2020-2021年河北省唐山市某校高一（上）期末考试A卷英语试卷

1、2020-2021年河北省唐山市某校高一（上）期末考试A卷英语试卷一、阅读理解 1. Great hikes and walks in Speyside, ScotlandThe Speyside WayThe Speyside Way, a 128-kilometer path, is often visited by long-distance walkers who spend a few days hiking, camping or staying at excellent accommodations along the way. To get information a

2、bout the hike, including maps, walking guides and other details, visit https:/www.walkinghighlands.co.uk.Forest Walk in the Anagach WoodsIf you are looking for an easy Sunday walk with the kids, a forest walk in the Anagach Woods is just the thing. In the forest you can find plenty of bird life. The

3、re are also mountain bike paths and places for pleasure around the woods, so you can add these to the list of fun things to do with the whole family.Climbing up Ben RinnesMost people choose to climb Ben Rinnes from a small car park early in the morning and come back here before sunset. There is a go

4、od track which offers nice views across Glen Rinnes. You'll follow a zigzag（之字形的）track that makes many people out of breath. Enjoy a snack at the top, which will give you energy for the walk down.Circling Aberlour, Dufftown and CraigellachieIt's an enjoyable walk around the villages of Aberl

5、our, Dufftown and Craigellachie, starting and returning to the village of Aberlour. Starting from Aberlour means a fairly long climb at the start. But from Dufftown, you follow a nice track to Craigellachie. The hike left is mainly along the River Spey, and you will often meet fishermen out for

6、 the catch of the day. The whole circle takes between 5-6 hours. （1）Which is a good choice for a bird lover?A.The Speyside Way.B.Forest Walk in the Anagach Woods.C.Climbing up Ben Rinnes.D.Circling Aberlour, Dufftown and Craigellachie. （2）What is suggested in Climbing up Ben Rinnes?A.Enjoying a snac

7、k at the top.B.Camping in the open air.C.Meeting fishermen on your walk.D.Visiting a website in advance. （3）What's special about the Speyside Way?A.It takes more than one day.B.It offers mountain bike paths.C.It includes a long climb at the start.D.It suits families with children. 2. On Fri

8、day afternoon when I picked Gabriel up from school, he came running towards me smiling widely. Straight away I noticed a gap on the bottom row of his teeth. I felt my heart stop for a moment. At first I thought perhaps he had had some accident, such as falling down the stairs. Gabriel wasn't old

9、 enough to lose teeth, was he?!Before I managed to ask him, he shouted "Mummy! Mummy! I've lost a tooth!" To my amazement, Gabriel appeared to be happy! "Wow! When did that happen?" I asked. He thought for a few seconds and told me that he wasn't sure. He remembered eatin

10、g a cake at lunch time, and later when he checked in the mirror, his tooth was gone! No pain, no stressing and no worries!I admit I did feel a little emotional. We focused the early years on his teeth growing, but now Gabriel would lose all those baby teeth and get adult ones! I told Gabriel to writ

11、e to the tooth fairy（仙子）, who would certainly visit, locate the tooth and leave a coin. Surely enough, a shiny coin was under his pillow（枕头）on Saturday. When Gabriel broke the news to Daddy, we laughed about the amount of cash kids make out of their teetha child usually has twenty teeth. A nice prof

12、it!I'm proud of Gabriel. He wasn't frightened or confused, although the missing tooth may be in his stomach, which he thought was quite funny! Later I got some knowledge about which teeth are likely to go at specific ages. Of course, the ages aren't quite exact, but at least I know where

13、 we're heading. （1）How did the author feel at the sight of Gabriel's tooth gap?A.Angry.B.Anxious.C.Helpless.D.Disappointed. （2）When did Gabriel probably lose his tooth?A.After school.B.In class.C.While falling down the stairs.D.While having lunch. （3）What can we know from paragraph 3?A.Gabri

14、el received 20 shiny coins.B.The couple made fun of Gabriel.C.The writer accepted Gabriel's growth.D.The fairy visited Gabriel on Friday night. （4）What is the best title for the text?A.The Missing ToothB.Focus Less on LossC.A Letter to the Tooth FairyD.Cash in on Teeth 3. A Japanese company

15、 has created a "smart" mask（口罩）that aims to improve communication for people wearing face coverings to prevent the spread of COVID-19.The use of face masks has become the new common practice in parts of the world still struggling to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. However, masks and

