2019年佛山市普通高中高三教学质量检测(一)英语2019.1本试卷共9页,满分120分,考试用时120分钟。
注意事项:1、本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。
答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。
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将条形码横贴在答题卡右上角“条形码粘贴处”。
因笔试不考听力,选择题从第二部分的“阅读理解”开始,试题序号从“21”开始。
2、答选择题时,选出每小题答案后,用2B铅笔在答题卡上对应题目选项的答题信息点涂黑;如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案。
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考试结束后,将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第二部分阅读理解(共两节,满分40 分)第一节(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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
AFantastic Fall Festivals You Won’t Want to MissSeymour Apple FestivalAdmission to the Seymour Apple Festival is free and so is the entertainment! More than 15,000 people from all over the region come out to take part in the activities, ranging from drawings, vendor booths, food, apple contests, bike-decorating contests, and more.Marionville Apple FestivalThe popular Marionville Apple Festival is home to countless activities and events. The carnival, pony rides, and games will keep the kids busy, while adults will enjoy watching the pie-eating contest and browsing dozens of craft vendor booths.Humansville Fall FestivalThe Humansville Fall Festival may be hosted by a small town, but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking big fun. Perfect for all ages, this fall festival is celebrating its 70th year and will provide three full days of fun. This year’s festival will feature live music from fantastic local musicians, which will definitely make it different from the ones in other years. You’ll also find fun carnival rides, talented artisans selling their goods, and an amazing parade to wrap up the event on Saturday.Southside Fall FestivalThe Southside Fall Festival is perfect for family celebrations, with an alcohol-free environment and free admission. Enjoy a colorful parade and float contest, delicious food vendors, live music, karaoke, and more.Fall Into Arts FestivalMake sure to bring the kids along for this festival that celebrates all things creative. The Fall Into Arts Festival features a host of kid-friendly activities like a lego build, sand art, bubble stations, chalk the sidewalk, a jump house, and more. Parents will have plenty to do as well, with an excellent variety of artists, festival food, a mini film festival, and much more.21. Which festivals are free of charge?A. Southside Fall Festival and Fall Into Arts Festival.B. Seymour Apple Festival and Southside Fall Festival.C. Humansville Fall Festival and Fall Into Arts Festival.D. Seymour Apple Festival and Marionville Apple Festival.22. What makes Humansville Fall Festival special this year?A. Fun activities on Saturday.B. The duration of the festival.C. The area of the hosting town.D. Musicians’ live performance.23. Fall Into Arts Festival is especially welcomed by ______.A. movie loversB. modern artistsC. visitors of all agesD. families with kidsBIn a win for literary fiction amid declining sales, Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People has been named Waterstones book of the year in 2018.Rooney’s second novel, which follows two young people falling in love in Ireland, has sold 41,000 copies in hardback in the UK since it was released in August – five times the hardback sales of her 2017 debut, Conversations With Friends. At 27, Rooney is now the youngest winner of the award, which is given by the UK’s biggest bookshop chain, Watersones.Normal People received almost universal applause upon its release. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize, the book won novel of the year at the An Post Irish book awards in November of 2018 and has also been shortlisted for the Costa novel of the year, announced in January of 2019.The reader response to Normal People had been astonishing. As well as the universal praise, it has been a huge word-of-mouth (口头的) hit. There’re customers returning to buy multiple copies as gifts. Normal People strengthened Sally Rooney’s reputation as the voice of her generation and one of the most exciting novelists around today. Its success is a testament to the health of literary fiction and indicates that there is still significant appetite for excellent storytelling.The award, established in 2012, tends to go to books that are already bestsellers near Christmas. It has previously been won by the late American author John Williams’s Stoner, the cookbook Polpo by Russell Norman, and last year’s choice, Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage.James Daunt,Waterstones’ managing director, said Rooney’s win was a sign of the healthy state of literary fiction, which has seen sales decrease over the las t decade. “We are delighted to name it our book of the year,” he said.24. What do we know about the current situation of literary fiction?A. It sells well in Waterstones.B. It doesn’t enjoy popularity.C. It mainly tells love stories.D. It is a big winner in 2018.25. What can we infer about Normal People?A. I t was Britain’s most popular book in 2018.B. It won different awards in a lot of countries.C. It received praise soon after it was published.D. It made its author the voice of young people.26. The underlined word “te stament”is closest in meaning to “______”.A. examinationB. evidenceC. concernD. statement27. What is the main function of Paragraph 5?A. To attract readers’ attention.B. To introduce other prize winners.C. To serve as background information.D. To compare Sally’s novel with other books.CIn 