山西省芮城县2020届高三3月月考英语试题

高三英语试题

第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）

第一节 （共 15小题；每小题3分，满分45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。

A

Fantastic Fall Festivals You won’t Want to Miss

Seymour Apple Festival

Admission to the Seymour Apple Festival is free and so is the entertainment! More than 15,000 people from all over the region come over to take part in the activities, ranging from drawings, vendor booths, food, apple contests,bike-decorating contests, and more.

Marionville Apple Festival

The popular Marionville Apple Festival is home to countless activities and events. The carnival, pony rides, and games will keep the kids busy, while adults will enjoy watching the pie-eating contest and browsing dozens of craft vendor booths.

Humansville Fall Festival

The Humansville Fall Festival may be hosted by a small town, but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking big fun. Perfect for all ages, this fall festival is celebrating its 70th year and will provide three full days of fun. This year’s festival will feature live music from fantastic local musicians, which will definitely make it different from the ones in other years. You’ll also find fun carnival rides, talented artisans selling their goods, and an amazing parade to wrap up the event on Saturday.

Southside Fall Festival

The Southside Fall Festival is perfect for family celebrations, with an alcohol-free environment and free admission. Enjoy a colorful parade and float contest, delicious food vendors, live music, karaoke, and more.

Fall Into Arts Festival

Make sure to bring the kids along to this festival that celebrates all things creative. The Fall Into Arts Festival features a host of kid-friendly activities like a lego build, sand art, bubble stations, chalk the sidewalk, a jump house, and more. Parents will have plenty to do as well, with an excellent variety of artists, festival food, a mini film festival, and more.

1.Which festivals are free of charge?

A.The Southside Fall Festival and the Fall Into Arts Festival.

B.The Seymour Apple Festival and the Southside Fall Festival.

C.The Humansville Fall Festival and the Fall Into Arts Festival.

D.The Seymour Apple Festival and the Marionville Apple Festival.

2.What makes the Humansville Fall Festival special this year?

A.Fun activities on Saturday.

B.The duration of the festival.

C.The area of the hosting town.

D.Musicians’ live performances.

3.The Fall Into Arts Festival is specially welcomed by　　　. 

A.movie lovers   B.modern artists

C.visitors of all ages  D.families with kids

B

In the animal kingdom,weakness can bring about aggression in other animals. This sometimes happens with humans also．But I have found that my weakness brings out the kindness in people．I see it every day when people hold doors for me，pour cream into my coffee， or help me to put on my coat．And I have  discovered that it makes them happy．
     From my wheelchair experience，I see the best in people，but sometimes I feel sad because those who appear independent miss the kindness I see daily．They don't get to see this soft side of others. Often，we try every way possible to avoid showing our weakness，which includes a lot of pretending．But only when we stop pretending we're brave or strong do we allow people to show the kindness that's in them．
    Last month, when I was driving home on a busy highway, I began to feel unwell and drove more slowly than usual. People behind me began to get impatient and angry，with some speeding up alongside me, horning（按喇叭）or even shouting at me．At the moment , I decided to do something I had never done in twenty-four years of driving. I put on the car flashlights and drove on at a really low speed．
    No more angry shouts and no more horns!
    When I put on my flashlights，I was saying to the other drivers,"I have a problem here．I am weak and doing the best I can．" And everyone understood． Several times, I saw drivers who wanted to pass．They couldn't get around me because of the stream of passing traffic．But instead of getting impatient and angry，they waited，knowing the driver in front of them was in some way weak．
    Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don't feel that way．But those are few and far between. More often，it would be better if we don't pretend we feel strong when we feel weak or pretend that we are brave when we are scared．
4. The author has discovered that people will feel happy when___．
  A. they offer their help                   B. they receive others' help
  C. they feel others' kindness             D. they show their weakness
5. What did the other drivers do when they saw the flashlights?________

   A.They sped up to pass．                B. They waited with patience．
   C. They tried their best to help．        D. They put on their flashlights too．
6．In this passage，the author advises us to_______．
   A. handle problems by ourselves            B. accept help from others
   C. admit our weakness                        D. show our bravery
7．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?_______
   A. A Wheelchair Experience．              B. Weakness and Kindness．
   C. Weakness and Strength．                 D. A Driving Experience．

        C

    Imagine you are opening your own company and want to hire a manager. You have two candidates and they are both capable and experienced, so who would you rather hire: Julia Watson or Shobha Bhattacharva? Chances are that you would prefer Watson, right? But why?

   “Easy names are evaluated as more familiar, less risky and less dangerous, ” Eryn Newman, a scientist at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, told Scientific American. As a result, people with easier names are often assumed to be more trustworthy. This is what Newman and her teammates have found in their recent study.

    In the experiment, they picked 18 different foreign names, including difficult-to-pronounce ones like Yevgeni Dherzhinsky and easy names like Bodo Wallmeyer. They then attached each name with a statement such as “turtles are deaf” and “giraffes are the only mammals that cannot jump” and asked volunteers whether they thought the claims were true.

