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1、高三英语考生注意：1 .本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。2 .答题前、考生务必用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将密封线内项目填写清楚。3 .考生作答时，请将答案答在答题卡上。选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题 卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑：非选择题请用直径0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔在答题卡上各题 的答题区域内作答，超出答题区域书写的答案无效，在试题卷、草稿纸上作答无效。4 .本卷命题范围：高考范围。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

2、选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来I可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 doing?C.Talking about babies.C.$2,000.C.She tried to ignore the man.A.Telling jokes.B.Watching TV.2 .How much does the VW car cost?A.$l,000.B.$l,750.3 .Why did the woman fail to answer the phone?A.She was asleep.B.She was workin

3、g.4 .What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. An artists use of colors.B.The general trend of art.C.Their impressions of an author.5 .What does the woman want?A. A cup of coffee.B.Some bread.C.A takeaway.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。听每段劝话或独白前，你将有时间

4、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 are the speakers?C.ln a restaurant.C.New neighbors.C.He got a cold.C.Have a break.A. On the beach.B.At the womans home.7 .What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A.CIassmates.B.Colleagues.听第7段材料，【可答第8、9题。8 .What happ

5、ened to the man?A.He fell into water.B.He missed a bridge.9 .What have the speakers agreed to do first?A.Go back to their car.B.Continue their hike.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10 .What time is it now?A. About 12:00.B.About 2:00 pm.C.About 3:00 pm.11 .How much should the man pay for the extra hour according to

6、the policy?A.$20,B.$60.C.$80.12 .What is the woman?C.A cleaner.C.The UK.C.The food.A.A receptionist.B.A guest.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13 . Where is the man from?A .The US.B.Russia.14 .What is the mans biggest challenge in Moscow?A .The language.B.The climate.15 . What is the season now?C.Winter.C.Teaching

7、English.A.Spring.B.Summer.16 .What is the man doing in Russia?A.Having a holiday.B.Learning Russian.听第10段材料,回答第17至科题。17 .What did the speaker study in university?A.Engineering.B.Robotics.C.Business.18 .What did the speaker focus on shortly after graduation ?A.Improving her electric cars.19 Studying

8、self-driving vehicles.C.Selling her newly invented cars.20 .What can we learn about the speaker?A.She is unsociable.B.She is lazy.C.She is unrealistic.21 .What will the speaker probably do in the future?A.Retire at a young age.B.Donate all her profits.C.Return to her home country.第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一

9、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、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。Since China launched its first lunar spacecraft in 2007, the nation has achieved something nobody has managed to do before. Here is a brief history of Chinese lunar missions.Change 1It was launched in October 2007 on a 16-month mission to map

10、 the moon from the orbit. Having studied the lunar surface and the surrounding environment there,the spacecraft crashed onto the moon on March 2,2009.Change 2Launched on October 1,2010,Change 2 returned a more detailed map of the moons entire surface and took close-up images of the Bay of Rainbows,

11、where mission planners at the time suggested they might put down the countrys first lander. It left the moons orbit in April2012 to fly by another small planet called 4179 Toutatis, which it reached in December 2012.Change3Change 3 is most famous for landing its rover,Yutu, on the moonthe first one

12、since 1976. After heading out to the surface on December 14,2013zYutu took many amazing pictures that were sent back to the earth. In 2015,it even discovered a new kind of rock.Change 4When Change 4 made a safe touchdown on the far side of the moon on January 2,2019,it made history since it was the

13、first time that a rover has landed there. The far side is a more challenging environment in general than the near side.Change 5The Change 5 spacecraft, which was launched on November 24,2020,returned to the earth on December 16,2020,carrying around 2 kilograms of rocks and soils from the northern pa

14、rt of the moon. The lunar sample will help scientists fill in a gap in knowledge about the history of the moon between roughly one billion and three billion years ago.22 .Which spacecraft has explored two planets?C.Change 3.D.Change 4.B.On October 1,2010.D.On January 2,2019.B.lt reached the far side

15、 of the moon.D.lt brought lunar sample to the earth.BA.Change 1.B.Change 2.23 . When did Change 3 land on the moon ?A.On March 2,2009.C.On December 14,2013.24 .What is unique about the last mission?A.It just circled around the moon.C.lt crashed onto the moon on purpose.In November,Focus Features wil

