2020-2021学年北京朝阳区劲松第一中学高三英语上学期期末考试试卷及参考答案

2020-2021学年北京朝阳区劲松第一中学高三英语上学期期末考试试
卷及参考答案
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
Some young people win attention because of their good looks or their singing ability. A much smaller number gain fame because they have done something important and worthwhile with their abilities. Rishab Jain is among the latter. In 2018, 13-year-oldRishab developed a way to use AI technology to help pancreatic(胰腺的) cancer patients and won the3MYoung Scientist Challenge, a nationwide middle-school science competition, and its $25,000 prize.
In the last stage of the contest, Rishab competed againstnine other finalists at the 3M Innovation Center(创新中心) in St.Paul,Minnesota. Leading up to the big meet, each finalist had partnered with a scientist to further develop their inventions.
Rishab explains what led him to create his invention. First,a family friend died of cancer. Then Rishab learned about how deadly pancreatic cancer is, and that its low survival rate is due to how difficult it is to treat. "I'm also into programming, so I was learning about AI technology. I decided to try to solve a real-world problem using it."
His winnings have been put in further research and in his nonprofit Samyak Science Society, which helps poor children enter the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. Rishab is also raising awareness about pancreatic cancer. These efforts make him quite different from teenagers of his age. Considering becoming a biomedical engineer or a doctor一or both, he has also put some money aside to further his own learning. Almost certainly the doors of higher education will open wide to him before he even knocks.
That's an outstanding outlook for one so young. Rashib is committed to helping very sick people in need. He is also providing teenagers of his age with a much-needed model of what kinds of things youth can achieve.
1. What can we learn about the 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2018?
A. It was intended to solve medical problems.
B. It was a nationwide AI competition for teenagers.
C. It offered the finalists an opportunity to work with scientists.
D. It allowed the finalists to learn AI technology in the 3M center.
2. How did Rishab win the 3M Young Scientist Challenge?
A.He showed excellent programming ability.
B. He figured out the survival rate of pancreatic cancer.
C. He introduced poor children to STEM education.
D. He applied AI technology to treating pancreatic cancer.
3. Which of the following best describes Rishab?
A. Talented and caring.
B. Independent and humorous.
C. Responsible and patient.
D. Polite and inspiring.
B
According to statistics published by the BPI (Buying Power Index) a couple of months ago, digital streaming (流媒体) now accounts for 80 percent of the music consumption in the UK. Despite the incredible growth of online streaming platforms like iTunes, Apple Music and Tidal over the past 15 years, a more traditional medium has also seen a return of interest and sales in the music industry. In 2020, almost one in five of all albums purchased in the UK is vinyl (黑胶唱片), and it has once again become the most popular physical musical medium.
With digital streaming so easy and convenient, why are so many peopledrawn to traditional records? Some experts claim that vinyl is a physical medium for experiencing music, something tangible (有形的) to hold and own. For most people, having something tangible and interacting with it gives depth to the experience of music. Listening to an album and touching it the way the artist intended can make them feel more connected to the music and the artist. Records are physical products that can be not only displayed but also gifted, shared, traded and passed down through generations.
Sound quality is another hot topic. A lot of music lovers feel that the analogue sound (模拟声音) vinyl offers is superior to modern digital audio, particularly with regards to the compressed formats streaming platforms use. There’s a common belief that old-school analogue audio has a warmer, fuller sound than digitised music. For vinyl followers, the very defect traditional recorders often have, such as the familiar crackle (劈啪作响) when the record starts, bring the music to life in a different way.
There’s aritualisticaspect to vinyl that a lot of people are drawn to, too. The act of putting a record on—carefully removing the record from the sleeve, placing it on the record player and gently dropping the needle on the right groove (凹槽)—is a more assiduous (一丝不苟的), mindful way of engaging with music. When you’re listening to vinyl, you can’t tap abutton and go about your day while the streaming service provides hours of music. You need to stay close to the record player to move the needle and flip the record over.
It’s clear that the vinyl interest is well underway, and vinyl records are truly making a comeback. In an
increasingly digital society, there’s something to be said for analogue experiences. Perhaps one of the great things about being alive in the 21st century is our ability to have the best of both worlds—the timeless appeal of physical records alongside the easy access to vast music libraries that streaming offers.
4. What are the statistics published by the BPI used to show?
A. An increase in music consumption.
B. The recovery of music industry.
C. A comeback of a physical medium.
D. The acceptance of online streaming.
5. According to some experts, why does vinyl interest many people?
A. It attracts people by its realistic feel.
B. It offers simple access to different music.
C. It shares a new way to enjoy music.
D. It provides people with perfect sound effect.
6. The underlined word “ritualistic” in Para.4 means something ______.
A. Overlooked by society.
B. Updated very frequently.
C. Performed as part of a ceremony.
D. Kept for a long time without changing.
7. How does the writer feel about the future development of music medium?
A. Traditional records will get underway.
B. The analogue experiences may matter more.
C. Vinyl sales will boom with technological advance.
D. There should be a good mix of old and new.
C
Saroo Brierley, a 4-year-old boy, livedin ruralIndia. One day, he played with his brother along the rail line and fell asleep. When he woke up, he found himself alone. So he got on the train in front of him to search for his brother.
