密云区 2019-2020 学年第二学期第二次阶段性测试 
高三英语试卷     2020.06 
考生
须知 1、 本试卷满分 120 分。 
2、 本试卷考试时间 100 分钟。 
3、 在本试卷答题纸上认真填写考生信息。 
第一部分:知识运用(共两节,45 分) 
第一节 语法填空(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分,共 15 分)
阅读下列短文,根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1 个适当的单词,在给出提
示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
    A 
   Last week, our class was on duty for student self-management. On the first day, I was shocked to see so 
much leftover food thrown away by students. What a waste! Being concerned about it, my classmates and I 
had a heated discussion on how to solve the problem. Finally, we all    1    (agree) that the wall newspaper 
would be the best choice. The next day, we put our idea into reality. Towards lunch time, we put 2    a wall 
newspaper outside the school cafeteria, calling on students not to waste food. Many students gathered around 
to read and expressed their support. To my great delight, there were changes soon. In the cafeteria, I found the 
trays returned after lunch all empty without any leftover. Food    3   (save) and the dining hall was cleaner.  
B 
As we know, the global water shortage is becoming increasingly severe mainly due to global warming, 
environmental pollution and the ever-increasing population. Therefore, it’s high time we did something about 
it. Firstly, an    4   (effect) way, I think, is to reserve water in a scientific way for future use. Secondly, new 
methods need to be developed to use the existing water resources, for example,    5   (turn) sea water into fresh 
water. Thirdly, we must stop water pollution by law. Last but not least, it’s everyone’s responsibility       6   
(make) good use of water, such as recycling and saving water in our daily life. In conclusion, people around 
the world should be aware of the real situation of water shortage, protect the present water resources and 
explore potential ones scientifically.  
                                    C The Palace Museum is working to take cultural relics into people’s daily life and bring their cultural value 
into full play by selling cultural and creative products, on the theme of “Bring the Palace Museum culture 
home”. The creative products mostly are creative daily necessities, like stationaries, bags, decorations and so 
on.    7   (Base) on the treasures in the museum, the Palace Museum has developed products such as Qianli 
Jiangshan series and Qingming Shanghe Tu series, Palace Dolls, folding fans,    8   are very popular with 
young people. The Palace Museum now    9    (change) the traditional way of communication, learns to use a 
variety  of  ways  to  publicize  excellent  traditional  culture,  and  lets  the  Palace  Museum  cultural  heritage 
resources live. The culture creative products are definitely brilliant choices for    10   (gift) that bear unique 
royal features. 
 
第二节 完形填空(共 20 小题;每小题 1.5 分,共 30 分)   
 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答
题卡上将该项涂黑。 
 
 One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he 
had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a   11   at the next house.   12  , 
he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of 
water. 
She thought he looked   13   so brought him a large glass of   14  . He drank it slowly, and then asked, 
“How much do I owe you?”  
“You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a   15  .”  
He said... “Then I thank you from my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger 
physically, but his   16   in man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit. 
Years later, that young woman became   17   ill. The local   18   were baffled. They finally sent her to 
the big city, where they called in   19   to study her   20   disease. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the  
21  . When he heard the name of the   22   she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose 
and went   23   the hall of the hospital to her room. 
Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He   24   her at once. He went back to the 
consultation room   25   to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to the   26  
. 
After a long struggle, the battle was   27  . Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to 
him for   28  . He looked at it, then   29   something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open 
it, for she was   30   it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something 
caught her attention on the side of the bill. 
She read these words...  
“Paid in full with one glass of milk.” 
 
11. A. dinner     B. feast    C. meal             D. soup 
12. A. However         B. Therefore  C. Consequently D. Moreover 
13. A. warm     B. cold     C. excited    D. hungry  
14. A. water     B. coffee    C. milk     D. tea  
15. A. donation    B. kindness  C. supply    D. investment 
16. A. faith                 B. imagination    C. inspiration   D. doubt 
17. A. slightly           B. naturally         C. critically         D. gradually 
18. A. nurses     B. doctors       C. priests           D. nuns 
19. A. laymen           B. professionals  C. specialists   D. amateurs 
20. A. simple             B. rare                 C. incurable         D. familiar 
21. A. responsibility B. innovation   C. experiment     D. consultation  
22. A.  town        B. country           C. capital           D. hospital 
23. A. over          B. under           C. on             D. down  
24. A. called        B. recognized        C. forgot     D. remembered 
25. A. confused       B. determined         C. clarified         D. interested 
26. A. case              B. matter            C. event     D. thing 
27. A. delayed      B. missed            C. conducted   D. won  
28. A. approval      B. editing            C. revision    D. rejection 
29. A. drew            B. signed                  C. wrote              D. copied 
30. A. hopeful       B. suspicious           C. helpless    D. sure  
 
