2020-2021学年温州市平阳县第二中学高三英语下学期期中考试试卷及参考答案

2020-2021学年温州市平阳县第二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
Theatre and film fans will be excited about what's on stage and on screen.
THEATRE
☆Take in a Broadway show at Mirvish Venues. The Grand Theatre hosts plays and musicals in London, Ontario. The building dates back to 1901 and starts a rare architectural feature.
☆In the heart of Ontario's bread-basket, treat yourself to uniquely Canadian modern productions at the Blyth Festival in Goderich.
☆Ontario becomes popular on the stage as theatre festivals. The Stratford Festival produces classic productions mainly on Shakespeare in Stratford. Works by Bernard Shaw, the founder of social realism in English literature enrich the stage at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
FILM
☆Expand your mind with great modem, independent film during the Reel Asian FilmFestival or visit the TIFF Bell Lightbox for exhibitions related to film and theatre.
☆Making productions that don't reach half an hour by new filmmakers, the Breakthroughs Film Festival provides some of the most video movies.
☆Five amazing programs feature films from across the globe during the Durham Region International Film Festival.
☆One of the top film festivals in the world, the 'Toronto International Film Festival features everything from mainstream Hollywood productions to international cinema.
COMEDY
☆For a laugh, head to a comedy club. Absolute Comedy, Second City and Yuks Yuks all specialize in finding your funny bone.
☆The Toronto Alliance for the Peforming Arts will keep you up to date on what 's playing on
Toronto's stages; you can look through their “TOnight” for on-the-go performing arts tickets, reviews and searches on your mobile.
1. Where should those preferring realistic dramas go?
A. London.
B. Stratford.
C. Goderich.
D. Niagara-on-the-Lake.
2. What does the Breakthroughs Film Festival focus on?
A. Short films.
B. Films across the world.
C. Modern films.
D. Films by young directors.
3. What might “TOnight” be?
A. A comedy.
B. An application.
C. A guidebook.
D. An organization.
B
Tofight for the conservation of forest ecosystem, several ecologists including Daniel Janzen convinced Del Oro, an orange juice producer, to donate part of their forestland to a national park. In return, Del Oro was allowed to throw large amounts of waste in the form of orangepeels(皮) on a 3-hectare piece of land within the national park at no cost. Dealing with tons of leftover peels usually involved burning them or paying to have them poured into a landfill, so the proposal was very attractive.
But a year later, another juice company challenged the deal in court, arguing that their competitor was "polluting a national park". They ended up winning, and the deal between Del Oro and the national park fell through.
Then in 2013, while discussing possible research avenues（途径，手段）with Timothy Treuer, Daniel Janzen mentioned the orange story. Feeling interested, Treuer decided to stop by that piece of land that had been covered with fruit waste 15 years earlier. What he found shocked him.
"While I would walk over exposed rock and dead grass in the nearby fields, I'd have to climb through undergrowth and cut paths through walls ofvines(藤) in the orange peel site itself," said Timothy Treuer.
Treuer and his team spent months picking upsamples(样品), analyzing and comparing them. They found great differences between the areas covered with orange peels and those that were not. The area withorange waste had richer soil.
The effect that the orange peels had on the land is probably not that surprising to people familiar withcomposting(施肥), but what is really shocking is that a judge actually thought the waste of orange "mined" a national parkand stopped it from going forward. Now that Timothy Treuer's study has received worldwide attention, this type of "ruining" is being seriously considered as a way of bringing forests back to life.
4. What did Del Oro usually do with orange peels?
A. Add them to fuel.
B. Feed them to animals.
C. Burn or bury them.
D. Make them into cakes.
5. What can we know about the deal between Del Oro and the national park?
A. It lasted 15 years.
B. It was signed by Treuer.
C. It was made in about 1998.
D. It was broken by Del Oro.
6. What was Treuer's finding?
A. Orange peels contain much fibre.
B. Orange peels can make soil richer.
C. Orange peels rot away in a short time.
D. Orange waste ruined the national park.
7. What is the author's attitude toward the judge mentioned in the last paragraph?
A. Disapproving.
B. Positive.
C. Worried.
D. Admirable.
C
In Copenhagen, an 8-year dream was realized when the first paid skiers took their runs down a one-third-mile course (路线)．They skied on what is possibly the greenestpower factory in the world．The factory is so clean and safe that designers were able to turn its buildings into a new center for social life．
The waste-to-power factory itself opened in 2017 under the name Amager Bakke．Bjarke Ingels is the architect whosecompany came up with the idea eight years ago of designing a power plant building that would join mountain sports into its very nature．
“It is the cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world．It is not only better for the environment, it is also moreenjoyable for the lives of its citizens.” Ingels says 97% of city people get their heating as a by-product of energy production．It comes from a system where the electricity, heating, and waste disposal (处理) are mixed into a single process．He dreams that it is also becoming an example that others can look to and say, “IfCopenhagencan do it why can' t we?"
