2020届湖北黄冈中学高三英语上学期期中考试试题及参考答案

2020届湖北黄冈中学高三英语上学期期中考试试题及参考答案
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
In Sweden, McDonald’s is building “bee hotels” on the back of its roadside billboards (广告牌) to help save the country’s decreasing bee population. It launched the campaign together with outdoor advertising giant JCDecaux. Six large wooden bee hotels, with drilled holes on the front, first appeared on the back of a north-facing billboard in Jarfalla in September.
“Without pollination (授粉) from bees, a thirdof the food we eat would be threatened.” McDonald’s said. But it turns out that at least 30 percent of the country’s wild bee population is endangered, according to the fast-food chain. A big problem is that they lack places to live. Based on data released by Chalmers University of Technology, we know Sweden owns 274 species of bees, of which 37 species are bumblebees, and more than a third are decreasing or face the risk of decreasing. Their natural habitats have been damaged by factors including the changes of agricultural activities and fast urbanization (城市化). Fortunately, most bees are able to survive in urban habitats, like the bee hotels.
Every McDonald’s authorized restaurant in Sweden will be allowed to order their own bee hotel billboards and design the messages by themselves, as the fast-food chain says. It is their hope that the number of hotels could grow to a greater extent in the near future. Great efforts in addition to that have been made by the company. On World Bee Day, May 20, it introduced “the world’s smallest McDonald’s”. McHive, which could function as an actual beehive (蜂箱). Designed by set designer Nilsson himself, the creation was sold for $10,000 at a charity fundraiser held for Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Beehives can be found on the rooftops of some McDonald’s restaurants in Sweden, too. This took place in certain areas but is now followed by an increasing number of participants. More McDonald’s restaurants are making an effort to improve the living conditions of wild bees by removing the grass round their restaurants to grow flowers and plants instead.
1. According to the passage, the challenge that wild bees are facing is ________
A. the fast process of industry.
B. the world's Large amount of trash.
C. the rapid development of urbanization.
D. the sharp growth of population.
2. How does McDonald's help wild bees in Sweden?
A. By providing shelters for bees.
B. By offering food to bees.
C. By advertising rescue activities.
D. By putting up more billboards.
3. What is the best title for the text?
A. Wild bees in danger
B. The loss of bees’ habitats
C McDonald’s bee hotels
D. The protection of wild bees
B
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? I 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.
4. 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.
5. What does the underlined phrase “refrain from” mean in Paragraph 3?
A. select from
B. hold back
C. rely on
D. prefer to
6. Which of the following opinions would the author agree?
A. To enjoy yourself in the right time.
B. To wait to travel until we have enough money.
C. To go backpacking in our 50s.
D. To live for the future.
7. What should we do with the earnings according to the author?
A. We should save all for rainy days.
B. We should fulfill our dreams.
C. We should entertain ourselves.
D. We should live the present wisely.
C
While the arts can' t stop the COVID-19 virus or the social unrest we see in the world today, they can give us insight into the choices we make when moving through crises and chaos. The arts invite everyone to think in new ways.
We often experience works of art as something that's pleasing to our senses without a full understanding of the creative effort. Great art often shows us contradictions and crises, and we can learn a great deal from their resolutions(解决). Through our understanding of art, we can gain a deeper understanding of how we might overcome our own challenges. In understanding extremes of contrast, we can see the beauty in art with themes that are not simply pleasing for their magnificent features or qualities.
Beethoven offers a wonderful example of moving artfully through crises and chaos. He composed his Symphony No. 9 as his hearing loss became more and more pronounced. The opening of the symphony seems to come out of nowhere, from near silence in the opening to a full expression of what many consider to be the joy of
freedom and universal brotherhood with Schiller’s Ode to joy（欢乐颂). Beethoven appears to have created a work of art that not only freed him from his personal struggles, but one that also speaks to the joy of living together in peace and harmony.
Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference—a oneness of the two opposingforces.The arts offer many lessons that can help us gain the knowledge we need to move more confidently in today’ s competitive and uncertain environment. An openness to arts-based solutions will give you more control over your future.
8. What value does art have beyond pleasing people's senses?
A. It brings people inner peace.
B. It contributes to problem-solving.
C. It reduces the possibility of crises.
D. It deepens understanding of music.
9. What can we learn about Beethoven's Symphony No. 9?
A. It celebrates freedom and unity.
B. It aims to show crises and chaos.
C. It opens with Schiller's Ode to Joy.
D. It is unfinished due to his hearing loss.
10. What is the author's suggestion on dealing with conflicting forces?
A. Leaving things as they are.
B. Making a choice between them.
C. Separating them from each other.
D. Engaging them in a conversation.
11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. How COVID-19 changes art
B. Essentials of Symphony No. 9
C. Moving artfully through crises
D. Joy in the eyes of Beethoven
D
It is that time of year when people need to lock their cars. It’ s not because there are a lot of criminals running around stealing cars. Rather, it’ s because of the good-hearted neighbors who want to share their harvest.
Especially with this year’s large crop, leaving a car unlocked in my neighborhood is an invitation for someone to stuff it full of zucchini(西葫芦).
My sister-in-law, Sharon, recently had a good year for tomatoes. She and her family had eaten and canned so many that they began to feel their skin turn slightly red. That ’ s when she decided it was time to share herblessings.She started calling everyone she knew. When that failed, she began to ask everyone in the neighborhood like a politician, eventually finding a neighbor delighted to have the tomatoes. “ Feel free to take whatever you want,”Sharontold her. She felt happy that she could help someone and that the food didn’t go to waste.
A few days later,Sharonanswered the door. There was the neighbor, holding some bread. The neighbor smiled pleasantly, “I want to thank you for all of the tomatoes, and I have to admit that I took a few other things and hope you wouldn’t mind.”
