2020年寻乌县第一中学高三英语期中考试试题及答案

2020年寻乌县第一中学高三英语期中考试试题及答案
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
I once taught in a small private school. Each morning at nine o’clock all the students, ranging in age from three to seven years old, gathered in the Great Room for a warm-up in preparation for the day.
One morning the headmistress made an announcement to all the children gathered,“Today we begin a great experiment of the mind.” She held up two ivy(常春藤) plants, each potted in an identical container. She continued, “Do they look the same?”
All the children nodded. So did I, for, in this way, I was alsoa child.
“We will give the plants the same amount of light, the same amount of water, but not the same amount of attention,” She said. “Together we are going to see what will happen when we put one plant in the kitchen away from our attention and the other plant right here in this room. Each day for the next month, we shall sing to our plant in the Great Room and tell it how much we love it, and how beautiful it is. We will use our good minds to think good thoughts about it.”
Four weeks later my eyes were as wide and disbelieving as the children’s. The kitchen plant was leggy and sick-looking, and it hadn’t grown at all. But the Great Room plant, which had been sung to and surrounded by positive thoughts and words, had increased threefold in size with dark leaves that were filled with energy.
In order to prove the experiment, the kitchen ivy was brought to the Great Room to join the other ivy. Within three weeks, the second plant had caught up with the first ivy. Within four weeks, they could not be distinguished, one from the other.
I took this lesson to heart and made it my own.
1. Why did the headmistress do the experiment?
A. She wanted to teach me a lesson.
B. She expected the students to learn to grow plants.
C. She meant to prove the impact of good minds on growth.
D. She intended to show students how to save a sick-looking plant.
2. What happened to the ivy in the kitchen at last?
A. It stopped growing and died.
B. It was leggy and sick with dark leaves.
C. It looked almost the same as the other one.
D. It grew better than the one in the Great Room.
3. What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A. Life Means Growth
B. Things Grow with Love
C. Equality Makes a Difference
D. Positive Thoughts Really Count
B
A year ago I received a full scholarship to attend the University of San Francisco. All of my hard work paid off. My mom had spent a lot on my attending a private high school, so I made sure to push myself: I volunteered, took part in various clubs, and graduated with honors. I was so excited to start a new part of my life.
Soon enough, the big day came, but it wasn't like what I had thought. The first two weeks were the most difficult days of my entire life. Every night I would cry myself to sleep. I was missing my family, my home and everything in my hometown so much and I didn’t know how to deal with my broken heart.
To distract myself, I threw myself into my studies. I also found a ton of jobs. In any free time, I started forcing myself to go to the gym. I wanted to keep every part of my day busy so I wouldn’t think about how lonely I felt. Soon after, I began to control my eating, considering it another solution to my homesickness. But soon there was something wrong with me.
Finally, I went to see a doctor. When the doctor told me I had no choice but to take time away from school, I started to fear. How could I stop? School was what I was best at. “I’m not so bad,” I thought in my head. But the result was that I was taken to hospital again a month later and my mother camewoefully. I had to take a semester off from school, and go to the treatment center near my home.
If there are girls who are suffering similarly, I hope you know that there is hope and that you should have a positive attitude towards life. Though you may feel alone, there are so many people who can understand your struggle. That’s why I want to share my story.
4. Why did the author push herself during high school?
A. She wanted to attend the University of San Francisco.
B. It cost too much to study in a private school.
C. Her parents controlled much of her life.
D. Her family put her under pressure,
5. What can we know about the author in the first two weeks?
A. She couldn't fall asleep because of pressure.
B. She couldn't pay attention to her study.
C. She couldn't deal with her homesickness.
D. She couldn't catch up with others.
6. What does the underlined word “woefully” in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Sadly.
B. Surprisingly.
C. Curiously.
D. Happily.
7. What is the author's purpose in writing this text?
A. To look back on her past life.
B. To increase her own confidence.
C. To express appreciation to her mother.
D. To encourage other girls like her to be positive.
C
What a day! I started at my new school this morning and had the best time. I made lots of new friends and really liked my teachers. I was nervous the night before, but I had no reason to be. Everyone was so friendly and polite. They made me feel at ease. It was like I'd been at the school for a hundred years!
The day started very early at 7:00 am. I had my breakfast downstairs with my mom. She could tell that I was very nervous. Mom kept asking me what was wrong. She told me I had nothing to worry about and that everyone was going to love me. If they didn't love me, Mom said to send them her way for a good talking to. I couldn't stop laughing.
My mom dropped me off at the school gates about five minutes before the bell. A little blonde girl got dropped off at the same time and started waving at me. She ran over and told me her name was Abigail. She was very nice and we became close straight away. We spent all morning together and began to talk to another girl called Stacey. The three of us sat together in class all day and we even made our way home together! It went so quickly. Our teacher told us that tomorrow we would really start learning and developing new skills.
I cannot wait until tomorrow and feel as though I am really going to enjoy my time at my new school. I only hope that my new friends feel the same way too.
8. How did the author feel the night before her new school?
A. Tired.
B. Confident
C. Worried.
D. homesick
9. What did the author think of her mother’s advice?
A. Clear.
B. Funny.
C. Optional
D. Respectable
10. What happened on the author's first day of school?
A. She met many nice people.
