2020届揭阳市普宁二中实验学校高三英语下学期期中考试试题及参考答案

2020届揭阳市普宁二中实验学校高三英语下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
Provincetown, Cape Cod Restaurants
After a day on the sands or exploring our charming town, enjoy local eats, from fresh seafood and lobster to authentic Italian. You’ll find many wonderful Provincetown, Cape Cod restaurants and cafes just steps away. Fanizzi’s Restaurant
Right next door to our hotel, this award-winning local eatery is one of the finest Cape Cod restaurants. The menu highlights seafood, Italian, steaks, burgers, and fresh salads. Enjoy the Friday Fish Fry, Early Bird Specials, and Sunday Brunch, available from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. all year long.
539 Commercial Street 508-487-1964
Napi’s Restaurant
Napi’s serves dinner all year round and lunch from April to October. A cozy place located just off Commercial Street and overflowing with local art, this Cape Cod, Massachusetts classic specializes in everything from freshly caught seafood to Portuguese and Brazilian dishes to vegetarian items.
7 Freeman Street 800-571-6274
Mews Restaurant
Enjoy views of Provincetown Harbor at this waterfront restaurant just steps from Surfside Hotel & Suites. Intercontinental dishes are served in the beach-level dining room, while upstairs you’ll find a casual American bistro. Summer months bring on a brunch menu, and dinner is served year-round.
429 Commercial Street 508-487-1500
The Red Inn
A favorite among our guests, The Red Inn is located on Provincetown’s picturesque waterfront which provides diners with the most gorgeous harbor views and spectacular sunsets. The Red Inn provides historic old world charm with new world pleasure. Their menu features the finest local seafood.
15 Commercial Street 508-487-7334
1.Which restaurant offers a special breakfast for early risers?
A.Fanizzi’s Restaurant.
B.Napi’s Restaurant.
C.Mews Restaurant.
D.The Red Inn.
2.What is special about The Red Inn?
A.It exhibits the good local art.
B.It is the finest local restaurant.
C.It offers the best local seafood.
D.It serves brunch all year round.
3.What does the text mainly talk about?
A.Accommodation.
B.Life styles.
C.Sightseeing.
D.Dining.
B
What about your emotions? How do they help you to understand what you are reading?
In Jane Yolan'sOwl Moon,a girl explores with her father on a snowy night. She longs for this special night.And she's amazed when she sees an owl.Have you felt longing before? Amazement? Well, if you have, it helps you have a sense of agreement. When we can put ourselves inside a story we can understand it better. Our brain tells us,"Oh, this girl's experience is a bit like mine."And boom! We can relate to her.But this skill is not born in us.So young kids have to learn it.
Pictures and images help young readers to understand and recognize feelings.Readers feel joy when seeing the smiling faces of friends.They feel fear when turning the page to find a scary monster. They are just pictures,but the feelings are real. This skill, to understand the thinking and feeling of others, is what researchers call "theory of mind".
For example, think about the faces of people and animals in stories. The Big Bad Wolf's scary teeth. The 'o' shape of a surprised character's mouth. Or big, wide eyes like the girl inOwl Moon.By noticing the faces,readers can start to figure out what it feels like to be that character.And that helps to figure out how people feel and think in real life.
But most young readers don't go into deep,scary woods.And some may not go to the beach or play basketball.In the bookYo!Yes?two kids meet and play ball. The kids start the story on opposite pages.But as the story goes on,they get closer until they are together.Some young readers might not play basketball, but they can read the clues on the page to figure out how the kids are feeling.And some readers might not like the game,but they can feel excited for the characters because of how the characters look and move.
4. What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.Owl Moontalks about the exploration of the Moon.
B. The feeling of"amazement"is a sense of agreement.
C. Readers are blessed with the ability to interpret others.
D. Readers with similar experience understand the story better.
5. Which of the following might help readers develop"theory of mind"?
A. True feelings.
B. Smiling faces.
C. Picture books.
D. Reading skills.
6. Young readers can go deeper into a story by________.
A. tracking the plot
B. developing new skills
C. sharing similar hobbies
D. analyzing the background
7. What is the text mainly about?
A. How thinking influences reading.
B. How readers improve reading skills.
C. How emotions help enhance reading.
D. How kids figure out the clues of stories.
C
Over 180 teenage girls from LixianCounty No. 1 Middle School in Longnan city, Gansu province, listened carefully to a lecture about neuroscience (神经科学). It was delivered by a director of the experimental surgery department at The Second Affiliated Hospital of the Air Force Medical University in Xi’an.
The students also joined a science class to make paper rockets to launch into the sky. A plastic bottle was connected with a long pipe joined to the end of the rocket, and students stepped heavily on the middle of the bottle so hard that the air pressure shot the rocket upward.
The program started in 2016 as a one-week summer camp in Beijing that invited female students to take science courses and to interact with women in science. It aims to stir (激发) an interest in science and technology among female students.
