广东省汕头市金山中学2021届高三英语下学期第三次模拟考试试题.doc

广东省汕头市金山中学2021届高三英语下学期第三次模拟考试试题

广东省汕头市金山中学2021届高三英语下学期第三次模拟考试试题

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广东省汕头市金山中学2021届高三英语下学期第三次模拟考试试题
第一部分 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
Teacher, Foreign Language (High School)
DoDEA offers teaching opportunities in some of the most amazing and culturally rich places in the world. Come and work for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools!
Salary: US $ 39, 775 –– $ 80, 930 Per School Year
Open Period: 10/3/2020 to 7/31/2021
Department: Department of Defense
Agency: Department of Defense Education Activity
Position Info: Flexible Schedules, Flexible Appointment Types
Who may apply: US Citizens; prior teaching experience is required
Food Inspector
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the US Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation’s commercial supply for meat, poultry(家禽肉) and egg products is safe, wholesome and correctly labeled and packaged.
Salary: US $ 31, 628 –– US $ 50, 932 Per Year
Open Period: 7/18/2020 to 7/17/2021
Department: Department of Agriculture
Agency: Food Safety and Inspection Service
Position Info: Full-time, Permanent
Who may apply: US Citizens; graduates in Food Quality and Safety are preferred
Supervisory Public Health Veterinarian (兽医)
This is an excellent opportunity to seek a greater leadership role and responsibility in public health. If you are a new, mid-career, or experienced professional interested in a Public Health Veterinarian (PHV) career, this job is for you!
Salary: US $ 57, 928 –– 90, 344 Per Year
Open Period: 9/30/2020 to 9/30/2021
Department: Department of Agriculture
Agency: Food Safety and Inspection Service
Position Info: Full-time, Permanent
Who may apply: US Citizens and Nationals; no prior Federal experience is required
Veterinary Medical Officer –– Veterinarian
The National Animal Health Emergency Response Corps (NAHERC) assists in the federal response to domestic (国内) and international animal disease outbreaks, threats, or natural disasters.
Salary: US $ 27.78 –– US $ 36.12 Per Hour
Open Period: 5/9/2020 to 5/1/2021
Department: Department of Agriculture
Agency: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Position Info: Full-time, Permanent
Who may apply: US Citizens and Nationals; no prior Federal experience is required
21. If you apply to be a teacher in DoDEA, you __________.
A. should have a good command of foreign cultures
B. will be able to arrange work time flexibly
C. should work for the Department of Agriculture
D. can send in your application from July 2020 to July 2021
22. Who is most likely to obtain the position of Food Inspector?
A. Roger, who expects to get paid US $ 60,000 a year.
B. Mary, who is a US national and wants a part-time job.
C. Adam, who intends to resign to look for a new job in August 2021.
D. Lucy, who is an American and majored in Food Quality and Safety.
23. From the passage, we can know that______________.
A. As a Food Inspector, you merely need to ensure your food is safe.
B. Department of Agriculture looks for professionals passionate for a PHV career.
C. DoDEA welcomes US citizens and nationals with no prior teaching experience.
D. NAHERC independently researches domestic animal disease outbreak, threats, or natural disasters.
B
I’m a standup comic. One day, a woman from The Daily News called and said she wanted to do an article on me. When she had finished interviewing me for the article, she asked, “What are you planning to do next?” Well, at the time, there was absolutely nothing I was planning on doing next, so I asked her what she meant, pausing for a moment. She told me she was interested in me!
So I thought I’d better tell her something. What came out was, “I’m thinking about breaking the Guinness Book of World Records for Fastest-Talking Female.”
The newspaper article came out the next day, and the writer had included my parting remarks about trying to break the world’s Fastest-Talking Female record. At about 5: 00 p.m. that afternoon I got a call from Larry King Live, which I had never heard of, asking me to go on the show. They wanted me to try to break the record, and they told me they would pick me up at 8: 00—because they wanted me to do it that night!
Then I sat down to figure out what on earth I was going to do on the show. I called Guinness to find out how to break a fast-talking record. They told me I would have to recite something either Shakespeare or the Bible. Shakespeare and I had never really gotten along, so 1 figured the Bible was my only hope. I began practicing and practicing, over and over again. I was both nervous and excited at the same time.
Then I decided just to give it my best shot, and I did. I broke the record, becoming the World’s
Fastest-talking Female by speaking 585 words in one minute in front of a national television audience. I broke it again two years later, with 603 words in a minute. My career took off.
People often ask me how I did that. I tell them I live my life by this simple philosophy: I always say yes first; then I ask, “Now, what do I have to do to accomplish that?” Then I ask myself, “What is the worst thing that can happen if I don’t succeed?” The answer is, I simply don’t succeed! And what’s the best thing that can happen? I succeed!
What more can life ask of you? Be yourself, and have a good time!
24. Why did the author pause before telling her next plan?
A. She took little interest in the topic. B. She refused to share it with others.
C. She didn’t have any plan in her mind. D. She needed time to think over the plan.
25. What happened to the author after the newspaper article came out?
A. She was persuaded to set a Guinness record.
B. She was invited to give comic performances.
C. She succeeded in making a fortune overnight.
D. She finally agreed to make her parting remarks.
