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Module 4?Great Scientists

2021-07-29

时代英语·高一 2021年3期
关键词:秒钟小题短文

满分150分,时间120分钟。

第一部分 听力(共两节,满分30分)

第一节 (共5小題;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 gave Lucy the cell phone?

A. Her mother. B. Her father. C. Her brother.

2. Where will the woman go first?

A. To the school. B. To the post office.

C. To a friends house.

3. What is John thinking about?

A. A lesson. B. A book. C. An exam.

4. Who is a nurse?

A. Mary. B. Mr Wilson. C. Marys mother.

5. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In an office. B. At a hospital. C. At the womans home.

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,每小题将给出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至7题。

6. Why doesnt the girl go to the movie?

A. She has to review her lessons.

B. She has seen the movie before.

C. She doesnt want to go with the boy.

7. What does the boy think about the girl?

A. She never studies hard. B. She studies very well.

C. She wont pass the exam.

听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。

8. What is Mikes wife?

A. A nurse. B. An artist. C. A teacher.

9. What will the speakers do on Saturday?

A. Go to a friends house. B. Go to the theater.

C. Go shopping.

10. What does Mike want the man and woman to do?

A. See a film with him.

B. Buy tickets for him and his wife.

C. Go to his parents house for dinner.

听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。

11. What is the man most probably?

A. A manager. B. A bus driver. C. A policeman.

12. What is in the womans handbag beside some money?

A. An ID card. B. A postcard. C. An IC card.

13. Who took the womans bag back?

A. A taxi passenger. B. A taxi driver.

C. A taxi cleaner.

听第9段材料,回答第14至16题。

14. Where is Janes house?

A. Next to Larrys. B. Near the post office.

C. Across the street.

15. Who is Larry?

A. Janes new neighbor. B. A postman.

C. Janes boyfriend.

16. When did Larry move in?

A. Two days ago. B. Twelve days ago.

C. Twenty days ago.

听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。

17. How many Americans are now studying in colleges and universities?

A. 7,000,000. B. 1,700,000. C. 700,000.

18. What do American college students today have strong opinions about?

A. What is good and bad. B. What is old and new.

C. What is right and wrong.

19. What does the speaker think of the Americans under 25?

A. They will be the backbone of the country.

B. They want to live an easy life.

C. They are hard to deal with.

20. What is the young Americans attitude towards their parents

lives?

A. Unconcerned. B. Positive.

C. Negative.

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分)

第一节 阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)

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A. Undergraduate students. B. Primary school students.

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A. Get some credits. B. Visit famous artists.

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D. Read as many books as possible.

B

Sudha Chandran, a classical dancer from India, had to have her right leg cut after a car accident. She was also cut off on her bright career road.

However, she didnt stop struggling. In the painful three months that followed, Sudha met a doctor who had an operation on her leg. So strongly she wanted to go back to dancing after she had been fitted with a man-made leg. Sudha knew that she believed in herself and could realize her dream, so she began her brave journey back to the world of dancing—learning to balance, bend, stretch, walk, and turn.

After every public recital (個人表演), she would ask her dad about her performance. “You still have a long way to go” was the answer she used to get in return. In January 1984, Sudha gained popularity again by giving a public recital in Bombay. She performed in such a great manner that it moved everyone to tears and this performance pushed her to the number one position again. That evening when she asked her dad the same question, he didnt say anything. He just touched her feet as a praise.

Sudhas comeback was so touching that a film producer decided to make the story into a film, which has moved more and more people.

When someone asked Sudha how she had managed to dance again, she said quite simply, “YOU DONT NEED FEET TO DANCE. Nothing is impossible in this world. If you have the will to win, you can achieve anything.”

24. What can we learn about Sudha Chandran from Paragraph 1?

A. She lost her job because of her leg.

B. She used to be well-known in India.

C. She got her legs injured while dancing.

D. She had a traffic accident on a highway.

25. How did Sudhas father react to her performance at first?

A. He thought highly of it.

B. He worried about her feet.

C. He didnt care about it at all.

D. He simply encouraged her to do better.

26. Sudhas performance in Bombay ___ .

A. was based on a hit film

B. turned out to be a great success

C. was supported by a film producer

D. attracted a small number of audience

27. What does the story tell us?

A. He who smiles last smiles best.

B. Failure is the mother of success.

C. Where there is a will, there is a way.

D. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

C

Sue Hendrickson is a self-taught fossil (化石) hunter. As a kid, Sue Hendrickson often walked with her head down. “People said, Look up. Smile!” she says. “Now, I realize I was born to look for things and just didnt know it.”

