2021届贵阳市第二中学高三英语模拟试卷及答案

2021届贵阳市第二中学高三英语模拟试卷及答案
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
Don’t know where to enjoy yourself? Here are some choices for you.
Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
PopUp Picnics in the park return for the fourth summer in a row, taking place on Thursdays. Take a break to enjoy tacos (墨西哥玉米薄饼卷). Prices changefrom $ 2 to $ 10. Cash only.
144 School Street June 13-August 15 Start at 11:30 am and end at 1:30 pm
The Crow’s Nest
Each summer on Thursday evenings the Crow’s Nest offers its Summer Beach Party series on the beach. The party starts at 5:30 pm each week and goes until sunset. Families are welcome, and there is no entrance fee. After the sun sets, the fun begins with dancing to the best live music of local bands.
2218 East Cliff Drive May 30-August 29 Start at 5:30 pm and end at 8:30 pm
Bargetto Winery
Join us for a beautiful weekend of art and wine. Bargetto Winery will be hosting their yearly gathering of artists and foodies（美食家）at their amazing Soquel winery. No entrance fee. Wine tasting with purchase of $ 15 festival glass. 3535 North Main Street
July 20 - July 21 Start at 11:00 am and end at 5:00 pm
Chaminade Resort & Spa
Chef Page takes guests on a journey showing the area rich fruits, vegetables, and meats. Dinner begins at 6:30 pm with a five-course menu and good wines. Seating booked is not a choice, as all guests are seated at large, connecting, beautifully set tables designed to invite open conversations among guests. Ticket price: $ 90 per person. Tickets can be gotten online.
Chaminade Lane July 26 Start at 6:00 pm and end at 9:00 pm
1. What can we know about PopUp Picnics in the park?
A. It lasts two days.
B. It is held on Thursdays.
C. It has been held twice.
D. It can be paid in credit card.
2. What can people do in the Crow’s Nest?
A. Enjoy tacos.
B. Talk with artists and foodies.
C. Watch the sunrise on the beach.
D. Watch the performance of the bands.
3. Which activity can be booked on the Internet?
A. The Crow's Nest.
B. Bargetto Winery.
C. Chaminade Resort & Spa.
D. Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park.
B
Do you ever listen to the songs that your parents like? Chances are that you don’t. You probably think the music that they like is old and boring and that the songs on your playlist are muchcooler. But scientists found that people’s music taste changes as time goes by. So it is likely that your own musical preferences will follow a similar path to your parents’, whether you like it or not.
We used to think that culture and personality (个性) are the only reasons for different music choices. But researchers at the University of Cambridge noticed that as people enter into different age groups, their social environment changes, and so does their music taste. There are some musical periods that people go through in their life.
The first period comes in the teenage years, during which people like strong music such as punk and rock, because teenagers tend to be aggressive or want to be independent.
But as people move into early adulthood, their lifestyles change they want to build close relationships with others. As a result, they become fonder of contemporary music, such as pop and R&.B, which is usually uplifting and danceable.
When middle age comes, most people have settled down. During this period, people prefer music, such as jazz and classical, as well as music like country, folk and blues.
As for old people, they prefer old songs in their childhoods. They generally listen to relaxing music, such as country music and jazz music. But you must be questioning. “Aren’t there old people who are still interested in or even crazy about rock music?” Of course there are. But their reasons for listening to rock music may have changed. At that age people may listen to remind themselves of their youth.
4. What do young people usually think of the songs their parents enjoy?
A. They are actually less cool.
B. They are worth listening to.
C. They are especially serious.
D. They are hard to understand.
5. How many musical periods are there that people go through in their life?
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. Four.
D. Five.
6. People who want to make friends mostly prefer ________.
A. jazz music
B. country music
C. rock music
D. pop music
7. What is the best title for the text?
A. People Have Different Opinions on Music
B. People Listen to Music for the Same Reason
C. People’s Taste in Music Changes with Time
D. People’s Lifestyle Can Be Changed by Music
C
Plastic is piling up in ecosystems all over the world. Although its harmful impacts on both species and ecosystems have been documented, a few animals—like bowerbirds and hermit crabs—are doing what they can to recycle it. And according to a recent study, wild bees in Canada have joined the effort, which is a rare observation of behavioral flexibility in species especially insects, in increasingly plastic-rich environments.
The researchers found two species of leafcutter bees putting plastic into their nests. One of the bees they studied, the alfalfa leafcutter bee, normally bites off pieces of leaves and flowers while the second bee gathers sticky substances from trees. Leafcutter bees don't build big nests or store honey like honeybees, choosing instead small nests in underground holes, tree holes or cracks（裂缝）in buildings. But the researchers found that three of eight brood cells（育雏巢室）contained pieces of plastic bags, replacing 23 percent of the cut leaves in each cell on average.
While they don't make honey,alfalfa leafcutter bees still make money for theU. S. and Canadian farmers by pollinating（给......传授花粉）crops including alfalfa , carrots and melons. The European insects were introduced to North America in the 1930s for that purpose, and they've since become wild, joining the continent's many native species of leafcutter bees.
In a separate study conducted in Argentina between 2017 and 2018, researchers found a bee nest made entirely of plastic, which consisted of three separate cells. It's the first known example of such construction worldwide. Compared to the other nests the researchers examined, which were made of natural materials, this one had a pretty lower success rate of the bees' survival. One of the cells had a dead baby bee , another seemed to have housed an adult that had left the nest, and the third was unfinished.
8. What does the animals' use of plastic show according to the study?
A. How widely plastic is used.
B. How strange the behavior of wildlife is.
C. How some wildlife is adapting to plastic.
D. How plastic pollution has harmed them.
9. What do leaves mean to alfalfa leafcutter bees?
A. Food.
B. Shelter.
C A plastic substitute. D. Traditional nest materials.
10. Which is one characteristic of leafcutter bees?
A. They have great economic value.
B. They store honey like honeybees.
C. They prefer to live in tree holes.
D. They have evolved into a new species.
11. What was the nest made entirely of plastic like?
A. It might be warmer.
B. It might be unhealthy.
C. It might be easy to finish.
D. It might be recyclable.
D
If you easily make mistakes when in a hurry, a new study from Michigan State University—the largest of its kind to date-found that meditation (冥想) could help you improve the situation.
The research tested how open monitoring meditation (OMM)—or, meditationthat focuses awareness on feelings or thoughts as they unfold in one’s mind and body—alteredbrain activity in a way that suggested increased error recognition.
“People’s interest in meditation is outpacing what science can prove in terms of effects and benefits.” said Jeff Lin, MSU psychology doctoral candidate and study co-author. “But it’s amazing to me that we were able to see how one session of a guided meditation could produce changes to brain activity in non-meditators.”
“Some forms of meditation have you focus on a single object, commonly your breath, but open monitoring meditation is a bit different,” Lin said, “It has you tune inward and pay attention to everything going on in your mind and body. The goal is to sit quietly and pay close attention to where the mind travels without getting too caught up in the scenery.”
Lin and his MSU co-authors—William Eckerle, Ling Peng and Jason Moser—hired more than 200 participants to test how open monitoring meditation affected how people detect and respond toerrors.
