2020-2021学年江苏省天一高一下学期期中考试英语试题 Word版含答案（无听力试题）
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江苏省天一中学2020-2021学年春学期期中考试
高一英语学科
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 did the man like best about his holiday?
A. The water park. B. The museums. C. The historical center.
2. What is the man going to do next year?
A. Look for a part-time job.
B. Work in a new company.
C. Take a marketing course.
3. When will the French movie start?
A. At 6:30 pm. B. At 10:00 pm. C. At 11:30 pm.
4. How might the woman feel in the end?
A. Touched. B. Annoyed. C. Puzzled.
5. What are the speakers probably planning?
A. A surprise party. B. A light show. C. A hide-and-seek game.
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。
听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。
6 Why won’t the woman go to Mexico?
A. She doesn’t have enough money.
B. She wants to try somewhere new.
C. She doesn’t like the weather there.
7. Where will the woman go?
A. Ireland. B. Spain. C. England.
听下面一段对话，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. A couple. B. Fellow workers. C. House agent and customer.
9. What will the woman do next?
A. Eat at the cafe. B. Go back home. C. Make a sandwich.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至12题。
10. Who has Garlo been going out with?
A. Cherry. B. Nicole. C. Celia.
11. How many people will there be in the party?
A. 6. B. 8. C. 10.
12. Where will the party be held?
A. In the cinema. B. In the man’s basement. C. In the woman’s sitting room.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至16题。
13. What did Mary do last weekend?
A. She walked her dog.
B. She did much housework.
C. She worked as a housekeeper.
14. What does Mary think of her husband?
A. Considerate. B. Lazy. C. Clumsy.
15. What is Buy A Lot?
A A newspaper. B. A supermarket. C. A clothes store.
16. What might Mary’s husband help her do?
A. Queue at the checkout. B. Iron the clothes. C. Clear the table.
下面一段独白回答第17至20题。
17. When did George first dream of starting a company?
A. In high school. B. In middle school. C. In elementary school.
18. What was George like in his school days?
A. He didn抰 have any friends.
B. He wasn抰 a good student.
C. He stuck to his dream.
19. Which college did George study in?
A. Harvard. B. Stanford. C. Yale.
20. What happened five years after George graduated?
A. He met his future wife.
B. He took a job at Apple.
C. He started his own company.
第二部分 阅读理解（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）
A
Young Composers’ Competition Information & Registration (注册)
The competition will include two divisions, one for middle school students in grades 6-8, and the other for high school students in grades 9-12 (graduating June 2021).
Finalists will be invited to attend an interview and comment session to be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center in February, 2021. In addition, the winning composers (作曲家) will be announced at that time and awards will be presented. All other participating student composers are welcome to attend. The exact time and location will be announced in January 2021. The deadline for online application submissions (提交) is December 1, 2020.
Categories (类别) for Submission
Composers may submit works in the following categories. All works must be 100% original. Compositions may include combinations of instrumental and vocal parts:
● Solo Player (include piano)
● Small Instrumental/Vocal Ensemble (2-10 parts/performers)
● Large Instrumental/Vocal Ensemble (11 or more parts/performers)
Competition Guidelines
● Students may submit multiple selections in each category. However, a $20 application fee is required with each selection. Each entry must have a separate completed application form and entry fee in order to be considered for eligibility (参赛资格).
● Students must include brief program notes that include the title of the composition with the composer’s name omitted (省略), describing the composer’s inspiration for the work.
● Submissions must be no longer than 7 minutes in length.
● Neatness counts! An excellent piece will lose credits if the score shows careless errors.
1. What will take place at the Atlantic City Convention Center?
A. The announcement of finalists. B. The judgment on entries.
C. A composition concert. D. An awards event.
2. Which of the following will be unacceptable?
A. A score with careless errors
B. A 7-minute-long submission.
C. An entry without the composer抯 name.
D. A known piece of music adapted for piano.
3. How much should a student pay for two entries of the same category?
A. $10. B. $20. C. $40. D. $60.
【答案】1. D 2. D 3. C
B
Ever since she received a little toy airliner as a birthday gift, Kate Koralevskaya has been attracted by flight. From flying remote-controlled airplanes to building her own model ones, Kate has always considered flying a plane one of her passions, but only until recently has she been able to take that to new heights.
When Kate heard about the Upwind Scholarship from her school counselor, she knew it was an extraordinary opportunity to realize her dream. The program's mission is to provide all the training necessary to obtain a private pilot's license (PPL) for students in between their junior and senior year of high school free of charge.
After completing a lengthy application and her subsequent acceptance into the program, Kate began her training last spring. Normally, recipients of the scholarship would attend ground school in person where they learn the fundamentals of flying. Due to the pandemic (大流行病), however, Kate spent hours each weekend studying online lessons in her room whenever she got a break from homework. Once summer came around, Kate and three peers put in two straight weeks of ground school, reviewing fight training from nine to five every day. "It was the toughest part of the program," Kate said.
After completing that portion of ground school, Kate was finally able to begin flying at the San Carlos Airport with the other scholarship recipients from around the Bay Area. Flying, especially for first-timers like Kate, is a hands-on process involving lots of checklists to make sure the important tasks are being taken care of.
Now, having finished the program and earned her PPL, Kate plans on training as a fight instructor and hopes to become an airline pilot in her future.
