2021江苏省姜堰中学、如东中学、沭阳如东中学高三下学期5月联考试题英语含答案（含听力）

2021届高三适应性考试试题   2021.5

英    语

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题纸上。

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. Who are coming to the speakers’ house?

 A. The man’s parents.   B. Their friends.   C. Some strangers.

2. What time is it now?

 A. 8:25.     B. 8:45.     C. 9:00.

3. Why does the man want to change his personal style?

 A. To be more professional. B. To be more fashionable. C. To be more casual.

4. What is Chris doing?

 A. Cutting grass.    B. Building a fence.  C. Putting in a pool.

5. What does the man think he has reached?

 A. His final goal.   B. His maximum limit.  C. His greatest moment.

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。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. How does the girl feel about leaving the town?

 A. Indifferent.    B. Upset.     C. Eager.

7. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?

 A. Brother and sister.   B. Father and daughter.  C. Colleagues.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Which class did Tom attend today?

 A. Physics.     B. Geometry.    C. Chemistry.

9. What do we know about Tom?

 A. He knows little about the moon.

 B. He is a first-year student in high school.

 C. He shows little interest in the class.

10. Who is the woman in the conversation?

 A. A scientist.    B. Tom’s teacher.   C. Tom’s mother.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Why is the woman more tired than normal?

  A. She slept too long.

  B. She attended a boring meeting.

  C. She was sitting for too long.

12. How does the woman usually like her coffee?

  A. Cold.      B. Bitter.     C. Sour.

13. Where are the speakers going?

  A. To a concert.   B. To a baseball game.  C. To a movie theater.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What does the man think he still has a problem with?

  A. His nose.    B. His head.    C. His mouth.

15. Where are the speakers?

  A. In a hospital.   B. In a school lab.   C. At a research center.

16. What will the man work out during the experiment?

  A. His smell.    B. His taste.    C. His muscle.

17. What is the main topic of the conversation?

  A. Taking new medicines. B. Using new treatments. C. Finding new senses.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What helped Dr. Osborn make her discovery?

  A. That her photograph was unsatisfying.

  B. That her photograph had special qualities.

  C. That her photograph showed the strange shape of the fish.

19. How might the discovery be useful?

  A. In making food.   B. In making paint.   C. In making cameras.

20. What is the talk mainly about?

  A. A special light in the ocean.

  B. A mystery on the blackest fish.

  C. A new discovery of the super-black materials.

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

Grand Canyon Park Ranger Programs

Guided Cedar Ridge Hike

7 am Daily

(Meet at the South Kaibab Trailhead)

A 3-mile (4.8 km) hike on an unpaved path. Allow 4 hours. Minimum 2 liters of water per person. Bring salty snacks, sunscreen, and wear hiking shoes. Not recommended for people with heart problems, or difficulty walking.

Fossil Discovery Walk

9 am Daily

(Meet at the Bright Angel Trailhead sign)

Walk among sea creatures that lived on this part of the continent 270 million years ago, before the age of the dinosaurs. This easy 1/2-mile (0.8 km) one-way walk explores an exposed fossil bed.

Critter Chat

9:30 am Daily

(Meet at Grand Canyon Visitor Center)

Learn about some of the Grand Canyon’s diverse wild creatures who survive here in this place of extreme changes in exposure and climate. Wheelchair accessible. Family friendly.

Geology Walk

3:30 pm Daily

(Meet at Yavapai Geology Museum)

Learn how the Grand Canyon formed while exploring Yavapai Geology Museum during this short introductory talk. Why is it so deep, wide, and grand? Why does it exist only here and nowhere else in the world? Consider walking the Trail of Time following the program.

Note: Children must be accompanied by an adult in all programs. All programs are free of charge.

21. What might you not experience in the programs above?

  A. Go on an exhausting hike.    B. Walk the Trail of Time.

  C. Look for dinosaur fossils.    D. Learn more about existing animals.

22. Which program is friendly to people with difficulty walking?

  A. Guided Cedar Ridge Hike.    B. Fossil Discovery Walk.

  C. Critter Chat.       D. Geology Walk.

23. Where do you meet for the program introducing the formation of the Grand Canyon?

  A. At Yavapai Geology Museum.   B. At the South Kaibab Trailhead.

  C. At Grand Canyon Visitor Center.   D. At the Bright Angel Trailhead sign.

B

When you look up and around, you are likely to be surrounded by architecture. Unique among creative and artistic professions, architecture always reflects the age and culture that produced it. Designing and building architecture takes time, money and cooperation. Architects work with dozens to shape their buildings, and along this chain, a deeper and richer set of values are transmitted — ones that define exactly how cultures see their world and how people see each other.

