1、阅读理解专题 山东省济南市十一学校 2020-2021 学年高三下学期联考英语试题 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 Best Places to Travel for a Girls Holiday Cannes When you think of France, often the famous capital Paris comes to mind. However, youre with your girls. So why not leave the city of love a
2、nd journey south to Cannes? This holiday is for the girls that want to live like the stars for a weekend or two, and have budgeted for it too. Not only does it offer a beautiful view, but also you will feel like celebrities as you wander around the place film stars call home during the Cannes Film F
3、estival. Ibiza No place says girls, holiday is like a trip but Ibiza does. Whether you are looking to wander the San Antonio Sunset Strip at 2： 00 am or walk along the cobbled （鹅卵石的） streets of the old town, Ibiza has it all. For the party lovers, youll find a home in San Antonio. Partying from morn
4、ing to night is right for you. So begin your day at Aiyanna Ibiza, in Cala Nova. Brazil As one of the few places on Earth that are warm all year round, where temperatures rarely dip below 20 C , Brazil is the perfect destination for a girls, holiday. Being the largest country in South America, its n
5、o surprise that it has everything for everyone. Thailand Start with Bangkok, the city of angels. For the girls, trip thats all about sightseeing, a visit to Wat Pho is a must. Home to the Reclining Buddha, this incredible statue is covered in gold leaves and stands at fifteen meters tall and forty-s
6、ix meters long. From the clear waterfalls, the elephants and the full moon parties, Thailand offers countless adventures for a girls， trip. 1. What can we learn about Cannes? A. It lies to the south of Paris. B. It offers beautiful scenery only. C. It is home to all the film stars. D. It suits girls
7、 with tight budgets. 2. Which place is the best choice for girls fond of parties? A. Cannes. B. Ibiza. C. Brazil. D. Thailand. 3. What kind of girls may prefer Thailand? A. Fashionable. B. Adventurous. C. Outgoing. D. Ambitious. B Like most couples? my husband and I dreamed of becoming homeowners. S
8、ure, apartment living comes with its own set of advantagesless housework, shared comfort, less to clean up and care for, and usually cheaper rent. As a result, we decided to downgrade from our neat five-bedroom, 2,700-square-foot house on the water to a three-bedroom, 1,369-square-foot apartment, wi
9、th two kids. Once we arrived in our new apartment, we were surprised to find that things flowed relatively smoothly. There was so much less to keep up withfewer floors to mop, fewer windows to clean, fewer walls to wipe, etc. Now I think of our home as our little playhouse, since its much smaller an
10、d everything is closer together. That also makes it so much easier for me to keep up with as a mom. I collect laundry all on one floor comparing with having to climb stairs to the houses second floor! In our new home, we use lots of shoe organizers inside of every closet door for more than just shoe
11、sbaby items, office items, and medicines. We also have a functional room that serves as an office and gym. Since both my husband and I work from home, we require at least one room to share as an office with fitness equipment fitted into a corner. While many people choose to downsize for financial re
12、asons, that actually wasnt a factor in our decision. We wanted to be in a lively area with like-minded young families. That was our first priority. Though we may still buy another house in this area at some point down the line, for now, were thrilled with the concept of renting an apartment. Let me
13、put it this way： Were not really the “handy types, so being able to call maintenance （维修）for any repairs is worth every rent coin! 4. What can we learn from Paragraph 1? A. Our old house was upgraded. B. Living in a house has advantages. C. Our new apartment was downsized. D. Smaller size means more
14、 housework. 5. How do the couple feel about the new apartment? A. Confused. B. Amazed. C. Tired. D. Challenged. 6. Why do the couple make changes to their new home? A. To build up their body. B. To create a home office. C. To enlarge all the rooms. D. To make full use of space. 7. What is the couple
15、s first concern when moving? A. Transportation. B. Neighbourhood. C. Repair work. D. Money. C Sugar cane（甘蔗）contains around 10% sugar. But that means it contains around 90% non-sugarthe material known as bagasse （甘蔗渣）which remains once the sugar-bearing juice is squeezed out. World production of can
16、e sugar was 185 million tonnes in 2017 , which results in a lot of bagasse. At the moment, most of it is burned. But Zhu Hongli, a mechanical engineer at Northeastern University, in Boston, thinks it can be put into better use. As she, and her colleagues describe, in Matter this week, with a bit of
17、improving bagasse makes an excellent and biodegradable （可生 物降 解的）replacement for the plastic used for disposable food containers such as coffee cups. Dr. Zhu is not the first person to have this idea. But previous attempts tended not to survive contact with liquids. She knew from previous research t