The results showed that claims connected to easier names were more often ranked as believable than those attributed to difficult names, regardless of what the truth really was. In fact, previous studies have already found that our judgments about products can be affected by their names. For example, we tend to think of a food additive (添加剂) with an easier name as safer and a stock （股票）with an easier name as more lucrative (利润丰厚的)，according to Medical Daily.

    But researchers pointed out that this effect can change depending on where someone comes from. For example, a native British man may find “Yevgeni Dherzhinsky” hard to pronounce while Russian people could say it without effort. Newman hopes that this finding can make us better see our biases (偏见). It’s not just unfair to people that we make judgments based on gut feelings (直觉) rather than facts, and it can sometimes have serious consequences.

For example, we may choose to believe certain eyewitnesses in court simply because their names sound more trustworthy even if they are actually lying. Or, we may let go of qualified job candidates due to their“difficult”names.

Now, if you could make that decision again, would you still prefer Julia Watson to Shobha Bhattacharva?

8. What did Newman and her teammates discover in their experiment?

A. Volunteers with easier names were more likely to choose true claims.

B. A difficult name doesn’t influence the way the volunteers viewed the claims.

C. Volunteers trusted claims paired with easy names more often.

D. Volunteers trusted claims connected with difficult names.

9. The underlined words“this effect”in Paragraph 5 refer to the effect ______.

A. names have on people’s judgments

B. gut feelings have on people from different places

C. of decisions made based on facts

D. of people’s biases against certain types of people

10. What can we conclude from the last paragraph?

A. We should think twice before we make a decision.

B. The harder your name is to pronounce, the more likely it is you will get a job.

C. Judging people based on their names may cause serious problems.

D. Russians have less bias against people’s names than the British.

11. What is probably the best title for the text?

  A. Names Affect Products

B. Employers Prefer Shobha Bhattacharva

C. Difficult Names are Trustworthy

D. Easy Names Win Out

D

Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci... the art world has never lacked talent.And now, a new painter is ready to join the list, although this one isn't even human.

Next month, the auction house Christie's Prints and Multiples will make history by offering the first piece of art created by artificial intelligence (AI) for sale. The painting is a portrait of a man called Edmond De Belamy, and is expected to be sold for up to $ 10,000.

The work, which features a man with a mysterious look on his face, was created by software developed by the French art group Obvious. Laugero-Lasserre, an art collector, called the work "grotesque and amazing at the same time". This isn't the first example of AI-produced artwork, as AI has already been used to write poems and compose songs. However, many people doubt whether it should be called art at all.

According to Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) , art is about creating emotion(情感). It's"a means of... joining people together in the same feelings," he once said.

So, if the emotion behind art is what makes it, the ability to create and use tools is what makes human beings different from other species. And as a tool itself, the AI technology used to create the portrait is the result of a lot of effort made by several designers. Together, they "fed" the AI a huge collection of paintings from the 14th to the 18th centuries, until it was able to work out how to make similar paintings of its own.

The introduction of AI art could be the beginning of a new artistic movement. However, not everyone is ready to welcome these high-tech artists just yet.

"The human mind is what's behind the AI technology. And the human mind is not a cold, hard fact," said Oscar Schwartz, a professor of AI. "Rather, it is something that's created with our opinions and something that changes over time. "

12. Why does the author mention the artists in Paragraph l?

A.To introduce their works.     B.To make an advertisement.

C.To present a piece of news.    D.To focus the topic on AI.

13. What does the underlined word "grotesque" in Paragraph 3 mean?

A.Strange.           B.Simple.       C.Messy.        D.Understandable.

14．What can we learn about the AI-produced artwork according to Paragraph 5?

A．It comes from human works.

B．It shows the human ability to create.

C．It expresses human feelings effectively.

D．It is beyond the imagination of humans.

15. Oscar Schwartz thinks the human mind is _________compared with AI.

A. limited           B. Decisive       C. useless     D．meaningful

第二节 （共5小题；每小题3分，满分15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。

Kids’ health: Four steps for fighting stress
    Everybody gets stressed from time to time.  16   Some ways of dealing with stress ---like screaming or hitting someone---don’t solve (解决)much. But other ways, like talking to someone you trust, can lead you to solving your problem or at least feeling better.
     Try taking these four steps the next time you are stressed:
     (1) Get support. When you need help, reach out to the people who care about you. Talk to a trusted adult, such as a parent or other relatives.  17  They might have had similar problems, such as dealing with a test, or the death of a beloved pet.
     (2) Don’t take it out on yourself. Sometimes when kids are stressed and upset they take it out on themselves. Oh, dear, that's not a good idea. Remember that there are always people to help you. Don't take it out on yourself.  18   

(3) Try to solve the problem. After you’re calm and you have support from adults and friends, it’s time to get down to business.   19  Even if you can’t solve it all, you can solve a piece of it.
    (4) Be positive. Most stress is temporary(暂时的).Remember stress does go away,especially when you figure out the problem and start working on solving it.

