2019-2020学年北京师范大学朝阳附属中学高三英语下学期期中考试试卷及答案解析

2019-2020学年北京师范大学朝阳附属中学高三英语下学期期中考试
试卷及答案解析
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
Staying-at-home proves to be effective in slowing the spread of the virus, but loneliness can be tough for many. Luckily, in the age of social media, we are never truly alone. And with the extra time spent indoors, artists are stepping up to help us all with the following clubs.
Drawing from Distance by Sarah Beth Morgan
Let’s shine some light during this trying time and encourage social distancing! I’m starting this tomorrow myself — but from what I offer, take whatever you please. No rules! Just have fun!
Stayathome Art Club byCarsonEllis
Hello! I’ll be posting art homework here every weekday morning when I can. They’ll be designed for kids and grownups alike. Here is your first homework: Draw a picture of yourself from the shoulders up. You can follow some useful examples. If you want to share or see other people’s self-picture, use these hashtags: #Stayathomeartclub# QACselfportrait
30-Day indoor Art by Danielle Krysa
One month of avoiding crowds? I’m in! I challenge you to use this time inside to make one piece every day from now until mid April. Please join me in playing around with some painting ideas that have been rolling around in my head but haven’t found their way onto paper yet. Stay at home, make art, save someone’s life.
DIY from Illustoria Magazine
We have been so inspired to see our community come together to provide easy art projects for families during this stay-at-home-time! DIY is actually a fantastic way tosparkyour imagination without breaking a sweat. A video every day will teach you how to DIY something.
1. What do we know about Sarah Beth Morgan?
A. She is a strict artist.
B. She aims at training more artists.
C. She prefers to work at home office.
D. She will provide a wide range of choices.
2. What are you expected to do if you join Stayathome Art Club?
A. Hand in homework every day.
B. Share other people’s pictures.
C. Draw a picture of yourself.
D. Show up in person occasionally.
3. What does “spark”in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Set off.
B. Set down.
C. Set aside.
D. Set about.
B
“My P.E. teacher taught me maths.”It has been a common joke for years but when a P.E. teacher applied for the head-teacher job, many parents worried that “the joke could come true”. Some parents asked, “Does the P.E. teacher know maths and English?If not, how is he supposed to tutor the students?” But there were still parents who believed P.E. teachers had more time to discipline the students since they didn’t have many classes.
This concern is actually a “subject bias”, that is, choosing a P.E. teacher as the head-teacher is not good for the students’ grades since he doesn’t know Chinese, maths, or English. It is acceptable for Chinese teachers, maths teachers and English teachers to be head-teachers because these subjects are important to entrance exams and scores. Such a concern reflects parents’ anxiety in the current educational environment, which tends to link the head-teacher’s responsible subject with the facts whether the school cares about the class and the children’s performances in the subject.
Many people care about their kids’ academic performances only. They don’t care about their kids’ P.E. performance at all. Even if kids have P.E. classes, parents care little. P.E. teachers are in humble position and their classes are often occupied by other teachers. Of course, if students, P.E. performance is related to grades and entrance exams, parents won’t mind “a P.E. teacher being the head-teacher”.
At the moment, P.E. is gradually included in entrance exams.
In terms of high school entrance examination,Guangzhouwill launch a new high school entrance exam which includes P.E. performance and Health examination in 2021, raising the score to 70 points.
In terms of the college entrance examination, universities having the right of independent enrollments added P.E. tests to their entrance exams in 2019. This practice is seen as an important signal that the assessment of physical fitness and athletic ability, which are important aspects of a student’s overall quality, may be included in the college entrance examination in the future.
We hope that it’s a trend for P.E. teachers, music teachers and art teachers to become head-teachers.
