广东省惠州市2020届高三英语第二次（10月）调研试题

惠州市2020届高三第二次调研考试英 语2020.10本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分120分（最终成绩按总分135分进行折算），考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1. 本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在答题卡相应的位置。3. 全部答案应在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。4. 考试结束后，将答题卡交回。第I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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AFeeling hungry but dont have the time to get in line for food? Why not just grab and go? Here are the best places for takeout in this city. Try choosing your takeaway food by referring to the following feedbacks from the customers:New Garden: Shop 6A, G/F, Sen Fat Bldg, 6 Bonham StrandRileen Chua: Beef egg toasted sandwich! Good for takeaway as u skip the queue! So time-saving!Chris Chua: Must order their sandwiches and red bean ice! Classic!Fuyuhiko Takaya: English service available. My favorite Chinese-Western fusion restaurant!Pololi: 35-39 Graham Street (Hollywood Road)Max Lmn: Great healthy takeaway spot!Alfonso Castillo: Loved the food. Very healthy and not so expensive. I would recommend it to be taken away rather than actually eat there. 11:30 all the way to 02:00, good for late night snacks!Will C: Friendly staff, well knowledge of their products and offer samples to try. Had the avocado spicy tuna, wasabi Mayo and salad. If you like fresh healthy food, you wont be disappointed.Feast (Food by EAST): 1/F, EAST, Hong Kong, 29 Taikoo Shing RdShari McCullough: The to-go counter is great for picking up a fresh, yummy salad or sandwich for takeaway.Berla King: Cupcakes turned out to be the densest and heaviest ever. Suggest you pass on the takeaway counter for more desserts. Closes at 21:00.La Rotisserie: Shop B, G/F, Manhattan Avenue, 25 Queens Rd C, Sheung WanBart Verkoeijen: Its for takeaway or on the go only. You get the chicken wrapped in aluminum foil, and it is still hot after 15 minutes. Opens 14:00 23:00.John Chew: It is a great lunch takeaway. I love the chicken with pasta. People are crazy about its chocolate cake which I will have to try one of these days.Tink Wong: Yummy! Probably not the healthiest but the potatoes were delicious. The chicken was juicy and very well-seasoned. Will go back for sure! Tea set is worth every dollar.Click “more” if you want other recommendations. Treat yourself!21. Who is this passage intended for?A. People who dont want to wait for food.B. People who are hungry.C. People who are too lazy to go out eating.D. People who are particular about food.22. What made New Garden special among the best places for takeaway?A. Customers can experience different food cultures.B. It only offers takeaway food.C. Only fresh healthy food is served.D. Customers can enjoy excellent service.23.You can go to_ to choose fresh healthy food at 22:00.A. New Garden B. Pololi C. Feast D. La RotisserieBI realized something this morning. I have been writing now for 34 years. It all started when I was just 18 years old. As a boy I had read literally(毫不夸张地）hundreds of books. I had a thirst for knowledge that seemingly could never fade. Then suddenly I found I had something I wanted to share. I tried to ignore it, but as any writer will tell you once the ideas awaken inside of you they wont leave you alone until you write them down. I didnt have a computer, word processor, or even a typewriter. Still, I grabbed a pen and lined notebook paper and wrote everything that was burning inside of me.When I was done I didnt know how to share it. There was no internet back then, no smart phones, and no social media. I sought out the editor of my local county newspaper and asked him to print what I had written. He was a good man full of both wisdom and kindness. He not only printed my first story but agreed to publish anything else I was willing to write. I continued to write new articles each week and shared them first with other local papers and later online as well. Years later at the urging of my readers I even self-published two collections of my stories in book form.Through my writing I slowly became more than I was. In my writings I encountered my highest self. In my writings I discovered the goodness and light that lies in us all. In my writings I found great love and joy and encouraged others to choose love and joy as well. I also found that we all are writers whether we put pen to paper or not. With every choice we make, with every thought we hold, and with everything we do we are writing our own life story.Lance Wubbels once wrote: I hope you realize your life is truly your life. It belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well.24. As a boy, when the author found he had something to share, _.A. he wrote it downB. he ignored itC. he shared it on social mediaD. he told it to a writer25. How did the author begin his writing career?A. He was hired as a newspaper editor.B. He put his stories online by himself.C. He self-published two books.D. He was helped by a local newspaper editor.26. What does the author think of writing?A. Writing takes practice and efforts.B. Writing can benefit oneself and others.C. Writing helps people tell right from wrong.D. Only with a pen can one write his life story.27. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. A Way to be a WriterB. A Way to Share IdeasC. Living is WritingD. Writing is the Source of LoveCDo you find it difficult to put down your mobile phone?If yes, youre not alone. These days, many people suffer from the stress of FOMO (fear of missing out). They reach for their mobile phones when they wake up in the morning, and for the rest of the day, they constantly scroll down the timelines of their social media apps to get the latest updates.Despite the convenience smartphones bring, many people struggle with their digital habits.As Sameer Samat, US tech company vice president of product management, said in his speech at the 2020 Google I/O developer conference on May 8, 70% of people dont want to spend so much time on their phones.This is why during the conference Google introduced an app called Dashboard for the new version of its Android operating system. This new app includes well-being functions that aim to help users manage the time they spend on their digital devices.It all starts with a birds-eye view. Dashboard allows users to look at all the details of their phone habits. For example, users can see how many times theyve unlocked their phone and how many times theyve checked their social media apps, as well as how much time they spend on each app every day.Once the users see this information, theyll be able to make some changes. With the App Timer functions, users can set a time limit for how long they can use each app for every day. After theyve hit the limit，they wont be able to launch the app until the next day.But even if users become more mindful of their usage, theyre still likely to be drawn in by notifications (通知). This is where the Shush feature comes in. It automatically silences incoming calls and notifications when a user puts his/her phone face down.If people truly want to make full use of their free time instead of losing hours using their smartphones, these new functions are just one way of doing that.After all, who needs to use an app to stop you from using other apps when the easiest answer would be just to use your willpower?28. People under the pressure of FOMO may_.A. have trouble with their sleepB. find it hard to focus on anythingC. be addicted to their mobile phonesD. prefer to download the latest apps29. What inspires Google to launch Dashboard?A.The limited functions of current Android system.B. Peoples complaint about their smartphones.C. Samats impressive speech at a conference.D. Mobilephone users great demand.30. _ can track users phone habits in detail.A. Android B. Timer C. Shush D. Dashboard31. What can be learned from the passage?A. Dashboard turned out to be popular.B. Dashboard is a perfect choice to manage time properly.C. Strong willpower is the easiest way to avoid smartphone addiction.D. People are exploring other ways to stop overusing smartphones.DWild animals are known to listen to each other for warnings thatpredatorsare near. Some birds, for example, flee when neighbors make a loud noise to announce asnakes presence.The fairy wren is a small Australian songbird. It is not born knowing the languages of other birds. But recent research says it can learn the meaning of a few important sounds.Andrew Radford is a biologist at the University of Bristol in England and co-writer of the new report published in early August in thejournalCurrent Biology. He told the Associated Press, We knew before that some animals cantranslate the meanings of otherspecies foreign languages, but we did not know how that language learning came about.Birds have several ways of learning life skills. Some knowledge is genetically passed down by their parents and some comes from direct experience with the world. But Radford and other scientists are exploring a third kind of knowledge: information fromfellows.Radford and researchers at the Australian National University carried out the study in the countrys National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.They attached to their bodies specially-designed, sound-producing equipment called tweeter speakers. They wanted to see if fairy wrens would react to sounds of other birds even if they could not see them.The scientists first played the birds two recorded sounds that they likely had never heard before. One was a warning cry of a thornbill, a bird not native to Australia. The other was a computer-generated bird sound called buzz.When the 16 fairy wrens in the study first heard the sounds, they had no special reaction. The scientists then tried to train half of the birds to recognize the thornbills cry as a warning sound. They tried to train the other half to recognize the computer-generated buzz as a warning call.After three days, the scientists tested what the birds had learned and their students passed the test. The fairy wrens trained with the thornbills cry, fled when they heard it. The group trained with the buzz, fled when they heard that sound. Neither group reacted to the sound taught to the other.32. What does the underlined word “predators” in the first paragraph mean?A. enemies B. neighbors C. birds D. snakes33. Which is the right order of the experiment?a. The fairy wrens were divided into two parts.b. The fairy wrens made no reaction to the strange sounds.c. The fairy wrens wore sound-providing equipment.d. The fairy wrens were trained separately.e. The fairy wrens passed the test successfully.A. a b c d e B. c b a d e C. c e b a d D. a c e d b34. It can be learned from the study that the fairy wrens _.A. were not good “foreign language” learnersB. made no reaction to the sounds all the timeC. took both of the sounds as warningsD. fled when hearing the sound trained with35. The passage is probably taken from_.A. A biology textbook B. A science magazineC. A science fiction D. A wildlife brochure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。