2020-2021学年哈尔滨市第一二五中学校高三英语期末考试试卷及答案解析

2020-2021学年哈尔滨市第一二五中学校高三英语期末考试试卷及答
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
Last summer, Katie Steller pulled off the freeway on her way to work inMinneapolis. She stopped at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign asking for help. She rolled down her window and shouted. “Hey. I’m driving around giving free haircuts. Do you want one right now?” The man laughed, then paused. “Actually,” he said, “I was really hoping to get a haircut.” Steller pulled out a red chair from her car and helped the man cut his hair immediately. After the work was done, the man looked in a mirror. “I look good!” he said.
Up to now, Steller has given 30 or so such haircuts around the city to people with little influence, and she is strongly aware of the power of her cleanup job.
As a teen, she suffered from a severe disease, causing her hair to get thinned, so her mother arranged for Steller’s first professional haircut. “To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it helped me feel cared about and less alone,” she says. After that, Steller knew she wanted to have her own barbershop so she could help people feel the way she’d felt that day. Not long after finishing cosmetology (美容术) school in 2009, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project, reaching out to people on the streets. Her aim was that by doing some kind acts, others would be inspired to spread their own.
“Part of what broke my heart was just how lonely peoplelooked,” she said. “I thought maybe I’d go around and ask if people want free haircuts. I can’t fix their problems, but maybe I can help them feel less alone for a moment.”
It all began with a belief in simple acts of kindness, such as a free haircut. “The way you show up in the world matters,” said Steller. “You have no idea what people are going to do with the kindness that you give them.”
1. How does the writer begin the passage?
A. By making a comparison.
B. By giving a reason.
C. By raising a question.
D. By describing a scene.
2. What made Stellar start the Red Chair Project?
A. Her mother’s love for her.
B. Her interest in cosmetology.
C. Her care for those in need.
D. Her wish to fight severe diseases.
3. What did Stellar expect from the project?
A. To spread kindness.
B. To solve social problems.
C. To deal with relationships.
D. To make people look smarter.
B
Each year, the women of Olney and Liberal compete in an unusual footrace. Dressed in aprons (围裙) and headscarves, they wait at both towns’starting lines. Each woman holds a frying pan with one pancake inside. At the signal, the women flip (轻抛) pancakes and they’re off!
This “pancake racing” tradition is said to have started on Shrove Tuesday, 1445, in Olney. Shrove Tuesday is the day beforethe Christian season of Lent (大斋戒) begins. During Lent, many people decide to give up sugary or fatty foods.
Legend says that in 1445, an Olney woman was making pancakes to use up some of her sugar and cooking fats before Lent. She lost track of time and suddenly heard the church bells ring, signaling the beginning of the Shrove Tuesday service. Realizing that she was going to be late for church, she raced out the door still wearing her apron and headscarf and holding her frying pan with a pancake in it. In the following years, the woman’s neighbors imitated her dash to church, and pancake racing was born.
The rules are simple. Racers must wear the traditional headscarf and apron. They must flip their pancakes twice - once before starting and once after crossing the finish line. After the race, there are Shrove Tuesday church services. Then Liberal and Olney connect through a video call to compare race times and declare a winner.
In both towns, the races have grown into larger festivals. Olney’s festival is an all-day event starting with a big pancake breakfast. Liberal’s festival lasts four days and includes a parade, a talent show, and contests that feature eating and flipping pancakes. Although the women’s race is still the main event, both towns now hold additional races for boys and girls of all ages.
4. How did pancake racing start?
A. A woman in Olney created it.
B. Women made pancakes before Lent.
C. A woman dashed to church with a pancake.
D. People followed the suit of an interesting incident.
5. What should racers obey during the race?
A. They can wear fashionable headscarves and aprons.
B. They must flip their pancakes once in the race.
C. They must flip their pancakes at the beginning of the race.
D. They can flip their pancakes in the middle of the race.
6. What can we learn about the race from the last paragraph?
A. People can show their talent in Olney festival.
B. People can enjoy a one-day holiday in Liberal.
C. The race is not only intended for women now.
D. People can have a big pancake breakfast in both towns.
7. What is the text mainly about?
A. The origin of pancake racing.
B. The history of pancake racing.
C. The development of pancake racing.
D. The introduction to pancake racing.
C
The climate change is already eating into the output of the world's agricultural systems, with productivity much lower than it would have been if humans hadn't rapidly heated the planet, new research has found.
Advances in technology, fertilizer (化肥)use and global trade have allowed food production to keep pace with an increasing global population since the 1960s. But rising temperatures in this time have acted as a handbrake (手刹) to farming productivity of crops, according to the new research, published in Nature Climate Change. Productivity has actuallyslumpedby 21% since 1961, compared to if the world hadn't been affected by global heating.
With the global population set to rise to more than 9 billion by 205, the UN'S Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that food production will have to increase by about 70%,with annual crop production increasing by almost 1 billion tons and meat production by more than200mtons a year by this point. Meanwhile, global temperatures are rising at a rate that scientists warn is extremely dangerous for human civilization.
“The impact already is larger than I thought it would be,” said Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, an economist atCornellUniversitywho led the research. “It was a big surprise to me. The worry I have is that research and development in agriculture takes decades to translate into higher productivity. The projected temperature increase is so fast that I don't know if we are going to keep pace with that.”
Weston Anderson, a researcher of food security (安全) and climate at Columbia University who didn't take part in the study, said the new research provides fresh insight into the importance of the impact upon agriculture.
“The regions that this paper highlights as experiencing the largest reductions in agricultural productivity-CentralAmericaand theSahel- contain some of the least food secure countries in the world, which is a real concern,” he said.
8. What does the underlined word “slumped” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Fallen.
B. Gathered.
C. Approached.
D. Benefited.
9. What is Ariel Ortiz-Bobea worried about?
A. Fertilizer is used in food production.
B. Population will rise to over 9 billion.
C. Global temperatures are rising too fast.
D. Agricultural research needs many years.
10. What can we learn about Weston Anderson?
A. He puts forward a different solution.
B. He proposes carrying on with the research.
C. He pays more attention to food insecure regions.
D. He supports improving agricultural productivity.
11. What is the best title for the text?
A. The Impact of Growth in Farm Productivity
B. Productivity in Agriculture is Growing
C. Causes and Effects of Global Heating
D. Rapid Global Heating is Hurting Farm Productivity
D
