2020-2021学年海口市第七中学高三英语期中考试试题及答案解析

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

When you grow up in Voss, outdoor adventures become a way of living. This is why visitors will find outdoor activities for all ages and levels. Many people get the impression that such activities as river sports, air sports and other extreme sports are only for the experts. Actually, you will find many outdoor adventures for those who simply want a taste of these elements in Voss.

◆River Kayaking

The river in Voss are great for river kayaking. If you are a beginner, we advise you to try an introduction course of 3 hours. A course of 2 days can be tested out if you really want to learn the sport of kayaking. Get a totally new experience with one of the best kayak centers inNorway.

Prices From NOK 850 per person ◆Rafting

The most popular summer activity in Voss. Thrilling, fun and suitable for beginners as well as those with experience! Includes transportation, safety instruction, swim test and about8kmof breathtaking rafting starting off in softer steams before getting on to the more exciting streams.

Season Daily May—October Prices From NOK 1,120

Info All necessary equipment is provided. Please bring your own swimwear and towel. ◆Bavallsekspressen Chair Lift

Explore the mountain by riding the Bavallsekpressen chair lift all the way to the top to get immediate access to a great variety of hiking trails in beautiful scenery. The lift is also open for those who want to bring their bike or paraglider. Start and end: From Bavallen to Hangurstoppen.

Season: Sat/Sun 24 June—06 August 12:00-16:00 Prices Single trip: NOK 100 Day pass: NOK 250 ◆Husdyrparken

At Husdyrparken, visitors get to experience Norwegian farm animals. You can participate in animal feeding and farm competitions, or simply relax with an organic ice cream in the café. You can also visit a small museum

with old farming equipment.

Season: Daily 18 June—21 August

Prices: Adults NOK 120 Children NOK 60 Senior NOK 60 Family Pass NOK 200 (For up to two adults and two kids) 1. Who are the intended readers of the passage? A. Local residents. B. Professional athletes. C. Travel experts. D. Common Tourists.

2. Which of the following activities provide instructions for beginners?

A. River Kayaking and Rafting. B. Husdyrparken and River Kayaking.

C. Rafting and Bavallsekspressen Chair Lift. D. Bavallsekspressen Chair Lift and Husdyrparken. 3. How much should Jan pay for a farm trip with her little son and her mother in Voss? A. NOK 240. B. NOK 200. C. NOK 180. D. NOK 120.

B

Why doesHaitiso tend to have fatal earthquakes? Earthquakes have been causing huge damage inHaitisince at least the 18th century. The capital city has been destroyed twice in 19 years. The 21st century has beenno more kind.

The Earth’s outer shell is made tip of tectonic plates (构造板块) that move.Haitisits near the crossing of two tectonic plaits that make up the Earth’s outer shell. Earthquakes can occur when those plates move against each other and create friction (摩擦力).

Haitiis also overpopulated. Plus, many of its buildings are designed to resist hurricanes but not earthquakes. Those buildings can survive strong winds bat are easy to fail down when the ground shrikes. Poor building practices can also play arole.

“I think it’s important to recognize that there’s no such thing as a natural disaster,” said Wendy Bohon, a geologist. “What you have is a natural disaster that comes with a weak architecture system. We do know that earthquakes like this can cause huge damage because ofthefault,” said Wendy. “And it’s quite a significant risk in places that don’t have the construction practices to resist the shaking.”

Construction of more earthquake-resistant buildings remains a challenge inHaiti, which is the poorest nation in theWestern Hemisphere. “While there have been some success stories of Haitians building more earthquake-resistant structures, the country has lacked a centralized effort to do so,” said Mark Schuller, a

professor of anthropology and nonprofit and NGO studies atNorthernIllinoisUniversity.Haiti’s government has become increasingly weak, while non-governmental organizations only focus on their own projects.

“There is technical knowledge inHaiti, There are trained architects. There are cityplanners. That’s not the problem,” Schuller said. “The problem is a lack of funding for coordination (协调), and lack of political will from donors to organizations providing aid.”

4. Which factor causing the huge damage is highlighted? A. Its overpopulation. B. Its weak government.

C. Its geographical location. D. Its weak architecture system. 5. What does the underlined part “the fault” in paragraph 4 refer to? A Lacking political will to provide aid. B. Lacking hurricane-resistant; buildings. C. Lacking earthquake-resistant buildings. D. Sitting on the crossing of two tectonic plates. 6. What’s Schuller’s attitude towardsHaiti’s government? A Supportive. B. Critical. C. Indifferent. D. Interested.

7. Which of the following can be a problem according tothe last paragraph? A. Fund and will. B. Skilled architects. C. Urban designers. D. Technology and money.

C

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us todo things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder. This increase in complexity, often called \"feature creep,\" costs consumers time, but it also costs business money. Product returns in the U.S. cost a hundred billion dollars a year, and a recent study by Elke den Ouden, of Philips Electronics, found that at least half of returned products have nothing wrong with them. Consumers just couldn't figure out how to use them. Companies now know a great deal about problems of usability and consumer behavior, so why is it that feature creep proves unstoppable?

