1、20212021 年高考英语真题试卷（全国乙）年高考英语真题试卷（全国乙） 一、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的一、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A A、B B、C C 和和 D D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。（共四个选项中，选出最佳选项。（共1515 小题；小题； 每小题每小题 2 2 分，满分分，满分 3030 分）（共分）（共 4 4 题；共题；共 3030 分）分） 1.阅读理解 The Biggest Stadiums in the WorldThe Biggest Stadiums in the World People have been pouring into stadiums si
2、nce the days of ancient Greece. In around 8 A.Q., the Romans built the Colosseum, which remains the worlds best known stadium are continues to inform contemporary design. Romes Colosseum was 157 feet tall and had 80 entrances, seating 50,000 people. However, that was small fry compared with the city
3、s Circus Maximus, which accommodated around 250,000 people. These days, safety regulations-not to mention the modern sports fans desire for a good view and a comfortable seat-tend to keep stadium capacities（容量）slightly lower. Even soccer fans tend to have a seat each; gone are the days of thousands
4、standing to watch the match. For the biggest stadiums in the world, we have used data supplied by the World Atlas list so far, which ranks them by their stated permanent capacity, as well as updated information from official stadium websites. All these stadiums are still functional, still open and s
5、till hosting the biggest events in world sport. Rungrado 1st of May StadiumRungrado 1st of May Stadium, Pyongyang, D.P.R-Korea. Capacity. 150,000. Opened. May 1,1989. Michigan StadiumMichigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. Capacity: 107,601. Opened. October 1, 1927. Beaver StadiumBeaver Stadium,
6、 State College, Pennsylvania, U.S. Capacity: 106,572. Opened: September 17, I960. Ohio Stadium,Ohio Stadium, Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Capacity: 104,944. Opened: October 7, 1922. Kyle Field,Kyle Field, College Station, Texas, U.S. Capacity: 102,512. Opened: September 24,1927. （1）How many people could the
7、 Circus Maximus hold? A.104,944. B.107,601. C.About 150,000. D.About 250,000. （2）Of the following stadiums, which is the oldest? A.Michigan Stadium. B.Beaver Stadium. C.Ohio Stadium. D.Kyle Field. （3）What do the listed stadiums have in common? 第 1 页 共 12 页 A.They host big games. B.They have become t
8、ourist attractions C.They were built by Americans. D.They are favored by architects 2.阅读理解 When almost everyone has a mobile phone, why are more than half of Australian homes still paying for a landline (座机) These days youd be hard pressed to find anyone in Australia over the age of 15 who doesnt ow
9、n a mobile phone. In fact plenty of younger kids have one in their pocket. Practically everyone can make and receive calls anywhere, anytime. Still, 55 percent of Australians have a landline phone at home and only just over a quarter（29%）rely only on their smartphones, according to a survey （调查）.Of
10、those Australians who still have a landline, a third concede that its not really necessary and theyre keeping it as a security blanket19 percent say they never use it while a further 13 percent keep it in case of emergencies. I think my home falls into that category. More than half of Australian hom
11、es are still choosing to stick with their home phone. Age is naturally a factor （因素）-only 58 percent of Generation Ys still use landlines now and then, compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers whove perhaps had the same home number for 50 years. Age isnt the only factor; Id say its also to do with the
12、 makeup of your household. Generation Xers with young families, like my wife and I, can still find it convenient to have a home phone rather than providing a mobile phone for every family member. That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to th
13、e point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone （using Caller ID would take the fun out of it）. How attached are you to your landline? How long until they go the way of gas street lamps and morning milk deliveries? （1）What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about mobil
14、e phones? A.Their target users. B.Their wide popularity. C.Their major functions. D.Their complex design. （2）What does the underlined word concede in paragraph 3 mean? A.Admit. B.Argue. C.Remember. D.Remark. 第 2 页 共 12 页 （3）What can we say about Baby Boomers? A.They like smartphone games. B.They enj
15、oy guessing callers identity. C.They keep using landline phones. D.They are attached to their family. （4）What can be inferred about the landline from the last paragraph? A.It remains a family necessity. B.It will fall out of use some day. C.It may increase daily expenses. D.It is as important as the
16、 gas light. 3.阅读理解 Youve heard that plastic is polluting the oceansbetween 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic g
17、arbage, foreing viewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic products. At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called Strawpocalypse, a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanup
