黑龙江省哈尔滨市三中2021届高三上学期期中考试英语试题含答案

哈尔滨市三中

2020-2021

高三年级期中考试英语试卷

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（

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B

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C

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D

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A

Dream Big with Caledonia

Caledonian Sleeper is a gateway to a world of possibilities with our overnight rail service bringing a touch of

the extraordinary

to

travel between London and Edinburgh.

Taste the local food, have the ultimate sleep on our comfortable bed and enjoy a private room with toilet and shower.

And above all, wake up refreshed, ready to start an adventure at your destination.

Caledonian Double

double bed

breakfast included

Club Room

2 single beds

breakfast included

Classic Room

twin bunk beds

breakfast

purchase

in-room washbasin

points

Wi-Fi

for

Comfort Seats

breakfast

purchase

Wi-Fi

for

toilet and shower

charging

&Wi-Fi

priority boarding

temperature control

points

toilet and shower

charging

&Wi-Fi

priority boarding

temperature control

Caledonian

Sleeper

Fixed

Advance:

Our Fixed

Advance

tickets offer our best value fares. No changes,

refunds

or

upgrades are allowed. Available for Club rooms (?

1

50/passenger)

a

Classic rooms

(

?

100/passenger).

Book at least 2 months ahead of time.

Caledonian Sleeper Flexible:

Our Flexible tickets are fully refundable. Available for Caledonian Double

(

?

200/passenger),

Club

rooms

(

?

170/passenger),

Classic

rooms

(?

1

20/passenger)

and

Comfort

seats

(?

50/passenger). Book anytime if available.

Notice:

These are single (one-way) tickets; to make a return journey, just buy two single tickets.

Oops! A family getaway can often feel like someone is missing if your furry friend is left behind.

If

you are

travelling in

a

Caledonian Double or Club room, you're welcome

to

bring up to 2 pets with an additional fare as low

as

?

30 per room.

1. What is promoted in this text?

A. A travel package.

C.

A

family plan.

2. AH ticket holders can enjoy without extra charge.

A. Wi-Fi signals B. priority boarding C. on-board breakfast D. charging points 3. What can be inferred from the

passage?

A. If the bookings are canceled, you can't get your money back.

B. If you choose Caledonian Sleeper Flexible, book only on working days.

C. Caledonian Double is not available in Caledonian Sleeper Fixed Advance.

D. The two categories of rail tickets are round-trip tickets.

4. What is the lowest round-trip fare for a married couple with :heir two pet dogs?

A. ?

230.

B. ?

330.

C.?

660.

B

I was 16 years old the day I skipped school for the first time. It was easily done: Both my parents left for work

before my school bus arrived on weekdays, so when it showed up at my house on that cold winter morning, I simply

did not get on. The perfect crime!

And what did

I

do with myself on that glorious stolen day, with no adult in charge and no limits on my

activities? Did

I

get high? Hit the mall for a shoplifting extravaganza

（狂欢）？

No. I built a warm fire in the wood stove, prepared a bowl of popcorn, grabbed a blanket, and read. I was

thrilled and transported by a book

—

it was Hemingway's

The Sun Also Rises

—

and I just needed to be alone with it

for a little while. I ached to know what would happen to Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley and Robert Cohn. I

couldn't bear the thought of sitting in a classroom taking another biology exam when I could be traveling through

Spain in the 1920s with

a

bunch of expatriates

（异乡客）

.

I spent that day lost in words. Time fell away, as the room around me turned to mist, and my role

—

as a

daughter, sister, teenager, and student

—

in the world no longer had any meaning. 1 had accidentally come across

the key to perfect happiness: I had become completely absorbed by something I loved.

Looking back on it now, I can see that some subtle things were happening to my mind and to my life while I

was

in

that

state

of

absorption.

Hemingway's

language

was

quietly

braiding

itself

into

my

imagination.

I

was

downloading information about how to create simple and elegant sentences, a good and solid plot. In other words, I

was learning how to write. Without realizing it, I was hot on the trail of my own fate. Writing now absorbs me the

way reading once did and happiness is their generous side effect.

D. ?

740.

