2020-2021学年上海市松江二中高级中学高三英语上学期期中考试试题及答案解析

2020-2021学年上海市松江二中高级中学高三英语上学期期中考试试
题及答案解析
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
The Middler
by Kirsty Applebaum
Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world. Her brother Jed is the eldest, a hero. Her younger brother is Trig—everyone loves Trig. But Maggie's just a middler；she is left behind. In this book, we experience the sadness of being the forgotten middle child, the child with no voice, even in her own family.
Dennis in Jurassic Bark
by Nigel Auchterlounie
Beanotown is in trouble again, and this time the danger is Jurassic! Dennis，latest adventure is filled with fun, including Vikings, Victorians and soon, along with puzzles for you to finish. Can you help Dennis save Beanotown from the prehistoric invasion?
Little Book for Big Changes
by Karen Ng and Kirsten Liepmann
Including more than 100 activities, try-outs, games, puzzles and tips,Little Book for Big Changesoffers fun and creative ways to bring people together to help change the world. Understand more about big problems in the world such as inequality and climate change, and be empowered to help make the world a better place.
The Saga of Erik the Viking
by Terry Jones
In this illustrated story, Erik the Viking sets out with his trusty team of men in search of the land where the Sun goes at night. On his journey, he will meet adventures that will put his courage to the test.
1. Who told a story about an unseen child in a family?
A. Terry Jones.
B. Kirsty Applebaum.
C. Nigel Auchterlounie.
D. Karen Ng and Kirsten Liepmann.
2. Which book is proper for kids who love prehistoric-related stories?
A.The Middler.
B.Little Book for Big Changes.
C.Dennis in Jurassic Bark.
D.The Saga of Erik the Viking.
3. What is special aboutLittle Book for Big Changes"!
A. It is about two people.
B. It is an adventure book.
C. It has picturesinside to help kids read.
D. It teaches kids to care for the world.
B
It’s a little before8 a.m. when Mathias Schergen pushes open the side door at Chicago’s Jenner Elementary Academy for the Arts. He walks down the hall toward the office to sign in. It’s the same routine he’s had as Jenner’s art teacher for nearly a quarter century. “It’s going to be a good day,” a colleague calls out. “It’s a good day.” They hug. It seems like a typical Friday. Except it’s not. After 23 years at Jenner Elementary, Schergen is retiring. Even on his last day, there are still art projects to finish.
Schergen leaves behind a richlegacyat this school. He’s won grants (拨款) for art projects. He turned an empty classroom into a museum. He’s pushed his students to make art about their lives. And he was awarded a Golden Apple — the most honorable teaching award in Chicago. But it wasn’t always easy. For years, Schergen taught in one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. “When I first got my room, I noticed there were bullet holes in the window. That made me nervous,” he says. So he stuffed Beanie Babies in the holes to make it “look kind of funny”. “I didn’t even tell my wife for a whole year,” he says. “I didn’t want her to know.”
With one hour to go, Schergen piles the chairs and sweeps the floor. He cleans out the sink for the last time. Fifth-grader Deontae Barnes, one of his best helpers, has watched him say goodbye all day. He wanders in the doorway. “Ah, come here, son,” Schergen says, signaling him over. He bends down for a hug. “Thank you for making these last days special and being a help to me.”
When Deontae leaves, a reporter asks Schergen: When your kids ask why you’re retiring, what do you tell them? “I just tell them that grown people have dreams too,” he says. “I have other things in my life I have to do. It’s time. It’s just time.”
4. Why is it a special Friday for Schergen?
A. He was retiring on that day.
B. He won an honor for his school.
C. He was interviewed by a reporter.
D. He received a Golden Apple award.
5. What does the underlined word “legacy” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Art projects.
B. Great achievements.
C. Respect from students.
D. Change in teaching.
6. What made Schergen nervous when he first got to the school?
A. Safety concerns in the school.
B. The poorly-equipped classroom.
C. Being misunderstood by his family.
D. Students’ poor academic performance.
7. What is the best title for the text?
A.A Typical Day for an Art Teacher
B. Time for Art Projects
C. A Teacher’s Final Day at School
D. The Last Art Class
C
Teenagers from low-income families in particular are more likely than their middle-class peers（同龄人）to do less well in schoolwork and to drop out of school. Studies have shown, however, that a positive attitude towards schoolwork and the support and encouragement from their parents can help at-risk youngsters to overcome the economic barriersand lack of resources they face. Most of the evidence about the effects of parental involvement （参与）comes from research on mothers. Little is known, however, about how teenagers experience their fathers’ warmth and the beliefs and behavior that are most affected by it.
This new study is part of a large one focusing on low-income families conducted in four middle schools in the southwestern United States. Researchers asked 183 sixth-graders about how optimistic and motivated they were about their school work, and how they experienced their fathers' warmth. The students' maths and language arts grades were also gained. The research team took into account the influence that mothers have on their children’s well-being in their analyses.
Their findings show how fathers can support their teenagers in ways that result in greater optimism and higher achievement at school. “Low-income fathers affect their teenagers’ beliefs about themselves and their future, and these beliefs influence their achievement by increasing their determination to complete school tasks, “says Dr, Marie-Anne.