18、hat the main reason why past efforts fell to pieces when wet is that bagasse is composed of short fibres which are unable to hold the finished product. She therefore sought to insert a suitably long-fibred substance. Bamboo seemed to be the best choice. It grows quickly /degrades readily and has app
19、ropriately long fibres. And it worked. When the researchers blended bamboo remaining into bagasse, they found that the result had a strong crossing of short and long fibres. To put their new material through its paces, Dr. Zhu and her colleagues first poured hot oil onto it and found that, rather th
20、an passing through the material, as it would have with previous, bagasse products, the oil was resisted by their invention. They also found that when they made a cup out of the stuff and filled it with water heated almost to boiling point, the cup remained unbroken for more than two hours. Though th
21、is is not as long as a plastic cup would Hast, it-is long enough for all practical purposes. 8. What do we know about bagasse? A. It is widely used. B. It is usually wasted. C. It can not be degraded. D. It takes up 10% of sugar cane. 9. Why do the previous attempts fail? A. The cups are not disposa
22、ble. B. The fibres of bagasse are short. C. The plastic can not be replaced. D. The material is not biodegradable. 10. What is special about Zhus invention? A. It can let oil pass through. B It can be boiled in the water. C. It can hold liquid and resist heat. D, It can reduce the use of bamboo. 11.
23、 What would be the best title for the text? A. New Bamboo Containers B. A New Application of Fibres C. Young and Promising Materials D. A Perfect Mix of Cane and Bamboo D If you visit Uluwatu temple in Bali, be cautious. The long-tailed temple monkeys there are well-known thieves. Since a long time
24、ago, they have made a living by robbing visitors of their possessions and then holding those, objects until a ransom in the form of food is paid. But Jean-Baptiste Leca of the University of Lethbridge, in Canada, wondered whether these monkeys are cleverer still. Sometimes, they do not accept the fi
25、rst offer and hold out for more. He therefore asked himself whether they are- able to assess how valuable an object is to its owner, and factor that into their negotiations. Dr. Leca and his colleagues conducted their experiment by wandering around the temple with video cameras, recording the activi
26、ties of the monkeys. Every time they saw a monkey show interest in a particular tourist? they recorded the interaction. To work out what was going on, they had first to establish the relative values of food rewards to monkeys, and of stealable objects to people. To confirm which stealable objects ar
27、e most valued by people, they divided them into six classes： empty containers, such as phone cases and plastic bottles； accessories （搭配物） such as hairpins and key rings; hats and shoes; spectacles and sunglasses； and electronics and wallets. They then observed how often victims bothered to bargain w
28、ith the thief for the return of property belonging to different classes, and thus classified objects into low value, medium value and high value. They found that monkeys do, indeed, have a complicated sense of what they are doingat. least, adults and sub-adults do. These animals have a preference -f
29、or stealing high-value items, and will often hold out either for more rewards, or for better ones, if they are in possession of such items. But this is something that they have to learn how to do as they grow up. Young monkeys make no such distinctions, and sub-adults are less good at doing so than
30、adults. 12. What is the purpose of Lecas research? A. To prove monkeys are cleverer than men., B. To find out what is valuable for monkeys. C. To record the negotiations between monkeys. D. To make sure monkeys can judge item values. 13. What does the underlined word ransom in Paragraph 1 mean? A. B
31、ilk B. Reward. C. Tax. D. Rent. 14. How are the values of objects classified in Paragraph 3? A. By the material of objects. B. By the preference of victims. C. By the buying price of objects, D. By the frequency of bargaining. 15. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. Young monkeys can evalu
32、ate items. B. All monkeys prefer high-value items, C. Monkeys have a simple sense of acts.D.Monkeys stealing is an acquired skill. 山东省济南市历城第二中学 2021 年 2 月高三校内检测英语试题 第一节： （共 10 个小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将 该项涂黑。 A In storm-stricken Santa Clarita, California, las
33、t March, Margarito Martinez approached Runner Road slowly. A small stream had overflowed onto the road. Martinez, driving a Toyota SUV, figured hed be OK. Halfway across, the rushing waters grabbed hold of his vehicle, sweeping it off the road and washing it down a rocky stream bed. It finally stopp
