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海淀区 2019-2020 学年高三年级考前查漏补缺题
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
Books were my true friends back then. I was so 1 (thank) that the authors wrote those
books. The kindness they offered me with their books saved my life. After 2 (survive)
terrible experiences at school and at home, I made a choice to take the optimistic, positive road in
the next steps of my journey. My dream career, one I thought was only possible for the authors I
loved, is 3 I am doing now. I have been a full-time author of teen novels since 2007 and
am grateful for this amazing opportunity to reach out to readers every single day.
B
It’s a popular 4 (believe) that fish can’t remember anything for longer than seven
seconds. It may seem sad to think that they don’t remember what they’ve eaten or 5 they’ve
been, and they don’t recognize you or any of their friends – every moment in their lives would be
like seeing the world for the first time. But don’t be so quick to feel sorry for them. A recent study
6 (find) that fish have much 7 (good) memories than we used to think. In fact, certain
species of fish can even remember events from as long as 12 days ago.
C
I honestly believe there’s a danger that the more connected we are, the more isolated we feel.
I don’t think this is such an issue for my generation who’ve lived 8 technology for so long.
We know how to be alone and, more importantly, we know that it’s OK to be alone. 9 the
under 20s are another kettle of fish. They’re so busy (communicate) that they never experience the
feeling of solitude and run the risk of not learning how to enjoy their own company. In addition,
they’re learning conversation through messages that can 10 (edit) and changed at the
expense of learning the art of real conversation in real time with the person in front of you .
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，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
“Hi!” Steller shouted. “I’m driving around giving free haircuts. Do you want one right now?”
The man looked to be in his 60s, heavyset and missing a few teeth. “Actually,” he said, “I have
a wedding to go to. I was really 11 to get a haircut.”
The man, named Edward, 12 sat on Steller’s red chair. She began to trim his curly
graying hair. Then he began to tell her about his childhood, about moving here to be closer to his
adult children, and how he still talks to his mom every day. After the haircut, Edward looked in a
mirror, exclaiming “I look 13 ! I’ll remember to put my 14 in next time. I look better
with teeth!”
To date, Steller has given 30 or so such haircuts. These clients all live on the margins (边缘),
and she is keenly aware of the 15 of her clean-up job. “It’s more than a haircut,” she says. “I
want it to be a gateway—to show value and 16 .”2
Steller knows that a haircut can change a life. As a teen, she suffered from a(n) 17 which
was so severe that her hair 18 drastically. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller’s first
professional haircut. “To sit down and have somebody talk to me like a person and not just an illness,
it helped me feel 19 about and less alone,” she says.
After that, Steller decided to have her own salon so she could help people feel the 20
she’d felt that day. Not long after finishing cosmetology (美容术) school, she began her Red Chair
Project, 21 out to people on the streets. Although she can’t 22 their problems by giving
free haircuts, she believes it might help them feel less 23 for a moment.
Steller listens to people’s 24 of loss and struggle to get back on their feet. The attention
apparently 25 . When she was cutting a woman’s hair one day, someone drove by and yelled,
“You look amazing!” The woman in the chair beamed. “I’m not 26 ,” she exclaimed. “I thought
I was invisible. Look, people see me!”
A Branch of the Red Chair Project is the Steller Kindness Project, in which people who 27
acts of kindness are invited for a free makeover (美容) at Steller’s salon. In exchange, they tell their
stories, which Steller 28 on her website. Her hope is that by reading about kind acts, others
will be 29 to spread their own.
So far, it’s working. And it all began with a(n) 30 in simple acts of kindness, such as a
free haircut.
