2020-2021学年湖南省衡阳市第八中学高三英语期末考试试卷及参考答案

2020-2021学年湖南省衡阳市第八中学高三英语期末考试试卷及参考
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
Covid-19 has brought a great deal of trouble for all of us since March 2020. During this time, mobile phones have been the solution for the boredom and restlessness caused from staying indoors. The most downloaded apps on play store 2020 are;
TikTok
TikTok was the most downloaded app. With over 111.9 million downloads, TikTok has seen a huge growth in 2020, twice more than what it got in 2019. 20% of its total downloads were fromIndiaand around 9. 3% of the total downloads were in theUS.
Zoom
Zoom was the second most installed app in the overall downloads category. With nearly 94. 6 million installs, Zoom is the most used app for online meetings and virtual classrooms. 17% of its downloads were in theUSandIndia. Offices and educational institutes were shut down and to continue working and studying from home, people relied heavily on Zoom for video conferencing and calling.
WhatsApp
WhatsApp ranked third in overall downloads with more than 100 million downloads. It is one of the most popular and widely used chat applications; WhatsApp also supports communication between international phone networks.
Facebook
It ranked fourth in the overall downloaded list. Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking application. Facebook builds technologies that give people the power to connect with friends and family, find communities and grow businesses.
1. What do we know about TikTok?
A. It is an India-based app.
B. It has most users inAmerica.
C. It is used for growing business.
D. It has doubled its download than in 2019.
2. Which app is the best to turn to for online education?
A. TikTok.
B. Zoom.
C. WhatsApp.
D. Facebook.
3. What function does Facebook probably serve?
A. Communication.
B. Training.
C. Teaching.
D. Payment
B
Three years ago, a group of researchers at Cornell University Food and Brand Lab had a guess. They knew that many apples being served to kids as part of the National School Lunch Program were ending up in the trash, almost untouched. But unlike others, they wondered if the reason was more complicated than simply that the kids didn’t want the fruit.
They thought the fact that the apples were being whole, rather than sliced (切片的), was doing the fruit no favor. And they wanted to prove this idea.
They carried out a study at eight schools and found that fruit consumption (消费) jumped by more than 60 percent when apples were served sliced. They then made a follow-up study at six other schools, which not only showed the same result, but further supported. The whole apple consumption at schools that served sliced apples reduced by about 50 percent than before.
Based on these results, it seems that even the simplest forms of inconvenience can influence us. Sliced apples just make more sense for kids. The hardest part is getting kids to start eating fruit, and that’s exactly why sliced apples are the way to go. A child holding a whole apple has to break the skin, eat around the core (果核), and deal with the inconvenience of holding a large fruit. These problems might seem silly or unimportant, but they’re important when you’re missing teeth or have braces (牙箍), as so many kids do.
Sometimes what seems like a really small inconvenience actually makes a huge difference.
4. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A. Lots of apples served to kids were wasted.
B. Researcher supported the lunch program.
C. Apples are not the only acceptable fruit for kids.
D. The lunch program was well worth spreading.
5. What did researchers want to prove?
A. Kid didn’t want the fruits.
B. Kids favored the whole apples.
C. Kids preferred to the sliced apples.
D. Kid’s eating habits influenced fruit consumption.
6. According to the study, we can know________.
A. 14 schools served sliced fruits
B. kids have problems eating the whole apples
C. eating fruits must be healthy for children
D. few kids are missing teeth or have braces
7. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Form matters more than taste.
B. Apples are beneficial to each kid.
C. The way fruit is eaten links kids’ growth.
D. Inconvenience probably makes a difference.
C
Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles when a flight attendant asked an urgent(紧急的) question over the loudspeaker: “Does anyone on board know American Body Language?” She knew she needed to help.
Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s blind and deaf,” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn’t understand what he needed, according to PEOPLE magazine.
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her dyslexia (阅读障碍) and knew she’d be able to spell on the man’s palm(手掌) by finger. So she unbuckled her seat belt, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt by the aisle seat of Tim Cook, then 64. Gently taking his hand, she wrote, “How are you? Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water. When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for a while.
“He didn’t need anything. He was lonely and wanted to talk,” Clara said. So for the next hour, that was what they did. She talked about her family and her plans for the future (she wants to be a politician). Cook told Clara how he had gradually become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn’t see her, she “looked attentively at his face with such kindness”, a passenger reported.
“Clara was amazing,” a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. “You could tell Cook was very
excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such a warm-hearted girl.” Cook’s reaction: “Best trip I’ve ever had.”
Looking for ways to offer help? Start with this random(随时的) act of kindness that can change someone’s life right now.
8. The flight attendant asked an urgent question because ________.
A. the passenger was traveling alone
B. the plane was in a dangerous situation
C. the passenger asked for something suddenly
D. none of the flight attendants could communicate with the passenger
9. Why did Clara talk about her plans for the future?
A. Because the flight attendant asked her to do so.
B. Because she needed topics to go on talking with Cook.
C. Because Cook hoped to understand teenagers better.
D. Because she wanted to show her dream for the future.
10. Which of the following words can best describe Clara?
A. Kind and caring.
B. Warm-hearted and brave.
C. careful and calm.
D. opened-minded and confident.
11. The passage is mainly written to ________.
A. tell a touching story of an amazing girl
B. show the great importance of American Body Language
C. encourage readers to give a hand kindly and randomly
D. show how kind the flight attendant was to help Cook
D
The secrets of dreaming are always interesting psychologists. It is generally acknowledged in the field that dreams people have during this time betweenchildhood and full adulthood, that’s around 30, are the strongest and most influential. Yet not enough is known about the repeated patterns of dreaming. Researchers are still trying to answer a basic question: How does dreaming relate to the life experiences and developmental challenges?
G. William Domhoff and Adam Schneider, at theUniversityofCalifornia, help to answer this question by examining the lengthy dream series of two individuals, “Izzy” and “Jasmine”. Izzy provided a collection of 4, 329 dream reports from between the ages of 12 and 25, while Jasmine provided 664 dreams recorded between the ages of 14 and 25.
Large collections of dreams like these pose challenges to researchers. Until recently, the means of studying dream series was to employ a team of recorders who take the time to code each dream for a predetermined(预先确定的)number of content categories, and then compare their results. Nowadays, digital technologies enable the analysis of language usage in dreams with high speed, accuracy, and objectivity. This marks a revolutionary advance in the science of dreaming. However,itcan only lead so far.
