2021届江苏省启东中学高三英语下学期期中考试试题及参考答案

2021届江苏省启东中学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
No one knows when the first printing press was invented or who invented it. but the oldest known printed text originated in China during the first millennium (千年) AD.The Diamond Sutra (《金刚经》), a Buddhist book from Dunhuang, China during the Tang Dynasty, is said to be the oldest known printed book.The Diamond Sutrawas created with a method known as block printing (雕版印刷), which used boards of hand-carved wood blocks in reverse.
It was said that the moveable type was developed by Bi Sheng. He was fromYingshan,Hubei,China, living from 970 to 1051 AD. His method replaced panels of printing blocks with moveable individual Chinese characters that could be reused. The first moveable Chinese Characters were carved into clay and baked into hard blocks that were then arranged onto an iron frame that was pressed against an iron plate.
The earliest mention of Bi Sheng’s printing press is in the bookDream Pool Essays, written in 1086 by Shen Kuo, who noted that his nephews came into possession of Bi Sheng’s typefaces (字体) after his death. Shen Kuo explained that Bi Sheng did not use wood because the texture is inconsistent (不一致的) and absorbs wetness too easily.
By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, which ruled from 1127 to 1279 AD, books had become popular in society and helped create a scholarly class of citizens who had the capabilities to become civil servants. Large printed book collections also became a status symbol for the wealthy class.
1. When was Bi Sheng’s printing press first introduced in history?
A. After Bi Sheng died and his nephews owned his typefaces.
B. When books became popular in the Southern Song Dynasty.
C. After the block printing was replaced by the moveable type printing.
D. WhenThe Diamond Sutrawas printed into a book.
2. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Shen Kuo made great contributions to printing.
B. The moveable type printing was invented earlier than block printing.
C. Printed books were hard to get in the Song Dynasty.
D. By the Southern Song Dynasty, books had helped people get to higher social positions.
3. Why does the author write this passage?
A. To show that Buddhism was popular in the Tang Dynasty.
B. To introduce the early history of printing.
C. To memorize Bi Sheng, developing the moveable type printing.
D. To indicate the advantages of moveable type printing.
B
Pigeons inLondonhave a bad reputation. Some people call them flying rats. And many blame them for causing pollution with their droppings. But now the birds are being used to fight another kind of pollution in this city of 8.5 million.
“The problem for air pollution is that it’s been largely ignored as an issue for a long time,” says Andrea Lee, who works for the London-based environmental organization Client Earth. “People don’t realize how bad it is, and how it actually affects their health.”London’s poor air quality is linked to nearly 10,000 early deaths a year. Lee says, citing(引用)a report released by the city manager last year. If people were better informed about the pollution they’ re breathing, she says, they could pressure the government to do something about it.
Nearby, on a windy hill inLondon’s Regent’s Park, an experiment is underway that could help—the first week of flights by the Pigeon Air Patrol. It all began when Pierre Duquesnoy, the director for DigitasLBi, a marketing firm, won a London Design Festival contest last year to show how a world problem could be solved using Twitter. Duquesnoy, fromFrance, chose the problem of air pollution.
“Basically, I realized how important the problem was,” he says. “But also I realized that most of the people around me didn’t know anything about it.” Duquesnoy says he wants to better measure pollution, while at the same time making the results accessible to the public through Twitter.
“So”, he wondered, “how could we go across the city quickly collecting as much data as possible?” Drones were his first thought. But it’s illegal to fly them overLondon. “But pigeons can fly aboveLondon, right?” he says. “They live—actually, they are Londoners as well. So, yeah, I thought about using pigeons equipped with mobile apps. And we can use not just street pigeons, but racing pigeons, because they fly pretty quickly and pretty low.”
So it might be time for Londoners to have more respect for their pigeons. The birds may just be helping to improve the quality of the city’s air.
4. What can we infer aboutLondon’s air quality from Paragraph 2?
A. Londoners are very satisfied with it.
B. The government is trying to improve it.
C Londoners should pay more attention to it.
D. The government has done a lot to improve it.
5. Duquesnoy attended the London Design Festival to _________.
A. entertain Londoners.
B. solve a world problem.
C. design a product for sale.
D. protect animals like pigeons.
6. Why did Duquesnoy give up using drones to fly acrossLondon?
A. Because they are too expensive.
B. Because they fly too quickly.
C. Because they are forbidden.
D. Because they fly too high.
7. Which can be the best title for the text?
A. Clean air inLondon.
B. London’s dirty secret.
C. London’s new pollution fighter.
D. Causes of air pollution inLondon.
C
In order to help discover spoilage and reduce food waste for supermarkets and consumers, researchers have developed new low-cost, smart phone-linked, eco-friendly spoilage sensors for meat and fish packaging.
One in threeUKconsumers throw away food just because it reaches the use-by date, but 60% of the £12.5 billion-worth of food we throw away each year is safe to eat.
The researchers, whose findings were published in ACS Sensors, say the sensors could also eventually replace the use-by date—a widely used indicator of being fresh and eatable.
The sensors cost two US cents each to make. Known as “paper-based electrical gas sensors (PEGS)”, they detect spoilage gases like ammonia (a poisonous gas with a strong unpleasant smell) in meat and fish products. The information provided by the electronic nose is received by a smart phone, and then you can know whether the food is fresh and safe to eat.
The Imperial College London researchers who developed PEGS made the sensors by printing carbon electrodes onto a special type of paper. The materials are eco-friendly and harmless, so they don’t damage the environment and are safe to use in food packaging. The sensors, combined with a tiny electronic system, then inform nearby mobile devices, which identify and understand the data about spoilage gases.
Lead author Dr Firat Guder of Imperial’s Department of Bioengineering, said, “Although they’re designed to keep us safe, use-by dates can lead to eatable food being thrown away. They don’t always reflect its actual freshness. In fact, people often get sick from food-borne diseases due to poor storage, even when an item is
within its use-by date.”
“These sensors are cheap enough so we hope to see supermarkets using them within three years. Our goal is to use PEGS in food packaging to reduce unnecessary food waste.”
The authors hope that PEGS could have applications beyond food processing, like sensing chemicals in agriculture, air quality, and detecting disease markers in breath like those involved in kidney disease.
8. What is the function of PEGS according to the text?
A. To improve the taste of foods.
B. To improve the service of stores.
C. To help supermarkets store foods.
D. To help people test food freshness.
9. What role does the smartphone play while PEGS are functioning?
A. It acts as an electronic nose.
B. It reads the data collected by PEGS.
C. It helps print the gas sensors onto paper.
D. It discovers the spoilage gases from foods.
10. What does Dr. Firat Guder say about use-by dates?
A. They are not completely reliable.
B. They can help reduce food waste.
