2019-2020学年无锡天一实验学校高三英语上学期期中考试试题及答案解析

2019-2020学年无锡天一实验学校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
WashingtonD.C.Sightseeing
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TheOldTownTrolley Tour
It offers something for the whole family. Not only will it give them something fun to do, but it will give them a history lesson. This tour will last about three hours and it’s proper for people of all ages.
African American History Tour
Be sure to take this tour because African Americans have had an important role in the making of our country. Take this historical four-hour tour, where you will visit some important sites includingMuseumofAfrican American Historyand Culture.
Comedy WalksWashingtonD.C.
This is a great experience allowing you to enjoy the capital in a new way. The walking tour lasts for about one hour and thirty minutes, which takes place in less than a mile journey from the starting place.
D.C. Twilight Tour
Check out the D.C. Twilight Tour for a unique view of some of the most famous sites! What makes this two-hour guided tour truly unique is that you can view many wonderful sites at night time!
1. Which tour is recommended to a tourist who is fond of hiking?
A. TheOldTownTrolley Tour
B. African American History Tour
C. Comedy WalksWashington
D.C. D. D.C. Twilight Tour
2. Which tour lasts longest?
A. TheOldTownTrolley Tour
B. African American History Tour
C. Comedy WalksWashington
D.C. D. D.C. Twilight Tour
3. Where will you read this text most likely?
A. In a guidebook.
B. In a magazine.
C. In a newspaper.
D. On the Internet.
B
In the Hollywood industry, most of the studios are using AI to make movies for various reasons such as getting the actors out of danger, replacing the actors indifferent scenes, forming appealing atmosphere to enhance（增强）the views, etc.
Directors and producers are using VFX (Visual effects), animations and AI to makea model that looks like the actor and replaces the actor's place. In particular, AI is used in scenes where actor shave to produce certain stunts （特技）to develop setups in the studio artificially. VFX is used to later change the internal studio backgroundsto a different place in the movie.
There are many movies with two characters of the same actor. When AI was not a part of the film, editors used different methods to show the two aspects of the same actor in one scene, but now AI is being used to form the second character of the same actor and is being performed to the viewers.
By a perfect combination of animation, VFX and AI, realistic models are being created. And the most fun part is the fictitious character can hold the face of the actor but the age, hairstyles, and clothing can be changed to create more enhanced looks according to the movie scene and story. With the help of AI, the directors recreating appealing scenes to enhance the thrill and excitement. InJurassic Park,no dinosaurs were running but with the help of AI and visual effects, we could enjoy the scenes and the atmospheres.
The directors and the producers direct to form a green screen including the obstacles and those green screens get replaced with the views that are made from AI and VFX, and the actors make the scenes alive and deliver the most suitable action-packed movie scenes. This method also enhances the viewers' experience, which makes the movie a blockbuster（大片）.
4. What does the author intend to tell us in paragraph 1?
A. How AI helps actors.
B. What AI brings to movies.
C. Why AI is applied to movies.
D. Where AI is made full use of.
5. What can we infer from paragraph 3?
A. AI can be used as an editor.
B. Editors consider AI irreplaceable.
C. Editors used many methods to replace AI.
D. AI makes what used to be complex scenes easier.
6. What's the author's attitude to using VFX, animations and AI in movies?
A. Supportive.
B. Sceptical.
C. Unconcerned.
D. Enthusiastic.
7. Which of the following could be the best title for thetext?
A. What AI Brings Out Hollywood Movies
B. Why AI Is Applied to Hollywood Movies
C. Which Hollywood Movies Make Much Use of AI
D. How AI Is Being Applied to Hollywood Movies
C
Mark Bertram lost the tips of two fingers at work in 2018 when his hand became trapped in a fan belt. “It’s life-changing but it’s not life-ending,”he says.
After two surgeries and occupational therapy, Bertram decided to ask Eric Catalano, a tattoo artist, to create fingernail tattoos. The idea made everyone in the studio laugh—until they saw the final result. “The mood changed,” Catalano recalls from his Eternal Ink Tattoo Studio in Hecker, Illinois. “Everything turned from funny to wow.”
Catalano posted a photo of the tattoos, and it eventually was viewed by millions of people around the world. The viral photo pushed Catalano, 40, further into the world of paramedical tattooing. Now people who want to cover their life-altering scars come from as far away as Ireland to visit his shop.
Leslie Pollan, a dog breeder, was bitten on the face by a puppy. She underwent countless surgeries but those gave her no hope. She ultimately traveled six hours for a session with Catalano. HecamouflagedPollan’s lip scar, giving her back confidence.
Though he is now known for his talent with intricate fingernail, Catalano uses the techniques he picked up years ago while helping breast cancer survivors. Those tattoos are among the most common paramedical requests. His grandmother had breast cancer, and her battle with the disease is one reason Catalano is so dedicated to helping those with the diagnosis.
Catalano performs up to eight reconstructive tattoos each “Wellness Wednesday”. While he charges $100 per regular tattoo, he doesn’t charge for paramedical tattoos: A GoFundMe page established last year brought in more than $16,000, allowing Catalano to donate his work.
