1、河北衡水中学2021届高三仿真模拟试题（三）英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、阅读理解Happiness, that short and delightful feeling, seems all too rare in 2020. But theres one place where happiness is the name of the game. And, no, were not talking about Disney World. Denmark, currently the second happiest country on earth, is now home t
2、o The Happiness Museum, which is created by The Happiness Research Institute, a think tank focusing on well-being, happiness and quality of life. The eight-room museum is devoted to literally bringing happiness to life, reminding visitors what it is that gives value to them and makes them feel good.
3、 Led by Meik Wiking, author of three international bestsellers, the museum opened on July 14 in a small 240-square-meter space in Copenhagen.Visitors to the museum will find many interactive exhibits. Each room is devoted to a specific approach to studying happiness. The politics of happiness exhibi
4、t asks questions about the role of elections and GDP in determining national happiness. Theres also a geography happiness section that explores the role of built environments on happiness levels, as well as showing a world map with the World Happiness Report 2020s happiness ranking of 153 countries.
5、 There are other sections like the science of happiness, the history of happiness and what lies in store for the future.Certain museum exhibits include visitors personal perception of happiness. Can you determine which half of the Mona Lisas mouth smiles? How do you explain the meaning of happiness?
6、 The museum houses a vast collection of donated artworks donated by people from around the globe, which remind them of happy moments in their lives.While the museum is a very optimistic place to be, its also aware of the difficulties of being a public place in the middle of a global pandemic(流行病). T
7、he museum has strict policies in place to ensure social distancing and safety, including only allowing 50 visitors at a time and a one-way path through the museum.1Whats the main purpose of creating The Happiness Museum?ATo remind people to read books on happiness.BTo help visitors learn and experie
8、nce happiness.CTo advise visitors to share happiness with others.DTo tell people ways to improve their quality of life.2What does the underlined word “perception” in Paragraph 3 refer to?AUnderstanding.BPraising.CDocumenting.DMisusing3What does the author intend to tell us about the museum in the la
9、st paragraph?AThe challenge it faces at present.BIts difficulty in receiving visitors.CIts positive attitude towards future.DThe safety measures it takes for visitors.Years ago, I appeared on stage with the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir in the Town Hall. There I was, my feet in plain shoes, swe
10、at dirtying my clean white shirt, singing my heart out in front of the big organ. I still have a tape recording of that performance somewhere, where I swear I can hear myself singing, high and thin and possibly off-key.But life got in the way and I stopped singing. Then, in the summer of 2019, I fou
11、nd myself facing some shadows in my own life. It felt as if it had been a long time between songs, as if there was something unsung, some absent music in my ears. I began to fear I might be making myself ill and unable to breathe in a normal way.Could singing help me reclaim my voice and calm my fas
12、t-beating heart? Research from the Royal Society noted that group singing can improve physical and mental health, as well as promote social bonds”. So, rather than letting my unsung tunes strangle me, I decided to take on a new choral experience, one being in the Big Feminist Sing, a community choir
13、.“If you dont know what to sing,” the choir director said, “find someone who looks confident, and go and stand next to them. Find a friend if youre in trouble; take a risk; use your voice; be part of something bigger than yourself.” Ive been singing in the choir ever since, because group singing giv
14、es me a sense of security-and each rehearsal is a lifeline, a connected thread, an intake of air working toward a collective voice. It doesnt matter if I am a bit off-key to start with. Decades of unsung situations have changed, and I have flown.4How did the author feel during her performance in the
15、 Town Hall?AThrilled.BNervous.CConfident.DCurious.5What does the underlined word “strangle” in paragraph 3 probably mean?AReach.BBlindCCheatDChoke.6What does the author learn from her latest choir experience?AFinding a true friend is never easy.BTeamwork has benefited her a lot.CThe choir directors
16、position counts.DSinging alone improves her health.7Which can be the best title for the text?AThe Amazing Power of Group SingingBConfidence Out of Lasting SingingCChanges from Stage ExperiencesDA Taste of Music in a ChoirDo you need a human to create a beautiful perfume? Thats the question being ask
17、ed as artificial intelligence(AI) starts to enter the perfume industry. Companies are increasingly turning to technology in order to create more best-selling, unique perfumes that can be produced in just minutes.Last year, Swiss-based perfume developer Givaudan launched Carto, an AI-powered tool to
18、help perfumers. Using a touch screen, the perfumers can choose one from 1,500 ingredients and put it in a bottle without touching them and pull together different perfumes using data from the brands vast library of perfume formulas. A small robot immediately processes the fragrances into perfumes, m
