2020年海南省国兴中学高三英语期中试题及答案

2020年海南省国兴中学高三英语期中试题及答案
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
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C. Grammar rules.
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2. Which is NOT offered to the students?
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B. Personalized courses.
C. Choice of class time and teacher.
D. Offline learning materials.
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B
Chinese archaeologists（考古学家）announced on Saturday that some new major discoveries have been made at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Southwest China, helping uncover another start of the Chinese civilization.
Archaeologists have found six new sacrificial pits（祭祀坑）and unearthed more than 500 treasures dating back 3,000 years at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan Province. So far, archaeologists have unearthed masses of important cultural items from four of the pits, including pieces of gold masks, gold foil, bronze（青铜）masks, bronze trees and large numbers of ivories. The rest of the newly discovered pits arc still being dug up.
“Surprisingly, we have unearthed some never — heard — of — before bronze items," said Lei Yu, from the Sichuan Archaeology Research Institute. 'Tor instance, some large and well-made bronze items have strange-looking dragon or cow designs on them.”
In another major discovery, relics of silk products were found for the first time at Sanxingdui, which shows “the ancient Shu Kingdom was one of the important starts of silk in ancient China" according to Tang Fei, head of the digging team.
The new pits sit next to two sacrificial pits discovered in 1986, with areas ranging between 3o square meters and 19 square meters. Together they form an area in which people of the ancient Shu civilization held ceremonies to offer sacrifices to heaven, earth and their forefathers, and prayed for good luck and peace.
The Sanxingdui Ruins is regarded as one of the greatest archaeological finds of mankind in the 20th century. The site was accidentally discovered by a farmer in the 1920s. The ruins are located in the city ofGuanghan, about 60 kilometers fromChengduand are believed to be the relics of theShuKingdom.
4. What can we learn from the text?
A. Totally there are 500 treasures unearthed.
B. Six new sacrificial pits are under repair.
C. The unearthed treasures date from 3000 years ago.
D. There are six sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui.
5. What does the discovery of the relics of silk products mean?
A. Chinese civilization was widely influential.
B.AncientShuKingdomwas also the home of silk.
C. Chinese silk has a much longer history than known.
D.ShuKingdombelonged toChinasince ancient times.
6. What was the main function of the sacrificial pits?
A. To celebrate festivals.
B. To store valuable items.
C. To bury important figures.
D. To hold sacrifice ceremonies.
7. Who first discovered the Sanxingdui Ruins?
A. A farmer.
B. Lei Yu
C. Tang Fei.
D. Archaeologists.
C
A single toy catches a child's attention for a limited period of time, but a box of items that allows a child to build their own toys will catch their imagination for years to come. This brilliant idea already exists in real product form, and it's called Toyi.
Toyi is described as an eco-friendly creative building kit, and it recently won the well-known IF Design Award. It came from Istanbul, Turkish, where a young female designer named Elif Atmaca first came up with the idea for it when she wanted to help the kids living in disadvantaged areas. These children do not have access to the variety of interesting toys that wealthier children do.
Toyi Atmaca's design allows children to transform what are around them into clever toys. It consists of sticks, junction parts, flexible connectors, toy body parts like feet, eyes, hands, and wheels that can be used to turn old water bottles, cups, boxes, towels, etc. into cute, clever, and unique playthings. This toy kit upcycles(升级利用) materials that would otherwise go to waste, turning a recycling bin into a treasure container.
“Our initial target was to deliver Toyi kits to only disadvantaged children in Turkish,” Atmaca told the media. But during a research conducted with around300 children, .she realized that the restriction on being creative went beyond any boundary. “I saw that everything was planned and shaped by grown-ups, blocking the kids' imagination in a significant way,” said Atmaca.
Atmaca concluded that each kid needed space where he or she could freely create. She explained the entire process should be left to kids’ creativity, reminding teachers and all grown-ups that child-led play was an excellent
way for children to develop lifelong skills.
Toyi's creators are now considering distributing the kits to as many children as possible around the world through different international NGOs. Atmaca notes that for each Toyi kit sold out, they will also donate one kit to
a disadvantaged child through different partnerships around the world.
