1、高三第一次联考英语试题 含答案2019-2020年高三2月第一次联考英语试题 含答案本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分，考试时间为100分钟。第一部分 阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑ANext year marks the 150th anniversary of when large numbers of Chinese started working on a huge project in the United States.
2、 They help to build Americas first transcontinental railroad between 1863 and 1869, connecting the East Coast with the West.People know little about the Chinese railroad workers and what happened to them after the project was finished. Stanford University in California wants to learn more about the
3、lives of these men by reaching out to their families.Bill Yees ancestors came from southern China. He said, “My great-great-grandfather came to America during thegold rushdays and he returned to China as a wealthy man. And then my great-grandfather came to work on the railroad and died there.” But t
4、hat did not stop his grandfather from coming to the US on false papers. He operated a laundry. Bill Yees father continued to run the business and has never returned to China.“Things were pretty bad in some parts of China in the 1860s. They came to America at all costs in order that they no longer ha
5、d to bear hunger,” Bill Yee said.Shelley Fisher Fishkin is helping to direct the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University. She said, “Many of the Chinese workers who came to work on the transcontinental and other railroads returned to China after their work was done a
6、nd created families there. Some of them settled in America and created new families, but they had families who they left when they came here and they may have descendants in China.”There is a need to create a record of the object and spoken history from the families of the railroad workers.“The US c
7、ould not have become the modern industrial nation without the railroads. And the railroads would not have come together without the work of these Chinese workers,” said Shelley Fisher Fishkin.1. What do you know about Bill Yee?A. His family was rich in the 1860s.B. His father settled in the USA.C. H
8、e knows little about his ancestors and hopes to know more.D. His grandfather came to America with his great-grandfather.2. According to Bill Yee, many Chinese went to America in the 1860s mainly . A. to run their own businesses B. to find their ancestorsC. to make a living D. to dig gold3. According
9、 to Shelley Fisher Fishkin, .A. the descendants of the Chinese railroad workers all live a good lifeB. they expect to find all the descendants of the Chinese railroad workersC. some Chinese railroad workers hope they can find their descendants in ChinaD. some Chinese railroad workers have descendant
10、s both in China and the US4. Why did Stanford University carry out the project? A. Because they want to help the Chinese railroad workers descendants to get together. B. Because they want to show the importance of Americas first transcontinental railroad. C. Because they want to learn more about how
11、 to build a railroad in the past in America. D.Because they want Americans to remember the Chinese railroad workers role in US history.BThe World Bank has looked at the distinguishing features of successful school system.According to the World Banks education specialist, Harry Patrinos, this include
12、: improving the quality of teachers and making sure that teachers are highly regarded; providing information to make schools accountable and giving autonomy to schools and head teachers.This matters not only for individual pupils but also for the well-being of countries, he says, because improving e
13、ducational performance has a direct impact on improving economic performance.Chinas education performance at least in cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong seems to be as spectacular as the countrys fast growing economy.Certainly both these open and outward-looking cities consider education to be im
14、portant and are willing to adopt the best educational practices from around the world to ensure success. In Hong Kong, education accounts for more than one-fifth of entire government spending every year.“Shanghai and Hong Kong are small education systems, with a concentration of ideas, manpower and
15、resources for education,” says Prof Cheng.Under the banner “First class city, first class education”, Shanghai set about systematically re-equipping classroom, upgrading schools and improving the curriculum in the last decade.It got rid of the “key schools” system which concentrated resources only o
16、n top students and top schools. Instead staff were trained in more interactive teaching methods and computers were brought in.About 80% of Shanghai school leavers go to university compared to an overall average of 24% in China. Meanwhile, dynamic Hong Kong was forced into educational improvements as
17、 its industries moved to cheaper mainland Chinese areas in the 1990s.Its survival as a service and management hub depends on upgrading knowledge and skills. In the last decade Hong Kong has concentrated on closing the gap for all students, says a report by McKinsey management consultants.The report,
18、 How the Worlds Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better, rated Hong Kongs education system among the best in the world.5. The World Banks survey about education mainly concentrates on . A. what has made some education systems successfulB. Chinas education system and competitive examsC. how
19、to relieve Chinese students of their heavy schoolworkD. the relationship between education and economic development6. According to Harry Patrinos, the key to successful school systems is .A. to give autonomy to all teachers to educate students freely in classB. to let students attend after-school tu
20、toring and do more exercisesC. to improve teachers abilities and give schools free performance rightD. to make school education directly serve the economy of the country7. We can learn from the text that .A. the “key school” system is the key to many schools failureB. students in Shanghai and Hong K
21、ong work the hardestC. Hong Kongs educational performance isnt as good as ShanghaisD. Shanghai and Hong Kongs economic performance will improve8. What is the authors attitude towards the school systems of Shanghai and Hong Kong? A. Negative. B. Positive. C. Neutral. D. Critical.CA ground-based syste
22、m that uses much stronger signals than GPS can find your location in cities and indoors. It is a new positioning system that could compete with GPS to make sure you never lose your directions again.Instead of satellites, Locata uses ground-based equipment to launch a radio signal over a localized ar
23、ea that is a million times stronger on arrival than GPS. It can work indoors as well as outdoors, and the makers claim the receivers can be shrunk to fit inside a regular cell phone. Even the US military, which invented GPS technology, signed a contract last month agreeing to a large-scale test of L
24、ocata at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. “This is one of the most important technology developments for the future of the positioning industry,” says Nunzio Gambale, CEO and co-founder of the firm Locata, based in Griffith, Australia.As for the Locatas accuracy, Christopher Morin of the
25、 US Air Force tested it recently at White Sands, and it worked to within 18 centimeters along any axis(轴). Morin says it should be possible to get the resolution down to 5 centimeters.Admittedly, the tests were performed in an open desert where GPS also works beautifully, but its signals are weak li
26、ke a car headlight from 20,000 kilometers away and easily blocked by solid objects. “Locatas signal is far stronger, though not guaranteed to work in a complex urban environment,” says David Last, consultant to the UKs General Lighthouse Authorities.“Locatas technology will face competition in the r
27、ace to transform indoor navigation. But it could shine in specific areas,” Gambale says. “Robots with Locata could easily navigate inside buildings without the complex optical systems they need at the moment. And process that handle precise location data could not only guide you around a mall, railw
28、ay station or airport, but also take you to the exact shelf in a shop for the product you want. The units small and cheap enough for smart phones should be available within five years a similar path to the one GPS took on its way towards world domination.”9. The passage is written mainly to .A. enco
29、urage people to buy the LocataB. tell us the disadvantage of the GPSC. introduce a new positioning system LocataD. tell us that Locata will replace GPS one day10. Which of the following is not true about Locata according to Paragraph 2? A. Without the help of the satellites, Locata can tell you wher
30、e you are. B. The US military has to test it before using it. C. Locata has a better signal than GPS. D. Locata can be fixed into smart phones only.11. Which of the following words can be used to replace the underlined word in Paragraph 4? A. accuracy B. speed C. determination D. length12. According
31、 to the passage, what can we know about Gambale? A. He did the experiment at White Sands.B. He is confident in Locata and think highly of it.C. He said that Locata could not work in a complex urban environment.D. He is worried about the competition that Locata faces.DEnergy independence. It has a ni
32、ce ring to it. Doesnt it? If you think so, youre not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American president for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession.“Energy independence” and its rhetorical (修辞的) companion “energy security” are, however, slippery concepts that are rarely through, though. What is it that we want independen
