2021年宜宾市第二中学高三英语期中试题及参考答案

2021年宜宾市第二中学高三英语期中试题及参考答案
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
Four Best Hikes in the World
There's nothing like getting out and getting some fresh air on a hike. No matter whether your idea of a hike is a leisure walk or climbing the highest mountain on Earth, we've got you covered. Below are four best hikes inthe world.
Torres del Paine W Circuit
Location (位置): Patagonia. Chile
Distance: 37 + miles
Time: 5~6 days
Best time to go: October to January
The W Circuit is one of the most recommended hikes you'll find. Not only will you appreciate the diverse landscapes and striking granite pillars (花岗岩柱子), but you'll probably meet some new friends along the way.
Grand Canyon Rim - to - Rim Hike
Location: Arizona, the United States
Distance: 48 miles
Time: 1~3 days
Best time to go: May to June, September to October
There's no better way to experience one of the greatest wonders in the world. Located in one of the USA's most beautiful parks, the views are ly appealing. Just make sure you're prepared for the challenge.
Trek to Petra
Location: Jordan
Distance: 47 miles
Time: 5~ 6 days
Best time to go: October to April
Take the road less traveled through the Kingdom of Jordan and experience one of the seven wonders of the world. Hike through canyons, gorges and ridges, and see tombs and temples along the way all while avoiding
crowds of tourists.
Yosemite Grand Traverse
Location: California, the United States
Distance: 60 miles
Time: 6~7 days
Best time to go: July to September
Known for some of the best hiking in the world, Yosemite National Park is famous for its views and huge sequoia (红杉) trees. Praised byNational Geographic, the Yosemite Grand Traverse will take you through waterfalls and green mountaintops.
1.Which of the following is the best time for the hike in Patagonia, Chile?
A.April
B.May
C.August
D.December
2.Where should you go for a less crowded hike?
A.Jordan
B.Patagonia, Chile
C.Arizona, the United States
D.California, the United States
3.What can you do along the Yosemite Grand Traverse?
A.Plant sequoia trees
B.Appreciate waterfalls
C.Visit local temples
D.Climb granite pillars
B
The headmaster of a primary school showed on television to support her idea that parents should “dress appropriately in daywear” when they drop off and pick up their kids from school.
Kate Chisholm, head teacher atSkerneParkAcademyin Darlington, theU.K., sent a letter home asking parents to set a better example for their children.
“I have noticed there has been an increasing tendency for parents to drop off and pick up their kids from school while still wearing their pajamas (睡衣),” Chisholm wrote.“Could I please ask that when you are sending your children, you take the time to dress appropriately in daywear that is suitable for the weather conditions?”
Kate Chisholm wants parents at her school to dress nicer. She appeared on British television station ITV to further explain her decision, saying she had started noticing the pajama trend had been picked up by “30 or 40” parents at school.
Despite her determination to make school a nicer place to be, Chisholm admits that she can't demand that parents dress up-such as Karen Routh, 49, who wore pajamas to drop off her 8-ycar-old daughter Holly, because
she was running late and didn't feel well.
“I imagine there might be some people who keep up wearing pajamas for the next six months to prove a point,” Chisholm said. “I can't force people to get dressed but I will keep sending letters home in the hope that they decide to put on a pair of jeans.”
Wearing pajamas in public has also become a hot issue for some schools and States in theU.S.In 2015, aFloridaschool board member insisted on a dress rule for parents who showed up in the school in sleepwear.
4. The headmaster asks parents to pay attention to ______.
A. the way they dress
B. the relations with teachers
C. the way they treat their kids
D. the clothes they buy for their kids
5. How does Chisholm try to change this situation?
A. Asking kids to set examples.
B. Keeping them out of school.
C. Sending letters to persuade them.
D. Forcing them to change by laws.
6. Why did Kate Chisholm appear on ITV?
A. She wanted to force Karen to dress properly.
B. Parents spent less time on their clothes.
C. She wanted to explain her decision about the parents' dress.
D. She wanted to tell us more and more parents wear pajamas to school.
7. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______.
