江苏省镇江市2021届高三模拟信息卷（一) 英语试题（Word版含答案）.docx

1、1 镇江市 2021 届高三模拟信息卷（一） 英语学科 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卡 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。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 is the man offering to do for the woman? A. Help her check in. B. Carry

2、her suitcases. C. Take her to her room. 2. What does the woman think of the mans office? A. It is messy. B. It is large. C. It is neat. 3. Why does the man look different now according to himself? A. He lost weight. B. He got older. C. He had a haircut. 4. Who will buy the tickets for the concert? A

3、. Sandy. B. The man. C. Sandys brother. 5. Who might the woman be talking with? A. A repairman. B. A policeman. C. A parking lot attendant. 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，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。

4、 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。 6. Where does the woman want to go? A. To her home. B. To a stadium. C. To a restaurant. 7. How does the man feel about his work? A. Worried. B. Relaxed. C. Uninterested. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. What is the presentation mainly about? A. The causes of climate change. B. The result

5、s of climate change. C. The prevention of climate change. 9. Where did the man get his information? A. From a film. B. From a website. C. From a book. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What language is Richard fluent in? A. French. B. Spanish. C. Italian. 11. What is Molly going to do? A. Spend a year in

6、France. B. Spend six months in France. C. Spend a year in Spain. 注意：本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。两部分答案都做在答题卡上。 总分为 150 分。考试时间 120 分钟。 2 12. What is Richards advice for learning a new language? A. Going traveling often. B. Using the dictionary often. C. Surrounding yourself in the environment. 听第 9 段材料，

7、回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. What course is the woman taking now? A. Criminal behavior. B. Psychology. C. Ecology. 14. Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Friends. B. Husband and wife. C. Manager and secretary. 15. What does the man probably want to be in the future? A. A policeman. B

8、. A math teacher. C. An engineer. 16. What is the womans attitude to her professors? A. She admires them. B. She is afraid of them. C. She is disappointed in them. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. What would MAD Architects prefer buildings to be like? A. More environmentally friendly. B. More attractive

9、. C. More traditional. 18. What does MAD Architects want to provide? A. The situation of separation from nature. B. The experience of living in ancient times. C. The feeling of being in the natural world. 19. Where will the Urban Forest be built? A. In Beijing. B. In Chongqing. C. In Rome. 20. Who s

10、hould apply for a job according to the talk? A. Architects. B. Engineers. C. Office workers. 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、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Dickens House Museum Type: Historic House / Palace Address: 2 Victoria Parade, Broadstairs, Kent, CT10 1QS About Dic

11、kens House Museum, Broadstairs celebrates Charles Dickens long connection with Broadstairs from 1837 to 1851, through personal items and letters. Guided tours available. The museum is housed in the cottage that was Charles Dickens inspiration for the home of Betsey Trotwood in David Copperfield. Dav

12、ids description of Betseys cottage with its square gravelled garden full of flowers, and a parlour of old fashioned furniture still fits today. The character Betsy Trotwood is based on Miss Mary Pearson Strong who lived in the cottage that is now the museum. According to the reminiscences of Charles

13、 Dickens son Charley, he and his father regularly had tea and cakes in the parlour (会客室) with the kindly and charming Miss Mary Pearson Strong. He also remembers that Miss Pearson Strong was completely convinced of her right to stop the passage of donkeys along the cliff top in front of her cottage.

14、 This belief became the donkey incident for the character of Betsy Trotwood, with the famous quote: “Janet! Donkeys!” 3 Spread over four floors, the Charles Dickens Museum holds the worlds most important collection of paintings, rare editions, manuscripts, original furniture and other items relating

15、 to the life and work of Dickens. Perhaps the best-known exhibit is the portrait of Dickens known as Dickens Dream by R. W. Buss, an original illustrator of The Pickwick Papers. This unfinished portrait shows Dickens in his study at Gads Hill Place surrounded by many of the characters he had created

16、. Whats Nearby Viking Bay 0.03 miles away Theatre Royal Margate 0.07 miles away Joss Bay Surf School 0.23 miles away 21. What do we know about the cottage? A. It houses items concerning Dickens. B. It is far away from Viking Bay. C. It is located near Dickens House Museum. D. It was once Pickwicks h

17、ome. 22. Who is Miss Mary Pearson Strong? A. A character in David Copperfield. B. The housekeeper of Charles Dickens son. C. The owner of the passing donkeys. D. Dickens inspiration for the character Betsy Trotwood. 23. What can tourists do when visiting the Charles Dickens Museum? A. Watch a movie.