8. Why did Atmaca design Toyi at first?
A. To win the famous IF Design Award.
B. To help poor kids make their own toys.
C. To protect the environment in Istanbul.
D. To recycle all the waste in the dustbin.
9. Which is probably the product made with the toy kit of Toyi?
A. A new picture of a young boy.
B. A computer with high technology.
C. A treasure container from a dustbin:
D. A six-armed “robot” from a water bottle.
10. How do the toy kits help improve the children's ability?
A. It provides the kids various types of toys.
B. It offers space for the kids’ creative minds.
C. It changes the poor kids' living conditions.
D. It teaches the kids to share joys with others.
11. What is the new target for Atmaca and her partners?
A. Donating toykits to more poor children.
B. Selling toy kits to every kid in the world.
C. Designing new toy kits for kids and adults.
D. Doing further research on the kids' demands.
D
If you easily make mistakes when in a hurry, a new study from Michigan State University—the largest of its kind to date-found that meditation (冥想) could help you improve the situation.
The research tested how open monitoring meditation (OMM)—or, meditationthat focuses awareness on feelings or thoughts as they unfold in one’s mind and body—alteredbrain activity in a way that suggested increased error recognition.
“People’s interest in meditation is outpacing what science can prove in terms of effects and benefits.” said Jeff Lin, MSU psychology doctoral candidate and study co-author. “But it’s amazing to me that we were able to see
how one session of a guided meditation could produce changes to brain activity in non-meditators.”
“Some forms of meditation have you focus on a single object, commonly your breath, but open monitoring meditation is a bit different,” Lin said, “It has you tune inward and pay attention to everything going on in your mind and body. The goal is to sit quietly and pay close attention to where the mind travels without getting too caught up in the scenery.”
Lin and his MSU co-authors—William Eckerle, Ling Peng and Jason Moser—hired more than 200 participants to test how open monitoring meditation affected how people detect and respond toerrors.
The participants, who had never meditated before, were taken through a 20-minute open monitoring meditation exercise while the researchers measured brain activity through electroencephalography (脑电图), or EEG. Then, they completed a computerized distraction (分心) test.
“The EEG can measure brain activity at the millisecond level, so we got precise measures of brain activity right after mistakes compared to correct responses,” Lin said. “A certain neural signal occurs about half a second after an error called the error positivity, which is linked to conscious error recognition. We found that the strength of this signal is increased in the meditators to controls.”
“These findings show what just 20 minutes of open monitoring meditation can do to improve the brain’s ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes,” Moser said.
12. What does the underlined word “altered” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Changed.
B. Prevented.
C. Started.
D. Recorded.
13. Why is open monitoring meditation different?
A. It is just aimed at a single object.
B. It clears your mind of everything.
C. It gets too caught up in the scenery.
D. It focuses on where the mind travels.
14. What did the researchers do for the study
A. They hired people who had meditated before.
B. They measured the participants’ brain activity.
C. They reminded the participants to avoid errors.
D. They had non-meditators design a distraction test.
15. What is the best title for the text?
A. Turn to OMM to Avoid Acting in a Hurry
B. You’re Able to Recognize Errors Consciously
C. Meditators’ Brain Proves Much More Active
D. OMM Can Help You Make Fewer Mistakes
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
What Makes a Language Useful Internationally?
Learning and knowing certain languages gives you a huge advantage when you travel and when international communication is necessary.____16____Here are some things that make international languages really useful to know.
____17____You can always, of course, look for locals who speak your language in your travels no matter where you are. English and Chinese, for example, are spoken all across the world. But you can't always depend on this. By knowing more than just one or two languages, you greatly increase your ability to communicate anywhere in the world.
They can teach you about many cultures. Our world has become increasingly connected and learning another language is the best way to strengthen those relationships. Most bilinguals know that learning a language goes beyond memorizing terms and phrases because language and culture are intrinsically connected.____18____.
They’ll make you a cleverer traveler.____19____Want to avoid tourist traps and overpriced restaurants? Wish to see how people really live in other countries? If you're able to ask the right questions and read local advice or reviews, then you can potentially save a lot of money on your travels.
Without enough language skills, you might be led to the tourist spots and miss out on the better cultural and local hotspots.____20____Once you get comfortable with the language and get along well with the locals, you'll find places that are better for you and your wallet.
A. They're used in many different countries.
B. They can enable you to live with a host family.
C. And we all know that those tourist places aren't cheap.
D. But many people are not sure what international languages can do.
E. Languages teach you history and show the influences of other cultures.
F. You can help people in need while learning a language at the same time.
G. Knowing the right languages will immediately level up your traveling skills.
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
Yassin Terou owns a restaurant in downtown Knoxville. One morning, he___21___early, only to find someone had attempted to rob his shop. A rock was___22___thrown through the window and broken pieces were seen everywhere. But since the food is made___23___each morning and the cash registers are___24___every night, the thief went away empty-handed.
After realizing the person who broke in was probably___25___in some way, Yassin, instead of being___26___, put up a sign that read “If you are hungry or need emergency money, just___27___till we open! We are more than happy to___28___you when weare open!”
