河北省定州市2020┄2021届高三英语下学期开学考试试题

一、听力（共两节，满分20分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1.What will Dorothy do on the weekend？

A. Go out with her friend.

B. Work on her paper.

C. Make some plans.

2.What was the normal price of the T-shirt？

A. $ 15.

B. $30.

C. $50.

3.What has the woman decided to do on Sunday afternoon？

A. T o attend a wedding.

B. To visit an exhibition.

C. T o meet a friend.

4.When does the bank close on Saturday？

A. At 1:00 p.m.

B. At 3:00 p.m.

C. At 4:00 p.m.

5.Where are the speakers？

A. In a store.

B. In a classroom.

C. At a hotel.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6.What do we know about Nora？

A. She prefers a room of her own.

B. She likes to work with other girls.

C. She lives near the city center.

7.What is good about the flat？

A. It has a large sitting room.

B. It has good furniture.

C. It has a big kitchen.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8.Where has Barbara been？

A. Milan.

B. Florence.

C. Rome.

9.What has Barbara got in her suitcase？

A. Shoes.

B. Stones.

C. Books.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.Who is making the telephone call？

A. Thomas Brothers.

B. Mike Landon.

C. Jack Cooper.

11.What relation is the woman to Mr. Cooper？

A. His wife.

B. His boss.

C. His secretary.

12.What is the message about？

A. A meeting.

B. A visit to France.

C. The date for a trip.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.Who could the man speaker most probably be？

A. A person who saw the accident.

B. The driver of the lorry.

C. A police officer.

14.What was Mrs. Franks doing when the accident took place？

A. Walking along Churchill Avenue.

B. Getting ready to cross the road.

C. Standing outside a bank.

15.When did the accident happen？

A. At about 8:00 a.m.

B. At about 9:00 a.m.

C. At about 10:00 a.m.

16.How did the accident happen？

A. A lorry hit a car.

B. A car ran into a lorry.

C. A bank clerk rushed into the street.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.What is the talk mainly about？

A. The history of the school.

B. The courses for the term.

C. The plan for the day.

18.Where can the visitors learn about the subjects for new students？

A. In the school hall.

B. In the science labs.

C. In the classrooms.

19.What can students do in the practical areas？

A. T ake science courses.

B. Enjoy excellent meats.

C. Attend workshops.

20.When are the visitors expected to ask questions？

A. During the lunch hour.

B. After the welcome speech.

C. Before the tour of the labs.

二、阅读理解

Americans recognize that there is a past on which the present rests. But they have not developed their sense of the depth of time as much as this has been done in the Middle East and South Asia. The Arab looks back two to six thousand years for his own origins. History is used as the bas is for almost any modem action. The chances are that an Arab won’ start a talk or a speech or analyze a problem without first developing the historical aspects of his subject.

The American assumes that time has depths but he seldom stresses its importance of it.

The American never questions the fact that time should be planned and future events should be fitted into a schedule. He thinks that people should look forward to the future and not talk too much on the past. His future is not very far ahead of him. Results must be obtained in the foreseeable future — one or two years or, at the most, five or ten. Promises to meet deadlines and appointments are taken very seriously. There is real punishment for being late and for not keeping commitments in time. The American thinks it is natural to calculate the value of time. To fail to do so is unthinkable. The American calculates how much time is required to do everything. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.” “It will take six months to finish that job.” “I was in the A rmy for four and a half years.”

The Americans, like so many other people, also use time as a link that chains events together. If one event occurs on the heels of another, we will certainly try to find a causal relationship between them. If A is seen around the area of B's murder shortly after the crime has been committed we automatically form a connection between A and B. However, events which are separated by too much time are difficult for us to connect in our minds. This makes it almost impossible for us as a nation to engage （从事） in long-range planning.

