2020-2021学年大同煤矿集团公司第一中学高三英语期末考试试题及答案

2020-2021学年大同煤矿集团公司第一中学高三英语期末考试试题及
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
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brief Introduction
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) was acquired by the city of Brooklyn in 1854 along with the land that is Prospect Park.
There are so many gardens on display at the BBG that is honestly hard to keep count ofthem. There’s the Japanese Hill and Pond Garden, the Osborne Garden, the Shakespeare Garden... you get the point. Each garden that is displayed will be showing off a different group of amazing plants that come m all sorts of color1 s and sizes. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden offers something for the entire family. They even have a Children’s Garden for the little ones.
Attractions
Japanese Hill and Pond Garden
One of the most frequency visited gardens at BBG, the Japanese Hill and Pond Garden is certainly a favorite among visitors. This garden features a variety of styles as well as beautiful scenery with a viewing pavilion (亭子) and a waterfall. The Shogun Lantern featured in the Japanese Hill and Pond Garden is over 500 years old. It was given to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as a gift from the city of Tokyo.
Children’s Garden
Children have been planting plants at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden since 1914 and continue their efforts today. Currently, there are over a thousand children contributing to the Children’s Garden.
Shakespeare Garden
For those who have fallen in love with the works of Shakespeare, this will be a garden that they can truly appreciate. Over 80 plants that have been mentioned in the writing of Shakespeare currently grow in the Shakespeare Garden.
Getting to Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden: 900 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
Closest Subway: Prospect Park/ Eastern Parkway/ Franklin Avenue
Bus Tour Stops: Stop 34 or 35 Brooklyn route
Opening Times
15 March— 6 November：
Tuesday—Friday: 8:00 am—6:00 pm; Saturday—Sunday: 10:00 am—6:00 pm
8 November —11 March
Monday—Friday: 8:00 am—4:30 pm; Saturday —Sunday: 10:00 am—4:30 pm
1.Where can visitors enjoy a waterfall?
A.Osborne Garden.
B.Shakespeare Garden.
C.Children’s Garden.
D.Japanese Hill and Pond Garden.
2.How can visitors go to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden?
A.By taking a bus to Prospect Park.
B.By taking a bus to 34 Washington Avenue.
C.By taking the subway to Franklin Avenue.
D.By taking the subway to Stop 35 on the Brooklyn route.
3.When can Nancy visit the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in December?
A.5:00 pm on Thursday.
B.8:30 am on Wednesday.
C4:3 0 pm on Friday. D.9:00 am on Saturday.
B
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft left the earth on a trip to the planet Mars on Thursday. The launch（发射）marks the start of one of China's most important space explorations. China's national space agency launched the spacecraft called Tianwen-1 fromthe Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center on Hainan Island.
The name Tianwen means “Questions to Heaven” in Chinese. The spacecraft took off on China's largest carrier rocket, the Long March 5, and about 36 minutes later, the spacecraft, including an orbiter（轨道飞行器）and a rover（漫游车），was sent into the Earth-Mars orbit. It is expected to reach the orbit of the red planet next February. Tianwen-1 will finish three scientific goals—orbiting the red planet, landing on the Mars and sending a rover to the landing site.
Tianwen-1 carries several scientific instruments to observe the planet's atmosphere and surface. It will do a series of scientific researches on the planet's soil, geological structure, environment, atmosphere and water. Besides its daily work of exploring the surface of Mars for 90 days, it will also report back to the earth about its
experiences on the red planet, which is millions of miles away. According to experts, discovering signs of life will be its first and most important scientific goal.
Tianwen-1's successful landing will make China the second nation to place a spacecraft on Mars. The United States has landed eight vehicles on Mars since 1976. China will be the first to successfully orbit, land and place a vehicle in the same mission. This is China's first independent mission to Mars. The task in 2011 failed when a Russian rocket carrying a Chinese orbiter had problems after launch, and was unable to escape the Earth orbit. Last year, China's Chang e-4 spacecraft became the first to make a landing on the far side of the moon.
