辽宁省大连市普兰店市第三十八中学2021届高三第一学期开学考试英语试卷

英语试卷

总分：120分时间：100分钟

第一部分阅读理解（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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．

A

A new mom from Michigan headed for the airport Thursday, nervous about flying alone with her 3-month-old. When her daughter started crying even before take-off, her fears for the flight ― to surprise her husband, a US Army soldier at Fort Rucker, Alabama ― seemed acceptable. The couple seated next to her reacted just as Rebekka Garvison had feared, looking visibly unhappy about sitting next to a fussy (难以取悦的) baby. Ms. Garvison moved to a new seat, hoping it would help. When the baby’s cries continued, the woman sitting next to her asked if she could try.

Garvison later described in a grateful Facebook post how the woman, Nyfesha Miller, had the magic touch with her baby. "As soon as she had her, Rylee was looking out the window and stopped crying," Garvison recalled. "When we got in the air she fell right asleep and slept in her lap the whole flight until we got to our gate." Garvison told The Huffington Post she has been in touch with Ms. Miller almost daily since the flight.

Garvison’s post has been shared more than 84,000 times, and received hundreds of warm comments. "Years ago, the same kind of thing happened to me," wrote one mother. "It was a seven-hour flight and I had my ten-month-old little boy with me. A nun (修女) was sitting beside me and she walked him up and down the passage when he got fussy. It was such a relief for me and is something I will never forget."

Not everyone has had happy experiences with baby air travelers. One airline is considering opening a "baby class" for airplanes with flight attendant nannies (保姆), reported The Christian Science Monitor’s Meredith Hamilton. For now, parents can hope to be seated beside someone like Ms. Miller on their next flight. "Nyfesha Miller, you will never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family," wrote Garvison.

21.Why did Garvison move to a new seat?

A.She could have a better view.

B.Her baby wanted to change seats.

C.To turn to Nyfesha Miller for help.

D.Her crying baby annoyed the couple beside her.

22.Which words can be used to describe Miller?

A.Generous and calm.

B.Modest and elegant.

C.Caring and friendly.

D.Skilled and proud.

23.Why did the author use another example?

A.To express how common the problem is.

B.To call on more strangers to act.

C.To prove Garvison’s story popular.

D.To share experiences with new moms.

B

It’s 4:35 p.m. You feel like the bottom of a marathoner’s shoe, flat and sore.It’s been a day of fighting anxiety, racing to meetings, staying awake, endless work, and trying to get things done.

You are so upset and disappointed about your whole day’s productivity. It causes you unwilling to stay for one more minute at the office. But how to improve your productivity of your entire work on the end of the day?

The biggest step in this end-of-day process is to respond to as many emails as possible in thirty minutes of time. The majority of emails hit your inbox during workday hours. By responding to 80% of these or so, you can effectively reduce tomorrow’s workload. This is one of the biggest gains you can make towards your productivity. If you can get this done before tomorrow begins, you’ll be ahead of the game.

If you use your computer or mobile phone for scheduling your day or taking notes, you’ll want to keep them on. But please close whatever programs that are allowing email or chat messages to ruin your end-of-the-day productivity. Before turning off your computer, you should also exit your Internet browser, and close the web pages you had opened. If you start your new day by seeing those articles you were reading, you are starting in the wrong frame of mind. Each day deserves a fresh start.

It's important to plan your day before it starts. Write down everything that’s on your mind that you need to do. A day that starts without a plan is like an engine that needs to warm up before it's safe to drive. Perform your planning the day before, because a day planned in advance allows you to jump in fully prepared, fully planned, and fully ready to get stuff done.

Your office space is known as an “environmental factor”. So it is important to have a cleaner. As Inc. com reported, dirty office can actually ruin your job performance. Then tiding up your office, you will become more productive. It’s just that simple. By doing so, you feel good with a peaceful state of mind, a sense of refreshment and energy, which will be enough for the following day.

24. Which sentence has the closest meaning with the underlined sentence in paragraph 1?

A. Your feet hurt.

B. You feel tired out.

C. Your shoes are worn out.

D. You need a pair of marathoner’s shoes.

25. How to deal with the emails in your inbox according to the passage?

A. Respond to 80% of the emails on weekends.

B. Respond to all of the emails during your workdays.

C. Respond to 80% of the emails before you finish your whole day’s work.

D. Respond to 80% of the emails at the beginning of your whole day’s work.

26. What might be the author’s favorite way of starting a new day?

A. Reading a favorite book.

B. Making a plan for the day.

dC. Cleaning up the workplace. D. Doing a new task planned the day before.

27. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. How to improve your productivity.

B. How to start a new working day.

C. How to make full use of your working day.

D. How to become more productive on the end of the day.

C

Fifteen-year-old David had spent six months planning a hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with his classmates. No one could have known it would end in tragedy.

When the group arrived at the starting point for the hike, they found out there was a problem with their permit. To solve it, the five boys and three leaders walked back up to the ranger station 一

only to find out it was closed.

When the boys got moving, th ey’d already drunk most of their water. In the burning sun, temperatures reached a 115°F. Even the leaders were having trouble walking on. But the group finally made it down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Heat evil was occurring. “My son made it about 100 yards from the river and then dropped,” says his father, Robin. Two boys of them raced to the river to get him water.

When the boys arrived, the last rafting trip of the day was passing by. As luck would have it, among the waiting riders were a few doctors. They rushed to give David first aid before going for help. But it was too late. David passed away from the heat evil.

It’s been 21 years since the boy’s death, and hiking still holds a strong memory of David for his family. The summer before the tragedy, his father had a long time to devote to his family. David and his dad spent the summer hiking all over the High Uintas, where snow-topped peaks reflect tower over glacier formed lakes.

The photo Robin took of Christmas Meadows there won the Reader’s Digest “From Sea to Shining Sea” photo contest and appeared on the July 2017 magazine cover. To Robin, it isn’t just a fascinating landscape--it’s also a powerful reminder of his late son.

28. How many people does David’s group consist of?

A.11

B.10

C.9

D.8

29. What does “Even the leaders were having trouble walking on.” in Paragraph 3 suggest?

A. The leaders were taller and older.

B. The leaders covered shorter distance.

C. The leaders were healthier and stronger.

D. The trouble the group faced was so great as to be beyond expectation.

30. Where did Robin take the photo which won the Reader’s Digest “From Sea to Shining Sea” photo

contest?

A. On the High Uintas.

B. Where David had been to.

C. In the Grand Canyon.

D. In the Christmas Meadows.

31. What does the passage intend to tell us mainly?

A. Take enough water with you when hiking.

B. Don’t hike to the Grand Canyon in too hot weather.

C. Robin still misses his late son, David.

D. Doctors can’t necessarily succeed in saving every patient.

D

Engineers have launched a huge garbage collection device to gather plastics floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The plastic makes up what is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is the world’s largest spread of garbage, twice the size of the state of Texas.

The Organization Ocean Cleanup created the collection device. The group’s founder is Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old inventor from the Netherlands. When Slat was 16, he went diving in Mediterranean Sea and saw more plastic bags than fish. Since then, he has made up his mind to

clean up the oceans.

He told the Associated Press that researchers with his organization have found plastic from the 1960s and 1970s among the material in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It contains an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in total. Most of them float on the surface of the water, or are within a few meters of the surface.

Last Saturday, a ship pulling the pipe-shaped floating barrier left San Francisco for the Garbage Patch. The barrier, called the floater, is 600 meters across. Attached to it is a screen that hangs three meters down in the water. The screen is designed to collect the plastic as it moves through the water. Sea animals can safely swim under the barrier. The cleanup system also comes with lights powered by the sun, cameras, and other special devices. Slat said this enabled the system to communicate its position at all times.

Shipping containers will hold all the plastic gathered, including bottles and fishing equipment. Slat said the containers were expected to be back on land within a year. Then the plastic will be recycled. And they will also study how the system performs in severe ocean conditions, including huge waves.

32. How did Boyan Slat react to that dive in the Mediterranean Sea?

A. He showed a great interest in diving.

B. He became worried about his safety.

C. He decided to remove the garbage in oceans.

D. He became curious about underwater creatures.

33. What has the organization Ocean Cleanup found about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

A. Most of its plastic is half a century old.

B. It covers almost the size of the state of Texas.

C. Altogether there are about 1.8 billion pieces of plastic.

D. The majority of its plastic floats on or near the surface.

34. Why was a screen attached to the ship?

A. To power lights in the ship.

B. To protect sea animals near it.

C. To tell the position of the ship.

D. To collect plastic along the way.

35. What is the text mainly about?

A. Approaches to removing garbage in oceans.

B. The problem of garbage in the Pacific Ocean.

C. A young man who does well in classifying garbage.

D. A huge device made to clean garbage in oceans.

第二节（共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）

阅读下列短文，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中两项为多余选项。

How to Become a Top Student

Successful students use different techniques to study, which brings them more success. 36 Here are the four techniques almost all topperforming students use.

