2021届福州闽江学院附属中学高三英语下学期期末考试试卷及参考答案

2021届福州闽江学院附属中学高三英语下学期期末考试试卷及参考答
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
As a nation, we are getting bigger and eating more. But there are effective ways to control your appetite and eat only as much as you need.
Keep away from low-nutrition snacks
That means ice cream, sweets, chips biscuits, cakes and any other salty orsugary snacks you eat between meals. Although we have a tendency to eat them, you can learn to live without these unhealthy-and-fattening-additions to your diet. Try to make it a habit to eat them only when offered at social events or as a special treat.
Leave half an hour between main course and dessert
Having a break between courses gives your brain time to receive the fullness signal and make you more likely to refuse the sweet stuff. And, in fact, as soon as you feel the first signals of fullness, remove your plate from the table. That will tell your brain that food time is over.
Make yours a small helping
Put an end to super-sized portions. You won’t be missing out—today’s small was the medium or large of a few decade ago. Select or serve yourself a modest portion and eat it slowly enjoying the flavors. Before you know it, small will feel just right. What’s more, ordering the smaller size leads to wearing the smaller size.
Distract yourself
When you find yourself hunting down food, even though you’re even hungry, do something else for 20 minutes. Drink a large glass of water as thirst is often confused with a desire for food. Choose something that engages your brain as well as your hands, such as writing a letter or listening to a song. You could also go for a short walk or do something that you enjoy. If you think you really are hungry, set an alarm for 20 minutes’ time and if you still want to eat when it rings, fine. If not, the urge will have passed.
1. Which way suits you better if you tend to order a large portion of food?
A. Distract yourself.
B. Make yours a small helping.
C. Keep away from low-nutrition snacks.
D. Leave half an hour between main course and dessert.
2. Why should you have a break between main course and dessert?
A. To give people time to chat.
B. To have a good appetite for sweet stuff.
C. To reduce appetite for dessert.
D. To give the host time to remove your plate.
3. When you find yourself pursuing for food, what should you do?
A. Eat some biscuits.
B. Eat some sugary snacks.
C. Have some soft drinks.
D. Listen to a lovely melody.
B
It’s a little before8 a.m. when Mathias Schergen pushes open the side door at Chicago’s Jenner Elementary Academy for the Arts. He walks down the hall toward the office to sign in. It’s the same routine he’s had as Jenner’s art teacher for nearly a quarter century. “It’s going to be a good day,” a colleague calls out. “It’s a good day.” They hug. It seems like a typical Friday. Except it’s not. After 23 years at Jenner Elementary, Schergen is retiring. Even on his last day, there are still art projects to finish.
Schergen leaves behind a richlegacyat this school. He’s won grants (拨款) for art projects. He turned an empty classroom into a museum. He’s pushed his students to make art about their lives. And he was awarded a Golden Apple — the most honorable teaching award in Chicago. But it wasn’t always easy. For years, Schergen taught in one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods. “When I first got my room, I noticed there were bullet holes in the window. That made me nervous,” he says. So he stuffed Beanie Babies in the holes to make it “look kind of funny”. “I didn’t even tell my wife for a whole year,” he says. “I didn’t want her to know.”
With one hour to go, Schergen piles the chairs and sweeps the floor. He cleans out the sink for the last time. Fifth-grader Deontae Barnes, one of his best helpers, has watched him say goodbye all day. He wanders in the doorway. “Ah, come here, son,” Schergen says, signaling him over. He bends down for a hug. “Thank you for making these last days special and being a help to me.”
When Deontae leaves, a reporter asks Schergen: When your kids ask why you’re retiring, what do you tell them? “I just tell them that grown people have dreams too,” he says. “I have other things in my life I have to do. It’s time. It’s just time.”
4. Why is it a special Friday for Schergen?
A. He was retiring on that day.
B. He won an honor for his school.
C. He was interviewed by a reporter.
D. He received a Golden Apple award.
5. What does the underlined word “legacy” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Art projects.
B. Great achievements.
C. Respect from students.
D. Change in teaching.
6. What made Schergen nervous when he first got to the school?
A. Safety concerns in the school.
B. The poorly-equipped classroom.
C. Being misunderstood by his family.
D. Students’ poor academic performance.
7. What is the best title for the text?
A.A Typical Day for an Art Teacher
B. Time for Art Projects
C. A Teacher’s Final Day at School
D. The Last Art Class
C
For years video games have been criticised for making people more antisocial, overweight or depressed. Bui now researchers are finding that video games can actually change us for the better and improve both our body and mind.
Games can help to develop physical skills. Pre-school children who played interactive games have been shown to have improved motor skills, for example they can kick, catch and throw a ball better than children who don’t play video games. A study found that those who played video games were 27 percent faster and made 37 percent fewer errors than those who didn't.