“I’m excited to take the opportunity because it’s been my biggest wish to popularize science among students. They can broaden their eyes and hopefully some of them will devote themselves to the field of neuroscience,” the director says. “It’s necessary to bring more of these activities on campus. I’m willing to communicate with teenagers, some of whom ask deep and thoughtful questions that I would never think of.”
The key to science popularization is to imbue (灌输) others with the spirit of science. Some scientific and technological workers have devoted themselves to a job in a certain field and they enjoy the pleasure of scientific research. Female Chinese scientific and technological workers sometimes have to double their efforts to receive the same treatment or recognition as those male scientific workers. However, after years of continued effort, the situation will improve, showing the increasing number of female scientists in China.
8. What is the purpose of the program?
A. To praise the efforts of women scientists.
B. To find out how much girls love science.
C. To develop interest in science among girls.
D. To show love for students in Western China.
9. How does the director think of the program?
A. Important.
B. Challenging.
C. Confusing.
D. Serious.
10. What is the most important in science popularization?
A. Enjoying the fun of scientific research.
B. Filling people with the spirit of science.
C. Holding more scientific activities on campus.
D. Forcing students to choose scientific subjects.
11. What can we learn from the text?
A. One can go anywhere if he/she learns science well.
B. People have a stronger sense of science than before.
C. Male scientists are much easily recognized than female ones.
D. Thedirector graduated from Lixian County No. 1 Middle School.
D
The Gata used to look annoyed when they received power bills that routinely topped $200. Last September the couple moved into a 1,500-square-foot home in Premier Gardens, an area of 95 “zero-energy homes” (ZEH) just outside town. Now they're actually eager to see their electricity bills. The grand total over the 10 months they've lived in the three-bedroom house: $75. For the past two months, they haven’t paid a cent.
ZEH communities are the leading edge of technologies that might someday create houses that produce as much energy as they consume. Premier Gardens is one of a half-dozen subdivisions (住宅开发项目) in California where every home cuts power consumption by 50%, mostly by using low power appliances and solar panels.
Aside from the panels on the roof, Premier Gardens looks like a community of traditional homes. But inside, special windows cut power bills by blocking solar heat in summer and keeping indoor warmth winter.
The rest of the energy savings comes from the solar units. They don't just feed the home they serve. If they generate more power than the home is using, the excess flows into the utility's power grid(电网). The residents are billed by “net metering”: they pay for the amount of power that they get from the grid, minus the kilowatts(千
瓦) they feed into it. If a home generates more power than it uses, the bill is zero.
That sounds like a bad deal for the power company, but it's not. Solar homes produce the most power on the hot sunny afternoons when everyone rushes home to turn up the air conditioner. "It helps us lower usage at peak power times," says solar expert Mike Keesee. “That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.”
What’s not to like? Mostly the costs. The special features can add $25,000 or more to the purchase price of a house. Tax breaks bring the cost down, especially in California, but in many states ZEHs can be extremely expensive. For the consumer, it's a matter of paying now for the hardware to save later on the power bill.
12. Why is the Gata eager to see their electricity bills now?
A. They want to cut down their utility' expenses.
B. They want to know if they are able to pay.
C. They want to see how much they have saved.
D. They want to avoid being overcharged.
13. What is special about the ZEH communities?
A. They are built in harmony with the environment.
B. They have created cutting edge technologies.
C. They are subdivided into half a dozen sections.
D. They aim to be independent in power supply.
14. What does the "net metering" practice mean to the power company?
A. More pressure at peak time
B. Reduced operational costs.
C. Increased electricity output.
D. Less profits in the short term.
15. The author believes that buying a house in a ZEH community __________.
A. is a worthy investment in the long run
B. is but a dream for average consumers
C. gives the owner great tax benefits
D. contributes toenvironmental protection
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
Handmade Card from Me to You
When I was 9 years old, I received my first handmade card from a classmate, who had just moved toNew Jersey. I helped him in his hard time adjusting to(适应) his new school. So he made me a card. It was a folded piece of paper from his notebook,with a picture of us he'd drawn on the front. There were only a fewsentences
inside.___16___
Special handwritten cards take time and effort to make and feel very personal. Like photographs, cards can be stored and looked back on. You can make your own unique card with supplies you have at home. What's most important is the message you write inside. ___17___But getting a handwritten card or letter can make someone who needs it feel appreciated.
"The first step is to think of a person for whom you' d like to make a card..___18___There are many types:Thank-you cards,congratulation cards, holiday cards, and I' m-sorry cards which are just a few.
___19___A big trip for writing a card to keep the person you' re making it for in mind while you work. You can ask yourself some questions while writing:What are your favorite memories of that person? What do you appreciate most about him or her?Your words can be as sweet or as funny as you want. If they're personal, the message will be special.
Last, sign your name at the bottom.___20___ The recipient like me will keep the card to reread sometime far in the future.
