2021届厦门市第九中学高三英语模拟试卷及答案.pdf

2021 届厦门市第九中学高三英语模拟试卷及答案 第一部分 阅读（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 Welcome to join our Summer Youth Language Program to improve English language skills,make new friends worldwide.and have a good time here!The program capacity is limited,so if you are interested,you should register as soon as possible.Dates andCosts All programs require a$100 nonrefundable deposit(不退还的押金)to reserve a spot in the program.June 15July 16 5-week program：($1920)July 20August 20 5-week program：($1920)June 15August 20 10-week program：($3620)You can also study with us for shorter periods.4-week programs cost$1580 tuition and 3-week programs cost$1240.Discounts There is a 10%discount for each additional family member!Appropriate Ages Recommended Ages：14 and older Restrictions：Students who are younger than 16 must have a parent or guardian with them.Program Schedule In the morning,you will join the all-aged Intensive English classes from 9：00 am to 2：00 pm,Monday to Thursday,where they can meet other students from worldwide.In the afternoonfrom 2 to 3 pm,we will have fun after-school activities,like soccer in the Park,visit toScienceMuseumand story writing competition.Items Students Should Bring Clothes：Shirts,a jacket,long pants,a swimsuit and comfortable shoes,etc.Other personal items：Camera phone?plug adapter,photos of friends/family.Study materials：Notebooks,pens,and pencils.Airport Safe Items：Dont bring foods and snacks,or theyll be charged before you board the airport.1.How much will be charged if you and your brother join in a 3-week program?A.$1920,B.$2356.C.$3002.D.$3620.2.What will participants do at 2：30 pm on Monday?A.Communicate with foreign students.B.Attend intensive English classes.C.Join in some interesting activities.D.Talk with their parents on the phone.3.Why should students avoid bringing foods and snacks?A.To save space for their luggage.B.To protect the environment.C.To avoid any unwanted fees.D.To follow the rules of the airport.B As is commonly known,Antarcticais an icy continent with extreme environment.However,a new study provides evidence that the area had a rainforest in the past.The researchers collected a piece of Earth sediment from under the seafloor off the coast ofAntarctica.In the sediment,they discovered forest material that was estimated to be about 90 million years old.At that period,dinosaurs were the ruler animals of the land.Johann Klages,a German geologist,was the lead writer of a study on the findings,published in the journalNature.He said the sediment was collected from a depth of about 30 meters below the ocean floor.Klages said an examination showed that the material didnt form in the ocean.The researchers estimate that the area about 900 kilometers from the South Pole had average yearly temperatures of about12Cto13C.The soil included fine dirt particles and hard clay,as well as substances linked to at least 65 different kinds of plants,the study found.Although no animal remains were found,Klages said there were likely dinosaurs,flying reptiles and many insects in the environment.The research represents new evidence of the major climate changes Earth experienced in the past and is currently undergoing today.The soil in the sediment dates back to the planets warmest period of the past 140 million years,with sea level about 170 meters higher than today.The researchers said that the rainforest environment inAntarcticawas especially surprising because each year,the area experiences a four-month polar night when there is no sunlight to fuel plant life.Klages said no ice sheets were present during the time,but seasonal snowfall was likely.4.What can we learn about the sediment collected?A.It formed in the age of dinosaurs.B.It was found on theAntarcticaland.C.Ancient forest material was found in it.D.Some dinosaur remains were found in it.5.How did the researchers reach their findings?A.By analyzing the Earth sediment.B.By exploring ice inAntarctica.C.By collecting data on climate.D.By researching special plants.6.What can be indicated in the last paragraph?A.Seasonal snowfall made the forest disappear.B.Antarctica was much colder 140 million years ago.C.Antarcticas natural environment has changed greatly.D.Polar nights inAntarcticaare getting shorter than before.7.What is the main idea of the text?A.Rainforest disappeared fromAntarctica.B.Antarctica had a different history of climate.C.Researchers studied a piece of Earth sediment ofAntarctica.D.Antarcticahad an extreme environment containing ice and snow.C Medha Gupta sometimes felt worried about making the 20-minute walk from the corner where the school bus dropped her off to her home in Herndon-especially during the colder months in winter.Her mother,Divya Gupta had a suggestion:write an app.Shewas half-kidding,but Medha didnt take the challenge lightly.So she set out to work.The result was Safe Travel,an app designed by Medha to help walkers feel more secure when travelling alone.Using the iPhone,a