2021江西省靖安中学高三上学期第四次月考英语试题含答案

2020-2021学年度上学期高三年级第四次月考英语考试题

                    时  间：120分钟     分  值：150分

第一部分听力（共两节，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，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 would the boy like to do after lunch?

A. Practice high jump.  B. Play Find the Flag.  C. Skip rope.

2. Where does the woman’s sister really want to work?

A. In Atlanta.    B. In Chicago.    C. In New York.

3. What does the man enjoy doing?

A. Running.    B. Walking.    C. Hiking.

4. Why doesn’t Laura finish her food?

A. She is full.    B. She doesn’t like it.   C. She has a stomachache.

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. The effects of a disaster.  B. The causes of the flood.   C. Some fruits and vegetables.

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，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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。

6. What did the woman do for Mr. Lee?

A. She cooked dinner.   B. She made the bed.  C. She put his books away.

7. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At a retirement home.  B. At a hospital.   C. At a hotel.

听下面一段对话，回答第8至10题。

8. What’s the most probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Manager and clerk.  B. Workmates.    C. Friends.

9. What is important for Mike?

A. Having a personal office. B. Getting information quickly.  C. Controlling his anger.

10. What does Mike think of the new office?

A. Terrible.    B. Acceptable.    C. Perfect.

听下面一段对话，回答第11至13题。

11. How did Jeff injure his foot?

A. He played soccer.   B. He fell down the stairs.  C. He stepped on a sharp rock.

12. What does Jeff ask the woman to do?

A. Put a bandage on his foot.  B. Give Coach Tuttle a call. C. Help him get down the stairs.

13. Who will take Jeff to the hospital probably?

A. Mr. Tuttle.    B. Mr. Stevenson.   C. Mrs. King.

听下面一段对话，回答第14至17题。

14. How does the man feel about the game this weekend?

A. Excited.    B. Confident.    C. Bored.

15. Why won’t Bob watch the game?

A. He isn’t interested in it.  B. He has to go out of town.  C. He doesn’t have a ticket.

16. How will the speakers go to the game?

A. By bus.    B. By car.     C. On foot.

17. When will the game begin?

A. At 1:00 pm.    B. At 2:00 pm.    C. At 3:00 pm.

听下面一段独白，回答第18至20题。

18. What percentage of the voters give no answers?

A. 15%.     B. 40%.     C. 45%.

19. What will happen on Charing Cross Road?

A. A strike by drivers.  B. The police training.   C. A weekend fair.

20. What has the weather been like recently?

A. Rainy.     B. Sunny.     C. Cloudy.

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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

Independence is something that can be difficult to achieve. But don’t worry because here we have four books that can help you. If you don’t buy less than three of them, you’ll be given a 20% discount!

The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

Taking care of your finance is hard. Dave Ramsey, a famous businessman, is here to take you on the whole process of planning your finance, and show the myths of cash advances and debt consolidation(债务重整), to make sure your finance is healthy.

Price: $14.49

Grace’s Guide by Grace Helbig

Grace Helbig shared her tips to becoming a grown-up. The book is full of personal stories of Helbig, her struggles and the lessons she learnt from failing many times. This book is your on-the-go fun read with pictures and drawings of Helbig, and worksheets(作记录) to practice.

Price: $7.95

The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon

Having suffered from eating disorder and living on diet, Angela Liddon promised to eat healthily forever. She threw out her fat-free butter spray(黄油喷雾) and low-calorie frozen dinners after learning how to properly cook. This book contains more than 100 recipes(食谱) covering breakfast, salads, soups, power snacks and the main dishes for a healthy meal at any time of the day. We all know that healthy eating is all part of being independent.

Price: $22.22

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

Life can be hard, especially when it comes to relationships with others. In the book, Strayed gives advice on love and life. She writes about different subjects: a son rejected by his parents, a mother who has lost her child. And the message hidden throughout all her advice is always that, if you want a good life, you have to create it.