I was so worried about handing my little boy over during his first week of school, but you made it easier. You smiled at him like a mother would at her own child.You showed warmth and your hugs were always on offer.After a day in class with you, Charlie would come home singing. Whenever I hear Do Your Ears Hang Low or see him stretching to the sky when singing about the days of the week, I will think of you.I didn't tell you at the time, but I loved your morning song so much that Iimplementedit in my own class (I'm a teacher, too).
When you saw I was troubled, you hugged me with your smile and I knew everything would be OK. You made parents feel as cared for as our children.In the short time I knew you; you taught me about the type of teacher I desire to be. You never seemed disturbed by the mountain of paperwork or impossible work-life balance that
comes with the role. Instead, you appeared to embrace every minute.
I can't understand why you've been taken from us. Telling Charlie was one of the hardest things I've had to do.I'm not sure he fully understands, but he told me he loved you and has been asking whether your"robot powers"will work in heaven.
A friend once told me white feathers are angels telling us that loved ones in heaven are well. On the first day collecting the children without you，a white feather floated through the sleet (雨夹雪). Watching the younger ones bounce and gigle as they tried to catch it was beautiful.
I wish I had told you all of this when you were with us.I hope that you knew how you brought happiness to everyone you met and how loved you were. Goodbye, Dear Friend.
12. What does the underlined word "implemented" in Paragraph l probably mean?
A. Looked back on.
B. Looked forward to.
C. Thought highly of.
D. Made use of.
13. What can we learn from the passage about parents?
A. They need to sing songs before children.
B. They need to feel the affection as well.
C. They find it hard to handle their kids.
D. They find it necessary to hug the teachers.
14. The writer mentioned "white feather" in Paragraph 4 mainly to ______.
rm us of the loved one's death
B. remind us it's time for a snowball fight
C. tell us the teacher stays in our mind after death
D. warn us of the falling snow when collecting children
15. What's the writer's main purpose in writing this article?
A. To make a remark on Charlie's teacher.
B.To say goodbye to her fellow teacher.
C. To take pity on her fellow teacher.
D. To recall and show respect for Charlie's teacher.
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
What to do once you achieve your goal?
Here are some basic lessons thatcan help you once you reach your goal,___16___These are principles that millionaire Paul Scolardi has put into practice to good effect.
Stay modest. You can celebrate your achievements. But don' t act arrogantly（傲慢低）___17___While you’ve made great progress, it's important that you shouldn't look down on those who are in the same situations as you.
___18___The idea is that once you achieve a goal,you want to continue by setting a larger goal than that. For example,if you've gained a high position at your job. an even bigger goal would be to build you own business in that particular industry.
Work harder and more wisely. Naturally, if you’re working towards a larger goal. you'll need to have more motivation and more confidence, and work even harder, But hard work isn’t all that's needed.___19___What helped you achieve this goal in the first place? What approach did you take to make all of this happen to you? So, make sure you look back and see what helped you get there.
Ignore critics. Whenever you achieve something, there will always be people who will try to drag you down. You're going to get haters or people who don't believe you.___20___Take Scolardi for example. Unless he shares his particular story of how he became a millionaire, we don’t really know what he went through to get there.
A. Set bigger goals.
B. You can thus move forward in life.
C. Positive thinking is all needed for achievement.
D. All we know is that he wasn’t a millionaire and now he is.
E. It also pays to work more wisely and reflect on your achievements.
F. It can push people away, whether they’re friends, family, or colleagues.
G. Leave them alone as your success has nothing to do with how they are feeling.
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Writing my daughter a litter every year on her birthday has become part of my life I fill it with unforgettable things that happened to her on____21____days or happy days. I add to the letter photos and cards that would have____22____as the year passes.
I have a small____23____in which 1 keep the things that I want to send my daughter. Every week, I____24____short notes of what I can think of from the week's events. When her birthday approaches, I____25____that box and find it full of beautiful cards and____26____memories.
____27____the letter is written and all the treasures are put into the envelope, I seal (密封) it. It then
becomes the____28____letter. On the envelope I always write: A litter to Ann from Daddy一to be opened when you're twenty-one years old. It is a gift of____29____from Dad to her daughter. It is a lasting.____30____of my daughter's real life.
Nowadays, I have taken it my duty to____31____birthday litters to her. As Ann grows____32____, I can see that it is a growing and____33____part of her life, too. One day, we were talking about the____34____. I told Ann that on her 21st birthday, she will be____35____from university.“And I'll be____36____busy reading these litters." She said.“Yes, and you will be offered a good job soon; on your 31st birthday, you will be taking your own kids to school; on your 61st birthday, you will be____37____with your grandchildren and having fun with them.' One of my greatest____38____is to be alive and present to____39____that wonderful time in the future when those letters are____40____and the accumulated (积累) love walks into her life
21. A. common B. different C. unpleasant D. meaningful
22. A. reminded B. recognized C. left D. disappeared
23. A. package B. bottle C. box D. car
24. A. take B. bring. C. give D. finish
25. A. give out B. take out C. turn out D. work out
26. A. painful B. fragrant C. terrible D. bitter
27. A. Because B. Although C. Before D. After
28. A. new year. B. invitation C. birthday D. greeting
29. A. love B. luck C. hope D. friendship
30. A. courage B. challenge C. record D. discussion
31. A. write B. report C. print D. post
32. A. stronger B. richer C. smarter D. older
33. A. special B. ordinary C. negative D. unexpected
34. A. puzzle B. pressure C. future D. past
35. A. escaping B. graduating C. recovering D. traveling
36. A. well B. quite C. such D. little
37. A. playing B. fighting C. talking D. debating
38. A. beliefs B. wills C. comments D. achievements
39. A. calculate B. find C. waste D. witness
40. A. cleared B. locked C. selected D. opened
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
A student is learning___41.___（speak）British English. He wonders：Can I communicate___42.___Americans ? Can they understand me ? Learners of English often ask：What are the differences between British and American English?___43.___important are these differences ?
Certainly! There are some differences between British and American English. There are a few differences in grammar. For example,___44.___（speaker）of British English say “ in hospital ” and “ Have you a pen ?” while Americans say “ in the hospital !”___45.___“ Do you have a pen ?”___46.___（pronounce）is sometimes different. Americans___47.___（usual）sound theirs in words like “ bird ” and “ hurt ” .Speakers of British English do not sound theirs in these words. There are differences between British and American English in___48.___（spell）and vocabulary. For example,“ colour ” and “ honour ” are British ,“ color1 ” and “ honor ” are American.
These differences are not___49.___（importance）, however. For the most part, British and American English are____50.____same language.
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：在错词下划一横线，并在该词的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。