That train took him a thousand miles across the country to a totally strange city. He lived on the streets, and then in an orphanage (孤儿院), where he was adopted by an Australian family and taken to Tasmania.
Brierley is a famous writer now, and in his new book,A Long Way Home, he wrote he couldn’t help but
wonder about his hometown back inIndia. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn’t know his town’s name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country seemed impossible.
Then he found a digital mapping program. He spent years searching for his hometown in the program’s satellite pictures. In 2011, he came across something familiar. He studied it and realized he was looking at a town’s central business district from a bird’s-eye view. He thought, “On the right-hand side you should see the three-platform train station”—and there it was. “And on the left-hand side you should see a big fountain”—and there it was. Everything matched!
Standing in front of the house where he grew up as a child, he saw a lady standing at the entrance. It took him a few seconds but he finally remembered what she used to look like.
In an interview Brierley says, “My mother came forth and walked forward, and I walked forward, my eyes filled with tears and my brain blank. I just didn’t know what to say, because I never thought seeing my mother would ever come true. And here I am, standing in front of her.”
8. Why did Brierley get on the train when he was a little boy?
A. To go back to his home.
B. To look for his brother.
C. To travel toTasmania.
D. To follow a stranger.
9. What made it difficult for Brierley to find his hometown?
A. The vast area ofIndia.
B. The fact that he was nobody then.
C. His not remembering the town’s name.
D. The distance betweenAustraliaand his hometown.
10. How did Brierley find his hometown?
A. By studying digital maps.
B. By analyzing old pictures.
C. By travelling all aroundIndia.
D. By spreading his story via his book.
11. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Love for Mother
B. Union with Brother
C. Memory of Hometown
D. Long Way back Home
D
If you ever get the impression that your dog can "tell" whether you look delighted or annoyed, you may be onto something. Dogs may indeed be able to distinguish between happy and angry human faces, according to a new study
Researchers trained a group of 11 dogs to distinguish between images(图像)of the same person making either a happy or an angry face. During the training stage, each dog was shown only the upper half or the lower half of the person's face. The researchers then tested the dogs' ability to distinguish between human facial expressions by showing them the other half of the person's face on images totally different from the ones used in training. The researchers found that the dogs were able to pick the angry or happy face by touching a picture of it with their noses more often than one would expect by random chance.
The study showed the animals had figured out how to apply what they learned about human faces during training to new faces in the testing stage. "We can rule out that the dogs simply distinguish between the pictures based on a simple cue, such as the sight of teeth," said study author Corsin Muller. "Instead, our results suggest that the successful dogs realized that a smiling mouth means the same thing as smiling eyes, and the same rule applies to an angry mouth having the same meaning as angry eyes."
"With our study, we think we can now confidently conclude that at least some dogs can distinguish human facial expressions," Muller toldLive Science.
At this point, it is not clear why dogs seem to be equipped with the ability to recognize different facial expressions in humans. "To us, the most likely explanation appears to be that the basis lies in their living with humans, which gives them a lot of exposure to human facial expressions and this exposure has provided them with many chances to learn to distinguish between them." Muller said.
12. The new study focused on whether dogs can_________.
A. distinguish shapes
B. make sense of human faces
C. feel happy or angry
D. communicate with each other
13. What can we learn about the study from paragraph 2?
A. Researchers tested the dogs in random order.
B. Diverse methods were adopted during training.
C. Pictures used in the two stages were different
D. The dogs were photographed before the lest.
14. What is the last paragraph mainly about?
A. A suggestion for future studies.
B. A possible reason for the study findings.
C. A major limitation of the study
D. An explanation of the research method.
15. In which section is the text most likely to be found in a newspaper ?
A. Entertainment
B. Economy
C. Science
D. Nature
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Many people are stuck in a life they don’t want, and are held in places by everything from financial restrictions to social pressures. If you are looking to pursue your dreams, it can be discouraging to change everythingat once.___16___
Write down your goals to get them out of your head and into reality. Be honest with yourself about what you want, no matter how impossible it seems and ignore what you “should” do based on the views of your friends, family or society. ____17____Don’t leave anything out, no matter how small or silly it sounds. Look at the themes of your list to get an idea of what your dream life will look like.
___18___choose one that is ly easy to accomplish, one that is doable but will require work and one that seems impossible based on your current circumstances and lifestyle. List the steps you will need to take to get to each goal, getting down to the little details.
Start with your smallest goal and work through the steps until you achieve it. Each time you complete one of the steps, cross it off so you can celebrate the process in addition to the end result. ___19___ Figure out how you can work your second two goals into your life.____20____If your big dream is to quit your job and travel the world, start a savings account that is dedicated to travel money and set aside a small amount each week for three years. Plan your steps according to the time you set and they will be doable and fit smoothly into your life.
