江苏省泰兴市2021-2022学年高三上学期期中调研考试英语试题

江苏省泰兴市

2021-2022学年高三上学期期中调研英语试题（不含听力）

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）

第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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

21. Which of the following statement agrees with the poster?

 A. HEIFER INTERNATIONAL invests in girls’ education.

 B. All the girls in the developed world are given access to schooling.

 C. Investing in girls’ education can get rid of poverty.

 D. Well-educated girls tend to land well-paying decent jobs.

22. What kind of organization does HEIFER INTERNSTIONAL probably belong to?

 A. A private girls’ school    B. A technical training center

 C. A non-profit organization   D. An investment company

23. Where probably can we see the poster?

 A. On a film website.    B. In a quality magazine.

 C. On a popular TV program.   D. In a traditional textbook.

B

Look at these three pictures. Can you identify the two pictures that are of the same person? If you can’t, you may have a syndrome called prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness. A lot of us have trouble recognizing people, but people with prosopagnosia can’t even recognize themselves.

Many people who suffer from face blindness have developed strategies for recognizing people. For example, they pay attention to people’s hairstyles, voices, and clothing in order to figure out who they are. But what happens if a friend get a new haircut or waves hello without speaking?

For Ayla Bahur, her face blindness presented a new hazard when she had a baby. After her daughter was born, Ayla realized that she could not pick her baby out from the other babies in the maternity ward. Recognizing a newborn baby might be difficult for anyone, but Ayla became terrified, thinking of what might happen in the future when she had to pick her daughter up from daycare or from school. So Ayla bought a bracelet for her daughter that she could easily differentiate from a bracelet another child might wear.

Prosopagnosia can be an effect of brain damage from an accident, a stroke, or some other event, or it can have genetic causes. Unlike people who lose their face recognition ability as a result of brain damage those with generic prosopagnosia are often unaware that they have an impairment. They often don’t find out that there is such a thing as face recognition until they learn that others can pick people out of a crowd just by looking at their faces.

24. The major function of the first paragraph is__________.

 A. to draw a readers’ attention

 B. to encourage readers’ thinking

 C. to hold readers’ interest

 D. to introduce the topic

25. Which of the following couldn’t help those with prosopagnosia recognize people?

 A. Bracelets  B. Shoes  C. Hairstyles  D. Clothes

26. How is the third paragraph developed?

1. by giving examples
2. by making a comparison
3. by analyzing causes
4. by citing statistics

27. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

1. Prosopagnosia can make every day activities challenging.
2. If a man with the face blindness sees a friend with a new haircut, he probably won’t recognize that friend.
3. Ayla Bahar didn’t know she had Prosopagnosia until her doctor was born.
4. People who develop face blindness because of brain damage at aware that they have lost their face recognition ability.

C

For as long as I can remember, I want to be a performer. But when it came time to go to college and decide what I wanted to be for the rest of my life, it didn’t occur to me to choose drama as my major. Making a living as a performer seems impractical to me. So instead of starting drama I started pre-law, and then went to law school like my two sisters did before me. They seemed happy enough, I thought; they worked about 80 hours a week, but they made good money and could afford expensive cars and fancy apartments in the city.

After law school I got a new job and worked as a lawyer for a big company. I had great benefits, including four weeks of vacation a year, but I never got to use any of my vacation time because there was always too much work to do. I worked from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, and when I was finished, all I could do was collapse into my bed until I woke up to do it all over again the next day.

After five years of this lifestyle, I thought I was going to go crazy. I was unhappy and exhausted, I never saw my friends or my family, and I realized I hadn’t been in a play or musical since I started law school. I thought that acting in a small community play might make me feel better, but rehearsals and performances all took place during my work hours. So I made a drastic decision and quit my job.

I got a small part in a local play and then lead role. Now make my living from acting, and once in a while, I do some legal consulting for a little extra money. I don’t get paid a lot for my acting jobs, but it’s enough. I had to give up my big apartment and expensive car, but I’m so much happier now. I see my friends and family, I have free time, and I get to do something I love every day.

