2021年宁波中学高三英语月考试题及答案

2021年宁波中学高三英语月考试题及答案
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
March means spring inSt. Louis. The city hosts plenty of events — both indoor and outdoor — that make March a perfect crowd-free month to visit. You may even want to plan your trip around it.
See the Butterflies at Morpho Mardi Gras
PHONE +1314-577-0888
In the Butterfly House inFaustPark, thousands of bright blue butterflies are on display. These butterflies — types found mostly in South America, Mexico, and Central America — include over 29 different species and 147 subspecies(亚种）, making the venue a wonderful place for kids, as they can learn about the critical role butterflies play in nature.
Enjoy March Madness with Arch Madness
PHONE +1314-622-5400
March is the best time of the year for basketball fans. The action inSt. Louisbegins with March Madness, the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Games take place during the first week in March at theScottradeCenter.
Catch a Fabulous Fox Theatre Broadway Show
PHONE +1314-534-1111
Each month, the Fabulous Fox Theatre hosts a variety of touring Broadway shows. And while tickets are slightly cheaper than that inNew York City, the quality of the performances doesn’t lack one bit. Check the schedule and buy tickets ahead of time, as the shows generally fill the venue.
Celebrate World Eagle Day at the World Bird Sanctuary
PHONE +1636-225-4390
World Eagle Day is celebrated with live eagle presentations, educational activities and games. Learn aboutAmerica’s national symbol, as well as other foreign species. Get your photo taken with your favorite bird or adopt an eagle.
1. Which of the following is attractive to kids?
A. Seeing the Butterflies at Morpho Mardi Gras.
B. Enjoying March Madness with Arch Madness.
C. Catching a Fabulous Fox Theatre Broadway Show.
D. Celebrating World Eagle Day at the World Bird Sanctuary.
2. If you are a basketball fan, you can call________.
A. +1314-577-0888
B. +1314-622-5400
C. +1314-534-1111
D. +1636-225-4390
3. Why does the author recommend the Fabulous Fox Theatre?
A. It is one of the branches of Broadway.
B. It isnot far away fromNew York City.
C. It doesn't charge the audience for tickets.
D. It provides wonderful shows with cheaper tickets.
B
At the foot of the Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, a homestay (民宿) is attracting travelers from far and wide, which has won architectural (建筑学的) medal at the 2021 German iF Design Awards.
The owners of the homestay are a couple in their late 30s who decided to return to their hometown three years ago. Li Xiumei used to be in charge of a division at a company in Hangzhou, and her husband was a sales director. It was an ordinary situation where Li’s husband was on business trips a lot and Li worked overtime on weekends. City life sometimes is not easy.
In 2018, they quit jobs and went back to Dongtianmu village, which lies in a forest of bamboo. The first time they drove into the village was one late afternoon. The cooking smoke was rising from the foot of the mountain, which gave them a very different feeling form thecity.
The homestay was built beside her husband’s old countryside house. The old house is preserved (保留), while a brand-new building was built on its side and the whole site is made up of for courtyards. It has been updated to have a hall, a tea room, a kitchen, a dining room. Japanese cherry trees are planted in the east courtyard. A swimming pool is placed in the west courtyard, with a bar located on one side.
Li and her husband love gardening and music, and their new home gives them enough space to continue their interests and relax in the heart of nature. Li wants to share the quiet country life, so she makes her new home a homestay. In 2019, the homestay became an online hit after guests shared their experiences on social media. “The longer I stay here, the more I feel it was the right choice to come back, and this is more meaningful than making money,” Li says.
4. How did Li feel about city life?
A. Satisfied.
B. Tired.
C. Attractive.
D. Noisy.
5. What impressed the couple when first driving to the village?
A. The smoke of cooking.
B. The forest of bamboo.
C. The smell of the village.
D. The feeling of loneliness.
6. What can we infer about the homestay from paragraph 4?
A. It is ancient and broken.
B. It can hold many guests.
C. It has been rebuilt bythe couple.
D. It must have been carefully designed.
7. What’s more meaningful than earning money according to Li?
A. Continuing their music dream.
B. Staying at the old house.
C. Living in the countryside.
D. Developing the economy of cities.
C
The idea of growing food in a desert would make most people laugh but this is quickly becoming a reality. There are currently two desert farms in the world where quality vegetables are being planted cheaply and easily.
Sundrop Farms, based in South Australia, uses experimental greenhouses to grow tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. The biggest challenge of growing food in a desert, obviously, is the lack of available water. The researchers at Sundrop Farms have gotten aroundthis problemby using the sun to desalinate (淡化) sea water. It can also be used to control the temperature of the greenhouses.
Without depending on limited resources such as land and fresh water Sundrop Farms has made farming a practice. This can increase the world’s food supplies. Another benefit ofthis kind of farming is that it can be done anywhere, thus reducing the costs of transporting food to distant locations. Yet another benefit is that it reduces the need for pesticides (杀虫剂).
Another experimental desert farm is the Sahara Forest Project, which began in Qatar in December 2012. Greenhouses in the farm are cooled by saltwater. Solar power and other technologies are used together to help make vegetation (植被) grow in the desert environment. As deserts have expanded over recent years around the world due to global warming, this project could solve the problem.
The result form the Qatar project were better than expected and in June of 2014, Jordan agreed to host another one. This will be much bigger than the Qatar project and the project members will have even more opportunities to test their experiments on a much larger scale. It is not clear yet that desert farming resents the future of farming but these projects have shown some success in the field.
8. What does “this problem” in paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Sea water is bard to purify.
B. The desert is short of water.
C. The temperature is high in the desert.
D. Desert farms aren’t fit to plant vegetables.
9. What is one of the characters of desert farming?
A. It needs more pesticides.
B. It saves delivery costs.
C. It has a location limit.
D. It solves food waste problems
10. What can we know about the Sabara Forest Project?
A. It lives up to expectations
B. It can help produce more food
C. It is started to prevent global warming
D. It uses technology to produce saltwater
11. What can be inferred about desert farming from the last paragraph?
A. It still has problems to solve.
B. It represents the future of farming.
C. Its early success has aroused interest in it.
