2020年宜昌市第一中学高三英语上学期期中试卷及答案解析

2020年宜昌市第一中学高三英语上学期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
Ashish, the 48-year-old surgeon encourages others to do the same through Bloodline, a nonprofit association he founded in 2017. Besides this, he donates blood regularly.
According to Ashish, who has been a doctor at a United Family Healthcare hospital in Shanghai since 2007, Bloodline is aimed at creating a blood bank that can help the community as well as individuals with rare blood types who face an urgent need for blood.
“My father, a doctor who specialized in treating chest infections, only charged those who could afford the medical treatment. For those who couldn’t pay, he never mentioned money and instead gave them the drugs for free.” he says.
During his growing up years, Ashish was also exposed to social services, helping collect food and money for a local children’s hospital.
Ashish first donated blood when he was 18. After arriving in China in 2003, Ashish learned mandarin at Fudan University in Shanghai before becoming a graduate student in general surgery at Shanghai Huashan Hospital. Here, he continued participating in blood donation drives as his way of giving back to society. In 2011, he became a volunteer at the Shanghai Blood Center where he helped raise public awareness about blood donations.
The idea of setting up an online community for this cause came in 2013 as he believed that there should be a group of expats who get together voluntarily to work with patients and organize regular gatherings to raise public awareness. In 2017, this community was officially registered as Bloodline.
“Our organization currently has a presence in 14 cities, including Beijing, Dalian, and Guangzhou. It’s often a small group of people in each city but they can help a great deal.” says Ashish, who holds the roles of ambassador and director of the foreign volunteers group at the Shanghai Blood Center.
Ashish has also emphasize the importance of raising awareness of their causes in children, noting that people from the younger generations are more receptive to the idea of donating blood. Bloodline is currently planning to launch a junior club within the organization where youth will get to tour blood donation centers, witness how the blood is dealt, who the end users are, and the difference that they can make to the lives of those in need of blood.
“We come from different countries and have different skin color1 s, but the blood streaming through our
bodies is the same. When there is a need to roll up sleeves and save lives, we will step forward bravely.” he says.
1. The goal of Bloodline is to ________.
A. set up a blood bank that can help the community
B. raise money for the charity
C. assist children in local hospitals
D. help poor people reduce their financial burden
2. What can we infer about Ashish through the whole passage? He ________.
A. benefited from blood donation himself
B. got his medical degree in FuDan University
C. got the idea of founding Bloodline from his father
D. helped collect food and money for a local children’s hospital
3. What message does the passage convey to us?
A. Giving is receiving
B. Hard work leads to success.
C. One needs to return the favor.
D. Love is without boundaries.
B
Researchers say spicy tomatoes could soon be on the menu thanks to the rise of gene-editing technology.
It's not the first time that experts have claimed techniques could develop fruit with unusual features: scientists have already been looking at changing the color1 of kiwi fruit and bettering the taste of strawberries.
But researchers inBrazilandIrelandsay such methods could also offer practical advantages, with hot tomatoes offering a new way of harvesting the pungent chemicals found in peppers known as capsaicinoids, which make food taste “hot”.
“Capsaicinoids are valuable. They are used as painkillers and there are some researches showing that they promote weight loss,” said Agustin Zsogon from a Brazilian university, a co-author of a new article arguing for the benefits of engineering hot tomatoes.
Writing in the journal Trends in Plant Science, the researchers say peppers are difficult crops to grow and low productive. Worse still, it is tricky to keep the pungency of the fruits table. By contrast, tomato production is high and the plant is well-studied. “You could produce the capsaicinoids in a more cost-effective manner,” said Zsogon.
Tomatoes and peppers developed from a common ancestor, but separated about 19 million years ago. “All these genes to produce capsaicinoids exist in the tomato, they are just not active,” said Zsogon. “Using gene-editing technology, it is likely to switch these genes back on in tomatoes, making the fruit more special”, he
said.
4. Why are the tomatoes made hot by the researchers?
A. To test the gene-editing technology
B. To improve the amount of the tomatoes
C. To explore ways to harvest more capsaicinoids.
D. To make the tomatoes more delicious.
5. For what purpose can capsaicinoids be used according to the text?
A. To put on weight.
B. To ease the pain.
C. To improve sleep.
D. To better the look.
6. What is Zsogon's attitude to the gene-editing technology?
A. Confident.
B. Critical.
C. Anxious.
D. Doubtful.
7. What's the main idea of the text?
A. An introduction to gene-editing plants.
B. Creating hot tomatoes by gene-editing.
C. Problems with capsaicinoid production.
D. The procedure of producing capsaicinoids.
C
It’s a big change from homeless teen to Yale (耶鲁)medical school student, butperseverancepaid off for Chelesa Fearce of Clayton County, Georgia.
Fearce was a fourth grader when her mom was diagnosed (诊断) with Lymphoma (淋巴瘤).That began a hard time for the family. They had to move in and out of shelters,hotels and even the family car.
