2021年佛山市里水镇高级中学高三英语期中考试试卷及答案

2021年佛山市里水镇高级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
Conservation Volunteering in New Zealand
Whether you are a student, professional or a retiree (退休者), anyone is welcome to make a difference and contribute to protecting some of the most beautiful islands in the world. Choose a suitable city and travelout to your conservation (保护) site to work with local people!
Duration: 1-12 weeks Dates: Throughout the year
Arrival day: Friday Return day: Friday
Requirement: General level of fitness Age: 18+
What will I be doing?
Volunteer in New Zealand and enjoy conserving the environment through activities such as:
·Tree planting
·Walking trail construction
·Protect native birds, insects, fish and penguins
·Seed collection
·Weed control
You, and a group of up to 10 volunteers, will work under the guidance of a conservation team leader. Your team leader will give you regular safety instructions, inform you of the project aims and assist you with working effectively.
No previous experience is necessary to join the project. All you need is a love of the environment and a fairly good level of fitness to help out!
1.Who can sign up for this conservation volunteering project?
A.A retired maths teacher.
B.A primary school student.
C.A scientist with heart disease.
D.A businessman in a wheelchair.
2.What can you do on the volunteer trip?
A.Protect cultural sites and go shopping.
B.Enjoy local sightseeing and go fishing.
C.Protect weeds and build roads.
D.Collect seeds and plant trees.
3.From which is the text probably taken?
A.A history book.
B.A travel magazine.
C.A research paper.
D.A novel.
B
About a billion birds die from flying into buildings each year inNorth America. Suspicions havebeen that birds may regard the open areas behind glass as safe passageways. Or they may mistake the reflected trees for the real thing.
Researchers would like to reduce collisions, which requires a solid understanding about what makes a bird more or less likely to die by crashing into a building in the first place.
“There was ly little known at a broad scale. Previous studies were at one small study site.'' Jared Elmore, a graduate student in natural resource ecology and management atOklahomaStateUniversity. So he and his colleagues used a previously created data set of building collisions for birds at 40 sites throughoutMexico,Canadaand theU.S.
The first finding was obvious: bigger buildings with more glass kill more birds. But the details were more remarkable. "We found that life history predicted collisions. Migrants(候鸟), insect-eaters and woodland-inhabiting species collided more than their counterparts(同类).”
Most migratory species travel at night, when lights near buildings can distract or disorient(使迷失方向)them. And Elmore thinks that insect-eating birds might be attracted to buildings because their insect prey(猎物)is attracted to the lights. He suspects that woodland species get tooled by the reflections of trees and bushes in the windows. The results are in the journal Conservation Biology.
By understanding which birds are more likely to collide with buildings, researchers can perhaps determine the best way to adapt buildings, or their lighting, to help prevent such accidents. And by knowing risks, along with migration timing and behavior, building managers can better predict when birds are at their greatest danger - and improve lighting strategics accordingly.
Elmore's next project will use radar to help predict bird migrations. " I think that would maybe go a long way in terms of providing information to people, to the public, to building managers, on when they can get the most benefit in terms of lights-out policies."
4. What is the possible reason for birds' crashing into buildings?
A. They didn't see the buildings.
B. They took reflections for reality.
C. They assumed the windows to be open.
D. They considered buildings as safe routes.
5. What is Jared Elmore's study different from the previous ones?
A. It created a new data set.
B. It went beyond national borders.
C. It covered a wider range of sites.
D. I’ll studied some specific bird species.
6. What was the most noticeable finding of Jared Elmore's study?
A. Migratory species travel at night.
B. Birds tend to be misled by glasses.
C. Bigger buildings cause more collisions.
D. Birds living habits give rise to collisions.
7. Which of the following can help reduce bird collision?
A. Adjust the lightening system.
B. Attach radars to each building.
C. Adopt strict lights-out policies.
D. Ban using glasses on buildings.
C
Volunteer Day
What better way is there to enjoy your own hobbies while helping others at the same time? Come to Volunteer Day and choose which activity you’d like to join for the day. See below for a schedule of events on Volunteer Day.
Volunteer Day schedule:
7:30am.: Meet at the Community (社区) Center for juice and bagels.
8:00—8:30 a.m.: Choose which activity you’d like to help with for the day.
8:30 a.m.: Board the bus to your activity site.
9:00 a.m.—3:30 p.m.: Work as a volunteer.
3:30 p.m.: Board the bus that will take you back to the Community Center.
See below for a list of volunteer opportunities for Volunteer Day so you can begin thinking about which activity you might want to join.
A list of volunteer activities:
Paint houses: Do you enjoy making art? If so, this volunteer opportunity might be just right for you! Happy Homes is a local organization that provides home repairs for needy people in the form of painting. For elderly or physically disabled people who cannot do repairs to their homes, Happy Homes provides volunteer painters to repaint old homes; outside or in. Happy Homes also provides painters to create beautiful wall paintings inside schools or community centers.