B. She had a hurried breakfast.
C. She learned tome new skills.
D. She arrived at school very early.
11. What can we infer about Abigail?
A. She disliked Stacey.
B. She was shy and quiet.
C. She got on well with the author.
D. She was an old friend of the author.
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Not only do smart-phones provide unlimited access to information, they provide perfect opportunities to multitask (doing two unrelated things at the same time). Any activity can be accompanied by music, selfies or social media updates. Of course, some people pick improper time to text and lawmakers have steeped in.___16___In Hawaii, it’s illegal to text or even look at your phone while crossing the street, and in the Netherlands they’ve banned texting while biking.
___17___.So you need learn to self-control. Understanding how the brain multitasks and why we find multitasking so appealing will help you realize the danger of pulling out your phone.
Twenty states have bans on driving using a hand - held phone while still allowing hands - free calls. Yet hands - free or hand - held makes no difference.___18___The real problem is the switch(切换)of attention between the conversation and road, and that affects performance.
People sense this and when on the phone they drive slower and increase their following distance, but they
are far too confident and think these measures reduce risks.___19___. Everyone knows texting behind the wheel is dangerous, but listening to music or chatting with a passenger seems so undemanding as to be. Yet both measurably affect driving.
People multitask merely because they see no harm in it; they see benefits. ___20___Most people will still choose to multitask. But they should be fully aware of how that choice affects them and the potential consequences for themselves and others. They need to pay attention to how much--or how little --they are paying attention.
A.They multitask for efficiency, to fight boredom or to keep up with social media.
B.But legislation（法律）won’t ban all situations in which multitasking is unwise.
C.Instead of multitasking, they take more rest breaks and get a social media fix during abreak.
D.They damage driving process as equally as external (外部的) dangers go.
E.However, texting while biking seems so undemanding as to be harmless.
F.Forty - eight states have banned texting while driving.
G.This confidence is especially understandable for very simple tasks.
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When I was a little girl, there was the magic of Mercurochrome (红药水). It was good for cuts, scratches (抓痕), or other___21___. My brother and I___22___and proved the powers of Mercurochrome many years ago.
It was summer and hot. Mama was not feeling well and had become___23___tired. She told us that she was going to___24___ on her bed. Only a few minutes had passed when Ronnie___25___a scratch on his knee that needed immediate___26___. We tiptoed(踮脚走) into Mama’s room and asked her if we could put Mercurochrome on Ronnie’s scratch.___27___on her back, Mama had fallen into a deep sleep and made no answer.
We stole into the bathroom, took the Mercurochrome and___28___Ronnie’s knee. Undoubtedly, he immediately began to feel better.___29___, we tiptoed into Mama’s room to show her that we had taken care of our scratches without___30___her. But she was in sound sleep. Then we whispered that___31___Mama didn’t feel well, perhaps Mercurochrome would make her feel___32___.
Twenty minutes___33___, we painted every scratch and every freckle(雀斑) of Mama’s skin. She had Mercurochrome___34___her legs, arms and face. At Ronnie’s encouraging, we___35___tried to paint her fingernails and toenails.
When Mama screamed in___36___, we knew that she was awake. With all the___37___, it didn’t seem at first that she was feeling better,___38___she burst into laughter as she stared at her image in the mirror.
We laughed a lot the next few days. If anyone had asked us, we would have___39___that Mama had been cured by the___40___of Mercurochrome.
21. A. matters B. worries C. troubles D. wounds
22. A. marked B. tested C. collected D. ignored
23. A. suddenly B. gradually C. hardly D. extremely
24. A. lie down B. settle down C. go down D. look down
25. A. doubted B. learnt C. noticed D. recognized
26. A. service B. attention C. advice D. study
27. A. Round B. Tight C. Wide D. Flat
28. A. painted B. designed C. completed D. decorated
29. A. Politely B. Proudly C. Carelessly D. Properly
30. A. pleasing B. disturbing C. exciting D. worrying
31. A. before B. unless C. until D. since
32. A. better B. rarer C. worse D. stranger
33. A. earlier B. ago C. later D. ahead
34. A. in B. on C. over D. under
35. A. always B. ever C. even D. only
36. A. horror B. shame C.disappointment D. excitement
37. A. laughing B. talking C. screaming D. joking
38. A. so B. although C. because D. but
39. A. pretended B. expected C. insisted D. accepted
40. A. magic B. reality C. secret D. story
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
Earth Day____41.____(found) in 1970 as a day of education about environmental problems, and Earth Day 2020 occurs on Wednesday, April 22 — the holiday's 50th anniversary. The holiday is now a global____42.____(celebrate) that's sometimes extended into Earth Week, a full seven days of____43.____(event) focused on green living.
____44.____(elect) to the U.S. Senate (参议院) in 1962, Senator Gaylord Nelson was determined to convince the federal government that the planet was____45.____risk. In 1969, Nelson developed the idea for Earth Day after____46.____(inspire) by the anti-Vietnam War "teach-ins" that were taking place on college campuses around the United States.
Denis Hayes, a young activist____47.____had served as student president at Stanford University, was selected as Earth Day’s national coordinator (协调者), and he worked with____48.____army of student volunteers and several staff members from Nelson's Senate office____49.____(organize) the project.
The first Earth Day was effective at raising awareness about environmental problems and transforming public attitudes. Earth Day kicked off the "Environmental decade with a bang," as Senator Nelson later put it. The theme of Earth Day 2020 is "climate action." Earth Day. org hopes it will be the_____50._____(large) volunteer event in history.
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.文中共有10处错误。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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。