Sue Hendrickson does more than look—she finds valuable things: Shipwrecks (沉船) with treasure, ancient sunken cities, and in 1990, she found Sue, the worlds largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex (霸王龍).

“I limit the area where Im going to look,” she says. No one knew the location of the sunken ship San Diego in the Philippines. For a year, Hendrickson and other researchers searched papers and sailors diaries. “The descriptions of the ships sailors led us to the wreck,” she says. The team also used a tool that can respond to metal. This tool found the San Diego. All the work paid off. The 400-year-old ship was complete, with valuable gold and silver coins.

To find the dinosaur she calls “the biggest animal that ever walked on Earth”, Hendrickson started with maps made to search for oil. What Hendrickson found was the largest and most complete T-rex found to date. The T-rex is 42 feet long with 200 bones! Because it is so complete, scientists were able to infer that Sue walked at about 6 miles per hour and did not run faster than 15 miles an hour. Before Sue was discovered, they thought T-rex was much faster. To learn more about T-rex Sue, go to the Field Museum in Chicago.

Theres plenty left to be found, Hendrickson says, including answers to mysterious questions such as how T-rex lived. “I tell kids that they need to grow up and work them out because all of us old persons havent yet!”

28. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A. An ancient city. B. Hendricksons hobby.

C. The worlds largest T-rex. D. Hendricksons findings.

29. How did Hendrickson find the sunken ship San Diego?

A. With a self-made tool. B. By starting with research.

C. With the help of oil maps. D. By following sailors lead.

30. What can we learn about T-rex Sue?

A. It helped scientists learn new things about T-rex.

B. It let people know how T-rex lived.

C. It ran faster than any other T-rexes.

D. It was the biggest dinosaur.

31. What does Hendrickson advise kids to do?

A. Find more details. B. Learn to explore mysteries.

C. Visit the Field Museum. D. Respect scientific research.

D

When humans make friends, we often choose companions who share similar characteristics to us or enjoy participating in the same activities that we enjoy. Interestingly, it turns out that dolphins may not be so different, according to a study which found that the animals form strong social ties with those who have similar interests. In some ways, this may not be surprising, if we know dolphins live in groups characterized by complex social activities. However, the latest findings are yet another powerful example of the intelligence that these creatures possess.

For the study, an international team of scientists studied a unique group of bottlenose dolphins, who live in the World Heritage area of Shark Bay, Western Australia. They are particularly interesting because the females are known to use sea sponges (海绵) as foraging (觅食) tools, a behavior that hasnt been perceived anywhere else. The behavior known as “sponging”, helps the dolphins to find food in deeper waters and is socially learned, being passed down from mother to baby.

Previous studies have shown that females in this group who use sea sponges to find food often like to hang out with other females who do the same. However, studies of this behavior in males are lacking, leaving a gap (空白) in our knowledge. To try and address this gap, the researchers collected data on 124 male dolphins in Shark Bay over a 9-year period between 2007 and 2015. Among these dolphins, some had the sponging behavior, while others did not. After analyzing their data, the team came to the conclusion that those males who used sponges for foraging associated significantly more often with other “spongers”, no matter how related they were to their companions. Interestingly, male spongers spent significantly more time foraging and less time resting than non-spongers.

According to the lead author of the study, Manuela Bizzozzero, the findings cast new light on the social ties between male dolphins at Shark Bay.

32. What can we learn about dolphins according to Paragraph 1?

A. They are humans good friends.

B. They make friends like humans.

C. They can understand humans emotions.

D. They confuse human lifestyles with theirs.

33. What does the underlined word “perceived” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. Influenced. B. Prevented.

C. Observed. D. Accepted.

34. Why does the writer mention previous studies in Paragraph 3?

A. To explain the intention of the latest studies.

B. To present their achievements in dolphin research.

C. To stress that dolphins have the socially learned behavior.

D. To show how female dolphins use sea sponges to find food.

35. What is the finding of the studies on male bottlenose dolphins?

A. Few of them make use of sponges to find food.

B. A large quantity of them mainly feed on sponges.

C. Male spongers enjoy staying with other spongers.

D. Male spongers rest more often than non-spongers.

第二節 阅读七选五(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)

When you start high school, you need to make some new friends because your old friends may be away from you now. Its not easy to make new friends, but its important to make new friends. Good friends help you to be happier.        36        Here are some tips to help you make new friends at high school.

Be confident after you enter high school. People like making friends with those who are confident.        37        Smile and ask them their name, if theyve seen a new movie, or if they like a sport or activity. Sit in the middle of the classroom so that a lot of people will sit around you.