She credits the Upwind Scholarship for all she's been able to accomplish so far and hopes that anyone who shares her passion will look into it. 揑t is a very hard scholarship to get into, and you have to be truly interested in flight, Kate said. 揑t can't be something like 慜h, why don't I try flying this summer? You have to be ready to do a lot of work and put in effort in order to succeed in the program.
4. What does the underlined word 搕hat in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Her skill of building model airplanes.
B. Her wish to take fights around the world.
C. Her childhood dream of becoming a pilot.
D. Her desire to fly remoter-controlled airplanes.
5. What is the goal of the Upwind Scholarship?
A. To help students in need to achieve their dreams.
B. To provide necessary training for private pilots for free.
C. To give students expert advice on earning a scholarship.
D. To prepare high school students to become a private pilot.
6. What did Kate do in ground school?
A. She took online lessons on flying.
B. She went over the fundamentals of flying.
C. She did some research into the pandemic.
D. She finished applying for the program.
7. Which of the following best describes Kate?
A. Confident and aggressive.
B. Strong willed and patient.
C. Demanding and courageous.
D. Ambitious and hard-working.
【答案】4. C 5. D 6. B 7. D
C
More than 5,450 square kilometres have burned across California in the past two weeks, as firefighters continue to battle some of the state’s worst wildfires. Meanwhile, the southern states of the US have experienced their first devastating hurricane this year.
The California fires include some that rank among the largest ever seen in the state. They followed a heatwave that caused blackouts, with Death Valley National Park hitting 54.4℃ in August, the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
揈xceptionally hot weather over the past two weeks certainly played an important role in drying out vegetation to this extreme degree, says Daniel Swain at the University of California, Los Angeles. But the drying of fuel also started earlier, he notes. Last winter was dry in north California, and spring brought heatwaves.
There are several unusual aspects to the current fires. They expanded dramatically in the absence of the usual driver for large and fast-moving fires in the state: powerful, dry winds. “That makes the enormous area burned in such a short time all the more astonishing, since they’re essentially spreading on account of their own intensity,” says Swain.
The ignition (点火) of fires by dry lightning is also rare for the region, says Stephen Pyne at Arizona State University. He says this is California抯 fourth major fire year in a row, when historically the state has seen between seven and 12 years between big fire seasons.
In the Gulf of Mexico, it is severe hurricanes that are the problem. Hurricane Laura made landfall in the US on Thursday 27 August amid official warnings of an 搖nsurvivable storm surge (风暴潮), widespread flooding and catastrophic wind damage.
The storm is the first of four hurricanes in the Atlantic this year. About four-fifths of oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut down. The energy heartland of the south-western US was previously battered by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Researchers later found that the heavy rainfall from the storm was made three times more likely by climate change.
Climate change is almost certainly at work in California too. 揑t is perfectly clear that climate change is increasing the likelihood and intensity of heatwaves in California, says Swain.
Although the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection had 14,000 people fighting the fires, observers say it is impossible to have enough crews to stop fires this big.
Authorities last month agreed a five-year plan to do just that. With climate change locked in for the next 30 years, the long-term answer is to reduce carbon emissions (碳排放), says Thomas Smith at the London School of Economics.
8. What is unusual about the current California fires?
A. They are driven by powerful winds.
B. Dry lightning contributes partly to the fires.
C. They started from north California last winter.
D. Death Valley National Park is affected most seriously.
9. How severe is Hurricane Laura in the Gulf of Mexico?
A. It has affected oil and gas production.
B. It is as big as Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
C. It is the fourth strongest in the Atlantic this year.
D. It brings unsurvivable natural disasters to the area
10. What is a headache for California?
A. The fires may last 30 years.
B. The five-year plan doesn抰 work.
C. It is hard to put out the fires currently.
D. It is impossible to reduce carbon emissions.
11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Extreme weathers and fire seasons
B. Wildfires and hurricanes hit the US
C. Climate change tops risks for world
D. Record-breaking wildfires in California
【答案】8. B 9. A 10. C 11. B
D
Great work is work that makes a difference in people’s lives, writes David Sturt, Executive Vice President of the O.C. Tanner Institute, in his book Great Work: How to Make a Difference People Love. Sturt insists, however, that great work is not just for surgeons or special-needs educators or the founders of organizations trying to eliminate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The central theme of Great Work, according to Sturt, is that anyone can make a difference in any job. It抯 not the nature of the job, but what you do with the job that counts. As proof, Sturt tells the story of a remarkable hospital cleaner named Moses.
In a building filled with doctors and nurses doing great life-saving work, Moses the cleaner makes a difference. Whenever he enters a room, especially a room with a sick child, he engages both patients and parents with his optimism and calm, introducing himself to the child and, Sturt writes, speaking 搇ittle comments about light and sunshine and making things clean. He comments on any progress he sees day by day (搚ou抮e sitting up today, thats good.) Moses is no doctor and doesn抰 pretend to be, but he has witnessed hundreds of sick children recovering from painful surgery, and parents take comfort from his encouraging words. For Matt and Mindi, whose son McKay was born with only half of a heart, Moses became a close friend. As Sturt explains, “Moses took his innate (与生俱来的) talents (his sensitivity) and his practical wisdom (from years of hospital experience) and combined them into a powerful form of patient and family support that changed the critical-care experience for Mindi, Matt and little McKay.
How do people like Moses do great work when so many people just work? That was the central question raised by Sturt and his team at the O.C. Tanner Institute, a consulting company specialized in employee recognition and rewards system.
