1、 2021 届高三八省联考英语预测模拟卷届高三八省联考英语预测模拟卷 B 卷卷 本试卷满分120分，考试时间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） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。 A This famous site features one of the largest and most representative collections of Buddhist architecture and art in China. It was rated as a 5
2、A-class tourist attraction in 2010. The Lingshan Grand Buddha is an 88-meter-high open-air bronze statue of Sakyamuni. It is 17 meters higher than the Grand Buddha at Leshan Mountain. It is part of the pattern of Five Buddhas in five directions together with the Big Buddha at Lantau Island in Hong K
3、ong to the south, the Grand Buddha at Leshan Mountain to the west, the Grand Buddha in Yungang Caves to the north and the Grand Buddha at the Longmen Caves in the central area. At the feet of the Grand Buddha, you can feel the loftiness(雄伟) and dignity of Buddhism. Tips: Location: Lingshan Road, Mas
4、han town, Binhu district, Wuxi Tickets: Through ticket: 210 yuan ($31.85), and free tickets for the performance of Ode to Auspiciousness for individual visitors Opening hours for Lingshan Mountain: 7:00-17:00 Opening hours for Brahma Palace: 9:00-18:00 Recommendations: The Nine-Dragon Fountain The N
5、ine-Dragon Fountain in front of the giant Buddha will start to play music and the song, The Birth of Buddha, at 10 am every day. A huge lotus(莲花) slowly blooms with six petals, and a 7-meter golden statue of Prince Buddha rises from the lotus, with one hand pointing to the sky and one hand at the ea
6、rth, symbolizing Buddhas light shining on all things. The Brahma Palace The whole palace shows the mixture of traditional cultural elements with Western architectural features. Many cultural heritage items and art works can be found there. Its splendid design surprises every visitor. 1.What is the L
7、ingshan Grand Buddha famous for? A.Its long history. B.Its special material. C.Its geographical location. D.Its typical collections of architecture and art. 2.What do we know about the performance of Ode to Auspiciousness? A.Its free if you get a through ticket. B.It costs 210 yuan at least. C.Its a
8、vailable only for group visitors. D.It lasts 10 hours for visitors. 3.Why does the writer recommend the Brahma Palace to us? A.Its in front of the giant Buddha. B.Visitors can enjoy a huge lotus there. C.Its design and collections are amazing. D.Many traditional cultural items are on sale. B Compass
9、ion and love are concepts that are often thought to be felt by humans only. As the most intelligent creatures to ever walk the earth, we tend to assume that we are the only ones who can feel emotions. We forget that the speechless beings who live here with us animals also have the same capability. D
10、uring a cold night in Ontario, Canada, a passerby spotted something on the side of the road that made her stop a shaking dog curled up in the snow. When she approached the pup, she discovered that she wasnt alone she was cuddling five orphaned black kittens to keep them warm. The dog surely could ha
11、ve found a safer place to stay for the night, but she chose instead to help not just herself but other stray animals as well. The Good Samaritan called Pet and Wildlife Rescue and an animal control officer picked them up. When they got to the shelter, it was apparent that a close bond had already be
12、en formed between the dog and the orphaned kittens. The staff decided to name the kind dog Serenity in honor of her selfless act. “Its truly heartwarming!” a shelter spokesperson told The Dodo. “It had been a very cold night so these kittens would have had a very hard time surviving.” Aside from req
13、uiring treatment for worm and flea infections, the orphaned kittens are now safe. Just like a proud and doting mother, Serenity insisted on checking on her babies regularly to oversee their progress. The good news is that the kittens are now living with a foster family who will care for them until t
14、hey are old enough to be adopted. Serenity, on the other hand, is still looking for a family. According to the shelter, she loves zooming around in the yard and is big on playing. She is also quite jumpy, so she would do best in a home without small children. 4.What did the passer-by see on the road
15、? A.A dog curled up in the snow. B. Five kittens were in the snow alone. C.A dog was warming five kittens in the snow. D.A dog found a safe place to stay for the night. 5. What does the underlined word she in paragraph 3 refer to? A.The passerby. B.The dog. C.The kitten. D.The spokesperson. 6.Where
16、is the dog Serenity now? A.Living in the shelter. B.Being adopted by a family. C.Staying with the kittens. D.Playing with some children. 7.What can we draw from the story? A.Animals and humans should live in harmony. B.A sad end can be turned into a positive one. C.Animals have the same capability w
17、ith humans. D.Animals can feel compassion and love like humans. C Mr. Fang is now the owner of 56 greenhouses producing organic vegetables in the Gobi desert in Northwest Chinas Gansu province. He is one of the beneficiaries of the Gobi Farming Program of Gansu province that is building rows of gree
