2021年上海市闸北第二中学高三英语上学期期末试卷及参考答案

2021年上海市闸北第二中学高三英语上学期期末试卷及参考答案
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
Kate Humble: Books that changed my life
Kate Humble is a writer and broadcaster specializing in science, wildlife and rural affairs. Together with her husband site runs Humble by Nature, a rural skills education centre on working farm near Monmouth intheWyeValley.
Winnie the Pooh
by A A Milne
My father used to read this to me when I was very young — he used different voices for all the animals. The characterization (角色设定) was so clever; we all know someone just like each inhabitant of the HundredAcre Wood: gloomy Eeyore; thick but loyal Pooh; enthusiastic Tigger.
A A Milne was masterful in exploring the way they got along together, opening my eyes to how society really works.
Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
This book tells of the authors, adventures as they set out to find the rarest of animals, those on the edge of extinction.
Their travels are rather exciting and they share a wonderful humour, which really appealed to me. Yet underpinning (支撑) everything is the realization that we can't just sit back and allow species to disappear. PicturePalace
by Paul Theroux
I've always loved Theroux's travel writing, but this novel took my breath away. The words aren't long or complicated but, fromthat first paragraph, his writing grabs you by the nose hairs and drags you along. I had an art teacher who told me, “You're only an artist when you've found your own style, not when you're copying someone else, and Theroux represents this.”
1. Why did the author mention the characterization ofWinnie the Pooh?
A. To indicate the book has realistic values.
B. To show how adorable the characters are.
C. To persuade people to learn from the characters.
D. To prove the writer is good at creating characters.
2. What didLast Chance to Seestrike into Kate's heart?
A. Curiosity.
B. Responsibility.
C. Exploration.
D. Devotion.
3. Which writer does Kate Humble like for his original writing?
A. A A Milne.
B. Douglas Adams.
C. Mark Carwardine.
D. Paul Theroux.
B
In Colombia a group, named WebConserva, is carrying out a project in the San Lucas Mountains with the help of coffee growers.
The San Lucas area is one of the most unexplored places in Colombia, which is home to many thousands of species of animals and plants. Yet gold mining and coca farming have dealt a blow to its ecosystem. To limit additional development in the San Lucas area, the group helps coffee growers by linking them with processors from around the country.
Colombia has more different kinds of living things than any other country except neighboring Brazil. In 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ending years of civil war. As a result, more land became accessible for use, with deforestation(毁林) coming along. Government information shows that in 2017, almost 220,000 hectares of forest were destroyed compared to around 124,000 hectares in 2015.
To date, the project includes 10 families who farm 400 hectares of coffee plants, which costs about $77,000 dollars a year. WebConserva hopes that, in time, 200 families will be included. At that level, 20,000 hectares of untouched forest could be protected. In San Lucas, the families promise not to cut down trees to expand their crops or to hunt wild animals from the forests. In return, they receive $ 250 to $ 300 per 125 kilograms of coffee, an enviable amount there. Arcadio Barajas is among those taking part. His new coffee plantation(种植园) makes a barrier between cattle farms and forests where wild animals like the jaguar live and hunt. In this way, he doesn't have to kill wild animals to protect his cattle.
Barajas said that pulling down the forest to plant coca and killing wildlife were against his will. Now he feels that growing coffee lets him be astewardof the land. "I'm taking care of the environment, the forest and the
animals," he said.
4. Why does WebConserva set up the project?
A. To help local farmers make money.
B. To expand areas of coffee growing.
C. To link processors with coffee growers.
D. To conserve biodiversity in the Mountains.
5. What happened after Colombia’s civil war was over?
A. Colombia helped many needy families.
B. Colombia lost lots of areas of forests.
C. Colombia started to save damaged forests.
D. Colombia became more peaceful than Brazil.
6. Which is probably a function of Barajas's coffee plantation?
A. A method of protecting cattle and wildlife.
B. A substitute for hunting of wild animals.
C. A barrier between man and wild animals.
D. A shelter for cattle against human hunters.
7. What does the underlined word "steward" mean in the last paragraph?
A. Farmer.
B. Master.
C. Guardian.
D. Explorer.
C
What about your emotions? How do they help you to understand what you are reading?
