2020届上海市东高级中学高三英语期末考试试卷及参考答案

1、2020 届上海市东高级中学高三英语期末考试试卷及参考答案第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分 第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 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A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项AOvernight French ToastWhat Youll Need16-ounce loaf of French bread5 eggs1 1 /2 cups milk1/2 cup half-and-half1/3 cup maple syrup（枫糖浆）1/2 teaspoon s

2、altfoil（锡箔纸）2 tablespoons melted butter（for topping）2 tablespoons maple syrup（for topping） What to DoWith an adults help, cut the bread into 1-inch slices.Place the eggs, milk, half -and-half, maple syrup, and salt into a large bowl. Stir（揽拌）the mixture until blended（混合均匀Place the sliced bread into

3、a baking dish. Pour the mixtureover the bread and press the slices into it. Cover the dish with foil and refrigerate overnight.Remove the dish from the refrigerator at least one hour before baking. Ask an adult for help to preheat the oven to 375F. Bake the French toast for 35 minutes or until golde

4、n brown.For the topping, combine the melted butter and 2 tablespoons of maple syrup. Pour it over the French toast before serving.How much salt will you need to make a French toast?A.1/3 cup.B.1/2 teaspoon.C.2 tablespoons.D.16 ounces. 2.How will you use foil?A.Place the sliced breadB.Cover the dish.

5、C.Remove the dish.D.Eat the French toast. 3.Who is the passage written for?A.Teachers.B.Parents.C.Cooks.D.Kids.BTwenty years ago, I became involved in pet therapy( 疗 法 ) work with our Angel. As she matured and went through professional training, we realized that she would be good at this new job.Ang

6、el is ten now and works every week. She visits two hospitals providing day care for the elderly, and our librarys PAWS forReadingprogram. At the library, six to ten dogs lie on the floor, and the kids pick a book to read to a dog. After they finish, they get a card with the dogs picture and history.

7、 Angel also helps out at a special-needs camp. She is so popular that everywhere we go people recognize her, especially the kids she has worked with.We have seen some very special things through our pet therapy work. I brought Angel to our local hospital to visit a woman who was completely unable to

8、 move the right side of her body from a stroke( 中 风 ). One day, my husband, Jack, got Angel up into a chair next to the womans bed, asking her if she wanted to give Angel a treat.She nodded. Angel gently took the treat. Then the woman raised her right hand and started petting Angel. Her friend could

9、nt believe her eyes.After that, every time we saw the woman, she lifted her left hand. Wed tell her she had to use her right hand, and she would. Next, youll fall in love with this womans story of rearing her own Angel later in her family andwhy she calls it the best decision she ever made.Who is An

10、gel?A pet trainer.B. A hospitalC. A therapy dog.D. The authors kid.What does Angel usually do?Save seriously ill people.Pay visits to kids in hospital.Protect the elderly in their homes.Help children at a special camp.Why was the womans friend astonished? A The woman moved her right hand.The woman t

11、reated Angel.Angel helped the woman recover.Angel got along with the woman.What does the underlined word “rearing” in the last paragraph mean?Accompanying.B. Raising.C. Assisting.D. Training.CFor years, life went something like this: Wed grow up in one place, head off to college, and then find a cit

12、y to get a job and live there for a few years. The final goal was to find somewhere to settle down, buy a house, start a family, and begin the whole cycle all over again. But now some people are increasingly choosing to move from city to city throughout their entire lives, sometimes as frequently as

13、 every month.Just ask Alex Chatzieleftheriou, who has had a seat watching this evolution unfold. Six years ago, he launched a startup called Blueground that rents out beautifully designed, fully furnished apartments for a month at a time, at rates that are cheaper than hotels. And it aims to make ea

14、ch one feel unique and comfortable,rather than standardized, like what you might find in a traditional hotel.Today, the company has 3,000 properties(房地产) in six U.S. cities, along with Dubai, Istanbul, London, Paris,and Chatzieleftherious native Athens, and a staff of 400. With the helpof the Series