O.C. Tanner launched an exhaustive Great Work study that included surveys to 200 senior executives, a further set of surveys to 1,000 managers and employees working on projects, an in-depth qualitative study of 1.7 million accounts of award-winning work (in the form of nominations (提名) for awards from corporations around the world), and one-on-one interviews with 200 difference makers. The results of the study revealed that those who do great work refuse to be defeated by the constraints of their jobs and are especially able to reframe their jobs: they don抰 view their jobs as a list of tasks and responsibilities but see their jobs as opportunities to make a difference. No matter, as Moses so ably exemplifies (例证), what that job may be.
12. According to Sturt, which of the following is TRUE?
A. It’s not the nature of the job, but what you do that makes a difference.
B. Anyone in the world is responsible to delete poverty and change the world.
C. Anyone can make a difference in people抯 lives no matter what kind of job he does.
D. Surgeons, special-needs educators and founders of organizations can succeed more easily.
13. According to this passage, how does Moses, a common hospital cleaner, make a difference in people抯 lives?
A. By keeping optimistic and calm when facing patients and their parents at hospital.
B. By showing his special gift and working experience when working at hospital.
C. By showing his sympathy and kindness to patients when entering their rooms.
D. By pretending to be a doctor or nurse when entering a room with a sick child.
14. The word 揷onstraints in the last paragraph probably refers to ______.
A. demands B. advantages C. disadvantages D. limitations
15. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Great work is work that makes a difference in people抯 lives no matter what you do.
B. If a boss has trouble recognizing his employees, he can ask O. C. Tanner for advice.
C. Moses makes a difference through his sensitivity and his practical wisdom.
D. Those who do great work are never defeated by others or their jobs themselves.
【答案】12. C 13. A 14. D 15. B
第二节 七选五（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
A recent survey shows that roughly 85 percent of people feel physical symptoms of stress. ___16___ , and they will help you feel more energetic tomorrow:
Double your chews
Chewing is a super-important part of the digestion process. Chewing makes it easier for your body to break down food and turn it into energy. The most proper number of chews per bite is unclear. ___17___. It will be easy for your body to break down the food and store energy.
Drink one less cup of coffee
Although caffeine in coffee blocks your brain from receiving adenosine, which causes tiredness, it doesn抰 stop your body from producing it. So once the caffeine disappears, it抯 the buildup of adenosine that causes you to crash and reach for more caffeine, creating a bad circle. ___18___, but drinking less coffee can help you feel more energetic over the long term.
Take a few deep breaths
By not breathing deeply enough, you end up sending a signal to your nervous system that increases your anxiety even further. Changing your breathing habits by taking a few long, slow breaths throughout the day reduces the stress response while energizing your cells. ___19___: Simply breathe in through your nose for a count of three and out through your mouth for a count of three. Repeat as necessary.
___20___
Take some time to reflect on the positive by writing down three things that went smoothly during your day or just items you feel grateful for. This exercise can prepare your mind for what抯 going right in your life, hitting the brakes on stress increases while helping to protect your energy reserves.
A. Set down what went well today
B. Try an exercise to achieve this
C. Reflect on your day sometimes
D. Reducing your reliance on it sounds scary
E. Take a look at the small changes you can make today
F. Shallow breathing is one of the annoying side effects of stress
G. However, it抯 been suggested that 25 to 40 times will be beneficial
【答案】16. E 17. G 18. D 19. B 20. A
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
While washing dishes I sometimes look into the kitchen window of our neighbour' s house. Our kitchen is always ___21___ but our neighbors, two young men whom I only know in passing, never seem to tum on their light. Once as I was washing apples, my eyes ___22___ shadow gave way to shape.Then I ___23___them-head bent,pouring the pickle (腌菜）juice from an empty jar.
On the first Saturday of the COVID-19 lockdown, I wanted to be a good ___24___ them. The pandemic(大流行病）seemed to be getting worse.I ___25___ what the weeks and months ahead might look like. Our family have been trying to take the idea of 'love thy neighbour" ___26___ ,and sometimes that does literally mean the person living next door, ___27___ you've only met them from the kitchen window.
So I made a sign reading 揌ave a nice day! and stuck it on my kitchen window. A while later, a sign appeared on their window with a___28___ for us. "Thank you, You too!
We went on like this for a few days and I thought of how this would be a nice story for us all: ___29___ by signs and moving from strangers to good friends.. ___30___ around Day 5,I pasted a line of a Mary Oliver poem, and that was the ___31___of that. Maybe I was showing off, so I stopped. However, a week later, when I went out to quiet our yelling dog, I saw one of the guys. “Sorry, we didn't find a ___32___，＂ he said. "We meant to," he added,"And then we never ___33___ .”“That's okay," I replied. And we both went back inside.
It is so ___34___to be a good neighbour now.We can't ___35___ and knock on a door, or even lend things. After this is all over, I have decided I will invite all our neighbors over for dinner. I can't be a neighbour now. but | can be a neighbour then. The pandemic will have knitted us together like an old worn sock and we'll stay that way.