16、l release a new movie,The Theory of Everything,which describes what happened to the famous physicist Stephen Hawking.The movie is based on a book by Jane Hawking,Stephens first wife. When they met in the early 1960s, Jane was studying literature and got a Ph.D in Spanish poetry,while Stephen was jus

17、t 21,looking for an interesting physics problem to explore.Not long after they began dating,he developed balance problems,then speech issues. He was told that he had ALS, a disease that would kill him in two years. Janes friends warned her not to stick with a boy with so little time ahead of him. Bu

18、t he and Jane didnt quit each other. Instead, they willfully pushed on. It wasnt like they didnt believe the diagnosis （诊断）.They did. They just ignored it.We did not want to think about that/ she wrote. Also, we had this very strong sense at the time that our generation lived anyway under this most

19、awful nuclear cloud-that with a four-minute warning the world itself could likely end. That made us feel that we should make the most of whatever gifts that were given to us. They had one child. Then another. He, meanwhile, kept losing ground. He needed help with dressing, then washing,then eating.

20、She tried to keep up-“I had two babies. I was running the home and looking after Stephen alone. One of the greatest battles was getting Stephen to use a wheelchair;M she continued.Td be going out with an adult on one arm, carrying a newly-born baby in the othecwith an older baby struggling alongside

21、.As Stephen Hawking became more celebrated and dependent, Jane had a third child and he had to allow others to help him. But he fell in love with a nurse and left his wife.HmmmJ wonder how they are going to handle this one. Its a messy story.25 .What was Janes friends attitude to her dating with Haw

22、king?A.Disapproving.B. Unconcerned.C.Supportive.D.Optimistic.26 .Why did Jane refuse to break up with her boyfriend?A.He was a very famous and rich man.B.They shared similar research interest.C.They did not believe the diagnosis.D.She accepted the uncertainty of life.27 .What did Jane most probably

23、think of her husband?A.Grateful.B.Stubborn. C.Reasonable. D.Reliable.28 .What does the underlined word they” in the last paragraph refer to?A.The Hawkings. B.The nurses. C.Focus Features.D.Love stories.COnce upon a time,there was a beautiful milkmaid.One day,she declared to a 13-year-old boy, “I sha

24、ll never have an ugly face because I have already had cowpox （牛痘）.”The boy was Edward Jenner, who would one day be famous for developing the worlds first vaccine （疫苗），which would eventually rid the earth of smallpox （天花）.And the story of his inspiration for developing the vaccine first appeared in a

25、n 1837 biography and was repeated endlessly over the years.But was the milkmaid really Jenners muse?Perhaps not,because there is another storyline,backed by letters, diaries and research notes that Dr. Arthur Boylston uncovered in the course of his research. Instead,it involves a country doctor name

26、d John Fewster.Like other doctors of the time,Fewster used smallpox virus to protect people from smallpox. In 1768, he treated a group of farmers in Thorn-bury. But something unusual happened: All of them didnt respond to the smallpox virus at all. Fewster inquired further and found that all the far

27、mers never had smallpox but did previously have cowpox.Today,Fewsters discovery would have led to a larger study and publication of results. But that wasnt the way medicine worked in the 18th century. 44 In those days,there were no medical journals/* says Boylston. u Doctors communicated by having l

28、ittle dinner parties and drinking themselves silly.nOne such meeting took place at an inn called The Ship. Fewster presented his discovery at the meeting. Records show that Jenner later also became a member of the medical society andwas known for his enthusiasm about the topic in the members debates

29、.So how did the milkmaid myth （神话）get started?At the time,the first and only mention of the milkmaid story was by Jenners friend and first biographer, John Baron,several years after Jenners death. According to Boylstons research, other doctors were then criticizing Jenner,questioning how he had ever

30、 made the connection between cowpox and smallpox immunity.u Jenner himself never explained how he developed the theory, Boylston says. To protect his friend, the biographer probably made up the milkmaid story as away to show how Jenner had come across the idea of a cowpox-smallpox connection.n. Whic

31、h of the following can replace the underlined word muse in paragraph 3?A.Admirer.B.Inspiration.C.Teacher.D.Secret.29 .From whom did Edward Jenner most probably learn the cowpox-smallpox theory?A.A milkmaid.B.A writer.C.A reporter.D.A country doctor.30 .Why did Jenners first biographer mention the mi

