2019-2020学年高密市第四中学高三英语上学期期中考试试题及参考答案

2019-2020学年高密市第四中学高三英语上学期期中考试试题及参考
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
Britain's brilliant bridges have supported trade, brought communities together andare always the mostexciting part of the journey. These must-see bridges are now tourist attractions in their own right.
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
Described byits legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel as “my first love, my darling", it was originally designed for horse-drawn traffic. Now, more than four million vehicles a year cross the 1,352ft-long toll（通行费）bridge over the Avon Gorge. The £ 1 toll for every journey pays for its maintenance. The history of the bridge, dating back to 1864, is kept alive through a programme of tours, events and exhibitions.
Infinity Bridge, Stockton-On-Tees
A pedestrian（行人）and cycle footbridge across the River Tees, its working title was the North Shore Footbridge, before it was given its grander name when opened in 2009. It is particularly incredible at night. The arches（拱形）of the bridge are also lit white and, on calm nights, their reflection in the water appears as an infinity（无穷大）symbol, thus inspiring the name which was chosen by the public.
Tower Bridge, London
An engineering wonder built from thousands of tons of Portland stone and steel, it took construction workers eight years to complete. More than 120 years old, it's a popular tourist attraction, as well as a functional bridge. Visitors can take in the views over the capital, experience seeing London life through the Glass Floor, and visit the Victorian Engine Rooms.
Iron Bridge, Shropshire
Opened in 1781 , this is the first arch bridge in the world made out of cast iron. Recognised as one of the great symbols of the industrial revolution, it transformed the craft of bridge building and was a crucial factor in the development of the iron trade in Shropshire.
1. Which bridge has the longest history?
A. Clifton Suspension Bridge.
B. Infinity Bridge.
C. Tower Bridge.
D. Iron Bridge.
2. What can we know about Infinity Bridge?
A. It was originally meant for pedestrains.
B. The public give it two names.
C. Ifs well worth visiting at night.
D. Its arch is bigger than any other bridge's.
3. What makes Clifton Suspension Bridge different from the other bridges introduced?
A. It charges drivers for each passing.
B. It offers walkers a good view at night.
C. It was made from thousands of stones.
D. It's a symbol of the industrial revolution.
B
America---that glorious symbol of multiculturalism, the great melting pot---qualifies as part of the developed world, right? Not quite, if we consider the state of second language learning in schools across the country. According to a 2018 study, Europe often tops the U.S. in foreign language education in school. 92% of European students are learning a foreign language in school. In America it’s only 20%. In more than 20 European countries, studying a foreign language for at least one year is compulsory. In comparison, only 10 states and D.C. require learning a foreign language for graduation.
I went to a public school in Pennsylvania that ranked onNewsweek’s list of America’s top high schools in 2015. Foreign language learning was not a graduation requirement. A common response to such stories and statistics is: So what? Why should Americans care about learning another language when English has recently seemed to dominate as the official language of the world?
The world is globalizing faster than we can imagine. More than half of the world’s population speaks more than one language. It is also increasingly becoming the need for success in this globalizing world. Having the ability to speak a second language opens up the possibility of travelling and immersing yourself in another part of the world. This means people can feel other cultures, and traditions in places you were previously kept away because you could not communicate in the language.
The teaching of foreign languages can be instrumental in bringing about peace and unity in the country we live in. Learning a second language can be an efficient vehicle to help to bridge communities. To speak another language means having access to a universe of different experiences and world views of another community of people.
4. Why does the writer mention Europe?
A. America makes studying a foreign language compulsory.
B. America is the glorious symbol of multiculturalism.
C. America isn’t really qualified as the developed world.
D. America doesn’t focus on foreign language education
5. What is American’s attitude towards education of foreign languages?
A. Less concerned.
B. More worried.
C. Quite doubtful.
D. Very supportive.
6. What can visiting people do if they can speak the language where they visit?
A. Make the world globalizing.
B. Achieve success in business.
C. Experience people’s real life there.
D. Keep away their own culture.
7. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Using a second language can bring harmony.
B. Communities of people enjoy the great views.
C. Speaking another language is reallynecessary.
D. Learning a second language can be difficult.
C
A company called Neuralink has shared a video which appears to show a monkey playing a video game, but what makes the video even stranger is that themonkey is playing the video game with just its mind.
Neuralink is a company owned by Elon Musk, which is working to develop devices that could allow people to control things using just their brains. The monkey in the video is called Pager, having special "Link" devices inside his brain. These devices are connected to 2,048 wires which lead to the parts of Pager's brain that control movements of the arms and hands.
Scientists taught Pager to play a video game using a banana juice as a reward when he playedthe game correctly. Soon Pager was eager to play well in order to get more smoothie. At first, Pager controlled the video game using a joystick (操纵杆). But as Pager played, his Link devices wirelessly sent out information about the signals his brain was using to control his arms and hands. Neuralink's scientists recorded all of these signals.
Then they used computers to match up the signals from Pager's brain to the movements that his hands were actually doing. This was challenging work and the scientists counted on artificial intelligence (AI) to help them decode (解码) Pager's brain signals.