21. A. cleared up B. lit up C. taken up D. fixed up
22. A. adjusted B. glared C. ached D. closed
23. A. admired B. envied C. called D. saw
24. A. guide B. doctor C. assistant D. neighbour
25. A. worried B. doubted C. asked D. found
26. A. normally B. seriously C. lightly D. carefully
27. A. as though B. so that C. even if D. in case
28. A. proposal B. letter C. gift D. message
29. A. communicating B. writing C. congratulating D. discussing
30. A. Everywhere B. Anywhere C. Somewhere D. Nowhere
31. A. puzzle B. end C. result D. cause
32. A. poem B. passage C. motto D. proverb
33. A. tried B. needed C. did D. wrote
34. A. lucky B. interesting C. annoying D. hard
35. A. cut in B. show up C. look out D. hold on
【答案】21. B 22. A 23. D 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. B 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B
第二节 短文语法填空（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。
With smiling eyes, a quick wit and a good sense of humor, Jia Ling has long been a well-known female comedian (喜剧演员) for her ____36____ (extreme) funny performances. But recently, she has gained another title.
Jia starred in and directed the film Hi, Mom, ____37____ a time-travel story is told. The film ____38____ (consider) as the leading dark horse among the movies released (上映) during the seven-day Spring
Festival holiday is in memory ____39____ her late mother Li Huanying，who encouraged Jia to pursue her artistic dreams. By Feb 23, 2021，it ____40____ (earn) more than 4 billion yuan, enabling Jia to become the top box office grossing female film director in China. Now she is on the path to becoming ____41____ international name in the filmmaking industry.
So what is the secret behind Jia’s success? One factor may be her passion for comedy. Jia ____42____ (admit) to Beijing’s Central Academy of Drama in 2001. In the last 20 years, she has performed crosstalk (相声) in various ____43____ (compete) and shows. She has also played comedic roles in many comedies on the big screen. Besides, the approach to ____44____ (make) the film also makes Jia Ling work stand out. We抣l wait and see whether Jia will become one of China抯 ____45____ (popular) directors.
【答案】36. extremely 37. where
38. considered 39. of
40. had earned 41. an
42. was admitted
43. competitons 44. making
45. most popular
第四部分 动词填空（共10题；每题0.5分，共5分）
46. Mary is easy ________ (recognize) because she is the only woman who wears the evening dress.（所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】to recognize
47. —What has made him so annoyed recently?
—________ (leave) alone to face such a troublesome situation. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】Leaving
48. —I wonder why he is such a good English teacher.
—He ________ (work) as a volunteer in the UK for two years, which helps him with his work a lot. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】worked
49. It’s requested that the experiment referred to ________ (conduct) in the newly built scientific center. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】(should) be conducted
50. After ________ (take) before dinner, the medicine should be put beyond your son’s reach. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】taken
51. The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see ________ (carry) out the next year. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】carried
52. Some social organizations have set up reading clubs to promote reading but the effort, though ________ (appreciate), is far from enough. (所给词的适当形式填空)
【答案】appreciated
53. Please tell me the after-service of the computer; I’m worried about there ________ (be) a breakdown sometime. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】being
54. The computer programs are a puzzle to me. The more I think of them, the more questions I think of ________ (ask). （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】to ask
55. The policeman was searching for a notebook, in which ________ (record) some information about the killer, as well as several sketches of him. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】was recorded
第五部分 单词拼写（满分20分）
56. The information collected from v________ sources was of great help to them in their research.（根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】various
57. There are a few ________ (技术的) problems to be dealt with before the product can be put on sale to the public.（根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】technical
58. Our chances of ________ (幸存) are absolutely very small in that situation. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】surviving
59. Already well over 400 of the total of 6,800 languages are close to e________.（根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】extinction
60. They finally arrived in the tourist d________ London after a ten-hour flight. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】destination
61. The typhoon was really ________ (毁灭性的) and many houses were damaged. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】destructive
62. Some of their recent music is far too ________ (商业化的) （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】commercial
63. The volunteers are trying to offer the wild animals a good h________.（根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】habitat
64. Seeing the long snake, he couldn’t walk any further, s________ to death. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】scared
65. The police s________ the driver to stop his car by raising his hand. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】signalled
66. She rushed into the heavy rain, ignoring the ________ (后果) entirely. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】consequence
67. Suddenly he appeared at the door, asking me about those ________ (文件). （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】documents
68. She found the working conditions u________, so she quit her job. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】unbearable
69. The children in that region have no a________ to clean water, which makes him worried. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】access
70. He told me the ________ (步骤) was simple, but I couldn’t make it. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】procedure
71. Our budget is hardly s________ to pay people, let alone buy any new equipment. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】sufficient
72. The survey ________ (揭示) that a great many customers were aware of the risk. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】revealed
73. The director refused to c________ on the film directed by a young man. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】comment
74. ________ (生物多样性) ensures a resource for new food crops and medicines. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】Biodiversity
75. The announcement raised a storm of ________ (抗议). （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】protest
第六部分 应用文写作（满分15分）
76. 假定你是李华，你的英国好友Peter在给你的电子邮件中说他即将参加一次校内举办的中文演讲比赛，希望你能给他一些建议。请你写一封电子邮件回复他，内容包括：
1. 就如何演讲给出你的建议； 2. 表达信任并给予鼓励
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Dear Peter,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Peter,
How is everything going? I’m glad to receive your letter asking for my advice on your Chinese speech contest. The following are my suggestions.
First, making preparations before contest is essential. You need to choose an interesting topic as required and prepare your contents carefully. That always means half success. Second, practice makes perfect. You should go over your script again and again before going onto the stage. Your tone, your gestures, and so on are the keys to win the heart of audiences and judges. Last but not the least, be confident. Only by believing in yourself can you make people believe you. I always know you are the best and you will do well in the coming competition.
Above are my suggestions for you and I hope they can be of some help. Good luck with your contest, my friends.
