2020年广州执信中学高三英语期中试卷及参考答案

2020年广州执信中学高三英语期中试卷及参考答案
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
There have been many great painters in the rich history of Chinese art. Here are four of the greatest painters from China.
Li Cheng (919—967, Five Dynasties and early Song Dynasty)
Li Cheng contributed greatly to one of the golden ages of landscape paintings in world history. During his time, he was considered the best landscape painter ever. He is remembered especially for the winter landscapes he created and for simple compositions of tall, old evergreens set against a dry landscape. Several of his paintings are in thin ink which gives them a foggy appearance.
Fan Kuan (990—1020 , Song Dynasty)
Fan Kuan began his career by modeling Li Cheng's work but later created his own style, claiming that the only true teacher was nature. His finest workTravelers among Mountains and Streamsis a masterpiece of landscape painting and many future artists turned to it for inspiration.
Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
One of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters, Qi Baishi is known for not being influenced by Western styles like most painters of his time. He can be considered as the last great traditional painter of China. He painted almost everything from insects to landscapes. He is regarded highly in Chinese art for the freshness that he brought to the familiar types of birds and flowers, insects and grass.
Wu Guanzhong (1919—2010)
Widely considered as the founder of modern Chinese painting , Wu Guanzhong has painted various aspects of China, like its architecture, plants, animals, people and landscapes. Wu went on to combine Western and Chinese styles to create a unique form of modem art. In 1992, he became the first living Chinese artist whose work was exhibited at the British Museum.
1.What do we know about Li Cheng?
A.He loved landscape paintings.
B.He copied many artists' work.
C.His work gained worldwide recognition.
D.He was considered as Fan Kuan's teacher.
2.What is the main feature of Qi Baishi's paintings?
A.They have foggy appearances.
B.They lack diversity in the theme.
C.They come under Western influence.
D.They show advanced traditional painting skills.
3.What did the four Chinese painters have in common?
A.They were all modern painters.
B.They all created landscape paintings.
C.They were all impacted by Western art.
D.They were all pioneers intraditional art history.
B
As artificial intelligence(AI) systems become more advanced, we can expect them to be used more often in the world of human medicine and healthcare. AI is designed to imitate(模仿）the human brain in decision making and learning, so with the computing power to learn tasks in days or even hours, it is possible to create medical AIs that rapidly outperform doctors in certain tasks.
Data plays a hugely important role in helping AI systems learn about human medicine. AI systems are trained on large data sets gathered from real-life cases. Providing detailed patient information in quantities is a crucial factor for their success.
One of the most important areas for influencing global health is in the field of epidemiology(流行病学）。

