2020届南安市柳城中学高三英语期中试题及答案

2020届南安市柳城中学高三英语期中试题及答案
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
The “laugh out loud” face is officially the world’s most popular emoji, according to researchers from Adobe (ADBE) who surveyed 7,000 users across the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, and South Korea.
The “thumbs up” emoji came in second, followed by the “red heart” emoji. The flirtatious “wink and kiss” and “sad face with a tear” emojis respectively rounded out the top five.
The software maker on Thursday released the findings from its 2021 Global Emoji Trend Report ahead of World Emoji Day on Saturday.
Adobe’s latest Emoji Trend report also examined the three most misunderstood emojis in the world. The “eggplant” symbol edged out the “peach” and the “clown” emojis respectively as the most confusing for users.
The vast majority of emoji users (90%) believe the modern —day hieroglyphs make it easier for them to express themselves. Eighty — nine percent of respondents said emojis simplify communicating across language barriers. And 67% said they think people who use emojis are friendlier, funnier and cooler than those who don’t. A slight majority of respondents said they are more comfortable expressing emotions through emojis than talking on the phone or in —person. More than half of global emoji users (55%) said using emojis in communications has positively impacted their mental health. Seventy — six percent of those surveyed said emojis are an important communication tool for creating unity, respect and understanding. And 88% said they feel more empathetic toward people who use emojis.
1.What are the three most popular emojis according to the passage?
A.clown thumbs up laugh out loud
ugh out loud thumbs up wink and kiss
ugh out loud thumbs up red heart
D.thumbs up red heart sad face with a tear
2.Which emoji is the most confusing one for users?
A.Peach.
B.Eggplant.
C.Clown.
D.Wink and kiss.
3.Which of the following best describes the attitude of most people surveyed to emojis?
A.Favorable.
B.Passive.
C.Indifferent.
D.Doubtful.
B
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a wearable device that changes the human body into a biological battery. The device is stretchy(弹性的) enough that you can wear it like a ring, sport band or any other thing that touches your skin. It also taps into a person's natural heat-employing thermoelectric generators to change the body's internal temperature into electricity. "In the future, we want to be able to power your wearable electronics without having to include a battery," said Jianliang Xiao, an associate professor at CU Boulder.
The concept may sound like something out of The Matrix film series, in which a race of robots have enslaved humansto harvest their precious organic energy. Xiao and his colleagues aren't that ambitious: Their devices can generate about 1 volt (伏特) of energy for every square centimeter of skin space-less volt per area than what most existing batteries provide but stillenough to power electronics like watches or fitness trackers.
Scientists have previously experimented with similar wearable devices, but Xiao's is stretchy, can heal itself when damaged and is fully recyclable-making it a cleaner alternative to traditional electronics. "Whenever you use a battery, you're depleting(消耗) that battery and will, eventually, need to replace it," Xiao said. "The nice thing about our device is that you can wear it, and it provides you with constant power."
Just pretend that you're out for a jog. As you exercise, your body heats up, and thatheat will radiate out to the cool air around you. Xiao's device captures that flow of energy rather than let it go to waste. "The thermoelectric generators are in close contact with the human body, and they can use the heat that would normally be sent into the environment," Xiao said.
4. What does Xiao expect of his device at present?
A. It will be used for medical purposes.
B. It will be made smaller and wearable.
C. It will change natural power into electricity.
D. It will supply constant power to wearable devices.
5. Why does the author mentionThe Matrixseries in the text?
A. To give an explanation.
B. To make a comparison.
C. To introduce a topic.
D. To analyze the cause.
6. What does the third paragraph mainly talk about?
A. The strengths of Xiao's device.
B. The convenience of using a battery.
C. The replacement of wearable devices.
D. The development of traditional electronics.
7. What do we know about Xiao's device from the text?
A. It operates with plenty of power.
B. It is designed for practical use.
C. It benefits people's health in a way.
D. It's based on traditional electronics.
C
Japan has announced emergency Covid measures in Tokyo and three other areas in order to control rising infections (传染病), just three months before the country is set to host the Olympics. The government said the state of emergency — set to last for about two weeks— would be “short and powerful”. Under the measures, bars will be required to close and big sporting events will be held without audience. The government has insisted that the Olympics will go ahead in July.
