2021内蒙古集宁一中（西校区）高三上学期期中考试英语试题含答案

集宁一中西校区高三年级第一学期

期中考试英语试题

命题人:袁娜         审核人:李娟

本试卷满分为120分，考试时间为100分钟

   第I卷（选择题 共70分）

第一部分：阅读理解（共二节，满分40分）

第一节 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。（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）                      

                                 A 

On your journey, there are some healthy active transport options, for example cycling.

Active transport benefits

* It’s a convenient and practical way to incorporate (并入) regular exercise into your day.

* Cycling to your stop or station helps to reduce your carbon footprint.

* The cost of buying and maintaining a bicycle is around 1% of the cost of buying and maintaining a car.

* It provides an opportunity to socialize with people in your local community.

* Cycling provides commuters (通勤者) with economical and efficient access to public transport services. On average, 10 times more households are within cycling distance of public transport than they are within walking distance.

Taking your bike on the train

You can take your bike on the train on weekdays, except during the following peak times:

* 7 a.m.-9:30 a.m. towards the CBD (Central Business District);

* 3 p.m.-6:30 p. m. outwards from the CBD;

* at any time during weekends and public holidays.

Note: You can travel in the opposite direction during the specified peak times above.

To avoid travelling during peak times, you must complete your morning journey by 7 a.m. towards the CBD and afternoon journey by 3 p.m. outwards from the CBD．

During peak hours, bikes cannot be brought through Fortitude Valley, Central or Roma Street stations. If you travel with a bike during peak times, you may be asked to leave the train until peak time ends.

Bike storage facilities

Bike facilities offer greater flexibility as you can cycle to a station and securely park your bike before continuing your journey on public transport. Queensland Rail and the City of Gold Coast also offer a number of bicycle storage facilities across our network. You can book a bike locker by emailing us at bikelockerqueries@ translink. com. au.

1．What is mentioned about cycling in the text?

A．It is environmentally-friendly. B．It is convenient to get around.

C．It is helpful to reduce your weight. D．It is much faster than walking.

2．When can you take your bike on the train through Roma Street station?

A．7 a.m. on Christmas. B．3 p.m. towards CBD．

C．6 p.m. during weekends. D．4 p.m. outwards from CBD．

3．Where can we probably find the text?

A．A guide book. B．A health journal.

C．A sports magazine.                D．A Travel website.

B

Nobody likes to fail.It makes people feel embarrassed and discouraged.What's worse, it may cause major professional or personal trouble and lead to negativity. Basically, failure is no fun for most people. However, a vast body of research tells us that failure provides us with a chance to grow and develop, increases adaptability, and helps protect against anxiety.

It's hard to change the mindset（心态）of a lifetime. But even if we still can't get over the broken marriage or the failed College Entrance Examination or the work presentation that went fearfully wrong, it might not be too late for our kids.

Christy Pennison, a professional consultant, says she works with an increasing number of kids and teens who show significant anxiety around a fear of failure. She said, "We want to protect our children, and we want them to live happy and meaningful lives, so we frequently tell them the harm of failure and ask them to avoid failure. The children experiencing internal and sometimes external pressure think they shouldn't fail. Meanwhile, we always have high expectations of them. So when they don't live up to a certain standard, or things don't go according to the plans, they will feel upset and anxious."

Pennison argues that failures, are often the hidden learning chances that can help people develop positive qualities, like persistence, focus, flexibility, patience, and positive self-image.

So what can parents do to help their children embrace（拥抱）failure instead of avoiding it at all costs？Pennison suggests directing praise towards the effort, not the result. "This allows children to build confidence in themselves, "she explains." Acknowledging the effort can give children permission to try new things without a fear of failure. And the bigger picture is that the development of the mindset -'I'd rather try and fail than not try at all.'-helps them keep a belief in themselves, and expands their world of possibilities." As Pennison points out, we all fail, but how we get up after we fail is what matters.

4. What aspect do most people focus on when thinking of failure?

A. The great courage to face it.

B. The efforts made to handle it.

C. Unexpected benefits it brings.

D. Unpleasant side effects it brings.

5. What does the author intend to do in Paragraph 2?

A. Bring up the main topic.

B. List the challenges in our life.

C. Add some background information.

D. Stress the importance of the mindset

6. What is mainly talked about in the third paragraph?

A. The causes of children's anxiety.

B. Christy Pennison's comments on adolescents.

C. The consequences of overprotecting children.

D. Christy Pennison's experience in educating children.

7. Which of the following advice can help parents encourage kids to face failure?

① Praise kids' every achievement.

