高三第二次联考英语考试(2020-2021学年度)

高三第二次联考英语考试（2020-2021学年度）

Ⅰ．Listening Comprehension（30分）

Section A

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1．A．To an art gallery. B．To a party. C．To a wedding. D．To a theatre.

2．A．By plane. B．By train. C．By car. D．By boat.

3．A．15 minutes. B．30 minutes. C．40 minutes. D．45 minutes. 4．A．She has become fond of chemistry after learning more.

B．She got better grades because of hard work.

C．It’s hard for her to catch up with her classmates in chemistry.

D．She has learned more about chemistry.

5．A．Walk to the corner. B．Make a left turn.

C．Walk two blocks. D．Walk to the traffic lights.

6．A．More than two months. B．Less than two months.

C．Quite a few years. D．Up to three years. 7．A．She wants to make a call. B．She wants to measure the corridor.

C．She wants to find a room to relax. D．She wants to know where the washroom is.

8．A．Lonely. B．Sad. C．Tired. D．Young.

9．A．To call him up. B．To bring him home.

C．To pick him up. D．To convey a message. 10．A．It’s a nice fit. B．It’s the current

fashion.

C．It’s really strange. D．It’s an old style. Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11．A．At 11. B．At 23. C．At 72. D．At 82.

12．A．She sang on the stage. B．She became a teacher.

C．She worked as a nurse. D．She worked in a travel agency. 13．A．She loved music all her life.

B．She took a friend’s advice.

C．She was recommended by some people.

D．She wanted to write songs again.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.

14．A．What are the major causes of acid rain in china?

B．Why did the acid rain cause great damage in China?

C．What caused energy shortage in China?

D．How can we control acid rain in China?

15．A．About 17,000. B．About 12,00.

C．About 1,600. D．About 10,000.

16．A．The red tide hits the coast. B．Many women suffer from diseases.

C．Too much alcohol causes problems. D．The red tide does harm to fish.

Section C

Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you hear. Write

your answers on your answer sheet.

(A)

Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

(B)

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

Talking about the Apartments

Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Ⅱ．Grammar and Vocabulary（25分）

Section A

Directions: Beneath each of the following sentence there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. 25．Three-quarters of the land here wet land, an ideal place for migrating birds.

A．are B．having been C．is D．being

26．Harry Potter books have made the author, J.K. Rowling, the second woman in Britain after the Queen.

A．rich B．richer C．more rich D．richest

27． learning English through images or through association of ideas, there is also what is popularly known as ‘situational English’.

A．In addition to B．Except C．Except for D．In addition

28．When word came the athlete won the gold medal in the match, people were wild with joy.

A．which B．how C．that D．what

29．If the building project to be completed by the end of this month , the construction company will be fined.

A．has delayed B．will be delayed

C．is delayed D．will have delayed

30．When you are dressed in the latest style, dancing to the most fashionable music after watching the latest film, you feel great, ?

A．don’t you B．aren’t you C．do you D．are you

31．When he was studying in Hong Kong, he on his aunt there and have dinner with her once a month.

A．should call B．would call C．could call D．might call

32．The houses near the airport have their windows broken because of the loud noises made by the planes off or .

A．taken…landed B．to take… to land C．being taken….being landed D．taking…landing

33．Sometimes when I go on a business trip, the night in the hotel room is the only moment when I have time for myself. Only then magazines or a novel.

A．I can read B．I could read C．can I read D．could I read

34．In Australia, when a customer telephones for a taxi, their details are typed in and the computer matches these details with of the taxis out in the suburbs.

A．this B．those C．that D．these

35．On Oct. 20, 2021 nearly 200 middle school students green handprints to raise people’s awareness of protecting the environment during the 2021

Summer Games.

A．making B．had made C．made D．will make

36．Unhappy people spend more than twice as much time thinking about unpleasant events in their lives happy people tend to seek information that brightens their personal outlook.

A．when B．as C．until D．while

37．Think about what you really care about, and set goals to accomplish matters to you.

A．that B．what C．which D．when

38．Once you turn off the television, you’ll be surprised how much extra time you’ll have your life.

A．explore B．to explore C．exploring D．explored

39．It is the pupils do in their spare time really them to take their place in society as citizens when they grow up.

A．what…that…prepare B．that…what…prepares

C．that…what…prepare D．what…that…prepares

40．In this new study, David suggests some of the answers by analyzing the language policies worldwide will affect Global English and

influence its future.

A．which B．whose C．what D．how

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A．well B．nationwide C．planting D．such E．regarded

F．especially G．with H．importance I．improve J．boasts

China’s sports have undergone several thousand years of development. But they were not 41 as a cause of the country until 1949, when the People’s Republic of China was founded. The Chinese government attaches great 42 to

the development of sports. Now, a 43 network for physical culture and sports has been set up, and expenditure on this field has been included in the state budget.