26. Which can indicate the author’s career took off?
A. She could recite the Bible. B. She received an interview.
C. She broke the record twice. D. She developed her philosophy.
27. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Do nothing by halves B. Practice for perfection
C. Just say yes to yourself D. Always hope for the best
C
For top students from low-income families, the challenge of applying to colleges is particularly difficult. 1 in 4 deal with all of that—the writing, the studying, the researching and applying—completely on their own. One approach to make this whole process easier? Pair students up with an adviser.
That’s the idea behind CollegePoint, an initiative (举措) to help gifted students go to schools that match their intellectual(智力的) ability. When a high school student takes a standardized test—the PSAT, SAT or ACT—and they score in the 90th percentile, and their families make less than $80, 000 a year, they get an email from the program offering them a free adviser. The advisers listen, guide and answer students’ questions.
Connor Rechtzigel, an adviser in Minnesota, sees the importance of his role, for research shows that low-income students are far more likely to undermatch because they don’t think they have what it takes to get in and because many don’t even know what schools are out there. He helped high school senior Justice Benjamin, the first in his family to apply to college, think about what his ideal learning experience was. Finally, Justice narrowed in on smaller schools where he could study environmental science and made his final choice: Skidmore College in New York. He felt empowered by the process.
Figuring out how to pay for college is a major part of what CollegePoint advisers do. Nakhle, an adviser in North Carolina, is working with Hensley, an Ohio high school senior who can’t get extra financial help from her family. They spent a lot of time comparing and analyzing her financial-aid award letters, which made her decision much clearer. Finally, the Ohio State University offered an option where she would pay nothing. Staying in-state wasn’t her first choice, but it was the best option for her.
28. What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A. How CollegePoint works.  B. The goal of CollegePoint.
C. Ways to apply for a free adviser.  D. The challenge of choosing colleges.
29. What prevents low-income students from attending proper colleges?
A. Overestimating their abilities.  B. Knowing little about colleges.
C. Lack of enough learning experience.  D. Failure to get support from their families.
30. Why did Hensley finally choose the Ohio State University?
A. She didn’t want to stay far from home. B. Her favorite major was provided there.
C. She would show her talents to the full. D. The university met her financial needs.
31. What is the best title for the text?
A. How to Be a Financial Adviser
B. Steps for Top Students to Select Ideal Colleges
C. Advisers Help Poor Students Apply to Suitable Colleges
D. CollegePoint—a Program Helping Students Score High
D
A living robot has been created out of frog skin cells. Xenobots, named after the frog species Xenopus laevis (非洲爪蝴) that the cells come from, were first described last year. Now the team behind the robots has improved their design and demonstrated new capabilities.
To create the xenobots, Michael Levin at Tufts University in Massachusetts and his colleagues obtained tissue from 24-hour-old frog embryos (胚胎) after very small physical operation. Where the previous version relied on the contraction (收缩) of heart muscle cells to move them forward by pushing off surfaces, these new xenobots swim around faster. They also live between three and seven days longer than their previous generation, which only lasted about seven days, and have the ability to sense their surroundings to some extent, turning red when exposed to blue light.
The fundamental finding here is that when you free skin cells from their normal context, and you give them a chance to build other things than what they normally build,” says Levin. “To me, one of the most exciting things here is that they are plastic. This idea that even normal cells, not genetically modified (更改), are in fact capable of building something completely different.”
Because they are created from cells, the xenobots eventually break apart and are totally biodegradable (能降解的), says team member Douglas Blackiston, also at Tufts University. He therefore hopes that they can be used for biomedical and environmental applications.
Previous attempts at creating living robots, such as a wirelessly controlled cockroach, have involved dealing with live animals, raising ethical (伦理的) concerns. Xenobots differ from these because they are made entirely of living cells. “The approach here is maybe ethically the least problematic because everything starts with cells. They have no neurons (神经元)，so it’s not an animal,” says Auke ljspeert at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, who wasn’t involved in the research. “It’s really cells, so I find it maybe the cleanest way.”
32. How were the new xenobots created?
A. By making use of frog embryos. B. By relying on heart muscle cells.
C. By sensing similar surroundings. D. By exposing them to blue light.
33. Which has the similar meaning to the underlined word “plastic” in Paragraph 3?
A. fragile. B. valuable. C. flexible. D. active.
34. What can be inferred from Douglas Blackiston’s words?
A. The xenobots can’t break down easily.
B. The xenobots need to be further perfected.
C. The xenobots can be applied in other fields.
D. The xenobots have already been widely used.
35. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. The new approach starts with some neurons.
B. Xenobots have raised least ethical concerns.
C. The wireless controlled cockroach is a failure.
D. Previous living robots involve few living animals.