② Make kids embrace a bright mindset.

③ Focus on the process of kids' effort

④ Expand kids' knowledge about the world.

⑤ Encourage kids to make new attempts.

A.①②④ B.②③④ C.②③⑤ D.①③⑤

C

New App Helps People Remember Faces Large gatherings such as weddings and conferences can be socially overwhelming. Pressure to learn people's names only adds to the stress. A new facial-recognition app could come to the rescue，but privacy experts recommend proceeding with caution．
    The app, called SocialRecall, connects names with faces via smartphone cameras and facial recognition，potentially avoiding the need for formal introductions. "It breaks down these social barriers we all have when meeting somebody," says Barry Sandrew, who created the app and tested it at an event attended by about 1,000 people．
    After receiving an invitation to download SocialRecall from an event organizer，the user is asked to take two selfies and sign in via social media．At the event，the app is active within a previously defined geographical area. When a user points his or her phone camera at an attendee's face，the app identifies the individual，displays the person's name，and links to his or her social media profile. To protect privacy, it recognizes only those who have agreed to participate. And the app’s creators say it automatically deletes users' data after an event．
    Ann Cavoukian, a privacy expert who runs the Privacy by Design Center of Excellence praises the app’s creators for these protective measures. She cautions，however，that when people choose to share their personal information with the app, they should know that "there may be unintended consequences down the road with that information being used in another context that might come back to bite you."
    The start-up has also developed a version of the app for individuals who suffer from prosopagnosia, or "face blindness," a condition that prevents people from recognizing individuals they have met．To use this app，a person first acquires an image of someone's face，from either the smartphone's camera or a photograph，and then tags it with a name．When the camera spots that same face in real life，the previously entered information is displayed．The collected data are stored only on a user's phone，according to the team behind the app．

8. SocialRecall is used to ______．

A. take photos B. identify people
C. organize events D. make friends

9. Paragraph 3 is mainly about ______．

A. how the app works
B. how the app was created
C. what makes the app popular
D. what people can do with the app

10. SocialRecall helps people with prosopagnosia by ______．

A. giving names to the photos kept in their smartphones
B. collecting information previously entered in the phone
C. providing the information of a person when they first meet
D. showing the person's information when it spots a stored face

11. What can we learn about SocialRecall from the passage? ______

1. It may put people's privacy at risk．
   B. It has caused unintended consequences．
   C. It can prevent some communication disorders．
   D. It is praised by users for its protective measures．

D

GOING TO UNIVERSITY is supposed to be a mind-broadening experience. That statement is probably made in comparison to training for work straight after school, which might not be so encouraging. But is it actually true？ Jessika Golle of the University of Tübingen, in Germany， thought she would try to find out. Her result, however, is not quite what might be expected. As she reports in Psychological Science this week, she found that those who have been to university do indeed seem to leave with broader and more inquiring minds than those who have spent their immediate post-school years in vocational （职业的） training for work. However, it was not the case that university broadened minds. Rather, work seemed to narrow them．
    Dr. Golle came to this conclusion after she and a team of colleagues studied the early careers of 2,095 German youngsters. The team used two standardized tests to assess their volunteers. One was of personality traits, including openness, conscientiousness（认真）and so on. The other was of attitudes, such as realistic, investigative and enterprising. They administered both tests twice-once towards the end of each volunteer's time at school, and then again six years later. Of the original group, 382 were on the intermediate track, from which there was a choice between the academic and vocational routes, and it was on these that the researchers focused. University beckoned for 212 of them. The remaining 170 chose vocational training and a job.
    When it came to the second round of tests, Dr.Golle found that the personalities of those who had gone to university had not changed significantly. Those who had undergone vocational training and then got jobs were not that much changed in personality, either-except in one crucial respect. They had become more conscientious.
    That sounds like a good thing, certainly compared with the common public image of undergraduates as a bunch of lazybones. But changes in attitude that the researchers recorded were rather worrying. In the university group, again, none were detectable. But those who had chosen the vocational route showed marked drops in interest in tasks that are investigative and enterprising in nature. And that might restrict their choice of careers.
    Some investigative and enterprising jobs, such as scientific research, are, indeed beyond the degreeless. But many, particularly in Germany, with its tradition of vocational training, are not. The researchers mention, for example, computer programmers and finance-sector workers as careers requiring these traits. If Dr. Golle is correct, and changes in attitude brought about by the very training Germany prides itself on are narrowing people's choices, that is indeed a matter worthy of serious consideration.

