宁夏大学附属中学2021届高三第一学期期末暨第五次月考英语试卷

宁大附中2020-2021学年第一学期高三期末暨第五次月考
高三英语试卷
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5 分,满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What doesn't the man like about that dress?
A. Its color.
B. Its style.
C. Its material.
2. When will the train arrive?
A.At 9:20.
B. At 9:25.
C. At 9:35.
3. Who is probably the man?
A. A teacher.
B. A doctor
C. A waiter.
4. How much should the man pay?
A. 25 cents.
B. 50 cents.
C. 75 cents.
5. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a shop.
B. In a bank.
C. In a hotel.
第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分)
听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What is the man going to do tonight?
A. See Jane off.
B. Attend a meeting.
C. Visit a friend.
7. Who is probably Maggie?
A. Jane’s baby.
B. Jane’s cat.
C. Jane’s dog
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What do we know about Kate's father?
A. He will retire soon.
B. He can fly a plane.
C. His life is boring.
9. How did Kate learn about the plane last week?
A. By an e-mail.
B. By a call.
C. By a letter.
10.Who will try the plane first?
A. Kate B .Kate’s father C. Some professional people
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What kind of music does Jane like?
A. Jazz.
B. Rock music.
C. Pop music
12. What does Jane think of Bob's English?
A. Terrible.
B. Excellent.
C. Not very good.
13. What does Jane advise Bob to do?
A. Paint more pictures.
B. Learn more English.
C. Visit some museums.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14.What do we know about Tom?
A. He won't grow corn next year
B. He wants to buy some fields.
C. He has a small farm in Kent.
15. What is the woman going to do next month?
A. Visit Tom.
B. Do much exercise.
C. Learn farming.
16. What did the woman do on the farm last time?
A. She fed chickens.
B. She milked a cow.
C. She rode a horse.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.What does Jack’s father do?
A.A dentist
B. An assistant
C. A reporter
18.When did the first Nando’s open?
A. In 1978.
B. In 1983
C. In 1987
19.Where is the Nando’s in London
A. In the city center.
B. In the theater area.
C. In the restaurant area.
20.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Jack doesn’t like Nando.
B.The tables are small in Nando’s.
C. Nando’s will appear in China soon.
第二部分阅读理解(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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A
Paris is a museum city. There are hundreds of them, big and small. But, most importantly, they are excellent, some of the best on the planet. From the Louvre to the Musée d' Orsay to the Centre Pompidou , you could spend a lifetime wandering the halls of the city's great museums. Here are some of the best museums in Paris.
The Louvre
The world's ultimate museum is also the biggest one and the most visited. The 35,000 art objects on display are all overshadowed by one single painting---Mona Lisa, in the Renaissance era.
Jeu de Paume
Set in the Tuileries Gardens next to the Louvre, Jeu de Paume' s past lives were of a tennis court and then a museum which housed Impressionist art. Today it is Paris's main photography and video museum. It also occasionally shows art-house films.
Musée d’Orsay
Housed in a former railway station on the left bank of the Seine, the museum opened in 1986 and today houses the planet 's largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks. If you like 19th-century natural landscapes with rural lives and tastes, this is the place to take it all in.
Musée du Quai Branly
As Paris’s main home to non-European art, objects, and culture, this Jean Nouvel-designed museum exhibits a collection of 3,500 pieces, many of which were taken from various countries during the vast period of French Colonialism. There are objects from Quebec and Louisiana from the time when the regions were under French control. There are also Indian sculptures, masks from West Africa and other aesthetic delights.
21. Which is the best and most admired exhibit in the Louvre?
A. Mona Lisa.
B. Renaissance.
C. Lady Era.
D. Unknown.
22. Which museum houses Impressionist art nowadays?
A. Jeu de Paume.
B. The Louvre.
C. Musée d'Orsay.
D. Musée du Quai Branly.
23.Musée du Quai Branly is different from the other three in that
A.it houses non-European objects
B.it used to be a tennis court
C.it shows the 19th-century rural museum
D.it is Paris’s largest museum
B
‘‘A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.’’ I'm sure T. J. Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.