38        Dont change who you are to fit in or please other people. Many people can know it if you arent being yourself—dont try too hard to fit in. There isnt another person like you, so remember that and accept the fact that youre special.

Enjoy your new friends. Do something small but nice for them.

39        If you can, try and meet up with your friends outside of school and really get to know them. Enjoy yourself and enjoy being with your friends.

Be a good friend. Being good friends is about trusting each other and caring for each other. Its about give-and-take.        40

Try to understand your friends points of view. Think about their feelings. If youre a good friend to others, youll enjoy friendships that can last long.

A. Dont be afraid of others.

B. Everyone needs new friends.

C. They can help you do better at school.

D. Pick up your courage and talk to someone.

E. Be yourself when youre talking with others.

F. Be there for your friends when youre needed.

G. For example, you can save a seat for your friend.

36.               37.               38.               39.               40.

第三部分 語言知识运用(共两节,满分45分)

第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr Gibbs. He didnt look like any doctors Id ever known. When Dr Gibbs wasnt  lives, he was planting trees. His house was very big, and his lifes  was to make it a forest.

The good doctor came from “No pains, no gains” school of gardening. He had some interesting  about plant management. He  watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled (宠坏) them, and that if you  them, they would grow . So you had to make things  for them and got rid of the weak trees .

He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that werent watered had to grow deep roots in  of water. He planted an oak and,  watering it every morning, he would  it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the trees .

Dr Gibbs  away a couple of years after I left home. But the trees he planted are  now.

I planted some trees a few  ago, and I carried water to them for a whole summer, and prayed (祈禱) over them. A few years of careful care has  in trees that grow weaker and weaker. Whenever a cold wind blows, they .

So Im  my view to life, because life is hard. Too many times we want to live a comfortable life. In fact, what we need to do is to pray for  that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we wont be  away.

41. A. losing B. enjoying C. saving D. killing

42. A. goal B. career C. time D. money

43. A. activities B. ideas C. instructions D. texts

44. A. always B. sometimes C. never D. often

45. A. watched B. spoiled C. planted D. watered

46. A. taller B. weaker C. interesting D. faster

47. A. hard B. comfortable C. easy D. different

48. A. deeply B. widely C. early D. immediately

49. A. honor B. case C. face D. search

50. A. instead of B. because of C. as a result of D. except for

51. A. treat B. destroy C. cover D. beat

52. A. recognition B. attention C. spirit D. judgement

53. A. broke B. passed C. got D. went

54. A. straight B. impressive C. strong D. similar

55. A. years B. months C. weeks D. days

56. A. experienced B. led C. brought D. resulted

57. A. react B. die C. shake D. escape

58. A. experimenting B. changing C. keeping D. exploring

59. A. roots B. bodies C. branches D. feet

60. A. turned B. given C. sent D. swept

第二节 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)

At each stage of our life, we meet different kinds of people. Some teach us lessons in life while others occupy a special space in our heart. The people  (call) “best friends” are just these special friends.

In our childhood, “best friends” might have meant the persons who are always by our side,  it may be in the classroom or in the dining hall. However, as we are getting  (old) than before, our definition (定义) of “best friends” changes. In my opinion, best friends are those who love you  who you are and help you become who you should be.

True friends are those who will never leave you when you need them most. They are always there  (wait) for you and they love you when you forget to love  (you). The best feeling in the whole world is knowing that there is  person who always prays for us and always keeps us in their thoughts. Friendship may not  (necessary) be based on age, but it is based on  (understand). Even our parents can be our best friends!So let us build our friendship and try our best  (see) the good side of everyone!

61.                              62.                              63.

64.                              65.                              66.

67.                              68.                              69.

70.

第四部分 写作(共两节,满分35分)

第一节 短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

Lin Qiaozhi, the specialist in womens diseases, lived 1901 to 1983. She devoted her whole life to help women of China, especially that in the countryside. To cut the death rate of having and caring for baby in the country, she gave some simple rules in her book. Following the rules, women can keep their babies being clean, healthy, but free from sickness. She was so busy with her career that about 50,000 babies are safely delivered by her. Devoted to her patients, she chose not to have a family of her own and often worked lately at night to deliver a baby for a poor family after a days tired work.

第二節 书面表达(满分25分)

科技推动社会发展,改变人们的生活。请以“How to Become a Scientist?”为题,写一篇英文短文,内容包括:

1﹒学习方面;

2﹒兴趣与独立思考;

3﹒意志方面。

注意:

1﹒词数100左右;

2﹒可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

How to Become a Scientist?

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