21．How do Americans see past time according to the first paragraph？

A. It’s valueless.

B. It’ s limited.

C. It reflects today.

D. It helps start a talk.

22．What does the underlined phrase “to do so” in paragraph 2 refer to？

A. T o calculate the value of the past.

B. To plan a schedule for future events.

C. T o figure out the importance of time.

D. T o meet deadlines and appointments.

23．When will Americans chain two events together？

A. When common evidence is found.

B. When the two events happen one by one.

C. When A is found near the scene of B’s crime.

D. When one event happens long after another.

24．What does the author mainly want to tell Americans to do？

A. See time further.

B. Make a long-range plan.

C. Remember the past time.

D. Keep their commitments.

Curiosity is the engine of intellectual achievement—it’s what drives us to keep learning, keep trying and keep pushing forward. But how does one stimulate（激发）curiosity in oneself or others？

"Curiosity arises," Loewenstein, a professor of psychology, wrote, "when attention becomes focused on a gap（缺口）in one’s knowledge. Such information gaps produce the feeling of deprivation（剥夺） labeled curiosity. The curious individual is motivated to obtain the missing information to reduce the feeling of deprivation." Loewenstein’s theory helps explain why curiosity is such a great motivator：it’s not only a mental state but also an emotion, a powerful feeling that drives us forward.

A scientist called Daniel Willingham notes that teachers are often so eager to get to the answer that they do not devote enough tune to developing the question. Being told an answer stops curiosity before it can even get going. Instead of starting with the answer, begin by asking the students a question that interests them—one that opens an information gap.

George Loewenstein noted that curiosity requires some basic knowledge. We’re not curious about something we know absolutely nothing about. But as soon as we know even a little bit, our curiosity is excited and we want to learn more. In fact, research shows that curiosity increases with knowledge：the more we know, the more we want to know.

Language teachers usually use a similar idea in exercises that open an information gap and then require learners to communicate with each other in order to fill it. For example, one student might be given some pictures showing the beginning of the story, while the student’s partner is given some pictures showing how that same story ends. Only by speaking with each other can the students fill in each other’s information gaps.

25．When one notices a gap in his or her knowledge, the curious person_______.

A. desires to fill it

B. tends to give it up

C. may be unwilling to admit it

D. will ignore it and move forward

26．Which of the following is Daniel Willingham’s opinion？

A. Answers are more important than questions.

B. Teachers know how to stimulate students’ curiosity.

C. Interesting questions can help stimulate students’ curiosity.

D. T eachers should allow students to ask more questions in class.

27．What do we know about curiosity in Paragraph 4？

A. It is of importance.

B. It needs more knowledge.

C. It is excited when we learn more.

D. It increases with growing knowledge.

28．What may be the best title for the text？

A. The Importance of Curiosity

B. How to Stimulate Curiosity

C. Curiosity and Language Learning

D. How to Teach Foreign Languages

Despite the general rule for quiet demanded by libraries, they’ve been the subject of some fairly significant noise_______Children’s Laureate（儿童桂冠作家）, Chris Riddell, along with eight former Children’s Laureates, has written an open letter to Justine Greening, the British Secretary of State for Education, demanding an investigation into school library service closures （关闭）.

Why should parents or pupils be concerned whether or not school libraries close？Are they surely just mausoleums（陵墓） to the paper-bound past？ Or are they rooms that are of little use to today’s Internet-connected student population, who have access to a world of books and information through their digital devices？

Quite simply, school libraries, as well as their librarians, are critical to our children’s future. Research has proved this to be the case. The level of development of a school library is a highly accurate predictor of academic success, which means that parents should perhaps go so far as to compare the libraries of the schools they are considering, rather than look at league tables, when seeking the right schools for their children. Chris Riddell and his fellow former Laureates are absolutely right to emphasize the importance of librarians in introducing children to life-changing books and turning them into lifelong readers. Reading is a skill that needs to be

developed.

Librarians play the crucial role of introducing pupils to different genres or authors, as well as encouraging children of varying abilities to read—from the reluctant readers to those with higher than average reading ages.

However, if libraries were to have a "job description", cultivating a love of reading and promoting literacy（误写能力） is just one of their essential roles. The other role is, to be at the very centre of learning, a resource, for students to use in acquiring knowledge. Ultimately, as students get older they need to become increasingly experienced readers for information, as well as, hopefully, for pleasure. They need to be able to find out and access, through reading and understanding, the answers to their questions themselves.

Independent learning skills are very much in demand by pupils and parents, as well as universities and employers, because real education is about so much more than just academic success or grades on a piece of paper. As Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, pointed out, "the simple truth is that we can't teach all that we would like them to know." The emphasis therefore must now be on teaching children how to learn for themselves. Talking of libraries, we would always focus on the collection of books and the dissemination（传播） of knowledge to aid learning. Therefore surely, it makes sense that if libraries are given the right status and adequate resources, they will play a vital role in the development of these much-needed independent learning skills. This has never been more important than in today's information age, when everything we need to know is only a few clicks away.

