江苏省徐州市三校2021届高三英语上学期期末联考试题.doc

江苏省徐州市三校2021届高三英语上学期期末联考试题

江苏省徐州市三校2021届高三英语上学期期末联考试题

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江苏省徐州市三校2021届高三英语上学期期末联考试题
（试卷满分150分，考试时间120分钟）
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第一卷
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. How does the girl want to go to the museum?
A. By subway. B. By bus. C. By car.
2. What has the weather been like recently?
A. Really dry. B. Really wet. C. Really cold.
3. What does the wedding hall forbid doing?
A. Throwing rice.
B. Throwing the pieces of newspaper.
C. Throwing colored paper.
4. What is the probable occupation of the man?
A. A politician. B. A lawyer. C. A journalist.
5. How many liters of water did the man drink today?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three.
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. How does the man sound at first?
A. Nervous. B. Thrilled. C. Disappointed.
7. What color does the woman think old trains were?
A. Black. B. Green. C. Red.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What kind of show does the man want to make?
A. A cooking show. B. A quiz show. C. An interview show.
9. Where does the man want people to watch his show?
A. In their offices. B. In their homes. C. In their cars.
10. What is the woman’s advice?
A. Picking a different goal.
B. Saving up some money.
C. Making his show different from others.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. A colleague. B. A conference. C. A birthday party.
12. What is the woman planning on doing first?
A. Buying a gift.
B. Going to the hospital.
C. Picking up name cards.
13. How did the woman feel at Andy’s birthday last year?
A. Angry. B. Confused. C. Satisfied.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Why is going to the lake a bad idea?
A. It is too small. B. It will be too crowded. C. It is too hot.
15. What does the woman plan to do first?
A. Prepare lunch. B. Pack the luggage. C. Make coffee.
16. Where will the man probably get his drink?
A. At home. B. At the gas station. C. At the beach store.
17. What does the man want to use the towels for?
A. Lying on. B. Drying him off. C. Giving shade.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What is the goal of the exercise?
A. To learn how to follow instructions.
B. To learn about the importance of business.
C. To learn about the Industrial Revolution.
19. Which class did business managers belong to according to the speaker?
A. The upper class.
B. The middle to lower class.
C. The working class.
20. How many students will be needed to be the bank and security officers in total?
A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分 50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题 2.5分，满分 37.5)
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
A simple mosquito bite can mean serious illness or death. So we spray large areas with chemicals to wipe out mosquitoes. But this has a bad influence on the whole ecosystem and your health. Now there’s a new device (装置), which claims to keep you and your loved ones
mosquito­free：
What are we talking about?
Mosquitron, a brand new type of bug (虫子) catcher, designed by two German engineers, is perfect for clearing your home of all annoying and dangerous flying pests!
How does it work?
◆It is easy to set up; plug it in — and away you go!
◆It lures (引诱) the flying pests near using a safe, completely harmless UV light.
◆A reverse fan sucks the insects through a one­way trapdoor.
◆Once trapped in the drying basket, they are dried to death by the fan within 2 minutes. ◆You can simply empty the dead bugs into the trash, without even touching them.
◆No need for batteries or any chemicals.
How much does it cost?
It’s now ＄179.99. It may seem expensive at first, but when you consider most devices need
regular, expensive refills and don’t work for more than 10 minutes, this is a pretty good deal. In fact, competitor products using the same UV technology are priced at over ＄250! Now you can
buy it from the supplier’s website with 50% off and with free shipping for a limited time by
clicking here. Note: The device can only be returned or exchanged if it arrives damaged, and you must pay in advance.
21．What is the characteristic of a Mosquitron?
A．It is easily recharged.
B．It is battery­powered.
C．It is almost silent when operating.
D．It kills mosquitoes with UV light.
22．What can you enjoy if buying a Mosquitron online now?
A．A high discount. B．A cheap delivery.
C．Return without reasons. D．Cash on delivery.
23．What type of writing is this text?
A．A review. B．An advertisement.
C．An instruction. D．A report.
B
The spine (脊柱) stands at the center of your health, providing your body with structure and support. It also contains a major collection of nerves that deliver electric signals from the rest of
the body to your brain. Since your spine is so central to health, it’s important to take care of it.
