山东省聊城第一中学2020-2021学年高三英语下学期开学模拟考试试题.doc

山东省聊城第一中学2020-2021学年高三英语下学期开学模拟考试试题

山东省聊城第一中学2020-2021学年高三英语下学期开学模拟考试试题

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山东省聊城第一中学2020-2021学年高三英语下学期开学模拟考试试题
满分：120分 用时：100分钟 使用时间：2021. 3.
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第一部分 阅读 (共两节，满分50分)
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
The vast Caspian Sea, though sometimes classed as a lake, is the largest landlocked body of water in the world. The gateway between Europe and Asia, it is bordered by Iran to the south, Azerbaijan and Russia to the west and Turkmenistan to the east, while Kazakhsta’s Mangystau region lies to the northeast. Many visitors crowd to Caspian Sea every year to experience its beauty.
FISHING
Fishing is a popular pastime and important industry throughout the waters of the Caspian Sea. From the shores of Mangystau in Kazakhstan, it is possible to rent fishing boats or join fishing tours to spend a day fishing on the water.
SAILING
The Caspian Sea is filled with boats, ferries and ships. It is a popular way to travel from other major port cities such as Baku in Azerbaijan to Aktau, or down the mighty Volga Canal. Meanwhile, on a smaller scale, boats can be rented from Aktau for a day on the water.
WATERSPORTS
The beaches of Mangystau, lapped by the waters of the Caspian Sea, are the jumping off points for many popular water sports. In the summer months especially, visitors enjoy sunbathing and taking a refreshing dip, while more active holidaymakers can windsurf and parasail to their hearts’ delight.
1. How many countries are there circling around the Caspian sea?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
2. What can you do if you want to fish on the Caspian Sea?
A. Buy your own boat. B. Employ a local fisher.
C. Rent a fishing boat. D. Buy fish on the boat.
3. What will you do if you are an adventurous person?
A. Go swimming. B. Go diving. C. Go sunbathing. D. Go windsurfing.
B
The juries (陪审团) entered.
I stood beside the lawyer and my brother, Jimmy. It reminded me of our childhood—as things often did—when we played the game “Simon Says”, we would react at the same time in harmony when hearing all kinds of order. “Simon says jump; Simon says touch your toes”—it was almost the same. Almost.
When we grew up, my brother had chosen a separate life, leaving me alone. I missed him a lot.
Today, though, we were together, standing in court, waiting for the sentence.
The guilty verdict (判决)was read. I sat down, but my brother cried, “No! I'm innocent.” And then he turned to me, yelling, “How can you do this to me, James! I finally can make a new life by myself.”
“Stop this,” the judge yelled, “the juries have made the decision.”
“But it's not fair!” my brother replied, “I didn’t kill anyone.”
I wished I could explain, but I said nothing because this is the only way we can be together again.
The judge pulled his glasses from his face. “By law...”
“The law is unjust,” my brother said.
The judge wiped his eyes, and, to my surprise, said calmly. “Yes,” he nodded his glasses aside. “I agree with you about that. Law is meant to protect the innocent. And you certainly seem innocent. But how can I tell? You two are clones. Your faces, your fingerprints, even your DNA match exactly. That’s why when one is found guilty, all others…”
The judge sighed, replaced his glasses, and banged the hammer. “I sentence you both to twenty years.”
Together, the court guard led us away. My brother’s head bowed in defeat, but I walked upright, for I would no longer be alone.
4. How did James think of their childhood?
A. He felt sorry for Jimmy. B. He had been in court before.
C. He felt guilty about his past. D. He missed the good old days.
5. What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A. Two boys had nothing in common. B. The two brothers behaved alike.
C. They once quarreled with each other. D. Neither of them liked living together.
6. What do we know about the law from the text?
A. Cloned brothers should live together.
B. The cloning of human being is forbidden.
C. Cloned brothers are both guilty if one is guilty.
D. Cloned brothers can live apart when growing up.
7. What can be inferred from the text?
A. James was innocent. B. Jimmy did kill someone.
C. James knew nothing about the law. D. James took advantage of the law.
C
We regularly hear how important consumer spending is for the economy. The story goes like this: the more consumers spend，the more money circulates in the economy, which contributes to healthy job growth and profits. Keynes, a British economist went as far as to say that individuals saving their money may actually be hurting the economy. Sounds troubling, doesn’t it?
