山西省实验中学2020届高三上学期第二次月考英语试题

山西省实验中学2020届高三上学期第二次月考英语试题

山西省实验中学2019—2020学年度高三年级第二次月考 英 语 第一卷（客观题）‎ 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）‎ 第一节（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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。答案写在答题卡上。‎ A The Danish lifestyle concept of hygge means many indescribable feeling of comfortable things to many people. Now, join us in visiting some of the best hygge places.‎ ‎1. Manshausen (Manshausen Island‎, ‎Norway)‎ ‎ Adventure-seeking people needn't look further than Manshausen, a 55-acre island escape in Norway's Grotoya strait. Not to be missed the saltwater hot tub overlooking the sea and family-style meals enjoyed by the fireside at the main house. The baby sitting service also available.‎ ‎ Get more information here.‎ ‎ 2. Cedar Lakes Estate (Port Jervis‎, ‎New York)‎ ‎ Occupying 500 bucolic acres, this turn-of-the-century summer camp now houses a host of luxury, lodge-style cabins. Bike the grounds, paddle in the lakes, swim in the outdoor heated pool or head to a nearby mountain for a day of skiing. Then tum on your fire place and 1ie down with a great book beneath a fur blanket.‎ ‎ Get more information here.‎ ‎3. Soho Farmhouse (Oxfordshire‎, ‎England)‎ ‎ This Oxfordshire countryside members-only club offers up a British version of hygge. Among the splendid property' s coziest offerings: the community farmyard and the Studio Cabin guest room, which boasts views of the lake.‎ ‎ 4. Salt House Inn (Provincetown‎, ‎Massachusetts)‎ ‎ This charming coastal town now boasts a 19th-century shingled cottage-turned hotel. Book your visit during the quiet windswep to off-season (January through March) for some salty fresh air on the beach.‎ Get more information here.‎ ‎1. If you are taking a baby, which one may suit you best?‎ A. Manshausen. B. Cedar‎ ‎Lakes Estate. ‎ C. Soho Famhouse. D. Salt House Inn.‎ ‎·10·‎ ‎2. What is special about Soho Farmhouse?‎ A. Water scenery. B. Outdoor activities. ‎ C. Limited access. D. Family-style meals.‎ ‎3. Where is this text most probably taken from?‎ A. A brochure. B. A magazine. C. A website. D. A textbook. ‎ B An 8-year-od Nigerian, Tani Adewumi, whose family is homeless, won first place at the New York State Chess Championship without a single defeat and he said he is not done yet.‎ ‎“I want o be the youngest grandmaster,” Tani told The York Times. Tani was placed first in the tournament for kindergarten through third grade- an outstanding win for anyone. “It's unheard of for any kid, let alone one in a homeless shelter," said Russell Makofsky, who is in charge of the chess program.‎ ‎ Tani hasn't had an easy life. His family left northern Nigeria in 2017, and moved to New York City over a year ago where the boy learned how to play chess at school. School chess coach Shawn Martinez saw Tani’s potential after observing him stand out in the game a few weeks after he first learned it early last year. He reached out to Tani’s family about joining in the school's chess program, and learned they were unable to pay costs associated with membership. Martinez decided to abandon Tani’s fees, which can easily reach thousands with travel and chess camp admission.‎ ‎ Seven victories later, the elementary school boy is one of the top players in the country for his age group. “He works very hard at his game,” Martinez said, believing Tani could achieve master status in the next year or two. The world's youngest grand master qualified at the age of 12.‎ ‎ As Tani’s story hits the headlines, more people want to help. Makofsky, who set up a GoFundMe campaign for Tani, said the family has received offers for a car, legal services, jobs and even housing. “My hope is that he’ll be in a home tonight,” Makofsky said.‎ ‎4. How did Makofsky find Tani's achievement?‎ A. Confusing. B. Untrue. C. Ridiculous. D. Amazing.‎ ‎5. Martinez decided to abandon Tani's fees because ______.‎ A. Tani had a great gift for chess B. Tani wished to be a grandmaster C. Makofsky told him to do so D. Martinez took charge of the chess program ‎6. What can we learn from Tani's story?‎ A. All things are difficult before they are easy.‎ ‎·10·‎ B. Those who help themselves may succeed.‎ C. A good beginning makes a good ending.‎ D. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ‎ ‎7. What's the best title for the text?‎ A. An 8-year-old Became the Youngest Grandmaster B. A Nigerian Family Hit the Headlines in the ‎USA C. An Organization Was Set Up to Support a Nigerian Child D. A Homeless Nigerian Won the State Chess Championship C A team of engineers at Harvard‎ ‎University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.