2019-2020学年扬州市教育学院附属中学高三英语期中试卷及答案解析

2019-2020学年扬州市教育学院附属中学高三英语期中试卷及答案解
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
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Founded in 1899 as the country's first museum specifically made for children, today BCM is comprehensive, with a permanent collection of 30,000 objects, including musical instruments, masks and dolls. Kids love the interactive World Brooklyn, a small cityscape（城市风光）lined by stores where children can pretend to be working grown-ups.
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Looking for interactive art that welcomes curious minds? Then head to Inside Art, the current show up at CMOM, which lets your little ones climb in and over and all around the exhibits. It's ideas like this that make the 40,000-square-foot so special. Learning about culture, history and science is a pride for kids aged six and under. CMOM also hosts classes—like Gross Biology for kids who are interested in insects-all designed with the latest child-development research in mind.
DiMenna Children's History Museum
The hands-on displays at this kid-focused arm of the New York Historical Society transport children back through 350 years of US history, with a special focus on NYC. Children are encouraged to climb around and interact with exhibits that highlight the lives of kids who grew up to become famous doctors, athletes and political figures! Little New Yorkers can get in on sing-alongs and crafts. Other family programs include cookings classes, games and story hours.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum nurtures（培养）creativity. It offers hands-on experiences like the Block Harbor（plenty of blocks to play with!）, larger-than-life games like Connect Four and Dominoes, and even the opportunity to climb through a human-sized anthill or play firefighter at Ladder 11, so you'll find immersive（沉浸式的）fun around every corner. Don't forget to stop by Green Living Room powered by the wind energy where the kids can learn about ways to reduce our carbon footprint.
1. Which museum provides biology classes for kids?
A. Brooklyn Children's Museum.
B. Staten Island Children's Museum.
C. Children's Museum of Manhattan.
D. DiMenna Children's History Museum.
2. What can kids do in DiMenna Children's History Museum?
A. Play interesting games with great firefighters.
B. Know about famous people's childhood lives.
C. Run stores like adults in different small streets.
D. Cook delicious local food with foreign athletes.
3. Where can kids learn how to protect the environment?
A. At Ladder 11.
B. At the Block Harbor.
C In Green Living Room. D. On a human-sized anthill.
B
Guangzhououtbreak linked to strains inIndia
The gene sequencing of the COVID-19 outbreak inGuangzhou.Guangdongprovince, indicates it is very similar in structure to the mutatedstrains detected inIndia, a senior health official from the city said on Sunday.
“And it has the characteristic of quick spread.” Chen Bin, deputy director of the city's health commission, said at a news conference inGuangzhouon Sunday.
She urged relevant departments and medical staff to act quickly to block the chain of infection and control the spread of the coronavirus in the southern metropolis.
Zhang Zhoubin, deputy director of theGuangzhoucenter for disease control and prevention, said the strain of coronavirus spreads easily.
“The virus can be spread through a meal or through a short period of indirect contact,” he said.
The city reported five confirmed eases and 21 asymptomatic carriers as of 2 pm Sunday after the first con finned case was detected in the city's Liwan district on May 21, Chen said.
To prevent the virus from spreading, the city government tightened its disease control and prevention measures over the weekend. Six communities and housing estates previously designated as low-risk areas were raised to medium-risk ones, Chen said.
In addition to asking local residents to get vaccinated, the city has organized nucleic acid testing in Haizhu and Yuexiu districts starting from Sunday. Residents in specific areas of Tianhe, Baiyun and Panyu districts have also been required to take nucleic acid tests to expand the screening of suspected patients and asymptomatic carriers.
Liwan previously required all its residents to take nucleic acid tests.
As of Saturday, more than 2-25 million residents of the city have had samples collected for nucleic acid tests, Chen said. More than 10,000 medical workers from the entire city have been sent to Liwan to help vaccinate locals
against COVID-19 and collect samples for nucleic acid testing.
Deng Wenjun, director of circulation section with Guangzhou Supply and Marketing Cooperative, said there are sufficient supplies of food and daily necessities in the medium-risk areas.
4. What is the characteristic of the COVID-19 which broke out inGuangzhou?
A. It disappears quickly.
B. It spreads fast.
C. It has a lot to do with temperature.
D. It has the same nature as the seasonal flu.
5. Which district have residents who have not been required to take nucleic acid tests?
A. Tianhe.
B. Haizhu.
C. Panyu.
D. Zengcheng.
6. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The virus can hardly be spread through a short period of indirect contact.
B. There are 21 symptomatic carriers in the Liwan district as of 2 pm Sunday.
C. All the people living in Liwan district arc previously asked to take nucleic acid tests.
D. Supplies of food and daily necessities in the medium-risk areas arc still not enough.
7. Where can you probably find this article?
A. On a news website.
B. In a fashion magazine.
C. In a history book.
D. In a travel journal.
C
I don’t want to talk about being a woman scientistagain. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated (controlled) by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space, time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics (天体物理学), it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph.D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement — jobs, research papers, awards — was viewed through the lens (镜片) of gender (性别) politics. So were my failures. Sometimes, when I was pushed into an argument on left brain versus (相对于) right brain, or nature versus nurture (培育), I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations (挑衅): I don’t talk about that anymore. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. Why should curing sexism be yet another
terrible burden on every female scientist? After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.
Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer, 45.
I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t dismiss those concerns. Still, I don’t tell them “war” stories. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.
8. Why doesn’t the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?
A. She is fed up with the issue of gender discrimination (歧视).
B. She feels unhappy working in male-dominated fields.
C. She is not good at telling stories of the kind.
D. She finds space research more important.
9. From Paragraph 2, we can infer that people would attribute (把……归因于) the author’s failures to ________.
A. the burden she bears in a male-dominated society
B. her involvement in gender politics
C. her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist
D. the very fact that she is a woman
10. What did the author constantly fight against while doing her Ph.D. and post-doctoral research?
A. Lack of confidence in succeeding in space science.
B. Unfair accusations from both inside and outside her circle.
C. People’s fixed attitude toward female scientists.
D. Widespread misconceptions about nature and nurtured.
11. What does the image the author presents to her students suggest?
A. Women students needn’t have the concerns of her generation.
B. Women can balance a career in science and having a family.
C. Women have more barriers on their way to academic success.
D. Women now have fewer problems pursuing a science career.
D
A new study has discovered that meditation (冥想) and oxygen sport together reduce depression. The Rutgers University study found that this mind and body combination, done twice a week for only two months,reduced the
symptoms for a group of students by 40 percent.
“We are excited by the findings because we saw such a meaningful improvement in both clinically depressed and non-depressed students,” said lead author Dr. Brandon Alderman. “It is the first time that both of these two behavioral ways have been looked at together for dealing with depression.”
Researchers believe the two activities have an interactive effect on combatingdepression. Alderman and Dr. Tracey Shors discovered that a combination of mental and physical training (MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts defeat them.