They are regul ar. Almost all successful students study regularly, because they know “what you give is what you get”. If you put in regular hours of studying, then you will learn more and get better grades. 37This will help you to study regularly.

They have clear goals. All topperforming students have definite, specific goals. 38 They motivate you and drive you to study more. But make sure that you do not get carried away. Set realistic goals which can challenge you, but do not seem impossible or too difficult to achieve. They study without pressure . Successful students study a lot. But they study without putting strain on themselves. Most students make the mistake of studying too hard or studying continuously for a long time. 39Studying should be done in a balanced manner. Take a break for a few minutes, after studying for 30 or 45 minutes. Relax, walk around your room or house, or drink some water and return to studying. Such short breaks will refresh your brain and you will learn more.

40Studying is not something you do just because your parents ask you to do it. It's actually very important for you. Studying gives you knowledge and skills that will remain with you for the rest of your life. It gives you the ability to get a job and earn money. And successful students recognize the value of studying well.

A. This creates tension and actually slows down learning and memory.

B. But to score grade A in English, you should make wellplanned efforts.

C. Set aside some hours, each day or each week, for studying.

D. Having such goals gives you a purpose to study better.

E. Learn their techniques, and you will also join their rank.

F. They finish their homework on time.

G. They give importance to study.

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

If you have strong arms and feet, patience and a good temper, you might make a good waiter. You must start, 41 , not in the restaurant, but in the kitchen, helping the chef, to learn

how each dish is 42 .

From this first step, you may enter the restaurant as a “commis” (厨助). But you won’t be 43 to serve the customers yet. They will only let you do the bottomed jobs, 44 the tables and carrying the plates. But all the time you must watch and learn with 45 .

Later you may become “chef de rang” (a waiter in charge of a number of tables). You may even become a head waiter 46 , if you have the right sort of personality and you are not 47 of hard work.

When Carlo Bianchi first arrived in London, he spoke only two words of English - “please” and “Hello”. He 48 to get a job helping in the kitchen of a restaurant, and he spent what little spare time he had 49 English. He was a good worker and soon they found him in the restaurant as a waiter.

Every night, Carlo 50 to go home exhausted, but never too 51 to study the language for half an hour before going to sleep. And no matter how tired or ill he felt, he always wore a 52 for his customers. They liked him, and people came and asked to be 53 by Carlo.

Now, twenty-five years later, Carlo is in possession of six restaurants, and he 54 to open a seventh shortly. So friends, in this world success never comes overnight. Start from the 55 and make progress step by step with enough patience and chances will fall upon you.

41.A.otherwise B. therefore C. thus D. however

mented B. tasted C. prepared D. chosen

43.A.forced B. allowed C. banned D. urged

44.A.moving B. laying C. pushing D. lying

45.A.curiosity B. kindness C. patience D. interest

46.A.simply B. specially C. exactly D. eventually

47.A.afraid B. ashamed C. fond D. typical

48.A.managed B. attempted C. predicted D. expected

49.A.learn B. learning C.to learn D. learned

ed B. promised C. regretted D. remembered

51.A.depressed B. excited C. worried D. tired

52.A.smile B. face C. color D. surprise

53.A.served B. approved C. praised D. treated

54.A.hesitates B. schedules C. hurries D. fails

55.A.easiest B. slowest C. simplest D. lowest

第二节（共10个小题，每小题1.5分，共15分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

For the first time in 94 years, the Palace Museum has extended its opening hours, allowing the

public to celebrate the Lantern Festival at night in the ancient palace.

About 3,000 lucky visitors received free tickets from the government, among ___56____ was Zhang Zhifu, a 77-year-old public security volunteer. It’s a mark of gratitude for her volunteer work. “It is ____57_____(true) an honor to be granted this special privilege,” Zhang said.

To guarantee the ____58_____(safe) of the palace, festival organizers ____59______(plan) this year’s Lantern Festival event used LED lights rather than traditional paper lanterns and red candles. It’s a fascinating event for visi tors to absorb ____60_____(they) in the festive atmosphere in the museum. Discussion of the Palace Museum’s new look lit up social media following Tuesday’s display.

