2021年乐清市虹桥镇第二中学高三英语月考试题及答案解析

2021年乐清市虹桥镇第二中学高三英语月考试题及答案解析
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
Welcome to join our Summer Youth Language Program to improve English language skills, make new friends worldwide. and have a good time here! The program capacity is limited, so if you are interested, you should register as soon as possible.
Dates andCosts
All programs require a $ 100 nonrefundable deposit (不退还的押金)to reserve a spot in the program.
June 15—July 16 5-week program：( $ 1920)
July 20—August 20 5-week program：( $ 1920)
June 15—August 20 10-week program：( $ 3620)
You can also study with us for shorter periods. 4-week programs cost $ 1580 tuition and 3-week programs cost $ 1240.
Discounts
There is a 10% discount for each additional family member!
Appropriate Ages
Recommended Ages：14 and older
Restrictions：Students who are younger than 16 must have a parent or guardian with them.
Program Schedule
In the morning, you will join the all-aged Intensive English classes from 9：00 am to 2：00 pm, Monday to Thursday, where they can meet other students from worldwide. In the afternoonfrom 2 to 3 pm, we will have fun after-school activities, like soccer in the Park, visit toScienceMuseumand story writing competition.
Items Students Should Bring
Clothes：Shirts, a jacket, long pants ,a swimsuit and comfortable shoes, etc.
Other personal items：Camera phone? plug adapter, photos of friends/family.
Study materials：Notebooks, pens, and pencils.
Airport Safe Items：Don't bring foods and snacks, or they'll be charged before you board the airport.
1. How much will be charged if you and your brother join in a 3-week program?
A. $ 1920,
B. $ 2356.
C. $3002.
D. $ 3620.
2. What will participants do at 2：30 pm on Monday?
municate with foreign students.
B. Attend intensive English classes.
C. Join in some interesting activities.
D. Talk with their parents on the phone.
3. Why should students avoid bringing foods and snacks?
A. To save space for their luggage.
B. To protect the environment.
C. To avoid any unwanted fees.
D. To follow the rules of the airport.
B
What will people die of 100 years from now? If you think that is a simple question，you have not been paying attention to the revolution that is taking place in bio-­technology（生物技术）. With the help of new medicine，the human body will last a very long time. Death will come mainly from accidents，murder and war. Today’s leading killers，such as heart disease，cancer，and aging itself，will become distant memories.
In discussion of technological changes，the Internet gets most of the attention these days. But the change in medicine can be the real technological event of our times. How long can humans live? Human brains were known to decide the final death. Cells（细胞）are the basic units of all living things，and until recently，scientists were sure that the life of cells could not go much beyond 120 years because the basic materials of cells，such as those of brain cells，would not last forever. But the upper limits will be broken by new medicine. Sometime between 2050 and 2100，medicine will have advanced to the point at which every 10 years or so，people will beable to take medicine to repair their organs（器官）. The medicine，made up of the basic building materials of life，will build new brain cells，heart cells，and so on－in much the same way our bodies make new skin cells to take the place of old ones.
It is exciting to imagine that the advance in technology may be changing the most basic condition of human existence，but many technical problems still must be cleared up on the way to this wonderful future.
4. According to the passage，human death is now mainly caused by ________.
A. diseases and aging
B. accidents and war
C. accidents and aging
D. heart disease and war
5. In the author’s opinion，today’s most important advance in technology lies in（在于）________.
A. the Internet
B. medicine
C. brain cells
D. human organs
6. Humans may live longer in the future because ________.
A. heart disease will be far away from us
B. human brains can decide the final death
C. the basic materials of cells will last forever
D. human organs can be repaired by new medicine
7. How long can humans live in the future according to the passage?
A. Over 100 years.
B. More than 120 years.
C. About 150 years.
D. The passage doesn’t tell us.
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
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
Finding Your Hidden Talents
●___16___What sorts of things do you like to read about, watch or do? What are your favorite shows on television? Which column of the newspaper and magazines do you like to read? To know what you are interested in is the first step towards finding your hidden talents.
● Try out different things.If you want to find out your dexterity (灵巧) in each of the thingsthat interest you,
then try them out.___17___. Locate a safe environment, where you can try out different things without anybody’s interference (干扰).
●Find your passion（激情）___18___. However, there will be only a thing or two, which you are passionate about. What is the one thing that you love to do the most, with most enthusiasm (热情)? Get the answer to the question and you will come to know what exactly you are passionate about.
●Improve yourselfAfter you come to know about the areas of your interest, it is the time to improve yourself. Read lots of books and learn from people. One of the best ways to learn something is to teach.___19___. This will help increase your depth of knowledge. In this process, you will be able to discover all your hidden talents.
●Know your limits.In the process of finding your strengths or talents, you should not ignore your weaknesses as well.___20___. Know what makes you struggle. You will then come to know about your talents as well as the areas that you need to work on.
A. Find your interests.
B. Know your strengths.
C. Therefore, teach what you have learnt.
D. You may be a person of various interests.
E. Carry out experiments and explore things.
F. It needs observation and analysis（分析）of one’s own self.
G. Find out the thingswhich you are not good at.
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In 2007, Jamie Whitmore was considered one of the most successful athletes in America. She was a six-time USA____21____for XTERRA racing, and held a world title.
Everything____22____during an event that seemed like so many others she had experienced. As a____23____athlete, Jamie Whitmore was used to____24____, but she never imagined the pain in her leg could be a deadly cancer!
When she heard the terrible____25____for the first time, Whitmore felt she couldn't____26____. “They were talking about treatment and I just started____27____and saying ‘I don't want to die’.” Finally, the____28____got the help of several specialists to remove the tumor. Whitmore developed sepsis(败血症) from the surgery and got through a____29____two-month recovery. When she began to feel______30______again,Whitmore was certain her cancer was back. Instead, doctors gave her
unexpected______31______: She was pregnant—with twins.
Jamie Whitmore isn't used to slowing down. She has never met a(n)______32______she couldn't overcome, whether it was a mountain bike race or a______33______. Today, Whitmore is a mother of two sons and cancer-free. She's______34______again, and has______35______a gold medal in the Paralympics and set two world records. She travels as an______36______speaker when she's not spending time with her sons. Whitmore has some______37______for others with limitations: “Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do. Some doctors______38______me I would never ride anything more than a stationary(静止不动的) bike.______39______I rode my mountain bike 104 miles climbing from 9,000 feet to 14,000 feet. You just can't______40______.”
21. A. president B. manager C. champion D. professor
22. A. changed B. happened C. disappeared D. stopped
23. A. professional B. foreign C. common D. shy
24. A. practising B. waiting C. leaving D. suffering
25. A. reason B. result C. question D. suggestion
26. A. quarrel B. draw C. breathe D. shout
27. A. smiling B. running C. jumping D. crying
28. A. doctors B. readers C. neighbors D. volunteers
29. A. valuable B. difficult C. happy D. relaxing
30. A. fit B. tired C. curious D. sick
31. A. freedom B. courage C. news D. attention
32. A. challenge B. excuse C. mistake D. order
33. A. headache B. fever C. cancer D. cold
34. A. trembling B. competing C. falling D. performing
35. A. made B. bought C. lent D. won
36. A. angry B. inspiring C. expensive D. annoying
37. A. advice B. information C. sadness D. help
38. A. asked B. called C. encouraged D. told
39. A. So B. Yet C. Unless D. If
40. A. set off B. look out C. give up D. work out
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
On our way to the house, it was raining____41.____hard that we couldn’t help____42.____(wonder) how long it would take____43.____(get) there. It was in the middle of Pearl City.
We were first greeted with the barking by a pack of dogs, seven to be exact. They were well trained by their masters____44.____had great experience with caring for these animals. Our hosts shared many of their experiences and____45.____(recommend) wonderful places to eat, shop, and visit. For breakfast, we were able to eat papaya(木瓜) and other fruits from their trees in the backyard.
When they were free from work, they invited us to local events and let us know of an interesting____46.____(compete) to watch, together with the story behind it. They also shared with us many____47.____(tradition) stories about Hawaii that were____48.____(great) popular with tourists. On the last day of our week-long stay, we____49.____(invite) to attend a private concert on a beautiful farm on the North Shore under the stars,_____50._____(listen) to musicians and meeting interesting locals.
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：
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。

