2020届长春市十一高中高三英语上学期期中试题及答案解析
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2020届长春市十一高中高三英语上学期期中试题及答案解析
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
The Costa Book Awards consistently pick winners that are both of the moment and subsequently endure. It's
our pleasure to confirm this year’s Category Winners.
First Novel Award Winner
Book: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Author: Gail Honeyman
Eleanor is 31 years old; work finishes on a Friday and begins again on a Monday. Between, her only company
will be two bottles of vodka and her own solitary, unique wit (机智). It is contentment, of a kind, but an
unexpected shared experience suddenly opens the door to possibility. Challenging reader expectations with a
living, breathing character, Gail Honeyman’s debut (初次登台、开张)is a funny and moving diamond.
Biography Award Winner
Book: In the Days of Rain
Author: Rebecca Stott
The Exclusive Brethren were aclosed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan. Into this is born
Rebecca. Her father had been an influential Brethren Minister. As her father lay dying, he begged her to help him
write the memoir. He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a
fundamentalist Christian sect.
Poetry Award Winner
Book: Inside the Wave
Author: Helen Dunmore
To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned
with the borderline between the living and the dead — the underworld and the human living world – and the
acutely intense being of both.
Children's Award Winner
Book:The Explorer
Author: Katherine Rundell, Hannah Horn Four children survive their aircraft plunging into the Amazon jungle, but for Fred and his friends it’s only the
beginning of a cruel battle for survival. Brimming with adventure and a real command of character and incident,
Rundell has few peers in superb children's fiction.
1.What kind of life does Eleanor lead?
A.boring and lonely. B.funny and touching.
C.exciting and complex. D.ordinary and happy.
2.Why did Rebecca Stott writeIn the Days of Rain?
A.To introduce beliefs of the Exclusive Brethren.
B.To help her father fulfill his last wish.
CTo share the life of fundamentalist Christians.
D.To pass on her family traditions.
3.For a young adventurous soul, which book seems more appealing?
A.Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine B.In the Days of Rain
C.Inside the Wave D.The Explorer
B
At the World Economic Forum last month, President Trump drew claps when he announced the United States
would respond to the forum's proposal to plant one trillion(万亿) trees to fight climate change. The trillion-tree
idea won wide attention last summer after a study published in the journal Science concluded thatplanting so
many trees was “the most effective climate change solution to date”.
If only it were true. But it isn't. Planting trees would slow down the planet's warming, but the only thing that
will save us and future generations from paying a huge price in dollars, lives and damage to nature is rapid and
considerable reductions in carbon release from fossil fuels, to net zero by 2050.
Focusing on trees as the big solution to climate change is a dangerous diversion(偏离). Worse still, it takes
attention away from those responsible for the carbon release that are pushing us toward disaster. For example, in
the Netherlands, you can pay Shell an additional 1 euro cent for each liter of regular gasoline you put in your tank,
to plant trees to balance the carbon release from your driving. That's clearly no more than disaster slightly delayed.
The only way to stop this planet from overheating is through political, economic, technological and social solutions
that end the use of fossil fuels.
There is no way that planting trees, even across a global area the size of theUnited States, can absorb the
huge amounts of fossil carbon released from industrial societies. Trees do take up carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. But this uptake merely replaces carbon lost when forests were cleared in the first place, usually long
ago. Regrowing forests where they once grew can undo some damage done in the past, but even a trillion trees
can't store enough carbon to head off dramatic climate changes this century.
In a sharp counter argument to last summer's Paper in Science, Justin Gillis wrote in the same journal in
October that the study's findings were inconsistent with the dynamics of the global carbon cycle. He warned that
“the claimthat global tree restoration(复原) is our most effective climate solution is simply scientifically incorrect
and dangerously misleading”.
