2022届江西省新余市高三下学期第二次模拟考试英语试卷.docx

新余市2021-2022 学年高三第二次模拟考试
英语试题
考试时间∶120分 总分∶150分
第I卷
第一部分 听力（每小题1. 5分, 满分30分）
第一节 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 does the woman want to do?
A. Mail a letter. B. Use the bathroom. C. Find the police station.
2. What will the man do first?
A. Go to New York. B. Meet the woman. C. Visit Washington, D. C.
3. What is the relationship between the woman and Dr. Philips?
A. Hostess and gardener. B. Neighbors. C. Doctor and patient.
4. How does the man feel about the test?
A. Confident. B. Worried. C. Sleepy.
5. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a park. B. In a church. C. In a storehouse.
第二节 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. What happened to the man's sunglasses?
A. They fell into the pool. B. He destroyed them by accident. C. He left them back in the room.
7. Where does the woman suggest they go?
A. The pool. B. The beach. C. The gift shop.
听第7段材料, 回答第8、9题。
8. What is the presentation mainly about?
A. The causes of climate change.
B. The results of climate change.
C. The prevention of climate change.
9. Where did the man get his information?
A. From a film. B. From a website. C. From a book.
听第8段材料, 回答第 10至12题。
10. What event took place right after lunch?
A. A dance. B. A ceremony. C. A play.
11. What grade did Johnny probably just finish?
A. Grade 11. B. Grade 10. C. Grade 9.
12. Who won the award of "Best Athlete" in sports?
A. Chris. B. Paul. C. Mary.
听第9段材料, 回答第 13至 16 题。
13. What course is the woman taking now?
A. Criminal behavior. B. Psychology. C. Ecology.
14. How many courses is the woman likely to take next term?
A. Five. B. seven. C. Three.
15. What does the man probably want to be in the future?
A. A policeman. B. A math teacher. C. An engineer.
16. What is the woman's attitude to her professors?
A. She admires them. B. She is afraid of them. C. She is disappointed in them.
听第 10段材料, 回答第 17至 20题。
17. Which city is the closest to Huacachina?
A. Ica. B. Comatrana. C. Lima
18. What makes Huacachina so remote?
A. It's in a desert. B. It's on an island. C. It's in the mountains.
19. How might the lake in Huacachina be described?
A. It is blue like the sky. B. It is deep like the ocean. C. It is shiny like the glass.
20. What is the best way to get around the village?
A. Taking a taxi. B. Walking. C. Taking a bus.
第二部分 阅读理解（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
Disney+ has arrived in the UK and the timing couldn't be better. With the coronavirus keeping people indoors, its collection of family-friendly movies is just what we need right now. Here we've picked out some of the best films on Disney+ UK to help get you started.
Togo
The year is 1925 and a deadly epidemic has struck the Alaskan town of Nome. The only. cure is 600 miles away and a massive storm is about to strike the region. The only hope of getting to
the vaccine（疫苗）lies with Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo. The entire mission to save the town relies upon Togo's ability to face the challenging conditions. Added to all that, Togo is based on a true story.
Honey, 1 Shrunk the Kids
Wayne Szalinski creates an electromagnetic shrinking machine. Naturally, he accidentally shrinks his own children, plus the kids from next door and then unknowingly throws them in the trash. To become their normal size again, the six-millimeter-tall children must make their way across the family's yard and back to the house. It's something filled with danger when you're smaller than an ant. An absolute classic.
Cheaper by the Dozen
Tom Baker and his wife Kate have 12 children. When Tom gets his dream job as a college football coach, he relocates the entire family causing upset among his children. Kate's book gets published, meaning she has to spend some time away from the family and without her the Bakers' lives are pure chaos. A classic comedy.
UP
Pixar's UP can claim one of the most moving opening scenes of any movie. In a little over 90 minutes, director Pete Doter takes us on the journey of Carl, an old widower who is seeking out Paradise Falls. Carl's trip, in his flying house, is made in memory of his wife, Ellie, who had always wanted to visit the Falls. The film won two Oscars—Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score.
