山西省忻州市静乐县静乐一中2020届高三上学期期中考试英语试卷
展开期中考试英语试题
本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分, 共150分。考试时间120分钟。
第 I 卷
注意事项：
1. 答第I卷前, 考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在本试卷和答题卡相应位置上。
2. 选出每小题答案后, 用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动, 用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上, 否则无效。
第一部分 听力（共两节, 满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分, 满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题, 从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项, 并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后, 你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What are the speakers talking about?
A. When to announce the news.
B. Who will attend the meeting.
C. What to discuss on Wednesday.
2. What will the man do?
A. Make tea for Christine.
B. Have a cup of tea.
C. Boil more water.
3. Why is Sheila late?
A. She argued with her boss.
B. She had to finish work.
C. She forgot the time.
4. What is the weather normally like?
A. Rainy. B. Warm. C. Cold.
5. What does the man mean?
A. He likes his professor.
B. He wants a new task.
C. He needs more time.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分, 满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题, 从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项, 并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前, 你将有时间阅读各个小题, 每小题5秒钟；听完后, 各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料, 回答第6、7小题。
6. What happened to the man?
A. He lost his way.
B. He broke his phone.
C. His car broke down.
7. Why did the man fail to call the woman?
A. He had no coins.
B. He had no time.
C. He forgot the number.
听第7段材料, 回答第8至10题。
8. How many pieces of clothing need to be cleaned and ironed?
A. Four. B. Five. C. Six.
9. How much is the extra charge for the quick service?
A. 5%. B. 15%. C. 50%.
10. When can the man pick up his overcoat?
A. Tomorrow afternoon.
B. Nine o’clock today.
C. Sunday morning.
听第8段材料, 回答第11至13题。
11. What do we know about the woman’s old job?
A. It offered better pay.
B. It was farther from her home.
C. It provided computer training.
12. What do we learn about the training?
A. It is paid by the woman.
B. It is partly done on work time.
C. It runs from Wednesday to Friday.
13. How does the woman feel about her new job?
A. Satisfied. B. Confused. C. Anxious.
听第9段材料, 回答第14至17题。
14. What do we know about the man?
A. He smokes less than ten cigarettes a day.
B. He gave up smoking three years ago.
C. He is probably a long time smoker.
15. How often does the woman go to the doctor for a check-up?
A. Once every year. B. Twice a year. C. Once every three years.
16. How many test questions are discussed in the conversation?
A. Four. B. Seven. C. Eight.
17. What change will the test probably bring to the speakers?
A. They will exercise more.
B. They will work harder.
C. They will rest more.
听第10段材料,回答第18至20题。
18. Why does the man always carry his iPod touch?
A. To talk with his friends.
B. To pass time enjoyably.
C. To work while travelling.
19. What do we know about life ten or fifteen years ago?
A. People enjoyed life more.
B. The Internet first came into use then.
C. It was harder for people to get in touch online.
20. Why does the man think the sun is very important for his life?
A. It makes him more active.
B. It allows him to think over.
C. It gives him a feeling of comfort.
第二部分 阅读理解（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, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。
A
Qibao Ancient Village
Qibao, located in the center of Minhang District, Shanghai, is a village with a history of one thousand years. In the village, wine and tea are served on old-fashioned square tables together with long benches, long-mouth copper pots and flat-end chopstick used. The most famous snacks in old Shanghai are square pastry, rice wine and steamed salted pork in wine.
Entrance Ticket: 45 yuan per all-in-one ticket (preferable price of 30 yuan is available now), covering almost all tourist attractions inside the village.
Jinshan Village of Farmer Painting
Villagers skillfully make good use of folk arts such as printing and dyeing, embroidery (刺绣), wood carving. They take the various folk customs and the busy scenes of labor of villagers in the lower Changjiang valley as the theme of paintings and create farmer paintings in a simple style.
Entrance Ticket: 30 yuan per person
Merry Countryside Tour in Zhonghua Village
The village provides tourists with accommodations, tours, chess, cards, fitness and entertainment through renting out separate farmhouse and sells tourist products and agricultural by-products related to the merry countryside tour.