Rutgers researchers say those who participated in the study began with 30 minutes of focused attention meditation followed by 30 minutes of oxygen sport. They were told that if their thoughts drifted to the past or the future they should refocus on their breathing, enabling those with depression to accept moment-to-moment changes in attention.
Shors, who studies the productionof new brain cells in the hippocampus—part of the brain involved in memory and learning—says scientists have shown in animal models that oxygen sport exercise keeps a large number of certain cells alive.
The idea for the human intervention (干预) came fromher laboratory studies, she says, with the main goal of helping individuals acquire new skills so that they can learn to recover from stressful life events.
By learning to focus their attention and exercise, people who are fighting depression can acquire new learning skills that can help them process information and reduce the overwhelming recollection of memories from the past, Shors says.
“We know these treatments can be practiced over a lifetime and that they will be effective in improving mental health.” said Alderman. “The good news is that this intervention can be practiced by anyone at any time and at no cost.”
12. What made the research so different?
A. Adopting a way of meaningful talk.
B. Combining the two behavioral ways to treat depression.
C. Treating depression with special medicine.
D. Comparing the depressed with the non-depressed.
13. The underlined word “combating” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by ______.
A. fighting
B. identifying
C. distinguishing
D. examining
14. What did the participants do in the research?
A. They did oxygen sport half an hour before thinking.
B. They thought quietly and then took exercise.
C. They took exercise longer than they thought.
D. They took exercise while thinking quietly.
15. What is Shors’ main purpose of her studies?
A. To find out certain brain cells of humans.
B. To study the production of new brain cells.
C. To offer people a new method to treat stress.
D. To decide the links between stress and exercise.
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Loving others is easy, but loving yourself can be one of the hardest things in this world. Without enough self-love, you can easily become a pessimist.___16___.
Avoid perfectionism.Somepeople have trouble accepting anything less than perfection from themselves. If you find yourself pursuing perfectionism when you are less than perfect, you need to do something.___17___. Stop your current line of thinking, and then focus on the effort that will be required to work towards a goal, and then steadily apply the required effort.
Focus on the positive.Focusing only on the negatives in your life is a bad habit. Excessive focus on negative or less favorable events in your life can make these events seem unreasonably important. If you find yourself complaining that everything that happens to you is bad, try to find a little evidence to the contrary.___18___.
___19___This is the fun part of self-love: rewarding yourself! If you have had a significant accomplishment, celebrate it with a nice dinner at your favorite fancy restaurant. Think of all of the hard work you do every day, and find a reason to reward yourself with something nice.
Do things that make you feel good.Think of feeling good physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Do what it takes to feel good in multiple ways; it may require exercise, meditation, dancing and keeping a positive journal.
Reflect on the effects of practicing self-love.When you spend time loving and rewarding yourself, you will likely see benefits in other areas of your life.___20___, or if you are able to be more present with others. You might start to feel like you are more in charge of the choices you make, and that you have more control of your life.
A. Take three simple steps
B. It is very unlikely that everything is really bad
C. Here are some tips to love yourself better
D. Notice whether you have more energy
E. Don’t forget to take advantage of alone time and use it for pleasure
F. Celebrate and reward yourself
G. Find a routine that feels good and stick to it
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It was 15 years ago that one of the most upset things in my life happened. In a clean, clinical room, my best friend was dying in my arms. His eyes, dark brown and trusting, would soon____21____forever. Heartbroken, I said, “Flash, you____22____so much happiness to me. I will do something good as a(an)____23____.”
Flash came into my____24____when I was nine. From the moment my parents brought this cute dog home, he____25____my family with joy.
Then,____26____happened. My mum was diagnosed with (被诊断出) breast cancer when I was 11. Then my grandma, who was my strength,____27____for lung cancer. My sister____28____Crohn’s Disease and while being tested, suffered a heart attack. I was being bullied at school and started to____29____classes and avoid seeing people.
Flash soon gave me all the comfort he could offer. There were times when I felt there was no____30____, but a pair of brown eyes and loving face would somehow____31____me. I knew he was____32____there for me. I knew he understood.
Now after 15 years, Flash was____33____. I thought doing charity work was the best reward for him. I____34____in a non-profit organization inSouthamptonand contributed about 3,500 hours to____35____children with special needs, which completely changed my life. I learned to love the____36____I had been on, and even accept the____37____bits.
I still miss Flash. It was he that had somehow____38____me to help others. Flash’s death was one of the____39____moments of my life. But it was also an inspiring moment that____40____me in the best possible way—forever.
21. A. open B. fade C. shine D. close
22. A. told B. brought C. saved D. owed
23. A. reward B. award C. bonus D. relief
24. A. world B. room C. mind D. power
25. A. helped B. protected C. filled D. decorated
26. A. wonders B. stories C. disasters D. mistakes
27. A. went away B. passed away C. died away D. flew away
28. A. developed B. caused C. noticed D. gained
29. A. pass B. skip C. take D. enjoy
30. A. use B. time C. money D. hope
31. A. annoy B. ease C. lift D. change
32. A. frequently B. sometimes C. always D. hardly
33. A. aging B. deserted C. missing D. gone
34. A. searched B. volunteered C. competed D. performed
35. A. talking about B. meeting with C. caring for D. bringing up
36. A. earth B. street C. holiday D. journey
37. A. fantastic B. difficult C. awkward D. pleasant
38. A. trained B. forced C. inspired D. persuaded
39. A. fullest B. saddest C. tiniest D. craziest
40. A. explained B. admitted C. transformed D. described
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
Have you ever had the desire to try skydiving or bungee jump off a bridge? Some find such adventurous activities quite attractive____41.____others avoid them like the deadly disease. Vida, a communication specialist from thePhilippineswho now lives inBeijing, is no doubt____42.____former. Having gone bungee jumping and ziplining, Vida clearly has a passion for these adventurous activities.
One of the____43.____(scare) moments came from zorbing (太空球运动)－an activity in which the participants are strapped (捆住) inside a large, plastic, inflatable ball and roll downhill. “One of my straps____44.____(fall) off 'mid-zorb' so I was afraid I'd get unstrapped and end up____45.____(bounce) around a ball and banging into my friend who was also strapped inside."
While there is____46.____(definite) fear in these activities, there is also an opportunity to gain a sort of independence and____47.____(confident). For Sarah, aUSnative living inBeijing, her experience of bungee
jumping atVictoria Falls,Zambia, was incredibly rewarding. Unlike paragliding (滑翔伞运动) or skydiving,____48.____you may be partnered with an experienced professional, she has to do it all____49.____herself. “It required me to be brave enough_____50._____(get) up on that bridge and jump, without the help or assistance of anyone else," Sarah said.
Vida often thinks of the Helen Keller quote: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” She added that “I'd rather have an adventure than experience nothing.”
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；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Leaving a store, I returned to my car only to find I have locked my keys and cell phone inside. The teenager riding his bike learnt about my embarrassed situation. I told him that even if I could call my wife, she wouldn’t bring him the car key because this was our only car. He handed me with his cell phone, “Calling your wife and tell her I’m going to get the key.” “That’s a ten-miles round trip,” I said. But he told me not worry about it. An hour late, he returned with the key. I offered him some money, so he refused, “Let’s just say I needed the exercise.”
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。