Prime minister Yoshihide Suga announced the measures on Friday, saying they would begin on Sunday and remain in place until 11 May. In addition to to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo will be affected. It has marked the third state of emergency in japan since the pandemic began. “I sincerely apologize for causing trouble for many people again,” he said. “It is feared that infection in major cities will spread across the whole country if we take no measures.”
Under the rules, major facilities like department stores will close, as well as restaurants, bars, and KTV rooms serving alcohol. Restaurants that do not serve alcohol are being told to close early, and companies are being asked to make arrangements for people to work remotely. Schools will remain open. Besides, the emergency measurescoincide withthe country’s “Golden Week” holiday, which runs from late April to the first week of May and is the busiest travel period of the year. Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike urged residents to start taking precautions immediately. In an effort to discourage people from going out at night. She said neon signs (霓虹灯) would be turned off.
The coronavirus toll in Japan has been much lower than that in many other countries, with about 558,000 cases and fewer than 10,000 deaths, according to figures collected by Johns Hopkins University. But there are concerns over the latest rise in infections, with reports of hospital bed shortages in some areas.
Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto said at a news conference on Friday that organizers were not considering canceling the event. “I hope the coronavirus situation improves with the prevention measures the
government, Tokyo, and other regional governments have put into place,” she said. “We, as Tokyo 2020, continue to wish for the swift return to normal and will continue to work closely to make sure a safe and secure Olympics can happen.”
8. According to the passage, what does Japanese government advise people to do?
A. To watch a live game.
B. To work at home.
C. To hang out in the evening.
D. To study at home.
9. What is the aim of bringing in emergency Covid measures?
A. To relieve people's fear of the the pandemic.
B. To settle the problem of hospital bed shortages.
C. To test government’s management of emergency.
D. To ensure the smooth running of the upcoming Olympics.
10. Which words can best describe the government’s action?
A. generous and brilliant.
B. costly but useless.
C. positive and considerate.
D. accidental but efficient.
11. What does the underlined phrase “coincide with” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. meet with
B. deal with
C. make up
D. set up
D
A satellite is about to demonstrate a new way of capturing space junk with magnets for the first time. With the frequency of space launches dramatically increasing in recent years, the potential for a disastrous collision above Earth is continually growing. Now, Japanese orbital clean-up company Astroscale is testing a potential solution.
The firm's End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration mission is scheduled to lift off on 20 March aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. It consists of two spacecraft: a smal “client” satellite and a larger “servicer” satellite, or “chaser”. The smaller satellite is equipped with a magnetic (磁力的) plate which allows the chaser todock withit.
The two stacked spacecraft will perform three tests once in orbit, each of which will involve the servicer satellite releasing and then recapturing the client satellite. The first test will be the simplest, with the client satellite drifting a short distance away and then being recaptured. In the second test, the servicer satellite will set the client satellite tumbling before catching up with it and matching its motion to grab it.
Finally, if those two tests go well, the chaser will live up to its name by letting the client satellite float a few
hundred metres away before finding it and attaching to it. All of these tests will be performed autonomously, with little to no human input once they are set in motion.
“These kinds of demonstrations have never been done before in space - they are very different to, say, an astronaut controlling a robotic arm on the International Space Station,” says Jason Forshaw at AstroscaleUK.“This is more of an autonomous mission.” At the end of the tests, both spacecraft will burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
If companies wanted to use this capability, they would have to attach a magnetic plate to their satellites so they could be captured later. Because of the growing space garbage problem, many countries now require firms to have a way to bring back their satellites once they run out of fuel or fail, so this could be a fairly simple likely plan, Forshaw says. Right now, each chaser can only nab one satellite, but Astroscale is working on a version that could drag three or four out of orbit at once.
