2021年北京国际艺术与科学学校高三英语上学期期中试题及答案解析

2021年北京国际艺术与科学学校高三英语上学期期中试题及答案解析第一部分阅读（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
If your Spanish is good enough, many Spanish gossip magazines being published around the world will provide entertainment and, at the same time, help you practice your language.
Diez Minutos: The magazine is a classic Spanish gossip feast with dailynews based on many stories of love, separation, divorce and death. The two main parts are headlined "love" and "partners". They also have an online version of the magazine for serious gossip addicts.
Hola: It isSpain's top weekly magazine and the leader of the gossip world. It contains many pictures and a round-up of well-known and less well-known nobles and people in show business. Apart from edited highlights from the present and past issues, there is a report of the week and photo of the week. There is also a French version called OhLa!
Revista CUORE: As the third best-selling gossip magazine inSpain, it is mainly aimed at younger teenage readers who look not only for current celebrity gossip, but also for fashion and TV news. It uses a lot of oral terms.
Revista SEMANA: It is a Spanish magazine covering the latest news on the famous inSpainandHollywood. It also offers its readers information on fashion, beauty, cooking and travel.
Marujeo: It is a blog serving up a daily diet of national gossip news on Spanish and international celebrities and the celebrity world from a particular point of view.
Revista CARAS: It is a magazine published in various countries ofLatin America. It is also exported to certain parts of theUnited States, bringing together strange and wonderful news from around the world and the famous Latin community.
1.Which magazine is also published in French?
A.Marujeo
B.Revista SEMANA.
C.Revista CARAS.
D.Hola.
2.How many of the magazines mentioned in the text can be read on the Internet?
A.Four.
B.Three.
C.Two.
D.One.
3.What can be learned from the passage?
A.Diez Minutos presents its readers weekly pictures
B.Revista CUORE can help improve one's spoken Spanish.
C.Revista SEMANA is intended for readers in teens
D.Revista CARAS mainly reports news fromLatin America.
B
Kenyan mother Beth Mwende heard her sleeping child cry out, but did not worry after the three-year-old quickly quietened down. The next morning, however, she found her daughter, Mercy, nearly unconscious with two bite marks in the neck. “I didn’t know that it was a snake,” Mwende said.
Although snakebites are common in her hometown, antivenom medication is difficult to get. Mwende lives about 160 kilometers east of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. So she took her daughter to a traditional healer. He placed stones over the bites. Mercy died within hours. She was one of about 700 Kenyans killed by snakebites each year, notes a report in the scientific publicationToxicon.
The Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Center (KSRIC) is working to change that. The KSRIC hopes to have East Africa’s first antivenom medication on the market within five years. It estimates the cost will be about 30 percent of an imported product, which often sells for about US $ 30.
More than 70, 000 people are bitten in East Africa each year. Climate change and deforestation are worsening the problem as snakes get pushed out of natural surroundings into populated areas.
Nearly 100 snakes live at the research center in a forest near Nairobi. Researchers take venom from snakes and study it before injecting small amounts into other animals, such as sheep. The animals then create antibodies that can be made into antivenom.
“Up to now, no one has made any kind of antivenom in Kenya,’’ said Geoffrey Maranga Kepha, a senior snake handler.
Two effective antivenoms are available in Kenya, from India and Mexico, the center says.
The center is teaching communities that using antivenom immediately after receiving a snakebite can save lives, said head researcher George Adinoh.
“After seeing how people died in Kenya from snakebites I decided to devote my life to coming up with a rescue measure that will help or prevent people from dying from snakebites,” snake handler Kepha added.
4. How does the author introduce the topic of the text?
A. By telling a story.
B. By listing figures.
C. By referririg to documents.
D. By making a comparison.
5. Why did Mwende take her daughter to a traditional healer?
A. She couldn’t afford any modern treatment.
B. She lived where antivenom medication is not available.
C. The traditional way is very effective to treat snakebites.
D. She believed a traditional healer could cure her daughter.
6. What is causing more snakebites to happen in East Africa?
A. Lack of antivenom medication.
B. Environmental damage and climate change.
C. People’s low awareness of the danger of snakes.
D. People’s pursuit of traditional cures for snakebites.
7. What do we know about antivenom in Kenya from the text?
A. Itis taken from antibodies of sheep.
B. There is only one effective antivenom available.
C. KSRIC is trying to develop a local antivenom now.
D. People refuse to use antivenom after being bitten by snakes.
C
Where doyou usually put your toothbrush?Do you keep it in the bathroom? How’s your toothbrush looking these days? Even if you can’t see it with a naked eye, experts say it may be saturated(使饱和)with millions of toilet germs!
Dr. Charles Oerba, a germ expert, is amicrobiology professor at the University of Arizona. He says there are approximately 3 million bacteria per square inch in most toilet bowls, and every time you flush it without closing the lid, those millions of bacteria droplets spray into the air as far as twenty feet away and dirty everything in their path. And a common victim is your poor toothbrush, usually, left out on the bathroom sink, right?
So, what do we do? Dr. Gerba says it’s easy. Close the toilet lid before you flush—that’ll greatly cut downthe germs, which will otherwise float in the air. And wash your toothbrush every few days in mouthwash or peroxide to get rid of any germs hiding in it. You can even put it through the dishwasher to sanitize(消毒)it. And always store your toothbrush in a closed cabinet.
Here’s one more tip from Dr. Gerba, who says our kitchen sink is probably dirtier than our toilet. “If an alien came from space and studied the bacterial counts, he probably would conclude he should wash his hands in your toilet and go to the bathroom in your sink.” He says that’s because the kitchen sink is a great place where E. coli(大肠杆菌)to live and grow since it’s wet and damp. Bacteria feed on the food that people put down the drain
or—that’s left on dishes in the sink. To reset your sink’s bacteria count back to zero, you’d better regularly wash it with hot water and sanitize yoursink with special chemicals. In fact, you may want to do it every day or before preparing dinner.
8. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To show how to brush your teeth.
B. To tell people the importance of health.
C. To warn people of the invisible germs.
D. To introduce a microbiology professor.
9. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. Bathroom sinks are the dirtiest places.
B. Bacteria are bad for people’s health.
C. Why bacteria spread through the air.
D. How bacteria spread in the bathroom.
10. What does the underlined word“that”in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. The food.
B. The toothbrush.
C. The sink.
D. The chemical.
11. Why does Dr. Gerba mention the example of an alien?
A. To tell us a fiction story of an alien studying bacteria.
B. To show our kitchen sink may be dirtier than our toilet.
C. To teach us how to reset sink’s bacteria count back to zero.
D. To prove coli prefers to live in the kitchen and the drain.
D
In a recent survey of 2000 Americans, housecleaning was shown to have some mood-boosting effects — but that doesn't mean everybody is willing to do it.
The majority of respondents (受访者) said cleaning gave them a sense of accomplishment (65%) and helped them clear their mind (63%). Half of these adults said they are most often motivated to clean when they're happy. In fact, 63% of those surveyed find the experience of cleaning to be relaxing - even more so than getting fresh air (61%).