Plant flowers: Do you enjoy being outside in nature? City Parks Association has many great opportunities for people who love to be outdoors. Help plant flowers and bushes in city parks; help lay paths at Cave Springs Park, or help pick up rubbish around the river banks. These activities are very active, so remember to be prepared with plenty of drinking water!
Read to children: Do you enjoy working with young children? Do you like books? Love and Learning is an organization that provides volunteers to help children with learning disabilities. Read books out loud to groups of children four to six years old, or read one-on-one with struggling readers seven to eight years old.
Play with animals: Do you love animals? Lovely Friends is an organization that visits local animal shelters and provides volunteers to spend time with the animals while their cages are being cleaned. Play with puppies, snuggle with cats, or hand-feed rabbits.
8. At what time do volunteers leave for their activity sites?
A. 7:30 a.m..
B. 8:00 a.m.
C. 8:30 a.m.
D. 9:00 a.m.
9. An outdoor lover probably takes part in ______.
A. Plant flowers
B. Paint houses
C. Read to children
D. Play with animals
10. What do Lovely Friends volunteers do?
A. Read books to children.
B. Spend time with animals.
C. Help plant bushes in parks.
D. Pick up garbage along the river.
11. The purpose of the passage is to _________.
A. educate children
B. attract volunteers
C. comfort the elderly
D. encourage the disabled
D
It’s a big change from homeless teen to Yale (耶鲁)medical school student, butperseverancepaid off for Chelesa Fearce of Clayton County, Georgia.
Fearce was a fourth grader when her mom was diagnosed (诊断) with Lymphoma (淋巴瘤).That began a hard time for the family. They had to move in and out of shelters,hotels and even the family car.
“I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her high school graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. “I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore. And that helped me get through,” she told WSBTV.
Fearce was determined to be a good role model for her younger sister. She found inspiration in her late grandmother, struggling with deadly diseases, who gave Fearce emotional support. In her junior and senior year, Fearce took both high school and college courses, missing out on the free meals she depended on so she could get to her college classes. Despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night, she not only graduated as valedictorian (毕业生代表) of her 2013 class with a 4.5 grade average, but was also given a ride scholarship—including a meal plan to Spelman College in Atlanta.
After graduation, she worked full time for two years at the National Institutes for Health inBethesda,Maryland,doing research on drugs. Last fall, she entered Yale and set a course to earn both a PhD and medical degree.
12. What does the underlined word “perseverance” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A. instant passion.
B. continuous efforts.
C. great patience.
D. selfless ambitions.
13. How did Fearce feel facing the sufferings?
A. Sad and disappointed.
B. Stressed and defeated.
C. Determined and confident.
D. Joyous and contented.
14. What can we know about Fearce’s learning experience?
A. Her grandma encouraged her to study medicine.
B. Her high school offered her free meals and courses.
C. She failed to study late due to frequent power cut.
D. She gained remarkable high school achievement.
15. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. From Homeless to Yale
B. Meet American’s Top Girl
C. Disabled but not Defeated
D. Chelesa Fearce: A Girl of Many Talents
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Tiny homes are being used for housing in costly areas of theUnited States. InLos Angeles,California, tiny homes are now being used as temporary shelters for people, serving as a welfare for citizens.___16___Similar projects went up in otherCaliforniacities, includingSan JoseandSacramento, and also across theUnited StatesinSeattle,Washington;Minneapolis,Minnesota; andDes Moines,Iowa.
___17___That number is an increase of more than 12 percent from a year earlier. Over 150,000 people are homeless across the state ofCalifornia. The pandemic has forced even more people onto the streets. Homeless shelters had to turn away people to maintain social distancing rules. Thus, it’s urgent for officials to find a way out.
City officials selected the land onChandler Streetfor the tiny home village, because it could not be used for anything else.___18___The officials had to promise nearby neighbors that the village would be safe and clean. Ken Craft is head of the non-profit Hope of the Valley which operatesChandler Streetvillage. He asked worried neighbors if they would rather have the tents or the tiny homes on the land. He said the village offers services that can help people out of homelessness.___19___
The tiny homes cost $7,500 each. And the cost for the entire project was $5 million. Hope of the Valley is building two more villages inNorth Hollywood.___20___AtChandler Street, the housing is temporary, whose goal is for people to stay a few months and then move on to permanent housing.
A. More are planned in other neighborhoods.
B. The locals are in crucial need of tiny homes.
C. However, not everyone supported the plan.
D. In 2020, there were about 66,400 homeless people inLos Angeles.
E. They include mental health treatment, legal aid, and help with job searches.
F. A large number of citizens were recorded homeless in the country the year before.
G. The project is part of an emergency effort to solve the worsening homelessness crisis.
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It was on Father's Day, 20. 17. When I climbed up the final hill of the 13,0. 41 -foot-highGrandTraversePeak, my new running____21____, Merle - a one-year-old shepherd dog — was____22____to be seen.
