2020年宁波市李兴贵中学高三英语期中试题及参考答案

2020年宁波市李兴贵中学高三英语期中试题及参考答案
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
Although Adrian Wood had already sent her three oldest children off toWhiteOakElementary SchoolinEdenton,North Carolina, she was anxious when it was her youngest son Amos's turn to start classes.Adriansaid, “Sending Amos to school was such a different path. He was 3 when he started school. He had autism(自闭症)and he didn't speak."
Amos struggled to make friends and fit in, but there was always one person there who was very happy to see him. Raymond Brown has worked at the school as a guard for the past 15 years. All of the students know and love him, and he's truly a friend to all. He started callingAdrian's son “Famous Amos” on day one. To the mom's surprise, Amos quickly began responding with a cheerful "Hey, Brown” whenever he saw him. "He wasn't even saying 'daddy' at home, so it was really something, "Adriansaid.
“Amos is a hard friend to have,"Adrianexplained, "He takes a lot more than he gives and that's tough for children. But those kids saw that he was popular and loved, and they started fighting over who would get to hold Amos' hand on the way to the classroom. It meant so much to me that he was favored by the other children at school, and Mr. Brown had a big hand in that.”
About a year ago, school officials nominated Mr. Brown forNorth Carolina's School Hero, a $20,000 prize. When the results came out and he didn't win,Adrianwas heartbroken. She couldn't let the disappointing results stand, so she took to Facebook and created an annual “Famous Amos” prize for Mr. Brown in their community. Her neighbors answered the call, donating $35,000 in just one week! Townspeople and school officials gathered in March to celebrate Mr. Brown and give him the money they'd raised. Principal Michelle handed him a giant check and thanked him for everything he does to help kids like Amos find their way.
1. What madeAdrianworried?
A. Her youngest son's bad behavior.
B. Her family's heavy financial burden.
C. Her youngest son's mental problem.
D. Her three sons' poor performance at school.
2. What change did Mr. Brown bring to Amos?
A. Amos became a top student at school.
B. Amos got more attention from other kids.
C. Amos learned to share and care about others.
D. Amos had a better relationship with his family members.
3. What did Mr. Brown get in the end?
A. The “Famous Amos” prize.
B. A check from the local government.
C.North Carolina's School Hero prize.
D. A small donation from the community.
B
Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most complex learning system-the mind of a baby. Babies might seem like no match for artificial intelligence (AI). They are terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text, and awful at video games. Then again, babies can do things beyond the reach of any AI. By just a few months old, they’ve begun to grasp the foundations of language, such as grammar. They’ve started to understand how to adapt to unfamiliar situations.
Yet even experts like Spelke don’t understand precisely how babies or adults learn. Consider one of the most impressive examples of AI, Alpha Zero, a programme that plays board games with superhuman skill. After playing thousands of games against itself at a super speed, and learning from winning positions, Alpha Zero independently discovered several famous chess strategies and even invented new ones. It certainly seems like a machineeclipsinghuman cognitive abilities. But Alpha Zero needs to play millions more games than a person during practice to learn a game. Most importantly, it cannot take what it has learned from the game and apply it to another area.
To some AI experts, that calls for a new approach. In a November research paper, Francois Chollet, a well-known AI engineer, argued that it’s misguided to measure machine intelligence just according to its skills at specific tasks. “Humans don’t start out with skills; they start out with a broad ability to acquire new skills,” he says. “What a strong human chess player is demonstrating is not only the ability to play chess, but the potential to fulfill any task of a similar difficulty.”
4. Compared to an advanced AI programme, a baby might be better at ________.
A playing games B. identifying locations C. labeling pictures D. making adjustments
5. What does the underlined word “eclipsing” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Imitating.
B. Beating.
C. Limiting.
D. Promoting.
6. According to the text, Francois Chollet may agree that ________.
A. AI is good at completing certain assignments.
B. AI is likely to gain abilities with less training.
C. AI lacks the ability of acquiring specific skills.
D. AI performs better than humans in cognitive ability.
7. Whichwould be the best title for this passage?
A. What is exactly intelligence?
B. Why is modern AI advanced?
C. Where is human intelligence going?
D. How do humans face the challenge of AI?
C
Children's average daily time spent watching television or using mobile device increased from 53 minutes at age 12 months to more than 150 minutes at 3 years, according toan analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). By age 8, children were more likely to log the highest amount of screen time if they had been in home-based children or were born to first-time mothers.
“Our results indicate that screen habits begin early, ”said Edwina Yeung, an investigator in National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).“This finding suggests that interventions(干涉) to reduce screen time could have a better chance of success if introduced early.”
In the research, mothers of 4, 000 children responded to questions on their kids' media habits when they were 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months of age.
TheAmericanAcademyof Pediatrics recommends avoiding digital media exposure for children under 18 months of age, introducing children 18 to 24 months of age to screen media slowly, and limiting screen time to an hour a day for children from 2 to 5 years of age. In the current study, researchers found that 87% of the children had screen time exceeding (超过) these recommendations. However, while screen time increased throughout toddlerhood, by age 7 and 8, screen time fell to under 1.5 hours per day. The researchers believe this decrease relates to time consumed by school-related activities.
