2020 年山东普通高中会考英语真题
本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分 150 分。考试用时 120 分钟。
注意事项:
1.答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。
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如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时,将答案写在答题卡
上。写在本试卷上无效。
3.考试结束后,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分 50 分)
第一节(共 15 小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 37.5 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。
A
Amsterdam Destination Guide
Amsterdam is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world,famous
for its beautiful canals,top art museums and cycling culture.Here are some key
points for your trip to Amsterdam.
Must—See Attractions
Begin with the Old Centre,which is full of traditional architecture,shopping
centers,and coffee shops. Don’t miss the Dam Square and the areas around Spui
and Nieuwmarkt.You’11 also want check out Amsterdam’s Museum Quarter in the South
District,which is great for shopping at the Albert Cuyp Market and having a picnic
in the Vondelpark.The top museums to visit are the Rijksmusuem,the Ann Frank House,
and the Van Gogh Museum.
If You Have Time
The Canal Ring is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was originally built to
attract wealthy home owners and is a place for celebrity spotting and nightlife
today.The P1antage area has most of the city’s museums,including the Jewish
Historical Museum,the Scheepvaart Museum,and the botanical gardens.
Transportation
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is located about 15 kilometers southwest of city
center.You can catch a train from Schiphol to Amsterdam Central Station,which
has many connecting routes.Parking is difficult in the city center,so cycling
is incredibly popular here,and it’s easy to find cheap bike rentals around town.
Money Saving Tips
Unless you really want to see the tulips blooming , avoid booking between
mid-March and mid-May.This is when hotel and flight prices surge.
Look for accommodations in Amsterdam’s South District,where rates are generally
cheaper than in the city center.
Buy train tickets at the machine instead of the counter to save a bit of money.
1.Where can visitors have a picnic?
A.The Old Centre.
B.The Museum Quarter.
C.The Vondelpark
D.The Plantage area.
2.Why is cycling so popular in the city center?
A.It’s difficult to park cars there.
B.It has too many connecting routes.
C.It’s too far from the airport.
D.It’s very cheap to purchase a bike.
3.How can visitors save money according to the author’s advice?
A.Booking in Mid—April.
B.Buying train tickets at the counter.
C.Parking in the city center.
D.Booking hotel in the South District.
B
Five years ago,Yellow-Purple tore a flexor tendon(屈肌腱),making it difficult
to use her left leg.The little penguin was having a hard time walking and swimming.
Yellow—Purple lives with a large group of African penguins at Mystic Aquarium
in Mystic, Connecticut. African penguins are an endangered species. They are
beautiful,black and white birds that are about two feet tall when fully grown,
and they are very popular with the Aquarium’s visitors.
The staff at the Aquarium made a little support boot for Yellow—Purple from
plastic.This supported her left ankle and made it much easier for her to do all
the things that penguins like to do.Yellow—Purple was getting along fine with
her boot,but then Dr.Jen Flower,Chief Clinical Veterinarian at Mystic Aquarium,
heard about 3 D printing technology.She decided to use it to help better the boot.
Luckily,Mystic Aquarium’s Vice President of Education &Conservation,Kelly
Marls , knew that Mystic Middle School had recently acquired a 3D Systems
printer.Kelly reached out to the school and arranged a meeting.Sue Prince,Library
Media Specialist at Mystic Middle School,and seven middle school students visited
Yellow-Purple to learn what was needed,and then contacted the supplier of their
3 D printer,ACT Group.
With ACT Group’s help,the students learned how to scan Yellow—Purple’s
existing foot cast,then use that data to create a more efficient boot with sculpting
software.The final boot design was printed on a 3D printer using multiple materials,
allowing the boot to be flexible enough for comfortable movement,yet hard enough
to support the injured tendon.
The students were thrilled when they saw Yellow—Purple walking almost back
to normal.It was a great way to put science into practice.Celebrities like Ashton
Kutcher shared Yellow—Purple’s story on Facebook,inspiring more than 1.5 million
combined views.
4.What can we learn about African penguins?
A.They are very large in number.
B.They are dangerous species.
C.They are beautiful when young.
D.They are attractive to visitors.
5.Who came up with the idea of an updated support boot?
A.The ACT Group.
C.Kelly Matis.
B.Dr.Jen Flower.
D.Sue Prince
6.What preparation work was done before the students got the ACT Group’s help?
A.They reached school on time.
B. They held a meeting to discuss the
problem.
C.They paid a visit to Yellow—Purple.
D.They contacted the ACT Group for
supplies.
7.What is the best title for this text?
A.The development of 3D printing
B.A penguin benefiting from high-tech
C.An effort to put science into practice
D.A software that can design
C
We spend a third of our adult lives working and another big part preparing for
our careers . Historically , work was rarely seen as a source of meaning and
purpose.During the vast majority of our 300,000-year human evolution(进化),
work was in fact pretty simple.We worked to eat and avoid being eaten.Meaning
and purpose came from somewhere else,like spirituality,art,religion,or science.
