北京市东城区 2019—2020 学年度第二学期高三综合练习（二）
高三英语
2020.6 本试卷共 10 页，共 120 分。考试时长 100 分钟。考生务必将答案答在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分：知识运用（共两节，45分）
第一节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
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As a child growing up 1 England, James Reynolds was always excited by thunderstorms. Now, he runs straight towards them as a “storm chaser”. Specialising in hurricanes and volcanoes, Reynolds travels the world to shoot pictures of Earth’s most extreme weather events. The pictures are used by TV news channels around the world. It’s a 2 (danger) job though. He has almost been hit by flying window frames twice in the past 18 3 (month). However, he says the chase is always worth it for the places he has been to and the brilliant people he has met along the way.
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Amateur explorers have found what may have been the last undiscovered island on Earth. The island is round and about three quarters of a mile wide. It sits in the northern Pacific and is a place 4 it’s neither too hot nor too cold. It’s almost completely flat and rocky. The island’s only distinguishing feature is a slight hill on the eastern side. After spotting the hidden piece of land in 5 first looked like an e-map fault, the group of friends 6 (set) out in a boat to confirm what they’d found. They’re now running an online contest to name the island.
C
Poetry is a beautiful art form. Its power lies in the ability to transform ordinary experiences by capturing（捕捉） a moment or emotion. 7 (write) poetry is a privilege and struggle, in part because we need to create in 8 (we) a new way of observing the world, capturing microscopic moments as materials for our work. Most of our time at the desk 9 (spend) wrestling with our imagination, and we know that a successful poem arrives on the back of failure. There are moments when an idea will not translate onto paper. Yet, failure is good, because every 10 (abandon) line we painstakingly remove prepares us for the ripe poem around the corner.
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第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Saving a Tiger Named Cinderella
On an icy day in February 2012, two hunters in eastern Russia discovered a limp bundle of fur lying in the snow. It was an orphaned cub（幼虎）！The cub hadn’t eaten in days, and was 11 enough for the hunters just to pick her up. Dr. Dale Miquelle, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Russia Program, said, “A healthy tiger cub, even a three-month-old one, would give you reason to 12 before you stuck your hand too close to its teeth and claws. But this cub had no 13 left in her.”
The hunters wrapped the cub in a coat and 14 her to a local wildlife inspector, Andrey Oryol. Over the following weeks, Oryol 15 the orphaned cub back to health. But now he had a new problem: What could he do with an 16 three-month-old tiger?
The cub was an Amur tiger. 17 a small number of Amur tigers remained in the wild, so scientists wanted to return 18 cubs to their natural habitat. The orphaned cub was taken to a new wildlife center. The center was designed for raising wild animals without 19 them to people. It uses hidden cameras and covered fences to keep workers out of 20 . That way, the animals don’t become 21 on humans.
The cub, now named Cinderella, became the center’s first tiger. Over the next year, she grew into a big, healthy tigress. In the center, she learned to hunt. By the spring of 2013, experts agreed she was 22 to return to the wild.
They chose the perfect new 23 for their tiger princess: the Bastak Nature Reserve. During the next two years, researchers watched Cinderella’s 24 . They set up cameras to snap photos. When Cinderella passed in front of one of these camera 25 , it took her picture. Cinderella not only 26 , but grew healthy and strong. Then, in December 2015, the cameras 27 exciting news: Cinderella had become a mother! For the first time ever, a tiger that humans had 28 and returned to the wild had given birth to two cubs of her own.
Tigers are some of the most admired animals on our planet, but they are also 29 . Thanks to the work of conservationists like Dr. Miquelle, there is new 30 for these magnificent cats.
