2021届上海民办侨华高级中学高三英语期末试卷及答案解析.pdf

2021 届上海民办侨华高级中学高三英语期末试卷及答案解析 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 Thank you.Its my great honor to be given this award.You cannot imagine that I have always been a late starter.Years ago,when I was 16,I took an important exam GCE(General Certificate of Education),which turned out to be a failure.My dad was reading my report card and saw that my position in class was 29th,but the number in class was 29.It meant that I had achieved the distinction of being bottom of my class.I wasnt lazy,and I was really trying.You can picture how I felt.Dad put his hand on my shoulder and said,“You can only do the best you can,but whatever you decide to do,make sure you love it.”He was a really sweet guy and a great man.I knew his attempt to hide his disappointment with some of his encouraging words.I was depressed for a week,but his advice was a wake-up call.Fortunately I love working with my hands,and I was good at two things:woodwork and art,and I really loved to draw and paint.I was quite talented.Dad strongly encouraged me to go to art school,which in those days wasnt the obvious place that a father would suggest.So I got into Hartlepool College of Art.The college was a revelation(出乎意料),the passionate teachers there,who were extremely interested in the students,not just tolerating them but actually engaging with them.It was a world apart from my schooling until then.Its extraordinary what an enthusiastic teacher can do,drawing the student out,lighting independence,and encouraging a design of your own future,rather than waiting for something to happen.Im honored to have become one of these passionate teachers years later.My teachers inspired me,and thanks to my dad,here I am tonight.I think I should mention all the talents I have worked with over time,and to my kids and my wife Giannina,thank you.Thank you for this great award.I shall find a very special place for it.1.How did the author feel after taking GCE?A.Happy.B.Upset.C.Tired.D.Relieved.2.What didHartlepoolCollege of Art impress the author most?A.The teachers were strict with students.B.The students set good examples for each other.C.The teachers inspired students passion for learning.D.The students got prepared for their lessons independently.3.The author gave this speech to _.A.share his career choice B.explain his teaching methods C.describe his life experience D.show his appreciation B Masks that helped save lives during the Covid-19 pandemic（疫情）are proving a deadly risk for wildlife,with birds and sea creatures trapped in many facial coverings in animal habitats.Single-use masks have been found on the ground,waterways and beaches worldwide since countries required（heir use in public places to slow the pandemics spread.Worn once,the thin protective materials can take hundreds of years to break down.Face masks arent going away any time soon-but when we throw them away,these items can harm the environment and the animals who share our planet,Ashley from anima!rights group PETA said.Monkeys have been found playing with used masks in the hills outsideMalaysias capitalKuala Lumpur.And in an incident inBritain,a seagull was saved inChelmsfordafter its legs got caught in an abandoned mask for a week.However,the biggest influence is in the water.More than 1.5 billion masks made their way into the worlds oceans last year,accounting for around 6200 extra tons of ocean plastic pollution,according to environmental group OceansAsia.“Masks and gloves are particularlyproblematicfor sea creatures,says George Leonard,chief scientist from NGO.When those plastics break down in the environment,they form smaller and smaller particles（颗粒）.Those particles then enter the food chain and influence the entire ecosystem,“he added.Campaigners have urged people to deal with masks properly after using them.OceansAsia has also called on governments to increase punishment for littering and encourage the use of washable masks.4.What bring（s）a great danger to wildlife now?A.Waste masks.B.Covid-19.C.Polluted water.D.Damaged habitats.5.What does the underlined word“problematic”in paragraph 4 mean?A.Important.B.Attractive.C.Common.D.Troubling.6.What can we infer from the text?A.Monkeys learned to wear masks from humans.B.Plastics are less harmful after becoming particles.C.Used masks have a worse effect on sea creatures.D.Waste masks arc the main ocean plastic pollution.7.How should we solve the problem from the last paragraph?A.Keep masks after they re used.B.Call on governments to stop littering.C.Punish those who wear single-use masks.D.Put used masks in the recycling box.C If our kids dont fall,they dont learn to get up.I still remember the day in high school that my mom forgot to pick me up from school.Im the oldest of four children,and no doubt shed had a long day with the other kids and itd slipped her mind.After waiting at school for an hour,I walked the three miles home,and when I got to my house,I shut our front door with