黑龙江省哈尔滨市三中届高三上学期期中考试英语试题含答案.docx

1、黑龙江省哈尔滨市三中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学年度上学期高三年级期中考试英语试卷（时间：120分钟 满分150分）第一部分:阅读理解（共两小节，满分50分）第一节（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。ADream Big with CaledoniaCaledonian Sleeper is a gateway to a world of possibilities with our overnight rail service bringing a touch of the extr

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6、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, youre 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. B. A train service.C. A famil

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8、eeper 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. D. 740.BI was 16

9、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 s

10、tolen 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 Hemingways The Sun A

11、lso 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 couldnt bear the thought of sitting in a classroom taking another biology exam when I could be traveling through Spain in the 1920s with a bun

12、ch 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

13、 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. Hemingways language was quietly braiding itself into my imagination. I was downloading information about how to create simple and elegant

14、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.5. Why did the author skip school on that day?A. Because her parents

15、 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. B. Travelling in Spain.C. Breaking the regulations. D. Being occupied by ones

16、 passion.7. Which can best replace the underlined phrase “braiding itself into in the last paragraph?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

17、when he was young.D. I learnt how to write on the Internet.CAnyone 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

18、 doing this efficiently.When humans commute, theres 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

19、 density by constructing bridges of various widths between a colony of Argentine ants and a source of food. Then they waited and watched. The goal was to try to find out at what point they are going to have a traffic jam. said Sebastien Motsch.But it appears that that never happened. They always man

20、aged 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

21、 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

22、 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. Thats because when it comes to getting from point A to point B as fast as possible, human drivers put

23、 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 this in paragrap

24、h 2 refer to?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. Acco

25、rding to the research, ants can avoid traffic jams mainly because.A. they follow a special routeB. they level off at high densitiesC. they depend on their natural chemicals to adjust their speedsD. they never stop or slow down on the way12. What is the best title of the passage?A. Traffic Jams B. Un

26、avoidable? Not for Ants!C. Survival of an Ant Colony D. Differences Between Human and AntsDI 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 s

27、mall 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 str

28、angers 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 aw

29、ay from our parents, we felt somewhat frightened too. However, because I had 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 roommates hometown. We could never afford a slee

30、per, 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

31、 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

32、 a unique world of motions, sounds, sights and experiences which just arent 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. B. Because she finally became a passenger.C. Because she had a high expectation. D. Because she missed his parents.14. It can be inferred from the passage that.A. the authors c