2020-2021学年都匀市第一中学高三英语下学期期中考试试卷及参考答案

2020-2021学年都匀市第一中学高三英语下学期期中考试试卷及参考
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
These wonderful NYC attractions offer pay — what — you — wish days, free entry hours/days and other great stuff for local families.
Staten IslandZoo
There are plenty of creatures who call NYC home—the Staten Island Zoo is one of them. Once you’ve finished learning about the wildlife in the animal nursery, reptile (爬行动物) side rooms, horse barn and other areas of the attraction, make sure to mark your schedule for fun seasonal happenings, such as the Easter Egg Games and the scary, crazy Halloween Shows.
Entry on Wednesdays is by suggested donation; children aged two and under free.
Children’s Museum of the Arts
The Children’s Museum of the Arts welcomes 135,000 little visitors each year through its doors. Once inside, the whole family can enjoy interactive programs, exhibitions (展览) and events that celebrate the changed power of the arts on youngsters and grown-ups alike.
Pay-as-you-wish Thursdays, 3-6 p. m.
Wave Hill
Everyone needs a few hours of calm now and then-kids included-and you’d be hard- pressed to find a more peaceful spot within city limits than Wave Hill the broad grounds located above the river, covering 28 acres of public gardens, plus woodlands and grasses to wander. Jump in on nature walks, story times and family art projects often led by local artists and free with general admission.
Pay — as — you — wish Tuesdays and Saturdays,9 a. m — noon.
New York Hall of Science
Naturally, kids love it when the New York Hall of Science pleases them with neat exhibits and fun hands-on activities. The museum’s playground is themost attractivetochildren A tube slide (管道滑梯) will give little ones the knowledge on science topics, while the climbing area mirrors a giant spider web. There are also wind pipes, metal drums, sand- boxes and much more. What better way to make the mostout of science?
Free entry Sep-Jun on Fridays, 2 — 5 p. m，and Sundays, 10 —11 a. m.
1. What can children do in Staten Island Zoo?
A. Feed injured animals.
B. Join in seasonal activities.
C. Build a home for creatures.
D. Deal with the donations to the zoo.
2. What do Children’s Museum of the Arts and Wave Hill have in common?
A. They both have peaceful spots.
B. They both are located by a river.
C. They both have public gardens.
D. They both have activities about arts.
3. Which place can be free of charge for all?
A. Wave Hill.
B.Staten IslandZoo.
C. New York Hall of Science.
D. Children’s Museum of the Arts.
B
A Singaporean company will feed airport food waste to mealworms before turning them into fish feed, aiming to cut the country's use of imported feed and offer a continuous alternative.
Blue Aqua Internationalwill partner with Dnata, an air and travel services provider, to change organic waste at Singapore's Changi Airport into insect protein for aquacultural use, according to a statement Tuesday.
The project looks to replace traditional fish and soybean meal as the main sources of protein for aquafeed. The insects will eat the food waste and change it into part of the body containing about 60 per cent protein. The dried baby worms will then be made into feed.
These mealworms can be a continuous solution to several problems. Using a small land and giving out less carbon, they turn food waste into feed and offer an alternative source of protein. Ynsect SAS, a small French business that keeps mealworms to feed fish and pets, attracted money from investors includingIron Manmovie actor Robert Downey Jr. in a round of fund-raising last year.
The deal will give Singapore's farmers access to domestically produced animal feed, which is traditionally bought from abroad. The Southeast Asian nation imports more than 90 percent of its food and has set a goal to
produce a third of its food locally by 2030. It also aims to achieve a general recycling rate of 70 per cent by then. Presently, less than 20 per cent of Singapore's food waste is recycled.
As part of the partnership, Dubai-based Dnata will add Blue Aqua to its list of suppliers to buy locally farmed seafood for its catering service.
4. What is the function of mealworms?
A. To cut the use of imported fish feed.
B. To eat food waste and make fish feed.
C. To domestically produce animal feed.
D. To replace traditional fish and soybean meal.
5. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?
A. The producers of the feed.
B. The purpose of the project
C. The advantages of the project.
D. The composition of the feed.
6. What can we infer about Singapore from Paragraph 5?
A. It is a rich country.
B. It is short of self-produced food.
C. Its recycling rate is very high now.
D. Its farmers don't support the deal.
7. What is the text mainly about?
A. A new way to produce fish feed.
B.An introduction to a company.
C. A plan to reduce food waste.
D. A deal to protect farmers.
C
Not long after the first fitness magazine was published, a list probably followed soon after, ranking the best fitness equipment. This tradition has continued, with the implied message: usethisand exercise willbe yours.
And that's part of the problem, says Dr. Lieberman, a professor of Harvard University. There isn't one “best” anything to achieve fitness. Besides, people understand exercise is good for them. Knowledge about exercise still doesn't motivate.
Before you can answer why, it helps to look at history. Before the Industrial Revolution, people fetched water and walked up stairs because they had to. But then technology made life and work easier. Exercise has become something that people have to carve out time for. “It's a fundamental instinct to avoid physical activity when it's neither necessary nor rewarding,” he says.
