2021届枣庄市第四十一中学高三英语二模试题及答案

2021届枣庄市第四十一中学高三英语二模试题及答案
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
In the 1994 filmForrest Gump, there’s a famous saying, “Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.” The surprise is part of the fun. Now blind box toys are bringing the magic of surprise to online shopping.
A blind box toy is hidden inside uniform packaging but invisible from the outside. You don’t know what will be inside, although the toys typically come from pop culture, ranging from movies to comics and cartoons.
Blind boxes have caught on since they were first introduced fromJapantoChinain 2014. According to a 2019 Tmall report, the mini-series of Labubu blind box, designed byHong Kong-born Kasing Lung, was named Champion of Unit Sales with 55,000 sold in just 9 seconds during the Singles Day shopping event. Most customers for blind boxes are young people aged 18 to 35.
According to The Paper, blind box toys are popular in part because of their cute appearances. The typically cute cartoon figurines come in miniature sizes, making them suitable for display almost anywhere.
Even if blind boxes are not their top choice for decorations, the mystery and uncertainty of the process also attracts people. It’s the main reason why people buy blind boxes one after another.
“Fear of the unknown is always a part of the box-opening process,” said Miss Cao, 24, who lives and works inShenyang. Speaking to Sina News, she said: “Until you open all the boxes, you cannot know what it is inside.”
Opening a blind box is a delightful little surprise for our mundane daily lives, something small but fun to wait for each day, week or month. When people open this simple little box, they may be disappointed, but the uncertainty is part of the fun. People will open more blind boxes and hope for a better outcome.
When someone re-makesForrest Gump, don't be surprised if he says, “Life is like a blind box...”
1. Why is the famous saying in the filmForrest Gumpquoted at the beginning?
A. To arouse the readers’ interest.
B. To present the writer’s view.
C. To introduce the topic.
D. To highlight the fun of blind boxes.
2. Which of the following is the main feature that makes blind box so popular?
A. Miniature sizes.
B. Cute appearances.
C. Fear of the unknown.
D. Mystery and uncertainty.
3. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Blind box became popular in 2019 after being first introduced fromJapantoChina.
B. Blind box toys typically originated in pop culture, varying from movies to cartoons.
C. Blind box toys was designed and named by Hong Kong-born Kasing Lung.
D. When people open this simple little box, they will feel disappointed.
B
The Great Barrier Reef's outlook remains “very poor” despite coral (珊瑚) recovery over the past year, Australian government scientistssaid Monday, just days before a UNESCO ruling on the site's world heritage (遗产) status.
The United Nations cultural agency recommended last month that the world's largest reef (珊瑚礁) system be placed on its endangered list because of damage to the corals largely caused by climate change.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) said the corals were now in a “recovery window” after a decade of harmful heat stress and cyclones (旋风). But such opportunities were becoming rarer due to the influence ofclimate change, the government agency, which has monitored the reef for 35 years, said in its annual report released today. “The increasing emergence of climate-related extreme weather events and starfish outbreaks is causing more severe and frequent pressures, giving the reef fewer opportunities like this to recover,”CEO Paul Hardisty said. The scientists surveyed 127 reef sites in 2021 and found hard coral cover had increased at 69 of the 81 locations surveyed in the past two years.
Separate scientific research released last October found the 2, 300-kilometre (1, 400 miles) system had lost half its corals since 1995, with a series of ocean heatwaves causing mass coral death.
Britta Schaffelke, research program director at AIMS, said the latest findings provided a slight hope that the reef still has the power of recovering. But she added that its future is still very poor because of the dangers of climate change and other factors that are affecting the reef.
UNESCO has urged Australia to take urgent climate action but the government has long resisted calls to commit to net zero emissions (排放) by 2050. The government has said it hopes to meet the target “as soon as possible” without harming its economy, insisting dealing with climate change requires a global effort. The reef was worth about US $4. 8 billion a year in tourism for the Australian economy and there are fears that an “in danger” listing could weaken its tourist appeal.
4. What is the major cause of the damage to the corals?
A. The climate change.
B. Lack of money.
C. Over development.
D. Too many tourists.
5. What is mainly talked about in Paragraph 3?
A. The result of the survey.
B. The efforts AIMS has made.
C. The slight chance of the recovery.
D. The terrible situation of the climate.
6. What is Britta Schaffelke's attitude towards the future of the reef?
A. Unclear.
B. Positive.
C Intolerant. D. Anxious.
7. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Australia wants to put the reef on the endangered list.
B. The Australian government has ignored UNESCO's demand.
C. Australia hopes to keep a balance between emission target and its economy.
D. The Australian government refuses to take its share of responsibility of climate change.
C
We interviewed two people, one who went from the country to the city and one who did the opposite.
Janet Lincoln is a salesgirl who moved to St. Louisfive years ago. Here’s what Janet told us:
“Five years ago I used to live in a small town called Lemon Falls. I grew up and went to high school there. After I graduated I worked in a supermarket. Lemon Falls had a population of about 800 people, and I knew every single one of them. They all knew everything about me, too. You couldn’t do anything without everyone in town knowing about it. The first chance I got I moved to St. Louis and I love it. I don’t know as many people now as I used to, but that’s OK. I have a few good friends, and I see them when I want to. I kind of like beinganonymous. I’d never go back to Lemon Falls.”
Troy Henson had the opposite experience. He and his wife, Darla, and their two children moved from St. Louis to Bloomfield three years ago. Here’s what Troy told us:
“The best thing we ever did was get out of St. Louis. Don’t get me wrong; St. Louis is as good a place as any other city, I suppose — if you like cities, that is. We don’t. Both Darla and I grew up in St. Louis. We met at college and got married. Then the kids came along and life got difficult. We didn’t know any of our neighbors. We both had good jobs, but it always seemed like there was never enough money. That all changed when we moved to Bloomfield. I don’t make as much money as I used to, but then we don’t have as many expenses as we did. We
know our neighbors. Life is good. We’d never leave Bloomfield.”
8. What troubled Janet when she was in Lemon Falls?
A. She had no friends.
B. There was no privacy.
C. There was a lot of competition.
D. She couldn’t find a well-paid job.
9. What does the underlined word “anonymous” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Alone.
B. Prepared.
C. Sociable.
D. Unknown.
10. Different from Janet, Troy ________.
A. prefers country life
B. moved to a bigger city
C. grew up in a smaller town
D. knows little about his new neighbors
11. What is Troy’s opinion on living in Bloomfield?
A. It is a little boring.
B. It is quite comfortable.
C. It costs a lot of money.
D. It creates a safe environment.
D
Cuckoos don’t bother building their own nests—they just lay eggs that perfectly imitate those of other birds and take over their nests. But other birds are wishing up, evolving some seriously impressive tricks to spot the cuckoo eggs.
Cuckoos are often know asparasites, meaning that they hide their eggs in the nest of other species. To avoid detection, the cuckoos have evolved so that eggs seem reproduction of those of their preferred targets. If the host bird doesn’t notice the strange egg in its nest, the little cuckoo will actually take the entire nest for itself after it comes out, taking the other eggs on its back and dropping them out of the nest.
To avoid this unpleasant fate for their young, the other birds have evolved a few smart ways to spot the fakes, which we’re only now beginning to fully understand. One of the most amazing finds is that birds have an extra colour-sensitive cell in their eyes, which makes them far more sensitive to ultraviolet wavelengths and allows them to see a far greater range of colours than humans can. This allows cautious birds to detect a fake egg which might be exactly the same to our eyes.
Fascinatingly, we’re actually able to observe different bird species at very different points in their evolutionary war with the cuckoos. For instance, some cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of the redstarts. The blue eggs these cuckoos lay are practically alike to those of the redstarts, and yet they are still sometimes rejected. Compare that with cuckoos who target dunnocks. While those birds lay perfectly blue eggs, their cuckoo invaders just lay white eggs with brown irregular shaped spots. And yet dunnocks barely ever seem to notice the obvious
trick.
Biologists suspect these more easily fooled species like the dunnocks are on the same evolutionary path as the redstarts, but they have a long way to go until they evolve the same levels of suspicion. What’s remarkable is that the dunnocks fakes are so bad and the redstart ones so good, and yet cuckoos are still more successful with the former than the latter.
It speaks to just how thoroughly a species’ behavior can be changed by the pressures of natural selection, or it might just be a bit of strategic cooperation on the part of the dunnocks. Biologists have suggested that these birds are willing to tolerate a parasite every so often because they don’t want to risk accidentally getting rid of one of their own eggs.