B. A train service.

D. An accommodation service.

5. Why did the author skip school on that day?

A. Because her parents left home early.

B. Because she was fascinated by a novel.

C. Because it was a cold winter morning.

D. Because she hated to take the biology exam.

6. What did the author think is the source of true joy?

A. Reading by the fire.

C. Breaking the regulations.

B. Travelling in Spain.

D. Being occupied by one's passion.

7. Which can best

replace the underlined phrase “

braiding itself into

A. Entering.

B. Destroying. C. Mending.

D. Blocking.

8. What can we infer from the passage?

A. I was tired of my real-life roles.

B. Becoming a writer was my childhood dream.

C. Hemingway skipped school when he was young.

D. I learnt how to write on the Internet.

C

Anyone who commutes

（

通勤）

by car knows that traffic jams are an unavoidable part of life. But humans are

not alone in facing potential backups.

Ants also commute

—

between their nest and sources of food. The survival of their colonies depends on doing

this efficiently.

When humans commute, there's a point at which cars become dense

（稠密）

enough to slow down the flow

of traffic, causing jams. Motsch, a mathematician in Arizona State University, and his colleagues wanted to know if

ants on the move could also get stuck. So they regulated traffic density by constructing bridges of various widths

between a colony of Argentine ants and a source of food. Then they waited and watched.

out at what point they are going to have a traffic jam.

But it appears that that never happened. They always managed to avoid traffic jams. The flow of ants did

increase at the beginning as ants started to fill the bridge and then levelled off at high densities. But it never slowed

down or stopped, even when the bridge was nearly filled with ants.

The researchers then took a closer look, at how the behavior of individual ants impacted traffic as a whole.

And they found that when ants sense overcrowding, they adjust their speeds and avoid entering high- density areas,

which prevents jams. These behaviors may be promoted by pheromones, chemicals that tell other ants where a trail

is. The ants also manage to avoid colliding

（碰撞）

with each other at high densities, which could really slow them

down. The study is in the journal

eLife.

Can ants help us solve our own traffic problems? Not likely, says Motsch. That's because when it comes to

getting from point A to point B as fast as possible, human drivers put their own goals first. Individual ants have to be

more

cooperative

in

order

to

feed

the

colony.

But

the

research

could

be

useful

in

improving

traffic

flow

for

self-driving cars, which can be designed to be less like selfish humans

—

and more like ants.

9. What does the underlined word

A. Surviving.

B. Avoiding jams. C. Finding food.

D. Commuting.

10. How did the researchers control the traffic density of the commuting ants?

A. By controlling the widths of their path.

B. Through closer observation.

C. By finding out the dense points.

D. By regulating their numbers.

11. According to the research, ants can avoid traffic jams mainly because.

A. they follow a special route

B. they level off at high densities

C. they depend on their natural chemicals to adjust their speeds

D. they never stop or slow down on the way

12. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Traffic Jams

C. Survival of an Ant Colony

D

I

personally

think

trains

are

exciting

and

romantic.

I

must

admit

that

trains

are

not

important

means

of

transportation in the US, but 1 do have some experiences with them.

When I was a child, growing up in a small town with very little entertainment, we used to go to the station to

watch the passenger trains coming in. There was something exciting about the steaming, roaring string of trains

coming into view around the mountains, slowly growing larger and louder and finally after their stop crowds

of

strangers spilling

（漏出）

onto the platform.

I took my first train trip when I was ten years old. I went with my elder sister to visit our cousins six hundred

miles away. The train

—

so loud and violent on the outside

—

was gentle and rocking inside. We were very excited,

and as that was also our first time away from our parents, we felt somewhat frightened too. However, because I had

B. Unavoidable? Not for Ants!

D. Differences Between Human and Ants

expected so much, I was a little disappointed when I was finally one of the passengers I had watched for so long.

As a college student, I used to ride an overnight train to my roommate's hometown. We could never afford a

sleeper,

so

we

played

cards,

sang,

ate,

read

and

talked

until

we

finally

fell

uncomfortably

asleep

in

the

straight-backed seats.

My

idea

that

trains

are

romantic

may

come

from

the

fact

that

my

husband

and

I

took

the

train

on

our

honeymoon, spending extra money to eat in the dining car, and looking out of the window as the desert scenery slid

past.

