福建省连城县第一中学2021届高三英语下学期周考试题.doc

福建省连城县第一中学2021届高三英语下学期周考试题

福建省连城县第一中学2021届高三英语下学期周考试题

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福建省连城县第一中学2021届高三英语下学期周考试题（一）
（满分150分 考试时间120分钟）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7. 5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A，B.C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1.What are the speakers talking about？
A.A party. B.A gift. C.A trip.
2.What is the man considering doing？
A.Joining a research team. B.Starting his own business.
C.Attending more interviews.
3.Where are the speakers？
A.In a library. B.In a store. C.In a bank.
4.Why is the man talking to the woman？
A.To fix the door. B.To place an ad. C.To see a flat.
5.What would the woman's grandma like to do？
A.Leave her hometown.
B.Visit her children often.
C.Live in her own home.
第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A.B.C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6.Where does the conversation probably take place？
A.In an office. B.At home. C.At a gas station.
7.How does the man sound？
A.Impatient. B.Confused. C.Humorous.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8.Why does Sophia apologize to Simon？
A.For leaving without saying goodbye.
B.For breaking the wine glasses.
C.For being late for the party.
9.What happened to Sophia's father？
A.He lost his job. B.He had an accident. C.He missed a meeting.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10.What is Tracy？
A.A student. B.A librarian. C.A programmer.
11.What does Jim think of his job？
A.Enjoyable. B.Demanding. C.Boring.
12.What is Jim probably going to do？
A.Meet a friend. B.Eat something. C.See his boss.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13.What is the woman doing？
A.She's interpreting a painting. B.She's chairing a meeting.
C.She's hosting a program.
14.How did Kuhn get the name"Happy"？
A.From an oil painting. B.From a city in Mexico.
C.From his initials in Spanish.
15.Who discovered Kuhn's artistic talent？
A.His childhood friend. B.His father. C.A woman artist
16.What makes Kuhn's art special？
A.His focus on life of the aged.
B.His unique use of bright colors.
C.His expression of childlike innocence.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17.How many levels of courses does the program offer？
A.Seven. B.Eight. C.Twelve.
18.What is the strength of the program？
A.It can meet personal needs.
B.It is available throughout the year.
C.It provides courses on U.S.culture.
19.What can students get if they perform well in an end-of-session test？
A.A course for free.
B.A chance to work part-time.
C.A promotion to a higher level.
20.What does the Language Center Bonus Project offer？
A. Extra practice hours. B. Social activities. C. Field trips.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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
Drive in Ontario
Welcome to Ontario! Here’s what you need to know if you are, or will be, visiting Ontario — and want to drive while you’re here.
Visiting: less than 3 months
If you are visiting Ontario for less than 3 months and want to drive while you’re here, you can use a valid driver’s licence from your own province, state or country.
Visiting: more than 3 months
If you will be visiting from another country for more than 3 months, you will need an International Driver’s Permit (IDP) from your own country. This is a special licence that allows motorists to drive internationally when accompanied by a valid driver’s licence from their country. You need to have this permit with you when you arrive in Ontario. You cannot apply for one once you are here.
Rules of the road
As a visitor, you are responsible for knowing Ontario traffic laws. Here are just some:
· keep to the right of the road
· obey posted speed limits (e.g. 50 km/hour)
· do not use handheld devices while driving (e.g. cell phones, tablets or music players)
· slow down and pull to the right, if an emergency vehicle is driving behind you with their lights and sirens (警报器) on (e.g. an ambulance, fire truck or police car)
If you break a traffic law, you will face a penalty (处罚). Penalties range from fines to making your licence invalid or your car taken away.
For more information, please click here.
21. Who is the text intended for?
A. Potential immigrants. B. General visitors.
C. Exchange students. D. Ordinary drivers.
22. What driving habit is unacceptable in Ontario?
A. Changing lanes at random. B. Giving way to fire trucks.
C. Listening to music in the car. D. Driving within the speed limits.
23. Where is the text most probably taken from?
A. A local website. B. A travel guide.
C. An advertisement. D. A geography magazine.
B
A recording which captures the sounds of nature went online on Ximalaya, a popular audio (音频的) sharing platform, on July 9. The album was recorded by Shenggu, whose work has attracted over half a million followers.