12. Which of the following can best replace "beckoned for" in Paragraph 2？ ______

A. Examined． B. Attracted． C. Organized． D. Recognized．

13. What can we learn from the research？ ______

A. The degreeless have not changed in personalities．
B. Going to university is a mind-broadening experience．
C. Working straight after school narrows people's minds．
D. College students pride themselves on their education．

14. According to the last two paragraphs， ______ ．

A. college students enjoy a very good public image
B. the undergraduates have changed significantly in attitude
C. the degreeless are much better at dealing with challenging tasks
D. people show less interest in investigative jobs due to vocational training

15. What is the author's attitude towards the finding？ ______

A. Concerned． B. Optimistic． C. Unclear． D. Sceptical．

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。

Mystery of Evolution

Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia(NCP), also named COVID-19 by WHO, there is a general fear of the unknown virus as its full effects remain to be seen. Fever, coughing, sore throat, difficulty breathing-the NCP's symptoms are similar to the common cold or the flu. but it's potentially more dangerous.

Viruses could be deadly, like HIV and Ebola (埃博拉). But what are viruses? How can they cause so much trouble? Viruses are non-living organisms (有机体) approximately one-millionth of an inch long. Unlike human cells or bacteria, they can't reproduce on their own.     16   

Viruses can infect every living thing-from plants and animals down to the smallest bacteria. For this reason, they always have the potential to be dangerous to human life. Sometimes a virus can cause a disease so serious that it is fatal. Other viral infections cause no noticeable reaction. Viruses lie around our environment all of the time, waiting for a host cell to come along. They can eater our bodies by the nose, mouth, eyes or breaks in the skin.     17    For example, HIV, which causes AIDS. attacks the T-cells of the immune system.

But the basic question is, where did viruses first come from?    18    "Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult. " Ed Rybicki, a virologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, told Scientific American, "because viruses don't leave fossils (化石) and because of the tricks they use to make copies of themselves within the cells they've invaded."    19     First, viruses started as independent organisms, then became parasites (寄生者). Second, viruses evolved from pieces of DNA or RNA that "escaped" from larger organisms. Third, viruses co-evolved with their host cells, which means they existed alongside these cells.

For the time being, these are only theories. The technology and evidence we have today cannot be used to test these theories and identify the most plausible explanation.     20     Or future studies may reveal that the answer is even murkier (含糊不清的)  than it now appears.

A. Once inside, they try to find a host cell to infect.

B. Until now, no clear explanation for their origin exists.

C. Continuing studies may provide us with clearer answers.

D. There's pretty strong evidence that this is a bat origin coronavirus.

E. However, there are three main hypotheses (假说) to explain the origin of viruses.

F. Instead, they invade the cells of living organisms to reproduce, spread and take over.

G. Bat is a flying mammal with a long lifespan, whose temperature is high, similar to a fever.

第二部分：完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

My Perfect Imperfect Life

A few years ago, I was standing at the barre(扶手杠) waiting for my adult ballet class when I heard a voice behind me. "So, do you have this perfect life? "   

My first reaction was to   21  who was being asked such an odd question. Then I remembered there were only two of us in the room. When I turned    22   , the other woman was looking straight at me．
    I had no idea how to answer it. Was she   23   ? Who has a perfect life? Sure, occasionally I did find the perfect dress or the perfect pair of shoes,    24   never would I use that word to describe anything about me or my life. I felt a twinge of guilt for somehow giving her that    25  ． She watched me. I finally    26    to whisper a quick "No"．
   By then, the teacher had entered the room and turned on the music to start class. With a sigh of    27   , I moved my feet into the best position. But as soon as my knees bent for our first pose, I realized my     28     had been disturbed. This woman's words wouldn't     29     echoing in my thoughts．
   I wanted to know how she came up with her very mistaken    30   . If she knew anything about my life, she never would have had the     31     to ask me that question．
   I did my best to do our floor exercises in front of the mirror. For a few moments, I didn't see the usual  32    of my older self attempting to use a beautiful art form to   33    my gracefulness． I only saw the little girl whose father died when she was two, the child who walked home from elementary school every day to an empty house, who learned to sew her own clothes to   34   money．
   Perfect. My life had been far from it．
   When those memories    35   , I was left with a vision of the woman I had become, the woman   36    by all those things I considered imperfect. I now saw the woman who had learned to be self-reliant, who   37    her family and her friends, who didn't take life for granted. Was that the "perfect" this woman had detected?
    I still don't know, but I no longer feel    38    or feel like I must keep track of all the difficult times to prove my life isn't    39   . If ever again asked whether my life is perfect, I would have a different    40    . Because now I see that, despite all its imperfection, it is.