This weekend, I watched a film namingDangal, which tells the story of a father and his two daughters. After that the father finds the girls have a gift for wrestling, he trains them hardly. People can't understand him, because they think wrestling is for men only. So the father ignores their strange look. Finally, when the elder sister wins an international match and realize her father's dream, exciting tears run down her cheeks. Her achievement encourages more India girls to learn wrestling. The film was great and I deeply moved by the love the father shows his daughters. I think it is worth seeing the second time.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Peter发邮件告诉你他的家乡刚刚发生一场地震。

这场地震不仅造成了很大的损失，也给Peter留下了心理阴影。

请根据以下要点，写一封信安慰他。

内容包括：
1.写信的目的；
2.提出具体的建议；
3.你的愿望。

注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. A 9. C 10. C 11. D
12. D 13. B 14. C 15. D
16. B 17. F 18. A 19. E 20. G
21. C 22. D 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. C 31. A 32.
D 33. A 34. C 35. B 36. B 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. D
41. to speak
42. with 43. How
44. speakers
45. and 46. Pronunciation
47. usually
48. spelling
49. important
50. the
51.(1). naming → named
(2). 去掉that
(3). hardly → hard
(4). So → But / Yet
(5). look → looks
(6). realize → realizes
(7). exciting → excited
(8). India → Indian
(9). I后加was
(10). the → a
52.略。