2021届唐山市迁西县第一中学高三英语月考试题及参考答案

2021届唐山市迁西县第一中学高三英语月考试题及参考答案
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
Personal Time Off(PTO)is something my wife and I created after having kids. We learned that，over time，a full life can leave little time for personal rest and for reflection，hanging out with friends，or just being“off. ”So，after a number of years，we make a change. If I can persuade you to take your own PTO，then these might help.
■Schedule it
First of all，one of our favorite family sayings is“schedule it. ”Sounds easy enough，but life gets complicated managing full-time work and full-time family. Put yourPTO time on the calendar and you make it a real thing.
■Be flexible and strict
If you can schedule PTO at the same time each week，then all the better. Because our calendar can get rather full，flexibility in scheduling becomes a necessity. But being strict in actually taking the time each week is more important. Skipping it once makes it easier to skip again.
■Take enough time
My typical PTO lasts a couple of hours or longer. Sometimes it might be half the day depending on what I’m doing. The goal is to spend enough time away to1et your shoulders drop.
■Do what you want to do
Remember，PTO time is about personal time to do what you want to do，not what you have to do. PTO time is about relaxation. Grab a friend and get a beer. Work can wait until tomorrow.
1.What can be the first step to take the PTO?
A.Persuade the family.
B.Have a personal rest.
C.Ask friends for advice.
D.Make a time plan.
2.What does the underlined part“let your shoulders drop”probably mean?
A.Get you more focused.
B.Have you feel relaxed.
C.Shake your shoulders often.
D.Make you feel more stressed.
3.What does the text mainly talk about?
A.Tips on how to take your time off
B.Skills to manage work and family
C.Advice on how to free yourself
D.Ways of scheduling your work
B
Pablo Picasso was born on October25 inMalaga. Spain in 1881. Taking after his father, Picasso shared apassion（热爱）for painting and art. Even though he wasn't the best student in school, Picasso excelled at drawing. Noticing his amazing talent, Picasso's father, an artist, taught him everything he knew. Before long, Picasso could paint and draw much better than his father. With this rich talent, Picasso paid less and less attention to his schoolwork and spent the majority of his day sketching and drawing in notepads and sketchbooks.
When he was a little bit older, Picasso moved twice and was accepted into two fine art programs. However, he didn't care very much for the special techniques they taught and often wandered the streets by himself drawing the scenes around him. After moving to these two places, Picasso moved back home toBarcelonaand decided that he would develop new techniques of art and painting based on what he saw.
Later, Picasso decided to move toParis,France, where he began perfecting his own techniques of painting, drawing and other forms of art. His drawings. paintings, and an included pieces about sadness, poverty, classics and self-portraits. One of his major types of work is calledcubism（立体派），which includes art with all sizes of geometric shapes together on the piece of an. This type of art is very important because no other artists had come up with the idea before. Picasso decided to try something new, and as a result, cubismis widely accepted today as a classic style of art.
Picasso inspires us to always be thinking. He tells us to think outside the box and come up with fresh new ideas that can change the world. He surely plays a significant role in the art field.
4. What do we know about Picasso as a student at school?
A. He hated doing his homework.
B. He was very proud of his talent.
C. He showed great talent for drawing.
D. He was often praised by his teacher.
5. What did Picasso's father do when he found Picasso's gift?
A. He tried his best to help Picasso.
B. He blamed Picasso for his laziness.
C. He asked Picasso to finish his work on time.
D. He encouraged Picasso to do better at school.
6. What was Picasso's attitude towards the special techniques at that time?
A. He thought highly of them.
B. He took no interest in them.
C. He was confused about them.
D. He was concerned about them.
7. What does the author tell us in the last two paragraphs?
A. Picasso has great faith in art.
B. Picasso has changed the world a lot.
C. Picasso can do anything he wants to.
D. Picasso is a highly creative artist.
C
It was once a shoreline buried by enough garbage to make it invisible (看不见的), thus, given the unfortunate nickname "toilet bowl" . Now the Philippines' Manila Bay beach is totally different, compared with a few months ago. It happened so suddenly and extremely that it brought tears to the eyes of the local people.
The cleanup started on 27 January, when 5, 000 volunteers descended on Manila Bay to remove over 45 tons (公吨) of garbage, marking the beginning of a nation-wide environmental campaign. But some two months before this great movement began, a quiet revolution was already underway.
During the first week of December 2018, Brooklyn- based Bounties Network collectedthree tons of garbage from Manila Bay aver two days through a project that paid a small group of people, mostly fishermen, with a digital currency (数字货币) based on the Ethereum system.
For the mostly non-bank -using Filipino fishermen, this was a first-ever experience with a digital currency. It's one that proves decisive in enabling poor communities around the world to take up arms in the fight against humanity's waste.
