2019-2020年高三英语上学期第四次联考试题

1、2019-2020年高三英语上学期第四次联考试题第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节听下面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。1. What did the woman do during the Spring Festival?A. She saw her friends at home. B. She visited her uncle. C. She visited her teachers. 2. What does the man

2、imply? A. The chairs didnt need to be painted. B. He doesnt like the color of the chairs.C. The park should have warned people about the paint. 3. What can be inferred about the speakers? A. They cant see the stars clearly. B. Theyre not in the city tonight.C. Theyre looking at the stars from the ci

3、ty. 4. Where is Citibank? A. On the street in line with Broadway. B. On the street next to Broadway. C. On Fox Street. 5. Why does the woman think that her apartment is beautiful? A. There is a parking area downstairs. B. Her apartment is big and great. C. She can see the park downstairs. 第二节听下面5段对话

4、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，各个小题将给出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、7题。6. Which of the following is not a British magazine? A. Readers Digest. B. Private Eye. C. Spectator. 7. What do we know about British magazines? A. They are all published w

5、eekly.B. Theres a great variety of them.C. Not every profession has its own journal. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. How old might the man be? A. 72. B. 75. C. 78. 9. Why did the woman come to the neighborhood? A. To look for her new office. B. To meet her client. C. To meet her old neighbor. 10. Where is the ne

6、w office complex? A. Next to a bakers shop. B. Behind a bakers shop. C. Next to a flower shop. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. When did the man begin to line up this morning？A. At 8:15. B. At 8:45. C. At 1:30. 12. What does he expect to see? A. A movie. B. A tennis match. C. A play. 13. What is the womans prob

7、able job? A. A reporter. B. A tennis player. C. An actress. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Teacher and student. B. Mother and son. C. Schoolmates. 15. How did David plan to finish his project? A. By referring to as many books as possible. B. By co-working with

8、 the woman. C. By copying part of a book. 16. What does the woman think is most important? A. David should hand in his project in time. B. David should do his own project. C. There should be brilliant charts in the project. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. When should you arrive if you are invited to a friends

9、 house at 5:00 p.m.? A. 5:08. B. 4:50. C. 5:50. 18. What is the talk mainly about? A. When to arrive at your friends house. B. How to greet people. C. How to be a good visitor. 19. What does giving a little gift to the host mean? A. Youre willing to spend money. B. You want to be invited again. C. Y

10、oure excited to be his guest. 20. What does the speaker think of the way she addressed Pauls parents? A. She could have been more polite. B. She thinks it was highly proper.C. She thinks she was very rude that time. 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

11、该项涂黑。One of my neighbors used to have a beautiful tree in her front yard. Her dad had planted it for her when it was nothing more than a twig(树枝) and several years later it started to shoot towards the sky with amazing speed. Soon it blessed her with cooling shade in the summer and glorious, golden

12、leaves in the fall.When the two-day snowstorm struck our town, heavy snow fell on the trees branches that were still full of leaves. The weight split that lovely tree down the middle. It was so sad seeing half of it laying on the ground after the storm. When I talked to my neighbor later, she said t

13、hat the damage had been too much and that the entire tree would have to be cut down. Thankfully she had saved a few saplings(树苗) from it that she hoped to replant in the future.Still, it was a shock to drive by her house the other day and see nothing but a stump in her front yard. I missed that tree

14、. I missed its beauty, its leaves shinning in the afternoon sun. I missed seeing its limbs reach towards the heavens. I thought that the stump would be a sad reminder of its loss for a long time to come. My wonderful neighbor, though, had another plan. When I drove by her home today I saw a tiny bir

15、d feeder sitting on that stump and a colorful songbird having its dinner. It was such an affirmation of life. It was such a joy to see. I could feel my heart smile.Life by its very nature is a mixed bag. It hands us beauty and tragedy, love and loss, pleasure and pain. What we do with it, however, i

16、s up to us. We can let it split us in two, or we can use even its hardest times to make our souls stronger and our hearts more loving. We can spend it complaining or we can use it to help others.21We know from the first paragraph that _A. the tree grew very slowly. B. the tree was so strong that it

17、could bear any weight.C. the tree showed its beauty and benefits. D. the authors neighbor was good at planting trees.22The authors neighbor left a stump in her front yard to use it as_.A. a good reminder.B. a place to feed birds.C. a seat after dinner.D. a beautiful sculpture.23What does the author