But that's not the only reason people clean. A big 70% admitted that tidying their home was a way of putting off having to do other things, with the average procrastinator (拖延者) using that trick four times a week. The
survey showed that 86% of respondents do feel on top of their housework, but the last deep clean of their kitchen happened over a week and a half ago. That's no surprise because the kitchen is most terrible of all.
Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of DishFish, the survey investigated people's attitudes toward dirty dishes and how they get through tricky task. More than two-thirds of people (69%) let their dishes pile up between washings with 20% saying “always” letting them be placed in the sink, which left them feeling stressed. More than any other room, the kitchen was rated as “very difficult” to cope with. And most people enjoy cleaning their toilet or taking out the garbage more than washing dishes by hand.
How do they get through it? 66% listen to music while they clean. 72% have a best-loved song that they sounded while tidying up their home, with “Uptown Funk,”“Read All About It” and “Work” being the three favorite tunes on America's cleaning playlist.
12. What is the result of the survey?
A. Housecleaning may contribute to a good mood to some extent.
B. Housecleaning may strengthen people's willingness to volunteer.
C. Housecleaning may cause anxiety and concern for some people.
D. Housecleaning may improve people's motivation to other housework.
13. What is the top reason why people undertake housecleaning?
A. They can entertain themselves.
B. They can take in fresh air.
C. They get a sense of achievement.
D. They can delay other things.
14. What are respondents' attitudes to dirty dishes?
A. Many would rather wash dishes than throw out the rubbish.
B. Half are under pressure with dirty dishes lying in the sink.
C. A quarter will let dirty dishes pile up after their meals.
D. Most prefer cleaning their toiletto washing dishes by hand.
15. What column does the text belong to?
A. Feature Story.
B. Family Life.
C. Scientific Hotspot.
D. Finance Focus.
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“Communication is the most essential and sociable of all human behaviors”, which is absolutely true as for human community. Communication is the majority of everyone’s social life. “Without communication, life would be as cold as a rock.”___16___Because these certain conversations can make people attracted. Personally, we should consider the following three aspects to make good communication.
To start good communication, we can make certain adequate preparations, especially some questions.___17___We can ask some questions to show our politeness, respect and sincere care. For example, have you been carrying on well recently? What do you favor in your spare time ? Remember to think again before you put forward a question.
The most important part of communication is to listen.___18___Permit others to do most of the talking. Be patient and hold interest in their comments, making necessary gestures to show you are listening. Do not interrupt others when they express excitedly. Being a good conversationalist as well as a good listener will help you a lot.
___19___Appropriate eye contact is like a great element of the main dish which makes it more delicious. During communicating with others, we should look the speakers in the eye kindly. It will help us to improve mutual (相互的) understanding. Do not hesitate to look into them. But you hadbetter not stare at them and not look at them for too long.___20___
A. Enjoy good communication, being friends with them.
B. It is usually said that eyes are windows to the soul.
C. It would make others feel uneasy and unwilling to continue talking.
D. They believe they wanna know and even convince us.
E. We should concentrate on others’ saying and think in their shoes.
F. It is considered to be fairly comfortable to be asked fine questions.
G. Furthermore, good communication is an interesting attraction in our daily life.
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
I moved to a new city and took a job in marketing. I didn't really understand whether it___21___me. I enjoyed doing things that I felt had___22___—I could see their benefit and feel their impact. As the months passed, I felt it just wasn't for me. I needed to find a way out.
A job advertisement for a(n)___23___for a new youth magazine came at exactly the right time. I applied and was ___24___. My role was to help teams of young people edit their___25___and help them with their work. I had assumed the magazine would be a(n)___26___of games and dull reviews, so I was___27___when one of the first pieces written was about social welfare.___28___, I found something I was interested in.
I felt a___29___in me straight away. I had a purpose again. Days were lost to discussing hot topics and____30____the words of their strong and opinionated(坚持己见的) voices.____31____in their world, I could see myself making a difference to the team's____32____ability. As our website hits____33____and the work shifted to reflect what our____34____wanted, I developed a greater____35____of what young people might want to read.
The biggest change the job brought,____36____, was to my well-being. It is rare you find yourself in a job you love, one that you are happy to____37____each day. I was thriving(充实) in this____38____environment, inspired by the talented young people I was helping to____39____their careers.
Now, I realize that there are jobs that will keep you happy,____40____and inspired.
21. A. messed with B. applied to C. relied on D. waited for
22. A. purpose B. convenience C. restriction D. entertainment
23. A. reporter B. lawyer C. editor D. typist
24. A. independent B. intelligent C. successful D. ambitious
25. A. courses B. references C. homework D. content
26. A. replacement B. mixture C. innovation D. symbol
27. A. amused B. embarrassed C. touched D. surprised
28. A. Naturally B. Generally C. Frequently D. Finally
29. A. contrast B. shock C. change D. shame
30. A. reading B. translating C. spelling D. copying
31. A. Jammed B. Hidden C. Invested D. Imagined
32. A. gaming B. writing C. marketing D. communicating
33. A. increased B. reduced C. changed D. remained
34. A. monitors B. sponsors C. colleagues D. audiences
35. A. distinction B. understanding C. expectation D. recording
36. A. though B. instead C. otherwise D. therefore
37. A. go into B. leave behind C. refer to D. set aside
38. A. troublesome B. creative C. tough D. conservative
39. A. transfer B. rescue C. discipline D. further
40. A. lucky B. popular C. energetic D. honest
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
It can be easy to miss the wonderful performances of Klay Thompson if you watch at the Golden State Warriors(金州勇士) team in the NBA.
NBA Most Valuable Players Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant tend______41.______(get) most of the attention, while Andre Iguadola______42.______(watch) closely as well. But then Thompson, 26, does something to make you suddenly remember how special he is, too.
His 60-point game against Indiana on Dec. 5 was an excellent game in______43.______has already been an amazing season. Scoring 60______44.______(point) in a game is one thing, and it has only happened 66 times in the history of the NBA. But to do it in less than three quarters of play—29 minutes—______45.______(be) something very special indeed.
Even______46.______(hard) to believe was the fact that Thompson only dribbled(运球) the ball 11 times and held it in his hand for just 88 seconds during______47.______whole game.
"I am going to watch the tape of this game and see what I did well and______48.______(obvious) celebrate this tonight, because it's something I never thought I could do while______49.______(grow) up," Thompson told reporters after the game.
Klay Thompson already knew a lot about basketball early in his life. His father Mychal Thompson, the 1978 No 1 overall pick(选秀状元) in NBA, had a lot of influence_______50._______him while he was growing up.
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.假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。