‎ ‎“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components (元件),” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.‎ They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.‎ While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.‎ Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”‎ ‎·10·‎ 8. Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly?‎ A. They did no have sufficient fund B. There was no model in their mind.‎ C. No ready-made components were available. ‎ D. I was hard for them to assemble the components.‎ ‎9. What can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4?‎ A. The robotic fly can just fly in limited areas at present.‎ B. The robotic fly has been put into wide application.‎ C. The robotic fly consists of a fight device and a control system.‎ D. Information from many sources can be collected by the robotic fly.‎ ‎10. What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 5 refer to?‎ ‎ A. the animals B. flight mechanics and insect-scale ‎ C. these robots D. the power, sensing and technologies ‎11. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?‎ A. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.‎ B. Wood's design can replace animals in some experiments.‎ C. The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects.‎ D. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.‎ D In a major medical breakthrough, Tel Aviv University researchers printed “the world’s first 3D vascularized (血管化的) engineered heart using a patient’s own cells and biological materials. Their findings were published on April 15 in a study in Advanced Science.‎ ‎“This is the first time anyone anywhere has successfully engineered and printed an entire heart,” says Prof. Tal Dvir of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, who led the research for the study. “This heart is made from human cells and patient-specific biological materials. In our process, these materials serve as the bioinks, something made of sugars and proteins that can be used for 3D printing of complex tissue models,” Prof. Dvir says. “People managed to 3D-print the structure of a heart in the past, but not with cells or with blood vessels. Our results demonstrate the potential of our approach for engineering personalized tissue and organ replacement in the future. ‎ According to Prof. Dvir, the use of “native” patient-specific materials is important to successfully engineering tissues and organs.‎ ‎·10·‎ The researchers are now planning on culturing the printed hearts in the lab and “teaching them to behave” like hearts , Prof. Dvir says. They then plan to transplant the 3D-printed heart into animal models.‎ ‎“We need to develop the printed heart further,” he concludes. “The cells need to form a pumping ability; they can currently contract, but we need them to work together. Our hope is that we will succeed and prove our method's efficacy(功效) and usefulness. Maybe, in ten years, there will be organ printers in the finest hospitals around the world, and these procedures will be conducted routinely.”‎ ‎12. What does Prof. Dvir think of an early 3D-printed heart?‎ A. It was too simple. B. It was highly practical. ‎ C. It was too expensive. D. It was personalized. ‎ ‎13. What do we know about the latest 3D-printed heart?‎ A. It can match a patient perfectly. B. It can be cultured in the lab. ‎ C. It has been transplanted into animals. D. It has been widely used in hospitals.‎ ‎14. What is Prof. Dvir's attitude to the development of the printed heart?‎ A. Ambiguous. B. Disapproving. C. Cautious. D. Positive ‎15. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?‎ A. To introduce a breakthrough of medical research.‎ B. To explain the basic principle of 3D technology.‎ C. To doubt the medical value of a new invention.‎ D. To prove the effectiveness of the new technology. ‎ 第二节（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15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。‎ ‎“The calm before the storm” is a very familiar expression. It is usually used to describe a peaceful period just before a very stressful situation or a tense argument. 16 They noted that before certain storms the seas would seem to become calm and the winds would drop.‎ But why is it often so calm before a storm? 