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2020-2021学年通州区第三中学高三英语二模试题及参考答案

第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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

Top Music Festivals in 2021

Coachella

Selling out fast every year, the Indio desert becomes a fashionable place where the coolest bands are

watched by trendy people and celebrities. Near the top of everyone's bucket list of festivals, Coachella is a

constant source of annual expectation and a hotbed for musical discussion.

When &. where: April 9-11 &. 16-18, 2021; Indio

Ultra Music Festival

Seen as the ultimate gathering for electronic music fans across the nation and globe, the streets of Miami

turn into a and bumping party with popular DJs playing what will be the sounds of summer.

When & where: March 26-28, 2021; Miami

South By South West

Regarded as the ultimate trend-setter and launcher of careers, SXSW is an annual showcase of music, films

and interactive highlights enjoyed through performances, showcases, talks, screenings and more. Virtually taking

over the city of Austin, everyone in the world of music from fans to media flock here to discover the next big thing.

When &, where: March 16-20, 2021; Austin

The Governors Ball Music Festival

Another event which proves the music loving potential of Randall's Island Park is Governors Ball, an exciting

and infectious mix of rock, hip-hop, electronic, pop and folk. Providing a variety of music and food tastes,

whether you look to kick back and relax or dance to the beats, Governors Ball has what you want.

When & where: June 11-14, 2021; New York

music festival lasts the most days?

lla Music Festival.

By South West Governors Ball Music Festival.

is special about Ultra Music Festival?

's held in a park.

features electronic music

's a gathering of popular DJs.

's the most popular in the country.

city could you go if you love both music and movies?

. . York.

B

Even as Google plans to test its fleet (车队) of self-driving cars on public roads this summer, its business

model remains abit of a mystery. By 2025, as many as 250,000 self-driving vehicles could be sold each year globally,

according to a study by an industry research firm.

“Vehicles that can take anyone from A to B at the push of a button could transform mobility for millions of

people,” said Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car project. For now, Google has no plans to sell any of

its self-driving cars. They are strictly for research. But they will hit public roads this summer near Google’s

headquarters inMountain View,California. Previous testing has taken place only on closed courses.

The cars are built to operate without a steering wheel, accelerator (油门) or brake pedal. “Our software and

sensors do all the work,” Urmson said. “The vehicles will be very basic — we want to learn from them and adapt

them as quickly as possible — but they will take you where you want to go at the push of a button.” The prototype

(雏形) is the first of a 100-car fleet the tech giant is building.

In the long run, Urmson sees a future of safer roads — the majority of auto accidents are caused by human

error — and fewer traffic jams. Robotic cars could also shuttle people who can’t drive because of age or illness.

Google has said that self-driving cars could launch new business models in which people buy the use of

vehicles they don’t own. The company has already tested other types of self-driving cars on public streets,

including modified Lexus sport-utility vehicles, under a special permit program by the California Department of

Motor Vehicles that requires a human driver at the controls.

The state has issued six other companies permits to operate such cars, includingDelphi, Mercedes-Benz,

Volkswagen, Tesla, Bosch and Nissan. The vehicles that will be tested on open roads this summer will have

removable steering wheels, accelerators and brake pedals to allow “safety drivers” to take control if needed.

4. According to Chris Urmson, __________.

A. self-driving cars can give driving orders to humans

B. self-driving cars are specially designed for the elderly

C. software and sensors are vital for self-driving cars

D. ordinary vehicles will be replaced by self-driving cars

5. Paragraph 4 is meant to tell us that __________.

A. many traffic accidents are caused by human error

B. some people can’t drive because of illness or age

C. Urmson has promised to create safer roads in the future

D. self-driving cars will probably help to make safer roads and decrease traffic jams

6. The underlined word “issued” in the last paragraph can probably bereplaced by__________.

A. given B. claimed

C. awarded D. prohibited

7. What’s the author’s attitude towards self-driving cars?

A. Objective. B. Indifferent.

C. Subjective. D. Favorable.

C

At the age of 50, Nina Schoen expects to have a long lifeahead of her, but has thought a lot about death—and

why people are so reluctant to talk about it: “It’s going to happen to all of us,” she says, “but it should be a more

positive experience than the fear we put into it.”

When she first heard about a new end-of-life process that turns the body into compost (堆肥), “I was really

moved by the idea,” says Schoen, who became one of the first to reserve a spot with a Seattle-based company

called Recompose, the county’s first funeral home to offer human composting.

