2020-2021学年韶关市始兴中学高三英语下学期期中试卷及参考答案

2020-2021学年韶关市始兴中学高三英语下学期期中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
Located inLos Angeles,UniversityofSouthern Californiais in the heart of a leading city. Although LA ranks highly in The Economist’s Safe Cities Index, navigating and city calls for certain safety precautions (预防措施) along with practicing common sense.
♦Mobile Safety App Powered by LiveSafe
The Mobile Safety App powered by LiveSafe, manage by the USC Department of Public Safety and the USC Department of Emergency Planning, is a free downloadable app that mobile users can use to initiate contact with emergency responders around the campus. Features include: immediate “push button” calls to DPS, easy reporting for suspicious activity or crimes in progress, and location services to notify friends of your route through campus.
♦Blue Light Phone Locations
TheUniversity Parkhas multiple blue light phones that are strategically placed throughout campus. Take note of where the closest ones are on your route. They come in handy in case you lose your phone or in an emergency. These phones are directly connected to USC’s Department of Public Safety’s 24-hour communications center. Besides emergency needs, it can also be used to report suspicious activity, request for an escort (护送) if you feel unsafe and to report a crime.
♦Trojans Alert
Trojans Alert is an emergency notification system that allows university officials to contact you during an emergency by sending messages via text message or email. When an emergency occurs, authorized USC senders will instantly notify you with real-time updates, instructions on where to go, what to do (or what not to do), whom to contact and other important information. All members of the USC community, as well as parents and regular visitors to campus, are strongly encouraged to sign up for Trojans Alert.
1. What do blue light phones do for students?
A. Guide students through campus.
B. Alert students to crime activities.
C. Light up the way if students feel unsafe.
D. Connect them with the safety department.
2. How does USC send out instructions during an emergency?
A. With blue light phones.
B. Via text message or email.
C. Through mobile safe app.
D. By calling all USC members.
3. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To encourage students to fight crime.
B. To introduce USC’s safety department.
C. To provide safety services for USC students.
D. To inform parents of safety risks on campus.
B
Thursday, two Russian submarines(潜艇) dived down 2.5 miles into the Arctic Ocean and planted a national flag onto a piece of continental shelf known as the Lomonosov Ridge. Rising from the center of the Arctic Basin, the flag sent a clear message to the surrounding nations: Russia had just laid claim(权利) to the vast oil and gas reserves contained in this underwater area.
AfterRussia, theUnited States,Norway,SwedenandFinlandare all trying to gain profit. Projections show that the area of land and sea that falls within theArctic Circleis home to an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil, an incredible 13% of Earth’s reserves. It’s also estimated to contain almost a quarter of untapped global gas resources. But long before this oil race began, how did theArcticbecome so rich in energy?
“The first thing you realize is that theArctic—unlike the Antarctic—is an ocean surrounded by continents”, Alastair Fraser, a geoscientist from Imperial College London, said. Firstly, this means there’s a huge quantity of organic material available, in the form of dead sea creatures such as plankton and algae, which form the basis of what will ultimately become oil and gas. Secondly, the surrounding ring of continents means that the Arctic Basin contains a high proportion of continental crust(大陆地壳), which makes up about 50% of its oceanic area. That’s significant because continental crust typically contains deep depressions called basins, into which organic matter sinks.
Here, it gets inserted in rock and preserved in anoxic(缺氧) waters, meaning they contain little oxygen. “Normally, in a shallow sea with lots of oxygen, it would not be preserved. But if the sea is deep enough, the oxygenated waters at the top will be separated from the anoxic conditions at the base,” Fraser explained.
Conserved within these oxygen-free basins, the matter maintains compounds that finally make it useful as an energy source for millions of years in the future.