These positive effects extend to both sons and daughters, although in different ways. Experiencing their fathers’ warmth first influences daughters’sense of optimism, and thenspills overinto their feeling more determined and certain about their academic abilities. This in turn leads to better maths grades. There is a more direct link between their fathers, love and boys' belief in their ability to succeed in academy.
8. What is more likely to happen to teenagers from low-income families?
A. They will be more determined to struggle.
B. They will have fewer happy things to share.
C. They will fail in their studies and quit school.
D. They will receive less love from their parents.
9. How is the new research different from the previous ones?
A. It only researches families in the north of America.
B. It only studies low-education families in the world.
C. It combines questionnaire data and students, grades.
D. It mainly focuses on the effects of fathers' involvement.
10. What can we know about fathers' warmth?
A. It is less effective than that of mothers.
B. It affects girls and boys in different ways.
C. It mainly applies to girls rather than boys.
D. It has a more direct effect on girls thanon boys.
11. Which of the following best explains "spills over" underlined in the last paragraph?
A. Spreads.
B. Changes.
C. Bursts.
D. Checks.
D
Global food demand will double by 2050, according to a new projection, and the farming techniques used to meet that unprecedented(空前的) demand will significantly determine how severe the impact is on the environment, researchers said.
The study researchers warned that meeting the demand for food would clear more land, increase nitrogen(氮) use and significantly add to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
“Agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions could double by2050 if current trends in global food production continue,” study researcher David Tilman, of theUniversityofMinnesota, said in a statement. “This would be a major problem, since global agriculture already accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions.”
The researchers studied various ways in which the increasing food demand could be mentioned. They found that the most environmentally friendly and cost-effective approach would be for more food producers to adopt the nitrogen-efficient “intensive” farming method, which involves the heavy use of labor and the production of more crops per acre.
This approach was shown to be more effective than the “extensive” farming currently practiced by many poor nations, a method that includes clearing more new land to produce more food.
Different farming methods produce significantly different yields, the researchers found — in 2005, the crop yields for the wealthiest nations were more than 300 percent higher than what the poorest nations produced.
According to their analysis of the effects of extensive farming, if poorer nations continue using this method, by 2050theywill have cleared an area larger than theUnited States, about 2.5 billion acres. However, if wealthy nations help poorer nations to improve food yields by incorporating(吸收) intensive farming practices, that number could be reduced to half a billion acres.
The researchers stress that the environmental effects of meeting future food demand depend on how global agriculture expands and develops.
“Our analyses show that we cansave most of the Earth’s remaining ecosystems by helping the poorer nations of the world feed themselves,” Tilman said.
12. What is the best title of this passage?
A. The World Will Need Double Food by 2050
B. Man Will Face the Risk of Lacking Food in the Future
C. Future Farmers Hold Environment’s Fate in Their Hands
D. Different Farming Methods Produce Significantly Different Yields
13. The character of the extensive farming is ________.
A. very cost-effective
B. to produce more crops per acre
C. at cost of more new land to produce more food
D. very environmentally friendly
14. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. poorer nations mainly use the intensive farming
B. wealthy nations mainly use the extensive farming
C. the intensive farming needs less food producers
D. the extensive farming has a worse effect on ecosystems
15. According to the passage, the underlined word “they” in the 7th paragraph refers to “________”.
A. poorer nations
B. the effects of extensive farming
C. wealthy nations
D.future food demand
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项
How to Write a Paragraph
Writing can seem likea challenge, but it doesn't have to be difficult! These suggestions will help you write a good paragraph in no time.
◆Planning Your Paragraph
Decide what the main topic of the paragraph is going to be. Before you begin writing your paragraph, you must have a clear idea of what the paragraph is going to be about.____16____Without a clear idea of what the main topic is, your paragraph will lack focus and unity.
___17___
Once you have a clearer idea of what you want to address in your paragraph, you can start organizing your thoughts by writing down your ideas. There's no need to write out full sentences. Just set down some key words and phrases.
Figure out how you want to structure your paragraph. Now that all of your thoughts, ideas, facts and figures are laid out clearly in front of you, you can start to think about how you want to structure your paragraph.____18____
◆Writing Your Paragraph
Write a topic sentence. The first sentence of your paragraph needs to be the topic sentence. A topic sentence is an introductory line that addresses what the main idea of the paragraph is going to be.____19____ Fill in the supporting details. Once you have written and are happy with your topic sentence, you can start to fill in the rest of your paragraph.____20____Make sure that each sentence connects with the next and that everything flows nicely as a whole.
Write a concluding sentence. The concluding sentence strengthens the idea outlined in your topic sentence and has all the weight of the evidence or arguments.
A. Write down information and ideas relating to that topic.
B. It should contain the most important point you wish to make about your topic.
C. To determine the exact topic of a paragraph, you should ask yourself some questions.
D. This is where the detailed, well-structured notes you wrote earlier will come in handy.
E. To achieve this, try to write clear, simple sentences that express what you want to say.
F. Consider each of the points you wish to make and try to arrange them in a proper order.
G. This is because a paragraph is basically a collection of sentences that all relate to one central topic.
第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项While getting into Harvard Law School is not easy for anyone, Rehan, a sanitation worker (环卫工人) from Bowie, Maryland, worked hard to achieve it. And he doesn’t take all the___21___either — he gives most of it to the people around him.