11. A. hoping B. learning C. promising D. hesitating
12. A. freely B. gladly C. patiently D. voluntarily
13. A. fit B. ugly C. good D. silly
14. A. feet B. hand C. heart D. teeth
15. A. energy B. force C. length D. power
16. A. reward B. respect C. sympathy D. determination
17. A. attack B. threat C. accident D. disease
18. A. thinned B. loosened C. whitened D. shortened
19. A. cared B. worried C. known D. thought
20. A. use B. way C. need D. reason
21. A. running B. calling C. reaching D. pointing
22. A. fix B. face C. raise D. present
23. A. afraid B. alone C. annoyed D. ashamed
24. A. complaints B. explanations C. desires D. stories
25. A. disappears B. grows C. works D. spreads
26. A. innocent B. invisible C. unimportant D. uncommon
27. A. appreciate B. discover C. commit D. witness
28. A. creates B. enjoys C. sells D. shares
29. A. urged B. allowed C. inspired D. persuaded
30. A. belief B. trust C. investment D. pleasure
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，并在答题纸
上将该项涂黑。
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be able to contribute to some of the ground-breaking projects which make the University of Oxford
a world leader in research. Watch this space for ways in which you could get involved.
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To find out which research projects are currently recruiting volunteers, please see the OVG
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The Oxford Internet Institute, together with the Business School, is recruiting individuals to
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31. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To offer medical help to patients
B. To look for experienced researchers
C. To introduce new research programs
D. To recruit volunteers for research projects
32. The goal of OVG is to _______.
A. carry out clinical trials
B. produce vaccines against viruses
C. learn more about the immune system
D. study the occurrence of infectious diseases
33. You can finish the experiment on your home PC if you join __________.
A. Oxford Vaccine Group
B. Insomnia research group
C. Oxford Experimental lab
D. Brain Scanning study group 4
B
THE OLD FISHERMAN
Our house was directly across a popular hospital. We rented the upstairs rooms to outpatients
at the clinic. One summer evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful
looking man, his face lopsided from swelling, red and raw. He told me he’d been hunting for a room
since noon but he had no success. “I guess it’s my face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says
with a few more treatments…”
For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: “I could sleep in this rocking chair
on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.” I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest
on the porch. It didn’t take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into
that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children, and her
husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury. He didn’t tell it by way of complaint. He
was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease.
At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children’s room for him. When I got up in the morning,
the bed linens were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch. Before he left for his bus,
haltingly, he said, “Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I can sleep
fine in a chair.” He paused a moment and then added, “Your children made me feel at home.
Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don’t seem to mind.” I told him he was welcome
to come again.
In the years he came to stay overnight with us. There was never a time that he did not bring us
fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden. When I received these little remembrances, I often
thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning. “You can lose
roomers by putting up such people!”
Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps
their illnesses would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have
known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with
gratitude.
34. When the old fisherman stayed overnight, the author’s children ________________.
A. were bothered B. were terrified C. felt normal D. felt at home
35. Which of the following statement is true about the fisherman?
A. He is both tall and strong.
B. He has five grandchildren.
C. He is pessimistic about life.
D. He suffers from a back injury.
36. The old fisherman gave the author fishes and oysters because he________.
A. wanted the author to buy them.
B. wanted to pay the rent with them.
C. had fished too many fishes and oysters.
D. wanted to show his thankfulness to the author.
37. What can we learn from the story?
A. Never judge a book by its cover.
B. Little strokes fell great oaks.
C. Stay positive, stay grateful.
D. Honesty is the best policy.
C5
Although it has been revealed in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and
smelling, they are still usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, they have been
recorded making ultrasonic cries when stressed, which researchers say could open up a new field of
precision agriculture where farmers listen for water-starved crops.
Itzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco
plants made cries at frequencies humans cannot hear when stressed by a lack of water or when their
stem is cut.
Microphones placed 10 centimetres from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range
of 20 to 100 kilohertz, which the team says insects and some mammals would be capable of hearing
and responding to from as far as 5 metres away. A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant
that sounds water-stressed, the researchers suggest. Plants could even hear that other plants are short
of water and react accordingly, they speculate.
On average, drought-stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tobacco plants
made 11. When plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following
hour, and tobacco plants 15. Unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour, on average.
It is even possible to distinguish between the sounds to know what the stress is. The
researchers trained a machine-learning model to discriminate between the plants’ sounds and the
wind, rain and other noises of the greenhouse, correctly identifying in most cases whether the stress
was caused by dryness or a cut, based on the sound’s intensity and frequency. Water-hungry tobacco
appears to make louder sounds than cut tobacco, for example.