Since he became director of the Palace Museum, Shan Jixiang ____61_____(bring) many changes to the world’s _____62______(large) imperial complex. Once in a speech the 64-year-old director shared his idea about how to make traditional _____63______(treasure) come alive again. He said, “____64_____matters to a museum is not how many visitors they have, _____65____how close they are to people’s daily lives.”

第三部分写作（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（满分15分）

假设你是李华, 正在英国交流学习。为了让希望来中国旅游的英国同学更好地了解中国民俗(folk customs)，你希望可以成立一个中国民俗社团。请你用英语给你校学生会负责人Mr. Green写一封信，申请成立该社团。要点如下：

1. 你对该社团的构想（原因、具体措施、可能的好处等）；

2. 希望得到批准。

提示：

1. 词数80左右；

2. 可适当增加细节, 使文章内容充实、连贯。

3. 文章开头结尾已给出, 不计入总词数。

Dear Mr. Green,

I’m Li Hua, an exchange student from China.____________________________________________

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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。

续写词数应为150左右。

The event that stands out in Tom’s memory happened one morning when Tom was only ten years old. He was at home with his elder sister Jane. Tom was doing his homework when he heard raised voices. At first he thought nothing of it since customers in the motorcycle shop directly below their flat often became loud, but he soon realized this time it was different.

"Quick! Quick! Remove the motorcycles from the shop." someone yelled. Then a thick burning smell filled the air. When Tom opened the front door of their flat to investigate, a thick cloud of smoke greeted him. The motorcycle shop had caught fire and people were running and crying.

Jane, who had been playing the violin in her room, hurried to the living room. They rushed out of the door and along the corridor through the smoke.

They were heading towards the stairway at the far end of the corridor when Jane stopped in

her track. She turned around and headed back the way they came. Tom had no idea what she was doing, but he followed her.

Jane had suddenly remembered the lady in her 70s who lived next door to them, who they called Makcik, Malay for auntie. Jane began banging on Makcik’s door, but got no answer. As the smoke thickened around them, Tom could see many of their neighbors—some still in their pyjamas (睡衣;宽长裤) —running for safety. The thought of fear crossed his mind.

"She might have run for safety like everyone else!" Tom cried. However, Jane refused to give up. "I know Makcik’s still inside." She said she was familiar with Makcik’s daily routine and was certain she would still be sleeping. She pounded the door. "Go downstairs. Go now! Go!"

Paragraph 1 ：

Tom noticed the flame was reaching

up.________________________________________________

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Paragraph 2：

Luckily, some neighbors passing by stopped and offered

help.____________________________

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答案

阅读理解:21-23..D; .C; .C;

24-27. BCDD 28-31. DDAC 32-35 CDDD

36-40 ECDAG

完形填空：41-55.DCBBC 46-50.DAABA 51-55.DAABD

语法填空：56. whom 57. truly 58. safety 59. planning 60. themselves

61. has brought 62. largest 63. treasures 64.What 65. but

Dear Mr. Green,

I’m Li Hua, an exchange student from China. With more people visiting China, I’m writing to ask for your permission to launch a Chinse folk custom club, hoping to help my English classmates learn more about Chinese folk customs and make their trip to China a pleasant one.

As the founder of the club, I plan to hold a series of activities related to Chinese folk traditions every week, for example, learning about Chinese folk culture online and sharing information at the club meetings. If possible, we’ll invite some visiting Chinese folk artists to give us relevant speeches or show talents on stage. I’m sure that the club will greatly benefit every member.

Looking forward to your early approval.

Yours sincerely,

LiHua

Paragraph 1:

Tom noticed the flame was reaching up. Frozen with fear, he stood rooted to the spot. He comprehended the gravity of the situation and held Jane’s hand tightly. By then, both of them were coughing and their eyes were stinging. Time seemed to stand still, though they were probably there for only two or three minutes. Tom begged Jane to run for safety as quickly as possible. Jane tried to shield her nose from the choking smoke and shook her head. She kept pounding against the door. Tom burst out crying.

Paragraph 2:

Luckily, some neighbors passing by stopped and offered help. A sense of strength immediately replaced the mounting fear and anxiety in Jane’s mind. She told them Ms. Makcik must be still in the room. They forced the door open with all their might. Sure enough, Makcik was lying in bed,

unconscious. She was carried downstairs and then rushed to the hospital, where she finally came to herself. People in the neighborhood felt relieved and Jane and Tom’s joy was immense.

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