Yours,
高一英语学科
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 did the man like best about his holiday?
A. The water park. B. The museums. C. The historical center.
2. What is the man going to do next year?
A. Look for a part-time job.
B. Work in a new company.
C. Take a marketing course.
3. When will the French movie start?
A. At 6:30 pm. B. At 10:00 pm. C. At 11:30 pm.
4. How might the woman feel in the end?
A. Touched. B. Annoyed. C. Puzzled.
5. What are the speakers probably planning?
A. A surprise party. B. A light show. C. A hide-and-seek game.
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。
听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。
6 Why won’t the woman go to Mexico?
A. She doesn’t have enough money.
B. She wants to try somewhere new.
C. She doesn’t like the weather there.
7. Where will the woman go?
A. Ireland. B. Spain. C. England.
听下面一段对话，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. A couple. B. Fellow workers. C. House agent and customer.
9. What will the woman do next?
A. Eat at the cafe. B. Go back home. C. Make a sandwich.
听下面一段对话，回答第10至12题。
10. Who has Garlo been going out with?
A. Cherry. B. Nicole. C. Celia.
11. How many people will there be in the party?
A. 6. B. 8. C. 10.
12. Where will the party be held?
A. In the cinema. B. In the man’s basement. C. In the woman’s sitting room.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至16题。
13. What did Mary do last weekend?
A. She walked her dog.
B. She did much housework.
C. She worked as a housekeeper.
14. What does Mary think of her husband?
A. Considerate. B. Lazy. C. Clumsy.
15. What is Buy A Lot?
A A newspaper. B. A supermarket. C. A clothes store.
16. What might Mary’s husband help her do?
A. Queue at the checkout. B. Iron the clothes. C. Clear the table.
下面一段独白回答第17至20题。
17. When did George first dream of starting a company?
A. In high school. B. In middle school. C. In elementary school.
18. What was George like in his school days?
A. He didn抰 have any friends.
B. He wasn抰 a good student.
C. He stuck to his dream.
19. Which college did George study in?
A. Harvard. B. Stanford. C. Yale.
20. What happened five years after George graduated?
A. He met his future wife.
B. He took a job at Apple.
C. He started his own company.
第二部分 阅读理解（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）
A
Young Composers’ Competition Information & Registration (注册)
The competition will include two divisions, one for middle school students in grades 6-8, and the other for high school students in grades 9-12 (graduating June 2021).
Finalists will be invited to attend an interview and comment session to be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center in February, 2021. In addition, the winning composers (作曲家) will be announced at that time and awards will be presented. All other participating student composers are welcome to attend. The exact time and location will be announced in January 2021. The deadline for online application submissions (提交) is December 1, 2020.
Categories (类别) for Submission
Composers may submit works in the following categories. All works must be 100% original. Compositions may include combinations of instrumental and vocal parts:
● Solo Player (include piano)
● Small Instrumental/Vocal Ensemble (2-10 parts/performers)
● Large Instrumental/Vocal Ensemble (11 or more parts/performers)
Competition Guidelines
● Students may submit multiple selections in each category. However, a $20 application fee is required with each selection. Each entry must have a separate completed application form and entry fee in order to be considered for eligibility (参赛资格).
● Students must include brief program notes that include the title of the composition with the composer’s name omitted (省略), describing the composer’s inspiration for the work.
● Submissions must be no longer than 7 minutes in length.
● Neatness counts! An excellent piece will lose credits if the score shows careless errors.
1. What will take place at the Atlantic City Convention Center?
A. The announcement of finalists. B. The judgment on entries.
C. A composition concert. D. An awards event.
2. Which of the following will be unacceptable?
A. A score with careless errors
B. A 7-minute-long submission.
C. An entry without the composer抯 name.
D. A known piece of music adapted for piano.
3. How much should a student pay for two entries of the same category?
A. $10. B. $20. C. $40. D. $60.
【答案】1. D 2. D 3. C
B
Ever since she received a little toy airliner as a birthday gift, Kate Koralevskaya has been attracted by flight. From flying remote-controlled airplanes to building her own model ones, Kate has always considered flying a plane one of her passions, but only until recently has she been able to take that to new heights.
When Kate heard about the Upwind Scholarship from her school counselor, she knew it was an extraordinary opportunity to realize her dream. The program's mission is to provide all the training necessary to obtain a private pilot's license (PPL) for students in between their junior and senior year of high school free of charge.
After completing a lengthy application and her subsequent acceptance into the program, Kate began her training last spring. Normally, recipients of the scholarship would attend ground school in person where they learn the fundamentals of flying. Due to the pandemic (大流行病), however, Kate spent hours each weekend studying online lessons in her room whenever she got a break from homework. Once summer came around, Kate and three peers put in two straight weeks of ground school, reviewing fight training from nine to five every day. "It was the toughest part of the program," Kate said.
After completing that portion of ground school, Kate was finally able to begin flying at the San Carlos Airport with the other scholarship recipients from around the Bay Area. Flying, especially for first-timers like Kate, is a hands-on process involving lots of checklists to make sure the important tasks are being taken care of.
Now, having finished the program and earned her PPL, Kate plans on training as a fight instructor and hopes to become an airline pilot in her future.
She credits the Upwind Scholarship for all she's been able to accomplish so far and hopes that anyone who shares her passion will look into it. 揑t is a very hard scholarship to get into, and you have to be truly interested in flight, Kate said. 揑t can't be something like 慜h, why don't I try flying this summer? You have to be ready to do a lot of work and put in effort in order to succeed in the program.