12. This passage can be most likely found in a ________.
A. science survey
B. nature magazine
C. zoo advertisement
D. travel journal
13. What does the underlined word “parasite” in paragraph 2 most probably refer to?
A. Animals that work together to raise young.
B. Small harmful animals such as worms or mice.
C. Animals that can adapt to changing environments.
D. Animals which live on or inside other host animals.
14. Which of the following is TRUE about the dunnock according to the passage?
A. It is colour-blind and therefore cannot identify foreign eggs in the nest.
B. It can easily remove cuckoo eggs from the nest because fakes are so bad.
C. It is a host bird that is more likely to raise a cuckoo chick than the redstart.
D. It is unable to evolve and hence accepts cuckoo eggs that appear in the nest.
15. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Dunnocks may eventually learn to recognise foreign eggs.
B. Redstarts seem to be less suspicious compared to dunnocks.
C. Cuckoo birds are good at taking responsibility for their own young.
D. It is very easy for cuckoos to imitate the colouring of the dunnock’s egg.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余选项Let's take a minute to think about the water we use. The human body is 60% water and we need to drink lots
of water to be healthy. When weare thirsty we just go to the kitchen and fill a glass with clean water.
___16___For example, farmers, who produce the food we eat, use water to make the plants grow. When we turn on a light or switch on a TV or a computer we use energy and we need water to produce this energy.
The truth is that we are lucky enough to have clean water whenever we want，but this is not the case for many people around the world.___17___That's around one in 10 people in the world. If we drink dirty water，we can catch diseases from the bacteria and become ill. Every year over 500，000 children die from diarrhea(腹泻)from dirtywater. That's around 1，400 children every day！Also，in some countries children walk many kilometres every day to get water.___18___Therefore，they don't have time to learn how to read or write and don't get an education.
___19___On this day every year，countries around the world hold events to educate people about the problems of dirty water and that clean water is something that everyone should have around the world. At one school in the UK，children between the ages of 10 and 15 walk 6km with six litres of water.___20___People give them money to do this and all the money helps get clean water to as many people as possible around the world.
A. We use water indirectly too.
B. Every system in our body depends on water to function.
C. It is to inspire people to learn more about water-related problems
D. If children walk many hours a day to get water，they can't go to school.
E. Did you know that around 750 million people do not have clean water to drink？
F. In 1993 the United Nations decided that March 22nd is the World Day for Water.
G. In this way，they know how it feels to walk a long distance carrying heavy bottles.
第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项People have been saying great things about my dad____21____.They keep telling me that my dad is a____22____because of his job.
My dad is a surgeon and like many other doctors inChina, he____23____to go toWuhanto care for patients there. But the hospital____24____he works only kept him staying to make sure that local patients are still able to receive regular treatment. So my dad just follows his normal____25____, analyzing patients’ diseases and____26____chest operations.
With all kinds of compliments toward my dad, I become____27____. My dad has been a doctor long before the____28____of COVID-19, why has no one else praised him as a hero before? Didn’t he____29____such
compliments when this disease wasn’t around?
When we talk about heroes, what kind of____30____often jumps into our minds? War leaders who conquered everything that stood____31____? Historic characters who ruled a strong kingdom? Or our dear movie stars: the Avengers? Well, they are indeed heroes, and they made marvelous achievements. However, are the____32____of heroes just prepared for these so-called “supermen” and “superwomen”?
I don’t think so. Heroes____33____our real lives. They can be seen and they are mortal, just like you and me.
Now many streets of Chinese cities are almost____34____; the schools are closed and the shops are shut. But in this world, some things remain____35____. If there’s a fire, just call 119, and you know that the firefighters will be there____36____minutes. If you happen to go out on the road, you’ll come across police officers waving their flags to direct the traffic.
____37____, in hospitals, from doctors to nurses, cleaners to security guards, these people still____38____their jobs, doing the same services as they ever did. The reason why they are still dedicated is not a____39____for compliments, but out of a willingness for their duty.
These people, who are or were dedicating themselves to the job, do not need to be____40____as heroes just for now because they are heroes all the time .
21. A. latter B. lately C. late D. last
22. A. soldier B. nurse C. guard D. hero
23. A. opposed B. afforded C. considered D. offered
24. A. when B. which C. where D. what
25. A. section B. routine C. trend D. criterion
26. A. performing B. inspecting C. receiving D. allocating
27. A. inspired B. confused C. involved D. moved
28. A. outbreak B. output C. outcome D. breakthrough
29. A. acquire B. deserve C. attain D. achieve
30. A. image B. memory C. imagination D. description
31. A. across the way B. on the way C. by the way D. in the way
32. A. pages B. genius C. pictures D. admirers
33. A. belong to B. work on C. exist in D. result in
34. A. clear B. crowded C. empty D. narrow
35. A. unexpected B. unchanged C. unbelievable D. uncontrollable
36. A. beyond B. for C. over D. within
37. A. Eventually B. Fortunately C. Similarly D. Apparently
38. A. stick to B. show off C. live up to D. count on
39. A. ambition B. capability C. responsibility D. desire
40. A. accepted B. adapted C. praised D. advocated
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
As UNE’s youngest ambassador, Chinese singer and actor Wang Junkai attended a UN meeting in Kenya on March 14.He___41.___(deliver) a speech in English at the UN Sustainable Fashion Alliance conference.