There are signs that this recycling-for-digital payment industry may be just about to take off. Earlier in September 2018, Plastic Bank, a Vancouver -based company powered by IBM technology, also started a similar project. They set up a project in Naga, a town in southern Luzon, the country's largest island, building a collection
point to let people exchange plastic and recyclable materials for digital payouts through a system.
That both these pioneers have chosen the Philippines as their first location is not surprising considering the country's contribution to ocean waste. A Wall Street Journal study in 2015 revealed that the Philippines make the third-largest amount of plastic waste into global oceans.
8. Why did people call Manila Bay beach“toilet bowl” ?
A. It looked like a huge bowl.
B. There were plenty of toilets.
C. It was covered by rubbish.
D. People loved the toilets here.
9. What does the underlined phrase“descended on”in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Completely depended on.
B. Suddenly arrived at.
C. Occasionally decreased to.
D. Gradually disappeared from.
10. What made poor communities willing to fight against waste?
A. The benefits to their homeland.
B. The desire to make a difference.
C. The chance to escape ocean pollution.
D. The experience with a digital currency.
11. What is the best title for the text?
A. Online system helps endocean pollution.
B. Manila Bay beach is suddenly removed.
C. Plastic Bank is powerful in recycling waste.
D. Philippines make a great amount of waste.
D
The American poet Louise Gluck, author of 12 collections of poetry, has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born inNew Yorkin 1943, Gluck published her first volume of poetry, “Firstborn”, in 1968, quickly gaining her reputation as a poet. In the decades since, she has become one of the country's most celebrated literary figures. Her work uses the power of myth to deal with some of our darkest human concerns. Her straightforward language always gets at the heart of deep-seated anxieties: loneliness, rejection, death ...
Stephanie Burt,an English professor atHarvardUniversity, said, “She's someone who's been able to make emotion states vivid on the page... Few poets have tried as hard as she has not to repeat herself. And her strongest books are really different from one another”. “She offers poetry lovers a lot of inspiration, but she's also on a lot of bookshelves," said Chiasson, a poet, who added she is a generous reader of her fellow writers’work.
At Yale, where Gluck is a professor of English, she served for years as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and worked closely with poets she chose for the prize and those she did not, helping them shape their work.
“In that very practical way she's had an enormous influence on a great many figures,” said Langdon Hammer, a professor of English at Yale. “She's someone who has been a 'guiding spirit’ for generations of students, writers, and readers.”
Gluck described teaching and writing as symbiotic. “I teach not out of selflessness or generosity: I do it because it feeds me,” she said. “It feeds them, too, so it's a happy relationship. I'm sure not all my students feel that way, but some do. I never feel that it takes me from my work: I think it gives me my work.”
12. Which of the following topics might Gluck tend to explore in her work?
A. Victory.
B. Divorce.
C. Romance.
D. Achievement.
13. What quality does Gluck have according to the passage?
A. Humorous and intelligent.
B. Ambitious and helpful.
C. Considerate and optimistic.
D. Inspiring and creative.
14. What does teaching mean to Gluck?
A. A source of wealth.
B. A barrier to writing.
C. A fountain of creation.
D. A stepping stone to fame.
15. What is the best title for the text?
A. A Guiding Spirit
B. A Successful Pioneer
C. An Adventurous Creator
D. A Hardworking Writer
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
People Who Can’t Count
A recent study has discovered that dyscalculia, the mathematical inability in reading, affects about 5% of children in Britain. There is no simple way of finding out the reason and kids with this learning disability are usually labelled unintelligent.
So what exactly is this learning disability in mathematics? Unlike most people, dyscalculics cannot recognise three or four objects.____16____For example, they need to count the books on the table before they can say how many there are. In other words, they have to count them one by one. This is where they are different from others. The majority of us, if shown three or four similar things, can immediately recognise them.
___17___They cannot understand, for instance, why two and three makes five. Another problem is not being able to tell which group contains more objects than the other. Experiments have proved that dyscalculics have not
developed the part of the brain responsible for processing numbers.
There are also problems with the abstract concept of time for dyscalculics.____18____If your best friend is always late, he might be suffering from dyscalculia. Dyscalculics cannot keep track of time, and they never know how much time they have spent getting ready and how long it will take them to get to work. In addition, research has shown that dyscalculics behave oddly in social situations.____19____This poor ability can explain why they never know how much change they are due or what kind of budget they need for their holiday.
On the other hand, dyscalculics are very good at creative arts. People suffering from dyscalculia can become painters or poets. Dyscalculia does not seem to delay language acquisition. Dyscalculic children acquire language at the same time as, if not earlier than, most children and have no problem learning to read or write.___20___
A. Dyscalculics have difficulties in using numbers at all.
B. This disability scares children away from learning mathematics.
C. They have to go through the routine of counting even a small number of objects.
D. It is quite reasonable for dyscalculics to solve this kind of specific problem at any time.
E. They never know how much they should tip the waiter or they’ve got left after a shopping trip.
F. We can see that dyscalculia is only a learning disability, not a general indication of intelligence.
G. This can account for their difficulty in reading schedules and remembering the order in which things have happened.
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
I was in deep thought. The year drew to a___21___. What would I accomplish in the next?
