江西省上饶县2020届高三英语上学期半月考试题（四）（A无答案）

2020届高三（上）英语半月考（四）试卷A时间：120分钟 总分：150分第I卷（三部分，共115分）第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）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三个选项中选出最选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。1.How much does one ticket cost?A.$1.40.B.$4.30.C.$8.60.2.Whats Joes problem now?A.He lost his key in the swimming pool.B.The guard doesnt let him back into his room.C.He couldnt find his room key.3.What does the man mean?A.Hes willing to teach the woman how to play chess.B.Hes not a very good chess player.C.The woman needs a lto of time to play chess.4.What can we know about the man?A.He never beats his children.B.He disagrees with the woman totally.C.He beats his children sometimes when he becomes so angry.5.What are the two speakers talking about?A.A newspaper.B.An examination.C.A classmate.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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至7题。6.Who is Colins best friend?A.Edgar.B.Dorothy.C.Alfred.7.What are the speakers talking about?A.Their clases.B.Their old classmates.C.Their happy school life.听第7段材料，回答第8 至10题。8.How much is one ticket that the woman has?A.$10.B.$20.C.$30.9.Whats the latest time for the man to buy the ticket?A.8:00 pm.B.10:00 pm.C.9:00 pm.10.How long will the show probably last?A.About two hours.B.About three hours.C.About four hours.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11.What does the woman have to do on Friday?A.Go to her brothers graduation.B.Drive to Portland after work.C.Visit the mans sister.12.Where does the woman probably come from?A.Houston.B.Seattle.C.Portland.13.What can we know about the mans sister from the conversation?A.She likes taking pictures of plants.B.She will go to Canada for a trip.C.She will be getting back home early Sunday.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14.What is the woman worrying about?A.The economy is slowing down.B.She may not be able to finish the college.C.She may not find a job after college.15.What do we know about the mans business from the conversation?A.It has closed down.B.It is improving in a regular way.C.It has experienced a rapid increase in sales.16.What will the woman probably do after she finishes college?A.Join the mans company.B.Start her own business.C.Study abroad.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.What do we learn about the greenhouse?A.It is located in a park.B.Its owner died of a heart attack.C.It went into debt.18.What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning?A.Planting some trees in the greenhouse.B.Writing a want ad to a local newspaper.C.Putting up a “Going out of Business” sign.19.What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager?A.Opening an office in the new office park.B.Building a big greenhuse of his own.C.Developing new business opportunities.20.What is the speakers hope for the future?A.To own the greenhouse one day.B.To get a job at the office park.C.To plant more flowers.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。ADear Dad,Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Fathers Day cards. They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you. Yet as I selected and read, it occurred to me that not a single card said what I really want to say to you.Youll soon be 84 years old, Dad, and you and I will have had 55 Fathers Days together. I havent always been with you on Fathers Day but Ive always been with you in my heart. You know, Dad, there was a time when we were separated by the generation gap. You stood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other. The Father-Daughter Duel shifted into high gear(档位)when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the 54 Chevy whether you liked it or not. The police officer who sent me home after you reported the Chevy stolen didnt have much tolerance for a stubborn 16 -year- old girl, while you were so tolerant about it, Dad, and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life. Our relationship picked up when I married a man you liked, and things reallyturned aroundwhen we began making babies. Somewhere along the line, the generation gap disappeared. I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together, rather like a fine wine. But the strangest thing happened last week. I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car. It didnt immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and weak behind the wheel of that huge car. It was rather like a slap in the face delivered from out of nowhere. Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day. I guess what Im trying to say, Dad, is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today. Honoring a father on Fathers Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking. Its about loving someone more than words can say, and its my wish that it never had to end. I love you, Dad.Love,Jenny21.From the 4th paragraph we know that the writer was sent hme by the police officer because _.A.she was driving a wrong carB.she was believed to be the “thief”C.she lost thr way while drivingD.she annoyed the police officer with her rudeness22. Why did Jenny feel strange when she saw her father last week?AShe seldom saw him driving that huge car.BShe had never realized his being old and weak.CShe didnt expect to meet with him there.DShe had never seen him driving so slowly before.23. Jenny wrote his father this letter to _.Atell him about their conflictsBsay sorry for her being stubbornCexpress her gratitude to himDremind him of the early incidentBFive years ago, when I taught art at a school in Seattle, I used Tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students. I