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。
As a child growing up 1 England, James Reynolds was always excited by thunderstorms. Now, he runs straight towards them as a hurricanes
“ storm chaser ” . Specialising in
and volcanoes, Reynolds travels the world to shoot pictures of Earth ' s most extreme sw. eather event The pictures are used by TV news channels around the world. It ' s a2 (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.
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 'nse ither too hot nor too cold. It 'aslm ost completely flat and rocky. The island 'onsly
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. 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，
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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 Prograsma,id, “ A healthy tiger cub, even a thre-me onth-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 animals don ' t become2 1 on humans.
The cub, now named Cinderella, became the center 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 24 . The'y sse t up cameras to snap photos. When Cinderella passed in front of one of these camera 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.
25 , it took her picture. Cinderella not
' s first tiger. Over the next year, she
20 . That way, the
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11. A. weak B. pale C. sleepy D. lazy 12. A. hide B. hurt C. wonder D. pause 13. A. mercy B. effort C. will D. fight 14. A. delivered B. returned C. guided D. reported
15. A. taught
B. pulled
C. nursed D. trained
16. A. intelligent B. energetic C. excited D. amazing 17. A. Almost B. Still C. Even D. Only 18. A. newly-born B. rescued C. wounded D. hunted 19. A. exposing B. sending C. offering D. selling 20. A. place B. sight C. order D. mind 21. A.
concentrated B. defensive C. dependent D. keen 22. A. welcome B. interested C. ready D. eager 23. A. continent B. neighborhood C. border D. kingdom 24. A. progress B. reaction C. appearance D. habitat 25. A. types B. traps C. shots D. scenes 26. A. succeeded B. recovered C. survived D. explored
27. A. edited B. expected C. prepared D. revealed
28. A. witnessed B. traded C. raised D. examined 29. A. endangered B. dominated
C. preserved D. 30. A. love
B. hope
C. home
stressed
D. help
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）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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阅读下列短文，从每题所
2020北京市东城区2020届高三二模英语试题及答案
