河南省郑州市2020届高三英语第三次质量预测试题含答案

1、河南省郑州市2020届高三英语第三次质量81测试题本试卷分四部分，考试时间120分钟，满分150分（听力成绩算作参考分）。考生应首先阅读答 题卡上的文字信息，然后在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上作答无效。第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到 答题卡上。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三个选项中选出最佳选项，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。What will the w

2、oman probably buy?A. A skirt.B. Shoes.C. A handbag.What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Co-wrkers.B. Schoolmates.C.Strangers.What i s the man angry about?A. Traffic lights.B. Calling while driving.C. Caraccidents.How wi 11 the boy travel?B. By train.C. Start doingA. By plane

3、.C. By car.What does the woman want the man to do by saying so?A. Set up a museum.B. Stop buying cameras,exercise.第二节（共、题；每小题L5分，满分225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，各小题将给出渺钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。Where does the conversation pr

4、obably take place?At the 12th platform.At theA. On the train, information desk.When is the train going to arrive in Sydney?A. At 9:38.B. At 11:43.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。Where are the tw speakers nov/?A. In Milan.B. In Manchester.What is Mary doing?A. Having a holiday.B Travelling on business.C. Looking for

5、 shoe designs.What does Sam probably do?A. A traveller.B. A shop manager.听第8段材料，回答第11至1通。What do we know about the grandmother?A. She still takes care of herself.C. At 12:00.C. In F1 orence.C. A designer.She is not so lonely as before.She does some cleaning on her own.How long has the grandmother li

6、ved in Kentucky?A. Since she moved away.B Since she was married.C. Since her husband died. Why does the grandmother not live with her family?She likes to live al one.She is busy with her housework.She isn t getting on well with them.听第9段材料，回答第14至1趣。. Why does Kevin say life on the island is differen

7、t?C. It! s ratherA. Its quite exciting.B. Its very simple,hopeless.What is the school on the island like?It has fifty students.It has smallA. It has no teachers, classes.What will the islanders do when they need medical care?They go to the mainland.They ask visitors for help.They take care of each o

8、ther.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.Who is the speaker probably talking to?A. Girl newcomers.B. International students.C. Foreigntourists.What are the girls advised to do in a cafe or restaurant?Take care of their bags.Leave the place quickly.Keep away from strangers.Where is the best place to park a car?A. N

9、ear a house.B. On a quiet road.C. In a public car park.What should one do when walking home alone at night?Ask a pol iceman for help.Walk in well-lighted areas.Carry a weapon for self-defense.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共、题；每小题2分，满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂 E0 黑。I was 11 years old w

10、hen I asked my mom for piano lessons in 2010.We were in financial trouble, so she said politely, “Sorry, son, out we can t now.”I googled the measurements for a keyboard, drew the keys on a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would click notes on an online keyboard andplaythem back on my paper

11、 one-keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. I spent 6 months playing without touching a real piano. Once my mom saw that I was seriojs, she borrowed money and bought me 10 lessons.I still remember the first one. I was struck by how real the sound of the piano was. I sat my Grade 1 a

12、fter 8 lessons. Once I started secondary school, we couldn t afford lessons again. I passed Grade 3, and then Grade 5, practicing only on my piece of paper. One evening, when I was about 13, my mom said she had a surprise for me-it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more borrowed money. It was

13、the first time that :d played for her and she was in shock.My school didn t offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians, but the tryouts were difficult. Some of the Questions even involved an evaluation of the composer. I was at a loss. But to my amazement, I was offered a pl

14、ace. At Purcell, I spent 2 years working as hard as I could. I performed to raise money and saved enough to buy my first piano. When I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior piano prize and academic music prize. Tm now at the Guildhall School in London. I feel proud-if s been 10 years since I drew m

15、y paper piano, and Im at one of the world5 s leading music schools.Surprisingly, I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the pi ano: what we call mental practice.The paper piano helped motivate my curiosity about how music works.Why did the mother buy the author piano lessons?A. She believed

16、 he had a talent for piano.B She found he was eager to learn piano.C. Sha was shock Ad by his first pArformancp.D She got out of her familys financial difficulties.Which of the following words best describes the author?Honest.Cautious.Clever.D Determined.What might be the best title for the passage?

17、Mental practice makes perfect.Paper piano leads me to success.Mother supports my music career.Hard times make my dream com true.Im now living in the south of France with my husband Keith and three small children, and I feel like a fish out of water everywhere but one place-the Saturday street market

18、. s been operating in our small town of Sommieres since the 13th century, but weve only lived here for three months.From Monday to Friday, life is all about the kids. T m busy helping my children deal with life in a French school. IV s not easy, and their stress is the whole family s stress, as Keit

19、h and I are occupied with the daily school runs, piles of homework and school notes in French.But on Saturday, the market is for me. I feel so peaceful as I walk along the quiet street toward the busy town square.The Knif-sharpening man is there, operating a machine that looks like it dates from the