34、ed a good 80 feet away, when the water somehow lifted the SUV and landed it on the ground at a 45-degree angle. Injured, shaken, and trapped inside with the muddy water rising quickly and the door seriously damaged, Martinez was certain that he was going to die. On the road right behind Martinez wer
35、e a delivery worker and his niece. They watched the horror unfold, and when Martinezs SUV came to rest in the middle of the river, the man leaped to act. First, he grabbed heavy-duty ropes from the back of his truck and fixed the SUV to nearby posts. Then he climbed atop Martinezs vehicle and struck
36、 on a rear window with his fists. Frustrated, he turned to his niece and yelled, “Give me a rock!” Over and over he smashed the rock into the window very hard, but in vain.“We were scared that something else was going to come down and take the SUV, take him, take my uncle,” Krystina Reyes, 27, told
37、CBSLA. Her uncle has not publicly revealed his name. Reyess uncle shouted to Martinez to move away from the window. He supported himself right foot on the spare tire, left in the wheel well. He leaned back and threw the rock. Finally, the glass broke and the man kicked in the remaining pieces. Soon,
38、 a soaked Martinez came out through the window frame, and the men escaped to dry land. Martinez was saved by an anonymous (匿名的) delivery worker. 1. Why did the delivery worker fix the SUV to nearby posts? A. To prevent the car from being washed away. B. To pull the car onto the bank with the truck.
39、C. To get the seriously damaged doors open. D. To climb up to the top of the car easily. 2. Which of the following best describes the delivery worker? A. Promising and kind. B. Ambitious and brave. C. Determined and calm. D. Energetic and considerate. 3. Which can be a suitable title for the text? A
40、. A Brave SUV Driver B. A Decisive Rescue C. A Horrible Experience D. A hotheaded Decision B If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange ambition for a fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis (静止状态): if our lives were ever in balance parents happy, kids taken care of, work working then ou
41、r thought would be to shout Nobody move! and pray all would stay perfect forever. This false hope is made worse by the categories themselves. They imply that work is bad, and life is good. And so the challenge, we are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life. Yet work is
42、not the opposite of life. It is instead a part of life just as family is, as are friends and community. All of these aspects of living have their share of uplifting moments and moments that drag us down. The same is true of work. Treat work the same way you do life: by maximizing what you love. We h
43、ave interviewed several anesthesiologists (麻醉师) about the thrills they feel in their jobs. One said he loved the thrill of holding each patient hovering at that one precise point between life and death. Another said she loved the bedside conversations before the operation aiming to calm the panic th
44、at affects many patients. The simplest way for you to do this is to spend a week in love with your job. During the week, any time you find yourself feeling one of the signs of love write down exactly what you were doing in the column Love. And any time you find yourself feeling the inverse write dow
45、n what you were doing in the column Loathe(讨厌). By the end of the week you will see a list of activities in your Love column, which create in you a positive feeling, one that draws you in and lifts you up. Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally unbalance all aspects of
46、our work toward the former and away from the latter. 4. What is the authors attitude towards work-life balance? A. Doubtful. B. Disapproving. C. Supportive. D. Neutral. 5. The author uses two anesthesiologists as examples to _. A. prove people benefit from work B. indicate doctors take pride in thei
47、r work C. show people gain joy from different situations D. imply doctors reduce the pressure of work successfully 6. Which of the following does the author probably agree with? A. Sense of thrill is necessary for a balanced life. B. Recording activities helps create positive feeling. C. Find love i
48、n work instead of keeping work-life balance. D. Maximize what you love to remove the heaviness from work. C The planets deepest point is in the Pacific Oceans Mariana Trench (马里亚纳海沟), which lies miles below the sea surface. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology Simon says touch your t
49、oes”it was almost the same. Almost. When we grew up, my brother had chosen a separate life, leaving me alone. I missed him a lot. Today, though, we were together, standing in court, waiting for the sentence. The guilty verdict (判决)was read. I sat down, but my brother cried, “No! Im innocent.” And then he turned to me, yelling, “How can you do this to me, James! I finally can make a new life by myself.” “Stop this,” the judge yelled, “the juries have made the decision.” “But its not fair!” my brother replied, “I didnt kill anyone.” I wished I could explain, but I said nothing because thi