4. What does the underlined word 搕hat in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Her skill of building model airplanes.
B. Her wish to take fights around the world.
C. Her childhood dream of becoming a pilot.
D. Her desire to fly remoter-controlled airplanes.
5. What is the goal of the Upwind Scholarship?
A. To help students in need to achieve their dreams.
B. To provide necessary training for private pilots for free.
C. To give students expert advice on earning a scholarship.
D. To prepare high school students to become a private pilot.
6. What did Kate do in ground school?
A. She took online lessons on flying.
B. She went over the fundamentals of flying.
C. She did some research into the pandemic.
D. She finished applying for the program.
7. Which of the following best describes Kate?
A. Confident and aggressive.
B. Strong willed and patient.
C. Demanding and courageous.
D. Ambitious and hard-working.
【答案】4. C 5. D 6. B 7. D
C
More than 5,450 square kilometres have burned across California in the past two weeks, as firefighters continue to battle some of the state’s worst wildfires. Meanwhile, the southern states of the US have experienced their first devastating hurricane this year.
The California fires include some that rank among the largest ever seen in the state. They followed a heatwave that caused blackouts, with Death Valley National Park hitting 54.4℃ in August, the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
揈xceptionally hot weather over the past two weeks certainly played an important role in drying out vegetation to this extreme degree, says Daniel Swain at the University of California, Los Angeles. But the drying of fuel also started earlier, he notes. Last winter was dry in north California, and spring brought heatwaves.
There are several unusual aspects to the current fires. They expanded dramatically in the absence of the usual driver for large and fast-moving fires in the state: powerful, dry winds. “That makes the enormous area burned in such a short time all the more astonishing, since they’re essentially spreading on account of their own intensity,” says Swain.
The ignition (点火) of fires by dry lightning is also rare for the region, says Stephen Pyne at Arizona State University. He says this is California抯 fourth major fire year in a row, when historically the state has seen between seven and 12 years between big fire seasons.
In the Gulf of Mexico, it is severe hurricanes that are the problem. Hurricane Laura made landfall in the US on Thursday 27 August amid official warnings of an 搖nsurvivable storm surge (风暴潮), widespread flooding and catastrophic wind damage.
The storm is the first of four hurricanes in the Atlantic this year. About four-fifths of oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut down. The energy heartland of the south-western US was previously battered by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Researchers later found that the heavy rainfall from the storm was made three times more likely by climate change.
Climate change is almost certainly at work in California too. 揑t is perfectly clear that climate change is increasing the likelihood and intensity of heatwaves in California, says Swain.
Although the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection had 14,000 people fighting the fires, observers say it is impossible to have enough crews to stop fires this big.
Authorities last month agreed a five-year plan to do just that. With climate change locked in for the next 30 years, the long-term answer is to reduce carbon emissions (碳排放), says Thomas Smith at the London School of Economics.
8. What is unusual about the current California fires?
A. They are driven by powerful winds.
B. Dry lightning contributes partly to the fires.
C. They started from north California last winter.
D. Death Valley National Park is affected most seriously.
9. How severe is Hurricane Laura in the Gulf of Mexico?
A. It has affected oil and gas production.
B. It is as big as Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
C. It is the fourth strongest in the Atlantic this year.
D. It brings unsurvivable natural disasters to the area
10. What is a headache for California?
A. The fires may last 30 years.
B. The five-year plan doesn抰 work.
C. It is hard to put out the fires currently.
D. It is impossible to reduce carbon emissions.
11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A. Extreme weathers and fire seasons
B. Wildfires and hurricanes hit the US
C. Climate change tops risks for world
D. Record-breaking wildfires in California
【答案】8. B 9. A 10. C 11. B
D
Great work is work that makes a difference in people’s lives, writes David Sturt, Executive Vice President of the O.C. Tanner Institute, in his book Great Work: How to Make a Difference People Love. Sturt insists, however, that great work is not just for surgeons or special-needs educators or the founders of organizations trying to eliminate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The central theme of Great Work, according to Sturt, is that anyone can make a difference in any job. It抯 not the nature of the job, but what you do with the job that counts. As proof, Sturt tells the story of a remarkable hospital cleaner named Moses.
In a building filled with doctors and nurses doing great life-saving work, Moses the cleaner makes a difference. Whenever he enters a room, especially a room with a sick child, he engages both patients and parents with his optimism and calm, introducing himself to the child and, Sturt writes, speaking 搇ittle comments about light and sunshine and making things clean. He comments on any progress he sees day by day (搚ou抮e sitting up today, thats good.) Moses is no doctor and doesn抰 pretend to be, but he has witnessed hundreds of sick children recovering from painful surgery, and parents take comfort from his encouraging words. For Matt and Mindi, whose son McKay was born with only half of a heart, Moses became a close friend. As Sturt explains, “Moses took his innate (与生俱来的) talents (his sensitivity) and his practical wisdom (from years of hospital experience) and combined them into a powerful form of patient and family support that changed the critical-care experience for Mindi, Matt and little McKay.
How do people like Moses do great work when so many people just work? That was the central question raised by Sturt and his team at the O.C. Tanner Institute, a consulting company specialized in employee recognition and rewards system.