28. The writer went to law school because_________

1. his two sisters went to law school
2. he was interested in the practice of law
3. a lawyer’s job would bring him a decent and leisure life
4. acting jobs were not well-paid enough to earn a living

29. After five years practicing law how did the writer find a lawyers’ work EXCEPT?

 A. exhausting  B. enjoyable  C. rewarding   D. endless

30. The writer to quit his job as a lawyer because________.

1. he hated working and wanted a break.
2. he didn’t have great benefits
3. work consumed almost all his time and energy
4. rehearsals and performances all took place during his work hours

31. The purpose of the passage is to__________.

1. show his affection acting
2. share his practical lifestyle
3. tell his story of making a living as an act
4. inform us of him quitting his job

D

There are two grand ambitions now for computer science truly intelligent machines and use for quantum computers recent developments suggest not only that these goals should be achievable but that they could be closer than we think.

Take the quest to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) — AIs that go well beyond being good at one specific task, but can instead do anything a human can. Some people still think this is impossible. And yet analysis of AIs designed to master human language has prompted other experts to suggest that AGI might only be a matter of scaling up current technology. Build gigantic AIs and true, human-level intelligence will come, they say.

This “scaling hypothesis” has come to the fore largely thanks to GPT-3, an AI released by San Francisco-based OpenAI last year that generates remarkably fluent streams of human language on command. GPT-3 is just a scaled-up version of GPT-2, a similar predecessor. This new neural network boasts an order of magnitude more parameters, equivalent to the number of synapses linking neurons in real brains, than its forerunner.

Researchers who evaluate such language AIs have been surprised by just to know how much more advanced GPT-3 is than GPT-2. It can do things it wasn’t trained to do, for example, and there are hints that it might be capable of human-like reasoning.

Time will tell if the scaling hypothesis is right. In the meantime, it will be interesting to see if the AI players was the deepest pockets, such as DeepMind, following OpenAI’s focus on scaling.

However when it comes to genuinely use for quantum computers there is no doubt that scaling is key— we are going to need machines with thousands of qubits, the quantum version of a classical bit. This is why the news that researchers have demonstrated a viable way to make sure those qubits don’t constantly fall prey to errors is a big deal. We might finally have a way to scale up the number of operational qubits to what we need.

There are still no guarantees. Even so, it seems that computer science is striding into the 2020s in rude health.

32. Which of the following has the closest meaning to “scaling up” underlined in Paragraph 2?

 A. increasing   B. revising   C. upgrading  D. expanding

33. What can we infer from the passage?

 A. GPT-3 is way more advanced than GPT-2.

 B. GPT-3 is totally different from GPT-2.

 C. The number of operational qubits is not sufficient enough.

 D. It won't be long before we see truly intelligent machines.

34. According to the passage, ___________________

 A. genuinely useful quantum computers could come earlier than expected.

 B. experts firmly believe artificial general intelligence (AGI) is only a matter of time.

 C. researchers have demonstrated a practical way to scale up the current technology.

 D. it is guaranteed that the scaling hypothesis will prove right.

35. What is the author's attitude towards development in computer science?

 A. doubtful   B. optimistic  C. uncertain  D. pessimistic

第二节 （共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

 阅读下列短文，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。

Several days ago, the government closed the schools for the virus. You were effectively your children’s teacher those days. That might seem a bit daunting(令人气馁的), but I’m here to tell you that it’s possible here on my top tips.

Don’t try and copy the school system

36. ________ So cast that aside. Stop worrying about it. Teach in the way that you would teach and in the way that suits you and your child.

Think about something to do with timetabling.

For many of us. a timetable is absolutely essential. 37. ________ Don't look on social media at the timetable that your neighbor has posted; that's all colour-coded and terrifying. Just think of one that suits you and stick to that.

Have a breath of fresh air in your garden.

If you have your own garden, remember that playing in the garden, playing in the mud is education. 38. ________ Fresh air will make them learn better. Sunshine will be better for them.

39. ________

As a home educator, if there’s a math problem that they’re struggling with, I can sit down with them, explain the concept, and make sure they've understood it. This is something that not all children get in the school system. And this is something that you can really make the most of, so cherish the opportunity.

Take advantage of the massive wealth of online resources.

