2024年3月12日发(作者：悟恺)

2020届济南市历城第二中学高三英语期中试卷及答案

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

A

Three Things to Do Before You Are 18

Are you bored with your daily life? Here are some things you should try before you are 18.

★Learn to swim

Seriously, this is so important that it can save your life. If you can’t swim well, you won’t be able to dowater

sports like waterskiing, surfing and diving. Even taking a boat trip will be dangerous for you. Make sure you do it.

★Try at least one kind of team sports

Being a good team player is an important skill in life. You can’t just think of yourself, but have to work well

with other people. Other advantages of team sports like basketball, football and baseball are that they keep you fit

and healthy, and they are also great fun. Teams usually have a good social life too—you’ll go to lots of parties and

make many friends.

★Collect something

One of the best hobbies for under-18s is collecting things. You could collect kinds of stamps, or you could

collect things that make you remember what you have done, like cinema tickets for films you have seen or letters

from friends. The best way to collect is to have a special album to put your collection in and to write what each

thing means to you. That way you won’t forget.

1. The most important reason for learning to swim is that ________.

A. you might feel well B. it can make you healthy

C. you might easily do lots of things D. it can save your life

2. The writer tells us that one of the best hobbies is to ________ .

A. collect something B. do some water sports

C. send letters to your friends D. play basketball with your friends

23. The passage is mainly about ________before you are 18.

A. good habits to keep B. skills to have

C. things to do D. sports to play

B

A cheap printed sensor could transmit wildfire warnings. Wildfires have recently destroyed regions across the

world, and theirgravityis increasing. Hoping to reduce harm, researchersled by Yapei Wang, a Chinese chemist

ofRenminUniversity, say they have developed an inexpensive sensor to detect such fires earlier with less effort.

Current detection methods rely heavily on human watchfulness, which can delay an effective response. Most

wildfires are reported by the general public, and other alerts come from routine foot patrols and watchtower

observers. Passing planes and satellites also occasionally spot something, but “the fire first appears on the

ground," Wang says. “ When you see the fire from the sky, it is too late. ”

The team says its new sensor can be placed near tree trunks' bases and send a wireless signal to a nearby

receiver if there is a dramatic temperature increase. That heat also powers the sensor itself, without replacing

batteries. The team printed the substances onto ordinary paper to create a sensor for just $ 0.40.

But improving coordination among the different agencies involved in firefighting is even more crucial to

address, says Graham Kent, an earthquake expert at theUniversityofNevada,Reno, who was not part of the

director of ALERTWildfire, a network that uses cameras and crowd sourcing to watch for fires

inCalifornia,NevadaandOregon. “The whole way that you respond to a fire until it's put out is like a ballet," he says.

“You'd have to choreograph (设计) it just so, with resources precisely used at the right time and place and in the

right order from detection to confirmation to assignment to extinguishment (熄灭).Fire detection is just step one.

Wang says his team's next steps are to extend the device'ssignal range beyond the current 100 meters, which

can limit practical use, and to develop a protective shield for it. The transmitter's effectiveness, he notes, will also

need to be examined in the field ahead.

4. What does the underlined word “gravity” in paragraph 1 probably mean?

A. Pull. B. Extinction.

C. Popularity. D. Severity.

5. What do we know about the sensor?

A. Its price remains high.

B. Its batteries are replaceable.

C. It can detect fires earlier and easier.

D. It can reduce firefighters' pain.

6. What doesKentmean in paragraph 4?

A. Firefighting is easy but crucial.

B. Fire detection resources are rich.

C. Putting out a fire is an orderly activity.

D. Technology is the key to extinguishing a fire.

7. What's the plan for the new sensor according to Wang?

A. Improving and testing it.

B. Limiting its use and transmission.

C. Examing and reducing its signal range.

D. Getting it on the market ahead of time.

C

I had very good parents. My mother came toAmericafromScotlandby herself when she was 11, and she didn’t

have much education. My dad was kind of a street kid, and he eventually went into the insurance business, selling

nickel policies door to day, my dad asked his boss, “What's the toughest market to sell?” and the

insurance guy replied “Well, black people. They don’t buy insurance.” My dad thought, but they have kids; they

have families. Why wouldn’t they buy insurance? So he said, “Give meHarlem.”

When my dad died in 1994, I talked about him onThe Tonight Show. I told the story of how he worked in

Harlem and how he always taught us to be open-minded and not to say or think things of racism (种族主义). Then

one day, I got a letter from a woman who was about 75 years old.

