2020-2021学年上海市浦东新区模范中学高三英语期末试题及答案解析

2020-2021学年上海市浦东新区模范中学高三英语期末试题及答案解
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
Britain's brilliant bridges have aided trade and brought communities together and are always the most exciting part of the journey. These must-see bridges are now tourist attractions in their own right.
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
Described byits legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel as “my first love, my darling”, in was originally designed for horse-drawn traffic. Now, more than four million vehicles a year cross the 1,352ft-Jong toll (收费) bridge over the Avon Gorge. The £ l toll for every journey pays for its repair. The history of the bridge, dating back to 1864, is kept alive through a programme of tours, events and exhibitions.
Infinity Bridge, Stockton-On-Tees
A pedestrian and cycle footbridge across the River Tees, its working title was the North Shore Footbridge, before it was given its grander name when opened in 2009. It is particularly spectacular (壮观) at night. The arches of the bridge are also lit white and, on calm nights, their reflection in the water appears as an infinity symbol, thereby inspiring the name which was chosen by the public.
Tower Bridge, London
An engineering wonder built from thousands of tons of Cornish granite, Portland stone and steel, it took construction workers eight years to complete. More than 120 years old, it's a popular tourist attraction, as well as a functional bridge. Visitors can take in the views over the capital and experience seeing London life through the Glass Floor.
Iron Bridge, Shropshire
Opened in 1781, this is the first arch bridge in the world to be made out of cast iron. Recognised as one of the great symbols of the industrial revolution, it transformed the cart of bridge building and was a crucial factor in the development of the iron trade in Shropshire.
1.Which bridge has the longest history?
A.Clifton Suspension Bridge.
B.Infinity Bridge.
C.Tower Bridge.
D.Iron Bridge.
2.What can we know about Infinity Bridge?
A.People can just walk on it.
B.The public give it two names.
C.It's well worth visiting at night.
D.It's arch is the biggest on the earth.
3.What do Clifton Suspension Bridge and Tower Bridge have in common?
A.They are both over 120 years old.
B.Visitors should pay for passing them.
C.They have the same original design.
D.Visitors can have a good view of London on them.
B
American football was the fastest-growing sport for US young players last year, according to a survey sponsored by the sport's governing body.
But it was the game's no tackle variety that showed the biggest increase－a finding that may reflect concerns about injury. In American football, a tackle (抢断球) refers to an attempt to stop an opponent by forcing them to the ground.
The number of participants in football grew in 2015 while most other sport, except baseball, posted a decline, USA Football said on Monday, citing(引用) the findings of a survey of 30,000 children and teenagers.
Participation in flag football (a no-tackle type of football) increased by 8.7 percent among children aged 6 to 14, while tackle football rose by 1.9 percent. For that age group, the only other sport that grew was baseball, with a 3. 3 percent increase.
In the 15-to-18 age group, flag football rose by 10. 5 percent, while tackle grew by 2.5 percent.
Basketball was the third, with a 1. 1 percent increase. Participation in all other sports declined.
Tom Farrey, executive director of the Aspen Institute's Sports & Society Program, said he was surprised that flag football participation rose so much.
“The trend suggests that parents aremarching to the beat of a different drummer, in pursuing flagas an alternative for their kids," he said.
The findings come at a time of increasing concern about the risk associated with youth sports, particularly hockey (曲棍球) and football, where medical researchers have warned about the risk of concussions (damagesto the brain caused by violent blows to the head) and death linked to brain injury.
USA Football, anIndianapolis,Indianabased nonprofit funded in part by the National Football League, believed that the increases resulted from better safety and health education.
"Football participation increases, even modest increases, may signal that programs such as our Heads Up Football program and practice guidelines are making a positive difference," said Scot Hallenbeck, USA Football
chief executive, in a statement.
Robert Cantu, aBostonUniversityneurosurgery professor and investigator at the school's chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center said the increase in fag football participation signaled that more parents were directing children to a safe alternative
4. What can we learn about the two age groups?
A. Flag football grew the fastest in the 6-to-18 group.
B. Tackle football grew he fastest in the 6-to-14 group.
C. Participation in baseball declined the most in both groups
D. Participation in tackle football increased the most in both groups.
5. The underlined part probably means ________.
A working at a different pace
B. behaving in a different way
C. ignoring the major differences
D. trying to accept different opinions
6. The popularity of flag football is inked with the fact that
A. its rules have been adapted for young players
B. it receives more funds than other varieties
C. tackle football is an old-fashioned game
D. experts worry about children's safety
7. What is the cause of football growth according to USA Football?
A. Their safety programs are successful.
B. More children show interest in the game.
C. Football is less likely to cause concussions.
D. There are different types of football to choose from.
C
Craig Blackburn, a father and car fan, built a Batmobile for his son’s hope for using the vehicle to brighten the lives of sick children. And now he hopes to use it for more than just his sons hope after seeing the childrens reaction to the Batmobile.
Based on the number of failures he had seen in car groups, he estimated that only about one in 50 attempted constructions was actually finished and he realized what an incredible opportunity he had.
Mr. Blackburn started the project at the beginning of 2018 after hearing a friend in the US was doing the same thing. It started with importing an outer shell overseas, before picking brains of a friend who had a background as a worker in a car factory to gain knowledge of how to build the car. With the help of his friend, Mr. Blackburn built the Batmobile in 18 months with the cost reaching six figures.
Mr.Blackburn hoped to add a flamethrower(喷火器)onto the back of the vehicle and said he had thought about building the more recent Batman Tumbler from the series film Dark Knight. Though Mr. Blackburn encountered plenty of difficulties to get over during the construction, in September 2019, the carmade its first show at the Carnival of Flowers in Toowoomba, before being used by Blackburn’s son for his hope.
“It was great. It was so good to see the kids’ and adults’ excitement at seeing the Batmobile.” Mr. Blackburn said. As a result, the car lovers hope to make the car work on the roads as soon as possible, so he can visit sick children and take them out with his son.
8. What is Craig Blackburn’s initial purpose of making the Batmobile?
A. To realize his son’s dream.
B. To donate it to sick children.
C. To pay his respects to the film Dark Knight.
D. To show off at the Carnival of Flowers in Toowoomba.
9. How did Blackburn feel about the car-making at first?
A. Hopeful.
B. Confused.
C. Impossible.
D. Unsure.
10. How did Blackburn’s friend help him?
A. By making an outer shell for him.
B. By offering him financial support.
C. By sharing the knowledge of building cars.
D. By telling him the background of the car factory.
11. What is the car lovers’ expectation of the Batmobile?
A. It will be driven soon on the roads.
B. It can be displayed around the world.
C. It can change the lives of sick children.
D. It will appear in the next film about Batman.
D
Happiness is not a warm phone, according to anew study exploring the link between young life satisfaction
and screen time. The study was led by professor of psychology Jean M. Twenge at San Diego State University (SDSU).