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。
Will Covid-19 Kill the Handshake?
The handshake might date back to the 14th century, when knights (骑士) and soldiers would extend their unclenched(松开的) right hands toward each other in greeting to show that they were carrying no weapons.
36________ Or rather, its tendency for picking up and holding onto germs (细菌) from polluted surfaces, or from our own eyes or noses when we have certain illnesses. Those germs can then be transferred into the hands of the people we greet, while we can pick up their germs. We then will probably touch our own eyes or noses or mouths, potentially sickening ourselves and restarting the cycle.
Now that a novel coronavirus is spreading fast, our hands are being cast in a new, doubtful light. 37________ And lately, the Internet has been full of suggestions for socially acceptable ways to greet each other that don’t involve passing germs along unintentionally from one person to the next.
38________ In fact, the tradition of shaking hands isn’t the only greeting to take a fresh look. A Maori tribe in New Zealand put the brakes on hongi, the traditional nose-to-nose hello. 39________ Maybe people will stop making fun of the Hollywood air kiss, though it’s not a huge improvement health-wise.
COVID-19 is a real threat, and we shouldn’t take the warning lightly. We may, indeed, need to keep our hands to ourselves for the time being. But we’re not ready to send handshake into the dustbin of history. Humans long for making a physical connection with friends. For now, perhaps, a regretful smile and nod might work as a shared acknowledgment. 40________
A. Could we hug each other or nod?
B. Could this be the end of the handshake?
C. As we all know, shaking hands has become a habit.
D. After all, our friendly intentions were not to infect or be infected by others.
E. These days, it would seem, the potential weapon isn’t a knife, but the hand itself.
F. We’re being drilled in handwashing techniques as if we were all second-graders.
G. The French have been advised to abandon the familiar kiss on the cheek greeting.

第二部分 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和D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My parents went bankrupt (破产) when I was seven years old. I went from a kid who got everything he asked for to one 41________ having nowhere to stay. This change was as 42________ for my parents as it was for me. But I wasn’t used to hearing “no” so I 43________ asking.
When asked what I wanted for my birthday, I said I wanted a video gaming system. I didn’t know it was 44________. All I knew was that my friends 45________ them and that I wanted one too.
On my birthday, I 46________ started opening my present, believing I would get what I 47________. But I didn’t. My mom could tell my 48________ and she started crying. I gave her a 49________ that was bigger than ever. Her tears 50________ me that she was working so hard and that she couldn’t 51_______ to give me anything I didn’t need.