2021届福州华侨中学高三英语上学期期中试卷及参考答案

2021届福州华侨中学高三英语上学期期中试卷及参考答案
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
We are proud to present a showcase for kid inventions from children chosen from the Kid's Forum at Blue Print Earth. We hope you enjoy the ideas expressed here and join us in supporting the next generation.
Eater of Natural Disasters
My invention cansave your home by sucking up all-natural disasters. The government will not own this machine, but by you so there will be no taxes on it. Order Now! The Eater of Natural Disasters will run on renewable batteries. It will cost 50 dollars to make and I will sell it for just $ 75.
Created by Matthew Szekeresh —Mt.WashingtonElementary, 5th Grade.
Pick-up-Pollution Bomb
My invention is called the Pick-up-Pollution Bomb. It will just pick up pollution and it won't hurt anything else like people, animals, property, playgrounds, and parks. The reason why I made it is that I think there is too much pollution on the Earth. It sells for $100 apiece, and if you buy this now, I will send you another one for free.
Created gratefully by Lauren Newberry — Mt. Washington Elementary, 5th Grade
Flying House
My invention is a home that will blast off in space. For example, if there were an earthquake people would immediately blast off, or if there were a flood it would take off. Only for $ 400.99.
Created by David Turner —Mt.WashingtonElementary, 5th Grade
Bug Robot
My invention is a robot that catches little bugs, eats little bugs, sucks up pollution, sucks up natural disasters, and turns them into food solving the problems of too many little bugs, natural disasters, pollution and starvation. My product is worth $500. My invention works on 2 triple — A batteries. And if you order one today I'll throw in 4 rechargeable triple-A batteries.
Created by Cassie Courtey —Mt.WashingtonElementary, 5th Grade
1. Why is the Flying House created?
A. To explore the space.
B. To clean the air.
C. To prepare people for earthquakes.
D. To help people escape from natural disasters.
2. Which invention can turn pollution into food?
A. The Bug Robot.
B. The Pick-up-Pollution Bomb.
C. The Flying House.
D. The Eater of Natural Disasters.
3. What can we infer about the four inventions?
A. They are very easy to build.
B. They are ideas from kids in the same school.
C. They are expensive but of practical use.
D. They are being used by people.
B
What about your emotions? How do they help you to understand what you are reading?
In Jane Yolan'sOwl Moon,a girl explores with her father on a snowy night. She longs for this special night.And she's amazed when she sees an owl.Have you felt longing before? Amazement? Well, if you have, it helps you have a sense of agreement. When we can put ourselves inside a story we can understand it better. Our brain tells us,"Oh, this girl's experience is a bit like mine."And boom! We can relate to her.But this skill is not born in us.So young kids have to learn it.
Pictures and images help young readers to understand and recognize feelings.Readers feel joy when seeing the smiling faces of friends.They feel fear when turning the page to find a scary monster. They are just pictures,but the feelings are real. This skill, to understand the thinking and feeling of others, is what researchers call "theory of mind".
For example, think about the faces of people and animals in stories. The Big Bad Wolf's scary teeth. The 'o' shape of a surprised character's mouth. Or big, wide eyes like the girl inOwl Moon.By noticing the faces,readers can start to figure out what it feels like to be that character.And that helps to figure out how people feel and think in real life.
But most young readers don't go into deep,scary woods.And some may not go to the beach or play basketball.In the bookYo!Yes?two kids meet and play ball. The kids start the story on opposite pages.But as the story goes on,they get closer until they are together.Some young readers might not play basketball, but they can read the clues on the page to figure out how the kids are feeling.And some readers might not like the game,but they can feel excited for the characters because of how the characters look and move.
4. What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.Owl Moontalks about the exploration of the Moon.
B. The feeling of"amazement"is a sense of agreement.
C. Readers are blessed with the ability to interpret others.
D. Readers with similar experience understand the story better.
5. Which of the following might help readers develop"theory of mind"?
A. True feelings.
B. Smiling faces.
C. Picture books.
D. Reading skills.
6. Young readers can go deeper into a story by________.
A. tracking the plot
B. developing new skills
C. sharing similar hobbies
D. analyzing the background
7. What is the text mainly about?
A. How thinking influences reading.
B. How readers improve reading skills.
C. How emotions help enhance reading.
D. How kids figure out the clues of stories.
C
To stay healthy and fit, Chinesestudents do group exercises every day at school. Most of you probably do the same set of exercises. But some school exercises have grown popular online due to their local and innovative designs.
Singing in Sichuan dialects with energetic movements and unique mask-changing is not just a Sichuan Opera performance. It’s the routine exercise for students of Mianyang Foreign Languages Experimental School in Sichuan province.
“Sichuan Opera is a local opera, and it is now facing a gap in inheritance (传承). Therefore, we cooperated with Mianyang Intangible Cultural Heritage Center to create a simple and easy-to-learn Sichuan Opera exercise,” said Shen Junhua, who is in charge of organizing the school’s exercise between classes.
