安徽省合肥九中2020届高三上学期第二次月考英语试卷（不含听力音频无文字材料）

合肥九中2019-2020学年第一学期高三第二次月考
英语试卷
（考试时间120分钟 满分150分）
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
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，并标在试题卷的相应位置。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 are the speakers probably doing?
A. Booking a hotel. B. Writing postcards. C. Looking at photographs.
2. Who will go to China next month?
A. Lucy. B. Alice. C. Richard.
3. What will the two speakers buy after school?
A. Bikes. B. Boats. C. Tents.
4. What was the man’s overall GPA in his college?
A. 8. B. 9. C. 10.
5. Who will finally decide whether the girl can go to London?
A. Herself. B. Her father. C. Her mother.
第二节 (共15小题，每小题1.5分，满分22.5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三个选项选出最佳选项，并标在试题卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出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. Where will the speakers go?
A. Boston. B. Florida. C. Hawaii.
7. What will the woman do after the conversation?
A. Wash clothes. B. Get the car started. C. Get ready for clothes.
听第7段材料，回答8至9小题。
8. Why didn’t the man take the exam yesterday?
A. Because he got sick.
B. Because he didn’t want to do so.
C. Because he got the examination date wrong.
9. How will the man get home?
A. He drives a car himself. B. On foot. C. The woman will send him home by car.
听第8段材料，回答10至12小题。
10. Where are the two speakers now?
A. In a supermarket. B. In front of the cinema. C. In the street.
11. What is the weather like?
A. Rainy. B. Snowy. C. Cloudy.
12. How did the woman get there?
A. By car. B. By bus. C. By train.
听第9段材料，回答13至16小题。
13. What is the man now?
A. A professor. B. A university student. C. A doctor.
14. What is wrong with the man?
A. He finds it hard to sleep well.
B. He finds it easy to be hungry.
C. He finds it hard to have dinners.
15. What is good for reducing pressure?
A. B12 Vitamin. B. B6 vitamin. C. B5 vitamin.
16. What is the woman’s advice?
A. Take some pills.
B. Relax and form a good living habit.
C. Sleep earlier and get up later than usual.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is Albert according to the speech?
A. A French economist. B. The survey organizer. C. A website manager.
18. How many people visited his website per month last year probably?
A. 16,000. B.30,000. C. 8,000.
19. Why do these used items as gifts come to be so popular?
A. Because they are more expensive and attractive.
B. Because they are cheaper and eco-friendly.
C. Because they are products online.
20. What will consumers take into consideration while buying second-hand goods?
A. Lower prices. B. Websites’ businesses. C. French items.
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
(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。
A
The Coolest Inventions
An Oceans Vacuum
There’s a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It’s bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next year’s trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42% over 10 years.
Easy-On Shoes
In 2012, Matthew Walzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the Fly Ease. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike Fly Ease shoes sells for $ 130.
An Airport for Drones (无人机）
As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in Africa, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goal is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.
21. What’s the advantage of the Oceans Vacuum?
A. It can grow year by year. B. It can be a money-saver.
C. It can tear plastic into pieces. D. It can be put into wide use soon.
22. What do we know about Nike?
A. It offers free shoes to the disabled. B. It is designing new shoes frequently.
C. It provides customer-friendly services. D. It responded to Matthew’s request passively.
23. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”？
A. Because they are receptive to new technology.
B. Because there are too many drones.
C. Because they’re easier to construct than roads.
D. Because road travel there is rough.
B
Five thousand square meters of old damaged cars, motorcycles and boats fill this junkyard. For a casual onlooker, this might be a very sad sight. But for Andy, it’s a real treasure. “I’ve been a junk hoarder (囤积者) for my whole life and I like fixing up what shouldn’t be thrown away. Around 200 old cars end up in this junkyard every week. Some of them are sold for parts, others get repaired, and still others are beyond repair.”
His father Bobby started the business some 50 years ago and still spends every morning there. The father and son have very different approaches to their work. They got a Dean cab that was getting thrown away and that was the father’s project, which Andy did not want him to do. “He did basically the opposite of everything I told him and I think he did it just to make me mad. He dumped a ton of money into this car, but in the end it wouldn’t run.” Andy said jokingly.