4. When will Tianwen-1 enter the orbit of Mars?
A. 36 minutes later.
B. Next Thursday.
C. In 90 days.
D. Next February.
5. What is the main task of Tianwen-1 according to experts?
A. Orbiting the Mars.
B. Landing on the Mars.
C. Discovering signs of life.
D. Sending a rover to the landing site.
6. Which of the following statements is mentioned in the text?
A. Tianwen-1 is the second vehicle landed on the Mars.
B. The United States is the first to land vehicles on the Mars.
C. Russia helped China place Tianwen-1 on the Mars.
D. Chang，e-4 was the first to make a landing on the moon.
7. Where can you find this article?
A. In a newspaper.
B. In a diary.
C. In a sci-fi novel.
D. In a guide book.
C
In sportthe sexes are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men.That at least is what people say.Women are called the weaker sex, or, if men want to please them, the fair sex. But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68. Are women’s bodies really weaker?
The fastest men can run a mile in under 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women’s time is always slower than men’s, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 meters in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first ‘Tartan’ in film was
an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 meters was 4 minutes 49.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!
8. Women are called the weaker sex because _________.
A. women do as much as men
B. people think women are weaker than men
C. sport is easier for men than for women
D. in sport the two sexes are always together
9. Which of the following is true?
A. Boys and girls study separately everywhere.
B Women do not run or swim in races with men.
C. Famous Prime Ministers are women.
D. Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe.
10. The underlined part “That at least is what people say” means people _________.
A. say other things, too
B. don’t say this much
C. say this but may not think so
D. only think this
11. In this passage the author implies that _________.
A. womenare weaker than men, but faster
B. women are slower than men, but stronger
C. men are not always stronger and faster than women
D. men are faster and stronger than women
D
If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them. If you don’t, you may get lost. If you get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them findyou. You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help.
Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.
If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches(树枝).
Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass.
When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again easily. When you are lost, the most important thing to do is to stay in one place.
12. If you get lost in the forest, you should _________.
A. try to find your friends in no time
B. stay in one place and give signals
C. walk around the forest
D. shout as loudly as possible
13. Which signal is a call for help?
A. Crying twice.
B. Shouting here and there.
C. Whistling everywhere in the forest.
D. Shouting or whistling three times together.
14. When you hear two shouts or two whistles, you know that _________.
A. someone needs your help
B. something terrible will happen
C. people will come to help you
D. someone is afraid of an animal
15. What’s the meaning of the last paragraph?
A. Use branches to make a bed.
B. Drop branches to look for water.
C. Pick off branches to build another house.
D. Leave branches to help you find your way back.
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It’s very important to develop new technology wisely so that everyone can benefit form it. Some people believe our technology plan should focus on building spaceships.____16____Which is the better course of action?
For those who dream of exploring outer space, the development of high-tech spaceships is important. But just one spaceship can cost billions of dollars.___17___Even the most specialized robots could be designed and built much more cheaply than spaceships. Besides, robots could be used for practical purposes right here on Earth.
Many people who focus on future space exploration talk about solving the key mysteries of space and perhaps even how life comes into being.____18____Robots will play many new roles in people’s life in the future, but even the robots we have now benefit us in practical ways. For example, they can work in dangerous conditions, such as places with very high or low temperatures. They can take apart bombs, build products, or carry out important surgery.___19___
In a word, it’s clearly better to give attention, time, and money to the technological development of
robots.___20___They also benefit people in ways that are more practical than any benefit from a spaceship.
A. It is way more costly than building a robot.
B. Others believe it should focus on building robots.
C. They are less expensive to develop and more useful.
D. These are all useful things that benefit people right now.
E. Here are some of the advantages of having robots around the house.
F. Technology plays an important role in helping humans work more easily.
G. While this kind of knowledge is interesting, it is not what people need most right now.
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When do you stick with somethingeven if you’re not the best at it?
When people find out my son Sam is a(n)____21____mathlete, they usually ask if my husband and I are “math people”. The answer is definitely not. Sam’s done pretty well____22____his parents aren’t math people. But sometimes I wish I was a math person so I could help him or at least give him better____23____.
Ninth grade was____24____for Sam, math-wise. He left the____25____of middle school math, where he was kind of a big fish, and started____26____with the high school kids. In the most recent competition, he didn’t do as well as he’d hoped and was____27____by a math camp he’d applied to. He’d set a high goal for himself and hadn’t quite____28____it.
