陕西省、西安三中等五校2019-2020学年高三上学期第一次联考英语试卷

What is the man going to do first?

A.Feed the dog. B.Walk the dog. C.Clean the dog house.

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What is the woman related to Mr. Collins?

A.His secretary. B.His client. C.His manager.

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What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A.A public service. B.A restaurant. C.The man’s friend.

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When will the man see Dr. Owen?

A.On Tuesday morning. B.On Wednesday afternoon. C.On Friday morning.

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Where does the conversation take place?

A.In a bakery. B.In a rose garden. C.In a clothes store.

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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What does the woman think of the yellow earrings?

A.Too big. B.Expensive. C.Perfect.

2.What will the man buy for the woman?

A.The red earrings. B.The blue necklace. C.The yellow necklace.

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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What happened to the woman?

A.She lost the cleaner. B.She damaged the fridge. C.She couldn’t get on the Internet.

2.What did the robot do for the woman?

A.It repaired the computer.

B.It cleaned the outside windows.

C.It picked up the dirt in the room.

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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.Why does the man call the woman?

A.To get some directions to her office.

B.To confirm the meeting place.

C.To ask her to pick him up.

2.How much does it cost the man by taxi?

A.About $5. B.About $20. C.About $30.

3.What time will the speakers have a meeting?

A.At 2:30. B.At 3:00. C.At 3:30.

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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.When will the man meet Tanya Dolan?

A.On Monday. B.On Tuesday. C.On Wednesday.

2.Why is the man going to Paris?

A.To conduct business. B.To meet his manager. C.To take a vacation.

3.How will the man go to Paris?

A.By train. B.By car. C.By air.

4.What do we know about the man’s flight back to LA?

A.It is a non-stop flight.

B.It will be by way of Paris.

C.It has a stopover during the journey.

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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What did the man study in university?

A.Law. B.Medicine. C.Economics.

2.What fruit has something in common with cocoa beans?

A.Apples. B.Bananas. C.Grapes.

3.What is the most difficult part of making chocolate?

A.Melting it correctly. B.Cooling it in time. C.Testing it regularly.

4.What is the speaker’s key to success?

A.Growing high-quality cocoa beans.

B.Keeping a diary of his experiments.

C.Trying to test various chocolate.

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Each applicant to Harvard College is considered with great care. We consider each applicant to Harvard College as a whole person, and put enormous care into evaluating every application. We hope you will explore the information in this section to understand what we look for in our admissions process.

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When to Apply

What We Look For

We seek promising students who will contribute to the Harvard community during their college years, and to society throughout their lives.

While academic accomplishment is the basic requirement, the Admission Committee considers many other factors—strong personal qualities, special talents or excellences of all kinds, perspectives formed by unusual personal circumstances, and the ability to take advantage of available resources and opportunities.

We outline everything you need to apply to Harvard.

Click https: //college. harvard. edu/admissions/apply to get detailed requirements.

1.Where can you find step-by-step information of how to apply?

A. Common Application. B. Coalition Application.

C. Universal College Application. D. Application Tips.

2.Which is the final day for Financial Aid Application?

A. November 1. B. January 1.

C. March 1. D. May 1.

3.What is the basic requirement to apply for Harvard University?

A. Academic accomplishment. B. Strong personal qualities.

C. Special talents. D. Unique perspectives.

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Literature is an important part of a total language arts program at all grade levels because of the many benefits it offers.

Literature provides pleasure to listeners and readers.It is a relaxing escape from daily problems,and it fills leisure moments.Making time for recreational reading and using high-quality literature help to develop enthusiastic readers and improve achievement.Developing a love of literature as a recreational activity is possibly the most important outcome of a literature program.

Literature builds experience.Through reading,children expand their horizons through vicarious(引起共鸣的)experiences.They visit new places,gain new experiences,and meet new people.They learn about the past as well as the present and learn about a variety of cultures,including their own.They discover the common goals and similar emotions found in people of all times and places. Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly,Giff,a hard survival story,is set in Ireland during the potato hunger of I845,and Patricia Polacco's The Butterfly ,deals with Nazis,resistance,and Jewish persecution(迫害)during World War II.

