高考英语试题

(2017·北京高考)—________ (do) you call that company to see how they think of our product yesterday?

—Yes. They are happy with it.

(2019·北京高考)Earth Day, ________ (mark) on 22 April, is an annual event aiming to raise public awareness about environmental protection.

What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The train will arrive soon.
B. The train is late due to the storm.
C. The woman has to wait for the train.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
【1】What is the man doing?
A. Taking pictures.
B. Decorating the living room.
C. Designing something on the computer.
【2】What will the speakers do next?
A. Go to a paint store. B. Look for new jobs. C. Buy a car.

(2018·浙江高考)We have all heard how time is more valuable than money, but is it __1__ to have too much time?

      I __2__ back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also __3__ a team sport. By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it __4__.

     When I got into college, things __5__. I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time. Because of all this __6__ time, there was no sense of __7__ to do my school work immediately. I was performing this action of waiting until it later became a __8__. Once that happened, I just kept __9__ my studying further and further back in my day. Then I got to the point where I was __10__ really late at night to get my work done.

      One day I __11__ a former classmate of mine who was __12__ a lot of money running a sideline (副业). Since his regular job was __13__， I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full­time. He said without the job, he would __14__ have too much time and would just do what I did back in __15__. He said that if he  __16__ the job, he would lose his __17__ to work and succeed.

      So, try __18__ your time with other work.  This is why there is a __19__ that if you want something done, ask a __20__ person to do it.

1．A.true                              B．fair

C．strange                             D．possible

2．A.remember                          B．admit

C．understand                          D．expect

3．A.watched                           B．loved

C．coached                             D．played

4．A.at last                           B．right away

C．of course                           D．as usual

5．A.happened                          B．repeated

C．changed                             D．mattered

6．A.extra                             B．difficult

C．valuable                            D．limited

7．A.duty                              B．achievement

C．urgency                             D．direction

8．A.burden                            B．relief

C．risk                                D．habit

9．A.pushing                           B．taking

C．setting                             D．calling

10．A.hanging out                      B．staying up

C．jogging round                       D．showing off

11．A.met                              B．helped

C．treated                             D．hired

12．A.raising                          B．wasting

C．demanding                           D．making

13．A.safe                             B．important

C．boring                              D．rewarding

14．A.luckily                          B．hardly

C．hopefully                           D．simply

15．A.childhood                        B．college

C．town                                D．business

16．A.quit                             B．found

C．accepted                            D．kept

17．A.heart                            B．chance

C．drive                               D．way

18．A.saving                           B．filling up

C．giving up                           D．trading

19．A.message                          B．story

C．saying                              D．fact

20．A.careful                          B．busy

C．reliable                            D．kind

If you feel stressed by responsibilities at work, you  should  take a  step back  and identify (识别) those of  ________ (great) and less importance.

The collection, sorting and of historical materials and cultural relics of the May Fourth Movement should be strengthened, President Xi said.
A. consideration B. conservation
C. constitution D. construction

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）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；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I was immediately attract by Spanish for the first time I started learning it. It was not only because of the beauty of a language, but also because of my Spanish teacher Jose Maria. Jose was a 30-year-old Spanish with thickly beard. At first, I was always with a heavy heart when studying Spanish. I found difficult to understand what Jose was talking about in class. However, I didn’t give it up. Every day I spent many time in listening. As time goes by, I was finally able to keep pace with her. Regain confidence, I came to enjoy each Spanish classes.

A. The woman was fully absorbed in the movie.
B. The woman lost her way to the cinema that evening.
C. The woman couldn’t understand the movie very well.
D. The movie was no better than what the woman had imagined.

(2020·安徽省六校教育研究会高三第一次素质测试)—I really need to find a new job!

—________ do I. Do you see anything good listed?

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文 中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改.
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A )，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线（\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线，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；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。.
When I was in the 6th grade, my parents bought me a cell phone. I was really exciting to receive the phone. The next weekend, my family went on camping in the East Lake Park. We enjoy boating on the lake. I used our new phone to play some of my favorite song. I thought it would be brilliant idea to put my phone in a plastic bag to protecting it from water. After getting back, I took the phone in, only to find the bag full of water. I didn’t know what to save my phone and I tried laying it out to dry. Unfortunately, it started to rain. What an awfully experience!

