2020-2021学年东营区第三中学高三英语期末试题及参考答案

2020-2021学年东营区第三中学高三英语期末试题及参考答案
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
Thank you. It’s my great honor to be given this award.
You cannot imagine that I have always been a late starter. Years ago, when I was 16, I took an important exam — GCE(General Certificate of Education), which turned out to be a failure. My dad was reading my report card and saw that my position in class was 29th, but the number in class was 29. It meant that I had achieved the distinction of being bottom of my class.
I wasn’t lazy, and I was really trying. You can picture how I felt. Dad put his hand on my shoulder and said, “You can only do the best you can, but whatever you decide to do, make sure you love it.” He was a really sweet guy and a great man. I knew his attempt to hide his disappointment with some of his encouraging words. I was depressed for a week, but his advice was a wake-up call.
Fortunately I love working with my hands, and I was good at two things: woodwork and art, and I really loved to draw and paint. I was quite talented. Dad strongly encouraged me to go to art school, which in those days wasn’t the obvious place that a father would suggest.
So I got into Hartlepool College of Art. The college was a revelation (出乎意料), the passionate teachers there, who were extremely interested in the students, not just tolerating them but actually engaging with them. It was a world apart from my schooling until then. It’s extraordinary what an enthusiastic teacher can do, drawing the student out, lighting independence, and encouraging a design of your own future, rather than waiting for something to happen. I’m honored to have become one of these passionate teachers years later.
My teachers inspired me, and thanks to my dad, here I am tonight. I think I should mention all the talents I have worked with over time, and to my kids and my wife Giannina, thank you.
Thank you for this great award. I shall find a very special place for it.
1. How did the author feel after taking GCE?
A. Happy.
B. Upset.
C. Tired.
D. Relieved.
2. What didHartlepoolCollege of Art impress the author most?
A. The teachers were strict with students.
B. The students set good examples for each other.
C. The teachers inspired students’ passion for learning.
D. The students got prepared for their lessons independently.
3. The author gave this speech to ________.
A. share his career choice
B. explain his teaching methods
C. describe his life experience
D. show his appreciation
B
Salad plants have already been grown in old sheltersand tunnels. Urban farming is a regular topic of interest at places like the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, where leaders consider whether the world's food system, blamed for causing both obesity and malnutrition, can be fixed. There are already plenty of urban farming projects around the world, particularly in the US, Japan and the Netherlands, from urban fish and plant farms to vertical farming.
“It's becoming an expanding industry,” said Richard Ballard, one of the founders of the farm Growing Underground. “There're several other businesses starting up in London in containers, and there are other vertical farms around the country now.”
Growing Underground is not a standard farm. The rows of crops could be in almost any tunnel, but these plants are 100 feet below Clapham High Street and show that urban agriculture is, in some cases at least, nota fad. The underground farm has occupied a part of the Second World War air-raid shelters for nearly five years, and Ballard is planning to expand into the rest of the space later this year.
Growing Underground supplies herb and salad mixes to grocery shops, supermarkets and restaurants. Being in London creates an advantage, Ballard says, as they can harvest and deliver in an hour.
He adds other advantages. Being underground means temperatures never go below 15℃surface greenhouses need to be heated. They can do more harvests: 60 crops a year, compared with about seven in a traditional farm. Electricity to power the lights is a major cost, but the company believes renewable energy will become cheaper.
Similar British companies include the Jones Food Company in Lincolnshire, while in the US AeroFarms has several projects in New Jersey, and Edenworks in Brooklyn.
4. What do we know about urban farming?
A. It leads to a healthier lifestyle.
B. It is rarely discussed at the WEF.
C. Different farming methods are used.
D. Local governments pay efforts to develop it.
5. Which of the following best explains "a fad" underlined in Paragraph 3?
A. A dream that's easy to realize.
B. A field controlled for a long time.
C. An approach to a serious problem.
D. A fashion that’s popular for a short time.
6. What can we learn about the underground farm?
A. It is more productive than a traditional farm.
B. It provides food directly to the customers.
C. Its major products are herbs and salads.
D. It uses less energy than a greenhouse.
7. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Current food system causes health problems
B. Growing Underground attracts more people
C. Traditional farming will be replaced soon
D. Urban farming isstill thought costly and time-consuming
C
I had very good parents. My mother came toAmericafromScotlandby herself when she was 11, and she didn’t have much education. My dad was kind of a street kid, and he eventually went into the insurance business, selling nickel policies door to door.One day, my dad asked his boss, “What's the toughest market to sell?” and the insurance guy replied “Well, black people. They don’t buy insurance.” My dad thought, but they have kids; they have families. Why wouldn’t they buy insurance? So he said, “Give meHarlem.”
When my dad died in 1994, I talked about him onThe Tonight Show. I told the story of how he worked in Harlem and how he always taught us to be open-minded and not to say or think things of racism (种族主义). Then one day, I got a letter from a woman who was about 75 years old.
She wrote that when she was a little girl, a man used to come to her house to collect policies. She said this man was the only white person who had ever come to dinner at their house. The man was very kind to her, she said, and his name was Angelo—was this my father?
The letter made me cry. I called her up and said yes, that was in fact my dad, and she told me how kind he had been to her family. Her whole attitude toward white people was based on that one nice man she met in her childhood, who always treated her with kindness and respect and always gave her a piece of candy. From this experience, I learned a valuable life lesson: never judge people and be open-minded and kind to others.
8. What did my father do after knowing what was the toughest market to sell?
A. He asked his boss to give him some insurance.
B. He went toScotlandto improve his education.
C. He specially went to white families with kids.
D. He choseHarlemto face the toughest challenge.
9. What can we learn from the third paragraph?
A. It was rare that a businessman had dinner in his customer's house.
B. Angelo was the only white person to sell insurance inHarlem.
C. The little girl admired Angelo very much.
D. Racism was a serious problem inAmericaat that time.
10. Which of the following can best describe the author’s father?
A. Stubborn and generous.
B. Patient and intelligent.
C. Determined and open-minded.
D. Confident and romantic.
11. What can be the best title of the passage?
A. Memories from a TV Show.
B. A Letter from an Old Lady.
C. Life Lessons from My Father.
D. My Father's Experience inHarlem.
D
My friend and I went traveling inTasmania,Australialast December. We settled in our Airbnb accommodation, a cozy apartment, not long after we arrived inHobart, the capital city.