To research this link, Twenge, along with colleagues Gabrielle Martin at SDSU and W. Keith Campbell at the University of Georgia, dealt with data from the Monitoring the Future (MtF) study, a nationally representative survey of more than a million U. S. 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders. The survey asked students questions about how often they spent time on their Phones, tablets and computers, as well as questions about their face-to-face social interactions and their overall happiness.
On average found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices — playing computer games, using social media, texting and video chatting — were less happy than those who invested more time in non-screen activities like sports, reading newspapers and magazines, and face-to-face social interactions.
"The key to digital media use and happiness is limited use," Twenge said. "Aim to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media, and try to increase the amount of time you spend seeing friends face-to-face and exercising — two activities reliably linked to greater happiness."
Looking at historical trends from the same age groups since the 1990s, it's easy to find that the increase of screen devices over time happened at the same time as a general drop-off in reported happiness inU. S.teens. Specifically, young peopled life satisfaction and happiness declined sharply after 2012. That's the year when the percentage of Americans who owned a smartphone rose above 50 percent. By far the largest change in teens' lives between 2012 and 2016 was the increase in the amount of time they spent on digital media, and the following decline in in-person social activities and sleep.
12. Which method did Twenge's team use for the study?
A. Calculating students' happiness.
B. Asking students certain questions.
C. Analyzing data from a survey.
D. Doing experiments on screen time.
13. How does the author develop the finding of the study in paragraph 3?
A. By making a comparison.
B. By giving an example.
C. By making an argument.
D. By introducing a concept.
14. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?
A. To draw a conclusion from the study.
B. To offer some advice to the readers.
C. To prove social activities' importance.
D. To support the researchers' finding.
15. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Quitting Phones Equals Happiness
B. Screen Time Should Be Banned
C. Teens' Lives Have Changed Sharply
D. Screen-addicted Teens Are Unhappier
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We all agree that we should recycle more — at home, in the office or when out and about. But for materials to be recycled, they first need to find their way to the right waste stream.___16___This is what the process of sorting allows us to do.
For effective recycling we need effective sorting. And this needs to happen first, in our own home and second, in sorting plants to which waste collected from our doorstep is taken. When you put a plastic bottle in the right recycling bin, you are helping sort recyclables. So the right material can be fed into the right recycling process.___17___They can be a loss of valuable resources from our economy.
___18___For instance, inBrussels,Belgium, consumers put plastic packaging, cans and beverage cartons in blue bags designed for recyclable packaging; paper in yellow bags for recycling; and glass needs to be taken to specific collection bins. Somewhat differently, inVienna(Austria), citizens can expect their paper, metal, glass and plastic to be separately collected in different weeks of the year.___19___In this way, they can sort their recyclables at home more effectively.
Once recyclable materials are collected from your doorstep, they are further sorted in specialized facilities which ensure the quality of the recycling process.___20___Traditionally, sorting has been done either manually with workers sorting what can be recycled and picking out the materials to be discarded or mechanically. Today, however, new technologies are being developed in order to speed up the process of sorting but to also yield better results. Exciting technologies using magnets or optical systems are being used to effectively sort materials so more of it can be recycled.
A. If sorting doesn't happen, recyclable materials can end up in landfills.
B. This is where different sorting techniques come into play.
C. In Europe, collection systems vary from country to country.
D. So citizens need to be aware of their local collection system.
E. Then they can be collected and taken to the right place for recycling.
F. The rest, though they could be recycled and reused, were landfilled or burned.
G. In recent years,Europehas seen a 25% growth in recycling secondary raw materials.
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My life turned a corner two years before. I realized, my first and real enthusiasm is writing___21___. As a child, I was introvert (内向的) , and basically a bookworm. The only thing I wished for, was___22___, and I used to finish them as quickly as I could. Along with reading, I loved___23___— but at that time, it was mainly prose (散文)! My love for writing started with writing journals, and___24___. Even before my teens, I had___25___in many countries, and then technology wasn't as___26___as it isnow. I guess my letters were quite poetic and charming, because my pen-friends told me that they___27___my letters even after I stopped writing to them as___28___was expensive!
Then my following life wasn't poetic anymore! I___29___pouring my emotions in journals or diaries. Many years passed! Was poetry my passion? Probably! One day two years earlier, one of my childhood friends wrote to me, “Hi there! How many books have you____30____ever since?”
That communication suddenly____31____me up, and lit my dream that I was eager to publish my own collection of poems. The____32____from my childhood came back, I____33____who I was. At that moment, I felt very excited and within a (n)____34____moment, I wrote my first poem! That poem was actually____35____, may be one of the best of what I have written so far!
After that first____36____, I realized what my real passion was! And poems started coming one after another! Sometimes I got up at____37____, and thought about some lines! And I had to write them____38____, otherwise these lines will slide away!
The terrible epidemic (流行病)____39____me to write several poems, which may____40____indescribable sufferings of people.
21. A.songs B.novels C.poems D.journals
22. A.books B.pictures C.toys D.clothes
23. A.drawing B.dancing C.swimming D.writing
24. A.reports B.articles C.letters D.words
25. A.pen-friends B.classmates C.s D.workers
26. A.backward B.convenient C.important D.simple
27. A.burned B.threw C.tore D.preserved
28. A.price B.postage C.water D.gas
29. A.forgot B.avoided C.missed D.enjoyed
30. A.bought B.sold C.published D.learned
31. A.picked B.woke C.turned D.brought
32. A.memories B.trouble C.sufferings D.happiness
33. A.treasured B.admitted C.remembered D.challenged
34. A.hard B.proud C.long D.emotional
35. A.strange B.dull C.good D.disappointing
36. A.experience B.job C.meeting D.conversation
37. A.table B.noon C.home D.midnight
38. A.nervously B.calmly C.immediately D.slowly
39. A.inspired B.advised C.told D.introduce
40. A.achieve B.reduce C.strengthen D.develop
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
Ancient Rome was one of the world’s most___41.___(power) empires (帝国) more than 2,000 years ago. The Roman’s ideas about roads, laws, government and buildings still influence us today,___42.___(make) it the centre of Western civilization.
People may wonder how ancient Rome___43.___(link) to the capital of Italy today. Actually, very few Roman___44.___(native) live in Rome now as most ancient Romans were killed during conflicts in history.___45.___, ancient buildings like the Roman Colosseum(罗马圆形大剧场) and Roman Forum are still standing strong today. Built in the first century A. D., the Colosseum is___46.___popular tourist attraction today.
Roman roads, the most___47.___(advance) roads in the ancient world, enabled the Roman Empire—___48.___was over 1. 7 million square miles at the pinnacle（巅峰）of___49.___(it) power—to stay connected. Over 50,000 miles of road were built by 200 B. C. and several are still____50.____use today.
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，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误。

