2020年开封高级中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案

2020年开封高级中学高三英语模拟试卷及参考答案

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）

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

I once taught in a small private school. Each morning at nine o’clock all the students, ranging in age from

three to seven years old, gathered in the Great Room for a warm-up in preparation for the day.

One morning the headmistress made an announcement to all the children gathered,“Today we begin a great

experiment of the mind.” She held up two ivy(常春藤) plants, each potted in an identical container. She continued,

“Do they look the same?”

All the children nodded. So did I, for, in this way, I was alsoa child.

“We will give the plants the same amount of light, the same amount of water, but not the same amount of

attention,” She said. “Together we are going to see what will happen when we put one plant in the kitchen away

from our attention and the other plant right here in this room. Each day for the next month, we shall sing to our

plant in the Great Room and tell it how much we love it, and how beautiful it is. We will use our good minds to

think good thoughts about it.”

Four weeks later my eyes were as wide and disbelieving as the children’s. The kitchen plant was leggy and

sick-looking, and it hadn’t grown at all. But the Great Room plant, which had been sung to and surrounded by

positive thoughts and words, had increased threefold in size with dark leaves that were filled with energy.

In order to prove the experiment, the kitchen ivy was brought to the Great Room to join the other ivy. Within

three weeks, the second plant had caught up with the first ivy. Within four weeks, they could not be distinguished,

one from the other.

I took this lesson to heart and made it my own.

1. Why did the headmistress do the experiment?

A. She wanted to teach me a lesson.

B. She expected the students to learn to grow plants.

C. She meant to prove the impact of good minds on growth.

D. She intended to show students how to save a sick-looking plant.

2. What happened to the ivy in the kitchen at last?

A. It stopped growing and died. B. It was leggy and sick with dark leaves.

C. It looked almost the same as the other one.

D. It grew better than the one in the Great Room.

3. What can be a suitable title for the passage?

A. Life Means Growth

B. Things Grow with Love

C. Equality Makes a Difference

D. Positive Thoughts Really Count

B

One weekend I went toBuffaloto talk at a writers' conference organized by a group of women writers. The

women were serious about their writing skills, and the articles they had written were solid and useful. They asked

me to take part in a radio talk show earlier in the week to publicize the conference-they would be with the host in

the studio and I would be on a telephone linking from my apartment inNew York.

The appointed evening arrived, and my phone rang, and the host came on and greeted me. He said he had

three lovely ladies in the studio with him and he was eager to find out what we all thought of the present state of

literature and what advice we had for all his listeners who were members of the literati and had literary ambitions

themselves.This hearty introduction dropped like a stone among us, and none of the three lovely ladies said

anything, which I thought was the proper response.

The silence lengthened, and finally I said, “I think we should stop mentioning the words literature and literary

and literati. We're here to talk about the skills of writing.” Iknew that the host had been given information about

what kind of writers we were and what we wanted to discuss. But he had no other preparation. "Tell me what

insights do you have about the literary experience inAmericatoday?” Silence also greeted this question.

He didn’t know what to do with that, and he began to mention the names of authors like Ernest Hemingway

and Saul Bellow and William Styron, whom we surely regarded as literary giants. We said those writers didn't

happen to be our models, and we mentioned people like Lewis Thomas and Joan Didion and Gary Wills, whom he

hadn't heard of. We explained that these were writers we admired. “But don't you want to write anything literary?”

our host said We were speechless.

It was one of the all-time upset radio talk shows.

4. What do we know about the talk show?

A. It was organized by women writers. B. It was publicized at the conference.

C. The author went toBuffaloto take part in it.

D. The author participated in it inNew York.

5. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean?

A. The introduction struck us heavily with a stone.

B. The introduction received embarrassing response.

C. The introduction increased the listeners' interest.