The idea that we are meant to find meaning at work or to find work meaningful
—is a rather modern,if not postmodern,invention.Only one hundred years ago it
would have been frequent to see a worker who returned from a typical workday at
a factory complain to their folks that they didn’t earn much or they were worn
out and rare to see that they complain they didn’t experience a sense of purpose.
Similarly,the idea that we ought to bring our“whole self”to work is a pretty
novel and recent form of career advice.Its origins can be traced to William Kahn
who invented the concept of employee engagement 30 years ago.His point was that
employees differ in the degree to which they identify with their work role.Some
see work as merely a job and clock in and out every day,without bringing their
whole self to work.Work is just not a core aspect of their identity,and their
concept of themselves is built on other social categories like mother,husband,
American,Christian,captain of the local soccer team,etc.
Others,however,have very low psychological distance with their work role,
seeing it as essentially intertwined(交融的)with who they are.They don’t just
come to work,they are fully devoted to their careers and have a spiritual type
of connection with their jobs.They are,it seems,almost possessed by work and
are the type of workaholics(工作狂)most companies long for.
8.Why did we spend much of our adult lives working?
A.To prepare for future careers.
B.To find the water sources.
C.To help us evolve.
D.To make us survive.
9.Why did the writer mention the worker a century,ago?
A.To help us find meaning at work.
B.To prove that the idea was modern.
C.To show us the bad old days.
D.To complain about the experience.
10.Which of the following might William Kahn agree with?
A.Employees have different understandings about their work role.
B.Every employee must bring their whole self to work.
C.To be devoted to work is a pretty novel idea.
D.Workers’core identity is built on art categories.
11.What kind of employees do most companies favour?
A.Those who see work as a job.
B.Those who identify with their work role.
C.Those who are fully devoted to their work.
D.Those who possess experience.
D
Wearing a headset to play a virtual-reality game is fun.As you move your head
around,you can see the scene from different angles.You’re in a fake environment
that seems so real.But the power of VR may go well beyond entertainment.It just
might help people who suffer from long time of pain,a new study finds.
“If VR can reduce some types of pain,it could become a new cure with fewer
side effects than drugs,”says Sam Hughes,a psychologist at Imperial College
London.“And it would be 1ess expensive.”
Hughes’group studies bone and muscle pain.One example is sciatica.Sciatica
is a form of pain doctors call chronic pain,which is different from the hurt you
feel when you hit your knee against a table or put your hand in very hot water.It
is fairly long-1ived pain and may even spread from an initial site to other body
parts.
The researchers tested the pain-altering effect of virtual reality . Each
volunteer accepted some form of temporary pain.The pain came from a special cream
applied to the skin.The cream contained capsaicin.It’the chemical in hot peppers
that burns your mouth.
They then showed the volunteers a movie.Each volunteer would see the movie
twice—once in 3D,while wearing a VR headset,and once on a normal 2 D screen.The
researchers randomly decided for each volunteer whether they watched the 2D or 3D
version first.Using the 2D movie as the comparison allowed them to isolate the
effect of VR.Watching the movie in VR reduced the pain in the skin area better
than did viewing the movie in 2D.VR helped them tolerate more pain in the area
of the creamed skin.However,that pain reduction ended a few minutes after removing
the VR headsets.The researchers wondered how well VR might reduce other types of
pain.
12.What’s one of the advantages of VR to reduce pain?
A.It’s much safer.
B.It’s more convenient.
C.It’s much faster.
D.It’s more efficient.
13.What does the underlined word chronic mean in Paragraph 3?
A.sudden
B.1ong-term
C.1ight
D.sharp
14.Why was the special cream used in the experiment?
A.To find chemicals in hot peppers.
B.To bring comfort to volunteers.
C.To burns the volunteers’mouth.
D.To cause some temporary pain.
15.How was the test carried out?
A.By giving numbers.
B.By using examples.
C.By making a comparison.
D.By presenting research findings.
第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 12.5 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。
Life in Death Valley
Death Valley is a huge place,extending more than 225 kilometers across the
southern part of California into the neighboring state of Nevada.As beautiful as
this place is,its name provides evidence of very real danger.
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It has nearly 1.4 million hectares of desert and mountains that reach more
than 3,000 meters into the sky.Death Valley can be dangerously cold during the
winter months.Storms in the mountains can cause sudden floods on the floor of the
valley.But,during summer months,the air temperature has been as high as 57 degrees
Celsius.17
The extreme heat of Death Valley has once killed people.
In many areas of Death Valley,it is easy to see where the ground has been pushed
up violently by movement deep in the Earth.This has created unusual and beautiful
rock formations,with colors of red,brown,gray,yellow and black.In other parts
of Death Valley,there are lines in the rock. The lines are evidence of the past
presence of water.18 .
Much of Death Valley is flat and extremely dry.In some areas the ground is
nothing but salt.However,it would be wrong to think that nothing lives in Death
Valley. 19
Wildflowers grow very quickly after even a small amount of rain.Several
kinds of birds live in Death Valley.Visitors might see the dog-1ike animal called
the coyote,or wild bighorn sheep,or other animals like the desert tortoise.
