雙十中學2021屆高三上期中考試 英語

1、廈門雙十中學20212021學年第一學期高一年期中考試英語試題命題人：張璐 審題人：金鑫 本卷須知：1 .答卷前，考生務必將自己的姓名、準考證號填寫在答題卡上。.請認真閱讀答題卡上的本卷須知，在答題卡上與題號相對應的答題區(qū)域內(nèi)答題，寫 在試卷、草稿紙上或答題卡非題號對應答題區(qū)域的答案一律無效。不得用規(guī)定以外的筆和 紙答題，不得在答題卡上做任何標記。.答復選擇題時，選出每題答案后，用2B鉛筆把答題卡上對應題目的答案標號涂黑。 如需改動，用橡皮榛干凈后，再選涂其他答案標號。.考試結束后，將答題卡交回。第一節(jié)（共5小題；每題L5分，總分值7.5分）聽下面5段對話。每段對話后有一個小題，從題中所給的A

2、、B、C三個選項中選出最 正確選項，并標在試卷的相應位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有10秒鐘的時間來答復有關小 題和閱讀下一小題。每段對話僅讀一遍。What will the man do at 8:00?A. Work in the office.B. Have dinner with Mike.C. Go out with the woman.What does the woman dislike about the shirt?A. The color. B. The design. C. The price.What are the speakers mainly talking abou

3、t?A. Garys works.B. Garys application.C. Garys list of samples.What did the man plan to do on March 1st?A. Attend some classes.B. Call the travel agent.C. Go to the mountains.Why does Amy plan to go to Rome?A. To work. B. To travel. C. To study.第二節(jié)（共15小題；每題L5分，總分值225分）聽下面5段對話或獨白。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的

4、A、B、C三個 選項中選出最正確選項，并標在試卷的相應位置。聽每段對話或獨白前，你將有時間閱讀各 個小題，每題5秒鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨白讀兩遍。 聽下面一段對話，答復第6和第7兩個小題。What course wont the girl attend?A. African music. B. Business. C. Basic Spanish.On which days does the girl have advanced piano classes?A. Mondays. B. Tuesdays. C. Thursdays.聽下面一段對話，答復第8至第1

5、0三個小題。Who is the man probably?A. A travel agent. B. The woman5s friend. C. A hotel receptionist.Where will the woman probably go?A. France. B. Spain. C. Greece.What do we know about The Hotel Playa?A. It is a five-star hotel. B. It has its own beach. C. It has a swimming pool.聽下面一段對話，答復第11至第13三個小題。W

6、here does the conversation take place?A. In a shop. B. At home. C. At a TV station.What does Bob like doing?A. Playing tennis. B. Taking photos. C. Riding bikes.What did the woman dream of being?A. A shop owner. B. A bank clerk. C. A tennis player.聽下面一段對話，答復第14至第17四個小題。How long has Louise been worki

7、ng at the center?A. About six months. B. About one year. C. About two years.How did Louise feel when she started working at the center?A. Excited. B. Nervous. C. Confident.What is the most fruitful part of the job?Seeing children have a lot of fun.Thinking of new things for children to do.Helping th

8、e less able children achieve more.What does Louise say about working at night?Its unfair for her to do it.Its something that she enjoys.Its a necessary part of the job.聽下面一段獨白，答復第18至第20三個小題。What organizations used to have a lot of power?Newspapers and publishers.Universities and libraries.Digital co

9、mpanies.Why do many city people prefer e-books?They are cheaper.They are moreportable.They are more available.What can we learn about Borders Group?They were bought by a tech company.They used to have more than 600 stores.They made billions of dollars this year.第二局部 閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，總分值35分）第一節(jié)（共10小題；每題2.5分，

10、總分值25分）閱讀以下短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最正確選項。AAsubscription to TIME for Kids includes the following:Key articles available at two reading levels; select articles available atthree reading levels;Accessibility features available through the digital magazine includingkey articles with full Spanish transla

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15、ildrenBVegetable gardens may not be as visually pleasing as the variety of flowers, but Floridians looking to save some green by growing their own salad fixings can soon do so without fear. Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed a law that bans local governments from carrying orders against homeowners f

16、rom raising veggies in their yards.The law, which takes effect July 1, puts an end to that particular power of towns and cities across the state to prohibit vegetable gardens for aesthetic （審美的）purposes.The issue became a cause after a couple living in Miami Shores Village opposed the decision of a

17、$ 50 a day fine for growing vegetables in their front yard, as theyd done for years.Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll fought City Hall in a case that wound its way up the states court system, with judges consistently ruling against their money-saving and health-conscious project.After the

18、 Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of Miami Shores right to control design and landscaping standards, the couple replaced their vegetables with pink flamingos （紅鸛花）.Their cause was not lost, however. State lawmakers proposed and passed a law that effectively voids the court rulings, with Rob Brad