18、mainly want to show in the passage?A. Life is determined by our attitude towards it. B. Life consists of pain and suffering.C. Life has beauty and tragedy. D. Life should be pleasant rather than painful.BIt may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech. At some point in every

19、speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned. Fortunately, such moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a mome

20、nt, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser. When such moments occur, dont worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened.Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that doesnt really matter. If you h

21、ave ever listened to Martin Luther Kings famous speechI Have a Dream, you may notice that he stumbles (结巴)over his words twice during the speech. Most likely, however, you dont remember. Why? Because you were fixing your attention on his message rather than on his way of speech-making.People care a

22、lot about making a mistake in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition. But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performance. They are looking for

23、 a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speakers ideas clearly and directly. Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speakers attractiveness by making him more human.24The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will .A. be smarter than youB. know what you are talki

24、ng about C. do better than youD. notice your mistakes25You dont remember obvious mistakes in a speech because .A. you find the way of speech-making more importantB. you dont fully understand the speechC. you dont know what the speaker plans to say D. your attention is on the content26From the last t

25、wo paragraphs, the author means that .A. giving a speech is like giving a performanceB. the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is madeC. one or two mistakes in a speech may not be badD. the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be27What would be the best title f

26、or the passage?A. How to Be a Perfect SpeakerB. Dont Expect a Perfect Speech C. Dont Expect Mistakes in a Speech D. How to Make a Perfect SpeechCYou hear the same complaint all the time: “My memory is terrible” Is it all in the mind, or do real changes take place in the brain with the passing of tim

27、e? The answer is that the brains cells, the neurons, decline and die with age. However, according to Professor Arthur Shimamura of the University of California, people vary greatly in how they change mentally with age, as well as how much their mental ability declinesThere are three main ways in whi

28、ch mental function changesThe first concerns speed, such as how quickly you can react to fast-moving incidents on the road. Drivers in their late teen react quickly but often drive too fast, while the over-60s are more careful but react more slowlyThis type of mental slowing results from a reduction

29、 in the efficiency with which the brains neurons workThe fact that adults find it harder to learn musical instrument than children points to a second type of mental decline, the loss of learning ability with ageThe part of the brain which is known to control new learning is particularly sensitive to

30、 the effects of agingThe means we have to depend more on diaries and other mental aids as we get older, take longer to learn a new language and are slower to master new things at work“Working memory” is the third brain function that is sensitive to the effects of aging. Absent-mindedness occurs at a

31、ll ages because of imperfections in the working memory systemFor example, you may continually lose your glasses, or find yourself walking into a room of your house only to find that you cannot remember what you came forSuch absent-mindedness also occurs more often as we get olderHowever, evidence al

32、so shows that the principle “use it or lose it” applies to the aging brainProfessor Shimamura studied a group of university professors who were still mentally active, and compared their performance on neuropsychological tests with that of others of their age group, as well as with younger people. He

33、 found that on several tests of memory, the mentally active professors in their 60s and early 70s performed better than those of the same age, and as well as the younger group28Memory gets worse as people grow older because _A. the brain starts to produce too many neurons B. cells in the brain stop

34、the neurons from workingC. when people get old, they complain too much D. the brains neurons dont work as well as before29Which of the following well-known sayings best expresses the idea of the third paragraph?A. You cant teach an old dog new tricksB. Where theres a will, theres a wayC. A bird in t

35、he hand is worth two in the bushD. Its never too old to learn30We can conclude from Shimamuras test on the professors that _A. the principle “use it or lose it” is obviously wrong B. active minds might keep their memory betterC. memory can improve with the time passing on D. all of the old people wi

36、ll suffer memory loss31This passage is mainly about _A. aging and mental abilityB. problems of getting oldC. secrets of a good memoryD. youth and agingDTayka Hotel de SalPlace: Tahua, BoliviaPrice: About $95 a nightFeatures: Youve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt?Thats something few

37、can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt including the beds, though youll sleep on regular blankets. The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake which is the worlds biggest salt flat(盐滩). Builders use the salt from a 4, 633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and

38、glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When the rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owner just mixes up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.Green Magic Nature ResortPlace: Vythiri, IndiaPrice: About $240 a nightFeatures: Taking a pulley(滑轮)operated lift 86 fe