4. Why didRussiaplant a national flag onto the Lomonosov Ridge?
A. To tell surrounding countries its armed forces.
B. To show its advanced technology of submarines.
C. To show abundant natural resources in theArcticBasin.
D. To claim its privilege to explore for oil and gas in the area.
5. What’s the function of the last sentence in paragraph 2?
A. Making a comparison.
B. Serving as a connecting link.
C. Analyzing the cause and effect.
D. Drawing the conclusion of the text.
6. What can we know from the last paragraph?
A. Oxygen only exists in the top part of the ocean.
B. Organic materials mostly exist in the basins with oxygen.
C. Water containing oxygen turns organic materials into oil and gas.
D. Oxygen-free environment counts in the formation of the arctic’s rich energy.
7. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. What makes theArcticattractive?
B. Why do many nations focus on theArctic?
C. Why is there so much oil in theArctic?
D. How does theArcticBasincome into being?
C
Teens who have good, supportive relationships with their teachers enjoy better healthas adults, according to research published by an American research center.
“This research suggests that improving students' relationships with teachers could have positive and long-lasting effects beyond just academic success," said Jinho Kim, a professor atKoreaUniversityand author of the study."Itcould also bring about healthimplicationsin the long run.”
Previous research has suggested that teens' social relationships might be linked to health outcomes in adulthood. However, it is not clear whether the link between teen relationships and lifetime health is causal（因果的）-it could be that other factors, such as different family backgrounds, might contribute to both relationship problems in adolescence and to poor health in adulthood. Also, most research has focused on teens' relationships with their peers（同龄人）, rather than on their relationships with teachers.
To explore those questions further, Kim analyzed data on nearly 20,000 participants from the Add Health
study, a national study in theU.S.that followed participants from seventh grade into early adulthood. The participant pool included more than 3,400 pairs of siblings（兄弟姐妹）. As teens, participants answered questions, like “How often have you had trouble getting along with other students and your teachers?" As adults, participants were asked about their physical and mental health.
Kim found that participants who had reported better relationships with both their peers and teachers in middle and high school also reported better physical and mental health in their mid-20s. However, when he controlled for family background by looking at pairs of siblings together, only the link between good teacher relationships and adult health remained significant.
The results suggest teacher relationships are more important than previously realized and that schools should invest in training teachers on how to build warm and supportive relationships with their students. "This is not something that most teachers receive much training in," Kim said, “but it should be.”
8. What does the underlined word “implications" in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Recipes.
B. Habits.
C. Benefits.
D. Risks.
9. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
A. Poor health in adolescence.
B. Limitations of the previous research.
C. Teens' relationships with their peers.
D. Factors affecting health in adulthood.
10. What does Kim's research show?
A. Good adult health depends on teens' good teachers.
B. Good family background promises long-term adult health.
C. Healthy peer relationships leads to students' academic success.
D. Positive student-teacher relationship helps students' adult health.
11. Where does this text probably come from?
A. A health magazine.
B. A medical report.
C. A term paper.
D. A family survey.
D
Move over, helicopter parents. “Snowplow (扫雪机) parents” are the newest reflection of an intensive (强化的) parenting style that can include parents booking their adult children haircuts, texting their college kids to wake them up so they don’t sleep through a test, and even calling their kids’ employers.
Helicopter parenting the practice of wandering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some rich mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines moving ahead, clearing any difficulties in their children’s path to success, so they don’t have to suffer failure, frustration (挫折) or lose opportunities.
It starts early, when parents get on wait lists for excellent preschools before their babies are born and try to make sure their kids never do anything that may frustrate them. It gets more intense when school starts: running forgotten homework to school or calling a coach to request that their children make the team.
Rich parents may have more time and money to devote to making sure their children don’t ever meet with failure, but it’s not only rich parents practicing snowplow parenting. This intensive parenting has become the most welcome way to raise children, regardless of income, education, or race.
Yes, it’s a parent’s job to support the children, and to use their adult wisdom to prepare for the future when their children aren’t mature enough to do so. That’s why parents hide certain toys from babies to avoid getting angry or take away a teenager’s car keys until he finishes his college applications.