假定你是李华，你校来自爱尔兰的外教Peter因病回国休假。请给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括:1. 询问近况；2. 分享班级最新消息；3. 表达祝愿。

注意:1. 词数80左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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What are dreams for? A handful of theories have the most influence. Sigmund Freud famously claimed that they reveal hidden truths and wishes. Despite being largely unsupported by evidence，researchers found that students in the U.S.，South Korea，and India were much more likely to accept the view. In the same study，respondents said that dreaming about a plane crash would cause them more anxiety than an official warning about a terrorist attack. More recent research suggests that they may help us process intense emotions，or perhaps sort through and strengthen memories，or rehearse responses to threatening situations.
Even if dreams can’t foretell the future，they seem to expose our shared fascinations. The majority of dreams occur during REM sleep cycles，of which the average person has four or five a night. A study of Canadian university students found the most common dream topics to be school，falling，being chased，and arriving too late for something.
For all the commonalities dreams exhibit，they vary across time people who grew up watching black-and-white TV are more likely to dream in black and white—and culture. A 1958 study determined that compared with Japanese people，Americans dreamed more about being locked up，losing a loved one，finding money. Japanese people were more likely to dream about school，trying repeatedly to do something，being paralyzed with fear，or “wild，violent beasts.”
If human dreams sound boring，bear in mind that even negative ones can have positive effects. In a study of students taking a French medical—school entrance exam，60 percent of the dreams they had beforehand involved a problem with the exam，such as being late or leaving an answer blank. But those who reported dreams about the exam，even bad ones，did better on it than those who didn’t.
【1】What do you know about Freud’s view on dreaming?
A. It will cause people more anxiety.
B. It is already been proved by evidence.
C. It is popular with some American and Asian students.
D. It can reveal the hidden truth and predict the future.
【2】According to recent research，dreams may________.
A. make emotions intense B. help prepare for special situations
C. reduce our memories D. help us take notes
【3】According to paragraphs 2 and 3，which of the following is true?
A. The average person has four or five sleep cycles a night.
B. Canadian students aren’t worried about being late for schoo1.
C. Americans usually share the same dream topics with Japanese.
D. Films about wild beasts may be widely shown in America in 1958.
【4】If you dream that you failed the exam，____________.
A. your dream will come true
B. you will be depressed with fear
C. you are supposed to take it seriously
D. it shows that you care a lot about the exam

John was so sleepy that he could hardly keep his eyes ________ (opening).

______ us prepare for the exam, the teacher suggested reading through our notes.

A. To help              B. Helped               C. Helping              D. Being helped

Could the device, smartphone or PC, which you're using affect the moral decisions you make when using it? To test it, researchers presented multiple dilemmas to a sample set of 1,010 people. The participants were assigned a device at random.

One case of the questions participants were asked is the classic “trolley (有轨电车) problem”： A runaway trolley is headed towards five people tied up on a set of train tracks. You can do nothing, resulting in the deaths of five people, or push a man off a bridge, which will stop the trolley. The practical response is to kill one man to save five lives, which 33.5 percent of smartphone users chose, compared to 22.3 percent of PC users.

“What we found in our study is that when people used a smartphone to view classic moral problems, they were more likely to make more unemotional, reasonable decisions when presented with a highly emotional dilemma，” Dr Albert Barque­Duran, the lead author of the study, told City University of London. “This could be due to the increased time pressure often  present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices compared to PCs.”

As for why the researchers started this study, Dr Barque­Duran noted, “Due to the fact that our social lives, work and even shopping take place online, it is important to think about how the contexts where we typically face moral decisions and are asked to engage in moral behavior have changed, and the impact this could have on the hundreds of millions of people who use such devices daily.” It's clear that we need more research on how our devices affect our moral decision­making because we're using screens at an ever­increasing rate.