In Jane Yolan'sOwl Moon,a girl explores with her father on a snowy night. She longs for this special night.And she's amazed when she sees an owl.Have you felt longing before? Amazement? Well, if you have, it helps you have a sense of agreement. When we can put ourselves inside a story we can understand it better. Our brain tells us,"Oh, this girl's experience is a bit like mine."And boom! We can relate to her.But this skill is not born in us.So young kids have to learn it.
Pictures and images help young readers to understand and recognize feelings.Readers feel joy when seeing the smiling faces of friends.They feel fear when turning the page to find a scary monster. They are just pictures,but the feelings are real. This skill, to understand the thinking and feeling of others, is what researchers call "theory of mind".
For example, think about the faces of people and animals in stories. The Big Bad Wolf's scary teeth. The 'o' shape of a surprised character's mouth. Or big, wide eyes like the girl inOwl Moon.By noticing the faces,readers can start to figure out what it feels like to be that character.And that helps to figure out how people feel and think in real life.
But most young readers don't go into deep,scary woods.And some may not go to the beach or play basketball.In the bookYo!Yes?two kids meet and play ball. The kids start the story on opposite pages.But as the story goes on,they get closer until they are together.Some young readers might not play basketball, but they can read the clues on the page to figure out how the kids are feeling.And some readers might not like the game,but they can feel excited for the characters because of how the characters look and move.
8. What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.Owl Moontalks about the exploration of the Moon.
B. The feeling of"amazement"is a sense of agreement.
C. Readers are blessed with the ability to interpret others.
D. Readers with similar experience understand the story better.
9. Which of the following might help readers develop"theory of mind"?
A. True feelings.
B. Smiling faces.
C. Picture books.
D. Reading skills.
10. Young readers can go deeper into a story by________.
A. tracking the plot
B. developing new skills
C. sharing similar hobbies
D. analyzing the background
11. What is the text mainly about?
A. How thinking influences reading.
B. How readers improve reading skills.
C. How emotions help enhance reading.
D. How kids figure out the clues of stories.
D
Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that others can have a better life.
Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she went to college and studied to be a teacher. After college, she became a teacher. Dolores noticed that many of her students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she could help them.
Dolores liked teaching but she decided to quit her job so that she could spend more time helping her students and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for their parents, farm workers. Thus they could buy their children what they needed.
Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of fruits and vegetables, like grapes and tomatoes. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote. Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy. Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got fair pay for their work. She knew that nothing would change unless new laws were made to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were passed that gave farm workers fair pay.
Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working people. She has shown how much one person can change things.
12. What did Dolores find about her students?
A. They worked hard to make a living.
B. They lived far away from schools.
C. They had little time to play.
D. They were hungry sometimes.
13. Why did Dolores stop teaching?
A. She wished to be a lawyer.
B. She moved to another place.
C. She wanted to help her students more.
D. She got little money by teaching.
14. Thanks to Dolores’ great effort, the farm workers ________.
A. got better jobs
B. got fair pay
C. had more time off
D. had a settled way of life
15. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. One person can make big changes.
B. One can change their jobs often.
C. One person can work hard for others.
D. One can make life better by themselves.
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
Mystery of Evolution
Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia(NCP), also named COVID-19 by WHO, there is a general fear of the unknown virus as its full effects remain to be seen. Fever, coughing, sore throat, difficulty
breathing-the NCP's symptoms are similar to the common cold or the flu. but it's potentially more dangerous.
Viruses could be deadly, like HIV and Ebola (埃博拉) . But what are viruses? How can they cause so much trouble? Viruses are non-living organisms (有机体) approximately one-millionth of an inch long. Unlike human cells or bacteria, they can't reproduce on their own.___16___
Viruses can infect every living thing-from plants and animals down to the smallest bacteria. For this reason, they always have the potential to be dangerous to human life. Sometimes a virus can cause a disease so serious that it is fatal. Other viral infections cause no noticeable reaction. Viruses lie around our environment all of the time, waiting for a host cell to come along. They can eater our bodies by the nose, mouth, eyes or breaks in the skin.___17___For example, HIV, which causes AIDS. attacks the T-cells of the immune system.