After briefing us on the kitchen's facilities and the whereabouts of the bedroom and bathroom, our hostess Geraldine resumed her ironing work, which seemed to have been interrupted by our arrival.
She was ironing what looked like security guard uniforms, and we soon found out that she worked in a local prison. And when she detected the curiosity in our tones, she offered a tour at the prison in her SUV. My friend and I exchanged a “this is incredible” look and said “yes” immediately.
As we drove, she told us about the buildings that we were passing, the local market and how to get to MONA,Tasmania's well-known contemporary art gallery.
And of course we got to hear some background information about the prison. According to our hostess, it currently holds Martin Bryant, a notorious criminal who cheated 35 people out of their property. We could see the high level of security from the layers upon layers of wires surrounding the gray structure inside.
Getting to know a city in such a local way is something I would never be able to do by talking to a hotel receptionist, and this is what I like best about the apartment-sharing experience, not to mention the fact that it's usually cheaper than hotel rooms.
But I'm fully aware of the risks of Airbnb, which is why I did my homework before booking online—I checked
the reviews of the accommodation to avoid possible safety problems.
That said, it is the mutual trust between a host and a guest that fascinates me—the interesting feeling of building a bond with a total stranger.
12. Why did the hostess drive us to the prison?
A. She planned to send the uniform to the prison.
B. She found our curiosity about the prison.
C. She wanted to show off her SUV.
D. She needed to offer a tour for us.
13. Which of the following can best explain the word “notorious” in Paragraph 5?
A. Unfamiliar to everyone.
B. Particularly disappointing.
C. Well known for being bad.
D. Extremely generous to others.
14. Compared with hotels, what is the writer's favorite of the Airbnb accommodation?
A. It is cheaper in most cases.
B. It supplies a better living condition.
C. It offers a much safer accommodation.
D. It provides a chance to know local culture.
15. What does the author think of finding accommodation on Airbnb?
A. Disapproving.
B. Supportive.
C. Neutral.
D. Doubtful.
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___16___Well-designed office spaces help create a company’s image. They motivate workers, and they make an impression on people who visit and might be potential customers. They make business work better, and they are a part of the corporate culture to live in.
As we move away from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based one, office designers come up with designs different from the traditional ones of the past.___17___
As employee hierarchies(等级制度) have decreased, the design industry has moved away from a fixed office setup and created more flexible management environments.___18___Because of changes to methods of working, new design takes into account expansion or movement of desks, storage,and equipment within the workplace.
___19___Designers have improved by breaking the walls that separate workstations. Designers have also
created informal gathering places and upgraded employees’ access to heavily trafficked areas such as copy and coffee rooms.
Office designers also face a number of demands, including fund limits, employees’ hierarchies and technological advances. These demands are often competing and must be well balanced, so that work spaces can enable employees to do their best.
All these elements of office design are related.___20___The well-designed office and the employees that occupy it are seemingly made for each other.
A. It is important that work spaces be well designed.
B. Another important design goal is communication.
C. The most successful office designs are like good marriage.
D. Office and work spaces often are not given to a person forever.
E. Designers also need to make sure that employees feel comfortable at work.
F. These new solutions are meant to support better organizational performance.
G. Whether designers’ ideas are put into practice depends on design approaches.
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As she pulled herself over the summit of EI Capitan, Emily Harrington knew she had made history.
It wasn't____21____.The US climber had powered on through the dark and dealt with a deep cut to her head to become the first woman to free____22____the difficult route in under 24 hours."
"I'd just____23____what it would be like and it was pretty much exactly what l pictured, “Harrington said excitedly.
"It was incredibly quiet. It was super____24____.All the stars were out. It was just this really peaceful experience. I keep telling people that when great sporting____25____happen, a lot of times there's an____26____or there's a stadium. With climbing, it’s not so much like that. It was just this really____27____special moment in this magical place. And it’s something I'll never____28____."
Free climbers use just their hands and feet to climb, with a rope to____29____them if they fall. Such a dangerous and_____30_____life-threatening_____31_____requires years of preparation, both mentally and physically.
Harrington had climbed this particular_____32_____over the course of six days in 2015 and had,_____33_____tried three times to complete it within 24 hours.
However an attempt last year ended in_____34_____after Harrington, fell 50 feet, hit her head on a ledge (岩架), and_____35_____concussion (脑震荡).
"It was very_____36_____. It was very serious initially and it_____37_____that I got really lucky and I did not suffer any long-term_____38_____，”she added.
"I's definitely a mental struggle, coming over that hurdle, coming back into this year and_____39_____again." Finally she_____40_____it.
21. A. crazy B. easy C. skeptical D. casual
22.A. climb B. run C. cycle D. walk
23. A. studied B. planned C. scheduled D. imagined
24. A. cheerful B. exciting C. dark D. fearful
25. A. improvements B. achievements C. surroundings D. reports
26. A. actor B. organizer C. official D. audience
27. A. quiet B. calm C. silent D. still
28. A. predict B. discover C. experience D. forget
29. A. throw B. fetch C. catch D. move
30. A. consequently B. potentially C. hardly D. finally
31. A. challenge B. obstacle C. trouble D. barrier
32. A. route B. corner C. rock D. road
33. A. frequently B. subsequently C. smoothly D. rarely
34. A. sadness B. doubt C. disaster D. anxiety
35. A. obtained B. acquired C. affected D. suffered
36. A. scary B. disappointed C. active D. funny
37. A. figured out B. found out C. turned out D. brought out
38. A. failures B. wounds C. damages D. injuries
39. A. defeating B. trying C. exploring D. competing
40. A. abandoned B. missed C. made D. controlled
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 dreamed of being famous_____41._____a popular musician? Many musicians, at first, may form a band_____42._____(practice) their music. And then they may get the chance to
give_____43._____(perform) in pubs or clubs. Later they may_____44._____(gradual) become popular. However, the Monkees started in a different way. Only one of_____45._____(they) was good enough and the other three members pretended to sing. To be honest, it couldn’t be called a real band at the_____46._____(begin). Anyhow, their shows were_____47._____(humor) and they became popular. After a year or so, they worked even_____48._____(hard) and produced their own records and started touring. The Monkees broke up in about 1970_____49._____they reunited in the mid-1980s and______50.______(produce) a new record in 1996 to celebrate their former happy 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。

