2021年湖北省孝感高级中学高三英语第三次联考试题及答案

2021年湖北省孝感高级中学高三英语第三次联考试题及答案
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
Best Online Bachelor's Programs
An online college degree may appeal to those who want to take lasses while working full time. Choosing where to sign up online will likely be challenging, but below you'll find advice and other resources to make your search easier.
•ArizonaStateUniversity
ASU relies upon cutting-edge technology and world-class educators to offer degree programs that fit into any lifestyle. Its courses employ advanced technology, such as our virtual labs, adaptive learning and virtual community, to provide real-world experiences to prepare graduates for their chosen industry.
ADMISSION: 15,321
TUITION: S413
•UniversityofIllinois
UI is a top-ranked, diverse research institution and an approved SARA institution. For UTs degree completion programs, students transfer with an associate degree or 57-60 credits. All of the online classes arc recorded so students can access lecture material at their convenience.
ADMISSION: 385
TUITION: S462
•UniversityofFlorida
UF Online is a fully-online degree pathway giving students access to the same teachers in UF. Courses arc designed and taught by UF's well-known teachers. Students feel connected, frequently communicating with teachers and their fellow students.
ADMISSION: 3,340
TUITION: $500
•OhioStateUniversity
The courses of OSU online bachelor's programs are all related to health science. The online programs are flexible providing students with the knowledge to enter professional medical practice or prepare them for more
advanced roles in their fields.
ADMISSION: 542
TUITION: 5642
1. What's special aboutArizonaStateUniversity?
A. It is an approved SARA institution.
B. It provides the most expensive programs.
C. It offers some technology-assisted courses.
D. It admits fewer students than other universities.
2. Which university’s, online programs favor medical students?
A.ArizonaStateUniversity.
B.UniversityofIllinois.
C.UniversityofFlorida.
D.OhioStateUniversity.
3. What's the purpose of this passage?
A. To advertise free online programs.
B. To call on people to sign up online.
C. To introduce some best online programs.
D. To provide access to the best universities.
B
The Rise of Voice Technology
Voice technology has come a long way. Just a few years ago, it would have been unusable. But now, those who follow the technology know that it has got considerably better.
Writing with your voice raises several interesting questions. How difficult is it actually? Human speech involves a lot more starting and stopping with errors and the need for repairing broken sentences than you may think. Even gifted speakers make mistakes. To turn the spoken word into reasonable writing requires lots of planning. You’ll need some kinds of notes or other organisers to make it work.
Another question turning speech into writing raises is the style. How would writing make the change that people speak their writing rather than type? Chances are that it would come up with many more short sentences and more concrete language, which is good. It would probably also rely on prepared phrases a lot more often, which is not available when you are speaking quickly.
To confirm this, a column was not written, but dictated (听写). It was composed from brief notes written down for structure only, and it was edited for length, with all of the original errors kept in. Here were the results.
The first was that the literal accuracy was extremely high. There weren’t many cases wherethe software had heard one word incorrectly and written down another. But the other result was that the readability of this column was rather bad. Obviously, the blame is not with the technology at all, which turns out to be rather good. Speaking into writing relies on a better human brain than the one we currently possess. Writing is hard. There’s a reason it can’t be done at the speed of speech, in real time.
To clarify the matter, this time paragraph breaks were added after the whole writing. Punctuations (标点) had to be spoken aloud, and after a full stop, the first word in the new sentence was capitalized automatically. Some minor punctuation marks were added to make it clearer. To improve accuracy, people “trained” the software beforehand, reading a prewritten passage aloud. Actually it turns out to be more effective. All of these ensure the satisfactory completion of turning speech into writing.
Language is the most important tool for human interaction, and voice is one beautiful part of language. With the maturity of modern technology, it has given birth to a great change in the human-computer voice interaction.
4. According to the passage, which helps to turn speech into writing in terms of style?
A. There is careful planning in advance.
B. Errors and broken sentences are avoided.
C. People type words as fast as they say them.
D. The writing contains more prepared phrases.
5. To achieve better results, the author mentions some changes for ______.
A. processing errors in a column.
B. adding minor punctuation marks.
C. increasing the number of brief notes.
D. integrating short paragraphs in writing.
6. The author suggests that ______.
A. human brains are responsible for poor dictated writing.
B. writing with voice promises to improve the quality of writing.
C. writing is an unnatural act that can hardly be learned and improved.
D. technology has a long way to go in the human-computer voice interaction.
7. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Why people fully intend to turn speech into writing.
B. What role voice technology plays in improving readability.
C. Where the human-computer voice interaction is at an advantage.
D. How voice technology enables the change from speech into writing.
C
“We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds... Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth.” These are the words of the famous scientist Stephen Hawking, spoken at a science festival inNorwayin 2017, a year before his death.
Hawking was not alone in this view. Many experts feel that the only way for humanity to last far into the future is to colonize other planets. That way, if an asteroid, a terrible disease, nuclear war, or some other disaster strikes Earth, civilization as we know it would still have a chance. Mars is one of the most tempting destinations. NASA, theUnited Arab Emirates, the private company SpaceX, and the organization Mars One all have plans to send humans there. “Either we spread Earth to other planets, or we risk going extinct, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said at a conference in 2013.
But not everyone agrees that colonizing Mars or any other planet is such a great plan. The most common argument against going is that it’s just too expensive or dangerous. It will take huge amounts of money and other resources just to get people there, let alone set up a place for them to live. It’s not even clear if humans could survive on Mars. One of the biggest dangers there is deadly radiation that bombards the planet.
Maybe all the time and money people would pour into a Mars mission would be better spent on more urgent projects here on Earth, like dealing with poverty or climate change. Some experts argue that handling a problem like an asteroid strike or disease outbreak while staying here on Earth would be much easier and less expensive than surviving on a new planet.