But the basic question is, where did viruses first come from?____18____"Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult. " Ed Rybicki, a virologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, told Scientific American, "because viruses don't leave fossils (化石) and because of the tricks they use to make copies of themselves within the cells they've invaded."___19___First, viruses started as independent organisms, then became parasites (寄生者) . Second. viruses evolved from pieces of DNA or RNA that "escaped" from larger organisms. Third, viruses co-evolved with their host cells, which means they existed alongside these cells.
For the time being, these are only theories. The technology and evidence we have today cannot be used to test these theories and identify the most plausible explanation.___20___Or future studies may reveal that the answer is even murkier (含糊不清的) than it now appears.
A. Once inside, they try to find a host cell to infect.
B. Until now, no clear explanation for their origin exists.
C. Continuing studies may provide us with clearer answers.
D. There's pretty strong evidence that this is a bat origin coronavirus.
E. However, there are three main hypotheses (假说) to explain the origin of viruses.
F. Instead, they invade the cells of living organisms to reproduce, spread and take over.
G. Bat is a flying mammal with a long lifespan, whose temperature is high, similar to a fever.
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Each of us struggles for self-respect and self-worth to some degree. I spent much time trying to achieve perfection in every aspect of my life.
I was a happy kid with a lot of friends and a supportive family. But growing up was really___21___and even
scary sometimes.
During my childhood, I was constantly involved in something that included people's views about my achievements or my___22___. I wanted everyone's praise and acceptance, but I was my own toughestcritic(挑剔的人).
After I graduated from high school, my___23___to be "thin" began to trouble me. I began trying to diet by___24___my food.
In the beginning, I felt great — attractive and successful, almost superhuman. I even thought that I was better than everyoneelse. What I didn't see was that I was slowly___25___myself.
People around me began to___26___my weight loss. They said with concern. "You're losing too much weight." "Elisa,you're so thin." All their words only suggested that I was getting closer to "___27___".
Sadly, I took my physical___28___as the first important thing in my life,___29___that it was the way to become successful and accepted.
Then I cut down on my___30___more and more, until a___31___day consisted of half a teaspoon of nonfat yogurt in the morning and a cup of grape juice at night.
But my poor___32___began to cause me to lose___33___. Then one night, like many nights before, I couldn't sleep, and felt as though my heart might beat out of my chest. I tried to___34___, but I couldn’t. The beating became so rapid and so strong that I could no longer___35___. What I had done to diet nearly caused me to have a heart attack. I stood up, and immediately fell down. I was really___36___, and I knew I needed help. My roommate rushed me to the___37___, and then I began the long road to my___38___. It took a lot — doctors, nurses, nutritionists, food supplements...
And more importantly, a sense of what was true about myself got my life back on track with reality. I realized that, with my___39___of trying to be "perfect" on the___40___, I had sacrificed who I was on the inside. What I know now is, we are — each and every one of us — already perfect.
21. A.natural B.easy C.hard D.rapid
22. A.performances B.backgrounds C.scores D.failures
23. A.problem B.desire C.way D.promise
24. A.controlling B.checking C.collecting D.balancing
25. A.killing B.forgetting C.asking D.questioning
26. A.help B.accept C.reject D.notice
27. A.perfection B.devotion C.ambition D.attention
28. A.strength B.exercise C.appearance D.examination
29. A.believing B.realizing C.pretending D.declaring
30. A.expense B.movement C.food D.travel
31. A.pleasant B.difficult C.typical D.different
32. A.memory B.nutrition C.knowledge D.taste
33. A.weight B.hope C.sleep D.heart
34. A.relax B.walk C.cry D.talk
35. A.breathe B.resist C.wake D.remember
36. A.scared B.annoyed C.discouraged D.disappointed
37. A.bed B.hospital C.school D.office
38. A.glory B.discovery C.recovery D.victory
39. A.skill B.decision C.experience D.deal
40. A.whole B.face C.mind D.outside
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
Last week, 100 restaurants across Shanghai advocated the use of serving utensils(器皿), as it is a key point for the control and ____41.____(prevent) of the COVID-19.
