2019-2020学年汕头市金山中学高三英语下学期期中试卷及答案解析

2019-2020学年汕头市金山中学高三英语下学期期中试卷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
Staying-at-home proves to be effective in slowing the spread of the virus, but loneliness can be tough for many. Luckily, in the age of social media, we are never truly alone. And with the extra time spent indoors, artists are stepping up to help us all with the following clubs.
Drawing from Distance by Sarah Beth Morgan
Let’s shine some light during this trying time and encourage social distancing! I’m starting this tomorrow myself — but from what I offer, take whatever you please. No rules! Just have fun!
Stayathome Art Club byCarsonEllis
Hello! I’ll be posting art homework here every weekday morning when I can. They’ll be designed for kids and grownups alike. Here is your first homework: Draw a picture of yourself from the shoulders up. You can follow some useful examples. If you want to share or see other people’s self-picture, use these hashtags: #Stayathomeartclub# QACselfportrait
30-Day indoor Art by Danielle Krysa
One month of avoiding crowds? I’m in! I challenge you to use this time inside to make one piece every day from now until mid April. Please join me in playing around with some painting ideas that have been rolling around in my head but haven’t found their way onto paper yet. Stay at home, make art, save someone’s life.
DIY from Illustoria Magazine
We have been so inspired to see our community come together to provide easy art projects for families during this stay-at-home-time! DIY is actually a fantastic way tosparkyour imagination without breaking a sweat. A video every day will teach you how to DIY something.
1. What do we know about Sarah Beth Morgan?
A. She is a strict artist.
B. She aims at training more artists.
C. She prefers to work at home office.
D. She will provide a wide range of choices.
2. What are you expected to do if you join Stayathome Art Club?
A. Hand in homework every day.
B. Share other people’s pictures.
C. Draw a picture of yourself.
D. Show up in person occasionally.
3. What does “spark”in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Set off.
B. Set down.
C. Set aside.
D. Set about.
B
Alex Wong, a junior atMarkKeppelHigh SchoolinAlhambra,California, is working hard on his application to a top college. His resume shows off his nearly straight A’s in difficult classes, experience at a summer program atStanfordUniversity, Eagle Scout project and time on the soccer team as well as the school choir. But his steady progress stopped unexpectedly this year. Aiming to open access to college-level Advanced Placement (大学预科) courses, his schoolbegan using a computer-based lottery to give out spaces. Alex got shut out of all three of the courses he requested.
The new system caused anger among families whose children failed to get into AP courses, which many consider important to develop advanced skills, improve grade-point averages and allow students to earn college credit, saving them and their families tuition dollars. Students and parents wrote to administrators to complain, circulated a petition (请愿) and launched a Facebook group for trading classes. “I’M DESPERATE! I’LL GIVE YOU FREE FOOD,” one student, Kirk Hum, posted on the 210-member AP Flea Market Facebook group.
AP classes have long been held dear by the most talented and ambitious students.But now they are seen as positive for all students who are willing to push themselves – and schools are increasingly viewing access to them as a basic educational right. But this change has brought challenges.
Miracle Vitangcol, a junior atDowntownMagnetsHigh Schoolwith average grades and test scores, is failing her AP US history class. She said she can’t handle the rapid pace and volume of material she needs to remember. But she said she intends to stick it out because the class is teaching her to manage her time, take good notes and work hard. “I’m struggling to adjust,” she said. “But I keep telling myself: ‘It’s OK. You can do it. Just push yourself’.”
Some critics worry that the open-access movement is pushing too many unprepared students into AP classes, as shown by higher exam failure rates over the last decade. They also fear that open enrollment (录取) policies are encouraging teachers to weaken courses and give out high grades to students who don’t deserve them. “While expanding access is generally a good thing, we need to make sure we’re not watering down the experience for the high achievers,” said Michael Petrilli, executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington-based educational policy organization.