A. Seek support from your friends and family.
B. You will need to have courage to make changes.
C. Identify the top three things that will get you closer to your dream life.
D. When you achieve the goal, find a way to continue integrating it into your life.
E. Choose a deadline foreach goal, whether it is one year down the road or five.
F. List the things you want to accomplish in your life, both personal and professional.
G. Instead, making small, gradual changes to prepare the way to dream tries to make the process easier.
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One of my teammates said it best on our last day of the season: “Guys, you are my family. We are all brothers.” Our tennis team is more than just a group of individual players thrown____21____; there is a friendship____22____by no other group with which I have been involved. We are____23____, yet connected. We have student-athletes from all four years of high school, from different parts of the city, and from different families and social____24____. Nevertheless, we are all____25____by a shared love of tennis. The tennis team____26____to me because it contains two things that I treasure most: tennis and____27____.
Ever since I was ten years old, the____28____aspect of tennis attracted me to an otherwise physical sport. My first tennis coach always used to say, “Tennis is 10% physical and 90% of mental.”
____29____the mental strength to stay_____30_____and controlled under pressure, skills are_____31_____. Sometimes I feel like I have two_____32_____in a match: me against the person on the other side of the net, and me against the person inside my head, telling me to hit a better shot.
However, despite the_____33_____pressures of tennis, the brotherhood_____34_____by working together as a team helps spread the_____35_____of the pressure over an entire group. We_____36_____each other on and off the court. We do this because we have become a/an_____37_____away from home. I play my best tennis when I have my team’s full support,_____38_____in the knowledge that they are always backing me_____39_____. I know that each one of us puts everything we have into every_____40_____whether we are playing or cheering.
21. A. around B. back C. forward D. together
22. A. earned B. followed C. matched D. noticed
23. A. opposite B. diverse C. separate D. skillful
24. A. activities B. backgrounds C. responsibilities D. services
25. A. appealed B. sponsored C. trained D. united
26. A. matters B. returns C. continues D. occurs
27. A. entertainment B. childhood C. brotherhood D. society
28. A. physical B. environmental C. mental D. technical
29. A. Without B. Beyond C. In spite of D. According to
30. A. active B. calm C. hopeful D. silent
31. A. useless B. difficult C. contradictory D. powerful
32. A. goals B. friends C. opponents D. risks
33. A. unavoidable B. unreasonable C. unexpected D. unwelcome
34. A. allocated B. created C. imagined D. suspected
35. A. area B. control C. value D. weight
36. A. support B. fight C. treated D. teach
37. A. audience B. family C. reason D. member
38. A. anxious B. curious C. sensitive D. secure
39. A. conditionally B. differently C. enthusiastically D. intentionally
40. A. match B. person C. dream D. team
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
Many students may feel___41.___(stress) because of their parents. Most parents have good intentions,___42.___some of them aren't very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in___43.___(adjust) to college, and a few of then seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s___44.___(difficult).
For one thing, parents are often not aware of the kinds of problems their children face. They don't realize that the___45.___(compete) is stronger, that the required standards of work are___46.___(high), and that their children may not be prepared for___47.___change. They may be upset by their children’s poor grade.
At their kindest, they may___48.___(gentle) ask why John or Mary isn't doing better. Whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on. At their worst, they may threaten___49.___(take) their children out of college or cut off living expenses.
Sometimes parents think it night and natural that they determine___50.___their children do with their lives. They forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way.
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-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。

My classmate, Zhang Qiang, live in affluence(富裕) in Shanghai now. He's considered as a famous engineer. Not that her life has always been easy. In 1971, he born into a poor peasant family in a lonely village. Before go to school, he usually grazed goats in the mountains. At school he studies hard despite simple food and old clothes. With Father's back bending down, with Mother's wrinkles(皱纹) deepening, he graduated in our senior high school with flying color1 s(以优异成绩), and was admitted to a famous university in Dalian. After getting a job in Shanghai, owing to his diligence and honest, Zhang Qiang has always been spoken high of. A native girl married with him in 1999. His success once again proves that an aspiring(有志气的) kid, though he is poor, can also stride(大步走) out of a remote village and into an prosperous international metropolis(大都市).
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，请给你的英国朋友Jenson写一封邮件，邀请他本周六给你校学生做一场关于如何提高英语口语的在线培训。

写作词数应为80左右；
注意：
1.写清楚写信的目的；
2.写清楚时间和地点可适当补充其他内容以使行文连贯。

Dear Jenson,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. C
2. D
3. A
4. C
5. A
6. C
7. D
8. B 9. C 10. A 11. D
12. B 13. C 14. B 15. C
16. G 17. F 18. C 19. D 20. E
21. D 22. C 23. B 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. C 29. A 30. B 31. A 32.
C 33. A 34. B 35.
D 36. A 37. B 38. D 39. C 40. A
41. stressed
42. but/yet
43. adjusting
44. difficulties
45. competition
46. higher 47. the
48. gently 49. to take
50. what
51.(1). live→lives
(2).her→his
(3).在born前加was
(4).go→going
(5).studies→studied
(6).in→from
(7).honest→honesty
(8).high→highly
(9).去掉married后的with
(10).an→a
52.略。