Beyond providing shelter, architecture becomes the stage set for our life. It’s the reason we feel empowered on the roof deck of an 80-story building that is connected with a busy public square. Communities form within architecture and take on their buildings’ characteristics. Architecture connects to economics and the sciences, and the people that practice it can both be careful technicians and poets of space and form.

Defining architecture only in terms of other professions does harm to it, and there is a lot of knowledge within architecture that is separated from the practical concerns of building. Looking at the built world critically, instead of considering it a set of established traditions, shows that architecture is an entirely human creation, which can take nearly any shape we want it to. Patterns we see everywhere don’t spring from wisdom about how things should look. They are actually the result of special accumulations of cultural values, the materials available, economics, geographic location and climate. Most of these factors are changeable, so while architecture changes slowly compared to other artistic mediums, it still develops.

Architecture is futurism. Each time it offers a critique (评论) that suggests new ways to live, work or play, it becomes a feat of world-building that makes it hard to distinguish from science fiction. Architecture is interested in the future, and architects are trained to imagine the world not as it is, but as it could be.

24. What’s special about architecture?

  A. It helps people live at ease.    B. It’s aimed at showing values.

  C. It can reflect the culture clearly.   D. It shows man’s wisdom directly.

25. What can we infer about architecture from Paragraph 2?

  A. It makes us feel powerful.

  B. It’s a great project for humans.

  C. It’s connected with many aspects in life.

  D. It provides a stage for other art forms.

26. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

  A. The world.       B. The architecture. 

  C. The creation.       D. The tradition.

27. What’s the text mainly about?

  A. Why architecture is important. 

  B. How architecture affects the future.

  C. How architecture reflects man’s talent.

  D. Who regards architecture as a special art form.

C

The idea of billions of people going through a few masks a week during this pandemic definitely rings alarm bells, but a team of researchers in Melbourne may have the solution.

They’ve discovered that adding millions of discarded face masks to road-paving (铺路) mixtures would actually lower the cost of the road, while preventing billions of them from landfills. Just one kilometer of road would need three million masks, and the polypropylene (聚丙烯) plastic used to make single-use surgical face masks also increased the flexibility and durability of the road.

The new material is a mixture of about 2% torn masks, with recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) — a material obtained from waste concrete and other minerals from destroyed buildings. This recycled material was found in the study to be ideal for two of the four layers generally required to create roadways. Paving a kilometer of two-way road with the RCA and three million face masks would result in a change of 93 tons of waste from landfills.

The final product then is more resistant to wear than asphalt (沥青), as well as being cheaper too, provided there was a method for collecting masks. The research team did a cost-analysis and found that, at $26 per ton, the RCA was about half the cost of mining raw materials, and as much as a third of the cost of shipping the used masks to a landfill.

The widespread application would be ideal for large infrastructure projects. For example, Washington has the 11th worst roads in terms of unaddressed repairs in the U.S. If the damaged roads in Washington state were repaired with the RCA/mask mixture, it would reuse nearly 10 billion masks, sparing American landfills hundreds of millions of tons of trash.

It’s said that the team is looking for private industry partners or governments willing to give their plastic mask road an opportunity for a large-scale test.

28. What does the underlined word “discarded” mean in Paragraph 2?

  A. Recycled.            B. Produced.

  C. Mixed.             D. Abandoned.

29. What is the new material used to pave ways made of?

  A. 2% torn masks, concrete and tons of trash.

  B. Polypropylene plastic and building materials.

  C. Single-use surgical masks and recycled concrete aggregate.

  D. Waste concrete and other minerals from destroyed buildings.

30. Why are numbers mentioned in Paragraph 5?

  A. To tell us what the team has found.

  B. To prove this material is cost-effective in paving roads.

  C. To explain repairing roads costs a lot of materials.

  D. To praise the hard work the team has done.

31. What can we learn from the text?

  A. The material used to pave roads is made of masks.

  B. Generally speaking, it requires two layers to create roadways.

  C. It remains to be tested whether the solution is practical.

  D. The damaged roads in Washington were repaired with the RCA.

D

I live in a small studio. I sleep in a bed that folds down from the wall. I have six dress shirts. I have 10 shallow bowls that I use for salads and main dishes. When people come over for dinner. I pull out my extendable dining room table. I don’t have a single CD or DVD and I have 10 percent of the books I once did.