D. Its aim is to create more job opportunities.
D
We are in lack of enough sleep, according to Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. And thishas great consequences on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed, she ly declares, is nothing short of a sleep revolution. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.
In her bestseller Thrive, Arianna wrote about our need to redefine success through wellbeing, wisdom, wonder, and giving. Her discussion of the importance of sleep as a gateway to this more fulfilling way of living struck such a powerful chord (弦) that she realized the mystery and transformative power of sleep called for a fuller investigation (调查).
The result is a scientifically sweeping and personal exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation (剥夺), and the new golden age of sleep science that is showing the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health — from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna shows how our cultural removal of sleep as time wasted damages our health and our decision-making and our work lives and shortens our personal lives. She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She decides the dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways of our addiction to technology disturb our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep.
In today’s fast-paced, always-connected and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important than ever. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
12. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
A. The importance of sleep.
B. The necessity of improving sleep.
C. The way to improve our sleep.
D. The effect of sleep on health.
13. What can be inferred about Arianna’s attitude to success?
A. She thinks good sleep is more important.
B. She doesn’t think much of becoming successful.
C. She thinks it wrong to sacrifice health to success.
D. She is concerned about the nature of success.
14. What can be said about Arianna’s investigation?
A. It is really of great value.
B. It is scientific and historical.
C. It costs Arianna’s sleep in practice.
D. It covers all necessary aspects scientifically,
15. What influence does TheSleep Revolution have on society?
A. It helps to slow down the pace of modern life.
B. It warns people against taking sleeping pills.
C. It warns the harm of inadequate sleep of people.
D. It helps to stress the value of sleep to success.
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Children should spend at least one hour playing and spending time in nature each day, according to the
Wildlife Trusts（野生生物基金会）.___16___It is now calling on the government toinclude nature time into daily school life.
___17___Its 451 students in the study were 8 or 9 years of age. They were interviewed before and after nature activities. The activities were run by the Wildlife Trusts over the course of several weeks, such as learning about plants and trees.
The children showed a great increase in personal health.____18____90 percent said they learned something new about the natural world；79 percent felt the experience would help their schoolwork；___19___Perhaps most importantly, 79 percent mentioned they would believe more in themselves.
___20___And the time has been reducing greatly in recent years. A 2017 report found that less than 10percent British kids enjoys themselves in nature, compared to 40 percent of adults when they were younger years ago. To improve the situation, the organization is calling on the government to free up a daily hour for nature time for kids.
A. Parents care much about their kids' nature time. ”
B. However, parents on their own aren't giving kids that time.
C. 81 percent said they had better relationships with their teachers.
D. The calling comes from a study by University College London.
E. The students are asked to study in University College London for one day.
F. The UK organization speaks for 46 groups and 2,300 nature protection areas.
G. And they also showed a sense of connection with the natural world and high levels of enjoyment.
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
One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by____21____because we’d never seen geese there before. Thinking they would soon leave, I_____22_____the chance to get close to them. I wondered where they came from and why they’d chosen our pond.
The next morning, the geese were still my____23____. I walked round to the mailbox, showing them I meant no harm.____24____, I couldn’t resist getting a____25____look. I hid behind some trees and____26____the handsome pair quietly through the branches. I was surprised to see they were staring at me, too!
As days passed, I started____27____to them on my trips to the mailbox. They craned their necks and raised their heads____28____, but seemed to realize I was their friend. By then, my curiosity about____29____they were staying so long on the pond changed to____30____. As they were feeling in the grass the other day, I discovered
the reason for their____31____: the male had a broken left wing. He couldn’t____32____, and his faithful mate wouldn’t leave him behind.
I asked a biologist what to do. He explained that sometimes a____33____wing would heal by itself and suggested letting nature take its course.
On the first day of November, I was working in the neighborhood of the geese with my tractor. As I bent to fasten a chain from the tractor, I____34____some movement from the corner of my eye. Both geese were running towards the pond. Their wing were____35____like crazy, struggling for take-off. Gradually, they flew over the pond. They____36____enough altitude to fly past a neighbor’s house, and then circled back towards me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of_____37_____.
The season’s first snowflake fell the very next day. The birds must have___38___that winter was coming, and it was time to go. I became fond of them during their____39____visit to our pond, and now I miss them. I’ll never forget their____40____to each other.
21. A. accident B. surprise C. nature D. fortune
22. A. increased B. created C. deserved D. valued
23. A. guests B. puzzles C. fellows D. friends
24. A. Instead B. Therefore C. Still D. Anyhow
25. A. closer B. quicker C. quieter D. broader
26. A. approached B. calmed C. observed D. protected
27. A. turning B. attending C. driving D. talking
28. A. firmly B. cautiously C. warmly D. proudly
29. A. why B. when C. how D. whether
30. A. sympathy B. rescue C. pleasure D. concern
31. A. companion B. visit C. settlement D. care
32. A. recover B. survive C. fly D. return
33. A. weak B. folded C. broken D. flightless
34. A. held B. caught C. directed D. made
35. A. spreading B. sweeping C. trembling D. beating
36. A. gained B. set C. discovered D. lost
37. A. reach B. sight C. control D. help
38. A. concluded B. indicated C. sensed D. confirmed
39. A. unexpected B. causal C. regular D. short
40. A. contribution B. promise C. treat D. devotion
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
阅读下面短文，根据首字母或中文提示写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。

