2019北京市西城区高三(上)期末英语.pdfVIP

2019 北京市西城区高三（上）期末 英 语 第一部分：知识运用（共两节， 45 分） 第一节 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 15 分） 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 For most of her life, Anna Mary Roberts worked very hard making a living on a farm. She began to paint (1) ______ her seventies. She displayed her artworks in her town at age eighty. The paintings (2) ______ (notice) by an art collector, (3) ______ recognized Anna ’ s remarkable talent. He bought all the paintings on display. Later, three of her paintings were exhibited in a well-known art museum in New York City. Soon, people around the world (4) ______ (hear) of Anna and her delightful artworks. People loved looking at the old-fashioned scenes that Anna had created. B Legos are popular with kids. But (5) ______ (make) them can hurt the environment. Why? Legos are made of plastic. The plastic is made from oil. That is a nonrenewable resource. Recently, Lego (6) ______ (introduce) earth-friendly pieces. They are made of plastic taken from sugarcane. That is a renewable material. The green pieces are part of a bigger plan for Lego. The company plans to use renewable materials in all its (7) ______ (toy) by 2030. The actions the company takes today can have an influence on the planet of tomorrow. C Many organizations try to inspire people (8) ______ (do) kind acts, wherever and whenever they can. The idea behind this is that it doesn ’ t take any major plan to be kind, just a little bit of effort. Perhaps the strongest