2020-2021学年青海省平安县第一高级中学高三英语下学期期中试题及答案

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2020-2021学年青海省平安县第一高级中学高三英语下学期期中试题
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
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The concepts in AQUILA can be challenging, requiring good comprehension and reading skills. 8 years is usually a good age to start. Some gentle interest from an adult is often helpful at the start.
In 2020 AQUILA will have been in publication for 28 years, but it has never appeared in newsstands or shops. We are subscription only.
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1.What is special about AQUILA?
A.It is available in shops.
B.It is for kids of all ages.
C.It has no advertisements.
D.It prints readers’ artworks.
2.What does AQUILA offer its readers?
A.Articles on modern art.
B.Family reading materials.
C.Ideas on improving readingskills.
D.Knowledge beyond school subjects.
3.AQUILA is intended for ________.
A.foreign language learners
B.children with learning difficulties
C.parent-child reading lovers
D.curious kids with good comprehension
B
A 25-year-old American with a university degree can expect to livea decade longer than a peer who dropped out of high school. Although researchers have long known that the rich live longer than the poor, this education gap is less well documented. And although the average American’s expected span(预期寿命) has been smooth in recent year—and, shockingly, even fell between 2015 and 2017—that of the one-third with a bachelor’s degree has continued to lengthen.
This gap in life expectancy is growing, according to new research published in the report of the National Academy of Sciences. Anne Case and Angus Deation ofPrincetonUniversityfound that the lifespans of those with and without a bachelor’s degree started to become different in the 1990s and 2000s. This gap grew even wider in the 2010s.
What is the link between schooling and longevity(长寿)? Some argue that better-educated people develop healthier lifestyles: each additional year of study reduces the chances of being a smoker and of being overweight. The better-educated earn more, which in turn is associated with greaterhealth.
Ms Case and Mr Deaton argue that changes in labor markets, including the rise of automation and increased demand for highly-educated workers, coupled with the rising costs of employer-provided health care, have decreased the supply of well-paid jobs for those without a degree. This may be contributing to higher rates of
alcohol and drug use, suicide and other “deaths of despair”.
The authors argued that the educational gap in mortality(致死率) will widenin the wake ofthe covid-19 pandemic. ForAmerica’s overall life expectancy to start climbing again, improvements will be needed across all social groups, not just among the privileged few.
4. When did the lifespans of people with and without a degree vary greatly?
A. In the 1990s.
B. In the 2020s
C. In the 2000s
D. In the 2010s
5. According to the article, changes in labor markets reduce jobs for those without a degree. Which change is NOT included?
A. The rising spending of employer-provided health care.
B. The gap in life expectancy.
C. Raised request for better-educated workers.
D. The development of automation.
6. What does the underlined phrase “in the wake of” probably mean ?
A. after
B. until
C. before
D. while
7. What is the best title for the text?
A. Changes in labor market.
B. Quit bad habits by Further study
C. Educated Americans live longer.
D. Highly-educated people develop healthier lifestyles.
C
Scientists often compare coral reefs(珊瑚礁) to underwater rainforests, yet unlike the leafy plant base of a forest, corals are animals. The soft creatures are naturally half-transparent and get their brilliant color1 from algae(藻类) living inside them. When corals experience stress from hot temperatures or pollution, theyhaltthe interdependent relationship with algae, typically pushing them out and turning white. Corals are still alive when they are white, but they're at risk and many eventually die, turning dark brown.
Scientists around the world are looking for means to protect and maybe increase corals. One common option is to create more protected areas — essentially national parks in the ocean. Beyond nature preserves, some conservationists are looking to more hands-on methods. One research center in the Florida Keys is exploring a form of natural selection to keep corals remaining. The reef system in the Keys has been hit hard by climate
change and pollution, which is especially tough, because corals there help support fisheries worth $ 100 million every year.
To keep the wild ecosystem alive, Erinn Muller, the center's director, and her team are harvesting samples of the corals that survived the environmental stress naturally, keeping them to make them reproduce, and then reattaching them to the reef. They have 46,000 corals on plastic frames under the sea. So far, the center has regrown over 70,000 corals from five different species on damaged reefs.
In The Bahamas, Ross Cunning, a research biologist at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, focuses on corals with genes that could make them natural candidates for restoration projects. He published a study of two Bahamian reefs, one that survived an extreme 2015 heat wave, and one that didn't. "We think their ability to deal with these higher temperatures is built into their genes," says Cunning. There's evidence of corals evolving more quickly to resist rapidly warming climate. The big question scientists need investigate, adds Gunning, is how much more heat corals can adapt to.
8. What does the underlined word "halt" in the first paragraph mean?
A. End.
B. Develop.
C. Strengthen.
D. Weaken.
9. What do Muller and her team do to save corals?
A. Restore the damaged reefs.
B. Grow corals by hand underwater.
C. Create more protected areas.
D. Move corals to unpolluted areas.
10. What do Gunning's words suggest?
A. Many corals have been genetically improved.
B. Cooling down the waters is key to rescuing corals.
C. Reasons for corals surviving heat waves are shocking.
D. The highest temperature corals can survive is unclear.
11. Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Relationship between corals and algae
B. Efforts made to save corals
C. Impact of climate warming on corals
D. Survival crisis faced by coral reefs
D
Most animals living in crowded conditions have particularly strong immune systems, so it long puzzled researchers that honeybees do not.
Part of the answer, discovered in 2015, is that queen bees vaccinate their eggs by moving parts of proteins from disease-causing pathogens to them before they are laid. These act as antigens totriggerthe development of a
protective immune response in the developing young. But that observation raises the question of how the queen receives her antigen supply in the first place? Dr. Harwood wondered if the nurse bees were taking in parts of pathogens and passing them to royal jelly they were producing while eating the food brought to the hive.
To test this idea, he teamed up with a group at theUniversityofHelsinki, inFinland, led by Dr Heli Salmela. Together, they collected about 150 nurse bees and divided them among six queenless mini hives equipped with baby bees to look after. Instead of honey, they fed the nurses on sugar water, and for three of the hives they added P. larvae, a bacterium causing a hive-killing disease, to the sugar water.