“I know I have been made stronger. I was homeless. My family slept on the floor and we were lucky if we got more than one full meal a day. Getting a shower, food and clean clothes was an everyday struggle,” Fearce said in a speech she gave at her high school graduation ceremony. Fearce overcame her day-to-day struggles by focusing on a better day. “I just told myself to keep working, because the future will not be like this anymore. And that helped me get through,” she told WSBTV.
Fearce was determined to be a good role model for her younger sister. She found inspiration in her late grandmother, struggling with deadly diseases, who gave Fearce emotional support. In her junior and senior year, Fearce took both high school and college courses, missing out on the free meals she depended on so she could get to her college classes. Despite having to use her cellphone to study after the shelter lights were turned off at night, she not only graduated as valedictorian (毕业生代表) of her 2013 class with a 4.5 grade average, but was also given a ride scholarship—including a meal plan to Spelman College in Atlanta.
After graduation, she worked full time for two years at the National Institutes for Health inBethesda,Maryland,doing research on drugs. Last fall, she entered Yale and set a course to earn both a PhD and medical degree.
8. What does the underlined word “perseverance” in paragraph 1 refer to?
A. instant passion.
B. continuous efforts.
C. great patience.
D. selfless ambitions.
9. How did Fearce feel facing the sufferings?
A. Sad and disappointed.
B. Stressed and defeated.
C. Determined and confident.
D. Joyous and contented.
10. What can we know about Fearce’s learning experience?
A. Her grandma encouraged her to study medicine.
B. Her high school offered her free meals and courses.
C. She failed to study late due to frequent power cut.
D. She gained remarkable high school achievement.
11. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. From Homeless to Yale
B. Meet American’s Top Girl
C. Disabled but not Defeated
D. Chelesa Fearce: A Girl of Many Talents
D
Have you ever done something that was really dangerous just because you thought it was safe？Maybe you did a dangerous trick on your bicycle or skateboard because you were wearing a helmet and thought you couldn’t get hurt. The psychology(心理) of this sort of behavior is called the Peltzman Effect, named after Sam Peltzman, professor of economics at the University of Chicago. Peltzman believes that those moments when people think they are the safest are the times when they act most dangerously.
Peltzman said that people drove more dangerously when they wore seat belts(安全带) . Driving a large four-wheel drive vehicle has a similar effect on drivers’ behavior. Because drivers of large vehicles sit up higher and can see better, they feel they can make better judgments when they drive. They are better protected in accidents,so they act more dangerously. This makes driving morehazardousto other drivers.
The Peltzman Effect isn’t just limited to driving. In 1972, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
passed a law requiring child safety caps on most medicine bottles. The safety caps were designed to prevent children from accidentally taking the medicine, especially painkillers such as aspirin. Requiring safety caps sounded like a great idea, but there was an unexpected side effect. Because the safety caps are so hardto take off, some people leave them off altogether．
Worse, some parents leave the bottles where kids can reach them because they feel that it is safe because of the cap. A study on the Peltzman Effect showed that more than 3,500 children have been harmedby aspirin because of the safety caps.
The Peltzman Effect describes how we’re likely to take more risks and act more dangerously when we feel safest. What’s more, the effects of these behaviors can be quite different from what we expect.
12. What is the Peltzman Effect？
A. People behave less safely when they feel safe．
B. People feel safest when they are under protection．
C. Something that seems dangerous turns out to be safe．
D. People who act dangerously are likely to be together．
13. What does the underlined word“hazardous”in Paragraph 2 mean？
A. Interesting．
B. Expensive．
C. Dangerous．
D. Important．
14. Medicine bottles with safety caps ________．
A. are required throughout the world
B. meet the demands of the Peltzman Effect
C. sell well in the world
D. are not completely safe
15. What would be the best title for the text？
A. Unsafe Safety Measures
B. Types of Decision Making
C. People’s Fear of Taking Risks
D. Different Behaviors of People in Danger
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To put missing sentences into a text, you have to work like an investigator and look for clues.___16___
Usually these streets were full of busy people (Missing sentence).
It was completely quiet on the streets outside. Guy thought it was strange. Now they were completely empty. The snow that had fallen looked like a carpet. Outside looked like inside.
The missing sentence refers back to a former sentence as there is a reference to streets (these streets).___17___In the missing sentence we know that usually the streets were full. This links to the following sentence as “now they were empty”. Here “they” refers back to “the streets”.
Read all the sentences taken out of the text. Read the text and match the sentences with the gaps you are sure about.___18___There will always be a link between these sentences and the missing sentence. Look for reference words. What do they refer to? Typical reference words include: personal pronouns (I, you, he, she...), possessive pronouns (my, mine, your...) and demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those). Besides, look for discourse markers such as in addition, however, as a result, then, etc.
___19___If you think there are two possible sentences for one gap, write down both answers and check again later. Write down all the possibilities for each gap. If you make the wrong choice at the beginning, this may affect the rest of your answers. You don’t have to read the text in order. You can move backwards and forwards to different paragraphs.