“Financially, it doesn’t make sense,” Catalano says. “But every time I see emotions from my customers, I am
100 percent sure this is something that I can’t stop doing.”
8. How did people in the studio react to Bertram’s idea at first?
A. They took it lightly.
B. They found it creative.
C. They were confused.
D. They were impressed.
9. What does the underlined word “camouflaged” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Exposed.
B. Hid.
C. Ignored.
D. Removed.
10. What does Catalano say about his work with paramedical tattoos?
A. It is flexible.
B. It is demanding.
C. It is profitable.
D. It is rewarding.
11. Which of the following can best describe Catalano?
A. Humorous and experienced.
B. Devoted and generous.
C. Cooperative and grateful.
D. Professional and tolerant.
D
Many of us in China enjoy adding chilies (辣椒) toour food, but did you know that this spicy vegetable could also be dangerous? A 34-year-oldUSman recently ended up in hospital after eating a Carolina Reaper—the spiciest chili in the world. After taking just a single bite of one, the man suffered from serious headaches in the following few days, reported BBC News.
In fact, reports of stomachache and headache caused by eating spicy food are not something unusual. But if chilies are harmful, why is it that human beings are the only animals to eat this vegetable? According to the website Huanqiu, about 600 million Chinese people—almost half of the national population—are chili eaters. So what makes people love chilies so much? The human body reacts to the burning feeling that comes from eating chilies by releasing natural chemicals that “produce a sense of happiness” , noted BBC News.
And the benefits go even further than just personal enjoyment. A survey conducted by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences found that the death rate of those who eat spicy food once or twice a week is 10 percent lower than those who eat it less than once a week. The number decreased to 14 percent for those who eat spicy food six to seven times a week. And another study done by theUniversityofVermontcame to a similar conclusion. “The data encourages people to eat more spicy food to improve health and reduce death risk at an early age,” Liu Qi, a nutritionist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, told BBC News.
Chilies have anti-cancer quality and the ability to increase our metabolism (新陈代谢). So, don't worry if you love spicy food. It seems that chilies are actually good for us—except for the Carolina Reaper, perhaps.
12. The example of a 34-year-old American is mentioned in Paragraph 1 to prove ________.
A. chiliescan be beneficial
B. chilies are popular inAmerica
C. chilies can be dangerous
D. serious headaches can be dangerous
13. Eating chilies gives people a sense of happiness by_______.
A. decreasing death rate
B. releasing natural chemicals
C. curing serious headaches
D. providing enough nutrition
14. Which of the following statement is TRUE?
A. Human are the only animals to eat chilies.
B. Stomachache and headaches caused by chilies is something unusual.
C. The more chilies you eat, the healthier you are.
D. Chilies have anti-cancer quality but it can't increase our metabolism.
15. The writer wrote the passage to ________.
A. warn people of the dangers of chilies
B. ask people to eat Carolina Reaper
C. encourage people to eat more chilies
D. tell people the benefits of chilies
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Books cost nothing on Stan Tucker's Leap for Literacy bookmobile, called the Read ‘n’ Roll. However, they don't come free.____16____Acts are recorded on kindness tickets, which are like cash on the Read ‘n’ Roll. When the bookmobile shows up at a school, the kids jump into a line to exchange their tickets for books.
Tucker was leaching kindergarten inAtlanta,Georgia, in 2014.____17____It broke Tucker's heart, and it gave him an idea for a way to get books to kids. Now working as a waiter and camp counselor, Tucker started his program during a year off from teaching in 2015.Sometimes he was lugging more than 1, 000 books in a car for giveaways at schools.____18____He now gives away 2, 500books a year. More than 13,000 students have traded kindness tickets for books.
____19____ However, he added, “At every turn, something has happened to keep this going.” For example, he met country singer Zac Brown, anAtlantanative, who came into the restaurant where Tucker worked. Tucker asked Brown's five kids about school. Because he liked the way Tucker interacted with his family, Brown told him, “Maybe we can help each other out.” Brown was starting a summer camp and offered Tucker a camp counselor job and an old tour bus for a bookmobile.
____20____He used it to expand his program. Five hundred kids participated in a writing program in which
they were given blank books to write in. A few of the books they wrote were chosen by the Leap for Literacy board to be illustrated and published. Tucker hopes to one day fill the bookmobile with those books.
A. Over the past five years, Leap for Literacy has grown.
B. To build the program, Tucker knew he needed something to count, so he started counting acts of kindness.
C. The currency to buy them is kindness.
D. Another fortunate turn was the $25,000 check he got on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2019.
E. How Tucker got the nickname “Stan the Man” is part of the inspiration he shares with kids.
F. A student approached him before a book fair to say he wouldn't be going because his mom didn't have any money.
G. Tucker, who loved books as a kid, said it seemed impossible to make his dream work ona waiter's pay.
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It is impossible to perform consistently in a manner inconsistent with the way we see ourselves. In other words, we usually act in direct___21___to our self-image. Nothing is more difficult to___22___than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.