18、 B. Have afternoon tea in the parlour. C. Appreciate Dickens Dream. D. Enjoy art exhibitions of R.W. Buss. B For hundreds of years, Africans have preserved their history through storytelling. But some Africans worry that oral traditions will be lost to the Internet connections and social media. This

19、 has led a Nigerian woman named Elizabeth Kperrun to create a mobile phone application as a way to preserve African folk stories. She calls her mobile app AfroTalez, which tells childrens stories that teach moral lessons. “We cant teach kids something by telling them, Dont do this. I think kids need

20、 context to understand. In a story somebody stole something and then something bad happened to them. Alternatively, somebody else did something good and they ended up happy or rich.” “Hello children. My name is Liz and Id like to tell you a story about tortoises, elephants, and . ” The voice of “Aun

21、t Liz” narrates the story, while a full-screen animation appears. An arrow signals when its time to move on. There are also quizzes on object recognition and counting throughout. Kperrun asks her older relatives to help her collect stories for the application. The stories come from an ethnic group l

22、iving in southeast Nigeria and northwest Cameroon. “I want to keep it centered on folk stories, not the ones that Walt Disney has made really popular. Its fair and respectful to keep certain cultures alive because folk stories are part of the tapestry that keeps cultures together.” Kperrun once said

23、. Kperrun writes and reads the stories. Her business partner and husband Idamiebi Ilamina-Eremie does the animation (动画). AfroTalez is available for Android users and can be downloaded for free. So far, AfroTalez has more than 50,000 users. Funding for the app has been a major challenge. Kperrun hop

24、es to use a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the next version of AfroTalez to be released soon. 4 Kperrun believes technology doesnt have to destroy or replace traditions. Her goal is to combine them to keep African culture alive. She says “Africa is our home, but we are so eager to become Western

25、 that we are forgetting things that are really important and should be passed on of who we are, and I dont think thats right.” 24. What caused Elizabeth Kperrun to create the mobile app AfroTalez? A. Desiring to make money through the Internet. B. Planning to keep technology replacing traditions. C.

26、 Dreaming of launching a crowdfunding campaign. D. Worrying about the disappearance of African oral traditions. 25. The stories AfroTalez provides . A. are narrated by Kperruns husband B. are familiar to todays African children C. are as popular as those of Walt Disneys D. are means to teach childre

27、n moral lessons 26. According to the passage, AfroTalez . A. will destroy African traditions B. is free for Android users C. has released two versions D. faces no financial problems 27. What can be a suitable title for the passage? A. Mobile App seeks to preserve African folktales B. African people

28、pass on traditions by storytelling C. It is unwise for a nation to learn from western countries blindly D. Social media lead to the disappearance of African Oral traditions C When we are kids, we are constantly being compared to others. Our parents may compare us to our siblings (兄弟姐妹). Our teachers

29、 probably compared us to other students. Kids compared us to other kids. Those comparisons created either a sense of humiliation or a sense of pride. Either way, it has become second- nature. Everything wed done has been followed by looking around and seeking validation (确认感). Midway through my psyc

30、hology PhD program at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, I felt that I lacked whatever magical ability is required to finish and publish a project. It seemed as though other graduate students were authoring several papers in the time it took me to complete a single experiment. I worked as hard

31、as I could, but my progress seemed to be incremental (渐进式增加的) compared with theirs. When I shared these concerns with my adviser, she had a different take on the situation. “Youre not doing anything wrong,” she assured me, “youre just pursuing a different kind of research.” Comparing yourself to oth

32、ers is not necessarily a bad thing. When you catch yourself comparing yourself to others, get curious about the feeling that is being triggered (引 起 ). Is it jealousy? Is it obsession? Is it admiration? Is it love? Is it inspiration? Your triggered feelings will give you a clue as to what is going o

33、n within you. Most likely, you are jealous because you wish you had what it takes to achieve what the other has achieved or to have what they have. Get curious and figure out why you still dont have it and what would it take to get there. It is never a good idea to make yourself wrong for comparing

