福建省师范大学附属中学2021届高三英语上学期期中试题.doc

福建省师范大学附属中学2021届高三英语上学期期中试题

福建省师范大学附属中学2021届高三英语上学期期中试题

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福建省师范大学附属中学2021届高三英语上学期期中试题
时间： 120 分钟 满分： 150分
第Ⅰ卷 （共80分）
第一部分：听力（共20题；每小题1分, 满分20分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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。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 does the singer’s hair look like?
A. Long and dark. B. Short and brown. C. Short and dark.
2. When is the woman going to take her holiday?
A. In July. B. In August. C. In September.
3. What problem does the man have?
A. He doesn’t have Anna’s address.
B. He doesn’t have a stamp.
C. He doesn’t have a postcard.
4. What will the woman probably do first after graduation?
A. Start her own business.
B. Go to business school.
C. Work in a big company.
5. Where does this conversation most probably take place?
A. In an ice-cream shop. B. In a restaurant. C. In a supermarket.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1分, 共15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。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。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题
6. What room does the woman want?
A. A single room. B. A double room. C. A room for three.
7. How much will the woman pay per night?
A. $100. B. $120. C. $150.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the man dissatisfied with about the room?
A. The position. B. The rent. C. The size.
9. What does the woman suggest the man do?
A. Find an apartment near the school.
B. Find a separate room downtown.
C. Find a roommate.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why does the woman talk to the man?
A. To ask for a job. B. To get some advice. C. To conduct an interview.
11. What is the man’s occupation?
A. An academic advisor.
B. A medical doctor.
C. A hospital administrator.
12. How does the woman probably feel in the end?
A. Encouraged. B. Disappointed. C. Annoyed.
听第9段材料, 回答第13至16题。
13. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their separate hobbies.
B. A new activity of cave exploring.
C. Similarities in climbing and cave exploring.
14. What else do the Society’s members do besides exploring caves?
A. Clean up caves. B. Teach people about rocks. C. Rescue people trapped in caves.
15. Why doesn’t the woman like cave-exploring?
A. She thinks it too dangerous.
B. She has no climbing technique.
C. She doesn’t like the environment in caves.
16. What does the man invite the woman to do?
A. Attend a meeting. B. Research rocks. C. Explore a cave.
听第10段材料，回第17至20题。
17. What prizes were given last week?
A. Sports bags. B. I-watches. C. Pens.
18. When was the show broadcast for the first time?
A. A week ago. B. A month ago. C. A year ago.
19. What does the speaker say about the footballer?
A. He can speak French. B. His wife is famous. C. He is a Frenchman.
20. How will the listeners tell their answers?
A. By writing a letter. B. By sending a postcard. C. By making a call.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节, 满分 40 分）
第一节（共11小题；每小题2. 5分, 满分27. 5分）
A
It’s both an exciting but frightening experience for parents the moment their teenager obtains a driver’s license. Here are some of the best and most recommended apps for teen drivers and for their parents’ peace of mind.
Safe Driver
This app works by monitoring the position and the driving speed of your child. You can also set a speed limit. Whenever your child drives over this speed limit, an alarm will be sent to your phone. Its only drawback is that it’s only effective when your child opens the app on their phone while driving.
Drive Safely
If you’re scared of your teenagers’ tendencies to be on the phone while driving, this is a great app for them to use. Whenever a text message comes in, it’ll read the text message out loud. The driver needn’t take their hands off the wheel in order to check text messages on their phone. The user can even respond to the message via voice.
Textecution
This app locks a driver’s phone while he or she is driving, preventing the user from gaining access to any of the SMS functions of the phone. Parents can be alerted via the app’s website. For example, you’ll be sent an alert in the event that the driver has requested permission to access their phone’s messaging function. This function can only be activated if the driver is safely parked or in the event of an accident. If ever your child removes the application from their phone, parents can be informed, too.
