2021年甘肃省武威第一中学高三英语上学期期中考试试题及答案解析

2021年甘肃省武威第一中学高三英语上学期期中考试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
Located besideLake Geneva, the Olympic Museum houses more than 10,000 artificial objects and hours of interactive contents highlighting some of the best moments during the Olympics. Here are some of the museum’s most moving moments.
The Olympic Park
The journey through the Olympic Museum begins in the Olympic Park, an 8,000-square-meter outdoor area in front of the museum overlooking Lake Geneva and theAlps. The park contains artwork and sculptures that show respect to the world of sport.
The first Olympic Symbol
The “Olympic Rings” flag was designed by Coubertin in 1913. The rings represent the five continents that participate in the Olympics: Africa, Asia,America,AustraliaandEurope. The six color1 s include at least one color1 that is represented on the flag of every country.
The Stadiums
The stadiums that host the Olympic Games are as much of a celebration of design as the games are a celebration of sportsmanship. Guests can explore plans and models of Olympic stadiums’ past and present, including one of the games’ most attractive stadiums, the Bird’s Nest from Beijing 2008 Olympics.
The Olympic Medals
Have you ever wondered what an Olympic medal looks like? The Olympic Museum has a room that houses every bronze, silver, and gold medal from every Olympic Games dating back to the first modern Olympics of 1896. Each medal design is a unique representation of the year and location in which the games were held.
1.Which moment do you see first when exploring the Olympic Museum?
A.The Olympic Park.
B.The first Olympic Symbol.
C.The Stadiums.
D.The Olympic Medals.
2.What can you do in the section of The Stadiums?
A.Celebrate the glory of a sportsman.
B.Meet the designers of the stadiums.
C.Explore the future stadiums.
D.Enjoy the model of the Bird’s Nest.
3.In which column of a newspaper may this text appear?
A.Entertainment.
B.Science.
C.Travel.
D.Business.
B
About a billion birds die from flying into buildings each year inNorth America. Suspicions havebeen that birds may regard the open areas behind glass as safe passageways. Or they may mistake the reflected trees for the real thing.
Researchers would like to reduce collisions, which requires a solid understanding about what makes a bird more or less likely to die by crashing into a building in the first place.
“There was ly little known at a broad scale. Previous studies were at one small study site.'' Jared Elmore, a graduate student in natural resource ecology and management atOklahomaStateUniversity. So he and his colleagues used a previously created data set of building collisions for birds at 40 sites throughoutMexico,Canadaand theU.S.
The first finding was obvious: bigger buildings with more glass kill more birds. But the details were more remarkable. "We found that life history predicted collisions. Migrants(候鸟), insect-eaters and woodland-inhabiting species collided more than their counterparts(同类).”
Most migratory species travel at night, when lights near buildings can distract or disorient(使迷失方向)them. And Elmore thinks that insect-eating birds might be attracted to buildings because their insect prey(猎物)is attracted to the lights. He suspects that woodland species get tooled by the reflections of trees and bushes in the windows. The results are in the journal Conservation Biology.
By understanding which birds are more likely to collide with buildings, researchers can perhaps determine the best way to adapt buildings, or their lighting, to help prevent such accidents. And by knowing risks, along with migration timing and behavior, building managers can better predict when birds are at their greatest danger - and improve lighting strategics accordingly.
Elmore's next project will use radar to help predict bird migrations. " I think that would maybe go a long way in terms of providing information to people, to the public, to building managers, on when they can get the most benefit in terms of lights-out policies."
4. What is the possible reason for birds' crashing into buildings?
A. They didn't see the buildings.
B. They took reflections for reality.
C. They assumed the windows to be open.
D. They considered buildings as safe routes.
5. What is Jared Elmore's study different from the previous ones?
A. It created a new data set.
B. It went beyond national borders.
C. It covered a wider range of sites.
D. I’ll studied some specific bird species.
6. What was the most noticeable finding of Jared Elmore's study?
A. Migratory species travel at night.
B. Birds tend to be misled by glasses.
C. Bigger buildings cause more collisions.
D. Birds living habits give rise to collisions.
7. Which of the following can help reduce bird collision?
A. Adjust the lightening system.
B. Attach radars to each building.
C. Adopt strict lights-out policies.
D. Ban using glasses on buildings.
C
As one of the world’smost popular cultural mediums, cinema is at the leading position at the Taihu World Cultural Forum(论坛), an annual event that aims to improve cultural exchanges. So far this year, Chinese box office has already topped 58 billion yuan, the China Film Administration said. This indicates that China, the world’s second-largest movie market, is closing the gap with the United States, the world’s top cinema market.
Cao Yin, director of the program center at China Movie Channel, said that China has 67,000 cinema screens. the most of any country, and the number is expected to increase to 80,000 by the end of next year. Saying that China has signed coproduction agreements with 22 countries (including the United States, Canada, Japan. India etc.) ,Cao added it has deepened cinematic exchanges between Chinese filmmakers and their foreign counterparts (同行).
With the country’s huge native market, which produced more than 1,000 films in 2019, Hong Kong director Stanley Tong said he believes foreign filmmakers will increasingly seek cooperation with China. “International coproduction will become an important platform to send Chinese stories oversea and give us a broader vision of
creation,” Tong said.
Recently, over 80 percent of the world’s top 100 highest box-office titles have been action films. Tong said the films, in which plots are basically secondary to shining stunts (特技), is one of the easiest ways to appeal to foreign audiences. But it has been a decades-long struggle for Chinese filmmakers to sell their stories overseas. When asked what kinds of Chinese films would have the most global appeal. Yan Zhaozhu, chairman of the Taihu World Cultural Forum, said stories that address universal issues, such as environmental protection and climate change, are perhaps the best options.
8. What is the purpose of the Taihu World Cultural Forum?
A. To strengthen cultural exchanges.
B. To build more cinemas in China.
C. To invite more tourists to Taihu.
D. To attract more international investment.
9. What can we infer about Cao Yin’s opinion in Paragraph 2?
A. Chinese box office has already overtaken the United States so far
B. The screens of Chinese cinemas will be world-leading in the future
C. China has signed the most coproduction agreements with other countries
D. There will be more and more cooperations between Chinese filmmakers and other countries.
10. How do Chinese filmmakers feel about selling their movies to the world right now?
