2021年郑州第三十二中学高三英语二模试题及参考答案

2021年郑州第三十二中学高三英语二模试题及参考答案
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
For some people, there’s no better companion than mans best friend-a dog. This four-legged pet can bring comfort and joy and provide much- needed exercise for you when it needs walkies! This probably explains why dog ownership increased last year because people spent more time at home during he CovID-I9 lockdown.
However, as demand for a new dog increased, so did the price tag. Popular breeds, such as Cockapoos and Cocker Spaniels, saw even sharper price increases, and puppies have been selling for $3,000 or more.
Animal welfare charities fearthat high prices could encourage puppy farming, smuggling (走私) or dog theft. An investigation found some breeders have been selling puppies and kittens on social media sites--something charities have called “extremely irresponsible”.
But despite some new owners purchasing a dog legally, maybe from a rescue center or registered breeder, they’ve proved to be ill-prepared for life with a new pet, and the pet itself has found it hard tocome to terms withlife in a new home.
Looking to the future, there are concerns about the welfare of these much-loved pets. Lan Alkin manager of the Oxfordshire Animal Sanct uary in the UK, notes: “At the moment, the dogs are having a great time, but separation anxiety could still surface when people go back to work.” And Cliare Calder from the UKs Dogs Trust rescue charity says, “The economic situation also means that some people may find they can’t afford to look after
a dog.” The message is not to buy a dog in haste and to pick one that fits into our lifestyle.
1. The greater demand for dogs can cause the following problems except ________.
A. illegal trade of dogs
B. less dog farming
C. high prices of dogs
D. online sale of dogs
2. What does the underlined phrase"come to terms with"in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Fit in with
B. Go in for
C. Make up for.
D. End up with
3. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Despite the problems, dogs are living happily.
B. The writer has a positive attitude towards dogs future.
C. Experts are worried that dogs will be unaffordable to people.
D. The writer advises people to think twice before keeping dogs as pets.
B
If you’ve ever had a dog, you know just how deep a connection you can develop with “man’s best friend”. But a dog has a much shorter life span — about 12 to 15 years long — than humans, which means every dog owner has to go through the heartbreaking moment when their loving pet passes away.
Why not make a clone of that dog then? This is the solution offered by a South Korean company, Sooam Biotech Research Foundation. The company has successfully cloned at least 400 dogs, mostly for US customers, ever since it pioneered the technique in 2005. Now, Sooam Biotech is planning to introduce their business toUKdog owners, offering them dogs that look just like their lost ones.
Meanwhile, another dog is selected to supply an egg.Researchers then replace the DNA in the egg with that from the skin cell and implant the egg into the womb (子宫) of a female dog. The egg grows into a puppy over the following two months. To clone a dog, researchers first need to take a skin cell from a living dog or one that has just died.
The whole process takes less than a day, but it comes at a shockingly high price — around £63,000 (614,000 yuan). But if you can’t afford it now, you can also save the cells in a laboratory and access them at a later date. Just like identical twins of humans, they share the exact same DNA but there will still be small differences between them. “The spots on a Dalmatian clone will be different, for example,” Insung Hwang, head of Sooam Biotech, toldThe Guardian. However, as magical as cloning might sound, there is no guarantee that the cloned dog will be a perfect replica of the original one.
Dog owners will also have to accept the fact that personality is not “clone-able”. Apart from genes, personality is also determined by upbringing and environment, which are both “random elements [that] cloning technologies simply cannot overcome”, Professor Tom Kirkwood atNewcastle University,UK, toldThe Telegraph.
Perhaps bringing our dogs back with cloning is not the best way to remember them after all.
Kirkwood, a dog owner himself, pointed out: “An important aspect of our relationship with them is coming to terms with the pain of letting go.”