anger,stormed into the kitchen and screamed in my moms face that shed forgotten me.Later that night,my dad told me I no longer had a ride to school the next day.I figured my mom would still take me,but when the morning came,she refused.It was midterm,and as a straight-A student ready to start college applications,being late wasnt an option(选择).In my mind,missing these tests would have been the end of my academic career.I begged my mom.I told her she was ruining my future and everything Id worked for.But sheheld her ground,and that day,I walked to school.And I missed my tests.My mom didnt rescue me from failure.She let me suffer from it.She let me figure it out.She let me learn.Now,as a mom myself,Ive realized that I want my kids to experience failure because failure is how we grow,learn and think outside of ourselves.Its how we self-educate to learn whats right and respectable,and whats not.Its how we become responsible and enthusiastic.Falling down makes us better because we learn how to get up.8.What is one of the reasons that the author got angry that day?A.She was tired.B.She failed in a test.C.She was late for school.D.She had to walk home by herself.9.How does the author feel about her childhood experience?A.Terrible.B.Meaningful.C.Embarrassing.D.Colorful.10.The underlined phrase“held her ground”in Paragraph 2 probably means“_”.A.gave in to me B.said yes to me C.stayed in the place D.kept to her idea 11.What is the best title for the text?A.My Way of Growing B.The Value of Failure C.My Love for Mother D.Failure in My Life D Cuckoos dont bother building their own neststhey just lay eggs that perfectly imitate those of other birds and take over their nests.But other birds are wishing up,evolving some seriously impressive tricks to spot the cuckoo eggs.Cuckoos are often know asparasites,meaning that they hide their eggs in the nest of other species.To avoid detection,the cuckoos have evolved so that eggs seem reproduction of those of their preferred targets.If the host bird doesnt notice the strange egg in its nest,the little cuckoo will actually take the entire nest for itself after it comes out,taking the other eggs on its back and dropping them out of the nest.To avoid this unpleasant fate for their young,the other birds have evolved a few smart ways to spot the fakes,which were only now beginning to fully understand.One of the most amazing finds is that birds have an extra colour-sensitive cell in their eyes,which makes them far more sensitive to ultraviolet wavelengths and allows them to see a far greater range of colours than humans can.This allows cautious birds to detect a fake egg which might be exactly the same to our eyes.Fascinatingly,were actually able to observe different bird species at very different points in their evolutionary war with the cuckoos.For instance,some cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of the redstarts.The blue eggs these cuckoos lay are practically alike to those of the redstarts,and yet they are still sometimes rejected.Compare that with cuckoos who target dunnocks.While those birds lay perfectly blue eggs,their cuckoo invaders just lay white eggs with brown irregular shaped spots.And yet dunnocks barely ever seem to notice the obvious trick.Biologists suspect these more easily fooled species like the dunnocks are on the same evolutionary path as the redstarts,but they have a long way to go until they evolve the same levels of suspicion.Whats remarkable is that the dunnocks fakes are so bad and the redstart ones so good,and yet cuckoos are still more successful with the former than the latter.It speaks to just how thoroughly a species behavior can be changed by the pressures of natural selection,or it might just be a bit of strategic cooperation on the part of the dunnocks.Biologists have suggested that these birds are willing to tolerate a parasite every so often because they dont want to risk accidentally getting rid of one of their own eggs.12.This passage can be most likely found in a _.A.science survey B.nature magazine C.zoo advertisement D.travel journal 13.What does the underlined word“parasite”in paragraph 2 most probably refer to?A.Animals that work together to raise young.B Small harmful animals such as worms or mice.C.Animals that can adapt to changing environments.D.Animals which live on or inside other host animals.14.Which of the following is TRUE about the dunnock according to the passage?A.It is colour-blind and therefore cannot identify foreign eggs in the nest.B.It can easily remove cuckoo eggs from the nest because fakes are so bad.C.It is a host bird that is more likely to raise a cuckoo chick than the redstart.D.It is unable to evolve and hence accepts cuckoo eggs that appear in the nest.15.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?A.Dunnocks may eventually learn to recognise foreign eggs.B.Redstarts seem to be less suspicious compared to dunnocks.C.Cuckoo birds are good at taking responsibility for their own young.D.It is very easy for cuckoos to imitate the colouring of the dunnocks egg.