   第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,40 分) 
第一节(共 15 小题;每小题 2 分,共 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,并在答题卡上将该项
涂黑。 
                                                                              A         Graphs can be a very useful tool for conveying information, especially numbers, percentages, and other 
data. A graph gives the reader a picture to interpret. That can be a lot more efficient than pages and pages 
explaining the data. 
        Graphs can seem frightening, but reading a graph is a lot like reading a story. The graph has a title, a main 
idea, and supporting details. You can use your active reading skills to analyze and understand graphs just like 
any other text. 
        Most graphs have a few basic parts: a caption or introduction paragraph, a title, a legend or key, and 
labeled axes. An active reader looks at each part of the graph before trying to interpret the data. Captions will 
usually tell you where the data came from (for example, a scientific study of 400 African elephants from 1980 
to 2005). Captions usually summarize the author’s main point as well. The title is very important. It tells you 
the main idea of the graph by stating what kind of information is being shown. A legend, also called a key, is 
a guide to the symbols and colors used in the graph. Many graphs, including bar graphs and line graphs, have 
two axes that form a corner. Usually these axes are the left side and the bottom of the graph. Each axis will 
always have a label. The label tells you what each axis measures. 
 
       A bar graph has two axes and uses bars to show amounts.  In 
Graph 1, we see that the x-axis shows grades that students earned,  
and the y-axis shows how many students earned each grade. You 
can see that 6 students earned an A because the bar for A stretches 
up to  6 on the vertical measurement. There is a lot of information 
we can get from a simple graph like this (See Graph 1). 
 
        A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it 
plots points and connects them with a line. It has the same parts as a 
bar graph — two labeled axes — and can be read the same way. To 
read a line graph, it’s important to focus on the points of intersection 
rather than the line segments between the points. This type of graph 
is most commonly used to show how something changes over time. 
Here is a graph that charts how far a bird flies during the first five 
days of its spring migration (See Graph 2). 
     The unit of measurement for the x-axis is days. The unit of measurement for the y-axis is kilometers. 
Thus we can see that, on the first day, the pipit flew 20 kilometers. The line segment goes up between Day 1 
and  Day  2,  which  means  that  the  bird  flew  farther  on  Day  2.  If  the  line 
segment angled down, as between Day 4 and Day 5, it would mean that the 
bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before. This line graph is a quick, 
visual way to tell the reader about the bird’s migration. 
       A typical pie graph looks like a circular pie. The circle is divided into 
sections,  and  each  section  represents  a  fraction  of  the  data.  The  graph  is 
commonly used to show percentages; the whole pie represents l00 percent, so each piece is a fraction of 
the whole. 
         A pie graph might include a legend, or it might use icons or labels within each slice. This pie graph 
shows one month’s expense, (See Graph 3). 
   Food $ 25 
   Movies $ 12 
   Clothing $ 36 
   Savings $ 20 
   Books $ 7 
 
31. What is the total number of students who earned a C or better ? 
A. 4.                     B. 6.                  C. 20.                   D. 10. 
32. The bird covered the longest distance on _____. 
A. Day 1             B. Day 2             C. Day 4               D. Day 3 
33. Which of the following cost Amy most ? 
A. Clothing.       B. Books            C. Movies             D. Food. 
 