She wrote that when she was a little girl, a man used to come to her house to collect policies. She said this

man was the only white person who had ever come to dinner at their house. The man was very kind to her, she

said, and his name was Angelo—was this my father?

The letter made me cry. I called her up and said yes, that was in fact my dad, and she told me how kind he

had been to her family. Her whole attitude toward white people was based on that one nice man she met in her

childhood, who always treated her with kindness and respect and always gave her a piece of candy. From this

experience, I learned a valuable life lesson: never judge people and be open-minded and kind to others.

8. What did my father do after knowing what was the toughest market to sell?

A. He asked his boss to give him some insurance.

B. He went toScotlandto improve his education.

C. He specially went to white families with kids.

D. He choseHarlemto face the toughest challenge.

9. What can we learn from the third paragraph?

A. It was rare that a businessman had dinner in his customer's house.

B. Angelo was the only white person to sell insurance inHarlem.

C. The little girl admired Angelo very much.

D. Racism was a serious problem inAmericaat that time.

10. Which of the following can best describe the author’s father?

A. Stubborn and generous. B. Patient and intelligent.

C. Determined and open-minded. D. Confident and romantic.

11. What can be the best title of the passage?

A. Memories from a TV Show. B. A Letter from an Old Lady.

C. Life Lessons from My Father. D. My Father's Experience inHarlem.

D

Haley Curfman, 25, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, is a teacher at Blackwell Public School and last yearshe bought a

plain(朴素的) white dress, which she set up a station in her classroom for her students to decorate, encouraging

them to go and draw on the dress whenever they had free time. Haley set up a station at a table with the dress

and some color1 ed markers so that her students could draw on it, having first seen the idea on Pinterest.

After the kids had finished the design, she then surprised them all by wearing the dress to class, sharing

pictures of herself in it on Facebook in a post that has since been shared over 200, 000 times.

For teachers looking to do something similar for their own students, Haley said that she bought the dress off

Amazon for less than $ 20 about six months ago and pre-washed the dress before she started the project. She

used markers from Walmart. But she said these things can be bought in other places. She said, “To do the project,

I set up a station at a table with the dress and markers. It takes anywhere from two weeks to a month to complete

as we just work on it here and there when time allows. You'd better give the students enough time so they don't

have to hurry.”

“Teachers have been sharing their dresses, T-shirts, etc. with me that they've been creating since the 1950s

with the same idea. It is amazing, and I love the fact that you are sharing them with me! Thank you all so much for

your kindness and support,” she wrote on Facebook.

Asked why she came up with the idea, Haley told Scary Mommy. “We don't have art in our school, so, I always

try to do little creative projects when possible.”

12. What did Haley use the plain white dress to do?

A. To teach her students painting.

B. To prepare for her presentation.

C. To ask her students to draw on it.

D. To help her students with their homework.

13. What do we know about the finished dress?

A. It took Haley by surprise. B. It is kept by Haley at home.

C. It is the product of a new idea. D. It has enjoyed popularity online.

14. What should a teacher do if he or she wants to follow Haley's example?

A. Buy the same dress online. B. Give the kids enough time.

C. Buy the same markers in Walmart. D. Leave the finished work untouched.

15. Why did Haley carry out the project?

A. To teach art to her students. B. To show her idea on Pinterest.

C. To share it with other teachers. D. To exciteher students' creativity.

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

Walking is free, requires no equipment (aside from workout shoes) and can be done indoors or outside. You

can go for a walk alone, or with your kids, while on a conference call or during the day or at night.____16____.

Walking intervals(间隔):speed up and slow down

Instead of walking at a steady pace, try adding in some speed drills to get your heart beating

quickly.____17____Keep changing in the process of your entire walk.

Core engagement

As you walk, strike with your heel then toe, squeeze your glutes (臀) and pull your navel (肚脐) in toward

your spine, which is essential to core strength training and injury prevention.

____18____

Here are afew suggestions to strengthen your lower-body：first, after you walk for one block, stop and do 10

squats. Repeat three times at least. Second, walk for a block，then do walking lunges for another

block.____19____After walking for five minutes, do threesets of 10 repetitions of either squats or lunges.

Moving meditation

____20____,Imagine your walk as your own moving meditation (冥想). If you start feeling stressed or anxious

about something, bring your attention back to your breath.