19、aking it easier for perfumers to test their new perfumes.One benefit of Carto is that with it, perfume samples are created instantly, giving them a competitive advantage. “We can adjust the perfume almost live with the customer,” says Cal ice Becker, vice president perfumer and director of the Givau
20、dan Perfumery School. “It is a big plus not just because we gain time but theres more closeness when we connect in front of the tool.”German perfume house Symrise has gone one step further and teamed up with IBM Research to create an AI system called Philyra, which actually studies the perfume formu
21、las and customer data to produce new perfumes. Like Carto, Philyra cant actually smell anything. Claire Viola, vice president of digital strategy fragrance at Symrise, is the first to agree it hasnt been without weakness. If s machine-learning and sometimes the results are wrongs she says. “You have
22、 to qualify every new material, so it understands the difference between different perfumes, for example.”Margaux Caron, global beauty analyst for colour cosmetics and perfumes at believes artificial intelligence is a powerful tool to create perfumes. “Technology and science are sometimes pictured a
23、nd considered cold, but the perfume category is displaying a warm, emotional, human approach to it. The partnership between AI and perfumers is anchored in this philosophy,” she said.8What is the advantage of Carto?AIt can be used to test perfumes.BIt can tell perfume ingredients apart.CIt frees per
24、fumers totally from the task.DIt helps tailor perfumes to customers needs.9What can we infer from Claire Violas words?APhilyra needs to be improved.BPhilyra has a sharp sense of smell.CPhilyras study result is accurate.DPhilyras good with new materials.10Whats Margaux Carons attitude towards using A
25、I?ASupportive.BObjective.CConcerned.D Skeptical.11Why does the author write the text?ATo introduce new perfume brands.BTo explain how to make perfumes by AI.CTo discuss AFS strengths and weaknesses.DTo show application of AI in making perfumes.For companies around the world and across industries, su
26、stainability(可持续发展) has rapidly gone from a nice-to-have to a must-have. Some famous companies have announced ambitious plans to remove single-use plastics, reduce carbon release and otherwise shrink their environmental footprint in various ways.Newlight Technologies hopes to speed up that process.
27、The company has spent more than a decade developing a material called AirCarbon, which functions exactly like plastic but is completely biodegradable(可生物降解的). Newlight developed the material using microorganisms found in the ocean that feed on methane and carbon dioxide-two-greenhouse gases among th
28、e biggest contributors to climate change. The organisms turn those gases into a natural polymer(聚合物) that can be shaped just like plastic.“We call that AirCarbon because its air and carbon that can mix with and become part of water,” CEO Mark Herrema said. “We have this pure white powder that we can
29、 then melt and form in all kinds of parts and pieces.” The companys new production facility is filled with large saltwater tanks that recreate ocean conditions, allowing the organisms to make the polymer from which AirCarbon can be obtained.Newlight recently began rolling out its first set of produc
30、ts made from the material, launching two-brands. Its foodware brand, Restore, sells biodegradable straws, knives, forks and spoons, while its fashion brand Covalent sells handbags, wallets and sunglasses. And because the process of developing AirCarbon uses gases from the atmosphere, the products ar
31、e carbon negative, meaning they take out more pollutants than they produce. Newlight has received carbon negative certifications from several organizations for its products.Newlights current products are costlier than some traditional products available on the market, since the company has just one
32、facility, which makes it hard to keep prices down. At present, Newlights AirCarbon products can remove 100 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year. But Herremas goal is to build more facilities as quickly as possible and eventually increase that number to 20 billion pounds, which he says is how mu
33、ch plastic ends up in the ocean each year.12What is the advantage of AirCarbon?AIt is more flexible than plastic.BIt can partially break down.CIt helps reduce greenhouse gases.DIt is an artificial polymer like plastic.13Why has Newlight been certified carbon negative?AIts products are of good qualit
34、y.BIts products are energy-saving.CIt develops two sustainable brands.DIt removes more carbon than it releases.14What might be the challenge for Newlights AirCarbon products?ALimited production.BLow profits.CFew customers.DPoor marketing.15What does the text mainly talk about?ANew technology that re
35、duces carbon release.BGreenhouse gases that can be used for products.COcean microorganisms that feed on greenhouse gases.DA plastic alternative that might help solve climate change.二、七选五Late one afternoon, Raphael Kaplan and his family were out walking near their home in Los Angeles, Calif., the sec
36、ond largest U.S. city._16_“They were hanging out”, he says, “just lying down and waiting for us to pass.”_17_The fourth grader says he sees coyotes all the time, often at that golf course. Hes also seen them walking down his street.Coyotes look like medium-sized dogs or small wolves with short gray
37、and brown fur._18_They will eat just about anything and can learn to survive in nearly any environment. Before 1700, coyotes only lived in the midwestern and southwestern United States and Mexico, but then people wiped out nearly all of North Americas wolves because they sometimes kill farm animals.