15、 B round of funding, the company landed $ 50 million, plus its previous total of $ 28 million, to continue its rapid expansion. It hopes to have 50,000 properties in 50 cities over the next three years.Chatzieleftheriou first came up with the idea for Blueground while he was working as a management

16、consultant for McKinsey. “The accommodation of choice for consultants is the hotel,” he says. “I had to spend five years in hotel rooms, living in 12 different cities. I loved seeing the world, but I didnt love feeling like I didnt have a home.” And whats more, hotels arent a particularly cost-effec

17、tive solution for companies either. In Chatzieleftherious case, McKinsey sometimes paid $ 10,000 or more for him to stay in a major city for a month.What does the author intend to tell in the first paragraph?A new lifestyle is appearing.Life is just like a circle for people.Most people are used to a

18、n easy life.People live in different places in life.What is the goal of Blueground?To compete with hotels.To create standardized hotels.To make renters feel at home.To rent out apartments.What do we know about Blueground?It got a total investment of $ 78 million.Its business is anything but satisfyi

19、ng.It expanded to every corner of the world.It has 50,000 properties in 50 cities.What does the last paragraph focus on?High costs of hotels.Chatzieleftherious former work. C Strengths of Blueground.D. The inspiration for Blueground.DThis year researchers expect the world to snap 1.35 trillion photo

20、graphs, or about 3.7 billion per day. All those pixels ( 像 ) take up a lot of room if they are stored on personal computers or s phones, which is one reason why many people store their images in the cloud. But unlike a hard on drive which can be encrypted to protect its data, cloud storage users hav

21、e to trust that a tech platform will keep their private pictures safe. Now a team of Columbia University computer scientists has developed a tool to encrypt (加密) images stored on many popular cloud services while allowing authorized users to browse and display their photographs as usual.Malicious ()

22、 attempts to access or leak cloudbased photographs can expose personal information. In November 2019, for example, a bug in the popular photograph storage app Google Photos mistakenly shared some users private videos with strangers. Security experts also worry about employees at cloud storage compan

23、ies on purpose accessing users images.So the Columbia researchers came up with a system called Easy Secure Photos (ESP), which they presented at a recent conference. “We wanted to see if we could make it possible to encrypt data while using existing services,” says computer scientist Jason Nieh, one

24、 of the developers of “Everyone wants to stay with Google Photos and not have to register on a new cloud storage service.”To overcome this problem, they created a tool that preserves blocks of pixels but moves them around to effectively hide the photograph. First, ESPs algorithm ( 算法) divides a phot

25、ograph into three separate files, eachone containing the images red, green or blue color1 data. Then the system hides the pixel blocks around among these three files (allowing a block from the red file, for instance, to hide out in the green or blue ones). But the program does nothing within the pix

26、el blocks, where all the image processing happens. As a result, the files remain unchanged images but end up looking like grainy black-and-white ones to anyone who accesses them without the decryption) key.Whats probably the main purpose for people to store images in the cloud?A. To save storage roo

27、m.B. To make photos beautiful.C. To try a new storage way.D. To keep their privacy safe.Why might employees in cloud storage companies be distrusted by experts?They sell users passwords.They have invented new tools.They often let out personal information.They may steal a glance at users images.Whats

28、 the advantage of ESP?It can provide clear images.It can decrease the upload time.It can classify images automatically.It can encrypt data on the original platform.What does paragraph 4 mainly talk about?A. Method of decryption.B. Image-processing technique.C. Separate files of images.D. Data analys

29、isof color1 s.第二节（共 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 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Time and money are lifes most valuable resources. One of the great laws of economics is that time equals money. The phrase time is money is usually credited to Benjamin Franklin, who used it in an essay(Advice to

30、 a Young Tradesman, 1748). 16 He encouraged people to treat time like money. However, most people think about time and money in different ways. 17Poor or rich, we all have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Thus, No one can get more time than others.In world of scarcity, we should make the best use of t

31、ime.Time cannot be stored. One of the reasons we give little thought about how we use our limited resources isthat we cannot save time.18You cant bottle time and exchange it for an object or event. However, when people are made aware of their limited life, they wonder if they did make the most of th