Games also benefit a variety of brain functions, including decision-making. People who play action-based games make decisions 25 percent faster than others, according to one study. It was also found that the best gamers can make choices and act on them up to six times a second, four times faster than most people. In another study by researchers from the University of Rochester in New York, experienced gamers were shown to be able to pay attention to more than six things at once without getting confused, compared with the four that most people can normally keep in mind.
There is also evidence that gaming can help with psychological problems. At the University of Auckland in New Zealand, researchers asked 94 young people diagnosed with depression to play a 3D fantasy game called SPARX and in many cases, the game reduced symptoms of depression more than conventional treatment.
8. In what way playing video games benefits very young children?
A. Muscle control.
B. Social interaction.
C. Decision-making.
D. The ability to focus.
9. Which type of video game improves the decision-making speed?
A. Interactive games.
B. Action-based games.
C. 3D fantasy games.
D. Violent games.
10. What is the authors attitude to video games?
A. Indifferent.
B. Objective.
C. Worried.
D. Critical.
11. What is the text mainly about?
A. The effects of different types of video games.
B. The negative effects of playing video games.
C. The beneficial effects of playing video games.
D. The effects of games on people's behavior.
D
A Virginia teen is doing his part to make sure frontline health care workers are getting the meals they need to help them take care of themselves and others.
Arul Nigam, 17, of Tyson's Corner, Va. , has had to make several adjustments since his school year ended abruptly in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic(新冠疫情).“We didn'thave any classes for like over a month and then after that there were a lot of technical difficulties. So I started to have a lot more free time,” he tells Yahoo Life. “It was really saddening, but it was also something that really surprised me, that our health care workers are facing something like that,” Nigam says. “So I wanted to see what I could do to help them because obviously, they're sacrificing so much and giving so much for all of us. ”
In late March, the teen started fundraising efforts with the help of friends and family to help these health care workers receive much-needed meals. He also began doing research about what hospitals had the most amount of coronavirus cases, so he could prioritize those places first. He was also arranging for the orders to be fulfilled at local family-owned restaurants impacted by shutdown orders. So far, Nigam has delivered over 1,000 meals to 22 hospitals in 13 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Maryland.
Nigam's efforts have not only helped health care workers, but restaurants as well. With quarantine restrictionstaking a toll onthe food industry, places like Best Coast Burrito in Oakland, Calif. , have lost business over the last few weeks. Best Coast's owner,Alvin Shen, tells Yahoo Life that being able to partner with Arul and others in efforts to feed those on the frontline has been a big help.
12. What would Nigam probably do according to his words?
A. Study at home by himself.
B. Spend the more free time playing.
C. Donate some money to health care workers.
D. Do something helpful for health care workers.
13. What is Nigam's priority when delivering food?
A. The urgency of meals.
B. The severity of the virus.
C. The number of doctors.
D. The position of hospitals.
14. What does the phrase “taking a toll on” in the last paragraph mean?
A. Turning a blind eye to.
B. Keeping an eye on.
C Causing lots of damage to.
D. Answering completely for.
15. Where can you probably read this text?
A. Science fiction.
B. Fashion magazine.
C. Life magazine.
D. Entertainment newspaper.
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Do you love fashion? Do you wonder where you can study and how the job market looks?___16___? Read on to find the answers.
Best Place to Study Fashion
WhileParis may be the capital of the couture market, New York City is the fashion capital of the world. New York City is a city that involves change, and fashion is ever changing. What does this mean for a fashion student? It doesn't get any better.
Streets, not Textbooks
Fashion is something that you learn. You are not born with good taste.___17___When we discuss window design. We just walk down the street and look at the windows.
What the Program Offers
___18___This prepares the student to “hit the ground running" in the fashion industry. Some of the
necessary technical courses include product lifecycle planning, advanced textiles, global sources, technology courses, computer aided design programs and JDA.
___19___
When you consider fashion as a business and are not just dealing with design, you become more flexible and open to a number of positions. Here are a few careers that will be available to you: position in buying, product development specialist and executive trainee positions.
What It Takes
____20____? Creativity, dream, flexibility and knowledge.
A. Where It Leads
B. Which area of fashion should you study
C. We focus on fashion marketing and management
D. Work experience is necessary to your fashion career
E. The program offers business courses as well as fashion courses
F. Textbooks become outdated quickly, but fashion changes every season
G. What qualities do students need to be successful in the fashion industry
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Thomas Panek made history this week when he became the first blind person to complete the New York City Half Marathon with guide dogs and no human assistance.
With about two thousand people around___21___the game, a group of blind people____22____their New York City Marathon at 9:00 this Wednesday.___23___it was still a little cold as it was raining___24___,the people without their sight ran fast with the help of their____25____. Falling down sometimes, they____26____up and went on running, which was attractive,___27___and encouraging.