4. By saying “My P.E. teacher taught me maths”, what does the author intend to show us?
A. It is just a joke that seldom happened in reality.
B. P.E. teachers hardly assist students in maths.
C. P.E. teachers are good at teaching maths..
D. Parents doubt the ability of P.
E. teacher.
5. We can infer from paragraph 2 that a P.E. teacher .
A. is of little benefit for students’ academic performance
B. is humbler than Chinese, math or English teachers
C. reflects whether the school cares about the class
D. gets unfairly judged due to the current educational system
6. Why doesGuangzhouraise proportion of P.E. performance in high school entrance examination?
A. To raise students’ awareness of physical health.
B. To call on parents to pay attention to P.E. teachers.
C. To test the overall ability of high school students.
D. To make P.
E. teachers equal with other teachers.
7. What opinion does the author hold towards P.E. teachers working as head-teachers?
A. Neutral.
B. Unexpected.
C. Supportive.
D. Critical.
C
Researchers say spicy tomatoes could soon be on the menu thanks to the rise of gene-editing technology.
It's not the first time that experts have claimed techniques could develop fruit with unusual features: scientists have already been looking at changing the color1 of kiwi fruit and bettering the taste of strawberries.
But researchers inBrazilandIrelandsay such methods could also offer practical advantages, with hot tomatoes offering a new way of harvesting the pungent chemicals found in peppers known as capsaicinoids, which make food taste “hot”.
“Capsaicinoids are valuable. They are used as painkillers and there are some researches showing that they promote weight loss,” said Agustin Zsogon from a Brazilian university, a co-author of a new article arguing for the benefits of engineering hot tomatoes.
Writing in the journal Trends in Plant Science, the researchers say peppers are difficult crops to grow and low productive. Worse still, it is tricky to keep the pungency of the fruits table. By contrast, tomato production is high and the plant is well-studied. “You could produce the capsaicinoids in a more cost-effective manner,” said Zsogon.
Tomatoes and peppers developed from a common ancestor, but separated about 19 million years ago. “All these genes to produce capsaicinoids exist in the tomato, they are just not active,” said Zsogon. “Using gene-editing technology, it is likely to switch these genes back on in tomatoes, making the fruit more special”, he said.
8. Why are the tomatoes made hot by the researchers?
A. To test the gene-editing technology
B. To improve the amount of the tomatoes
C. To explore ways to harvest more capsaicinoids.
D. To make the tomatoes more delicious.
9. For what purpose can capsaicinoids be used according to the text?
A. To put on weight.
B. To ease the pain.
C. To improve sleep.
D. To better the look.
10. What is Zsogon's attitude to the gene-editing technology?
A. Confident.
B. Critical.
C. Anxious.
D. Doubtful.
11. What's the main idea of the text?
A. An introduction to gene-editing plants.
B. Creating hot tomatoes by gene-editing.
C. Problems with capsaicinoid production.
D. The procedure of producing capsaicinoids.
D
In life，once on a path，we tend to follow it，for better or worse.What's sad is that even if it's the latter，we often accept it anyway because we are so used to the way things are that wed don't even recognize that they could be different This is a phenomenon psychologist call functional fixedness.
This classic experiment will give you an idea of howitworks and a sense of whether you may have fallen into the same trap: People are given a box of tacks (大头钉) and some matches and asked to find a way to attach a candle to a wall so that it burns properly.
Typically, the subjects try tacking the candle to the wall or lighting it to fix it with melted wax. The psychologists had, of course, arranged it so that neither of these obvious approaches would work. The tacks are too short, and the paraffin (石蜡) doesn't stick to the wall. So how can you complete the task? The successful technique is to use the tack box as a candle-holder. You empty it, tack it to the wall. and stand the candle inside it. To think of that, you have to look beyond the box's usual role as a receptacle just for tacks and re-imagine it serving an entirely new purpose. That is difficult because we all suffer to one degree or another from functional
fixedness.
The inability to think in new ways affects people in every corner of society. The political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the phrase“frozen thoughts”to describe deeply held ideas that we no longer question but should. In Arendt's eyes, the self- content reliance on such accepted “truths”also made people blind to ideas that didn't fit their worldview, even when there was plenty of evidence for them.
Frozen thinking has nothing to do with intelligence, she said,“It can be found in highly intelligent people.”
