2021届杭州实验外国语学校中学高三英语上学期期末试题及参考答案

1、2021 届杭州实验外国语学校中学高三英语上学期期末试题及参考答案第一部分阅读（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ASongkran, ThailandThis festival marks the Thai New Year, which is celebrated in the second week of April. This is the hottest time of the year in Thailand, so it makes sense that the biggest

2、Songkran tradition is to throw water on people. Thais of all ages join in water fights, using buckets, hoses ( 软管 )and water guns to celebrate the event.Boryeong Mud Festival, South KoreaDon't expect to come home clean after experiencing the Boryeong Mud Festival in South Korea. Famous for its m

3、ineral -rich mudflats, visitors rush to Boryeong in July to make themselves in mud, swim in grey pools and enjoy the party. There are even mudslides and a mud skiing competition for those who are seeking the extreme mud adventure!La Tomatina, SpainThe festival dates back to a parade in which some na

4、ughty teenagers knocked one performer off his stilts (高跷)and caused a fight of throwing vegetables accidentally. It was once banned until 1957 when the locals held aprotest with a funeral. They carried a coffin containing a huge tomato as bands played a funeral march. In thefollowing decades, La Tom

5、atina has become a popular event. If you join the event, be aware that you squash (压扁 ) the tomato before throwing it. Have a great time but avoid causing any injury.Dia de los Muertos, MexicoBeginning at the midnight of October 31 and lasting through November 2,it is a festival when families gather

6、 together to remember those loved ones who have died, aiming to help them on their spiritual journey. On these days, Mexican families prepare special tables in their homes. On top of them they'll put photos of the dead and their favorite food. They also visit the graves of their beloved ones to

7、show their respect to the dead.1. If you want to experience a special new year in a country, you can choose to visit. A.ThailandB.South KoreaC.SpainD.Mexico 2.What may happen to you as a visitor in La Tomatina?A.You can perform stilts.B.Your can play funeral music in bands.C.You may be covered with

8、mud.D.You may be attacked with tomatoes.3. Which festival is similar to the Tomb Sweeping Festival in China? A.Songkran.B.Boryeong Mud Festival.C.La Tomatina.D.Dia de los Muertos.BAs I work in theLarkwhistle Garden in Dyer's Bay, Ontario, I take my time and the garden is teaching me aboutworking

9、 with the earth. I recognize that there will be both successes and failures and there are many variables(变量)that affect them both.The quality of the seeds planted has a bearing on how the plants will grow. The weather can be too hot, too cold, or exactly right, and usually varies between all three.

10、Weeds seem to grow in the garden and need to be taken care of, pulled, and removed to ensure they do not eat into the fruits, vegetables, and flowers we have so lovingly planted.I take time to stand back and rest, and to observe the plants and how they are growing. Each plant is uniqueand develops i

11、n the way that is best for them. Some have large broad leaves to shadow their fruit from the severe rays of the sun, while other plants are more open, their fruit needing the light to grow and ripen.Getting my hands dirty, feeling the sweat on my forehead, and the strength and flexibility of my body

12、 as I dig, bend and work under the warm summer sun, reminds me I am alive in ways I would not have remembered sitting on the couch.It is attractive to move things around, to transplant, and to disturb the natural order of how plants grow. The garden teaches me that it is important to know when to di

13、sturb things and when to let them be. The garden's life cycle follows a pattern that is repeated according to laws of nature, birth, growth, and then dies and it teaches us to accept this fact.4. How many variables may affect the growth of plants in the garden?A. Two.B. Three.C. Four.D. Five.5.

14、What can we learn about the author?A. He feels exhausted while gardening.B. He enjoys life from working practice.C. He takes pleasure in harvesting fruits.D. He dreams away his time in the garden.6. How is the garden tended by the author?A. Its rank grass is got rid of.B. Its plants are left to grow

15、 freely.C. Its temperature is controlled properly.D. Its plants with large broad leaves are cut off.7. What fact does the author learn from gardening?A. Life takes its course.B. Hard work benefits health.C. Time is short and precious.D. Gardening brings good harvest. CElizabeth Spelke, a cognitive p

16、sychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the worldlearningsystem-the mind of a baby. Babies might seem like no match for artificialintelligence(AI). They are terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text, and awful at video games. Then again, babies can do thingsbeyond the reach o

17、f any AI. By just a few months old, they ve begun to grasp the foundations of language, sgrammar. They ve started to understand how to adapt to unfamiliar situations.Yet even experts like Spelke don t understand precisely how babies or adults learn. Consider one of the most impressive examples of AI