Price: $8.76

21. How much will you save at least if you buy three of the listed books?

A. $5.68.    B. $6.24.    C. $8.95.   D. $9.10.

22. What is special for the book Grace’s Guide?

A. It is about how to grow up healthily.      B. It is mainly about how to work better.

C. It is based on its author’s life experience.  D. It teaches readers to learn from others’ life stories.

23. Which book should you choose for someone who is bad at getting along with others?

A. Grace’s Guide.       B. Tiny Beautiful Things.

C. The Total Money Makeover.     D. The Oh she Glows Cookbook.

B

I’d been retired for four years, when a friend suggested university. I thought he was joking—I was rubbish at school and failed my 11-plus. But we love to compete over Mastermind and University challenge, and he thought I’d make it. And he was absolutely right!

I did a foundation course first, which was part time at the University Lifelong Learning Centre(LLC), two nights a week and the odd Saturday. I did quite well, and that gave me the confidence to do a full time, three year degree. I’m passionate about art and I always wanted to be here for the journey and not the destination. That sounds really corny, but it was the truth in my case.

Initially it was a bit strange fitting in with my course mates. They were all 18, straight out of sixth form or college. Over time, though, they’ve all been fine — now, we all get on really well and there is no issue. I’ve made plenty of friends as a member of the mature students society, and I do some volunteering through the LLC, chatting to prospective students about my experience of coming to university. I tell them my story and basically encourage them to give it a go because you’ve got nothing to lose. I like to think I’ve convinced a few of them.

I have no regrets at all. Enrolling in university was the best piece of advice I’ve received in years, especially post-retirement. I needed routine in my life; I needed purpose. I’m not going to spend my day in the bookies or the pub. If you’ve got a passion for something, you should pursue it.

24. What do we learn from Paragraph 1?

A. The author often competed with his friend at university,

B. The author was satisfied with his performance at school,

C. The advice of his friend was a big challenge for the author.

D. The author’s friend told a joke when suggesting university.

25. What was it that made him determined to pursue a full time degree?

A. His long held passion for art.        B. His boring retirement life.

C. His success in the foundation course.  D. His desire to travel to the destination.

26. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. How he got along with his course mates   B. How he helped his friends at university.

C. What activities he took part in at school    D. What he experienced as a volunteer.

27. Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?

A. Knowledge is power.           B. It’s never too old to learn.

C. Failure is the mother of success.   D. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

                                  C

Tech giants Apple and Google are teaming up to create a system that would let smart phone users know when they’ve come into contact with someone who has COVID-19.

The technology would rely on the Bluetooth signals that smart phones can both send out and receive 1aperscn tests positive(阳性) for COVID-19, they could inform public health authorities through an app. Those public health apps would then warn anyone whose smart phones had come near the infected person’s phone in the previous 14 days. The technology could be used on both Google Android phones and Apple iPhones.

The companies insist that they will preserve smart phone users’ privacy and their technology will be used only by public health authorities to trace the spread of COVID-19. Smart phone users can choose to use it. The software will not collect data on users’ physical locations or their personally identifiable information. People who are tested to be positive would remain unknown to the public, both to the people who came in contact with them and to Apple and Google. “Privacy is of greatest importance in this effort,” the companies said in a joint statement.

The American Civil Liberties Union has warned that using cellphone data to handle the pandemic carries risks of “destruction of privacy”. In a statement on Friday, ACLU cyber security counsel Jennifer Granick said, “The system also can’t work well if people don’t trust it”. She said that the joint Apple and Google project “appears to reduce the worst privacy risks, but there is still room for improvement.” She added that the contact tracing app should be used only for public health purposes and only for the duration of this pandemic.

Public health officials say the contact tracing—finding people who have been in contact with an infected person will be a key step in lifting shelter in-place restrictions.

It would allow people who are known to have been exposed to the virus to isolate themselves, while letting others recover normal activities.

28. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To advertise for public health.  B. To introduce a contact tracing system.