Literature provides a language model for those who hear and read it.Good literature exposes children to correct sentence patterns,standard story structures,and varied word usage.Children for whom English is a second language can improve their English with the interesting context,and all children benefit from new vocabulary that is woven into the stories.

Literature develops thinking skills.Discussions of literature bring out reasoning related to sequence;cause and effect; character motivation; predictions;visualization of actions, characters, and settings; critical analysis of the story;and creative responses.

Literature helps children deal with their problems.By finding out about the problems of others through books, children receive insights into dealing with their own problems,a process called bibliotherapy. Children might identify with Gilly,living angrily in a foster home in Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins,or with Mary Alice,a city girl forced to live with her grandma in a“hick town"in Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder.

1.What is likely to be the most significant consequence of a literature program?

A.The habit of reading for pleasure. B.The lessons learned from works.

C.The achievements of language skills. D.The ways of thinking developed by reading.

2.Why are Nory Ryan's Song and The Butterfly mentioned in paragraph 3?

A.To introduce two great masterpieces..

B.To expand children's horizons in literature.

C.To prove literature includes a variety of cultures.

D.To give examples of books that provide such experiences.

3.From the last paragraph we know that literature can be___

A.educational B.practical

C.changeable D.reliable

4.What could be the best title of the text?

A.Power of Books B.Ways of Reading

C.Source of Human Progress D.Benefits of Literature

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There are billions of people on this planet, and many of us love to eat meat. Can the demand be filled in a sustainable(可持续的) and affordable way? A bunch of businessmen are not only optimistic but are working to make this happen sooner than you may think.

The environmental effects caused by meat consumption (食用)—waste, animal treatment, health problems and even the greenhouse gas effects that are potentially caused by methane gas produced by cows—have given rise to a number of startups(新兴公司)looking to develop meats in different ways.

For example, San Francisco-based Memphis Meats is developing cell-based meats in its labs without requiring any animals. Israel’s Future Meat Technologies is doing the same by producing fat and muscle cells that are being tested by chefs in Jerusalem. All of these companies use special processes to harvest cells from animals and grow them in a lab.

But don’t worry if you’re not a meat lover. Startups such as Jet Eat, which is also based in Israel, are working on food products grown in labs that are plant-based and replicate (复制) meats using natural elements while still keeping flavor, consistency and the “overall sensory experience”, according to a report on NoCamels. Jet Eat, which was founded in early 2018, aims to 3D-print their lab-grown products by 2020.

As you can imagine, there are plenty of barriers facing the industry. Educating the public is a big one. Another controversial issue is the labeling of the products.　 Recently both the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) announced that they will begin jointly controlling the new “cell-based meat” category.

Many of us have concerns about the challenges facing future generations as our global population increases and the earth’s natural resources decreases. The good news is that there are plenty of businessmen around the world—like those producing lab-grown meats—who are working to solve some of these problems and make a little money in the process. Nothing wrong with that.

1.Why do some companies begin to develop new kinds of meats?

A.To analyse the causes of air pollution.

B.To stress the importance of protecting wild animals.

C.To make people less interested in eating meat and more healthy.

D.To meet people’s demand for meat in environmentally friendly ways.

2.What’s special about the lab-grown meats of Jet Eat?

A.They cost less. B.They are plant-based.

C.They are more delicious. D.They are available on the market now.

3.Which of the following is a barrier lab-grown meat industries must deal with?

A.How to let people accept the meat. B.How to give the meat an elegant name.

C.How to produce the meat in large amounts. D.How to reduce the cost of making the meat.

4.What’s the author’s attitude towards lab-grown meats?

A.Supportive. B.Opposing. C.Ambiguous. D.Cautious.

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Jim McGee was once an Air Force pilot in Vietnam. In 2017, he was seriously ill because his kidneys(肾)were gone.

Jim immediately started dialysis(透析)，but a person of his age on dialysis usually lives only about four years. Transplants are a long-shot alternative. The National Kidney Foundation estimates that 13 people die every day while waiting for a donor with the right blood and tissue types. Jim’s wife, Shirley McGee, and some family friends offered but weren’t a match.

Desperate, Shirley had T-shirts made that said “I’m in need of a donor.” Her husband would wear one whenever he went to downtown Sarasota. No luck.

