2020年中国科学院兰州分院中学高三英语期中试卷及答案解析

2020年中国科学院兰州分院中学高三英语期中试卷及答案解析
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
Covid-19 has brought a great deal of trouble for all of us since March 2020. During this time, mobile phones have been the solution for the boredom and restlessness caused from staying indoors. The most downloaded apps on play store 2020 are;
TikTok
TikTok was the most downloaded app. With over 111.9 million downloads, TikTok has seen a huge growth in 2020, twice more than what it got in 2019. 20% of its total downloads were fromIndiaand around 9. 3% of the total downloads were in theUS.
Zoom
Zoom was the second most installed app in the overall downloads category. With nearly 94. 6 million installs, Zoom is the most used app for online meetings and virtual classrooms. 17% of its downloads were in theUSandIndia. Offices and educational institutes were shut down and to continue working and studying from home, people relied heavily on Zoom for video conferencing and calling.
WhatsApp
WhatsApp ranked third in overall downloads with more than 100 million downloads. It is one of the most popular and widely used chat applications; WhatsApp also supports communication between international phone networks.
Facebook
It ranked fourth in the overall downloaded list. Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking application. Facebook builds technologies that give people the power to connect with friends and family, find communities and grow businesses.
1. What do we know about TikTok?
A. It is an India-based app.
B. It has most users inAmerica.
C. It is used for growing business.
D. It has doubled its download than in 2019.
2. Which app is the best to turn to for online education?
A. TikTok.
B. Zoom.
C. WhatsApp.
D. Facebook.
3. What function does Facebook probably serve?
A. Communication.
B. Training.
C. Teaching.
D. Payment
B
The idea came to him when he least expected it. Alvin Irby was at a barbershop when he saw one of his former students sitting in the shop with a bored look on his face. That’s when Irby realized that by pairing barbershops and books, he might be able to inspire young boys to read.
Alvin Irby, a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher, knows how important it is for young children to read. He also knows that young boys in particular often don’t have adult male role models who inspire them to read. “Many young boys may literally never see a man reading in school during the years when they’re learning to read because there are so few male elementary school teachers,” Irby toldMashable.
That’s where the barbershops come in. Four years ago, Irby launched Barbershop Books as a way to not just get books into the hands of young boys, but also to create community reading spaces in a place where kids go frequently. Since itsinceptionin 2013, the program has created kid-friendly reading spaces in 50 barbershops in 12 states throughout the United States.
Irby isn’t the first person to see the connection between barbershops and books and boys. Hair stylist Courtney Holmes, launched a program a few years ago offering free haircuts to kids as long as they read to him while he cuts their hair.
That’s the kind of environment that Irby wants to promote with his program. The reading spaces created by Barbershop Books help to spark an interest in books by showing kids that reading is about more than just spelling and vocabulary skills, it’s about making reading a low-stress activity that can help them relax, laugh and have fun.
“Our belief is that if we can create positive reading experiences early and often for young boys, then they will choose to read for fun,” Irby noted, adding, “This is really what Barbershop Books is about, getting young boys to say three words: I’m a reader.”
4. What happened to Alvin when he was at a barbershop?
A. He found it easy for young people to get bored.
B. He offered a barbershop to his former student.
C. He thought of a way to encourage young readers.
D. He realized the importance of reading for young boys.
5. What is the function of Barbershop Books?
A. To attract more customers who love films.
B. To provide free haircuts to book lovers.
C. To show the influence of reading on children.
D. To create a reading environment fbr children.
6. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. reading is a low-stress activity that is relaxing
B. Barbershop Books is only suitable for young boys
C. Irby attaches great importance to school education
D. Barbershop Books can arouse (引起) young people’s interest in reading
7. What does the underlined word “inception” in the 3rdparagraph mean?
A. discovery.
B. success.
C. popularity.
D. beginning.
C
Scientists have discovered a new behaviour among bumblebees that tricks plants into flowering early.