21. Why will Togo have to travel a long distance with its owner?
A. To compete for a great prize. B. To escape the coming storm.
C. To get the cure for a serious disease. D. To save the town from starvation.
22. What do Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Cheaper by the Dozen have in common?
A. They are sci-fi films. B. They are comedies.
C. They focus on schooling. D. They describe family stories.
23. What does Up mainly show?
A. Carl's strong desire for risk-taking. B. Carl's deep love for his late wife.
C. Carl's unusual ability to create things. D. Carl's special way to travel around.
B
A letter written to a 12-year-old girl in Lithuania was delivered in December, almost 51 years after it was sent by a pen pal in Poland. "I thought that someone was pranking me," said Genovefa Klonovska after being handed the letter, which included a handmade colored rose and two paper dolls.
The letter, together with 17 others, fell out of a ventilation hole（通风口）this summer, dirty and wrinkled, as a wall was taken down in a former post office on the suburb of Vilnius. Jurgis Vilnius, owner of the building immediately called the post office. "I'm so happy they got interested, "said he.
Street names and their numbering have changed in Vilnius, and post office workers spent months looking for the right houses and talking to current renters and neighbors, tracking down where the recipients moved to. Only five were found. In several cases children of late recipients were handed a lost letter.
"We felt a moral duty to do this, "said Deimante Zebrauskaite, head of the customer experience department at, Lithuania Post.
One lady compared the experience to receiving a message from a bottle thrown into sea. People were emotional. "Some felt they saw a part of daily life of their deceased parents, "Zebrauskaite said.
In the letter to Klonovska, sent from Koezary in Poland and stamped in 1970, a girl named Ewa complains buses no longer reach her village, so she has to walk in minus 23 degree Celsius cold, and asks for pictures of actors.
Now in her 60s, Klonovska has no memory of Ewa. She probably wrote Ewa after finding her address advertising for pen pals in a newspaper, and the relationship ceased after the letter got undelivered.
"So good that the letter didn't matter much. The loss was not life-changing, "said Klonovska "What if they delivered a lost letter from a suitor（求婚者）to his love, and their wedding never happened?"
24. What does the underlined word "pranking" in Paragraph I mean?
A. tricking. B. embarrassing. C. brightening. D. pleasing.
25. What happened to the letters in Paragraph 2?
A. They were delivered by the former post office.
B. They remained well-preserved.
C. They were accidentally found.
D. They were hidden by the owner of the building.
26. Which of the following best describes the present post office in Vilnius?
A. Generous. B. Cautious. C. Honest. D. Dutiful.
27. What can we learn from what Klonovska said?
A. Klonovska refused a suitor.
B. The undelivered letter made little difference to her
C. The undelivered letter ruined the relationship.
D. Klonovska stopped the wedding.
C
Thanks to YouTube, Streaming（流媒体）first caught on in 2005. Today nearly three quarters of American households subscribe to at least one video streaming service. With almost 200 million subscribers worldwide and a billion hours of content viewed each week, Netflix is by far the biggest paid service. No. 2 is Amazon Prime Video. But for every Goliath, there are a hundred Davids. Many smaller streaming services show nothing but sports, classic movies, or Japanese anime（动画片）.
In the early days of streaming the appeal was the lower cost, and it till is. The average streamer spends $37 a month and subscribes to three streaming platforms, while the average cable （有线电视）user pays more than $200 per month. Still streaming has become more expensive in recent years. In 2019, Netflix raised the price of its basic service 12. 5 percent to $8. 99 a month. A quarter of its subscribers, who protested price increases, said they would cancel their subscriptions. . Few did.
A major reason: streaming networks have. become home to many of the most popular TV series, including recent Emmy winners. They offer full-length feature films as well, and last year, Netflix received more Oscar nominations（提名）than any other media company. In fact, streaming has changed the Oscar competition, at least for this year. Usually only films shown in theaters are considered, but because of the coronavirus, all movies released online in 2020 are qualified for the 2021 Oscar Academy Awards. That shift is especially good news for Disney, which is putting the much anticipated movie Mulan on a new streaming service, Amazon Prime Video. But watching Mulan from your own home will cost $29. 9---on top of the service's monthly fee of $6. 99.
Too much streaming can have its disadvantages, however. There are those who binge-watch, a term Merriam-Webster added in 2017 with the definition "to watch many or all episodes of a TV series on end. " Alejandro Fragoso from New York holds the Guinness World Record:94 straight hours.