20、 Industrial Revolution.There, re street musicians with guitars and microphones, and the sound of beautiful songs fills the air. And the food, of course, is delicious.The cheese man doesn t speak-he just points and cuts, offering a piece from his knife. Lines come out of the door for fresh bread at t

21、he bakery. Organic vegetables, herbs and desserts are a feast for the eyes, before being put into the bag to be enjoyed later for 1 unch. The noises and smells of the market are unfamiliar and thrilling, but their procedures are clear to me. This is part of why I love the place so much: Uni ike duri

22、ng the week,vhen Im constantly faced with my own difficulties, I know how this place works.My terrible French isn t the barrier to communication that it is in other circumstances.At school and in the village, I can, t joke or join a conversation, and al though the other parents at the school are kin

23、d, Im an outsider. But at the market, Tm just another customer with a basket. Surrounded by day trippers, I feel like a local- greeting people I know and petting dogs.My Saturday experiences allow me to hope that in the near future r 11 feel equally confident in my everyday life.Until then, Saturday

24、s prepare me for the coming week of school runs.What does the author mean by sayingI feel like a fish out of water”?A. She feels lonely without her children.B She feels free out of her daily housework.She feels uncomfortable in new surroundings.D She feels unable to make a living in another country.

25、25.What can be 1 earned about the author s life during weekdays?A. She learns French together with her children.B She tries to balance her job and the housewrk.C. She runs to school every day to help her children.She devotes herself to her children in a French school.Why does the author like going t

26、o the Saturday market?She feels relaxed and comfortable there.She can talk with other customers freely there.She wants to get away from her familys stress.D She tries to gain confidence in the busy atmosphere. What is the author s attitude towards her future life?Objective.Satisfied.Optimistic.D Wor

27、ried.cAlmost everyone has heard the expressionthe calm before the storm”. It is usually used to describe a peaceful period just before a very stressful situation or a tense argumentBritish sailors created the phrase in the late 1600s.They noted that before certain storms the seas would seem to becom

28、e static and the winds would drop. But why is it often so calm before a storm?Science has given us the answer. According to US website How Stuff Works, a calm period occurs because many storms, such as hurricanes and tornadoes （龙卷风）,draw in all the warm and damp air from the surrounding area As this

29、 air rises into the storm clouds, it cools and acts asfuel 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.As the air goes down, it becomes warm and dry. Warm, dry

30、air is stable, so once it covers an area, it causes a calm period before the storm.This same process also causesthe eye of the stormin hurricanes and tornadoes. In these conditions, the calm occurs in the center of the storm because of the strong winds moving in a circle.The Weather Network has a ti

31、p for working out how far away a storm is. First, count how many seconds there are between a flash of lightning and a clap of thunder. Roughly 3 seconds equal 1 kilometer. So, for example, if you count 9 seconds, the storm is about 3 kilometers away. A good judgement is that if your count is below 3

32、0 seconds, you should seek shelter straight away.However, due to the complexity of storm system, not all storms break after calm. Given the right conditions, some storms announce themselves with heavy rain and cold winds.So, your best bet is to keep yourself updated with weather reports for any pred

33、ictions regarding a coming storm in your area.That1 s the most reliable and sensible way to predict the next display of nature s temper.28.The underlined wordstaticin Paragraph 2 probaoly means”_violentwarnstillD changeableWhat is the author s purpose in writing the passage?A.To find out how a storm

34、 comes into being.To explain why a peaceful period occurs before a storm.C.To prove whether the research on storm clouds is correct.D.To show hew dangerous a storm can be in certain situations.If there re 15 seconds between a flash of lightning and a thunder clap, hew far is the storm away?About 3 k

35、ilometers.About 5 kilometers.About 9 kilometers.About 15 kilometers.What can be 1 earned from the pas sage?Storms don t always blow up after calm.B Storms have a bad influence on our life.Weather reports may fail to predict a storm.Heavy storms dont usually last a long time.DRecord fires sweeping ac

36、ross the Amazon recently have been making the headlines as scientists and environmental groups are worried that they will worsen climate change crisis and endanger biodiversity（生物多样性）。As the largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon is often calledthe lungs of the worldn 。 It is also home to about

37、 3 million species of plants and animals, and 1 million local people.The vast area of rainforest plays an important role in the worlds ecosystem because it absorbs heat instead of reflecting heat back into the atmosphere. It also stores carbon dioxide and produces oxygen, ensuring that less carbon i

38、s released, reducing the effects of climate change.Any forest destroyed is a danger to biodiversity and the people who use that biodiversity, Thomas Lovejoy, an ecologist at George Mason University told National Geographic. The great danger is that a lot of carbon goes into the atmosphere, he stress

39、ed. In the midst of the global climate crisis, we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity. The Amazon must be protected, “UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.Data from the National Institute for Space Research(INPE)show that the number of forest fires in Brazil

40、quickly increased by 82 percent from January to August a year ago. A total of 71,497 forest fires were registered in the country in the first 8 months of 2019, up from 39, 194 in the sains period in 2018, INPE said. We estimate that the forest areas in the Brazilian Amazon have decreased something b