C. To warn the public of risks of COVID-19.

D. To raise people’s awareness of privacy protection.

29. What do the companies promise to do in particular?

A. Warn people who test positive.     B. Protect infected people’s privacy.

C. Work with public health authorities. D. Collect data on users physical locations.

30. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 suggest?

A. Public health issues are traced accurately.

B. Only people’s trust influences the system.

C. The system is at the risk of being destroyed.

D. Jennifer thinks the system should be better.

31. The system is mainly designed to              

A. ensure infected people’s recovery   B. guarantee people’s normal activities

C. help prevent the spread of COVID-19 D. encourage all the people to isolate themselves

D

As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, do people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.

In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.

In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder(文件夹). Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location(位置) better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called “transactive memory(交互记忆)”.

According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn’t mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.

32. The passage begins with two questions to ________.

A. introduce the main topic          B. show the author’s attitude

C. describe how to use the Internet   D. explain how to store information

33. What can we learn about the first experiment?

A. Sparrow’s team typed the information into a computer.

B. The two groups remembered the information equally well.

C. The first group did not try to remember the information.

D. The second group did not understand the information.

34. In transactive memory, people ________.

A. keep the information in mind          B. change the quantity of information

C. organize information like a computer   D. remember how to find the information

35. What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrow’s research?

A. We are using memory differently.       B. We are becoming more intelligent.

C. We have poorer memories than before.   D. We need a better way to access information.

第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。

Tests can be stressful even for the best students.   36   Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to make your stress much more manageable.

Get Enough Sleep

Getting 6 hours of sleep or less can put you into what’s called a sleep deficit(不足), which makes you less sharp mentally and prevents you from performing properly on tests.   37   This way, you needn’t stay up for the test and can get a good night of sleep before your big day.

Study Smarter

  38   Make a list of the most important things you need to learn and hit the items at the top of the list first. This will ensure they’re mostly covered if you run out of time. Make a list of all the work you have to do, estimate how long each item will take, and compare that with the amount of hours you have available. This will tell you if you can carefully read or just skim, how many times you can afford to revise the papers.

Visualize(想象) Success

A proven way to build your confidence is to visualize yourself taking the tests and doing wonderfully. Visualization can not only help you perform better in the tests but can help you remember facts. You can create detailed situations that involve the information you’re trying to remember.   39 

Stay Calm

There’re several techniques that can help you calm down quickly.   40   Just close your eyes, take a deep breath, hold it for a while and then let it out slowly. Your stress will come out with your exhales(呼气).

A. Be organized with your studies.

B. Extra time on tests can bring success to students.

C. Test anxiety has a negative impact on your performance.

D. In this process you can strengthen the facts in your memory.

E. Breathing exercises can be extremely effective in helping you relax.

F. So it’s very important to get all your studying done before your exam.

G. There are options for easing stress and potentially improving test performance.

第三部分: 英语知识运用(共两节, 满分45分)

第一节 完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

第二节（共10小题，每小题1.5分，共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。

Nowadays, social media brings people together from all over the world. As  41   is replacing conversations, people are actually feeling   42   and communicating less. That's why 28-year-old Rob Lawless from a big city who has spent the last four years having an hour-long face-to-face conversation with a(n)   43   a day is so unique.

“The concept of   44   with strangers just to get to know them is so foreign to people who think it was   45  . In reality, I’m just here to sit with you and  46   anything,” said Lawless.

During a typical day, he speaks to around four strangers. Since 2015, he has   47   to more than 2,800 people. Lawless   48   to listen to what other people say, whether it’s their love of sports or how they are struggling to earn a   49   in the city.

    No matter how busy he is, Lawless   50   fails to talk to strangers. For him, making these conversations is the best way to   51   his time. Starting to work after graduation, he felt he missed those face-to-face   52  . Though he saw countless   53   for social engagement（社交应酬）,networking was never the goal.Instead, he chose to find a way to meet people in a(n)   54    setting.

    Lawless has   55   speaking with new friends so far. An hour provides the perfect amount of time to get to know someone on a   56   level. He has got to know the city and its people better. He wanted to recapture the social   57  he felt when he was on campus.