4. The purpose of the new AP courses system at Alex Wong’s school is to ______.
A. make sure all students get access to the AP courses they desire.
B. ensure that students have a fair chance to get access to AP courses.
C. improve the academic performance of students in AP courses.
D. separate high achievers from average students through the new courses.
5. According to the article, the AP Flea Market Facebook group is a place where ______.
A. students’ parents send their complaints to school administrators.
B. students share tips about saving money for college.
C. students offer items to trade for the AP courses they need.
D. students can find support and guidance on their AP study.
6. Which of the following statements would Michael Petrilli agree with?
A. Opening AP courses to all students is a bad idea.
B. School administrators should maintain high academic standards for AP courses.
C. High schools should stop charging students for taking AP courses.
D. Access to AP courses is necessary for students applying for top American colleges.
7. The author used Miracle Vitangcol’s example to show that ______.
A. students need to remember too much in their AP courses.
B.AP courses pose a big challenge to unprepared students.
C. the secret to success in AP courses is to keep pushing yourself.
D. average students don’t deserve their places in AP courses.
C
There are similarities and differences between high school life and college life.
For one thing, there are several similarities between high school life and collegelife. First, the most important task in high school and college is both studying. Studying is the most important as a student. Second, we need a goal to fight for in both high school life and college life. To lead a meaningful life, we have to set up a goal to achieve.
For another, there are also some differences between high school life and college life. First, our studying is also the biggest difference. In high school, we are required to follow our teachers' steps and finish theirassignmentsevery day. While in college, there are no teachers giving such detailed requirements to us and we can choose study or not according to our own willing. What and how to study totally depends on us. Therefore,
the ability of self-control is very important in college life. Second, the flexibility (灵活性) of time is another difference. In high school, we have no much leisure except for our time of study. However, in college, we have much controlled by ourselves except the time of classes. And we have more time to do what we like. Finally, college lifeis much more various and richer. Besides study, we can attend many other activities, which make our college life more wonderful.
In brief, there are both similarities and differences between high school life and college life. However, no matter we are in which period, we need to make full use of every day so that we will never feel regretful.
8. Why do students need a goal to fight in high school and college?
A. To enter a good college.
B. To avoid living a meaningless life.
C. To develop the ability of control.
D. To meet their parents’ satisfaction.
9. What does the underlined word “assignments” in paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Projects.
B. Tasks.
C. Goals.
D. Dreams.
10. Which is the correct structure of the passage?
A. ①-②③-④
B. ①②-③-④
C. ①-②③④
D.
①②-③④
11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. College Life
B. High School Life
C. High School and College
D. High School Life and College Life
D
A male tiger was rescued in Mishan city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Friday. A tiger was recently seen on the Siner Russian border（边界），but there is no evidence to suggest this is the same tiger or that it had lost its way from Russia.
Wherever it may have come from, cross-border protection of endangered species is a problem. According to Ma Jianzhang, a senior wild animal researcher in China, tigers know no borders, which have been built to stop humans from illegally crossing over. However, these borders also stop the free movement of tigers, thus preventing their breeding（繁殖）and exchange of genes.
The Sino-Russian border alsocomes in the way ofprotecting tigers in the region. Data show about 500 to 550 Siberian tigers, or over 90 percent of the species, live in the wild in Russia; 27 live in the wild in China, and 50 inthe
border region. Sometimes tigers lose their way across the border and that is hindering（妨碍）efforts to stop illegal hunting and protecting them.
Fortunately, both China and Russia have realized this problem and are working toward solving it. As early as 2010, the two countries established a cross-border protection network aimed at strengthening communication on protecting tigers in the northeast. The countries have also held anti-poaching（反偷猎）activities together. In 2019, two national parks from the two countries signed a three-year deal to share research data on tigers, greatly improving the living conditions of Siberian tigers in the wild.
However, much more needs to be done to protect the species. It is necessary to combine the tiger protection areas in the two countries. That will require greater efforts from both sides and some difficulties might remain even then. Fortunately, both countries have been taking effective measures to provide the endangered species a better home.