In this case, to stop such an infection happening, Dr Harwood and Dr Salmela heat-treated the pathogens and so killed them in advance. They also labelled the dead bacteria with a fluorescent dye, to track them easily. And, sure enough, it was confirmed that parts of P. larvae were getting into royal jelly released by those bees which had been fed with the sugar water containing that.
All told, these findings suggest that nurse bees are indeed, through their royal jelly, passing antigens onto the queen for vaccinating her eggs. They also mean the nurses are vaccinating baby bees as well, because baby bees, too, receive royal jelly for the first few days after they come out.
12. What does the underlined word “trigger" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Cut out.
B. Set off.
C. Slow down.
D. Put off.
13. Which is the main experimental subject in Paragraph 3?
A. Queen bees.
B. Nurse bees.
C. Bee eggs.
D. Baby bees.
14. Why was P. larvae added to the sugar water?
A. To test if it would cause a hive-killing disease.
B. To check how the bacterium would affect the hive.
C. To see whether the target bees would favor the taste.
D. To confirm the bees would pass pathogens to royal jelly.
15. What is the text mainly about?
A. How bees multiply.
B. How antigens function.
C. How bees get vaccinated.
D. How immune system works.
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Talking to yourself may seem a little shameful. According to the well-known saying, talking to yourself is the
first sign of madness,___16___Talking to ourselves, whether out loud or silently in our heads, is a valuable tool for thought.
Far from being mentally ill, self-talk allows us to plan what we are going to do, manage our activities, regulate our emotions and even create a description of our experience.___17___
As children, according to the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, we use private speech to regulate our actions in the same way that we use public speech to control the behavior of others.___18___Psychological experiments have shown that the private speech can improve our performance on tasks ranging from judging what other people are thinking to sorting images into categories. One recent study suggested that self-talk is most effective when we address ourselves in the second person, as “you” rather than “I”.
___19___If you want proof, turn on the sports channel. You’re certain to see an athlete or two cheering themselves up with a bitter phrase or scolding themselves after a bad shot.
Conduct a dialogue with ourselves.___20___The private speech seems to be a particularly good way of solving problems and working through ideas. The to-and-fro between different points of view means our thoughts can end up in expected places, just like a regular dialogue can, and might turn out to be one of the keys to human creativity.
A. What is private speech?
B. But there is no need for embarrassment.
C. Psychologists refer to this as private speech.
D. Ask questions of the self and provide answers.
E. We do a lot of private speech when we are young.
F. As we grow older, we make the private speech become the way of blinking,
G. Although the private speech is effective, we never entirely put away the out-loud speech.
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
More than birthday dinner
The other day my daughter and I went out for dinner to celebrate her birthday. We went to a place she loves. The____21____is on top of a hill and when we____22____, the sun was setting behind the mountains.
The kind waitress____23____us at the door but____24____that we would have to wait a very long time for our____25____because it was short staffed. She said that it could be over an hour before we got our dishes. Well, we decided that we would____26____because she strongly advised that we should!
We stood outside____27____what to do next when the owner came out and____28____that we stay! So we went back in. The waitress was____29____. We waited about an hour before we got our foods!
But do you know what? It was OK because we had tea and we enjoyed some great____30____and a lot of laughs. In the end, the____31____was beautiful in so many ways. Everyone dining there knew that the owner and staff were struggling.
We were all facing this together and everyone seemed to be very____32____and appreciative. When we were leaving we gave the waitress a peace dove. Even before I could____33____to her what it was, she burst into____34____! She explained that she was a high school student from overseas and was having a hard time____35____school and work and didn’t have many friends.
As she held the dove____36____to her heart, she said we had no idea how much it____37____to her! We were all in tears. Shortly afterwards, the cook came out to apologize for the____38____and we told him that everything was perfect. No apologies were____39____.In fact, we were so____40____for everything. It couldn’t have been better!
21. A. palace B. church C. temple D. restaurant
22. A. arrived B. started C. gathered D. stopped
23. A. collected B. met C. received D. accepted
24. A. mentioned B. promised C. warned D. admitted
25. A. party B. dinner C. meal D. order
26. A. leave B. wait C. refuse D. stay
27. A. determining B. deciding C. wondering D. finding
28. A. ordered B. insisted C. begged D. hoped
29. A. wrong B. right C. helpful D. kind
30. A. coffee B. time C. tea D. conversation
31. A. impression B. scenery C. experience D. place
32. A. merciful B. understanding C. generous D. anxious
33. A. point B. refer C. present D. explain
34. A. tears B. laughter C. sorrow D. excitement
35. A. going for B. focusing on C. dealing with D. judging by
36. A. close B. next C. opposite D. just
37. A. mattered B. meant C. cost D. valued
38. A. bills B. lists C. delays D. dishes
39. A. available B. accessible C. reliable D. necessary
40. A. grateful B. responsible C. qualified D. suitable
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
It is reported that the famous CCTV presenter Lang Yongchun has been appointed as vice president for an online enterprise since he resigned from CCTV. He is___41.___(actual) not the first one to leave CCTV. Several well-known presenters including Cui Yongyuan and Li Yong quit their___42.___(job).
To be a CCTV presenter is not easy and Lang is no exception. His wonderful academic performance enabled him to be admitted___43.___Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,___44.___he worked hard___45.___(achieve) his dream to be a presenter. His hard work finally___46.___(pay) off when he became a presenter of a programme___47.___(name)News in 30 minutes, which made him rise to fame overnight.___48.___working at CCTV, he was hard-working and modest as well. His career reached___49.___new height after Lang became a presenter ofNews Broadcast.
When interviewed, he said that he had climbed Mount Qomolangma in his career as a presenter. He still wanted to change____50.____(he) in other fields.
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:在错的词下画---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∧处起)不计分。