Staying in a good position is one of the most important things you can do to keep your spine healthy. A proper position means standing or sitting while keeping your spine straight, except for its natural bending. Positions play a vital part even when you’re asleep. Stomach sleeping is far from a good idea. Many people prefer sleeping on their side, which is in the interests of their spine. Sleeping on your back has lots of benefits yet can cause lower back pain and put some pressure on
your spine.
Staying still for too long — even if your position is good — can be hard on your back. Especially if you work at a task most of the day, it’s important to get up and stretch (伸展)
periodically. Therefore, exercise is also a key part in the health of your spine. Stretches can help
the muscles (肌肉) around your spine relax. Strength exercises with light weights or body weight exercises like push­ups can also help by strengthening the muscles. However, don’t overdo the
exercise, as repeated movements can hurt the muscles around the spine, as trying to lift heavy
weights with poor technique.
Your diet also affects the health of your spine because many vitamins are necessary for bones
and nerves. In particular, vitamin B and omega­3 fatty acids help keep nerves healthy. Another
important part is vitamin D, which is required for strong bones. Vitamin D can come from some
foods, but it’s also absorbed from sunlight, so it may help to do some exercises outside. At last, many of the actions necessary to keep a spine healthy are similar to those used to protect your health in other ways. So protect your back, and the rest of the body will benefit.
24．Which sleep position is best for our spine according to the passage?
25．What is suggested in Paragraph 3?
A．Doing a proper amount of exercise.
B．Staying still in a good position.
C．Repeating a certain movement more.
D．Strengthening muscles of the whole body.
26． What can we infer about vitamins?
A．Vitamin B reacts with omega­3 fatty acids.
B．Abundant vitamin D guarantees strong bones.
C．Vitamin D can’t be absorbed without sunlight.
D．Doing push­ups outside increases vitamin D intake.
27． What is the best title for the text?
A．Good posture, good spine
B．Stay still, stay healthy
C．Healthy means, healthy spine
D．Proper exercise, proper weight
C
There may be no job more reactive than firefighting. You wait for the alarm to sound;
when it does, you go and fight fires. However, what if there is an algorithm(计算程序) that can take the guesswork out of fire prevention? For more than a year, the Fire Department of New
York(FDNY) has been doing just that. Using a data tool called FireCast 2.0, it has been
prioritizing(排序) which ones of the hundreds of thousands of buildings in the city are at the highest risk of having a fire. The software applies an algorithm from five city agencies, taking into
account as many as 20 different risk factors.
It wasn't that long ago, in fact, that even a fire department as sophisticated(配备精良) as FDNY was keeping track of buildings in card catalogues in local fire houses. Each structure would
have its own card with basic information on it—when it was built, construction materials—and
from that, company commanders were expected to determine which buildings were to be inspected(检查). Building inspections were a key part of fire prevention in cities like New York,
and that, as you might suspect, wasn't a very efficient way to handle them. Usually, the FDNY
struggled to meet its annual goal of inspecting 10 percent of the 330,000 buildings in the city for which it was responsible. But FireCast 2.0 has already simplified that process, allowing the department to more accurately target the most fire­prone buildings, many of which haven't been inspected for years.
The FDNY is pleased with the big advance it has made in what's known as “smart firefighting”， but it's only a first step. Later this year, the department is expected to upgrade to
FireCast 3.0, an even more powerful tool that will analyze three years' data from 17 different city
agencies for every one of the 330,000 buildings. Each will be given a fire risk score. But that list will be updated daily—if a building receives a trash violation, for instance, its score may rise on the next day's list. Compiling(汇集) the data from all those buildings will take only 90 minutes,
according to a report from the National Fire Protection Association.
A very different approach to the future of firefighting was unveiled(揭露) recently by the U．S. Office of Naval Research. It's a 18­pound robot named SAFFIR, and it was designed by engineers at Virginia Tech to put out fires where they're most dangerous. During a recent test,
SAFFIR was able to find fire through thick smoke and extinguish(扑灭) the flames. Maybe more
impressively, it displayed its sea legs, able to stay upright on a rolling ship. That, according to SAFFIR's designers, may have been their biggest challenge.
