2020年安徽大学附属学校高三英语下学期期中考试试卷及参考答案

2020年安徽大学附属学校高三英语下学期期中考试试卷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
One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem inability to read.
In the library,I found my way into the "Children's Room." I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle. Without opening the book—Amos, the Beagle with a Plan ,1 borrowed it from the library for the summer.
Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.
My mother's call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book.
I never told my mother about my “miraculous” experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later ,she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the words has held.
1. The author's mother told him to borrow a book in order to ________.
A. let him spend a meaningful summer
B. encourage him to do more walking
C. help cure him of his reading problem
D. make him learn more about weapons
2. The book caught the author's eye because .
A. it reminded him of his own dog
B. he found its title easy to understand
C. it contained pretty pictures of animals
D. he liked children's stories very much
3. Which one could be the best title of the passage?
A. Mum's Strict Order.
B. My Passion forReading.
C. Reunion with My Beagle.
D. The Charm of a Book.
B
The year 2020 will mark the beginning of the decade of the yold, or the “young old”, as the Japanese call people aged between 65 and 75. The traditional retirement age is 65. One might therefore expect peak retirement. By continuing to work, and staying socially engaged, the yold will change the world, as they have done several times before at different stages of their lives.
The yold are more numerous, healthier and wealthier than previous generations of seniors. The yold are busier, too. In short, the yold are not just any group of old people. They are challenging the traditional expectations of the retired as people who wear slippers and look after the grandchildren. That will influence consumer, service and financial markets.
The over-60s are one of the fastest-growing groups of customers of the airline business. The yold are vital to the tourism industry because they spend much more, when taking a foreign holiday, than younger adults.
But for all this to happen,three big things will have to change, under pressure from the yold themselves. The most important is public attitudes towards older people, and in particular the expectation that the old ought to be putting their feet up and quietly retiring into the background. Then, government policies will have to change, too. The retirement age in many rich countries is still below the age to which many people want to work. The effective retirement age (the age at which people actually leave the workforce) is usually even lower. Third, higher numbers of healthy yold people will require drastic changes in health spending. Most diseases of ageing are bestmetwith prevention and lifestyle changes. But only about 2%~3% of most countries’ health-care spending goes on prevention. That will have to rise, because although the yold will constitute a bulge of comparative health and activity over the next decade, by 2030 they will hit 75 and enter a long period of decline for which few rich countries are ready.
4. What kind of people are the yold exactly?
A. They are workaholics.
B. They are full of energy.
C. They enjoy being focused on.
D. They like staying socially engaged.
5. Why do the yold contribute to tourist industry?
A. They like traveling more.
B. They have more money.
C. They consume more on travel.
D. They have much free time.
6. What’s the author’s attitude toward health-care spending on prevention?
A. Unsatisfied.
B. Subjective.
C. Neutral.
D. Active.
7. What does the underlined word “met” in the fourth paragraph mean?
A. dealt with
B. come across
C. satisfied
D. experienced.
C
You run into the grocery store to quickly pick up your item. You grab what you need and head to the front of the store. After quickly sizing up the check-out lines, you choose the one that looks fastest. You chose wrong. People getting in other lines long after you have already checked out and headed to the parking lot. Why does this seem to always happen to you?
Well, as it turns out, it's just math that is working against you. A grocery store tries to have enough employees at the checkout lines to get all their customers through with minimum delay. But sometimes, like on a Sunday afternoon, they get super busy. Because most grocery stores don't have the physical space to add more checkout lines, their system becomes overburdened. Some small interruption — a price check, a particularly talkative customer — will have downstream effects, holding up the entire line behind them.
If there are three lines at the store, these delays will happen randomly at different registers (收银台). Think about the probability. The chances of your line being that fastest one are only one in three, which means you have a two-thirds chance of not being in the fastest line. So it's not just in your mind: Another line is probably moving faster thanyours.
Now, mathematicians have come up with a good solution, which they call queuing theory, to this problem: Just make all customers stand in one long snaking line, called a serpentine line, and serve each person at the front with the next available register. With three registers, this method is about three times faster on average than the more traditional approach. This is what they do at most banks, Trader Joe's, and some fast-food places. With a serpentine line, a long delay at one register won't unfairly punish the people who lined up behind it. Instead, it will slow everyone down a little bit.
8. What phenomenon is described in the first paragraph?
A. Queuing in a line.
B. A shopping experience.
C. A rush in the morning.
D. Cutting in a line.
9. According to the article, what may cause delays in checking out?
A. The lack of employees in the grocery store.
B. Some unexpected delays of certain customers.
C. The increasing items bought by customers.
D. A worsening shopping system of the store.
10. What is the solution given by mathematicians?
A. Employing more workers for checking out.
B. Limiting the number of queuing people.
C. Making only one line available.
D. Always standing in the same line.
11. What's the principle behind the queuing theory?
A. To pursue the maximum benefit.
B. To leave success or failure to luck.
C. To avoid the minimum loss.
D. To spread the risk equally among everyone.
D
Rain is vital to life on Earth. However, rain isn’t just made of water anymore—it’s partly made of plastic.