In early 2018, Jim didn’t feel like attending a reunion of some Air Force buddies in Monterey, California. "I said, ‘Is it really worth going to Monterey to sit in dialysis for two days?’”Jim recalls. "And my wife said, ‘ Yeah，come on. You really want to see your friends.’And I am glad I made that decision.”

In California, Jim reunited with six fellow airmen, including one he hadn’t seen in nearly 50 years: Doug Coffman. The two had met when they both were learning Vietnamese before they went overseas. Jim told Doug and his other comrades about his predicament(困境).

Doug, then 70, happened to have the right blood type and immediately decided to help. But could he? Shirley’s guess was that doctors would tell Doug what they had told her: You’re too old. He immediately had his doctor send his medical records to Georgetown Medical Center, where Jim was being treated.

Within a month, Doug was cleared for major testing. The testing revealed not only that Doug’s tissue type matched Jim’s but also that he had the kidneys of a 35-year-old. When the doctors gave him the OK to donate, Doug immediately called Jim, and asked for the first surgery date available. On September 18，2018，Doug went into surgery at 7:30 a. m.; Jim followed at 9:30 a. m. By noon, they were both in the recovery room. The transplant was a success.

1.Which of the following can best describe Shirley?

A.Knowledgeable and talkative . B.Reasonable and energetic.

C.Outgoing and thankful. D.Helpful and considerate.

2.How did Jim feel about his illness just before going to Monterey?

A.Discouraged. B.Satisfied. C.Ashamed. D.Nervous.

3.Why did Jim McGee decide to go to Monterey?

A.To seek help. B.To practice Vietnamese.

C.To meet his fellow airmen. D.To have a thorough examination there.

4.What can we know about Doug Coffman?

A.He was too old to help. B.He acted without delay in helping Jim.

C.He seldom visited his doctor. D.He was 35 years younger than his age.

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Being Left-handed in a Right-handed World

The world is designed for right-handed people, but why does a tenth of the population prefer the left? 1..

The answer to it remains a bit of a mystery. Since scientists have noticed that left-handedness tends to run in families, it's assumed that left-handedness has a genetic(基因的) component to it.　　 2.. In fact, identical twins, who share the same genes, can sometimes prefer to use different hands. There are also plenty of theories on what else might determine which hand you write with, but many experts believe that it's kind of random.

Historically, the left side and left-handedness have been considered a negative thing by many cultures. 3.. In some areas, the left hand became known as the "unclean" hand. In many religions, the right hand of God is the favored hand. For example, Jesus sits at God's right side. God's left hand, however, is the hand of judgement. Various activities and experiences become rude or even signs of bad luck when the left hand becomes involved. In some parts of Scotland, it is considered bad luck to meet a left-handed person at the start of a journey. 4.. A person giving directions will put their left hand behind them and even physically try to point with their right hand if necessary. In some Asian countries, eating with the left hand is considered impolite.

5.. People come to realize that left-handedness is natural. People even noticed that many famous people are left-handed, including Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Charlie Chaplin. Some researchers find out that lefties are more creative and can deal with abstract thinking better. The left-handedness is more easily adaptable to the right-handed world as well. Being left-handed is no longer a sad story now; instead, it is a wonderful gift or maybe it is something you should take pride in.

A. In other words, left-handers are born that way.

B　 Left-handedness used to be regarded as a disability.

C. The unfavorable associations of the use of the left hand among cultures are varied.

D. Why do they prefer to use their left hand rather than their right hand for routine activities?

E. Why do some parents force their left-handed children to become right-handed when writing?

F. In Ghana, pointing, gesturing, giving or receiving items with the left hand is considered rude.

G. Fortunately, nowadays most societies and cultures no longer reject left-handedness like before.

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I learned about life from an ant farm. When I was seven years old, my family ____ an ant farm at home. First, we put clean sand in a thin glass box, and then we brought some ants from the backyard and placed them into the ____ home.

Shortly after the new ____ were dropped into the glass structure, they got to work making tunnels. I was amazed that each one knew ____what to do. After hours of staring, I realized that the ants had assigned jobs. With my mom ' s help, I kept a diary of what happened each day and ____ the ants. My favorite was the biggest , Cinderella. I drew a picture of her in my diary, which I still have .