By high school, T. J. was the most celebrated troublemaker in his town. Teachers really cringed(发愁) when they saw his name posted on their classroom lists.
I met T. J. for the first time when all the students at school were attending ACE training. At first, he showed no interest in the discussion. But slowly, the interactive games drew him in. T. J. had some brilliant thoughts on those situations, which were welcomed by his group. By the end of the activity, the other students on the team were impressed with his concern and ideas and elected T. J.
co-chairman of the team.
When T. J. showed up at school on Monday morning, a group of teachers were expressing their disagreements to the school principal about his being elected co-chairman. The principal reminded them that the purpose of the program was to uncover any positive feeling and strengthen its practice until true change can take place. The teachers left the meeting, firmly convinced that failure was unavoidable.
Two weeks later, T. J. and his friends led a group of 70 students to collect food. They collected a school record: 2,854 cans of food in just two hours. The local newspaper covered the event with a full-page article the next day. That newspaper story was posted on the main bulletin board at school, where everyone could see it.
T. J.'s picture was up there for doing something great.
T. J. started showing up at school every day and answered questions from teachers for the first time. The event he started now yields 9,000 cans of food in one day, taking care of 70 percent of the need for food for one year.
T. J. reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs mending. But once it has healed, it can fly higher than the rest. T. J. got a job. He became productive. He is flying quite nicely these days.
24. What do we know about T. J. before he attended the training?
A. He was talkative in class.
B. He didn't have a good fame.
C. His ideas were quite impressive.
D. He showed up at school every day.
25.Why did the team members elect T. J. co-chairman?
A. He promised them a bright future.
B. They wanted to offer him a chance.
C. They thought the job was quite easy.
D. He was considered qualified for the job.
26. What do we know about people’s attitude towards T. J.’s being elected?
A. Uncaring
B. Favorable
C. Controversial
D. Doubtful
27. What does the author try to convey with this story?
A. No pain, no gain.
B. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
C. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover
D. Treat others as you want to be treated.
C
An elephant, who accidentally fell into a dry, 25- foot deep well in Northeast India, lived to see another day thanks to the quick thinking rescuers' scientific knowledge. The chain of events unfolded early in the morning on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, when villagers of Amliya toli vllage, in the state of Jharkhand, awoke to the cries of the trapped animal and called the forest department for help.
When the rescuers arrived, they instantly realized that pulling out the huge animal, which seemed to be about 30 years old, was not a practical idea. Fortunately, the forest department officials had been paying attention in their science class and were well aware of the Archimedes' principle. The physics law of buoyancy (浮力), which explains how ships stay afloat, states that when a body is partly or fully immersed in a liquid, it experiences an apparent loss in weight that is equal to the weight of the liquid displaced by the part of the body in the liquid.
In this case, that meant filling the well with enough water to displace the elephant's weight. It took the three motorized pumps over three hours to add the hundreds of gallons needed to enable the heavy animal to float up to the surface. However, it was well worth the effort. A heart-warming video shows the villagers cheering as the animal, using the makeshift ramp(斜坡) dug by the rescue team, pulls itself out of the well and walks away to safety in the nearby forest.
28. Who first found the trapped elephant?
A. Some scientists.
B. Forest rescuers.
C. Nearby villagers.
D. The forest department officials.
29.How did the rescuers feel about pulling out the elephant?
A.Impossible
B. Challenging.
C. Secure.
D. Realistic.
30. What does the underlined word ‘‘immersed’’ in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Broken.
B.Covered.
C. Stuck.
D.Dampened.
31. What can be the best title for the text?
A. An Elephant Trapped in the Water
B. Villagers Used Water to Save Animals
C. Forest Rescuers Invented a New Technique
D. An Elephant Saved by the Archimedes' Principle
D
Are you smarter than your parents and grandparents? According to James Flynn, a professor at a New Zealand university, you are! Over the course of the last century, people's IQ test scores have gotten steadily higher---on average, three points higher each decade. This improvement is known as the ‘‘Flynn effect’’, and scientists want to know what is behind it.