A. strict laws should be passed to stop pajamas
B. aFloridaschool will force parents to wear jeans
C. people wearing pajamas in public will be punished
D. more and more people are concerned about dressing properly in public
C
As one of the world’smost popular cultural mediums, cinema is at the leading position at the Taihu World Cultural Forum(论坛), an annual event that aims to improve cultural exchanges. So far this year, Chinese box office has already topped 58 billion yuan, the China Film Administration said. This indicates that China, the world’s
second-largest movie market, is closing the gap with the United States, the world’s top cinema market.
Cao Yin, director of the program center at China Movie Channel, said that China has 67,000 cinema screens. the most of any country, and the number is expected to increase to 80,000 by the end of next year. Saying that China has signed coproduction agreements with 22 countries (including the United States, Canada, Japan. India etc.) ,Cao added it has deepened cinematic exchanges between Chinese filmmakers and their foreign counterparts (同行).
With the country’s huge native market, which produced more than 1,000 films in 2019, Hong Kong director Stanley Tong said he believes foreign filmmakers will increasingly seek cooperation with China. “International coproduction will become an important platform to send Chinese stories oversea and give us a broader vision of creation,” Tong said.
Recently, over 80 percent of the world’s top 100 highest box-office titles have been action films. Tong said the films, in which plots are basically secondary to shining stunts (特技), is one of the easiest ways to appeal to foreign audiences. But it has been a decades-long struggle for Chinese filmmakers to sell their stories overseas. When asked what kinds of Chinese films would have the most global appeal. Yan Zhaozhu, chairman of the Taihu World Cultural Forum, said stories that address universal issues, such as environmental protection and climate change, are perhaps the best options.
8. What is the purpose of the Taihu World Cultural Forum?
A. To strengthen cultural exchanges.
B. To build more cinemas in China.
C. To invite more tourists to Taihu.
D. To attract more international investment.
9. What can we infer about Cao Yin’s opinion in Paragraph 2?
A. Chinese box office has already overtaken the United States so far
B. The screens of Chinese cinemas will be world-leading in the future
C. China has signed the most coproduction agreements with other countries
D. There will be more and more cooperations between Chinese filmmakers and other countries.
10. How do Chinese filmmakers feel about selling their movies to the world right now?
A. Easy.
B. Disappointed.
C. Challenged.
D. Confused.
11. What is the best title for the text?
A. Box Office: Unclear Future
B. China: Top Second Movie Market
C. Cinema: The Leading Cultural Position
D. Chinese Filmmakers: Severe Competition Situation
D
Elizabeth Bishop is considered one of the best American poets of the 20th century. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911. Her dad died when she was just a baby and her mom never recovered from the loss. She went to live with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, Canada when she was five. Eventually Bishop attended Vassar College, where she began to write poetry.
At Vassar she discovered Marianne Moore's poetry and met Ms Moore and began their life-long friendship. She later met poet Robert Lowell. She wrote tons and tons of letters to both of them, which is good for us because we would otherwise know very little of her personal life.
Bishop published her first book of poetry in 1946 and wrote until her death in 1979. She would spend years working on a single poem. Her poems are not the result of hasty scribbling (匆忙乱写) on paper while eating breakfast. She would look through drafts of poems again and again and improve them until they were as close to perfect as she could get them.
Reading Elizabeth Bishop is like being transported to the very place, the very moment she's writing about. She leads us to a microscope so we can see every smallest part of the scene. It seems that she's always asking us to notice more, and more until the poem is so clear in our minds that it's almost painful—like a light that's too bright.