篇章导读：本文是一篇科普说明文。你所使用的手机或电脑设备是否影响你的道德决策？为此，研究者对1,010位参与者做了研究。

1．Why did the author mention the trolley problem?

A．To introduce a difficult problem to readers.

B．To introduce the aim of carrying out the study.

C．To show an example of the questions in the study.

D．To show the difficulty in dealing with dilemmas.

2．How do the smartphone users of the study behave in dealing with emotional dilemmas?

A．Calmly.                             B．Cruelly.

C．Hesitantly.                         D．Enthusiastically.

3．Dr Albert believes that compared with PCs, smartphones ________.

A．help people bear more pressure

B．help people make decisions quicker

C．make people feel more mentally distant

D．make people stay happier to solve problems

4．What can we infer from the text?

A．Shopping online has a great effect on making moral decisions.

B．The people using smartphones are more than those using PCs.

C．People who often use smartphones or PCs always meet with dilemmas.

D．It is common for people to be involved in making moral decisions in daily life.

Across the world, studies have consistently found that girls perform significantly better than boys in reading. These studies show that girls typically read more frequently than boys, and have a more positive attitude toward reading.
There are several reasons that help explain these gender-based differences. Parents read more with their daughters. This sends a strong and early message that books are for girls, as well as equipping girls with a significant advantage. Recent research has found even though boys read less frequently than girls, girls still receive more encouragement to read from their parents.
So how can parents and educators help bridge this socially-engineered gap for boys’ reading?
To improve boys’ reading performance, parents and educators may look for ways to connect boys with reading. This has led to discussion about the importance of promoting so-called “boy-friendly” books that boys supposedly “prefer” These are typically assumed to be non-fiction works, as many people believed that boys prefer to read non-fiction.
But this belief is not supported by recent research, which in fact suggests boys are more likely to choose to read fiction than non-fiction. Encouraging all boys to read non-fiction under the mistaken belief that it is their preference may actually be harmful. Fiction readers read more frequently and demonstrate faster language learning and higher language ability.
Besides encouraging more fiction reading, there are a number of ways that we can help connect boys with books. Firstly, don’t assume that boys of the same age have the same interests or that their interests stay the same over time. To match boys with suitable reading material, have regular discussions about reading for pleasure in order to keep up with their interests.
Schools should also provide access to libraries during lessons throughout the years of schooling. Girls visit the library in their free time more than boys, and as students move to higher grades they often have less access to libraries during class. Access to books for boys is essential to promote reading.
In addition, we should keep paper books available because research shows that boys are less likely to choose to read on screens than girls. Finally we should promote reading as an enjoyable pastime by being a role model. Let your children or students see you read for pleasure.
【1】According to the author, what is the main cause of the difference in boys’ and girls’ reading ability?
A. Social factors.
B. Teaching methods.
C. Personal preferences.
D. Psychological differences.
【2】Why does the author recommend that adults regularly talk to boys about reading?
A. To persuade boys to read more often.
B. To learn what boys are most interested in.
C. To help boys improve their language ability.
D. To show that adults are good reading role models.
【3】When should schools give students additional library access according to the author?
A. Before and after class.
B. At any time of the school day.
C. At regular times during class.
D. When they are in the lower grades.
【4】What is the main purpose of the text?
A. To show students ways to improve their reading.
B. To explain why boys are not as good at reading as girls.
C. To urge governments to provide more reading resources.
D. To provide strategies that can help improve boys’ reading ability.

(2020·广东省深圳市高级中学高三上学期第一次测试)It was in a hot summer holiday ________ I visited Qingdao, a port city in Shandong Province.

Either you or one of your family members ________ (be) to attend the school sports meeting  tomorrow and cheer on your kids.

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
【1】What does the man say about the conference?
A. Not all the speakers were active B. Some of the topics were boring. C. It was well organized
【2】Why does the man think having fewer people made a big difference?
A. They had enough time for all the speakers
B. They could make decisions more rapidly
C. They could save more money
【3】What did people complain about?
A. The service of the restaurant B. The organizer of the conference. C. The location of the hotel