School mornings were always busy. The first sentence I usually heard was. "It's time to rise and shine!" It was my mother's loudest voice. and there was no way I could ignore it or hide from it.
"Okay, Mom. I am getting up and dressed!" When I got up. Mon's loudest voice rose again as she announced, " Breakfast is ready!" By then, the house was filled with the good smell of breakfast and I couldn't help getting to the kitchen fast enough.
“Thanks, Mom! This is my favorite,” I said, enjoying the dishes.
Mom replied, “You are welcome, my dear. Now grab your lunch bag and books. The school bus will be here any minute!" My sisters and I ran out to the bus stop as we grabbed our lunch bags that contained a sandwich, fruit and dessert.
Then one day, to my surprise, there was no dessert in my lunch bag. I looked through every part of my lunch bag, and even turned it upside down. My dessert just wasn't there. What could have happened to it? Did Mom forget to make it? “Well," I thought, "it's only one time, so it's no big deal." But for the next several days, my lunch bag contained no dessert. So one day as soon as I got home from school, I asked Mom if she forgot to put a dessert in my lunch bag.
Mom was surprised and responded, “Why? I have been including a dessert in your lunch bag every day. If you are not getting them, then who is?"
Soon when I reviewed my activities and schedules in school, I found Carl-the terror of the third grade. No one liked him in his class because he was rough, often fighting with other boys. Now even worse-he was a thief. "He must be punished," I said angrily. But my Mom seemed to be not angry at all.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