The participants, who had never meditated before, were taken through a 20-minute open monitoring meditation exercise while the researchers measured brain activity through electroencephalography (脑电图), or EEG. Then, they completed a computerized distraction (分心) test.
“The EEG can measure brain activity at the millisecond level, so we got precise measures of brain activity right after mistakes compared to correct responses,” Lin said. “A certain neural signal occurs about half a second after an error called the error positivity, which is linked to conscious error recognition. We found that the strength of this signal is increased in the meditators to controls.”
“These findings show what just 20 minutes of open monitoring meditation can do to improve the brain’s ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes,” Moser said.
12. What does the underlined word “altered” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Changed.
B. Prevented.
C. Started.
D. Recorded.
13. Why is open monitoring meditation different?
A. It is just aimed at a single object.
B. It clears your mind of everything.
C. It gets too caught up in the scenery.
D. It focuses on where the mind travels.
14. What did the researchers do for the study
A. They hired people who had meditated before.
B. They measured the participants’ brain activity.
C. They reminded the participants to avoid errors.
D. They had non-meditators design a distraction test.
15. What is the best title for the text?
A. Turn to OMM to Avoid Acting in a Hurry
B. You’re Able to Recognize Errors Consciously
C. Meditators’ Brain Proves Much More Active
D. OMM Can Help You Make Fewer Mistakes
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
Stage Fright
Imagine that you are an actor performing in a play for the first time. You have learned all your lines and you know where to walk on stage. Waiting behind the closed curtain, you can hear the audience whispering and taking their seats.
Then your big moment arrives! The curtain goes up, and the crowd falls silent. All you can see is the spotlight shining down on you.____16____The inside of your mouth is dry, and your hands are wet.
If you have experienced a moment like this, you know all too well what it means to have stage fright. It is one
of the most common types of fear and tends to strike people when they find themselves at the center of attention._____17_____People experience this fear when playing sports, giving a presentation, or even speaking in class. A person who suffers from stage fright may get sweaty hands, a dry mouth, a tight throat, or shaky knees. Stage fright is actually a form of panic, and these feelings are very real.
___18___The experience differs from person to person, but the same chemical process occurs in each of us. In reaction to anxiety, our bodies produce a chemical that prepares us to either fight or run away quickly. Scientists refer to this as our bodies’ “fight or flight” reaction. As a result, we feel great energy that makes our hands sweat, our hearts race, and our knees shake.
___19___Practicing your performance and following some simple tips can help calm nerves and manage the feelings caused by anxiety. First, dress comfortably and appropriately. Second, before the performance, take deep breaths and stretch to help relax your body. Third, stay away from drinks that contain caffeine._____20_____Instead, try a banana! Some doctors believe that eating a banana can help calm your heart and the rest of your body. Finally, when you look into a crowd, try to focus on particular people instead of the whole group. These tips have helped many people learn to deal with their fears.
A. These might make your heart race even faster.
B. You don’t have to be onstage to get stage fright.
C. Stage fright is part of the body’s reaction to stress.
D. You try to speak your lines, but nothing seems to come out.
E. With practice, we can learn how to relax while playing sports.
F.The good news about stage fright is that here are ways to deal with it.
G. However, there is a time when stage fright prevents you from stepping onstage.
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Have you ever given a thought to inspiration？In fact, inspiration can be a strange thing. You never know when it might____21____, and sometimes, it can come from the most____22____places.
I recently read about an author named Nnedi Okorafor. When she was in college, she had a serious spine disorder. Okorafor was told that a simple operation could____23____it. But when she woke up from her____24____, she found that she couldn’t move her legs and was in great pain.
Okorafor got____25____later. But before she did, she saw strange things in her hospital room. She imagined her____26____as a beast that hunted her from the shadows. But she also____27____a woman-a woman who
could fly, in fact. This____28____woman inspired her and helped her____29____her pain. “I felt myself become_____30_____,” she wrote in her book Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.
We_____31_____know where we might find the inspiration to create. As a_____32_____, most of my inspiration comes from other people’s music. But I also find_____33_____in other places. Books, movies and_____34_____just moments in everyday life can lead to new creations.
_____35_____, I recently rewatched the film Blade Runner. I’ve seen it plenty of times before; it’s one of my favorite movies. But this time, for some reason, I saw it_____36_____.I decided to make music that could create the same feeling as the_____37_____. It’s not done yet, but the music I’m working on now is heavily_____38_____by the movie’s setting and characters.
Anything can_____39_____us. You just have to be_____40_____to catch inspiration when it hits.
21. A. work B. hit C. exist D. pass
22. A. interesting B. ordinary C. unexpected D. dangerous
23. A. fix B. make C. remove D. control
24. A. dream B. shock C. recovery D. operation
25. A. well B. bad C. worried D. annoyed
26. A. curiosity B. pain C. anger D. fear
27. A. asked B. met C. imagined D. visited
28. A. confident B. smart C. honest D. magical
29. A. forget B. recognize C. describe D. practice
30. A. richer B. better C. busier D. quieter
31. A. always B. never C. sometimes D. still
32. A. director B. dancer C. musician D. writer
33. A. tips B. messages C. examples D. ideas
34. A. even B. again C. not D. only
35. A. In short B. In addition C. For example D. After all
36. A. differently B. perfectly C. vividly D. smoothly
37. A. story B. song C. play D. film
38. A. changed B. supported C. disturbed D. influenced
39. A. impress B. inspire C. amuse D. challenge
40. A. free B. thankful C. ready D. careful
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
Time to Upgrade Phone? You Bet!
“Is it high time to buy a 5G phone now or should I wait?” this question___41.___(throw) at me constantly by friends ever since China commercialized 5G last October.
First of all, China now has a wide 5G coverage, which makes___42.___convenient for consumers to use 5G smartphones. Currently, 5G signals are available in all prefecture-level cities in China, and___43.___(consume) in more than 300 cities are able to access 5G signals when they are in subways,___44.___(take) a walk in parks or shopping at malls.
Moreover, telecom carriers have announced their plans to cover key counties and towns___45.___5G signals next year, which will attract more people to 5G smartphones.
At the same time, the prices of 5G data packages are also dropping___46.___(significant) from the starting price of more than 120 yuan ($18.3) per month at the start of this year to about 90 yuan now, making the tech___47.___(afford) for more people to enjoy the 5G service. There are more 5G smartphone models to choose from — some of them may remain much too expensive,___48.___the cheapest one now costs only 999 yuan.
China’s big three telecom carriers are also working on a new 5G-enabled messaging service, which is designed to replace current short messages with a system___49.___is richer, provides phone book polling, and can transmit in-call multimedia.
So, yes, it’s high time that I____50.____(buy) a 5G smartphone indeed.
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:
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。