    Lawless was very   58   at college. He joined some clubs. He could walk around campus and say hi to people. Going from college to the professional world, he has   59   lost that. Therefore, when he moved to the big city, he told himself, “This is my campus now. This is my city to make it what I want. I want to   60   people as I walk down the street.”

41. A. writing   B. telephoning C. texting   D. telegraphing 

42. A. lonely   B. comfortable  C. strong D. helpless

43. A. official   B. stranger C. colleague   D. customer

44. A. agreeing   B. playing C. quarreling   D. meeting

45. A. possible   B. inconvenient      C. difficult   D. dangerous

46. A. talk about    B. refer to      C. deal with   D. pick up

47. A. replied   B. spoken       C. responded   D. compared

48. A. decides   B. refuses C. pretends   D. loves

49. A. degree   B. place C. living   D. credit

50. A. never   B. even C. still   D. often

51. A. waste  B. spend  C. save   D. spare

52. A. fights   B. conferences       C. requests   D. connections

53. A. participants   B. techniques  C. opportunities D. functions

54. A. relaxing   B. secret  C. unfamiliar   D. open

55. A. stopped   B. continued   C. considered   D. admitted

56. A. wider   B. steadier C. lower   D. deeper 

57. A. order   B. status  C. environment   D. gathering

58. A. involved    B. experienced C. lucky   D. sensitive

59. A. frequently    B. completely C. simply     D. willingly

60. A. impress   B. scare C. respect   D. recognize

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。

   Robots are very common nowadays. They 61_______ (use) in many factories today and have gone to such far places as 62_______ moon. Some robots can “see” 63_______ (clear),for they use cameras as their 64_____ (eye). Many robots have computer brains and they can “think”. Now they have already come into 65_______(we) homes and they are working as 66_______ (help). Not only can they do simple jobs for us, such as  67_______ (put)things into boxes, but also they can finish much 68_______ (hard) tasks like looking after babies. Besides, unlike human beings  69 _______need to sleep, robots can work 24 hours a day. With the aid of robots, our life 70_______ (become) much easier in the future.

第四部分 写作（共两节；满分35分）

第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I had a interesting dream last night. I dreamed that I took part in a race in the sports meeting. At first, I could not to run very fast and fell behind. So I didn’t lose heart and kept running. All the student on the playground cheered me on, “Come on!” I was so encouraging that I ran faster and faster until I caught up all the other runners. I felt like a superman. In the end, I got to the finishing line first. I won the race. I felt very proudly of myself. Many of my classmates throw me up into the air. Just at that moment I woke up and found me still lying in bed! What interesting the dream was!

第五部分 书面表达（共 1 题，满分 25 分）

假如你是李华，今年暑假你和你的父母在美国旅行期间，在当地一家知名酒店住了一晚，你对住宿条件和服务都非常不满意。请你给酒店经理写一封投诉信，内容包括：

1.写信目的； 2.反映存在问题；

3.提出改进建议。

注意：1.词数100 字左右.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear manager,

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

参考答案

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21-23BCB  24-27 CCAB 28-31 BBDC  32-35 ACDA  36-40 CFADE

41~45 CABDC  46~50 ABDCA    51~55 BDCAB  56~60 DCABD

61．are used 62．the 63．clearly 64.eyes 65.our 66.helpers 67.putting 68．harder 69．who/that 70．will become

71. a-an   72.去to   73. so-but  74.students    75. encouraged

76.up后加with   77.proud  78. threw   79. myself    80. How

参考范文

Dear manager,

I’m writing to complain about the poor service your hotel provided. After my family checked in on August 5th, we were annoyed to find there was no access to the Internet and no hot water available after 10 p.m. Worse still, the room attendant was rude when we reported these problems to him.

I know your hotel enjoys a high reputation, but it was disappointing that your hotel didn’t offer high-quality service. I think it’s necessary to improve the room service and get your employees well trained so that it won’t fail other customers.