2020-2021学年西宁市第四中学高三英语期中试卷及参考答案

2020-2021学年西宁市第四中学高三英语期中试卷及参考答案
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
Children under the age of 18 will be allowed up to three hours per week to play video games, according to a notice issued by China's National Press and Publication Administration. Online game companies are required to provide services to minors — from8 to 9 p. m. on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays — as a way to safeguard their physical and mental health. Children are playing more and more online games these days. Is it time to limit their online gaming time? What role do parents have? Readers share their opinions.
Rizlared
Online games are addictive, but if children are taught how to manage in a sensible and responsible manner then it is no longer a threat(威胁).To achieve this, parents need to set examples for not being glued to their phones. Teaching is and always will be the best solution to such problems.
Andrew
Good policy. By limiting time spent on online games, kids can spend time doing more useful things to develop their potential. They can go outside and run, jump and swim instead of sitting on a couch at home and playing with a smart phone.
Adam
It is often seen that parents argue with children over cellphones. Most parents can hardly set and enforce the time limit for its daily usage. Some forcibly take away their cellphones, but it will ruin trust and relationship. Even worse, it will make their kids hate them.
Pink
Excessive(过度的）gaming is purely a waste of time and energy for minors and has a negative effect on both physical and mental health. The gaming industry should not put profit- flaking interests as its priority (优先事项) . They should act in a socially responsible way toprovide an environment for children to ensure their well-being and development.
Lauren
There would be a loophole(漏洞). Children could use their parents’ or other adults’ IDs to avoid real-name registration, thus making it impossible to put this policy in effect. Parents ly need to strengthen guidance and
supervision to keep their children from gaming addiction.
1. What should kids do according to Andrew?
A. Play online games.
B. Play with a smart phone.
C. Study all the time.
D. Go in for outside activities.
2. What does Pink advise the gaming industry to do?
A. Pay attention to its profit.
B. Focus on kids’ health.
C. Be responsible for kids’ surroundings.
D. Persuade kids lo play more games.
3. What role do parents have according to the passage?
A. They keep hold of their phones.
B. They set examples for their kids.
C. They limit their kids’ time.
D. They blame kids for addiction.
B
When Rich Jean wanted to help his daughter, Abigail, learn to read, he took her to the library near their home in Brooklyn, N. Y. That's where they met Hasina Islam, who Jean says arose her interest in reading and the library.
“You see what you started? You see that spark that you put in this child?” Jean told Hasina Islam at aStoryCorpsconversation in 2016. At the time, Abigail was 7 and Islam was 27. Their friendship began when Abigail was 3. Through the years, Islam has offered book suggestions that Abigail has read with great enthusiasm. “What's cool is that Hasina has recommended a lot of books that I, at the time, thought might be a little too advanced for you," Jean told Abigail. “Like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Abigail said.
Islam's own love of the library was sparked when she was in the third grade. She lived near the main branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City, and she went there to research Henry Hudson, an English explorer, for a school project.
"The librarian made me feel so special. She remembered my name, and my favorite thing was that she gave me book recommendations," she said." When I was graduating from college, I thought about how I was going to make a difference in the world. And I remembered my librarian，and I remembered that feeling that she gave me every single time I went to the library. ”
4. When might Abigail and Hasina Islam first meet?
A. In 2012.
B. In 2016.
C. In 2018.
D. In 2020.
5. What do we know about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from the text?
A. It was Islam's favorite book.
B. It might be hard for Abigail.
C. It was a best seller at that time.
D. It was important for Abigail.
6. How did Hasina Islam help Abigail?
A. By offering books to her.
B. By reading together with her.
C. By giving advice on books.
D. By introducing great libraries.
7. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. Islam's special college life.
B. Islam's working experiences.
C Islam's living conditions. D. Islam's reasons for loving library.
C
A cheap printed sensor could transmit wildfire warnings. Wildfires have recently destroyed regions across the world, and theirgravityis increasing. Hoping to reduce harm, researchersled by Yapei Wang, a Chinese chemist ofRenminUniversity, say they have developed an inexpensive sensor to detect such fires earlier with less effort.
Current detection methods rely heavily on human watchfulness, which can delay an effective response. Most wildfires are reported by the general public, and other alerts come from routine foot patrols and watchtower observers. Passing planes and satellites also occasionally spot something, but “the fire first appears on the ground," Wang says. “ When you see the fire from the sky, it is too late. ”
The team says its new sensor can be placed near tree trunks' bases and send a wireless signal to a nearby receiver if there is a dramatic temperature increase. That heat also powers the sensor itself, without replacing batteries. The team printed the substances onto ordinary paper to create a sensor for just $ 0.40.
But improving coordination among the different agencies involved in firefighting is even more crucial to address, says Graham Kent, an earthquake expert at theUniversityofNevada,Reno, who was not part of the study.Kentis director of ALERTWildfire, a network that uses cameras and crowd sourcing to watch for fires inCalifornia,NevadaandOregon. “The whole way that you respond to a fire until it's put out is like a ballet," he says. “You'd have to choreograph (设计) it just so, with resources precisely used at the right time and place and in the right order from detection to confirmation to assignment to extinguishment (熄灭).Fire detection is just step one.
Wang says his team's next steps are to extend the device'ssignal range beyond the current 100 meters, which can limit practical use, and to develop a protective shield for it. The transmitter's effectiveness, he notes, will also need to be examined in the field ahead.
8. What does the underlined word “gravity” in paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Pull.
B. Extinction.
C. Popularity.
D. Severity.
9. What do we know about the sensor?
A. Its price remains high.
B. Its batteries are replaceable.
C. It can detect fires earlier and easier.
D. It can reduce firefighters' pain.
10. What doesKentmean in paragraph 4?
A. Firefighting is easy but crucial.
B. Fire detection resources are rich.
C. Putting out a fire is an orderly activity.
D. Technology is the key to extinguishing a fire.
11. What's the plan for the new sensor according to Wang?
A. Improving and testing it.
B. Limiting its use and transmission.
C. Examing and reducing its signal range.
D. Getting it on the market ahead of time.
D
