贵州省安顺市西秀区旧州中学2020届高三英语上学期第三次月考试题（无答案）

2020学年第一学期高三英语第三次月考试题本试卷满分120分，时间120分钟.本大题共两节，满分40分第1节 ：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）ATaj Mahal, Agra, IndiaAs many as 28 different varieties of precious stones were used to decorate the outside of the Taj Mahal. Construction took around 20 years. The building, which was made from white marble from the quarries(采石场) of Rajasthan, appears pink in the morning, white in the day and golden in the moonlight.Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Akashi Strait, JapanIt took 10 years to construct the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge. It connects the city of Kobe, on Japans mainland, with Iwaya on Awaji Island. Before it opened, the only way to get between the two cities was by ferry. However, the waterway was at the mercy of severe storms and when two ferries overturned in 1955, killing 168 people, public anger convinced the government of the need for a bridge. Its the longest suspension bridge in the world, with a length of 1,991 meters.Panama Canal, PanamaMore than 4. 5 million cubic yards of concrete were used in the construction of this canals locks and dams. The Panama Canal is a 47-mile long waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The earth and rubble dug to make way for it was enough to bury Manhattan to a depth of four meters. A series of locks allows ships to pass through the water. Each lock door weighs 750 tons and each lock fills with 52 million gallons of water to accommodate the 15,000 ships that use the canal every year.Grand Canyon Skywalk, ArizonaThe Skywalks foundation is strong enough to support 71 million pounds , Located 1,219 meters above the Colorado River, the Grand Canyons Sky Walk consists of one million pounds of steel and 83,000 pounds of glass. It was the creation of Las Vegas businessman David Jin, who approached the Hualapai Tribe with the idea of a glass walkway over the Grand Canyon in 1996. The Sky walk was assembled on site.1.The Japanese government decided to build the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge _A in the year of 1955B following public opinionC to show its national power D to develop Japans economy2.The Grand Canyon Skywalk is probably a real challenge for those who _A are airsickB hate rock climbingC have a fear of height D feel ill traveling in boat3.In which section of a book can the text probably be seen?A Science B Agriculture C TechnologyD GeographyBI am an English dictionary. I can still remember the day my ex-owner bought me. He had stood in front of the shelf for around half an hour before finally picking me. Originally, he chose my neighbor. But because she had some ink on the cover, he put her down and chose me instead.I may sound arrogant (傲慢的) . But please forgive me. I am so proud of my vocabulary. With 100,000 entries and 300,000 examples, I think no scholar can be more knowledgeable than me. My only weakness is that I cant speak. But that is not my fault. I was not designed to speak in the first place. My ex-owner was supposed to read the phonetic symbols (音标) clearly printed beside each word, which were also my selling point. I should have been respected but have ended up lying next to a piece of used toilet paper inside the rubbish bin.It is all because of the electronic dictionary. He is the bad guy because he takes advantage of my one weakness. And I just dont understand why he can be so slim. He also has about 100,000entries but 450,000 examples! But I know this was not the reason why my ex-owner was attracted, for he was not a very diligent (勤奋的) student and seldom read the examples listed. The main reason was that the bad guy had so many games in him. My ex-owner always pretended to be working hard while actually he was playing games.My ex-owner put me on his bookshelf because of my awesome English name “Advanced English Dictionary”. He wanted people to think that he was an advanced learner. I wanted to tell him that it would be better if he hid the comic books standing next to me. But, you know, I cant speak. I stood there for years. I was so bored. So I talked to the comic book next to me. Under normal circumstances, I wouldnt have talked to him because I was educated and he was not. But who else could I choose? He told me that my ex-owner had read him once only and then put him there. I was upset because he had never read me from page one to page 1,000. Was I not a better book than the comic book? I wanted to challenge his honesty but before I did so, he was thrown away.I give up. My pages are absorbing waste water. There is no way people will use me again. Suddenly, I want to talk to the comic book. Would he talk to me if we met?4. Why does the dictionary think that the electronic dictionary is the “bad guy”?A. I t contains more words and examples. . C. It has a smaller size.B. It can actually pronounce the words D. It has many games.5. The dictionary thinks that its ex-owner put it on the bookshelf because he _.A. thought that it could match the comic books C. just wanted to show offB. wanted his friends