七校联合体2020届高三第一次联考英语试题及答案

1、七校联合体2020届高三联考试卷10英语科目命题学校：宝安中学命题人：徐娅晖审题人：高菁第一部分 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。AForget Cyclists, Pedestrians are Real DangerWe are having a debate about this topic. Here are some letters from our readers. Yes, many cyclists behave dangerously.

2、 Many drivers are disrespectful of cyclists. But pedestrians are probably the worse offenders.People of all ages happily walk along the pavement with eyes and hands glued to the mobile phone, quite unaware of what is going on around them. They may even do the same thing while crossing a road at a pe

3、destrian crossing or elsewhere. The rest of us have to evade ( 避让)them or just stand still to wait for the unavoidable collision.The real problem is that some pedestrians seem to be, at least for the moment, in worlds of their own that are, to them, much more important than the welfare of others.Mic

4、hael Horan I love the letter from Bob Brooks about cyclists ( Viewpoints, May 29). I am afraid they seem to think they own the roads.I was walking across Altrincham Road one morning when a cyclist went round me and on being asked what he was doing he shouted at me.The government built a cycle lane o

5、n the road but it is hardly used.The police do nothing. What a laugh they are!The cyclists should all have to be made to use the cycle lanes and wear helmets, fluorescent ( 发荧光的) jacket and lights at night and in the morning they should pay some sort of tax and be fined for not wearing them.Carol Ha

6、rvey Cyclists jump on and off pavements (which are meant for pedestrians), ride at speed along the pavements, and think they have a special right to go through traffic lights when they are on red.I was almost knocked down recently by a cyclist riding on the pavement when there was a cycle lane right

7、 next to him.Other road users, including horse riders, manage to obey the rules, so why not cyclists?It's about time they had to be registered and insured, so when they do hit a pedestrian or a vehicle, or cause an accident, at least they can be treated and there might be an opportunity to claim

8、. JMLWrite to Viewpoints of the newspaper.1. What did Michael Horan want to show in his letter?A. Drivers should be polite to cyclistsB. Road accidents can actually be avoidedC. Pedestrians are a threat to road safetyD. Walking while using phones hurts one's eyes2. What does Carol Harvey suggest

9、 cyclists to do?A. be provided with enough roadsB. be asked to ride on their own lanesC. be made to pay less tax for cyclingD. be fined for laughing at policemen3. What does the underlined word "they" in the third letter refers to?A. accidentsB. vehiclesC. pedestriansD. cyclists4. What vie

10、wpoints are presented in these three letters?A. real source of road dangerB. ways to improve road facilitiesC. measures to punish road offencesD. increased awareness of road rulesBIn its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people,

11、horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, "No, thanks. I've got a good horse under me."The city planner decided to build an underground dr

12、ainage （ 排水 ） system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced me the city had no choice but to build the pipes above g

13、round and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their bu

14、ildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?That's where Geor

15、ge Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews （螺旋千斤顶） beneath the building's foundation. One man was assigned to operateeach section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullman'

16、s signal each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stay open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening. Some people like to say that every pr

17、oblem has a solution. But inChicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.5. The author mentions the joke to show.A.

18、horses were fairly useful in ChicagoB. Chicago's streets were extremely muddyC. Chicago was very dangerous in the springD. the Chicago people were particularly humorous6. The city planners were convinced by Ellis Chesbrough to.A. get rid of the street dirtB. lower the Chicago RiverC. fight again

19、st heavy floodsD. build the pipes above ground7. What can we conclude about the moving operation of the Tremont Hotel?A. It went on smoothly as intended.B. It interrupted the business of the hotel.C. It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews.D. It separated the building from its foundation.CFranz K

20、afka wrote that a book“must be the ax （ 斧子）for the frozen sea inside us. " I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn' t seem to require any explanatWd d just finished John Steinbeck Of MiceiovdlMen . When we read the end togetherout loud in class, my toughest

21、boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I.crying? ” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look."I am, " I tol）the funny thing is I ' ve read it many times. ”But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was alw