19、ley, who sponsored the bill, reportedly calling the villages action a “vast overreach.The lawmaker noted the difficulty that many families experience getting fresh and affordable food, calling bans against vegetable and fruit gardens ridiculous.About a third of all households in the U. S. grow some

20、of their own food, according to the National Gardening Association. The group says a 600-square-foot garden that costs around $ 70 a year to keep can grow 300 pounds of fresh produce worth about $ 600 annually.Why will some Floridians plant salad fixings?A. To protect the environment.B. To beautify

21、their home.C. To build their own gardens.D. To cut daily expenses.What can be known about the couple from the passage?They started a public health-conscious campaign.They never gave in to the Miami Shores demand.They paid a $50 daily fineto Miami Shores Village.They were not backed by the Florida Su

22、preme Court.What does Rob Bradley think of the couples action probably?A.Ifs sensible. Bits ridiculous.C. Ifs ambitious.D.Ifs costly.CA study of more than five million books, both fiction and non-fiction, has found a markeddecline in the use of emotional words over time. The researchers form the Uni

23、versity of Bristol used Google Ngram Viewer, an online databasefor finding the frequency of terms in scanned books, to look for more than 600 particular words identified as representing anger, dislike, fear, joy, sadness and surprise.They found that almost all of the categoriesshowed a drop in these

24、 mood wordsover time. Only in the category of fear was there an increase in usage.“It is a steady and continuous decline/7 said Dr Alberto Acerbi. He assumed that the result might be explained by a change in the position occupied by literature, in a crowded media landscape. “One thing could be that

25、in parallel to books the 20th century saw the start of other media. Maybe these media-movies, radio, drama-had more emotional content than books.”Although both joy and sadness followed the general downwards trend, the research, published in the journal PLOS One, found that they also exhibited anothe

26、r interesting behavior: the ratio （比率） between the two varied greatly, apparently mirroring historical events.During the Roaring Twentiesthe joy-to-sadness ratio reached its highest point that would not occur again until before the recent financial crash.Then, in 1941, the ratioplunged at the height

27、 of World War II.Nevertheless, the researchers held a reserved opinion about their claim that their result reflected wider social trends. In the paper, they even argue that the opposite could be true.6CIt has been suggested, fbr example, that it was the suppression （壓抑）of desire in ordinary Elizabet

28、han English life that increased demand fbr writing filled with romanceperhaps,“ they conclude, “songs and books may not reflect the real population any more than catwalk models reflect the average body. The study was carried out by way of.scanning the books with an online scannercounting the number

29、of words in the bookssearching digitized texts for emotional wordsanalyzing different topics of the booksWhich of the following is one of the research findings?Usage decreased in all the categories of mood words.Usage of most mood words kept falling over time.The decline was caused by the rise of ot

30、her media.D.The unfavorable position of literature led to the decline.What does the underlined word plunged“ probably mean?A. increasedB. changedC. dropped D. twistedThe researchers suspect that.A.their research result reflected wider social trends.their research result wasthe contrary of social tre

31、nds.there was a suppression of desire in Elizabethan English life.catwalk models reflect the population better than songs and books.第二節(jié)（共5小題；每題2分，總分值10分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后的選項中選出可以填入空白處的最正確選項。選項中有兩項為 多余選項。One morning I looked out of my study window and saw it was a fine day: not even a single cloud.But late

32、r on,hard at work at my desk, I heard a loud drumming noise. Turning to the window, I saw the sky was now the color of charcoal （木炭）.Rain began to fall; two minutes later the rain became hail （冰雹）；at some point, the hail became snow.31 Its extremely variable. Go ahead with your picnic in the local p

33、ark by all means, but dont assume that because the sun is shining now, it will be when you open your pack of sandwiches. 32The weather in Britain is by no means always bad. It can just seem a lot like a person who has a lot of mood swings.This is one of the biggest reasons why the British talk so of

34、ten about the weather: its handy. Wherever there are strangers standing or sitting close together, and talk cannot be avoided, the conversation focuses on the weather: 33/z or “What shocking weather weve been having!，z The unreliability of the weather is something that every Brit can agree on. 34Thu

35、s, the weather9s unpredictability is actually a plus for the British. Even those with different opinions on everything else in the world, such as the current argument in the UK about membership of the European Union, can talk about the weather without it leading to a shouting match. 35Long live rain

36、storms in mid-July!The English often talks about weather.Yes, the weather has been good, hasnt it?That makes it a safe topic of conversation.Youd better take an umbrella, just in case.This story will give you some idea about weather in Britain.Strangers will choose to talk about the weather to break