IQ tests are designed to measure general intelligence rather than knowledge. Flynn believes that intelligence partly comes from our parents and partly is the result of our environment, but the improvement in test scores has been happening too quickly to be explained by heredity(遗传). So what occurred in the 20th century to help people achieve higher scores?
Scientists have proposed several explanations for the Flynn effect. Some suggest that the
improved test scores simply reflect an increased exposure to tests in general and the learning of test-taking techniques that help us perform better on any test. Others have pointed to better nutrition. Babies now are born larger, healthier, and with more brain development than in the past. Another suggest explanation is a change in educational styles, with teachers encouraging children to learn by discovering things for themselves rather than just memorizing information, which improves their problem-solving skills.
Flynn has limited the possible explanations after carefully examining test data and discovering that the improvement in scores has taken place in only certain parts of the IQ test. Test-takers are not doing better on the math or vocabulary sections of the test; they are doing better on the sections requiring reasoning and problem solving. For example, one part of the test shows a set of shapes, and test-takers must find the patterns and connections between them.
According to Flynn, this visual intelligence improves as the amount of technology in our lives increases. Every time you play a computer game, you are exercising exactly the kind of thinking and problem solving that helps you do well on one kind of intelligence test. So are you really smarter than your parents? In one very specific way, you may be.
32.According to the passage, the "Flynn effect" is_______
A.an increase in IQ test scores over time
B.a method used to measure intelligence
C. the influence of technology on intelligence
D. a theory that connects intelligence to experience ,
33. What is the function of the third paragraph?
A.To list the findings of Professor Flynn's research.
B.To provide possible explanations that disprove Flynn's ideas.
C.To outline different theories explaining the increase in IQ scores.
D.To describe how research was carried out in the measuring of intelligence.
34. The writer believes that computer games__________.
A. have discouraged people from taking exercise
B. have helped improve people’s visual intelligence
C. have made young people become less intelligent
D. have caused young people to have poorer vocabularies
35. Which statement would Professor Flynn agree with?
A. Development of technology contributes to intelligence improvement on math.
B. Not all aspects of intelligence have increased.
C. The IQ test pattern should be changed.
D. The language ability of people has improved.
第二节（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

Including children in the farming lifestyle has many benefits. Sure, it is nice to have the additional help with chores(家庭杂物), but it also fosters so much growth, sending our kids down a good path towards who they will someday become. It is possible that our children will grow up to lead lives that do not include farming. 36
Through caring for farm animals, kids learn that in life others often come before self.
37 It doesn't matter if we don't feel like it or if we are sick and tired. What matters is that we take care of the animals that take care of us and do so in a timely manner.
38 If the work on a farm does not get done, the cooperation fails. It takes discipline and commitment to get down to business every day, and seeing this in action will give kids a good work attitude. They will know and understand that nothing good comes easy and that they have to work to survive. 39 Functioning as part of a productive team will surely be playing an important role sooner or later in all walks of life.
Additionally, farming teaches patience. 40 Cattle will be difficult to control. Horses will run away when you try to catch them. Goats will kick over that bucket of hard-earned milk. A rooster will decide you got too close to his hens and give you a run for your money. In spite of all that, kids will learn to be patient and take things easy.
There may not be any instant reward, but in the long-term kids will see the benefit of all their efforts during those hard days.
A.At the same time they learn to work with others.
B.Farm life also teaches kids the value of hard work.
C.Children learn to be grateful for animals for eating purpose.
D. Teamwork is no longer an important skill to develop and use.
E. There are going to be a lot of days when things do not go your way.
F. However, what they learn on a farm can also be useful in their future lives.
G. Animals need to be fed, watered, and cared for before we get to sit down and relax.
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节完形填空（共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Being jobless for the last three months, I am upset nowadays. My son has lost his 41from a good school and he might have to go to a less qualified school. I have moved from a large apartment to a small one in order to 42 my living expenses. My wife has built extra stress. On top of that, my father in-law 43 a week ago, which has added fuel to fire, 44 our family into a more terrible state.