The next step was to have a computer make moves in the video game as if Pager had actually moved the joystick. If Pager thought about moving the joystick up, the computer would send an "up"signal to the video game. Thus Pager was able to play the video game using just his brain.
When people are paralyzed (瘫痪的), it's often because the brain has lost the ability to send signals to nerves
and muscles in certain parts of the body. Neuralink hopes that one day, its system will be ableto send this information in a different way, allowing paralyzed people to use their arms or legs again.
8. What does Neuralink aim to do?
A. To make monkeys much smarter.
B. To solve complex problems with monkeys.
C. To create a device linking monkeys and people.
D. To make people control things with their brains.
9. How does the author introduce the process of the research?
A. In order of time.
B. By making a comparison.
C. By giving examples.
D. In order of space.
10. What played an important role in the success of the research?
A. The joystick.
B. Artificial intelligence.
C. The video game.
D. The banana smoothie.
11. Which is the most suitable title of the test?
A. Neuralink Posts an Unusual Video
B. Disabled People Have a Bright Future
C. Monkey Plays Video Games with His Mind
D. Neuralink, a Creative and Competitive Company
D
Every day, millions of shoppers hit the stores in full force, searching wildly for the perfect gift.Aside from purchasing holiday gifts, most people regularly buy presents for other occasions throughout the year, including weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations. This frequent experience of gift-giving cancause uncertain feelings in gift-givers. Many enjoy the opportunity to buy presents because gift-giving offers a powerful means to build stronger bonds, while many worry that their purchases will disappoint rather than delight the intended recipients (接受者).
Anthropologists describe gift-giving as a positive social process, serving various political, religious, and psychological functions. Economists, however, offer a less favorable view. According to Waldfogel, gift-giving represents an objective wasteof resources. People buy gifts that recipients would not choose to buy on their own, or at least not spend as much money to purchase (a phenomenon referred to as‘‘the deadweight loss of Christmas”).
What is surprising is that gift-givers have much experience acting as both gift-givers and gift-recipients, but nevertheless tend to overspend each time they set out to purchase a meaningful gift. In the present research, we propose a unique psychological explanation for this overspending problem — gift-givers link how much they spend with how much recipients will appreciate the gift. Though it seems natural to gift-givers, such an assumption may be unfounded. Indeed, we propose that gift-recipients will be less likely to base their feelings of appreciation on the value of a gift than givers assume.
Why do gift-givers assume that gift price is closely linked to gift-recipients’ feelings of appreciation? Perhaps givers believe that more expensive gifts communicate a stronger sense ofthoughtfulness and consideration. According to Camerer and others, gift-giving represents a symbolic ritual (习俗), by which gift-givers attempt to signal their positive attitudes towards the recipient and their willingness to invest resources in a futurerelationship. In this sense, gift-givers may be motivated to spend more money on a gift in order to send a “stronger signal”. As for gift-recipients, they may not interpret smaller and larger gifts as representing smaller and larger signals of thoughtfulness and consideration.
The idea of gift-givers and gift-recipients being unable to account for the other party’s viewpoint seems confusing because people slip in and out of these roles every day. Yet, despite the experience as both givers and receivers, people often struggle to apply information gained from one role in another. In theoretical terms, people fail to use information about their own preferences and experiences to produce more efficient outcomes in their exchange relations. In practical terms, people spend hundreds of dollars each year on gifts, but somehow never learn to estimate their gift expense according to personal insight.
12. The author uses “the deadweight loss of Christmas” in Paragraph 2 to express ________.
A. gift-givers don’t spend much money during holidays
B. gift-givers don’t ask recipients what gifts they prefer
C. gift-givers buy improper and expensive gifts
D. gift-givers have difficulty in choosing gifts
13. According to the passage, people buy gifts to ________.
A. receive gifts in return
B. enjoy the feeling of shopping
C. help recipients to save money
D. better relationships with recipients
14. What can we learn from the passage?
A. People’s high living standards require expensive gifts.
B. Gift-givers buy gifts based on their experiences as recipients.
C. Anthropologists think gift-giving meets different human needs.
D. Recipients judge the depth of friendship according to the gift price.
15. Why did the author write this article?
A. To criticize people’s gift-buying habits.
B. To analyze people’s gift-giving behaviors.
C. To offer advice on how to improve relationships.
D. To remind people not to overlook others’ preferences.
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
Bring smart is not only a nice bonus but al.no a necessity. The good news is that it’s possible to become smarter if you stay consistentand follow the steps below every day.
●___16___Hundreds new things are discovered or invented every day. There always something new to learn and explore. Therefore, don’t think you already know enough and there is nothing you should ask a question about. Keep absorbing new information by asking smart questions and obtaining great answers
● Surround yourself with the best.___17___Chances are that you won’t be able to improve yourself if you get around people who hold you back. Hang out with people smarter, stronger, and better than you. Build connections with the successful, ambitious, and inspiring people.
● Run a blog. One of the best ways la get better at certain things and learn something is to teach someone else. Teaching helps you process, digest,and reflect on the information you’ve learned. Start a blog.___18___Share your knowledge with others interested in the same things. Try to teach them the things you know best. This will help you become an expert in your field..