18、nhouses in the desert to help transform local farming and alleviate poverty. Grain production in Gansu is greatly affected by the climate and the output is unstable. Agricultural production there relies heavily on rivers, oases and groundwater irrigation. If traditional extensive agricultural produc
19、tion continued, it could gradually narrow the living space. In 1995, a local entrepreneur ventured to use Israeli technologies to build greenhouses for vegetables growing in the desert. Such individual pilot projects encouraged the Gansu government to launch a provincial-level Gobi farming program i
20、n 2017 with a target to build up a controlled-environment agriculture of about 20,000 hectares by 2022. Some cities in the province, which include Fangs village, have already been experimenting with Gobi farming for several years. Despite the harsh environment, farming in the Gobi desert has its adv
21、antages: the extended amount of sunlight provides adequate energy for crops, a significant temperature difference between day and night helps crops accumulate nutrients and the Gobis hot and dry air means fewer pests and crop diseases. The Gobi greenhouses popping up in Gansu use drip and spray irri
22、gation, which can cut water consumption by almost 50 percent compared to a normal farm. The greenhouses are also eco-friendly, as they use substrates for soilless cultivation recycled from rotten leaves, straw and cow and sheep feces. With the greenhouses, Fang earns around 70, 000 yuan annually. Da
23、ta from Suzhou, district of Jiuquan showed the greenhouse program has helped bring an average revenue of about $ 72,500 per hectare to local farmers. Large scale greenhouse farming is an investment-intensive project and cannot be sustained only by government financial support. Therefore, the local g
24、overnment has been encouraging villagers such as Fang to take the lead to rent greenhouses or build their own. It is not an easy task, and many villagers still want to wait and see. However, more and more are starting to join in, either to run their own greenhouses or work as hired workers for green
25、house owners. Starting from managing four greenhouses in 2009, Fang now is also a partner of a greenhouse farming cooperative running 120 greenhouses. The relatively low cost of large-scale land use in the Gobi desert have also encouraged large firms to start their Gobi farming pilot projects in Gan
26、su. If the Gobi farming proves successful, it could provide experiences for countries in Central Asia linked with Gansu both by the ancient Silk Road as well as its modern version of the Belt and Road Initiative. 8.What affects grain production in Gansu most? A.Money. B.Sunlight. C.Air D.Water 9.Wha
27、t does the Gobi Farming Program aim to do? A.Change the local climate. B.Make the local residents rich. C.Protect the traditional agricultural production. D.Help university students start their own business. 10.What can we learn from the text? A.The harsh environment is good for crops. B.At first, F
28、ang only ran four greenhouses. C.With the greenhouses, Fang earns around $ 70,000 annually. D.Mr. Fang now owns 120 greenhouses producing organic vegetables. 11.What can be the best title for the text? A.The Belt and Road Initiative B.A Great Adventurer Mr. Fang C.The Gobi Farming Program of Gansu D
29、.The Advantages of Farming in the Gobi Desert D Many studies have shown how playing video games can lead to structural changes in the brain, including increasing the size of some regions, or to functional changes, such as activating the areas responsible for attention. New research from the Universi
30、ty at Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has gone further to show how cognitive(认知的)changes can take place even years after people stop playing. The study involved 27 people between the ages of 18 and 40 with and without any kind of experience with video gaming. “People who were video gamers before adolescen
31、ce, despite no longer playing, performed better with the working memory tasks, which require mentally holding and processing information to get a result, said Marc Palaus, the author of the study. The results show that people without experience of playing video games as a child did not benefit from
32、improvements in processing and avoiding irrelevant stimuli(刺激).Indeed, they were slower than those who had played games as children, which matched what had been seen in earlier studies. “People who played regularly as children performed better from the outset in processing 3D objects, although these
33、 differences were narrowed after the period of training in video gaming, when both groups showed similar levels said Palaus. The study lasted a month and the researchers analyzed participants cognitive skills, including working memory, at three points: before starting the training in video gaming, a
34、t the end of the training, and fifteen days later. The video game used was Nintendos Super Mario 64. According to Palaus, what most video games have in common is that they involve elements that make people want to continue playing, and that they gradually get harder and present a constant challenge.