22、ays going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever

23、 will, the novel' s tethibleivnigcway of dreams to fate （命运）.For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a

24、 former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school one that often attracts the literary- minded children of Manhattan ' s upper classes into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortabl e with her new

25、 classmates. I thought additional “ culturalcapital ” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph.Ds.Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups r

26、ead: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth . The students didn t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “ it s about being a man, itI hsadabnoeuvtemr anliness.before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had

27、I heard Lady Macbeth s soliloquies （ 独白 ） read as raps （说唱）, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, butserious. Once introduced to Stei nbeck s writing, one boy went on to readThe Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “ allthese people hate each other, and th

28、ey raell white. ” His historical viewwas broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice te

29、sts. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch （碰撞 ） but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich （ 充实 ） the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may s

30、ucceed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.8. What does the underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A. A book helps to realize our dreamsB. A book helps to give support to our lifeC. A book helps to smooth away d

31、ifficultiesD. A book helps to awake our emotions9. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men ?A. Because they spent much time reading it.B. Because they had read the novel before.C. Because they came from a public school.D. Because they had similar life experiences.10. Why p

32、ossibly did the girl leave the selective high school ?A. She was a literary-minded girlB. Her parents were immigrantsC. She couldn t itnfiwith her classD. Her father was then in prison11. The author writes the passage mainly to.A. introduce classic works of literatureB. advocate teaching literature

33、to touch the heartC. argue for equality among high school students D. defend the current testing systemDSports accounts for a growing amount of income made on the sales of commercial time by television companies. Many television companies have used sports to attract views from particular sections of

34、 the general public, and then they have sold audiences to advertisers.An attraction of sports programs for the major U.S. media company is that events are often held on Saturday and Sunday afternoons the slowest time periods of the week for general television viewing. Sport events are the most popul

35、ar weekend programs, especially among male viewers who may not watch much television at other times during the week. This means the television networks are able to sell advertising time at relatively high prices during what normally would be dead time for programming. Media corporations also use spo

36、rts to attract commercial sponsors that might take their advertising dollars elsewhere if television stations did not report certain sports. The people in the advertising departments of major corporations realize that sports attract male viewers. They also realize that most business travelers are me

37、n and that many men make family decisions on the purchases of computers, cars and life insurance.Golf and tennis are special cases for television programming. These sports attract few viewers, and the ratings（收视率）are unusually low. However, the audience for these sports is attractive to certain adve

38、rtisers. It is made up of people from the highest income groups in the United States, including many lawyers and business managers. This is why television reporting of golf and tennis is sponsored by companies selling high-priced cars, business and personal computers, and holiday trips. This is also

39、 why the networks continue to carry these programs regardless of low ratings. Advertisers are willing to pay high fees to reach high-income consumers and those managers who make decisions to buy thousands of “ companycars ”and computers. With such viewers, these programs don t need hoigshtaryatoinng

40、tshte air.12. Why would weekend afternoons become dead time without sport programs?A. Because there would be few viewersB. Because the advertisers would be off work.C. Because television programs would go slowly.D. Because viewers would pay less for watching television.13. In many families, men make

41、 decisions on .A. holiday trips B. sports viewing C. television shopping D. expensive purchases 14. Why are the ratings not important for golf and tennis programs?A. their advertisers are carmakersB. their viewers are attracted by sportsC. their advertisers target at rich people.D. their viewers can

42、 afford expensive cars15. What is the passage mainly about?A. Television ratings are determined by male viewers.B. Rich viewers contribute most to television companies.C. Sports are gaining importance in advertising on television.D. Commercial advertisers are the major sponsors of sport events.第二节 （

43、 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。How the Elderly Are Treated Around the WorldHow cultures view and treat their elderly is closely linked to their most prized values and qualities. 16. In the US and UK, Protestantism （ 新教 ） is at play. Western cultures tend to be yo

44、uth-centric, stressing qualities like independence. 1 7.It ties a person s value to his or her ability towork - something that becomes weaker in old age. As their health becomes worse, the elderly in these cultures often move to old people' s homes and nursing homes.In France, parents are protec

