2021年北京师范大学第二附属中学高三英语下学期期中试卷及参考答案

2021年北京师范大学第二附属中学高三英语下学期期中试卷及参考答
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
Overnight French Toast
What You’ll Need
•16-ounce loaf of French bread
•5 eggs
•1 1 /2 cups milk
•1/2 cup half-and-half
•1/3 cup maple syrup（枫糖浆）
•1/2 teaspoon salt
•foil（锡箔纸）
•2 tablespoons melted butter（for topping）
•2 tablespoons maple syrup（for topping）
What to Do
•With an adult’s help, cut the bread into 1-inch slices.
•Place the eggs, milk, half-and-half, maple syrup, and salt into a large bowl. Stir（揽拌）the mixture until blended（混合均匀）.
•Place the sliced bread into a baking dish. Pour the mixtureover the bread and press the slices into it. Cover the dish with foil and refrigerate overnight.
•Remove the dish from the refrigerator at least one hour before baking. Ask an adult for help to preheat the oven to 375°F. Bake the French toast for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
•For the topping, combine the melted butter and 2 tablespoons of maple syrup. Pour it over the French toast before serving.
1.How much salt will you need to make a French toast?
A.1/3 cup.
B.1/2 teaspoon.
C.2 tablespoons.
D.16 ounces.
2.How will you use foil?
A.Place the sliced bread
B.Cover the dish.
C.Remove the dish.
D.Eat the French toast.
3.Who is the passage written for?
A.Teachers.
B.Parents.
C.Cooks.
D.Kids.
B
Most animals living in crowded conditions have particularly strong immune systems, so it long puzzled researchers that honeybees do not.
Part of the answer, discovered in 2015, is that queen bees vaccinate their eggs by moving parts of proteins from disease-causing pathogens to them before they are laid. These act as antigens totriggerthe development of a protective immune response in the developing young. But that observation raises the question of how the queen receives her antigen supply in the first place? Dr. Harwood wondered if the nurse bees were taking in parts of pathogens and passing them to royal jelly they were producing while eating the food brought to the hive.
To test this idea, he teamed up with a group at theUniversityofHelsinki, inFinland, led by Dr Heli Salmela. Together, they collected about 150 nurse bees and divided them among six queenless mini hives equipped with baby bees to look after. Instead of honey, they fed the nurses on sugar water, and for three of the hives they added P. larvae, a bacterium causing a hive-killing disease, to the sugar water.
In this case, to stop such an infection happening, Dr Harwood and Dr Salmela heat-treated the pathogens and so killed them in advance. They also labelled the dead bacteria with a fluorescent dye, to track them easily. And, sure enough, it was confirmed that parts of P. larvae were getting into royal jelly released by those bees which had been fed with the sugar water containing that.
All told, these findings suggest that nurse bees are indeed, through their royal jelly, passing antigens onto the queen for vaccinating her eggs. They also mean the nurses are vaccinating baby bees as well, because baby bees, too, receive royal jelly for the first few days after they come out.
4. What does the underlined word “trigger" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Cut out.
B. Set off.
C. Slow down.
D. Put off.
5. Which is the main experimental subject in Paragraph 3?
A. Queen bees.
B. Nurse bees.
C. Bee eggs.
D. Baby bees.
6. Why was P. larvae added to the sugar water?
A. To test if it would cause a hive-killing disease.
B. To check how the bacterium would affect the hive.
C. To see whether the target bees would favor the taste.
D. To confirm the bees would pass pathogens to royal jelly.
7. What is the text mainly about?
A. How bees multiply.
B. How antigens function.
C. How bees get vaccinated.
D. How immune system works.
C
My family and I never talked about school as the ticket to a future. I was in theclassroom, but I wasn't there to learn to write, read or even speak. When it was my turn to read, I wanted to hide. I was 13 years old, but I already hated being who I was.
I had an English teacher, Mr.Creech, who knew I couldn't read. In one of my first lessons the teacher said that anyone who had a reading age below six had to stand up. I felt so embarrassed. But at the same time, it made me realize that I needed to change the situation. I was determined it wouldn't happen again. Later that day, Mr.Creech encouraged me and promised he would try his best to help me learn to read. From then on, I never gave up practicing reading.
Then when I was 41 years old, one day, I planned to fly back toTexasto visit my friends and family. On my way from the airport, I saw Mr.Creech buying himself a drink. I rushed over and reached into my pocket to pay for him. “Do I know you？” he asked. “Yes, sir, you do know me，” I answered excitedly. “My name is Anthony Hamilton. You taught me English.” The look on his face told me that he remembered the boy he'd once encouraged.
“I'm so glad I had a chance to see you，” I said. “And Mr.Creech, I have great news to share.” I told him I had learned to read. But that wasn't all. I had become a published author and an active speaker. “The next time you get another Anthony Hamilton in your classroom, please encourage him to read as well，” I added.
The experts say what once worried me has a name：dyslexia(诵读困难). But I can tell you it was a lack of desire for education.
