河南省鹤壁高中2021届高三英语下学期第十六次模拟考试试题.doc

河南省鹤壁高中2021届高三英语下学期第十六次模拟考试试题

河南省鹤壁高中2021届高三英语下学期第十六次模拟考试试题

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河南省鹤壁高中2021届高三英语下学期第十六次模拟考试试题
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To: David Russel＜[e-mail]＞
From: Alyssa Meller＜ameller@＞
Date: January 12
Subject: Meetings

Dear Mr. Russel,
Welcome to work here for a few days. I am writing to let you know that Roger Williams, one of our staff members, will pick you up at the airport on Sunday evening. We have a hotel arrangement for you just next to our office building. As a popular writer of children’s literature, you will be giving a presentation in our boardroom. All of us are expecting the new contents in your books, which will surely include your understanding of children’s literature. We hope to learn more from you about how to efficiently organize contents and develop written communication skills. At your request, I was about to arrange several meetings with your coauthors to discuss revisions to your series of children’s stories, which will be an important part during your stay here. Because of the tight schedule, you will probably have some busy days here. But we will try our best to ensure that you can have a high efficiency. All details are provided below.
Mon.
9:00 a.m.
Presentation on new contents
11:00 a.m.
Lunch meeting with Thomas Wood (illustrator)
Tue.
9:30 a.m.
Breakfast with Gary Willson (book designer)
11:20 a.m.
Conference call with Scott West (the CEO of Walter Publishing)
2:00 p.m.
Meeting with Hank Willis about some of the chapters
Wed.
9:00 a.m.
Meeting with Georg Hoffmann to translate some documents into English
11:00 a.m.
Editing session with Jose Wright
After the final meeting on Wednesday, we will drive you to West Town Station by 4:00 p.m. Your train from the station to the airport will depart at 4:30 p.m. and your flight is scheduled to leave at 6:10 p.m.
If there is anything unsuitable for the arrangement, please let me know and we will adjust the schedule as soon as possible.
Looking forward to meeting you next week.
Alyssa
1. What is the purpose of the email?
A. To provide a work schedule.
B. To make a travel arrangement.
C. To propose an adaptation of the storybooks.
D. To inform Mr. Russel of a schedule change.
2. What can we learn about Mr. Russel?
A. He is attending a book fair.
B. He is drafting a research proposal.
C. He is advertising children’s storybooks.
D. He is working with others on a project.
3. When is Mr. Russel expected to discuss the contents of his storybooks?
A. At 11:00 a.m. on Monday. B. At 11:20 a.m. on Tuesday.
C. At 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday. D. At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
B
In a city where tall buildings can make one feel closed in, Bryant Park offers open space for citizens and tourists to relax. In a tiny section of the park, a close community comes together at The Tables. These free outdoor ping pong tables attract individuals who share a love of the sport. People of various ages, backgrounds and skill levels became friends first, then the family.
The Tables are available to the public beginning at 11 a. m. with paddles and balls provided by the park. Regulars start to show up around 4 p. m. with their own paddles in hand, ready to dominate (主导). Matches become more competitive---doubles on one table and singles on the other---and winners are able to stay on a table until they are defeated. Those waiting their turn can be seen practicing on the sidelines, eagerly watching the game or joyfully greeting returning friends.
Deeper than the healthy competition and love for the sport is a sense of belonging and inter-generational friendship and trust among the regular players.They come to have fun, connect, relieve stress and “feel alive”. What began as a marketing tool for a local ping pong center unexpectedly grew into the community it is today.
Inspired by the diversity of players and the community they developed, Jon Bunning made a documentary called The Tables to share their story. “I just found it really fascinating that a homeless person could play as equals with a successful Wall Street banker,” says Bunning. “ That's one thing I think all, humans share. We all want to belong to something, or have a place to feel like you fit in and belong there.”
4. What attracts people to come together at The Tables?
A. The desire of finding families.
B. The same affection for ping pong.
C. The ambition of winning the championship.
D. The willingness to sell copies of The Tables.
5. What's paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. The punishments for losing the game.
B. The qualifications for the competitions.
C. The management and operation of the park.
D. The routine of playing ping pong at The Tables.
6. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?