4. According to the article, Sooam Biotech Research Foundation is ______.
A. working on plans to help dog owners enjoy their pets longer
B. offering a way to help dogs give birth to more puppies
C. providing a service that will make copies of pet dogs
D. introducing a completely new technique to clone dogs
5. Which of the following statements about dog cloning is TRUE according to the article?
A. Dog cloning technology hadn’t been put into practice until recently.
B. Dog cloning is very expensive and usually takes several months to complete.
C. Dog cloning is very popular among US andUKpet owners.
D. Cloned dogs might develop different habits and characteristics even though they look very similar.
6. Which of the following shows the correct order of the dog cloning process?
a. an egg is taken from another dog
b. a skin cell is taken from the pet dog and saved in a laboratory
c. the egg is placed in the womb of a female dog
d. the DNA of the egg is replaced by the DNA from the skin cell
e. the egg grows into a puppy in two months
A. acbde.
B. adbce.
C. bacde.
D. badce.
7. We can learn from the article thatKirkwood______ dog cloning.
A. disapproves of
B. supports
C. is afraid of
D. is curious about
C
Howdo you turn “dumb” headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that can be plugged into (插入) smartphones, identify their users monitor their heart rates and perform other services.
Their invention, called HeadFi, is based on a small plug-in headphone adapter that turns a regular headphone into a sensing device (装置). Unlike smart headphones, regular headphones lack sensors. HeadFi would allow users to avoid having to buy a new pairof smart headphones with sensors to enjoy sensing features.
“HeadFi could turn hundreds of millions of existing, regular headphones worldwide into intelligent ones with a simple upgrade (升级),” said Xiaoran Fan, a HeadFi primary inventor.
A Rutgers-led paper on the invention, which results in "earable intelligence", will be formally published in October at MobiCom 2021, the top international conference on mobile computing and mobile and wireless networking. Headphones are among the most popular wearable devices worldwide and they continue to become; more intelligent as new functions appear, such as touch-based gesture control, the paper notes. Such functions usually rely on aiding sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and microphones that are availableon many smart headphones.
HeadFi turns the two drivers already inside all headphones into a versatile (多功能的) sensor, and it works by
connecting headphones to a pairing device, such as a smartphone. It doesn't require adding aiding sensors and avoids changes to headphone hardware or the need to customize headphones, both of which may increase their weight and size. By plugging into HeadFi, a converted headphone can perform sensing tasks and play music at the same time.
The engineers conducted experiments with 53 volunteers using 54 pairs of headphones with prices ranging from $2. 99 to $15 ,000. HeadFi can achieve 97. 2 percent to 99. 5 percent accuracy on user identification, 96.8 percent to 99. 2 percent on heart rate monitoring and 97. 7 percent to 99. 3 percent on gesture recognition.
8. What does Xiaoran Fan think of HeadFi?
A. Secure to operate.
B. Simple to use.
C. Easy to substitute.
D. Convenient to store.
9. What can we know about HeadFi according to the text?
A. It can't work with headphones alone.
B. It actually functions as a versatile sensor.
C. It makes headphones larger and heavier than usual.
D. It doesn't work when headphones are playing music.
10. The figures are listed in the last paragraph mainly to show_________.
A. the various functions of HeadFi
B. the wide popularity of headphones
C. the great complexity of headphones
D. the excellent performance of HeadFi
11. What can be the best title for the text?
A. How to Use Headphones Appropriately
B. Headphones Can Be Upgraded Instantly
C. How to Make Regular Headphones Intelligent
D. New Uses Have Been Found in Headphones
D
It's the near future.Animal populations have fallen sharply and 80% of species are extinct.The forests are so rare that you need to make a booking to visit one. Birds also face extinction.The Arctic terns,a species evolved to fly across the world on4000kmannual journeys，are on their last migration (迁徙) to Antarctica.
The Last Migrationby the Sydney-based writer Charlotte McConaghy is a different sort of climate novel，one in which the heroine's(女主人公)damaged soul is as much a story as the damaged environment This is McConaghy's first work of literary fiction,after a history publishing in science fiction and a romantic
fantasy series.
"I wanted to try and engage with the climate crisis closely,"she said."It's hard to nail down where he book came from.But I had Toni Morrison's words in my head:'If there's a book you really want to read,but i hasn't been written yet,then you must write it.'I love that. It really speaks to me.""