34、yourself to others or to make yourself wrong for not getting where you wish to be. But if all this comparison mounts to is bitter jealousy, then your problem is bigger than a simple comparison. Always bear in mind that your only competition is the one in the mirror andbelieve meit is the toughest co

35、mpetition of all. 28. Which of the following words has the closest meaning to the underlined word “humiliation” in Paragraph 2? A. Virtue. B. Shame. C. Excitement. D. Tiredness. 5 29. What can be concluded from the advisers words in Paragraph 3? A. The author made great progress. B. The author worri

36、ed unnecessarily. C. The author had magical power. D. The author did something wrong. 30. What will uncover your inner thoughts when you compare yourself with others according to the passage? A. Progress made with great effort. B. Clues found through research. C. Comparisons triggered by curiosity.

37、D. Emotions activated by comparisons. 31. What does this passage mainly talk about? A. How to view comparisons in a reasonable way. B. How to seek validation when compared with others. C. How to show second-nature in comparison with others. D. How to get rid of feelings caused by comparisons. D Babi

38、es are surrounded by human language, always listening and processing. Eventually, they put sounds together to produce a “Daddy” or a “Mama”. But what still confuses neuroscientists is exactly how the brain works to put it all together. To figure it out, a team of researchers turned to a frequent sta

39、nd-in (代替) for babies when it comes to language learning: the song-learning zebra finch. “Weve known songbirds learn their song by first forming a memory of their fathers song or another adults song. Then they use that memory to guide their song learning,” said Neuroscientist Todd Roberts. “Its been

40、 a long-term goal of the field to figure out how or where in the brain this memory is. This type of imitative learning that birds do is very similar to the type of learning that we engage in regularlyparticularly when were young, we use it to guide our speech learning.” Roberts and his team had a fe

41、eling that the interface (交叉区域) between sensory areas and motor areas in the brain was critical for this process, and they focused on a group of brain cells called the NIf. “In order to prove that we could identify these circuits, we thought if we could implant a false memory.” First, they used a vi

42、rus to cause the neurons (神经元) in the birds NIf to become sensitive to light. Then, using a tiny electrode as a flashlight, they activated (激活) the neurons. The length of each pulse of light corresponded with the amount of time the neurons would fire. And the birds brains interpreted that time perio

43、d as the length of each note. Soon enough, the birds began to practice the notes they had learned, even though they never really heard the sounds. Amazingly, the birds produced them in the correct social situations. The researchers say this is the first time anybody has found exactly a part of the b

44、rain necessary for generating the sorts of memories needed to copy sounds. “This line of research is going to help us identify where in the brain we encode memories of relevant social experiences that we use to guide learning. We know that there are several neurodevelopmental disorders in people tha

45、t have really far-reaching effects on this type of learning.” 32. The zebra finch is researched because its song-learning mode . A. decides whether it will sing songs B. helps it to say “Daddy” or “Mama” C. is like the way babies learn speech D. reflects its talent for imitating its fathers song 33.

46、 What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. The interface in the brain. B. Guidance from adults. C. Imitative learning type like birds. D. The way of regular learning. 34. What can we learn from the research led by Roberts? A. Scientists activated some neurons by using an electro

47、de. B. A bird only sings what it heard before. C. The brain produces tiny electrodes. D. Birds are sensitive to light. 6 35. What do the Roberts team expect of this line of research? A. A change in our way of listening and processing. B. A chance to have relevant social experiences. C. A better know

48、ledge of the secrets of learning. D. Identification of neurodevelopmental disorders. 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。 There comes a time when every parent struggles with how best to discipline their child. Whether dealing with a screaming child or an angry t

49、een, it can be hard to control your temper. 36 And the bottom line is that shouting and physical violence never help. Thankfully, there are other, more effective ways and one of them is positive discipline. We consulted Lucie Cluver, a professor at Oxford University, to explore how it can help paren

50、ts build positive relationships with their children. 37 Why positive discipline? The evidence is clear: shouting and hitting simply do not work and can do more harm than good in the long run. 38 The “toxic (有毒的) stress” it creates can lead to a host of negative outcomes. “Parents shout or hit their