He____29____into my office one day last week, clearly discouraged. “I don’t know why I didn’t do better,” he said,____30____on a chair. “Maybe I should just____31____. I’m not good enough.”
I knew how he felt. The thought____32____us all-that we just aren’t good enough, and that all our hard work won’t____33____in the end and we can’t turn our____34____into success. I don’t have an answer for Sam. I am still____35____. How to____36____difficulty, disappointment, rejection, boredom. How to commit ourselves to something because it’s beautiful and worth our while, not because we’re____37____we’ll succeed.
“Maybe you’re not,” I said, looking at my son. To me, he is incredible and accomplished, but I know he is____38____by doubt just like anyone. “But I, for one, don’t think that’s been decided yet.”
To devote time to something with no guarantee of its____39____is risky and terrifying. But, then again,____40____is everything. And we don’t need to be a math person to know that.
21. A. competitive B. sensitive C. generous D. anxious
22. A. unless B. because C. considering D. providing
23. A. life B. advice C. solution D. taste
24. A. interesting B. attractive C. boring D. tough
25. A. principle B. world C. test D. age
26. A. running B. travelling C. swimming D. hunting
27. A. admitted B. received C. caught D. rejected
28. A. scored B. reached C. pursued D. managed
29. A. stole B. marched C. wandered D. jogged
30. A. sinking B. lying C. sliding D. hiding
31. A. struggle B. experience C. try D. quit
32. A. interrupts B. discourages C. limits D. suits
33. A. mind B. occur C. matter D. differ
34. A. effort B. luck C. support D. belief
35. A. practicing B. risking C. suffering D. learning
36. A. bring up B. go over C. push through D. turn down
37. A. certain B. happy C. optimistic D. anxious
38. A. warned B. troubled C. destroyed D. guided
39. A. quality B. shelter C. virtue D. success
40. A. so B. nor C. such D. it
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
Have you ever dreamed about being well-known____41.____a popular musician? Many musicians, at first, may form a band____42.____(practice) their music. And then they may get the chance to give____43.____(perform) in pubs or clubs. Later they may____44.____(gradual) become popular. However, the Monkees started in a different way. Only one of____45.____(they) was good enough and the other three members pretended to sing. To be honest, it couldn’t be called a real band at the____46.____(begin). Anyhow, their shows were____47.____(humor) and they became popular. After a year or so, they worked even____48.____(hard) and produced their own records and started touring. The Monkees broke up in about 1970____49.____they reunited in the mid-1980s and_____50._____(produce) a new record in 1996 to celebrate their former happy time.
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.每处错误及其修改仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Ready to leave, Charlotte was loading her bags or boxes into the taxi. Before she hit the road, her parents gave her a warmly hug. Even though she felt really sad about going away for college, she held back her tear and promised to take good care of herself. Then, off he went.
Several months pass and final exams were coming. Charlotte had so much studying to do that she felt a plenty of pressure. Then, she thought of her parents back home, that she hadn’t seen for months. She got really homesick and could hardly control the urge to leave home right away.
Weeks late, the exams finally came to an end and Charlotte went straight home for the holiday. When she was finally with her family, she held them tightly and was happy to be spent the Lunar New Year with them.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是你校学生会主席李华，为庆祝建党100周年，你校决定举办一场学生书画作品展，主题为“我心中的祖国”，现向全校同学征集作品。

请你代表学生会写一则通知。

内容包括：
1.展览的时间、地点；
2.作品内容；
3.截止日期。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：建党the founding of the CPC
Notice
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____
Student Union
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. B 9. B 10. C 11. C
12. B 13. D 14. C 15. D
16. B 17. A 18. G 19. D 20. C
21. A 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. B 29. C 30. A 31. D 32.
B 33.
C 34. A 35.
D 36. C 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. A
41. as 42. to practice
43. performances
44. gradually
45. them 46. beginning
47. humorous
48. harder 49. but
50. produced
51.(1).or→and
(2).warmly→warm
(3).tear→tears
(4).he→she
(5).pass→passed
(6).将a去掉
(7).将that改为who/whom
(8).在leave后面加for
(9).late→later
(10).spent→spending
52.略。