1、射洪中学高2020级高三上期英语周考（二）考试时间共120分钟 满分150分第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1. 5 分，满分 7. 5 分）听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1.What does the woman want to do with the meeting?A.Cancel it. B.Postpone it. C. Bring it forward. 2.Where is the woman
2、going on vacation?A.To Central America. B.To Asia. C. To Europe. 3. How does the woman feel about Linda and Robs studio?A.Discouraged. B.Worried. C.Confident. 4. What does the man want the woman to do?A.Take care of his bird. B.Help him with his work. C.Go out of town with him. 5.What are the speake
3、rs mainly discussing?A.Where Joyce comes from.B.What Joyces hometown is like C.Why Joyces hometown is boring.第二节(共15小题;每小题15分，满分22.5分)听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的ABC三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟:听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. What is the man doing?A. Returnin
4、g books. B. Buying books. C.Borrowing books. 7.What does the man think of the novel The Sun Also Rises?A.Boring. B.Difficult. C.Attractive. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8.What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A.Husband and wife. B.Interviewer and interviewee. C.Colleagues. 9.Why doesnt the woman
5、 like her present job?A.She is too busy to make her own clothes. B. She has no time to go traveling. C.She is tired of the dull routine.10.What do we know about the woman?A.She loves cooking. B.She will travel abroad C.She will develop a new hobby 听第8段材料，回答第11至13 题。11. What information does the woma
6、n get about the hotel?A.It is in Barcelona.B. It is near a busy road. C. It can be easily reached by bus. 12. How far is the hotel from the beach?A. About 100 meters. B. About 2 kilometers. C.About 37 kilometers. 13. What can people do in the hotel?A.Sing in KTV. B. Do some sports. C.Attend keep -fi
7、t classes. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. What does the man want to do?A.Study abroad. B.Find a full-time job.C. Settle in America. 15. When can the man apply for a visa?A.After passing TOEFL.B.After getting a letter of acceptance. C. After filling in an application form.16. When is the deadline for applicati
8、ons?A. January 28th . B. February 5th . C. February 2th. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. In which month does Canadian Clean Air Day come?A. May. B. June. C.July. 18. About how many Canadians die each year because of air pollution?A. 2,000. B.3,000. C.5,000. 19. What is the main cause of the air pollution in C
9、anada?A.The smoke from factories. B.The burning coals. C.Gas -powered cars. 20. What may the speaker talk about next?A. Ways to fight against air pollution B.Aims of Canadian Clean Air Day C.Damages caused by air pollution.第二部分：阅读理解（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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，
10、并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AA special place to stay can make a holiday but also break the bank. We have picked new affordable places across Europe for 150 a room a night or less.Scourie HotelDoubles from 129Opened October 2015This hotel has been adored by fishing fans for generations. When the Campbell family boug
11、ht it six years ago, they updated it with gentle, stylish furnishings. Theres a string of spectacular beaches to discover, including the Scourie Bay with golden sand.Ho36 HotelDoubles from 109Opened December 2017This hotel offers the rarest of things ski accommodation that is both affordable and sty
12、lish. Guests can ski or snowboard from the front door. There are two lively bars with live music and regular DJ nights, a restaurant serving hearty Alpine meals and film nights.Conscious HotelDoubles from 120Opened April 2016This fourth hotel by Dutch sustainable brand Conscious is the first powered
13、 entirely by wind. The restaurant is fully organic and the bedrooms simple with contemporary elements. The hotel overlooks the Westerpark, one of Amsterdams biggest green spaces.Dock HotelDoubles from 150Opened May 2014This large hotel on the Baltic coast is made from shipping containers. The indust
14、rial theme continues inside,with concrete walls, exposed pipes, and more containers. The hotel is 12 minutes walk from the beach.21Which hotel best suits people who enjoy an active social life?AScourie Hotel.BHo36 Hotel.CConscious Hotel.DDock Hotel.22What is special about Conscious Hotel?AIt is old-
15、fashioned.BIt has the longest history.CIt is environment-friendly.DIt offers the biggest green space.23What can the guests of Scourie Hotel and Dock Hotel do?AUpdate the furniture.BWalk on the beach.CAppreciate architecture.DVisit industrial fairs.BEmma Rosen had one of the best and most sought-afte
16、r jobs in the civil service in the UK. 20,000 candidates (候选人) applied, but fewer than 1,000 were offered jobs. But it turned out that she didnt like sitting at a desk all day, and she struggled to see how what she was doing would make much difference to anything.Instead of going to work every day a
