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鄂东南省级示范高中教育教学改革联盟学校

2021

届第一次模拟考试

高三英语试卷

第一部分

听力（共两节，满分

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

到答题卡上。

【

例：

How much is the shirt?

￡

19.15. B.

￡

9.18. C.

￡

9.15.

答案是

。

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What is the man looking forward to?

A. The culture.

【答案】

B. The food

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What does the woman want to watch now?

A. A movie

【答案】

B. A soap opera.

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How do the speakers feel?

A. Angry. B. Confused.

【答案】

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How many dresses has the woman tried?

A. One. B. Two.

【答案】

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What is Max probably thinking of doing?

A. Quitting his job.

第一节（共

小题；每小题

1.5

分，满分

7.5

分）

听下面

段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的

、

三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听完每段对话后，你都有

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。

C. The wine.

C. A sports program.

C. Determined.

C. Three.

B. Working extra hard. C. Asking for a promotion.

【答案】

第二节（共

小题；每小题

1.5

分，满分

22.5

分）

听下面

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

、

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

秒钟；听完后，

各小题将给出

秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

6. How is the man related to the woman?

A. Her nephew. B. Her friend. C. Her co-worker.

7. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Soldiers.

【答案】

6. A 7. C

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

8. What are the speakers eating?

A. Chicken.

9. How was the meat kept?

A. Dried.

10. Which will the woman drink?

A. Juice.

【答案】

8. B 9. B 10. C

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

11. What are the speakers trying to find?

A. Gas

12. Where are the speakers?

A. In Africa.

13. Who are the speakers?

A. Volunteers.

【答案】

11. C 12. A 13. A

听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

B. Teachers. C. Locals.

B. In Europe C. In Asia.

B. Oil. C. Water.

B. Wine. C. Tea.

B. Frozen. C. Canned.

B. Turkey. C. Duck.

B. Castles. C. Toys.

14. What does the song remind the man of?

A. friend. B. A holiday.

15. What kind of trips does the woman like now?

A. Lazy. B. Distant

16. What is the problem with the music?

A. It is too loud.

【答案】

14. B 15. C 16. A

B. It is too old.

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。【此处可播放相关音频，请去附件查看】

17. What does the speaker say about competitions in the past years?

A. They were a little disappointing

B. They were successful and fun.

C. They were rich in new experiences

18. What competition was held last year?

A. A reading contest. B. A singing contest

19. What is the purpose of the Pets’ Competition?

A. To help students select pets to take home.

B. To inform students to treat animals properly.

C. To give students chances to show their pets.

20. What does the speaker suggest the students do?

A. Train dogs in their free time.

B. Learn more theory about animals.

C. Keep record of the competition.

C. A story.

C. Active.

C. It lasts too long.

C. A dancing contest.

【答案】

17. B 18. A 19. B 20. C

第二部分

阅读理解（共两节，满分

分）

第一节（共

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

、

和

四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Best Music Apps For 2020

Deezer

Launched in France, Deezer is a music streaming service that’s available for nearly every single platform you

can think of. It’s available on Android and ioS devices, macOS and Windows desktop, xbox One, Roku, and via a

web browser. It’s older than Spotify and Apple Music and is available in 182 countries. Deezer features a more

diverse catalog of music than most competing apps. You can sign up for the free version or fork out $9.99 per month

for the premium (

优质的

) version. The free option is ad-supported and can only be used on your tablet or computer.

Shazam

It’s not exactly a stand-alone music app. It’s more of a music detection app. If you don’t know the name of a song,

Shazam listens to it and gives you the name of the artist and the song. This app works best when it’s paired with

another streaming app. It recognizes songs and provides streaming and purchasing options from Spotify, Amazon

Music, Apple Music, and others. You can also view the lyrics of the detected songs. The Shazam app runs on iPhone,

iPad, and most Android devices. Shazam is available for free and with no ads

Apple Music

Apple Music is the best music app for iPhone. You can also use it on all other iOS devices including the iPad,

iPod, Apple watch, HomePod speakers, and on iTunes on your Mac or PC. The app is also available for Android users.

The one outstanding feature of Apple Music is the “Connect” feature. This feature allows you to follow artists, bands,

and individual creators so that you get a feed with all their updates. Subscription starts at $10 a month. There’s also a

student option for $5 and a family option for $15. Apple Music doesn’t have a free plan, but you do get a free trial for

a period of 3 months.

Spotify

Spotify is great when you want to use a music app offline. It’s available on Android and iOS devices, Kindle Fire,

Windows Phone, and NOOK. You could apply for a Spotify FREE membership where you can still access the huge

collection of over 20 million songs. The only catch is that you have to listen to ads. And the ability to download songs

is restricted to premium members. Spotify premium members are allowed to download songs for offline listening for

only $10 a month. Get Premium Individual or Family plans including a Google Home Mini at no extra cost. But

firstly, try any Spotify Premium plan free for 3 months.

21. Who is the text mainly intended for?

A. Android users. B. Music lovers. C. App programmers. D. Advertisers.

22. Which of the following provides free trial for 3 months?

A. Deezer and Spotify.

C. Shazam and Apple Music.

B. Apple Music and Spotify.

D. Deezer and Shazam.

23. What do the four apps have in common?

A. All free options are ad-supported.

B. Discounts are offered to student subscribers.

C. Lyrics of songs are limited to paid members.

D. Android devices are part of the working platforms.

【答案】

21. B 22. B 23. D

Rats and other animals need to be highly tuned to social signals from others so that can identify friends to

cooperate with and enemies to avoid. To find out if this extends to non-living beings, Loleh Quinn at the University of

California, San Diego, and her colleagues tested whether rats can detect social signals form robotic rats.