12. What do we know about Bishop's early life?
A. She was mainly brought up by her grandparents.
B. She spent her childhood mainly in Worcester.
C. She was always encouraged by her parents.
D. She started to write poems at five.
13. Why are Bishop's letters to Moore and Lowell important?
A. They have a deep influence on other poets.
B. They offer much information about her life.
C. They help us study Moore and Lowell's poetry.
D. They prove she had friendships with famous poets.
14. What can we say about Bishop's poetic creation?
A. She liked to write in the morning.
B. She could write poems at high speed.
C. She tried her best to achieve perfection.
D. She published hundreds of books of poetry.
15. Which word can be used to best describe the style of Bishop’s poems?
A. Enthusiastic.
B. Romantic.
C. Humorous.
D. Exact.
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Everybody has days when they don't feel like working but still there are tasks that need to be completed. In this case, the below suggestions will help you get back to your work.
Make sure your workspace is organized before youbegin on a new task.____16____In this way, you don't lose your focus when you start working on your task.
Try to relax and refresh your mind to get ready. Listen to classical or jazz music to calm your soul. Also, if you can, open the window.____17____
____18____This will help you manage your work better and as a result, you can measure your achievement as you easily complete your tasks one by one. Completing smaller tasks will also motivate you to start off others and so, finish the whole project.
Increase your motivation by working with other people. Remember those school days when you used to group study with your classmates.____19____If you have a teammate or a coworker who can help you by giving inputs or who can motivate you, then, work with this person.
Ignore everything else around you, just as Nike says, just do it! Don't forget that beginning is half finishing.____20____Get moving as soon as possible and you will realize that beginning is actually much easier than you think.
A. Practice really makes perfect.
B. The same holds for work as well.
C. Divide your main task into smaller tasks.
D. If not, clean out all the unnecessary things.
E. Fresh oxygen will help your brain work better.
F. So stop wasting your time and focus on the task.
G. Motivation is very important when you start a new task.
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Ruby Kate, 11 likes to spend time with residents at the local nursing homes where her mother Amada works
as a nurse.
Oneday last summer, Ruby___21___that a resident namedPearlwas staring out of the window and looking very___22___. Ruby and Amanda learnt thatPearl’s dog had just left. She couldn't___23___to have someone take care of her dog and it was basically homeless. After a little more___24___, Amanda and her daughter found out thatPearlonly gets $40 each month from her Medicaid check. Many of the other residents received just as little — if___25___— spending money at all.
Pearl’s story____26____Ruby. She wanted to do something to____27____her and the other residents. So she got out a____28____and wrote down a simple question: “What are three things you wish you had?”
Amanda was____29____of Ruby’s broad question. She didn't think her daughter would____30____with anything helpful. “In my adult mind, that question is not going to____31____” said Amanda. “They're going to tell you that they want things you can't give them.”
She went door to door at the nursing home,_____32_____residents to list their three wishes. When Amanda saw what her daughter wrote in her notebook, she was_____33_____that the list was filled with just____34____requests like new pillows, books, razors and peanut butter.
Ruby and Amanda____35____all of the items on the first list and that started a chain reaction of____36____and kindness. They launched a GoFundMe page to_____37_____money to fulfill more wishes. Soon after,Ruby's story went viral and she's now collected more than $250,000 and_____38_____her own nonprofit called Three Wishes for Ruby's Residents.
“I'd like it to go on____39____and ever and ever,” she said. “Because I just want it to go____40____and I want it to go around the states and even in different countries.”