Predicting disease outbreaks can save millions of lives by having resources ready should the worst happen. Startup AIME has successfully combined public health data with machine learning and AI to create a prediction engine capable of anticipating epidemics months in advance with great accuracy.
Another field where medical AIs are making rapid advances is in diagnostics(诊断学）Doctors base a lot of decisions on information from X-ray, CT and MRI images. Speeding up. diagnoses from patient scans can rapidly improve patient care and outcomes. Computer vision AIs use pattern recognition to work through these images with incredible speed and accuracy. They have been able to outperform junior doctors and even senior specialists in some tests.
Cardiologist(心脏科医生）Rima Arnaout developed an AI that beat human experts at correctly interpreting echocardiograms(超声心动图）by 92 percent to 79 percent. She said that despite the result there is no prospect of
AI replacing human doctors any time soon. “As cardiologists, weread the images and then go to see the patient,” she said. “So we're both reading images and practicing medicine. I don't think that the second piece will be taken over so quickly. ”
The acceptance of AI in medicine will continue to gather pace in the future as it becomes more widespread.
4. What played a big role in helping AI systems know of human medicine?
A. Certain tasks.
B. Large data.
C. The skill to imitate.
D. The increasing demand.
5. Why is Startup AIME mentioned in paragraph 3?
A. To illustrate predicting disease is possible.
B. To call on doctors to focus on public health data.
C. To prove it's a successful company in global health.
D. To let readers realize the importance of early success.
6. What do we know about computer vision AIs?
A. They do better than doctors in some tests.
B. They speed up diagnoses from patient scans.
C. They can rapidly improve patients' conditions.
D. They analyze information from X-ray, CT and MRI images.
7. What do Rima Arnaout's words in paragraph 5 imply?
A. AIs are not so smart as human doctors.
B It's not easy for AIs to take the place of human doctors.
C. A cooperation between AIs and human doctors is a must.
D. Human doctors are playing a big role in practicing medicine.
C
Kids often admire well-known celebrities, putting posters of their favorite musicians, movie stars and athletes on their bedroom walls. But rarely does a young person get to meet or talk to their idol. Yet for one young tennis player - Coco Gauff - her chance to do just that happened in an amazing way!
Coco was born on March 13, 2004. At the age of 4, she developed an interest in tennis after watching Venus Williams win the Australian Open on TV. Coco began playing at 7 and showed a real talent for the sport. When
young Coco turned 10, she began training at a tennis centre run by Venus's coach, Patrick Mouratoglou. He still remembers the first time he met Coco. He says, “She impressed me with her determination and fighting spirit. ” Convinced of her talent, Mouratoglou sponsored（资助）Coco to attend his academy in France. While she was preparing to go to the academy in 2019, she received a call that would change her plans and her life!
Wimbledon（温布尔顿网球比赛）organizers called and offered Gauff entry to the tournament（联赛）as a wildcard（外卡选手）.This madeher one of the youngest players to ever qualify. Before she knew it she was on her way to London. After arriving, she received another surprise. For her Wimbledon debut（首次登场），she would be playing her lifelong hero, Venus Williams! The tennis legend is 24years older than Gauff.
The world watched with amazement as young Gauff beat Venus in two straight sets! Afterwards, Gauff shook Venus's hand, thanked her and said, “I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you. " After the match, Venus said of Gauff, “I think the sky is the limit；it really is. " Venus said, “I feel honored that I was on her wall [as a poster] at some point in her life. Soon she will be on other girls' walls. It's nice because it will keep going from the next generation to the next generation. "
8. What can we learn about Coco from the text?
A. She took up tennis as career at the age of 4.
B. She went to academy at the age of 7.
C. She had played against William before 10.
D. She beat William at the age of 15
9. Which of the following can best describe Coco?
A. Talented and modest.
B. Lucky and responsible.
C. Proud and hard-working.
D. Respectful and cheerful.
10. What can we infer from Venus's words?
A. Coco had reached her limits.
B. Coco would rise to fame after the match.
C. Coco's poster would be passed on.
D. Coco had once visited her home.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text ?
A. Coco Gauff：Tennis's Next Superstar.
B. Coco Gauff：A Poster on the Wall.
C. What Posters Mean to a Young Girl.
D. The Significance of Admiring an Idol.
D
Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most complex learning system-the mind of a baby. Babies might seem like no match for artificial intelligence (AI). They are
terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text, and awful at video games. Then again, babies can do things beyond the reach of any AI. By just a few months old, they’ve begun to grasp the foundations of language, such as grammar. They’ve started to understand how to adapt to unfamiliar situations.
Yet even experts like Spelke don’t understand precisely how babies or adults learn. Consider one of the most impressive examples of AI, Alpha Zero, a programme that plays board games with superhuman skill. After playing thousands of games against itself at a super speed, and learning from winning positions, Alpha Zero independently discovered several famous chess strategies and even invented new ones. It certainly seems like a machineeclipsinghuman cognitive abilities. But Alpha Zero needs to play millions more games than a person during practice to learn a game. Most importantly, it cannot take what it has learned from the game and apply it to another area.
To some AI experts, that calls for a new approach. In a November research paper, Francois Chollet, a well-known AI engineer, argued that it’s misguided to measure machine intelligence just according to its skills at specific tasks. “Humans don’t start out with skills; they start out with a broad ability to acquire new skills,” he says. “What a strong human chess player is demonstrating is not only the ability to play chess, but the potential to fulfill any task of a similar difficulty.”
12. Compared to an advanced AI programme, a baby might be better at ________.
A playing games B. identifying locations C. labeling pictures D. making adjustments
13. What does the underlined word “eclipsing” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Imitating.
B. Beating.
C. Limiting.
D. Promoting.
14. According to the text, Francois Chollet may agree that ________.
A. AI is good at completing certain assignments.
B. AI is likely to gain abilities with less training.
C. AI lacks the ability of acquiring specific skills.
D. AI performs better than humans in cognitive ability.
15. Whichwould be the best title for this passage?
A. What is exactly intelligence?
B. Why is modern AI advanced?
C. Where is human intelligence going?
D. How do humans face the challenge of AI?
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
As a teen, have you ever been called childish or “immature” by adults or older peers in your life?____16____. If you want your behavior to reflect maturity, start off with:
If you want to act in a mature fashion, you need to respect authority. No matter where you go home, school, or work—you will have to obey rules set by authority figures.____17____, so comply with them. It's normal for teens to want to push back against authority sometimes. If you want to discuss rules with authority figures, argue your case in a respectful manner. That way, the adult is more likely to listen.
____18____. Follow through with commitments and take care of yourself and your responsibilities on your own as much as you can. If you do get in trouble for some reason, be honest and accept whatever consequences might follow. By holding yourself responsible for your own actions, you can show your maturity to your parents and others.
Improve your manners. Having good manners shows respect.____19____. Good manners cover a wide range of behaviors: saying “yes, sir/ ma'am”, answering the phone with “hello”, not interrupting others' conversations, chewing with your mouth closed, and holding the door for the person walking behind you.
Develop smart and healthy habits. A mature teen knows to say “no” to delinquent behaviors. Using alcohol and drugs, lying, stealing, fighting, acting recklessly, or destroying others' property will only get you into trouble or hurt.____20____. And stay away from negative influences.
A. Be responsible
B. Manage your time wisely
C. In most cases, these rules are set to keep you and others safe
D. Proper behavior also helps adults see you as more mature
E. Instead, be drug-free, and wear your seat belt when driving a car
F. If you have, I'd bet you'd love nothing more than to prove them wrong
G. Become more mature by improving emotional responses and communication style
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At the age of 14, Harvey Bay teenager Mark Farrell took a dive into a swimming pool that would____21____his life forever.
“I jumped into the pool and broke my____22____,” he says. “It's a very unusual story____23____I jumped into the deep end, not the shallow end where most spinal (脊柱)____24____occur.”
Mark has been in a wheelchair ever since and now, at 27, is very calm about any____25____life might throw
at him. In fact, he finds it____26____toname any challenge. “I just live my life and____27____it day by day,” he says.
For the past few years, Mark has____28____with the Spinal Education Awareness Team (SEAT), telling his____29____to young people in the Harvey Bay region. He also works as a whale______30______, taking photos for various publications and calendars. “If I can______31______one kid's life, it makes every single______32______I do worthwhile,” he says.
The aim of the SEAT programme is to______33______students to prevent spinal injuries and help them to______34______understand the challenges faced by people who______35______with a spinal injury.
Mark discusses the importance of checking the______36______of water before diving in and being more______37______. He has told thousands of school students his story over the years and says that if his______38______can prevent one spinal injury in a young person, he's______39______. Mark's contribution to preventing spinal injuries was______40______in 2017, when he was named Young Australian of the Year.
21. A.end B.change C.benefit D.shorten
22. A.ankle B.arm C.wrist D.spine
23. A.because B.if C.though D.while
24. A.symptoms B.analyses C.injuries D.treatment
25. A.challenge B.success C.responsibility D.curiosity
26. A.strange B.necessary C.difficult D.important
27. B.take plete D.realize
28. A.worked B.agreed peted D.argued
29. A.preference B.doubt C.anxiety D.story
30. A.keeper B.photographer C.doctor D.trainer
31. A.save B.report C.understand D.satisfy
32. A.promotion parison C.presentation D.response
33. A.force cate C.beg D.allow
34. A.poorly B.less C.newly D.better
35. A.learn B.swim C.live D.travel
36. A.length B.width C.height D.depth
37. A.patient B.cautious C.curious D.brave
38. plaints ments C.talks D.feelings
39. A.delighted B.calm C.faithful D.confident
40. A.convinced B.suspected C.limited D.recognized
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
China sent up its first Mars probe(探测器)Tianwen1on Thursday. It is expected____41.____(reach) the planet in about seven months. The mission to Mars is much____42.____(hard) compared to that to the moon.
China’s Mars mission,____43.____(design) for the mapping of key zones of the planet’s surface, indicates the country’s space science and technology____44.____(progress) rapidly in the past years. It expresses the determination and perseverance(毅力) of the Chinese nation in looking for____45.____(science) truth.
Tianwen 1has immediately grabbed people’s attention after its launch, and____46.____is reported that there’re countless discussions on topics related to spaceflight and the exploration of outer space. People’s____47.____(curious) about the unknown and thirst for knowledge are____48.____(obvious) aroused whenever the country makes breakthroughs in space exploration. And astronauts, scientists and engineers are becoming role models____49.____more and more young people. The “Mars fever” that has been aroused shows people’s desire to know more about space, which requires more innovations(创新) to discover more about the universe____50.____we live.
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。