I have come a long way from the life I had in the late 90’s, when, having made a fortune from an Internet start-up sale, I had a giant house full of stuff — electronics and cars and appliances and furniture.

Somehow this stuff ended up running my life, or a lot of it; the things I consumed ended up consuming me. My life became unnecessarily complicated. There were lawns to mow, floors to mop, a car to insure, wash, refuel, repair and register and tech to set up and keep working. Who had I become? My house and my things were my new employers for a job I had never applied for. I started to wonder why my theoretically upgraded life didn’t feel any better and why I felt more anxious than before.

For me, it took 15 years to get rid of the things I had collected and live a bigger, better, richer life with less.

I like material things as much as anyone. I studied product design in school. But my experiences show that after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support .I know the best stuff in life isn’t stuff at all, and that relationships, experiences and meaningful work are the main parts of a happy life.

My latest project is to design thoughtfully constructed small homes that support our lives, not the other way around. The house 1 design contains less stuff and makes it easier for owners to live within their means and to limit their environmental footprint. My space is well-built affordable and as functional as living spaces twice the size. I frequently have dinner parties for 12. I sleep better knowing I’m not using more resources than I need. I have less-and enjoy more.

My space is small. My life is big.

32. Why does the author use a bed that folds down from the wall?

  A. To save time.      B. To save space.

  C. To make the room neat.    D. To sleep comfortably.

33. How did the author feel about his things in the late 90’s?

  A. They were complicated.    B. They were expensive to run.

  C. They were a great burden.    D. They couldn’t meet the daily needs.

34. What do we know about the house the author designs?

  A. It is used for dinner parties.    B. There is no stuff in the house.

  C. It is larger than his studio.    D. The space is actually larger than it is.

35. What is the best title for the text?

  A. Living Better with Less    B. Consuming Less to Save Money

  C. Longing for the Good Old Days   D. Building a Comfortable Living Space

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。

Take a bottle of soda, and shake it really hard. Gas will form inside, causing a buildup of pressure. Twist the cap off. Pressure will be released from the bottle, and soda will shoot everywhere.

_____36_____ Pressure builds up inside a volcano as gas forms in magma (岩浆), which is hot liquid rock beneath the surface of the earth. Gas bubbles in the volcano need to escape. When a volcano erupts, magma is pushed up through the opening with great force. When magma reaches the earth’s surface, it’s called lava (熔岩).

Some volcanic eruptions are explosive. Lava shoots into the sky. Gas and hot pieces of rock and ash are also released. The intensity of an eruption depends on a few factors. One is the magma’s temperature. Another is the magma’s thickness. _____37_____

Volcanic eruptions can cause other natural disasters. These include landslides, mudslides, earthquakes and tsunamis. Volcanoes can be destructive. _____38_____ The Hawaiian Islands were created by the eruptions of large low-lying volcanoes which are made up of layers of hardened lava.

_____39_____ Ash from volcanoes adds helpful minerals to soil. This helps plants grow strong. Healthy plants produce oxygen for humans and animals to breathe. Volcanoes also remove heat from the earth’s interior (内部), which helps keep our planet cool.

In recent years, a new benefit of volcanoes has surfaced. _____40_____ Their measures involve using the heat beneath the earth’s surface to produce electricity.

Volcanoes may be unpredictable. However, as we learn more about how they work, they will become even more important to life on the earth.

A. However, they can also create new land.

B. Volcanoes can become more dangerous.

C. A volcanic eruption works much the same way.

D. Scientists are using volcanoes to help power cities.

E. The amount of gas trapped inside is also an important one.

F. Volcanoes are threatening the life of people across the world.

G. Volcanoes have played an important role in shaping the earth.

第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分30分）

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。

Last week, I drove to Joe’s Hardware to get a few items. Upon returning to my __41__, I noticed a cat underneath and bent down to investigate. At this point, my wallet fell __42__ — but I didn’t notice it was __43__ until about an hour later. I __44__ my steps, asked around and tore my car inside out. Nothing. I lost my wallet.

After this fact sank in, I was about to call the bank and have them __45__ me a new credit card when a little voice inside my head said, “Whoa! __46__. Someone must have picked it up. An __47__ citizen, just like you. What would she or he do?”