A. The homeless differ little from Wall Street hankers.
B. The Tables developed the economy of the community.
C. A sense of belonging proves more attractive to regular players.
D. A local ping pong center purposely turned the players into a community.
7. Which can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Sports Without Borders B. Love for Sports Matters Most
C. Communities' Free Sports Service D. Sports Promote Healthy Competition
C
Many teachers believe frequent quizzes help students better grasp classroom material. Crede, an associate professor of psychology, was skeptical that something as simple as a quiz could positively affect students’ academic performance. He decided to dig deeper and conduct an analytic study of existing research to see if there was any proof to the idea. What he discovered truly surprised him.
Crede analyzed data from previously published studies that examined 52 classes with almost 8,000 students, primarily college-level courses, to determine if frequent quizzes improved the students’ academic performance. Laboratory settings were kept out of the study because Crede wanted to observe whether similar studies from labs would apply to general classrooms.
Crede discovered that when students are quizzed over class material at least once a week, they tend to perform better on midterm and final exams compared to students who did not take quizzes. He also found that students who took frequent quizzes were less likely to fail the class, especially if they were struggling with the course content. Students who struggle the most in a class seem to benefit the greatest from frequent quizzes. The other surprising thing was how much quizzes helped reduce failure rates in classes. The chances of passing a class went through the roof where instructors used this. In addition to quiz frequency, another factor that seemed to positively affect students’ performance was immediate feedback from instructors. Also, quizzes that required students to answer with written responses proved more beneficial to their understanding of class material compared to multiple-choice questions.
Asking teachers to grade written quizzes daily or weekly may discourage some from carrying them out in their classes. Instead, it is recommended that instructors give online quizzes that can be automatically graded by a course management system. Quiz attributes(属性) proved insignificant in the study, including whether the tests were pop quizzes or planned, or if they were online or on paper.
8. What did Crede do to ensure his study’s accuracy?
A. He focused on what happened in classrooms.
B. He researched as many students as he could.
C. He made laboratory settings as real as possible.
D. He gave easy quizzes to make every student do well.
9. What does the underlined words “went through the roof” mean in paragraph 3?
A. rose B. appeared C. faded D. lost
10. What did Crede discover in his study?
A. Frequent quizzes could remove students’ failure in classes.
B. Instructors’ feedback was more important than frequent quizzes.
C. Frequent quizzes were especially useful to the struggling students.
D. Multiple-choice questions shouldn’t be included in frequent quizzes.
11. What may be a disadvantage of frequent quizzes for teachers?
A. Accessing the Internet less frequently.
B. Having too many exam papers to mark.
C. Being unable to get appropriate test materials.
D. Finding it hard to choose the right type of quiz.
D
In the 1960s and 1970s, the greatest fear was that the human race, and possibly all advanced life forms on the planet, could be wiped out by nuclear missiles. Today, however, environmental problems have taken over as the greatest risk to life on Earth. Scientists are thinking of ways to lower this risk, such as replacing coal and oil with forms of renewable energy. But they are also preparing for the worst: what can we do if the terrifying scenes in films such as The Day After Tomorrow happen in real life? What is our plan B for Earth?
One option is to explore other planets to see if we could live on them. The most likely choice is Mars, which is relatively close to Earth and has an environment less tough than that of other planets. Mars has fascinated people since ancient times, and today our interest in Martian exploration is greater than ever before. Besides, more governments are making efforts to educate the public on the Red Planet.
There is no doubt that humankind is drawn towards Mars. However, sending people there will require all the skill, courage and intelligence. While the Moon can be reached within days, it would take months to reach Mars, travelling through dangerous solar radiation. And even if the first settlers do reach Mars safely, they may not be able to return to Earth ever. Staying alive will be a daily challenge, but as proved by the Biosphere 2 experiment, not impossible. As early as the 1980s, scientists were building Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert, consisting of a closed space in which people, animals and plants could live together. Although the two-year experiment was not a success, it did provide us with a better understanding of how humans might be able to live on another planet.
