广东省佛山市南海区2021届高三摸底测试(英语)含答案

佛山市南海区2021届高三摸底测试

英语

本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。共8页。满分135分。考试用时120分钟。

注意事项：

1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号等信息填涂在答题卡上。

2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。

第二部分阅读（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和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

When I tell people I attended an all-girls school since age 4, I'm met with expressions of either confusion, shock, curiosity or some combination of the three. I get the same responses: Why? Was it horrible? But how did you meet boys?

Contrary to what many people immediately assume, judging from their looks of sympathy, I really enjoyed going to an all-girls school. Going to a single-sex school shaped me in many valuable ways and allowed me to build amazing friendships.

When it comes to single-sex education, I reject the idea that being in a single-sex environment makes one unable to interact with members of the opposite sex later in life. Contrary to this popular belief, everyone I knew at my school and other single-sex schools not only knew how to interact smoothly with members of the opposite sex, but they were also able to form actual friendships with those people outside of school time. Although the majority of my close friends were girls, I didn't get away from the outside world. Being in a single-sex environment also encouraged me to make more friends outside of school. These experiences gave me invaluable skills, many of which I have used in my first few weeks here at Stanford in making friends and building relationships.

Another common belief about all-girls schools in particular is the presence of unfriendly behavior between students. There are unavoidably conflicts in all schools at some points, but I never noticed a connection between single-sex schools and much disagreement. I would say that conflicts don't depend on whether you're at a single-sex or not, but rather on the personalities of the people you surround yourself with.

I will be forever grateful for the experiences I had and the relationships I formed in my all-girls school environment, but I'm equally so happy to be where I am now, experiencing new things everyday and growing more and more in the process.

21．What does the author intend to do in paragraph l?

A．Lead in to the topic.

B．Ask readers some questions.

C．Summarize people's responses.

D．Provide background information.

22．W hat does the underlined phrase “this popular belief” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Students in single-sex schools can’t make new f riends.

B．Students in single-sex schools can't get along well with others.

C．Students in single-sex schools can't have the right concept of sex.

D．Students in single-sex schools can't communicate with the opposite sex. 23．According to the author, what causes conflicts in schools?

A．Single-sex environment. B．Disagreement.

C．People's character. D．Mixed-sex environment.

24．What does the author think of all-girls schools?

A．They have beautiful environment.

B．They have more friendly students.

C．They are better than ordinary schools.

D．They offer students valuable experiences.

B

California researchers have found that oxygen levels and water temperatures play a key role in the health of deep-sea fish populations.

Scientists studied fish on the floor of the Gulf（海湾）of California. "This is an example of some of the video that we are analyzing for this research," said Natalya Gallo, a post-doctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She pointed to a video taken along the seafloor on the Gulf of California near the Mexican coast. The film came from a remotely controlled submarine.

Researchers use the underwater tool to calculate the influence of a warming ocean on fish. “The really big question that we're trying to answer is how sensitive deep-sea communities（群落），and in general ocean communities are going to be to these changes,” Gallo said.

Gallo and the other researchers on the team studied the northern gulf, which is closer to normal ocean conditions and the southern gulf, which has one of the planet's most extreme low oxygen ocean zones.

The findings will help scientists understand changes in other places. As the ocean gets hotter, the warmer water is not capable of holding the same amount of oxygen. "We know that oxygen is declining in the ocean globally," said Lisa Levin, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography, biological oceanographer. "And that the really low oxygen zones, oxygen minimum zones are expanding as the ocean warms."

Scientists already expect certain outcomes from climate-related changes. "The body size of animals will get lower as the ocean warms and the oxygen declines and overall, the oceans will become less productive," Levin said. The research findings are published in the current edition of the Journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.

25．What is the purpose of Gallo's research?

A．To measure the temperature of sea water.

B．To show the body condition of deep-sea fish.

C．To calculate the amount of oxygen in the sea.

D．To evaluate the effect of ocean warming on fish.

26．Why do researchers study the southern gulf?

A．It has normal ocean conditions. B．It has special ocean zones.

C．It has a relatively mild climate. D．It has various kinds of fish.