8. Why did the author want to hide?
A. Because he felt sorry for himself.
B. Because he hated being laughed at.
C. Because he couldn't read at all.
D. Because he didn't have a ticket.
9. Which of the following could best describe Mr.Creech?
A. Considerate and dutiful.
B. thoughtful and enthusiastic.
C. Emotional and devoted.
D. Friendly and wise.
10. Why couldn't the author read before meeting Mr.Creech?
A. Because his reading age was not long enough.
B. Because his parents didn't teach him how to read.
C. Because he was afraid of reading before the class.
D. Because he didn't have inner driving force to learn to read.
11. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Mr.Creech taught two students called Anthony Hamilton.
B. The author had become a published author and an active speaker.
C. Dyslexia was just the reason that made the author unable to read.
D. The author was grateful to Mr.Creech.
D
The Jewish(犹太人）family-had-just finished supper and the woman had placed the dishes in the sink.The kitchen was quite damp and even gloomier than in the main room.It was their third apartment since the start of the war,they had abandoned the other two in a hurry.The woman came back into the room and sat down again at the table.The 3-year-old boy sat with his back straight,his eyes fixed on his father,but it was obvious that he was so sleepy that he could barely sit up.
The man was smoking a cigarette.His eyes were blood-shot and he kept blinking in a funny way.This blinking had begun soon after they fled the second apartment.
It was late,past ten o'clock and they could have gone to sleep,but first they had to play the game that they had been playing every day for two weeks.Even though the man tried his best and he moved very quickly,the fault was his and not the child's.The boy was.marvelous.Seeing his father put out his cigarette,he opened his blue eyes even wider.The woman,who didn't actually take part in the game, stroked the boy's hair.
“We'll play the key game just one more time only today.Isn't that right?"she asked her husband.
He didn't answer because he was not sure.They were still two or three minutes off.He arose and walked towards the bathroom door.Then the woman called out softly,“Ding-dong."At the sound of the bell ringing so musically from his mother's lips,the boy jumped up from his chair and ran to the front door,which was separated from the main room by a narrow corridor.
“Who's there?"he asked.
The woman,remaining in her chair,shut her eyes tight as if feeling a sudden, sharp pain.
“I'l1 open up in a minute,I'm just looking for the keys,"the child called out. Then he ran back to the main
room,making a lot of noise with his feet.He ran in circles around the table,pulled out one of the sideboard drawers,and slammed it shut.
“Just a minute,I can't find them,I don't know where Mama put them,"he yelled,then dragged the chair across the room,climbed onto it,and reached up to the top of the shelf.
“I found them!”he shouted triumphantly.Then he got down from the chair, pushed it back to the table,and calmly walked to the door and opened it.
“Shut the door,darling,"the woman said softly."You were perfect.”
The child didn't hear what she said.He stood in the middle of the room,staring at the closed bathroom door.
“Shut the door, the woman repeated in a tired flat voice.Every evening she repeated the same words,and every evening he stared at the closed bathroom door.
At last it opened.The man was pale and his clothes were streaked with lime and dust.He stood there,eyes blinking in that funny way.
“Well?How did it go?"asked the woman.
“I still need more time.He has to look for them longer.I slip in sideways allright,but then...It's so tight in there that when I turn...And he's got to make more noise-he should stamp his feet louder."
The child didn't take his eyes off him.
“Say something to him,"the woman whispered.
＂You did a good job,little one,"he said mechanically.
“That's right,”the woman said,“you're really doing a wonderful job,darling. You act just like a grown-up.And you do know that if someone should really ring the doorbell when Mama is at work,everything will depend on you?And what will you say when they ask you about your parents?”
“Mama's at work.”
“And Papa?"He was silent.
“And Papa?"the man screamed in terror.The child turned pale.
“And Papa?”the man repeated more calmly.
“He's dead,”＂the child answered and threw himself at his father,who was standing right beside him,but already long dead to the people who would really ring the bell.
12. What does the underlined sentence in Para.5 mean?
A. The family needed to practise the game for another 2 or 3 minutes.
B. There was still 2 or 3 minutes left before someone knocked at the door.
C. They would become too sleepy to play the game 2 or 3 minutes later.
D. The father needed 2 or 3 more minutes before the kid opened the door.
13. Why did the boy make a lot of noise when he was looking for the key?
A. Because he needed to drown out the noise caused by his father.
B. Because he was too little and just couldn't control his footsteps.
C. Because he was too anxious to find the key to open the door with.
D. Because he met many barriers on his way to where the key was.
14. In Para.12,why did the mother repeat“shut the door”in a tired,flat voice, instead of the previous soft one?
A. She was angry because her son didn't close the door as he had been told to.
B She felt anxious because she knew her husband would be annoyed at the boy again.
C. She was disappointed because the boy's movement betrayed again where her husband was.
D. She was impatient because she was asked to repeat these words again and again every evening.
15. What is the best title of the passage?
A. A Scary Night
B. The Key Game
C. My Father Is Dead
D. An Innocent Boy
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Fishing is a great family sport，and a fun summertime activity.___16___. If you have never fished before it can seem very complicated. Expert fishers know when and where to find certain fish and the best technique to catch each fish. Expert knowledge comes from years of experience.___17___.
