2019-2020学年三明十二中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 Plan Your Visit to the British Museum We've made a few changes to ensure you can safely enjoy your visit: How to book tickets ·Tickets for the permanent collection can only be hooked online in advance. ·To book tickets for exhibitions, visit our exhibition pages. If you want to guarantee your visit to the permanent collection as well as the exhibition on your visit, you will need to book a separate ticket. ·We are limiting numbers of people in the museum to ensure there is room for you to safely enjoy your visit. Everyone, including members and volunteers, will therefore need to book a free, timed ticket in advance. Important information about your ticket booking ·You can book up to six tickets for people who live in the same family. ·We will email yourticket to you, and you will need to show it either printed out or on your device (设备) when you arrive. ·Please arrive at the time stated on your ticket-we cannot guarantee admission before or after it. Following the route We have created a new one-way route through the museum which will allow you to safely explore world cultures from the Mediterranean to the Middle East and from the Americas to Africa. ·View a map of the route (Open in a new window). ·Our audio guides (音频指南) are not available. However, youcan pay to download the audio introductions from iTunes (Open in a new window) or Google Play (Open in a new window) to each of the galleries and listen on your own device. Please remember to bring along your own headphones. 1.Why does the museum offer timed tickets? A.To earn more money. B.To hire more volunteers. C.To save room for collections. D.To control the number of visitors. 2.How can a visitor learn about the new route in advance? A.View an online map. B.Buy a new headphone. C.Buy audio guides from the museum. D.Download video introductions from iTunes. 3.Where can you probably find the text? A.In a newspaper. B.In a magazine. C.On a website. D.In a report. B When I was 13, I lost my sight. Since then, I had learned to get about with a walking stick, but had to stay at home because my parents thought I would get lost or robbed, even get hit by a car. I, however, believed I could regain my way if I lost it. A neighbor told me that a public library was offering a free course designed for the blind. That's an important opportunity for me to kill two birds with one stone: I could practice my getting — about skills on my way to learning practical technology. My parentssettled forit. But how would I plan my course? I knew that the blind singer Ray Charles, get around without a walking stick by counting steps. But I couldn't seem to do that the way he had. I developed the power of my imagination, catching the layout（布局）of places I visited and taking note of landmarks in my mind. Every time I visited a place, the mental map I'd drawn would turn up and helped me with the direction. But that doesn't mean I didn't lose my way in the process of acquiring this skill. I'd have to swallow（吞下）my pride to ask kind strangersfor help. On those days I lost my way, I'd go to bed feeling down. But my desires to beat blindness and further my education were usually enough to get me out of bed the next day and try again. Today, I'm a published reporter and audio producer. Yes, I've lost my way at times and found it again. And when people ask me, "Aren't you afraid to be out on your own?” the answer to me is clear：I'd rather risk and find happiness than stick to safety and be painful. Now, impressed by my progress, my father told my mother, "Our boy can see!". 4. What does the underlined phrases “settled for" in the second paragraph mean? A. Talked about. B. Stuckto. C. Agreed to. D. Cared about. 5. How did the author go around on his own after losing his sight? A.He created pictures of places in his mind. B. He drew a map on the paper to help him. C. He was always asking strangers for directions. D.He threw away the walking stick and counted steps. 6. Which of the following can best describe the author? A. Determined and adventurous. B. Patient and intelligent. C. Warm-hearted and positive. D. Adventurous and outgoing. 7. How did the author's parents feel about his progress? A.Concerned. B. Surprised. C. Confident. D. Proud. C It’s a big change from homeless teen to Yale (耶鲁)medical school student, butperseverancepaid off for Chelesa Fearce of Clayton County, Georgia. Fearce was a fourth grader when her mom was diagnosed (诊断) with Lymphoma (淋巴瘤).That began a hard time for the family. They had to move in and out of shelters,hotels and even the family car. “I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her high school graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. “I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore. And that helped me get through,” she told WSBTV. Fearce was determined to be a good role model for her younger sister. She found inspiration in her late grandmother, struggling with deadly diseases, who gave Fearce emotional support. In her junior and senior year, Fearce took both high school and college courses, missing out on the free meals she depended on so she could get to her college classes. Despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night, she not only graduated as valedictorian (毕业生代表) of her 2013 class with a 4.5 grade average, but was also given a ride scholarship—including a meal plan to Spelman College in Atlanta. After graduation, she worked full time for two years at the National Institutes for Health inBethesda,Maryland,doing research on drugs. Last fall, she entered Yale and set a course to earn both a PhD and medical degree. 8. What does the underlined word “perseverance” in paragraph 1 refer to? A. instant passion. B. continuous efforts. C. great patience. D. selfless ambitions. 9. How did Fearce feel facing the sufferings? A. Sad and disappointed. B. Stressed and defeated. 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/47dbb4e0a900b52acfc789eb172ded630b1c986a.html