Gratitude is not only an art performed in daily life, but also part of our traditional virtue. Has your mother or friend told you that youre an ungrateful person? Do you feel unable to appreciate the world or people around you? Are you obsessed with things you dont have instead of being thankful for what you do have? 36then you will definitely need to work on being a more grateful person.Showing gratitude has been put forward in the last few decades.37 But there are still some tips that help make it possible for you to practice gratitude.Refusing to play the victim is the first step youre supposed to take. 38 If you want to be grateful, stop complaining the world, your teachers, your friends and your family about not putting themselves in your shoes, and focus on how much theyve helped and cared about you.Volunteering in your community is another effective way to show how grateful you are for what the world has given you. Whether youre helping clean up a local park, working in a soup kitchen, or teaching children or adults in your community to learn to read, your perspective towards life will change positively. 3940 You shouldnt always be good only to your close friends or family members. You can help a neighbor look for a lost dog. You can also help an old lady carry her grocery. You dont have to search for these opportunities purposely. Sometimes they will present themselves. So when they come, act with generosity. Youll be more grateful for your role played in the world.A. However hard you try to avoid these questionsB. If you find yourself involved in one of these circumstancesC. Gradually, youll be more grateful for the chances to repay the societyD. Doing a random act of kindness is also a great way of practicing gratitude.E. While such encouragement is morally meaningful，it seems to be a little abstract.F. Ungrateful persons are always blaming the world for the problems and owing all the faults to othersG. When you reflect on your thoughts, feelings, emotions and actions, you are actuallyreflecting on your values.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节， 满分45分）第一节完形填空（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四个选项（A, B, C, D）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。I was frustrated at not being entered into the national IT competition Id applied for. I sat in the car, lost in 41 , chewing my lip and staring outside.I went upstairs,42and desperate. Grandpas door was open for me as usual. There, he was waiting for my43with great excitement. I stood silently, forcing a44to cover my sadness. He seemed to45me immediately, giving me a 46 . I was astonished that such a47body was full of so much energy.Only then did my emotions start 48out. I told him that all my49were for nothing, and that I was feeling discouraged. Grandpa smiled at me50and said, “Dont worry. Youre far stronger than you think.” Then he 51, “Life can be full of ups and downs so what we need do is to still have our hopes and52, neglecting the anxiety that makes it easy to give up.”He53me on the shoulder, with a determined look, before saying, “Cheer up. Im firmly54that you have the capability to succeed.” Grandpas encouragement soon made my sadness55 .The next day, I thought about all my problems and56a plan. Now, I believe that with a positive attitude towards failure, Ill57reach my goals.Looking back, I realize that we should share our setbacks and progress in life with our58ones. As my grandpa showed, the59of our family members will benefit us60 .41.A. fearB. despairC. loveD. need42.A. weakB. strongC. sweetD. simple43.A. suggestionB. commentC. discoveryD. arrival44.A. tearB. sighC. signalD. smile45.A. ignoreB. inspectC. readD. order46.A. hugB. prideC. challengeD. wish47.A. fineB. fitC. thinD. healthy48.A. dyingB. turningC. checkingD. pouring49.A. offersB. effortsC. promisesD. profits50.A. generallyB. gentlyC. suddenlyD. freshly51.A. addedB. sharedC. helpedD. served52.A. decisionsB. respectsC. desiresD. pains53.A. pattedB. hitC. beggedD. picked54.A. convincedB. believedC. expectedD. changed55.A. ariseB. preventC. continueD. disappear56.A. turned intoB. came acrossC. cared aboutD. worked out57.A. merelyB. actuallyC. eventuallyD. instantly58.A. deservedB. belovedC. determinedD. excited59.A. companyB. gratitudeC. supportD. blame60.A. neverB. foreverC. howeverD. wherever第II卷注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。One habit of those people who are smarter than everyone else is to stay up late. In movies, the creative genius always works late into the midnight hours by candlelightand perhaps this style61 (root) in fact.Astudy62experts from the London School of Economics and Science found that people who tend to go to bed later have63 (high) IQs.64 study authors believe the root of why this islies in our evolutionbecause nighttime was a more dangerous place, and our ancestors who were to stay up instead of going to sleep65(need) to be more intelligent. Also,66(stay) awake into the night was a new idea67was attractive to curious minds.Today, our varying living rhythms may still reflect this. “Perhaps some smart people stay up later because their internal clocks are68(simple) different,” Dr. Wai says. “Or, perhaps they stay up later because they tend to be alone, and like being up late at night without distractions to think and solve their69(problem).” But if you are a night owl, still remember70( get) your seven to nine hours of sleep.第四部分 写作（共两节 满分35）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