2019-2020年高三下学期第二次综合测试英语试题 含答案.doc

2019-2020年高三下学期第二次综合测试英语试题 含答案Section ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.( )1. A. Mr. Longs briefing was unnecessarily long.B. The woman should be more attentive. C. Mr. Longs briefing was not relevant to the mission. D. The woman neednt have attended the briefing.( )2. A. Because he had found a suitable job.B. Because he had seen a doctor.C. Because he had drunk certain medicines.D. Because he had done much exercise. ( )3. A. Mexican restaurants here serve different kinds of food.B. Mexican people eat different kinds of food.C. Mexican food is very different from his imagination.D. Mexican restaurants here dont serve real Mexican food.( )4. A. Sam usually does not like to help others.B. Sam knows less about puters than Bob does.C. Sam specializes in the calculation with puters.D. Sam learns a lot about the feature of puters.( )5. A. At home.B. At a restaurant.C. At a phone box. D. At a bookstore.( )6. A. In the bank.B. In a school. C. In a clothing store.D. In a barbershop.( )7. A. The train is late.B. The train is crowded. C. The train is empty. D. The train is on time.( )8. A. That the man had not bought the motorcycle.B. That the weather wouldnt be good today.C. That the man would ride to work today.D. That the man did not have to work today.( )9. A. At 2: 35.B. At 2: 45.C. At 3: 00.D. At 3: 20.( )10. A. He wants to pay. B. He doesnt want to eat out.C. He wants to eat somewhere else.D. He doesnt like Japanese food.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.( )11. A. 20 years ago.B. More than 20 years ago.C. 12 years ago.D. Fewer than 20 years ago.( )12. A. Because he couldnt afford the rent.B. Because he wanted to move to a new neighborhood.C. Because buying something for the dog was beyond his means.D. Because he was very fond of animals.( )13. A. The dog would be dissatisfied.B. The dog would be very angry.C. The dog would prefer bones instead.D. The dog would not allow him to enter his house.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.( )14. A. A researcher.B. A college professor.C. A technician. D. A writer.( )15. A. The book was outdated.B. The book sold many copies.C. The book was praised by critics.D. The book became more popular than her other books.( )16. A. The book is an attack on the use of chemical preservations in food.B. The book is a discussion of the hazards insects bring to the food supply.C. The book is a warning about the dangers of misusing insecticides.D. The book is an illustration of the benefits of the chemical industry.Section CDirections: In section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.plete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.What are the man and the woman talking about?Going to the (17)_ concert.What is the womans remark on the concert players?They are remarkable (18) _.What does the woman offer to do about the expenses?To (19) _ the expenses.How does the man feel about the womans offer?He really (20) _ that.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.plete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. FACTSHEET-Aluminium Cans*(21) _ aluminium drink cans are produced every day in the US.*Each can weighs 0.48 ounces-thinner than two (22) _.*Each can is able to take more than 90 pounds of (23) _ per square inch, over (24) _ that of a car tyre. II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.（A）Every object tells a story. Even the most ordinary objects can present to us powerful images. Sometimes it is the ordinary nature of these objects that actually _25_ (make) them so extraordinary. Such is the case with an old leather shoe in a museum in Alaska. At first glance it does not look like much. It is a womans shoe of a style popular in the 1890s. But what is unique about this shoe is _26_ it was found. It was discovered on the Checkout Pass, the famous trail used by the people seeking gold in Alaska. Who it belonged to or why it was left there _27_ (be) not known. Was it perhaps dropped by accident as the woman climbed up the 1500 stairs carved out of ice? Or did she throw away goods that she didnt need in order to travel_28_(light)?Over 100, 000 people with “gold fever” made this trip hoping to bee millionaires. Few of them understood that on their way they would have to cross a harsh wildness. Unprepared for such a dangerous journey, many died of starvation and exposure _29_ the cold weather.The Canadian government finally started requiring the gold seekers to bring one ton of supplies with them. This was thought to be enough for a person to survive for one year. They would carry their supplies in backpacks each _30_ (weigh) up to fifty pounds; it usually took at least 40 trips to get everything to the top and over the pass. Whoever dropped the shoe must_31_ (be) a brave and determined woman. Perhaps she was successful and made_32_ to Alaska. Perhaps she had to turn back in defeat. No one will ever know for sure, but what we do know is that she took part in one of the greatest adventures in the 19th century.