In part, fieature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audience problem: the people who design and sell product are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what's best for consumers. The engineers tend not to notice when more options make a product less usable. And marketing and sales departments see each additional feature as a new selling point, and anew way to

attract customers.

You might think, then, that companies could avoid fieature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want. But that's where the trouble begins, because although consumers find overloaded gadgets（配件）unmanageable,they also find them attractive. It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store we tend to think that the more features there are, the better. It is only once we get the product home and try to use it that we realize the virtues of simplicity.

It seems strange that we don't expect feature tiredness and thus avoid it. But, as numerous studies have shown, people are not, in general, good at predicting what will make them happy in the future. As a result, we will pay more for more features because we systematically overestimate how often we'll use them. We also overestimate our ability to figure out how a complicated product works.

The fact that buyers want bells and whistles but users want something clear and simple creates an unusual problem for companies. A product that doesn't have enough features may fail to catch our eye in the store. But a product with too many features is likely to annoy consumers. 8. What does the first paragraph mainly discuss? A. The benefits brought by the advanced technology. B. The recent study conducted by Elke den Ouden. C. The loss caused by the feature creep of technology. D. Many problems of usability known by the consumers.

9. Which of the following is true according to the second paragraph? A. It is the audience problem that leads to feature creep.

B. What matters to designers and marketers is not good for consumers. C. Feature creep brings blessings to the people in marketing and sales. D. The engineers will not pay attention to the quality of the product 10. What do we know about the buyers in paragraph 4?

A. They are deeply convinced that all the products work in simple way. B. They are fed up with the more and more features of the products. C. They are too confident of their ability to use the complicated products. D. They are quite clear about the products which will make them happy. 11. What can be a suitable title for the text? A. Saying No to Feature Creep is No Easy Thing

B. Feature-heavy Products in Demand C. The More Features, the Better D. Simplicity Outweighs Complexity

D

Jon Pedley is making a big change. He is giving up his life as a businessman for a life of helping others. He is trading his beautiful farmhouse in England for life in a mud hut in Uganda, East Africa.

Pedley admits that he has notalways led a very positive life. At times he drank too much and got in trouble with the law. “I’ve always put the pursuit of money in front of everything else. As long as I was all right, I didn’t care who I was hurting, ” says Pedley.

But a visit to Uganda in 2007 gave Pedley a new outlook on life. He was amazed at what he saw and how much the people there appreciated the work he was doing. “I worked there for a few days and these people who have nothing were thanking me by giving me bags of potatoes, which are a fortune for them,” he said.

Now Pedley is selling his business, his $1.5 million farmhouse, and his expensive car — and moving into a hut made of mud and boards in a small Ugandan village. There he will help run an organization that hopes to improve the quality of life for people in the village of Kigazi. He will help to build schoolrooms for children and tanks to hold clean water for villagers. Today, people in Kigazi must walk two miles to a hospital, so Pedley will help to build doctors’ offices, too.

Pedley’s organization will also work with English teenagers who are in trouble. The teens will be sent to a “camp” in Uganda that Pedley will run. The teens will live in mud huts and help to build water, health, and education facilities for kids in Kigazi, many of whom have lost their parents to poverty or disease. Pedley hopes the teens will see a side of life that might help them turn around their own lives and set them on a new and more positive path.

12. Which of the following best describes Pedley’s life in the past?

A. Negative. B. Colorful. C. Independent. D. Selfish. 13. What will Pedley do in the small Ugandan village?

A. Do business with the local people. B. Help farmers increase potato output.

C. Assist villagers with construction work. D. Introduce tools to improve English teaching. 14. Why will Pedley work with English teenagers in trouble?

A. To encourage them to make friends with locals. B. To inspire them to live a more positive life. C. To train them to become doctors in the future. D. To make them learn about different cultures.

15. What is the best title for the text?

A. From millionaire to mud hut B. A life-changing adventure C. A rich man becoming homeless D. More money, more worries 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

How to congratulate someone

Joyful time goes hand in hand with congratulations. When you address graduates, newly-weds, or anyone with good news, a hearty \"Congratulations!\" is in order. To send congratulations more effectively, you'd betterobey the following three tips.

___16___When there is something to celebrate, don't skirt around the issue. Explain why you congratulate the person right off the bat.____17____Besides, you should set the right tone and send congratulations with the right words to share in the person's happiness more easily.

Express how you feel about the subject.____18____For instance, you may say that you adore the person who tries hard to achieve his or her goal, or merely say \"I'm so happy for you\". Remember that your tone of voice can really carry weight.___19___

Try to make your congratulations sincere. You ought to make your words and actions heartfelt, for whatever reason you send congratulations to someone. Surely there will be moments when your compliments are not given from the bottom of your heart.____20____Remind yourself to congratulate other people rather than nursing jealousy, because there may come a time when it's your turn to be in the spotlight. A.Spread the word.

B.Be as expressive as you can. C.Bring up the subject.

D.But you'd better be as generous as possible.