A. Body strength training

B. Focus on your breath.

2024年3月12日发(作者：悟恺)

2020届济南市历城第二中学高三英语期中试卷及答案

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

A

Three Things to Do Before You Are 18

Are you bored with your daily life? Here are some things you should try before you are 18.

★Learn to swim

Seriously, this is so important that it can save your life. If you can’t swim well, you won’t be able to dowater

sports like waterskiing, surfing and diving. Even taking a boat trip will be dangerous for you. Make sure you do it.

★Try at least one kind of team sports

Being a good team player is an important skill in life. You can’t just think of yourself, but have to work well

with other people. Other advantages of team sports like basketball, football and baseball are that they keep you fit

and healthy, and they are also great fun. Teams usually have a good social life too—you’ll go to lots of parties and

make many friends.

★Collect something

One of the best hobbies for under-18s is collecting things. You could collect kinds of stamps, or you could

collect things that make you remember what you have done, like cinema tickets for films you have seen or letters

from friends. The best way to collect is to have a special album to put your collection in and to write what each

thing means to you. That way you won’t forget.

1. The most important reason for learning to swim is that ________.

A. you might feel well B. it can make you healthy

C. you might easily do lots of things D. it can save your life

2. The writer tells us that one of the best hobbies is to ________ .

A. collect something B. do some water sports

C. send letters to your friends D. play basketball with your friends

23. The passage is mainly about ________before you are 18.

A. good habits to keep B. skills to have

C. things to do D. sports to play

B

A cheap printed sensor could transmit wildfire warnings. Wildfires have recently destroyed regions across the

world, and theirgravityis increasing. Hoping to reduce harm, researchersled by Yapei Wang, a Chinese chemist

ofRenminUniversity, say they have developed an inexpensive sensor to detect such fires earlier with less effort.

Current detection methods rely heavily on human watchfulness, which can delay an effective response. Most

wildfires are reported by the general public, and other alerts come from routine foot patrols and watchtower

observers. Passing planes and satellites also occasionally spot something, but “the fire first appears on the

ground," Wang says. “ When you see the fire from the sky, it is too late. ”

The team says its new sensor can be placed near tree trunks' bases and send a wireless signal to a nearby

receiver if there is a dramatic temperature increase. That heat also powers the sensor itself, without replacing

batteries. The team printed the substances onto ordinary paper to create a sensor for just $ 0.40.

But improving coordination among the different agencies involved in firefighting is even more crucial to

address, says Graham Kent, an earthquake expert at theUniversityofNevada,Reno, who was not part of the

director of ALERTWildfire, a network that uses cameras and crowd sourcing to watch for fires

inCalifornia,NevadaandOregon. “The whole way that you respond to a fire until it's put out is like a ballet," he says.

“You'd have to choreograph (设计) it just so, with resources precisely used at the right time and place and in the

right order from detection to confirmation to assignment to extinguishment (熄灭).Fire detection is just step one.

Wang says his team's next steps are to extend the device'ssignal range beyond the current 100 meters, which

can limit practical use, and to develop a protective shield for it. The transmitter's effectiveness, he notes, will also

need to be examined in the field ahead.

4. What does the underlined word “gravity” in paragraph 1 probably mean?

A. Pull. B. Extinction.

C. Popularity. D. Severity.

5. What do we know about the sensor?

A. Its price remains high.

B. Its batteries are replaceable.

C. It can detect fires earlier and easier.

D. It can reduce firefighters' pain.

6. What doesKentmean in paragraph 4?

A. Firefighting is easy but crucial.

B. Fire detection resources are rich.

C. Putting out a fire is an orderly activity.

D. Technology is the key to extinguishing a fire.

7. What's the plan for the new sensor according to Wang?

A. Improving and testing it.

B. Limiting its use and transmission.

C. Examing and reducing its signal range.

D. Getting it on the market ahead of time.

C

I had very good parents. My mother came toAmericafromScotlandby herself when she was 11, and she didn’t

have much education. My dad was kind of a street kid, and he eventually went into the insurance business, selling

nickel policies door to day, my dad asked his boss, “What's the toughest market to sell?” and the

insurance guy replied “Well, black people. They don’t buy insurance.” My dad thought, but they have kids; they

have families. Why wouldn’t they buy insurance? So he said, “Give meHarlem.”

When my dad died in 1994, I talked about him onThe Tonight Show. I told the story of how he worked in

Harlem and how he always taught us to be open-minded and not to say or think things of racism (种族主义). Then

one day, I got a letter from a woman who was about 75 years old.

