2021年同济大学实验学校高三英语下学期期中试卷及答案

2021年同济大学实验学校高三英语下学期期中试卷及答案
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
Overnight French Toast
What You’ll Need
•16-ounce loaf of French bread
•5 eggs
•1 1 /2 cups milk
•1/2 cup half-and-half
•1/3 cup maple syrup（枫糖浆）
•1/2 teaspoon salt
•foil（锡箔纸）
•2 tablespoons melted butter（for topping）
•2 tablespoons maple syrup（for topping）
What to Do
•With an adult’s help, cut the bread into 1-inch slices.
•Place the eggs, milk, half-and-half, maple syrup, and salt into a large bowl. Stir（揽拌）the mixture until blended（混合均匀）.
•Place the sliced bread into a baking dish. Pour the mixtureover the bread and press the slices into it. Cover the dish with foil and refrigerate overnight.
•Remove the dish from the refrigerator at least one hour before baking. Ask an adult for help to preheat the oven to 375°F. Bake the French toast for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
•For the topping, combine the melted butter and 2 tablespoons of maple syrup. Pour it over the French toast before serving.
1.How much salt will you need to make a French toast?
A.1/3 cup.
B.1/2 teaspoon.
C.2 tablespoons.
D.16 ounces.
2.How will you use foil?
A.Place the sliced bread
B.Cover the dish.
C.Remove the dish.
D.Eat the French toast.
3.Who is the passage written for?
A.Teachers.
B.Parents.
C.Cooks.
D.Kids.
B
I once had my Chinese MBA students brainstorming on “two-hour business plans.” I separated them into six groups and gave them an example: a restaurant chain. The more original their ideas, the better, I said. Finally, five of the six groups presented plans for restaurant chains. The sixth proposed a catering service. Though I admitted the time limit had been difficult, I expressed my disappointment.
My students were middle managers, financial analysts and financiers from state-owned enterprises and global companies. They were without talent or opinions, but they had been shaped by an educational system that rarely stressed or rewarded critical thinking or inventiveness. The scene I just described came in different forms during my two years teaching at the school. Papers were often copied from the Web and the Harvard Business Review. Case study debates were written up and just memorized. Students frequently said that copying is a superior business strategy, better than inventing and creating.
InChina, every product you can imagine has been made and sold. But so few well-developed marketing and management minds have been raised that it will be a long time before most people in the world can name a Chinese brand.
With this problem in mind, partnerships with institutions like Yale and MIT have been established. And then there's the “thousand talent scheme.” this new government program is intended to improve technological modernization by attracting top foreign-trained scientists to the mainland with big money. But there are worries aboutChina's research environment. It's hardly known for producing independent thinking and openness, and even big salary offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.
At last, forChina, becoming a major world creator is not just about setting up partnership with top western universities. Nor is it about gathering a group of well-educated people and telling them to think creatively. It's about establishing a rich learning environment for young minds. It's not that simple.
4. Why does the writer feel disappointed at his students?
A. Because there is one group presenting a catering service.
B. Because the six groups did not cooperate well in the brainstorm.
C. Because all the students copied a case for the difficult topic.
D. Because the students' ideas were lacking in creativeness.
5. Which of the following scenes is NOT considered as lack of creation?
A. Papers were often downloaded from the Internet.
B. Students often said that copying is a preferable business strategy.
C. Students combine knowledge and critical thoughts to solve a problem.
D. Case study debates were written up as well as recited.
6. We can infer form the passage that ________.
A. China can make and sell any product all over the world from its own creation.
B. high pay may not solve the problem ofChina's research environment.
C. cooperation with institutions has been set up to make a Chinese brand.
D. the new government program is aimed at encouraging imagination.
7. Which is the best title for the passage?
A Look for a new way of learning B. Reward creative thinking
C. How to become a creator
D. Establish a technical environment
C
Online education has grown fast over the past ten years. The explosion of technology has made teaching outside the traditional classroom possible for teachers and has provided learners with easy access to course materials. Its attractiveness, benefits, and challenges are addressed.
In April, 2005, I was approached by a student who was interested in our doctoral program. However, the first question out of her mouth was, “Do you offer any online courses?” Later that day, as I was reading the conference program guide trying for interesting presentations, I noticed many workshops on web-based learning and online education. I later attended two of those workshops and met several professors from different universities who had either taught online courses for quite some time or who were discovering the best practice for teaching online. These experiences helped me realize at least to some extent the degree of growth in online education.