Sounds unbelievable, right? But to people who know Yassin, it is not___29___at all.
When he first arrived in the U.S. as a refugee（难民）, he struggled to find his_____30_____because of discrimination. But he quickly discovered the best way tofight the_____31_____he felt was to be loving. With the help of local community（社区）,Yassin_____32_____a restaurant. He welcomes everyone into his restaurant, regardless of their_____33_____. He knows and greets hundreds of_____34_____by name daily,and the relaxed and_____35_____atmosphere makes visiting feel like seeing family. At one point, Yassin was accused of “stealing_____36_____from Americans” by someone who was laid off. Despite the fact that he is a_____37_____citizen of this country and that he should just have ignored him, he calmly offered to_____38_____the man who charged him.
Yassin’s restaurant was_____39_____with the title of “Nicest Place of America” by Reader s Digest in 2018. His success comes from the kindness, love and_____40_____he shows in everything he does. And of course, the food is delicious too!
21. A.dropped in B.slipped away C.showed up D.moved out
22. A.apparently B.carelessly C.casually D.narrowly
23. A.delicious B.fresh C.attractive D.healthy
24. A.checked B.cleaned C.removed D.emptied
25. A.hiding promising C.suffering D.cheating
26. A.disappointed B.annoyed C.relieved D.delighted
27. A.wait B.continue C.escape D.search
28. A.forgive B.accompany C.treat D.help
29. A.satisfying B.amusing C.surprising D.challenging
30. A.place B.strength C.interest D.style
31. A.sympathy B.hate C.loneliness D.anxiety
32. A.inspected B.visited C.decorated D.started
33. A.appearances B.ages C.differences D.characters
34. A.residents B.customers C.tourists D.neighbours
35. A.friendly rmal C.traditional D.quiet
36. A.money B.food C.dreams D.jobs
37. A.foreign B.legal C.former D.wealthy
38. A.promote B.understand C.employ D.praise
39. A.presented B.associated C.equipped D.covered
40. A.courage B.enthusiasm C.confidence D.acceptance
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
“Time waits for no man”—or so the saying goes. We can’t stop time and we can’t control______41.______, although sometimes, in our minds, we think time flies. But if this year______42.______particular feels like it’s passing more quickly than others have done, there could be a scientific______43.______(explain).
Of course, we know a year is usually 365 days long. Clever scientists calculated this a long time ago. They also worked out that every four years, we need an extra day______44.______(call) a leap year to keep our calendar insync(同步). But 2021 isn’t one of those years, and yet it’s not behaving like______45.______normal year. Scientists have done the math and discovered the Earth is moving faster than it ever has in the last 50 years,______46.______means that 2021 is going to be the shortest year in decades.
Apparently,this is______47.______the Earth is spinning faster, quicker than it has done in decades, and the days are therefore shorter. But they are only short by a tiny amount—around 0.05 milliseconds—so don’t panic if you haven’t noticed! However, long-term these milliseconds add up. Graham Jones from Time and Date toldThe Independent newspaper: “If the Earth’s rotation continues to______48.______(quick), we may at some point require a negative leap second. If this happens, our clocks would skip a second______49.______(keep) up with the hurrying Earth.” Since 1972, 27 leap seconds_______50._______(add) to our time.
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。

Cantonese is a variety of Chinese. It dated back to more than 2000 years ago. The term “Cantonese” came from
Canton, a name formerly used for Guangzhou, that is the capital of Guangdong Province. In China, Cantonese is mainly speaking in Guangdong Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, or Macau. It is also wide used by Chinese people living in Southeast Asia and Western country.
Cantonese is ancient variety and it is also modern. Compared with other Chinese varieties, Cantonese is more difficult to understand it. So it sometimes causes puzzlement and even misunderstanding among people. But, many people show great interest to it.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.Directions: Write an English composition in 120—150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
1.简要描述图片；
2.针对此种情况发表您的观点。

参考答案
1. B
2. D
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. D
7. A
8. B 9. D 10. B 11. A
12. A 13. D 14. B 15. D
16. D 17. A 18. E 19. G 20. C
21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. D 29. C 30. A 31. B 32.
D 33. C 34. B 35. A 36. D 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. D
41. it 42. in
43. explanation
44. called 45. a
46. which 47. because
48. quicken
49. to keep
50. have been added
51.(1). dated→dates
(2). that→which
(3). speaking→spoken
(4). or→and
(5). wide→widely
(6). country→countries
(7). ancient前加an
(8).去掉it
(9). But→However
(10). to→in
52.略。