Last year Recompose began transforming bodies to soil, more formally known as natural organic reduction.

Before that, end-of-life options in the U.S. were limited to burial or cremation (火化), both of which come with

environmental costs—U.S. cremations alone dump 1.7 billion pounds of carbon dioxide into theatmosphere every

year.

Katrina Spade pioneering the composting movement has spent a decade developing the process in hopes of

offering people a greener option for death care. “I wondered, ‘What if we had a choice that helps the planet

rather than harms it?’” Spade tells PEOPLE. “To know that the last gesture you’ll make will be gentle and beneficial

and it just feels like the right thing to do.”

After she had her own two sons, she began to wonder what she might do with her body after death. A friend

who knew her interest in the topic reminded her that farmers sometimes compost the body of cows, and

thatsparkedan idea for her theory: “If you can compost a cow, you can probably compost a human,” she thought,

and she set about designing a facility to do just that.

“This is about giving people another choice,” Spade says. “At first, people react with shock—‘You really can do

that?’ But so many people today are looking at their impact on the Earth. This is a popular thing because when

you die, you can give back to the planet.”

8. How do people react when it comes to death according to paragraph 1?

A. They are unwilling to comment.

B. They can face it without fear.

C. They feel it a positive experience.

D. They would like to compost their bodies.

9. What can we know about the company Recompose?

A. Its CEO is Katrina Spade.

B. It is located in Seattle.

C. It was founded to resist cremation.

D. It has spent 10 years composting bodies.

10. What does the underlined word “sparked” probably mean?

A. Changed. B. Compromised.

C. Quitted. D. Inspired.

11. What message does the author seem to convey in the text?

A. A little things in our life can bring in big outcomes.

B. We human beings should do all we can to help the earth.

C. Composting is so popular that we should reserve a spot soon.

D. We should reject burial because of its harm to environment.

D

While space travel still gets lot of attention, not enough attention has been paid to the exploration of oceans,

about which we know much less than the dark side of the moon.

Ninety percent of the ocean floor has not even been recorded and while we have been to the moon, the

technology to explore the ocean's floors is still being developed. For example, a permanent partially-underwater

sea exploration station, called the Sea Orbiter, is currently in development.

The oceans play a major role in controlling our climate. But we have not learned yet how to use them to cool

us off rather than contribute to our overheating. Ocean organisms are said to hold the promise of cures for a wide

of the unique eyes of skate (ray fish) led to advances in conquering blindness, the horseshoe crab was important in

developing a test for bacterial pollution, and sea urchins helped in the development of test-tube fertilization(人工

授精). The toadfish's' ability to regenerate its central nervous system is of much interest to neuroscientists. A

recent Japanese study concluded that the drug Eribulin, which was taken from sea sponges, is effective in fighting

with breast, colon, and Urinary cancer.

Given the approaching crisis of water insufficiency, we badly need to improve current methods, of

desalinating(淡化) ocean water and make them more efficient and less costly. By 2025, 1.8 billion people are

expected to suffer from severe water shortage, with that number jumping to 3. 9 billion by 2050-well over a third

of the entire global population.

If the oceansdo not make your heart go beating faster, how about engineering a bacterium that eats carbon

dioxide — and thus helps protect the world from overheating — and produces fuel which will allow us to drive our

cars and machines, without oil? I cannot find any evidence that people young or old, Americans or citizens of

other nations would be less impressed or less inspired with such a breakthrough than with one more set of photos

of a faraway galaxy or a whole Milky Way full of stars.

12. What does the author think about the ocean exploration?

A. It is equal to the space exploration. B. It is well developed.

C. It deserves more attention and devotion. D. It is beyond our knowledge.

13. What technology has been developed to make use of the oceans?

A. Curing human diseases with ocean organisms.

B. Preventing the world getting warmer.

C. Mapping the global ocean floor.

D. Removing salt from sea water.

14. What does the author imply in the last paragraph?

A. The temperature rise will be overcome by a bacterium.

B. Solving the existing problems is more significant.

C. The space exploration is worth the efforts.

D. The ocean exploration is not inspiring.

15. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Oceans, the Last Hope. B. Oceans, the Hidden Treasure.

C. Space, the Final Frontier. D. Space, the Faraway Dream.