12. Which of the following can replace the underlined word "dock with" in Paragraph 2?
A. Deal with.
B. Keep up with.
C. Join together.
D. Crash.
13. Why many countries now require firms to have a way to bring back their satellites?
A. Because of the growing space waste problem.
B. Because the frequency of space launches are dramatically increasing.
C. Because they can earn large profits from it.
D. Because Astroscale has found a new method of capturing the space garbage.
14. What will Astroscale do to solve the space junk problem?
A. An astronaut controls a robotic arm on the International Space to capture the “client” satellite.
B. Through a magnetic plate remotely controlled by humans on the ground to catch the “client” satellite.
C. Finding the "client "satellite and attaching to it with a magnetic plate automatically.
D. Tumbling to match the motion of “client satellite the drag three or four satellites out of its orbit into atmosphere.
15. What can we infer from the passage?
A. People will bum the space junk up in Earth's atmosphere in the future.
B. Japan andRussiawill conduct space debris cleanup experiment together.
C. These kinds of demonstrations have never been done before.
D. The demonstration mission will be divided into three phases.
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
Magazine Activities for Learning English
Even if you just read the magazines and enjoy their content, you will be learning new words, sentence structuresand common sayings.___16___Here are some activities you can do with English magazines that will help you study English actively. You can do these out loud by writing, through discussion with someone else or even just silently in your head.
___17___Most magazines have a lot of pictures. Choose some pictures and describe what you see in them, out loud or in writing. You can find more ideas on how to learn using pictures in this article.
Add speech and thoughts. Are there any people or animals in the pictures?___18___Then write on the magazine their words or thoughts in your imagination. It is like a film showing in your mind.
Summarize the articles. You can test how well you understand an article by trying to summarize it.___19___If you can’t, try reading it again and take care to see the meaning instead of the individual words.
Discuss the articles. If you read about an event that just happened, or even if you just find something interesting, share it with someone. Have a conversation about it. It will be a great way to practice your understanding of the article and your conversation skills. Some-times reading an article leaves you with more questions. If you could ask the author anything, what would it be? What else would you want to know about the topic?___20___
A. Describe the pictures.
B. Diversify your reading practice.
C.Imagine what they would be saying or thinking.
D. You can also search for words that you found in magazines.
E. Actually, you can take your learning a step further with them.
F.Can you describe what the article is about in a sentence or two?
G. Talking about an article with its author is the best way to understand it.
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When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿当护士助手的小姑娘)at a local hospital in my town. Most of the____21____I spent there was withMr. Gillespie. He never had any___22___and nobody seemed to care about his___23___.
I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,___24___anything that needed to be done. He
became a close friend of mine,___25___he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏)of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).
I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was___26___. I didn’t have the ___27___to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might___28___me he had died. Several___29___later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face.
When I____30____who it was, my eyes were filled with tears. He was_____31_____! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. With a(n)____32____look on his face, he replied yes. I____33____how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever____34____.
He began to tell me how,____35____he lay there asleep, he could hear me talking to him and could____36____me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie____37____believed that it was my voice and____38____that had kept him alive.
Although I haven’t____39____ him since, he fills my heart with____40____every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.
21. A. time B. energy C. money D. effort
22. A. patients B. s C. visitors D. problems
23. A. condition B. requirement C. interest D. thought
24. A. talking about B. helping with C. pointing out D. looking for
25. A. so B. as if C. yet D. even though
26. A. gone B. mad C. died D. excited
27. A. right B. chance C. courage D. time
28. A. cheat B. warn C. remind D. tell
29. A. days B. years C. months D. weeks
30. A. heard B. wondered C. realized D. asked
31. A. great B. lucky C. successful D. alive
32. A. happy B. proud C. nervous D. uncertain
33. A. explained B. remembered C. apologized D. told
34. A. dreamed B. received C. wanted D. shown
35. A. because B. as C. unless D. if
36. A. notice B. appreciate C. imagine D. feel
37. A. firmly B. rightly C. hardly D. wrongly
38. A. touch B. worry C. humour D. treatment
39. A. forgotten B. seen C. missed D. called
40. A. respect B. regret C. joy D. sympathy
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
The polar bear is found in the Arctic Circle and some big land masses as far south as Newfoundland. While they are rare north of 88°, there is evidence___41.___they range all the way across the Arctic, and as far south as James Bay in Canada. It is difficult to figure out a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been___42.___(poor) studied; however, biologists calculate that there are about 20,000-25,000 polar bears worldwide.
