2020-2021学年上海市新中高级中学高三英语期中试卷及答案解析

2020-2021学年上海市新中高级中学高三英语期中试卷及答案解析第一部分阅读（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
The Costa Book Awards consistently pick winners that are both of the moment and subsequently endure. It's our pleasure to confirm this year’s Category Winners.
First Novel Award Winner
Book: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Author: Gail Honeyman
Eleanor is 31 years old; work finishes on a Friday and begins again on a Monday. Between, her only company will be two bottles of vodka and her own solitary, unique wit (机智). It is contentment, of a kind, but an unexpected shared experience suddenly opens the door to possibility. Challenging reader expectations with a living, breathing character, Gail Honeyman’s debut (初次登台、开张)is a funny and moving diamond.
Biography Award Winner
Book: In the Days of Rain
Author: Rebecca Stott
The Exclusive Brethren were aclosed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan. Into this is born Rebecca. Her father had been an influential Brethren Minister. As her father lay dying, he begged her to help him write the memoir. He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect.
Poetry Award Winner
Book: Inside the Wave
Author: Helen Dunmore
To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead — the underworld and the human living world – and the acutely intense being of both.
Children's Award Winner
Book:The Explorer
Author: Katherine Rundell, Hannah Horn
Four children survive their aircraft plunging into the Amazon jungle, but for Fred and his friends it’s only the beginning of a cruel battle for survival. Brimming with adventure and a real command of character and incident, Rundell has few peers in superb children's fiction.
1.What kind of life does Eleanor lead?
A.boring and lonely.
B.funny and touching.
C.exciting and complex.
D.ordinary and happy.
2.Why did Rebecca Stott writeIn the Days of Rain?
A.To introduce beliefs of the Exclusive Brethren.
B.To help her father fulfill his last wish.
CTo share the life of fundamentalist Christians.
D.To pass on her family traditions.
3.For a young adventurous soul, which book seems more appealing?
A.Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
B.In the Days of Rain
C.Inside the Wave
D.The Explorer
B
For years, life went something like this: We’d grow up in one place, head off to college, and then find a city to get a job and live there for a few years. The final goal was to find somewhere to settle down, buy a house, start a family, and begin the whole cycle all over again. But now some people are increasingly choosing to move from city to city throughout their entire lives, sometimes as frequently as every month.
Just ask Alex Chatzieleftheriou, who has had a front-row seat watching this evolution unfold. Six years ago, he launched a startup called Blueground that rents out beautifully designed, fully furnished apartments for a month at a time, at rates that are cheaper than hotels. And it aims to make each one feel unique and comfortable,rather than standardized, like what you might find in a traditional hotel.
Today, the company has 3,000 properties(房地产) in six U.S. cities, along with Dubai, Istanbul, London, Paris, and Chatzieleftheriou’s native Athens, and a staff of 400. With the helpof the Series B round of funding, the company landed $ 50 million, plus its previous total of $ 28 million, to continue its rapid expansion. It hopes to have 50,000 properties in 50 cities over the next three years.
Chatzieleftheriou first came up with the idea for Blueground while he was working as a management consultant for McKinsey. “The accommodation of choice for consultants is the hotel,” he says. “I had to spend five years in hotel rooms, living in 12 different cities. I loved seeing the world, but I didn’t love feeling like I didn’t have
a home.” And what’s more, hotels aren’t a particularly cost-effective solution for companies either. In Chatzieleftheriou’s case, McKinsey sometimes paid $ 10,000 or more for him to stay in a major city for a month.
4. What does the author intend to tell in the first paragraph?
A. A new lifestyle is appearing.
B. Life is just like a circle for people.
C. Most people are used to an easy life.
D. People live in different places in life.
5. What is the goal of Blueground?
A. To compete with hotels.
B. To create standardized hotels.
C. To make renters feel at home.
D. To rent out long-term apartments.
6. What do we know about Blueground?
A. It got a total investment of $ 78 million.
B. Its business is anything but satisfying.
C. It expanded to every corner of the world.
D. It has 50,000 properties in 50 cities.
7. What does the last paragraph focus on?
A. High costs of hotels.
B. Chatzieleftheriou’s former work.
C Strengths of Blueground.
D. The inspiration for Blueground.
C
Self-esteem is an abstract concept, which refers to people’s beliefs about their own worth and value. American psychologist Abraham Maslow thought self-esteem was a basic human need and included self-esteem in his hierarchy of human needs. He described two different forms of “esteem”: the need for respect from others in the form of recognition, success, and admiration, and the need for self-respect in the form of self-love, self-confidence, and skill. Respect from others was believed to be more fragile and easily lost than inner self-esteem. According to Maslow, without the fulfillment of the self-esteem need, individuals will be driven to seek it and unable to grow and obtain self-realization.
Basically, high self-esteem is achieved through a series of real accomplishments, which is good for people. However, the excessive high self-esteem, based more on a sense of entitlement than on any accomplishment, is considered to be less psychologically healthy. And just as self-esteem can be too high, it can also be “under-inflated”. Those having poor self-esteem do have a basis for feeling good about themselves but they may not recognize their accomplishments and actions as meaningful.
To appreciate what it would be like to have high self-esteem, one can consider how they may feel about things in their lives that they value. For instance, some people really like cars. They take good care of their cars. They may even decorate the car and then show it off to other people with pride. Similarly, people with high self-esteem love, care for and feel proud of themselves. Take children for example. When they have high self-esteem, they believe they are valuable and important. They enjoy different activities and can handle criticism easily without taking it personally.
People need to develop positive self-esteem. This can convince them they deserve happiness. Besides, the development of positive self-esteem increases the capacity to treat other people with respect, thus favoring a variety of interpersonal relationships and avoiding destructive ones.
8. What can we infer from Abraham Maslow’s theory about self-esteem?
A. Self-esteem ensures us a successful life.
B. Self-esteem is essential to self-realization.
C. Self-esteem means little to psychological health.
D. Others’ respect is more important than self-respect.
9. What does the underlined word “under-inflated” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Adequate.
B. Insufficient.
C. Moderate.
D. Lifelong.
10. How does the author explain the feelings of having high self-esteem?
A. By giving examples.
B. By analyzing causes.
C. By providing figures.
D. By making contrasts.
11. Which of the following does the author support?
A. Self-esteem ultimately leads to happiness.
B. Self-esteem earns you respect from others.
C. Positive self-esteem benefits people’s social lives.
D. Positive self-esteem helps people out of difficulties.
D
Humans have found an easy way to tell if others are lying. Recent research shows that the best way so far is being clever at how you ask questions and listen to the answers.