For now, human settlement of Mars is still decades away. Until we are finally able to live on another planet, we need to take much better care of our own. Right now, it's the only one we have!
12. What was the biggest threat to humans in the 1960s and 1970s?
A. Human race themselves. B. All advanced life forms.
C. Nuclear missiles. D. Environmental problems.
13. Why is Mars so attractive to scientists?
A. It's closest to the earth.
B. It has relatively appropriate living conditions.
C. It has drawn the public's attention in recent years.
D. It has a more tough environment.
14. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Humans have visited Mars.
B. The Biosphere 2 experiment proved to be valueless.
C. Humans will have to go and live on another planet.
D. Our Plan A includes developing renewable energy resources.
15. From which magazine would the passage probably be taken?
A. The Traveler. B. Environmental Concerns.
C. All About Space. D. Biology for Fun.
第二节（共5小题;每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。
Reading books can exercise your brain. Kids who started reading at an earlier age go on to perform better on certain intelligence tests, such as analyses of their vocabulary size. As one gets older, it might help slow down or even stop cognitive decline. 16 . Many Americans don't read frequently. It's time to reverse this trend to give your brain gray matter a good workout.
17 .When you have some down time—you're waiting for a friend, sleeping lightly on the way from or to work, or doing a task that doesn't require your full attention—you can open your text instead of pulling up your favorite smartphone game. 18 . While paper is still the clear winner in the court of public opinion, science hasn't proven that physical books are better than digital ones.
Academic research has mostly focused on the ability to remember. A study took place in a laboratory setting: Students all read the same text, but some looked at the words on paper and others viewed an on-screen PDF. It turned out that no meaningful difference between the two media existed. As for audiobooks, they affected the brain gray matter somewhat differently. 19 .
Ultimately, if you hope to get a reading habit going, you shouldn't dismiss paper digital, or audio— 20 . Don't be afraid to change things up depending on the occasion.
A. Audiobooks still affect your thoughts and feelings
B. Go with what makes the most sense for your needs
C. Words on a page can improve the emotional intelligence
D. This brings about a great debate: pages vs screens vs audio
E. Keep a book, e-reader, or audiobook app on you as you go about the day
F. Despite this, the overall book-reading time for Americans is on the decline
G. However, they stimulated the brain just as deeply as black-and-white pages
第三部分：英语知识运用
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Expect the unexpected
A couple of weeks ago, my grandfather was explaining his favorite expression, “Nothing is ever easy.” The following day, as I tried to complete my day’s work, I happened to 21  a bumblebee（大黄蜂）on the skylight （天窗）. The skylight was particularly high up, but I thought 22  the bee would take no more than five minutes. An hour later, the bee still 23 . All that had changed was that the living room was a 24  and that I was dizzy from 25  into the sunlight. I did not 26  to waste an hour on a tiny insect, but by doing so, I understood what my grandfather meant.
It is not only time that we tend to 27  --- we don't take account of unexpected costs. We often imagine what can work 28 , but we seldom think of all the 29  things that could affect us. However, it is important to remember that your day of week or year might not go as planned, and that is completely normal. It is perfectly 30  to feel challenged--- even at a task you thought was simple 31  that is part of life.
If you can accept that nothing will ever be easy, then life might seem slightly more 32 . In 33  school, I thought high school might be easier because I could choose the classes I wanted to take. In high school, I thought college might be easier because I could have a schedule, 34  for myself. Yet I was 35  each time. After accepting that school wouldn't be easy, I found myself 36  a more positive attitude and 37  results.
Of course, there should be preparations made to take account of 38  or time. Doing so can only help you 39  your goals in a better way. However, there is no need to beat ourselves up when something stands in our 40 . Maybe we cannot see a bee coming our way, but we can always give ourselves the extra time to catch it.
21.
A. notice
B. feed
C. hear
D. meet
22.
A. flying
B. removing
C. hitting
D. running
23.
A. slept
B. flowed
C. came
D. remained
24.
A. ruin
B. lab
C. mes