12. What's the original purpose of setting up the Sino-Russian borders?
A. To ban people from illegal crossings.
B. To help protect tigers in the region.
C. To protect tigers from losing their way.
D. To stop tigers' breeding and exchange of genes.
13. What does the underlined phrase “comes in the way of” probably mean?
A. keeps from.
B. is on the way to
C. is aimed at
D. keeps up
14. What is the focus of Paragraph 4 ?
A. Recent studies and researches on tigers.
B. Joint efforts by China and Russia to protect tigers.
C. The possible effects of establishing a network
D. Reasons for improving the living conditions of tigers.
15. What's the author's purpose in writing the text?
A. To inform the possible dangers of tiger protection.
B. To cover the news about a missing tiger on the border.
C. To put forward suggestions on finding the missing tiger.
D. To report the problems and measures of cross-border tiger protection.
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
The Lomax family needed a dog. Though their house wasalready full with seven people, they knew a dog would truly make the house a home. So they settled on a dog whom they named Jack.____16____ It was Jack’s protective instinct (本能) that would eventually save the lives of Lomax family. Indeed, if it wasn’tfor him, the family may never have survived the terrible accident that would eventually befall (降临到头上) them one cold January day in 2017.
It was a night like many others. Autumn, the family’s youngest child and her mother Ashley had settled into bed in oneof the bedrooms on the second floor. Jack, who rarely left Autumn’s side, had settled in there as well.____17____At some point during the night, while the family was fast asleep, a fire had started in one of the other second-floor bedrooms, Jack had picked up a whiff (些微的气味) of the smoke in the next room. In an instant, the brave dog jumped into action.
The four-legged family member knew something was wrong but had no way of telling his owners.____18____She pushed him off her and tried to roll over but he began again.Then he went to Autumn and did the same thing until both were up.
____19____She screamed at the top of her lungs as she ran from the room, alerting (使警觉) the rest of the family to the disaster that was taking place. Jack did his part again too, barkingas loudly as he could. Ashley’s scream woke the four other adults and two more children.____20____
In no time at all, the fire had engulfed (吞没) nearly the entire home, but luckily, all of the Lomax had made it out alive, with Jack leading the way.
A. itturned out to be the best decision they ever made.
B. Jack took to little Autumn, the youngest of the family.
C. He jumped upon Ashley’s bed and began touching her face.
D. Their old house had been in the Lomax family for more than 30 years.
E. All of them jumped out of bed and headed out into the cold January night.
F. Little did they know that something terrible was about to happen that night.
G. As soon as she could, Ashley took hold of Autumn and began to move away from the door.
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Something extraordinary happened at LA airport today. I was at the gate,___21___to get on my plane toPortland. Suddenly, a___22___boy who looked to be eighteen months was having a total breakdown(崩溃),___23___between the seats, kicking(踢)and screaming(尖叫), then lying on the ground, refusing to board
the___24___.
His young mom, who was clearly pregnant(怀孕的)and traveling___25___with her son, became completely___26___. She couldn't___27___her son because he was lying down on the ground, kicking and___28___. The mother finally sat down on the floor and put her___29___in her hands, with her son next to her.
Then, this gorgeous(极好的)thing happened. Six or seven____30____in the airport approached and____31____the poor mother and thelittle boy. We knelt down and formed a circle. I sangThe Itsy Bitsy Spiderto the little boy. One woman had a little____32____in her bag that she let the boy play with, another woman gave the mom a newly-bought____33____of water. Someone else____34____the mom to get the kid's cup out of her bag and give it to him. It was so____35____, because there was no____36____and no one knew anyone else, but we were able to calm them both down, and she got her child on the plane.
After they____37____the door we all went back to our____38____seats and didn't talk about it We were strangers, gathering to____39____problems. It occurred to me that a circle of women, with a mission(使命), can____40____the world.