18、s, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source (来源)of plastic pollution, but theyve recently come under fire because most people dont need the
19、m to drink with and, because of their small size and weight, they cannot be recycled. Every straw that s part of Von Wongs artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone, the straw will take centuries to disappear. In a piece from 2018, Von Wong wan
20、ted to illustrate (说明) a specific statistic: Every 60 seconds, a truckloads worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled Truckload of Plastic, Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like theyd been dumped(倾倒)
21、from a truck all at once. Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reduce their plastic footprint. （1）What are Von Wongs artworks intended for? A.Beautifying the city he lives in. B.Introducing eco-friendly products. C.Drawing public attention to plastic waste. D.Reducin
22、g garbage on the beach. （2）Why does the author discuss plastic straws in paragraph 3? 第 3 页 共 12 页 A.To show the difficulty of their recycling. B.To explain why they are useful. C.To voice his views on modern art. D.To find a substitute for them. （3）What effect would Truckload of Plastic have on vie
23、wers? A.Calming. B.Disturbing C.Refreshing D.Challenging. （4）Which of the following can be the best title for the text? A.Artists Opinions on Plastic Safety B.Media Interest in Contemporary Art C.Responsibility Demanded of Big Companies D.Ocean Plastics Transformed into Sculptures 4.阅读理解 During an i
24、nterview for one of my books, my interviewer said something I still think about often. Annoyed by the level of distraction(干扰)in his open office, he said, “Thats why I have a membership at the coworking space across the streetso I can focus. His comment struck me as strange. After all, coworking spa
25、ces also typically use an open office layout (布局). But I recently came across a study that shows why his approach works The researchers examined various levels of noise on participants as they completed tests of creative thinking. They were randomly divided into four groups and exposed to various no
26、ise levels in the background, from total silence to 50 decibels(分贝),70 decibels, and 85 decibels. The differences between most of the groups were statistically insignificant; however,the participants in the 70 decibels groupthose exposed to a level of noise similar to background chatter in a coffee
27、shop-significantly outperformed the other groups. Since the effects were small, this may suggest that our creative thinking does not differ that much in response to total silence and 85 decibels of background noise. But since the results at 70 decibels were significant, the study also suggests that
28、the right level of background noisenot too loud and not total silencemay actually improve ones creative thinking ability. The right level of background noise may interrupt our normal patterns of thinking just enough to allow our imaginations to wander, without making it impossible to focus. This kin
29、d of distracted focus appears to be the best state for working on creative tasks. So why do so many of us hate our open offices? The problem may be that, in our offices, we cant stop ourselves from getting drawn into others conversations while were trying to focus. Indeed, the researchers 第 4 页 共 12
30、 页 found that face-to-face interactions and conversations affect the creative process, and yet a coworking space or a coffee shop provides a certain level of noise while also providing freedom from interruptions. （1）Why does the interviewer prefer a coworking space? A.It helps him concentrate. B.It
31、blocks out background noise. C.It has a pleasant atmosphere. D.It encourages face-to-face interactions. （2）Which level of background noise may promote creative thinking ability? A.Total silence. B.50 decibels. C.70 decibels. D.85 decibels. （3）What makes an open office unwelcome to many people? A.Per
32、sonal privacy unprotected. B.Limited working space. C.Restrictions on group discussion. D.Constant interruptions. （4）What can we infer about the author from the text? A.Hes a news reporter. B.Hes on office manager. C.Hes a professional designer. D.Hes a published writer. 二、根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳
33、选项。选项中有两项为多余二、根据短文内容，从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。（共选项。（共 5 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2 2 分，满分分，满分 1010 分）（共分）（共 1 1 题；共题；共 1010 分）分） 5.根据短文内容，从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。 According to Jessica Hagy, author of How to Be Interesting, its not difficult to make yourself interesting at a dinner party. _
34、, if youre out of your comfort zone or if youre wandering into somebodys house for the first time. So the main thing is just to show up and be adventurous, trying different foods and talking to strangers. People love to talk about themselves. If you can start the conversation with a question otherth