So I __48__ and I was going to give it a day. Then, early that evening, I was surfing the Internet for a new wallet when I heard a knock on the door. There was a man who I did not __49__. Could it be?

After we exchanged __50__, he handed me my wallet. He found it in the parking lot, thought of dropping it off at Joe’s Hardware but decided to drive over and return it __51__.

He told me his __52__, but I was overcome with emotion and cannot be 100% sure. I think it was David. I offered him a cash reward __53__ he refused. He was just a regular guy doing the right thing.

I’m grateful for having my wallet __54__. David, thank you for reinforcing my belief that there are some good and __55__ people around.

41. A. bike   B. home   C. bank    D. car

42. A. off    B. through  C. behind    D. apart

43. A. broken   B. empty   C. stolen    D. missing

44. A. recovered  B. recorded  C. retraced   D. reduced

45. A. loan   B. send   C. show    D. pass

46. A. Come on  B. Cheer up  C. Slow down   D. Look out

47. A. honorable   B. distinguished C. senior    D. average

48. A. thought back  B. looked back  C. held back   D. took back

49. A. doubt    B. recognize  C. admire    D. remember

50. A. enquiries  B. questions  C. greetings   D. congratulations

51. A. in order   B. in time   C. in person    D. in turn

52. A. story   B. hobby   C. name    D. job

53. A. however  B. while   C. although   D. but

54. A. recovered  B. released  C. requested   D. registered

55. A. decent   B. courageous  C. cautious    D. humble

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。

Sixty years ago, man firstly journeyed into outer space, __56__(symbolize) the start of outer space explorations. __57__ decades of planning and construction went by, China possesses one of the world’s major navigation satellite systems — the Beidou Navigation Satellite System.

Beidou is currently the country’s largest space-based system __58__ has ever been developed in history. It reflects the high priority the Chinese government places __59__ the space research. The research and development of a domestically built, space-based navigation and positioning system were approved by the government in February 1994, China aiming __60__(reduce) the country’s heavy dependence on foreign networks.

More than 300,000 scientists, engineers and technicians from over 400 domestic institutes, universities and enterprises __61__(involve) in Beidou’s development and construction during the past decades. In December 2012, Beidou began providing positioning, navigation and messaging services for users in China and some parts of the Asia. At the end of 2018, it started offering global services. Now, there are 30 third-generation Beidou satellites in space. Compared with previous ones, the third-generation models feature __62__(surprise) accuracy and stability. Next, China __63__(continue) improving the system’s capabilities and services. Not only does Beidou demonstrate the determination of the Chinese people but also promotes pride in this __64__(consider) achievement.

All countries have equal right to peacefully explore and develop outer space. China maintains that international exchanges and cooperation should be strengthened on the basis of full __65__(equal) and mutual benefit.

第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

假定你是李华，你的英国朋友David热爱体育运动，他将作为交换生到你校学习。请你给他写封邮件，内容包括：

1. 介绍学校体育课程及活动；

2. 推荐一项中国传统体育项目。

注意：

1. 写作词数应为80左右；

2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear David,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

第二节（满分25分）

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

When I was a child, I lived in a house with a beautiful garden full of different flowers, and roses were the most beautiful of them. There was nothing I enjoyed more than sitting in the garden with my mother, reading stories to me. When I was in primary school and old enough to read, I enjoyed reading stories aloud to her.

I will never forget one day when I had been picked to be the princess in the school play. For weeks my mother had practised my lines so hard with me. But however easily I acted at home, as soon as I stepped, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator’s (叙述者) part to the play, and asked me to change my role. Her word, kindly expressed, still hurt, especially when I saw my part go to another girl.

I didn’t tell my mother what had happened that day. But she sensed my pain. Instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to take a walk in the garden.

It was May and roses were blossoming and, under the trees, we could also see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) in the grass, as if a painter had painted our garden with red, yellow and green. I watched my mother casually bend down by one dandelion.

“I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, pulling it up by its roots. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions,” I protested. “All flowers are beautiful — even dandelions.”

My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower is beautiful in its own way, isn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over.

“And that is true of people too,” she added. “Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that.”

Realizing that she had guessed my pain, I started crying as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled reassuringly.

注意：

1.续写词数应为150左右；

2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

Paragraph 1:

“But you can make a good narrator,” she said with encouragement in her eyes.__________

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Paragraph 2:

After successful performance in the play, I took home the dandelion carefully.____________

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