In an interview after the meeting, Wang said that he would like to spread the concept of environmental___42.___(protect) around the world, and to build a better sustainable future for all mankind and our planet.
In fact, it’s not the first time___43.___Wang has contributed to raising awareness of environmental issues. In 2016, Wang___44.___(wide) shared the Wild for Life Campaign, reaching 400 million___45.___(viewer).A year later, he publicly spoke out on the urgent need to protect___46.___(endanger) wildlife. He named them the “superstars of the planet”.
Apart from drawing attention___47.___wildlife, the 19-year-old also called on his fans to commit to reducing e-waste. Within 24 hours, his post___48.___(read) 1.67 million times, and more than 400,000 followers signed the commitment.
According to Wang, young people are no longer merely onlookers when___49.___comes to environmental action; nor should they be. “I will spare no effort to do everything I can____50.____(take)care of our earth. And I invite everyone to join me in generating a wave of positive action,” he said.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节短文改错（满分10分）
51.假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

It is often the case, when having meals, waiting buses or at tending lectures, you can always find people addicted to their cellphones, completely ignoring others.
This is really a common phenomenon in our daily life. The reason is why smart phones nowadays can be used to playing mobile games and keep in touch with friends. However, too much exposure to phones are bad for people in terms of healthy. Moreover, people involving in phones fail to communicate well with these around them.
As far as I am concerned , people should be wisely make use of their phones to help with their work and study. Meanwhile, they should care much about their family and friends than mobile phones.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Once there was a little girl named Emily. Although her singing was very pleasant to hear, lacking of courage, she never dared to sing in front of strangers.
One summer, the neighborhood where she lived would hold a singing competition. Her best friend, Lucy, came to invite her to participate in the competition, but Emily said, “ I’m afraid to take part in it.” Her mother said, “ it’s okay, just do it bravely.” Emily followed her mama’s advice and decided to give herself a try. The day came. Emily and Lucy went to the competition site. But she was too timid (胆小的) to walked onto the stage. She had been waiting until others finished singing. She shakily forced herself to stand on the stage. She started to sing, but her voice was so low. What’s worse, she was so nervous that she forget the lyrics (歌词) after singing a few words. Being laughed at by others, embarrassed and shy, she ran away from the stage.
Some naughty boys ran after her and said, “ Emily, coward (胆小鬼)! Emily, coward! ” Emily didn’t argue with them. What she wanted was to go back home as quickly as she could. Finally, she rushed into the house, hugged her mom and cried sadly.
“Well, my poor girl. Don’t cry. Tell me what happened to you.” asked her mom. Emily looked up at her mother and told her what she had experienced.
Listening to her, her mom cupped her face and said, “it doesn’t matter, girl. As long as you practice singing more in front of strangers, you will become braver little by little. So, my girl, don’t be beaten by a failure. You can go out to practice singing every day. No matter who is listening to you, go on singing and never stop. I believe there will be a harvest for you. ”
注意：1.所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
Paragraph 1:
Emily listened to her mother carefully and followed her mom’s suggestion.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________
Paragraph 2:
Going on singing, she walked into the park, where many people were singing and dancing.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________
参考答案
1. C
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. D
7. C
8. B 9. D 10. A 11. B
12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A
16. A 17. E 18. D 19. F 20. G
21. B 22. D 23. D 24. C 25. B 26. A 27. B 28. A 29. B 30. A 31. D 32.
A 33. C 34. C 35.
B 36. D 37.
C 38. A 39.
D 40. C
41. delivered
42. protection
43. that 44. widely
45. viewers
46. endangered
47. to 48. was read
49. it 50. to take
51.(1). It→As
(2). 在waiting后加for
(3). why→that
(4). playing→play
(5). are→is
(6). healthy→health
(7). involving→involved
(8). these→those
(9). 删除be
(10). much→more 52.略。