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2020
届高三上学期英语期末考试试卷
一、阅读理解
1.
阅读理解
Good
education
is
expensive.
Some
countriestoday
have
proven
that
belief
to
be
wrong,
though.
If
you’re
dreaming
of
havingyour
university
education in a
country outside your motherland, do not beafraid
to apply to
study in the below-listed
countries, as every thing aboutyour education can
be
achieved with little or nothing.
Germany
All
the
public
universities
in
German
donot
ask
for
any
education
fees
except
administration
fees
which
are
quiteaffordable,
no
matter
what
your
status.
The
English
language
is
common
inGermany
and
most
of
these
universities
teach
with
English
so
it
will
be
easierto
get
along
as
an
international student.
Norway
Wikipedia. org
Want to achieve your post-graduate
degreesEven if you aim to achieve an
undergraduate, Norway in a good option
becauseyou will not have to send a
penny to anyone. This is possible
because of thegovernment’s financing of
the
education
from
tax
income.
The
only
problem
isthat
most
of
the
top
universities in the country
teach with their mother tongueand as a foreigner,
you have to familiarize with the
language enough to pass arequited test.
Turkey
Turkey discoverthepotential. com
Public
universities,
called
‘DevletUniversiteleri’
in
Turkish
are
totally
free of tuition
costs, After payment ofan affordable basic fee,
the rest is free
absolutely. Some of
theseinstitutions each in English while some in
French and
German.
Italy
Italy
offers
almost
free
education
tointernational
students.
When
you
have
to
pay
as
little
as
￡
850
per
year
for
quality
education,then
it
is
quite
cheap.
Besides,
Italy
has
so
much
cultural
heritage
andhistory
that
students
can
learn about.
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1
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Which website can you visit if you tend
to apply for a country free of
charge?
A
.
.
Wikipedia.
orgC
.
.
Turkey
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2
）
Which country
could be suitable for a Chine student skilled in
French?
A . GermanyB . Norway,C .
Turkey.D . Italy.
（
3
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whom is the passage intended for?
A .
International
students
on
tight
budget.B .
Teachers
encouraged
to
study
abroad.C .
Panels
with
adequate
education
funds.D .
Native
students
with good performance.
2.
阅读理解
As a volunteerteacher, I moved into an
apartment with eagerness. Sorting
all
the
necessarypaperwork
out,
I
got
ready
to
start
my
work.
Great,
or
so
I
thought. At 4 at several intervals
after that, I was rudely awaken by the
cock that livesopposite me. Fantastic!
I now have 5 extra alarms every morning.
In the followingweeks, I
also started to notice a trend. Things in my flat
started to break atthe rate of one
object per day, like the hot water line, bowls,
cups, shower,doors or glass shelves.
Yes, I am clumsy but things just fell apart.
If
it
wasn’tbroken,
it
would
either
be
dirty
or
missing.
Using
my
washing
basket
for thefirst time was pretty disgusting. When I
took out my clothes, they
were
swiftlyfollowed by a hundred or so bugs that were
living in the bottom.
As
for thegeneral Lack of equipment in the hose,
there was no oven. tin
opener, or
sharpknives. It turns out making a vegetarian
burger from scratch
wasn’t the
bestidea. I had a small microwave and a grill. I
thought the general
understandingwas
never
to
put
metal
in a microwave but
I
went
on.
Smoke
soon started toappear. I’m not
qui
te sure if it was the burger or the
grill but as
soon
as
Iopened
the
door,
the
electricity
cut
out,
I
spent
the
fallowing
10
minutes
in
adark,
smoky
room
hunting
for
the
power
switch
using
the
light
from
my
mobilephone,
which
broke
the
week
after
and
left
me
without
a
connection to the outerworld.
Luckily, I’m nowborrowing a
phone and my luck has returned. No more
things
have
broken.
I
am
learning
how
to
adaptto
life
with
limited,
broken
utensils .
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1
）
How
did the author feel about her new life upon her
arrival?
A . She was nervous to kick
off the new job.B . She was annoyed with the
rude students.C . She
was
full of
enthusiasm
about her
new
life.D .
She
was
satisfied with five
alarm clocks in her room.
（
2
）
What was the trend in the
following weeks?