“One world, one dream’reflects our desire to host a great Olympic Games in Beijing, a city that 44 both ancient culture and modern charm. The three themes of our bid are: Green Olympics, Hi-tech Olympics and the People’s Olympics. Our goal is to spread the Olympic Ideals among our people, 45 young people.

We will work with the International Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committees of all countries, as 46 as other international sports organizations to establish an open and efficient working relationship. We need to 47 the sports skills of the country as a whole and create new records, to promote the country’s economic, ethical and cultural development.

The Olympic Park will undoubtedly become a good example of the “Green Olympics”. The “Green Olympic”does not only mean 48 trees and grass, and forestation, but also energy conservation, water saving, wind energy and solar energy, and the application of pollution-free building materials. Technologies 49 as digital wide-band network communication, radio transmission and Internet technology will be widely used in the Olympic Park.

Ⅲ．Reading Comprehension（50分）

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that fits the context.

The part of the environmental movement that draws my firm’s attention is the design of cities, buildings and products. When we designed America’s first so-called “green” office building in New York two decades ago, we felt very alone. But today, thousands of people come to green building conferences, and the 50 that buildings can be good for people and the environment will be increasingly influential in years to 51 .

Back in 1984, we discovered that most manufactured products for decoration weren’t designed for 52 use. The “energy-efficient” sealed commercial buildings constructed after the 1970s energy crisis 53 indoor air quality problems caused by materials such as paint, wall covering and carpet. So far

20 years, we’ve been focusing on these materials down to the molecules（分子）, looking for ways to make them 54 for people and the planet.

Home builders can now use materials-such as paints that release significantly reduced amounts of organic（有机物的）compounds-that don’t 55 the quality of the air, water, or soil. Ultimately（最终）, however, our basic design strategy is focused not simply on being ‘less bad’” but on creating 56 healthful materials that can be either safely returned to the soil 57 reused by industry again and again. As a matter of 58 , the world’s largest carpet manufacturer has already 59 a carpet that is fully and safely recyclable.

Look at it this way: No one 60 out to create a building that destroys the planet. But our current industrial systems are 61 causing these conditions, whether we like it or not. So 62 of simply trying to reduce the damage, we are 63 a positive approach. We’re giving people high-quality, healthful products and an opportunity to make choices that had a 64 effect on the world. It’s not just the building industry, either. Entire cities are taking these environmentally positive approaches to design, planning and building. Portland, Seattle and Boston have said they want to be green cities. Chicago wants to be the greenest city in the world.

50．A．practice B．outlook C．idea D．scheme

51．A．go B．come C．arrive D．continue

52．A．indoor B．inward C．relevant D．flexible 53．A．displayed B．discovered C．exhibited D．revealed 54．A．comfortable B．careful C．safe D．stable

55．A．deny B．disclose C．dissolve D．destroy

56．A．partially B．exactly C．completely D．superficially 57．A．or B．and C．but D．nor

58．A．interest B．fact C．principle D．course 59．A．sketched B．constructed C．researched D．developed

60．A．starts B．pulls C．looks D．makes

61．A．basically B．originally C．traditionally D．inevitably

62．A．because B．instead C．out D．regardless 63．A．adjusting B．admitting C．adopting D．adapting 64．A．functional B．beneficial C．precious D． sensible

Section B

Directions: Read the following four passage. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

“SHE was born for the camera,”said a photographer who shot Liu Yifei’s picture when she was only eight.Over the past year, Liu, an 18-year-old Chinese American, has shot to fame while playing Wang Yuyuan, in Jin Yong’s “Eightfold Path of the Heavenly Dragon”（天《天龙八部》）.

Millions of teenagers have been drawn in by her light smile and beautiful long hair. Many magazines have described her as one of the most charming young actresses of 2021. People say that Liu will be even bigger this year.

“She is so beautiful on TV. She has the special character to give fresh and blood to the fairy-like and beautiful Wang Yuyan,” said Yang Mingwei, a Senior 2 boy and Liu fan from Wuyi High School in Fujian.

Currently Liu is filming the TV series “The Return of the condor Heroes”（《神雕侠侣》）,another Jin Yong novel. In the show to be aired this year, Liu plays the Little Dragon Girl.

Liu is currently a grade three student at the Beijing Film Academy（北京电影学院）,the star factory of China. But some people say that her success is only down to her beauty. When she returned to China with her mother at the age of 14, she did originally work as a model. It was when a director saw her

picture on an advertisement board on the street that her opportunity to work in TV arose.

