2021年淄博市淄川第一中学高三英语期中考试试卷及答案

2021年淄博市淄川第一中学高三英语期中考试试卷及答案
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
I started working with my hands at a young age. The youngest of five brothers, I took on the role as a “maintenance (维修) man” at an early age for our family’s small grocery store. Often my dad wouldn’t give me a clear idea of how something shouldbe done, so I just had to figure it out by researching or through trial and error.
Fast forward to 2016 and those problem-solving skills would become the focus of Tippecanoe High School’s Homebuilding class. I knew I wanted to teach the students skills that went beyond just being able to hammer nails or cut pieces of two-by-fours. The problem was that we didn’t have the resources at the time to do much else. The idea of attracting some type of funding seemed very important. Designing, building and selling a tiny house on wheels seemed like the perfect project to accomplishthe task. I reached out to a number of local businesses and most of them responded with the greatest support for what x k w we were doing.
This year we added a new element to the program. Through one of our partners, we were able to connect with the nonprofit Veteran’s Ananda Incorporated. Students in the Homebuilding class are leading the design and production of micro houses to be donated to this organization. The new partnership gives the students another focus to consider when designing and building the houses.
There has been no shortage of students since our first year. Three years ago we had 41 students, the next 191, and this year it was limited to just over 160 students so we could have a safe and manageable classroom environment. The number of girls taking the class has risen steadily over the last few years as well. This class offers something for everyone and the skills are universal.
1. How can we describe the young author?
A. He opened a small grocery store.
B. He did a lot of research in the lab.
C. He enjoyed doing hands-on activities.
D. He learnt about maintenance from his father.
2. What do the underlined words “the task” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Getting some financial support.
B. Selling a tiny house on wheels.
C. Reaching out to many local businesses.
D. Offering the students some problem-solving skills.
3. What can be inferred about the Homebuilding class from the last paragraph?
A. Its size needs increasing.
B. Itis popular with the students.
C. It has caused some safety concerns.
D. Its classroom environment is hard to manage.
B
Larry was on another of his underwater expeditions(探险)but this time, it was different. He decided to take his daughter along with him. She was only ten years old. This would be her first trip with her father on what he had always been famous for.
Larry first began diving when he was his daughter’s age. Similarly, his father had taken him along on one of his expeditions. Since then, he had never looked back. Larry started out by renting diving suits from the small diving shop just along the shore. He had hated them. They were either too big or too small. Then, there was the instructor. He gave him a short lesson before allowing him into the water with his father. He had made an exception. Larry would never have been able to go down without at least five hours of theory and another similar number of hours on practical lessons with a guide. Children of his age were not even allowed to dive.
After the first expedition, Larry’s later diving adventures only got better and better. There was never a dull moment. In his black and blue suit and with an oxygen tank fastened on his back, Larry dived from boats into the middle of the ocean. Dangerous areas did not prevent him from continuing his search. Sometimes, he was limited to a cage underwater but that did not bother him. At least, he was still able to take photographs of the underwater creatures.
Larry’s first expedition without his father was in the Cayman Islands. There were numerous diving spots in the area and Larry was determined to visit all of them .Fortunately for him, a man offered to take him around the different spots for rry didn’t even know what the time was, how many spots he dived into or how many photographs he had taken.The diving spots afforded such a wide range of fish and sea creatures that Larry saw more than thirty varieties of creatures.
Larry looked at his daughter. She looked as excited as he had been when he was her age. He hoped she would be able to continue the family tradition. Already, she looked like she was much braver than had been then. This was the key to a successful underwater expedition.
4. In what way was this expedition different for Larry?
A. His daughter had grown up.
B. He had become a famous diver.
C. His father would dive with him.
D. His daughter would dive with him.
5. What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?
A. Larry had some special right.
B. Larry liked the rented diving suits.
C. Divers had to buy diving equipment.
D. Ten-year-old children were permitted to dive.
6. What can be learned from the underlined sentence?
A. Larry didn’t wear a watch.
B. Larry was not good at math.
C. Larry had a poor memory.
D. Larry enjoyed the adventure.
7. What did Larry expect his daughter to do?
A. Become a successful diver.
B. Make a good diving guide.
C. Take a lot of photo underwater.
D. Have longer hours of training.
C
When Rich Jean wanted to help his daughter, Abigail, learn to read, he took her to the library near their home in Brooklyn, N. Y. That's where they met Hasina Islam, who Jean says arose her interest in reading and the library.
“You see what you started? You see that spark that you put in this child?” Jean told Hasina Islam at aStoryCorpsconversation in 2016. At the time, Abigail was 7 and Islam was 27. Their friendship began when Abigail was 3. Through the years, Islam has offered book suggestions that Abigail has read with great enthusiasm. “What's cool is that Hasina has recommended a lot of books that I, at the time, thought might be a little too advanced for you," Jean told Abigail. “Like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Abigail said.
