2020-2021学年长沙市明德麓谷学校高三英语下学期期末考试试卷及答案

2020-2021学年长沙市明德麓谷学校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
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C. Grammar rules.
D. Area - based accents.
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A. Native English - speaking teachers.
B. Personalized courses.
C. Choice of class time and teacher.
D. Offline learning materials.
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B
To stay healthy and fit, Chinesestudents do group exercises every day at school. Most of you probably do the same set of exercises. But some school exercises have grown popular online due to their local and innovative designs.
Singing in Sichuan dialects with energetic movements and unique mask-changing is not just a Sichuan Opera performance. It’s the routine exercise for students of Mianyang Foreign Languages Experimental School in Sichuan province.
“Sichuan Opera is a local opera, and it is now facing a gap in inheritance (传承). Therefore, we cooperated with Mianyang Intangible Cultural Heritage Center to create a simple and easy-to-learn Sichuan Opera exercise,” said Shen Junhua, who is in charge of organizing the school’s exercise between classes.
According to Shen, this new type of exercise has been practiced since 2017 and has been popular among students. When students enroll (入学), they will spend several weeks practicing it. At present, almost all of the students and teachers have mastered it.
“In fact, we had hardly heard of Sichuan Opera before teachers taught us how to do the Sichuan Opera exercise,” said Li Yangwenwen, 14, an eighth grade student who also joined the school’s Sichuan Opera club out of interest. “It’s very different from normal exercises. After practicing it, we found it very beautiful and became interested in it. Now, almost all of the students look forward to our daily exercise time and feel excited to do it.”
“By combining opera with daily exercise, the daily class activity allows students to perceive and understand Sichuan Opera’s culture”, Shen said. “After years of continuous effort to spread the seeds of traditional culture, the younger generation is finally catching on.”
4. What do students in Shen’s school do during the group exercise?
A. They do normal exercise .
B. They sing pop songs in Sichuan dialects.
C. They do mask-changing in a Sichuan Opera performance.
D. They combine group exercise with Sichuan Opera.
5. Why do they adopt the new type of exercise?
A. To attract new students to the school.
B. To inherit local culture.
C. To create an easy-to-learn exercise.
D. To make the school’s group exercise popular.
6. How do teachers and students react to the group exercise?
A. Calm.
B. Indifferent.
C. Enthusiastic.
D. Uninterested.
7. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Shen’s continuous effort is highly praised.
B. The younger generation will have a stronger body.
C. The students can better understand their local culture.
D. Students help to spread the seeds of traditional culture toyounger generation.
C
There will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans by 2050. That is what a new report from the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation warns. If the current trend continues, the report said, oceans will contain one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish in 2025. By 2050, plastics will weigh more than fish. The problem is that each year at least 8 million tons of plastics end up in oceans around the world. This is the same as dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute.
Not all plastic ends up in the ocean because someone throws a plastic bottle into the water. Plastic containers and other trash thrown onto streets and sidewalks often are swept into oceans. Unlike other types of trash in the ocean, the plastic never bio-degrades. There is a way to slow the amount of plastics going into the oceans — people can recycle more. Currently only about 14 percent of plastics are recycled. Research in Europe shows as much as 53 percent of plastic could be recycled using available technology. The report says that another solution is using less plastic for packaging products. But that is not likely to happen.
“Given plastic packaging’s many benefits, both the possibility and desirability of an across-the-board dramatic reduction in the volume of plastic packaging used is clearly low, ”the report said. But the authors note reducing
the use of plastics should be tried“where possible. ”For decades, scientists warned that plastics are killing fish. Research shows that fish are dying from choking after eating plastics. Another cause of death is that plastics cause“intestinal blockage and starvation, ”the environmental group said.
8. Why is the garbage truck mentioned in Paragraph 1 ?
A. To explain how plastics end up in the ocean.
B. To warn people against the ocean pollution.
C. To clarify the seriousness of the problem.
D. To point out some details of the report.
9. Why is plastic more dangerous than other types of trash?
A. There is too much of it.
B. It poisons the ocean water.
C. It is from different sources.
D. It is hard to break down.
10. What is the author’s attitude to the suggested solutions?
A. Pessimistic.
B. Curious.
C. Unconcerned.
D. Terrified.
11. What can we infer from the text?
A. People are not aware of the problem.
B. Recycling is limited by lack of technology.
C. Plastic packaging has become part of our life.
D. Fish in the ocean will be replaced by plastics.
D
We interviewed two people, one who went from the country to the city and one who did the opposite.
Janet Lincoln is a salesgirl who moved to St. Louisfive years ago. Here’s what Janet told us:
“Five years ago I used to live in a small town called Lemon Falls. I grew up and went to high school there. After I graduated I worked in a supermarket. Lemon Falls had a population of about 800 people, and I knew every single one of them. They all knew everything about me, too. You couldn’t do anything without everyone in town knowing about it. The first chance I got I moved to St. Louis and I love it. I don’t know as many people now as I used to, but that’s OK. I have a few good friends, and I see them when I want to. I kind of like beinganonymous. I’d never go back to Lemon Falls.”
Troy Henson had the opposite experience. He and his wife, Darla, and their two children moved from St. Louis to Bloomfield three years ago. Here’s what Troy told us:
“The best thing we ever did was get out of St. Louis. Don’t get me wrong; St. Louis is as good a place as any
other city, I suppose — if you like cities, that is. We don’t. Both Darla and I grew up in St. Louis. We met at college and got married. Then the kids came along and life got difficult. We didn’t know any of our neighbors. We both had good jobs, but it always seemed like there was never enough money. That all changed when we moved to Bloomfield. I don’t make as much money as I used to, but then we don’t have as many expenses as we did. We know our neighbors. Life is good. We’d never leave Bloomfield.”