Millions of tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics, are wandering around Earth’s atmosphere and traveling across entire continents according to a study published in one journal on April 12.
Microplastics are plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in diameter and come from a number of sources. Plastic bags and bottles released into the environment break down into smaller and smaller bits. Some microplastics are produced deliberately to provide abrasion(研磨)in products, such as toothpaste and cleansers. Another major source is your washing machine. When you wash clothing, tiny microfibers get washed away with the wastewater. Even though the water is treated by a wastewater plant, the microplastics remain,and they are released into the sea.
Plastic rain may remind people of acid rain, but the former is far more widespread and harder to deal with. The tiny particles, too small to be seen with the naked eye, are collected by the wind from the ground. They are so light that they stay in the air to be blown around the globe. As they climb into the atmosphere, they are thought to act as nuclei (核心) around which water vapor (水蒸气) combines to form clouds. Some of the dust falls back to land in dry conditions, while the rest comes down as rain.
Microplastics have been found everywhere you can imagine. From fish and frogs to mice and mosquitoes, their bodies have been found on average to contain 40 pieces of microplastic. As the top of the food chain, humans are exposed to microplastics, too. “We live on a ball inside a bubble,” microplastic researcher Steve Allen said. “There are no borders, there are no edges. It rains on the land and then gets blown back up into the air again
to move somewhere else. There’s no stopping it once it’s out.”
12. What do we know about microplastics?
A. They have a diameter of over 5 millimeters.
B. They have become a threat to humans.
C. They are light and can be easily dealt with.
D. They cause acid rain and plastic rain.
13. What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?
A. Waysto deal with microplastics.
B. The wide use of microplastics.
C. Where microplastics come from.
D. How microplastics pollute water.
14. What does Steve Allen want to tell us in the last paragraph?
A. No place can be safe from microplastic pollution.
B. The atmosphere possesses the ability to self-cleanse.
C. Countries should work together to fight pollution.
D. Wind causes microplastics to move somewhere else.
15. The main purpose of the article is to________.
A. call on people to use fewer plastic products
B. warn people of the danger of microplastics
C. introduce the sources and effects of microplastics
D. make a comparison between acid rain and plastic rain
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Everyone has moments of forgetfulness (健忘) from time to time, especially when life gets busy.___16___, having a poor memory can be frustrating. However, research has shown that there are ways to improve your memory.
Get enough sleep
Sleeping well helps make episodic memories stronger.___17___, especially about learning motor skills, such as learning to play a musical instrument or ride a bike. Having a full night’s sleep soon after gaining a new skill helps strengthen the processes involved.
Believe to remember
Positive thinking appears to improve memory performance. Researchers found they could improve the
performance of people aged 60 and above in memory tests by presenting them with positive age­related words such as “wise”, and “sharp­witted”.
___18___. Brain scans have shown differences in activity levels in brain regions, according to whether individuals believe they have good recall abilities or not.
___19___
Memories can be weakened if the brain doesn’t have enough downtime to strengthen them. More than a century ago, German scientists showed that people performed almost twice as well in memory tests if they took breaks.
Stay social
___20___. US scientists who asked people in their 50s and 60s to do memory tests every other year found there is a slower decline in recall abilities of the most sociable persons. Having good friends, volunteering and other forms of social engagement also protect memory.
A. Take a break
B. Stay mentally active
C. Having an active social life delays memory loss as we age
D. Poor sleep is thought to have a significant effect on memory
E. Giving others words such as “forgettable” and “confused”weakened their performance
F. While this can be a completely normal phenomenon
G. There is evidence that sleep plays an important role in strengthening memories
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 just the three of us—my parents and me. My dad is a truck driver, and was gone most of the time,___21___supplies around theMidwest. So my mother was always like a___22___mother. We moved there on my third birthday. My first memory is our next-door___23___Arlene and her husband Bill, to whom I was always talking. I think what drew me to Arlene and Bill is that they never___24___listening to me. I also think Arlene saw a lot of herself in me-we were both lonely, anxious kids. Bill too. And that may be___25___she always took the time to listen to me. It was a wonderful___26___.
One day, my parents asked Bill and Arlene whether they’d___27___me while they went out on a date. This worked well, so it became a monthly___28___.When I was about five, I had an idea, “What if Bill and Arlene___29___me as their granddaughter?” The next day, I knocked on their door, sat down in their living room,
and asked, “Will you guys be my grandparents?” They started crying and___30___accepted. Soon after they printed an adoption certificate, and___31___it on their living room wall from then on. I was surprised that they took my offer so___32___. They could have___33___it off. Thinking of that moment still brings tears to my eyes. There is something truly___34___about a child offering up her love and adults being so excited to accept it.
Over the years, Bill and Arlene___35___me in all my dreams. They encouraged me to apply for college. And when I got accepted toColoradoStateUniversity, they presented me with a___36___. They told me they’d been putting away money for me.
Since I’ve become an adult, I’ve learned more about my grandparents. Both of them grew up poor. Their lives weren’t as___37___as they appeared to be. But the two of them always seemed genuinely happy in each other’s___38___.