One day a tragedy ____ the ant farm.While I was observing the ants , I had put my face so close to the structure that I accidentally ____ it over. Unfortunately, my carelessness caused all the tunnels to ____. Although the ants ____ their earthquake, one by one they began to die. I was ____ as I watched them give up their tunnel-building to carry the bodies to a corner of the farm. My mother reported that the ants were actually dying of "frustration"--- the feeling annoyed and disappointed as they couldn’t control the situation . They simply could not ____ the reality that their tunnels had been destroyed. Cinderella was the last to die ---she did so while carrying a dead ant on her back .

Although much time has passed, I still think of that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about the natural world, ____ it taught me much more.____ the years, I came to realize the ants were a study in the benefits of ____. Working together, they were able to create a(an) ____ world for themselves. I also learned that they should be____ for their hard work. Day in and day out, each labored at their task. The ant farm showed that teamwork and perseverance are indeed two key ____ for success. But there was an even larger lesson that I did not ____until recently: Disaster is a natural part of life, and must be ____. Unlike the ants, humans cannot give up when they face ____. Unlike the ants, we have to realize that if a tunnel caves in , we just have to build another.

1.A.created B.bought C.ran D.laid

2.A.empty B.new C.strange D.distant

3.A.guests B.settlers C.friends D.members

4.A.probably B.roughly C.exactly D.normally

5.A.named B.trained C.compared D.measured

6.A.affected B.struck C.kicked D.beat

7.A.split B.took C.tipped D.handed

8.A.rush out B.break in C.drop out D.cave in

9.A.experienced B.predicted C.faced D.survived

10.A.annoyed B.astonished C.moved D.thrilled

11.A.reflect B.ignore C.confirm D.stand

12.A.and B.but C.so D.or

13.A.In B.For C.From D.Over

14.A.teamwork B.devotion C.responsibility D.organization

15.A.relaxing B.amusing C.moving D.amazing

16.A.supported B.inspired C.admired D.admitted

17.A.conclusions B.solutions C.recipes D.circumstances

18.A.give B.realize C.take D.adopt

19.A.accepted B.suffered C.escaped D.managed

20.A.challenges B.barriers C.pressure D.disappointment

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

It is expected 1. over 100,000 people will take part in a massive parade at Beijing’s Tian’an men Square on the morning of Oct 1, National Day, 2. (celebrate) the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

“3.(participate) from all walks of life and ethnic groups will attend 4.ceremony, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots(同胞), overseas Chinese and foreigners 5. (include)”, said Du Feijin, head of the publicity department of the Beijing Committee of the Communist Party of China. “Tian’anmen Square will feature red decorations representing the 6. (glory) history of the Party as it led the Chinese revolution to victory”, he said, 7. (add) that 70 red lanterns would be hung parallel 8. the east and west sides of the square. Starting next month, a series of activities like raising the national flag, singing the national anthem and commemorating revolutionary martyrs(烈士) will be held nationwide to let9. (many) people take part in celebrating the birthday of the motherland. Besides, a documentary which features highlights during the 70-year journey10.(broadcast) on TV.

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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。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。

A recent survey shows most students communicate with their parents regularly, and there are still some who think it embarrassed to share their feelings with their parents. Actually, everyone should attach important to family communication, because not only does it strengthen the bond of the family but also bridge the gap between parents and children. In addition to, sharing your personal problems and emotions will great help reduce the pressure on you. As a result, our confidence will be built up. As for my family, we have special dinner together every Saturday evening, over that everyone present takes turns to sharing one problem and the others try to offer solutions. In this way the whole family can enjoy every single bit of life.

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假如你是李华，最近你所在的城市设立了“汉字书写日”。你的美国笔友John对此很感兴趣，写信向你询问。请根据以下要点给他回一封信。内容包括：

1.设立原因：人们提笔忘字，写汉字机会减少；

2.日期：9月28日，孔子(Confucius)诞辰；

3.活动：书法(calligraphy)竞赛及展览等。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear John,

I’m writing to tell you something about it Chinese Character Writing Day in our city. __________________

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You are welcome to join US.

Yours,

Li Hua

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