2021届汕头市第一中学高三英语第二次联考试题及参考答案

2021届汕头市第一中学高三英语第二次联考试题及参考答案
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
Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation
by Stuart Gibbs
The CIA is on a task to find an equation (方程式) called Pandora, which could destroy the world if the wrong people get it. For help, they turn to Charlie, a 12-year-old girl who's as smart as Albert Einstein. People who like action-packed mysteries will enjoy reading this exciting book.
AstroNuts
by Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg
In AstroNuts, the Earth has been destroyed by humans for thousands of years. Four animals set out from Mount Rushmore, the headquarters (总部) of NNASA. Their task is to find a new planet fit for human life. Finally, they discover one: Plant Planet. The story's theme (主题) is simple: Don't harm the planet. Readers who love fantasy will enjoy AstroNuts.
Stargazing
by Jen Wang
Christine hears that Moon, who's new in town, is the kind of kid who beats people up for fun. But Moon and her mum come to live with Christine's family, and the two kids become best friends. Moon even shares a big secret with Christine. Stargazing is based on author Jen Wang's experiences as a child. The story is about the power of friendship and how people are able to change.
Roll with It
by Jamie Sumner
Roll with It is a story about a 12-year-old girl named Ellie. She has difficulty walking on her own and uses a wheelchair. When Ellie and her mum move to another state to take care of Ellie's grandpa, she must learn to navigate (处理) a new school and new friendships. This page-turner is a must-read for everyone. It's a heartwarming story that really shows the value of familyand how being different is special.
1. Which book tells readers to protect the place we live in?
A.AstroNuts
B.Stargazing.
C.Roll with It.
D.Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation.
2. What makes Stargazing different from the other three books?
A. It talks about friendship.
B. It tells stories about animals.
C. It contains lots of scientific knowledge.
D. It was written according to the author's experiences.
3. What happened to Ellie?
A. She had difficulty in making friends.
B. She had an accident which left her in a wheelchair.
C. She went to a new school and had to start all over again.
D. She lost her mum and was taken care of by her grandpa.
B
According to a survey, the wasteof food on the dining table occupies 10% of the total grain output.
Last week, Meituan, a giant online food ordering platform, co-published a proposal with a number of business organizations, calling on restaurants to stop food waste and help develop new eating habits for customers. Following the proposal, merchants are asked to offer guidance for consumers, including reminding them during the ordering process about the taste of the ingredients, portion sizes and other information about the dishes, to helpthem avoid excessive ordering and food waste.
Catering（餐饮)associations in more than 18 provinces have also joined the campaign to remove food waste. The Wuhan Catering Association proposed an “NT" ordering code for restaurants in which a group of 10 diners would only order enough for nine people. More food is only brought to the table if required. On Friday, the China Cuisine Association announced that it had teamed up with Ele. me, the Alibaba Group Holding-owned food delivery platform, to launch a "half-dish plan," encouraging restaurants to provide customers with the option to order smaller portions.
Tang Zhisong, a professor at Southwest University Education School, said "Evaluating how much you can eat, how much you should buy and how to deal with the leftover is a way for young people to improve their self-management. It's also a means to teach them sharing food, caring about others, and more importantly, developing a mindset of suitability. "
4. What's the purpose of the proposal mentioned in the passage?
A. To change customers' attitude toward life.
B. To promote a new policy on food delivery.
C. To spread the idea of healthy eating.
D. To encourage restaurants to reduce food waste.
5. What does the underlined word “excessive" in Paragraph 2 prolably mean?
A. More than enough.
B. Less than required.
C. Better than ever.
D. Worse than before.
6. Paragraph 3 is mainly developed by.
A. offering analyses
B. presenting a survey
C. giving examples
D. making comparisons
7. What do Tang's words suggest?
A. Sharing food is caring about others.
B. Young people should have self-discipline.
C. Reducing food waste has all-round benefits.
D Saving food contributes to a sustainable society.
C
Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism. Their critics(批评家)seem to hate them because they have so much money to throw around. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays.
The poor old consumer! He'd have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn't create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods is largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading
railway byelaws while waiting for a train? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or a newspaper full of the incidents and disasters.
We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmers is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!
Another thing we mustn't forget is the “small ads.” What a tremendously useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the “hatch, match and dispatch” column(栏目) but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or “agony” column. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It's the best advertisement for advertising there is!
8. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Advertisements steal money from our pockets
B. The critics get the wrong idea of advertisements.
C. Advertisers perform a useful service to communities.
D. Advertisements are everywhere.
9. What is the attitude of the author toward advertisements?
A. He appreciates the role of advertisements.
B. He doubts the effect of advertisements.
C. He believes what is said in advertisements.
D. He complains too many advertisements in daily life.
10. Which of the following is Not True?
A. The personal or “agony” column makes us know more about human nature.
B. The only purpose of advertising is to sell goods.
C. A newspaper will cost us more if there is no advertisement on it.
D. Advertisement makes our life color1 ful.
11. Whicof the following shows the structure of the passage?
( ①=" Paragraph" 1, ②=" paragraph" 2, ③=" paragraph" 3, ④=" paragraph" 4 ⑤=" paragraph" 5)
A B.
C. D.
D
A new study has discovered that meditation (冥想) and oxygen sport together reduce depression. The Rutgers University study found that this mind and body combination, done twice a week for only two months,reduced the symptoms for a group of students by 40 percent.
“We are excited by the findings because we saw such a meaningful improvement in both clinically depressed and non-depressed students,” said lead author Dr. Brandon Alderman. “It is the first time that both of these two behavioral ways have been looked at together for dealing with depression.”
Researchers believe the two activities have an interactive effect on combatingdepression. Alderman and Dr. Tracey Shors discovered that a combination of mental and physical training (MAP) enabled students with major depressive disorder not to let problems or negative thoughts defeat them.
Rutgers researchers say those who participated in the study began with 30 minutes of focused attention meditation followed by 30 minutes of oxygen sport. They were told that if their thoughts drifted to the past or the future they should refocus on their breathing, enabling those with depression to accept moment-to-moment changes in attention.
Shors, who studies the productionof new brain cells in the hippocampus—part of the brain involved in memory and learning—says scientists have shown in animal models that oxygen sport exercise keeps a large number of certain cells alive.
The idea for the human intervention (干预) came fromher laboratory studies, she says, with the main goal of
helping individuals acquire new skills so that they can learn to recover from stressful life events.
By learning to focus their attention and exercise, people who are fighting depression can acquire new learning skills that can help them process information and reduce the overwhelming recollection of memories from the past, Shors says.
“We know these treatments can be practiced over a lifetime and that they will be effective in improving mental health.” said Alderman. “The good news is that this intervention can be practiced by anyone at any time and at no cost.”
12. What made the research so different?
A. Adopting a way of meaningful talk.
B. Combining the two behavioral ways to treat depression.
C. Treating depression with special medicine.
D. Comparing the depressed with the non-depressed.
13. The underlined word “combating” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by ______.
A. fighting
B. identifying
C. distinguishing
D. examining
14. What did the participants do in the research?
A. They did oxygen sport half an hour before thinking.
B. They thought quietly and then took exercise.
C. They took exercise longer than they thought.
D. They took exercise while thinking quietly.
15. What is Shors’ main purpose of her studies?
A. To find out certain brain cells of humans.
B. To study the production of new brain cells.
C. To offer people a new method to treat stress.
D. To decide the links between stress and exercise.
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
The Simple Trick Can Help You Sleep
For those who can't sleep easily, prepare for the best night’s sleep ever. No more tossing and turning into the early hours of the morning. No more counting sheep on Sunday evenings. And no more lying, wide-eyed, in the
dark after waking up in the middle of the night.___16___This all-natural solution is called the4-7-8method, and yes, it’s as simple as it sounds. First, get settled into a comfortable position on your bed. Then, simply breathe in air through your nose for four seconds, hold your breath for seven seconds, and then breathe the air out slowly through your mouth for eight more seconds.___17___
That's all there is to it! Don't believe us? Just ask Harvard-educated medical doctor Andrew Weil, who adopted this exercise fromacenturies-long Indian yogi meditation practice. The yogis use this method to achieve a state of complete relaxation, reducing stress and anxiety. Slowing down your breathing forces the rhythm of your heart to slow down, too.___18___In other words, it’s a natural way to make you calm for your body and mind.
“The theory is that by putting certain rhythms on the breath with your voluntary system, gradually these are made into the involuntary nervous system," he said.___19___So it's the regularity of doing this over a period of weeks, months , years that produces the changes that you want.”
There you go!___20___If you're still tossing and turning, don't miss these tips from sleep doctors which are almost guaranteed to give you a better night's sleep.
A. And that comes with time.
B. Finally , repeat until you fall asleep.
C. It makes the rest of your body relax.
D. That enables you to fall asleep more easily.
E. Here comes the explanation for your sleepless nights.
F. Once you start sticking to it, you can quit counting sheep for good.
G. There's now an easy and expert-approved way to fall asleep in less than a minute.
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On a hilltop in southeast Brazil, 4,500 feet above the surrounding landscape, is a coffee plantation with a history of more than 150 years—five generations. The owner is Ellen Fontana, a woman____21____to both her land and her family. A respect____22____nature contributes to her business; she employs sustainable (可持续的) practices to____23____water, avoid pesticides and____24____greenhouse gas emissions. Her devotion and attention helped her____25____award-winning specialty coffee and a successful coffee business, which she hopes will____26____through future generations.