                                                                                        B 
Papa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for 
the rich then. So, the world became his school. With great interest, he read everything he could lay his hands 
on, listened to the town elders and learned about the world beyond his tiny hometown. “There’s so much to 
learn,” he’d say. “Though we’re born stupid, only the stupid remain that way.” He was determined that none 
of his children would be denied an education. 
       Thus, Papa insisted that we learn at least one new thing each day. Though, as children, we thought this 
was crazy, it would never have occurred to us to deny Papa a request. And dinner time seemed perfect for sharing what we had learned. We would talk about the news of the day; no matter how insignificant, it was 
never taken lightly. Papa would listen carefully and was ready with some comment, always to the point. 
     Then came the moment—the time to share the day’s new learning. 
      Papa, at the head of the table, would push back his chair and pour a glass of red wine, ready to listen. 
     “Felice,” he’d say, “tell me what you learned today.”    
“I learned that the population of Nepal is ...”    Silence. 
     Papa  was  thinking  about  what  was  said,  as  if  the  salvation  of  the  world  would  depend  upon  it.  “The 
population of Nepal. Hmm. Well …” he’d say. “Get the map; let’s see where Nepal is.” And the whole family 
went on a search for Nepal. 
       This same experience was repeated until each family member had a turn. Dinner ended only after we had 
a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts. 
       As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders. Our family, however, was growing 
together, sharing experiences and participating in one another’s education. And by looking at us, listening to 
us, respecting our input, affirming our value, giving us a sense of dignity, Papa was unquestionably our most 
influential teacher. 
       Later during my training as a future teacher, I studied with some of the most famous educators. They were 
imparting what Papa had known all along—the value of continual learning. His technique has served me well 
all my life. Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal 
might prove useful. 
 
34. What do we know from the first paragraph? 
A. The poor could hardly afford school education.    B. Those born stupid could not change their life. 
     C. The town elders wanted to learn about the world.  D. The author’s father was born in a worker’s family. 
35. The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to “__________”.  
A. one new thing           B. a request           C. some comment        D. the news   
36. It can be learned from the passage that the author ___________. 
A. enjoyed talking about news                                B. knew very well about Nepal    
C. appreciated his father’s educational technique   D. felt regret about those wasted days 
37. What is the greatest value of “dinner time” to the author? 
A. Showing talents.  B. Continual learning.  C. Family get-together.  D. Winning Papa’s approval. 
 
                                  C 
How a Teacher Can Change Your Life 
       Smiling with satisfaction, Karin Anderson continues to conduct while dozens of students were playing 
their instruments, and Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony fills the hall. The emotional (情感的) drama of 
conducting an orchestra (管弦乐团) of teenagers is part of a typical day’s teaching for Karin. “Teaching is 
like surfing,” she says. “You have no idea what’s going to happen and there’s no guarantee that things will go 
according to plan. You have to be on guard at all times.” But the unpredictability of her students doesn’t make 
her job hard, she says. In fact, working with sometimes difficult teenagers, which she says might exhaust other 
teachers, is what keeps her coming back day after day.  
Karin  believes  music  lessons  may  have  unexpected  benefits.  Research  has  found  that  they  improve  a 
child’s language development, and the reasoning skills extremely important to maths and science. “We can’t 
be sure if music really makes kids perform better academically, or if smarter students just naturally become 
involved with music anyway, but there might be a connection. Certainly, schools need something for those 
brighter students. It’s not so much giving them a release from studying hard, but more that they need to be 
stretched, and pushed in a different direction.”  
But the benefits of music education are for everyone, not just the clever kids. Karin points out that there 
are strong connections between music and the motivation to learn, the ability to focus, and even someone’s 
confidence and tolerance.  
Music can also help to create a positive, supportive learning environment, which Karin always tries to 
create in her orchestra. Being grouped by age, not ability, makes everyone new feel welcome and part of a 
family. “In school you’re very aware of social classes—the rich kids and the poor kids—and all the little 
groups that gossip all the time,” says orchestra member Laura Greene. “But in the orchestra, everyone is part 
of the group, and equally important. We’re all trying to improve together. We’ve all got unique talents.”  
In Karin’s classroom, there are no awards decorating the walls. She says this might put the orchestra 
under pressure or make them worry about competition, though in fact the school has won many prizes, which 
she is clearly proud of. “What’s most important to me is that everyone works as a team,” she says. “It’s a 
magic moment when there’s absolute unity.”  
Karin wants the orchestra to widen the horizons of everyone who joins. When some parents weren’t able 
to afford certain trips of the orchestra, Karin surprised everyone by organizing what she called “scholarships”, 
with the school paying part of the money to students who had been positive and cooperative. They weren’t 
awarded on the basis of who had a special gift for music.  In her office, Karin proudly displays a picture of another student. Karin says, “Thomas was smart, but he 
hated school, and he seemed cut off from his peers, alone in a world of his own. The orchestra made him come 
out of his shell.” After graduating, Thomas wrote to Karin, “I’m so grateful to you for allowing me to play the 
most beautiful music in the world, even though I never took it up professionally. I understand now that music 
educates the mind and the heart, and helps you to connect with others.”    
 