E.You can also tell him or her how you heard the news if necessary.

F.You feel forced to congratulate someone when you are not really happy for them. G.You can further convey your feelings appropriately after saying “congratulations.”

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

Four years ago Rita Gaviola was a beggar in a small Philippine town. Now she works as a fashion___21___，starring on TV shows and___22___many Instagram followers. It all started with a (n)___23___photo.

Back in 2016, she was___24___on thestreets of Lucban. Her father was a garbage collector and her mother a housewife. The family___25___managed to put food on the table, so Rita often went out to ask for___26___or food donations.

One day a photographer Topher Burgos happened to be attracted by her___27___beauty. He changed the girl's___28___completely by posting the photos of her on the Internet, optionally with a single___29___click of the 'upload' button.

One of the photos became a hit immediately, with people praising her____30____of nature. She was nicknamed “Badjao Girl\" and____31____several Filipino beauty queens, who did their best to help the girl____32____. Then she began to model for various clothing brands and____33____small roles in TV series. All the hype (炒作) around Badjao Girl also helped her____34____an online audience, including____35____from abroad, some of whom helped her family financially. In 2018, Rita____36____a YouTube video showcasing her family's new house and thanking a loyal US fan for____37____the construction.

Even though the hype has____38____, she remains very popular on Filipino social media through her own efforts. Rita is seen as proof that Cinderella-like stories are____39____in real-life. In Rita's case, all it took was a photo and her____40____in the right place, at the right time.

21. A.seller B.designer C.model D.guide 22. A.gains B.handles C.resembles D.challenges 23. A.old B.random C.big D.special 24. A.running B.singing C.playing D.begging 25. A.barely B.nearly C.finally D.regularly 26. A.attention B.advice C.money D.work 27. A.artificial B.natural C.potential D.classic 28. A.name B.life C.identity D.figure 29. A.cautious B.long C.silent D.light 30. A.love B.virtue C.beauty D.sense 31. A.attracted B.cheated C.called D.visited

32. A.on the Internet B.out of poverty C.away from home D.with her education

33. A.created B.practiced C.served D.played 34. A.join B.train C.build D.organize

35. A.fans B.stars C.tourists D.bosses 36. A.recorded B.watched C.received D.posted 37. A.starting B.reporting C.protecting D.sponsoring 38. A.took off B.died down C.paid off D.given up 39. A.ridiculous B.fantastic C.possible D.appreciative 40. A.presence B.performance C.signature D.introduction 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

To some people, staying in a hotel is the whole point of travelling. But what if you are looking for something more adventurous? A new type of___41.___(accommodate) may catch your attention. That is spending a night in a cave. The Enchanted Cave,___42.___is located in the Blue Mountains in Australia, is an attractive destination.___43.___(design) to excite the senses, the Cave hangs over some of the most beautiful___44.___(nature) sights. A table, cupboard and sink carved out of stone___45.___(lay) inside. Modern facilities in the cave include a mini kitchen,___46.___most comfortable bed in the world, a fireplace and a hot bath. Outdoor lovers can take full advantage of the Cave by hiking through the paths and___47.___(put)their toes in the nearby river. The Enchanted Cave in the west of Sydney is___48.___(true) an once-in-a-lifetime experience. It is a perfect way for couples___49.___(enjoy) a romantic night under the twinkling stars. You can enjoy all of this for the reasonable price of $500 per person each night. Keep a close eye____50.____the schedule since you can get a 20％discount during the summer of the year. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节短文改错（满分10分）

51.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。文有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。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（◆）,并在其下写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线,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； 只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I went to Turkey last summer, where I saw many place of interest. The weather was very nice and the people here were friendly. What I especial enjoyed was the Turkish food which was delicious. I caught the early ferry to cross from one side of the city to other side, take many pictures with my camera. The cost of the whole trip was a

bit of high, but I thought it was worth it. The Turkish people did not speak much English, and I managed to get to where I plan to go. During the trip, I went to the traditional Turkish baths, what were very cheap and relaxed. 第二节书面表达（满分25分）

52.假定你是李华，你的美国交换生Johnson想要和你一起参加青少年活动中心举办的生存训练暑假夏令营活动，并询问有关情况。请你给他回信，内容包括：

1.活动时间和地点； 2.参加条件； 3.注意事项。 注意：词数80左右。

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

参

1. D 2. A 3. B

4. D 5. C 6. B 7. A

8. C 9. C 10. C 11. A

12. D 13. C 14. B 15. A

16. C 17. E 18. G 19. B 20. D

21. C 22. A 23. B 24. D 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. B 29. D 30. C 31. A 32. B 33. D 34. C 35. A 36. D 37. D 38. B 39. C 40. A 41. accommodation

42. which 43. Designed 44. natural 45. are laid

46. the 47. putting 48. truly 49. to enjoy 50. on##upon

51.(1).place→places (2).here→there

(3).especial→especially (4).other前添加the

(5).take→taking (6).bit后的of删掉 (7).and→but

(8).plan→planned (9).what→which

(10).relaxed→relaxing 52.略