1、秘密启用前 20212021 年年 1 1 月辽宁省课后服务第一次教学质量检测月辽宁省课后服务第一次教学质量检测 英语试卷英语试卷 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自已的姓名、考号填写在答题卡上，并将条形码粘贴在答题卡指定区 域。 2.选择题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮 擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号,答在本试卷上无效。其他试题用黑色水性笔答在答题卡上，写 在 本试卷上无效。 3.考试结束后，考生须将答题卡交回。 第一部分 阅读（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
2、 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A The National Council for the Traditional Arts （NCTA） seeks Festival Support Staff for 2020 festival season to provide office and onsite support for three large - scale festivals. Positions a- available include ： Programming Administration Assistant Responsibilities include pr
3、ogramming research, marketing and event organization. The position may also be responsible for press and photo document management, social media updates, and customer service. Qualified applicants will be careful and organized, with excellent people skills and a general interest in the traditional a
4、rts. Computer literacy is essential. Contract runs May l - Decemberl5. Festival Assistant This position provides festival staff support. Responsibilities include document creation, travel purchase, data entry, and database maintenance. Qualified applicants will be outgoing and openminded, with effec
5、tive oral and written com- munication skills and computer literacy. Prior experience with festival planning is preferred. Contract runs Mayl8 October30. Production Associate The Production Associate is a key member of the production team who will work closely with the Production Manager on all festi
6、val audio, backline, and lighting needs. Qualified applicants will be responsible and adaptable, with excellent people skills. Prior experience in concert production is preferred. Contract runs Junel5 - October30. All Positions： Experience with database entry, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Acrobat is
7、required. Must have a clean driving record, or reliable transportation. Must have strong interpersonal skills. Some evenings, weekends, and travel are required. All positions are full time with contract. Deadline is April 20, 2020. 1. What will a programming administration assistant most probably do
8、? A. Plan and design a program. B. Create social networking websites. C. Deal with complaints from customers. D. Photograph newspapers and documents. 2. What is the working period for a festival assistant? A. May l Decemberl5. B. May l8 October30. C. June l5 October30. D. April 20 October30. 3. What
9、 is the requirement for all the three positions? A. Communication skills. B. Language levels. C. Working experience. D. Knowledge on traditional arts. B It was Americas deadliest wildfire in at least 100 years and the most destructive in California history. The Camp Fire started at 6 ： 33 a. m. on N
10、ovember 8, touched off by faulty electrical transmission lines in the town of Paradise. It burned for 17 days and consumed 153,336 acres north of Sacramento. In all, the fire caused $ 16. 5 billion in damage, destroying nearly 19,000 buildings, leaving 50,000 homeless, and killing 85. Shane Grammer,
11、 a creative director for Disneys theme parks, followed the news of the fire. When his childhood friend Shane Edwards posted pictures of his white chimney the only part of his house to survive - Grammer felt helpless. And then he had an idea. On December 31, Grammer spent three hours spray-painting a
12、 strikingly frightening black -and white image of a woman on the chimney - a reminder， perhaps, of the beauty of life, or even just of life itself. Grammer posted the image on Instagram. The victims of the fire, especially ,could not contain themselves. Beautiful and unforgettable,” one said. Anothe
13、r posted, “You bring beauty and hope.” Suddenly, Grammer realized that what he had thought was a purely artistic expression had morphed into something deeper, the nature of true art. When the first picture moved so many people in this community, I knew I had to come back up,“ Grammer told KRCR - TV
14、in Redding. Over a period of three months he returned eight times, painting 17 portraits of victims on walls, pickups, and pieces of buildings. There is hope,“ he explains. There is beauty in the ashes.” Grammers work in Paradise has now become a movement. He has traveled the world painting pictures
15、 in dark places that badly needed some light： an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico ； a youth ministry in San Francisco. I want to do something powerful and create art that moves people,“ he says. 4. What can we learn from paragraph 1? A. The Camp Fire was caused by nature. B. California has witnessed man
16、y wildfires. C. There should be a ban on using electricity. D. The damage of the Camp Fire was inestimable. 5. What do people think of Grammers first painting? A. Disappointing. B. Impressive. C. Frightening. D. Abstract. 6. What does the underlined word “morphed“ in Paragraph 4 mean? A. Changed. B.