32、eir life.19 In a word, time is anything but free. As a nonrenewable resource, time is quite expensive. 20 Do we want to spend these precious moments on social media or spend that time learning something new? Skills and knowledge take time. The more time you spend on them, the more you improve.Howeve

33、r, it cannot be bought at any price.It means time is a valuable resource.Time is our most limited resource.Time moves no whether we choose to spend it or not.They will try their best to do what they want.How we are using our time is really a question.Actually, time and money are greatly different fr

34、om each other.第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30）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It was a few days before Christmas many years ago. It looked like it would be a(n) 21 one for my family.The factory where I was working had laid off( ) many of us workers, so we didnt have much 22

35、 . My wife and I had saved to buy our young children some toys, 23 an unexpected car repair had taken most of our cash. We decided that we could only 24 to get one small gift for each of our children.We arrived at the25, walked down the parking lot and saw people putting gifts into their26. We searc

36、hed all through the store27to find one thing each of our small children would like.28, we wereabletogetoneforeachofthem.We29the checkout (结账台),boughtthetoyswere30that we even had a few dollars31finning. As we walked out of the store into the winter32, I stopped and dropped those33into the charity bo

37、x. I didnt have a dime ( 一角硬) left but that didnt34 . Suddenly, it felt likeChristmas.I think the35actress Dale Evans36it best when she said: “Christmas, my child, is love in37.” It doesnt have to be a gift of money, either. When we38our smile, its Christmas. When we giveothersour39andcompassion( 同情

38、),itsChristmas.Whenwedoanythingatanytime to40another, its Christmas. May you do all you can to make it Christmas every day of the year and every day of your life here.A. color1 fulB. poorC. earlyD. excitingA. timeB. energyC. noiseD. moneyA. butB. orC. soD. ifA. refuseB. rememberC. affordD. hesitateA

39、. storeB. stationC. gymD. hospitalA. officesB. bedroomsC. carsD. housesA. forgettingB. agreeingC. pretendingD. hopingA. ImmediatelyB. ThankfullyC. SadlyD. StrangelyA. headed forB. gave upC. turned offD. kept offA. discouragedB. worriedC. puzzledD. surprisedA. watched overB. looked overC. left overD.

40、 taken overA. airB. forestC. caveD. seasonA. giftsB. booksC. dollarsD. fruitsA. workB. bendC. stopD. matterA. luckyB. wonderfulC. foolishD. proudA. putB. brokeC. threwD. cleanedA. forceB. controlC. actionD. silenceA. hideB. shareC. changeD. supportA. truthB. powerC. kindnessD. healthA. chooseB. hold

41、C. enjoyD. help第二节（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Scientists have exposed that around two -fifths of the worlds plants are at risk of extinction. A top botanist, Professor Alexandre Antonelli, said, “We are living in 41. age of extinction.”Its a very 42. (worry) pictu

42、re of risk and urgent need for action. Were losing the race against time as species are disappearing faster 43. we can find and name them. Many of them could hold important clues for solving some of the most pressing 44. (challenge) of medicine and even perhaps of the emerging and current pandemics

43、we are seeing today.”There 45. (be) positive signs in the past few years. More than 4, 000 species of plants and fungi(菌)46.(discover) in 2019, among which are potential future foods that could be a lifeline to millions of people on Earth suffering from 47. (poor) and food insecurity. ProfessorAnton

44、ellistressed48.(firm) the importance of protecting these and all plant life on Earth. He said, “We would not be able49.(survive) without plants and fungi all life depends on them. Every time we lose a species, we lose an opportunity50.humankind.” Leading scientists will demand that theworldleaders act against biodiversity loss.第四部分 写作（共两节，满分 40第一节短文改错（满分 10 分）请修改下面的短文。短文中共有 10 删除或修改。()，并在其下面写出该加的词()划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，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；只允许修改 10 处，多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。Good morning, everyone. Yesterday I received a letter from a elderly gentleman. He told me the other