But in the past few years, her vision of the future has been____27____. The planet is changing____28____and whether coffee production will continue in her area in 20 or 50 years is naturally
a____29____.
“I heard from my grandparents that it used to rain a lot in January, and the dry and rainy seasons were more clearly_____30_____,” Fontana says. “But now, for a few years, we have noticed_____31_____rainfall, high temperature and hail (冰雹).”
In 2014, Fontana’s home experienced its worst_____32_____in nearly a century, leading to a rare water crisis. And February 2020 was the rainiest month in the region’s_____33_____history, resulting in floods.
_____34_____Fontana has earned more than many, thanks to her hilltop location and a significant area of natural forest that she and her family have_____35_____on their land.
She says, “We are in a region with a lot of preserved forest, and we have a lot of coffee. This climate_____36_____a lot in the balance of crops. I think that living in a balance between coffee production and the environment that we live in provides a_____37_____not only for our family but for all the other people who will_____38_____these resources. I think this_____39_____is good for the business, good for the_____40_____and good for our soul.”
21. A. related B. addicted C. devoted D. used
22. A. to B. for C. about D. in
23. A. make the best of B. run out of C. keep track of D. give way to
24. A. reserve B. reject C. reduce D. replace
25. A. design B. invent C. harvest D. create
26. A. stop B. return C. appear D. continue
27. A. improved B. shaken C. recognized D. cleared
28. A. frequently B. rapidly C. gradually D. definitely
29. A. concern B. factor C. mission D. principle
30. A. conducted B. listed C. pursued D. defined
31. A. irregular B. increasing C. mild D. average
32. A. drought B. sandstorm C. flood D. earthquake
33. A. hidden B. recorded C. short D. brief
34. A. Otherwise B. Also C. Thus D. But
35. A. cut B. covered C. maintained D. produced
36. A. fades B. changes C. punishes D. helps
37. A. benefit B. career C. freedom D. convenience
38. A. remove B. enjoy C. waste D. observe
39. A. access B. approach C. balance D. behavior
40. A. friends B. climate C.atmosphere D. family
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
A bird habitat can be a natural or man-made area____41.____(provide) birds with an environment that supplies food and water.
Natural bird habitats are most commonly found____42.____there is an ample supply of water for drinking, swimming, and bathing. Birds that hunt for food in the waters of lakes, ponds, or the ocean require access____43.____available water sources.
A man-made bird habitat may____44.____(design) with a focus on conservation and____45.____(protect) for local bird species. Endangered species may be placed in man-made regulated habitats in an effort to protect them.
The advantage of a man-made bird habitat____46.____(be) that it provides a shelter throughout the seasons. Birds raising their young in such a habitat will most likely return____47.____following year. The young of these birds, at maturity, will likely return to the same habitat____48.____(begin) the process of nesting and raising their young.
Nesting areas in bird habitats are specific to the species. Some species prefer to nest in high treetops, while other species nest____49.____(direct) on the ground. Some birds may nest on a beach to be near food sources, while other birds prefer_____50._____(hide) places among tree branches.
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.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
Last week, our teacher gave us a task to write a paper about Old China. I make up a group with another three classmates. We didn’t have much information, but we decided to ask the teacher. After that, we took the trip to visit a famous museum. When we arrived the museum, we saw the statue(雕塑)of Deng Xiaoping. His great image let us to admire him immediately. There were so many statue of great people, who fought brave for New China and made what we are today. When facing with difficult situations, they chose to sacrifice(牺牲) them. Their
stories are so touching, who encourage us to cherish the life we have.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.全国正在掀起一场停止浪费粮食的运动．假定你是学生会主席李华，请你写一封将在学校广播站英语之声播出的倡议书，内容包括：
1．主题：节约粮食,停止浪费；2．原因：……；3．建议：……
注意：1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．开头已为你写出，不计入总词数；
3．请按如下格式在答题卡的相对位置作答．
Dear schoolmates,
A campaign targeting stopping wasting food is being carried out across the country．
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________
参考答案
1. A
2. D
3. C
4. A
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. C 9. A 10. B 11. D
12. B 13. A 14. B 15. C
16. G 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. F
21. C 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. C 26. D 27. B 28. B 29. A 30. D 31. A 32.
A 33.
B 34. D 35.
C 36.
D 37. A 38. B 39. C 40. D
41. providing
42. where 43. to
44. be designed
45. protection
46. is 47. the
48. to begin
49. directly
50. hidden
51.(1). make →made
(2). but→so
(3). the →a
(4). arrived与the museum中间加at
(5). let us to admire中的to去掉
(6). statue→statues
(7). brave→bravely
(8). facing→faced或去掉with
(9). hem→themselves
(10). who →which
52.略。