My responsibilities for the term included gaining more understanding of online education. Consequently, I made several attempts to enrich my knowledge of distance learning and online teaching. I consulted with my colleagues who were teaching online courses. This helped me recognize the importance of getting materials prepared even before the start of a term. I also learned that online courses may consume more time than regular classroom teaching. And I attended several workshops regarding online education and established a network with those who were involved in online programs at other universities. I will consider these people as my consultants as I begin to design my own online course. Also, I conducted a brief survey with 15 students and two faculty
members who had taken or taught an online course before to understand their experience. Eventually I completed a literature review which gave me the foundation and the background of understanding the need for online education.
8. What benefits the development of online education?
A. Teachers’ good teaching ability.
B. Lack of traditional classrooms.
C. Learners’ access to free courses.
D. The rapid advance of technology.
9. Why did the author take a student for example?
A. To show students’ love for the doctoral program.
B. To persuade learners of traditional education.
C. To explain the growing trend of online education.
D. To predict the future of the teaching career.
10. What caused the author to know more about online education?
A. The appetite for knowledge.
B. The professional responsibilities.
C. The requirement of research.
D. The colleagues’ encouragement.
11. What is the author’s attitude to online education?
A. Carefree.
B. Doubtful.
C. Supportive.
D. Unwilling.
D
In 2002, young Elon Musk tried unsuccessfully to buy Russian rockets to help him send mice to Mars and back. Afterwards, the youngmillionaire decided to build his own rockets.
Musk went to Southern California and started hiring people to help bring his dream to life. In a very short time, and despite some failures, his company SpaceX launched Falcon 1, the first successful privately-built liquid fuel rocket, into Earth's orbit in 2008.
As the first Falcon rocket began testing, development was already underway for the Falcon 9. This much larger rocket, which uses nine engines to lift heavy payloads（有效载荷）into orbit, is engineered to return to Earth, ready to be reused for another flight.
For Musk, space is the final destination. To help people get there, his company Neuralink is developing devices that will link people's brains with computers. A similar device has been developed at the University of Utah. It consists of a chip（芯片）with 256 threads（线程）that is placed between a person's skin and brain. The threads attach directly to brain tissue（脑组织）.Patients who have the device are able to use only their minds to communicate with one another through computers.
Neuralink's chips will have about 1,000 threads. A robot developed by the company will place up to ten chips under a person's skin. The chips will communicate without wires but with a tiny device that will be worn behind the person's ear. That device, in turn, will communicate with computers. The primary market for the technology will be for people that, because of injuries or birth defects, cannot control their hands and arms. With Neuralink^ product, they'll be able to mentally command a computer to type messages for them or carry out other tasks.
12. According to this article, what was the first Falcon 1 able to do?
A. Launch big satellites.
B. Reach distant moons.
C. Move around our planet.
D. Study the universe.
13. What does the article explain about Neuralink's chips?
A. How they'll be set up.
B. What safety features they'll have.
C. How much money they'll earn.
D. Where they'll be produced.
14. According to this article, who is Neuralink going to market its product to first?
A. Those who own great wealth.
B. Those who are physically disabled.
C. Those who travel internationally.
D. Those who do research on plants.
15. In which publication is this article most likely to appear?
A. The Journal of Environmental Studies.
B. Advances in Business and Technology.
C. Digest of Fashion and Entertainment News,
D. Consumer's Guide to Outdoor Recreation.
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 lo 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Draper, the owner of a secondhand bookstore,was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelop fell from one. Inside was an undated____21____and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was____22____it, it meant the author had died.
Tears were welling up in Draper’s eyes. These were a____23____woman’s last words to her child. He had to____24____Bethany. “Whoever it is will____25____this,” he thought. “You wouldn’t____26____a letter like that.”
He supposed if the____27____ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he____28____recognized the little girl’s face. Even if she’d since left the area, there might be someone in town who would recognize the____29____.
He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the_____30_____letter.
_____31_____, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a(n)_____32_____herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the_____33_____. As she read her mother’s_____34_____, which
she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be_____35_____.
Gash was only 4 when her mother_____36_____. Five years later, her family moved to a new home and the letter, put away in the pages of a book for safe keeping, was unintentionally_____37_____.