put a small set of Tinkertoys in front of eachstudent, and said: “Make something out of the Tinkertoys. You have 45 minutes todayand 45 minutes each day for the rest of the week.”A few students hesitated to start. They waited to see the rest of the class would do. Several others checked the instructions and made something according to one of the model plans provided. Another group built something out of their own imaginations.Once I had a boy who worked experimentally with Tinkertoys in his free time. His constructions filled a shelf in the art classroom and a good part of his bedroom at home. I was delighted at the presence of such a student. Here was an exceptionally creative mind at work. His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect(感染) other students.Encouraging this kind of thinking has a downside. I ran the risk of losing those students who had a different style. of thinking. Without fail one would declare, ” But Im just not creative.”“Do you dream at night when youre asleep?”“Oh, sure.”“So tell me one of your most interesting dreams.” The student would tell something wildly imaginative. Flying in the sky or in a time machine or growing three heads. “Thats pretty creative. Who does that for you?”“Nobody. I do it.”“Really-at night, when youre asleep?”“Sure.”“Try doing it in the daytime, in class, okay?”24. The teacher used Tinkertoys in class in order to _?A. know more about the students B. make the lessons more excitingC. raise the students interest in art D. teach the students about toy design25. What do we know about the boy mentioned in Paragraph 3?A. He liked to help his teacher. B. He preferred to study alone.C. He was active in class. D. He was imaginative.26. What does the underlined word “downside” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Mistake. B. Drawback.C. Difficulty. D. Burden.27. Why did the teacher ask the students to talk about their dreams?A. To help them to see their creativity. B. To find out about their sleeping habits.C. To help them to improve their memory. D. To find out about their ways of thinking.CIt all began with a stop at a red light.Kevin Salwen was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, hack from a sleepover in 2020. While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes Coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other.“Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal.”Hannah protested. The light changed and they drove on, but Hannah was too young to be reasonable. She pestered （纠缠）her parents aboutinequity,insisting that she wanted to do something. “What do you want to do?” her mom responded. “Sell our house?” Warning!Never suggest a grand gesture to an idealistic teenager. Hannah seized upon the idea of selling the luxurious family home and donating half the proceeds to charity, while using the other half to buy a more modest replacement home. Eventually, thats what the family did. The project crazy, impetuous（鲁莽的）and utterly inspiring is written down in detail in a book by father and daughter scheduled to be published next month: “The Power of Half.” Its a book that, frankly, Id be nervous about leaving around where my own teenage kids might find it. An impressionable child reads this, and the next thing you know your whole family is out on the street. At a time of enormous needs in Haiti and elsewhere, when so many Americans are trying to help Haitians by sending everything from text messages to shoes, the Salwens offer an example of a family that came together to make a difference for themselves as much as the people they were trying to help. In a column a week ago, it described neurological evidence from brain scans that unselfishness lights up parts of the brain normally associated with more primary satisfaction. The Salwens experience confirms the selfish pleasures of selflessness. Mr. Salwen and his wife, Joan, had always assumed that their kids would be better off in a bigger house. But after they downsized, there was much less space to retreat to, so the family members spent more time around each other. A smaller house unexpectedly turned out to be a more family-friendly house.28.What does the underlined word “inequity” most probably mean in Paragraph 3?AUnfairness. BSatisfaction.CPersonal attitude. DReasonable statement.29.What does the underlined sentence “Never suggest a grand gesture to an idealistic teenager.”in Paragraph 5 means?ADont respond to a childs demands firmly without consideration.BUnless a child is realistic, never give an answer immediately.CGive an answer if the child is reasonable.DNever give a quick answer to an idealistic teenager.30.What can we learn from the last paragraph?AThe Salwens regretted selling their house.BThe relationship between the family members of the Salwens is much closer.CSmall houses can bring happiness.DThe Salwens intend to buy another big house.31.Want do we know from the passage?AMercedes Coupe is only an ordinary car which is quite cheap.BUnselfishness has nothing to do with peoples primary satisfaction.CHannah asked her parents to do something charitable and so they did.DThe writers children asked him to sell their house.DOur planet is home to about seven billion people. Since the 1990s, population experts have predicted the number would grow to nine billion before it begins to slow down and possibly decrease.But a new report predicts the worlds population is likely to increase to almost 11 billion by 2100. Based on the most modern statistical tools, the new report makes use of government records and considers expert predictions, including death rates, birthrates and international migration, or people moving across borders. The report says during the rest of this century, Africas population will grow from about 3.5 billion to5.1 billion over the next 85 years.John is director of the United Nations Population Division. He says that in the past, researchers thought population growth in Africa would be similar to that of other areas. They expected slower growth rates as birth control use became more widespread. But he says those ideas were wrong.