12. What troubled Janet when she was in Lemon Falls?
A. She had no friends.
B. There was no privacy.
C. There was a lot of competition.
D. She couldn’t find a well-paid job.
13. What does the underlined word “anonymous” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Alone.
B. Prepared.
C. Sociable.
D. Unknown.
14. Different from Janet, Troy ________.
A. prefers country life
B. moved to a bigger city
C. grew up in a smaller town
D. knows little about his new neighbors
15. What is Troy’s opinion on living in Bloomfield?
A. It is a little boring.
B. It is quite comfortable.
C. It costs a lot of money.
D. It creates a safe environment.
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Many people are stuck in a life they don’t want, and are held in places by everything from financial restrictions to social pressures. If you are looking to pursue your dreams, it can be discouraging to change everythingat once.___16___
Write down your goals to get them out of your head and into reality. Be honest with yourself about what you want, no matter how impossible it seems and ignore what you “should” do based on the views of your friends, family or society. ____17____Don’t leave anything out, no matter how small or silly it sounds. Look at the themes of your list to get an idea of what your dream life will look like.
___18___choose one that is ly easy to accomplish, one that is doable but will require work and one that seems impossible based on your current circumstances and lifestyle. List the steps you will need to take to get to each goal, getting down to the little details.
Start with your smallest goal and work through the steps until you achieve it. Each time you complete one of the steps, cross it off so you can celebrate the process in addition to the end result. ___19___
Figure out how you can work your second two goals into your life.____20____If your big dream is to quit your job and travel the world, start a savings account that is dedicated to travel money and set aside a small amount each week for three years. Plan your steps according to the time you set and they will be doable and fit smoothly into your life.
A. Seek support from your friends and family.
B. You will need to have courage to make changes.
C. Identify the top three things that will get you closer to your dream life.
D. When you achieve the goal, find a way to continue integrating it into your life.
E. Choose a deadline foreach goal, whether it is one year down the road or five.
F. List the things you want to accomplish in your life, both personal and professional.
G. Instead, making small, gradual changes to prepare the way to dream tries to make the process easier.
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The goal of the Egg Drop Challenge was simple --you built a____21____container to keep an egg from breaking when____22____over the stadium wall.
We worked alone or with a(n)____23____. My best friend, Cassie, and I always worked on projects together. She is____24____; I'm brainy. We are the perfect____25____.
I made my sandwich while waiting for Cassie to come and____26____the container. Spreading the marshmallow(棉花软糖)cream____27____me an idea -cushion the egg with some marshmallow creams to____28____the shock of the impact(撞击力). I told Cassie my brilliant____29____when she arrived. Then, Cassie said,“Actually. I have a_____30_____idea. We put the egg in a basket with a parachute(降落伞)_____31_____. It will simply float to safety.” We agreed. Neither was_____32_____and Cassie stormed out.
This is how the_____33_____worked: all the kids carried their egg containers up three stairs and dropped them. If your egg broke, you were out. If the egg_____34_____, you walked up three more_____35_____and dropped it again. This went on until the last egg broke.
Finally. only Cassie and I were left.
“Good luck, Laura.” Cassie said, turning to me. I didn’t_____36_____，figured winning would be sweeter revenge(复仇). The class called out the count of three and I let go of my box. I_____37_____down the steps. The sidewalk was already_____38_____, with egg shells from previous failed drops. I found my brave egg broken. I looked at Cassie's basket, Empty. Cassie looked at me_____39_____and we laughed. It was a(n)_____40_____.
But we had won something more important. Our friendship can survive a little bouncing.
21. A. sealed B. protective C. metal D. plastic
22. A. placed B. taken C. dropped D. carried
23. A. parent B. friend C. athlete D. partner
24. A. creative B. strict C. outgoing D. stubborn
25. A. competitors B. candidates C. combination D. communication
26. A. watch over B. turn up C. work on D. think of
27. A. gave B. made C. taught D. showed
28. A. cause B. suffer C. absorb D. withdraw
29. A. achievement B. performance C. intelligence D. design
30. A. common B. better C. strange D. contrary
31. A. attached B. surrounded C. hung D. lowered
32. A. passed B. persuaded C. permitted D. amused
33. A. quarrel B. class C. competition D. relationship
34. A. burst B. fell C. won D. survived
35. A. containers B. steps. C. walls D. meters
36. A. care B. recover C. hear D. respond
37. A. raced B. turned C. put D. brought
38. A. mixed B. dotted C. decorated D. broken
39. A. angrily B. seriously C. badly D. softly
40. A. tie B. failure C. test D. end
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
A gap year which means taking a year off before college, is not a new concept, but there's now a focus on___41.___(make) the most of this break from the academic life. Long gone___42.___(be) the days of just hanging out on a beach or backpacking round the world. While that is still a choice, a gap year is now more about gaining skills that will help you in___43.___(late) life.
Doing something productive is exactly___44.___students are being encouraged to do because something like work experience or charity work helps___45.___( they ) to acquire skills to use when competing___46.___a place at university. It looks good on their CV and eventually makes them more employable. Actually, the experience of
the gap year___47.___(become) much more practical recently, partly to do with university participation increasing, but also because of the demands on developing skills, especially employability skills.
While the___48.___(benefit) of taking a gap year are clear to see, some students worry they can’t afford it.___49.___some experts argue that it needn't “burn a hole in your pocket”, you don’t need to travel far and you can even earn money by doing____50.____(pay) work.
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.假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。