When lack of pollen, bumblebees will bite little by little on the leaves of flower-less plants. The damage seems to fool the plant into flowering, sometimes up to 30 days earlier than normal.
With their hairy appearance and special sounds, bumblebees are hard to miss in gardens all over the world. Their hairy bodies make them excellent pollinators for crops like tomatoes and blueberries. They are among the first bees to appear each year and work a long season.
But despite their key role, bumblebees, like many other pollinators have seen their numbers decline suddenly in recent decades. One recent study pointed to climate change, reporting that an increasing number of hot days in Europe andNorth Americawas raising local bumblebees extinction rates.
But researchers have now made a discovery about bumblebees that could have something to do with their long term survival. Scientists inSwitzerlandfound that when the bumblebees were out of pollen, they started to bite on the leaves of plants that hadn't yet flowered. They used their mouths to cut clearly-shaped holes in the leaves. But the creatures didn't eat the material or use it in their nests.
The damaged plants responded by flowering earlier than normal--in some cases up to 30 days ahead of schedule. Researchers also found that the bee damaged plants flowered 30 days earlier than undamaged plants
and 25 days earlier than ones damaged by the scientists.
“I think everything that we've found is consistent with the idea that the bumblebees are damaging the plants and that that's an adaptation that brings flowers earlier and that benefits the bees,” said Dr Mark Mescher, one of the authors from ETHZurich.
8. How do bumblebees fool plants into flowering earlier?
A. By making use of the hot weather.
B. By putting the false flowers on the leaves.
C. By attacking the leaves of flowerless plants.
D. By taking away the pollen from the other flowers.
9. What's bumblebees’ key role?
A.Making plants flower early.
B. Spreading pollen to flowers and plants.
C. Sending information about weather change.
D. Finding out whether the plant has flowers.
10. What has happened to bumblebees in the past the years?
A. They are becoming homesick.
B. They are not as friendly as before.
C. There is a sharp decrease in number.
D. They have been busy year by year.
11. What's Dr Mark Mescher's attitude towards the behaviour of bumblebees?
A. Uncaring.
B. Skeptical.
C. Tolerant.
D. Objective.
D
At the World Economic Forum last month, President Trump drew claps when he announced the United States would respond to the forum's proposal to plant one trillion(万亿) trees to fight climate change. The trillion-tree idea won wide attention last summer after a study published in the journal Science concluded thatplanting so many trees was “the most effective climate change solution to date”.
If only it were true. But it isn't. Planting trees would slow down the planet's warming, but the only thing that will save us and future generations from paying a huge price in dollars, lives and damage to nature is rapid and considerable reductions in carbon release from fossil fuels, to net zero by 2050.
Focusing on trees as the big solution to climate change is a dangerous diversion(偏离). Worse still, it takes attention away from those responsible for the carbon release that are pushing us toward disaster. For example, in the Netherlands, you can pay Shell an additional 1 euro cent for each liter of regular gasoline you put in your tank, to plant trees to balance the carbon release from your driving. That's clearly no more than disaster slightly delayed. The only way to stop this planet from overheating is through political, economic, technological and social solutions that end the use of fossil fuels.
There is no way that planting trees, even across a global area the size of theUnited States, can absorb the
huge amounts of fossil carbon released from industrial societies. Trees do take up carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. But this uptake merely replaces carbon lost when forests were cleared in the first place, usually long ago. Regrowing forests where they once grew can undo some damage done in the past, but even a trillion trees can't store enough carbon to head off dramatic climate changes this century.
In a sharp counter argument to last summer's Paper in Science, Justin Gillis wrote in the same journal in October that the study's findings were inconsistent with the dynamics of the global carbon cycle. He warned that “the claimthat global tree restoration(复原) is our most effective climate solution is simply scientifically incorrect and dangerously misleading”.
12. What do we know about the trillion-tree idea?
A. It was published in a journal.
B. It was proposed last summer.
C. It was put forward by Trump.
D. It drew lots of public attention.
13. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. A drawback of the tree planting strategy.