“The level of contraception use has continued to increase but slowly more slowly than expected, and birthrate therefore has been falling less rapidly than expected, and the population therefore continues to grow somewhat more rapidly than we expected. The new findings are based on a joint research project of the United Nations and the University of Washington.The researchers believe the population of Asia will reach five billion by 2050. That is up from the current 4.4 billion. And then begin to decline. The researchers also believe that North America, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean area will have a total population of below one billion.John says the pressure of feeding the rising population is likely to be less than that might be expected.“The relatively good news is that the world has been winning the race between population growth and food production. If you look back historically over the last 50 years, certainly for the world as a whole and for many, most individual countries and regions, the increase in food production has outpaced the increase of population.”32. Which area will experience the largest increase in population at the end of the century?A. Asia. B. Africa. C. Europe. D. North America.33. “Contraception use in the fourth paragraph refers to _.A. a method of expert predictionsB. a way of avoiding growth in populationC. a joint research into the rising populationD. a potential technology for food production34. Why is the pressure of feeding the rising population less than expected according to John?A. Expert predictions are not exactly like what the facts happen.B. Birthrates have always been falling less rapidly than we expected.C. The population grows less rapidly than population experts expected.D. The increase in food production has outpaced the increase of population.35. What can be inferred from the passage?A. The worlds population will increase constantly.B. The population of Asia will rise by 5 billion by 2050.C. John is optimistic about feeding the rising population.D. Population growth in Africa was much slower than expected.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。36 She described all the things she had to do one was to make her bed from the moment she woke up until she flew out of the door for work. I suggested she experiment by not making her bed for two weeks. She was shocked, probably thinking Id been raised by wolves in a forest. 37 .Two weeks later she went into my office beaming. She had left her bed unmade for the first time in 42 yearsand nothing bad had happened. And you know what? she said. I dont dry my dishes anymore, either.38 . One was discovering that she had choices in her life that she had never seen before. The other was giving herself permission to be less that perfect. This story shows an important principle (原理) about Managing time: No one can do it all. Each of us has to make choices and accept trade-offs. The problem is, many people choose in ways that put themselves and their health last. They take better care of their houses and cars than they do of themselves. 39 .So what is the solution? Theres an easy way. Decide what you want in your life, and put that first. On a daily basis, that should include regular meals, enough sleep and time with your family. Exercise, leisure, friendships and hobbies should also be regular aspects of life.40. The choice is yours: whatever makes you feel good about yourself and your life.Take a nap. Take a walk.Take time to play the piano. Stop bringing your briefcase home from the office. Stop keeping your house as clean as your mother kept hers. Fill more of your time wit h want-to-dos instead of have-to-dos.A.This woman had made two major breakthroughs (突破).B.Above all, you neednt do anything for yourself regularly.C.They put everyone elses needs ahead of their own.D.However, she went along with my idea.E.Most people do not take time to relax themselves.F.The point is to do something for yourself every day.G.A patient came to see me about the stress in her life.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和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Twenty years ago, I was told a story of Little Brother at a party which has delighted and inspired me ever since.Little Brother, who was an ambitious painter and trying to be an artist, went to France to 41 himself with beauty and inspiration. One afternoon, he 42 a conversation in a cafe with a group of charming young people. They took a liking to Little Brother and invited him to a party that weekend in a 43 in the Loire Valley. It would be 44 by the rich and famous and by several crowned heads of Europe. Best of all, it was a masquerade ball (假面舞会).45 , Little Brother worked all week on a costume and held back on neither the details nor the craziness of this creation. Then he rented a car and drove three hours to the castle. Little Brother entered the ballroom, head 46 high.Upon which he immediately realized his 47 .This was 48 a costume party but he had missed one detail in 49 : This was a themed costume party. The theme was “a medieval court” 50 Little Brother was dressed as a lobster (龙虾).He stood at the top of the steps for one long, h