Much of this research is based on the idea that telling a lie is simply harder mental work than telling the truth. Making up a story takes more effort than simply recording something that happened. And like a writer, a liar has to keep all the unreal details in his memory and sound believable when he explains them.
One method that seems to work is asking them to tell their story in reverse order. This is harder when the story isn't true and makes it easier for you to tell they are lying. An even more basic way that helps is to just ask more questions, especially unexpected ones. Truth-tellers can easily find more to say, but it's a challenge for a liar to come up with something that's not in his prepared story.
Researchers suggest that you shouldn't lay all your cards on the table at the start, but only gradually present what proof you have. The liars' stories may not agree with that proof, making it clear that they're lying.
So it looks like there are ways to increase the chances of catching a liar; we've just been basing our methods on the wrong stories. Low-tech ways of causing people to make mistakes in conversation seem to work better than any science about eye movement or machines used to recognize a liar. To find a liar, watch less and listen more.
12. Why does the author mention the writer?
A. To show it's hard to make up lies.
B. To show it's hard to recognise a liar.
C. To show writers know liars best.
D. To show writers are very clever.
13. What do we know about liars?
A. They often have much to say.
B. They often ask many questions.
C. They usually prepare a made-up story.
D. They usually feel good about themselves.
14. What advice is given to help people catch liars?
A. Asking them to set their stories down.
B. Presenting your proof one by one.
C. Telling different stories to them.
D. Letting them ask questions.
15. Which can be the best title for the text?
A. Why People Lie
B. How to Stop People Lying
C. Low-tech Ways to Find a Liar
D. LiarsAre Smarter than Thought
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 can be difficult to start a hobby. You may not know where to begin or you may have come across one that needs expensive equipment(装备).____16____It doesn’t need a lot of materials and is available(可获得的) to you
in your area to find a low-cost hobby, and pick something that is interesting to you.
Begin a collection.Many different collections can be started with little or no cost.____17____Look for rocks, plant leaves and flowers, or insects you can keep. Another way is to begin to collect something in your house, such as saving bottle-caps.
____18____YouTube contains varieties of music you can listen to for free. Besides, you can discover music you like by using online radio stations or services including Pandora and Spotify. By exposing(使接触) yourself to new music, you can turn music into a relaxing hobby without having to buy albums.
Learn a game.Games are like sports and often benefit from being shared in the community. Game groups will often supply board games at no cost to you. In addition, libraries and schools may have video game groups for children and adults. You can also play a wide variety of free online games with people around you.____19____.
If these things fail to attract you, ask experts about how to begin. Find hobbyists and ask those who are experienced in your possible hobby for the least cost of materials you need to start.____20____You’ll be surprised that you don't need as much equipment as you imagined.
A. Listen to music.
B. One way to do this is to go outside.
C. Ask yourself what your favorite music is.
D. How and where to find one collection is up to you.
E. Use the site to see what groups are in your area.
F. The truth is that many hobbies can be started without much money.
G. This will help you figure out whether or not a hobby fits into your budget(预算).
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
I came home from work one day and my son greeted (迎接) me at the door with a wide smile. “Dad, I am a____21____man!” Puzzled, I____22____my wife about this. She shared with me that our five-year-oldson had emptied a 2-lilre jug (壶) of water from the____23____most of it on the floor. My wife's first____24____had been to shout and beat him. However, she did not. She____25____asked him, “Breton, what were you trying to do?"
“I was trying to helpyou____26____the dishes, Mum,” he replied loudly. Sure enough, she____27____a pile (摞) of dishes that had been washed on the kitchen table, “Well son, why did you use the water from the fridge? ” she further asked. Breton____28____that he couldn't reach the sink (洗涤槽). My wife began to____29____the situation better and her_____30_____disappeared. “What do you think you can do next time to make less of a
mess?”
Breton's face_____31_____as he replied, “I could wash them in the bathroom.” My wife explained to him that the dishes might break in the bathroom and he should instead_____32_____her help. She then went on to clean up the_____33_____he had created.
As she finished describing the_____34_____to me, I realised how_____35_____it is to make a correct choice. If she had_____36_____her first reaction, she would not have been able to understand what he was trying to do and would have_____37_____a great teachable moment. In_____38_____situations, she would have had to clean up the mess, but with this_____39_____she was able to connect with him more effectively. More importantly, if she had shouted and beaten him, he would have greeted me at the door with a_____40_____look and said. “Dad,
I am a bad boy! ”
21. A. hard-working B. careful C. friendly D. good-looking
22. A. believed B. warned C. asked D. advised
23. A. bathroom B. fridge C. kitchen D. table
24. A. experience B. impression C. reaction D. lesson
25. A. proudly B. patiently C. shyly D. fearfully
26. A. wash B. collect C. choose D. find
27. A. imagined B. owned C. carried D. saw
28. A. explained B. proved C. realised D. doubted
29. A. change B. understand C. control D. expect
30. A. regret B. pain C. shame D. anger
31. A. showed up B. went down C. lit up D. broke down
32. A. make out B. show off C. turn down D. call for
33. A. mess B. sink C. door D. damage
34. A. message B. incident C. competition D. decision
35. A. important B. strange C. interesting D. difficult
36. A. got across B. faced up to C. looked forward to D. gone ahead with
37. A. enjoyed B. missed C. picked D. forgotten
38. A. other B. similar C. both D. certain
39. A. reason B. example C. approach D. purpose
40. A. nervous B. funny C. surprised D. sad
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
One day, about ten years ago, while working at the cash register in the gift shop at my University Museum of Natural History, I saw____41.____elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I looked____42.____(close)at this girl, I found that she was fixed on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, a neck and upper body,____43.____(dress)in a little white skirt. As the couple wheeled her up to me, I turned my head toward the girl. When I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back____44.____the girl, who was giving me the most optimistic, largest smile I had ever seen. All of a sudden, her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl,____45.____smile just melted me____46.____almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of____47.____life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and____48.____(bring) me into her world; a world of smiles, love and____49.____(warm). I’m a successful business man now and whenever I think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught_____50._____(I)
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。