But snowplow parents can take it too far, some experts say. If children have never faced a difficulty, what happens when they get into the real world?
“Solving problems, taking risks and overcoming frustration are key life skills,” many child development experts say, “and if parents don’t let their children experience failure, the children don’t acquire them.”
12. What do we know about snowplow parenting?
A. It appeared before helicopter parenting.
B. It costs parents less than helicopter parenting.
C. It was a typical phenomenon of the 20th century.
D. It provides more than enough services for children.
13. What is mainly discussed about snowplow parenting in Paragraph 4?
A. Its cost.
B. Its benefits.
C. Its popularity.
D. Its ending.
14. Why does the author mention parents’ taking away car keys?
A. To show teenagers are no better than babies.
B. To advise teenagers not to treat their cars as toys.
C. To advise parents not to buy cars for their teenagers.
D. To show it’s appropriate to help children when necessary.
15. What’s the possible result of snowplow parenting according to the experts?
A. Children lacking problem-solving ability in reality.
B. Children mastering more key life skills than parents.
C. Children gaining great success in every aspect of life.
D. Children meeting no problems or frustration after growing up.
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Not only do smart-phones provide unlimited access to information, they provide perfect opportunities to multitask (doing two unrelated things at the same time). Any activity can be accompanied by music, selfies or social media updates. Of course, some people pick improper time to text and lawmakers have steeped in.___16___In Hawaii, it’s illegal to text or even look at your phone while crossing the street, and in the Netherlands they’ve banned texting while biking.
___17___.So you need learn to self-control. Understanding how the brain multitasks and why we find multitasking so appealing will help you realize the danger of pulling out your phone.
Twenty states have bans on driving using a hand - held phone while still allowing hands - free calls. Yet hands - free or hand - held makes no difference.___18___The real problem is the switch(切换)of attention between the conversation and road, and that affects performance.
People sense this and when on the phone they drive slower and increase their following distance, but they are far too confident and think these measures reduce risks.___19___. Everyone knows texting behind the wheel is dangerous, but listening to music or chatting with a passenger seems so undemanding as to be. Yet both measurably affect driving.
People multitask merely because they see no harm in it; they see benefits. ___20___Most people will still choose to multitask. But they should be fully aware of how that choice affects them and the potential consequences for themselves and others. They need to pay attention to how much--or how little --they are paying attention.
A.They multitask for efficiency, to fight boredom or to keep up with social media.
B.But legislation（法律）won’t ban all situations in which multitasking is unwise.
C.Instead of multitasking, they take more rest breaks and get a social media fix during abreak.
D.They damage driving process as equally as external (外部的) dangers go.
E.However, texting while biking seems so undemanding as to be harmless.
F.Forty - eight states have banned texting while driving.
G.This confidence is especially understandable for very simple tasks.
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On my way home from coaching basketball yesterday, I was listening to WGN,my favorite talk radio station. What___21___me was that Bob Collins, the morning show man for WGN, had been killed in an accident. He was a man who was___22___by many. The radio told story after story,___23___him as the best friend. True love and feelings___24___in from all over the country. The more I listened about how this man had influenced those around him, the more___25___I became.
I was upset because I wanted to know___26___we wait until somebody has passed away___27___we tell them how much we love them?
I now have a stronger determination to tell those around me how much they___28___to me. I am going to let my wife know just how loved and___29___she is, not only by my words, but also by my____30____. I am going to play Batman with my son more often, and in the middle of our romping（嬉戏）, I am going to grab him, hug him tightly, and tell him how____31____I am that he is my son.
Do you love someone? Then____32____them! Has someone been an influence in your life? Then give them a call! Has someone had a positive effect on you in your life? Then write them a letter or send them an e-mail! Don’t let another day____33____without letting that person know. There is something____34____about a written letter that____35____feelings of love towards another. I don’t know about you, but I have letters and cards from people that I have_____36_____for years, and____37____, I get them out and reread them. They can turn a depressing day into one when you____38____just how blessed and loved you are.
