2020届安徽省屯溪第一中学高三英语期中试题及答案

2020届安徽省屯溪第一中学高三英语期中试题及答案
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
Summer is quickly passing by—but not without the ultimate meteor（流星）shower event!
The2021 Perseids Meteor Shower, which is considered to be the best meteor shower of the year, is expected to start lighting up skies on this Wednesday, according to NASA. Known for fireballs, the Perseids typically light up skies on warm summer nights, leaving “long wake（尾迹）of light and color1 behind them.”
Under ideal conditions, sky watchers may see approximately 50-100 meteors per hour with each meteor traveling at 37 miles per second. .
Because the meteors appear in all parts of the sky, it will be pretty easy to witness the celestial（天上的）event from anywhere in the world. To get the best show, it is advised to view the Perseids from the Northern Hemisphere（半球）during the pre- dawn hours, ideally between 2 a.m. and dawn. In some cases, sky gazers may be able to seemeteors during this shower as early as 9 or 10 p. m.
“If it's not cloudy, pick an observing spot away from bright lights, lie on your back, and look up! You don't need any special equipment to view the Perseids—just your eyes,” NASA wrote on their site, adding that telescopes or binoculars are not recommended due to their small fields of view.
Remember to let your eyes become adjusted to the dark. Try to stay off of your phone too, as looking at devices with bright screens will negatively affect your night vision and thus reduce the number of meteors you see!
For those who may be unable to view the Perseids in person, a live broadcast will be streaming from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, starting around 8 p. m. on Aug. 11 and continuing through sunrise on Aug. 12.
4. What can we learn about the Perseids Meteor Shower?
A. It will be the best meteor shower in history.
B. The ultimate shower only happens on this Wednesday.
C. We can observe 50- 100 meteors per hour in any place.
D. The Meteors usually have long and bright trails behind them.
5. Which of the following may be the best time to view the shower?
A. At 4 a. m. on the Northern Hemisphere.
B. At 2 p. m. on the Northern Hemisphere.
C. At sunrise on the Southern Hemisphere.
D. At dawn on the Southern Hemisphere.
6. What can be inferred about the observation of Meteors?
A. If you use a telescope, you will see more meteors.
B. You can use smartphones to record the grand scene.
C. The brighter the moon is, the more meteors you can see. .
D. Bright lights will reduce the visibility of meteors.
7. If you are not available to watch the Perseids personally, you can ________.
A. browse the unofficial website of NASA
B. watch a video recorded by a flight center
C. stream a live show on Aug. 11 night
D. use special devices to connect with the shower
C
In life，once on a path，we tend to follow it，for better or worse.What's sad is that even if it's the latter，we often accept it anyway because we are so used to the way things are that wed don't even recognize that they could be different This is a phenomenon psychologist call functional fixedness.
This classic experiment will give you an idea of howitworks and a sense of whether you may have fallen into the same trap: People are given a box of tacks (大头钉) and some matches and asked to find a way to attach a candle to a wall so that it burns properly.
Typically, the subjects try tacking the candle to the wall or lighting it to fix it with melted wax. The psychologists had, of course, arranged it so that neither of these obvious approaches would work. The tacks are too short, and the paraffin (石蜡) doesn't stick to the wall. So how can you complete the task? The successful technique is to use the tack box as a candle-holder. You empty it, tack it to the wall. and stand the candle inside it. To think of that, you have to look beyond the box's usual role as a receptacle just for tacks and re-imagine it
serving an entirely new purpose. That is difficult because we all suffer to one degree or another from functional fixedness.