person can program it to send a warning to someone he or she trusts if he or she fails to arrive at a destination within a certain time.It was the first iOS app that Medha had created.While she didnt think much would come from the project,her effort caught the eye of judges for the annual Congressional App.Challenge,who selected her as the winner for Virginias 10th District.The App Challenge is designed to encourage students to consider careers in science,technology,engineering,and math by experimenting with coding and computer science.Winning students are invited lo attend a reception on Capitol Hill in April and also received$250 in Amazon Web Service credits.Medha said it took her about 40 hours to design,program and test the app.As for her next app?Medhas not certain.She temporarily has her app-development ambitionson holdbecause shes busy teaching herself artificial intelligence to help deal with improper words on Facebook.Yes,she knows that there are teams of engineers probably doing the same thing.But she figures it cant hurt her own part,too.“If we see something wrong with the world,we should do something about it,”she said.“After all,the only one stopping us from doing something is ourselves.”8.Why did Medha Gupta feel worried?A.It took a long time to walk home.B.It was difficult to write an app.C.It was colder than ever in winter.D.It was unsafe to walk home alone.9.What is Medhas attitude to her mothers challenge?A.Serious.B.Casual.C.Uncertain.D.Indifferent.10.What does the underlined phrase“on hold”in Paragraph 6 mean?A.Developed.B.Delayed.C.Achieved.D.Satisfied.11.Whats the main idea of the text?A.Medha signed up for the App Challenge.B.Medha designed Safe Travel successfully.C.An app Safe Travel guides walkers home.D.The App Challenge directs students to choose careers.D As artificial intelligence(AI)systems become more advanced,we can expect them to be used more often in the world of human medicine and healthcare.AI is designed to imitate(模仿）the human brain in decision making and learning,so with the computing power to learn tasks in days or even hours,it is possible to create medical AIs that rapidly outperform doctors in certain tasks.Data plays a hugely important role in helping AI systems learn about human medicine.AI systems are trained on large data sets gathered from real-life cases.Providing detailed patient information in quantities is a crucial factor for their success.One of the most important areas for influencing global health is in the field of epidemiology(流行病学）。Predicting disease outbreaks can save millions of lives by having resources ready should the worst happen.Startup AIME has successfully combined public health data with machine learning and AI to create a prediction engine capable of anticipating epidemics months in advance with great accuracy.Another field where medical AIs are making rapid advances is in diagnostics(诊断学）Doctors base a lot of decisions on information from X-ray,CT and MRI images.Speeding up.diagnoses from patient scans can rapidly improve patient care and outcomes.Computer vision AIs use pattern recognition to work through these images with incredible speed and accuracy.They have been able to outperform junior doctors and even senior specialists in some tests.Cardiologist(心脏科医生）Rima Arnaout developed an AI that beat human experts at correctly interpreting echocardiograms(超声心动图）by 92 percent to 79 percent.She said that despite the result there is no prospect of AI replacing human doctors any time soon.“As cardiologists,weread the images and then go to see the patient,”she said.“So were both reading images and practicing medicine.I dont think that the second piece will be taken over so quickly.”The acceptance of AI in medicine will continue to gather pace in the future as it becomes more widespread.12.What played a big role in helping AI systems know of human medicine?A.Certain tasks.B.Large data.C.The skill to imitate.D.The increasing demand.13.Why is Startup AIME mentioned in paragraph 3?A.To illustrate predicting disease is possible.B.To call on doctors to focus on public health data.C.To prove its a successful company in global health.D.To let readers realize the importance of early success.14.What do we know about computer vision AIs?A.They do better than doctors in some tests.B.They speed up diagnoses from patient scans.C.They can rapidly improve patients conditions.D.They analyze information from X-ray,CT and MRI images.15.What do Rima Arnaouts words in paragraph 5 imply?A.AIs are not so smart as human doctors.B Its not easy for AIs to take the place of human doctors.C.A cooperation between AIs and human doctors is a must.D.Human doctors are playing a big role in practicing medicine.