In addition, moving to a new planet could harm or destroy anything that already lives there. Mars seems uninhabited, but it could possibly host microbial life. Human visitors may destroy this life or permanently change or damage the Martian environment. Some feel that’s too much of a risk to take.
What do you think? Should humans colonize outer space or stay home?
8. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Many experts insist that humans should take the risk.
B. Mars is the most attractive destinations for human beings.
C. Hawking firmly believes the only way to save humans is moving to Mars.
D. All the other experts don’t agree with Hawking’s idea.
9. Why do some experts disagree with the plan to colonize Mars?
A. It will cost much more money to settle on Mars than on Earth.
B. It is too long a distance from the Earth to the Mars.
C. Human visitors will bring diseases to Martian environment.
D. The deadly radiation that bombards the planet is the biggest danger.
10. What’s the writing purpose of the passage?
A. To raise people’s awareness of protecting the environment.
B. To present different opinions on whether to move to the Mars.
C. To arouse readers’ reflection on whether to colonize outer space.
D. To inspire people to deal with the environmental problems.
11. In which section of a magazine is the passage most likely from?
A. Fiction.
B. Current affairs.
C. Social Studies.
D. Science.
D
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.
12. How did Li feel about city life?
A. Satisfied.
B. Tired.
C. Attractive.
D. Noisy.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
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Alexander Miles is an African-American inventor who is largely known for his contribution to the elevator industry. He was awarded a US patent in 1887 for his design for the elevator. The design allowed the doors of the elevator to open and close automatically when it stopped on a floor.____16____
Alexander Miles’ invention was an improvement on the previous models of the elevator, mainly due to safety concerns. Older models of the elevator would not close automatically before the elevator started to move.____17____There were accidents where people would fall out of the elevator and into the shaft (电梯通道).
____18____His device worked by attaching a flexible belt to the elevator cage. When the belt bumped against drums that were placed directly above and under the floors, it caused the elevator doors to open and close. The doors were further operated through a series of levers and pulleys (滑轮).
Sometimes, people might mistake Alexander Miles for inventing the elevator door system.____19____The first patentfor elevator doors was given to John W. Meaker. Mr. Meaker was awarded the patent for the creation of the elevator door system in 1874, 13 years before Mr. Miles’ patent.
Despite the confusion, Alexander Miles made a huge contribution to the elevator.____20____His patent for automated opening and closing doors is still used by most elevators today.
A. Actually, it’s not the case.
B. They are located below and above the doors.
C. Before his design, the doors had to be opened by hand.
D. This could be dangerous if someone forgot to close the door.
E. Modern-day elevator doors are still designed based on his basic principles.
F. At this time, Miles was inspired to work on elevator door mechanisms.
G. Miles’ improvement to the elevator was basically a matter of structure.
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Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite____21____through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)____22____life, so he and his wife did all the work and____23____made them do anything.
After some time, his wife died and____24____he didn’t want his children to____25____, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and____26____, and started to worry about his____27____when he died.
So he thought about this for a long time and he____28____his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve____29____all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and____30____the gold.”
And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to____31____and my children don’t know how to____32____themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”
So the neighbors provided them with____33____for some time.
Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the____34____so they did the digging themselves. They____35____one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.
So the brothers sat down and one____36____the other, “Do you think our father____37____us?”
But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the____38____is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the____39____we can become rich.”
So like all the other____40____, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.
21. A. rich B. strong C. clever D. busy
22. A. hard B. easy C. different D. ordinary
23. A. always B. often C. never D. sometimes
24. A. also B. thus C. ever D. still
25. A. work B. move C. study D. play
26. A. healthy B. sick C. foolish D. wise
27. A. brothers B. friends C. children D. s
28. A. showed B. taught C. visited D. called
29. A. lost B. hidden C. planted D. put
30. A. harvest B. find C. buy D. use
31. A. leave B. travel C. die D. disappear
32. A. look at B. look out C. look after D. look for
33. A. relief B. money C. water D. food
34. A. gold B. silver C. oil D. coal
35. A. dug B. piled C. operated D. searched
36. A. advised B. asked C. followed D. doubted
37. A. loved B. cared C. understood D. cheated
38. A. gardening B. fishing C. building D. farming
39. A. roots B. stones C. fields D. pipes
40. A. farmers B. workers C. fishers D. builders
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 we live in social groups, there are many____41.____（beneficial）of friendship that we can enjoy. Generally speaking, close friends have three “fruits”: they may comfort the heart, advise the head and help us achieve____42.____goals we set for ourselves. Through friendship, we can become____43.____（happy）, wiser, and more satisfied humans.
The first fruit of friendship is the peace that comes from____44.____（share）with friends our joy, sadness, success and failure. Here, friendship has a double advantage--happiness____45.____（take）on a greater meaning and a trouble shared becomes a trouble halved.
The second fruit of friendship is the better understanding and judgement that may be achieved____46.____conversations with well-meaning and wise friends. We often find____47.____easier to recognize other people’s weaknesses than our own.
The third fruit of friendship is the help that a friend may offer in many different ways. Sometimes a friend is even known as our “second half.” There are so many things in life____48.____can be achieved with the help of
friends.
Finally, it should____49.____（point）out that enjoying the company of a crowd is not the same as being with friends. Friends should be chosen and relationship_____50._____（careful）developed. In this way, we can better walk the “path of life” with the comfort, advice and help from our trusted friends.
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处错误，每句中最多有两处，每处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。