As a beginner you will want to use a technique called“Bait(鱼饵)Fishing”. This type of fishing is probably the easiest technique for catching fish. You will need some basic fishing equipment，which you can get at almost any outdoor gear store. You will have to have a rod and fishing line，hooks，some bait and if you are planning on keeping the fish，you will need something to store the fish.
The best way to learn how to fish is to learn fromsomeone who already knows，so when planning your fishing trip，be sure to bring along someone who has fished before.___18___，you will need to decide where to go fishing. Probably for the first time you will want to go to a local lake，where the water is calm and there are plenty of fish. You should also try to research the different types of fish that live in the place you decide to fish，so you know what types of bait they like to eat and what you want to do with the fish once you have caught it.
___19___，you probably want to clean the fish，then store it before continuing fishing. If you want to release
the fish，be extra careful when removing the hook，so it doesn’t get hurt too badly，then gently hold the fish in the water and allow it to swim away out of your hands.
___20___Take some time to learn from an expert and you will be able to catch all types of fish using a wide variety of methods.
A. If you want to keep the fish
B. After you have decided to go fishing
C. Once your hook and bait is in the water
D. Now you have a very basic understanding of fishing
E. There are many different species of fish and types of fishing
F. Here are a few simple and basic fishing tips to get you started
G. At this point you will need to determine if you want to keep the fish
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When do you stick with somethingeven if you’re not the best at it?
When people find out my son Sam is a(n)____21____mathlete, they usually ask if my husband and I are “math people”. The answer is definitely not. Sam’s done pretty well____22____his parents aren’t math people. But sometimes I wish I was a math person so I could help him or at least give him better____23____.
Ninth grade was____24____for Sam, math-wise. He left the____25____of middle school math, where he was kind of a big fish, and started____26____with the high school kids. In the most recent competition, he didn’t do as well as he’d hoped and was____27____by a math camp he’d applied to. He’d set a high goal for himself and hadn’t quite____28____it.
He____29____into my office one day last week, clearly discouraged. “I don’t know why I didn’t do better,” he said,____30____on a chair. “Maybe I should just____31____. I’m not good enough.”
I knew how he felt. The thought____32____us all-that we just aren’t good enough, and that all our hard work won’t____33____in the end and we can’t turn our____34____into success. I don’t have an answer for Sam. I am still____35____. How to____36____difficulty, disappointment, rejection, boredom. How to commit ourselves to something because it’s beautiful and worth our while, not because we’re____37____we’ll succeed.
“Maybe you’re not,” I said, looking at my son. To me, he is incredible and accomplished, but I know he is____38____by doubt just like anyone. “But I, for one, don’t think that’s been decided yet.”
To devote time to something with no guarantee of its____39____is risky and terrifying. But, then
again,____40____is everything. And we don’t need to be a math person to know that.
21. A. competitive B. sensitive C. generous D. anxious
22. A. unless B. because C. considering D. providing
23. A. life B. advice C. solution D. taste
24. A. interesting B. attractive C. boring D. tough
25. A. principle B. world C. test D. age
26. A. running B. travelling C. swimming D. hunting
27. A. admitted B. received C. caught D. rejected
28. A. scored B. reached C. pursued D. managed
29. A. stole B. marched C. wandered D. jogged
30. A. sinking B. lying C. sliding D. hiding
31. A. struggle B. experience C. try D. quit
32. A. interrupts B. discourages C. limits D. suits
33. A. mind B. occur C. matter D. differ
34. A. effort B. luck C. support D. belief
35. A. practicing B. risking C. suffering D. learning
36. A. bring up B. go over C. push through D. turn down
37. A. certain B. happy C. optimistic D. anxious
38. A. warned B. troubled C. destroyed D. guided
39. A. quality B. shelter C. virtue D. success
40. A. so B. nor C. such D. it
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.单句改错
Hardly had I left my house while it began to snow.
The rescue services are still trying to put up the fire.
We find difficult to talk to our guests about the recent events.
The workers were made work 12 hours a day in the past.
The student apologized to the teacher for be late for class.
She was terrifying at the thought of being alone.
The police tried their best to search the missing boy.
After graduation, she reached a point in her career which she had to decide what to do.
The world’s population has grown to more than six times that it was in 1800.
Altogether King has written more than 30 novels, many of them have been made into films.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.某中学生英文报正在进行征文比赛，主题是：我们该追什么星？请你写一篇短文去参赛，内容包括：
1.青少年“追星”现象；
2.你对此现象的看法；
3.你认为最值得崇拜(worship)的人并说明理由.
1.词数100左右：
2.短文题目己为你写好.
Who should we be fans of?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________
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参考答案
1. B
2. B
3. D
4. B
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. C 9. A 10. D 11. D
12. D 13. A 14. C 15. B
16. E 17. F 18. B 19. A 20. D
21. A 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. B 29. C 30. A 31. D 32.
B 33.
C 34. A 35.
D 36. C 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. A
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). while→when
(2). up→out (3). find后加it
(4). work前加to
(5). be→being
(6). terrifying→terrified
(7). search后加for
(8). which→where
(9). that→what
(10). them→which或many前加and
52.略。