2020年河北武邑中学高三英语下学期期中考试试题及答案解析

2020年河北武邑中学高三英语下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
In September, something terrible happened on the west coast ofTasmania,Australia. As many as 380 pilot whales became stranded(搁浅) in shallow water there and later died. This might have beenAustralia’s largest stranding event on record, the BBC reported.
But this large amount of whale stranding is not uncommon. For centuries, it has happened all over the world and has puzzled scientists. Scientists say the cause is often unknown. But they have offered many different explanations.
Some say the whales chase small fish for food and end up in shallow water because they are not paying attention to where they are going.
Others think the stranding has something to do with Earth’s geomagnetic field (地磁场). They say that a geomagnetic compass in whales’ brains controls their position. Unusual changes in Earth’s magnetic field can affect the whales’ compasses and send them in the wrong direction.
Another explanation suggests that stranding is caused by the close relationships that whales have. Pilot whales travel in large groups. One lead whale might mistakenly lead the whole group to shallow water. “And if one gets into trouble, the others will not leave,” said Sheryl Gibney, a leading biologist fromNew Zealand. “Some will come in and try to help, they get trapped on the beach, then more will come.”
The whales are trapped by mistake or out of sympathy(同情). Once they get stranded, they will likely die. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of theUS, less than 10 percent of all stranded whales survive.
1. What do we know about the stranding inAustralia?
A. It happened on theeast coast ofAustralia.
B. It caused the death of over 300 pilot whales.
C. It is commonly seen in September each year.
D. It was the largest stranding event in the world.
2. According to Gibney, the pilot whales are the animals that________.
A. are kind to each other
B. are easy to lose direction
C. are too huge to float in the sea
D.are silly to follow the leading whale
3. What is the story mainly about?
A. How human activity has affected whales.
B. What might cause whale strandings.
C. How whales find their direction while traveling.
D. What scientists are doing to save stranded whales.
B
Recycling plastic has always been a stop-start effort, and the wide variety of plastics we produce, the pollution from waste, and other limitations make recycling an economic(经济) problem. It’s estimated(估计)only 9% of plastic ever created has been recycled. But with the help of a chemical process, Canadian Miranda Wang and her company BioCellection want to change that.
Stability is one of plastic greatest qualities and downside. There's limited evidence that some plastics can biodegrade (生物降解)but largely photo-plastics degrade in the sun. It’s a long process, and the truth is that we can only estimate how long it takes. Wang is looking to break the inaction and BioCellection's task is to make most plastic waste recyclable.
She outlines two current methods. One is to take plastics like water bottles, wash them, cut them, melt and reconstitute them. “That's a very limited process” she says, due to the requirement that plastics be “clean” . The other, which can handle dirtier plastics and a level of pollution, is called hydrolysis(热解). Intense heat is applied to break down plastics so they can be reused as oils for energy, but “it’s not economical,’’ she says.
BioCellection’s solution builds on research from over ten years ago, Wang explains, when a US studydiscovered pure polyethylene powder (聚乙烯粉)could be broken down by a catalyst (催化剂). Wang and her co-founder Jean hit upon a bacterium being able to eat plastic. In the years since, they engineered a comparable catalyst capable of doing the same job, only faster, which even works on plastics no one else can recycle at present. “We have now found a catalyst that is much cheaper than the one that was used before, Wang says.
Currently focusing on plastic films like shopping hags, the three-hour process breaks clown plastic into chemicals that can act as the building blocks for more complex plastic products.
“Right now we’re able to achieve about 70% transformation from plastic waste material to these chemicals,”
she adds, saying they’re working to increase that figure.
4. Why has so little plastic been recycled?
A. Plastic is chemically stable.
B. Recycling plastic led to pollution.
C. We produced various plastics.
D. Most photo-plastics degrade in the sun.
5. What does Wang think of the two current methods?
A. Highly effective and dynamic.
B. Expensive and pollution-causing.
C. Limited and energy-consuming.
D. Widely used and recognized.
6. What did BioCellection find effective to recycle plastics?
A. Polyethylene powder.
B. Chemical products.
C. Plastic films.
D. A catalyst.
7. What is the text mainly about?
A. Miranda Wang and her company.
B. A new plastic recycling method.
C. The greatest downside of plastic.
D. Transformation of plastic waste.
C
Please take a few seconds and think of your personal biggest goal. Imagine telling someone you meet today what you’re going to do. Imagine their congratulations and their high image of you. Doesn’t it feel good to say it out loud? Don’t you feel one step closer already? Well, bad news: you should have kept your mouth shut, because that good feeling will make you less likely to do it.
Any time you have a goal, there is some work that needs to be done to achieve it. Ideally, you would not be satisfied until you’d actually done the work. But when you tell someone your goal and he acknowledges(认可) it, psychologists have found it’s called a “social reality”. The mind is kind of tricked into feeling that it’s already done. And then, because you’ve felt that satisfaction, you’re less motivated to do the actual hard work necessary. This goes againstthe traditional wisdom that we should tell our friends our goals, right?
In 1982, Peter Gollwitzer, a Professor of Psychology, wrote a whole book about this. And in 2009, he did some new tests that were published. It goes like this: 163 people across four separate tests—everyone wrote down their personal goal. Then half of them announced their commitment(许诺) to this goal to the room, and half didn’t. Then everyone was given 45 minutes of work that would directly lead them towards their goal, but they were told that they could stop at any time. Now those who kept their mouths shut worked the entire 45 minutes on average, and when asked afterwards, said they felt they had a long way to go to achieve their goal. But those who had announced it quit after only 33 minutes on average, and when asked afterwards, said that they felt much closer to
achieving their goal.
8. What do the words “social reality” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. Completion of the goal.
B. Necessary hard work.
C. People's acknowledgement.
D. A sense of satisfaction.
9. What does Peter Gollwitzer try to tell us?
A. Writing down the goal is very helpful.
B. Achieving personal goal needs more time.
C. Keeping the goal secret makes people work harder.
D. Making the goal public makes people less satisfied.
10. How did Peter Gollwitzer prove his idea about people’s goal?
A. By giving figures.
B. By giving examples.
C. By making a survey.
D. By making comparison tests.
11. What will probably happen if you tell your friends your goal?
A. You will be more confident.
B. You will not gain satisfaction.
C. You are less likely to realize it.
D. You’ll be much moremotivated.
D