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。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出该加的词。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词。

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。

This morning I found red wallet on the campus. Girls usual like red, so I believed the wallet was belonged to a girl student. I opened it, try to find out whose it was. Therefore, I found nothing but 300yuanin it. I was wondering what to do with it while suddenly my classmates Chen Yang passed by. She suggested she put up a Lost and Found notice and I did so. I wrote down my telephone number and ask the owner to call me after she saw it. Later, a girl came to claim it on 3 o’clock this afternoon.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Even before I reached the tent, I knew there would be trouble. My little brother Andy was following me, with a sleeping bag, a flashlight, and his stuffed bear. My friends Wade and Bred think Andy would ruin everything. He would get scared in the middle of the night and have to be taken back to the house. They complained so much you'd think they were hospital patients instead of kids I'd invited for an outdoor sleepover.
Andy promised that he wouldn't ruin anything. He wormed his way into the tent and settled in the far corner. Night was settling in, too, with the woods around us fading toward black. The house, with its porch light, seemed a long way from us.
“Time for ghost stories!” Brad announced as soon as I'd closed the tent. He told a story about vampires（吸血鬼）, but it only made us fall over laughing. When it was Wade's turn, he told a story of three guys who were camping in a tent. He described our situation exactly-except for Andy. When he was describing a terrifying
creature, somewhere outside, a branch snapped（发出咔嚓声）。

The hairs on my arms shot straight up. “These guys were crawling into their sleeping bags, right?” Wade continued. “When out of the darkness rang this terrible cry.” And out of the woods behind us there was a cry! High-pitched, frightening, and strange. The hairs on my head shot straight up!
“What was that?” Bred asked as the cry came again. We all looked at each other in horror, speechless. Wade suggested someone should go out to check, but no one dared. “What if it's something trapped or hurt?” Andy said anxiously. We focused our flashlights on Andy, whom we'd forgotten, sitting in the corner with his arms around his bear. Andy would adopt every lost or hurt animal in the world if Mom would let him.
注意：
1.续写的词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答
“I'm going to see.” Andy ran out of the tent and disappeared in the darkness.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Andy said it was a baby monkey caught between branches, and it was crying for its mama.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. B
2. D
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. C
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8. C 9. D 10. A 11. C
12. B 13. D 14. A 15. B
16. G 17. F 18. C 19. D 20. E
21. B 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. C 26. C 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. B 31. A 32.
B 33.
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D 35. B 36. D 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. A
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44. what 45. them
46. for 47. has become
48. benefits
49. But 50. paid
51.(1).在red前加a；(2). usual→usually；(3).去掉belonged前的was；(4).try→trying；(5). Therefore→However；
(6).while→when；(7). classmates→classmate；(8).she→I；(9).ask→asked；(10).on→at
52.略。