Of course, some few dogs didn't____28____their hosts in the right way. As a result, those___29___didn’t finish their task, but they were really____30____. In the end, only about twenty blind people____31____their destination. Among them, Panek did the_____32_____, who got the first place in the game.
With the____33____of his three dogs named Waffle, Westley and Gus, which_____34_____leading him throughout the 13.1-mile race, Panek____35____the finishing line in just over 2 hours 20 minutes.
The game_____36_____at about 12:00, and many people were so_____37_____by the sport spirit of the blind people that they were not_____38_____to leave the spot. When asked about his feeling of the game, “no
matter what_____39_____is, " said Panek, 48, who is CEO of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, "don't let_____40_____tell you that you can't."
21. A. supporting B. watching C. joining D. playing
22. A. started B. held C. caught D. registered
23. A. If B. Since C. Because D. Though
24. A. rarely B. sometimes C. slightly D. usually
25. A. assistants B. sticks C. dogs D. drivers
26. A. added B. looked C. climbed D. rose
27. A. striking B. tiring C. satisfying D. disappointed
28. A. carry B. lead C. require D. bear
29. A. persons B. viewers C. animals D. workers
30. A. sad B. worried C. great D. proud
31. A. sought B. reached C. found D. recognized
32. A. most B. least C. worst D. best
33. A. instruction B. exception C. help D. control
34. A. took turns B. went on C. gave up D. had trouble
35. A. left B. broke C. set D. crossed
36. A. lost B. ended C. continued D. began
37. A. confused B. bored C. pushed D. moved
38. A. sad B. willing C. happy D. satisfied
39. A. job B. position C. challenge D. aim
40. A. anyone B. someone C. everyone D. none
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
Ball games are a big source of modern amusement. But they're nothing new. For instance, consider a 4,500-year-old ball___41.___(find) in a child's tomb in Egypt or 3.600-year-old rubber balls from Central America-where the competitors were asked to play the balls with their hips(臀部）.
So far, researchers___42.___(make) sure of a date of the oldest sporting balls in Europe or Asia: three balls, dug up from the tombs of horsemen in the deserts of northwesternChinaand crafted three thousand___43.___(year) ago.
＂We are quite sure they were used in some sort of bat-and-ball game."Patrick Wertmann is an expert at theUniversityofZurich___44.___analyzed the ancient sporting equipment. The balls are about three inches in diameter and filled___45.___leather hair. “And then, also,___46.___(look) at the Chinese character of "ball" itself, you'll find it quite___47.___(interest) because this character is made up of the ideograms(表意文字）of hair and leather.”
As for how this ancient ball-and-stick game___48.___（play)? “lt could be something like polo. But it could also be something like___49.___early form of golf.
Since we don't have any textural evidence and we don't have any sticks from the same period, we don't really know____50.____（exact).”
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；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Tourists climb for two hours to reach the top of a mountain in Peru, struggled for breath. But they are happy to see the beautiful sceneries there. Lines of rich color1 s form that has become known as “Rainbow Mountain”. The color1 s come from special rock remains. It’s five years since the world has learned of the existence of this natural wonder.
Many people come to see them. To villagers who take up their traditional transport trade, the bigger difference is that they now move tourists instead goods. Tourism has provided much-needed economic help for an area. Environmentalists, besides, fear tourists will destroy everything which makes this place distinctive.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是红星中学高二（1）班的李华，你从冬奥组委官方网站得知2022年2月4日到2月20日冬季奥林匹克运动会在北京和河北省张家口联合举行。

目前北京冬奥组委正在招募志愿者。

请你写一封信，应征冬奥会志愿者工作，内容包括：
1.你的个人信息；
2.你的特长；
3.你的经历或经验。

参考词汇：2022冬奥组委the Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games
官方网站official website
志愿者volunteer
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Sir/Madam,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________
Sincerely yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. D
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. A 9. B 10. B 11. C
12. D 13. B 14. C 15. C
16. B 17. F 18. E 19. A 20. G
21. B 22. A 23. D 24. C 25. C 26. D 27. A 28. B 29. A 30. C 31. B 32.
D 33. C 34. A 35. D 36. B 37. D 38. B 39. C 40. A
41. found
42. have made
43. years 44. that/who
45. with 46. looking
47. interesting
48. was played
49. an 50. exactly
51.(1). struggled→struggling
(2). sceneries→scenery
(3). that→what
(4). 去掉learnt前面的has
(5). them→it/this
(6). bigger→biggest
(7). 在instead后加of
(8). an→the/this
(9). besides→however/nevertheless
(10). which→that
52.略。