● Reduce TV-watching. TV won’t help you improve___19___Learn new languages, take online courses, master a musical instrument or follow the great blogs that cover interesting topics you’re interested in. And finally, read books, Challenge yourself to read for at least 30 minutes a day.
If you take these steps every day for a few weeks or months, you’ll be able to expand your mind and improve your intelligence. Though it may seem difficult to do every day, it’s possible.___20___
A.Create ideas.
B.Stay curious.
C.Spend your limemore wisely.
D.All you to do is get now.
E.Stop following the news you can’t benefit from.
F.Publish interesting articles and discuss exciting topics.
G.Environment plays a great role in your self-improvement.
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
I have a dream. One day I will be able to pursue my studies outside home country and be able to contribute____21____to the development of the world. My dream____22____was theUnited States. It is because I had the desire to learn more about American culture and____23____At the same time I admired their hi-tech technology.
It was my summer visit to theBostonUniversitythat made me have a true “away from home” feeling and the desire to____24____my engineering degree from the university. The university motto — Learning, Virtue, Piety —____25____me to the campus. It made me feel that I was at the____26____place at the right time to____27____my dream. I hope that by the time I____28____my course, I will not only graduate with top-class____29____in engineering but I will also have grown up both socially and____30____I had a chance to visit the____31____of engineering. After having a____32____discussion with the head of department, I concluded thatBostonUniversityhas the____33____engineering programme as____34____to other universities that I had visited. Because all their programmes are____35____to meet and address students'____36____needs.
We live in a “digital village” which is____37____by the Internet, science and technology and I am given a chance to pursue my engineering degree at the university. I hope to contribute positively to the____38____and development of the economy of my home country as well as that of the developing nations around the world. I____39____hope that my application will____40____and I will live to fulfill my dream.
21. A. positively B. anxiously C. regretfully D. successfully
22. A. nationality B. destination C. introduction D. campus
23. A. difficulties B. functions C. custom D. government
24. A. chase after B. chase away C. look after D. take off
25. A. attracted B. offered C. accepted D. invited
26. A. awful B. small C. inspiring D. appropriate
27. A. experience B. realize C. discover D. evaluate
28. A. complete B. remove C. expand D. double
29. A. gifts B. value C. possibility D. honors
30. A. familiarly B. materially C. spiritually D. culturally
31. A. department B. project C. progress D. subject
32. A. meaningless B. long C. casual D. tense
33. A. skin-deep B. full-time C. second-hand D. first-class
34. A. mentioned B. explained C. compared D. known
35. A. allowed B. applied C. removed D. tailored
36. A. rare B. specific C. unreasonable D. normal
37. A. designed B. covered C. connected D. changed
38. A. communication B. growth C. suggestions D. dilemma
39. A. sensitively B. secretly C. sincerely D. originally
40. A. fade away B. set out C. get across D. go through
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
Hanfu, meaning “Han clothing”, is based on the costumes____41.____(wear) by China's Han ethnic (种族的) group in the past. Some of the most popular styles are from the Ming, Song and Tang____42.____(dynasty).
In recent years, it____43.____(become) popular though there are some opposite views. About three-quarters of Hanfu lovers are between 16 and 24 years old. Members of this generation often see it____44.____a way to rediscover Chinese traditional culture. It's pretty exciting____45.____(see) young Chinese people building up their self-confidence and developing their individuality to show the world what they love. For more Chinese, this dress style might become a good starting point to____46.____(far) explore the beauty ofChina's long history and rich culture.
Li Siting, president of the Hunan Hanfu Culture Promotion Association, often communicates with people from____47.____(variety) places. Last year, she attended the 7th Chinese music conference inWuhan,____48.____she met overseas Chinese culture lovers____49.____(come) fromJapan,France,Argentinaand other places for the first time. Many people think Hanfu is not only the perfect bridge for young people to connect with Chinese culture,_____50._____a medium to promote Chinese culture.
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。

Last Saturday afternoon several friend invited me to go to the movies. Just as if I was getting ready, my dad suddenly reminded me that it was my aunt’s birthday and that my whole family was going to celebrate his birthday.
I was very angry for not let me go with my friends. So my father and I quarreled about.
Now I am really sorry for which I did. I have realized that family always comes first. It is sure that it was not the last chance I had to see my friends. So I can see my friends at any time and not that day. That’s a specially day to my aunt. I loved my aunt.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.用英语写一个自我简介，字数80-100字。

（不可默写课文原文）
My profile
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. A
6. C
7. A
8. D 9. A 10. B 11. C
12. C 13. D 14. C 15. B
16. B 17. G 18. F 19. C 20. D
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. A 25. A 26. D 27. B 28. A 29. D 30. C 31. A 32.
B 33. D 34.
C 35.
D 36. B 37. C 38. B 39. C 40. D
41. worn
42. dynasties
43. has become
44. as 45. to see
46. further
47. various
48. where/ and
49. coming 50. but
51.(1). friend→friends (2). 删除if (3). his→her (4). let→letting (5). 在about后加it或删除about (6). which→what (7). sure→certain (8). and→but (9). specially→special (10). loved→love
52.略。