房山区2020-2021年高考第二次模拟测试
英语试题
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
Our cat was ready to give birth to her kittens. My son was curious and excited to e the birth of the new babies. The event took place yesterday. The cat ___1___(give) birth to one kitten by the time he arrived home from school. He was so amazed at ___2___ he saw. When the cond was on its way, the mother cat began to yell very loudly. I saw tears in my son’s eyes becau he learned about the pain of giving birth.
【答案】1. had given
2. what
【解析】
【分析】
这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲儿子看猫妈妈生小猫的事。
【1题详解】
考查时态。根据短语“by the time he arrived home from school”可知，此处应该用过去完成时，give的过去完成时形式是had given。故填had given。
【2题详解】
考查连接代词。分析句子可知，此处是一个宾语从句，需要填连词；saw缺少宾语，且根据文意看见的应该是猫生宝宝的事情，故用指物的连词what。故填what。
【点睛】by the time引导时间状语从句时，它对应的主句一般用完成时形式，例如第1小题：
The cat ________(give) birth to one kitten by the time he arrived home from school.
时间状语从句by the time he arrived home from school是一般过去时，故主句用过去完成时，give过去完成时形式是had given，故填had given。
B
Dave Tally has no home and few posssions. So, when he discovered an abandoned backpack ___3___$3,300 in it last week, the temptation (诱惑) to keep the money for ___4___ (he) must have been unbelievable. But he turned the money into the Tempe Community Action Agency, ___5___he volunteers. The organization found the source of the cash: a student who had planned to u the money ___6___ (buy) a ud car. The student was grateful to have the money ___7___(return). And word spread about Tally’s good deed.
【答案】3. with
4. himlf 5. where
农产品质量6. to buy 7. returned
【解析】
【分析】
这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述Dave Tally拾金不昧的行为。
【3题详解】
考查介词。分析句子结构可知，此处应该用介词，且表达“有”意义的介词是with。故填with。
【4题详解】
考查反身代词。由介词连开头的成语for可推出此处应该用代词宾格或反身代词，又因本句主语为疲劳驾驶的危害he，根据主语和宾语为同一人时，宾语用反身代词可知，此处应该用he的反身代词himlf。故填himlf。
【5题详解】
考查关系副词。分析句子结构可知，此处是定语从句，从句中缺少状语，用关系副词连接，先行词是the Tempe Community Action Agency，指地点，在后面的定语从句中作地点状语。故用关系副词where。故填where。
【6题详解】
考查不定式。句意：这个组织查明了钱的主人是一个学生，这个学生原本打算用这些钱买一辆二手车。分析句子结构可知，此处要用非谓语动词；根据句意，花钱的目的是买二手车，表目的用不定式。故填to buy。85年属什么生肖
【7题详解】
考查过去分词。句意：钱被还回来让这个学生很高兴。分析句子结构可知，此处要用非谓语动词作宾语补足语，return的逻辑主语money和它之间是被动关系，故用过去分词形式。故填returned什么犹如什么造句。
【点睛】歌颂祖国的歌曲本题第5空考查过去分词作宾补，在此结构中宾语与宾语补足语之间有着逻辑上的被动关系，所以宾语补足语由及物动词的过去分词充当。
The student was grateful to have the money ___5___(return).这个学生很感激他的钱被还回来了。
句中money和return在逻辑上是被动关系，故用returned作为money的宾语补足语。
C
The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. It usually ___8___ (fall) in October. In a mysterious book Yi Jing in ancient time, number ___9___ （think）to be “Yang”, ___10___（mean）positive. Becau the 9th day of the 9th lunar month is pronounced as “Jiu Jiu” in Chine, which means “forever”, the Chine ancestors considered it a lucky day worth celebration. That’s why ancient Chine began to celebrate this festival.
【答案】8. falls
9. was thought
10. meaning
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了重阳节的相关知识。
【8题详解】
考查时态。根据“usually”可知，此句用一般现在时，且主语时it第三人称单数，故谓语动词用三单现形式。故填falls。
9题详解】
考查时态和语态。根据“In a mysterious book Yi Jing in ancient time”（古时候一本神秘的书-易经）可知，此处用一般过去时，且主语number和谓语动词think之间是被动关系。故用被动语态的一般过去时形式 was/ were done。故填was thought。
【10题详解】
考查非谓语动词。分析句子可知，此处是用分词作伴随状语，动作mean的逻辑主语是number，逻辑主语发出这个动作，表主动，所以用现在分词。故填meaning。
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。
背影教案The Power of Kindness
Leo Kellner loves helping people in the sweetest way possible—by baking them cakes and pies. The 99-year-old man from Hastings, Nebraska, ___11___ his wife in 2012. They had been together for 72 years.
Since his wife pasd away, Kellner took up ___12___as a way to give back to the community. “I didn’t know what to do with mylf ,” Kellner said. “I was 国际工程管理___13___ all the time, and I thought I’d better do something that could make me get out of the ___14___and be good to the community as well, and that’s how it started.”
That first year, Kellner made 144 pies for people in need. He ___15___ community organizations to let them know he’d like to connect with families having a ___16___ time. Kellner then started reaching out to tho families, getting to know them, and baking up some lovely cakes and pies during their time of need.
What he did made him ___17___ known around the communities. And whenever people met him, they showed their ___18___ to him.
“I regard everybody as a ___19___— I love everybody even people that gave me an unpleasant time when things were going hard for me.
Born in 1918, Kellner lived ____20____ the Great Depression, when his family lost their farm. Kellner had to move from state to state as a teenager looking for possible ____21____ on farms to make a living. “I knew what it was to be ____22____ , and a lot of times we just had vegetables and flour mixed up together;” he said. “So as long as I can do it, I will lend a helping hand.”