To gain more specific and detailed insights, Domhoff and Schneider tailored word strings(词串)for each dreamer, mixing elements of traditional research with digital tools for analyzing large data sets. For Izzy these word strings included “family and s”, “celebrities” and “fantasy”, while the word strings they created for Jasmine included “familiar places,” electrical equipment” and “music”. The researchers used these word strings to identify connections between their dreams and real lives. Surprisingly, the results of the analysis revealed a great deal of consistency(一致性)and continuity in both sets of dreams. Izzy pays much attention to pop culture, and has affection for famous actors. Jasmine is an accomplished musician and performer.
“The frequencies of dream elements show the intensity(强度)of the dreamer’s personal concern with that element in waking thought,” Domhoff and Schneider conclude. For anyone who still claims dreaming is merely random nonsense from the brain and mental world, these findings are hard to explain away.
12. What do psychologists agree with about dreams?
A. Dreams are influenced by life experiences.
B. Dreaming is never nonsense from the brain.
C. Dreams in one’s teens and twenties are strongest.
D The patterns of dreaming are usually repeated.
13. What does “it” underlined in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. The collection of dreams.
B. Research into dreaming.
C. The digital method.
D. The challenge for psychologists.
14. How do the researchers conduct their study?
A. By analyzing large data sets.
B. By developing individualized word strings.
C. By identifying the patterns of dreaming.
D. By making comparison with traditional research.
15. Which can be the best title for the text?
A. New tech, new finding
B. Dreams: reflections of waking reality
C. Lives, languages, dreams
D. Life experiences: elements of mental world
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
How To Attract People
Attracting people will earn you new friends and relationships. It's not hard to attract people.
___16___Here are a fewtips on how to attract people:
Don't forget to smile. A smile is the best accessory you can wear if you want to attract people. It sends out a message that you are happy and very approachable. Your smile should be relaxing and coming from inside.___17___
Be confident.___18___It also boosts your self-esteem. When you are confident, you are not shy to converse or talk to other people. This means you will be able to relate and bond with them more. Confidence also makes you more likeable to other people.
___19___Try helping out people in small ways. Open a door for an officemate who is carrying an armful of things. Say thank you to the waiter when he gets your order. If you see a friend feeling down, try to cheer her/him with compliments. Small things like that make a big impact on the impression people have of you.
If you want to attract people, the first person you should think of is yourself. To attract people naturally, you should work on yourself first.___20___Be confident and attract people with your winning personality!
A.Care about other people.
B.Self-confidence always attracts people.
C.Make the effort to do the small things.
D.You should be comfortable in your own skin.
E.All you have to do is start with yourself and the rest will come.
F.Always remember that attractiveness starts from within.
G.It will make your face look warmer, and energy more positive.
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Last year I decided to do some volunteer work. I began to____21____on the Internet and discovered Volunteer USA. Three months later I____22____myself on a plane to Phoenix, Arizona. I was____23____at the thought of living with loads of new people for three months. However, within fifteen minutes of____24____, my worries had gone. Everyone was so____25____and like-minded that it was very____26____to feel at home.
I was sent to the Coronado National Forest for my first 8-day____27____. We had to____28____everything we needed and walk three miles to where we worked. It may not seem like a____29____way but in 35℃heat and with a heavy pack, my legs were on fire.
My job was to____30____a stairway out of rock. This____31____climbing up and down the side of a mountain inhabited (栖息) by mountain lions, although I should say they were only heard,never____32____.
Three days later, a beautiful stairway came into being. The____33____of knowing that my____34____will be on that mountainside for years to come is massive.
But on the last night we were____35____in a thunderstorm. I woke up at midnight to find a swimming pool in my tent. The temperature was close to____36____. I had to spend the rest of the night trembling in the only____37____part of my tent.
____38____, I suffered a lot. But I know whatever I have to face in my life I was there and I____39____. I think I am much____40____for having taken part in the project.
21. A. calculate B. negotiate C. advertise D. research
22. A. imagined B. introduced C. enjoyed D. found
23. A. annoyed B. surprised C. scared D. excited
24. A. arriving B. sleeping C. thinking D. walking
25. A. confident B. friendly C. energetic D. curious
26. A. funny B. good C. lucky D. easy
27. A. tour B. project C. campaign D. course
28. A. drop B. make C. carry D. buy
29. A. nice B. safe C. long D. quick
30. A. build B. test C. clean D. guard
31. A. helped B. ended C. allowed D. meant
32. A. hunted B. trained C. seen D. fed
33. A. satisfaction B. ambition C. expectation D. intention
34. A. work B. memory C. record D. story
35. A. left B. caught C. attacked D. separated
36. A. boiling B. average C. normal D. freezing
37. A. tidy B. dry C. new D. soft
38. A. By the way B. Regardless of that C. Needless to say D. In either ease
39. A. survived B. resisted C. escaped D. recovered
40. A. smarter B. stronger C. happier D. busier
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
In the ancient times,there used to be so many myths about the moon, and all of___41.___made the moon more attractive. On the moon, according to the Chinese myth, lived a goddess named Chang 'e who led a lonely life. In the west, up to now, scientists____42.____(study) the moon for many years. I wonder if you have received an___43.___(invite) to spend a Moon Day, which is officially celebrated on July 20 every year. Moon Day marks the first human landing on the moon______44.______(success) that occurred on July 20, 1969. That explains it! Ever since 1969, Moon Day has been celebrated in the US to mark one of the______45.______(great) achievements in human history.
Moon Day is largely celebrated by NASA and space fans. One way to celebrate Moon Day is to make something about the moon,like cutting paper moons. Children are made to bake cookies and cut them in the shape of the moon. They also consider_____46._____(learn) some facts about the moon on this occasion. Exploring the moon on Google Moon is a great idea to get familiar with our natural satellite. It is especially important that we celebrate Moon Day with children.___47.___this way, children can learn about____48.____happened on July 20, 1969, and understand the importance of this event in the future. It can be said with certainty that humans will devote all their___49.___(life) to the research into the moon. As for young people, they must go to all lengths to study hard for the future even if there is a long way to go!
Should there be a chance for you to go to the moon, who would you like to have_____50._____(go ) with you ?
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(＼)划掉。