16、other kinds of coverings can affect the quality of communication between wearers. The wearable electronic device（设备）called the "c-mask" is meant to fit over other kinds of face masks commonly worn by the public. It's designed to better the exchange of conversation in such conditions.Th

17、e c-mask with a built-in microphone has holes in the front to let air in. When turned on, the mask uses Bluetooth technology to connect to a mobile device. An app then helps users do several actions, including turning speech into text, completing telephone calls and making the user's voice loude

18、r. The device can also translate a person's voice from Japanese into eight other languages.Taisuke Ono, head of Do nut Robotics, said the company, was able to collect money to develop the smart mask through an activity on the Japanese crowd funding（众筹）service Fundinno. He noted that the effort g

19、ot $265,000 in just the first 37 minutes. It would usually take three or four months to collect that kind of money.The company produced a working model of the mask within a month. Ono said the company plans to ship its first 5,000 c-masks to buyers in Japan. He is also looking to sell the devices in

20、 China, the United States and Europe and says he has received strong interest in the product. （1）Why does the Japanese company develop the c-mask?A.To increase their sales at home and abroad.B.To help mask wearers communicate better.C.To prevent the wide spread of the coronavirus.D.To raise more mon

21、ey for the mask production. （2）What can we learn about the c-mask according to the text?A.It can deal with all the languages in the world.B.It should be worn inside the common face mask.C.It is connected to a mobile device through an app.D.It has got great public support through Fundinno. （3）What is

22、 Taisuke Ono's attitude towards the future of the c-mask?A.Positive.B.Doubtful.C.Uninterested.D.Worried. （4）Where is this text most likely from?A.A diary.B.A brochure.C.A magazine.D.A novel. 4. As part of the self-esteem（自尊心）movement in the 1970s, parents were often told to give their child

23、ren positive feedback along the lines of "Great job" or "You're so smart." But, as some leading researchers put it, praise also has a dark side.This is because praising the result（"It's beautiful!"）or the person（"You're so smart!"）encourages the ch

24、ild to focus on those things. She might feel anxious about her behaviour. He might question the conditionality（条件性）of your love. He might become more inspired by a parent's pleasure than by the process that led to it.One of the guides is to praise the process, not the person. To test this, Dr. D

25、weck and her team praised two groups of children in different waysone on their efforts, the other on their selves, and researched what happened. It turned out that children praised on their efforts became more confident and felt encouraged to try new things. Even if they failed at first, they were a

26、ble to work through the solution by applying themselves.We communicate our values through praise. One of those values is autonomy（自主性）, so it's helpful to praise what your children have control over. This helps keep expectations possible to achieve, and also encourages them to continue doing the

27、 activity.Besides, guard against overpraise. It can lead to "praise addiction," in which a child acts on purpose to earn praise. There's another risk, toochildren can sense when praise is not genuine, because even a little child can sense what is real. So instead of saying "You

28、9;re the smartest boy in the world!",  consider simply describing what you observed your child doing: "Wow! You dug a big hole in the sandbox with your truck!" This puts more stress on the behavior without setting an impossibly high standard. （1）What is paragraph 2 mainly about?A

29、.The behaviour of children praised for the result.B.The reasons for praising the result or the person.C.The advice on how to praise children in the right way.D.The disadvantages of praising the result or the person. （2）Dr. Dweck and her team carried out the research by _.A.listing some dataB.trying

30、out some guidesC.making a contrastD.talking with the parents （3）What does the underlined word "genuine" in the last paragraph probably mean?A.Specific.B.True.C.Professional.D.Awkward. （4）What does the text recommend parents do?A.Assess children with too high a standard.B.Praise the outcome

31、 rather than the process.C.Give children nothing but positive feedback.D.Praise what children can complete in their power.二、七选五  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。How to Keep Calm Under PressureExam pressure, job interviews and public speeches can all make you feel rather nervousyour hea

32、rt's racing, your voice sounds strange and your mind goes empty.（1）_ Here are three easy and effective tips that can help you keep calm.（2）_ Take a deep breath through your nose for five seconds, hold it for a second, then push all the air out through your nose, slowly, counting to five. Repeat

