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2020届广州市花都区秀全中学高三英语上学期期中试卷及答案解析-

2020届广州市花都区秀全中学高三英语上学期期中试卷及答案解析
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
Sheffield
Lincoln College of English
Classes for foreign students at all levels.
3 months, 6 months, 9 months and one year course. Open all year.
Small class (at most 12 students.
Library, language laboratory and listening center. Accommodation (住宿with selected families. 25 minutes from London.
Course fees for English for one year are￡1,380 with reduction for shorter periods of study. 1.This passage is probably taken from _______. A.an advertisement B.a notice C.a poster D.a piece of news 2.Who will be accepted by this college? A.Both foreign and native students. B.Only foreign beginners and the advanced. C.Foreign students from beginners to the advanced. D.Only foreign students advanced.
3.While you stay there, who will take care of you? A.Your parents. B.Your classmates.
C.The school where you study. D.The family you have chosen.
B
When I was trying to find a place where to spend my December holidays, I met by chance some cheap flights to Iceland. After checking just a few winter pictures of Iceland, I realized that the country, known as the land of fire and ice, during the cold months of the year could offer me experiences I had never had before.

For sure you can’t miss the chance to go to Iceland in winter if your traveling wish list includes at least one of the crazy experiences Iceland can offer. Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean is a paradise (乐园 for all those who want to see the northern lights, experience cold weather conditions and put themselves in geothermal (地热的 baths while the snow is falling on their head.
The best way to move around Iceland is with a rental car. Distances are huge and public transport in winter is not really common out of the major towns. As we wanted to be even more convenient we decided to rent a small camper (野营车. Sleeping and cooking in a camper saved us a lot of driving, money and gave us the chance tobe always in the right place at the right time.
There were also no locals and in many cases no tourist facilities (设备. For us, as we slept in a camper, it was easier. But for tourists traveling by normal cars it is necessary to check the opening times ofhotels and restaurants as many of them run just from June to September.
It is amazing to experience how the weather is changing in Iceland. However, Icelanders prefer to stay inside their houses. They have even no time to complain about the weather in December. All they care about is Christmas. They love to decorate their houses, sing Christmas songs and eat typical Christmas food. 4. Why is Iceland famous as the land of fire and ice? A. Because tourists would like to play with fire on the ice. B. Because it is too dry to easily cause fire to happen. C. Because it is hot inside a house and cold outside. D. Because there exist hot springs and freezing ice. 5. What did the author think of the rented camper? A. It was not only practical but also economical. B. It was convenient but cost them more money. C. It provided the best chance to see the new country. D. It was much faster than other public transport. 6. What does the last paragraph imply? A. The Icelanders prefer to live with their family. B. The joy of Christmas drives the freezing weather away. C. December is the coldest month of the year. D. The Icelanders are always positive and stay outside. 7. What does this passage most probably come from?

A. A textbook B. A scientific report C. A travel magazine D. A news report
C
We all use different ways to remember ideas, facts and things we need to store. Remembering is an extremely important part of our learning experience. Information process, storage and recall encourage purposeful learning.
But the brain doesn’t store everything we want or need for future use. It makes choices and tends to remember information that forms a memorable pattern. Things you learned recently can be particularly difficult to remember because they haven’t taken root in your mind.
“Forgetting allows us to remember what is really important to our survival. We forget much of what we read, watch, and think directly every day.” writes John Medina in his book, Brain Rules.
How do you avoid losing 90%of what you’ve learned? An inspiring writer and speaker Zig Ziglar once said: “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”
Repetition has been a remembering skill for ages. When you hear or read something once，you don’t really learn it-at least not well enough to store the new information for long. The right kind of repetition can do wonders for your memory. People learn or remember better by repeating things or getting exposed to information many times. Othersrepeat particular steps or processes deliberately a number of times or even years to become better at certain skills.
Daniel Coyle explains in his book, The Little Book of Talent:“...closing the book and writing a summary, even short ones, forces you to figure out the key points, process and organize those ideas so they make sense, and write them on the page. When you pick it back up weeks later, reread all of your notes or highlights to strengthen the ideas even further.”
People learn by repeating things. Better learning is a repetition process. Every time we repetitively access something we already know, we increase the memory’s stored value. 8. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? A. The brain tends to store 90% of the things we learn. B. The fresher the information isthe easier to remember. C. Thinking is more important than remembering in study. D. The brain tends to choose and keep what it thinks important. 9. How does the writer prove his opinion?

A.By giving examples. B. By listing numbers.
C. By borrowing words of experts. D. By providing scientific finding. 10. What does Daniel Coyle want to say in his book? A. You can’t pay too much attention to repetition. B. Summarizing is a very effective learning tool. C. Forgetting forces human brain to make choices. D. Regular repetition helps to form good habits. 11. Which do you think is the best title of the passage? A. How the Brain Works B. Reading for More C. Fighting Against Forgetting D. Repeat to Remember
D
In the past, most people received their news from newspapers, magazines, radio and TV. But now, almost anyone can report and publish on the Internet and share it as news through social media. But the problemis that not all of the information is true and not all of the reporting is trustworthy.
Howard Schneider, a former editor of the newspapersNewsday,started the Center for News Literacy (素养 at Stony Book University in 2007. The center has multiple projects, but the most famous one is a course to teach news literacy. The course trains students to look for various details that may indicate the truth of the story.
Michelle Sheng is a third-year student at theUniversityofMichigan. Sheng finds that students either just stop reading the news or only take news from one source that they trust. "A lot of people are tired of the news. People are too busy to keep up with the news, and it is really easy to take whatever news is given to you because you don’t have the time to figure it out yourself,“ she says.
For her part, Sheng recently created a digital exhibit for the university library of images to educate students on steps they can take to better analyze the news.
It is important to educate an even larger audience, beyond American university students. The

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