One weekend I went toBuffaloto talk at a writers' conference organized by a group of women writers. The women were serious about their writing skills, and the articles they had written were solid and useful. They asked me to take part in a radio talk show earlier in the week to publicize the conference-they would be with the host in the studio and I would be on a telephone linking from my apartment inNew York.
The appointed evening arrived, and my phone rang, and the host came on and greeted me. He said he had three lovely ladies in the studio with him and he was eager to find out what we all thought of the present state of literature and what advice we had for all his listeners who were members of the literati and had literary ambitions themselves.This hearty introduction dropped like a stone among us, and none of the three lovely ladies said anything, which I thought was the proper response.
The silence lengthened, and finally I said, “I think we should stop mentioning the words literature and literary and literati. We're here to talk about the skills of writing.” Iknew that the host had been given information about what kind of writers we were and what we wanted to discuss. But he had no other preparation. "Tell me what insights do you have about the literary experience inAmericatoday?” Silence also greeted this question.
He didn’t know what to do with that, and he began to mention the names of authors like Ernest Hemingway
and Saul Bellow and William Styron, whom we surely regarded as literary giants. We said those writers didn't happen to be our models, and we mentioned people like Lewis Thomas and Joan Didion and Gary Wills, whom he hadn't heard of. We explained that these were writers we admired. “But don't you want to write anything literary?” our host said We were speechless.
It was one of the all-time upset radio talk shows.
12. What do we know about the talk show?
A. It was organized by women writers.
B. It was publicized at the conference.
C. The author went toBuffaloto take part in it.
D. The author participated in it inNew York.
13. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean?
A. The introduction struck us heavily with a stone.
B. The introduction received embarrassing response.
C. The introduction increased the listeners' interest.
D. The introduction carried the host's praise for us.
14. What was the author's reaction when the host mentioned the three great literary- giants?
A. Excited.
B. Inspired.
C. Uninterested.
D. Satisfied.
15. Who may be the author's model?
A. Joan Didion.
B. Ernest Hemingway.
C. Saul Bellow.
D. William Styron.
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 want to improve your spoken English?______16______
Repeat the language!
Repeat words and sentences over and over again until you can say them really fluently（流利地). For example, say“I went to the shops, I went to the shops” repeatedly.___17___Then later when you're speaking, if it’s come out naturally.
___18___
First, write out in note form (笔记形式)the story you want to tell, and then use those notes to practise telling the story. Just choose any story you like, and practise telling it.
Memorize language!
___19___You can do this by writing them out, or by speaking them out loud so that you’ll be speaking normally (正常地). And the more you do this, the more they’ll stick in your mind.
Practise forming questions!
Look at a sentence and see if you can change that into a question.___20___So,for example, when seeing the sentence, “She’s seen the film,” you need to change it into the question, “Has she seen the film?” And the more you do this, the more fluent and quicker you’ll get at making questions.
A. Practise telling stories!
B. Listen to English!
C. Try to remember as many phrases and expressions as you can.
D. Read your coursebook (课本)or a magazine.
E. Here are four quick tips for you.
F. Making questions is quite difficult if you haven’t been practising it.
G. The more you say it, the more it becomes fixed in your brain (刻在脑子里).
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Something extraordinary happened at LA airport today. I was at the gate,___21___to get on my plane toPortland. Suddenly, a___22___boy who looked to be eighteen months was having a total breakdown(崩溃),___23___between the seats, kicking(踢)and screaming(尖叫), then lying on the ground, refusing to board the___24___.
His young mom, who was clearly pregnant(怀孕的)and traveling___25___with her son, became completely___26___. She couldn't___27___her son because he was lying down on the ground, kicking and___28___. The mother finally sat down on the floor and put her___29___in her hands, with her son next to her.
Then, this gorgeous(极好的)thing happened. Six or seven____30____in the airport approached and____31____the poor mother and thelittle boy. We knelt down and formed a circle. I sangThe Itsy Bitsy Spiderto the little boy. One woman had a little____32____in her bag that she let the boy play with, another woman gave the mom a newly-bought____33____of water. Someone else____34____the mom to get the kid's cup out of her bag and give it to him. It was so____35____, because there was no____36____and no one knew anyone else, but we were able to calm them both down, and she got her child on the plane.
After they____37____the door we all went back to our____38____seats and didn't talk about it We were strangers, gathering to____39____problems. It occurred to me that a circle of women, with a mission(使命), can____40____the world.
21. A. waiting B. begging C. leaving D. standing
22. A. clever B. little C. dirty D. hungry
23. A. dashing B. yelling C. running D. listening
24. A. boat B. taxi C. train D. plane
25. A. angrily B. freshly C. alone D. lonely
26. A. lost B. careful C. grateful D. old
27. A. set up B. take in C. put down D. pick up
28. A. speaking B. screaming C. jumping D. laughing
29. A. shoulder B. head C. eyes D. ears
30. A. women B. people C. professors D. members
31. A. talked B. neglected C. questioned D. surrounded
32. A. dog B. toy C. gun D. coat
33. A. cup B. bowl C. bag D. bottle
34. A. refused B. forced C. helped D. allowed
35. A. boring B. dangerous C. gorgeous D. interesting
36. A. discussion B. need C. time D. room
37. A. looked into B. turned into C. went through D. heard of
38. A. priceless B. wood C. common D. separate
39. A. solve B. produce C. analyze D. forget
40. A. destroy B. save C. cheat D. win
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
As we all know, the pollution of air, water and soil are the most serious problems. The____41.____(pollute) air, which causes diseases and deaths, does great harm____42.____people’s health. What’s more, vegetation (植被) has been greatly reduced with the rapid____43.____(develop) of the modern city.____44.____(protect)the environment, governments of many countries have done a lot. In the past few years, legislative (立法的) steps____45.____(introduce) to control air pollution. Governments are playing the most important role
in____46.____(environment) protection today. In my opinion, the government must take even more concrete measures. First, it should let people fully realize____47.____importance of environment through education. Second, much more efforts should be made to put the population planning policy into effect, because more people means more pollution. Finally, those____48.____destroy the environment intentionally (有意地) should be____49.____(severe) punished. Everyone should be aware that____50.____(destroy) environment means destroying mankind themselves.
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( \ )划掉。