33、a few times and you'll feel calmer. By breathing deeply and slowly, you can change the message your brain's receiving from "danger" to "all is well".Second, try humming（哼曲子）.（3）_ Studies in how we control heart rate have shown that humming can affect one of the most impor

34、tant parts of the body: the vagus nerve（交感神经）, which is like a super highway of communication, connecting the brain to the heart, lungs and stomach, voice box, ears, and so on. So the next time you feel your heart racing, sing a song or just hum a note.The final tip is to focus. When you are busy, y

35、ou wish to do several things at the same time, but if you want to stay calm and actually get things done, don't.（4）_ When you do two things at once, it has to change between them very rapidly and floods your body with stress hormones（荷尔蒙）. So break your task down into small parts or steps, circl

36、e the one thing you need to do next and forget about the other tasks until their time comes.（5）_A. Why are you so nervous?B. What can you do to help?C. It will make things worse.D. Only a single note or a song will do.E. First, slow your breathing way down.F. This method is used by sports coaches to

37、 help athletes focus.G. Studies show that your brain can only do one thing at a time.三、完形填空  Every weekend, my father would go to the park to feed the homeless. I really didn't understand my father's（1）_ into it. But I was glad I didn't have to（2）_ him, because I knew how much troub

38、le my father had just getting everything ready.Then, one Friday night I was（3）_ a whole wonderful weekend by myself again when my dad came in."I need your help tomorrow. Some（4）_ won't make it.""Dad, I can't." I（5）_, but failed.When we arrived, people were already there（6

39、）_ us. I was（7）_ that my dad knew most of them by name and even what each one needed. While my father was feeding them, I started handing out some（8）_. It was at that time that I（9）_ a girl about my age was barefoot（光脚）. I looked into her clear eyes for a moment,（10）_ believing someone of my age cou

40、ld live like this. It was lucky that we took some（11）_. "Thank you!" she cried happily when I（12）_ her the shoes. I felt all（13）_ inside as I watched her leave.Now I（14）_ why my father did so much to help the homeless. I could（15）_ he loved seeing their smiles of happiness. I did too. （1）A

41、.attemptB.developmentC.changeD.effort （2）A.faceB.stand C.joinD.stop （3）A.celebratingB.expectingC.wastingD.missing （4）A.volunteersB.officialsC.expertsD.athletes （5）A.demandedB.protestedC.recommendedD.added （6）A.referring toB.laughing atC.waiting forD.watching over （7）A.confusedB.surprisedC.annoy

42、edD.embarrassed （8）A.toysB.booksC.equipmentD.clothing （9）A.realizedB.feltC.noticedD.recognized （10）A.hardlyB.deeplyC.partlyD.widely （11）A.shoesB.clothesC.cashD.fur （12）A.threwB.lentC.returnedD.handed （13）A.shockedB.lostC.warmD.calm （14）A.understoodB.wonderedC.heardD.asked （15）A.guessB.imagineC.expla

43、inD.tell四、语法填空  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。Koalas are among Australia's favourite animals.（1）_（unlucky）, they could disappear from New South Wales state by 2050 according to the finding of an official investigation.Koalas live in eucalyptus（桉树）forests. The trees provide shelter and foo

44、d（2）_ the koalas. They eat eucalyptus（3）_（leaf）. However, the state's most recent fire season,（4）_（aid）by extremely dry weather, is unusually long and terrible for koalas. It is found that so far about 25% of koala habitat across the state（5）_（destroy）, in some parts as much as 81%.（6）_ is actio

45、ns such as land clearing for farming, city development, and deforestation（毁林）that are threatening the koalas' survival.The result（7）_（be）alarming. Only if the government acts on protective measures will our children's grandchildren see a koala in the wild. WWF calls on the government to make

46、 new laws（8）_（protect）the koala habitat. Besides, more（9）_（economy）support should be given to farmers who actively protect eucalyptus trees. The Premier of New South Wales said the government would do as WWF advises and take powerful measures in areas（10）_ the animals live.五、书面表达  假定你是李华，你的英国朋友

47、Peter来信说他在学习汉语时不敢开口交流。请你写一封回信，内容包括：1. 表示理解；2. 提出建议；3. 表达希望。注意：1. 写作词数应为80左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。Dear Peter,_Yours,Li Hua  阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。"Surprise!" was the first thing I heard when I opened the door. My family and friends were all smiling at me. There were colorfu

