2021届江门市第十一中学高三英语上学期期中考试试卷及答案

2021届江门市第十一中学高三英语上学期期中考试试卷及答案
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
A 21-year-old female student has become the youngest womanever to be elected as Mayor (市长) after first entering politics to campaign about food.
Labor Party (工党) member Rosie Corrigan was elected as Mayor of Selby a market town in North Yorkshire, on Monday. The student’s election was unchallenged to the mayoralty, following a year serving as deputy mayor. Corrigan has just finished her second year studying politics at theUniversityofHull. A political activist since secondary school, lifelong Selby citizen Corrigan has always been ambitious. As a member of the UK Youth Parliament, she co-founded the Selby Youth council, and then went on to run for and win the local council election as a Labour candidate (候选人) aged just 18.
Corrigan plan to use her year in office to further encourage political awareness in the youth of Selby. By breaking a political record of being the youngest woman ever elected inUKhistory, Corrigan hopes this will break the misunderstanding of Selby being a sleepy town with old-fashioned views. “It’s an honor to be the Mayor of my lovely hometown,” Corrigan told a newspaper. “I plan on using the year to encourage children and young people to champion their communities.”
The politics student’s election has been supported whole heartedly by the politicians she has worked with throughout her early-developing career, including thebackingof former deputy Prime Minister (副首相) John Prescott. Simon Darvill said in an interview, “I hope that the success of Rosie and others like her encourages more young people to get involved in politics and change where they live for the better.”
1. Which statement is true according to Paragraph 2?
A. Corrigan is new to the political scene of Selby.
B. Corrigan became interested in politics in childhood.
C. Corrigan has been living in Selby since she was born.
D. Corrigan founded the Selby Youth council by herself.
2. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?
A. Corrigan plans to further her time in office by at least a year.
B. The people of Selby are passive and have out-of-date views.
C. Corrigan is the youngest person ever elected inUKhistory.
D. Corrigan intends to increase Selby’s youth’spolitical involvement.
3. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “backing” in Paragraph 4?
A. Approval
B. Appreciation
C. Praise
D. Support
B
Think ofJapanin the spring and the image that comes to mind is likely the country’s famous cherry blossoms, also known as “Sakura” — white and pink flowers, blooming across cities and mountains.
The flowers, which experience a “peak bloom” that only lasts a few days, have been loved inJapanfor more than a thousand years. Crowds celebrate with viewing parties,flockingto the most popular locations to take photos and have picnics underneath the branches.
But this year, cherry blossom season has come and gone in the blink of an eye, in one of the earliest blooms on record. Scientists warn it’s a symptom of the larger climate crisis threatening ecosystems everywhere.
Yasuyuki Aono, a researcher atOsakaPrefectureUniversity, has gathered records fromKyotoback to 812 AD from historical documents and diaries. In the central city ofKyoto, cherry blossoms peaked on March 26, the earliest in more than 1,200 years, Aono said. And in the capitalTokyo, cherry blossoms reached full bloom on March 22, the second-earliest date on record.
The peak bloom dates shift every year, depending on numerous factors including weather and rainfall, but have shown a general trend of moving earlier and earlier. InKyoto, the peak date stayed around mid-April for centuries, but began moving into early April during the 1800s. The date has only dipped into late March a handful of times in recorded history.
“Sakura blooms are very temperature sensitive,” said Aono. “Flowering and full bloom could be earlier or later depending on the temperature alone,” he said. “The temperature was low in the 1820s, but it has risen by about 3.5 degrees Celsius to this day.”
This year’s seasons in particular influenced the blossom dates, he added. The winter was very cold, but the spring came fast and unusually warm.
4. What is the best title of the passage?
A. Cherry blossom celebrations.
B. Warning of a climate crisis.
C. A strong love for cherry blossom.
D. Cherry blossom season coming earlier.
5. What does the underlined word “flocking” mean?
A. Blocking.
B. Flooding.
C. Running.
D. Following.
6. What can we infer from paragraph 5?
A. The peak blossom dates fall on a fixed date.
B. The cherry blossom rarely peaks in March.
C. The peak bloom dates mainly depend on weather and rainfall.
D. Cherry blossom peaks around mid-April inTokyo.
7. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To inform people the date of cherry blossom.
B. To show a study on cherry blossom dates.
C. To present a Japanese tradition of cherry blossom celebration.
D. To make people aware of the influence of climate change on cherry blossom.
C
Howdo you turn “dumb” headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that can be plugged into (插入) smartphones, identify their users monitor their heart rates and perform other services.
Their invention, called HeadFi, is based on a small plug-in headphone adapter that turns a regular headphone into a sensing device (装置). Unlike smart headphones, regular headphones lack sensors. HeadFi would allow users to avoid having to buy a new pairof smart headphones with sensors to enjoy sensing features.