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；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last summer, to my delight, I got a chance to go to the United Kingdom. I was eager to see how England was like. Although my parents objected to my decision at first, but finally they were persuaded. It was the first time that I have travelled abroad alone. Felt excited, I boarded the plane. Suddenly, however, I found my luggages gone and felt helplessly. It was on that moment that the airhostess came to my assistance. After helping me find it back, she suggested that I attached a label to my suitcase on my next journey. I was thankful to the kind lady for his help! What unforgettable trip!
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的美国交换生Johnson想要和你一起参加青少年活动中心举办的生存训练暑假夏令营活动，并询问有关情况。

请你给他回信，内容包括：
1.活动时间和地点；
2.参加条件；
3.注意事项。

注意：词数80左右。

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参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. B 9. B 10. A 11. C
12. A 13. C 14. B 15. C
16. F 17. B 18. A 19. E 20. G
21. A 22. C 23. B 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. C 32.
D 33. A 34. B 35. A 36. D 37. B 38. C 39. C 40. D
41. an 42. closer
43. dressed
44. at 45. whose
46. and 47. what
48. brought
49. warmth 50. me
51.(1).how→what
(2).删除but
(3).have→had
(4).Felt→Feeling
(5). luggages→luggage
(6).helplessly→helpless
(7).on→at
(8).attached→attach
(9).his→her
(10).What后加an
52.略。