37、 the ice.第二局部 語言運用共兩節(jié)，總分值45分第一節(jié)（共20小題；每題L5分，總分值30分）“Whats all this tree-planting for? n I was asked when I began writing about restoring（修復）a piece of land I had 36 in Somerset. The truth is, I just love trees. And I am not 37 /Asi get older, all I really 38 is to plant trees Prince Charles says in

38、a BBC programmein which he is 39 in the wood he planted on the day Prince George was born.We have inherited40 and wonderful trees in our cities and villages. They were planted, or self-sown, years, even centuries ago. We take them for granted, 41 the creatures living among them, remain in ignorance

39、of the 42 trees are doing us（cleaning the air, for example） and cut them down for 43. Yet we keep a feeling of 44 for them. This may account for the 45 the government faced in 2021 when it sought to sell off publicly owned woods, and for the wide support the Woodland Trust （a tree-protecting charity

40、） 46.Trees need 47, which is why I, a city-resident, bought my Somerset woodland in 1999. At that time, climate change was already well proved, 48 my hopes of planting long-lived oaks and pines gradually49 anxiety about their chances. Tree diseases new to the UK, wind, drought and flood were all put

41、ting them at 50.But I did not 5 things to move so fast. The woodland is good, and the new trees are growinglike mad,but the creatures are 52 . The rabbits have disappeared（due to some disease, perhaps?） and the owl hasmoved. The bees and butterflies are stillthere but in smaller 53. If this can happ

42、en inmy woodthat is 54 pesticides （殺蟲 劑）and herbicides （除草劑）,it surely indicates we need to give nature the chance to restore its own 55. Meanwhile, I love my wood, and tree-planting has also done wonders for restoring my balance between town and country.A. visitedB. purchasedC. allocatedD. returned

43、A. richB.ashamedC. aloneD.readyA. object toB. give awayC. take upD. long for 39. A. filmedB. stuckC. commentedD. discovered 40. A. sacredB. delicateC. matureD. fragrant 41. A. raiseB. observeC. ignoreD. abuse 42. A. honorB. goodC. harmD. justiceA. developmentB. entertainmentC. protectionD. restricti

44、onA. trustB. sadnessC. betrayalD. affectionA. approvalB. oppositionC. survivalD. dilemmaA. attractsB. urgesC. requiresD. lacksA. spaceB.supportC. companyD. nutritionA. sinceB. forC. yetD. soA. caught up withB. gave way toC. broke away fromD. got rid of 50. A. riskB. a distanceC. easeD. a lossA. pray

45、B. wantC. allowD. expectA. in placeB. in orderC. in declineD. in questionA. sizesB. numbersC. placesD. spacesA. eager forB. fit forC. free ofD. full of 55. A. frictionB. virtueC. tensionD. balance 第二節(jié)（共10小題；每題L5分，總分值15分）閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入1個適當?shù)膯卧~或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。Technological changes brought dramatic new optio

46、ns to Americans living in the 1990s.During this decade new forms of entertainment, commerce, research, and communication 56(become) commonplace in the U. S. The driving force behind much of this change was an innovation 57(popular) known as the Internet.The Internet was developed during the 1970s by

47、 the Department of Defense. In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested _58 advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. In the early days, the Internet was used mainly by scientists to communicate with other scientists.One early problem faced by Internet users wa

48、s speed. Phone 59(line) could only transmit information at a limited rate. The development of fiber-optic。匕纖)cables allowed billions of bits of information 60(receive) every minute. Companies like Intel developedfaster microprocessors, so personal computers could process the incoming signals more 61

49、(rapidly).In the early 1990s, the World Wide Web was developed, in large part, -62 commercialpurposes. Coiporations created home pages 63 they could place text and graphics to sellproducts. Soon airline tickets, hotel reservations and even cars could be purchased online. Universities posted research

50、 data on the Internet, so students could find 64(value) information without leaving their dormitories. Companies soon discovered that work could be done at home and submitted online, so a whole new class of telecommuters began to earn a living from home offices unshaven and 65(wear) pajamas(睡衣).第三局部

51、寫作共兩節(jié)，總分值40分 第一節(jié)(總分值15分)假定你是李華，英國高中生Peter在中國研學時曾暫住你家。他回國后給你寫信感謝你 的招待，并在信中委婉表示對你家三世同堂感到驚訝。請你寫一封回信，簡要介紹中國人三 世同堂的現(xiàn)象。 注意：.寫作詞數(shù)應為100左右；.可以適當增加細節(jié)，以使行文連貫。第二節(jié)(總分值25分)閱讀下面材料，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容和所給段落開頭語續(xù)寫兩段，使之構成一篇完整的短文。The rain came down steady and hard. Jason Storie heard it but was not worried as he prepared for a day of caving with five friends in a remote spot 80 miles northwest of his home in Duncan, on Canada9s Vancouver Island.It was 6 a.m. on December 5, 2021. As a newcomer to the sport, Jason had gone c