Islam's own love of the library was sparked when she was in the third grade. She lived near the main branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City, and she went there to research Henry Hudson, an English explorer, for a school project.
"The librarian made me feel so special. She remembered my name, and my favorite thing was that she gave me book recommendations," she said." When I was graduating from college, I thought about how I was going to make a difference in the world. And I remembered my librarian，and I remembered that feeling that she gave me every single time I went to the library. ”
8. When might Abigail and Hasina Islam first meet?
A. In 2012.
B. In 2016.
C. In 2018.
D. In 2020.
9. What do we know about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from the text?
A. It was Islam's favorite book.
B. It might be hard for Abigail.
C. It was a best seller at that time.
D. It was important for Abigail.
10. How did Hasina Islam help Abigail?
A. By offering books to her.
B. By reading together with her.
C. By giving advice on books.
D. By introducing great libraries.
11. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. Islam's special college life.
B. Islam's working experiences.
C Islam's living conditions. D. Islam's reasons for loving library.
D
Mark Bertram, 46, lost the tips of two fingers at work in 2018 when his hand became trapped in a fan belt. “It's life-changing but it's not life-ending,” he says. “Doing work is harder now. Everything is just a little different.”
After two surgeries and occupational therapy, Bertram decided to make light of his condition by asking Eric Catalano, a tattoo (纹身) artist, to create fingernail tattoos. The idea made everyone in the studio laugh—until they saw the final result. “The mood changed,” Catalano recalls from his Eternal Ink Tattoo Studio. “Everything turned from funny to wow.”
When Catalano posted a photo of the tattoos, a pair of fingernails that looked so real that no one could believe their eyes, he had no idea the image would eventually be viewed by millions of people around the world.
The viral photo pushed Catalano, 40, further into the world of paramedical (辅助医疗的) tattooing. Now people with life-altering scars come from as far away as Ireland to visit his shop. They enter Eternal Ink looking for the artistic healing they saw online. Using flesh-toned (肉色的) inks and a needle, Catalano transforms his clients' view of themselves.
Leslie Pollan, 32, a dog breeder in Oxford, was bitten on the face by a puppy in 2014. She underwent countless surgeries to correct a scar on her lip.
“Plastic surgery gave me no hope,” she says. “So I looked for other options.” She ultimately traveled six hours to meet with Catalano. He hid Pollan's lip scar, giving her back a piece of her confidence.“ You don't understand until you've been through it,” Pollan says. “It made me have a different look on life.”
Catalano performs up to eight reconstructive tattoos. While he charges $100 per regular tattoo, he doesn't
charge for paramedical tattoos. “Financially, it doesn't make sense,” Catalano says. “But every time I see that emotion from my customers, I'm 100 percent sure this is something that I can't stop doing.”
12. What best describes people's attitude when first hearing of fingernail tattoos?
A. Indifferent.
B. Ridiculous.
C. Confident.
D. Surprised.
13. What did Catalano do to help Leslie Pollan?
A. He drew an artistic puppy.
B. He inked scars on her face.
C. He created a lip tattoo.
D. He performed plastic surgeries on her.
14. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Cosmetic surgery is of no use.
B. Tattoos earn Mark Bertram a good fame.
C. Catalano is a kind and generous person.
D. Fingernail tattoos are popular around the world.
15. What could be the best title for the text?
A. A Life-changing Event
B. Miracle Tattoos
C. An Amazing Artist
D. A Promising Business
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Do you ever walk out of a room with an idea in your head, only to discover moments later that it's gone? 1f so, don't worry: it's a very common experience.___16___
The problem is often caused by "event boundaries".___17___They make you believe that a particular mental task is over.
Tests have proved that we're much more forgetful when we move from one location to another.___18___It's because anything that seems like the end of a task — closing a study book, finishing a phone call, taking a cake out of the oven — can have the same effect. Within seconds, much information in your mind has disappeared.
___19___First, stop telling your brain that its work is done. This can be as simple as leaving a book open instead of putting it back on the shelf. Second, create clues to carry with you across any unavoidable event boundary. Notice when these end-points are coming up, and spend a moment improving your memory.
If possible, say the key points out loud: the job you're walking off to do in the next room, for example, or the plans you've just made on the phone. We actually know memory depends on imagery. ___20___ Every day you're faced with event boundaries that may restrict your recall. But by avoiding them when you can,and disguising them when you can’t, you'll find that much less of your learning gets lost.
A.But here's how to fight back.
B.So picture the details you want to keep.
C.Many of us don't know how to deal with it properly.
D.These are what your memory uses to stop remembering.
E.And scientists believe that we can explain and approach it.