39、et to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window there is no glass! you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your

40、 bamboo bed and read. You dont even have to come down for breakfast the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn elevator.Dog Bark Park Inn B&BPlace: Cottonwood, IdahoPrice: $92 a nightFeatures: This doghouse isnt just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his be

41、lly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft in Willys head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your room, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydran

42、t(消防栓) outside.Gamirasu Cave HotelPlace: Ayvali, TurkeyPrice: Between $130 and $475 a nightFeatures: Experience what it was like 5, 000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expe

43、ct from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65in summer. (Dont worry there is heat in winter.)32. What do we know about Tayka Hotel de Sal?A. It is the cheapest among the four mentioned. B. Everything in the hotel is made of salt.C. It is located on a

44、prehistoric lake. D. You have to cross a rope bridge to the hotel.33. Which of the hotels makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?A. Tayka Hotel de Sal.B. Gamirasu Cave Hotel.C. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.D. Green Magic Nature Resort.34. What is the similarity of the four hotels?A. Being expen

45、sive. B. Being comfortable. C. Being unique. D. Being natural.35. In which part of a newspaper can we most probably read the passage?A. History.B. Fashion. C. Science.D. Tourism.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。Money MattersParents should help their children understand m

46、oney. 36 So you may start talking about money when your child shows an interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.1. The basic function of moneyBeing explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It is important to show your child how mone

47、y is traded for the thing he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier(收银员). 37 When your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more complex ways of using money.2. Money lessonsApproa

48、ch money lessons with openness and honesty. 38 If you must say no to a childs request to spend money, explain,” You have enough toy trucks for now. ” Or, if the request is for many different things, say, “You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy. ”3. 39 Begin at the grocery store. Pic

49、k out similar brands of a producta name-brand butter and a generic(无商标产品), for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money. 40 If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to make another purchase with the money saved. Later, yo

50、u may explain how the more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.A. The value of money.B. Wise decision.C. Tell your child why he can or cannot have certain things.D. Permit the child to choose between themE. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an in

51、terest. F. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you.G. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和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。A group of graduates got together to visit

52、their old university professor.The conversation soon turned into complaints about 41 in work and life. To offer his guests coffee, the 42 went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of 43 porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some 44, some expensive, some delicate telling

53、 them to help themselves to the coffee.When all the students 45 a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “If you have 46, all the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up, 47 the plain and cheap ones. While it is 48 for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the 49of your proble

54、ms and stress.”“Be assured that the cup itself adds no 50 to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even 51what we drink.“ 52 all of you really want is coffee, 53 the cup, but you 54 went for the best cups And then you began 55each others cups.“Now consider 56 : Life i

55、s the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not determine, nor 57 the quality of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we 58 to enjoy the coffee. 59 appreciate the coffee, not

56、the cups! Dont let the cups 60you . enjoy the coffee instead.41A. progressB. stressC. conditionD. pride42A. advisorB. graduateC. monitorD. professor43A. glassesB. bowlsC. cupsD. trays44A. bigB. plain-lookingC. modern D. practical45A. hadB. madeC. cookedD. served46A. talkedB. discussedC. decidedD. no

57、ticed47A. leaving aboutB. falling aboutC. leaving behindD. falling behind48A. normalB. wonderfulC. strangeD. important49A. resultB. purposeC. doubtD. source50A. priceB. qualityC. sweetD. color51A. provesB. tastesC. hidesD. steals52A. What B. ThatC. WhichD. Whose53A. more thanB. less thanC. rather th

58、anD. other than54A. carelesslyB. wiselyC. shylyD. consciously55A. eyeingB. showingC. exchangingD. praising56A. itB. thisC. thatD. one57A. changeB. increaseC. discoverD. lower58A.tryB. manageC. planD. fail59A. BarelyB. FullyC. NearlyD. Rarely60A. envyB. supportC. driveD. assess第II卷 第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分

59、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，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。Do you like travelling? Staying healthy when 61 (travel) can help to ensure your trip is a happy and62(enjoy) one. If you are travelling abroad, here are the tips you need to make your trip much easier.Read the Public Announcements or

60、 Travel Warnings for the countries you plan to visit. Get yourself familiar with local laws and customs of the countries to 63you are travelling.Make sure you have got 64(sign)passport and visas. Also, before you go, fill in the emergency information page of your passport! Make two copies of your pa