17 According to US website HowStuffWorks, a calm period occurs because many storms, tornadoes and hurricanes draw in all the warm and damp air from the surrounding area. As this air rises into the storm clouds, it cools and acts as “fuel for the storm , like petrol in a car” .‎ Once the storm has taken all the energy it can from the air, it is pushed out from the top of the storm clouds and falls back down to ground level. 18 So once it covers an area, it causes a calm period before the storm.‎ ‎·10·‎ ‎ 19 First count how many seconds there are between flash of lightning and a clap of thunder, roughly three seconds equal one kilometer. A good judgement is that if your count is below 30 seconds, you should seek shelter straight away.‎ However, due to the complexity of the storm system, calm doesn't always go first. So, your best bet is to keep yourself updated with weather reports for any predictions regarding a coming storm in your area. 20 ‎ A. Science has given us the answer.‎ B. There is no definite answer to the question.‎ ‎ C. Weather reports sometimes cannot be trusted.‎ D. British sailors coined the phrase in the late 1600s.‎ E. As the air declines, it becomes warm and dry, which is stable.‎ F. The Weather Network has a tip for working out how far away a storm is.‎ G. That's the most reliable way to predict the next display of nature’s temper.‎ 第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分55分）‎ 第一节（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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。‎ Two years ago, my friend and I were at college.With his birthday quickly ___21___ , he came to me with an unusual ___22___ : instead of receiving presents, he wanted to do some acts of kindness.‎ I was ___23___ with such all idea. ___24___ instead of taking for the birthday was really different.I asked him how he could come up with such a ___25___ idea. He told me about a TED talk he had watched on generosity, which had ___26___ him. So we started to ___27___ creative things we could do.‎ Our university employed some security guards to ___28___ its students. They have to work ___29___, keeping watch on every corner throughout the university. For the most part it’s a thankless job as most people grow ____30____ to seeing the guards all around and eventually ____31____ notice their presence, let alone acknowledge their efforts. How could we show them our appreciation?‎ We decided to make a large pot of hot ____32____ .We hired a car and asked the driver to take us around the campus where we knew the ____33____ would be and we poured them each a cup of hot chocolate. The driver was ____34____ a bit doubtful to the entire plan but after a while he was helping us ____35____ the guards and our lively spirit had ____36____ to him as well. We were met with many ____37____ and appreciative words. It was amazing to see how a ____38____ act or even intention of generosity can lift everyone’s spirit.‎ ‎·10·‎ I now realize that special energy is created when you choose to think bigger than yourself and act in ____39____ of others. You’ll find it’s actually the greatest ____40____ you’ve never get, especially when it’s your birthday.‎ 21. A. ending B. approaching ‎ C. advancing D. passing 22. A. order ‎ B. problem C. request ‎ D. story 23. A. struck ‎ B. blessed ‎ C. burdened ‎ D. bored 24. A. Giving ‎ B. Earning C. Refusing D. Donating 25. A. traditional ‎ B. complex C. familiar ‎ D. novel 26. A. controlled ‎ B. supported ‎ C. inspired ‎ D. rewarded 27. A. take over B. plan out C. watch for ‎ D. hold back 28. A. judge ‎ B. protect C. monitor ‎ D. help 29. A. step by step ‎ B. now and then ‎ C. more or less ‎ D. around the clock 30. A. accustomed B. devoted ‎ C. attached ‎ D. addicted 31. A. barely ‎ B. just ‎ C. always ‎ D. generally 32. A. tea ‎ B. milk C. porridge ‎ D. chocolate 33. A. workers ‎ B. students ‎ C. guards ‎ D. drivers 34. A. initially ‎ B. finally C. occasionally ‎ D. frequently 35. A. remind ‎ B. spot C. track ‎ D. recognize 36. A. returned B. moved ‎ C. happened ‎ D. spread ‎ 37. A. friends ‎ B. difficulties C. greetings ‎ D. smiles 38. A. similar ‎ B. small ‎ C. daily D. modest 39. A. charge B. place ‎ C. service ‎ D. memory ‎40 . A . lesson ‎ B. attention C. gift D. care 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个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。