江苏省南京市第十三中学2021届高三英语上学期教学质量调研试题(三).doc

江苏省南京市第十三中学2021届高三英语上学期教学质量调研试题（三）

江苏省南京市第十三中学2021届高三英语上学期教学质量调研试题（三）

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江苏省南京市第十三中学2021届高三英语上学期教学质量调研试题（三）
第一部分听力（共两节，20小题，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. What is the woman dissatisfied with about the coat?
A. The quality. B. The color. C. The price.
2. What will the woman do during the flight?
A. Read magazines. B. Do puzzles. C. Enjoy music.
3. How does the woman feel about learning Spanish?
A. Surprised. B. Interested. C. Worried.
4. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Photos. B. A baby. C. A wedding.
5. Where does the conversation take place?
A. At home. B. At an office. C. At a restaurant.
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 makes matters worse according to the woman?
A. Her battery is flat. B. Her car can’t be fixed. C. Her coat got dirty.
7. Where are the speakers going next?
A. To the garage. B. To the cafe. C. To the laundry.
听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。
8. Why isn’t the man’s ticket valid?
A. It can’t be used during the rush hour.
B. It wasn’t bought at the station.
C. It is out of date.
9. What ticket did the man buy?
A. A first-class single.
B. A second-class single.
C. A second-class return.
10. What will the man do next?
A. Get off at the next station.
B. Talk with the ticket seller.
C. Give the woman extra money.
听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。
11. What did the woman do?
A. A salesgirl. B. An office clerk. C. A flight attendant.
12. How did the woman know about the job?
A. From the newspaper. B. From her friend. C. From the Internet.
13. What is the bad thing about the job according to the woman?
A. The night hours. B. The unbearable boredom. C. The long training.
听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。
14. What happened to the man last week?
A He injured on his back.
B. He fell off his motorcycle.
C. He lost his motorcycle.
15. Why did the man buy a motorcycle?
A. He likes it.
B. He thinks it safe.
C. He’ll go to work on it.
16. How does the man usually go to work now?
A. By car. B. By bus. C. By bike.
17. What does the man mostly do on the bus?
A. Read books. B. Look outside. C. Talk with others.
听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。
18. When will the competitors get the results?
A. In about one month.
B. In about two months.
C. In about four months.
19. What does the speaker stress strongly?
A. The ticket to the theater.
B. The length of the story.
C. The prize of the competition.
20. What can we learn about this year’s competition?
A. Its topic is Spring.
B. It has to be original.
C. It’s open to every student.
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
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A. It is promoted by the University of Colorado.
B. It is suitable for those who have hearing losses.
C. It leaves out fancy bells to guarantee the quality.
D. It has affordable price with convenient operation.
22. How much would you pay if you buy a pair of hearing aids with a 12-month guarantee?
A. $249 B. $289 C. $398 D. $448
23. What service will it offer if you buy the HearClear GO?
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C. They will provide technical support from specialists.
D. They will give you money back if you are dissatisfied.

B
Humpback whales swim in ocean areas close to land and are active at the surface. They can often be seen breaching, or leaping out of the water, and then coming down with a great splash. And, if you listen closely, you might even hear one singing.
Marine biologist Jim Darling has studied the songs of humpback whales for more than 25 years. While recording whale songs on a boat near Hawaii, he invited author Douglas Chadwick to experience diving with a humpback.
When swimming with the whale, Chadwick could see that the whale was aware of him, but not alarmed by his presence. The 13-meter-long giant looked at him curiously, but never harmed him. It pointed its head down to the ocean floor and, with flippers extended out to its sides, began to sing. In the water, Chadwick heard the whale's songs in a way he never heard them before. “Suddenly, I no longer heard the whale’s voice in my ears,” he said. “I felt it inside my head and bones.”
While male humpback whales are mostly quiet in the summer, during winter migrations and breeding activities they sing long, complex patterns of sounds. The songs last between five and 20 minutes, sometimes lasting for 30 minutes or more, and are repeated note for note.