21. A. waiting B. begging C. leaving D. standing
22. A. clever B. little C. dirty D. hungry
23. A. dashing B. yelling C. running D. listening
24. A. boat B. taxi C. train D. plane
25. A. angrily B. freshly C. alone D. lonely
26. A. lost B. careful C. grateful D. old
27. A. set up B. take in C. put down D. pick up
28. A. speaking B. screaming C. jumping D. laughing
29. A. shoulder B. head C. eyes D. ears
30. A. women B. people C. professors D. members
31. A. talked B. neglected C. questioned D. surrounded
32. A. dog B. toy C. gun D. coat
33. A. cup B. bowl C. bag D. bottle
34. A. refused B. forced C. helped D. allowed
35. A. boring B. dangerous C. gorgeous D. interesting
36. A. discussion B. need C. time D. room
37. A. looked into B. turned into C. went through D. heard of
38. A. priceless B. wood C. common D. separate
39. A. solve B. produce C. analyze D. forget
40. A. destroy B. save C. cheat D. win
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
The new People’s Republic of China saw Dr Lin Qiaozhi playing a key role. In 1954, she was___41.___to the first National People’s Congress and, over the next several___42.___, she held many important positions. Her heart, however, was___43.___. She was more interested in___44.___patients, publishing medical research on care for women and children, and training the next generation of doctors. “The OB-GYN department cares for two lives,” She told new___45.___in her department. “As doctors, we should be___46.___for the patients and treat them as our sisters.”
Though Lin Qiaozhi never married, she was known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”, having___47.___over 50,000 babies in her lifetime. Dr Lin did not___48.___until the day she died, 22 April 1983. Since she had no children of her own, she left her___49.___to a kindergarten and a fund for new doctors. And even as she___50.___dying, her final thoughts were for others. “I’m ready to go,” she said. “Don’t try to rescue me any more. Don’t waste the medicine any more.”
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；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I will never forget the day where my sister left home to work in another city. I was sad or unwilling to separate from her, but later I realize our separation would not last forever. She often wrote to me, telling me she felt proud to be able to live on her. Since my sister was able to earn money from her first job, she decided to find out her own apartment, at least her own rooms. That was how she met Rebecca, who put an advertisement to a roommate. It was perfect match. With so many sharing interests and values, they became good friends sooner.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Ever since she was a little girl, Sally had wanted to skydive from a plane. So, when her 40th birthday arrived, she was surprised and pleased when her children presented her with a gift certificate from the local skydiving center.
“Thanks, kids. You’ve made my dream come true,” she said.
The big day came, and Sally arrived at the skydiving center early in the morning. “First, we’re going to go through some safety information,” the instructor told Sally and the other customers. “Safety is the most important part of skydiving,” the instructor continued. “This parachute is what will keep you alive today.”
After the morning’s training was over, it was finally time to take to the skies. As she’d never skydived before, Sally was paired up with John, an experienced skydiver who worked at the center.
“I’ve done this loads of times before,” he assured her. “We’ll jump from the plane together; we’ll share the same parachute,” John explained. “OK. I trust you,” Sally said with a smile.
After waiting all her life to do this, she was impatient to go up in the plane. Sally and the others walked to the airfield. “We’ll go first,” John told Sally. “Put this earpiece in so I can talk to you through my radio.” As the plane took off, Sally was so excited that she forgot to put the earpiece in. “I’m finally doing this,” she thought to herself, unaware of her mistake.
The plane was soon over 3,000 meters up, and Sally and John were sitting at the plane’s open door, ready to jump. “OK, Sally, let’s do this!” John shouted as he launched the pair of them into the sky. Wind was soon rushing through Sally’s hair as she dropped quickly to the ground.
“Oh, my parachute won’t open,” John said into his radio. “You’ll have to open yours,” he added, but there was no reply. “Sally. SALLY?” he shouted, his voice full of fear.
注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
Paragraph 1:
But Sally hadn’t heard a word John had just said.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________
Paragraph 2:
They seemed so close to the ground now and Sally was scared for her life.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. B
7. B
8. B 9. B 10. A 11. D
12. A 13. A 14. B 15. D
16. A 17. F 18. C 19. E 20. D
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. D 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. B 30. A 31. D 32.
B 33. D 34.
C 35. C 36. A 37. C 38.
D 39. A 40. B
41. elected
42. decades
43. elsewhere
44. tending
45. staff 46. responsible
47. delivered
48. retire 49. savings
50. lay
51.(1). where→when
(2). or→and
(3). realize→realized
(4). her→herself
(5). out 删掉
(6). rooms→room
(7). to→for
(8). perfect match 前加a
(9). sharing→shared
(10). sooner→soon
52.略。