45、ted by law. It is difficult to imagine an Elderly Rights Law being a focus in the laws of many Western cultures. France did, however, pass a similar law in 2004. 18. One was a group of official statistics showing France had the highest rate of pensioner suicides in Europe, and the other was the afte

46、rmath of a heat wave that killed 15,000 people, most of whom were elderly and had been dead for weeks before they were found.19.Native American cultures traditionally accept death as a fact of life. In many Native American areas, elders are respected for their wisdom and life experiences. Within Nat

47、ive American families, it ' common for the elders to be expected to pass down their learning to younger members of the family.The way to care for Chinese elders is changing. Chinese families traditionally view respect for one' elders as the highest virtue, according to the Confucian traditio

48、n. Adult children are generally expected to care for their parents in their old age. 20. Nursing homes are beginning to become a more socially acceptable option for elderly care.A. However, this tradition is beginning to break down due to rising lifetime and an aging population.B. In the African-Ame

49、rican area, death is seen as an opportunity to celebrate life.C. Here ' s what we can learn from other cultures about treating the elderly.D. But China faces the unique problem of tending to an increasingly elderly population.E. Native American elders pass down their knowledge.F. It was only pas

50、sed following two disturbing events, though.G. This relates back to the Protestant work rules.第二部分语言知识运用（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）阅读下列短文，从短文后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。When our restaurant business failed, we headed north in a camping truck to Texas, hoping to have a “ f

51、resh start ".At the 21 of Palo Duro Canyon （峡谷）State Park, I 22 a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a 23 , permanent campsite in the park, and 24 , the hosts served as a link between the park' s guests and therOnge 他 was the perfect solution: arent-free place to reor

52、ganize our lives. We entered the park and I made an 25 for the following day.The park was 26, so it took us some time to find an available site. That evening, as we finished our dinner, my wife saw two large skunks （ 臭鼠由） walking toward our table. We 27 climbed onto the table and, for the next four

53、hours, waited for them to 28 our camp.Having survived that night, we were 29 that everything else would be all right. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our 30 and gave us a beautiful campsite.That evening, 31 , we learned about the canyon 32. They were strong and c

54、old,rocking our little camping truck violently, and we lay 33 in the dark until the winds died away.34 the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck and 35 the little money my wife 36 by substitute teaching. Building a successful business and then losing it had left very little time fo

55、r building another succe ssful 37. For a time after ourbusiness 38 I thought I might lose my family as well.Living in the tiny 39 with no television, we sat close together reading and talking. One evening, standing under a jeweled sky, I found myself 40 for all the hardships. We had walked the trail

56、s and climbed the canyon walls. We had become a family!21. A.backB.edgeC.centreD.entrance22. A.sponsoredB.publishedC.noticedD.answered23. A.safeB.freeC.convenientD.beautiful24. A.in returnB.in timeC.in shortD.in turn25. A.attemptB.agreementC.appealD.appointment26. A.crowdedB.dangerousC.idealD.quiet2

57、7. A.repeatedlyB.immediatelyC.eventuallyD.calmly28. A.attackB.leaveC.passD.search29. A.satisfiedB.determinedC.confidentD.aware30. A.responsibilitiesB.requirementsC.circumstancesD.conditions31. A.moreoverB.thereforeC.meanwhileD.however32. A.windsB.snowsC.woodsD.trails33. A.shakingB.quarrellingC.mourn

58、ingD.aching34. A.AfterB.BetweenC.DuringD.Beyond35. A.give awayB.hand outC.live onD.put aside36. A.borrowedB.earnedC.postedD.raised37.A.businessB.careerC.familyD.image38.A.startedB.failedC.expandedD.declined39.A.truckB.parkC.houseD.camp40.A.desperateB.readyC.suitableD.thankful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，并将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。Xuan paper, known as one of the Four Treasures of the Study, first came into 1.(exist) in Xuan Prefecture in the Tang dynasty.