After graduation，he moved to Hangzhou in 2011 to work at an Internet company with a “996 schedule” — working from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. The stress of work began to affect his sleep. To relieve the stress in work, in 2013, he traveled to Fujian during the National Day holiday. It was the first time he had visited the coast and he was so impressed by the sounds of the waves that he wanted to record them.
When he was back in Hangzhou, he took the recorder to the suburbs at weekends to collect the sounds of nature and started uploading his recordings to the audio platform. Of his audio clips, the sound of rain has proved to be the most popular. Rain, he notes, is also one of the hardest sounds to record as it’s all hard to predict — when it is going to rain, how heavy the rainfall is and when it will stop. He usually keeps his recorder fully charged, and knows where he wants to record before the rain comes. To avoid catching the sound of the rain hitting the material, he doesn’t wear a raincoat and has to remain still. As a result, he endures mosquito bites and is often left soaking wet. He once drove 50 kilometers to record a thunderstorm but returned empty-handed.
He will often take his recording equipment into the forest or to the river just to be a “gourmet” of nature sounds. “When I bring my recording equipment and walk alone in the woods, I feel the peace in nature and all messy thoughts in my head can be thrown away,” he says. He adds that he will continue to record the sounds of nature, because, as time goes by, some may vanish like those no longer heard in the city. He wants to keep them in the recordings.
24. Why did Shenggu start recording sounds?
A. The “996 schedule” motivated him.
B. The stress of work made him sleepless.
C. The sound of nature kept him spellbound.
D. The vastness of the ocean impressed him.
25. Which of the following best describes Shenggu’s efforts to record the sound of rain?
A. Painful. B. Wholehearted. C. Dangerous. D. Pleasant.
26. From the last paragraph, we can infer Shenggu will work continuously to____.
A. find inner peace for his life
B. gain popularity from his audience
C. prepare more materials for his work
D. preserve nature sounds for more people
27. What can be the best title for the text?
A. A Cure for Stress Found
B. A Natural Sounding Pastime
C. The Trick of Recording Nature Sounds
D. An Audio Platform Attracting Followers
C
A new study, published in The Journal of Experimental Psychology, found that communication interactions that included voice, like a phone call or video chat, created stronger social bonds than communication through typing, like text messaging or email.
In the study, researchers used various experiments to gauge (测量) connectedness. In one, they asked 200 people to make predictions about what it would be like to reconnect with an old friend by email or by phone and then assigned people at random to do one or the other. Although people anticipated (预料) that a phone call would be more awkward, hearing someone’s voice actually made the experience better. However, people who participated in the experiment reported that they did form a significantly stronger bond with their old friend on the phone versus email, and they did not feel more awkward.
In another experiment, the researchers had strangers connected by either texting, talking over video chat, or talking using only audio. They found that both forms of voice communication — whether video or audio only — made the strangers feel significantly more connected than when they communicated via text.
Sabrina Romanoff, a Harvard trained clinical psychologist based in New York City, says people tend to text or email instead of calling because of convenience, as they see it as a controlled form of communication where they can “correspond information exactly in the way they intend without unexpected additions by the other person.”
Romanoff says that in reality, texting can make it hard to determine the true meaning behind a conversation. A phone call is actually more convenient when considering the net effects of the message. Each party is more present, and therefore, able to gauge the meaning behind the content without ruminating (认真思考) on the endless possible meanings behind words and punctuation.