Life 360
The initial purpose of this app is connecting family members together. Through the app, you can share your position with one another wherever you are. It provides real-time data for parents about position and driving speed. Parents can, therefore, feel safe and secure knowing that their child has reached their intended destination. The application can be turned off. But it’ll inform the members within the app that your child has disabled it.
（ ）1. What can the app Safe Driver do?
A. Control the user’s driving speed.
B. Keep working even when it’s turned off.
C. Help teenagers develop good driving habits.
D. Warn parents of their children’s overspeed driving.
（ ）2. Which app enables the user to receive and answer text messages easily while driving?
A. Drive Safely. B. Safe Driver. C. Textecution. D. Life 360.
（ ）3. What do Textecution and Life 360 have in common?
A. They are intended to bring family members much closer.
B. Teenagers can’t delete them without parents’ permission.
C. Parents can know if they stop working on teenagers’ phones.
D. They offer parents real-time data about position and driving speed.
B
Picture this: It’s 2003 and your family has just finished arguing over which Netflix movie video tapes to rent that week. Movies come in the mail and the family watch them throughout the week. Then, fast forward to 2008, and you have started to watch TV shows on Netflix’s new platform.
Now, let’s come to the present. You sit down and open up Netflix on your TV and scroll （滚屏） for a while. Then check HBO GO. Finally, check Disney+. Then realize that you’re paying for three different streaming services, maybe more.
Let’s return to Netflix. More generally, streaming. There are over 100 video streaming services available, as well as quite a few music streaming, including YouTube Music, Google Play, and etc. The streaming world, at least to some, is on its way to getting out of control, with each service requiring its own monthly entertainment subscription. We haven’t even taken into account subscriptions like Microsoft Office and email newsletters. Subscriptions started out as a service of convenience, but now, the oversaturation may have become burdensome. The services believe customers will pay more to get the content they want. However, statistics show a growing frustration among consumers. With so many options, they find it harder than ever to make a decision on what to pick.
Not only does the oversaturation of streaming result in confusing navigation, it also creates a financial burden for the consumers. Let’s say if you want to watch The Handmaid’s Tale and Game of Thrones, which belong to two different services, you would have to pay nearly $50 a month to access both services, meaning it’s potentially more expensive, than cable.
People cut their cords （细绳） and went the streaming route because it was simpler and cheaper. Now, it’s just as inconvenient and difficult as cable was, if not more so, and unless you’re limiting yourself to one service, it’s not cheaper. Streaming will survive because we’re in a Golden Age of Media and because each service is able to create high-quality originals. But Golden Ages don’t last, and bubbles tend to burst. Until the unavoidable day when some product or service proves streaming out of date, we must suffer the choices in front of us. The next time you are scrolling through Netflix, Hulu, or whatever, and the over-choice is killing you, maybe you should just go pick up a book instead.
（ ）4. What is mainly talked about in the first two paragraphs?
A. Social progress has promoted the quality of life in the past decade.
B. Technology innovation results in different ways of relaxation.
C. Changes in home entertainment have brought us more options.
D. Netflix has been developing its service patterns.
（ ）5. What does the underlined word “oversaturation” in Paragraph 3 probably refer to?
A. The large number of subscriptions.
B. The frustration caused by poor service.
C. The rapidly developing entertainment market.
D. The confusing navigation resulting from streaming.
（ ）6. According to the passage, streaming services may__________.
A. improve user satisfaction B. raise entertainment costs
C. diversify entertainment forms D. realize the resource sharing
（ ）7. The author would probably agree that _________.
A. the streaming service will have a bright future
B. reading has an advantage over streaming service
C. there will be some better service to replace streaming
D. nothing can end streaming services as long as media exists
C
Metal-organic frameworks （MOFs） are compounds（化合物） that are set to solve some tough challenges: producing water in the desert, removing greenhouse gases from the air and storing dangerous gases more safely.
The Arizona desert is really dry. Anyone stuck in it without water would die from dehydration （脱水） within three days, unless he had one of Omar Yaghi’s next-generation water harvesters, who is a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley. Although daytime wetness is only about 10 percent, this rises to 40 percent at night, which means there's enough water in the atmosphere to support life – if it can be transformed into liquid form.