Entrance Ticket: Free
Pudong Lingkong Agric Gardening
It is one of Shanghai countryside tour scenic spots, which features art of teapots, crop plantation and export. The Geological Science Popularization Hall stores up tens of thousands of rare stones collected all over the world.
Entrance Ticket: 50 yuan per person
21. Which tour is offering a discount on the entrance ticket now?
A. Qibao Ancient Village.
B. Jinshan Village of Farmer Painting.
C. Merry Countryside Tour in Zhonghua Village.
D. Pudong Lingkong Agric Gardening.
22. Pudong Lingkong Agric Gardening may especially attract people who are interested in ______.
A. traditional snacks B. folk arts C. farming D. rare stones
23. Which column of a newspaper can we probably find the passage?
A. Finance. B. Tourism.
C. Education. D. Agriculture.
B
When Amanda Wanklin and Michael Biggs fell in love, they didn’t realize the challenges they might face as a biracial couple. Amanda says, “At first we only knew that we wanted together.” They settled down in Birmingham, England, eager to start a family. On July 3, 2006, the black and white couple got their “one in a million” miracle: Amanda gave birth to fraternal twin (异卵双胞胎) girls with completely different skin colors, and the greatly amazed parents gave their daughters intertwined names: one would be Millie Marcia Madge Biggs, the other Marcia Millie Madge Biggs.
From a young age the girls had similar features but very different color schemes. Marcia had light brown hair and fair skin like her English-born white mother, while Millie had black hair and brown skin like her black father, who is of Jamaican descent. “We never worried about it; we just accepted it,” Michael says.
“When they were first born,” Amanda recalls, “people would look at my one daughter and then look at my other daughter. Then I’d get asked the question: ‘Are they twins?’ ”
“Yes.”
“But one’s white and one’s black.”
According to Amanda, people who commented on the girls weren’t openly discriminatory (歧视的) or judgmental—just very curious, and then as time went on, people just saw the beauty in them.
The twins know what racism is. “Racism is where somebody judges you by your color and not by your true self,” Millie says.
Michael, the father, says he’s faced inequality at times throughout his life because of the color of his skin. “But it’s a different time now,” he says. Neither he nor Amanda has ever witnessed racist behavior toward their twin girls.
“When people see us, they think that we’re just best friends,” Marcia says. “When they learn that we’re twins, they’re kind of shocked because one’s black and one’s white.” But when the twins are asked about their differences, they mention something else entirely. “Millie likes things that are girlie. She likes pink and all of that,” Marcia says. “I don’t like the color pink; I’m a tomboy. People should know about us by our true selves, not by our colors. After all, people are made how they are.”
24. What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Amanda and Michael are of the same race.
B. Amanda and Michael were not happy about the birth of their twins.
C. The possibility of twins with different skin colors is small.
D. It was easy for Amanda and Michael to start a family of their own.
25. According to the passage which of the following is NOT true?
A. Sometimes Michael is unequally treated because of his race.
B. The twin girls see their skin colors as their major difference.
C. People are curious but friendly to the twin girls.
D. People who are racists judge a person by his appearance.
26. How does Marcia react to the people who ask questions about their differences?
A. She never answers them.
B. She is upset about their questions.
C. She answers with their different characters.
D. She tells them about colors.
27. What is the author’s attitude towards racism?
A. Opposed. B. Supportive. C. Indifferent. D. Tolerant.
C
Ten years ago, a typical patient at my plastic surgery clinic in McLean, Va., was 47 or 48. They generally wanted to look like a younger version of themselves. This might mean a face or neck lift, eyelid lifts, a skin-resurfacing procedure or Botox (肉毒杆菌) injections. “What do you recommend?” they’d ask. This is the kind of work I am expecting to do, and these are the consultations I am expecting to give.
Today, my average patient, according to my office records, is 38 or 39. They’ll come in with a specific “flaw” on their faces and often know exactly what procedure they want. They are pretty sure that their noses are too big, their chins are too large, or their eyebrows appear dull. And these patients are much less realistic about what I can achieve. They will ask for Kim Kardashian’s nose, even if their facial structure looks nothing like hers.