Libraries and librarians should be central in helping pupils understand how to access data or knowledge for their studies or interests—regardless of whether this is from a book an online resource or a journal.

It is equally important that libraries guide students on how to "read" the information that is available to them—a vitally important skill given that the Internet contains a large amount of mistakes and misinformation. But, of course, libraries can only offer this support and guidance if they are properly valued and resourced, which means that we need as many voices as possible to be "shouting" about the importance of libraries in the education of our children. Chris Riddell is encouraging children to ask their teachers where their school library is. Perhaps parents also need to be asking their current and prospective schools about the same question. Let’s make the "noise" far louder—it needs to be uncomfortably deafening（震耳欲聋的）. 29．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean？

A. Schools have realized the importance of libraries.

B. More rules should be established for libraries.

C. Libraries are not quiet any more.

D. Libraries have been a hot topic.

30．According to the passage, it has been confirmed that ______.

A. libraries are almost useless to today’s Internet-connected students

B. libraries can reflect the academic success of schools

C. parents have begun to prioritize libraries when selecting schools for their children

D. librarians are crucially important to students’ future development

31．The author thinks that libraries should play a role in______.

A. turning students into lifelong readers

B. introducing students to different genres

C. developing students’ ability to read and write

D. encouraging children of different abilities to read

32．Why should independent learning be emphasized according to the passage？

A. It helps students achieve high grades in their exams.

B. U niversities and parents don’t pay much attention to it at present.

C. Students can’t acquire enough knowledge through being taught by others.

D. Real education is about learning independently rather than about academic success.

33．In the last but one paragraph, the author thinks that ______.

A. libraries may be a source of false information

B. students’ ability to obtain information is vitally important

C. libraries should teach students how to seek the available information

D. students should learn to distinguish between true and false information

三、完形填空

When I was out of the church, I saw four children selling the paintings. I _______and stood quietly next to them without saying a word and for the next 10 minutes watched them sell their paintings to the_______customers.

My eyes_______the attention of one of the boys. I made a _______for him to come towards me. I was surprised that this little kid gave me a broad _______with a missing tooth and immediately_______to me.

When I asked him very lightly whether he_______who I was, he answered quickly with his eyes much _______, “Mr. Ford!”, which_______me a lot.

I asked him how he knew me, and he replied that he was one of the children whose mother was________by the Ford Foundation and that now his mother looked after them pretty________. I felt good but at the same time a bit________seeing him sell paintings. I asked him why he did

so________his mother was taking good care of all the four.

He told me, "Sir, you helped my mother and now I am helping my________. His mother is sick and his father has a low________and his family can’t even________medicine." Hearing this, I took out my purse and gave a hundred-dollar ________to the boy. However, he________and said, "Thank you very much. I will always________you, but please give this money to some other person who needs it more than I do. I can ________money myself."

34．A. moved B. passed C. went D. hurried

35．A. laughing B. shopping C. arguing D. bargaining

36．A. caught B. paid C. fixed D. focused

37．A. signal B. sign C. mark D. opinion

38．A. expression B. face C. message D. smile

39．A. held on B. went up C. came up D. looked up

40．A. suspected B. knew C. agreed D. thought

41．A. brighter B. braver C. wider D. warmer

42．A. disappointed B. pleased C. puzzled D. satisfied

43．A. employed B. supported C. adopted D. raised

44．A. fully B. hard C. properly D. well

45．A. upset B. nervous C. annoyed D. ashamed

46．A. while B. after C. when D. as

47．A. family B. friend C. brother D. teacher

48．A. income B. diploma C. condition D. spirit

49．A. offer B. pay C. afford D. make

50．A. money B. note C. check D. fund

51．A. promised B. hesitated C. accepted D. refused

52．A. miss B. praise C. understand D. remember

53．A. earn B. save C. produce D. borrow

四、七选五

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项. 54．Such as runny noses, sore throats, nothing quite like the common cold to make you feel miserable. But experts believe that there is no link between cold weather and catching colds. 55．

Internal Medicine expert, Dr Meenakshi Jain of Max Hospital says, “One reason could be that people are likely to stay indoors, so the virus can spread easily. 56．”

The common cold is a viral infection that can be caused by any of up to 250 strains of virus, the most common group of which are the rhinovirus（鼻病毒） that hit the nose.