When visitors enter Planet Word, a new museum in Washington, D. C , they will see Speaking Willow, a tall art piece representing a tree. As they pass under the artwork, they can hear recordings of speech in hundreds of languages coming from the tree. Most words sound foreign to the listeners. The different voices also speak at the same time. The resultingclamoris similar to that made in a crowded theater before a show begins.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer completed the piece last year. On his website, the artist says that Speaking Willow “reminds us that language is what defines our specific communities and connects our many cultures.” Lozano-Hemmer made the piece specially for the museum.
It is the first of many immersive (身临其境的) experiences for visitors at Planet Word, a museum all about words and language. The exhibits playfully explore the lager and complex subject of language.
In one room, a video plays, showing babies saying their first words. Another room, called “Where Do Words Come From”, teaches the history of some common English words. The space includes a 22-foot-tali “Wall of Words”, where visitors speak into devices and learn about the roots of the English language.
Another room invites listeners to speak and learn about different languages. Native speakers of 28 languages and two sign languages teach people sayings in those languages. They also explain how language shapes their
understanding of the world and how words cannot be separated from culture.
Other rooms explore the different ways language is used — from humor and song writing to public speaking and advertising. Visitors can sing karaoke while learning about song writing, record a famous speech, play a joke-telling game, and teach a computer how to make cartoons. Almost every exhibit is interactive and most ask visitors to speak aloud.
One exhibit room is all about books. It is designed to look like an old, rich library. Books line the shelves. When a book is placed on the table, a recorded reading begins and pictures appear.
12. What does the underlined word “clamor” in paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Scene.
B. Noise.
C. Language.
D. Appearance.
13. The SpeakingWillowwas created ______.
A specially B. accidentally
C. on request
D. out of curiosity
14. What can we learn from the video in the room?
A. Words and cultures.
B. Different languages.
C. The history of words.
D. The first words newborns say.
15. In which paragraph can you find the methods of using languages?
A. 3.
B. 4.
C. 6.
D. 7.
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
How To Attract People
Attracting people will earn you new friends and relationships. It's not hard to attract people.
___16___Here are a fewtips on how to attract people:
Don't forget to smile. A smile is the best accessory you can wear if you want to attract people. It sends out a message that you are happy and very approachable. Your smile should be relaxing and coming from inside.___17___
Be confident.___18___It also boosts your self-esteem. When you are confident, you are not shy to converse or talk to other people. This means you will be able to relate and bond with them more. Confidence also makes you more likeable to other people.
___19___Try helping out people in small ways. Open a door for an officemate who is carrying an armful of things. Say thank you to the waiter when he gets your order. If you see a friend feeling down, try to cheer her/him with compliments. Small things like that make a big impact on the impression people have of you.
If you want to attract people, the first person you should think of is yourself. To attract people naturally, you should work on yourself first.___20___Be confident and attract people with your winning personality!
A.Care about other people.
B.Self-confidence always attracts people.
C.Make the effort to do the small things.
D.You should be comfortable in your own skin.
E.All you have to do is start with yourself and the rest will come.
F.Always remember that attractiveness starts from within.
G.It will make your face look warmer, and energy more positive.
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My daughter has been crazy about raising a pet for a long time.
Last spring I bought two newly-hatched chickens for her. She got___21___and took good care of them.___22___, a few days later, both chickens died. She___23___into tears because of their death. I helped her___24___the two chickens under a tree behind our house. I thought it would be the___25___of her ideas.
___26___, I was wrong. Children are children___27___. The failure hasn't___28___my daughter in any way. She still tried to keep a small animal or even a snail.
One day lastwinter, I____29____under the eaves (屋檐) of the house a family of sparrows. My daughter and I could____30____the sparrows as our "pets", but we didn't.
So I told her to scatter(撒) the grains in the windowsill. A few minutes later, the sparrows came toland on the windowsill____31____and pecked(啄) at the rice. Suddenly my daughter asked me, “Mum, can we catch and____32____the sparrows, and let them live with us in the room? How____33____it is for them to live outside.”
"Oh, my dear, I do not thinkit's a good____34____. You know, " I explained to her. “the sparrow is a bird that loves____35____. No one can keep them in a cage. If they are caught, they will____36____quickly. They are____37____to living outside. Moreover, they have warm nest under the eaves."
From then on, we have set up a kind of relationship with the sparrow family. We feed them frequently
and___38___them as pet birds. However, we don’t need to posses them. We____39____seeing these little birds flying and jumping among branches, leaves and flowers in the____40____mornings.
21. A. surprised B. excited C. disappointed D. amazed
22. A. Naturally B. Suddenly C. Unfortunately D. Finally
23. A. broke B. bore C. burst D. turned
24. A. bury B. put C. dig D. set
25. A. end B. beginning C. wish D. reality
26. A. Thus B. Then C. Therefore D. However
27. A. at last B. in all C. after all D. for fun
28. A. upset B. encouraged C. helped D. impressed
29. A. stared B. noticed C. sensed D. glared
30. A. look B. act C. catch D. feed
31. A. one after another B. one another C. every other D. each other
32. A. stay B. cage C. love D. watch
33. A. free B. happy C. cold D. warm
34. A. way B. idea C. plan D. advice
35. A. cage B. singing C. freedom D. worms
36. A. please B. starve C. suffer D. die
37. A. safe B. proud C. grateful D. used
38. A. think B. dream C. treat D. appreciate
39. A. enjoy B. would like C. want D. consider
40. A. summer B. autumn C. winter D. spring
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
Located in the southwest Pacific, New Zealand which is made up of two main islands and____41.____number of small islands, is famous for its____42.____(amaze) natural beauty and scenic attractions.
New Zealand is about the same size as the United Kingdom. The two main islands are 1600km____43.____length, but only 5〜450km wide and separated by the Cook Strait. Over 75 percent of New Zealand is at least 200m above sea level with Mount Cook being the____44.____(high) point. The Chatham Islands,
800km east of Christchurch, are the first lands on earth____45.____(see) the sun.
Much of New Zealand culture is from Britain, including some cultures from America, Australia and Maori, along with other European cultures and Asian cultures. Large festivals in____46.____(celebrate) of Diwali and Chinese New Year____47.____(hold) in several large cities. The music and food of New Zealand are similar to those of Britain and the United States, although they have some____48.____(extreme) special New Zealand and Pacific qualities.
Queenstown,____49.____is the main center for snow sports in New Zealand, attracts people from all over the world to ski at the four mountain ski fields every year. In recent years, Queenstown’s hotels____50.____(become) popular destinations for tourists from all over the world.
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。