I wanted to write about the way the natural world is disappearing but I didn't know a way in."The way in”, she says, was to"go travelling.I went to Ireland and Iceland,and thought about these incredible journeys of the terns and these people who study hes journeys."
The book became a story of a double journey: the migration of the birds,and a broken woman's travelling to the end of the earth.
Much of the book is told in flashbacks, the action jumping between the south coast of New South Wales to the west coast of Ireland and to Greenland.
"I've always been fascinated with Ireland: the landscape, the people and the poetry and music.I was fascinated with writing a character from there. It was a way to connect more with the place."
McConaghy says she also wanted to have a character who was"of two places"."I had lived in 21 houses by the time I was 21, as a result I definitely know how it feels to feel as if you are not sure where you belong and feeling as if you are between two worlds."
12. How isThe Last Migrationdifferent from other climate novels?
A. It forecasts environmental destruction.
B. It features a bird's cross-continental migration.
C It combines science fiction well with romantic fantasy.
D. It attaches equal importance to the heroine's broken soul.
13. What did McConaghy think of Toni Morrison's words?
A. Inspirational.
B. One-sided.
C. Authoritative.
D. Casual.
14. Why did McConaghy go travelling?
A. To appreciate the landscape of Ireland.
B. To follow the migration of the birds.
C. To get away from her tiresome life.
D. To find ideas for her new book.
15. How might a character "of two places"feel?
A. Content and carefree.
B. More connected with nature.
C. Lacking in a sense of belonging.
D. Knowledgeable about the world.
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If you are already making the time to exercise, it's good indeed! With such busy lives, it can be hard to try and find the time to work out. If you are planning to do exercise regularly, or you are doing it now, then listen up!___16___
Your productivity is improved. Exercising makes you more awake and ready to handle whatever is ahead of you for the day.____17____
Your metabolism gets a head start.____18____If you work out in the mornings, then you will be getting the calorie burning benefits for the whole day, not in your sleep.
____19____Studies found that people who woke up early for exercise slept better than those who exercised in the evening. Exercise excites you, so it is more difficult to relax and have a peaceful sleep when you are very excited.
You will stick to your diet. If you work out bright and early in the morning, you will be more likely to stick to healthy food choices throughout the day.____20____You will want to continue to focus on positive choices.
There are a lot of benefits of working out9 especially in the mornings. Set your alarm clock an hour early and push yourself to work out! You will feel energetic all day long.
A. Your quality of sleep improves.
B. We occasionally allow ourselves to eat junk food.
C. There is no reason you should exercise in the morning.
D. You can keep your head clear for 4—10 hours after exercise.
E. Nobody would want to ruin their good workout by eating junk food.
F. After you exercise, you continue to burn calories throughout the day.
G. Working out in the morning provides benefits beyond being physically fit.
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My mom has always been my biggest inspiration. She's a single parent of eight.
Throughout the years, I've seen my mom___21___many difficulties and overcome many life changing
barriers. All those could easily___22___someone with little faith. The most difficult challenge was the___23___of my younger sister Tenesha at the age of 7.
During the first three months of Tenesha's life, doctors___24___if she would live to see the age of 1. This was___25___news, but my mom never lost___26___.Even though Tenesha's___27___hospital visits hurt her at times, my mom never showed signs of___28___. Her strength always made Tenesha feel___29___there had been nothing to worry about. This strength___30___Tenesha to live the life of a regular child. We almost___31___that she was sick.
Unfortunately, after 5 years of a happy childhood, things began to___32___. Tenesha lost sight in her left eye, which was___33___by loss of sense in her left arm, eventually leaving her left side paralyzed (瘫痪的). My mom___34___her job and attended to her every need. With my mom by her side.Tenesha went to bed with a ___35___ every night.