to study English D. had to use it sometimes6. What was the dictionarys attitude toward the comic book standing next to it?A. It wanted to make friends with him. B. It respected him.C. It envied him. D. It hated him.7. Which of the following is the best title for the text?A. A Dictionary Is Replaced with an Electronic OneB. Students Seldom Use DictionariesC. A Dictionary and a Comic BookD. The Experience of a DictionaryCA new study finds that our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the music makes us feel. Mozarts “Flute Concerto No.1 in G Major” is most often associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his “Requiem in D Minor” is linked to bluish gray, the findings revealed.US researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, enlisted nearly 100 subjects for a study on music and color. With 37 colors, the UC Berkeley study found that people tend to pair faster-paced music in a major key with lighter, more vivid, yellow colors, whereas slower-paced music in a minor key is more likely to be teamed up with darker, grayer, bluer colors.“Surprisingly, we can predict with 95 percent accuracy how happy or sad the colors people pick will be based on how happy or sad the music is that they are listening to,” said lead author and UC Berkeley vision scientist Stephen Palmer.In three experiments, the subjects listened to 18 classical music pieces that varied in pace (slow, medium, fast) and in major VS minor keys. In the first experiment, participants were asked to pick five of the 37 colors that best matched the music to which they were listening. Separately, they rated each piece of music on a scale of happy to sad, strong to weak, lively to dull, and calm to angry.Next, the research team plans to study particiapants in Turkey where traditional music employs a wider range of scales than just major and minor. “We know that in Mexico and the US the responses are very similar,” Palmer said. “But we dont yet know about China or Turkey.”8.What can we know about Mozarts “Flute Concerto No. 1 G Major”?A. It is fast in pace. B It is slow in pace.C. It makes us feel upset.D It makes us feel optimistic.9. What did the US researchers find from the result of the new study?A. There are colors that do not match any music.B. People tend to connect happy colors to slow-paced musicC. There is a one-to-one connection between music and color.D. People nearly do the same in picking colors for different music.10. How did the researchers do the research?A. By making predictions. B. By researching journals.C. By conducting experiments. D. By studying famous musicians.11According to the text, the research mainly deals with _A. how colors or music influence our emotionsB. how emotions affect music-color connectionsC. why we have different feelings towards musicD. why we have different feelings towards colorsDWitchcraft（巫术）was not made a capital offence in Britain until 1563 though it was disapproved by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484. From 1484 until around 1750, some 200,000 witches（女巫）were burnt or hanged in Western Europe.Most supposed witches were usually old women, and always poor. Any who were unfortunate enough to be an old woman with broken teeth, sunken cheeks and sockets and a hairy lip were assumed to possess the “Evil Eye”. It was more the case if they also had a cat. Many unfortunate women were taken away on this sort of evidence and hanged.Witch fever held East Anglia for 14 terrible months between 16451646. A man called Matthew Hopkins, an unsuccessful lawyer, contributed a lot! He became known as the “Witchfinder General”. He had 68 people put to death in Bury St. Edmunds alone, and 19 hanged at Chelmsfor in a single day. After Chelmsford he set off for other countries. Much of Matthew Hopkins theories of telling a witch were based on Devils Marks. He took a small mark to be a Devils Mark and he used his “needle” to see if these marks were insensitive to pain. His “needle” was basically a trick so the unfortunate women never felt any pain.There were other tests for witches. Mary Sutton of Bedford was put to the swimming test. With her thumbs tied to opposite big toes she was thrown into the river. If she floated she was guilty; if she sank, innocent. Poor Mary floated!Though many of the acts againsts witchcraft were put to an end in 1736, witch hunting still went on. In 1863, a suspected male witch was drowned in a pond in Headingham, Essex and 1945 the body of an elderly farm laborer was found near the village of Meon Hill in Warwickshire. His throat had been cut and his body was pinned to the earth. The murder remains unsolved; however, the man was said, locally, to be a male witch. It seems that belief in witchcraft has not entirely died out.12.A female witch was often found to be _A. a young lady B. a lucky woman C. an ugly woman D. a blind girl13. Matthew Hopkins can be best described as _A. kind and smart B. tricky and mercilessC. successful and nice D. famous and fortunate14. Why did people throw Mary into the river?A. To take her life. B. To tell if she was a witchC. To test her swimming skills. D. To prove that she was guilty15. Whats the main idea of the last paragraph?A. Witches are still badly treated all over the world.B. Witches were terribly treated in the European history.C. Some people still have been using magic in daily lives.D. There have always been people believing in witchcraft第2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。