A. Easy.
B. Disappointed.
C. Challenged.
D. Confused.
11. What is the best title for the text?
A. Box Office: Unclear Future
B. China: Top Second Movie Market
C. Cinema: The Leading Cultural Position
D. Chinese Filmmakers: Severe Competition Situation
D
Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that others can have a better life.
Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she went to college and studied to be a teacher. After college, she became a teacher. Dolores noticed that many of her
students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she could help them.
Dolores liked teaching but she decided to quit her job so that she could spend more time helping her students and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for their parents, farm workers. Thus they could buy their children what they needed.
Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of fruits and vegetables, like grapes and tomatoes. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote. Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy. Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got fair pay for their work. She knew that nothing would change unless new laws were made to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were passed that gave farm workers fair pay.
Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working people. She has shown how much one person can change things.
12. What did Dolores find about her students?
A. They worked hard to make a living.
B. They lived far away from schools.
C. They had little time to play.
D. They were hungry sometimes.
13. Why did Dolores stop teaching?
A. She wished to be a lawyer.
B. She moved to another place.
C. She wanted to help her students more.
D. She got little money by teaching.
14. Thanks to Dolores’ great effort, the farm workers ________.
A. got better jobs
B. got fair pay
C. had more time off
D. had a settled way of life
15. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. One person can make big changes.
B. One can change their jobs often.
C. One person can work hard for others.
D. One can make life better by themselves.
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It is a very effective strategy for success in women’s basketball. Nevertheless (然而), most people are
surprised to learn that the leading women’s basketball college teams in the United States use male practice players.Men playing on the same court as women? Don’t they control the game?____16____The men are there to make the practice sessions more demanding for the team than female practice players would.
____17____Most of them are volunteers who are good players, but who are not on the men’s basketball teams. The NCAA(National Collegiate Athletic Association ), the athletic federation(联合会), approves of men practice players but they have to qualify(取得资格) for the team just as women players do.___18___Mostly though, they come to help the teams adapt and improve.
Besides the honor of practicing with top-notch (拔尖的)women players, are there lots of other advantages of being on the practice team?___19___For example, men never get to play in actual games and they don't get to travel with the team to away games. They can't receive sports scholarships, although as registered college players, they have to keep up their academic grades. However, they get lots of indoor exercise.____20____
A. Unfortunately, there aren’t many.
B. How do men get to be practice players?
C. The players who qualify come for exercise and to let off steam(发泄).
D. In the end, they know their participation contributes to the team’s success.
E. No, they don't control the game even though they are typically larger and stronger.
F. Many coaches believe that use of male practice players lowers the risk of injuryin practice.
G. If male practice players are used selectively, this practice may be an important teaching tool.
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Suppose you are offered a job or an opportunity to study in another country. You are going to make___21___foryour big adventure. Preparations for culture shock are___22___things you should___23___. Your views may fight with different___24___, values, and traditions. You may have difficulty in getting used to a new culture, which is not___25___to you. This is culture shock.
There are four stages（阶段）to culture shock which you will___26___.
In the first stage, you see the new culture in a___27___light. The new country seems___28___. The local habits are interesting and the people you come across are welcoming and___29___. Unfortunately this stage will finally come to a(n)____30____.
Usually around three months after arriving at the new____31____, differences between your own culture and the new culture begin to____32____. These differences often create anxiety. Excitement____33____feelings
of stress and anger due to some unfavorable events. Loneliness begins to____34____a sense of disconnection.
As much as one year____35____, you become used to the new culture. You begin to see that even though the____36____of the culture are different from your own, it has something that you can learn to____37____.
Then, you are able to participate____38____in the host culture. This stage can be considered as bicultural where you keep many differences.
Obviously, culture shock is something you cannot____39____when living in a foreign country. However, when you have completely got used to a new culture you can more fully____40____it.
21. A.guesses B.preparations C.rules D.contributions
22. A.important B.silly C.perfect D.impressive
23. A.determine B.admit C.consider D.contrast
24. A.altitudes B.motivations C.approaches D.beliefs
25. A.important B.attractive C.familiar D.special
26. A.survive B.experience C.design D.arrange
27. A.favorable B.natural C.reliable D.unique
28. A.wonderful B.painful C.thankful eful
29. A.aggressive B.cautious C.friendly D.modest
30. A.conclusion B.announcement C.start D.end
31. A.position B.place C.decoration anization
32. A.replace B.disappear C.exist D.arise
33. A.lives up to B.gives way to C.goes back to D.holds on to
34. A.invent B.reduce C.keep D.emphasize
35. A.old B.apart C.ago ter
36. A.standards B.similarities C.expectations D.distances
37. A.defend B.reject bine D.appreciate
38. fortably B.responsibly C.awfully D.terribly
39. A.balance B.avoid C.involve D.forecast
40. A.promote B.shape C.enjoy D.celebrate
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 dreamed of being famous_____41._____a popular musician? Many musicians, at first, may
form a band_____42._____(practice) their music. And then they may get the chance to give_____43._____(perform) in pubs or clubs. Later they may_____44._____(gradual) become popular. However, the Monkees started in a different way. Only one of_____45._____(they) was good enough and the other three members pretended to sing. To be honest, it couldn’t be called a real band at the_____46._____(begin). Anyhow, their shows were_____47._____(humor) and they became popular. After a year or so, they worked even_____48._____(hard) and produced their own records and started touring. The Monkees broke up in about 1970_____49._____they reunited in the mid-1980s and______50.______(produce) a new record in 1996 to celebrate their former happy time.
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.每处错误及修改均仅限一词。