O.C. Tanner launched an exhaustive Great Work study that included surveys to 200 senior executives, a further set of surveys to 1,000 managers and employees working on projects, an in-depth qualitative study of 1.7 million accounts of award-winning work (in the form of nominations (提名) for awards from corporations around the world), and one-on-one interviews with 200 difference makers. The results of the study revealed that those who do great work refuse to be defeated by the constraints of their jobs and are especially able to reframe their jobs: they don抰 view their jobs as a list of tasks and responsibilities but see their jobs as opportunities to make a difference. No matter, as Moses so ably exemplifies (例证), what that job may be.
12. According to Sturt, which of the following is TRUE?
A. It’s not the nature of the job, but what you do that makes a difference.
B. Anyone in the world is responsible to delete poverty and change the world.
C. Anyone can make a difference in people抯 lives no matter what kind of job he does.
D. Surgeons, special-needs educators and founders of organizations can succeed more easily.
13. According to this passage, how does Moses, a common hospital cleaner, make a difference in people抯 lives?
A. By keeping optimistic and calm when facing patients and their parents at hospital.
B. By showing his special gift and working experience when working at hospital.
C. By showing his sympathy and kindness to patients when entering their rooms.
D. By pretending to be a doctor or nurse when entering a room with a sick child.
14. The word 揷onstraints in the last paragraph probably refers to ______.
A. demands B. advantages C. disadvantages D. limitations
15. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Great work is work that makes a difference in people抯 lives no matter what you do.
B. If a boss has trouble recognizing his employees, he can ask O. C. Tanner for advice.
C. Moses makes a difference through his sensitivity and his practical wisdom.
D. Those who do great work are never defeated by others or their jobs themselves.
【答案】12. C 13. A 14. D 15. B
第二节 七选五（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
A recent survey shows that roughly 85 percent of people feel physical symptoms of stress. ___16___ , and they will help you feel more energetic tomorrow:
Double your chews
Chewing is a super-important part of the digestion process. Chewing makes it easier for your body to break down food and turn it into energy. The most proper number of chews per bite is unclear. ___17___. It will be easy for your body to break down the food and store energy.
Drink one less cup of coffee
Although caffeine in coffee blocks your brain from receiving adenosine, which causes tiredness, it doesn抰 stop your body from producing it. So once the caffeine disappears, it抯 the buildup of adenosine that causes you to crash and reach for more caffeine, creating a bad circle. ___18___, but drinking less coffee can help you feel more energetic over the long term.
Take a few deep breaths
By not breathing deeply enough, you end up sending a signal to your nervous system that increases your anxiety even further. Changing your breathing habits by taking a few long, slow breaths throughout the day reduces the stress response while energizing your cells. ___19___: Simply breathe in through your nose for a count of three and out through your mouth for a count of three. Repeat as necessary.
___20___
Take some time to reflect on the positive by writing down three things that went smoothly during your day or just items you feel grateful for. This exercise can prepare your mind for what抯 going right in your life, hitting the brakes on stress increases while helping to protect your energy reserves.
A. Set down what went well today
B. Try an exercise to achieve this
C. Reflect on your day sometimes
D. Reducing your reliance on it sounds scary
E. Take a look at the small changes you can make today
F. Shallow breathing is one of the annoying side effects of stress
G. However, it抯 been suggested that 25 to 40 times will be beneficial
【答案】16. E 17. G 18. D 19. B 20. A
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
While washing dishes I sometimes look into the kitchen window of our neighbour' s house. Our kitchen is always ___21___ but our neighbors, two young men whom I only know in passing, never seem to tum on their light. Once as I was washing apples, my eyes ___22___ shadow gave way to shape.Then I ___23___them-head bent,pouring the pickle (腌菜）juice from an empty jar.
On the first Saturday of the COVID-19 lockdown, I wanted to be a good ___24___ them. The pandemic(大流行病）seemed to be getting worse.I ___25___ what the weeks and months ahead might look like. Our family have been trying to take the idea of 'love thy neighbour" ___26___ ,and sometimes that does literally mean the person living next door, ___27___ you've only met them from the kitchen window.
So I made a sign reading 揌ave a nice day! and stuck it on my kitchen window. A while later, a sign appeared on their window with a___28___ for us. "Thank you, You too!
We went on like this for a few days and I thought of how this would be a nice story for us all: ___29___ by signs and moving from strangers to good friends.. ___30___ around Day 5,I pasted a line of a Mary Oliver poem, and that was the ___31___of that. Maybe I was showing off, so I stopped. However, a week later, when I went out to quiet our yelling dog, I saw one of the guys. “Sorry, we didn't find a ___32___，＂ he said. "We meant to," he added,"And then we never ___33___ .”“That's okay," I replied. And we both went back inside.
It is so ___34___to be a good neighbour now.We can't ___35___ and knock on a door, or even lend things. After this is all over, I have decided I will invite all our neighbors over for dinner. I can't be a neighbour now. but | can be a neighbour then. The pandemic will have knitted us together like an old worn sock and we'll stay that way.
21. A. cleared up B. lit up C. taken up D. fixed up
22. A. adjusted B. glared C. ached D. closed
23. A. admired B. envied C. called D. saw
24. A. guide B. doctor C. assistant D. neighbour
25. A. worried B. doubted C. asked D. found
26. A. normally B. seriously C. lightly D. carefully
27. A. as though B. so that C. even if D. in case
28. A. proposal B. letter C. gift D. message
29. A. communicating B. writing C. congratulating D. discussing
30. A. Everywhere B. Anywhere C. Somewhere D. Nowhere
31. A. puzzle B. end C. result D. cause
32. A. poem B. passage C. motto D. proverb
33. A. tried B. needed C. did D. wrote
34. A. lucky B. interesting C. annoying D. hard
35. A. cut in B. show up C. look out D. hold on
【答案】21. B 22. A 23. D 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. C 31. B 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B
第二节 短文语法填空（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。
With smiling eyes, a quick wit and a good sense of humor, Jia Ling has long been a well-known female comedian (喜剧演员) for her ____36____ (extreme) funny performances. But recently, she has gained another title.