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。

I hate football when I was young. My family would watch it on television for hours and hours while I angry waited for it to end. Then something that happened. I became old enough to starting playing football myself with the other kids in my neighbourhood. They played on the street, in the backyard and even on the tops of building, believe it or not! I love the sound of the ball hitting skin, the sped when running, sun on my face and the scratches for falling down. It has become my favorite thing in the world. Now I watch it not with anger, and with fond memories of the endless days and nights spent play the game.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是李华，为了缅怀中国杂交水稻之父袁隆平，你们学校上周五组织全体学生收看了电影《袁隆平》，并以班级为单位交流了观后感。

请你给学校英文报写一篇文章介绍这次活动。

内容包括：
1.活动简介；
2.同学们的感受。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：杂交水稻之父Father of Hybrid Rice
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. B
8. D 9. D 10. C 11. C
12. B 13. C 14. D 15. B
16. A 17. F 18. D 19. B 20. C
21. B 22. A 23. D 24. C 25. B 26. D 27. A 28. D 29. C 30. B 31. A 32.
A 33.
B 34.
C 35.
D 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. C
41. as 42. to practice
43. performances
44. gradually
45 them 45. beginning
46. humorous
47. harder 48. but
49. produced
51.(1). hate → hated
(2). angry → angrily
(3).去掉that
(4). starting → start
(5). They → We
(6). building → buildings
(7).在sun 的前面加the
(8). for → from
(9). and → but
(10). play → playing
52.略。