32、lkmaid?A .To protect his friend.C.To complete the test.31.What is the text mainly about?A.The cowpox-smallpox connection.C.The myth of the worlds first vaccine.B.To popularize science.D.To promote his own book.B.The effective treatment for smallpox. D.The development of smallpox vaccine. DCatalonia,

33、a region in northeastern Spainjs known for its architecture, sea-side markets and white champagne. It has its own language and even a regional flag. But the most dramatic display of Catalonia culture comes from the tradition of building castells,or human pyramids. First documented in 1801 as a cultu

34、ral activity,castell building was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2010.In Catalonia,most towns have a castell building group with hundreds of members. Anyone is allowed to join,and families often participate together. An official organization keeps a record of the p

35、oints awarded at each competition and then ranks the groups. Points are given based on the difficulty of the pyramids structure and height. For a long time,seven levels was the tallest that had been achieved, but lately pyramids have been built as high as ten.Basic pyramids contain five main levels.

36、 The first level is called the pinya,followed by the folre,the manilles,the tronk,and the pom de dalt. The tronk is the vertical structure in the center of the pyramid that holds the most weight. The strongest men make up the tronk,followed by strong but light women. A small child known as the enxan

37、eta climbs to the pom de dalt. The enxaneta is usually between 7 and 10 years old and must be light and fearless.“As the enxaneta begins to climb, silence falls over the crowd and the air is charged with both excitement and fear,because no one knows where the pyramid is going to end,“ said Giori Wor

38、sley,who began studying human pyramid building 11 years ago.Originally attracted by the structures themselves,Giori Worsley later realized that building higher human pyramids was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the close connection within the Catalonia society that encoura

39、ged people to support each other.“I see it as a poetic reflection of the society, he said. * All the participants at the base hold to each other so tightly that its almost like they have become one,while the stronger men hold the weight of the youngsters and women on their shoulders.M. Which of the

40、following best describes the castell building in Catalonia?A. Castells are not just judged by their heights.B.Seven-level castells are the tallest at present.C. Competition is held within the same group.D. Women and kids are not allowed to participate.31 . Who will be more suitable to make up the tr

41、onk?A.Brave girls.B.Strong men.C.Fearless boys.D.Tall women.32 .What can we say about being an enxaneta?A.Well-paid and easy.B. Challenging and safe.C.Difficult and boring.D.Exciting and dangerous.33 .What can be inferred about the Catalonia society from Giori Worsleys words?A.It is really poor. B.l

42、t is romantic. C.lt is very united. D.lt enjoys in-fights. 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可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多 余选项。Although staying focused can be a challenge in this world, it is still possible. Here are some tips to help you focus on the job at hand and become creative.Engage in posi

43、tive daydreaming. This involves first turning your attention inward. Try traveling with your mind to someplace enjoyable.36.Pair your daydreaming with someform of low-key activity such as walking and gardening. Let your mind wander for about 20 minutes this way and watch what happens. Doing this sev

44、eral times a day can offer your mind a fresh approach to the job at hand.37 .Are you a person who is sharp-minded in the morning? Or is a night owl more of your style? Either way,it doesnt matter as long as you schedule your most important projects during your brains periods of best performance.38.I

45、nsteadjeserve the best time for thebig stuff.Try your hobbies.39.It is also a good way to invite innovation in ways that focusingdoesnt. In many casesjt can even help you come up with solutions to problems youre facing at work or home.Turn off text messaging and social media. Pretty basic? Sure, but

46、 vital. It allows us a deep dive into focus. It lets our brains get a chance to complete full sentences of thought. It helps us to reset and think about whats really important.40.A. Make friends with your body clockB.Doing so will help make better decisionsC.Focusing your mind is key to improving yo

47、ur focusD.Doing things you are interested in can help your mind relaxE. Avoid spending your best brain hours doing unimportant thingsF.Most important of alljt reminds us theres a world outside our screensG.Maybe its a walk through an imaginary forest or sunbathing on a warm beach第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）

48、第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。It was the worst day ever. The exact date was March 19,2020. Ill never41it.The day began as usual. Then I heard Alans42speaking on the phone, uThanks foreverything you have done for my company.My fear was confirmed moments later. Alan was43.1 hugged my husband as my heartsank. u Well be fine/* he said. u I know/ I responded.But,44,neither of us sounded very convincing.A few hours laterj received a call f