21. A. notice B. understand C. wonder D. expect

22. A. up B. away C. over D. around

23. A. fair B. serious C. anxious D. wise

24. A. but B. or C. for D. and

25. A. intention B. instruction C. impression D. information

26. A. learned B. managed C. agreed D. planned

27. A. sadness B. surprise C. pleasure D. relief

28. A. concentration B. patience C. confidence D. effort

29. A. escape B. keep C. stop D. stand

30. A. idea B. advice C. reason D. theory

31. A. right B. urge C. excuse D. honor

32. A. reflection B. preference C. appearance D. expression

33. A. experience B. describe C. replace D. improve

34. A. collect B. earn C. spend D. save

35. A. faded B. failed C. floated D. flashed

36. A. buried B. shaped C. watched D. followed

37. A. changed B. welcomed C. valued D. protected

38. A. worried B. guilty C. cautious D. desperate

39. A. comfortable B. ordinary C. perfect D. meaningful

40. A. solution B. message C. approach D. answer

第II卷（非选择题共50分）

第一部分：阅读下面的材料，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。(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分。)

 People are always buying things because they want to get the    41      (late) products. However, in the future people will probably buy fewer things because of    42      development of digital technology.

In the past, new inventions brought many products into our houses, but digital technology often     43      (replace) these things with a single device. For example, your mobile phone can now be your television, radio, music     44     (play) and alarm clock. In the future, children may play all their games on a phone or tablet, and so traditional board games will disappear. Consequently, people     45    (have) less stuff in their house, for they spend a lot on digital services.

Secondly, digital technology supports a     46      (share) economy, and that means people will not need to buy so many things. Owning a car will not be necessary as you will simply have an app     47      (book) a driverless car when you need one. People will share things     48      bicycles and gardening equipment within their local community by using an app to find what they need.

To sum up, digital technology will     49      (definite) continue to change our lives, and one of those changes will be     50      we won’t need to own so much stuff.

第二部分：短文改错（满分10分）  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2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）不记分。

    Senior Three student will face the question after they pass by the college entrance examination. "Should I choose a good major and a good university?" Some students prefer to consider majors first so that they can learn which they are interested in. It will also make it possible for them take their favorite jobs in the future. However, those who think differently believes that the environment is important to one’s development. They also believe that students graduate from leading universities are often more likely to find good jobs. In my opinion, a best choice is to choose a good major at a good university. But if they can’t obtain both, the first thing to consider was a good major. Because no matter where they study, we can still achieve a lot in a certain field if they try their best.

  第三部分    书面表达（满分25分）

 如今，游泳已成为各校争相开展的体育活动。假定你是李华，你校组建了游泳俱乐部。请给在我校留学的朋友Peter写信，邀请他加入。内容包括: 

⒈组建俱乐部的目的；

⒉俱乐部的主要活动；

⒊报名的时间和地点；

注意:

1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Peter,

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

英语期中答案

阅读理解（每个2分，共40 分）

1---3ABD   4---7 DAAC 8---11 BADA 12---15 BCDA 16--20 FABEC

完型填空（每个1.5分，共30分）

21--25 CDBAC 26---30 BDACA 31--35 BADDA 36--40 BCBCD

语法填空（每个1.5，共15分）

41 latest 42 the 43 replaces 44 player 45 will have 46 sharing 47 to book 48 like 49 definitely 50 that

改错（每个1 分，共10 分）

 51 student----students  52 by去掉53  and-- or    54   which---what  55 take 前加to  56  believes---believe   57 graduate---graduating   58  a--the  59was---is     60  we---they