38. What is Karin’s attitude to teaching music?  
A. It is emotionally tiring.                                 B. It is about controlling the class. 
C. It requires careful preparation.                     D. It gives wonderful surprises. 
39. What does Karin think of music lessons? 
A. They serve the needs of problem students.           B. They are more beneficial for smart students. 
C. They are more rewarding than people thought.    D. They mean a lot for students’ academic work. 
40. Which of the following would Karin agree with? 
A. Teamwork is important in music lessons.          B. It is not worth making efforts for prizes.  
C. Teachers should not ignore social classes.         D. Gifted students should have more chances. 
41. What point does the example of Thomas support about music education? 
A. It builds up self-confidence.                               B. It changes one’s attitude  
C. It presents new challenges.                  D. It reduces academic pressure. 
 
                                                                                   D                                        
       If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the 
midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal(夜间活动的) species on this planet. 
Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun’s light. This is a basic evolutionary 
fact, even though most of us don’t think of ourselves as diurnal beings. Yet it’s the only way to explain what 
we’ve done to the night: We’ve engineered it to receive us by filling it with light.   
       The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences — called light pollution — whose effects 
scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which 
allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky. Ill-designed lighting washes out the darkness 
of night and completely changes the light levels — and light rhythms — to which many forms of life, including 
ourselves, have adapted. Wherever human light spills into the natural world, some aspect or life is affected.     
In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze (霾) that 
mirrors our fear of the dark. We’ve grown so used to this orange haze that the original glory of an unlit night, — dark enough for the planet Venus to throw shadow on Earth — is wholly beyond our experience, beyond 
memory almost. 
       We’ve lit up the night as if it were an unoccupied country, when nothing could be further from the truth. 
Among mammals alone, the number of nocturnal species is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, 
and on many species it acts as a magnet(磁铁). The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and 
seabirds being “captured” by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms. 
Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings. 
       Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times 
brighter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint, including their nighttime 
breeding choruses. Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs. Like most other creatures, we 
do need darkness. Darkness is as essential to our biological welfare, to our internal clockwork, as light itself.    
Living in a glare of our own making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural heritage—
the light of the stars and the rhythms of day and night. In a very real sense light pollution causes us to lose 
sight of our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best measured against the 
dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way—the edge of our galaxy-arching overhead. 
 
42. What does the underlined word “it” (Paragraph 1) most probably refer to ? 
A. The moon.             B. The night.               C. The sky.             D. The planet. 
43. The writer mentions birds and frogs to _________. 
A. show how light pollution affects animals          
B. provide examples of animal protection 
C. compare the living habits of both species      
D. explain why the number of certain species has declined   
44. It is implied in the last paragraph that ___________.   
A. human beings cannot go to the outer space    
B. light pollution does harm to the eyesight of animals 
C. human beings should reflect on their position in the universe     
D. light pollution has destroyed some of the world heritages 
45.What might be the best title for the passage? 
      A. The Magic Light.                                     B. The Orange Haze.   
C.  The Rhythms of Nature.                         D. The Disappearing Night. 
 
                                            第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2 分,共 10 分) 
根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。     
      You are given many opportunities in life to choose to be a victim or creator. When you choose to be a 
victim, the world is a cold and difficult place.     46  “They” are wrong and bad, and life is terrible as long as 
“they”  are  around.  Or  you  may  blame  yourself  for  all  your  problems,  thus  internalizing( 内 化 )your 
victimization. The truth is, your life is likely to stay that way as long as you feel a need to blame yourself or 
others. 
47     They know there are individuals who might like to control their lives, but they don’t let this get in 
the way. They know they have their weaknesses, yet they don’t blame themselves when they fail.     48    They 
believe their dance with each sacred (神圣的) moment of life is a gift and that storms are a natural part of life 
which can bring the rain needed for emotional and spiritual growth. 
Victims and creators live in the same physical world and deal with many of the same physical realities, 
yet their experience of life is worlds apart. Victims relish (沉溺) in anger, guilt, and other emotions that cause 
others—and even themselves—to feel like victims, too. Creators consciously choose love, inspiration, and 
other qualities which inspire not only themselves, but all around them.    49      
In reality, all of us play the victim or the creator at various points in our lives. One person, on losing a job 
or a special relationship, may feel as if it is the end of the world and sink into terrible suffering for months, 
years, or even a lifetime.    50   He may choose to first experience the grief, then accept the loss and soon move 
on to be a powerful creative force in his life. 
In every moment and every circumstance, you can choose to have fuller, richer life by setting a clear 
intention to transform the victim within, and by inviting into your life the powerful creator that you are. 
 