17、nd complaining about her job until she reached retirement age, Emma decided to find out what made her happy, what her skills were, and what sort of career would need them. She wrote a list of the jobs she had wanted to do since childhood and set about getting two-week placements (安排) in all of them
18、over a year.She was 24 years old, and she wanted o have tried out at least 25 different jobs before her 25th birthday. She spent the months before she quit her job saving up her year off, and. spent all her free time setting up the different jobs.A year later, Emma said her favorites were the jobs t
19、hat were more creative, relevant to travel or were outdoors. “Things like travel writing, archaeology, farming, working with the police, being a blogger, an explorer and an author,” she said.“Considering that I am now working as a writer and speaker, communication skills in both verbal (口头的) and wri
20、tten form have been the most important. There were also plenty of more technical skills that I learned, like website design, social media management, building a commercial brand and conducting interviews.”Emma added she also saw her softer people-focused skills improve. “I could be very adaptable, q
21、uickly build relationships and accept changeI could walk into a new team or situation and get on well with everyone. Finally, there were things like showing that I was active, an independent and creative thinker as well as an innovative problem solverI could certainly show that I could think outside
22、 the box!”24. What does the underlined word “sought-after” mean in the first paragraph?A. Complicated.B. Desirable.C. Ordinary.D. Traditional.25. Why did Emma quit her job in the civil service?A. The job made no difference to anything.B. The job made her complain all day long.C. She was struggling t
23、o do the current job.D. She was eager to realize her self-worth.26. Which of the following best describes Emmas favorite jobs?A. They are care-free and popular ones in civil service.B. They are only the ones needing communication skills.C. They are where creativity and skills were badly needed.D. Th
24、ey have nothing to do with travel or outdoors.27 What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?A. Emma benefited much from experiencing a variety of jobs.B. Emma acquired technical skills to build a commercial brand.C. Emma was flexible enough to change situations to her favor.D. Emma thought indep
25、endently to be a creative problem solver.CMore than half a trillion dollars. Thats the estimated value of all the stuff that U. S. shoppers bought last year only to return itmore than the economy of Israel or Austria. We tried new brands with unfamiliar sizes after seeing them on TikTok. We overboug
26、ht for the holidays, and we shopped overly online, where returns are between two and five times more likely than that from stores. Where does it all go? Take the blanket I bought on holiday sale for example. I opened the package, only to discover it was just too small for my new sofa. So I returned
27、it. Sorry, blanket! What will happen to it?“Your blanket is very likely to be in a landfill,” says Hitendra Chaturvedi, a supply chain management professor at Arizona State University. “That is what consumers dont realizethe life of a return is a very, very sad path.” Value is the big threshold (门槛)
28、: Is the product worth the cost of shipping back and paying someone to inspect, clean, repair or test? Experts estimate that retailers (零售商) throw away about 25 of their returns. Every year, U. S. returns create almost 6 billion pounds of landfill waste.Many others get resold in discount and outlet
29、stores. Some go to sellers on websites. Some get donated to charity or recycled. “These options have increased over the past decade, allowing more and more returns to find a new home”, says Marcus Shen, chief operating officer of B-Stock, a platform where retailers can resell their returns, often to
30、 smaller stores.As companies compete on flexible return policies, technology is also slowly playing a part: helping shoppers buy the right-size sweater or picture a new blanket inside their room. Most importantly, She says, shoppers themselves are getting more and more comfortable with buying stuff
31、thats not exactly brand-new. “The idea of that is no longer scary for us, right?” he says. On his holiday-returns agenda is an electric, self-heating coffee mug that he has never opened, and he feels confident it will find a happy new buyer.28What is paragraph 1 mainly about?AThe challenge facing th
32、e American economy.BThe urgency to cut down on online shopping.CThe returning problem caused by overbuying online.DThe cost of finding new homes for returned goods.29Why do some returns end up in landfills?AIts required by the return policies.BIt saves retailers 6 billion pounds a year.CIts impossib