The unusual family business attracted the attention of a TV crew. That’s how the show Janka Empire came to be featured on a network of the Discovery Channel. This show, five years of shooting, five seasons and 60 episodes (集), is popular. “There are hundreds of junkyards throughout the United States. I think what’s interesting is that it is a family business. My father and I started the business and we joke very well back and forth and I think that’s what people like. The cars that end up at the junkyard come out with endless surprises. See, this was a junk car and we restored it with a blown motor. Yet I don’t get a chance to ride around it too often. Because despite its shining appearance, the noise of the engine is truly deafening and I worry my neighbors will not put up with it.”
24. What does Andy seem to like about his junkyard?
A. It is very large. B. It may be a bad sight.
C. It is amazing and valuable. D. It is his life dreamland.
25. What can we infer from the “one Dean cab” case?
A. The father is ready to follow his son’s advice.
B. The son is impatient and fed up with his father.
C. The father and son get on well with each other.
D. The father and son often disagree with each other.
26. Why is the show Janka Empire popular?
A. There are hundreds of junkyards in the United States.
B. Bobby and Andy run their family business in an unusual way.
C. The show is a series of 5 seasons and 60 episodes.
D. Bobby and Andy can make the junk car attractive.
27. Which of the following words can best describe Bobby and Andy?
A. Devoted and creative. B. Funny and ridiculous.
C. Gentle and respectable. D. Economical and wealthy.
C
The clock always seems to be ticking rather too fast in the doctor’s office and the queue of patients outside the door seems to be pressing rather too hard. Some say it’s high time for the model of short, sharp one-to-one appointments to give way to shared medical appointments (SMAs).
SMAs are doctor-patient visits in which a group of patients receive patient education and counseling(咨询), physical examination and medical support in a group setting. Typically SMAs are designed to have one or more doctors attend to a group of patients who share a common illness or medical condition. In contrast to one-to-one visits, SMAS provide a longer appointment time-frame as well as the opportunity for patients to have improved access to their physicians and meanwhile pick up additional information and support from peers.
However, doctors who have pioneered the shared appointment approach report that there are significant challenges involved. Dr. Sumego, director of shared medical appointments, Cleveland Clinic, identifies culture change as the most significant challenge. Physicians and nurses are trained in a model of personal service and privacy; the SMA approach is a fundamental challenge to those fixed ideas. They need shared goals and a way of testing the innovation against agreed standards. Dr. Sumego says, “The physicians may be worried about the possible chaos and efficiencies that are marketed. They also have to make the patients understand what their appointment is, and what the expectation is.”
“So, if an organization was looking to start shared medical appointments, I would advise them to start the buy-in from a few champion physicians, develop the work-flow and develop some experience. Provide some support behind what that best practice should look like. Create some standards so that, as the concept spreads, you can employ that experience to start the next shared medical appointments and the next.”
28. What is the purpose of the SMA approach?
A. To improve medical service. B. To promote doctors’ reputation.
C. To conduct medical research. D. To meet patients’ expectation.
29. According to Dr. Sumego, what prevents the SMA approach from being widely adopted?
A. Personal service. B. Fixed ideas.
C. Lack of equipment. D. Shared goals.
30. What can the underlined “buy-in” in Paragraph 4 be replaced by?
A. Support. B. Organization. C. Practice. D. Purchase.
31. What can be learned about the SMA approach in the last paragraph?
A. It is currently being questioned. B. It is impractical in some areas.
C. It will enjoy wide popularity soon. D. It should be carried out step by step.
D
Alison Malmon was trapping up (完成) the end of her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, US when she got the news: Her older brother Brian, a student at Columbia University, was suffering from mental illness.
??? Inspired by this, Malmon formed a group at her university to empower students to talk openly about mental health. It soon blossomed into a national organization that today has more than 450 campus chapters. Leaders with the organization spend their time talking with college students about the pressure that today's young people face.
??? “What you hear often is just a need to be perfect,” said Malmon, “and a need to present oneself as perfect.”
??? And a new study in the UK proved that this need for perfectionism is simply part of today’s society. In the study, two researchers studied more than 40,000 students from the US, Canada, and the UK. They found that what they called “socially prescribed(社会定向型的) perfectionism” increased by a third between 1989 and 2016.
??? Lead researcher Thomas Curran said that while so many of today's young people try to present a perfect appearance online, social media isn’t the only reason behind this trend.? Instead, he said, it may be driven by competition in modern society, meaning young people can't avoid being sorted and ranked in both education and employment. That comes from new norms(准则) like greater numbers of college students, standardized testing and parenting that increasingly emphasizes success in education.