There’s a reason for this rapid and radical change: selfies. The self-taken photograph is greatly attacking the confidence of many younger people. They come to my offices, show me their selfies and point to a defect on their faces, which is a totally normal shape to me. Often they will have already searched online till they’ve found someone with a similar “issue” who fixed it with surgery. Once, a 20-year-old, having studied countless images of herself and searched hundreds of pictures of the ideal looks she wanted, said she needed a facelift. But to me, no 20-year-old needs a facelift.
Selfies also mislead people about how they look. Smartphone cameras get better each year, but photos taken at arm’s length or closer often produce a “fish eye” effect: whatever’s at the center of the photo is bigger, and things on the edge are smaller. A study published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery last year found that selfies make noses look 30 percent larger than they are.
A survey done by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons last year found that social media was driving more plastic surgery requests than any other social influence: more than TV, movies or magazines. People are spending more time looking at themselves, in an online environment where comparisons with others seem inevitable. Academic psychologist Brian Feinstein, who studied a sample of 268 college-age adults, has found that the more people use social media, the more they reflect on their own supposed drawbacks, and therefore causes self-confidence to drop.
28. Why did the author’s typical patients want plastic surgery ten years ago?
A. They were recommended to do so.
B. They were unsatisfied with the faces they were born with.
C. They’d like to look younger than they really were.
D. The author expected them to do so.
29. What can we know about Kim Kardashian?
A. She is a patient of the author’s.
B. She is a model who has a beautiful nose.
C. She is a doctor of plastic surgery.
D. She is a fan of plastic surgery.
30. What can we learn from Paragraph four?
A. Smartphone cameras can help people take better selfies.
B. Smartphone cameras make people look at their selfies through a fish eye.
C. People usually take photos at arm’s length or closer.
D. Smartphone cameras make people’s faces in a selfie unreal.
31. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A. Selfies Are Weakening Self-confidence.
B. Young People Like to Take Selfies.
C. More People Are Getting Plastic Surgery.
D. People Like to Look Better in Selfies.
D
Dyslexia (失读症) is a reading and writing disability characterized by difficulties in reading and spelling, and for some readers to understand what they have read. Experts say dyslexia affects about five to ten percent of the population of the United States. Researchers have long known that people with dyslexia write or read words and letters backwards in the wrong order.
But a new study shows that people with dyslexia may have trouble redirecting (重新传入) their attention between senses, from seeing something to hearing something. Vanessa Harrar of Britain’s University of Oxford led the study. She reported the findings in the journal Current Biology. The study suggests that dyslexic people may have trouble moving quickly from what they read to what they hear. Doctor Harrar calls this a sluggish shifting of attention across the senses.
“So, if you are trying to read something and then trying to listen to somebody who’s reading aloud and you’re trying to follow along with what they are reading, they have to switch their attention from hearing what they are saying to looking at the piece of paper and back again.” said Harrar.
She found that people with dyslexia were just as fast as the others when they saw only a picture or heard only a sound. But the dyslexics had a slower reaction time when they heard a sound and saw a picture at the same time.
Doctor Harrar feels like playing action video games could help dyslexic people shift from seeing to hearing more quickly. She adds that images in video games force the eyes to move and focus quickly.
“Video game types of things pop out of here and there, they move your eyes around the screen quickly in response to things quite quickly, and the more you play a video game the faster you get that kind of thing. So the video game is really training the attention system to move quickly,” said Harrar.
The study also shows that dyslexic people have the most difficulty going between what they saw and what they heard, this may have an effect on how dyslexic children are taught how to read. When children learn the alphabet, they usually see the letter first and then hear the sound, or they see and hear the letter at the same time. The study shows that dyslexics might learn more quickly if they hear the sound of a letter or word first before seeing it.
