2020-2021学年南昌三中高三英语上学期期末试卷及答案

2020-2021学年南昌三中高三英语上学期期末试卷及答案
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
Experts say that if food were a country, it would rank second behind theUSas one of the biggest greenhouse gas polluters. The reason is the rising demand for meat. Animal farming is responsible for 14.5 percent of global methane emissions. While cowsare the worst contributors, pigs, sheep, donkeys and other animals play a part as well.
Animal agriculture also causes land to become damaged, water to be polluted and forests to get destroyed. With the world population forecast to rise to 9.8 billion by 2050, things are only looking worse for our already decreasing natural resources. While going vegetarian would help, meat consumption is too deep-rooted in most Western diets to allow for such a sharp, permanent change. That is why experts are advocating substituting some of the beef, chicken, or pork with ordinary insects!
Insects, which grow into adults within a matter of months, if not weeks, are ready for consumption much faster than domestic animals. They also require much less room, use less water and food, and produce far less greenhouse gas than animals.
Of the 1.1 million insect species worldwide, scientists have identified 1,700 as eatable. Among them are ants, grasshoppers, grubs, and earthworms. Just like animals, each insect has a different taste. Tree worms taste just like pork, and grubs are similar to smoked meat.
While eating insects might be a new concept for Western people, over 2 billion people worldwide consume insects as a regular part of their diet. Besides being delicious, insects are high in protein, have very few calories, and are free of the saturated fat found in animal meat. Insects can be prepared in many ways. Creative cooks can use them to cook protein-rich soup, make baked treats, and even fry a few with vegetables. So eat insects--- both your body and Mother Earth will thank you for it!
1. Which of the following animals contribute the most to global methane emissions?
A. Sheep.
B. Donkeys.
C. Cows.
D. Pigs.
2. How is the third paragraph developed?
A. By making comparisons.
B. By providing examples.
C. By listing data.
D. By asking questions.
3. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A.Few people eat insects regularly.
B. Ordinary insects are high in fat.
C. Insects contain various vitamins.
D. Saturated fat is harmful to health.
B
We all use different ways to remember ideas, facts and things we need to store. Remembering is an extremely important part of our learning experience. Information process, storage and recall encourage purposeful learning.
But the brain doesn’t store everything we want or need for future use. It makes choices and tends to remember information that forms a memorable pattern. Things you learned recently can be particularly difficult to remember because they haven’t taken root in your mind.
“Forgetting allows us to remember what is really important to our survival. We forget much of what we read, watch, and think directly every day.” writes John Medina in his book, Brain Rules.
How do you avoid losing 90%of what you’ve learned? An inspiring writer and speaker Zig Ziglar once said: “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”
Repetition has been a remembering skill for ages. When you hear or read something once，you don’t really learn it-at least not well enough to store the new information for long. The right kind of repetition can do wonders for your memory. People learn or remember better by repeating things or getting exposed to information many times. Othersrepeat particular steps or processes deliberately a number of times or even years to become better at certain skills.
Daniel Coyle explains in his book, The Little Book of Talent:“...closing the book and writing a summary, even short ones, forces you to figure out the key points, process and organize those ideas so they make sense, and write them on the page. When you pick it back up weeks later, reread all of your notes or highlights to strengthen the ideas even further.”
People learn by repeating things. Better learning is a repetition process. Every time we repetitively access something we already know, we increase the memory’s stored value.
4. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. The brain tends to store 90% of the things we learn.
B. The fresher the information isthe easier to remember.
C. Thinking is more important than remembering in study.
D. The brain tends to choose and keep what it thinks important.
5. How does the writer prove his opinion?
A.By giving examples.
B. By listing numbers.
C. By borrowing words of experts.
D. By providing scientific finding.
6. What does Daniel Coyle want to say in his book?
A. You can’t pay too much attention to repetition.
B. Summarizing is a very effective learning tool.
C. Forgetting forces human brain to make choices.
D. Regular repetition helps to form good habits.
7. Which do you think is the best title of the passage?
A. How the Brain Works
B. Reading for More
C. Fighting Against Forgetting
D. Repeat to Remember
C
Becoming famous is the dream of many, and Tian is getting closer to that dream.
Tian, 30, is a white-collar worker inBeijing. On short video application Douyin, Tian has more than 2,000 fans. So far, she has received more than 50,000 likes on the Dubsmash-like app. On her page on Douyin, Tian shares everything, from her son’s daily activities, to her pet dogs, to little skits (段子) made up by her and her husband. “Making funny videos, and combining them with music is really interesting,” Tian said. “Of course, I make the videos for fun because it is quite relaxing.”
China’s short video market has seen great growth, according to areport. The report said thatChina’s short video market was valued at 5.73 billion yuan ($900 million) in 2017, an increase of 184 percent. The industry value is expected to go up to the 30 billion mark in 2020. Companies like Tencent, Sohu and Iqiyi have all started providing short video content.
“Short videos are popular because they are an addition to traditional audio and video content on the internet,” said Sun Jiashan with the Chinese National Academy of Arts.
Fans say that the short videos help them “chill out” from a stressed-out lifestyle. “My favorite videos are all about pets,” said Zhou Na, a nurse inHefei, capital of East China’sAnhuiprovince. “After a whole day’s work, watching the 15-second videos makes me laugh, which reduces my pressure.”
8. Why does Tian make short videos in Douyin?
A. To get fun.
B. To become a well-known person.
C. To attract fans.
D. To record her family’s routine.
9. What’s Sun Jiashan’s opinion about short videos?