Sharoncouldn’t think of anything else in her garden that had been worth harvesting and said so. “Oh, but you did,” the neighbor said. “You had some of the prettiest zucchini I’ve ever seen.”
Sharonwas confused. Zucchini in her garden? They hadn’ t even planted any zucchini. But her neighbor insisted that there really were bright-green zucchini in her garden. The two of them walked together into the backyard. When the neighbor pointed at the long green vegetables,Sharonsmiled, “ Well, actually, those are cucumbers that we never harvested, because they got too big, soft and bitter for eating or canning.”
The neighbor looked atSharon, shock written all over her face. Then she smiled, and held out the bread that she had shared all over the neighborhood, “I brought you a loaf of cucumber bread. I hope you like it.”
12. Why does the author suggest that people in the neighborhood should lock their cars?
A. They might be stolen by thieves.
B. They might be moved away by the police.
C. Their neighbors might fill them with their harvest.
D. Their neighbors might throw rubbish in them.
13. What does the underlined word “blessings” in the second paragraph mean?
A. Tomatoes.
B. God’s protection.
C.Helpful things.
D. Best wishes.
14. What did the neighbor do inSharon’s garden?
A. She harvested tomatoes only.
B. She harvested zucchini by accident.
C. She took some cucumbers mistakenly.
D. She stole something withoutSharon’s permission.
15. We can infer from the article that the neighbor’s bread would taste________.
A. bitter but tasty
B. strange and bitter
C. hard and sour
D. soft and sweet
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
Ways to Be More Aware of Your Emotions
As we grow up, we get better at knowing what we are feeling and why. Knowing our feelings helps us know what we want and make choices. Paying attention to feelings is a skill that anyone can practice. Here are some things to try:
Notice and name your emotions.______16______Name them to yourself. For example, you might say, “I feel proud” when a class presentation goes well, “I feel disappointed” at not doing well on a test, or “I feel friendly” when sitting with a group at lunch.
Track one emotion. Pick one emotion — like joy. Track it all day. Notice how often you feel it. Every time, make a mental note to yourself or write it down.______17______
Keep a feeling journal.______18______Writing about your feelings is a way to express them. You can also make art, write poetry, or compose music that captures an emotion you feel.
___19___Pay attention to what the artist did to show those feelings. How do you feel in response?
The more you are aware of your emotions, the more they help you know yourself and understand the people around you. Noticing and talking about feelings is a healthy way to express them.______20______
A. Build your emotional vocabulary.
B. Is the feeling mild, medium, or strong?
C. It keeps difficult feelings from building up.
D. Notice feelings in art, songs, and movies.
E. Start by just noticing different emotions as you feel them.
F. Take a few minutes each day to write about how you feel and why.
G. Even emotions we consider “negative” can give us insight into ourselves and others.
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
The moment happened 30 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had____21____up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Just before my first___22___of the day my eyelids (眼皮) were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a___23___. A few minutes’ nap (小睡) time before class couldn’t____24____, I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my___25___beating wildly trying to find the cause of the____26____. My young professor was looking at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had____27____dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!” he said still____28____. “I am glad to see everyone is____29____. Now let’s get started. ”
For the next hour I wasn’t_____30_____at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock. It was instead from the_____31_____discussion he led. With knowledge and good______32______he made the material come______33______. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he____34____with were contagious (有感染力的). I_____35_____the classroom not only wide_____36_____but a little smarter and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not_____37_____in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with_____38_____. What a wonderful place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk through your_____39_____. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too_____40_____not to live it well.
21. A. took B. divided C. stayed D. put
22. A. class B. test C. task D. lecture
23. A. platform B. pillow C. carpet D. wall
24. A. benefit B. help C. last D. hurt
25. A. heart B. mind C. thought D. head
26. A. trouble B. noise C. failure D. incident
27. A. angrily B. carelessly C. purposely D. accidentally
28. A. smiling B. talking C. complaining D. shouting
29. A. active B. curious C. present D. awake
30. A. excited B. sleepy C. awake D. panicked
31. A. fascinating B. boring C. confusing D. frightening
32. A. gesture B. sense C. humor D. design
33. A. strange B. natural C. handy D. alive
34. A. taught B. collected C. struggled D. started
35. A. explored B. filled C. left D. entered
36. A. asleep B. awake C. negative D. unfamiliar
37. A. discussing B. speaking C. cheating D. sleeping
38. A. joy B. speed C. aim D. determination
39. A. job B. life C. journey D. college
40. A. hard B. complex C. short D. simple
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 yelled angrily at someone when you____41.____(be) hungry? If so, you’ve experienced “hangry”—some people get bad-tempered when they are overdue for a feed.
But where does hanger come from? Everything you eat is digested into various nutrients____42.____will go into your bloodstream. And they are then distributed to your organs and tissues and used for energy. As time____43.____(pass) after your last meal, the amount of these nutrients in your bloodstream starts to drop. If its levels fall far enough, your brain will consider it____44.____a life-threatening situation.
Simple things can become difficult when you’re really hungry. You may find____45.____hard to concentrate, or you may make silly____46.____(decide). You might also find that your words tend to become sharp and unclear. Another thing that may be more difficult when you’re hungry is behaving within socially acceptable norms.
The_____47._____(easy) way to handle hanger is to eat something before you get too hungry.____48.____you may have a strong desire for quick-fix foods, such as chocolate and potato chips, these foods generally may cause you_____49._____(feel) hangrier soon. So go for nutrient-rich, natural foods that help satisfy hunger for as long as possible, without excess calories.
A final way of handling hanger is to suggest that difficult situations_______50._______(deal) with after a meal, not before.
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。