F.But the same happens when we go from one activity to another, too.
G.And only in this way can we overcome event boundaries successfully.
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Last July 4th, three police officers went into a supermarket to get something cold to drink.
Once inside, the cops were___21___by a store security guard who asked for___22___with a suspected thief. The woman in question didn’t have the look ofan___23___criminal. She was obviously scared, and her cheeks were wet with___24___.
The cops looked___25___her bag. “We just saw containers of___26___. Nothing else,” Mike told CBS New York.
“I’m hungry,” she explained___27___.
Being caught, the woman no doubt expected to be taken to jail for the___28___of being hungry while poor.___29___the cops had other ideas. “We’ll___30___for her food,” Sojo told the___31___security guard.
The three men had no discussion at all. It went___32___. Instead, each of them___33___out 10 dollars to pay the tab. She would not be arrested today.
The woman wept in___34___. Drying her eyes with a kerchief, she___35___, “Thank you, thank you.”
She wasn’t the only one touched by this act of___36___. “It was a very beautiful,___37___moment,” says Paul, who was at the store. He was so___38___by what he’d seen that he posted aphoto on Twitter for all to see.
But attention was___39___what the officers wanted. They were driven by a far more common emotion. As Sojo told CNN, “When you look at someone’s face and see that they need you and they’re actually hungry, it’s pretty___40___as a human being to walk away from something like this.”
21. A. questioned B. examined C. approached D. required
22. A. help B. information C. permission D. trouble
23. A. unskilled B. experienced C. intelligent D. active
24. A. paint B. water C. rain D. tears
25. A. outside B. inside C. around D. down
26. A. food B. fruit C. drinks D. sweets
27. A. anxiously B. shamelessly C. fearfully D. angrily
28. A. action B. mistake C. habit D. crime
29. A. And B. But C. So D. Still
30. A. pay B. look C. apologize D. account
31. A. annoyed B. excited C. surprised D. confused
32. A. unchanged B. uninformed C. unsaid D. uncalled
33. A. took B. brought C. worked D. pointed
34. A. delight B. sorrow C. regret D. gratitude
35. A. recalled B. repeated C. responded D. requested
36. A. thinking B. choosing C. sharing D. caring
37. A. brave B. genuine C. painful D. terrible
38. A. moved B. amazed C. bored D.influenced
39. A. sometimes B. finally C. never D. always
40. A. simple B. natural C. complex D. difficult
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
From the first day I arrived in Kunming, I had my understanding of China____41.____(change). Far from being narrow-minded and hostile to____42.____(foreign)，people came up to talk to me the first time I went out on the street. It happened to be all in Chinese, so I didn’t understand much,____43.____it did cause me to rethink my assumptions.
As my Chinese improved, this continued throughout my stay, from my landlord introducing me to people who could help us learn Chinese to____44.____(get) to know the couple who ran a noodle restaurant nearby.
If you’re interested in other people, their culture, and their language, they’ll be____45.____(friend) to you. China isn’t____46.____exception. Don’t judge a country by its media coverage,____47.____(especial) some Western
media, which have much prejudice.
I saw a very different kind of China with my own eyes. Kunming,____48.____I lived for most of my stay, wasn’t much polluted. I had frank conversations with Chinese people about almost everything. Still China is developing，but the economic____49.____(grow)means that most people_____50._____(see) their living standards improve rapidly in the last 20 years. People I spoke with were generally optimistic about the future.
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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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。

Li Jin is my classmate and she is also my best friend. Every time when I think of the relay race, I cannot help be moved by her courage and enthusiasm. Li Jin and I participated a relay race held by our school. During the race, she accidental fell down. What's worst, she injured her leg or couldn't stop bleeding. To everyone's surprised, she struggled to her feet and continues running to the finish line. Everyone was moved by her will. Although we lost a race in the end, we still got the warmest applause(鼓掌).From her I learn that whenever we run into difficulty, all she need is an iron will—the secret to success.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你受学生会委托为校宣传栏“英语天地”写一份倡议书，题目为：Reduce screen time to protect our eyesight。

内容包括：
1.分析现状；
2.提出建议。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear fellow students,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
The Students’ Union
参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. A
8. A 9. B 10. C 11. D
12. B 13. C 14. C 15. B
16. E 17. D 18. F 19. A 20. B
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. B 26. A 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. A 31. C 32.
C 33. A 34.
D 35. B 36. D 37. B 38. A 39. C 40. D
41. changed
42. foreigners
43. but 44. getting
45. friendly
46. an 47. especially
48. where 49. growth
50. have seen
51.(1).去掉when (2). be→being (3). accidental→accidentally (4). worst→worse (5). or→and
(6). surprised→surprise (7). continues→continued (8).running→to run (9). a→the (10). she→we
52.略。