12. What does the underlined word“it”in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The experiment.
B. Functional fixedness.
C. The path.
D. The thinking.
13. Which way is hard to think of to complete the task?
A. Tacking the candle to the wall.
B. Fixing the candle with melted wax.
C. Using the tack box as a candle-holder.
D. Lighting the candle tostand it.
14. Which of the following statements will Hannah Arendt agree with?
A. People should question.
B. We should be used to the way things are.
C. People shouldn't accept the idea that doesn't fit their worldview.
D. The smarter people are，the more open to the new things they are.
15. What's the passage mainly about?
A. An interesting experiment
B. A psychological phenomenon.
C. A theory to be proved.
D. The opinion of Hannah Arendt.
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Being a teenager can be difficult, since you're dealing with higher expectations and the process of finding your place in the world.___16___The following are things you can do to achieve that!
___17___Everyone is different in their teenage years. Some teens prefer to spend time with friends, while others prefer to study and work; some prefer to be quiet wallflowers, while others are loud. Saying that there's
only one way to enjoy your teenage years is wrong.
Develop your sense of self, focusing more on your own thoughts.____18____Stop paying so much attention to them as many of them are based on what other people think, instead of what you think. Go ahead and do what you want, without factoring others' opinions.
Work on your work ethic（职业道德）.What you accomplish in your teen years may determine your opportunities in your adulthood, so dedicate some time to studying and do your best. Learn how to prioritize, whether it's with school work, orany extracurricular activities. Boost your studying skills.____19____ Keep good relations with your family as much as possible.____20____It's the building blocks for ail relationships you develop, whether they're friendships, romantic relationships, or a family you choose to have later on in life. And plus, you see them every day — why not make it nice to spend time with them?
A. Avoid rushing to figure out who you are.
B. For lots of people, the teenage years are full of worries.
C. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the teen years.
D. Family is one of the most important connections in your life.
E. It may not seem enjoyable, but it's helpful later on in life.
F. Understand that there's no one set-in-stone way to enjoy your teenager years.
G. Being a teenager is not necessarily any easier or more difficult than other life stages.
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It was a great shock to me to discover that I had a serious disease. I had never been very well coordinated (协调)physically when I was___21___. But things seemed to change when I went to university, at the age of 17, I started to___22___some sports.
In my third year at university, however, I noticed that it seemed to be difficult for me, and I fell over once or twice for no obvious___23___My father took me to the family doctor who led me toagood___24___. Two days later, I went into hospital for examinations. I stayed in the___25___for two weeks, during which I had a wide variety of tests. But after all the___26___, they didn't tell me what I had, except that I was a special case. However, they___27___it to continue to get worse. The doctor felt sorry because he could do___28___except giving me vitamins (维生素), I could see that he didn't___29___the vitaminsto have much effect on my disease. I didn't feel like asking for more details, because the disease was obviously____30____.
I realized that I had a(n)____31____disease. It was a bit of a shock. However, while I had been in hospital, I
had seen a boy who had leukemia (白血病) and he____32____died of that kind of disease. Clearly there were people who were____33____than me. At least my condition didn't make me feel sick, so whenever I felt____34____, I remembered that boy.
The doctors told me to go back to university.I____35____doing the research I had started before going to hospital. My dreams at that time were rather hard to____36____Before my condition had been diagnosed (诊断), I had been very bored with life. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I____37____realized that there were a lot of worthy things I could____38____. I began to make progress in my____39____and I got married to a girl called Jane, whom I had met just about the time my condition was diagnosed. That marriage____40____my life. It gave me something to live for.
21. A. strong B. young C. old D. calm
22. A. try B. watch C. record D. destroy
23. A. result B. notice C. reason D. excuse
24. A. doctor B. teacher C. engineer D. patient
25. A. house B. hospital C. park D. street
26. A. discoveries B. examples C. examinations D. inventions
27. A. required B. forecasted C. asked D. wished
28. A. everything B. something C. anything D. nothing
29. A. know B. realize C. fear D. expect
30. A. good B. terrible C. entire D. fantastic
31. A. common B. serious C. incorrect D. important
32. A. finally B. selflessly C. sincerely D. uselessly
33. A. richer B. better C. worse D. luckier
34. A. confident B. cheerful C. discouraged D. satisfied
35. A. turned up B. dug out C. gave up D. went on
36. A. achieve B. ruin C. cancel D. create
37. A. wrongly B. simply C. suddenly D. possibly
38. A. rescue B. attack C. suffer D. do
39. A. research B. mistakes C. preparations D. violence
40. A. bothered B. doubted C. trapped D. changed
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
No matter whether you're a woman or a man, shoes are perhaps___41.___most important accessories that you use in your daily life. A group of shoes of high quality can be the best part of your cupboard. Your shoes show your taste and your style. But at the same time, they can bring discomfort and pain if they are not chosen___42.___(proper).