Throughout history,Native Americans found ways to survive in Death Valley.Rock
art and other remains show that humans lived in the valley as far back as 9,000
years ago.Nowadays,more than one million people visit it each year. 20
The sun
slowly turns the valley a gold color that deepens to a soft brown,then changes
to a dark red.As night comes,the mountains turn a dark purple color,then black.
A.The valley is full of life.
B.The setting sun is visitors’favorite.
C.Images here seem to change each minute.
D.Death Valley,is a place of strange and silent beauty.
E.Death Valley doesn’t forgive those who are not careful.
F.Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes.
G.The area was deep under an ocean for many thousands of years.
第二部分 语言运用(共两节,满分 30 分)
第一节(共 15 小题,每小题 1 分,满分 15 分)
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。
We walked slowly through the wet grass , our eyes searching for the
enemy.Suddenly, machine-gun fire broke the quiet.We hit the ground, 21
from
the shots by a low stone wall.As I ordered two soldiers to help me locate and
22
the machine gun.I heard
23 —and then I was on my back.
“Lieutenant(中尉)!Lieutenant! You’ve been hit!”one soldier cried.Two medics
rushed me to an aid
24 .A doctor slapped a bandage on my bloody knee;then the
medics drove me to a
25
field hospital.They carried me into a tent where dozens
of
26
soldiers were lined up on the ground.I watched the nurses working
27
things went black.When I woke up.I was lying on a bed wearing nothing but a blanket.
“Wake up,Lieutenant!”a nurse shouted.“You’ve got to get on a plane—you’
re
28 to a hospital in England!”I
29 .All my worldly possessions lay in a
mountainous heap of
equipment.I could replace everything
30
the photo of my
new bride,Ellen,which I always
carried with me.
“I’m not going until I get my wife’s picture.”I said.“It’s in the gas
mask cover you 31
from me.”I knew the nurse could make me go, 32
instead she
said,“OK,I’11 see if I can find it.”then ran out to search through the
33 .Time
stood still until finally she came running
34
back.“I’ve got it!”she shouted,
waving the picture in her upraised hand.
That photograph
35
me through tough times.Now—69 years later—it sits on
my bedside table.
21.A.escaped
B.sheltered
C.removed
D.prevented
22.A.knock out
B.search for
C.stay away
D . run
towards
23.A.a thunder
B.a scream
C.a crash
D.an explosion
24.A.school
B.station
25.A.ruined
B.famous
26.A.wounded
B.brave
C.program
C.nearby
C.dead
27.A.because
B.though
C.after
D.advisor
D.advanced
D.cured
D.before
28.A.driving
B.connecting
C.flying
D.engaging
29.A.hesitated
B.opposed
C.panicked
D.whispered
30.A.with
B.by
C.for
D.except
31.A.took away
B.carried out
C.cleared up
D.kept back
32.A.so
B.and
C.or
D.but
33.A.tents
B.hills
C.piles
D.beds
34.A.breathlessly
B.disappointedly
C.nervously
D.mysteriously
35.A.benefited
B.comforted
C.reminded
D.challenged
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。
“There’s no place like home.”This English saying has much truth in it:
the best place
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(surround)by our loved ones and with a roof over our head.And
for many young adults,it’s the only affordable place to stay:somewhere where
they can receive first—class service
37 mum and dad.But this comes at a price!
In some countries . it ’ s quite traditional for people in their late
38
(teen)and early 20s to live at home with their parents,but in other places,flying
the nest to start their own
39 (depend)life is very desirable.Without complaining,
you can come and go 40
you wish.But there’s been a growing trend,in the UK at
least,for young people to return home to live-or not to leave home at a11.According
to a survey,about a quarter of young adults 41
(age)20-34 live at home,and that
figure has been growing.
Many returning adult children enjoy home comforts.These include cooked meals,
a full fridge and cleaning,as well as their bills being covered by what is 42
(common)called“the hotel of mum and dad”.But for the“hoteliers”,mum and dad,
the survey found the average cost to them has gone up sharply,and that they are
sacrificing luxuries and holidays 43
(look)after their“big kids”.
With parents spending around£1,886 on takeaway food,44
(buy)new furniture
and upgrading their Wi-Fi for the benefit of their children,it’s easy for the
returning children to put their feet up and make themselves at home.That’s before
they learn 45 home truth—that one day it might be their own kids who’11 be checking
into the hotel of mum and dad!
第三部分 写作(共两节,满分 40 分)
第一节(满分 15 分)
假如你是李华,你的美国朋友 George 在纽约所住的小区中有多人感染新冠病毒而发
病。请你给他写一封邮件安慰他并告知注意事项。
注意:1.词数 80 左右:
2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3.参考词汇:新冠病毒 novel coronavirus。
第二节(满分 25 分)
阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文,
续写的词数应为 150 左右。
It was Gross’s idea to go into Torngat Mountains National Park in Canada’
s Arctic.Only a few hundred people went to the park each year,and Gross wanted
to be part of that club.Chase did,too,but she worried about hiking in polar bear
country.