2019-2020学年宁波效实中学高三英语第三次联考试卷及答案

2019-2020学年宁波效实中学高三英语第三次联考试卷及答案

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

The Costa Book Awards consistently pick winners that are both of the moment and subsequently endure. It's

our pleasure to confirm this year’s Category Winners.

First Novel Award Winner

Book: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Author: Gail Honeyman

Eleanor is 31 years old; work finishes on a Friday and begins again on a Monday. Between, her only company

will be two bottles of vodka and her own solitary, unique wit (机智). It is contentment, of a kind, but an

unexpected shared experience suddenly opens the door to possibility. Challenging reader expectations with a

living, breathing character, Gail Honeyman’s debut (初次登台、开张)is a funny and moving diamond.

Biography Award Winner

Book: In the Days of Rain

Author: Rebecca Stott

The Exclusive Brethren were aclosed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan. Into this is born

Rebecca. Her father had been an influential Brethren Minister. As her father lay dying, he begged her to help him

write the memoir. He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a

fundamentalist Christian sect.

Poetry Award Winner

Book: Inside the Wave

Author: Helen Dunmore

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned

with the borderline between the living and the dead — the underworld and the human living world – and the

acutely intense being of both.

Children's Award Winner

Book:The Explorer

Author: Katherine Rundell, Hannah Horn Four children survive their aircraft plunging into the Amazon jungle, but for Fred and his friends it’s only the

beginning of a cruel battle for survival. Brimming with adventure and a real command of character and incident,

Rundell has few peers in superb children's fiction.

1.What kind of life does Eleanor lead?

A.boring and lonely. B.funny and touching.

C.exciting and complex. D.ordinary and happy.

2.Why did Rebecca Stott writeIn the Days of Rain?

A.To introduce beliefs of the Exclusive Brethren.

B.To help her father fulfill his last wish.

CTo share the life of fundamentalist Christians.

D.To pass on her family traditions.

3.For a young adventurous soul, which book seems more appealing?

A.Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine B.In the Days of Rain

C.Inside the Wave D.The Explorer

B

The Native American of northern California were highly skilled at basketry, using the reeds, graeses, barks,

and roots they found around them to fashion articles of all sorts and sizes-not only trays, containers, and cooking

pots, but hats, boats, fish traps, baby carriers, and ceremonial objects.

Of all these experts, none excelled the Pomo-a group who lived on or near the coast during the 1800's, and

whose descendants continue to live in parts of the same region to this day. They made baskets three feet in

diameter and othersno bigger than a thimble (顶针). The Pomo people were masters of decoration. Some of their

baskets were completely covered with shell pendants；others with feathers that made the baskets’ surfaces as soft

as the breasts of birds. Moreover, the Pomo people made use of more weaving techniques than did their

neighbors. Most groups made al their basketwork by twining--the twisting of a flexible horizontal material, called a

weft, around stiffer vertical strands of material, the warp. Others depended primarily on coiling-a process in which

a continuous coil of stiff material is held in the desired shape with tight wrapping of flexible strands. Only the

Pomo people used both processes with equal ease and frequency. In addition, they made use of four distinct

variations on the basic twining process, often employing more than one of them in a single article.

Although a wide variety of materials was available, the Pomo people used only a few. The warp was always

made of willow, and the most commonly used weft was sedge root, a woody fiber that could easily be separated into strands no thicker than a thread. For color1 , the Pomo people used the bark of red-bud for their twined work

and dyed bullrush root for black in coiled work. Though other materials were sometimes used, these four were the

staples in their finest basketry.

If the basketry materials used by the Pomo people were limited, the designs were amazingly varied. Every

Pomo basket maker knew how to produce from fifteen to twenty distinct patterns that could be combined in a

number of different.

4. The word “fashion” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.