C. They are based on scientific research.
D. They are not accepted by the consumers.
11. What does the author mainly talk about in the text?
A. The process of researching spoilage sensors.
B. A new technology in packaging to reduce food waste.
C. The application of spoilage sensors beyond food processing.
D. The influence of use-by dates on supermarkets and consumers.
D
Back about 20 months ago I started college and just struggled with everything, such as classes and friends. I quickly became depressed and angry at myself for not being about to do better in school, in addition to lack of friends due to poor social and communication skills.
This went on for months until my 19th birthday. My parents sent me a cake, which was a great cake. But I remember having this large cake and ly no one to share it with. I ended throwing out the cake after having one piece, with about 90 % of it leftover. That night I was depressed that I decided to go outside to the freezing
temperature of the winter and run. I put my earphones in, went outside and ran about 2 miles at 11 p.m. on my birthday.
When I got back inside I was content. I was proud of what I was able to do. The next night I did the same. I wasn’t quick or fit but you know that I went outside and did something. This continued for about 2 months until I finally worked up the courage to go to the gym, where I started swimming again as I used to in high school. A month went by and I started lifting weights and continually running.
Looking back I can see that exercise helped cure my depression but it didn’t only do that. At the gym I met new friends and back at my dorm I grew confidence to go to the end of the hall seeing people playing Super Smash Brothers and ask if I could join.
So go forward to present now. I exercise every day and look forward to that hour and a half I get daily to do what I love with people who love it as well. I hope this helps someone who may be or have been in a similar situation.
12. What made the author decide to run at night?
A. His l9th birthday.
B. His parents’ cake.
C. His loneliness.
D. His friends.
13. Which of the following best describes the author?
A. Traditional.
B. Determined.
C. Humorous.
D. Generous.
14. What is the biggest benefit of the author’s running?
A. Regaining his confidence.
B. Losing his weight.
C. Playing with his brothers.
D. Joining other activities.
15. Why do you think the author wrote this passage?
A. To recall his life in college.
B. To show his gratitude to his parents.
C. To emphasize the importance of friendship.
D. To share his experience of dealing with hardship.
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Open an app at your smart phone and scan the code bar on the garbage can. When you throw garbage into the garbage can, it will show the weight of the garbage and the points you can get from doing so.___16___It will
become more popular in the future. Yes, we are talking about the smart garbage can.
___17___The environmental problems have become constant headaches in the development of those cities. Encouraging garbage classification has become an effective way.
In some cities, a variety of multifunctional smart garbage cans are being put into use. In Beijing, for example, a smart garbage can is equipped with an LED screen, which not only shows national policies on garbage classification but also shows the correct steps for garbage sorting. It can also calculate the weight of the garbage and the accumulated points one can get. They can be traded for some articles of daily use.___18___Its body is actually a screen. It is equipped with some Internal sensors. When people throw garbage into it, the internal sensors can automatically tell the types of the garbage. Meanwhile, people can see how to deal with them.___19___
Garbage disposal is a small issue that involves everybody each day. However, it is also a big issue.___20___With smart garbage cans in our daily life, the idea of garbage sorting will become more established. Our dream of building a greener and more beautiful China will come true so long as we start to make small changes right now.
A. Garbage sorting has been a new fashion.
B. Another kind of garbage can is even smarter.
C. It is no wonder that residents cheered for their presence.
D Such a way of handling garbage has appeared in some cities.
E. It will affect China’s transformation towards green development.
F. Over 200 million tons of garbage is produced each year in some cities.
G. The good habit of garbage classification can improve the living environment.
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 I was in primary school, I got into a major argument with a boy in my class. I can't___21___what it was about, but I have never forgotten the___22___I learned that day.
I was___23___that I was right and he was wrong but he strongly believed that I was wrong and he was right. Our___24___decided to teach us a very important lesson and___25___a good idea. She____26____both of us up to the front of the class and placed him on one side of her desk and me on____27____. In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could____28____see that it was black. She asked the boy what____29____the object was. "White," he answered in a____30____voice. I couldn't believe he said the object was white,____31____it
was obviously black! Another____32____started between my classmate and me, this___33___about the color1 of the object.
The teacher told me to go to stand where the boy was standing and told him to come to stand where I had been. We changed____34____, and now she asked me what the color1 of the object was. I____35____answer, "White." It was then____36____I realized I was wrong. In fact, it was an object with two____37____color1 ed sides, and from his side it was white,____38____from my side was the color1 black.
My teacher taught me a very important lesson that day: You must____39____yourself in the other person's shoes and look at the____40____through their eyes in order to truly understand their view.
21. A. think B. remember C. forget D. determine
22. A. class B. speech C. text D. lesson
23. A. sure B. glad C. afraid D. upset
24. A. doctor B. parent C. partner D. teacher
25. A. kept up with B. went on with C. came up with D. got along with
26. A. woke B. brought C. advised D. came
27. A. the other B. other C. another D. others
28. A. clearly B. happily C. luckily D. nearly
29. A. height B. colour C. size D. shape
30. A. sweet B. loud C. fearful D. grateful
31. A. for B. unless C. if D. although
32. A. match B. fight C. argument D. conversation
33. A. day B. time C. chance D. month
34. A. desks B. seats C. attitudes D. places
35. A. hoped to B. needed to C. had to D. was able to
36. A. when B. before C. that D. since
37. A. loosely B. frequently C. differently D. surprisingly
38. A. or B. and C.but D. so
39. A. sit B. live C. lie D. put
40. A. performance B. movement C. effort D. situation
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
China is a big old country,____41.____has a history of more than five thousand years. We are proud of___42.___(it) culture and part of the culture even influences the world____43.____(great), for example, the thought of Confucius(孔子). As Chinese economy develops very fast and plays____44.____important role in the world. More and more___45.___(foreign) learn Mandarin(普通话) in Confucius institutions. The Chinese traditional culture can____46.____(test) by the time. It unites the whole nation____47.____no matter what kind of disaster comes, we will fight together for the country’s future. Today, many young people lose faith in traditional culture and they are crazy about the western culture. They follow the western fashion,____48.____(think) we are the old style. But some day, they____49.____(realize) they are wrong______50.______(ignore) traditional culture.
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。