B. An example of balancing carbon release.
C. An anecdote of making a purchase at Shell.
D. A responsibility for politicians and economists.
14. What was Justin Gillis's attitude towards global tree restoration?
A. Indifferent.
B. Opposed.
C. Hesitant.
D. Supportive.
15. What is the best title for the text?
A. Contradictory Ideas on Tree Planting.
B. A Trillion Trees Come to the Rescue.
C. Planting Trees Won't Save the World.
D. The Best Solution to Climate Change.
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Readingmore is one of the top goals that many people set for themselves.___16___If reading is a habit you'd like to get into, there are a number of ways to cultivate it.
Make a list. Keep a list of all the great books you want to read. You can keep this in your journal, in a pocket notebook, wherever.___17___Keep a running list, and cross out the ones you have read.
Find a quiet place. Find a place at your home where you can sit in a comfortable chair and read a good book without interruptions. There should be no television or computer near the chair to minimize distractions.___18___.
___19___If you really want to read more, try cutting back on TV or Internet consumption. This may be difficult for many people. Still, every minute you reduce of the Internet and TV, you could use it for reading. This can create hours of book reading time.
Have a reading hour or reading day. If you turn off the TV or the Internet in the evening, you could have a set hour when you and maybe all the members of your family read each night.___20___It's super fun.
A. Read more good books.
B. Reduce television and the Internet.
C. If you want, you can sell a good book,
D. If you don't have a place like this, create one.
E. Or you could enjoy a reading day of your own.
F. Be sure to add to it whenever you hear about a good book.
G. A good book can teach you things beyond your daily horizons.
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All my life, I have been overweight and never imagined I will start running. One night, surfing through Facebook, I____21____a picture of an old school friend. Obesity was no____22____to him back in the day. So imagine my____23____when I saw that he had shrunk to half the size I remembered.
I started my process of____24____myself the next day. I started____25____and began with walks, circling the shortest blocks I could find. In a while, my body burned and____26____, and nothing excited me more than the thought of quitting.____27____, I didn't give up and my walks expanded to several blocks’ worth.
On the fifth day, I thought I probably could run. Standing on the road, I____28____far down the road, about a tenth of a mile in length. “Way too far to run,” my aching body told me.____29____, another voice spoke, “I can do this.” My feet_____30_____without a second thought. Right away, familiar_____31_____pulsed through（充满）them, all the way up my legs. Soon, I was breathless, and desperate for_____32_____. I wanted to quit. “I can do this”, the_____33_____spoke again. In the end, I failed to reach my goal. Thirty feet or so_____34_____me from
my goal. But when I looked back, I couldn't believe my eyes. The_____35_____seemed farther than expected._____36_____the thirty feet, I had almost achieved my desire to be better in less than a_____37_____.
The next morning, I was ready to take on the_____38_____again. While I haven't completely_____39_____thoughts of giving up, they're quieter now. Quieter than the voice that_____40_____me forward — “I can do this.”
21. A. searched B. spotted C. figured D. realized
22. A. stranger B. wonder C. need D. good
23. A. sorrow B. excitement C. surprise D. delight
24. A. believing B. denying C. comforting D. bettering
25. A. slow B. fast C. right D. normal
26. A. waked B. moved C. ached D. trembled
27. A. Gradually B. Immediately C. Fortunately D. Abruptly
28. A. measured B. sensed C. walked D. stared
29. A. However B. Therefore C. Besides D. Otherwise
30. A. came out B. took off C. paid off D. fell out
31. A. burning B. breaking C. emotion D. passion
32. A. help B. water C. food D. air
33. A. coach B. voice C. mind D. body
34. A. threw B. interrupted C. connected D. kept
35. A. target B. dream C. distance D. task
36. A. Ignoring B. Considering C. Achieving D. Adding
37. A. month B. day C. week D. second
38. A. game B. challenge C. adventure D. duty
39. A. formed B. escaped C. accepted D. trapped
40. A. informed B. persuaded C. forced D. encouraged
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
If you live in northeastern China, you expect long, cold winters. People___41.___(live) in Harbin don't just stand the cold, however; they welcome it. The city is home to the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture (雕塑) Festival,___42.___is considered to be the largest ice festival in the world. Even with temperatures usually close
to zero, thousands of people head to city parks___43.___(see) great ice sculptures, many bathed in color1 ed lights.