修改:在错的词下画一横线，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。

Reading English newspapers are my favorite activity. When I entered into high school, I began to enjoy doing such work. Under the teacher’s help, I realize that reading English articles is of great important. It’s a good way to improve my English. I’ve learned many words and expression by doing so. I also get much information, include news about China and the world outside. It opened my eyes widely. That I love most is the section about TV programs in the coming week. I dislike reading long articles there are many new words. I will work hard to keep on even if it’s a particular hard task for me.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是李华，你的爱尔兰笔友Martin即将作为交换生来你校学习，担心不太适应中国的生活。

请你给他写一封电子邮件，内容包括：
1.表示欢迎；
2.给出建议(至少2条)；
3.表达祝愿。

注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. C
6. B
7. D
8. D 9. B 10. A 11. C
12. C 13. C 14. B 15. B
16. E 17. G 18. B 19. C 20. D
21. D 22. D 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. D 27. B 28. C 29. C 30. A 31. D 32.
C 33. A 34. A 35. B 36.
D 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. B
41. them
42. have studied
43. invitation
44. successfully
45. greatest
46. learning
47. In 48. what
49. lives 50. go
51.(1). are→is
(2). 去掉into
(3). Under→With
(4). important→importance
(5). expression→expressions
(6). include→including
(7). opened→opens
(8). That→What
(9). articles后加where/because
(10). particular→particularly
52.略。