“HeadFi could turn hundreds of millions of existing, regular headphones worldwide into intelligent ones with a simple upgrade (升级),” said Xiaoran Fan, a HeadFi primary inventor.
A Rutgers-led paper on the invention, which results in "earable intelligence", will be formally published in October at MobiCom 2021, the top international conference on mobile computing and mobile and wireless networking. Headphones are among the most popular wearable devices worldwide and they continue to become; more intelligent as new functions appear, such as touch-based gesture control, the paper notes. Such functions usually rely on aiding sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and microphones that are availableon many smart headphones.
HeadFi turns the two drivers already inside all headphones into a versatile (多功能的) sensor, and it works by connecting headphones to a pairing device, such as a smartphone. It doesn't require adding aiding sensors and
avoids changes to headphone hardware or the need to customize headphones, both of which may increase their weight and size. By plugging into HeadFi, a converted headphone can perform sensing tasks and play music at the same time.
The engineers conducted experiments with 53 volunteers using 54 pairs of headphones with prices ranging from $2. 99 to $15 ,000. HeadFi can achieve 97. 2 percent to 99. 5 percent accuracy on user identification, 96.8 percent to 99. 2 percent on heart rate monitoring and 97. 7 percent to 99. 3 percent on gesture recognition.
8. What does Xiaoran Fan think of HeadFi?
A. Secure to operate.
B. Simple to use.
C. Easy to substitute.
D. Convenient to store.
9. What can we know about HeadFi according to the text?
A. It can't work with headphones alone.
B. It actually functions as a versatile sensor.
C. It makes headphones larger and heavier than usual.
D. It doesn't work when headphones are playing music.
10. The figures are listed in the last paragraph mainly to show_________.
A. the various functions of HeadFi
B. the wide popularity of headphones
C. the great complexity of headphones
D. the excellent performance of HeadFi
11. What can be the best title for the text?
A. How to Use Headphones Appropriately
B. Headphones Can Be Upgraded Instantly
C. How to Make Regular Headphones Intelligent
D. New Uses Have Been Found in Headphones
D
If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them. If you don’t, you may get lost. If you get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them findyou. You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help.
Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two
shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.
If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches(树枝). Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass.
When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again easily. When you are lost, the most important thing to do is to stay in one place.
12. If you get lost in the forest, you should _________.
A. try to find your friends in no time
B. stay in one place and give signals
C. walk around the forest
D. shout as loudly as possible
13. Which signal is a call for help?
A. Crying twice.
B. Shouting here and there.
C. Whistling everywhere in the forest.
D. Shouting or whistling three times together.
14. When you hear two shouts or two whistles, you know that _________.
A. someone needs your help
B. something terrible will happen
C. people will come to help you
D. someone is afraid of an animal
15. What’s the meaning of the last paragraph?
A. Use branches to make a bed.
B. Drop branches to look for water.
C. Pick off branches to build another house.
D. Leave branches to help you find your way back.
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Think “art”. What comes to your mind? Is it sculptures in the Louvre, or Chinese painting in thePalaceMuseum? Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a dancing pattern of lights?
The artworks by American artist Janet Echelman look like color1 ful floating clouds when lit up at night. Visitors can not only enjoy looking at them, they can also interact with them — literally.
___16___Exhibits such as these are certainly new and exciting, but are they really art?
Whatever your opinion, people have been expressing their thoughts through art with various tools and technologies for thousands of years. Yet Michelangelo and others have been labelled as “artists” rather than “technicians”.___17___
Today, however, technological advances have led to a combination of art and technology. As a result, the art world is changing greatly.____18____Take for example one ofChina’s most famous paintings, Along the River
During the Qingming Festival. As this artwork is rarely on display, people have sometimes queued a long time for a chance to see it. Thanks to technology however, millions more people have been able to experience a digital version of it with 3D animation.
___19___Not only can we interact with art, but also take part in its creation. With new technological tools at our fingertips, more and more people have created exciting new art forms, such as digital paintings and videos.
However, such developments are making the line between art and technology less distinct. Is the artist the creator of the art itself, or the maker of the technology behind it?
___20___But one thing is for sure—with so many artists exploring new possibilities, we can definitely expect the unexpected.
A. Now art is more accessible to us than ever before.
B. Where technology will take art next is anyone’s guess.
C. It’s not important whether they are artists or technicians.
D. They do this by using their phones to change their color1 s and patterns.
E. They watch as the different scenes change from daylight into nighttime.
F. The art-tech combination is also changing our concepts of “art” and the “artist”.
G. This means that art and technology have always been seen as two very separate things.
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David Deutchman has been a volunteer with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta since he retired.