38、 This opened up space for chores._19_Some considered them to be pests. During the middle of the 20th century, the U.S. government poisoned around 6.5 million coyotes. Killing them is still legal in most U.S. states. Hunters and trappers kill hundreds of thousands every year.Encounters with coyotes h
39、appen regularly across the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico and parts of Central America. In Chicago, Illinois, for instance, coyotes once lived on the top floor of a parking garage across from Soldier Field, the home stadium of the Chicago Bears football team. In 2015, New York City polic
40、e officers in trucks, cars and helicopters chased a coyote through Riverside Park in Manhattan._20_After three hours, they gave up the chase. The coyote had simply hidden itself too well. Occasionally, coyotes may bite or attack people or their pets. However, coyotes mostly avoid people. Raphael is
41、glad hes gotten to see them so many times. Hes also helped study them.ACoyotes are kind and beautiful.BPeople tried to get rid of coyotes, too.CBut they are a separate species, Canis latrans.DAre coyotes moving into your neighborhood?EThey aimed to move the animal out of the city.FThis wasnt an unus
42、ual experience for 10-year-old Raphael.GHe looked through a fence surrounding a golf course and saw two coyotes.三、完形填空Early on Saturday morning, parents and viewers walked in a line into the gym at the Einste Academy, a school in Illinois in the US. After the coach_21_his opening speech everyone_22_
43、for the USs national song. After the song, judges dressed in black and white shirt took up their_23_outside the playing field, ready for the games to begin.While this sounds like the typical setting of a US sporting event, this one had a high-tech twist, was a competitive robotics_24_a game that tur
44、ns the subjects of science, technology, engineerin and mathematics into a competitive sport._25_by coaches, teams of students in grade 7 through 12 who designed, built and programmo their own robots competed against other robotics teams in the West Suburban League North Division the FIRST Tech Chall
45、enge (FTC).“Most students experience multiple-choice questions.” said Jonathan Weiland, who works f FIRST Tech Challenge in Illinois. “In FTC, there are hundreds of solutions to a problem and they see which solution_26_the best.”“Founded by a not-for-profit organization, FIRST (For Inspiration and R
46、ecognition of Science ai Technology) events are modeled after traditional sports like basketball to generate_27_in robotic,” Weiland said. FIRST Tech Challenge is one of four FIRST programs.During a FIRST Tech Challenge, Robotics teams either_28_a robotics kit(配套组件), adjusting and upgrading their de
47、sign, or custom build(专门制作) a robot using_29_materials, recording the progress in engineering notebooks.The robotics teams compete in games within a league, getting points throughout the season_30_a national and even global competitions. There are 35 teams in the West Surburban Leagn North Division
48、and only eight will go to the state, Weiland said. Teams earn awards based on the robots_31_,design and other accomplishments.“Judges_32_pair two robotics teams to form a group that competes against two other teams. With multiple games played by all teams at each meet, a competitor in one game might be a_33_in the next,” Weiland said. Students are taught to help each other at all times and to