Fear not. You aren’t actually hurting anyone else by saving money. Strong economic growth only comes from one place：savings. Not consumption. In fact, economic activity should not be mistaken for economic growth. For example, somebody takes their money, walks into a store, and purchases goods. The store increases its revenue.
But what happens to all of those goods and services that people have chosen not to consume by saving their money? Simple: Other people are allowed to consume them. Think of it this way: When you lend out your savings, you are actually saying, “Here, I am not going to consume right now, so why don’t you?” Banks simply play the middleman: they collect lots of people’s savings and then lend out lots of funds.
It takes an unbelievable amount of goods and services to construct a building. It takes food, shelter, and entertainment for all of the workers, as well. Without savings, it is quite impossible to finance such a construction. The coordination (协调) between savings and consumption is a necessary basis for sound economic growth. This coordination is also why consumer lending (say, to borrow a big sum of money to buy a car) is not productive，in a strict sense. It doesn’t increase the net (净的) amount of wealth of an economy. Those savings could have been used to construct, say, factory equipment.
None of this means consumption and spending are “bad” things. They simply do not make us wealthier. After all, the final goal of production and savings is to consume. But to say that consumption is the engine of economic growth is to put the cart before the horse. Or, to rephrase: the consumption of wealth can never make you wealthier. Happier, perhaps. Wealthier, no.
8. What is the author’s attitude towards Keynes’ theory?
A. Approving. B. Reserved . C. Uncertain. D. Critical.
9. The underlined word “revenue” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “_______”.
A. income          B. reputation            C. interest           D. cost
10. According to the author, which chart could show the effect of savings on economy?

11. What would be the best title for this passage?
A. The Saving Behavior of the Economy
B. Consumption: A Key Concept in Economy
C. The Truth about Savings and Consumption
D. Consumer Spending and Economic Growth
D
Do you still remember the scene in the famous movie Titanic, directed by Cameron, where Jack was frozen to death in the icy cold water so that Rose could survive on the floating door alone? It broke many people’s heart.
Two decades later, people are still asking the question, “wasn’t there enough room on the door for both of them?”
Cameron once responded by saying it wasn’t a question of room, but buoyancy(浮力)—if both of them had tried to stay on the raft, he argued, the whole thing would sink.
But several guys from “Mythbusters”, an Australian-American science entertainment television program, decided to test the theory themselves. They discovered that if Rose had took off her life jacket to the bottom of the raft, there would have been enough buoyancy to keep both of them afloat.
When they presented their findings to Cameron, the director insisted that Jack couldn’t be saved.
“The answer is very simple,” Cameron said. “Because it says on page 147 of the script that Jack dies. To Cameron, it was an artistic choice to have the beloved character of millions, Jack, drown into the cold sea. Jack had to die because Cameron thought it would be best if we did.
“It was an artistic choice, the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not big enough to hold him,” Cameron said. “I think it's all kind of silly, really, that we’re having this discussion 20 years later. But it does show that the film was effective in making Jack so endearing to the audience that it hurts them to see him die. The film is about death and separation; he had to die.”
Since Jack was doomed to die, Cameron said, it could have happened in a variety of different ways. It’s not about the door not being big enough: that’s just a practical method for his death. “Whether it was that, or whether a chimney fell on him, he was going down,” Cameron said. “It’s called art: things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.”