41、etween 20 and 30 percent compared to the last 12 months, “Carlos Nobre, a researcher at the University of Sao Paulo, told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.Brazil owns about 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest, whose degradation(恶化)could have severe consequences for global climate and rainfall. The

42、extent of the area ruined by fires has yet to be determined, but the emergency has gone beyond Brazil* s borders.What is the second paragraph mainly about?The great role of the Amazon rainforest.The effects of consistent climate change.The causes of the decreasing biodiversity.The results of the Ama

43、zon rainforest fires.Why does the author mention the figures in the fourth paragraph?To explain the process of the research.To present the bad influence of forest fires.C.To prove the great importance of the rainforest.D. To show the emergency of protecting the rainforest.What does the author want t

44、o tell us in the passage?The dry weather leads to the rainforest fires.The biodiversity makes the rainforest unique.The rainforest fires result in serious consequents.The global climate crisis brings more rainforest fires.Which section of a magazine might this passage probably be taken from?A. Clima

45、te and life.B Nature and geography.Humankind and society.D Science and technology.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分1份）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 选项中有两项为多余选项。Over the past few months, COVID-19 has caused great uncertainty around the world affecting peoples lives in all aspects. Education is also great

46、ly affected. With students all turning to online instruction, live-streamed classes have become popular among schools and universities. 36In China, the use of e-learning is unusual not only in size but also in depth. 37 For another, it proves how modem technology changes the way students are educate

47、d and encourages further research and development of educational technology to introduce virtual communities between students and teachers.In fact, online instruction as an alternative teaching mode has been expanding rapidly in recent years.Many Chinese start-ups focus on AI applications in online

48、courses, and various online educational platfoms are set up. 38 The online education platform MOOC, where a wide variety of courses is available, has attracted the world1 s top universities to upload and share resources with students around the world.Compared with formal instruction, online courses

49、save abundant costs and create a flexible teaching mode（模式）homeschooling, especially during a crisis. 39 For example, rural students with no access to the Intemet and television might be left behind in this new mode. When e-learning becomes the only solution for delivering knowledge, the existing di

50、vide could be widened, further deepening education inequality. Also, the quality of teaching becomes heavily dependent on uncertain factors, such as a stable connection to the I nt ernes and technical skills.40 Yet, the pandemic （流行病）has undoubtedly af fee ted the teaching style in a sweeping manner

51、 and given educators around the world plenty of time and space to think about the alternative educational modes.Howsver, online teaching has its own disadvantages.The traditional face-to-face teaching style has been challenged.Chinese colleges and universities started the spring term online.Mor9over

52、, online education is fairly acceptable to college education.Online teaching provides a chance to reconsider she current education system.For one thing, the impressive practice sets a good example to other countries.So, its early to predict how the future of the education system will look like.第三部分语

53、言知识运用（共两节，满分4吩）第一,完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分3防）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 ,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Very few of us become fluent in another language by learning it in high school.I went to university and then moved across the country to seek a 41 job, married and raised children. I made an effort to

54、42 the little bit of French I learned in school, but eventually I realized that this was really 43,1 was quite aware that new languages are best learned when young, and that our abilities in that regard decline with 44.However, lust before mv 50th birthday, I 45 French classes. After I was tested to

55、 see which group I belonged to, I was placed at almost the introductory 46. When I looked around at my first class, I was 47 that many of the students were learning French as a third, fourth or even fifth language.Contrary to my 48 that learning a new 1 anguage was impossibly difficult, there were p

56、eople who learned new 1 anguages as a matter of course. While I had always thought of myself as a 49 1 earner, that was no 1 onger the case. I 50 new vocabulary rather slowly. What I 1 earned one week seemed to 51 as soon asI learned the next skill. I had to look up the 52 words and language structu

57、res over and over. Now, after several years of learning, I can 1 isten to the news in French and 53 90%of it on the first try, read a novel if the language isn t too 54 and hold up my end of a conversation if it doesn t go loo fast. Ive 1 earned so much beyond grammar and vocabulary. T ve met people

58、 from around the world and all walks of life who have the 55to make fools of themselves in order to learn something new. Ive been taught by 56 and inspirational teachers from many comers of the world. Listening to the news as it is 57 to the people of France, I have a renewed understanding of hew so

59、mething can look 58 different from anotherviewpoint. T ve learned that a language is not just a set of words, but a way of 59. But most of all, Ive learned that it is never too 60 to learn something new.A. demandingA. understandA. helpfulA. healthA. got ready for love withA. levelA. disappointedA. a

60、greementA. clumsyA. absorbedA. go downA. keyA. catchtemporaryB. reviewB pointlessB. concernB. got on withB. positionB. amazedB. researchB. confidentB. consultedB. pay offsamereciteC. meaningfulC. keepworthwhileC. i nterestC. signed jp forC. attemptannoyedC. assumptionC. seriouscreatedpopularD. maste