Among so much proverbs, I like “The early bird catches worms. ” best.
This proverb means that to being successful, one needs to start early or before anyone else. It advises us seize the day and take every opportunity. That is why I liked it so much.
Looking back, I have come to realize that success is never goes to those who are lazy! Often the mostly successful people are those who do something before anyone else do. Success takes hard work and time. The early one wakes up, the more work time you will have and the more one will get.
Are you a early bird?
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，最近你的美国朋友John在与父母相处的过程中遇到一些困惑，沟通出现问题。

他心情不佳，来信寻求你的帮助。

请根据以下要点给他写一封信：
1.安慰John；
2.提出建议；
3.恰当的结尾。

注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考答案
1. B
2. D
3. C
4. A
5. C
6. D
7. C
8. A 9. B 10. D 11. B
12. A 13. D 14. B 15. D
16. D 17. B 18. C 19. F 20. A
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. B 31. B 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. C 36. A 37. D 38. D 39. B 40. C
41. has been thrown
42. it 43. consumers
44. taking 45. with
46. significantly
47. affordable
48. but/while
49. that/ which
50. bought/ should buy
51.(1).much→ many
(2).being→ be
(3).seize前加to
(4).liked→ like
(5).删除is
(6).mostly→ most
(7).do→ does
(8).early→earlier
(9).you→ one
(10).a→ an
52.略。