Wrong Reasons for Going to CollegeA college education can be priceless. 16 If any of these following factors had a big influence on your decision, youre probably right to second-guess yourself.Because someone else expects it from you.Perhaps you come from a family where everyone goes to college. Or maybe, youre the kid that everyone is proud to believe will be the first to get there. 17 . Its become so much a part of the air you breathe that youve never stopped to consider whether you want to go or whether youre ready to go.Because all your friends are going.In only a few weeks time, the whole friend group will be scattered to a half dozen different colleges in a half dozen different places. 18 Friends would wonder whats wrong with you. Some would take it as a betrayal of the dreams youve dreamed together and the plans youve made. 19Its been tough to find even a summer job. You dont have an alternative plan. Everyone else is doing it (see above). You think you might as well go to school. That is the lamest of reasons to spend $20,000 or more in the next year.Because you are afraid youll regret it if you dont go.Your uncle tells you that his one regret in life is that he didnt go to college. Others tell you that they could have gone so much farther in their career if only they had a college education. 20 So this is not a persuasive reason for you to go to college.A Thats much too fine.B Not to go would be set yourself apart.C Because you dont know what else to do.D Everyone seems more excited than you are.E It seems that for years everyone has just assumed that of course youll go.F Whatever the story is, there are always people who regret decisions theyve made.G But maybe in your heart you know that you are going for the wrong reasons.本大题共两节，满分45分第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）Growing older is unavoidable while growing up is optional. These words have been passed on in the loving _21_ of Rose.On the first day of school our professor challenged us to get to know someone, so I _22_ to find a little old lady looking at me with a smile. She said, Hi,handsome! My name is Rose. Im eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a _23_? I laughed and _24_ responded, then followed a giant squeeze. “_25_ come that are you in college at such an innocent age?” I asked. Im here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of kids. I was _26_ what it was that motivated her to be taking on this _27_ at her age. “ I always dreamed of having a college education and now I _28_ it!” Later, we became friends.Rose became a campus celebrity and she easily made friends _29_ she went. On one _30_ Rose was invited to speak at our football banquet. Her prepared cards dropped before she _31_ the speech. A little _32_ , she simply _33_ her throat and began, We do not stop playing _34_ we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are certain secrets to stay _35_ , being happy and achieving success. Youve got to have a dream. When you _36_ your dreams, you die.”At the end of the year Rose finished her college education. One week after graduation Rose died _37_ in her sleep. Over two thousand college students _38_ her funeral in honor of the wonderful woman who taught by _39_ that its never too late to be all you can possibly be.Anybody can grow older, which doesnt _40_ any talent or ability. The key is to grow up by always finding opportunities in change.21.Acare B memory C need D want22.Aturned up B turned over C. turned around D turned away23.Ahug B kiss C hand D gift24.AAnnoyingly B impatiently C Absently D Enthusiastically25. AWho BHow CWhy D Whe26.Acurious B positive C obvious D convinced27.Arisk B opportunity C challenge D invitation28.Alike B take C. hold D. make29.Ahowever B whenever C wherever D whatever30.A stage B occasion C time D event31.A remembered B continued C delivered D wrote32.A delighted B embarrassed C fascinated D frightened33.A clearedB checked C. cleaned D treated34.A until B before C when D because35.A. Energetic B. young C. alive D. healthy36.A lose B realizeC pursue D obtain37.A secretly B sadly C peacefully D bitterly38.Ajoined B ignored C cancelled D attended39.Aexample B directions C speech D personality40.A gain B explore C take D appeal第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）He was a professor. At the age of 90, he still worked eight hours every day regardless 61 the weather.His secretary said: “He was extremely old, but he forced himself to walk from his living place to the office through two blocks. 62 would take him an hour to do so, but he insisted because it made him get a sense of 63 (succeed).”One day, a university stude