She wrote that when she was a little girl, a man used to come to her house to collect policies. She said this

man was the only white person who had ever come to dinner at their house. The man was very kind to her, she

said, and his name was Angelo—was this my father?

The letter made me cry. I called her up and said yes, that was in fact my dad, and she told me how kind he

had been to her family. Her whole attitude toward white people was based on that one nice man she met in her

childhood, who always treated her with kindness and respect and always gave her a piece of candy. From this

experience, I learned a valuable life lesson: never judge people and be open-minded and kind to others.

8. What did my father do after knowing what was the toughest market to sell?

A. He asked his boss to give him some insurance.

B. He went toScotlandto improve his education.

C. He specially went to white families with kids.

D. He choseHarlemto face the toughest challenge.

9. What can we learn from the third paragraph?

A. It was rare that a businessman had dinner in his customer's house.

B. Angelo was the only white person to sell insurance inHarlem.

C. The little girl admired Angelo very much.

D. Racism was a serious problem inAmericaat that time.

10. Which of the following can best describe the author’s father?

A. Stubborn and generous. B. Patient and intelligent.

C. Determined and open-minded. D. Confident and romantic.

11. What can be the best title of the passage?

A. Memories from a TV Show. B. A Letter from an Old Lady.

C. Life Lessons from My Father. D. My Father's Experience inHarlem.

D

Haley Curfman, 25, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, is a teacher at Blackwell Public School and last yearshe bought a

plain(朴素的) white dress, which she set up a station in her classroom for her students to decorate, encouraging

them to go and draw on the dress whenever they had free time. Haley set up a station at a table with the dress

and some color1 ed markers so that her students could draw on it, having first seen the idea on Pinterest.

After the kids had finished the design, she then surprised them all by wearing the dress to class, sharing

pictures of herself in it on Facebook in a post that has since been shared over 200, 000 times.

For teachers looking to do something similar for their own students, Haley said that she bought the dress off

Amazon for less than $ 20 about six months ago and pre-washed the dress before she started the project. She

used markers from Walmart. But she said these things can be bought in other places. She said, “To do the project,

I set up a station at a table with the dress and markers. It takes anywhere from two weeks to a month to complete

as we just work on it here and there when time allows. You'd better give the students enough time so they don't

have to hurry.”

“Teachers have been sharing their dresses, T-shirts, etc. with me that they've been creating since the 1950s

with the same idea. It is amazing, and I love the fact that you are sharing them with me! Thank you all so much for

your kindness and support,” she wrote on Facebook.

Asked why she came up with the idea, Haley told Scary Mommy. “We don't have art in our school, so, I always

try to do little creative projects when possible.”

12. What did Haley use the plain white dress to do?

A. To teach her students painting.

B. To prepare for her presentation.

C. To ask her students to draw on it.

D. To help her students with their homework.

13. What do we know about the finished dress?

A. It took Haley by surprise. B. It is kept by Haley at home.

C. It is the product of a new idea. D. It has enjoyed popularity online.

14. What should a teacher do if he or she wants to follow Haley's example?

A. Buy the same dress online. B. Give the kids enough time.

C. Buy the same markers in Walmart. D. Leave the finished work untouched.

15. Why did Haley carry out the project?

A. To teach art to her students. B. To show her idea on Pinterest.

C. To share it with other teachers. D. To exciteher students' creativity.

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

Walking is free, requires no equipment (aside from workout shoes) and can be done indoors or outside. You

can go for a walk alone, or with your kids, while on a conference call or during the day or at night.____16____.

Walking intervals(间隔):speed up and slow down

Instead of walking at a steady pace, try adding in some speed drills to get your heart beating

quickly.____17____Keep changing in the process of your entire walk.

Core engagement

As you walk, strike with your heel then toe, squeeze your glutes (臀) and pull your navel (肚脐) in toward

your spine, which is essential to core strength training and injury prevention.

____18____

Here are afew suggestions to strengthen your lower-body：first, after you walk for one block, stop and do 10

squats. Repeat three times at least. Second, walk for a block，then do walking lunges for another

block.____19____After walking for five minutes, do threesets of 10 repetitions of either squats or lunges.

Moving meditation

____20____,Imagine your walk as your own moving meditation (冥想). If you start feeling stressed or anxious

about something, bring your attention back to your breath.

A. Body strength training

B. Focus on your breath.