11. A. weak 12. A. hide
13. A. mercy
B. pale B. hurt B. effort
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C. sleepy C. wonder C. will
D. lazy D. pause D. fight
14. A. delivered 15. A. taught 17. A. Almost 19. A. exposing 20. A. place 22. A. welcome 23. A. continent 24. A. progress 25. A. types 27. A. edited 28. A. witnessed 30. A. love
B. returned B. pulled B. Still B. rescued B. sending B. sight
C. guided C. nursed C. excited C. Even C. offering C. order C. ready C. border C. shots C. survived C. raised C. home
D. reported D. trained D. amazing D. Only D. hunted D. selling D. mind D. keen D. eager D. kingdom D. habitat D. scenes D. explored D. revealed D. examined D. stressed D. help
16. A. intelligent 18. A. newly-born
B. energetic
C. wounded
21. A. concentrated B. defensive B. interested B. neighborhood B. reaction B. traps B. expected B. traded B. hope
B. recovered
C. dependent
C. appearance
26. A. succeeded
C. prepared C. preserved
29. A. endangered B. dominated
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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INVITATION FOR YOUTH TO SUBMIT VIDEOS TO THE UNITED NATIONS
FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
The Education Outreach Section of the United Nations Department of Public Information invites young people from around the world between the ages of 15 and 24 to submit 10- to 15-second videos in English on how the Sustainable Development Goals can build peace. When
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making your videos, think about why ending poverty, addressing climate change, forging equality and ensuring access to education are important to creating a more peaceful world.
The most engaging videos will be featured on the United Nations International Day of Peace YouTube channel. Some will even be shown at an official event at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 16 September.
We will be posting selected clips at w+w=w.youtube.c-o/m/channel from 13 June (the start of the 100-day countdown) through 21 September, the International Day of Peace.
When you make your video, please state your name and country at the beginning. And remember that all videos should be appropriate for younger audiences.
We’ll be accepting your submissions from now until 1 September. So start sending your videos to unitednationspeaceday@gmail.c-o/m today!
Background: The International Day of Peace falls on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples. Every year on this day, the United Nations calls on the people of the world to remember their common humanity and join together to build a future free of conflicts. The theme for this year, “The Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Peace”, highlights how ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for everyone all contribute to global harmony. The Sustainable Goals cover a broad range of issues, including poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, energy, environment and social justice.
More information on the International Day of Peace and the Sustainable Development Goals: http://w+w=w.un.org/en/events/peaceday.
31. The participants should ______. A. be at least twenty-four years old B. upload clips onto the appointed website C. come up with solutions to global problems D. submit the videos no later than 1 September 32. What might be the proper words to start the video? A. My name is Jimena, and I’m from Peru. B. Hello, I’d like to introduce the event first. C. Today I want to say something to young audiences. D. What is the key to creating a more peaceful world? 33. Once chosen, the video will be ____. A. put on a YouTube channel
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B. posted on the web for one year C. shown at the theater in New York D. filmed on the International Day of Peace 34. What is the main purpose of the activity? A. To collect video materials for the websites. B. To raise young people’s concern about world peace. C. To draw attention to the education of the next generation. D. To popularize the International Day of Peace among the youth.
B
It’s a Saturday night, the kids are asleep and we have no plans. Before we fall into our routine and watch a movie, I try to talk my husband into playing a card game. Unconvinced, he continues tapping away on his phone. But just before disappearing into the social media rabbit hole, he has an idea. He looks over me and suggests, “Why don’t we try calling one of our friends?”
I look at him with raised brows, as if his suggestion is somewhat ridiculous and perhaps even socially unacceptable. You can’t just call someone out of the blue now…right? But then I think again and realize that at one point in time, in the not so distant past, this was the norm. I spent my early teenage years connecting with friends through a phone that was connected to a wall. It wasn’t “smart”, but it allowed me to keep in touch with the latest gossip and news. We would chat for hours, sometimes while I hid under my blanket in order to avoid the chance of being caught by my parents.
I could even memorize the phone numbers of loved ones then. While I did own an address book—and there was always the White Pages, where you could look people up by their names—I had the contact details of special friends, first loves and family members committed to memory. I guess these days, they would be on my “Favorites” list in my smartphone.
Today, many of my “favorite” people are followed from a distance through social media, and even they very rarely—if ever—would get an actual call from me. The birth announcement by my oldest friend is received through catching a well-defined bump into a photo that I scroll past. The news of a divorce from a couple whom I had considered my second parents when I was in middle school arrives after a photo of a woman led me on a quest for more gossip. Bits of such information, a collection of wonderful, exciting, shocking and also boring news, may have been a part of my digital feed for years. The idea of actually picking up the phone to reconnect with a long-lost friend is an intimidating one—even seeing the name of an old friend pop up in an incoming call can feel a little afraid.
I ask my husband, “Who would we call?” After tossing around a few names, we agree on some
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2020东城二模高三英语试题 Word版含答案