12. What do we know about the character Jack according to the text?
A. He intended to kill himself. B. He sacrificed himself to save Rose.
C. He didn’ t have money to buy ticket. D. He lacked basic knowledge of physics.
13. According to Cameron, why did the audience argue about Jack’s death for 20 years?
A. They are fragile people. B. They don’t like the movie.
C. They love the character Jack. D. They are crazy about physics.
14. Why was a chimney mentioned in the last paragraph?
A. To introduce the structure of the ship. B. To show the original plan of the movie.
C. To present the missing part of the movie. D. To explain the unchangeable fate of Jack.
15. What is best title of the text?
A. Jack in Titanic Must Die. B. Big Enough for Both.
C. Cameron is Wrong. D. Jack could Survive.
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
As your teacher passes out the math test, your palms turn sweaty. You notice that our heart has begun to race. Glancing down at the page, you suddenly forget those operations on which you had drilled only a few days earlier. Do you perform all additions first in a complex calculation? ___16___ Suddenly, you start to doubt a lot of things that you know.
If that sounds familiar, you might suffer from math anxiety. Or maybe not Even researchers who study this condition note that it can be surprisingly hard to define math anxiety. 17 After all, it's not an officially recognized mental disorder in the way that depression is.
___18__ It asks things like "how anxious would you feel about being given a set of division problems to solve on paper". Those who score high on these surveys about stress over making calculations related to numbers will be labeled math anxious.
In general, people who panic over their math skills tend to do worse in math classes than people who don't mind numbers. 19 "Just because you're math anxious, that doesn't always mean you're bad at math," notes Rose Vukovic, an educational psychologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Math anxiety affects people of all ages. It can lead to poor performance in math classes. 20 Throughout life, this type of stress can stand in the way of mastering skills or projects in a host of areas that rely on calculations. But the good news is that the problem is manageable. Researchers are finding ways people can cope with this stress.
A. But that's not always true.
B. It has an unimaginable impact.
C. And its impacts don't end at graduation.
D. Oh, you know it -- well you're pretty sure, right ?
E. To diagnose math anxiety, researchers conduct a questionnaire.
F. It's also hard to identify precisely how many people suffer from it.
G. Math anxiety has also been linked to negative emotions from the past.
第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
We have all heard how time is more valuable than money, but is it   21  to have too much?
I  22  back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also  23  a team sport. By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, so I had to do it  24 .
When I got into college, things changed. I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time. Because of all this  25  time, there was no sense of  26  to do my school work immediately. I was performing this action of waiting until it later became  27 . Once that happened, I just kept  28  my studying further and further back in my day. Then I got to the point where I was  29 really late at night to get my work done.
One day I met a former classmate of mine who was making a lot of money running a sideline (副业). Since his regular job was 30 , I asked him why he just didn’t do his sideline full-time. He said without the job, he would  31  have too much time and would just do what I did back in college. He said that if he quit the job, he would lose his  32  to work and succeed.
So, try  33  up your time with other work. This is why there is a  34 that if you want something done, ask a  35  person to do it.
21. A. true  B. fair  C. possible  D. strange
22. A. admit  B.expect C. understand  D.  remember 
23. A. played B. loved  C. watched D. coached
24. A. at last  B. right away C.  of course  D. as usual
25. A. limited B. difficult  C. valuable  D.  extra
26. A. duty  B. urgency C. direction  D. achievement
27. A. burden  B. habit  C. relief  D. risk
28. A. taking  B. calling C. setting  D. pushing
29. A. leaving out  B. depending on  C. staying up  D. consisting of
30. A. safe  B. rewarding C. important  D. boring
31. A. hardly  B. luckily  C. simply  D. hopefully
32. A. drive B. chance  C. way  D. heart 
33. A. filling  B. giving  C. saving  D. trading
34. A. message  B. story  C. fact  D. saying
35. A. reliable  B. careful  C. busy  D. kind
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。
When foreigners come to China, they may be 36 (surprise) at Chinese’s special fondness and preference for seals. To Chinese, seals are an art of deep cultural roots, 37 combines the essence of both calligraphy(书法) and sculpture and inspires generations to study, to appreciate and to collect.
It is believed that seals came out as early 38 8,000 years ago after our ancestors could make pottery wares(陶瓷)and had private property. They tried to make marks on  39 (they) own possessions to prevent them from being stolen. When the first dynasty 40 (found),the king began to use seals to empower(授权)and to show lordly credits. Only the king’s special seal was then called “Xi”, 41 (represent) the highest authority. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, had his “X