‎ A Relay Event Brings Diverse Cultures Together ‎ When Herman Kambugu received the good news he was expecting, he did something unusual. He ran for 32km in 41 ( celebrate). Kambugu , who works for the Standard Chartered Bank ( StanChart ) in Uganda, was among the over 86 ,000 employees around the world who had attempted 42 (take) part in a relay across Belt and Road countries as a way to see how the Belt and Road lnitiative (一带一路倡议) is developing. Kambugu and seven more of his co-workers in StanChart's offices around the world visited 44 destinations along the Belt and Road routes, 43 helped them understand the initiative better.‎ Kambugu 44 ( witness) how the Belt and Road Initiative is changing life for ‎·10·‎ ‎45 better in East Africa so far. “The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway has not only ‎ shortened transportation time, but also created over 20, 000 jobs for local people in Kenya,” he said. Serena Leung from the Hong Kong office said 46 she had seen during her journey impressed 47 (she). In some places, people greeted them in Mandarin. They spoke it 48 ( fluently ) than some people from Hong Kong , she said jokingly.‎ ‎ “By running together , we run further,” added Therese Neo, a customer manager ‎ from the Singapore office. As she saw it, the countries 49 ( participate ) in the Belt and Road Initiative were like the 50 ( runner). When they join forces , they ‎ have a better shared future.‎ 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。‎ Journey to the West is a fantastic story setting in the Tang Dynasty. When opening the book, you would read an exciting story. Tangseng and his three companions went through adventurous experience to get the scriptures(经文), which could be beneficial for the ordinary people. They made the long and hard journey westwards to achieve their dream. The Monkey King, also was called Sunwukong, managed to fight against all kinds of difficulties. Therefore, the Monkey King as a symbol of being bravery and determined is deeply loved by our Chinese. The story is so amazed that it is very worth reading, I believe you can learn more about Chinese culture from this book.‎ 第二节 书面表达（满分25分）‎ 假设你是李华，你的美国朋友Peter参加了中国首届外国留学生书法竞赛并获得了一等奖，请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：‎ ‎1. 祝贺获奖;‎ ‎2. 肯定其成绩和努力;‎ ‎3. 约时间在网上交流学习中国书法的心得。‎ 注意：‎ ‎·10·‎ ‎1. 词数100~120左右; ‎ ‎2. 书信格式及开头均已给出（不计入总词数）; ‎ ‎3. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ 参考词汇：中国首届外国留学生书法竞赛 the First Chinese Calligraphy Contest for Foreign Students Dear Peter,‎ ‎_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎_____________________________________________________________________‎ ‎_____________________________________________________________________‎ ‎_____________________________________________________________________‎ ‎_____________________________________________________________________‎ ‎ Yours Sincerely ‎ Li Hua 答案 1—5   ACCDA     6—10   BDCAC  11—15 BABDA   16—20  DAEFG 21—25 BCAAD   26—30  CBBDA  ‎ ‎31—35  ADCAB    36—40  DDBCC 41. celebration 42. to take  43. which  44. has witnessed  ‎ ‎45. the  46. what  47. her 48. more fluently  49. participating  ‎ ‎50. runners Journey to the West is a fantastic story setting in the Tang Dynasty. When opening the book, you would ‎ ‎ set will ‎ read an exciting story. Tangseng and his three companions went through adventurous experience to get the ‎ ‎ ‎·10·‎ ‎ experiences ‎ scriptures(经文), which could be beneficial for the ordinary people. They made the long and hard journey ‎ ‎ to a westwards to achieve their dream. The Monkey King, also was called Sunwukong, managed to fight against all ‎ kinds of difficulties. Therefore, the Monkey King as a symbol of being bravery and determined is deeply loved ‎ ‎ brave by our Chinese. The story is so amazed that it is well worth reading,∧ I believe you can learn more about ‎ ‎ us amazing and Chinese culture from this book.‎ Dear Peter,‎ I'm very happy to hear that you participated in the First Chinese Calligraphy Contest for Foreign Students and won the first prize. I am writing with the intention of offering my sincere congratulations to you and exchanging the experience in learning calligraphy with you.‎ Everything comes to him who waits. For these years, you've shown great interest in Chinese calligraphy and kept on practicing it every day. Not only have you referred to many calligraphy books, but also you have consulted some calligraphy masters. Hard work pays off. Eventually, it was through your hard work and talent that you succeeded in winning the championship! I’m happy about what you have achieved and I sincerely would like to exchange the experience in learning calligraphy online with you so that we can make progress together. Please tell me when you have time.‎ Congratulations again.‎ ‎ Yours Sincerely Li Hua ‎·10·‎