There’re absolutely loads of things on the Internet. There are sites dedicated to home education. There's Twinkle, which is a really good teacher resource site. There’s Conquer Math, which is a brilliant daily math programme. 40. ________ Think of it as something that your children can use to gather useful information. So you can work with those online tutors together to educate your children.

Tutoring your children at home is a really good opportunity for you to get to know your children, and you might learn something about yourself in the process.

A. Value the one-to-one time that this experience will give you.

B. Don't worry about what has been happening at school particularly.

C. You need to know what is suitable for them, and what excites them.

D. The way that teachers teach your children is very different from yours.

E. Draw up a plan that matches your working hours and their studying hours.

F. Your children don’t have to sit at their desks all day, staring at math books.

G. Don't think of Internet as something that your children are going to be glued to all day.

第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）

第一节          （共15小题：每小题1分，满分15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。

Big trees are ecologically important. They provide food for countless other species and 41. ________ for many animals. With tall branches in the sun, they absorb vast amounts of energy, which allows them to produce massive crops of fruit and flowers.

Actually, only a small number of tree species have the genetic ability to grow really big. The biggest are 42. ________ to North America, 43. ________ big trees grow all globally. To 44. ________ a giant size, a tree needs the right place to establish its seedlings, good growing 45. ________ and lots of time with low adult death rate.

However, in some parts of the world, populations of big trees are declining because their seedlings cannot 46. ________. In southern India, for instance, a(n) 47. ________ non-native bush, Lantana, is invading the floor of many forests. Lantana grows so thickly that young trees often 48. ________to take root. With no young trees to 49. ________ them, most of the big trees will finally disappear.

Similarly, without the right growing conditions. Trees cannot get really big and there is some evidence to suggest tree growth could slow in warm environments. Tree growth there 50. ________ obviously in warmer years. During the day, their growth shuts down when it gets too warm, and at night they 51. ________ more energy because their metabolic (新陈代谢的) rate increases. With less energy produced in warmer years and more being consumed just to survive, there is even less energy 52. ________ for growth.

The theory means tropical forests would 53. ________ over time. As older trees die, forests would 54. ________ some of their stored carbon into the atmosphere, causing a cycle of further warming, forest shrinkage and carbon 55. ________.

Besides, big trees are faced with threats from elsewhere, surviving the storms, meeting challenges and growing healthily.

41. A. shelter    B. shade   C. location   D. opportunity
42. A. native    B. natural   C. foreign   D. close
43. A. therefore   B. and    C. but    D. or
44. A. reach    B. achieve   C. acquire   D. land
45. A. positions   B. circumstances  C. states   D. conditions
46. A. survive   B. suffer   C. stand  D. stretch
47. A. rigid    B. straightforward  C. aggressive   D. tentative
48. A. begin    B. fail    C. manage   D. refuse
49. A. recycle   B. renew   C. replace   D. reproduce
50. A. declines   B. determines   C. booms   D. flies
51. A. create    B. consume   C. waste   D. generate
52. A. applicable   B. accessible   C. acceptable   D. available
53. A. assemble   B. maintain   C. accumulate   D. shrink
54. A. extend    B. guarantee   C. released   D. entertain
55. A. accumulation   B. reduction   C. transmission  D. emission

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。

Carved into the cliffs above the Dachuan River, the Mogao Caves represent the great 56. ________ (achieve) of Buddhist art over 1000 years, from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty.

In all, 492 caves are 57. ________ (present) preserved, housing about 45,000 square meters of murals and over 2,000 painted sculptures, 58. ________ provide an abundance of vivid materials demonstrating 59. ________ (vary) aspects of medieval (中世纪的) politics, economics, culture, arts, religion, ethnic relations, and daily dress in western China.

The caves 60. ________ (link) to the history of transcontinental relations and of the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia, 61. ________ (offer) invaluable reference for studying the complex history of ancient China and Central Asia.