According to Shen, this new type of exercise has been practiced since 2017 and has been popular among students. When students enroll (入学), they will spend several weeks practicing it. At present, almost all of the students and teachers have mastered it.
“In fact, we had hardly heard of Sichuan Opera before teachers taught us how to do the Sichuan Opera exercise,” said Li Yangwenwen, 14, an eighth grade student who also joined the school’s Sichuan Opera club out of interest. “It’s very different from normal exercises. After practicing it, we found it very beautiful and became interested in it. Now, almost all of the students look forward to our daily exercise time and feel excited to do it.”
“By combining opera with daily exercise, the daily class activity allows students to perceive and understand Sichuan Opera’s culture”, Shen said. “After years of continuous effort to spread the seeds of traditional culture, the younger generation is finally catching on.”
8. What do students in Shen’s school do during the group exercise?
A. They do normal exercise .
B. They sing pop songs in Sichuan dialects.
C. They do mask-changing in a Sichuan Opera performance.
D. They combine group exercise with Sichuan Opera.
9. Why do they adopt the new type of exercise?
A. To attract new students to the school.
B. To inherit local culture.
C. To create an easy-to-learn exercise.
D. To make the school’s group exercise popular.
10. How do teachers and students react to the group exercise?
A. Calm.
B. Indifferent.
C. Enthusiastic.
D. Uninterested.
11. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Shen’s continuous effort is highly praised.
B. The younger generation will have a stronger body.
C. The students can better understand their local culture.
D. Students help to spread the seeds of traditional culture toyounger generation.
D
After almost an entire year of not going shopping and vacationing, you find the numbers reflected by your bank account meet your heart's desire.
Now the most important question comes, what to do with the earnings? Should you fulfill dreams of the present, invest in preserving the future or perhaps keep saving it for a rainy day?
Our elders always try to teach us the value of money and its moral weakness. One may be on a winning streak（连续成功）now，but it will not always be so. One will have days when there will be no sunshine but only rain. and their luck will hide behind those thick grey clouds. Save for those rainy days,they say.Do not spend too much,live within a budget,refrain fromcredit no matter how small and save for the future.
Since the very first time we earn our own money from a summer job or earning our first salary, the lessons start. In fact, the pocket money that we receive when we are children begins the process of learning how to best manage one's money.
People often think like this-one day when I have enough money, I will travel the world. Then, once we do earn enough money, tomorrow's plans start shadowing our present ones. However, is it wise to keep living for that future? Will we still enjoy or even be able to backpack in -our 50s? How will we ever enjoy our present if we are constantly living for the future?
Good questions, aren't they? 1 say travel but don' t let yourself run dry, treat yourself to some luxuries but also keep enough for your necessities, and enjoy your present but with a plan for the foreseeable future.Life is for the living. so live it sensibly.
12. Why do elders teach us to save money?
A. Because there are more rainy days in life.
B. Because no one can win streak.
C. Because good days may end.
D. Because money can't buy everything.
13. What does the underlined phrase "“refrain from" mean in Paragraph 3?
A. select from
B. hold back
C. rely on
D. prefer to
14. What can we infer from the passage?
A. We should enjoy ourselves at the right time.
B. We should wait to travel until we have enough money.
C. We should live for the future no matter what.
D. We should enjoy ourselves to the fullest when we have money.
15. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Money is something but not everything.
B. One should save for rainy days.
C. Live in the moment before you live for the future.
D. Live the present wisely for your life.
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
A Great Wayto Teach Children to Take Responsibility
As parents, one of the most important things to teach children to take responsibility is to include chores as a part of their daily routine. In order to make a family function smoothly, every member must contribute. Teaching your children to take responsibility at an early age makes it easier for them to shoulder greater responsibilities as
they grow older.
___16___If your children leave their crayons lying on the table after drawing, picking up those crayons is not a chore. It is cleaning up a mess they have created.___17___
___18___. For example, if it is to feed the dog every day, make sure the children understand that if they fail in their responsibility, the dog will go hungry.
Make rewards and punishments a part of the lesson. Together decide whether they will be rewarded or not.___19___Some parents make their reward a monetary payment, while others choose to reward with certain privileges, such as extra television viewing time.
Children need to be taught that there are punishments for their actions in case of not doing their assigned chores. Decide and agree from the start what the punishment will be.
Teaching your children the importance of contributing to the family is of great importance.___20___By taking this step, you have done a wonderful thing for your children by providing them with life skills they can take with them into society.