A . Her flat became
dirtier.B . she developed disability.C . Things
began to
go wrong.D . More clothes
needed mending.
（
3
）
What happened when the author was
making a burger?
A .
She
suffered
a
big
fire.B .
She
made
a
terrible
mistake.C .
She
was
seriously injured.D .
She broke her phone accidentally.
（
4
）
What can be
inferred about the author from the end of the
passage?
A . She will go on living
here.B . She will resign from her job.C . she will
more into a new flat.D . She will buy
new daily necessities.
3.
阅读理解
The Wall StreetJournal recently
published an excellent article penned by
Wendy Bounds on a hottopic here at MNN:
the air-purifying qualities of the
common house plant. Giventhat the air
inside your home can be 2 to 5 times
more polluted than the airoutside of
it, making it clean with plants like peace
lily
and
asparagus fern
is an
economicalartistically pleasing alternative to air
purifiers.
So
it’s
been
acknowledgedthat
a
bunch
of
pretty
putted
houseplants can help
you maintain a healthierhome, but a smarter home?
That’s thequestion in light
of a recent study published by the Journal of
EnvironmentalPsychology
showing
that
the
presence
of
plants
in
a
room,
particularly
in
anoffice
environment,
can
shrink
attention
span .
Struggling
directive
attention
can
be
refreshed
through
exposure
ho
to
naturalisticenvironments.
Basically,
taking
a
walk
through
the
park
can
clear
one’s
can
a
head
be
refreshed
simply
by
being
surrounded
by
houseplants?
T
o
test
theirtheory,
the
study’s
authors
rounded
up
a
bunch
of
participants, put some ofthem in a mom
with no plants and put others in a
room
with our plants placedaround a desk, and put them
all to the same series
of
tests.
First
was
aRearing
Span
Teat
which
involves
reading
a
series
of
sentences
aloud
andremembering
the
Last
word
in
each
sentence.
This
task
requires
that
youfluently
switch
between
attention
demanding
tasks:
from
rending and
memorizingat one moment to writing and recalling
at the next.
Next came a
proofreadingtask fallowed by another Reading Span
Test.
The
results?Participants
working
in
the
room
with
the
plants
improved
their
performancefrom the first Reading Span Test to the
second while those
working in the
roomlacking in greenery did not. Consequently, the
benefits of
working among plantsis
indeed evident.
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1
）
What do we know from the first
paragraph?
A . Staying indoors can help
avoid the poorer air outdoors.B . Houseplants
can
Function
as
beautiful
cheap
air
purifiers.C .
Planting
polled
flowers
as
decorations is very interesting.D . Air
purifiers are the most effective to create a
healthy home.
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2
）
What
does the underlined part in paragraph 2 probably
refer to?
A . Focus one’s attention.B .
Disturb one’s attention.C . weaken one’s
attent
ion.D . Turn one’s
attention away.
（
3
）
What does the test prove?
A . Working in nature helps increase
productivity.B . Houseplants will be in
great demand in our life.C . Greenery
creates healthier naturalistic atmosphere
indoors.D . Working among houseplants
improves mental functioning.
（
4
）
What can be a suitable
title for the text?
A
.
Flowers:
Grand
Feast
to
EyesB
.
Greenery:
Effective
Air-purifierC
.
Houseplants: Visual Brain
FoodD . Potted Plants: Great! House-beautifier
4.
阅读理解
Have you everexperienced
such an annoying thing as it took so long to
open
a
web
page?You’re
watching
stops
every
few
minutes,
which
ruined
your
internet
it
could
be
a
thing
of
the
past.
On
June
3,
the
Ministry
of Industry and InformationTechnology announced
that China would
issue licenses for the
commercializationof 5G. It means major telecom
carriers
will start to provide 5G
services.
The
“G”in
“5G”
refers
to
the
generation
of
mobile
network
technologies. 1Glet us talk to each
other, 2G let us send messages, 3G gave us
mobile data andthe internet, and 4G
made all of these things faster.
Now
5G
promisesmuch
faster
data
download
and
upload
speeds,
and
more
stable
connections.
Thismeans
that
you
will
be
able
to
download
an
entire HD movie in seconds and
onlyexperience a short delay between sending