28. What is the purpose of the study?
A. To encourage people to let their fingers do the talking.
B. To introduce the effects of verbal and non-verbal communications.
C. To demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of making phone calls.
D. To compare connectedness of communication through voice and typing.
29. Which way will make you feel more connected if you miss a friend far away?
A. Typing a letter. B. Sending an email.
C. Having a video chat. D. Texting a message.
30. What does “a controlled form of communication” refer to in Paragraph 4?
A. A way to talk about controlled topics.
B. A way to communicate without time limit.
C. A way to explain something without delay.
D. A way to express thoughts without being disturbed.
31. What advantage does making phone calls over texting?
A. Being more formal. B. Being less awkward.
C. Being more straightforward. D. Being less expensive.
D
A living, bio-degradable (可生物降解的) fabric named “Biogarmentry” has been invented. Made from algae (藻), the textile (纺织品) purifies the air around it through photosynthesis (光合作用).
Researchers claim it’s the first living textile, and have fashioned the material into sheer, cloak-like garment. While prototypes (雏形) like these are still in the early stages of research and design, and far from mass production, they challenge the fashion industry to reimagine ways it can reduce its large carbon footprint through alternative fabrics.
Fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. It’s responsible for more carbon emissions than international flights and shipping combined, amounting to 10% of all greenhouse gasses emitted globally. The crops traditionally used to make clothing absorb carbon as they grow, but most natural materials are still carbon emitters. Take a single T-shirt made of cotton as an example. The estimated footprint of a cotton shirt over its lifetime is 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of carbon dioxide, with most of that emitted during the energy-intensive production and dyeing (染色) processes.
In recent years, environmental start-ups have proposed a number of alternative natural fibres, many of which have the potential to sequester carbon but none have been shown to achieve zero emissions. As algae has the ability to trap carbon, a carbon-negative raincoat made of marine algae has been created. Algae-based materials are, currently, where electric vehicle technologies were a decade ago. The technology is now ready for prime time. When the resulting garments are commercially available, we can imagine people wearing their own organic cloak, spraying their organism as they go to work and encouraging their algae to purify the air.
32. What’s the text mainly about?
A. A textile helping purify the air. B. An industry causing pollution.
C. A way to achieve zero-emission. D. A trend in the fashion industry.
33. Which of the following is the most environmentally-friendly?
A. An international flight. B. Clothing made of cotton.
C. A petrol-powered vehicle. D. A raincoat made of algae.
34. What does the underlined word “sequester” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A. Increase. B. Create. C. Capture. D. Release.
35. Which word best describes the author’s attitude to algae-based materials?
A. Skeptical. B. Optimistic. C. Conservative. D. Objective.
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能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Choose Action Over Perfection
Imperfect progress realized is better than perfection imagined. 36 . A perfectly outlined novel is unreadable until it moves out of the outline and into words, dialogues, conflicts and characters. That’s why we should choose action over perfection. Here are some suggestions to help you act.
Just do it. Whatever it is, just grab 5 minutes and put it into imperfect, beautiful, and flawed action that will result in imperfect, beautiful, and flawed value. Don’t think too hard about it. 37 . Instead, just focus on the work you can do today. We’re not good at assessing our own competencies. That’s part of the reason that taking action is so scary, but don’t hesitate.
38 . If you keep a journal, try logging both your failures and your successes for a week or so. Compare the two categories. Log your movement forward, no matter how small. Perspective matters. Failure teaches. Success follows. Some things simply aren’t worth it. Even an overwhelming sense of obligation doesn’t change that fact. 39 .
Work on your assignment. Keep writing, sketching, painting or whatever it is you need to be doing. Keep taking one small imperfect action after another. 40 , because you’ll never be. Don’t wait until it’s perfect, because it’s rarely going to happen. Don’t wait at all.
A. Expect something perfect
B. This may sound confusing
C. Keep track of what you do
D. Don’t wait until you’re ready
E. Don’t focus on the goals of perfection
F. So let go of the stuff that doesn’t matter
G. A perfectly imagined work of art is useless until it exists outside of your head
第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Okay, I have to write something. My essay is 41 in an hour and I have no idea where to start.
I hear the ticking of Mark’s pencil, Josie’s constant throat-cleari