2020届河北衡水中学高三英语期中考试试卷及答案

2020届河北衡水中学高三英语期中考试试卷及答案

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

Last summer, Katie Steller pulled off the freeway on her way to work inMinneapolis. She stopped at a traffic

light, where a man was sitting with a sign asking for help. She rolled down her window and shouted. “Hey. I’m

driving around giving free haircuts. Do you want one right now?” The man laughed, then paused. “Actually,” he

said, “I was really hoping to get a haircut.” Steller pulled out a red chair from her car and helped the man cut his

hair immediately. After the work was done, the man looked in a mirror. “I look good!” he said.

Up to now, Steller has given 30 or so such haircuts around the city to people with little influence, and she is

strongly aware of the power of her cleanup job.

As a teen, she suffered from a severe disease, causing her hair to get thinned, so her mother arranged for

Steller’s first professional haircut. “To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and

not just an illness, it helped me feel cared about and less alone,” she says. After that, Steller knew she wanted to

have her own barbershop so she could help people feel the way she’d felt that day. Not long after finishing

cosmetology (美容术) school in 2009, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project, reaching out to people

on the streets. Her aim was that by doing some kind acts, others would be inspired to spread their own.

“Part of what broke my heart was just how lonely peoplelooked,” she said. “I thought maybe I’d go around

and ask if people want free haircuts. I can’t fix their problems, but maybe I can help them feel less alone for a

moment.”

It all began with a belief in simple acts of kindness, such as a free haircut. “The way you show up in the world

matters,” said Steller. “You have no idea what people are going to do with the kindness that you give them.”

1. How does the writer begin the passage?

A. By making a comparison. B. By giving a reason.

C. By raising a question. D. By describing a scene.

2. What made Stellar start the Red Chair Project?

A. Her mother’s love for her. B. Her interest in cosmetology.

C. Her care for those in need. D. Her wish to fight severe diseases.

3. What did Stellar expect from the project? A. To spread kindness. B. To solve social problems.

C. To deal with relationships. D. To make people look smarter.

B

Thursday, two Russian submarines(潜艇) dived down 2.5 miles into the Arctic Ocean and planted a national

flag onto a piece of continental shelf known as the Lomonosov Ridge. Rising from the center of the Arctic Basin,

the flag sent a clear message to the surrounding nations: Russia had just laid claim(权利) to the vast oil and gas

reserves contained in this underwater area.

AfterRussia, theUnited States,Norway,SwedenandFinlandare all trying to gain profit. Projections show that

the area of land and sea that falls within theArctic Circleis home to an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil, an

incredible 13% of Earth’s reserves. It’s also estimated to contain almost a quarter of untapped global gas resources.

But long before this oil race began, how did theArcticbecome so rich in energy?

“The first thing you realize is that theArctic—unlike the Antarctic—is an ocean surrounded by continents”,

Alastair Fraser, a geoscientist from Imperial College London, said. Firstly, this means there’s a huge quantity of

organic material available, in the form of dead sea creatures such as plankton and algae, which form the basis of

what will ultimately become oil and gas. Secondly, the surrounding ring of continents means that the Arctic Basin

contains a high proportion of continental crust(大陆地壳), which makes up about 50% of its oceanic area. That’s

significant because continental crust typically contains deep depressions called basins, into which organic matter

sinks.

Here, it gets inserted in rock and preserved in anoxic(缺氧) waters, meaning they contain little oxygen.

“Normally, in a shallow sea with lots of oxygen, it would not be preserved. But if the sea is deep enough, the

oxygenated waters at the top will be separated from the anoxic conditions at the base,” Fraser explained.

Conserved within these oxygen-free basins, the matter maintains compounds that finally make it useful as an

energy source for millions of years in the future.

4. Why didRussiaplant a national flag onto the Lomonosov Ridge?

A. To tell surrounding countries its armed forces.

B. To show its advanced technology of submarines.

C. To show abundant natural resources in theArcticBasin.