21. A. warned B. noticed C. screamed D. worried
22. A. upset B. curious C. exhausted D. satisfied
23. A. expect B. bother C. afford D. agree
24. A. discussing B. examining C. sharing D. digging
25. A. any B. so C. not D. ever
26. A. moved B. struck C. changed D. depressed
27. A. comfort B. compensate C. help D. protect
28. A. brochure B. pen C. diary D. notebook
29. A. skeptical B. aware C. tired D. confident
30. A. put up B. bring up C. end up D. show up
31. A. matter B. work C. inspire D. arise
32. A. persuading B. ordering C. asking D. advising
33. A. delighted B. confused C. frightened D. shocked
34. A. simple B. demanding C. unreasonable D. strange
35. A. collected B. bought C. made D. removed
36. A. curiosity B. anxiety C. sympathy D. generosity
37. A. raise B. earn C. save D. borrow
38. A. managed B. founded C. advertised D. invested
39. A. temporarily B. cheaply C. forever D. efficiently
40. A. richer B. higher C. faster D. bigger
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
Wheeling her red chair around the city, Katie Steller gives unlucky____41.____(strange) free haircuts because she knows that a haircut can change one’s life. One changed____42.____(she): As a teen, she suffered from____43.____severe a disease that her hair thinned drastically. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller’s first____44.____(profession) haircut. “To sit down and have somebody talk to me like a person and not just an illness helped me feel____45.____(care) about and less lonely,” she says. After that, she decided to spread the kindness.
In 2019, she began her Red Chair Project,____46.____(reach) out to people on the streets. “Part of what broke my heart was how lonely people looked,” she says, “I thought maybe I’d go around and ask if people want free haircuts. I can’t fix their problems____47.____(complete), but maybe I can help them feel less lonely for a moment.” By now, Steller____48.____(give) 30 or so such haircuts to people around the city. “____49.____way you show up in the world matters,” says Steller, “You have no idea_____50._____people are going to do with the kindness that you give them.”
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处误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧）,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限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last week, a group of international student visited our school. To help them better understanding Chinese tea culture, we took them to the tea room, where I introduced tea culture, including its history, its rich variety, or the craftsmanship of making tea.
Then I showed them how to make tea. I slowly explain the traditional procedures of making tea in detail. Absorb in every move of mine, they were both amazed. They couldn't help to taking pictures from time to time. Next came the moment which I asked them to have try themselves. I was filled with proud to spread our own culture to people all over the world.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

On a beautiful Thursday of this April, Amy and Alan Green took their daughter Abbey out for a walk in the neighborhood. On their way back, Amy picked up a kite for Abbey from the Dollar Tree, blue with rainbows—there are a lot of rainbows decorating homes around the region these days, which helps make life less dull during the coronavirus pandemic.
In the afternoon, Abbey took the kite out for its first flight. At first, the wind was perfect. It took the kite high in the sky. However, suddenly, the wind became much stronger and whipped the kite out of Abbey's hands in a moment. It sailed farther and farther and finally got stuck on the power lines next to a big tree, wrapping itself over and over again around the wires. Since the kite was too high for them to reach, the Greens could do nothing about it. Worried less about the kite than the potential danger it might present to the lines, Amy called National Grid to report the incident.
About one hour later, Mike, a worker from the power company arrived. He carefully unwound the kite line from the wires. After about 10 minutes' effort, he successfully freed it. But unfortunately, as the kite was wrapped so tightly, there was some unpreventable damage. Still, he presented it at the door to Alan Green. As he left, he noticed Abbey took the kite to the backyard. Out of curiosity, he stood there for a while to see how the girl would deal with it. Surprisingly, she dug a hole and buried the kite in a shoebox! Even though he could not see the girl's face clearly, he knew exactly how sad Abbey could be. He really felt bad for her. And it was at that moment that he decided to do something.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The next day, Alan went out to get the mail as usual.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________
Deeply moved by this act of kindness, Alan posted the whole story on the Internet.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________
参考答案
1. D
2. A
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. A 9. D 10. C 11. B
12. A 13. B 14. C 15. D
16. D 17. E 18. C 19. B 20. F
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. B 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. B 36. D 37. A 38. B 39. C 40. D
41. strangers
42. hers 43. so
44. professional
45. cared 46. reaching
47. completely
48. has given
49. The 50. what
51.(1).student→students
(2).understanding→understand
(3).or→and
(4).explain→explained
(5).Absorb→Absorbed
(6).both→all
(7).删除to
(8).which→when
(9).have后添加a
(10).proud→pride
52.略。