Life is too____39____to leave kind words unsaid. The words you say, or the letter you write, might just make all the____40____in the world.
21. A. shocked B. excited C. worried D. confused
22. A. loved B. hated C. judged D. criticized
23. A. explaining B. describing C. advising D. thinking
24. A. threw B. poured C. filled D. crowded
25. A. comfortable B. disappointed C. discouraged D. cheerful
26. A. what B. how C. where D. why
27. A. when B. because C. after D. before
28. A. mean B. symbolize C. refer D. represent
29. A. admired B. appreciated C. accepted D. affected
30. A. sounds B. actions C. opinions D. ideas
31. A. useful B. hopeful C. thankful D. wonderful
32. A. inform B. notice C. tell D. ask
33. A. go by B. go over C. go out D. go off
34. A. special B. strange C. difficult D. funny
35. A. indicates B. expresses C. displays D. discovers
36. A. bought B. written C. sent D. saved
37. A. first of all B. in the end C. now and then D. at a time
38. A. realize B. recognize C. recall D. remember
39. A. long B. short C. hard D. easy
40. A. effect B. influence C. difference D. function
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
Jonny Hickey is a boy from Georgia____41.____is helping to change the world. Jonny has autism (自闭症). When he was young, he was very quiet and found____42.____hard to talk and be with other people. He was not very happy and had a difficult time in school.
While____43.____(try) to help her son in every possible way, Jonny’s mom, Linda Hickey, learned about an abandoned dog named Xena. The dog, once starving and badly____44.____(abuse), was shown on the local news, recovering at a nearby dog shelter. She was named “The Warrior Dog” for her courage and perseverance. Mrs. Hickey started following the dog on a local Facebook page and feel in love with her story and courage. In fact, she decided____45.____(adopt) the dog! And that changed everything!
When Mrs. Hickey introduced Xena to Jonny, they became friends____46.____(instant). Since then, they both have changed greatly. Xena is now healthy and active. And also Jonny could not be so social, talkative, happy and doing well in school____47.____Xena.
Not only____48.____Xena and Jonny change each other’s lives, but they are now____49.____(help) others. They created a YouTube video to promote awareness about Austism Awareness Month and also to prevent____50.____(cruel) to animals.
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。

Running is fun. I enjoy running three time a week in the neighborhood. I keep it up until the weather makes it impossible to do so. I suppose that we can gain a lot of from running. To begin with, running strengthen oneself physically and mentally. It is one of best ways for us to relax from their study or work. What’s worse, running proves to help us to sleep better at night. Wherever you are, you can always start running immediate. This is my idea on running. Meanwhile, experts suggest that we going for three to four runs every week in order to feel energy.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是李华，你的外教Linda对中国书法(calligraphy)很感兴趣。

2021年5月30日，城市文化中心将举行一个书法文化交流活动，请给她写一封邀请信，内容包括：
1.时间、地点；
2.活动的内容：看展览、听讲座等；
3.活动的意义。

注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Linda,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. C 9. B 10. D 11. A
12. D 13. C 14. D 15. A
16. F 17. B 18. D 19. G 20. A
21. A 22. A 23. B 24. B 25. C 26. D 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. B 31. C 32.
C 33. A 34. A 35. B 36.
D 37. C 38. A 39. B 40. C
41. who / that
42. it 43. trying
44. abused 45. to adopt
46. instantly
47. without
48. did 49. helping
50. cruelty
51.(1). time→times；
(2). until→unless；
(3).删除of；
(4). strengthen→strengthens；
(5). best前加the；
(6). their→our；
(7). worse→more；
(8). immediate→immediately；
(9). going→go；
(10). energy→energetic；
52.略。