2021届湖北省宜都市陆城街道办事处第一高级中学高三英语月考试题及参考答案

2021届湖北省宜都市陆城街道办事处第一高级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
When the sun shines brightly, it provides a great chance to get outdoor things done. Like making hay! At least, that is what farmers from the past would say. ―Make hay while the sun shines.This idiom is very old, dating back to Medieval times. Rain would often ruin the process of making hay. So, farmers had no choice but to make hay when the sun was shining.
Today, we all use this expression, not just farmers. When conditions are perfect to get something done, we can say, ―It’s a good idea to make hay while the sun shines.In other words, you are taking advantage of a good situation or of good conditions. You are making the most of your opportunities. These all mean ―making hay while the sun shines.
And sometimes we use this expression to mean we beat someone to the punch, or we got ahead of someone else. And other times you make hay while the sun shines to make good use of the chance to do something while it lasts. You are being opportunistic – taking advantage of a good opportunity. For example, my friend Ozzy was sick for a week and could not go to work. So, his co-worker Sarah -- who doesn’t like him -- took advantage of his illness and stole his project! Talk about making hay while the sun shines.
Sometimes when you make hay while the sun shines you are staying ahead of a problem – like in this example:
Hey, do you want to go hiking with me and my friends this weekend? The weather is going to be beautiful! I wish I could. But I have to finish my taxes. It’s the last weekend before they’re due.
Oh, that’s too bad.
Wait. What about your taxes?
My taxes are done. I was off from work a couple of weeks ago and made hay while the sun shined. I got all of it done!
I wish I would have taken advantage of my time off last week___1___All I did was lay around thehouse.
And that’s all the time we have for these Words and Their Stories. But join us again next week. You can listen while you’re making dinner or riding to work. Yeah, make hay while the sun shines.
1.Which of the following best matches ―make hay whilethe sun shines in paragraph 2?
A.Sow nothing, reap nothing.
B.Sharp tools make good work.
C.Strike while the iron is hot.
D.One swallow doesn’t make a summer.
2.According to the underlined sentence, what feeling does the speaker express?
A.Admirable
B.Regretful
C.Annoyed
D.Indifferent
3.Where is the passage probably taken from?
A.A radio program
B.A magazine
C.A brochure
D.A novel
B
The outbreak of the novel corona virus pneumonia (NCP) has disrupted the lives and work of nearly every Chinese person. However, a new trend has been on the rise: many have turned themselves into livestreaming users orfollowers.
According to Questmobile, a professional big data intelligence services provider in China, the audience for Douyin, Kuaishou and other livestreaming platforms surged to 574 million during the Spring Festival holiday, up 35 percent from 2019.
Confined at home, away from their friends and loved ones, people turn to livestreaming to reach out to the world. For them livestreaming can help them share their lives and interest with a global audience, which will give them the sense of being “in the moment”. Even as viewers, they can also engage immediately with livestreamers by commenting and making suggestions.
“When I comment on the livestreaming videos, I’m not simply an audience member, but also an active part of the program. That gives me a sense of engagement,” an Internet user named Wang Hao told People’s Daily.
Livestreaming is not only for fun, but also a new tool for many businesses. Affected by the pandemic, many businesses had to stop their sales in physical stores. To meet their business goals and survive during these trying times, many chose to livestream to revive their businesses.
Joyoung, a leading maker of small kitchen appliances, is a good example. The company not only added a number of broadcasts each day to advertise their products, but also shared the menus that were beneficial to health. “The responses to our livestreaming shows have been well beyond expectations,” Kang Li, who oversees the company’s livestreaming unit, told China daily. “It’s a natural opportunity to truly bond with our followers.”
Like it or not, livestreaming is likely to go mainstream in China for both entertainment and business.
4. What is the purpose of writing the second paragraph?
A. To introduce some popular livestreaming platforms in China.
B. To report data on the development of livestreaming in 2019.
C. To show that Chinese people spend too much time on livestreaming apps.
D. To prove that livestreaming are becoming increasingly popular in China.
5. What does Wang Hao think of commenting on livestreaming?
A. It is boring to make comments.
B. It is the only way to share viewers’ lives.
C. It makes people feel involved in the stream.
D. It helps livestreamers improve themselves.
6. What do paragraphs 5&6 mainly talk about?
A. Livestreaming replaced physical stores in many areas.
B. Many businesses turned to livestreaming platform for marketing.
C. Livestreaming platforms faced challenges during the pandemic.
D. Livestreaming platforms made changes to their services.
7. How does the author feel about thefuture of livestreaming？
A. Positive.
B. Uncertain.
C. Disappointed.
D. Confused.
C
The headmaster of a primary school showed on television to support her idea that parents should “dress appropriately in daywear” when they drop off and pick up their kids from school.
Kate Chisholm, head teacher atSkerneParkAcademyin Darlington, theU.K., sent a letter home asking parents to set a better example for their children.
“I have noticed there has been an increasing tendency for parents to drop off and pick up their kids from school while still wearing their pajamas (睡衣),” Chisholm wrote.“Could I please ask that when you are sending your children, you take the time to dress appropriately in daywear that is suitable for the weather conditions?”
Kate Chisholm wants parents at her school to dress nicer. She appeared on British television station ITV to further explain her decision, saying she had started noticing the pajama trend had been picked up by “30 or 40” parents at school.
Despite her determination to make school a nicer place to be, Chisholm admits that she can't demand that
parents dress up-such as Karen Routh, 49, who wore pajamas to drop off her 8-ycar-old daughter Holly, because she was running late and didn't feel well.
“I imagine there might be some people who keep up wearing pajamas for the next six months to prove a point,” Chisholm said. “I can't force people to get dressed but I will keep sending letters home in the hope that they decide to put on a pair of jeans.”
Wearing pajamas in public has also become a hot issue for some schools and States in theU.S.In 2015, aFloridaschool board member insisted on a dress rule for parents who showed up in the school in sleepwear.
8. The headmaster asks parents to pay attention to ______.
A. the way they dress
B. the relations with teachers
C. the way they treat their kids
D. the clothes they buy for their kids
9. How does Chisholm try to change this situation?
A. Asking kids to set examples.
B. Keeping them out of school.
C. Sending letters to persuade them.
D. Forcing them to change by laws.
10. Why did Kate Chisholm appear on ITV?
A. She wanted to force Karen to dress properly.
B. Parents spent less time on their clothes.
C. She wanted to explain her decision about the parents' dress.
D. She wanted to tell us more and more parents wear pajamas to school.
11. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______.
A. strict laws should be passed to stop pajamas
B. aFloridaschool will force parents to wear jeans
C. people wearing pajamas in public will be punished
D. more and more people are concerned about dressing properly in public
D
From Mozart to Metallica, tons of people enjoy listening to various types of music while they paint, write, or draw. Most believe that music helps increase creativity, but an international study conducted by English and
Swedish researchers is challenging that view. The study results wereechoedby scientists fromLancasterUniversity, and theUniversityofGavle, saying their findings show music actually weakens creativity.