2011, Nancy Ballard went for a routine checkup that turned into something extraordinary. In fact, she was carrying a painting of a plant she’d done when she arrived at her doctor’s San Francisco office. “It would be great if we had artwork like that for our chemotherapy (化疗) rooms,” the nurse said. Ballard asked to see one.She was shocked by what she found. The walls were dull and bare, and the paint was chipping (剥落). It was a depressing room for a depressing routine – patients restricted to chemo drips for perhaps several hours, often with nothing to look at other than those sad walls. Ballard didn’t havecancer herself, but she could sympathize wit h the patients. “I couldn’t imagine how anyone could even think about getting healthy in a room like that,” she says. As it happens, Ballard’s physician, Stephen Hufford, was ill with cancer himself, so finding time to decorate the rooms was low on his to-do list. So Ballard made it her mission to brighten up the place.She started by e-mailing 20 local designers. “I wrote, ‘You don’t know me. But my heart hurts after seeing these rooms,’” she remembers. She then asked whether they would donate the ir time and money to transform just one of Dr. Hufford’s rooms each.As it happened, six of them wrote back almost immediately. Six rooms got new paint, light fixtures, artwork, and furniture. Dr. Hufford was delighted. “All the patients feel relieved of t he pain because of it,” he said. He even noted that his own tone of voice was different in the rooms and that he was better able to connect with his patients.Ballard was so encouraged by the patients’ reactions that she created a nonprofit, Rooms That Rock 4 Chemo, to raise money and decorate more spaces. Since then, she has worked on 20 projects, including one in Pennsylvania. “We were in Philadelphia for a ribbon cutting, and a woman was there on her third battle with cancer,” says Ballard. “When she sa w what we’d done, she said, ‘I’m gonna beat it this time. I thought I wasn’t going to, but now I know I’m gonna beat it.’”28. What made Ballard decide to help decorate the chemotherapy rooms?A. Her sympathy for cancer patients.B. Her passion for room decoration.C. The good relationship with Hufford.D. The request of a nurse in San Francisco.29. What outcome does Ballard’s effort bring about?A. More hospitals will be built.B. Hufford cured more patients.C. The cancer patients were feeling better.D. Hufford’s chemotherapy rooms got good fame.30. Which words best describe Nancy Ballard?A. Loving and devoted.B. Talented and energetic.C. Rich and generous.D. Ambitious and creative.31. Which can be a suitable title for the passage?A. Design for HopeB. Battle against CancerC. Donation for PatientsD. Decoration in HospitalDPlants are boring. They just sit there photosynthesizing (光合作用) while animals have all the fun. Right? Not so much. A new study has found that there is a long history of interactions between ants and plants. The ant and plant co-evolution (协同进化) started with ants feeding on plants and plants evolving ant-friendly features.Plants make a number of different structures that are specific for ant use. Some plants have evolved features that persuade ants into defending them from attack from other insects and even mammals. These include hollow thorns that ants will live inside, or extra nectar (琼浆) on leaves or stems for the ants to eat. Some ants will just cheat and take the nectar and run, but some will stick around and attack anything that tries to hurt the plant. Other plants get ants to help them move their seeds around, by providing them with rich food packets attached to the seeds. The ant will pick up the seed and carry it away, eat the food packet, and leave the seed – often in a nutrient-rich area where it’ll grow better, and since it’s farther away from its parent, they won’t have to compete for resources.But scientists weren’t sure how the evolutionary relationship between ants and plants got started. If evolution is an arms race between species developing ways to make use of their neighbors, then scientists wanted to know whether plants or ants fired the first shot. It was a chicken-and-egg question, whether things started with ants developing behaviors to take advantage of plants, or plants evolving structures to take advantage of ants.The history of ants and plants evolving together goes back to the time of the dinosaurs, and it’s not easy to tell from fossils who fired the first shot. However, it is a question of little significance. Scientists say their study matters because it provides a look at how these widespread and complex interactions evolved.32. Some plants attach food packets to their seeds in order to ______.A. reward the antsB. make a fool of antsC. provide nutrition for the seedsD. get the seeds moved around33. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?A. How plants and ants interact.B. What ants do to protect plants.C. How plants and ants survive attacks.D. Why plants and ants need co-evolution.34. Which is true about the evolutionary relationship between ants and plants?A. Ants depended more upon plants.B. It caused a race for better evolution.C. How it got started was uncertain.D. It was of little value for future studies.35. What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?A. To introduce a science research method.B. To inform readers of a latest research finding.C. To arouse readers’ interest in science research.D. To criticize people’s traditional views about plants.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。