57．“They are transmitted through the nose respiratory（呼吸的） passages, by touch, and by contact with airborne particles that are created by sneezing or coughing,” says Dr Jain. There is no cure for the common cold and antibiotics（抗生素） are of no help. However, there are some precautions which can help:

58．In this case, you can protect your hands from getting germs.

Don’t touch your eyes, nose and mouth, which can limit your chances of infection.

Don’t share drinking glasses or utensils with anyone as this will prevent the spread of the virus.

Make sure to eat enough fruits to boost your immune system.

A.Also the virus thrives （兴盛，繁荣） in wetness in the atmosphere.

B.Drink lots of fluids to avoid dehydration.

C.They are responsible for anywhere between a third and half of all common colds.

D.Get e nough sleep and you’ll certainly feel better.

E.So why are we particularly vulnerable （脆弱的） this season？

F.Wash your hands regularly.

G.It’s winter and you have probably noticed germs are everywhere.

五、提纲类作文

59．假如你是李华，在英国探亲期间，看到一则为当地举办的中国文化艺术节招募志愿者的招聘广告，你想应聘。请给组委会写一封邮件，表达你想成为志愿者的意愿。

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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参考答案

一、听力：1---5 BBABC 6---10 ACAAB 11---15 CACCB 16---20 BCBCA

21．C

22．C

23．B

24．A

25．推理判断题。根据第二段The curious individual is motivated to obtain the missing information to reduce the feeling of deprivation.可知，当一个有好奇心的人看到自己知识欠缺时，他会想要填补上知识空白。故选A。

26．推理判断题。根据第三段Instead of starting with the answer,begin by asking the students a question that interests them—one that opens an information gap.可知，科学家丹尼尔认为提出孩子们感兴趣的问题会激发他们的好奇心。故选C。

27．推理判断题。根据第四段In fact, research shows that curiosity increases with knowledge：the more we know, the more we want to know.可知，当一个人们知道的越多就会越想知道更多，好奇心会使人们学习更多知识。故选D。

28．主旨大意题。本文首段Curiosity is the engine of intellectual achievement—it’s what drives us to keep learning, keep trying and keep pushing forward. But how does one stimulate（激发）curiosity in oneself or others？指出好奇心是驱使我们学习的动力，是驱使我们尝试和前进的动力，并提出问题，文中列举了多名专家对好奇心的研究，可以推断出最佳标题是“如何激发好奇心”。故选B。

29．推理判断题。根据第一段9位儿童作家联名上书教育部秘书呼吁不要关闭校图书馆可知，尽管图书馆有一贯要求安静的规则，但现在图书馆是大家争论最热的话题。故选D。

30．细节理解题。根据第四段的The level of development of a school library is a highly accurate predictor of academic success可知，学校图书馆的发展水平是预测学业成功的一个非常准确的指标。故B项正确。

31．推理判断题。根据第六段的if libraries were to have a "job description", cultivating a love of reading and promoting literacy（误写能力） is just one of their essential roles.可知，图书馆在孩

子们的阅读和书写中起重要作用。故选C。

32．推理判断题。根据第七段的"the simple truth is that we can’t teach all that we would like them to know." The emphasis therefore must now be on teaching children how to learn for themselves.可知，强调独立学习是因为学生不能仅从他人教授中学到足够的知识。故选C。

33．推理判断题。根据题干询问倒数第二段的信息。根据倒数第二段It is equally important that libraries guide students on how to "read" the information that is available to them—a vitally important skill given that the Internet contains a large amount of mistakes and misinformation.可知，作者认为图书馆在引导学生们分辨真伪信息方面很重要。故选D。

34．C

35．D

36．A

37．B

38．D

39．C

40．B

41．A

42．C

43．B

44．D

45．A

46．C

47．B

48．A

49．C

50．B

51．D

52．D

53．A

54．G

55．E

56．C

57．A

58．F

59．Dear Sir/Madam,

I happened to read about your ad asking for volunteers for the coming Chinese Arts Festival. As

a Chinese student on a brief visit here to my relatives, I would be much happier if I could be one of your volunteers.

As a teenager, I’m outgoing and honest, always ready to socialize with ot hers. Meanwhile, it is a good chance for me to introduce Chinese culture to people here as well. Should I have the privilege to be admitted, I would do my best and make the most of the chance to promote the mutual understanding between the two cultures.

Looking forward to your response.

Yours,

Li Hua