The zheng (筝),a traditional Chinese musical instrument, already has a history of 2,000 years. But we also call “Guzheng”. As a widespread instrument, it enjoyed an unmatching popularity in the Qin Dynasty. The guzheng has strings varied from 6 to 23. That is the most commonly used is the 21-string guzheng. However, some musicians still used the 16-string guzheng now, main in the coastal provinces of China.
The sounds from the guzheng create a sense of harmonious and peace, relieving of stress. Now the guzheng together with many popular elements bring a fantastic feeling.
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。

The easy way out isn't always easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat my father to a special meal. I glanced through the cookbook and chose a menu which included homemade bread. Knowing the bread would take time, I started on it as soon as he left for work.
As I was not experienced in cooking, I thought if a dozen was good, two dozen would be better, so I doubled everything. As Dad loved oranges, I also opened a can of orange and poured it all into the bowl. Soon there was sticky dough (面团) covered with ugly yellowish marks. Realizing I had been defeated, I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldn't have to face him laughingat my work.
I went on preparing the rest of the meal, and, when Dad got home, we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice. He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed disturbed. Twice he got up and went outside, saying he thought he heard a noise. The third time he left, I went to the windows to see what he was doing.
Looking out, I saw Dad standing about three feet from the rubbish bin, holding the lid up with a stick and looking into the container. When I came out of the house, he dropped the stick and explained that there was something alive in the rubbish bin. Picking up the stick again, he held the lid up enough for me to see. I felt cold. But I stepped closer and looked harder.
Without doubt it was my work. The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size and the. fermenting yeast (酵母) made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing. I had to admit what the "living thing" was and why it was there. I don't know who was more embarrassed by the whole thing, Dad or me.
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。

My dad tapped me gently on the shoulder, and we went inside.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________
At a party three months later, everyone wanted to try my bread.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. D
3. D
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. C 9. D 10. A 11. A
12. B 13. B 14. D 15. C
16. B 17. C 18. F 19. G 20. D
21. D 22. A 23. B 24. A 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. B 29. B 30. D 31. C 32.
B 33. D 34. A 35.
C 36. A 37. B 38. C 39.
D 40. A
41. actually
42. jobs 43. to##into
44. where 45. to achieve
46. paid 47. named
48. while##when
49. a 50. himself
51.(1). But→So
(2). 在call后面加it
(3). unmatching→unmatched
(4). varied→varying
(5). That→What
(6). used→use
(7). main→mainly
(8). harmonious→harmony
(9). 去掉relieving后的of
(10). bring→brings
52.略。

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