The inability to think in new ways affects people in every corner of society. The political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the phrase“frozen thoughts”to describe deeply held ideas that we no longer question but should. In Arendt's eyes, the self- content reliance on such accepted “truths”also made people blind to ideas that didn't fit their worldview, even when there was plenty of evidence for them.
Frozen thinking has nothing to do with intelligence, she said,“It can be found in highly intelligent people.”
8. What does the underlined word“it”in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The experiment.
B. Functional fixedness.
C. The path.
D. The thinking.
9. Which way is hard to think of to complete the task?
A. Tacking the candle to the wall.
B. Fixing the candle with melted wax.
C. Using the tack box as a candle-holder.
D. Lighting the candle tostand it.
10. Which of the following statements will Hannah Arendt agree with?
A. People should question.
B. We should be used to the way things are.
C. People shouldn't accept the idea that doesn't fit their worldview.
D. The smarter people are，the more open to the new things they are.
11. What's the passage mainly about?
A. An interesting experiment
B. A psychological phenomenon.
C. A theory to be proved.
D. The opinion of Hannah Arendt.
D
My school appeared on the news last week because we had made an important change in our local area. Our class had planted a large garden in what was once only a vacant lot. It was a lot of work but it was all worth it. I got blisters(水泡) from digging, and we all got insect bites, too.
I learned a lot about gardening and collaboration(合作), and then I learned about the media. Our teacher
telephoned the TV station and informed them of what we had accomplished. She spoke with the producer. The producer checked with the directors, but they said there were plenty of stories similar to ours. They wanted to know what was special about our particular garden, since many schools plant them.
The teacher explained that, after going on the Internet to learn about the prairie(大草原), we had made a prairie garden. We had gone to a prairie and gotten seeds from the plants, and then we planted them. We did not water the garden, but we did weed it. We decided to let nature water it with rain, since that was how prairies grew in the past. We sent a picture of the garden to the news station. In the picture, the grass was so high that it stood taller than the fourth grade students.
As a result, the producer sent a reporter to our school. He interviewed the headmaster and asked him many questions about the garden. After that, they interviewed us, and we explained to them what we had learned through this project.
That night, we watched the news, and there we were. The news reporter told our story. It was only two minutes long, but it was us. We were famous. All that work, all those blisters, it was worth it. We knewthatwhen we saw the garden every day, but now we knew that the whole city thought so, too.
12. What seemed to be the TV directors’ initial reaction to the garden?
A. They were excited.
B. They were surprised.
C. They were worried.
D. They were uninterested.
13. What is special about the garden?
A. Weeds were allowed to spread naturally.
B. The grass grew faster than common grass.
C. The seeds came from the plants of a prairie.
D. Underground water was used for the plants.
14. What does the underlined word “that” refer to in the last paragraph?
A. We got blisters on our hands.
B. Our hard work was worthwhile.
C. The garden would be famous.
D. The project would be finished.
15. How did the author feel about the project?
A. Annoyed.
B. Curious.
C. Proud.
D. Regretful.
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
Every culture has set rules about how people should act. Patterns of good behavior, or manners, show respect and care for others.____16____
Greeting people cheerfully is almost always considered polite.____17____For example, when you enter a store in France, you should always greet the person working there. Other cultures also value greeting people. But of course the greetings vary as people speak different languages.
____18____It creates and keeps the harmony（和谐）of human relationships?and is used as greetings, encouragement and so on. In American society people usually widely use praise and compliments, which plays an important role in communication. The right answer to other's praise and compliments is “Thank you”. However, refusing a compliment is accepted and even approved of in China.
Some of the biggest cultural differences have to do with table manners.____19____That means chewing with your mouth closed and not slurping（出声地喝）your soup. The same goes forburping（打嗝）. But in parts of Asia, slurping shows that you are enjoying your meal. And burping is a sign of being full and content.
____20____Saying “please" and "thank you, “ for example, is almost always polite. If you show appreciation and try to follow local customs, people will generally respond well. Showing kindness can bring people together, no matter what culture they come from.
A. Yet the details of how to express respect vary.
B. Yet there are also similar points across cultures.
C. Diversity（多样化）exists when it comes to the choice of food.
D. Attitudes to praise and compliments can be different.
E. But it's more important in some cultures than others.
F. It's polite to eat as quietly as possible In North America.
G. Praise and compliments is akind of communicative action.
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When I was in primary school, I got into an argument with a boy in my class. I can’t____21____what the quarrel was about, but I have never forgotten the____22____learned that day.
I was____23____that “I” was right and “he” was wrong — but he just____24____that I was wrong and “he” was right. The teacher____25____to teach us a very important lesson. She brought us____26____to the front of the class and placed him on one side of her desk and me on the____27____.
In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could clearly____28____that it was black. She asked the
boy____29____color1 the objet was. “White,” he answered.
I couldn’t_____30_____he said the object was white, for it was_____31_____black! Another_____32_____started between us; this time about the color1 of the object.
The teacher told me to go to stand the place_____33_____the boy had been standing and told him to come to stand where I had been. We_____34_____places, and now she asked me what the color1 of the object was. I had to answer, “White.” It was an object with two sides color1 ed_____35_____, and from his_____36_____it was white. Only from my side was it black.
My teacher taught me a very_____37_____lesson that day: You must stand in the other persons’_____38_____and look at the situation through their eyes in order to_____39_____understand their perspective. Don’t hold a(an)_____40_____as the whole.
21. A. forget B. remember C. understand D. explain
22. A. lesson B. skill C. class D. detail
23. A. fond B. devoted C. grateful D. certain
24. A. recognized B. disagreed C. insisted D. threatened
25. A. determined B. responded C. followed D. agreed
26. A. on B. up C. down D. in
27. A. one B. another C. others D. other
28. A. enjoy B. see C. appreciate D. imagine
29. A. which B. that C. what D. how
30. A. believe B. allow C. stand D. value
31. A. equally B. totally C. briefly D. obviously
32. A. discussion B. argument C. debate D. conversation
33. A. that B. when C. where D. which
34. A. expected B. experienced C. exposed D. exchanged
35. A. frequently B. clearly C. rarely D. differently
36. A. sight B. viewpoint C. scene D. mind
37. A. meaningful B. faithful C. magic D. attractive
38. A. coats B. socks C. shoes D. hats
39. A. truly B. directly C. actually D. personally
40. A. detail B. role C. part D. aspect
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
Six months ago Xie Lei boarded a plane for London to complete a business qualification. It was the first time she____41.____(leave) her motherland .When she came to England, she lived with a host family,____42.____members always helped her. At the beginning she had to face such difficulties of daily life as how to use the phone and how to pay bus fare. Besides, she also ____43.____(have) to face the difficulties of learning at the university . Studying there was quite ____44.____(differ) from studying in China and she needed some preparation first。

She had to get____45.____(use) to a whole new way of life, which took up over concentration. It was beneficial as well as difficult for her____46.____(study) in London. She learned how to fulfill Western academic requirements. Xie lei also learned that as____47.____student. She should not use other people’s work____48.____to express her own ideas. And she feels much more at home in England now. What had seemed very strange before now appears quite normal. Now she has been so____49.____(occupy) with her work that she has and had time for social_____50._____(activity)!
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.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。

Every time when I see the photos, it will remind me of my childhood.
Jane mustn’t have stolen your money. She is an honest girl.
I took an airplane the first time when I was only 4 years old.
Although they aren’t studying in the same school now, they still keep in a contact with each other.
If the interviewer gives me the second chance, I will definitely do a better job.
He used to doing exercise every day, but now he doesn’t, so that he puts on weight.
This matter is so important that you should take it serious.
The scientist whom gave us a lecture is a professor in Peking university.
It has been ten years since I graduate from university.
The millionaire has spent a large amount of money in charity since he was young.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy asSusanmade her way carefully up the steps. She paid the
driver and then, using her hands to feel the seats, settled in one of them.
It had been a year since Susan became blind. As the result of an accident she was suddenly thrown into a world of darkness. Susan’shusbandMark watched her sink into hopelessness and he was determined to use every possible means to help his wife.
Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take thebus, but she was now toofrightenedto get around the city by herself. Markvolunteeredto ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening until she could manage it by herself.
For two weeks, Mark accompanied Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other senses, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new environment.
At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip on her own. Mondaymorningarrived. Before she left, she hugged her husband tightly, her eyes filled withtearsof gratitude (感激). She said good-bye and, for the first time, they went their separate ways. Each day went perfectly, and a wild excitement took hold of Susan. She was doing it!
注意：
1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3.续写部分分两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4.续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph1：
On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
Paraghaph2:
Tears of happiness poured down Susan’s cheeks.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. D
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. B 9. C 10. A 11. B
12. D 13. C 14. B 15. C
16. A 17. E 18. G 19. F 20. B
21. B 22. A 23. D 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. D 28. B 29. C 30. A 31. D 32.
B 33.
C 34.
D 35. D 36. B 37. A 38. C 39. A 40. C
41. had left
42. whose 43. had
44. different
45. used 46. to study
47. a 48. but
49. occupied
50. activities
51.(1). 去掉when
(2). mustn’t→can’t/couldn’t
(3). 在the前加for
(4). 去掉a (5). the→a
(6). doing→do
(7). serious→seriously
(8). whom→who
(9). graduate→graduated
(10). in→on
【121题详解】
考查从属连词。

句意：每一次我看到这些照片，就会想起我的童年。

every time可以用于引导时间状语从句，表示“每一次”，when引导时间状语从句表示“当......的时候”，在句中重复，根据句意可知应使用every time 引导从句，故将when去掉。

【122题详解】
考查情态动词。

句意：Jane 不可能偷了你的钱。

她是一个诚实的女孩。

根据句意可知此处表示非常肯定的否定猜测，应使用情态动词can't/couldn't表示肯定的否定猜测，意为“不可能”。

mustn't表示“禁止”，不符合句意。

故将mustn’t改为can’t/couldn’t。

【123题详解】
考查固定短语。

句意：我第一次坐飞机是在我4岁的时候。

固定短语for the first time表示“第一次”符合句意，故在the前加for。

【124题详解】
考查冠词。

句意：虽然他们现在不在同一所学校学习，但他们仍然保持联系。

固定短语keep in contact表示“保持联系”，故去掉a。

【125题详解】
考查冠词。

句意：如果面试官再给我一次机会，我一定会做得更好。

句中“the second”表示“第二次”，而句意表达的是“再一次”，短语a second表示“再一次、有一次”符合句意，故将the改为a。

【126题详解】
考查固定搭配。

句意：他过去每天锻炼，但现在不锻炼了，结果他胖了。

句中短语“used to doing”表示“习惯
于......”，而句意需要“过去常常”，短语used to do表示“过去常常”符合句意，故将doing改为do。

【127题详解】
考查副词。

句意：这件事这么重要，你应该认真对待。

分析句子可知此处需要使用副词修饰动作take，作方式状语，所以应将形容词改为副词，故将serious改为seriously。

【128题详解】
考查定语从句。

句意：给我们作报告的那位科学家是北京大学的一位教授。

分析句子可知这是一个定语从句，先行词为“the scientist(科学家）”，指人，从句缺少主语，所以应使用关系代词who引导从句，代替先行词作从句的主语，whom作宾语，故将whom改为who。

【129题详解】
考查时态。

句意：我大学毕业已经十年了。

since引导时间状语从句，从句时态使用一般过去时，根据主句句意“It has been ten years (It has been ten years )”也可知“毕业”为过去时间发生的动作，应使用一般过去时，故将graduate改为graduated。

【130题详解】
考查介词。

句意：这位百万富翁从年轻时就在慈善事业上花了一大笔钱。

根据句子的谓语动词spent结合句意可知应使用固定搭配spend...on sth(在某方面花费......)，故将in改为on
52.略。