They housed eight adult rats with two types of robotic rat

—

one social and one asocial (

不爱社交的

)

—

for 5 our

days. The robotic rats resembled a bigger version of a computer mouse with wheels to move around and colorful

markings.

During the experiment, the social robot rat followed the living rats around, played with the same toys, and

opened caged doors to let trapped rats escape. Meanwhile, the asocial robot simply moved forwards and backwards

and side to side.

Next, the researchers trapped the robots in cages and gave the rats the opportunity to release them by pressing a

button. Across 18 trials each, the living rats were 52 percent more likely on average to set the social robot free than

the asocial one. This suggests that the rats perceived the social robot as a genuine social being. They may have

bonded more with the social robot, because it displayed behaviours like communal (

共同的

) exploring and playing.

“This could lead to the rats better remembering having freed it earlier, and wanting the robot to return the favour

when they get trapped,” says Quinn.

The readiness of the rats to befriend the social robot was surprising given its plain design. The finding shows

how sensitive rats are to social signals, even when they come from basic robots. Similarly, children tend to treat

robots as if they are fellow beings, even when they display simple social signals. “We humans seem to be fascinated

by robots, and it turns out other animals are too,” says Wiles.

24. Quin and her colleagues conducted a test to see if rats can ________.

A. pick up social signals from non-living rats

B. distinguish friends from enemies

C. learn sociable skills through training

D. send out warning messages to their fellows

25. What did the social robot do during the experiment?

A. It followed the asocial robot.

C. It set the trapped rats free.

26. Why did the rats release the social robot according to Quinn?

A. They tried to practice a means of escape.

B. They expected it to do the same in return

C. They wanted to display their intelligence

D. They considered it an interesting game.

27. What can we learn from the text?

A. Rats are highly adaptable to new surroundings.

B. Rats are more socially active than other animals.

C. Rats behave differently from children in socializing.

D. Rats are more sensitive to social signals than expected.

【答案】

24. A 25. C 26. B 27. D

On paper, hydrogen looks like a dream fuel. In practice, things are trickier. Storing meaningful quantities of

hydrogen gas requires compressing (

压缩

) it several hundred times. Transforming it into liquid state is another option,

but one that requires cooling the stuff to -253

℃

. Either process requires

rugged

tanks. Over time, hydrogen gas can

pass slowly into metals, weakening them and potentially causing cracks. Tanks must be built from special materials

designed to resist this breakdown.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute led by Marcus Vogt, think that supplying hydrogen as goop (

糊状

) offers

a way around some of its limitations. They have been experimenting with a chemical compound that can be pumped

into a container and then persuaded to give off its hydrogen on demand.

Their invention, which they nickname “powerpaste”, looks like toothpaste. Its main ingredient is magnesium

hydride, a compound that when introduced to water, reacts with it to form hydrogen and magnesium hydroxide. The

escaped hydrogen can then be redirected into a fuel cell, where it reacts with oxygen from the air to generate electric

power. The magnesium hydroxide waste is emptied from the reactor automatically.

Dr Vogt’s scheme offers several advantages over batteries, petrol and more conventional ways of handling

hydrogen. One is the storage of energy than either batteries or petrol can manage. A second is ease of refilling, which

is simply a matter of swapping an empty container of paste for a full one, and topping up the water, which is stored in

B. It made friends with toys.

D. It moved around alone.

a separate tank. A third advantage is that, unlike a battery, the paste does not gradually lose its stored energy if it is left

on the shelf. Moreover, the paste itself is harmless, as are the reaction’s by-products.

But there are still more to work through. Magnesium hydride reacts only slowly with water. To overcome this,

Dr Vogt and his team have found a chemical additive that greatly accelerates the reaction. They have also found a way

to ensure that the reaction can be controlled precisely enough to supply only as much hydrogen as is needed at any

given moment.

28. Which of the following best explains “rugged” underlined in paragraph 1?

A. Creative. B. Fragile. C. Tough. D. Enormous.

29. What can we know about the invention according to paragraph 3?

A. Magnesium hydride mixed with water releases hydrogen.

B. Several chemical reactions occur in the same tank.

C. Water and electricity are necessary in the process.

D. The remaining waste needs removing with extra help.

30. How is paragraph 4 mainly developed?

A. By providing examples.

C. By quoting sayings.

31. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Dream Fuel: Hydrogen Gas

C. Advantages of Hydrogen Goop

【答案】

28. C 29. A 30. B 31. D

B. New Clean Energy

D. “Toothpaste” in Your Tank

B. By drawing comparisons.

D. By explaining a concept.

Pricing is more than number; it’s series of integrated (

综合

) strategies. For most businesses, managers put a

great deal of effort into making and marketing their products, but where many fall short is in transforming the value

they create into profits.

All too often critical pricing decisions prove ill-considered. Many companies base pricing primarily on their

costs, leaving money on the table in the form of hidden profits. In reality they could make more if they focused

instead on the value they deliver to customers. Baseball fans are willing to pay over $100 for a ticket stub (

票根

) for

the baseball game in which Cal Ripkin broke Lou Gehrigs’ record of playing 2,160 games in succession. For them,

these tickets have a collector’s value which far exceeds the admission cost charged that day to enter the ballpark.

A product’s cost simply represents the floor or minimum price that should be charged. Everything charged above

that floor is obtained from the perceived value in the mind of the purchaser. Think about how diverse people are. It