35、an “What do you do for a living?, youll be able to get a lot more interesting conversation out of whomever it is youre talking to. _. it can bring in I have this old, broken-down vehicle or I rode the bus with these crazy people who were laughing at silly jokes in the back. It just opens up conversa
36、tion. 第 5 页 共 12 页 _? If you cant take their wine away, you should certainly try to take away their soapbox（讲台） .If youre the host, you can ask them to help you in the kitchen with something and just remove them from the situation. _ And what about that other dinner-party killer: awkward silence? If
37、 youre faced with an awkward silence at a dinner party, the only thing that always gets everyone talking again is to give the host a compliment (赞 扬)._. Just quickly tun around and say, This cake is extremely delicious and you have to tell me all about it.” So being interesting at a dinner party isn
38、t that hard. A. How do you know the host B. The first step is to go exploring C. If you ask the question How did you get here?, D. Be prepared to have awkward conversations with strangers E. Or turn the conversation into a topic where they have little to say F. What about that person who has had too
39、 much to drink or wont stop talking G. He or she is the person who is feeling the weight of that awkwardness the most 三、语言知识运用三、语言知识运用 第一节第一节 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A A 、B B、C C 和和 D D 四个选项中，四个选项中， 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（共选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（共 2020 小题，每小题小题，每小题 1.51.5 分，满分分，满分 3030 分）（共分）（共 1 1 题；共题；
40、共 3030 分）分） 6.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。 Simply saying thank you doesnt seem enough in certain situations. I was considering this while working as a 1 Just a few weeks ago. And it came to me then how much easier it would be if we had a range of words that express different2 of
41、gratitude (感谢). My thoughts were soon3. We had a woman patient who was4 from a knee replacement operation. One afternoon, while5to get into bed she collapsed (倒下) from what was6 discovered to be a heart attack. The collapse was disastrous, 7 the emergency medical team and good teamwork. But she reco
42、vered, though 8 ,and was ready for discharge (出院)after four weeks. She was9 for everything that the medical and nursing team had done for her. On her day of discharge, we shared in her10 at her recovery. As she was11 she was eager to say12 to each of us in the nursing team. When she13 one nurse, she
43、 tried to press a five-pound note into her hand. My colleague14 to accept it, saying that we were all just15 our job. The patient looked puzzled, and then16: 第 6 页 共 12 页 Oh this isnt for the17 I had. I take that as a18. No, this is for setting my hair yesterday. And there you have it. To many peopl
44、e,19lives is part of the job but styling hair is an 20 and should be rewarded. 1. A. cleaner 2. A. grades B. chemist B. meanings C. nurse C. needs D. doctor D. expectations 3. A. brushed aside B. put to the test C. brought under discussion D. taken into account 4. A. departing 5. A. attempting 6. A.
45、 eventually 7. A. assessing 8. A. slightly 9. A. grateful 10. A. surprise 11. A. operating 12. A. sorry 13. A. reached 14. A. wished 15. A. enjoying 16. A. repeated 17. A. courage 18. A. goal 19. A. risking 20. A. honour B. escaping B. choosing B. fortunately B. requiring C. retiring C. pausing C. c
46、asually C. forming D. recovering D. promising D. secretly D. proving D. happily D. fearful D. disappointment D. leaving D. yes D. persuaded D. refused D. starting D. reported D. care D. greeting D. building D. extra B. accidentallyC. slowly B. thoughtful B. delight B. thinking B. hello B. consulted
47、B. pretended B. doing B. recited B. patience B. given B. changing B. ability C. sorrowful C. curiosity C. hesitating C. goodbye C. introduced C. failed C. securing C. replied C. duty C. push C. saving C. opening 四、四、 语言知识运用语言知识运用 第二节阅读下面短文，第二节阅读下面短文， 在空白处填入在空白处填入 1 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确 形
48、式。形式。( (共共 1010 小题：每小題小题：每小題 1.51.5 分，满分分，满分 1515 分分) )（共（共 1 1 题；共题；共 1515 分）分） 7.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。 Ecotourism is commonly regarded as low impact (影响)travel to undisturbed places. It is different from traditional tourism because it allows the traveler to become _ (educate) about the
49、 areas - both in terms of geographical conditions and cultural characteristics, and often provides money for conservation and benefits the _ (develop) of the local areas. Ecotourism has _ (it) origin with the environmental movement of 1970s. It was not widely accepted as a travel concept _ the late
50、1980s. During that time, increasing environmental awareness made it desirable. 第 7 页 共 12 页 Due to _ growing popularity of environmentally-related and adventure travel, various types _ trips are now being classified as ecotourism. Actually, a true eco-friendly trip must meet the following principles