I looked up at the___22___in the distance. They were white now. Not long ago, they were brown. In the time I’ve lived inIdaho, I’ve had the opportunity to watch the___23___of seasons make their changes on those mountains I am never___24___of seeing.
My first___25___of them came in September. The sides of the mountains were painted green with the leaves.
Near the top were pines. The days moved on. The weather___26___. The leaves browned. The mountain changed.
Fall___27___to winter. I stood and watched the top of the mountains turn a blinding white. I’m not a skier, but I imagined the excitement of___28___down the side of those mountains—free, fast, and___29___.
Winter turned to____30____. The snow in the valley____31____. The weeks passed, the green in the valley
flowed____32____up the slopes like a reversed waterfall. The mountains were as I first saw them, green and leafy.
On this New Year’s Eve, the mountains are white again. I saw so many changes, but were they changes? The mountains are never changing. Like people, they only changed____33____to fit the weather. They didn’t allow outside influences to____34____what lie beneath their coats of changing color1 s. They were always the same.
I’m in my third season of life. A little snow has____35____at my peak. My clothing changed to____36____my seasons. Next year and all my years to follow, I want to be as constant as a mountain. Although my looks change, I want to be____37____. My body will change coats many times, but when my day is done, I want people to say, “No matter what the seasons of life____38____, he never changed inside. He never____39____the pressures of the seasons or the weathers of life to change what he was underneath. He was a____40____mountain you could rely on.”
21. A. close B. change C. practice D. agreement
22. A. ruins B. remains C. trees D. mountains
23. A. variety B. order C. stress D. cycle
24. A. tired B. informed C. accused D. convinced
25. A. sight B. intention C. scenery D. desire
26. A. wanned B. cooled C. improved D. continued
27. A. contributed B. gave way C. subscribed D. gave in
28. A. throwing B. slipping C. climbing D. battling
29. A. frustrated B. motivated C. panicked D. thrilled
30. A. spring B. summer C. fall D. winter
31. A. multiplied B. disappeared C. stayed D. thickened
32. A. steadily B. immediately C. gradually D. casually
33. A. rules B. color1 s C. coats D. measures
34. A. uncover B. change C. expose D. remove
35. A. melted B. slimmed C. gathered D. frozen
36. A. instruct B. confirm C. fit D. fight
37. A. inspiring B. reliable C. challenging D. brave
38. A. fetched B. took C. presented D. rewarded
39. A. requested B. expected C. meant D. allowed
40. A. naturally B. consequently C. definitely D. instantly
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
Have you ever yelled angrily at someone when you____41.____(be) hungry? If so, you’ve experienced “hangry”—some people get bad-tempered when they are overdue for a feed.
But where does hanger come from? Everything you eat is digested into various nutrients____42.____will go into your bloodstream. And they are then distributed to your organs and tissues and used for energy. As time____43.____(pass) after your last meal, the amount of these nutrients in your bloodstream starts to drop. If its levels fall far enough, your brain will consider it____44.____a life-threatening situation.
Simple things can become difficult when you’re really hungry. You may find____45.____hard to concentrate, or you may make silly____46.____(decide). You might also find that your words tend to become sharp and unclear. Another thing that may be more difficult when you’re hungry is behaving within socially acceptable norms.
The_____47._____(easy) way to handle hanger is to eat something before you get too hungry.____48.____you may have a strong desire for quick-fix foods, such as chocolate and potato chips, these foods generally may cause you_____49._____(feel) hangrier soon. So go for nutrient-rich, natural foods that help satisfy hunger for as long as possible, without excess calories.
A final way of handling hanger is to suggest that difficult situations_______50._______(deal) with after a meal, not before.
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.假定你是李华,你的英国好友Peter想了解你的高中学校,请你给他写封邮件,介绍一下你的校园。

内容包括:
1.学校的位置;
2.学校的设施;
3.你对学校的印象。

注意:1.写作词数应为80左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Peter,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. D
8. C 9. B 10. D 11. A
12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A
16. C 17. A 18. G 19. E 20. F
21. A 22. D 23. D 24. A 25. A 26. B 27. B 28. B 29. D 30. A 31. B 32.
A 33. C 34.
B 35.
C 36. C 37. B 38. C 39.
D 40. C
41. were
42. which##that
43. passes 44. as
45. it 46. decisions
47. easiest
48. Though##Although
49. to feel
50. should be dealt## be dealt
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。