You may ignore the pain___43.___(cause) by a pair of wrongly chosen shoes considering the situation and your___44.___(appear), but that will surely bring blister and pain to your feet. And that is why you must be careful about___45.___(choose) the right shoes that not only make you look good, but also keep your feet comfortable. There are a large number of companies___46.___specialize in comfortable and fashionable leather' shoes for both men and women.
Wearing___47.___(comfortable) shoes can result in walking disorder, so you are to blame___48.___it. They continuously require the body, especially the feet to adjust to the pain. And this___49.___(adjust) affects your walking procedure by putting pressure on you back, ankles, etc. So, next time you buy shoes, you must remind yourself____50.____(get) a pair that suits and fits into your feet.
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.请改正下面短文中的错误。

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。

Last Saturday, my parents and I paid visit to my grandparents by train. There was alarge number of people in the crowded train, but everyone help those who had lots ofbaggage and behaved politely. Along the way, we enjoyed beautifully views. At first, we sawone hill after another. Then what came into our eye were fields with green crops. In a six-hourtrip, we arrived at my grandparents’ house. Exhausted though I felt, but I was happy to see mygrandparents, which I hadn’t seen for a long time. It’s really an excited trip because it was thefirst time I had taken so a long-distance train.
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。

School mornings were always busy. The first sentence I usually heard was. "It's time to rise and shine!" It was my mother's loudest voice. and there was no way I could ignore it or hide from it.
"Okay, Mom. I am getting up and dressed!" When I got up. Mon's loudest voice rose again as she announced, " Breakfast is ready!" By then, the house was filled with the good smell of breakfast and I couldn't help getting to the kitchen fast enough.
“Thanks, Mom! This is my favorite,” I said, enjoying the dishes.
Mom replied, “You are welcome, my dear. Now grab your lunch bag and books. The school bus will be here any minute!" My sisters and I ran out to the bus stop as we grabbed our lunch bags that contained a sandwich, fruit and dessert.
Then one day, to my surprise, there was no dessert in my lunch bag. I looked through every part of my lunch bag, and even turned it upside down. My dessert just wasn't there. What could have happened to it? Did Mom forget to make it? “Well," I thought, "it's only one time, so it's no big deal." But for the next several days, my lunch bag contained no dessert. So one day as soon as I got home from school, I asked Mom if she forgot to put a dessert in my lunch bag.
Mom was surprised and responded, “Why? I have been including a dessert in your lunch bag every day. If you are not getting them, then who is?"
Soon when I reviewed my activities and schedules in school, I found Carl-the terror of the third grade. No one liked him in his class because he was rough, often fighting with other boys. Now even worse-he was a thief. "He must be punished," I said angrily. But my Mom seemed to be not angry at all.
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 knowing everything about Carl, my Mom told me her way to solve this problem.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ Carl was touched and asked me if he could visit my house and thank my mother.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________
参考答案
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. D
6. A
7. C
8. C 9. B 10. A 11. B
12. B 13. C 14. A 15. B
16. C 17. F 18. B 19. E 20. D
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. A 25. B 26. C 27. B 28. D 29. D 30. B 31. B 32.
A 33. C 34. C 35. D 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. D
41. the
42. properly
43. caused 44. appearance
45. choosing
46. that/which
47. uncomfortable
48. for 49. adjustment
50. to get
51.(1). paid后面加a (2). was→were
(3). help→helped
(4). beautifully→beautiful (5). eye→eyes (6). in→after (7). but去掉
(8). which→who
(9). excited→exciting (10). so→such
52.略。