She remembers unpacking and looking for the letter, and then_____38_____searching through everything in hopes that it was there. “That’s when I realized it was_____39_____gone by now and I’d never see it again,” she said.
Draper_____40_____the letter in person. He also brought her a children’s book for her son. Gash was greatly moved to have the letter back, and also touched by the stranger’s kindness.
21. A. message B. email C. postcard D. letter
22. A. reading B. destroying C. forgetting D. copying
23. A. determined B. kind C. selfish D. dying
24. A. find B. introduce C. phone D. comfort
25. A. understand B. avoid C. want D. like
26. A. tear open B. cut up C. throw away D. pull out
27. A. girl B. book C. reporter D. news
28. A. hardly B. actually C. unfortunately D. accidentally
29. A. author B. teacher C. picture D. stranger
30. A. lost B. valuable C. wet D. broken
31. A. Meanwhile B. Therefore C. However D. Eventually
32. A. editor B. mother C. daughter D. assistant
33. A. ticket B. magazine C. article D. homework
34. A. vocabularies B. terms C. languages D. words
35. A. writing B. joking C. playing D. dreaming
36. A. came back B. passed away C. died out D. calmed down
37. A. donated B. burned C. dirtied D. robbed
38. A. secretly B. suddenly C. madly D. regularly
39. A. almost B. never C. still D. long
40. A. kept B. delivered C. composed D. published
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
If you are looking to find out whyChinais called china, you could go toJingdezhento find out the answer. Its relationship with ceramics (制陶艺术) dates____41.____the Han dynasty and it got famous during the Song dynasty. The culture of ceramics has lived on for more than 2,000 years.
TodayJingdezhenis a popular destination attracting___42.___(tourist) from home and abroad for____43.____taste of its cultural charms. The first stop inJingdezhenshould be the Ancient Kiln andFolkCustomsMuseum. The___44.___(beautiful) landscaped places offer basic ideas about the ancient porcelain (瓷器) history and culture in Jingdezhen.
In the northeast ofJingdezhenCitylies Yaoli Ancient town, which___45.___(surround) by beautiful mountains and rivers. And it is an ancient town___46.___(build) in the late West Han dynasty. The town is rich in kaolin, a special type of soil for porcelain production,___47.___(make) it the famous birthplace ofJingdezhenceramics. Here is a place of historic interest___48.___you can search deep into ancient times.
Porcelain is the essence ofJingdezhen, but there is no lack of___49.___(nature) beauty in the city. You’ll lose____50.____(you) in the land of breathtaking beauty— the thick forests, splendid waterfalls and quiet paths.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.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Peter,
I am glad to know you want to learn table-tennis, and that you will attend training class offered by our school this summer vacation. The following is what your should know.
The training class, that is held in our school hall, is free of charge, and would last weeks from June 1 to 14. We have invited some experienced teacher, and they will teach you how to play table tennis, such as like receiving and serving the ball. Of course, some specially skills are also included. When you are familiar to it, we will arrange some competitive games for you as practice, which must be very interested and will improve your skill. The number of the members are limited, so you'd better sign up on our homepage as soon as possible.
If you have any problem, please contact me. Looking forward to your coming.
Yours,
Li Hua 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你是潍坊一中学生李华，李明刚从外地转到你们学校，由于对新的学习环境比较陌生，一时很难适应学校班级生活，非常焦虑。

请根据下列要点用英语给他写一封信：
1.帮他分析原因；
2.给他提出建议。

注意: 1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Li Ming,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. B
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. A
6. B
7. C
8. D 9. D 10. A 11. C
12. C 13. A 14. B 15. B
16. B 17. C 18. F 19. G 20. D
21. D 22. A 23. D 24. A 25. C 26. C 27. B 28. B 29. C 30. A 31. A 32.
B 33.
C 34.
D 35. D 36. B 37. A 38. C 39. D 40. B
41. from
42. tourists
43. a 44. beautifully
45. is surrounded
46. built 47. making
48. where 49. natural 50. yourself/yourselves
51.(1).attend之后加上the
(2).your→you
(3).that→which
(4).would→will
(5).teacher→teachers
(6).删除like
(7).specially→special
(8).to→with
(9).interested→interesting
(10).are→is
52.略。