Darling says that only male humpbacks sing, but for unknown reasons. It was previously thought that they sang to attract females, but scientists showed this was incorrect when they played recordings of whale songs in the ocean and the female whales did not respond. Another idea is that male humpbacks compete with each other using songs, just as other male animals on land do using their antlers or tusks. However, they found all male whales in a group sing the same song when they’re together. When one whale changes its tune, the rest of the group change to match.
They also found that some groups of whales repeat some of the same musical phrases even in regions thousands of kilometers away. In some years, the groups’ songs were very different from one another, but in other years they were very similar.
There is still so much the scientists don't know, and years of study lies ahead for whale researchers like Jim Darling. “Why do I do it?” he wonders aloud. “Human beings like puzzles. I want to know.”
24. What’s the purpose of the first paragraph?
A. To arouse the readers’ interest with detailed description.
B. To introduce the topic by explaining how the whales sing.
C. To inspire the readers to protect lovely humpback whales.
D. To present a peaceful scene of the life of humpback whales.
25. What can we imply from the third paragraph?
A. Chadwick was attracted by the whale’s song.
B. Chadwick lost his hearing when the whale sang.
C. The whale sang songs to frighten Chadwick away.
D. The whale’s song healed Chadwick’s bone disease.
26. Which of the following is true about humpback whales?
A. They sing different songs every year.
B. Their songs are long and complicated.
C. They are popular with whale watchers.
D. Male whales sing to attract female ones.
27. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Explanations on how humpbacks interact with human.
B. How to make a record about humpback whales’ songs.
C. Studies on humpback songs and what they might mean.
D. The scientists’ research on mysterious humpback whales.
C
Chinese pronunciation puzzled experts in China for a long, long time. How do you recover the sounds immortalized in classical texts? How do you make the old poems rhyme again?
A scholar, Chen Li, reconstructed the language in the 1840s. He’s facing a centuries-old problem. He examined the book closely in front of him. It looked old, untidy even. But it had quite a backstory. 1261 years earlier, Lu Fayan outlined what would become the Qieyun (切韵). He broke down the sound of each character with two more characters! An upper character to match the initial consonant. And a lower character to rhyme with the final sounds, including the tone. With fanqie, you can capture the sound of a syllable! Simple. And clever.
But it didn’t give an overview of Chinese phonology (音韵学). Rhymers needed to take another step: organize this information into tables. The 12th century Rhyme Mirror is full of rime tables. The starting label gives the table number and the kind of rhyme these syllables have. Along the top row are six articulation categories for consonants. And down the side, the four tones. Though the interpretation is debated, confident scholars spent centuries sounding out ancient Chinese syllables and teaching that Chinese had exactly 36 initial consonants.
But Chen Li’s not convinced. He’s combing through old fanqie and his research revealed flaws. There weren’t 36 initials. There were 41. Five of them needed to be split in two. But there’s more: the sounds in the rime tables are not the sounds in the Qieyun. Later research will go on to show that even the earlier stage itself is complicated. It’s a compromise between ancient literary dialects. All this hard work merely left us with categories.
In the early 1900s, a Swede, Karlgren, traveled to China and added an important piece. He filled out the rime categories with real sounds. Linguists went on to refine these reconstructions of Ancient Chinese. They even revealed small but important distinctions, like chongniu (重纽). Actually, it’s not a single language called Ancient Chinese. It’s a period in linguistic history called Middle Chinese. Because there’s an even older language to uncover, a thousand years older still. Maybe one day we’ll rhyme our way into Old Chinese.
28. How does the author begin the article?
A. By raising questions.
B. By giving an assumption.
C. By illustrating a typical case.
D. By describing a unique scene.
29. What’s the shortcoming of Qieyun?
A. It was unpractical to break each character.
B. It gave the detailed information about sounds.
C. It became complex with many different characters.
D. It failed to give an overview of Chinese phonology.
30. What contributions did Chen Li make to the Chinese phonology ?
A. He combed through old Qieyun.
B. He found the faults of old Qieyun.
C. He left us with categories and real sounds.
D. He made a compromise to ancient dialects.
31. What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. The reconstruction of Qieyun.
B. The discovery of Rhyme Mirror .
C. The researches on Chinese phonology.
D. The development of Chinese language.
D
Genghis Khan remains to this day one of the most accomplished men. But there are no accounts of the events that surrounded his death and burial—only a mystery focused around an area known as the Forbidden Zone.
Scientist Albert Lin was obsessed by the story of Genghis Khan. He decided to organize a tomb hunt. Some of his best friends were experts in various fields—UAV3 design, remote sensing, and geographic information systems—that could, if applied in combination, provide an old-fashioned archeological expedition with cutting-edge advantages. Not only that, but almost all of these friends were enthusiastic rock climbers used to camping in the wilderness, ready for any adventure.
In July 2008, Lin and his team found themselves driving north from Ulaanbaatar. On maps, it looked like their initial destination—the Forbidden Zone— was about six hours away. But then came the mechanical breakdowns and deep mud pits, the injured goats and stuck vehicles, and the stubborn guards at the entrance to the Forbidden Zone. After two days, they established their first base camp and began exploring.
For the next three weeks, they explored the entire Forbidden Zone and beyond, spreading out across the wilderness on foot and on horseback. They faced challenges such as wolves, exploding UAVs and unexploded bombs buried in the earth. They ate goat steak, goat stew, and something called goat bread, and they drank fermented horse milk.
At first, they experienced much disappointment. A few days later, they arrived at the location of an ancient temple that had never previously been studied. Although they didn’t do any digging, by simply scanning the earth near recently fallen trees, they found plenty of impressive artifacts, among them a clay medallion with the face of a lion on it dating from the Khan’s time.
The team identified dozens of potential burial sites. Rather than digging, however, Lin’s approach is to scan the earth below using imaging technology. This is because of Genghis Khan’s importance for the Mongolian people. Not only considered by many to have been the greatest military leader of all time, Genghis Khan also has great religious significance for many Mongolians. Some believers even worry that digging up his tomb could cause the end of the world.
“Using traditional archeological methods would be disrespectful to believers,” Lin says. “The ability to explore in a noninvasive way lets us try to solve this ancient secret without overstepping cultural barriers.” Lin also believes the search for Genghis Khan’s tomb has importance. “By locating his tomb, we hope to e