Arlene passed away in 2013. Bill gave me the ring he’d___39___to Arlene on their 25thwedding anniversary which I wear on my ring finger as a___40___of the kind of love I wish to put into this world.
21. A. providing B. carrying C. producing D. delivering
22. A. lonely B. single C. desperate D. young
23. A. friends B. neighbors C. colleagues D. s
24. A. get tired of B. get rid of C. get away with D. get on with
25. A. what B. how C. why D. where
26. A. devotion B. appreciation C. connection D. contribution
27. A. watch B. see C. observe D. monitor
28. A. existence B. occurrence C. preference D. consequence
29. A. treat B. make C. appoint D. adopt
30. A. gently B. ly C. eventually D. enthusiastically
31. A. painted B. hung C. removed D. held
32. A. secretly B. flexibly C. seriously D. automatically
33. A. smiled B. teased C. dropped D. laughed
34. A. admirable B. beneficial C. ambitious D. satisfactory
35. A. supported B. favoured C. conducted D. congratulated
36. A. bank B. figure C. fund D. picture
37. A. specific B. casual C. perfect D. tough
38. A. company B. way C. commitment D. appearance
39. A. sent B. gifted C. donated D. lent
40. A. warn B. sign C. message D. reminder
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
Twenty years ago, the idea of sharing our lives so____41.____(open) with the world was unheard of. However, for young people today it____42.____(consider) completely normal to share pictures of their lives and interact online every day
However,____43.____concerns people is that too much time on social media may have some negative effects. Researchers measured people's attitudes and feelings before and after visiting social media sites. They found that the more time people spent on social media, the more unhappy they became.
There are a number of reasons for this. When____44.____(surf) the social media, people often see photographs and stories showing beautiful holidays, fun parties and fashionable clothes. People rarely post negative stories or bad pictures,____45.____can be misleading. For those looking at these pictures and comparing them to their own lives, they can end up feeling sad and depressed. They might think their lives are____46.____(bad) in comparison. Even for those people who post positive stories and pictures, they too can feel stressed and worried.____47.____number of "likes" and comments on their posts can make them anxious about their____48.____(popular). Of course, there is also the problem of "cyber bullying".
We don't have to disconnect from the Internet____49.____(live) a happy life, but we should realize that the pictures we see and stories we read are only part of a bigger picture. If we can do that, we can protect____50.____(we) and enjoy our lives.
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.短文改错
Last weekend, my parents and I went to a countryside to visit my grandparents. As usually, all three of us wore masks because the epidemic (流行病). Some cases from abroad was frequently reported in the media, which made us nervous.
When we arrived, many s or friends came to see us off. Shaking hands and having small talks with us, they warmly welcome us. But to my surprised, none of them wore a mask! It made them appear funny. But at the same time, it showed that the epidemic situation in China was well under control.
However, masks can not only be used to fighting the epidemic, but they can also be used to prevent the spreads of the flu. So we still need to wear them in the coming winter.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

A city child’s summer is spent in the street in front of his home, and all through the long summer vacations I sat on the edge of the street and watched enviously the other boys on the block play baseball. I was never asked to take part，even when one team had a member missing — not out of special cruelty, but because theytook it for granted I would be no good at it. They were right, of course.
I will never forget the wonderful evening when something changed. The baseball ended when it grew dark. Then it was the custom of the boys to retire to a little stoop (门廊) that stuck out (突出)from the candy store. There the boys would sit, mostly talking about the games played during the day and of the game to be played tomorrow. Suddenly, one of the boys raised a question to me. “What’s in those books you’re always reading?” he asked casually. “Stories,” I answered. “What kind?” asked somebody else without much interest.
Nor did I know what drove me to behave as I did, for usually I just sat there in silence;but this time I told them for two hours about the story Iwas reading at the moment. The book wasSister Carrie. They listened, bug-eyed and breathless. I must have told it well, but I thought there was another and deeper reason that made themkeep an audience. I was offering them a new and exciting experience, one that they didn’t know existed.
The books they themselves read were the ones I had long left behind. Being alone so much, I had become an enthusiastic reader and I had gone through the books-for-boys series. In those days there was no reading material between children’s and grownups’. I had gone right fromTom Swift and His FlyingLabto Theodore Dreiser andSister Carrie. Dreiser had hit my young mind, and they listened to me tell the storywith some of the wonder that I had had in reading it.
注意:
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The next night and many nights thereafter, a kind of unspoken ritual(仪式)took place.________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________
I enjoyed the long summer evenings until school began in the fall.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. D
5. C
6. A
7. A
8. A 9. B 10. C 11. D
12. B 13. C 14. A 15. B
16. F 17. G 18. E 19. A 20. C
21. D 22. B 23. B 24. A 25. C 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. D 31. B 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. A 36. C 37. C 38. A 39. B 40. D
41. openly
42. is considered
43. what 44. surfing
45. which 46. worse
47. The 48. popularity
49. to live
50. ourselves
51.(1). a→the
(2). usually→usual
(3). because后面添加of
(4). was→were
(5).去掉the
(6). or→and
(7). welcome→welcomed
(8). surprised→surprise
(9). fighting→ fight
(10). spreads→spread
52.略。