The festival includes several thousand ice sculptures. Some of these works are the recreations of castles, historic landmarks and famous people, lit up at night in bright color1 s.___44.___(visitor) can climb ice stairways and go down ice slides (滑坡). They can also take part___45.___. sporting events, including skating, ice football ___46.___well as ice swimming.
The city started___47.___(it) icy event in 1963 with the Ice Lanterm (灯笼) Garden Party, a___48.___(celebrate) of the tradition of creating lanterns out of blocks of ice. The larger festival___49.___.(begin) in 1985 and added sculptures, which have grown in number and size over the years. As it has gotten bigger, the festival has become popular outside the city.
___50.___(official), the festival starts on January 5th and lasts over one month.
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:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(^) ,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限一词。

只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Dear Jenny,
Welcome to my school! When you arrive, there will be a party for you holding by my classmates. You may attend to English classes to feel a differently learning style. After that, you can go to your host family that you can experience the Chinese way of life. You can have meals together chatting anything that interests us.
The host family will also show us around some famous scenic spot. You can see people selling kites everywhere because our city was home to kites. There are many kinds of kites to choose from.
So isn't it the good idea to buy some for your friends? Write to me unless you have any questions about the schedule.
Best wishes.
Yours,
Zhang Ming 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。

One never knows what one is going to find when one steps out into the world. Even something as simple as a walk through your neighborhood can result in either mild excitement or unusual adventure if the cards are right.
On a sunny afternoon, Mike journeyed into the construction site near his home. Suddenly, he heard something coming from around the side of a nearby building. It sounded like the whining(悲嚎声)cries of an animal. He curiously turned the corner, only to see a small dog standing on its back legs and wagging its tail pitifully. He then noticed that the poor thing seemed to be stuck at the waist between a small concrete wall and an even smaller broken wooden fence.
The poor animal's difficult situation was pretty obvious and Mike knew that if he did nothing and left the dog there, it might not survive. He had no idea how long the animal had been there up until that point. It might not have eaten or drunk anything in days. Determined to help, he looked around to find a stick, proceeded to climb up onto the cement slab and pointed his stick back at the clog. He was trying to pry(撬动)above the animal by insert the stick between the cement wall and the smaller, broken wall, but the terrified animal obviously didn't know his intention and attempted to bite at the tool and barked at him fearfully. The fright in its eyes said everything.
After at least a minute or so of trying to free the dog, Mike found his plan much more difficult in practice than it had stayed inside his own head. The hot sun was beating down. Drops of sweat running down his face, Mike sat clown on the ground and scratched his head with annoyance, thinking about what in the world his next move was going to be. Beside him, the dog curled up into a ball, whining miserably.
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。

Paragraph 1:
Then Mike went around to the other side of the wall and grabbed hold of the stick.
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Paragraph 2:
Eventually, with the few well-positioned pieces of wood, Mike managed to insert his stick in the right way.
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参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. D
6. D
7. D
8. C 9. B 10. C 11. D
12. D 13. D 14. C 15. B
16. G 17. F 18. D 19. B 20. E
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. B 31. A 32.
D 33. B 34. D 35. C 36. A 37. C 38. B 39. B 40. D
41. living
42. which 43. to see
44. Visitors
45. in 46. as
47. its 48. celebration
49. began 50. Officially
51.(1).holding → held
(2).去掉to
(3). differently → different
(4). that → where
(5). 在chatting后加about
(6). us → you
(7). spot → spots
(8). was → is
(9). the → a
(10). unless → if
52.略。