It would seem like being healthy would qualify as necessary, but a doctor's prescription to exercise “can make it like taking cod liver oil,” Lieberman says. “Sometimes it works, but more often than not, it doesn't. And it's still coming across as an order, and “not having a heart attack in five years is not an immediate reward,” says Dr. Beth Frates, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
People might not want to exercise because it's never been enjoyable. Most of us probably have memories of gym class, not being picked for a team, or being in a fitness center that's filled with in-shape people. The majority don't feel excited. They feel that exercise isn't for them, but it can be. Coaching people in an empowering and motivating way can work much better than ordering someone to exercise. It starts with an expanded definition of what counts as exercise, and an injection of what's rarely used to describe exercise, but is certainly allowed: namely, fun.
8. What does the underlined “this” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A. The magazine.
B. The tradition.
C. The equipment.
D. The message.
9. What can we infer about technology?
A. It improves life quality.
B. It saves people's time.
C. It drives social progress.
D. It makes exercise less likely.
10. Why does the author mention “cod liver oil” in paragraph 4?
A. To attach importance to health.
B. To present a doctor's prescription.
C. To explain exercise is considered inessential.
D. To introduce the latest medical application.
11. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Exercise should be made more joyful.
B. It's more fun to work out with others.
C. We may encounter bad workout experiences.
D. Orders work well to motivate people to exercise.
D
To show empathy is to identify with another’s feelings. It is to emotionally put yourself in the place of another. The ability to empathize is directly dependent on your ability to feel your own feelings and identify them.
If you have never felt a certain feeling, it will be hard for you to understand how another person is feeling. If you have never put your hand in a flame, you will not know the pain of fire. If you have not experienced jealousy, you will not understand its power.Readingabout a feeling and intellectually knowing about it is very different than actually experiencing it for yourself.
Among those with an equal level of emotional intelligence, the person who has actually experienced the
widest range and variety of feelings — the great depths of depression and the heights of fulfillment, for example, — is the one who is most able to empathize. On the other hand, when we say that someone “can’t relate” to other people, it is likely because they haven’t experienced, acknowledged or accepted many feelings of their own.
Once you have felt discriminated against, for example, it is much easier to relate with someone else who has been discriminated against. Our innate emotional intelligence gives us the ability to quickly recall those instances and form associations when we encounter discrimination again. We then can use the “reliving” of those emotions to guide our thinking and actions. This is one of the ways nature slowly evolves towards a higher level of survival.
For this process to work, the first step is that we must be able to experience our own emotions. This means we must be open to them and not distract ourselves from them or try to numb ourselves from our feelings through drugs, alcohol, etc.
Next, we need to become aware of what we are actually feeling — to acknowledge, identify, and accept our feelings. Only then can we empathize with others. That is one reason why it is important to work on your own emotional awareness and sensitivity — in other words, to be “in touch with” your feelings.
12. How does the author explain the feelings of empathy?
A. By giving examples.
B. By having classification.
C. By making comparison.
D. By providing data.
13. Which statement may the author agree with?
A. Low level of empathy leads to fewer varieties of feelings.
B. The deeper one’s feelings are, the more empathetic one is.
C. Empathy is a way we recently picked up for better survival.
D. Rich experiences may not go with a high level of empathy.
14. What’s the purpose of the last two paragraphs of the text?
A. To advise a sincere attitude to one’s experiences.
B To suggest a right understanding of empathy.
C. To require a realbond with one’s emotions.
D. To call for true acceptance of one’s feelings.
15. What is the best title for the text?
A. How Empathy Unfolds
B. Be Open to Your Emotions
C. Why Is Empathy Important
D. Accept Your True Self
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
Think like This When You Feel Stressed
It’s a sweet opportunity.If you look on pressure as a threat, you are sure to be negatively impacted by its occurrence. ___16___ They look on it as a great chance. They will cherish (珍惜) thepressure moment and approach it with confidence and enthusiasm
I’ll get another chance.Under pressure, we often lose hope. We tend to distort (扭曲) the reality of the situation. One of the most common phrases is the “chance of a lifetime”, in which we tell ourselves, “I will never get an opportunity like this again, so I can’t miss it.___17___
I’lldo my best.This is what people who do their best under pressure tell themselves when they are going into a pressure moment. ___18___ Because it prevents them from wasting valuable energy worrying over things they cant influence and promotes confidence at the same time. Focusing on doing your best keeps you in the moment and guides your behavior toward success.
___19___People who perform their best in pressure will reduce the significance of the upcoming pressure moment, so they feel less stressed. Whether it's a sales call or an interview for their dream jobs, they are like winning athletes, and when asked how to handle the pressure of the big game, they responded, “It’s just another game.”
I can control how I respond.People who do their best in a pressure moment focus on what they can control. ___20___ If you have an upcoming interview, don’t worry about the other applicants. You can’t control them. Practice how you will handle an unexpected problem.
