Scientific understanding of blue light.
30．What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
A．Blue light exposure is hardly avoidable.
B．Eye problems are not easy to deal with.
C．Blue light may connect with tired eyes.
D．Rubbing eyes makes people strained.
31．According to the text，wearing blue lightblocking glasses may be ________．
A．tiring B．harmful C．useless D．beneficial
D
What's small，buzzes here and there and visits flowers? If you said bees or hummingbirds，
you got it.You wouldn't be the first if you mixed the two up.Now a group of researchers even say
we should embrace our history of considering the two together in the same group.The way
scientists study bees could help them study hummingbird behavior，too.
Scientists first compared the two back in the 1970s when studying how animals search for
food.The idea is that animals use a kind of math to make choices in order to minimize the work it
takes to earn maximum rewards.Researchers at the time focused on movement rules，like the order
in which they visited flowers，and where flowers were located relative to others.It was “almost like
an algorithm (算法)” for efficient searching，said David Pritchard，a biologist at the University of
St.Andrews in Scotland.Hummingbirds and bees had similar solutions. 5
As the field of animal cognition ( 认 知 ) appeared ， hummingbird and bee research
parted.Neuroscientists and behavioral ecologists developed ways to study bee behavior in
naturalistic settings.Hummingbird researchers compared hummingbirds to other birds and borrowed
methods from psychology to study their ability to learn in the lab.To be fair，hummingbirds and
bees differ.For example，hummingbirds have more advanced eyes and brains than bees.Honeybees
and bumblebees are social；hummingbirds typically aren't.
But however they perceive (感知) or process information，they both experience similar
information, Dr.Pritchard said.In daytoday searching for food, for example ，
hummingbirds may rely on more of a bee'seye view than a bird'seye view.Like other birds，they
rely on landmarks, distances and directions to make maps when travelling long distances，but they
don't use these cues to find flowers.Move a flower just an inch or so away from where a
hummingbird thought it was and it will hover over the flower's original location.Dr.Pritchard is
investigating if, like bees, hummingbirds engage in view matching—hovering ， scanning
snapshots of a place to its memory and using those as references later.
32．What is the center of research on hummingbirds and bees in the 1970s?
A．Memory.
B．Movement rules.
C．Reward calculating.
D．Information processing.
33．Which subject's research methods were adopted to study the learning ability of
hummingbirds?
A．Math. B．Biology. C．Ecology. D．Psychology.
34．How do researchers find out that hummingbirds are not like birds?
A．By setting them free. B．By moving flowers.
C．By matching views. D．By making maps.
35．Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．Hummingbirds and Bees
B．Hummingbirds in the Lab
C．New Trends in Studying Bees
D．Thinking of Hummingbirds as Bees
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 6
选项。
I just counted how many foreign languages I've studied so far in my life and it's been twelve!
I always follow my interests and find ways to put my language learning into things I'm already
interested in.I like to read blogs (博客) in other languages.__36__．For the most part，bloggers tend
to write the same way they speak，so I don't have to worry much about adopting strange terms that
are only used in writing.
Movies are also a really good tool，especially if you can find subtitles in the language you're
learning.__37__，they will still keep your brain listening and reading in the same language.Music is
another way to start listening to things in your new language.Personally， I'm so bad at
understanding lyrics (歌词) even in English，so this one doesn't really work for me，but I have
friends who learn a language through lyrics.Games are of course also an excellent way of studying a
new language.A lot of language learning computer programs include games.I'm super competitive
and if I play any of them，I can be hooked for hours.__38__．
When the initial excitement of learning a new language begins to fade，it can be hard to stick
with it.The hardest bit for me is when I'm comfortable enough with a language to understand most
things and make myself understood.I'm actually stuck at this stage in Norwegian.__39__.Ideally I
should sign up to take a big language exam.Each time I start getting selfsatisfied，it's time to take a
new course or sign up for online lessons，or take up some sort of challenge that will require me to
level up my skills.
__40__．The best language class I've ever taken was my beginner's Russian course at
university where my professor never used any English.It got to the point where I would kind of just
forget about English while in Russian class，which helped me to really immerse myself in the
Russian language and do a whole lot with the limited Russian I had.
A．That's really uncomfortable
B．Whatever languages they're translated into
C．I also try to think in the language I'm learning
D．It's time well spent if I'm learning the language
E．Computer games always make me feel worn out
F．Though they don't always exactly match what's being said
G．I found them the perfect learning tool because they're usually written in oral language
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) 7
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。
My father was born in a small town in the US.He wasn't sure what he wanted from __41__，
but something told him to __42__ and begin a new adventure.