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 Lets take a minute to think about the water we use.The human body is 60%water and we need to drink lots of water to be healthy.When we are thirsty we just go to the kitchen and fill a glass with clean water._16_For example,farmers,who produce the food we eat,use water to make the plants grow.When we turn on a light or switch on a TV or a computer we use energy and we need water to produce this energy.The truth is that we are lucky enough to have clean water whenever we want，but this is not the case for many people around the world._17_Thats around one in 10 people in the world.If we drink dirty water，we can catch diseases from the bacteria and become ill.Every year over 500，000 children die from diarrhea(腹泻)from dirty water.Thats around 1，400 children every day！Also，in some countries children walk many kilometres every day to get water._18_Therefore，they dont have time to learn how to read or write and dont get an education._19_On this day every year，countries around the world hold events to educate people about the problems of dirty water and that clean water is something that everyone should have around the world.At one school in the UK，children between the ages of 10 and 15 walk 6km with six litres of water._20_People give them money to do this and all the money helps get clean water to as many people as possible around the world.A.We use water indirectly too.B.Every system in our body depends on water to function.C.It is to inspire people to learn more about water-related problems D.If children walk many hours a day to get water，they cant go to school.E.Did you know that around 750 million people do not have clean water to drink？F.In 1993 the United Nations decided that March 22nd is the World Day for Water.G.In this way，they know how it feels to walk a long distance carrying heavy bottles.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 This heartwarming story began unfolding on Fathers Day.It might have been a(n)_21_for dads across theU.S.,_22_for Don Rosario,it was“another day at the office.”The 70-year-old,_23_his traditional suit,cowboy hat and leather belt,was_24_a cart around aChicagoneighborhood-hard work for anyone on a hot summer day.However,thanks to some_25_customers and the kindness that spread widely,he_26_had the opportunity to enjoy_27_.Rosario Del Real had been working as a carpenter(木匠)from home.But an injury_28_him to take a break from his profession.He started to sell paletas(棒冰)to the_29_.Since Oscar Gonzalez and his friend Victor Dominguez were_30_a Fathers Day barbecue for their families,they invited the paleta salesman to_31_them.Everyone bonded quickly,and before long,they decided to buy all of the paletas inRosarios_32_so that he could go home and rest.One of their friends_33_a video of the heartwarming sale and_34_it on the social sharing app TikTok.The video drew attention from the public,and then the family set up a fundraiser to_35_Rosarioretire.The first_36_was to raise$10,000 for their new friend,but_37_strangers from all over the world ended up_38_more than$62,000.Even before learning that his new friends had_39_a huge amount for his retirement,Rosariowas moved to tears by their generosity that day-although he was_40_to have the opportunity to work.“I dont like to sit at home doing nothing and without a purpose.”he said.21.A.stage B.holiday C.accident D.challenge 22.A.or B.so C.but D.and 23.A.packing B.cleaning C.wearing D.trying 24.A.pushing B.selling C.repairing D.observing 25.A.calm B.sweet C.energetic D.graceful 26.A.finally B.actually C.extremely D.usually 27.A.shelter B.success C.company D.retirement 28.A.forced B.requested C.enabled D.permitted 29.A.partners B.carpenters C.neighbors D.colleagues 30.A.hosting B.donating C.visiting D.filming 31.A.hire B.join C.support D.represent 32.A.cart B.office C.apartment D.neighborhood 33.A.found B.explored C.attracted D.recorded 34.A.sent B.tapped C.posted D.updated 35.A.see B.help C.hear D.make 36.A.goal B.reaction C.process D.impact 37.A.honest B.confident C.generous D.humorous 38.A.owning B.saving C.borrowing D.contributing 39.A.selected B.collected C.rejected D.expected 40.A.capable B.powerful C.suitable D.grateful 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 A family can be two or more people who share goals and values,have long-term commitments to one another,and usually live in_41._same house.Families range from all sorts of_42._(race),forms and sizes.Families differ in various ways but each one has_43._(it)own definition of a happy home and family.So,what makes a happy family?There are many important factors that make a happy family.Order is one of the important factors that make a happy family.With order there is no chaos or_44._(confuse)in the home.A well-organized family will be able to function smoothly and easily in_45._(complete)various tasks th