18、, Alpha Zero, a programme that plays board games with superhuman skill. After playingthousands of games against itself at a super speed, and learning from winning positions, Alpha Zero independently discoveredseveralfamouschessstrategiesandeveninventednewones.Itcertainlyseemslikea machineeclipsinghu

19、mancognitiveabilities. But Alpha Zero needs to play millionsmore games than a person during practice to learn a game. Most importantly, it cannot take what it has learned from the game and apply itto another area.To some AI experts, that calls fora new approach. In a Novemberresearch paper, Francois

20、 Chollet, awell -known AI engineer, argued that it s misguided to measure machine intelligence just according to its skills at specific tasks.“ Humans don t start out with skills; they start out with a broad ability to acquire new skills,“ What a strong human chess player is demonstrating is not onl

21、y the ability to play chess, but the potential to fulfill any task of a similar difficulty.”8. Compared to an advanced AI programme, a baby might be better at.A playinggamesB. identifyinglocationsC. labeling picturesD. making adjustments9. What does the underlined word“ eclipsing” in Paragraph 3 pro

22、bably mean?A. Imitating.B. Beating.C. Limiting.D. Promoting.10. According to the text, Francois Chollet may agree that.A. AI is good at completing certain assignments.B. AI is likely to gain abilities with less training.C. AI lacks the ability of acquiring specific skills.D. AI performs better than

23、humans in cognitive ability.11. Whichwould be the best title for this passage?A. What is exactly intelligence?B. Why is modern AI advanced?C. Where is human intelligence going?D. How do humans face the challenge of AI?DIf you ever get the impression that your dog can "tell" whether you loo

24、k delighted or annoyed, you may be onto something. Dogs may indeed be able to distinguish between happy and angry human faces, according to a new studyResearchers traineda group of 11 dogs to distinguish betweenimages(图像 )of the same person makingeither a happy or an angry face. During the training

25、stage, each dog was shown only the upper half or the lowerhalf of the person's face. The researchers thentested the dogs' abilityto distinguish betweenhuman facial expressions by showing them the other half of the person's face on images totally different from the ones used in training.

26、The researchers found that the dogs were able to pick the angry or happy face by touching a picture of itwith their noses more often than one would expect by random chance.The study showed the animals had figured out how to apply what they learned about human faces during training to new faces in th

27、e testing stage. "We can rule out that the dogs simply distinguish between the pictures based on a simple cue, such as the sight of teeth," said study author Corsin Muller. "Instead, our results suggest that the successful dogs realized that a smiling mouth means the same thing as smi

28、ling eyes, and the same rule applies to an angry mouth having the same meaning as angry eyes.""With our study, we think we can now confidently conclude that at least some dogs can distinguish human facial expressions," Muller toldLive Science.At this point, itis not clear why dogs see

29、m to be equipped with the ability to recognize differentfacial expressions in humans. "To us, the most likely explanationappears to be that the basis lies in their living with humans, which gives them a lot of exposure to human facial expressions and this exposure has provided themwith many cha

30、nces to learn to distinguish between them." Muller said.12. The new study focused on whether dogs can.A. distinguish shapesB. make sense of human facesC. feel happy or angryD. communicate with each other13. What can we learn about the study from paragraph 2?A. Researchers tested the dogs in ran

31、dom order.B. Diverse methods were adopted during training.C. Pictures used in the two stages were differentD. The dogs were photographed before the lest.14. What is the last paragraph mainly about?A. A suggestion for future studies.B. A possible reason for the study findings.C. A major limitation of

32、 the studyD. An explanation of the research method.15. In which section is the text most likely to be found in a newspaper ?A. EntertainmentB. EconomyC. ScienceD. Nature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Music therapyMusic therapy （疗法） is a form of therapy which utiliz

33、es music.16 Humans have been making music for thousands of years, and many doctors throughout history have proved the idea that music is beneficial to the mind and body, in addition to being enjoyable. 17Listening to and making music appears to reduce heart rate and blood pressure, and provide peopl

34、e with a sense of calmness, safety, or security. 18 Most practitioners have studied psychology or psychiatry along with music. Music therapists work in hospitals, clinics, residential facilities, private practices, and homes.Some specific applications for music therapy include: pain management, stre

35、ss management, behavioral therapy, treatment for substance abuse,and work with people who have developmental disabilities. 19 And they can include a variety of things, from listening to a piece of music and talkingabout the feelings it evokes （激发） to playing an instrument or writing songs as a metho

