2020年毛坦厂中学高三英语下学期期末考试试卷及答案

2020年毛坦厂中学高三英语下学期期末考试试卷及答案

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

NAME: John

FAVORITE SPORT: Basketball FAVORITE SNACK: Pizza

HOBBY: Photography PET: Beagle named Max

FUNNIEST MOMENT: “On Max's birthday, we sang the ‘Happy Birthday’ song to him and he got a big treat. A month later, my family sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to me. Max got so excited because he remembered the song. He whined(嘀咕) when he didn't get a treat, so we gave him one.”

NAME: Sarah

FAVORITE SPORT: Track and field FAVORITE SNACK: Granola

HOBBY: Guitar PET: Cat named Lulu

FUNNIEST MOMENT: “One day in my kindergarten, I opened my snack bag and found a tennis ball and a sock! My little brother had played his first practical joke. Thanks, Bryan!”

NAME: Paul

FAVORITE SPORT: Baseball FAVORITE SNACK: Apple with peanut butter

HOBBY: Making comics PET: Tropical fish

FUNIEST MOMENT: “In a school play, I was supposed to say the line ‘Stop right there, cowboy!’ Devin was playing the cowboy, and 1 said, ‘Stop right there, Devin!’ It was supposed to be a serious part of the play, but Devin cracked up. Then everybody else laughed, too, including me.”

NAME: Scott

FAVORITE SPORT: Soccer FAVORITE SNACK: Bananas

HOBBY: Drawing dinosaurs

PET: Hermit crab named Hermie

FUNNIEST MOMENT: “One night, we were camping in a state park. I heard a loud thumping(砰砰作响) outside the tent. I was sure that it was a bear! I used my flashlight to look around the campsite(野营地) and saw a little toad hopping away, going thump, thump, thump!”

1.Whom will you get in touch with if you also like taking photos?

A.Scott.

B.Sarah.

C.John.

D.Paul.

2.Where did Sarah find the tennis ball and the sock?

A.At her friend's birthday party.

B.In her kindergarten.

C.In her school.

D.In a state park.

3.Outside the tent, what thumped that night?

A.A bear.

B.A cat.

C.A fish.

D.A toad.

B

Please take a few seconds and think of your personal biggest goal. Imagine telling someone you meet today what you’re going to do. Imagine their congratulations and their high image of you. Doesn’t it feel good to say it out loud? Don’t you feel one step closer already? Well, bad news: you should have kept your mouth shut, because that good feeling will make you less likely to do it.

Any time you have a goal, there is some work that needs to be done to achieve it. Ideally, you would not be satisfied until you’d actually done the work. But when you tell someone your goal and he acknowledges(认可) it, psychologists have found it’s called a “social reality”. The mind is kind of tricked into feeling that it’s already done. And then, because you’ve felt that satisfaction, you’re less motivated to do the actual hard work necessary. This goes againstthe traditional wisdom that we should tell our friends our goals, right?

In 1982, Peter Gollwitzer, a Professor of Psychology, wrote a whole book about this. And in 2009, he did some new tests that were published. It goes like this: 163 people across four separate tests—everyone wrote down their personal goal. Then half of them announced their commitment(许诺) to this goal to the room, and half didn’t. Then everyone was given 45 minutes of work that would directly lead them towards their goal, but they were told that they could stop at any time. Now those who kept their mouths shut worked the entire 45 minutes on average, and when asked afterwards, said they felt they had a long way to go to achieve their goal. But those who had announced it quit after only 33 minutes on average, and when asked afterwards, said that they felt much closer to achieving their goal.

4. What do the words “social reality” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Completion of the goal.

B. Necessary hard work.

C. People's acknowledgement.

D. A sense of satisfaction.

5. What does Peter Gollwitzer try to tell us?