28. What do the underlined words "Goliath" and "David" in Paragraph l refer to?
A. TV viewers. B. TV programs.
C. Streaming services. D. Streaming subscribers.
29. Why did most Netflix subscribers continue their subscriptions?
A. They cannot go without it.
B. They think it is good value for money.
C. Netflix has controlled the market.
D. They think the low cost is a thing of the past.
30. What does the good news in Paragraph 3 mean to Disney?
A. The movie Mulan will win an Oscar award.
B. The movie Mulan will generate great profits.
C. The movie Mulan can be released on Amazon Prime Video.
D. The movie Mulan can compete for an Oscar.
31. What do binge-watchers tend to do?
A. They watch TV series continuously. B. They start a new life.
C. They break world records. D. They watch TV series aimlessly
D
For humans, adapting to climate change will mostly be a matter of technology. More air conditioning, better-designed houses and bigger flood defenses may help lessen the effects of a warmer world. Animals will have to rely on changing their bodies or their behavior. In a paper published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, a team led by Sara Ryding, a professor in Australia shows that is already happening. In some species of Australian parrot, for instance, beak（喙）size has increased by between 4% and 10% since 1871. Similar trends are seen in species of mice and bats growing bigger ears, tails, legs and wings.
All that fits nicely with evolutionary（进化的） theory. "Allen's rule", named after Joe Allen, who suggested it in 1877, holds that warm-blooded animals in hot places tend to have larger appendages（附加物）than those in mild areas. Such adaptations boost an animal's surface area relative to its body volume, helping it to get rid of additional heal. Fennec foxes, meanwhile, which are native to the Sahara desert, have strikingly large ears, especially compared with their Arctic cousins.
Ryding's team combined data from different species in different places. Now that they have little in common apart from living on a warming planet; climate change is the most reasonable explanation. Since any evolutionary adaptation comes with trade-off, it is unclear how far the process might go. Bigger beaks might interfere（妨碍） with feeding, for instance. Larger wings are heavier, and bigger legs cost more energy to grow.
Honesty, studying a broader range of animals will help firm up exactly what is happening. For now, at least, the increase is small, never much more than 10%. That may change as warming accelerates. Every little bit of avoided future temperature increases results in less warming that would otherwise slay for essentially forever.
32. Why do some species grow bigger parts of their body?
A. They are following the new trends.
B. Scientists need them to do experiments.
C. They have to adapt to warmer climate.
D. Larger parts tend to help them feed well.
33. Where may warm-blooded animals have bigger body parts?
A. In hot places. B. In mild areas. C. In the Arctic. D. In deserted regions.
34. What do we know about the change in animals from the last two paragraphs?
A. Its process will end soon. B. Its cause is definite.
D. It comes at a cost. C. It happens in the same habitat.
35. What can be a suitable tile for the text?
A. Measures to Remove Heat B. Living on a Warming Planet
C. Pioneering Research on Animals D. Evolution to Survive Heat
第二节（共5小题;每小题2分, 满分10分）
根据短文内容, 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。
According to a new study published recently, laughter has many profound physiological and psychological benefits. It can relax muscles, promote mental and psychological well-being, etc. But we have become so busy with our daily routines that we rarely laugh. Laughter Online University found that children laugh 300 to 400 times on an average, whereas adults laugh only 17. 5 times in a day. 36_____________ But if you still don't know why you should laugh, here are some benefits of laughter for you.
◆Reduce stress
37___________ There is science behind this. When you get stressed, your body releases hormones. Continuous releases of these hormones may cause anxiety, depression, and heart diseases. But when you laugh, the stress hormones get reduced and helps you relieve you stress.
◆Ensure a healthy relationship
My friend and I used to have issues and never talked for over a month. But suddenly, one day, she sent me a super funny meme（表情包）while on call, and we both laughed at it. Just laughing together made us come closer. 38_____________
◆Boost your confidence
Have you ever experienced that when you laugh at a fearful situation, you feel more courage and confidence?39_____________ Once I had to deliver a speech at a school meeting, and I felt extreme fear. I was sweating in buckets and felt as if the land beneath my feet is shaking. But I tried to talk with a friend and laughed for a few seconds just to show myself cool. 40__________ I felt as if I could do this and experienced a fantastic sense of confidence.
A. If you ask me, I have experienced this.
B. Laughter is a powerful stress killer.
C. I h