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。

Helen Keller was one of the greatest woman in the 20th century. She was born in 1880 and dies in 1968. When she was 19 months old, she became blind and deaf because a serious illness. From then on she lived in darkness and silent.
When she was seven, her parents found out a teacher, Miss Sullivan, for her. Although Miss Sullivan had trouble teach her, they overcame all the difficulties which they met. With Helen's strongly will, she became a top student. Finally she received an university degree in English literature. Late on, she was devoted to helping the blind and deaf children.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，上周五你校举办了换书阅读活动。

请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括:
1.活动目的；
2.活动情况；
3.活动反响。

注意:
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Book exchange on campus
参考答案
1. B
2. A
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. D
7. B
8. A 9. C 10. D 11. C
12. B 13. A 14. D 15. C
16. E 17. G 18. B 19. C 20. D
21. B 22. C 23. C 24. A 25. A 26. D 27. C 28. A 29. B 30. C 31. A 32.
B 33.
C 34. B 35. C 36.
D 37. D 38. C 39. A 40. D
41. a 42. amazing
43. in 44. highest
45. to see 46. celebration
47. are held
48. extremely
49. which 50. have become
51.(1).woman→women
(2).dies→died
(3).because后加of
(4).silent→silence
(5).去掉out
(6).teach→teaching
(7). which→that或者去掉which
(8).strongly→strong
(9).an→a
(10).Late→Later
52.略。