“A pretty face does not last forever. To be a good actress you must work hard and have a professional attitude.” Liu said. Every day she spends hours practicing all the kungfu kicks and punches（踢打）for the show.

“There have been times during filming when I have remained hanging in the air on wires for half a day as the director keeps trying to get the perfect take,” said Liu recently.

65．In the first paragraph, the photographer commented on Liu’s .

A．beauty B．talent as an actress

C．promising future D．special character 66．When Yang Mingwei, a student from Fujian said those words about Liu, he meant that .

A．Liu Yifei was very lucky to play the role of Wang Yuyan

B．she is more beautiful than Wang Yuyan

C．she did a good job in playing Wang Yuyan

D．she worked very hard when she played Wang Yuyan

67．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Liu Yifei thinks her beauty contributed to her success.

B．She has become a citizen of the US.

C．She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy a couple of months ago.

D．Liu Yifei failed to improve her English when she studied in America.

(B)

By 2050….

Futurologists predict that life will probably be very different in 2050.

TV channels will have disappeared．Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the television．Today, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away．By

2050,music,films,programs,newspapers,and books will come to us by computer.

Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will

have computers to control the speed and there won’t be any accidents．Today,

many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are．By 2050,

the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination. Space planes

will take people halfway around the world in 2 hours. Today, the United States

Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth again．By 2050,space planes

will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in

just two hours.

Robots will have replaced people in factories．Many factories already use robots．Big companies prefer robots—they don’t ask for pay rises or go on strike,

and they work 24 hours a day．By 2050,we will see robots everywhere—in factories,

schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes.

Medical technology will have conquered many diseases．Today, there arc

electronic devices that connect directly to the brain to help people hear. By

2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear again.

Scientists will have discovered how to control genes. Scientists have

already produced clones of animals．By 2050,scientists will be able to produce

clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how much

intelligence they have. Scientists will be able to do these things but should

they?

68．Which of the following can NOT be realized today?

A． Reading newspapers on a computer.

B． Making a space shuttle go into space and land on Earth again.

C． Creating cloned animals.

D． Choose TV program freely from a “menu”.

69．According to the text, some big companies prefer robots to human workers because human workers ___ __.

A．can work 24 hours a day B．often ask for more pay

C．are not clever enough D． are often late for work

70．From the 6th paragraph we can infer that __ ___.

A．there will be no blind and deaf people by 2050

B．few diseases will attack people

C．electronic devices will be connected directly to the brain to help people hear

D．medical technology will be more effective by 2050.

71．What’s the author’s attitude towards the cloning technology?

A．The author does not agree on the use of cloning technology.

B． The author thinks human cloning is impossible.

C．The author does not really support the idea of human cloning.

D．The author is quite excited about human cloning.

(C)

The best antistress（抗紧张）medicine we have may be right under your nose! Think you know how to do it? Try this simple test: sit or stand wherever you are and take a deep breath, then let it out. What expanded more as you breathed in, your chest or your abdomen (腹部)? If the answer is your chest, you're like most people and you're doing it wrong. Take another deep breath-and keep reading.

The technique is so powerful that physician James Gordon, director of the Centre for Mind/Body Medicine in Washington, teaches it to nearly every patient he sees.

“Slow, deep breathing is probably the only best antis tress medicine we have,”says Gordon, “When you bring air down into the lower part of the lungs, where oxygen exchange is most efficient, everything changes. Heart rate slows, blood pressure decrease, muscles relax, anxiety（焦虑） ceases and the mind calms.”

Obviously, everyone alive knows how to breathe. But Gordon and other experts in the field of mind-body medicine say that few people in industrialized societies know how to breathe correctly. They are taught to suck in their guts (内脏) and puff out (鼓起) their chests. At the same time, they are attacked with constant stress, which causes heart rate to increase. As a result, they become shallow “chest breathers”, using primarily the middle and upper portions of the lungs. Few people - other than musicians, singers and some athletes - are even aware that the abdomen should expand when they breathe in.

“Watch a baby breathe,” says Gordon, “and you'll see the abdomen go u p and down, deep and slow.” With age, most people change from this healthy abdominal breathing into shallow chest breathing.

At Duke University Medical Centre, Dr. Jon Seskevich has taught abdominal breathing to most of the 18,000 patients he's worked with since 1990. About half the people he sees have cancer.

One of his most dramatic cases involved a lung-cancer patient. “I walked into the room to find this large man actually fighting for breath,” Seskevich recalls. “I had his sit back in his chair and p lace his feet on the ground.

I then asked if it was OK if I touched his abdomen. He nodded, so I put my hand on and told him to breathe softly into my hand, to let his abdomen rise into my hand.”