只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

It started out as an ordinary day. I met the homeless person and decide to buy him some food. It felt like anything much to me. So his smile of thanks said it all! I then took two box of chocolates to the man whom worked at the bike shop as he had lent me his bike one day. He wasn’t expecting it and was happy receive it. I realized that I was actual being kind to myself, to my own soul, because the much more I gave, the better I felt. It’s true…the more you give, the more you get. Helping others are helping ourselves.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是李华，本周末要去参加课外英语角。

要介绍三个刚学的、印象深刻的英文单词。

请写一个发言稿。

内容包括：
1.三个单词的含义；
2.印象深刻的原因；
3.学习英语的信心.
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.
Hi everyone，
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参考答案
1. A
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. A 9. D 10. C 11. B
12. D 13. C 14. B 15. A
16. E 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. D
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. A 28. A 29. C 30. D 31. B 32.
D 33. B 34. C 35. D 36. A 37. D 38. A 39. B 40. C
41. as 42. to practice
43. performances
44. gradually
45 them 45. beginning
46. humorous
47. harder 48. but
49. produced
51.(1).the→a
(2).decide→decided
(3).anything→nothing
(4).So→But
(5).box→boxes
(6).whom→who/that
(7).and→but
(8).在receive前加to
(9).actual→actually
(10).are→is
52.略。