It is universally known that World Reading Day falls on April 23rd, which reminded us of the importance of reading. We are supposed to reading more on that special day. But the situation for we to read nowadays is not satisfied.
For example, when we are at home, we would rather to watch TV or surf the Internet than read books. As a result, we spend such little time on books. However, reading books has many strength. Not only can our abilities and skills be improved, and we can also get some information from reading. Besides, reading books brings us happiness.
I think it good habit that in our spare time we read more books on great use.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.你校上周末组织了一次生态旅游（eco-travel），基于此活动校英文报Youth正在举办以“An Impressive Eco-travel”为主题的征文活动。

请你写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：
1.生态旅游中的见闻：
2.生态旅游后的感悟。

注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

An Impressive Eco-travel
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. D
8. C 9. B 10. A 11. C
12. C 13. A 14. D 15. D
16. F 17. B 18. D 19. G 20. A
21. D 22. B 23. D 24. A 25. C 26. B 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. B 31. D 32.
A 33. C 34.
B 35.
C 36. A 37. C 38.
D 39. C 40. A
41. was founded
42. celebration
43. events 44. Elected
45. at 46. being inspired
47. who/that
48. an 49. to organize
50. largest
51.(1).reminded改为reminds (2).reading改为read (3).we改为us
(4).satisfied改为satisfying (5).删除rather后to (6).such改为so (7).strength改为strengths
(8).and改为but (9).it后加a (10).on改为of
52.略。