I felt a terrifying attack as I____23____my way down the hill, still seeing no____24____of him. Then, several hundred feet____25____down, I saw his____26____on a five-foot-wide snow. I followed them carefully until they____27____off a steep chute（斜坡）.About 80. 0. feet below, the chute ended in a rock field and a massive cliff（悬崖）.Below that, I could see a wide, empty, snow-covered____28____There was no sign of Merle in the rock field. Then____29____I saw something running in the basin below me. "There he is!" I ran down. Merle was running downhill away from me. I couldn't follow his_____30_____without technical climbing_____31_____, so I needed to find a safer way down. I could hear the bells on Merle's collar（项圈），but I couldn't see him. Ispent another hour_____32_____around until the bells on the collar and Merle's heavy breathing disappeared. That day, I went home with deep_____33_____
Three weeks later, a woman named Dana Gumber_____34_____a poor dog outside her yard, weak and extremely thin. Luckily, Gumber found the dog still had a collar. That afternoon, she_____35_____a message on my cellphone: "I have Merle. Please_____36_____me. I called her back and got a（n）_____37_____answer : Merle was still alive.
I drove him to the animal hospital from Gumber's house. Merle was skinny weak after the long_____38_____with wounds, but, surprisingly, none of his_____39_____were broken. Over the next week Merle_____40_____beautifully.
21. A. racer B. partner C. traveler D. staff
22. A. everywhere B. anywhere C. somewhere D. nowhere
23. A. picked B. arranged C. lost D. forced
24. A. attention B. belt C. sign D. shelter
25. A. later B. longer C. higher D. farther
26. A. legs B. figures C. footprints D. sledges
27. A. took B. disappeared C. sank D. turned
28. A. house B. basin C. hill D. river
29. A. In turn B. As well C. In addition D. All at once
30. A. route B. words C. goal D. instructions
31. A. organization B. training C. equipment D. preparation
32. A. searching B. coming C. sticking D. getting
33. A. excitement B. sadness C. shock D. confusion
34. A. fed B. treated C. noticed D. heard
35. A. received B. took C. wrote D. left
36. A. help B. appreciate C. record D. call
37. A. extraordinary B. distant C. amazing D. anxious
38. A. journey B. voyage C. adventure D. transport
39. A. spirits B. bones C. goods D. functions
40. A. recovered B. grew C. screamed D. benefited
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
"Made in China" is having its moment now and it's a fashionable one. The story of Chinese fashion___41.___( begin) in 2011 when Feiyue and Huili,both Chinese sneaker brands(品牌), suddenly attracted international attention. Last year, Li Ning was at the New York Fashion Week in September.
The latest Chinese brands are no longer selling ___42.___(them) on the basis (基础) of their cheapness. They set a good example in exploring the effect of Chinese aesthetics (美学)____43.____Western fashion and can go forward to head with foreign brands.
Western culture is not so___44.___(attract) as it used to be to China’s young generation. China's young people are now___45.___(confidence) about their own culture than the past generations. "They have a ___46.___(prefer) for Chinese cultural elements(元素)," Jin Qu, vice president of YOHO,___47.___unusual clothing shopping website in China, said at a cultural festival in November.
In fact, a lot of celebrities in the West now have an interest in Chinese cultural elements in fashion. US singer Rihanna, for example, wore a shiny and ___48.___(extreme) graceful yellow gown (礼服) to the 2015 Met Gala to match the gala's theme “China: Through the Looking Glass”，___49.___was from Chinese designer Guo Pei. The Chinese want to take the place of the words “Made in China” with “ ____50.____( design) in China”.
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。

Ever since I was young, I have dreamed of living in a house made of candy. So many year passed. I finally offered a chance to live in my childhood dream at a popularly candy museum in Melbourne. Walked through the door, I found a new world opened in the front of me. Which first caught my eyes was a big gumball（口香糖球）machine. You could become a gumball yourself by climb inside it instead of getting any gumballs from the machine! Anyone who likes taking pictures would find it possible to put down his camera there. Among other amazing things were a huge pink swing, and a huge birthday cake was also fantastic. All in all, I expect to have other such “delicious” experience.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是高二学生李华，新学期开始，你们班将组织“告别高一，迎接高二”的英语班会，你将在班会上发言，请撰写一份发言稿，内容包括：
1.简要回顾高一收获；
2.高二的打算或展望；
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当増加细节，以使文章连贯。

Hello, everyone! I'm Li Hua.
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Thank you for your listening!
参考答案
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. C 9. A 10. B 11. B
12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. G 17. D 18. C 19. E 20. A
21. B 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. D 26. C 27. B 28. B 29. D 30. A 31. C 32.
A 33.
B 34.
C 35.
D 36. D 37. C 38. A 39. B 40. A
41. began
42. themselves
43. on 44. attractive
45. more confident
46. preference
47. an 48. extremely
49. which 50. Designed
51.(1). year→years
(2). I后加上was
(3). popularly→popular
(4). Walked→Walking
(5).去掉the
(6). Which→What
(7). climb→climbing
(8). possible→impossible
(9). were→was
(10).other→another
52.略。