To reach their conclusions, researchers had volunteers complete verbal problems designed to inspire creativity while sitting in a quiet room, and then again while music played in the background. They found that background music significantly weakened the volunteers’ ability to complete tasks connected with verbal creativity. The team also tested background noises like those commonly heard in a library, but found that such noises had no influence on subjects’ creativity.
The tasks were simple word games. For example, volunteers were given three words, such as dress, rise, and flower. Then, they were asked to find a single word connected with all three that could be combined to form a common phrase or word. The single word, in this case, would be “sun” (sundress, sunrise, sunflower). Volunteers completed the tasks in either a quiet room, or while listening to two different types of music: rock music or light music
“We found strong evidence of weakened performance when playing background music in comparison to quiet background conditions,” says co-author D. Neil McLatchie ofLancasterUniversity. He and his colleagues find that music negatively influences the verbal working memory processes of the brain, preventing creativity. Also, as far as the library background noises having seemingly no effect, the study’s authors believe that was the case because library noises create a “regular state” environment that doesn’t affect concentration.
“To conclude, the findings here challenge the popular view that music increases creativity, and instead show that music, whatever type it is, is always a disadvantage for creative performance in problem solving,” the study reads.
12. The underlined word in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by ________.
A. challenged
B. accepted
C. doubted
D. heard
13. What were the volunteers asked to do in the study?
A. To play music.
B. To combine given words.
C. To create new words.
D. To connect words with music.
14. What can we infer from the study?
A. Quiet background inspires creativity best.
B. Library noise does no harm to creativity.
C. Music has a bad effect on language ability.
D. Music types matter in creative performance.
15. Which is the main idea of the passage?
A. Quiet Environments Prevent Concentration.
B. Background NoiseAffects Concentration.
C. Composing Music Weakens Creativity.
D. Listening to Music Reduces Creativity.
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Hotels should be as good as their guests think they are. Guest satisfaction is quite important to any hotel.___16___And even in many cases they will haveto go above and beyond to impress the guests.
___17___
In today’s world where everything is available on the Internet, customers tend to get their first information about the hotels online. The guest experience begins long before they arrive at the front desk to check in.
Know your customers.
Customer satisfaction is more than just a smile when you greet them. Knowing the customer base is what matters the most. Connect with your guests before they arrive at the front desk.___18___It will help the hotel to add some touches and details that personalize the guest experience.
Train your staff.
___19___A staff well-trained in dealing with the complaints, but more importantly avoiding them in the first place, will do better overall. Your employees must be friendly, welcoming and approachable.
Respond to guest feedback(反馈).
The hotel industry can be a tough one with requests and complaints coming in online, by email, phone or in person. So it’s important to actively respond to guest feedback.___20___
A. Use social media to learn more about them.
B. A good website improves the customer experience.
C. Hotels need to provide the guests experience as promised.
D. It’s a must-have service that all guests expect when they arrive.
E. Every member of the hotel plays a significant role in the guest experience.
F. You can’t make each person who stays in the hotel feel like they are at home.
G. When you do this, you are showing other travelers that you value the opinion of your guests.
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This is a simple story but shows the power of our language. My daughter began to___21___a job when she was in Senior 4 and shortly after that, she got an important___22___. On account of the financial crisis, the competition was___23___, but she said, “___24___I try, there will always be hope!” Luckily, she___25___the first
two rounds and entered the final interview. There were only three people left. The interview was very___26___, during which the interviewer only___27___with them for a while. The interviewer said to them, “All of you are very excellent. Please go home and wait for our___28___!”
A week later, my daughter received a message from the company, saying that she had not been___29___a job. My daughter felt deeply___30___. But later in the evening, she excitedly informed me that she had received another message, reading that she had been___31___by the company.___32___, the first message sent to her was also part of the___33___in the interview. The three applicants received the same message, but only my daughter’s reply___34___the company, so she was given the job. I asked her, “How did all of you reply?” My daughter said, “One did not reply, the other said ‘goodbye’, and I said ‘thank you’.”
Only then did I know that my daughter’s___35___came in that way. That is when you feel disappointed, do not___36___to say “thank you” to the one who disappoints you. Actually, it is a piece of cake to say “thank you”. But it is whether you are___37___to say it in a peaceful and grateful manner that does___38___. Saying “thank you” shows___39___for others’ work and shows your grand generosity. Thus, while under the same condition, you may get more___40___compared to others!
21. A. carry out B. hunt for C. focus on D. dream about
22. A. lesson B. message C. notice D. interview
23. A. fierce B. free C. open D. fair
24. A. Now that B. Even though C. As long as D. As though
25. A. tried B. passed C. considered D. observed
26. A. interesting B. difficult C. successful D. simple
27. A. consulted B. confirmed C. chatted D. argued
28. A. response B. order C. requirement D. view
29. A. arrange B. offered C. left D. awarded
30. A. hurt B. worried C. disappointed D. astonished
31. A. employed B. trusted C. discussed D. refused
32. A. Particularly B. Actually C. Exactly D. Possibly
33. A. competition B. experience C. work D. test
34. A. satisfied B. inspire C. convinced D. benefited
35. A. intelligence B. confidence C. job D. choice
36. A. pretend B. forget C. regret D. intend
37. A. willing B. lucky C. likely D. energetic
38. A. deserve B. help C. decide D. matter
39. A. love B. courage C. respect D. patience
40. A. chances B. presents C. thanks D. concerns
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
China has emerged as an___41.___(increase) important player in the fourth industrial revolution, having patented technologies___42.___a rate that is growing at double the global average, a European Patent Office report released on Thursday said.
From a very low starting point in the late 2000s, China’s innovative activity has increased very quickly, registering___43.___annual average___44.___(grow) between 2010 and 2018 of 39.3 percent, which is twice the global average of 19.7 percent.
China overtook South Korea in 2017 and, after___45.___(generate) more than 6,300 international patent families in 2018, now stands almost on a par with (和……平分秋色) Europe and Japan.
The United States defended___46.___(it) position as the world leader in the fourth industrial revolution technology with 11,927 international patent families in 2018. China stands in the 4th position.
“Our study shows that Chinese innovation in the field of fourth industrial revolution technologies has increased greatly. China___47.___(display), by far, the___48.___(fast) development of all major innovation centers around the world. Its universities, businesses, and regional hubs (中心,核心) are becoming important players in the global innovation landscape,” said Antonio Campinos, president of the European Patent Office.
The study reveals that China’s innovation in the field of the fourth industrial revolution is specialized in connectivity and software, areas in___49.___companies such as technology giants Huawei and ZTE have become world____50.____(lead).
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.假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该词下面写出该加的词。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词。