??? For example, in 1976, half of high school seniors expected to get a college degree of some kind. By 2008, more than 80 percent expected the same. The researchers also said changes in parenting styles over the last two decades might have had an impact. As parents feel increased pressure to raise successful children, they in turn pass their “achievement anxieties" onto their kids through “excessive(过多的) involvement in their child’s routines, activities or emotions”.????
??? Those in the mental health community like Malmon say they’re concerned about the impact the culture of perfectionism has on mental health on campuses. “Mental health has truly become this generation's social justice issue,” she said. “It's our job to equip them with the tools and to let people know that it's not their fault.”
32. What inspired Alison Malmon to start a group related to mental health?
A. Her brother’s mental illness. B. Her project during the freshman year. C. The pressure she had experienced. D. Her strong interest in mental health.
33. What may be pushing today’s young people to struggle to be perfect, according to the article?
a. The impact of social media.
b. Parents' high expectations of their children.
c. The decreasing number of college students.
d. The fierce competition in society.
e. Their desire to draw their parents’ attention.
A. a, b, c B. a, d, e C. a, b, d D. b, c, e
34. What does Malmon think is a way to help young people manage the pressure of perfectionism?
A. Enabling them to know what is to blame for their pressure. B. Lowering their expectations of themselves. C. Reducing parents involvement in their children’s life. D. Making them aware of what true social justice is.
35. What is the article mainly about?
A. The effects of the culture of perfectionism. B. Research into the trend of perfectionism. C. A group dedicated to helping people stay mentally healthy. D. Various pressures that today's young people are facing.
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。
From time to time, even the most productive professionals procrastinate(拖延). 36___________________, when your tendency to procrastinate is starting to make your overall quality of work and life suffer. Here's what Forbes Coaches Council members recommend doing to stop racing the clock.
37___________________
When you don't feel motivated, take the smallest step possible toward your goal. After taking that step, you're more likely to continue taking more steps toward that goal. Instead of telling yourself to work out for an hour, say you’ll go for 10 minutes.
Give yourself a hard deadline, and then schedule it
The best way to overcome a natural tendency to procrastinate is to create a hard deadline for yourself and then put it on the calendar. 38___________________. Then honor it the same way you would if your boss were waiting for you to complete the task.
Understand the underlying reasons you're procrastinating
39___________________. Notice your thoughts, feelings, behaviors and the situation when you feel like procrastinating. Write these down. Often perfectionism, which we may experience as anxiety, underlies the tendency to postpone action. Once you understand your pattern, you can hold yourself accountable in a positive and self-compassionate way.
Give yourself a reward for each task you complete
Make a list of things you need to do and do the one you don't want to do first. 40 ___________________ (piece of candy, a few minutes on social media, etc.). Then do something on your list that you want to do and continue alternating from there. This makes your tasks less daunting.
A. Take the tiniest step possible
B. Identify a positive outcome from your action
C. Then give yourself a little reward for doing it
D. Find a way to make overcoming procrastination interesting
E. It's time to do a reality check and break yourself of the habit
F. Treat the deadline the same as if your boss created it
G. Become a detective or a scientist about your pattern of procrastinating
第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空 (共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Maram Coulibaly is one of village women in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, who make their living picking up plastic waste on the city streets and selling it for recycling. Now they are 41._______ players in a project that turns 42. _______into plastic bricks to build schools across the country.
They are working with a Colombian company to 43. _______ plastic waste into useful materials that will help women earn a 44. _______ living while cleaning up the environment and improving 45. _______.
In the past year, the company has built nine classrooms out of recycled plastic bricks for 46. _______. The first schools were built with bricks 47. _______ from Colombia. The new plastic-brick classrooms are 48. _______ needed. Some classrooms now pack in 90 students in the country.
In the tiny village, until this year, the children went to school in a (an) 49. _______ mud brick and wood building. The mud brick eroded(侵蚀) in the sun and had to be constantly 50. _______. But the 51. _______ plastic classrooms could 52. _______ practically forever. Though the plastic bricks 53. _______ black and gray Legos, they can stop fire from 54. _______ and stay 55. _______ in hot weather.
The first few classrooms cost about ＄14,500 each, 56. _______ to ＄16,500 for a real brick classroom, Mr.
Mendez said, who set up the plastic company.
There is no 57. _______ of plastic waste. Abidjan produces about 300 tons of it a day, but only 5 percent of it is 58. _______. Now, with the help of the project, each 59. _______ takes about five tons of plastic trash to build. So in the 60. _______ there will be more schools built of plastic trash.