That's exactly what Yaghi’s invention does. It's about the size of a small microwave oven, designed to suck the water from the air at night and turn it into drinking water the next day using only the heat of the sun as its power source. What makes it work is a special material called a MOF, which at normal temperatures attracts water molecules （分子） onto the surface of its internal small holes. Warm it up and get the water, each harvest producing one-third of a cup of pure drinking water. “A device the size of a washing machine could produce enough water for the basic needs of a household,” says Yaghi.
These crystalline （结晶的） groups of metals linked by organic molecules can be made into materials with an extremely high absorption ability, attracting specific molecules to their surfaces. In this way, MOFs cling to a variety of liquids and gases.
MOFs work thanks to their distinctive structure. In fact, one MOF the size of a sugar cube has so many small holes that they would cover an area as large as six football fields. MOFs are also extremely stable, light and have many different uses: their molecular structure can be varied to attract specific molecules. Adding a small amount of heat or pressure causes the MOF to give what it's holding. More than 70,000 different MOFs have been produced to date for various applications.
（ ）8. Why is the Arizona desert mentioned in the second paragraph?
A. To introduce water harvesters.
B. To stress the importance of water.
C. To show the severity of its condition.
D. To express the urgent need for water there.
（ ）9. What plays a vital role in water harvesters?
A. Solar energy. B. Water molecules.
C. MOFs’ internal small holes. D. Metal-organic frameworks.
（ ）10. Which can explain the phrase “cling to” underlined in paragraph 4?
A. Give off. B. Turn into. C. Hold onto. D. Break down.
（ ）11. What will probably be covered in the following paragraphs?
A. The future of the MOF technology.
B. Other uses of the MOF technology.
C. The improvement to the MOF technology.
D. Possible limitations of the MOF technology.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
For serious birders who regularly observe birds in the wild, ignoring climate change isn’t possible. We have been seeing and documenting the effects of a warming climate since at least the 1950s.
12 Glossy black great-tailed grackles （美洲黑羽椋鸟）, for example, previously found primarily in the tropics （热带）, first reached southeastern California in 1964. They are now found throughout most of the state.
New research from the National Audubon Society highlights the dangers of the trend. For its new report, “Survival by Degrees,” Audubon scientists analyzed the current geographic ranges of 604 North American bird species, and modeled how those ranges would change at different levels of warming. At a global temperature rise of three degrees Celsius, they found that 389 of those species—or nearly two-thirds of those studied—would become endangered, losing much of their current habitat. 13
Why does this matter to anyone who’s not a bird watcher? For one thing, birds play a crucial role in the ecology, keeping down insect populations and serving as food themselves for larger predators （食肉动物）. 14 Their shifting ranges warn of increasing droughts, floods, fires, rising seas and unlivable cities.
15 Audubon scientists modeled what would happen at lesser levels of warming, and the results are striking. Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees would reduce the danger for three-quarters of those threatened birds. Audubon’s report “Survival by Degrees” is not a depressing forecast but rather a call to action. It stresses the need for action at every level, by individuals and governments alike, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
As a lifelong birder, I’m proud of the role my organization has played in documenting the effects of climate change. When local conditions change, particular types of frogs or wildflowers may decrease and disappear, few will notice. 16 I hope people can pay close attention to the urgent message in this new report and work together for solutions. Birds tell us we don’t have time to wait.
A. We still have time to do something about it, however.
B. But they also serve as a visible symbol of broader environmental shifts.
C. This would greatly benefit humans, reducing the potential suffering for people.
D. But when a bird species disappears, we, professional birders, document the change.
E. In recent decades, that has meant a consistent northward shift in where species are found.
F. The changes will make birding exciting, with birders finding new species in unexpected places.
G. Even if some could shift their range northward, they would soon start to run out of room on the map.
第三部分 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分,满分20分）
I learned about life from an ant farm. When I was seven years old, my family 1 a