2、只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。

This morning I found red wallet on the campus. Girls usual like red, so I believed the wallet was belonged to a girl student. I opened it, try to find out whose it was. Therefore, I found nothing but 300yuanin it. I was wondering what to do with it while suddenly my classmates Chen Yang passed by. She suggested she put up a Lost and Found notice and I did so. I wrote down my telephone number and ask the owner to call me after she saw it. Later, a girl came to claim it on 3 o’clock this afternoon.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.假定你是李华，打算申请去英国读大学。

请给你的英国朋友John写封电子邮件，内容包括：
1.你喜欢的大学专业；
2.请他介绍一些英国的大学；
3.表示感谢。

注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已为你写好。

参考答案
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. A 9. C 10. C 11. D
12. B 13. C 14. B 15. D
16. C 17. B 18. A 19. E 20. G
21. B 22. D 23. A 24. C 25. B 26. D 27. C 28. A 29. B 30. C 31. A 32.
B 33. D 34. A 35.
C 36. B 37. A 38.
D 39. C 40. A
41. increasingly
42. at 43. an
44. growth 45. generating
46. its 47. has displayed
48. fastest
49. which 50. leaders
51.(1).在red前加a；(2). usual→usually；(3).去掉belonged前的was；(4).try→trying；(5). Therefore→However；
(6).while→when；(7). classmates→classmate；(8).she→I；(9).ask→asked；(10).on→at
52.略。