文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

多改或不按格式要求改不得分。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧,）并在其下面写出该词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

How are you? As a exchange student, I’m writing to tell you I’d prefer to move into a single room in next term.
I find it inconvenient to share a room with other. My roommate often held parties at night, made much noise. Besides, his friends are always visiting him, which disturbs me a lot. So I hope to draw you attention to this
problem. If you think in my position, I’m sure you would agree that the most perfectly solution is to get a room of my own. In addition, I hope its location is so near to the school campus as possible. I would appreciate if you could do me the favor.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是学生李华，你的英国笔友Smith写信说，他想来中国当一年的英语教师，现征求你的建议。

请给他回信，内容包括：
1.表示欢迎；
2.推荐他来你的家乡；
3.说明理由。

注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
3.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Smith,
Delighted to know that you are determined to teach English inChinafor a year,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. C 9. D 10. A 11. B
12. A 13. D 14. D 15. B
16. G 17. F 18. E 19. B 20. C
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. C 25. D 26. B 27. D 28. D 29. C 30. A 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. D 35. B 36. A 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. C
41. to get
42. is watched
43. what 44. points 45. is 46. harder 47. the 48. obviously
49. growing
50. on/upon
51.(1). a → an
(2).去掉in
(3). other →others
(4). held → holds
(5). made → making
(6). you → your
(7).would → will
(8). perfectly → perfect
(9). so → as
(10). if前加it
52.略。