32. Dyslexic people have the following problems except _________.
A. writing or reading words and letters in the right order
B. redirecting their attention between senses, from seeing something to hearing something
C. moving quickly from what they read to what they hear
D. seeing a picture or hearing a sound
33. What does the underlined word “sluggish” in paragraph 2 mean？
A. Slow. B. Wrong. C. Specific. D. Accurate.
34. Why can playing video games help dyslexic people learn more quickly?
A. Because they will train their reading and hearing.
B. Because they will have a good knowledge of the system.
C. Because they can train the attention system to move quickly.
D. Because they can arouse their interest in reading and learning.
35. What is the importance of the finding?
A. People with dyslexia will be cured by playing video games.
B. People with dyslexia will not be made fun of by others.
C. People will play more video games for dyslexic children.
D. People will know how to teach dyslexic children to read.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分, 满分10分）
根据短文内容, 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
“What’s the meaning of life?” People always ask themselves. Actually, many modern people have the problem that they don’t know who they are and what their purpose is. 36 . Once high school seniors graduate, they seem to lose their identity. They once studied hard. But after they stop working, they begin to lose their way.
In the theory of the Hierarchy of Needs (需求理论), Abraham Maslo, put forward a similar situation, which consists of the five levels of a person’s need. The fifth and final level is self-realization, which is where our final achievement lies. 37 .
I think self-realization has three major aspects. The first stage is acceptance, the second stage is discovery and the last stage is perseverance.
Acceptance is the first stage. We should be reminded that we are all born unique, so we all have our own strengths and weaknesses. Only when we understand these, can we pursue them or change them. 38 .
Once we’ve accepted ourselves, we can discover what we are interested in and what we want to be. 39 , but indeed we should live for ourselves. So before we start working towards a purpose, we should ask ourselves “Is this what we truly desire?” and “Is this going to change the situation we’re in?”
The last stage is perseverance. 40 . Those who can self-realize are people who focus on the things they want to change for a long period of life.
Through the three stages, we could gain recognition of ourselves. And by this point, whatever our lives were like, we would be able to stand tall, confident of ourselves.
A. It’s nothing to a man of perseverance
B. Being tolerant is the key to acceptance
C. Only by acceptance of the past can we change it
D. This is especially common among college students
E. Many people tend to go along with social expectations
F. It is the process of knowing ourselves and finding a purpose
G. Exploring our potential isn’t going to be done in a short time
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题l.5分, 满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Eldrick Tiger Woods, nicknamed “Tiger”, is probably the most famous golfer in his days. It was he who first made golf a global 41 and it was practice that made Tiger Woods a champion golfer.
When he was very young, Tiger Woods 42 golf. Since then, he played it whenever he had the chance. 43 with other children of his age, he showed special interest in golf. Finding that his son had a 44 for this game, Tiger’s father decided to 45 him on his own. To his father’s surprise, Tiger was a(n) 46 golfer even at the age of 6.
However, being a child, Tiger couldn’t focus all the time, 47 he never gave up. Tiger listened to soft music to improve his 48 . His father helped him learn to focus in spite of the 49 . Sometimes his father stood in front of Tiger and said, “I’m a tree in your way,” He would have to hit the ball 50 his father. Sometimes his father would dance and sing when it was Tiger’s turn to hit and Tiger had to focus on the 51 .
The training helped him. Once a 52 made a loud noise while Tiger was playing. He said he never heard the broadcast because he was so 53 on the game. Tiger cannot 54 losing. If he loses, he will go out and 55 even harder in order not to make the same mistake.
In the year 2000, when he was 24 years old, he 56 four major golf competitions—the US Open, the US Amateur, the British Open and the British Amateur. But during the 2008 season it became clear that Tiger was 57 pain in his knee. In April his knee was operated on and he 58 the PGA (美国职业高尔夫球协会) tour season. After an eight-month period of 59 he returned to play again in February 2009. He didn’t make his fans 60 —he won again.
He is so much better than the other golfers that some say he is the greatest golfer to ever play the game.