At the age of 7, Tenesha left us. Her___36___was over. It was a(n)___37___difficult time for us all. However, it wasalso the best learning experience. We now know that no matter how___38___our sufferings may appear, we have a support system that will overcome it all. This is all because of the___39___person in the world-my mom. When we all felt weak, my mom grew stronger. At a time of___40___, my mom grew victorious. She is my heroine!
21. A. record B. promote C. experience D. abandon
22. A. discourage B. impress C. distinguish D. possess
23. A. disease B. missing C. mistake D. passing
24. A. asked B. doubted C. argued D. whispered
25. A. confusing B. disappointing C. embarrassing D. heartbreaking
26. A. hope B. interest C. courage D. confidence
27. A. aimless B. priceless C. countless D. meaningless
28. A. pity B. weakness C. preference D. apology
29. A. as if B. even if C. once D. unless
30. A. forced B. challenged C. persuaded D. enabled
31. A. hesitated B. forgot C. ignored D. avoided
32. A. take in B. clarify C. worsen D. fall out
33. A. followed B. approved C. caused D. accelerated
34. A. changed B. improved C. lost D. quit
35. A. wish B. smile C. reward D. dream
36. A. turning B. crime C. suffering D. adventure
37. A. universally B. extremely C. accurately D. properly
38. A. unstable B. unreliable C. unbelievable D. unbearable
39. A. strongest B. wisest C. healthiest D. proudest
40. A. sorrow B. tension C. defeat D. separation
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
Sanxingdui Museum is known as the most important ancient remains of the Sichuan region. The museum consisting of two galleries with an___41.___(exhibit) area of nearly 12,000 square meters is recognized as "the source of Yangtze River Civilization".
Most of the___42.___(desert) cultural relics in Sanxingdui were used for sacrifice (祭祀). The unique and exquisite shapes make it hard for experts to explain___43.___the ancient people did it. Although Sanxingdui Museum is a little far from the downtown area, it is well worth___44.___visit.
Sanxingdui was first discovered by a farmer in 1929 when he dug a ditch in his field. Since then, more than 10,000 relics, some of___45.___date back 3,000 to 5,000 years, have been unearthed. But up to now no records___46.___(find) about it either during or after the late Shang Dynasty. The Sanxingdui Ruins serve as___47.___(convince) proof that the origins of Chinese civilization are diverse.___48.___the excavation of Sanxingdui, Sichuan was believed to have a history of about 3,000 years.___49.___is now generally recognized that civilized culture appeared in Sichuan about 5,000 years ago. During the future excavations, archaeologists expect____50.____(solve) such mysteries as where raw materials came from and when and why the civilization disappeared.
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n处起)不计分.
On Tuesday evening, when I got out of the bus I realized a man had left his phones on the seat next to me. I picked it up and waited for the owner's phone call, that he gave me two hours later. I told him I have gone home and would give to him the following day. So in my way to work the next morning I returned the phone back to him. He was so delighted and wanted to give me the reward, and I refused it and told him it was okay. He was very exciting. I also felt gladly for having done a good deed.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，是新华中学高二・2班学生。

你校最近举行了学校篮球赛，你班获得冠军。

请你给英国笔友Alan写一封邮件，介绍篮球赛决赛情况。

邮件内容包括：
1.比赛的经过；
2.你在比赛中担任的角色（如球员、观众等）；
3.你的感受。

注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.结尾已为你写好。

Dear Alan,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. B
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. D
7. A
8. B 9. A 10. D 11. C
12. D 13. A 14. D 15. C
16. G 17. D 18. F 19. A 20. E
21. C 22. A 23. D 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. B 29. A 30. D 31. B 32.
C 33. A 34.
D 35. B 36. C 37. B 38. D 39. A 40. C
41. exhibition
42. deserted
43. how 44. a
45. which 46. have been found
47. convincing
48. Before 49. It
50. to solve
51.(1).phones→phone
(2).that→which
(3).have→had
(4).give后添加it
(5).in→on
(6).去掉back
(7).the→a
(8).and→but
(9).exciting→excited
(10).gladly→glad
52.略。