A. A chore is a specific task a child has been assigned which helps improve the life of the entire family.
B. And what punishment they will receive if a chore isn’t done.
C. Actually you are taking a critical step in empowering them for their future.
D. Start by teaching children the difference between a chore and cleaning up after themselves.
E. Teach children the importance of each assignment, and why it matters.
F. Children will not be rewarded at all for merely cleaning up.
G. And if so, what the reward will be for a job well done.
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Every Saturday night my family and I go out and feed the homeless people in the city ofOrlando. There are hundreds of people across the city without any___21___or shelter. We have been doing this for several months. We wanted to see what it was like in the___22___of a homeless person .
One special thing I like to___23___is, my family and I do not eat before we begin our___24___so we know how it feels to be___25___All of the areas we go to are very___26___, such as Parramore,Gore Streetand downtownOrlando. We all get together in the___27___and prepare the food. Some of the meals are sandwiches and cookies and a bottle of water. Sometimes my mom___28___a steaming hot delicious meal. We then___29___them all up to feed 30 or more people. I like to write special____30____on the bag like , “God loves
you”.
Before my family and I get into the car , we ask God for protection in a family prayer. A lot of people____31____homeless people. Not all homeless people are drug addicts or____32____people. Some are____33____nice. Some of them just had bad things that____34____to them.
At first, we had to earn their trust, because a lot of people are____35____to them for no good reason. But now that they see us every week they____36____us. We even know some of their names. We all have to remember that these are people that have____37____
Some of them shake our hands for giving them food. Some of them do really funny dances because they are happy.
After we finished feeding the homeless, it makes me____38____what I have at home. Sometimes it makes me sad, and makes my mom____39____. I love feeding the homeless, and making a(n)____40____in someone’s life.
21. A. power B. strength C. experience D. food
22. A. belief B. plan C. life D. dream
23. A. mention B. charge C. expect D. gain
24. A. collection B. journey C. holiday D. investigation
25. A. curious B. separate C. tense D. hungry
26. A. dangerous B. tidy C. busy D. peaceful
27. A. birthday B. kitchen C. field D. restaurant
28. A. eats B. buys C. prepares D. serves
29. A. break B. give C. use D. bag
30. A. notes B. poems C. novels D. articles
31. A. arrest B. misunderstand C. save D. adopt
32. A. patient B. active C. bad D. careless
33. A. finally B. luckily C. barely D. really
34. A. happened B. owed C. led D. added
35. A. interesting B. mean C. familiar D. unusual
36. A. trust B. respect C. forgive D. relax
37. A. tasks B. goals C. feelings D. methods
38. A. accept B. require C. spend D. appreciate
39. A. fight B. cry C. complain D. argue
40. A. experiment B. fortunate C. difference D. report
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
The Yellow River is the second longest river in China with___41.___length of 5,464 kilometers. It originates from the mountains in Qinghai and flows right across China into the Bohai Sea. The river___42.___(get) the name Yellow River because of the yellow mud___43.___ the river carries down from the desert into the sea. As we all know, Chinese civilization was born on the shores of the Yellow River. It is said that the Yellow Emperor, one of China’s most ancient tribal leaders, was born here. Even today Chinese people all over the world still___44.___ (proud) call themselves the descendants of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor.
For thousands of years the river___45.___(admire) by literary giants, artists, as well___46.___the common people. It is no exaggeration to say that the river is a melting pot,___47.___there are many branches and countless streams feeding___48.___(it) way through the course. The Yellow River breaks barriers and flows into the broad plain___49.___(form) the cradle of Chinese civilization. It has stood all the test of almost all kinds of difficulties and finally created the continuous Chinese civilization. Rich cultural relics, history and gorgeous natural scenery make the river a fine place to visit. Along the river there are dozens of worthwhile____50.____(attract).
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.短文改错
Among all the European cities, I love Paris more. Paris is known for the world center of culture and fashion. You may find many famous museum there, the most famous of them is Louvre (卢浮宫).
Louvre dated back to the l2th century, which used to be a royal palace. It is said that it has a collection of roughly 400 thousand of artworks, paintings and sculptures including. In front of the museum is a glass pyramid designed by Bei Yuming. That makes Louvre famous is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
It is a pity that not all the collections are opened to the public, but Louvre is well worth paying a visit.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Jim发来邮件询问你升入高中后遇到的最大挑战是什么。

请给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1.感谢Jim的关心；
2.最大挑战及应对策略；
3.向Jim征求建议。

注意：1.词数80左右；开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Jim,
Glad to hear from you.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. D
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. A
7. C
8. D 9. B 10. C 11. C
12. C 13. B 14. A 15. D
16. D 17. A 18. E 19. G 20. C
21. D 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. B 28. C 29. D 30. A 31. B 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. B 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. C
41. a 42. gets
43. which/that
44. proudly
45. has been admired
46. as 47. because
48. its 49. forming
50. attractions
51.(1).more→most；
(2).for→as；
(3).museum→museums；
(4).them→which；
(5).dated→dates；
(6).去掉thousand后的of；
(7). including→included；
(8).That→What；
(9). opened→open；
(10).在visit后加to 52.略。