Enabling farmers to listen for water-stressed plants could “open a new direction in the field of
precision agriculture”, the researchers suggest. They add that such an ability will be increasingly
important as climate change exposes more areas to drought.
“The suggestion that the sounds that drought-stressed plants make could be used in precision
agriculture seems feasible if it is not too costly to set up the recording in a field situation,” says
Anne Visscher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK.
She warns that the results can’t yet be broadened out to other stresses, such as salt or
temperature, because these may not lead to sounds. In addition, there have been no experiments to
show whether moths or any other animal can hear and respond to the sounds the plants make, so
that idea remains speculative（推测的）for now, she says.
38. The experiment by researchers at Tel Aviv University shows that_______.
A. tobacco plants make louder sounds than tomato plants when hurt
B. water-hungry tomato plants are more sensible than tobacco plants
C. unstressed plants produced sounds of laughter when being watered
D. plants respond to the sounds the plants make and protect themselves
39. What is Anne Visscher’s attitude towards the finding of the experiment?
A. Appreciative B. Doubtful C. Cautious D. Optimistic
40. It can be learnt from the research that ________.
A. greenhouse effects can be avoided
B. soil condition can be adjusted in time.
C. plant condition can be diagnosed faster.
D. insects can be detected and removed easily.
41. What is the best title for the article?
A. Plants Get Stressed Just Like Us
B. Plants Scream in Presence of Stress
C. Sounds of Plants Detected Far Away
D. Sounds of Plants Break Farmers’ Hearts
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The first patient who died on my watch was an older man with a faulty heart — the main pump
had failed and his heart was beating irregularly and far too fast. We tried to slow it down with
treatment, but it suddenly stopped beating completely. Later, whenever I would have a case like that
one, I found myself second-guessing my clinical management. However, it turns out that thinking
twice may actually cause more harm than good.
In a working paper, Emory University researchers found that when doctors delivering a baby
have an adverse outcome, they are more likely to switch to a different delivery method with the next
patient, often unnecessarily and sometimes with worse results.
Because doctors make so many decisions that have serious consequences, the fallout from
second-guessing looms especially large for us. A 2006 study found that if a patient had a bleed after
being prescribed warfarin, the physician was about 20% less likely to prescribe subsequent patients
the blood thinner that prevents strokes. However, if a patient had a stroke and was not on warfarin,
physicians were still no more likely to prescribe warfarin to their other patients.
These findings highlight interesting behavioral patterns in doctors. In the blood-thinner study,
doctors were more affected by the act of doing harm (prescribing a blood thinner that ended up
hurting a patient) and less affected by letting harm happen (not prescribing a blood thinner and the
patient having a stroke). Yet a stroke is often more permanent and damaging than a bleed.
But this phenomenon is not unique to medicine. “Overreaction to Fearsome Risks” holds true
for broader society.
For instance, sensational headlines about shark attacks on humans in Florida in 2001 caused a
panic and led the state to prohibit shark-feeding expeditions. Yet shark attacks had actually fallen
that year and, according to the study, such a change was probably unnecessary given the extremely
small risk of such an attack happening.
Humans are susceptible to emotional and often irrational thinking when processing information,
adverse events and mistakes. As much as we don’t want to cause an unfortunate event to recur —
in a medical setting or in the wider world — we need to be aware that a worst-case scenario doesn’t
necessarily mean we did anything wrong. When we overthink, we fail to rely on thinking based on
what we know or have experienced. Instead, we may inadvertently overanalyze and come to the
wrong conclusion.
I have treated dozens of patients who presented with the same illnesses as my first patient, who
died more than a year ago. Instead of second-guessing myself, I trusted my clinical instinct and
stayed the course. Every one of those patients survived. You should trust your instinct in your life,
too.