每空一词。

注意：答题时请写出包含首字母的完整单词。

On the reality show Rap for Youth, Chen Jinnan, a talented rapper (说唱歌手), sang her song Malice from the world. Her p___41.___was successful.
Chen began listening to hip-hop when she was 13. A year later, she started to add much___42.___(素材) about her life into songs that she created, describing this experience as “like writing a diary”. Chen wrote the song Malice from the world after receiving a message from a fan who was ___43.___(受苦) from some dark thoughts and n___44.___feelings. To help the fan and other young adults, Chen published the song online last year.
Now, she has nearly 60,000 followers on her Sina Weibo a___45.___(账户). Many fans view her as a girl who always looks on the bright side. However, not everyone likes her. Chen posted on Sina Weibo: “Some people are ___46.___(攻击) me online. They say that I’m too fat and not beautiful enough, but I really don’t care. I won’t compare myself with others because I am u___47.___.” These___48.___(外部的) influences are always present, but learn to forget about them or just i___49.___them. Always see the good things about yourself and focus on your s____50.____.
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.每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Peter,
I am glad to know you want to learn table-tennis, and that you will attend training class offered by our school this summer vacation. The following is what your should know.
The training class, that is held in our school hall, is free of charge, and would last weeks from June 1 to 14. We
have invited some experienced teacher, and they will teach you how to play table tennis, such as like receiving and serving the ball. Of course, some specially skills are also included. When you are familiar to it, we will arrange some competitive games for you as practice, which must be very interested and will improve your skill. The number of the members are limited, so you'd better sign up on our homepage as soon as possible.
If you have any problem, please contact me. Looking forward to your coming.
Yours,
Li Hua 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假如你叫李华,是一名中学生,非常喜欢看某档音乐类节目，你决定和朋友们组建一支乐队,请你写一篇英文演讲稿，内容包括：
1.你非常喜欢这档节目，它能给你带来很多欢乐；
2.正准备和朋友们组建一支乐队；
3.介绍乐队成员、歌曲风格、乐队的排练和演出计划等。

注意:1.词数100左右;2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;3.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。

Dear friends,
I’m very honored to give you a speech on music.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________
Thank you!
参考答案
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. B
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. B 9. B 10. A 11. C
12. B 13. D 14. D 15. C
16. F 17. D 18. G 19. C 20. B
21. B 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. A 26. C 27. D 28. B 29. A 30. D 31. B 32.
C 33. C 34. B 35.
D 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. D
41. performance
42. material
43. suffering
44. negative
45. account
46. attacking
47. unique 48. external 49. ignore 50. strengths
51.(1).attend之后加上the
(2).your→you
(3).that→which
(4).would→will
(5).teacher→teachers
(6).删除like
(7).specially→special
(8).to→with
(9).interested→interesting
(10).are→is
52.略。