17、 Broke. C. Divided. D. Burst. 7. What is the significance of Grammers painting? A. They are creative masterpieces. B. They are drawn using a special technique. C. They bring people hope out of misfortune. D. They mainly focus on dark sides of society. C Though not as mainstream as devices like smart
18、phones and fitness trackers, more companies are now experimenting with the concept of connected garments. Among the pioneers is London- based CuteCircuit, whose latest creation is the “Sound Shirt”, which allows deaf people to feel” live music by transforming the tunes into touch sensations in real
19、time. The fashionable jacket achieves the incredible function using software that changes the music into data and wirelessly sends it to the 16 - micro motors fitted inside the clothings fabric. The devices shake in sync （同步） to the intensity （强度） of the music being played, allowing the wearer to fe
20、el each instrument individually. The series of touch-like sensations across the wearers body enables them to feel the entire works, resulting in a fully amazing musical experience. To ensure the shirt is comfortable, the designers chose to leave out wires and instead wove conductive textiles(传导纺织品)i
21、nto the garments fabric. Francesca Rosella, co - founder, and chief creative officer of CuteCircuit, explains, “There are no wires inside, so were only using smart fabrics - we have a combination of microelectronics and very thin, flexible and conductive fabrics. All these little electronic motors a
22、re connected with these conductive fabrics so that the garment is soft and stretchable.” CuteCircuit, which has been testing the Sound Shirt for three years, expects to make it available to the general public shortly. Priced at $ 3,673(3,000 pounds) , the smart jacket will not be cheap. However, twi
23、n sisters Hermon and Heroda Berhane, who lost their hearing at a young age, believe the hi-tech garment is a worthwhile investment, especially for deaf people with a passion for dancing. Its almost like feeling the depth of the music,“ says Hermon. It just feels as though we can move along with it.
24、Heroda agrees, adding, “I think it could definitely change our lives.” 8. What is “sound shirt“ meant for? A. Deaf people. B. Poor people C. Students. D. Musicians. 9. Which aspect of the “Sound Shirt is mainly talked about in paragraph 2? A. Special materials. B. Powerful function. C. Working princ
25、iple. D. Fashionable design. 10. How did the designers manage to keep the shirt comfortable? A. By using wires. B. By using smart fabrics. C. By avoiding electronic motors. D. By making the shirt very thin. 11. Why did the writer mention twin sisters Hermon and Heroda Berhane? A. To persuade us to l
26、earn from them. B. To get the public to know them better. C. To state the smart jacket is affordable. D. To prove the smart jacket enjoys promising future. D One spring day, once the flowers have begun to open, a bee will hover and zip through your yard and dive-bomb your picnic table. While youre t
27、hinking about avoiding an attack, that bee is focused on something else entirely： me. A honeybee has about six weeks to live. Today, like most days, her task is to fly as many as three miles from home, stick her long, straw-like tongue into a hundred or so flowers. When the bee has had her fill, she
28、ll fly home. There the bee will deposit what she has got into the mouth of one of her co - workers, who will relay it to another, and so on for about 20 minutes, until the mixture is ready to be placed into the comb. Then she and her 50,000 or so mates will hover in the dark all night every night, f
29、lapping their wings to create hot, breezy conditions to re- move the water from the mixture. Several sunrises later, they will seal me off in a golden cell of beeswax. In her lifetime, our bee may visit 4, 000 flowers, and yet will produce only one - twelfth of a tea spoon of me. The average America
30、n consumes nearly a pound and a half of me every year, in tea, on toast, and beyond. If I do say so myself, I am a timeless treasure. Literally I never go bad. Unfortunately, my good health is not guaranteed. The problem lies in the growth of industrial agriculture and the use of pest control chemic
31、als, as well as changes in weather patterns, all of which reduce the number of flowers bees have to visit. Id appreciate your letting your own garden grow just a little wild. My future depends on all of us protecting natures wild flowers, thus helping the bees, who give so much - to you, to me - wit
32、hout ever asking for anything in return. 12. What does me” in the passage refer to? A. The flower. B. The bee. C. Garden D. Honey. 13. What does paragraph 2 want to stress? A. Bees special talent. B. Bees hardwork. C. Bees livingenvironment. D. Bees social behavior. 14. Which of the following is tru
33、e according to the passage? A. A bee will surely attack picnickers. B. A bee will generally live a long life. C. American consumers cant go without me”. D. The drying process of me” can take a few nights. 15. What is the purpose of the passage? A. To appeal for help for honeybees. B. To talk about t