I was riding my bike clown to the corner shop in a Saturday morning when I attracted by a cute boy who was walking his dog. Suddenly my neighbour drives past and honked (按喇叭) at me. I was so surprising that I crashed into an old lady walk down the street! Lucky, the old lady wasn't hurt, but I fell off my bike and landed in the hole. My neighbour saw me to fall so she stopped her car and rushed out to help her. The worst part was that the cute boy stopped to watch all happen. What an embarrassing but dangerous day!
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是李华，你的英国朋友David是你校的一名交换生，六一儿童节期间他准备参加当地帮助残疾儿童的志愿者活动，他想给一些残疾儿童送一些礼物，发来邮件询问什么礼物合适。

请你根据下列要点回复，并表示感激。

1.感谢他尽己所能去帮助残疾儿童；
2.说明自己决定和他一起去；
3.建议送些水果或儿童书籍等，并说明理由。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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参考答案
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. B
5. A
6. A
7. B
8. D 9. A 10. B 11. A
12. D 13. B 14. A 15. A
16. F 17. C 18. A 19. D 20. E
21. B 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. A 32.
C 33. B 34.
D 35. C 36. D 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. D
41. to reach
42. harder 43. designed
44. has progressed
45. scientific
46. it 47. curiosity
48. obviously
49. for 50. where
51.(1). in→on
(2). I后加was
(3). drives→drove
(4). surprising→surprised
(5). walk→walking
(6). Lucky→Luckily
(7). the→a
(8). 去掉fall前的to
(9). her→me
(10). but→and
52.略。