There are no hills in this island city, but now people can ski locally, while enjoying the best views ever seen of the harbor．Another thing missing hereis snow cover throughout the winter, so designers set up a kind of special "plastic grass" that provides the perfect friction (摩擦力) for downhill winter sports．
In a country where 600, 000 skiers always had to travel to practice sking, to be able to finally ski in their backyard-and, all year round - is, as one skier said, “AMAZING．”
The company hopes to see 300, 000 visitors enjoying the experience of Copen hill each year, with the ski slope costing $ 22 an hour or just $ 366 for a full season pass．Meanwhile, the city is one step closer to its final
goal of becoming the world's first carbon-neutral city by 2025．We thinkit might be all “down hill” from here．
8. How does the power factory produce electricity?
A. By using oil．
B. By using coal．
C. By usingwind．
D. By using waste．
9. What' s Ingels' dream according to the passage?
A. To make more tall buildings in different big cities．
B. To help more skiers to ski in high mountains．
C. There will be more green power factories in the world．
D. More and more people will ski in the power factory．
10. Where do the skiers ski in the power factory?
A. On man-made snow．
B. On man-made ice．
C. On plastic grass．
D. On real sand．
11. The underlined part “it might be all 'downhill' from here" means that________.
A. they will soon reach their final goal
B. they will soon draw many visitors
C. they will produce more electricity
D. they have difficulties reaching the goal
D
When an animal species is considered endangered, it means that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has evaluatedit as nearly extinct, which means that a majority of its population has already died off and the rate of birth is lower than the species’death rate. Today, more and more animal and plant species are on the way to extinction because of a variety of major factors that cause a species to become endangered, and as you might expect, humans play a role in quite a few of them — in fact, the biggest threat to endangered animals is human encroachment (侵入) on their habitats.
Every species needs a habitat, where an animal finds food, raises its young. Unfortunately, humans destroy animal habitats in a number of different ways: building houses, clearing forests to getlumberand to plant crops, draining rivers to bring water to those crops, and making streets and parking lots.
In addition, human development pollutes the environment with all kinds of chemicals, which destroys food sources and shelters for the creatures and plants of that area. As a result, some species die out while others are pushed into areas where they can’t find food and shelters — to make matters worse, when one animal population suffers, it affects many other species in its food web, so more than one species’population is likely to decrease.
Habitat destruction is the number one reason for animal endangerment, which is why conservation groups work hard to repair the effects of human developments — many non-profit groups like the Nature Conservancy are taking measures to clean up coastlines and establish nature preserves to prevent further harm to native environments and species around the world.
12. A species is considered endangered________.
A. when the IUCN has noticed its population change
B. when most of its population has died off
C. when the species’ birth rate is close to its death rate
D. when the species is losing its habitat
13. What does the underlined word “lumber” probably mean?
A. Gas.
B. Food.
C. Chemicals.
D. Wood.
14. What is being done to protect the endangered species?
A. Calling for human development.
B. Raising money.
C. Establishing nature preserves.
D. Educating people.
15. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Habitat destruction causes animal endangerment.
B. Animals die out due to environment pollution.
C. Measures need to be taken to increase species.
D. Non-profit groups are making great contributions.
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
Finding an outlet for emotion
Finland is fertile (肥沃的) ground for heavy metal music. For every 100,000 people, there are 70 metal bands, according to Medium. Heavy metal’s characteristic aggression and loudness attack listeners with brute (粗暴的) force.___16___
The cold and sometimes severe climate has contributed to the population’s interest in heavier forms of rock. “When someone is surrounded by cold and dark for long periods of time, it is only natural that some form of depression will start to set in,” the website A Metal State Of Mind noted. “How do many Finns combat the depression, release the negative energy, and make themselves feel more positive?___17___”
According to Medium, most Finnish people are emotionally restrained (克制的). Whatever emotions — soft or hard — they feel, they keep them inside. “I feel that the emotional introversion (内向性) also has to do with the fact that we often want to keep things private.___18___One has to appear ‘strong’ at all costs,” Ida-Katharina
Kiljander, one of the lead singers of the Oulu-based metal band Mournful Lines, told Medium.
___19___
“The reason why heavy metal might reflect the Finnish mentality is probably because we are so private that it is difficult to discuss our feelings, but still we need an outlet to deal with these negative emotions,” explained Kiljander.
___20___Those who tend to keep their emotions inside may find themselves drawn to a medium or genre that allows them to do the opposite — something that Finland has made loud and clear with its growing number of heavy metal fans.
A. However, heavy metal music offers a way to express these emotions.
B. Every year, thousands of “metalheads” gather at Finland’s many metal festivals, especially during summer.
C. But why does this seemingly extreme form of music thrive in the Nordic country of Finland?
D. It has not been socially acceptable to show great emotions, for example anger or sadness.
E. Just as the Chinese proverb goes, “Where you live makes you who you are.”
F. Emotional introversion is a form of learned behavior in Finland and the roots go back quite far in history.
G. There is no one form of music more tailored to the release of the negative more than metal.
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My mother sewed dresses. She worked in a factory by____21____and brought home dresses at night. She had to____22____my brother, my sister, and me. My father had died when I was ten.