These steps aren’t magic, but they do work. And if you can stay positive as you make your way through a tough time, you’ll help yourself feel better even faster.   20  
A. Ask for a helping hand to get you through the tough situation.
B. Notice your friends’ feelings and find a way to help them.
C. Different people feel stress in different ways.
D. Ah, it feels so good when the stress is gone.
E. You need to figure out what the problem is.
F. And don’t forget about your friends.
G. Then, find a way to calm down.

第二部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分55分）

第一节 （共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

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。

I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people   21    I think about myself. I am happy that I am    becoming a  22  person.

I think my  23  started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my

  24   and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever    25    to    anyone in my classes. By the end of my first  semester, I was  really   26  .  It  seemed  as  if everyone but me had made friends and  was having fun. So I tried  a(n)  27  . I started  asking  people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble  I   28   to help. That was really a big     29     for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of    30   are still my best friends today.

A bigger cause of my new  31  , however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista  Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my    32      . Every time I came into her room, she was so   33    because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never   34   her, so I took her place. She let me  35   that making others feel good make me feel good, too.  When she died, I was  36    , but I was  also  very grateful to her.

I think I am a much    37   person today than I used to be,  and I hope I will not     38  these experiences. They have   39   me to care about other people more than about myself.  I

40   who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.

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。

The novel coronavirus(冠状病毒), which    41   (begin) in the Chinese city of Wuhan and has now spread to 12countries, has much in common  42  seasonal flu. They are both viral infections, share similar symptoms and crucially(关键地） can spread from human to human. In the midst of flu season in much of the northern hemisphere,  43  (tell) the difference between the two will be vital in stopping its spread.

Human coronaviruses, of  44  there are four, can cause respiratory (呼吸道)infections similar to flu: while many symptoms are mild, both can lead to pneumonia（肺炎） and become lethal（致命的）.   45   , the novel coronavirus is more serious than a"typical influenza infection,(流感)"says Ian Jones, a professor of virology at the University of Reading.

"This virus appears to go   46  (far) down into the lungs than would generally be the case. Therefore, it will give you   47   (symptom) of pneumonia(肺炎): the lungs becoming flooded, they don't function very well and the patient gets into breathing difficulty.

While the mortality rates and symptoms of flu and novel coronavirus may end up being similar, humans' ability  48  (fight) off the viruses differs greatly.       

Humans have naturally built up antibodies to seasonal flu and annual vaccines have been developed to fight   49  . During a pandemic(流行病), which the new coronavirus has the potential to become, "there is no immunity(免疫性) in the population so you have potential for a ___50___(globe) spread," warns Jones. 

第三部分 写作（共两节，满分 35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Sir or Madam,

　　  I am writing to apply to be a volunteer for the Chinese painting exhibition, that will be held in your art gallery. I think I was qualified for this job, because I learned Chinese painting since childhood. Equally important, I am fluent in both Chinese or English, so I have no difficulty communicate with others. If I am lucky enough to be chosen for a volunteer, I can show visitor around the gallery. Besides, I will answer our questions about the paintings after some properly training.

I would be very grateful if you could offer to me the opportunity. I’m looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）

4月23日是世界读书日，假定你是李华，你的美国朋友John来信询问你校读书日的相关活动，请给他写一封回信。

内容包括：

1.主题：诵读经典名著，传承中华文化；

2.活动安排：

3.活动的意义。

注意：1.词数100字左右；

2.可适增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头和结尾已为你写好。

参考词汇：经典名著 classics  传承 inherit

Dear John，

                                                             Yours，

   Li Hua

高三英语答案

阅读理解

A篇 B DD        B篇ABCB     C篇 CACD     D篇DAAB       

七选五 CFAED

完形填空

21—25  B CDCA              26—30  BCBDC

31—35  AABCD              36—40  BCADB

语法填空

41.began    42.with       43.telling     44.which    45.However

46.further   47.symptoms  48. to fight    49.it        50.global

短文改错

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to apply to be a volunteer for the Chinese painting exhibition, ① will be held in your art gallery. I think I ② qualified for this job because I ③      learned Chinese painting since childhood.  Equally important, I am fluent in both Chinese ④ English, so I have no difficulty ⑤ with others. If I am lucky enough to be chosen ⑥ a volunteer, I can show ⑦ around the gallery. Besides, I will answer ⑧ questions about the paintings after some ⑨ training.

I would be very grateful if you could offer ⑩     me the opportunity. I’m looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

书面表达

Dear David，

I'm delighted to receive your letter in which you asked  about our arrangements for the World Reading Day. 

     What deserves to be mentioned most is the theme of the Reading Day---Reading Chinese Classics and Inheriting Chinese Culture.Obviously, its aim is to raise our awareness of  passing on traditional Chinese culture.

It's widely acknowledged that reading benefits us in many ways.Not only can  it broaden our horizons but it also deepens our thoughts. Therefore, a series of activities, such as Reading Salon, a Second-hand Book Exchange will take place on that day.

      How I wish you could join us!                                         

                                                             Yours，

                                                             Li Hua