After knowing everything about Carl, my Mom told me her way to solve this problem.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Carl was touched and asked me if he could visit my house and thank my mother.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. C
4. B
5. D
6. C
7. A
8. A 9. D 10. C 11. B
12. B 13. A 14. B 15. C
16. C 17. A 18. B 19. F 20. E
21. D 22. B 23. A 24. A 25. C 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. B 32.
C 33.
D 34. B 35. C 36. D 37. B 38. C 39. B 40. C
41. while
42. the 43. scariest
44. fell 45. bouncing
46. definitely
47. confidence
48. where 49. by
50. to get
51.(1). have—had.考查动词时态。

我把钥匙和手机锁在车里了，发生在谓语returned之前，谓语是一般过去时，比它发生的早的用过去完成时，故have—had.
(2). The—A.考查冠词。

此处指一个骑自行车的青少年遇到我，表示数量一个用不定冠词a，故The—A.
(3). embarrassed—embarrassing.考查形容词。

embarrassed “尴尬的”用来修饰人；embarrassing表示令人尴尬的，修饰物。

此处指我尴尬的境况，修饰物用embarrassing.故embarrassed—embarrassing.
(4). him—me.考查代词。

句意：即使我能给妻子打电话，她也不能给我带钥匙来，因为这是唯一一辆车。

表示给我带钥匙，故him—me.
(5).删除with.考查及物动词。

句中hand表示递给，是及物动词，后面加双宾语，即hand sb. sth.不用加介词，故删除with.
(6). Calling—Call.考查动词形式。

此处是祈使句，动词用原形。

故Calling—Call.
(7). ten-miles—ten-mile.考查形容词。

表示10英里可以用ten miles或ten-mile，有连字符号时名词用单数，故ten-miles—ten-mile.
(8). not后加to.考查动词形式。

表示告诉某人做某事用tell sb.to do sth.用动词不定式，故not后加to.
(9). late—later.考查副词。

late晚，迟；later稍后，随后。

此处指一个小时后，用an hour later, 故late—later.
(10). so—but.考查连词。

因为这个男孩帮助了我，我给他一些钱，但他拒绝了。

前后句是转折关系，不是因果。

故so—but
52.略。