In these circumstances I have two mental 45 : either to feel upset and keep losing my peace of mind, or 46 my negative thoughts with super mental powers about self-confidence and consistency, and 47 applying for new jobs with positive attitude.
I choose the second option because I believe that the pain I am 48 today will build up my
49 . My strengths will then increases my confidence and make me a 50 man one day. I understand that good and bad stages are part of 51 . While good times make me happy, bad times 52 the ‘‘inner’’ me.
Two months later, 53 , I have finally landed on a job which is very exciting and offers a nice salary. Time has healed my wife's mental stress 54 the death of her father. My son has already been accepted by another good school because the admissions for new academic year were still 55 !
As I am back on the track of normal life, I can 56 say that the most important things that helped me 57 the crisis(危机) were my consistent character of patience, and 58 attitude towards life. So, while I wish you all the best life can 59 you, I would highly recommend taking the same attitude towards life 60 you are trapped in any of such situations.
41. A. admission B. benefit C. diploma D. permission
42. A. share B. reduce C. break D. raise
43. A. showed up B. set off C. fell down D. passed away
44. A. putting B. finding C. forming D. lifting
45. A. problems B. concerns C. choices D. activities
46. A. link B. replace C. mix D. exchange
47. A. regret B. stop C. keep D. risk
48. A. practicing B. suffering C. producing D. relieving
49. A. intelligence B. body C. character D. reputation
50. A. careful B. hard-working C. easy-going D. successful
51. A. life B. wealth C. time D. health
52. A. hide B. destroy C. strengthen D. kill
53. A. desperately B. unwillingly C. hopefully D. fortunately
54. A. regardless of B. due to C. instead of D. apart from
55. A. occupied B. empty C. open D. closed
56.A. disappointedly B. surprisedly C. deliberately D. confidently
57. A. fight B. meet C. change D. delay
58. A. general B. positive C. friendly D. honest
59. A. offer B. expect C. manage D. send
60. A. as if B. in that C. now that D. in case
第二节语法填空（共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分）
I've noticed many people having a cold, and it's not even officially fall yet. Why does the cold occur more frequently during the fall and winter 61. (month)? It's actually not the cold weather 62. (it) that causes the cold. But rather, it is most likely to be caused by people spending 63. ( much) time indoors close to each other, making the spread of germs(微生物) more readily. This is another reason 64. children in day care or school are more likely to pick up the cold.
When I 65. (work) in a doctor's clinic a few years back, it was one of the leading reasons to visit the doctor in fall and winter. 1 billion people suffer from the cold each year. As a result, school 66. (absent) is frequently reported, with around 22 million days annually.
How can you avoid getting a cold? Among the commonly 67. (recognize) tips, washing your hands is 68. most important one. The cold is spread either by directly touching infected(受感染的) secretions(分泌物), or by taking 69. the airborne particles(悬浮粒子). Also, cold and flu viruses get into the body via the eyes, noses, or mouth. So, try to avoid 70. (touch) your face, especially without first washing your hands.
第四部分写作(共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分）
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；
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

When I was in kindergarten, my mom owned a bookstore, there she sold all kinds of magazines and books. That I loved most was to stay in the store and read everything. It failed to help develop
my ability judge a good book, but helped improve her reading skills. Later on, as my interest with literature developed, I spend lots of time read Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. Then my mom buy literature books I wouldn’t find in the store. Well books opened a window to different worlds I otherwise would had never entered. In an addition, books became advisers when I lived through a difficult period.
第二节：书面表达(满分25分）
假定你是李华，你校国际部打算举办“教外国学生下中国象棋（Chinese Chess）的活动”，现在正在招募志愿者。

你有意向成为志愿者，请你用英语写一封申请信，内容包括：
1.写信目的；
2.你的优势；
3.期待同意申请。

注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Sir/ Madam,
_________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua。