2020-2021学年太原市第十二中学高三英语上学期期中考试试题及答案解析

2020-2021学年太原市第十二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
China has 410K5Gbase stations
China built 257,000 new 5G base stations in the first half of the year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
Shipments of 5G phones reached 8623 million unis in China, with 5G package users hitting 66 million by the end of June, said Wen Ku, head of information and communication at the ministry.
To give full play to the commercialization of 5G, more policies should be implemented to boost the vitality of the market, Wen said, adding that international cooperation in 5G technology, industry and application should be strengthened.
AG600 seaplane’s test flight
Kunlong, China’s homegrown AG600 large amphibious aircraft, conducted its first sea-based test flight on Sunday morning, marking a new milestone in the program.
The AG600 is China’s second amphibious aircraft, after the SH-5, which was developed in the 1970s for military purposes and has been retired for a long time.
These specifications make it the world’s biggest amphibious aircraft, surpassing Japan’s ShinMaywa US-2 and Russia’s Beriev Be-200.
Once in service, it will put an end to the absence of a large rescue aircraft in China and will be very useful in the national emergency rescue and disaster relief systems.
Beidou products land abroad
According to Ran Chengqi, director general of China Satellite Navigation Office, Beidou has been constantly deepening its compatibility, interoperability and cooperation with the US’ GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and the EU’s Galileo. It has also entered international organizations of civil aviation, maritime affairs, search and rescue satellites and mobile communication.
BDS-based services have been successfully applied in land mapping, precision farming, digital development and smart port construction in member countries of ASEAN, South Asia, Eastern Europe, West Asia and Africa.
1. What can we learn from this passage?
A. The total number of 5G phones has reached a new level.
B. Kunlong, unlike SH-5, is not just for military purposes.
C. Technologies mentioned above need more cooperation with others.
D. BDS-based services have been provided for users in many countries.
2. Which of the following is most probably related to agriculture?
A. 5G phones
B. BDS-based services
C. AG600 seaplane
D. Beriev Be-200
3. If your friend did a course in marketing management, he may choose a job in a ________.
A. 5G technology related market
B. large amphibious aircraft
C. BDS-based project
D. China Satellite Navigation Office
B
When I was young, my mother didn't have the money to send me to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with education.So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself.But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4：30 inthe morning.
We needevery one of you to develop your talents and your skills so that you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you quit on school—you're not just quitting on yourself, but you're quitting on your country. No one's written your destiny(命运)for you, because you write your own destiny. You make your own future.That's why today I'm calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education and do everything you can to meet them.Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time reading a book.
But whatever you decide to do, I want you to commit to it.I want you to really work at it.I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work—that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star.No one's born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work.You're not a good athlete the first time you play a new sport.You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song.You've got to practise.
4. What can we learn from the first paragraph？
A. The writer's home was very rich.
B. The writer's mother was a teacher.
C. The writer was born in a poor family.
D. The writer didn't like reading books.
5. What does the writer want everyone to do by improving their talents and skills？
A. To quit on their country to earn more money.
B. To help solve the most difficult problems.
C. To write their own new destiny by working as a TV star.
D. To spend some time writing books about their own life.
6. Why does the writer call on everyone to set his/her own goal？
A. Because everyone's future is determined by themselves.
B. Because eyeryone's future is to do simple work.
C. Because everyone should do their homework.
D. Because everyone should pay attention in class.
7. How can people realise their great dreams？
A. By rapping.
B. By playing basketball.
C. By being a reality star.
D. By working hard.
C
Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism. Their critics(批评家)seem to hate them because they have so much money to throw around. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays.
The poor old consumer! He'd have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn't create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods is largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading
railway byelaws while waiting for a train? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or a newspaper full of the incidents and disasters.
We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmers is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!
Another thing we mustn't forget is the “small ads.” What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the “hatch, match and dispatch” column(栏目) but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or “agony” column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It's the best advertisement for advertising there is!
8. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Advertisements steal money from our pockets
B. The critics get the wrong idea of advertisements.
C. Advertisers perform a useful service to communities.
D. Advertisements are everywhere.
9. What is the attitude of the author toward advertisements?
A. He appreciates the role of advertisements.
B. He doubts the effect of advertisements.
C. He believes what is said in advertisements.
D. He complains too many advertisements in daily life.
10. Which of the following is Not True?
A. The personal or “agony” column makes us know more about human nature.
B. The only purpose of advertising is to sell goods.
C. A newspaper will cost us more if there is no advertisement on it.
D. Advertisement makes our life color1 ful.
11. Whicof the following shows the structure of the passage?
( ①=" Paragraph" 1, ②=" paragraph" 2, ③=" paragraph" 3, ④=" paragraph" 4 ⑤=" paragraph" 5)
A B.
C. D.
D
Your best friend that follows you around when the sun comes out - your shadow - doesn’t serve an important function like your heart or brain, but what if you could use shadows to create electricity? When using solar panels (电池板) that are powered by light, shadows can be boring because it means electricity can’t be created. However, researchers from the National University of Singapore have engineered a way to create power from the shadows present everywhere.
A team of the university created a machine that can collect energy from shadows. It is created by placing a thin coating of gold onto silicon (硅). Like in a normal solar panel, when put in light, the silicon electrons (电子) become energized and the energized electrons then jump from the silicon to the gold. The voltage (电压) of the part of the machine that is placed in the light increases to the dark part and the electrons in the machine flow from high to low voltage. They are sent through an external circuit (外电路) creating a current that can be used to power another machine. The greater the contrast between light and dark, more energy is provided by the machine.
The team isworking on improving the performance of the machine, borrowing approaches from solar panels to gather light. Increasing the amount of light the machines can receive allows them to better make use of shadows, as well as developing shadow energy collecting panels that can successfully gather from indoor lighting. The team is also researching the use of other materials other than gold to drop the price of the machine, meaning they would be more cost effective and easier to apply in society.
Shadows are present everywhere and perhaps one day in the future we will be able to collect energy from them by placing the shadow-effect energy machine around the world in places that have been considered unfit for solar panels to work, or indoors. “A lot of people think that shadows are useless,” Tan says, but “anything can be useful, even shadows.”
12. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?
A. Your best friend always stays with you after the sunrise.
B. The shadow has the same function as the heart and brain.
C. Shadows can stop solar panels from creating electricity.
D. Researchers have found a way to create power from shadows.
13. What is the key working principle of the machine mentioned in the text?
A. The silicon produces electricity when it is in the light.
B. The gold produces power with the help of the silicon.
C. The energized electrons flow from high to low voltage.
D. An external circuit creates current using another machine.
14. How does the team improve the performance of the machine?
A. Using solar panels in the machine.
B. Increasing the amount of light received.
C. Developing light energy collecting panels.
D. Bringing down the price of gold.
15. Which of the following is the best place to apply the machine?
A. A gym.
B. A park.
C. A farm.
D. A playground.
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
How to Write a Paragraph
Writing can seem likea challenge, but it doesn't have to be difficult! These suggestions will help you write a good paragraph in no time.
◆Planning Your Paragraph
Decide what the main topic of the paragraph is going to be. Before you begin writing your paragraph, you must have a clear idea of what the paragraph is going to be about.____16____Without a clear idea of what the main topic is, your paragraph will lack focus and unity.
___17___
Once you have a clearer idea of what you want to address in your paragraph, you can start organizing your thoughts by writing down your ideas. There's no need to write out full sentences. Just set down some key words and phrases.
Figure out how you want to structure your paragraph. Now that all of your thoughts, ideas, facts and figures are laid out clearly in front of you, you can start to think about how you want to structure your paragraph.____18____
◆Writing Your Paragraph
Write a topic sentence. The first sentence of your paragraph needs to be the topic sentence. A topic sentence is an introductory line that addresses what the main idea of the paragraph is going to be.____19____ Fill in the supporting details. Once you have written and are happy with your topic sentence, you can start to fill in the rest of your paragraph.____20____Make sure that each sentence connects with the next and that everything flows nicely as a whole.
Write a concluding sentence. The concluding sentence strengthens the idea outlined in your topic sentence and has all the weight of the evidence or arguments.
A. Write down information and ideas relating to that topic.
B. It should contain the most important point you wish to make about your topic.
C. To determine the exact topic of a paragraph, you should ask yourself some questions.
D. This is where the detailed, well-structured notes you wrote earlier will come in handy.
E. To achieve this, try to write clear, simple sentences that express what you want to say.
F. Consider each of the points you wish to make and try to arrange them in a proper order.
G. This is because a paragraph is basically a collection of sentences that all relate to one central topic.
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
A post that shows University of Northern Iowa staff (全体员工) giving a student her own graduation ceremony after she experienced a flight delay has been spreading online, along with___21___about “Iowa nice”. On Saturday evening, Carley Johnston of Altoona was to___22___across the stage with 2,000 students to___23___her Master of Arts in the McLeod Center in Cedar Falls. But while she was___24___hunting out in Gettysburg, Pa., the students learned that her flight was delayed. She was___25___to fly back to Iowa that day to___26___it to the graduation ceremony at 6 p.m.
___27___she arrived, the other students had___28___lined up to walk across the stage. Though the ceremony in Cedar Falls___29___around 7 p.m., after hearing about Johnston’s plane issues, President Bill Ruud, along with other teachers and staff,____30____to wait nearly an hour for her arrival. And they could give Johnston her own personal____31____with her family present. “We talk a lot about being a(n)____32____,” Johnston said. “That they can take 45 minutes of this evening, it just____33____so much.” As soon as Ruud heard that a student’s flight was____34____, Scott Ketelsen said there was no hesitation for them to____35____Johnston .
“It was a____36____whether everybody would stay. However, all of them agreed,” Ketelsen said. On Reddit, over 900 comments were made on the post,____37____ Midwestern kindness, saying, “This is Iowa nice.” Eric Boisen, who wrote the post, said he appreciated the____38____comments. “I thought it was perfect for posting it because it’s very____39____and unexpected,” Boisen said. “I have never heard of that____40____at a university before.” And luckily Carley Johnston was told later that she was given the job.
21. A. comments B. debates C. suggestions D. summaries
22. A. track B. walk C. slide D. advance
23. A. receive B. host C. win D. register
24. A. goal B. semester C. job D. chance
25. A. allowed B. requested C. advised D. supposed
26. A. set B. pack C. make D. carry
27. A. Before B. Despite C. Though D. Unless
28. A. still B. actually C. always D. already
29. A. failed B. finished C. stopped D. changed
30. A. preferred B. referred C. decided D. struggled
31. A. invitation B. champion C. solution D. ceremony
32. A. family B. organization C. partner D. empire
33. A. mattered B. meant C. rescued D. impressed
34. A. missed B. delayed C. cancelled D. quit
35. A. relate to B. look forward to C. wait for D. focus on
36. A. question B. challenge C. belief D. event
37. A. providing B. downloading C. thanking D. flashing
38. A. active B. positive C. effective D. creative
39. A. demanding B. confusing C. frightening D. encouraging
40. A. organizing B. striking C. erupting D. happening
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
There are many things happening in our family which worth recalling. W___41.___our six children were young, suppertime was always being interrupted by neighborhood children r___42.___the bell. They wanted one child or another to come out and___43.___(玩). Finally we had___44.___good idea. We hung a sign on the front door that___45.___(写着)，“we're having dinner. Come back later.”That night, we sat down to what we___46.___(认为)would be a pleasant, uninterrupted meal.___47.___as soon as we began dinner, the doorbell rang. At the front door___48.___(站着) a five-year-old boy from across the street. He looked___49.___at us and said, "I just want to know w___50.___the sign says."
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。

A man walked into a bar and had a few drinks. Before leaving, he asked the bartenderhow his bill was. The bartender replied that it is $40.
Hearing this, the man said, "Let's make the bet. If you win, I will give you twice the amount of my bill. If I win, I won’t pay anything. I bet whether I can bite my own eye. ” The bartender was curiously and accepted. Then, the man pulled his glass eye out and bit it.
The man decided have more drinks. And the man bet the bartender he could bite his another eye. The bartender accepted again, know the man couldn't possibly have two glass eyes. To his surprising, the man took out his false tooth and bit his other eye.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.随着网络的发展，很多人给亲朋好友发电子贺卡表示问候和祝福。

请根据以下提示，写一篇80词左右的博客，阐述电子贺卡的优越性。

1．传递速度快；
2．形式多种多样；
3．有利于保护环境；
4．可以播放动画和声音。

参考词汇：电子贺卡e­card动画animation
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参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. C 9. A 10. B 11. D
12. D 13. C 14. B 15. A
16. G 17. A 18. F 19. B 20. D
21. A 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. D 26. C 27. A 28. D 29. B 30. C 31. D 32.
A 33.
B 34. B 35.
C 36. A 37. C 38. B 39.
D 40. D
41. When
42. ringing
43. play 44. a
45. said 46. thought
47. But 48. stood
49. up 50. what
51.(1).how→what
(2).is→was
(3).the→a
(4).whether→that
(5).curiously→curious
(6).decided后添加to
(7).another→other
(8).know→knowing
(9).surprising→surprise
(10).tooth→teeth
52.略。