The study authors classified the children into two groups based on how much their average daily screen time increased from age 1 to age 3. The first group, 73% of the total had the lowest increase, from an average of nearly 51 minutes a day to nearly an hour and 47 minutes a day. The second group, 27% of the total, had the highest increase, from nearly 37 minutes of screen time a day to about 4 hours a day. Higher levels of parental education
were associated with lower odds of inclusion in the second group.
8. Who use mobile device longest according to the NIH's analysis?
A. 10-year-old born to first-time mothers.
B. 3-year-old children in low income families.
C. 8-year-old children in home-based childcare.
D. 1-year-old children with parents poorly educated.
9. What does the research suggest according to Edwina?
A. Parents should stop their children using media.
B. Parents should limit the use of digital media themselves.
C. Parents should reduce their children's screen time earlier.
D. Parents should avoid their children using digital media at infancy (婴儿期).
10. Why does children's screen time fall when they age 7 and 8?
A. They are studying at school.
B. They can control themselves.
C. They are tired of using them.
D. They are forbidden to use them.
11. Which of the following may be the best title?
A. Keep Away from Media
B. Screen Habits Begin Early
C. Urgency of Parental Education
D. Harm of Home-based Childcare
D
A trip to thelibrary was like a great journey to a different country. To get there, we had to walk a mile. But our weekly journeys to the library were a piece of perfection. I had around me at one time all the people I loved best-my father and mother and brothers and sister--and all the things I loved best- quiet, space and books.
I read a lot of books about science: not the spaceships my brothers preferred, but the birds and the bees--literally. I brought home a book of birds and searched the trees for anything other than robins (知更鸟). I went through a phrase of loving books with practical science experiments and used up a whole bottle of white vinegar by pouring it on the sides of our apartment building to prove that it was constructed of limestone (石灰石).
One Saturday, as I wandered through the young adult section, I saw a title: Little Women, by Lousia May Alcott. I had learned from experience that titles weren’t everything. A book that sounded great on the shelf could be dull once you got it home. So I sat in a chair near the shelves to skim the first paragraphs.
I read and read and read Little Women until it was time to walk home, and, except for a few essential interruptions like sleeping and eating, I did not put it down until the end. Even the freedom to watch weekend
television held no appeal for me in the wake of Alcott' s story. It was about girls, for one thing, girls who could almost be like me, especially Jo. I had found someone who thought and felt the way I did.
12. What can we say about the author’s family?
A. They enjoyed traveling abroad.
B. They were library frequenters.
C. They were very fond of walking.
D. They led a perfectly quiet life.
13. What does the author mainly want to show in paragraph 2?
A. Her different hobbies from her brothers.
B. How she conducted science experiments.
C. Why she loved books about the birds and the bees.
D. Her reading interests during a particular period of time.
14. What opinion does the author hold on books?
A. Book titles can sometimes be misleading.
B. Science books are as interesting as novels.
C. The first few paragraphs of a book are attractive.
D. Books seem duller when read in libraries than at home.
15. How would the author describe Little Women?
A. It helped her to discover her true character.
B. It made her forget about food and sleep.
C. It inspired confidence in her.
D. It kept her absorbed.
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“Don’t tell anyone”.We hear these words when someone tells a secret to us.___16___We’re often tempted to(忍不住的) “spill the beans”, even if we regretit later.
An earlier study, led by Anita E.Kelly, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stress.___17___According to Asim Shah, professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, US, keeping a secret may well “become a burden”.This is because people often have an “obsessive and anxious urge to share it with someone”.
___18___Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a Mend.Another reason people share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them.A sense of distrust can develop
when people who are close do not share it with each other. “Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone, ”according to Shah.
He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out.___19___A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside.To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret.
Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you’d better put yourself in their position.Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustn’t give the information away.Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someone’s secret you should come clean about it.___20___
A.But it can be hard to keep a secret.
B.Everyone intends to keep his own secret.
C.Now you may ask, what secret is that?
D.Let the person know that their secret isn’t so secret anymore.
E.People with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches.
F.But with secrets so often getting out, why do people share them at all?
G.However, this doesn’t mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people.
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Every Saturday night my family and I go out and feed the homeless people in the city ofOrlando. There are hundreds of people across the city without any___21___or shelter. We have been doing this for several months. We wanted to see what it was like in the___22___of a homeless person .
One special thing I like to___23___is, my family and I do not eat before we begin our___24___so we know how it feels to be___25___All of the areas we go to are very___26___, such as Parramore,Gore Streetand downtownOrlando. We all get together in the___27___and prepare the food. Some of the meals are sandwiches and cookies and a bottle of water. Sometimes my mom___28___a steaming hot delicious meal. We then___29___them all up to feed 30 or more people. I like to write special____30____on the bag like , “God loves you”.