41. A. main B. full C. true D. final
42. A. treasure B. bags C. trash D. bottles
43. A. take B. change C. burst D. dig
44. A. less B. worse C. more D. better
45. A. community B. farmland C. standard D. education
46. A. demonstration B. sale C. rent D. suggestion
47. A. discovered B. thrown C. imagined D. imported
48. A. usually B. badly C. cautiously D. casually
49. A. empty B. famous C. traditional D. excellent
50. A. rebuilt B. repaired C. destroyed D. noticed
51. A. new B. huge C. cheap D. beautiful
52. A. last B. rest C. save D. float
53. A. look into B. take off C. look like D. give back
54. A. making B. joining C. blowing D. spreading
55. A. bright B. cool C. clear D. warm
56. A. devoted B. attended C. compared D. adjusted
57. A. shortage B. advantage C. need D. point
58. A. buried B. burnt C. sold D. recycled
59. A company B. classroom C. village D. brick
60. A. building B. life C. future D. city
第Ⅱ卷
(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。
If you were to eat a bag of candy, you might expect to feel a “ sugar rush” 61 _________(follow) by a warm glow of satisfaction. 62 _________reality, the opposite happens, according to a study. "The idea that sugar can improve mood 63_________ (accept) widely for a long time, "said lead author Dr. Konstantinos Mantantzis. "Our findings 64_________ (clear) show that such claims are not testified - if anything, sugar will probably make you feel 65_________ (bad) than before. " The research reviewed different studies, accounting for over 1, 250 participants. It investigated the effects of soluble carbohydrates(溶解性碳水化合物), 66_________(include) sugars and starches(淀粉), on various aspects of mood. Within just half 67_________ hour after eating sugar, most people started to experience a sense of tiredness, compared to those who took a placebo (无效对照剂). It seems 68_________ eating sugar won't result in any substantial level of increasing satisfaction or sense of well-being. Not only 69_________ (be) the idea of a "sugar rush" a myth, the researchers argue, it could also be a factor in the rise of obesity and diabetes. "We hope that our findings will go a long way to dispel the myth of the 'sugar rush' and inform public health policies to decrease sugar 70_________(consume).
第四部分 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:在错的词下画一横线,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。
One Sunday, I was reading my book while it suddenly occurred to me that it was my mother birthday the next day. However, I forgot it complete. I was worried that I didn’t prepare any present to her. At that moment, idea of online shopping came to my mind. I clicked the mouse and search some famous shopping websites. Having compared the price of many dress, I chose one with a reasonable price which I supposed my mum would appreciate it and bought it as soon as possible. The next day I received the dress as expected without get out of my room. You see, online shopping is very convenient that it has made our life colorful.
书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华。你的美国朋友Jim 想了解中国人起名字的习惯，并请你帮他起一个中文名字。请你写封邮件，内容包括：
1. 给Jim起一个中文名字；
2. 说明起此名字的理由。
注意：1.词数100字左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
I am glad to tell you something about the Chinese naming practice.______________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
合肥九中2019-2020学年第一学期高三第二次月考
英语试卷答案
听力 1-5 CACBC 6-10 CCACA 11-15 BABAC 16-20 BCBBA
阅读理解A篇BCD B篇CDBA C篇ABCD D篇ACAB
七选五 EAFGC
完形填空41-45 ACBDD 46-50 ADBCB 51-55 AACDB 56-60 CADBC
语法填空61. followed 62.In 63.has been accepted 64. clearly 65. worse
66. including 67. an 68. that 69. is 70. consumption
改错
One Sunday, I was reading my book? it suddenly occurred to me that it was my? birthday the next day. However, I forgot it . I was worried that I didn’t prepare any present? her. At that moment,＾the?idea of online shopping came to my mind. I clicked the mouse and? some famous shopping websites. Having compared the price of many, I chose one with a reasonable price which I supposed my mum would appreciate it and bought it as soon as possible. The next day I received the dress as expected without? out of my room. You see, online shopping is? convenient that it has made our life colorful.
书面表达One possible version:
Dear Jim,
I am glad to tell you something about the Chinese naming practice.
Unlike your tradition, the family name in China is put first, followed by the given name, which usually contains one or two Chinese characters. Chinese people often name a baby with their best wishes in mind, like wishes for good health, bright future and happiness. Some names imply the birth time, birth place, or even a natural phenomenon at the time of birth. Besides, parents also need to consider how the names sound to avoid being teased or given a bad nickname.
As for your Chinese name, how about Ji Xiang?It means “good luck” and the first character has a similar pronunciation to your name Jim. I hope you’ll love this Chinese name.
Yours,
Li Hua