修改:在错的词下画横线，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词；
只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

The other day my brother and I went to the cinema by bicycle. My brother were riding with I sitting on the seat behind. As we got the first crossroads, a young man and a girl came up but stopped us. "We've found you at last," they say. But we didn't know them. Point to a policeman not far away, the young man explained, "He stopped us about half an hours ago and made us catch the next offender. Hope you don't have to wait as long as we did. Just be patience. Good a luck." We realized final that we had broken the traffic rules.
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。

续写的词数应为150左右。

Jenny was the only child in her home. She had a quarrel with her mother that afternoon and she ran out of the house angrily. She couldn’t help weeping sorrowfully when she thought of the scolding from her mother. Having wandered aimlessly in the street for hours, she felt a little hungry and wished for something to eat, but it was not possible for her, since she had nothing with her. She stood beside a stand for a while, watching the middle-aged seller busy doing his business. However, with no money in hand, she sighed and had to leave.
The seller behind the stand noticed the young girl and asked, “Hey, girl, you want to have the noodles?”
“Oh, yes...but I don’t have money on me…” she replied.
“That’s nothing. I’ll treat you today,” said the man. “Come in.”
The seller brought her a bowl of noodles, whose smell was so attractive. As she was eating, Jenny cried silently.
“What is it?” asked the man kindly.
“Nothing, actually I was just touched by your kindness!” said Jenny as she wiped her tears. “Even a stranger on the street will give me a bowl of noodles, while my mother drove me out of the house. She showed no care for me. She is so merciless compared to a stranger!!”
Hearing the words, the seller smiled, “Girl, do you really think so? I only gave you a bowl of noodles and you thanked me a lot. But it is your mother who has raised you since you were a baby. Can you number the times she cooked for you? Have you expressed your gratitude to her?”
Jenny sat there, speechless and numb with shock; she remembered mother’s familiar face and weathered hands. “Why did I not think of that? A bowl of noodles from a stranger made me feel indebted, but I have never thanked my mum for what she has done for me.”
On the way home, Jenny made up her mind to make an apology to her mother for her rudeness as soon as she arrived home.
注意:
1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2）续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好.
Paragraph 1:
Approaching the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________
Paragraph 2:
A gentle touch on her hair called her mind back.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. C
7. D
8. D 9. C 10. C 11. A
12. D 13. B 14. C 15. A
16. E 17. G 18. A 19. C 20. F
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. D 25. C 26. A 27. D 28. B 29. B 30. A 31. D 32.
B 33. D 34.
C 35. C 36. A 37. C 38.
D 39. A 40. B
41. polluted
42. to 43. development
44. To protect
45. have been introduced
46. environmental
47. the 48. who
49. severely
50. destroying
51.(1). were → was
(2). I → me
(3). got后加to
(4). but → and
(5). say → said
(6). Point → Pointing
(7). hours→ hour
(8). patience→ patient
(9). 去掉a
(10). final→ finally
52.略。