A. They have huge value.
B. They greatly reduce people’s pressure.
C. They make people’s star dreams come true.
D. They enrich internet audio and video content.
10. What does the underlined words “chill out” probably mean?
A. Catch a cold.
B. Feel cold.
C. Calm down.
D. Become concerned.
11. What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. Every Chinese is using Douyin.
B. China’s short video market is open.
C. Douyin brings the Chinese great happiness.
D.China’s short video market has developed rapidly.
D
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.
12. 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.
13. What does Peter Gollwitzer try to tell us?
A. Writing down the goal is very helpful.
B. Achieving personal goal needs more time.
C. Keeping the goal secret makes people work harder.
D. Making the goal public makes people less satisfied.
14. How did Peter Gollwitzer prove his idea about people’s goal?
A. By giving figures.
B. By giving examples.
C. By making a survey.
D. By making comparison tests.
15. What will probably happen if you tell your friends your goal?
A. You will be more confident.
B. You will not gain satisfaction.
C. You are less likely to realize it.
D. You’ll be much moremotivated.
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
I experienced years of loneliness as a child. My older brother couldn't be bothered to play with me.
___16___Our interests were totally different. With no other kids of my age in the neighborhood, I had to spend hours by myself.
A bright spot for me turned out to be reading___17___I loved the color1 ful photographs in the books. I started reading books on my own before age 5 and my mother took me to the public library once a week to borrow several books. I quickly graduated from typical children's books to ones with fewer pictures and longer chapters.___18___I wasn't alone any longer.
___19___I tried making toy cars with cardboard boxes and constructing buildings from leftover cardboard and bits of wood my father gave me. When my mother saw my creations, she told me how creative my designs were. Thus, I began my lifelong interest in making things. I Learned a lot about how to extend the life of objects and transform them into something new and useful. It was a trait（特点）others found helpful, and I soon had
friends who wanted to make things with me.
Another habit I formed early was being outdoors. My parents made it a point for their two kids to spend time outside, no matter the weather or season. My brother, of course, raced off to be with his friends, while I had plenty to do myself. There was making leaf houses in autumn, ice skating in winter, and so much more.___20___
A. Reading opened new worlds to me.
B. I enjoyed reading stories aloud.
C. I was invited to play with another kid.
D. My love of the written word began early as my mother read to me every evening.
E. They're all memories I treasure today.
F. My mother also encouraged me to make what I wanted.
G. His friends teased him about babysitting his sister.
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Teaching abroad gives me the chance to feel truly immersed(沉浸).
I knew I wanted to____21____the world from a very young age. I was____22____enough as a child to travel with my family to nearby countries.
When I was at college, I decided to study____23____for one year. It was a chance to live in and experience another country in a way that taking a____24____just doesn’t allow. However, this experience didn’t help me ____25____my desire (渴望) for travel, and I wanted to travel more.
So , after graduation, I went toThailandand began____26____English there. It seemed like the perfect way for me to travel,____27____money, and give back to communities around the world. By doing this, I could____28____immerse myself in a very____29____culture. I arrived knowing very little of the local_____30_____but by the end was able to have conversations with my students and neighbors. I also ate food I would never have tried if I had just been a tourist. I had_____31_____to stay in Thailand for one semester(学期),_____32_____ended up staying for two years. They were some of the_____33_____years of my life. I visited many countries inSoutheast Asiaand_____34_____a lot about that part of the world.
There are many people that just don’t_____35_____to live their lives in the_____36_____place. I am one of those people. Teaching abroad_____37_____me to move around and travel slowly.
By living in a country and having a_____38_____there, I learn much more about the culture than I would if I_____39_____visited for a week or two, and I get the_____40_____to visit locations that sometimes only locals
know about.
21. A. travel B. change C. rule D. save
22. A. tired B. lucky C. afraid D. relaxed
23. A. hard B. online C. alone D. abroad
24. A. walk B. vacation C. lesson D. picture
25. A. increase B. feel C. satisfy D. express
26. A. understanding B. speaking C. loving D. teaching
27. A. earn B. spend C. borrow D. waste
28. A. secretly B. carelessly C. completely D. painfully
29. A. common B. different C. popular D. traditional
30. A. language B. scene C. law D. product
31. A. asked B. happened C. learned D. planned
32. A. or B. but C. if D. because
33. A. earliest B. dark C. best D. final
34. A. knew B. worried C. talked D. forgot
35. A. hate B. need C. refuse D. want
36. A. wrong B. same C. dangerous D. safe
37. A. requires B. expects C. allows D. warns
38. A. friend B. house C. guide D. job
39. A. simply B. strangely C. politely D. crazily
40. A. right B. skill C. chance D. courage
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
Ring! Ring! Ring! My alarm clock___41.___(ring). I opened my eyes and suddenly remembered it was the day of the class trip to the park with Miss Lee, our science teacher. I got up and began to brush my___42.___(tooth). After that I changed into my school uniform and had___43.___quick breakfast. Then I walked to my school to meet my classmates.
Miss Lee gave us some advice,___44.___we thought was of great importance and then divided us into groups of six. Each boy and each girl___45.___(be) happy to set off. An hour later, we arrived at the park. As we walked along, all of a sudden, I saw Jane falling___46.___the lake. Without hesitation, I jumped into the lake to her rescue.
I pulled her to the bank,___47.___(shout) for Miss Lee and Miss Lee took her to the hospital___48.___(immediate) with our help. After examining Jane carefully, the doctor gave us the word___49.___she had to stay in the hospital for further treatment for two weeks___50.___she had broken her right leg.
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。