Whenhe was 8, his mother left the family and his father had to___22___to support it. Rehan’s grades dropped.___23___, his high school grades were so poor that he was___24___by many colleges. So he took a job at Bates Trucking and Trash (垃圾). For many people, getting the job would feel like a low point.___25___, for Rehan, it was a really___26___time when his life began to turn around.
“It was the first time in my life that people who weren’t my father or my brother really just___27___me to feel confident, told me I was___28___.” His coworkers urged him to go back to school, and the company owner, Brent Bates, helped him get___29___inBowieStateUniversity. Rehan earned a 4.0-grade point_____30_____and was able to go to theUniversityofMarylandfor further_____31_____.
During his junior year atMaryland, his father was ill. To_____32_____their family, Rehan had to return to work at Bates._____33_____dropping out of school, he woke each day at 4 a.m. to finish his_____34_____before class. He scored very well in his LSAT test, and_____35_____HarvardLawSchool. That school charges a high price. Luckily, the young man found another_____36_____. Carmie McCook, a communications coach, started a GoFundMe page to help him with the_____37_____. The goal was $75,000, but it rose to over $185,000 in_____38_____, which helped make his dream_____39_____. While most people heading toHarvardLawSchoolhave the grades and the financial support, Rehan just had his own_____40_____story to stand on — the same story that makes him an inspiration.
21. A. view B. credit C. emotion D. strategy
22. A. struggle B. compete C. organize D. suffer
23. A. Curiously B. Luckily C. Actually D. Obviously
24. A. investigated B. refused C. attracted D. preferred
25. A. Therefore B. Moreover C. However D. Anyway
26. A. amazing B. confusing C. plain D. anxious
27. A. recognized B. reminded C. forgave D. encouraged
28. A. smart B. worthwhile C. responsible D. unusual
29. A. admired B. registered C. promoted D. exchanged
30. A. challenges B. comments C. honor D. average
31. A. experiments B. contents C. studies D. arrangements
32. A. observe B. affect C. improve D. save
33. A. Because of B. Instead of C. Other than D. Rather than
34. A. work B. issue C. lecture D. summary
35. A. adapted to B. contributed to C. applied to D. referred to
36. A. partner B. volunteer C. master D. supporter
37. A. cost B. stress C. limit D. rent
38. A. accommodations B. donations C. sources D. means
39. A. work out B. fall apart C. come true D. give up
40. A. awkward B. graceful C. suitable D. painful
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft left Earth on Thursday on the year-long trip to the planet Mars. The launch marks the___41.___(begin) of one of China's most important space missions yet.
China's national space agency launched the spacecraft,___42.___(call) Tianwen-1, from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch area on Hainan Island. Hundreds of people were watching and cheering as it___43.___(send) into the sky. Once it begins orbiting the planet, a probe (探测器) will leave the spacecraft and attempt to reach the Utopia Planitia area of Mars. They say___44.___vehicle will explore the planet's surface for about three months.
A successful landing would make China only the second nation to place a spacecraft on the Martian planet. The USA___45.___(land) eight probes on Mars since 1976. China would also be the first to___46.___(successful) orbit, land and deploy (调动) a vehicle in the same mission.
This is China's first___47.___(independence) mission to Mars. A 2011 mission failed when a Russian rocket___48.___carried a Chinese orbiter had problems after launch, and was unable___49.___(escape) the Earth's orbit.
Last year, China's Chang e-4 spacecraft became the first to make a landing_____50._____the far side of the moon. The Tianwen-l is the third mission to Mars this year.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言
错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(◆)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下而写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

My mom's birthday is coming but I've been asking her for a while what she wants. Every time I asked her, she says that she's got everything she needs. So I've decided to make him a "photo book". It is book of photos. So I decide to do one calling "50 Things I Love about My Mom". To make the list, I've been asking my sisters what they love about our mom. And I've also been found accompanying photos from our albums to go along of it. There is one from my little sister, in that my mom was baking perfect and taste birthday cakes. Now I can't wait to getting it printed.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，为庆祝“七一”中国共产党成立一百周年，你校篮球队计划和实验中学篮球队举行一场友谊赛。

请给你的交换生朋友John写一封电子邮件，要点包括：
1.比赛目的；
2.比赛时间和地点；
3.邀请他观看比赛。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇:中国共产党the Communist Party of China
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. D
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. C 9. D 10. B 11. A
12. C 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. G 17. A 18. F 19. B 20. D
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. B 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. C 32.
D 33. B 34. A 35. C 36. D 37. A 38. B 39. C 40. D
41. beginning
42. called 43. was sent
44. the 45. has landed
46. successfully
47. independent
48. which/that
49. to escape
50. on
51.(1).but →and (2). asked →ask (3).him →her (4).book前加a (5).calling →called
(6).删除also后的been (7). of →with (8).that →which (9).taste →tasty (10).getting→get 52.略。