SAFFIR still struggles to navigate(穿过) doorways and stairwells. In the test, in fact, its movements were controlled by a human. While it will likely be paired with a human for some time,
SAFFIR may eventually be able to move and make decisions on its own.
28. According to the passage, what's the main function of FireCast 2.0?
A. To make the alarm sound for a longer time.
B. To reduce firefighters' chances of being injured.

C. To prevent the fire from spreading further.
D. To predict places that are more likely to catch fire.
29. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. The FDNY doesn't keep track of buildings in card catalogues.
B. The FDNY is only responsible for inspecting buildings in New York.
C. The FDNY has failed to meet its annual goal of building inspections.
D. The FDNY gets its staff's workload reduced by using FireCast 2.0.
30. According to the passage, FireCast 3.0 ________.
A. can analyze more data than FireCast 2.0 does
B. has already been used by each fire department
C. will update the fire risk scores every 90 minutes
D. will keep a record of information on buildings in 13 cities
31. According to the passage, SAFFIR ________.
A. is able to make decisions on its own
B. is not ready to be brought into use
C. was originally designed to be used on ships
D. is mainly used to lead the way for firefighters
D
I grew up eating eggs from white shells; I didn't know they could be any other color.
Our eggs came from the grocery store in styrofoam packaging, and the eggs in the refrigerators at all my friends' houses were exactly the same. Life in the 1970s and 1980s meant no farmer's markets, no trips to farms and no concept of food variety.
When I began buying my eggs at the farmer's market, things changed. The eggs were brown and usually in paperboard cartons or Styrofoam cartons that were clearly being reused.
I know I'm not the only one who had that experience with eggs, so it's no wonder that many people assume brown eggs are more nutritious(有营养的). If we're working off the assumption
that all white eggs at the grocery store come from big factory farms and that all brown eggs come
from local farmers who raise free­range(放养的) chickens... sure. Brown is better
But is that true?
Eggshell color is determined by the breed(品种) of the hen, not by the conditions in which
the chicken is raised. Generally speaking, you can tell whether eggs will be white by looking at a hen's earlobes, the colored skin on the side of the head. Hens with white earlobes generally lay white eggs. Hens with brown or reddish earlobes generally lay eggs that are brown, or sometimes light green, blue or a speckled creamy color, according to Michigan State University Extension.
No one breed of hen, however, is proven to lay a more nutritious egg than another, despite the color of the eggshell. Not all eggs are created equal because not all hens are raised the same way.
A test done by Mother Earth News on eggs taken from 14 flocks around the country whose hens were allowed frequent access to fresh pasture, land covered with grass, found that true free­range eggs were nutritionally superior to eggs sold in grocery stores.
“True” free­range means just that eggs from the grocery store that are marketed as free range
do not necessarily come from hens that have spent their days wandering the barnyard, getting fresh air and eating a natural diet. When “Free­range” is on an egg carton, it means that the
chickens can move around their building and have access to the outdoors “during their production
cycle”．
But access doesn't guarantee time outside. There's no regulation that says getting to that door
has to be easy, how big the outdoor area must be, or that a chicken ever has to get outside. A chicken in a crowded henhouse may never get to the door, and if it manages to go through it, it may find there's no room for it in the small area outside.
That's why it's so hard to determine if free­range eggs at the store come from truly free­range chickens. At a farm or farmers' market, you can ask about the conditions that the hens' are raised in before you buy.
Another factor in the nutrition of an egg is the hens' diet. Although chickens are not vegetarians(素食者) by nature—bugs and worms are part of their natural diets—Consumer
Reports tested grocery store eggs and found that “hens fed vegetarian diets tended to have more
of certain vitamins and omega­3s than those from hens fed a conventional diet”．
So when you're choosing eggs and aiming for nutrition, don't judge an egg by its shell color. White eggs can be just as nutritious as brown eggs Hens that are kept in conditions that are natural to them—with access to the outdoors, sunlight and exercise—and fed a good diet are what you're looking for. To find them, you'll need to ask some questions and, perhaps, pay a little more, because raising hens in pastures costs more than raising th