（B）An old friendship had grown cold. Where once there had been closeness, there was only strain. Now pride kept me from picking up the phone.Then one day I dropped in on another old friend, whos had a long career as a minister and counselor. We were seated in his study-surrounded by maybe a thousand books and fell into deep conversation about everything from small puters to the tormented life of Beethoven.The subject finally turned to friendship and _33_ perishable it seems to be these days. I mentioned my own experience as an example. “Relationships are mysteries,” my friend said. “Some endure. _34_ fall apart.”Gazing out his window to the wooded Vermont hills, he pointed toward a neighboring farm, “Used to be a large barn over there.” Next to a red-frame house were the footings of _35_ had been a sizable structure.“It was solidly built, probably in the 1870s. But like so many of the places around here, it went down because people left for richer lands in the Midwest. No one took care of the barn. Its roof needed _36_(patch); rainwater got under the eaves and dripped down inside the posts and beams.”One day a high wind came along, and the whole barn began to tremble. “You could hear this creaking, first, like old sailing-ship timbers, and then a sharp series of cracks and a tremendous roaring sound. Suddenly it was a heap of scrap lumber.”“After the storm blew over, I went down and saw these beautiful, old oak timbers, solid as could be. I asked the fellow who owns the place what had happened. He said he figured the rainwater _37_(settle) in the pinholes, where wooden dowels held the joints together. Once those pins were rotted, there was nothing to link the giant beams together.”We both gazed down the hill. Now all that was left of the barn was its cellar and its border of lilac shrubs.My friend said he had turned the incident over and over in his mind, and finally came to recognize some parallels between building a friendship: _ _38_ _ strong you are, how notable your attainments, you have enduring significance only in your relationship to others.“To make your life a sound structure that will serve others and fulfill your own potential,” he said, “you have to remember that strength, however massive, cant endure _39_ it has the interlocking support of others. Go it alone and youll inevitably tumble.”“Relationships have to be cared for,” he added, “like the roof of a barn. Letters unwritten, thanks unsaid, confidences violated, quarrels unsettled-all this acts like rainwater seeping into the pegs, weakening the link between the beams.”My friend shook his head. “It was _40_ good barn. And it would have taken little to keep it in good repair. Now it will probably never be rebuilt.”Later that afternoon I got ready to leave. “You wouldnt like to borrow my phone to make a call, I dont suppose?” he asked.“Yes.” I said, “I think I would. Very much.”Section BDirections: plete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. A. criticism B. acclaimed C. shifts D. institute E. industriousness F. establish G. credit H. standards I. specialized J. retain K. demonstrateAlthough Henry Fords name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he should receive equal _41_ for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced even by todays _42_. Safety measures were improved, and the work day was reduced to eight hours, pared with the ten-or twelve-hour day mon at the time. In order to acmodate to the shorter work day, the entire factory was converted from two to three_43_.In addition, sick leaves as well as improved medical care for those injured on the job were instituted. The Ford Motor pany was one of the first factories to develop a technical school to train _44_ skilled laborers and an English language school for immigrants. Some efforts were even made to hire the handicapped and provide jobs for former convicts.The most widely _45_ innovation was the five-dollar-a-day minimum wage that was offered in order to recruit and _46_ the best mechanics and to discourage the growth of labor unions. Ford explained the new wage policy in terms of efficiency and profit sharing. He also mentioned the fact that his employees would be able to purchase the automobiles that they produced in effect creating a market for the product. In order to qualify for the minimum wage, an employee had to establish a decent home and _47_ good personal habits, including sobriety, thriftiness, _48_, and dependability. Although some _49_was directed at Ford for involving himself too much in the personal lives of his employees, there can be no doubt that, at a time when immigrants were being taken advantage of in frightful ways, Henry Ford was helping many people to _50_ themselves in America.III. Reading prehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some_51_ ideas about the nature of happiness.Many intelligent people still_52_ happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in mon. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, _53_ forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects _54_ when the fun ends.I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has _55_ to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant _56_to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spell “happiness”. But in memoir after memoir, celebrities _57_ the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be _58_ satisfying. If hes honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a mitment, for mitment is in fact quite _59_. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most _60_ features._61_, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they want. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or a three-day vacation. I dont know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating _62_ we can ever e to. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can _63_ increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems _64_. And it liberates us from _65_: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people who we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.51. A. idealB. realisticC. abstractD. mistaken52. A. substituteB. equate C. replaceD. associate53. A. temporarilyB. eventuallyC. permanentlyD. adventurously54. A. begin B. end C. resume D. start55. A. something B. nothing C. everythingD. anything56. A. replyB. objectionC. responseD. access57. A. recoverB. resolveC. revealD. relieve58. A. less and lessB. more and moreC. more or lessD. more than59. A. frightfulB. resentful C. purposeful D. painful60. A. conflicting B. obligingC. enduringD. distinguishing61. A. SimilarlyB. ShortlyC. SlightlyD. Specifically62. A. reservationB. realizationC. remendationD. restoration63. A. extremelyB. gratefully C. genuinelyD. remarkably64. A. pricelessB. purposelessC. pointless D. painless65. A. happinessB. envyC. funD. greedSections BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.（A）As a young child I never really thought about my parents lives in Irvine, how small their world must have seemed, never extending beyond the Dragon Cafe. Every day my parents did the same jobs in the restaurant. I watched the same customers e for meals, for morning coffee, for afternoon soft drinks and French fries. For my parents one day was like the next. They settled into an uneasy and distant relationship with each other. Their love, their tenderness, they gave to me.But my life was changing. I became taller and bigger, my second teeth grew in white and straight. At school I began to learn about my adopted country. I spoke English like a native, without a trace of an accent. I played, thought, and dreamed in the language of our Irvine neighbors. A few years later and I would no longer remember a time when I didnt speak their words and read their books. But my father and Uncle Yat still spoke the same halting English. My mother spoke only a few words. I began to translate conversations they had with the customers, switching between English and Chinese. Whenever I stepped outside the restaurant it seemed I was entering a world unknown to my family: school, church, friends houses, the town beyond Main Street. I found it hard to imagine a year without winter any more, a home other than Irvine.For my mother, though, home would always be China. In Irvine she lived among strangers, unable to speak their language. Whenever she talked about happy times, they were during her childhood in that distant land. A wistful smile would soften her face as she told me about sleeping and playing with her sister in the attic above her parents bedroom. She once showed me a piece of jade-green silk cloth that was frayed and worn around the edge. In the center was a white lotus floating in varying shades of blue water, the embroidery so fine that when I held it at arms length the petals looked real. I had been helping her store away my summer clothes in the brown leather suitcase from Hong Kong when I noticed a piece of shiny material in the corner and asked her what it was. She took it out and spread it on her lap. My mother embroidered this herself. I was going to have it made into a cushion, but then my life changed and over here there seems to be no place for lovely things. Its all I have that reminds me of her, she said. Maybe, Su-Jen, one day you will do something with it. I admired the cloth some more, then she carefully folded it and stored it back in her suitcase. There was so little left from her old life. She said it was so long ago that sometimes it felt as if it had never happened. But she described her life with such clarity and vividness that I knew all those memories lived on inside her. There was so little in this new country that gave her pleasure. The good things she found were related in some way to China: an aria from a Chinese opera, a letter from a relative back home or from Aunt Hai-Lan in Toronto, written in Chinese, a familiar-looking script that I couldnt read and that had nothing to do with my life in Canada. There were times when I felt _about my own happiness in Irvine. We had e to Canada because of me, but I was the only one who had found a home.66The primary purpose of the second paragraph is to _.A. provide insight into the motivations of the narrators parents and uncleB. recapture the pleasure the narrator experienced in learning a new languageC. emphasize the extent of the transformation the narrator undergoesD. describe the plex interrelationships in the narrators family67The writers mothers memories of China are portrayed as _.A. distant yet enduringB. occasional yet overwhelmingC. lively but confusedD. wistful and indistinct68. Fill in the blank of the last paragraph with one of the following words that best fit the context and the theme.A. confusedB. exhilarated C. concerned D. guilty 69. Which of the following best characterizes the narrators development over the course of the passage? A. She grows apart from the cultural tradition of her parents.B. She overes the fear she felt about the new land.C. She begins to view the inhabitants of Irvine from her mothers perspective.D. She bees less and less interested in her mothers stories.（B）Good news travelers! Well