Every night when she____23____, I would meet my mother at the train stop and help her carry home a lot of unsewn cloth. She’d start to____24____as soon as she got home. She’d stop to make us____25____, and after that, while we kids read or listened to music, she would____26____over her sewing machine again to continue sewing dresses. Sometimes she’d get her thumb caught under the sewing____27____. She’d cry out in pain but____28____a bandage and go back to work. Watching her made me____29____to be so good at something I loved that my mother wouldn’t have to work again.
I sat next to my mother as she_____30_____. Every now and then she’d_____31_____up pieces of new cloth to be sewn, feel the dress between her fingers, and set it aside_____32_____. She’d say, “ I only work on quality dresses.” Our family needed_____33_____. But my mother would not sew a_____34_____that was not up to her_____35_____. She showed me that people should take_____36_____in what they do.
I thought of my mother years later as I began my career, enjoyed_____37_____, and faced setbacks. I was
determined to be so successful to make up for all my mother had_____38_____for us. But when a producer told me to record a song I considered silly or_____39_____, I’d think of my mother and tell him, “Sorry, I only work on_____40_____material.”
21. A. night B. day C. chance D. choice
22. A. support B. impress C. attract D. comfort
23. A. left B. returned C. escaped D. wandered
24. A. rest B. read C. sew D. cook
25. A. supper B. lunch C. breakfast D. snack
26. A. hand B. take C. run D. bend
27. A. shelf B. board C. needle D. head
28. A. show up B. fill up C. hold on D. put on
29. A. demanded B. determined C. supposed D. reminded
30. A. worked B. laughed C. talked D. cried
31. A. sum B. make C. pick D. do
32. A. quickly B. silently C. privately D. happily
33. A. help B. money C. service D. hope
34. A. collar B. button C. pocket D. dress
35. A. standards B. rules C. spirits D. preferences
36. A. part B. comfort C. pride D. interest
37. A. success B. fun C. anger D. shyness
38. A. offered B. sacrificed C. experienced D. abandoned
39. A. harmless B. careless C. senseless D. hopeless
40. A. quantity B. ability C. authority D. quality
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
Written in Bone
You may never write words on an oracle bone（甲骨）or tortoise shell, but you might see them in a museum. They are what we call “the oracle bone scripts（手迹）
___41.___（celebrate）the 120th anniversary of the___42.___（discover）of these scripts, the National Museum of China is running an exhibition called Zheng Gu Ze Jin（证古泽今）.It runs through December 22.
According toChina Daily, the exhibition addresses the___43.___（significance）meaning of the oracle bones to the past and present of an ancient continually evolving civilization”.
The earliest confirmed evidence shows that more than 3.000 years ago, people in the late Shang Dynasty___44.___（start）to write characters on pieces of bones and turtle shells. The oracle bone scripts are records of divinations(占卜）and prayers to the gods from people in that era.
The scripts are pictograms（象形文字）.They come from pictures of the objects___45.___they refer to. "The oracle bone scripts, as___46.___earliest known and mature form of Chinese characters, present the beauty and uniqueness of a language that has been passed down___47.___（continuous），" said Chen Nan, a professor of Tsinghua University's Academy of Art and Design. Apart___48.___learning the past, oracle bone scripts also have an influence on today.
The society producing the oracle bone scripts shared many of the characteristics___49.___（recognize）today as typically Chinese. "These valuable inscriptions from China show that the memory recorded in the documentary heritage（遗产）is an irreplaceable way of transmitting tradition, culture and historical___50.___（aware）. Marielza Oliveira, director of UNESCO's Beijing office, toldChina Daily.
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：在错的词下画一横线，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。

It fills my heart with two feelings until I pick up my pen to write to you. One is the great joy of having landed a foreign country for post-graduation. The other, obviously, is the sadness of be away from you all.
I actually felt tired after having travelled by air for such many hours. Then getting settling also exhausted me. Although the college and the lecturers are the second to none in perfectness, at several moments I felt like bursting into tear. I felt extreme homesick. Finally, that has not been overcome totally, so far. Yes, one had to be strong, in the end.
There is a number of things to share but I will stop myself here.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，梅州市电视台将举办《中国书法大赛》（Chinese Calligraphy Contest）国际友人专场，你想邀请对中国文化感兴趣的外籍老师Smith参赛。

请给他写一封信，内容包括：
1.时间：2021年7月27日；
2.地点：客家公园（Hakka Park）；3 .书法比赛的意义。

注意：1.词数80左右：
2 .可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Smith,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. D
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. D 9. C 10. C 11. A
12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A
16. C 17. G 18. D 19. A 20. E
21. B 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. A 26. D 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. A 31. C 32.
D 33. B 34. D 35. A 36. C 37. A 38. B 39. C 40. D
41. To celebrate
42. discovery
43. significant
44. started
45. that/which
46. the/an 47. continuously
48. from 49. recognized
50. awareness
51.(1).until→when
(2).在a前面加on
(3).be→being
(4).such→so
(5).settling→settled
(6).将second前面的the去掉
(7).tear→tears
(8).extreme→extremely
(9).had→has
(10).is→are
52.略。