12 years ago, he was coming to the hospital for a____21____after a injury when he first____22____some patients' mothers. From conversations with them, he____23____that he wanted to make more connection with parents and children being treated. Therefore, he started____24____at the hospital.
He holds babies and sometimes he____25____gets peed (小便)on, but he is determined to____26____. "It's wonderful____27____ it gives me something meaningful to do. Every day I drive here, I don't know which kids and parents I'll____28____and how I can help, but I enjoy it. You just can't imagine the____29____that I can get from holding a baby and____30____with parents", he said.
In the ICU, there are always new admits every night, so he will visit the parents whose kids have been____31____recently. "Usually they needed a____32____after a whole night. And I make sure they can go down for breakfast and I'll stay with the children until they get back," he said.
Mary Beth, a mother of a premature baby, returned to the hospital to find her baby in Deutchman's room.
She said, “Knowing this man____33____donates his time to these babies is such a____34____.”
Elizabeth Mittiga, an ICU nurse, said Deutchman was a really____35____person to the staff and that they appreciated Deutchman's calming presence and his____36____to the cause. “We’re so____37____for him to be a part of our unit.” she said.
"Right now, I'm still____38____it a lot," he said."____39____they need me, I'll be there." Truly, Mr.Deutchman is the typical example of a selfless man making his life____40____by helping others.
21. A. rest B. treat C. visit D. recovery
22. A. noticed B. convinced C. ignored D. believed
23. A. imagined B. realized C. predicted D. promised
24. A. connecting B. wandering C. praying D. volunteering
25. A. even B. instead C. further D. still
26. A. show off B. carry on C. give up D. calm down
27. A. so B. but C. because D. while
28. A. wait B. accompany C. admire D. meet
29. A. influence B. trouble C. reward D. comment
30. A. discussing B. talking C. joking D. comforting
31. A. admitted B. injured C. examined D. cured
32. A. gift B. drive C. break D. bath
33. A. helplessly B. restlessly C. carelessly D. selflessly
34. A. blessing B. pleasure C. pity D. sorrow
35. A. difficult B. strange C. special D. respectful
36. A. addiction B. devotion C. response D. solution
37. A. sorry B. doubtful C. proud D. grateful
38. A. missing B. worrying C. enjoying D. regretting
39. A. As long as B. Even if C. If only D. As soon as
40. A. perfect B. worthwhile C. simple D. painful
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
We all love to take photographs. it is a simple way to capture (捕捉) a special moment or_____41._____amazing view. Traditional cameras_____42._____(use)to take pictures in the past decades. But
the biggest change has come___43.___the development of digital technology. Now we have the smartphone_____44._____has made taking photos 60____45.____(quick)and easier. It's enabled us to take a photo and review it instantly, to handle it using software and to share it like never before-___46.___(particular)on social media.
Does that mean the traditional camera will eventually become out-of-date?___47.___(figure)from Japan show shipments (运送) of digital cameras from companies like Canon and Nikon have dropped 39% year on year. But Phil Hall, editor of TechRadar, thinks there's nothing____48.____(worry)about because producers are looking at higher-end cameras.
Certainly, the____49.____(grow)of smartphones opens our eyes to the creative possibilities they provide. But whatever camera viewfinder (取景器) we end up_____50._____(look)through, it is important to remember the basics of photography and get your subject to say “cheese!”
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；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I prefer my English classes to be taught only by English, because it is helpful for us improve the ability of speaking and listening.
I have strong interested in English and foreign culture. I’d like to be totally absorbing in the atmosphere of English so that I can quickly make a progress. Therefore, since we are all English beginners, it’s really hard to understand the words what are difficult. We need Chinese explanation sometime.
So my viewpoint is that we should using Chinese as a minor way to explain things that is hard to understand.第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你叫李华，你校将举办国际青少年交流活动，邀请你的新西兰笔友Sam参加，请根据以下要点，用英语给他写封邮件：
1.时间，地点；
2.交流内容（谈理想未来，参观艺术作品展等）；
3.期待回复。

注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：International Youth Exchange Programme 国际青少年交流活动
Dear Sam,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. C
2. D
3. D
4. D
5. B
6. B
7. D
8. B 9. A 10. D 11. C
12. B 13. D 14. C 15. D
16. D 17. G 18. A 19. F 20. B
21. D 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. C 30. B 31. A 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. C 36. B 37. D 38. C 39. A 40. B
41. an 42. have been used
43. with 44. which/that
45. quicker
46. particularly
47. Figures
48. to worry
49. growth 50. looking
51.(1). by → in
(2). us后面加to
(3). interested → interest
(4). absorbing → absorbed
(5). 去掉progress前面的a
(6). Therefore → However
(7). what → that/which
(8). sometime → sometimes
(9). using → use
(10). is → are
52.略。