In 1961, the Mogao Caves were listed as one of the State Priority Protected Sites and put 62. ________ the protection of national laws. In 1987, the caves were registered on the World Heritage List. For years, the Administrative Institution of the Mogao Caves 63. ________ (cooperate) with international counterparts to study conservation and site management

The goal of the future is. ________ (conduct) the measures set out in the management plan by the 65. ________ (schedule) time, and make its historical value available to future generations.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

 假如你是李华，为落实“五育并举”的育人目标，你校决定开展“劳动月（Labour Month）”活动，请你以学生会的名义用英文写一份倡议稿，内容包括：

1.           活动的目的；
2.           活动的主要内容；
3.           发出倡议。

注意：

1.           写作次数应为80左右；
2.           可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.           开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear fellows,

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

第二节（满分25分）

Nellie and I have been best friends for if long as I can remember. We were born only a few days apart, so every year we planned a combined birthday. When we were in seventh grade, our moms said we could invite boys to our party.

We were writing out the invitation list when my mom came up. “What about inviting John?” Mom asked.

John had been in our class for only two months, but he got better grades in math and science than anyone else in class. He was a loner, though, and hadn’t made many friends.

I wrinkled my nose. “Mom. he wears the same pants every day. How could he even afford a costume?”

“The same pants?” Mom frowned (皱眉).

“Yes. Brown corduroy (灯芯绒) ones” I sighed.

After school the next day, as Nellie and I were cutting paper for decorations, Mom handed me an envelope.

“Nellie's mom and I thought it’d be nice for you two to give this to John,” Mom said as she headed back to her office.

I opened the envelope delicately. Inside was a gift certificate for our favorite department store. Staring at the certificate in shock, we both knew how many cute clothes that would buy.

“So, are we going to hand it to him?” I asked.

“How embarrassing that would be!” Nellie said.

Indeed, John would be ashamed if we gave him money for clothes. “What if we slip it into his desk when no one is looking?” I proposed.

“He’d probably give it to the teacher, and then we’d have to say it was for him in front of the whole class.” Nellie rolled her eyes. More embarrassing. We had to think of something else.

“I have an idea.” Nellie snatched the envelope.

“What?”

“I won't tell you.” Nellie sang as she ran away.

Paragraph 1:

For days I watched Nellie and John carefully.

Paragraph 2:

John finally came in a dingy shirt, with the same brown corduroy pants.

2021年高三期中调研测试英语试题参考答案

第一部分：听力（共两节，20小题：每小题1.5分，满分 30分）

1-5 BBABC  6-10 ACAAB  11-15 CACCB  16-20 BCBCA

第二部分 阅读（共两节，20小题，每小题2.5分，满分 50分）

21-23 DCB  24-27 DBAC  32-35 CCAB  36-40 DEFAC

第三部分 语言运用（共两节，20小题：第一节每小题1分，第二节每小题 1.5分，满分30分）

第一节

41-45 AACAD 46-50 ACBCA 51-55 BDDCD

第二节

56. achievement(s) 57. presently 58. which   59. various 60. are linked

61.offering  62. under 63. has been cooperating 64. to conduct 65. scheduled

第四部分 写作（共两节，第一节15分，第二节25分，满分 40分）

第一节

Possible version

Dear fellows,

Our school has decided to hold the “Labour Month”, aiming to raise students awareness of the significance of labour and help them acquire some basic life skills. An abundance of activities will be included, like visiting a local factory, working on the school farm, a speech contest on labour, a display of dishes cooked by students, etc. Every student is expected to take an active part, which will not only boost your comprehensive qualities but also better prepare you for the future.

第二节

Possible version

For days I watched Nellie and John carefully. But, there were no new pants. I kept wondering what might have happened to the certificate. Maybe, John was just saving them for the party. I even doubted if Nellie had used it for herself. But, in a moment, I told myself that she wouldn't do that. For days, I just watched in vain for new pants to appear until the day of our party when my guests arrived in smart costumes.

John finally came in an old shirt, with the same brown corduroy pants. Nobody seemed to care, though. I was still thinking about the certificate when Nellie announced there was a math game for a prize. As it turned out, John had the last laugh and became the winner. Nellie took out a box, in which was the very envelope! I couldn't be too proud to have a friend like Nellie. The next week, John wore a pair of new pants every day, bearing a big smile on his face.