33、le to put returns to other uses.DIts more economically efficient for retailers.30How does technology contribute to less returning?ABy helping shoppers make better decisions.BBy restoring the newness in returned goods.CBy improving the return policy-making process.DBy drawing pictures of the goods fo
34、r the shoppers.31Which of the following examples indicates a desirable end-result for returns?ATikTok items.BThe coffee mug.CThe blanket.DA right-size sweater.DCigarettes arent just harmful when theyre being smoked. Even when cigarette ends go out and are cold, new research has found they continue t
35、o give off harmful chemicals in the air. In the first 24 hours alone, scientists say a used cigarette end will produce 14 percent of the nicotine (尼古丁) that an actively burning cigarette would produce. While most of these chemicals are released within a day of being put out, an analysis for the Unit
36、ed States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the level of nicotine fell by just 50% five days later. “I was absolutely surprised,” since environmental engineer Dustin Poppendieck from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). “The numbers are significant and coul
37、d have important impacts when cigarette ends are dealt with indoors or in cars. While much attention has been paid to the health influence of first-hand, second-hand and now third-hand smoking, it is not the case when it comes to the actual cigarette end of the matter.” To measure emissions (排放) fro
38、m this forgotten thing, Poppendieck and his team placed 2,100 cigarettes that were recently put out inside a special room. Once the ends were sealed away, the team measured eight chemicals commonly produced by cigarettes, four of which the FDA have their eye on for being harmful or potentially so. A
39、fter setting the rooms temperature, the researchers tested how emissions changed under certain conditions. When the air temperature of the room was higher, for instance, they noticed the ends produced these chemicals at higher rates. This finding might discourage those who want to leave ashtrays (烟灰
40、缸) out for days at a time, especially in the heat.32What do the researchers say about cigarette ends?AThey contain little nicotine.BThey produce no nicotine five days later.CThey give off nicotine for days.DThey create as much nicotine as burning cigarettes.33What do Poppendiecks words suggest?AFirs
41、t-hand smoking does most harm.BThe findings are within his expectation.CCigarettes should be dealt with indoors.DHealth influence of cigarette ends is ignored.34Which word best describes the authors attitude to not cleaning ashtrays for days?AUnclear.BDisapproving.CUnconcerned.DPuzzled.35What can be
42、 the best title for the text?AUsed Cigarette Ends Release Harmful ChemicalsBCigarettes Are More Harmful While Being SmokedCResearch Found Reasons For Cigarette Ends HarmDCigarette Ends Produce More Chemicals in the Heat第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）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。In daily life, ther
43、e are many cases where we need to write a letter of apology. The following are some tips for writing a good letter of apology.Acknowledge your mistakes. At the beginning of the letter, you have to state clearly what you have done. _36_Otherwise, things will become worse. If necessary, you can seek h
44、elp from your parents or counselors.Face the facts. Dont use indirect language. _37_ This helps you sound sincere and shows that you are not trying to escape the blame. Otherwise the letter of apology will not carry any weight. Using “I” statements is better as they put the focus on you._38_ When yo
45、u are apologizing, it is easier to blame the situation. Dont try to do that. It will only worsen the situation. Dont explain yourself either, because this shows you dont treat the mistake seriously.Make an apology sincerely. Even though there was a reason why you acted in a certain way, dont put it
46、in the letter_39_ Besides, your efforts to apologise will be in vain.Keep your promises. It is quite easy to say what other people want to hear, but it will bring disappointment if you fail to keep your promises or if you keep repeating the mistakes. _40_A. Do better in the future.B. Dont blame the
47、situation.C. Dont try to prove your acts are right.D. So only promise whatever you can achieve.E. State directly that you have made that mistake.F. It could be considered as an excuse you are making.G. You can learn from each incident, whether it is good or bad.第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每
48、小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I tend to go slowly when I drive in the mountains of my home because the forest41is beautiful no matter what the season. This morning I was driving slower than42because an early March snow had turned the roads43. Going up a mountain road,