Chinese people often eat together and share their___42.___(dish) with others. The new system suggests___43.___(add) separate chopsticks and spoons for serving when people dine together. Such a change of etiquette(礼仪) allows diners___44.___(avoid) using their own chopsticks to pick food from the same dishes, and therefore____45.____(great) reduces the chances of transmission of many diseases.
Many restaurants____46.____(adopt) the policy after the Municipal Office for Civilized Society published the proposal,___47.___also encourages the public to use separate utensils for shared dishes at home.
According to Qu Qi, a person in charge___48.___a restaurant in Xuhui, a sign___49.___(put ) up on the tables to inform people of the importance of using serving utensils, since eating in was resumed on February 21. The waiters and waitresses are also trained to supply a separate spoon or pair of chopsticks for the diners. So far,____50.____service has been well received by the majority of the public.
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。

I took the Harvard Summer School program in my vacation. During my stay there, I spent many time studying in the main library Widener. I enjoyed myself in the ocean of knowledge, either doing research for my papers or read special edition books. The library, that is named after its donor Harry Widener, stands right next the Emerson building of philosophy. Opening a pair of heavy yet elegant metal door, I was immediately bathed in warm light. I wandered around the library, fascinating to find one treasure after other.
The library is a amazing place. Only if when one visits the library can he fully experience the academic atmosphere. For me, the library as well as the courses explain Harvard’s place as the home of devoted scholars.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Thana was a postman. His service range covered Vinayak Mudali street and its four nearby roads. It took him nearly six hours to cover the area. That was because he tried to be friendly with peopleforwhom he brought letters. He used to take personal interest in their lives and problems. He would comfort one, offer help to another and give hope to the third. On hot days, he would enjoy buttermilk at someone’s house. He had thus become a part of their life. Everybody liked him.
Thana was most friendly with Raman, a senior clerk in the bank office. Raman had a 23-year- old daughter named Kama, who was a tall, beautiful young lady. These days, Raman was worrying about her marriage and told Thana that his father, whose health was failing, was anxious to see his granddaughter get married soon. The old man, living in another city, had set apart five thousand rupees for her marriage. The old man blamed that Raman was not making enough efforts for his daughter's marriage. Thana comforted Raman and offered to contact the parents of a young man who lived in Delhi. They quickly arranged a blind date for Kama and the young man, who fell in love at the first sight.
Everything went smoothly. At last their wedding day came on May 20th. The wedding party was full of sweet smell of flowers and wines. Everyone in the neighbourhood came. Raman, in high spirits, talked with guests and laughed all the time. The pity was that grandpa didn't show up because of his worsening health. Thana went to the wedding and brought Raman several letters of congratulation. Thana congratulated the young couple, calling
them a perfect match. The young couple smiled happily and thanked him for his help and warm-heartedness.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Para 1:
The following day, Thana brought a telegram far Raman that informed him of his beloved father's death.
Para 2:
When Raman took a second look at the telegram, he started shouting at Thana, “Why? Look at the date, May 20th. It was a delay.”
参考答案
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. D 9. C 10. A 11. C
12. D 13. C 14. B 15. A
16. F 17. A 18. B 19. E 20. C
21. C 22. D 23. B 24. A 25. A 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. A 30. C 31. C 32.
B 33.
C 34. A 35. A 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. C 40. D
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42. dishes 43. adding
44. to avoid
45. greatly
46. adopted
47. which 48. of
49. has been put
50. the
51.(1). many→much (2). read→reading (3).that→which (4). next后面加to (5). door→doors (6).fascinating→fascinated (7). other→another (8). a→an (9). if或者when去掉(10). explain→explains
52.略。