He began that adventure traveling to cities in the US before going on to Australia，New
Zealand and the Philippines.He took my mother and us three daughters with him and went wherever
the road __43__ him.
It's easy to feel __44__ when you're on the road.We made lots of new friends on our
trip—most of them are mechanics，since we often __45__ hours in repair shops.But that was
a way much __46__ than sitting by the roadside while waiting for the engine to __47__
when it was 40 ℃ outside.
Getting along well sometimes seemed __48__.There were always a lot of __49__，
especially among us backseat passengers about who had to __50__ in the middle.But even if
it was hard，we learned a lot about __51__．When we were traveling in the Philippines，we drove
to Quezon City one day.It should have been an hour's drive but was nearly three，due to bad roads
and __52__ traffic.“Did you put our suitcases in the car？” my father asked my mother as
we arrived there.From the back seat，we saw her __53__ turn toward my father.“No，” she
said.“I thought you did.” That was how a 7hour car trip turned into a 16hour one，which was
mostly spent in __54__．
On occasions like that，we had to learn to let go of our anger because we were __55__ in a
rolling box with the same people for the rest of the __56__．Even if I sometimes felt like
opening the car door and __57__ one of my sisters out，I kept my feelings to myself.
This is why road trips were like __58__ universities to us.We __59__ our PHDs
(博士学位) in how to get along with other people just by traveling in our old car.
If we were __60__ given a second chance at life，we would do it all over again.Only
this time would I put the suitcases in the car myself.
41．A.move B．life C．experience D．belief
42．A.live up B．struggle on C．get out D．walk around
43．A.took B．drove C．served D．controlled
44．A.anxious B．upset C．helpless D．lonely
45．A.wasted B．worked C．spent D．chatted
46．A.better B．easier C．safer D．cleverer 8
47．A.break down B．cool off C．clear up D．turn off
48．A.available B．alternative C．necessary D．impossible
49．A.arguments B．fights C．embarrassments D．amusements
50．A.settle B．rest C．sit D．watch
51．A.sharing B．respect C．communication D tolerance
52．A.light B．thick C．local D．fast
53．A.suddenly B．sensitively C．calmly D．slowly
54．A.silence B．vain C．panic D．disappointment
55．A.interested B．crazy C．stuck D．impatient
56．A.holiday B．journey C．exploration D．march
57．A.dragging B．pushing C．helping D．sending
58．A.unusual B．common C．free D．mobile
59．A.earned B．expected C．missed D．valued
60．A.somewhere B．anytime C．somehow D．anyway
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。
Tea is one of the 61.________(much) popular drinks in the world. You make it by pouring hot
water over the dried leaves of a tea plant. For 62.________(hundred) of years people believed
that tea could cure illnesses，and they used 63.________ as medicine. Today scientists know
that tea contains chemicals that prevent cells from dying. Most tea has caffeine in it，64.________
makes you feel more active. Some people have problems 65.________(drink) tea because it can
cause sleeplessness.
The tea plant 66.________(grow) best in tropical and temperate places where rain falls
throughout the year. Tea can be grown from sea level 67.________ about 2，000 metres，but the
best quality grows in higher regions.
Tea comes from the leaves and buds of tea plants. Wild plants can be up to 9 metres high；
however，on tea plantations，68.________(pull) the leaves 69.________(easy)，people cut them
back to a bush of about a metre in height. It takes a plant three to five years before it is ready for
picking.
A picker can harvest about 20 kg of tea 70.________ day. On large tea plantations the
leaves are harvested by machines，but the quality of tea is higher when the leaves are picked by
hand. 9
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。
On Sunday we woke up early and had a nice breakfast. We then headed to a church which I
also met with some of my other relative. I tried to catch up what was going on in their lives and
work out how we could spend more time together. My father take us to a nice restaurant for a
wonderful lunch. Spend time with my family is very important to me and also to themselves. My
father spends a plenty of time working outside. Whenever he is at holiday，we make it much special
and we play happily. I am really gratefully to my family.
第二节 书面表达(满分 25 分)
假定你是李华，正在英国某市做交换生。你想到该市的一家图书馆办理一张借书卡(library
card)。请用英语给该图书馆的工作人员写一封电子邮件，询问相关信息，内容包括：
1．可借阅图书范围；2．借阅制度及费用；3．办卡时间及地点。
注意：
1．词数 100 左右；2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir or Madam，
I'm an exchange student here，coming from China._______________________________
Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours sincerely，
Li Hua
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