48、l balloons all over the house, a big poster saying "HAPPY BIRTHDAY", and of course a cake with 12 candles. It was a wonderful feeling. I knew that I had finally turned twelve and I might possibly get the thing I wanted most.I saw my mom and dad coming towards me with a small box which seem

49、ed to be a birthday present. When I opened the box, I couldn't believe my eyes. I had really gotten a mobile phone! Throwing myself into their arms, I let out a cry of joy, "Thank you! I love you guys!""You're welcome. We knew this was going to make you happy but we didn't

50、 only get you this because you turned twelve, but also because you are doing well in school. We expect you to keep getting good grades.""Of course I will." I said confidently.As soon as I got to school the next morning, I was showing off my phone and asking everyone for their number.

51、It was cool how I got so many contacts on the first day.It felt like I didn't even exist in that class anymore. I wouldn't pay much attention to the teachers because I was too busy on my phone. However, I didn't get caught using it.I am pretty sure that the teacher did notice that I stop

52、ped paying attention to her because a week later we took a test and I failed. What was worse, my mom had to sign the test.It was hard to show my mom the test. She was used to seeing A's and B's on my tests. Finally, I showed it to her, and she couldn't believe it. She was angry but most

53、of all, she was disappointed.注意：1. 续写短文的词数应为150左右；2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头已给出。Paragraph 1:Realizing the reason for my failure, my parents started to dislike the fact that I had a phone. _Paragraph 2:Then I started to wonder if I was wrong. _参考答案与试题解析2020-2021年河北省唐山市某校高一（上）期末考试A卷英语试卷一、阅读理解1.【答案】BAA【考点】细节理解广

54、告布告类阅读应用文阅读【解析】此题暂无解析【解答】（1）B 细节理解题。根据Forest Walk in the Anagach Woods下的In the forest you can find plenty of bird life. There are also mountain bike paths and places for pleasure around the woods, so you can add these to the list of fun things to do with the whole family.“在森林里你可以发现很多鸟类。也有登山自行车道和树林周围

55、的娱乐场所，所以你可以把这些添加到你全家一起做的有趣的事情列表中。”可知，在Anagach森林里散步是爱鸟人的好选择。故选B。（2）A 细节理解题。根据Climbing up Ben Rinnes下的Enjoy a snack at the top, which will give you energy for the walk down.“在顶部吃点零食，这将给你走下来提供能量。”可知，攀登Ben Rinnes时建议在顶部吃零食。故选A。（3）A 细节理解题。根据The Speyside Way下的The Speyside Way, a 128-kilometer path, is ofte

56、n visited by long-distance walkers who spend a few days hiking, camping or staying at excellent accommodations along the way.“Speyside路是一条128公里长的小路，经常有长距离的步行者（来到这里）参观，他们会花几天的时间徒步旅行、露营或住在沿途的绝佳住处里。”可知，Speyside路的特别之处在于（参观时）需要一天以上的时间。故选A。2.【答案】BDCA【考点】细节理解记叙文阅读故事类阅读推理判断标题归纳【解析】此题暂无解析【解答】（1）B 细节理解题。根据文中第

57、一段I felt my heart stop for a moment. At first I thought perhaps he had had some accident, such as falling down the stairs. Gabriel wasn't old enough to lose teeth, was he?!“我感到我的心脏停了一下。起初我以为他可能出了什么事故，比如从楼梯上摔下来。Gabriel还没到掉牙的年龄，对吧？！”可知，作者看到Gabriel少了一颗牙时是担忧的。故选B。（2）D 推理判断题。根据文中第二段He remembered eati

58、ng a cake at lunch time, and later when he checked in the mirror, his tooth was gone! No pain, no stressing and no worries!“他记得午餐时吃了一块蛋糕，后来当他照镜子时，他的牙齿不见了！没有痛苦、没有压力、没有担忧！”可知，Gabriel应是吃午饭的时候掉的牙。故选D。（3）C 推理判断题。根据文中第三段I told Gabriel to write to the tooth fairy（仙子）, who would certainly visit, locate the tooth and leave a coin. Surely enough, a shiny coin was under his pillow（枕头）on Saturday. When Gabriel broke the news to Daddy, we laughed about the amount of cash kids make out of their tee