第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 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 People Who Cant Count A recent study has discovered that dyscalculia,the mathematical inability in reading,affects about 5%of children in Britain.There is no simple way of finding out the reason and kids with this learning disability are usually labelled unintelligent.So what exactly is this learning disability in mathematics?Unlike most people,dyscalculics cannot recognise three or four objects._16_For example,they need to count the books on the table before they can say how many there are.In other words,they have to count them one by one.This is where they are different from others.The majority of us,if shown three or four similar things,can immediately recognise them._17_They cannot understand,for instance,why two and three makes five.Another problem is not being able to tell which group contains more objects than the other.Experiments have proved that dyscalculics have not developed the part of the brain responsible for processing numbers.There are also problems with the abstract concept of time for dyscalculics._18_If your best friend is always late,he might be suffering from dyscalculia.Dyscalculics cannot keep track of time,and they never know how much time they have spent getting ready and how long it will take them to get to work.In addition,research has shown that dyscalculics behave oddly in social situations._19_This poor ability can explain why they never know how much change they are due or what kind of budget they need for their holiday.On the other hand,dyscalculics are very good at creative arts.People suffering from dyscalculia can become painters or poets.Dyscalculia does not seem to delay language acquisition.Dyscalculic children acquire language at the same time as,if not earlier than,most children and have no problem learning to read or write._20_ A.Dyscalculics have difficulties in using numbers at all.B.This disability scares children away from learning mathematics.C.They have to go through the routine of counting even a small number of objects.D.It is quite reasonable for dyscalculics to solve this kind of specific problem at any time.E.They never know how much they should tip the waiter or theyve got left after a shopping trip.F.We can see that dyscalculia is only a learning disability,not a general indication of intelligence.G.This can account for their difficulty in reading schedules and remembering the order in which things have happened.第二部分 语言运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项 In 2007,Jamie Whitmore was considered one of the most successful athletes in America.She was a six-time USA_21_for XTERRA racing,and held a world title.Everything_22_during an event that seemed like so many others she had experienced.As a_23_athlete,Jamie Whitmore was used to_24_,but she never imagined the pain in her leg could be a deadly cancer!When she heard the terrible_25_for the first time,Whitmore felt she couldnt_26_.“They were talking about treatment and I just started_27_and saying I dont want to die.”Finally,the_28_got the help of several specialists to remove the tumor.Whitmore developed sepsis(败血症)from the surgery and got through a_29_two-month recovery.When she began to feel_30_again,Whitmore was certain her cancer was back.Instead,doctors gave her unexpected_31_:She was pregnantwith twins.Jamie Whitmore isnt used to slowing down.She has never met a(n)_32_she couldnt overcome,whether it was a mountain bike race or a_33_.Today,Whitmore is a mother of two sons and cancer-free.Shes_34_again,and has_35_a gold medal in the Paralympics and set two world records.She travels as an_36_speaker when shes not spending time with her sons.Whitmore has some_37_for others with limitations:“Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do.Some doctors_38_me I would never ride anything more than a stationary(静 止 不 动 的)bike._39_I rode my mountain bike 104 miles climbing from 9,000 feet to 14,000 feet.You just cant_40_.”21.A.president B.manager C.champion D.professor 22.A.changed B.happened C.disappeared D.stopped 23.A.professional B.foreign C.common D.shy 24.A.practising B.waiting C.leaving D.suffering 25.A.reason B.result C.question D.suggestion 26.A.quarrel B.draw C.breathe D.shout 27.A.smiling B.running C.jumping D.crying 28.A.doctors B.readers C.neighbors D.volunteers 29.A.valuable B.difficult C.happy D.relaxing 30.A.fit B.tired C.curious D.sick 31.A.freedom B.courage C.news D.attention 32.A.challenge B.excuse C.mistake D.order 33.A.headache B.fever C.cancer D.cold 34.A.trembling B.competing C.falling D.performing 35.A.made B.bought C.lent D.won 36.A.angry B.inspiring C.expensive D.annoying 37.A.advice B.information C.sadness D.help 38.A.asked B.called C.encouraged D.told 39.A.So B.Yet C.Unless D.If 40.A.set off B.look out C.give up D.work out 第二节（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式 Desertification,the name for_41._happens when land that can be used to grow crops turns into desert,is a growing world problem.The United Nations and_42._(it)member countries are working hard to fight desertification.Chinahas taken many steps_43._(stop)the process of desertification,including encouraging farmers to build fences,and providing m