A. It’s no big deal.
B. It stops you paying attention to anxiety.
C. Instead, take care of your own business.
D. Remembering past successes increases your confidence.
E. In fact, we have many chances to succeed in our lifetime.
F. But people who do their best in a pressure moment are different.
G. Focusing on doing your best quickly decreases pressure in the moment.
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's often said that you can judge a person by looking at what's on their bookshelves. Well,when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made a(n)___21___discovery. Pretty much all the___22___on my
bookshelves were written by British authors, and there was almost nothing in translation from other___23___. What a shame! So, I decided to begin my______24______reading project.
But how could I find books from much of the rest of the world? I had to ask for___25___. So in October 2011, I started my blog, and I___26___a short appeal (呼吁) online. Within hours, people began to___27___. At first, it was friends and colleagues. Then it was friends of friends. And soon, it was___28___.
Four days later, I got a(n)___29___from a woman called Rafidah in Kuala Lumpur. She said she loved myproject,____30____if she could go to her local English-language bookshop and choose my Malaysian book and post it to me. I____31____accepted, and a few weeks later, a package____32____containing nothing but two books—Rafidah's choice from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also____33____for me. At the time, I was____34____that a stranger more than 6,000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never____35____.
But Rafidah's kindness____36____to be the pattern for that year. Time and again, people went out of their____37____to help me. And books often came from____38____sources. A writer even emailed me an unpublished translation of his novel to me, allowing me to become one of the____39____people ever to read that book in English.
That year, thanks to kind strangers from the four____40____of the world. I read books from over 100 countries.
21. A.pleasing B.shocking C.exciting D.touching
22. A.books B.dictionaries C.photos D.discs
23. A.accents B.cultures C.backgrounds nguages
24. A.national B.global C.official D.beneficial
25. A.money B.direction C.help D.permission
26. A.posted B.returned C.received D.searched
27. e into view B.get in touch C.take no notice e to life
28. A.stars B.writers C.strangers D.adults
29. A.parcel B.gift C.envelope D.message
30. A.wondering B.doubting C.worrying D.realizing
31. A.awkwardly B.unwillingly C.happily D.confidently
32. A.rose B.arrived C.dropped D.fell
33. A.picked out e across C.given away D.dealt with
34. A.confused B.curious C.frightened D.amazed
35. A.meet B.attract C.hurt D.ignore
36. A.appeared B.happened C.proved D.recognized
37. A.home pany C.business D.way
38. eful B.surprising C.familiar mon
39. A.best st C.first test
40. A.corners B.squares C.oceans D.sides
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
In late March, Chinese archaeologists announced major new discoveries at the legendary Sanxingdui Ruins site located on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, helping shed light on the____41.____(culture) origins of the Chinese nation. After sleeping for 3,000 years, the “awakening” of these relics has shocked the world.
Archaeologists have found six new sacrificial pits and unearthed more than 500 items____42.____(date) back about 3, 000 years at the Sanxingdui Ruins, the National Cultural Heritage Administration announced in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in southwest China.
The site of Sanxingdui, located in the city of Guanghan, 40 km from Chengdu, is recognized as one of the most important archaeological____43.____(site) in the world for its vast size and rich contents.
The site was first discovered in 1929 by Yan Daocheng, a villager____44.____accidentally uncovered jade and stone artworks when digging a ditch, and archaeological excavation____45.____(continue) ever since. During this period, generations of archaeologists have worked____46.____the discovery and research of the Sanxingdui culture. The remnants are believed to belong to Shu Kingdom, dating back at least 4, 800 years and____47.____(last) over 2,000 years.
Lei Yu,____48.____researcher at the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute, said the recent discoveries____49.____(far) confirm the theory that the pits were used for sacrificial purposes,____50.____many of the items found had been smashed and burned before being buried.
Archaeologists also say the new discoveries show the Shu civilization was part of the ancient Chinese civilization.
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。

Days before my best friend, Cindy's birthday,I was extreme worried because I had no idea what buy for her. We've spent each of our birthday together since kindergarten. Every year, we would give each other a present that was making by ourselves. My mother seemed to have felt my worry. She offered to help, say that. "Why not make a necklace for her?” It reminded of me that my friend had always wanted a necklace. I pick some seashells that we collected when my family were on vacation last summer. It took me about two days to make a necklace. I was pleasing when I finished my artwork and was sure my friend would like them.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是李华，你校将在校内给老师安排自愿接种新冠疫苗活动，请写信通知你的外教David，内容包括：
1.时间和地点；
2.注意事项；
3.建议参加。

参考词汇：疫苗：vaccine；接种疫苗：get vaccinated
注意：1.词数80左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. B
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. A 9. B 10. B 11. D
12. A 13. D 14. C 15. A
16. F 17. E 18. G 19. A 20. B
21. B 22. A 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. A 27. B 28. C 29. D 30. A 31. C 32.
B 33. A 34. D 35. A 36.
C 37.
D 38. B 39. C 40. A
41. cultural
42. dating 43. sites
44. who##that
45. has continued
46. on 47. lasting
48. a 49. further
50. as##for##because##since
51.(1).extreme→ extremely
(2).what后加to
(3).birthday→ birthdays
(4).making→ made
(5).say→ saying
(6).删除reminded后的of
(7).pick→ picked
(8).a→ the
(9).pleasing→ pleased
(10).them→ it
52.略。