There may be extra sentences you don’t need___20___
A. Here are the tips on how to order paragraphs.
B. The missing sentence also refers to the next sentence.
C. This example and the tips that follow show you how.
D. Read the sentences before and after the gap carefully.
E. Discourse markers are really important to help you find the missing sentences.
F. If you are not sure which sentence goes in the gap, leave it and move on to the next.
G. But remember, there will always be a link between the correct missing sentence and the text.
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Many evolution coaches seem to agree that great things happen the minute we step outside of our comfort zone. For me, one of the most important things we should always remember is that growthand___21___can’t coexist.
Personal development expert Napoleon Hill once said, “Whatever the mind can believe, it can achieve___22___how many times you may have___23___in the past or how great your aims and hopes may be.”
This statement is___24___because it reminds us that we’re the only ones who can be___25___for how far we’ll go. To reach any___26___, we’re usually required to___27___the way we do things.
However, stepping outside of our comfort zone is probably the most important step toward___28___real changes. But persistence (坚持) and continuing to move forward are___29___important, as it’s extremely easy to slide back into old____30____without realizing it.
For long, I wanted to live inArgentina, so halfway through my bachelor’s degree, I bought a one-way ticket there. While I was there, I was able to____31____the last two years of my degree online before flying home for graduation. I still live inArgentinanow, and I can proudly say that taking the____32____steps to make it a____33____was one of the most important things I ever did. Certainly, I’m not suggesting we should all buy one-way tickets to foreign countries and just see what____34____. But it’s important for us to____35____what we want and try to bring our____36____to life.
Living in a comfort zone can trick us into____37____we have enough time, when years can fly by without us having accomplished what we really wanted to. We won’t____38____have tomorrow to do what we could have done today. So, accept the discomfort and allow it to____39____you to try new things. You never know what you could be missing out on by remaining____40____.
21. A. hope B. safety C. comfort D. happiness
22. A. regardless of B. in terms of C. as a result of D. in consideration of
23. A. struggled B. succeeded C. missed D. failed
24. A. consistent B. powerful C. plain D. challenging
25. A. ready B. intended C. suitable D. responsible
26. A. level B. state C. goal D. destination
27. A. change B. know C. discover D. follow
28. A. comparing B. experiencing C. accepting D. confirming
29. A. equally B. normally C. slightly D. potentially
30. A. times B. memories C. habits D. concepts
31. A. plan B. value C. complete D. require
32. A. direct B. effective C. quick D. necessary
33. A. motivation B. reality C. wonder D. possibility
34. A. happens B. exists C. helps D. matters
35. A. recognize B. create C. appreciate D. gain
36. A. thoughts B. chances C. efforts D. dreams
37. A. expecting B. admitting C. believing D. understanding
38. A. eventually B. always C. even D. certainly
39. A. encourage B. teach C. guide D. remind
40. A. modest B. self-confident C. independent D. self-content
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
At the end of the 16th century, English was mostly spoken by people inEngland. However, the English language___41.___(change) over time. Between about AD 450 and 1150 the English sounded___42.___(much) like German than the English we speak at present for it was___43.___(base) on German. Then___44.___(gradual) between about AD800 and 1150 English became less like German.
Two men had a great___45.___（affect）on the changes of English. One was Samuel Johnson, who wrote his dictionary and___46.___other was Noah Webster, who wrote The American Dictionary of the English Language___47.___gave American English___48.___（it）own identity.
Today, China may have the largest number of English___49.___（learn）. A lot of Chinese people speak English___50.___a foreign language.
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.此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。

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。

请按下列要求改正：
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；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last weekend, my brother and I went to a nursing home for voluntary works. We went there by bus. On the way, we discussed how we could do for the old there. The moment we arrived at there, we were greeted by a warmly welcome. Seeing that their rooms were dirty, my brother suggested we cleaned them. Two hours later, we had to wave goodbye to them, promise to come back again. We felt proud of us. We thought it was indeed unforgettable experience for both of us. I do believe unless all of us can do something for the old, we will real
make a difference.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，上需你校举办了首届学生生活技能录像（vedios）展示活动，主题为“劳动创造美好生活（Work Creates a Better Life）”，请你为校英文报写一篇报道，内容包括：
1.活动主题；
2.展示内容（烹任、急救、园艺等）
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。

参考答案
1. A
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. B 9. C 10. D 11. A
12. A 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. C 17. B 18. D 19. F 20. G
21. C 22. A 23. D 24. B 25. D 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. A 30. C 31. C 32.
D 33. B 34. A 35. A 36. D 37. C 38. B 39. A 40. D
41. has changed 42. more 43. based
44. gradually 45. effect 46. the
47. that/which 48. its 49. learners 50. as
51.(1). works→work
(2). how→what
(3). 去掉at
(4). warmly→warm
(5). cleaned→clean
(6).promise→promising
(7). us→ourselves
(8). indeed后加an
(9). unless→if
(10). real→really
52.略。