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。

I was a high school student then, from the low-income family. So I have to support my family. My first one job was to clean the tables in a small restaurant. I still remember going there early and felt anxious about the new world. I worked harder because I was afraid of losing the job. At night, I was sometimes very tired to do my homework. I came to understand that was not easy to earn money, and that knowledges could change my life. But what I learned from the job, in a hard way, was much more important as what I learned from school.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。

你校英国交换生Jim给你发了一封邮件，告诉你暑假他想留在北京做志愿者工作（a volunteering job），希望你给他一些建议。

请你给他回封邮件，邮件内容需包括以下几点:
1.你所推荐的志愿者工作；
2.推荐的理由；
3.建议他做哪些准备
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Jim,
I am happy to hear from you.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
……
Yours,
Li Hua
参考答案
1. C
2. D
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. D 9. A 10. C 11. D
12. B 13. A 14. D 15. C
16. C 17. D 18. G 19. A 20. E
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. D 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. B 31. C 32.
C 33.
D 34. A 35. A 36. B 37. D 38. D 39. C 40. A
41. benefits
42. the 43. happier
44. sharing
45. takes 46. through/via/by
47. it 48. that
49. be pointed
50. carefully
51.(1).the → a
(2). have → had
(3).去掉one
(4).felt→feeling
(5).harder→hard
(6).very→too
(7). that→it或was前加it
(8).knowledges →knowledge
(9).But→And
(10).as→than
52.略。