36、d of personal expression.Like other expressive therapies such as art therapy and dance therapy, the focus of music therapy is not onthe end product, such as a musical composition, and people do not need to have prior experience with music to benefit from this type of therapy.20 A. This type of thera

37、py has a number of benefitsB. The measures are tailored to the need of the patientC. People can practice music therapy in a variety of ways.D. This type of therapy may involve making music or listening to musicE. But there are still many fields of music therapy needing to be changedF. In the 20th ce

38、ntury, the practice of music therapy improved as researchers conducted studies to learn how music acted on the brain and body.G. What is more focused on is the process of listening to, creating, or thinking about music.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

39、处的最佳选项“ Ladiesand gentlemen,the timetrainhas arrived at the terminal!I”t felt like I had woken up fromadream,21soondiscovered I had come to 2035. Suddenly, I heard a strange22calling my name. Iturnedaround, only to find a robot23to me enthusiastically.“ I'll24you around the city in 203nodded imm

40、ediately,25what the city would be like.Once I walked out of the train station, many crossed air lanes came into view. The robot, seeing how 26 I was, explained the new traffic system to me. The system was put into place by many famous engineers using highly 27 technology. In fact, it eliminated ( 消

41、除 ) the issue of traffic jams entirely.Next we made our way to a28nearby. Just as I29that there was no menu, a waiter began toscan my body with a special30, which gave me a big fright,so I31out of my seat immediately.Therobot explained it was just a machine that was able to figure out32our body need

42、ed and chose the recipe ( 食谱) that33us most. The waiter then introduced me to the electronic34that allowed me tochoose the environment according to my35. I pressed the“ beach ” button on the screen and36 a sea breeze. I couldn t help but37at how rapidly technology had advanced.We38returned to the tr

43、ain station. Just as I39the train, I heard a familiar voice calling my name.I opened my eyes to see my mom standing over me. What a40dream!21. A. butB. soC. ifD. while22. A. noiseB. warningC. voiceD. notice23. A. singingB. screamingC. flyingD. waving24. A. showB. walkC. turnD. get25. A. gettingB. kn

44、owingC. wonderingD. feeling26. A. astonishedB. scaredC. boredD. moved27. A. standardB. advancedC. unusualD. useless28. A. squareB. stationC. supermarketD. restaurant29. A. toldB. heardC. realizedD. reminded30. A. buttonB. instrumentC. engineD. function31. A. tookB. jumpedC. leftD. danced32. A. whyB.

45、 howC. whatD. when33. A. attractedB. offeredC. providedD. suited34. A. screenB. productC. dictionaryD. mail35. A. temperatureB. placeC. geneD. taste36. A.sadlyB. suddenlyC. lyD. luckily37. A. aimB. guessC. stareD. sigh38. A. immediatelyB. hardlyC. eventuallyD. occasionally39. A. got onB. brought inC

46、. put offD. looked into40. A. terribleB. fantasticC. awfulD. practical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Unluckily for my son Joey, he was born with two diseased feet. The doctor said that he would be able to walk with41.(treat)butwouldneverrunverywell.Thefirstthreeyearsofhis

47、 life42.(spend) in hospital.By thetimeJoey was eight,hecouldwalkas43.(normal)as others.Childreninourneighborhood always ran around during their play,44.Joey would run and play, too.In the seventh grade, he decided to join the school running team.45.(know) that only the top sevenrunnerswouldbechosen,

48、hetrained46.(hard)thananyoneelse.Heran four47.five miles every day, even when he had a fever.One day, I went to see him and found him running alone in the playground. I asked him48.he felt.“ I m OK, ” he said. He still had two more miles49.(run). So he kept running.Two weeks later, the seven team me

49、mbers were picked out, among50.Joey was number six.Joey s efforts paid off. I was very proud of him.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. 单句改错：In my astonishment, he still remembered my birthday after we separated for so many years. She resembles like her mother in character but not in appearance.Af

50、ter getting many bad review, the play quickly died the death.He purposely ignored her call because he just didn t feel like disturbed. She would rather walk there than took a bus.It was his strong sense of responsibility what impressed us.We ve never imagined a man like him perform the experiment by himself.I have lent him ten magazines, most of who are more wonderful than you can imagine. The dictionary is very worth buying.The girl as well as her parents go to the beach every summer.第二节书面表达（满分25 分）52. 假定你是校学生会主席， 你校决定邀请浙江大学著名美籍教授Smith 先生来你校举办环保知识讲座。请你用英语写一份书面通知。要点如下：1