A. Don't forget to include the date.
B. Or you can buy a card from a store.
C. Now it's time to gather your thoughts.
D. This is the easiest but least rewarding part.
E. But those words meant a lot to me at the time.
F. It can be hard to put your feelings into words.
G. Next, think about what kind of card you'd like to make.
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There was almost no reason for me to sing on my 51st birthday. Being recent “empty nesters”, my husband and I were doing our best to___21___to the too quiet house. This was a day when I___22___all to gather together. The plan, for my___23___day, was to meet our daughters, Jaime and Katie at a fancy___24___.
Our youngest, Katie called to say she might not be able to___25___the celebration dinner. She had heavy___26___earlier that day and, with the long ride ahead, she thought it___27___to stay at her own house and have a good sleep.
After all, this was my baby. How could she move so far away from me in the first place? But the reality I had to___28___was that she didn’t feel the need to___29___me every day. It made me____30____my abilities as a
mother. I felt tears falling as I____31____what she had just said to me. Maybe she felt the____32____in my voice because, on second____33____, she changed her mind.“But”, she warned, “I didn’t have time to____34____you a gift.”
We arrived with Katie already waiting for us to____35____. After dinner in it, Katie handed me a shopping bag. As I opened it, the____36____warmth filled my heart again: a mommy sitting in a rocking chair, holding a____37____in her arms. The all explanations read:____38____never leaves a mother’s arms.
I got the message loud and____39____, my daughter still loves me though she lives far away from me, and____40____much less than I’d like.
21. A. respond B. adjust C. react D. contribute
22. A. attracted B. assisted C. expected D. attached
23. A. special B. painful C. common D. casual
24. A. canteen B. shop C. hotel D. restaurant
25. A. miss B. hold C. prepare D. attend
26. A. weight B. traffic C. work D. rain
27. A. simpler B. better C. worse D. easier
28. A. deny B. stress C. face D. burden
29. A. understand B. teach C. visit D. phone
30. A. possess B. doubt C. acknowledge D. improve
31. A. analyzed B. tasted C. repeated D. memorized
32. A. embarrassment B. confusion C. disappointment D. excitement
33. A. thought B. assessment C. grade D. sigh
34. A. award B. spare C. buy D. show
35. A. stay on B. show up C. set off D. turn away
36. A. complicated B. contradictory C. academic D. previous
37. A. pet B. baby C. toy D. book
38. A. love B. mercy C. comfort D. pity
39. A. B. entire C. quick D. clear
40. A. calls B. compensates C. emails D. cares
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
The eighth Wuzhen Theater Festival,____41.____will take place from Oct 15 to24, is calling for entries(参赛作品) for its Emerging Theater Artists Competition and outdoor carnival.
The theme of this year's festival is “flourish”(繁荣), with the wish that theater arts will flourish____42.____that more talented artists will appear.
Both the Emerging Theater Artists Competition and the outdoor carnival are____43.____(importance) parts of the festival. The competition aims____44.____(provide) a chance for young and ambitious theater talent to show their____45.____(work) and performances.
On May 18, the organizing committee____46.____(announce ) that for this year's competition, each competitor should create a stage performance of no more than 30 minutes based____47.____the three elements (元素) of “tree, bread and the past”
Until Aug.8, anyone____48.____(interest) in this competition can apply on the festival's official website. The shortlist of 18 entries will____49.____(final) be announced on Sept. 1.
Theater groups, artists and performers can also apply on the website to enter the outdoor carnival section and show_____50._____(they) performances in drama, music, dance or other art forms in the water town of Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.
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 took the Harvard Summer School program in my vacation. During my stay there, I spent many time studying in the main library Widener. I enjoyed myself in the ocean of knowledge, either doing research for my papers or read special edition books. The library, that is named after its donor Harry Widener, stands right next the Emerson building of philosophy. Opening a pair of heavy yet elegant metal door, I was immediately bathed in warm light. I wandered around the library, fascinating to find one treasure after other.
The library is a amazing place. Only if when one visits the library can he fully experience the academic
atmosphere. For me, the library as well as the courses explain Harvard’s place as the home of devoted scholars.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.目前很多青少年有不良饮食习惯，对此你校英语俱乐部决定开展一次题为“ We Are What We Eat”的征文比赛。

请你写一篇短文参赛，内容包括：
1.健康饮食的重要性；
2.你的建议（至少两条）。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：nutrition营养
We Are What We Eat
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参考答案
1. A
2. C
3. D
4. D
5. C
6. A
7. C
8. C 9. A 10. B 11. C
12. C 13. D 14. B 15. A
16. E 17. F 18. G 19. C 20. A
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. D 26. C 27. B 28. C 29. D 30. B 31. C 32.
C 33. A 34. C 35. B 36.
D 37. B 38. A 39. D 40. A
41. which
42. and/so 43. important
44. to provide
45. works 46. announced
47. on 48. interested
49. finally
50. their
51.(1). many→much (2). read→reading (3).that→which (4). next后面加to (5). door→doors (6).fascinating→fascinated (7). other→another (8). a→an (9). if或者when去掉(10). explain→explains
52.略。