41. A. action B. practice C. sport D. exercise
42. A. looked up B. set up C. took up D. gave up
43. A. Mixed B. Competing C. Playing D. Compared
44. A. trick B. plan C. skill D. gift
45. A. train B. save C. stop D. raise
46. A. lucky B. common C. excellent D. careful
47. A. and B. but C. so D. as
48. A. confidence B. strength C. patience D. speed
49. A. disturbance B. carelessness C. determination D. failure
50. A. against B. under C. onto D. over
51. A. music B. ball C. dance D. ground
52. A. teammate B. kid C. radio D. fan
53. A. curious B. happy C. relied D. concentrated
54. A. tolerate B. forget C. understand D. recognize
55. A. cry B. practice C. think D. argue
56. A. judged B. watched C. conducted D. won
57. A. examining B. avoiding C. suffering D. reducing
58. A. missed B. offered C. escaped D. joined
59. A. research B. rest C. learning D. traveling
60. A. worried B. troubled C. surprised D. disappointed
第 II 卷
注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节, 满分45分）
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分, 满分15分）
阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
After MoYan, Tu Youyou, a Chinese doctor, became the second Chinese 61 (receive) the great award “the Nobel Prize”. She made the 62 (discover) of artemisinin (青蒿素) ,
a treatment for malaria (疟疾) 63 has saved millions of lives across the world, especially in the developing world.
Each year, several hundred million people suffer malaria. Without treatment, many more of them would die now. Tu led a team that transformed an ancient Chinese healing method 64 the most powerful medicine. The malaria affects children 65 (particular) hard, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa. It affects more than 100 countries, including those in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, parts of Europe—and travelers from everywhere.
In the late 1950s, the WHO worked on the project to fight with malaria, 66 failed. Tu, along with her group, analyzed ancient texts and folk cures for possible treatment after 67 (appoint) head of the Project 523 research group, a team to fight with malaria in China. Tu collected 2000 samples by 68 (she). By 1971, her team 69 (make) 380 extracts (提取) from 200 herbs.
Finally, Tu discovered the treatment, 70 (save) hundreds of millions of people all around the world, so she deserved the prize and our respect.
第四部分 写作（共两节， 满分35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分, 满分10分）
假定英语老师上课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。作文中共有10处错误, 每句中最多有两处。错误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：在错的词下面划一横线, 并在横线下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处, 多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Ever since I was a small child, I had enjoyed doing exercise, either indoor or outdoor. Keep fit is important to me and I used to spend a couple of hours at the gym every week. But I was finding that a bit bored. I’d thought of swimming, and the nearest pool was too far away. I’d heard from boxing and I was mentioned it to my elder brother. He just said, “Why not give it try?” So I went to a club and it was at the club where I found I enjoyed them. Of course, to be superb, which I needed was a lot of training.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，正在澳大利亚学习。你打算利用业余时间做份兼职，并在网上看到了一则餐厅招聘服务员的广告，请你写封求职信，内容包括：
1．写信目的；
2．工作经验；
3. 个人优势。
注意：（1）词数100左右
（2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
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期中考试英语答案
一、听力
1-5: AABBC 6-10: CABBA 11-15: BBACA 16-20: ACBCC
二、阅读理解
A篇：ADB B篇：CBCA C篇：CBDA D篇：DACD
七选五：DFBEG
三、完型填空
41-45: CCDDA 46-50: CBCAD 51-55: BCDAB 56-60: DCABD
四、语法填空
61. to receive 62. discovery 63. that/ which 64. into 65. particularly
66. but 67. appointed/being appointed 68. herself 69. had made 70. saving
五、短文改错
71.had-have 72. Keep-Keeping 73. bored-boring 74. and-but 75. from-of/about
76. 删was 77. 加 a 78. where-that 79. them-it 80. which-what
六、写作
Dear Sir / Madam,
I am writing to apply for the position of waiter at your restaurant, as advertised on the website.
Now I would like to introduce myself. I am outgoing, energetic and responsible. For the past two years I have been working part-time at McDonald’s where I have gained wide experience in handling people from all walks of life. Furthermore, I am passionate about cooking, so I am interested in different kinds of dishes served at your restaurant. In view of the fact that I am used to working long hours, I believe I am ideally suitable for this job and will adapt myself to your wonderful team as soon as I possibly can.
If you need further details, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours,
Li Hua