35、 “These two things are enough to make it an attractive and motivating activity, which, in turn, requires constant and intense use of our brains resources. “Video games are a perfect recipe for strengthening our cognitive skills, almost without our noticing. However, its not the reason for playing to
36、o much, he said. 12.What can be learned about the study? A.It looks at different games. B.It is aimed at adult gamers. C.Its participants are adults. D.Its author likes playing games. 13.How did people playing no video games as children behave in the study? A.They tended to ignore irrelevant stimuli
37、. B.They failed to physically hold 3D objects. C.They performed very slowly after training. D.They did worse in working memory tasks. 14.What may Marc Palaus suggest doing? A.Finding recipes for better cognitive skills. B.Avoiding getting addicted to video games. C.Trying less challenging video game
38、s. D.Forbidding video games for the young. 15.What is the best title for the text? A.Playing Video Games as Kids Can Cause Changes in Brain B.Video Gamers Memorize Information Much More Quickly C.Video Games Help to Improve Childrens Working Memory D.Playing Video Games Benefits Cognitive Skills Eve
39、n Years Later 第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 12.5 分） 根据短文内容，短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余 选项。 As your teacher passes out the math test, your palms turn sweaty. You notice that our heart has begun to race. Glancing down at the page, you suddenly forget those operations on which you had drilled only a few d
40、ays earlier. Do you perform all additions first in a complex calculation? _16_ Suddenly, you start to doubt a lot of things that you know. If that sounds familiar, you might suffer from math anxiety. Or maybe not Even researchers who study this condition note that it can be surprisingly hard to defi
41、ne（下定义）math anxiety. 17 After all, its not an officially recognized mental disorder in the way that depression is. _18_ It asks things like how anxious would you feel about being given a set of division problems to solve on paper. Those who score high on these surveys about stress over making calcul
42、ations related to numbers will be labeled math anxious. In general, people who panic over their math skills tend to do worse in math classes than people who dont mind numbers. 19 Just because youre math anxious, that doesnt always mean youre bad at math, notes Rose Vukovic, an educational psychologi
43、st at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Math anxiety affects people of all ages. It can lead to poor performance in math classes. 20 Throughout life, this type of stress can stand in the way of mastering skills or projects in a host of areas that rely on calculations. But the good news is
44、that the problem is manageable. Researchers are finding ways people can cope with this stress. A. But thats not always true. B. It has an unimaginable impact. C. And its impacts dont end at graduation. D. Oh, you know it well youre pretty sure, right? E. To diagnose math anxiety, researchers conduct
45、 a questionnaire. F. Its also hard to identify precisely how many people suffer from it. G. Math anxiety has also been linked to negative emotions from the past. 第二部分 语言知识运用（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，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最 佳选项。 I did not remember her, but recent
46、ly her email note surprised me. The email began, We met in a subway train in Queens.Fate had 21 us next to each other. She 22 that she had been sad and depressed. Her sad feelings did not 23 me. I continued to talk to her about 24 and love. I gave her quote cards that she put in her bag. At home she
47、 was 25 to find the words on the quote cards resonated(共鸣)with her present situation. She became very happy and her 26 heart wanted to see me again to thank me about the 27 she received. She 28 me for 3 years with no 29 . She did not know I was connected to Kind Spring. Last week she talked with her
48、 family and thought I might be working at KindSpring.org. In an email to KindSpring, not knowing my 30 , she explained my face and our 31 . I am very grateful to KindSpring for going the extra mile to find my email ID and be the connecting 32 between us. Fatemah is eager to meet me when I visit New York next year. She said my 33 changed her life. I have 34 probably over fifty thousand cards,but the one she received is 35 . 21.A.introduced B.saved C.seated D.cheated 22.A.wrote B.forgot C.realized D.guessed 23.A.move B.bother C.stop