42. The first two paragraphs suggest that ______?
A. Bad medical outcomes affect doctors.
B. Delivering babies can be difficult work.
C. Some doctors are not very experienced.
D. Doctors sometimes make silly mistakes.
43. In the blood-thinner study, doctors ______.
A. tend to prescribe less effective medicine
B. are more concerned about the patients’ safety
C. believe a stroke is more treatable than a bleeding
D. become less confident in writing certain prescriptions
44. The author develops his idea mainly by ______.
A. giving examples B. making comparisons
C. using metaphors D. quoting famous sayings
45. The author will probably agree that ______.
A. we shouldn’t doubt our own decisions
B. our experience will pave way for our future 7
C. humans are emotional and irrational on the whole
D. instincts don’t necessarily lead to wrong directions
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。
Optimism Bias (偏见)
While we often like to think of ourselves as highly rational and logical, researchers have found
that the human brain is sometimes too optimistic for its own good. If you were asked to estimate
how likely you are to experience illness, job loss, or an accident, you are likely to underestimate the
probability that such events will ever impact your life. 46
This bias leads us to believe that we are less likely to suffer from misfortune and more likely
to attain success than reality would suggest. We believe that we will live longer, and that we will be
more successful in life than the average. 47
The optimism bias is essentially a mistaken belief that our chances of experiencing negative
events are lower and our chances of experiencing positive events are higher than those of our peers.
And this overly positive assumption doesn’t mean that we have an overly sunny outlook on our own
lives. 48 People might skip their yearly physical, not wear their seatbelt, or fail to put on
sunscreen because they mistakenly believe that they are less likely to get sick, get in an accident, or
get skin cancer.
Cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot, author of The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally
Positive Brain, notes that this bias is widespread and can be seen in cultures all over the world.
Sharot also suggests that while this optimism bias can at times lead to negative outcomes like
foolishly engaging in risky behaviors or making poor choices about your health, it can also have its
benefits. 49 If we expect good things to happen, we are more likely to be happy. This
optimism can act as a self-fulfilling prophecy. By believing that we will be successful, people are
in fact more likely to be successful.
50 After all, if we didn’t believe that we could achieve success, why would we even
bother trying? Optimists are also more likely to take measures to protect their health such as
exercising, taking vitamins, and following a nutritious diet.
A. Optimism also motivates us to pursue our goals.
B. But we are also highly motivated to be so optimistic.
C. But definitely not everyone is blessed with such luck.
D. This is because your brain has a built-in optimism bias.
E. It can also lead to poor decision-making, which can sometimes have disastrous results.
F. This optimism enhances well-being by creating a sense of anticipation about the future.
G. Various causes may lead to the optimistic bias, including cognitive and motivational factors.8
第三部分：书面表达（共两节，35 分）
第一节（15 分）
假如你是高三（1）班班长李华，请你给曾经在你们班交换学习的英国同学 Jim 写信，让他
录制一段视频为同学们加油，在考前班会上播放。邮件内容包括：
1.此次班会的目的；
2.对视频的要求（时长，内容......）。
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 Hua9
第二节（20 分）
探访北京老字号商铺，了解老字号时代变迁, 见证传统工艺与现代创意的结合(explore
time-honored businesses in Beijing; follow the businesses’ evolution and witness the combination
of traditional craftsmanship and modern designs)
图一：看到“北京印迹•北京老字号探访”活动介绍，积极报名
图二：在大栅栏地区参观老字号商铺，听历史文化研究者讲解老字号的历史（传统）
图三：参观内联升鞋店，感受传统工艺与现代创意的结合（现代）
图四：撰写报告，抒发感想
答案
一、语法填空
1. thankful 2. surviving 3. what 4. belief 5. where
6. has found 7. better 8. without 9. But 10. be edited
二、完形填空
11. A 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. D 16. B 17. D 18. A 19. A 20. B
21. C 22.A 23. B 24. D 25. C 26. B 27.C 28. D 29. C 30. A
三、阅读理解
31. D 32. B 33.C; 34. C 35. B 36. D 37. A 38.B 39. C 40. C
41. B 42. A 43. D 44. A 45. D
46. D 47. C 48. E 49. F 50. A
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