Before my family and I get into the car , we ask God for protection in a family prayer. A lot of people____31____homeless people. Not all homeless people are drug addicts or____32____people. Some are____33____nice. Some of them just had bad things that____34____to them.
At first, we had to earn their trust, because a lot of people are____35____to them for no good reason. But now that they see us every week they____36____us. We even know some of their names. We all have to
remember that these are people that have____37____
Some of them shake our hands for giving them food. Some of them do really funny dances because they are happy.
After we finished feeding the homeless, it makes me____38____what I have at home. Sometimes it makes me sad, and makes my mom____39____. I love feeding the homeless, and making a(n)____40____in someone’s life.
21. A. power B. strength C. experience D. food
22. A. belief B. plan C. life D. dream
23. A. mention B. charge C. expect D. gain
24. A. collection B. journey C. holiday D. investigation
25. A. curious B. separate C. tense D. hungry
26. A. dangerous B. tidy C. busy D. peaceful
27. A. birthday B. kitchen C. field D. restaurant
28. A. eats B. buys C. prepares D. serves
29. A. break B. give C. use D. bag
30. A. notes B. poems C. novels D. articles
31. A. arrest B. misunderstand C. save D. adopt
32. A. patient B. active C. bad D. careless
33. A. finally B. luckily C. barely D. really
34. A. happened B. owed C. led D. added
35. A. interesting B. mean C. familiar D. unusual
36. A. trust B. respect C. forgive D. relax
37. A. tasks B. goals C. feelings D. methods
38. A. accept B. require C. spend D. appreciate
39. A. fight B. cry C. complain D. argue
40. A. experiment B. fortunate C. difference D. report
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
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khanand aiming at___41.___(provide) “a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.”
Khan offers more than 4, 200 free micro lectures, each of___42.___usually lasts 10 to 15 minutes. Unlike___43.___(tradition) classes, Khan mainly offers courses for students below the college level. The classes can also help those planning to take the SAT,___44.___exam often required for student wishing to enter an American college or university.
___45.___(start) your learning journey at Khan Academy, you should first of all enter the website with a personal e-mail account. Your personal homepage at Khan Academy___46.___(design) to help you learn math. You can take it first to see your level. The academy then suggests exercises of the right level for you.
If you are interested in other subjects, click “LEARN” to see all topics___47.___(offer) online. Try “Art History”, for example,___48.___you will be taken to all the things in that area like articles, videos and questions.
Don’t worry if you find___49.___difficult to follow the course in English. Courses in____50.____(translate) in Chinese, Japanese and other languages are also available.
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。

When I was a child, I spent more than ten years learn the violin. Therefore, I couldn't understand "real music". After I graduated high school, a friend of mine suggested that we started to learn the guitar because we both thought it was cool. I will never forget the day in which we went to buy guitars in a store. There I saw the guitar player playing the guitar, which I really enjoyed it. He became my first guitar teacher. It took me so a long time to choose one among several wonderful model. Now the guitar is the most importance part of my life and I practice it every day.
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。

Henry started his teddy bear craft-making hobby when he was only 9 years old. Now a teen, his one-of-a-kind collection has grown into thousands, but you won't find his bears on the shelf at home. His mission of kindness has the only purpose of donating his creations to put a smile on the faces of sick children and lift their spirits.
The young boy's work began one day when he was Christmas shopping with his mother. He asked if he could buy a few presents for sick children in hospitals. His mother had to infuse because the family, which included nine children, could simply not afford the extra cost. Henry told his mother not to worry-he would make the toys himself.
“I hadn’t sewed（缝纫）anything before. In the beginning, it took me a lot of practice,“ Henry recalled.
He borrowed his mother's sewing machine and got straight to work. He learned to create the toy animals by trial and error, using the Internet for instructions. It took him five hours to make his first bear, which he described as “a simple, ugly bear”. With much practice and effort, he was able to cut his time down to one hour per bear, and he began creating unique, bright-color1 ed bears that kids love to hug.
Throughout his youth, while most other children were playing video games or skateboarding , Henry was working on a sewing machine, making stuffed animals. What drives his hard work is seeing firsthand how a child changes when they are gifted a teddy bear. Each child's eyes light up with joy, and for a moment, they forget their illness.
“They smile, and some hug me. It makes their whole day better," said Henry, describing how children typically react when he hands them a toy bear. He believes each bear inspires a sense of hope in the receiver.
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。

After his story was aired on TV, Henry started his own organization.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Then the young boy launched his own channel（频道）on the Internet.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. C 9. C 10. A 11. B
12. B 13. D 14. A 15. D
16. A 17. E 18. F 19. G 20. D
21. D 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. B 28. C 29. D 30. A 31. B 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. B 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. B 40. C
41. providing
42. which 43. traditional
44. an 45. To start
46. is designed
47. offered
48. and 49. it
50. translation
51.(1). learn→learning
(2). Therefore→However
(3). graduated后加from
(4). started→start
(5). in→on
(6). the→a
(7). 删去it
(8). so→such
(9). model→models
(10). importance→important
52.略。