Now, when I make a trip, I always fly or drive, and trains are not a very important part of my life. Still, every

time I hear the train whistle far away on a quiet night, I can always feel the impulse in my heart to pack my bags and

jump on board, entering a unique world of motions, sounds, sights and experiences which just aren't matched in the

dull environment of an airplane.

13.

Why did the author feel a little disappointed during the

first

train trip?

A. Because the train

was

loud

and

violent.

C. Because she had a high expectation.

14. It

can

be inferred from

the

passage that.

A. the author's childhood memory of trains was frightening and disappointing

B. the author no longer makes a trip by train now as a result of its

dull

environment

C. the author didn't fall asleep until

she

found straight-backed seats with

her

roommate

D. the author thought trains romantic mainly because of the pleasant moment with her husband

15. Which word

best

describes the author's feelings when she hears the train whistle now?

A. Eager.

B. Embarrassed. C. Romantic.

D.

Disappointed.

B. Because

she

finally became a passenger.

D. Because she missed his parents.

1

6. Which can be a suitable title for the text?

A. My

Love

of Trains

C. My Memory of Trips

E

Smartphone Bans in School

Today's students all over the world are losing an hour a week of productivity due to

their

smartphone activity.

That is what two researchers from

the

London School of Economics are arguing with their new study that

examined 130,000 students in 91 British schools that employed various smartphone-use

policies.

Then, they looked

at how their respective students performed in 16-year-olds' national exams.

In what may not come

as

a

surprise

to some, researchers Richard Murphy and Louis- Philippe Beland found

B. Watching Trains Coming

D. Trains: My Best Choice

that as schools' phone policies evolved since 2001, with some choosing to completely ban smartphones, school

test

scores improved by an average of 6.4 percent. The increase in scores

from

underachieving students was even more

significant as they saw their scores increase

by an

average of 14 percent.

“The results suggest that low

-achieving students are

more

likely

to

be distracted by the presence of mobile

phones, while high achievers

can

focus

in the

classroom regardless of

the

mobile phone policy,

CNN.

the

effect

of

banning phones

for

these students was the same as an additional

hour

a week in

school, or increasing

the

school year

by

five days.

Professor Murphy and Beland

said

their

study

does not mean that smartphones and

other

technology

have no

place in assisting

learning.

“There are, however, potential drawbacks

to

new technologies,

they told

CNN, citing the temptation to text,

play games or chat

on

social media. Therefore, smartphones will not be completely out of classrooms anytime soon.

Smartphone ownership among young people and

children has skyrocketed in

the

past few years. Pew Research and the Berkman

Center for

Internet and Society at

Harvard

University

reported that as of 2013, 78 percent of teens

aged 12

to

17

owned a cellphone, 47 percent of

which were smartphones.

The use of smartphones in schools

is

a controversial topic. Parents want to

be

able

to

reach

their

children

while teachers complain

about

the effect they have

on classes.

In March, New York

City Mayor

Bill

de

Blasio ended

a

decade-long city-wide

ban

on smartphones in public

schools and left

them

to

make up

their own rules.

But Murphy

and

Beland said

the decision

may not have

a

good result.

“Schools

could

significantly

reduce

the

education

achieveme

nt

gap

by

prohibiting

mobile

phone

use

in

schools. So by allowing phones in schools, New

York

may unintentionally increase

the

inequalities

of

outcomes.”

17.

Which of

the

following is TRUE about the research?

A. It examined 130,000 underachieving students.

B. It

proves that smartphones

are no good for students' studies.

C. Smartphone ownership among

teens

aged 12 to 17 amounted to

about

50 percent.

D. In schools with smartphone bans, scores of the underachieving students

increased

by 14%.

18.

Which could best

replace the

underlined

word

“distracted

in

paragraph 4?

A. Improved.

B. Interested.

C. Assisted.

D. Affected.

19.

As

the

research suggests, as a result

of

smartphone use students

may

.

A. lose

about an

hour every day

B. relatively lose five days for learning

C. increase their scores by an average of 6.4 percent

D. decrease their scores

by

an average of 14 percent

20.

What's

the passage

mainly about?

A. Smartphone bans in schools are beneficial.

B. Smartphones cause students

many

problems.

C. Some students use

smartphones

too much.

D. Heavy smartphone use can harm

students'

learning

abilities.

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