My high school life will over, but the coming-of-age ceremony still stays in my mind.
That day we came to school early than usual and gathered in the front of the teaching building. We first went through a red gate made of balloons, that indicated we had become adult. Our parents were invited to be present and sat beside me. After the headmaster made a speech, we were required to exchanging our letters with our parents. As tears roll down our cheeks, we began to hug our parents tightly because we realized they loved us so deep.
The activity reminded us that we were no longer children from then on. We should study even harder to bring about our best qualities.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
52.你校正在组织英语作文比赛，请你以“My favorite invention”为题，写一篇短文参赛，内容包括：
1．发明简介；
2．喜爱的原因。

注意：1．词数100左右；
2．短文题目和首句已为你写好。

My favorite invention
With the development of science and technology, many new inventions have come into our life.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________
参考答案
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. D
8. C 9. B 10. D 11. A
12. D 13. A 14. D 15. C
16. A 17. E 18. D 19. C 20. G
21. C 22. A 23. A 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. C 32.
A 33. C 34.
B 35. D 36. B 37. A 38. D 39. B 40. C
41. so 42. wondering
43. to get 44. who/that
45. recommended
46. competition
47. traditional
48. greatly
49. were invited
50. listening
51.(1). over前加be (2). early→earlier (3). 去掉front前的the(4). that→which (5). adult→adults
(6). me→us(7). exchanging→exchange (8).roll→rolled (9).deep→deeply(10). about→out
52.略。