A. Whatever happens, they have choice in the matter. 
B. Compared with victims, creators are more emotional. 
C. One’s experiences determine his attitude toward life. 
D. Those who choose to be creators look at life quite differently.  
E. Another with the same experience may choose to be a creator. 
F. “They” did things to you which caused all of your pain and suffering.  
G. Both victims and creators always have choice to determine the direction of their lives.                            第三部分: 书面表达(共两节,35 分) 
第一节 (15 分) 
   假设你是红星中学高三学生李华,你的英国好友 Jim 正在准备题为“保护野生动物”的演讲稿,
发来邮件咨询相关信息,请你给他回复邮件,内容包括: 
   1.野生动物生存现状; 
2.保护野生动物的措施。 
    注意:1.词数不少于 50; 
    2.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。 
Dear Jim, 
_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________ 
Yours, 
Li Hua 
 
           (请务必将作文写在答题卡指定区域内) 
 
第二节 (20 分) 
   假设你是红星中学高三(1)班学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的顺序,写一篇英文周记,记录你
参加学校主题为“垃圾分类,我们一起来”知识竞赛的全过程。 
   注意:词数不少于 60 
         提示词:垃圾分类 garbage sorting 
 
(请务必将作文写在答题卡指定区域内) 
    
  
密云区 2019—2020 学年度第二学期二模考试高三英语试卷 
                                            评分标准和参考答案 
                            
第一部分:知识运用(共两节,45 分) 
 
第一节 语法填空(共 10 小题; 每小题 1.5 分,共 15 分) 
1. agreed          2. up             3. was saved      4. effective        5. turning   
 
 6. to make      7. Based        8. which            9. changes        10. gifts 
    
第二节 完形填空(共 20 小题; 每小题 1.5 分,共 30 分) 
 
11-15 CADCB      16-20 ACBCB      21-25 DADBB      26-30 ADACD 
 
第二部分 阅读理解(共 20 小题; 每小题 2 分,共 40 分)  
 
31-35 CDAAD     36-40 CBDCA        41-45BBACD     46-50 FDAGE 
 
第三部分 书面表达(共 35 分) 
第一节(15 分) 
51. Possible version:  
Dear Jim, 
I’m glad to hear from you. From your email I have learned that you are preparing for the speech about 
wildlife protection. I think you choose a good topic and I’d like to share what I know with you. 
The number of wild animals is becoming smaller and smaller. Some of them are endangered and even 
dying out. The reasons are as follows. To start with, people have been cutting down trees for building materials, 
causing some animals to lose their habitats. Besides, to make money, some people have been killing rare wild 
animals. They use wild animals like elephants, tigers, antelopes and bears to make handicrafts and medicine. 
Some wild animals are even hunted and killed to satisfy people’s desire to taste new and novel flavor, such as 
shark fin soup and even bat soup.          
In my opinion, it’s time that we took immediate measures to change the situation. First, we should not cut 
down trees without the government’s permission. Instead, we are supposed to plant more trees to protect the 
animals’ living conditions. At the same time, more nature reserves are expected to be set up. Last but not the 
least, laws to protect wild animals should be made and the people who kill, sell and buy wild animals should 
be punished seriously. I believe as long as we take action immediately, we will live in harmony with animals 
and life will become better. 
   I hope what I said will be of help to you. If you have any questions, please write to me. I’m looking forward 
to your reply. 
Yours Li Hua 
第二节(20 分) 
52. 
Possible version : 
This week, I took part in the knowledge competition on garbage sorting held in our school, which brought 
me a great sense of achievement. 
   On Monday, a poster which announced the competition attracted my attention. I immediately decided to sign 
up for it because I wanted to do something for the environment. 
   A few days later, I took part in the first round of the competition, a written test. Though there were many 
candidates, I succeeded in entering the final with another student from my class. 
  The final was held this morning. It was a competition among the four classes of the grade. On the stage in 
the  hall,  my  classmates  and  I  answered  most  of  the  questions  accurately.  Finally,  we  won  out!  We  were 
extremely happy because we brought honor to our class. 
   When interviewed by the school TV station after the award ceremony, I expressed my excitement and the 
pride in protecting our environment. The competition broadened my knowledge on the garbage sorting and 
increased the awareness of protecting our environment.