每处错误仅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：在错词下画一横线，并在该词下而写出修改后的词。

注意：
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。

Dear Sir or Madam,
I have learned of the poster that an exhibition of intelligent robots will held in your museum. Now, I'm writing to ask for more informations about it.
Firstly, could you please tell me how many robots will be on show but what the robots are main used for? Secondly, I want to know if there will be any performances giving by the robots or any games in that we can play against the robots. What’s the more, I wonder whether I should booked tickets for the exhibition now.
I would be grateful whether you could give me an early reply.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.有人说锻炼需要时间、空间、毅力等。

你认为锻炼最需要的是什么？请你以“Doing Exercise Requires ________ Most”为题写一篇英文短文向某英语报投稿，内容包括：
1.锻炼最需要的东西；
2.请举例说明。

注意：
1.补全短文题目；
2.词数100左右。

Doing Exercise Requires ________ Most
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. D
8. A 9. D 10. C 11. D
12. A 13. C 14. D 15. C
16. G 17. D 18. A 19. F 20. E
21. A 22. B 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. A 31. D 32.
B 33.
C 34. A 35.
D 36. B 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. C
41. rang
42. teeth 43. a
44. which 45. was
46. into 47. shouting
48. immediately
49. that 50. because
51.(1).of→from/in
(2).will后加be
(3).informations→information
(4).but→and
(5).main→mainly
(6).giving→given
(7).that→which
(8).删除the
(9).booked→book
(10).whether→if
52.略。