Modern methods___43.___tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive___44.___(perform) consistently over a large area. In recent years some Inuit people in Nunavut___45.___(report) increases in bear sightings around human settlements, leading to a___46.___(believe) that populations are increasing. Scientists have responded by___47.___(note) that hungry bears may be congregating(聚集) around human settlements, leading to the illusion(错觉) that populations are___48.___(high) than they actually are. Of___49.___nineteen recognized polar bear subpopulations, three are declining, six____50.____(be) stable, one is increasing, and nine lack enough data.
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.改错(共10小题,每小题1分，满分10分)
注意：每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

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。

Dear Anish,
Here are the information about Manchester University. It is about 200 miles of London and it has the very big schoolyard. You can live in the school or near the school. They have all sorts of course. I’m sure you will find one you like it. I know you are particular interested in human rights, so I will see that there is anything on their website.
I will send my friend Charlie meet you at the airport when you arrived. You met him a few years ago, but he’s changing a lot since then. Don’t worry. He can recognize you.
Both your aunt and I look forward to seeing you again.
Yours,
James 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。

Miss Robinson was the governess (家庭教师) of Mrs. Livingstone's daughters. She lived in the house like a servant. But she was intelligent and well-educated.
One evening, Mrs. Livingstone invited some friends to dinner. She asked fourteen people but one of the guests was unable to come. Thirteen is an unlucky number so she invited Miss Robinson. Miss Robinson hurried to the jewelry shop to get her repaired string of beads for the dinner party. One of the guests was Count Borselli who knew everything about pearls and diamonds. A young lady at dinner called Miss Lyngate was wearing a string of pearls. She was very proud of her pearls and she asked Count Borselli to look at them.
"They're quite nice pearls, "said the Count.
Miss Lyngate had her nose high up in the air, announcing they cost eight thousand pounds.
"Yes, that's the correct price," said Count Borselli in an ordinary voice. And then, he pointed to the pearls on Miss Robinson's neck, "That is a very nice string of pearls." Miss Lyngate's face flushed with anger. She didn't think a governess could wear a valuable string of pearls.
"That string of pearls is worth more than fifty thousand pounds," added the Count,
Miss Lyngate did not believe Count Borselli. He was mistaken. "Miss Robinson," She said in a loud voice. "Are you wearing a very valuable string of pearls?"
All ears were cocked for Miss Robinson's reply. "1 paid Fifteen shillings for these beads, "said Miss Robinson quietly. Miss Lyngate laughed, with a proud expression on her face.
Now everyone in the room was in whisper. A governess with a string of pearls worth fifty thousand pounds? That was not possible. A woman with fifty thousand pounds was a very rich woman.
"But I bought these beads for fifteen shillings," said Miss Robinson again.
"I do not make mistakes," said the Count quietly. "I know the value of pearls."
"A thief? Stolen pearls?" screamed Mrs. Livingstone, trembling with anger.
"There must be something wrong." Miss Robinson thought.
注意：1.续写词数应为150词左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Paragraph 1:
Leaving everyone confused, Miss Robinson rushed out to the jewelry shop.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2:
Miss Robinson came back to the dinner table and everyone stared at her surprising.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. B 9. D 10. C 11. A
12. C 13. A 14. C 15. D
16. E 17. A 18. C 19. F 20. G
21. A 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. C 31. D 32.
D 33. A 34. B 35. B 36. D 37. A 38. A 39. B 40. C
41. that
42. poorly 43. of/for
44. to perform
45. have reported
46. belief 47. noting
48. higher 49. the
50. are
51.(1).are→is (2). of→from (3).the→a (4).course→courses (5).去掉it
(6).particular→particularly (7).that→if/whether (8).meet前加to (9).arrived→arrive
(10).changing→changed
52.略。