I live in a typical Chinese family of four generations lived together under same roof. Everyone has funs with each other here. Every night, we will have dinner together, talking or laughing around the dinner table so that all the worries of the day will be swept away. At weekends, Dad will take Grandpa, that likes outdoor activities a lot, to the countryside to fish. Mom and Grandma will cook delicious food for ourselves. When the weather is fine, I will push my 95-year-old great grandmother in a wheelchair to sunbathe in the yard. My family is such harmonious that I have been grown up into a person with love and responsibility. I will definite teach what I have already learned for my future children.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。

你校将举办主题为“创意点亮校园”学生手工作品展。

请给你校的交换生Jim写一封邮件，邀请他参观展览。

内容包括：
1.介绍展览信息(例如：时间、地点、内容等)；
2.询问对方意向。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.邮件的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

提示词：手工作品handicraft
Dear Jim,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. A 9. D 10. B 11. C
12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. E 17. B 18. F 19. D 20. C
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. A 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. C 36. B 37. D 38. A 39. B 40. C
41. were
42. which##that
43. passes 44. as
45. it 46. decisions
47. easiest
48. Though##Although
49. to feel
50. should be dealt## be dealt
51.(1).lived→living
(2). same前面加the
(3).funs→fun
(4).or→and
(5). that→who
(6).ourselves→us
(7).such→so
(8).been去掉
(9). definite→definitely
(10).for→to
52.略。