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.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Yesterday I saw an special bridge in the West Lake. It was built for little wild ducks! It turned out that in that place flowers was growing, surrounded by steel nets above water to prevent fish eat them. However, many new-born wild duck were born this year. They had difficulty getting into the lake to follow their mothers but feed themselves. In order to help the ducks, the local officials built the little bridge, what helped them enter the place of the lake easy. Now they are playing and seeking food with its mothers happily. It is said that the bridge will pulled down when the little ducks grow up big enough.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.你校中学生英语杂志正在开展主题为“The Impacts of Smart Phones on Students”的征文活动。

请你就此写一篇短文参赛，内容包括：
1.介绍学生使用智能手机的情况；
2.简述智能手机对学生的影响；
3.提出学生使用智能手机的建议。

注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题的相应位置作答。

The Impacts of Smart Phones on Students
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. A
8. A 9. D 10. C 11. A
12. C 13. A 14. D 15. D
16. E 17. A 18. C 19. D 20. B
21. C 22. A 23. D 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. D 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. B 32.
A 33. C 34. D 35. C 36. A 37. D 38. C 39. A 40. B
41. powerful
42. making 43. is linked
44. natives
45. However
46. a 47. advanced
48. which 49. its
50. in
51.(1).an→a；
(2).was→were；
(3).eat→eating；
(4).duck→ducks；
(5).but→and；
(6).what→which；
(7).easy→easily；
(8).its→their；
(9).在will后加be；
(10).去掉up
52.略。