One of the best ways to___23___those inward feelings is to have some "success" under your belt (在以往的经历中). My daughter Elizabeth has a___24___to be shy and wants to hold back on new experiences. But once she has___25___to a situation, it's "full steam ahead". When she was in first grade, her school had a candy bar___26___. Each child was given thirty candy bars and was___27___to sell every one of them.___28___I picked upElizabethfrom school, she was holding her "challenge" and needed some___29___encouragement. It was time for a sales meeting with my new salesgirl.
All the end of the day, I____30____each teaching point with half a dozen "You can do it ---your smiles will____31____them over --- I believe in you" phrases. By the end of our fifteen-minute____32____, the young lady sitting beside me had become a____33____saleslady.
At the end of the day, all thirty bars had been sold. She excitedly____34____as I tucked (把...被子掖好) her into bed that night:" Oh God, thanks for the candy sale at school. It's great."
Elizabeth's prayer reflects the heart's____35____of every person. We all want to be winners. The next dayElizabethcame home____36____another box of candy bars. She'd exhausted the____37____of friendly neighbors, and she was thrown into the cruel world of the unknown buyers.____38____I offered encouragement and a few more selling tips. And she did it. The experience____39____two days of selling, two sold-out
performances, two happy people and one boosted (提高)____40____. How we see ourselves reflects how others see us.
21. A. opposition B. contrast C. preference D. response
22. A. acknowledge B. accomplish C. appreciate D. announce
23. A. improve B. control C. injure D. follow
24. A. chance B. competence C.tendency D. need
25. A. turned B. warmed C. complained D. quit
26. A. sale B. delivery C. present D. bargain
27. A. forced B. ordered C. challenged D. warned
28. A. When B. While C. If D. Because
29. A. negative B. further C. rough D. positive
30. A. decorated B. surrounded C. rewarded D. classified
31. A. get B. take C. win D. look
32. A. complaint B. quarrel C. amusement D. drive
33. A. committed B. nervous C. frightened D. pretty
34. A. wrote B. prayed C. recommended D. recalled
35. A. humor B. impression C. desire D. justice
36. A. toward B. without C. for D. with
37. A. wealth B. emotion C. supply D. quantity
38. A. Again B. Desperately C. Eventually D. Instead
39. A. added to B. amounted to C. catered for D. came to
40. A. self-help B. self-study C. self-respect D. self-image
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
For the third year in a row, two sisters inNorth Carolinaare raising money___41.___(provide) meals for families that can’t afford a Thanksgiving dinner.
Last year Alex, 9, and Caroline, 6,___42.___(raise) enough money to provide Charlotte Rescue Mission (CRM) with 130 Thanksgiving Food Boxes and 50 ___43.___(turkey).
This year they will be able to provide CRM with meals for 200 local families.
“We want to give a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone___44.___has helped Alex and Caroline and reach
their goal of___45.___feed) 50 families in need this Thanksgiving,” mom Lisa Fischer wrote on GoFundMe. "$1,142___46.___(earn) through their hard work from their lemonade stands and bake sales so far, which puts them just shy of $5,000 with your generous donations!"
The Thanksgiving Food Boxes cost___47.___(fair) close to $20 each. They contain green beans, com, sweet yams, cranberry sauce, stuffing, rice, pie crust and filling, a baking pan, and a frozen turkey.
The Fischer family buys all the food from___48.___(they) local grocery store and packs___49.___boxes, too.
"We are hoping to recruit some help from the neighbors to pack the boxes this year, rent out a truck and deliver the food____50.____Nov. 23,” Lisa explained.
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；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Tourists climb for two hours to reach the top of a mountain in Peru, struggled for breath. But they are happy to see the beautiful sceneries there. Lines of rich color1 s form that has become known as “Rainbow Mountain”. The color1 s come from special rock remains. It’s five years since the world has learned of the existence of this natural wonder.
Many people come to see them. To villagers who take up their traditional transport trade, the bigger difference is that they now move tourists instead goods. Tourism has provided much-needed economic help for an area. Environmentalists, besides, fear tourists will destroy everything which makes this place distinctive.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，你的英国笔友Jim发来邮件说他下周要来你所在的城市参加一个竞赛活动，询问能否借住你家。

请你用英语给他回封邮件，内容包括：
1.表明意愿；
2.询问他参赛后的计划安排；
3.你将去机场接他.
注意；1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯.
参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. D
8. A 9. B 10. D 11. B
12. C 13. B 14. A 15. D
16. C 17. F 18. A 19. G 20.
21. D 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. C 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. C 32.
D 33. A 34. B 35. C 36. D 37. C 38. A 39. B 40. D
41. to provide
42. raised 43. turkeys
44. who/that
45. feeding
46. has been earned
47. fairly 48. their
49. the 50. by/on
51.(1). struggled→struggling
(2). sceneries→scenery
(3). that→what
(4). 去掉learnt前面的has
(5). them→it/this
(6). bigger→biggest
(7). 在instead后加of
(8). an→the/this
(9). besides→however/nevertheless
(10). which→that
52.略。