错误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。

My uncle, director of Yonghua Company, has several expensive cars, which he used to enjoy driving. However, recently he has begun to ride his bicycle at and from work following a doctor's advices. The benefits of the change are obviously. He has become more energetic and is in good shape than before. Besides, he is happy that he can make difference to reducing pollution and preserving natural resources. Follow his example, more and more people in his company, which spend a lot of time sitting in the office every day, have been started using bicycles, saying that with the popularity of shared bicycles, this is extremely convenient. Now this has become a new fashion in the company to go green or keep fit.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.最近，某中学生英文报正在举办主题为“Cellphones on Campus”的征文活动。

假定你是攀枝花中学高三学生李华，请你向该报社投稿。

主要内容如下：
1.你校学生使用手机的情况；
2.学生在校内使用手机的利弊；
3.你自己的观点。

注意：1.词数：100词左右；
2.可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. B
6. C
7. C
8. D 9. B 10. A 11. B
12. C 13. B 14. A 15. D
16. D 17. F 18. B 19. C 20. E
21. B 22. D 23. A 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. A 29. B 30. B 31. A 32.
C 33. B 34.
D 35. C 36. C 37. C 38. C 39. D 40. D
41. which
42. its 43. greatly
44. an 45. foreigners
46. be tested
47. and 48. thinking
49. will realize
50. to ignore
51.(1). at→to
(2). advices→advice
(3). obviously→obvious
(4). good→better
(5). difference前加a
(6). Follow→Following
(7). which→who
(8). 去掉been
(9). this→it
(10). or→and
52.略。