34、he history of a treasure. C. To put forward techniques for gardeners. D. To argue against the control of chemicals. 第二节（共 5小题;每小题 2. 5分，满分 12. 5 分） 阅读下面短文， 从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余选 项。 You can take fish oil supplements or you can invest in a language class, puzzle books, or a few hours of e
35、xercise every week. There are countless methods to improve your memory. 16 Why can such an ordinary activity improve your brain? 17 Typically, when you read, you have more time to think, says Maryanne Wolf, director of the UCLA Center, “Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and i
36、nsight. By and large, with oral language -when you watch a film or listen to a tape-you dont press pause.” 18 A small study at Emory University found that some of those benefits persisted for five days. We call that a shadow activity, almost like a muscle memory, says Gregory Berns, PhD, director at
37、 Emory. What if you are a poor, or even a dyslexic reader who feels as if youll never be able to read enough to get these benefits? 19 Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University studied children aged eight to ten who were below-average readers. One hundred hours of remedial reading classes significant
38、ly improved the quality of their brains white matter-the tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed. 20 So turn off your phone and your computer, set aside a good hour or two - and just read. A. A research may help relieve this worry. B. It indicates the
39、 brains of these children somewhat got improved. C. But the cheapest and easiest way to sharpen your brain is reading. D. The problem with dyslexics is that their brains work differently from others. E. And the benefits of reading continue long after youve put down that great book. F. Its common tha
40、t the language part of the brain would get a workout from reading. G. Thats because the very nature of reading encourages the brain to work harder and better. 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） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 It is a dangerous time to be a child in Yemen. Be
41、sides facing war, hunger and 21 , more than 25 percent of children are not in school. But eight - year-old singer Amr Muqbel, known as “the water seller”, is 22 He 23 school in the morning. In the afternoon, he used to sell water to help 24 his family. Now, he makes extra money by singing for weddin
42、g, fans and several major Arabic news channels. Im 25 he has become a singer, said Ahmed Muqbel, Amrs 70 year-old father ,with tears in his eyes. One of their relatives is a soldier, he added, and Amr used to sing war songs. Now ? he sings about love and peace in a country where other children can b
43、e forced to join 26 groups. Amr first became well - known this year when a local hiker recorded him singing to a group of people. The hiker 27 the recording on Facebook, where it received 20,000 likes, loves and sad faces. Since then, the boy appears on Arab media 28 Amrs family remains poor, how- e
44、ver. He, his mother and his four siblings (兄弟姐妹)still struggle to 29 in a small house. But as Amr gains the attention of music 30 , the family hopes his voice will help lift them 31 out of poverty. “I didnt even know Amr was singing for the drivers,“ said Amrs mother. He sells water so he can earn m
45、oney to pay for his school fees. I used to 32 Amr for singing while he did his homework.” “His songs come out from his 33 said Mohammed al - Adaimi, a 23 year-old who 34 Amrs songs on YouTube. Other local people said, “They are proud that a young Yemeni is getting international attention. ” He is a
46、35 boy,“ they said. We like his songs. He has the voice and charm.” 21. A. poverty B. anger C. cold D. attack 22. A. outstanding B. popular C. different D. interesting 23. A. finishes B. attends C. joins D. leaves 24. A. provide B. affect C. balance D. support 25. A. curious B. anxious C. proud D. c
47、onfused 26. A. economic B. military C. political D. scientific 27. A. posted B. mailed C. displayed D. explained 28. A. instantly B. typically C. regularly D. slightly 29. A. strengthen B. compete C. gather D. survive 30. A. officials B. editors C. professionals D. champions 31. A. further B. worse
48、C. less D. fewer 32. A. interrupt B. praise C. strike D. scold 33. A. dream B. happiness C. heart D. fear 34. A. looks at B. listens to C. turns to D. hears of 35. A. funny B. learned C. humorous D. talented 第二节(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分) 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 A 16 year - old Kansas boy
49、 will soon earn his high-school diploma (文凭).And a few days later, hell travel to Harvard 36 (collect) his bachelors degree. Ulysses High School senior Braxton Moral 37 (attend) graduation ceremonies (典礼)a few days later to become 38 only student to gain a four year high school degree and a bachelor
50、 s degree from Harvard at the same time 39 (successful). “Harvard has changed the rules. said Braxton s father, Carlos Moral, so his son will be the only one reaching that standard. Braxton will be 17 when he 40 (get) his diplomas. The Ulysses school district allowed him to take some high school41 (