After about six minutes of this, he was breathing comfortabl y. “All day, people were telling his to relax,” says Seskvich, “and it seemed to make his struggle worse. I just told him to breathe into his abdomen. We didn't cure his cancer, but we may have saved him a trip to the intensive-care unit.”72．The best antistress medicine discussed in the passage is .

A．a newly-acquired technique B．a powerful medicine C．chest breathing D．slow, deep breathing

73．Among the following people, who tend to know the correct way of breathing according to the passage?

A．Cancer patients. B．School children.

C．Sportsmen. D．University professors.

74．If Dr. Seskevich hadn't taught the lung-cancer patient how to breathe, .

A．he would have died of cancer

B．he wouldn't have been cured of his illness

C．he wouldn't have been saved

D．he would have been sent to the intensive-care unit

75．Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Babies have been taught to breathe correctly.

B．Most people don't know how to breathe correctly.

C．Most people give up abdominal breathing when growing up.

D．With their heart rate slowing and blood pressure decreasing, people feel calm and relaxed.

（D）

Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops and factories are discovering the great efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunch rooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the “typical”Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality.

Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and leisurely（but less productive）old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life-to joy in the happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life-to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local café?

Since the last 1950’s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush ,tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.

In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that

of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old.

76．Which of the following is a feature of the old French way of life?

A．Leisure, elegance, and efficiency. B．Elegance, efficiency, and taste.

C．Leisure, elegance, and taste. D．Efficiency, taste, and convenient.

77．Which of the following is NOT true about Frenchmen?

A．Many of them prefer the modern life style.

B．They actually enjoy working at the assembly line.

C．They are more concerned with money than before.

D．They are more competitive than the old generation.

78．The passage suggests that .

A．great changes have occurred in the life style of all Frenchmen

B．it’s now unlikely to see a Frenchman enjoying a stroll by the river C．the French are fed up with the smell of freshly picked apples

D．in pursuing material gains the French are suffering losses elsewhere 79．The main idea of the passage is “”.

A．Changes in the French Way of Life B．Criticism of the New Life Style

C．The Americanization of France D．Features of the New Way of Life

Section C

Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

A．Think while you are reading

B．Select a proper material

C．Five suggestions for achieving better results

D．Read loudly

E．Read on

F．Use a dictionary at a right time

Effective reading should adopt a correct way, and then you can get more by paying less. Here are some hints for reading effectively.

80．

Don’t choose a rather difficult book or a too easy one for yourself to read. A book full of new words will make you feel discouraged quickly. To understand those new words, you have to turn to the dictionary quite often. It seems that you are not reading the book but the dictionary. It has no fun at all! On the contrary, a too easy one will only waste your time and cannot do any help. The two extremes may at last make you give up reading. So it’s better for you to find a proper book with no more than five new words on each page.

81．

If you come across a new word, do not look it up in a dictionary as quickly as possible. Leave it alone and guess the meaning of it based on the content of the text. This ability is quite necessary in reading. If you know your guess is right later, you will be highly excited at your “success”, and your interest in reading is well stimulated. If a word really hinders you from understanding the whole passage, turn to the dictionary by then. I am sure you can remember this word very well, as it has left you such a deep impression for its “troublesome image.”

82．

To comprehend what you are reading, you should think while you are reading, then from your own ideas on some special issues. Try to scribble some lines-a very short journal, to express your ideas. Your writing does not need to be

quite formal but expressive. This practice can make you communicate with the original English authors. Day by day, your way of thinking in English will turn into a native way, which is quite important for English writing.

83．

Language has its own beauty, no matter Chinese or English. Don’t merely take English as a “test”. Take it as an “entertainment” instead and you will enjoy it through learning.

Maybe you should find some beautiful literary works such as a prose or a poem to read, if you like. Try top read them as loudly and impassionedly as you can. During this process, not only you can enjoy yourself by the great emotions of the writers, but also your pronunciation and your manner of speaking English will be improved.

84．

The last but not the least, keep on reading. If you cannot keep it as a habit, you will suffer from paying without gaining.

第Ⅱ卷（共45分）

I．Translation（20分）

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the word or phrase given in the brackets.

1．游客不能进入这座寺庙参观。（accessible）

2．生命的质量和生命本身一样重要。（as…as）

3．所有的学生都不理解教授所说的意思。（once）

4．越来越多的人开始意识到教育不应该随着毕业而结束。（end with）

5．她在电影院门口等了五个小时只为了能看一眼她最喜爱的电影明星。（just to）6．由于我无法找到一个更好的方法解决这个问题，他建议我向父母求助。（suggest）Ⅱ．Guided Writing（25分）

Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the situation given.

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