Jia starred in and directed the film Hi, Mom, ____37____ a time-travel story is told. The film ____38____ (consider) as the leading dark horse among the movies released (上映) during the seven-day Spring
Festival holiday is in memory ____39____ her late mother Li Huanying，who encouraged Jia to pursue her artistic dreams. By Feb 23, 2021，it ____40____ (earn) more than 4 billion yuan, enabling Jia to become the top box office grossing female film director in China. Now she is on the path to becoming ____41____ international name in the filmmaking industry.
So what is the secret behind Jia’s success? One factor may be her passion for comedy. Jia ____42____ (admit) to Beijing’s Central Academy of Drama in 2001. In the last 20 years, she has performed crosstalk (相声) in various ____43____ (compete) and shows. She has also played comedic roles in many comedies on the big screen. Besides, the approach to ____44____ (make) the film also makes Jia Ling work stand out. We抣l wait and see whether Jia will become one of China抯 ____45____ (popular) directors.
【答案】36. extremely 37. where
38. considered 39. of
40. had earned 41. an
42. was admitted
43. competitons 44. making
45. most popular
第四部分 动词填空（共10题；每题0.5分，共5分）
46. Mary is easy ________ (recognize) because she is the only woman who wears the evening dress.（所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】to recognize
47. —What has made him so annoyed recently?
—________ (leave) alone to face such a troublesome situation. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】Leaving
48. —I wonder why he is such a good English teacher.
—He ________ (work) as a volunteer in the UK for two years, which helps him with his work a lot. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】worked
49. It’s requested that the experiment referred to ________ (conduct) in the newly built scientific center. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】(should) be conducted
50. After ________ (take) before dinner, the medicine should be put beyond your son’s reach. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】taken
51. The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see ________ (carry) out the next year. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】carried
52. Some social organizations have set up reading clubs to promote reading but the effort, though ________ (appreciate), is far from enough. (所给词的适当形式填空)
【答案】appreciated
53. Please tell me the after-service of the computer; I’m worried about there ________ (be) a breakdown sometime. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】being
54. The computer programs are a puzzle to me. The more I think of them, the more questions I think of ________ (ask). （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】to ask
55. The policeman was searching for a notebook, in which ________ (record) some information about the killer, as well as several sketches of him. （所给词的适当形式填空）
【答案】was recorded
第五部分 单词拼写（满分20分）
56. The information collected from v________ sources was of great help to them in their research.（根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】various
57. There are a few ________ (技术的) problems to be dealt with before the product can be put on sale to the public.（根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】technical
58. Our chances of ________ (幸存) are absolutely very small in that situation. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】surviving
59. Already well over 400 of the total of 6,800 languages are close to e________.（根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】extinction
60. They finally arrived in the tourist d________ London after a ten-hour flight. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】destination
61. The typhoon was really ________ (毁灭性的) and many houses were damaged. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】destructive
62. Some of their recent music is far too ________ (商业化的) （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】commercial
63. The volunteers are trying to offer the wild animals a good h________.（根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】habitat
64. Seeing the long snake, he couldn’t walk any further, s________ to death. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】scared
65. The police s________ the driver to stop his car by raising his hand. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】signalled
66. She rushed into the heavy rain, ignoring the ________ (后果) entirely. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】consequence
67. Suddenly he appeared at the door, asking me about those ________ (文件). （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】documents
68. She found the working conditions u________, so she quit her job. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】unbearable
69. The children in that region have no a________ to clean water, which makes him worried. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】access
70. He told me the ________ (步骤) was simple, but I couldn’t make it. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】procedure
71. Our budget is hardly s________ to pay people, let alone buy any new equipment. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】sufficient
72. The survey ________ (揭示) that a great many customers were aware of the risk. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】revealed
73. The director refused to c________ on the film directed by a young man. （根据首字母单词拼写）
【答案】comment
74. ________ (生物多样性) ensures a resource for new food crops and medicines. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】Biodiversity
75. The announcement raised a storm of ________ (抗议). （根据汉语提示单词拼写）
【答案】protest
第六部分 应用文写作（满分15分）
76. 假定你是李华，你的英国好友Peter在给你的电子邮件中说他即将参加一次校内举办的中文演讲比赛，希望你能给他一些建议。请你写一封电子邮件回复他，内容包括：
1. 就如何演讲给出你的建议； 2. 表达信任并给予鼓励
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Dear Peter,
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua
【答案】Dear Peter,
How is everything going? I’m glad to receive your letter asking for my advice on your Chinese speech contest. The following are my suggestions.
First, making preparations before contest is essential. You need to choose an interesting topic as required and prepare your contents carefully. That always means half success. Second, practice makes perfect. You should go over your script again and again before going onto the stage. Your tone, your gestures, and so on are the keys to win the heart of audiences and judges. Last but not the least, be confident. Only by believing in yourself can you make people believe you. I always know you are the best and you will do well in the coming competition.
Above are my suggestions for you and I hope they can be of some help. Good luck with your contest, my friends.
Yours,
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