1、绝密启用前2021年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试模拟试题英语(五)本试题卷共8页。全卷满分150分，考试用时120分钟。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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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. How did the man get to Tokyo?A. By plane. B. By train. C. By cab.2. What does the woman mean?A. She
2、is good at maths.B. She knows Lilys birthday.B. She has trouble remembering figures3. What will the speakers do tomorrow morning?A. Go to the library. B. Eat out with Tom. C. Go to the wildlife park.4. How much does the magazine probably cost?A. $4. B. $6. C. $10.5. What are the speakers talking abo
3、ut?A. The womans skill. B. The mans mom. C. How to cook.第二节(共15小题，每小题1.5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A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。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、7题。6. What does the man ask the woman to do?A. Run with him together. B. Go shopping with him. C. B
4、uy a stepping machine for him.7. Which brand will the man probably choose?A. Adidas. B. Nike. C. Li-Ning.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. When did the woman call the restaurant?A. On Friday. B. On Saturday. C. On Sunday.9. What are the speakers looking for?A. A taxi. B. A parking space. C. A cinema.听第8段材料，回答第10至12
5、题。10. What are the speakers doing now?A. Reviewing job applications.B. Complaining of working conditions.C. Talking about working experience.11. What does the woman think of the salary her company is offering?A. Big. B. Low. C. Reasonable.12. What will the speakers do next?A. Give up their present j
6、ob.B. Find another company immediately.C. Call the two applicants in for interviews.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What will the speakers do tomorrow night?A. Go to the Wongs for dinner. B. Meet Donna at the movies. C. Test the mans memory.14. When did the man forget to cash a check at the bank?A. Last week.
7、B. Two weeks ago. C. Last month.15. Whats the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Boss and employee. B. Teacher and student. C. Husband and wife.16. What does the woman forget to do?A. Stop blaming the mans bad memory.B. Send an email to jog the mans memory.C. Remind the man to go to the m
8、ovies together.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What will Perus government start to do?A. Open a new tourist site. B. Open a new air route. C. Build a new airport.18. How many tourists visit Machu Picchu each year?A. Around a million. B. More than 7 million. C. About 12 million.19. What is Abel Traslavina?A. A
9、 tour guide. B. An archaeologist. C. A government official.20. What is Abel Traslavina concerned about?A. The completeness of a complex Inca landscape.B. The quick development of local tourism industry.C. Whether the airport will be completed on schedule.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
10、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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AIdahoShaped like a skyward-pointed gun, Idaho is well worth a visit: urban and wild, old and new. It holds abundant wilderness, jagged peaks, and violent white water that offset(抵消)high desert plains and rolling agricultural areas. The reaches of Idaho,
11、from its forests and rivers to its skies, unconditionally offer access to a personal and undisturbed outdoors alongside glances of the roots of American history. What may surprise visitors here for the natural beauty is the resourceful and imaginative spirit bubbling(洋溢着)in small towns and cities th
12、at dot the state. An authentic Idaho trip leaves room to wander; an exceptional one leaves dirt under the nails.ROAD TRIPSDay 1 Explore the Boise River Greenbelt, connecting pedestrians to cultural sites through the city: art, history, parks, zoo and gardens. Dine on the Basque Block.Day 2 From dese
13、rt to mountain, take the winding two-lane Payette River Scenic Byway to McCall. Raft along the Payette River or have fun on the Payette Lake. In McCall, hike Ponderosa State Park.Day 3 Unplug on the Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway to Stanley which serves rough peaks, clear lakes and wooded grassland. D
14、ont forget to observe the brilliant nightscape of the Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve.Day 4 Past Galena Summit, Sun Valley offers outdoor opportunities with a special flavour. Take a morning bike ride or fly fishing with visits to art galleries. Take the chairlift to the top of Baldy and catch aftern
15、oon rays over the Wood River Valley. Swing into night with live music at Sun Valley Pavilion.21. When can you enjoy yourself on the Payette Lake?A. On Day 1. B. On Day 2. C. On Dav 3. D. On Day 4.22. What can you do on Day 4?A. Dine on the Basque Block. B. Go fishing by the Payette River.C. Apprecia
16、te the beautiful night view. D. Enjoy sunset over the Wood River Valley.23. What can we know about the tourism in Idaho?A. Small towns have nearly nothing to offer.B. You can no longer enjoy a personal outdoors.C. You can enjoy its scenery and know about its history.D. The locals try every possible
17、way to develop tourism.BWant to really impress your friend with a birthday gift? How about flying a drone(无人机)to her front door that is MADE OF CHOCOLATE! It can be done, and it has been done by a team of three Duke undergrads with the help of a chocolate maker called Chocolove.About a year ago, Anu
18、j Thakkar and a friend got to talk over coffee. Thakkar said, Wouldnt it be cool if we had eatable drones? They wondered for no particular reason. Over the summer, that stupid idea began to take shape. The Jell-O drone was the first one, Thakkar said. We tried cheese. We tried bread. Chocolate was w
19、hat we settled on.Chocolate is easy to shape, making the design process a little easier. Thakkar, Carlo Lindner and Ben Succop started changing the prototype(样机)carefully. Eventually and just in time to bring a smile to their friend Kristine Stanners face, they managed to build the body of a drone o
20、ut of chocolate. On Kristines birthday, they flew the drone over to her home. She immediately bit a piece off the one-of-a-kind prototype and ate it.Thakkar is one of our student workers in the lab, said Chip Bohbert, service manager at the Innovation Co-Lab on West Campus, which has 3D printers and
21、 other rapid prototyping equipment for students. Hes an engineering student and always pushes the envelope in terms of interesting ideas.Their early prototyping was accomplished with cheap, grocery store chocolate, which was not molded(塑形)well and gave them enough results that they were able to make
22、 a video on a smartphone and recommend the idea to Chocolove, a chocolate maker of all-natural and organic chocolates who sells products at school. Chocolove enthusiastically said yes, and provided high-quality dark chocolates to the team.24. What made the students have the idea of developing a dron
23、e?A. A casual conversation. B. A friends request.C. A managers inspiration. D. A chocolate makers persuasion.25. What food do they use initially to make an eatable drone?A. Cheese. B. Jell-O. C. Bread. D. Chocolate.26. What does the underlined phrase pushes the envelope in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
24、A. Takes pride. B. Makes full preparations.C. Provides practical advice. D. Challenges the limit.27. What can we infer from the text?A. Chocolove sells cheap chocolate at school.B. Chocolove refused to cooperate with them initially.C. The team was satisfied with their early prototyping.D. Their dron
25、e production process went through trial and error.CIs America ruining English or giving it new life? Most of this old debate concerns words. Is elevator an improvement on lift? Why say transportation when transport will do? Sometimes it involves spelling, specifically the American reforms that made
26、British centre into American center. Realistic change or dumbing down? And, of course, the quickest way to tell a Yank from a Brit is by pronunciation.But the differences between British English(BE)and American English(AE) go beyond words, sounds and spelling to grammar itself. Here they can be not
27、very obvious, but they are many: the index(索引)of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language mentions regional differences in 95 places. Most people assume that any variations between the two countries result from American innovation(创新), to the horror of Britons. In reality, America has often bee
28、n the conservative one, and Britain the innovator. When British speakers borrow American habits, they are sometimes unintentionally readopting an older version of their language.Take the past participle of get, which in Britain is got and in America gotten. To some Britons, American gotten is a cute
29、 or annoying invention. In fact, it is the older form, which came from Old Norse. Gotten appears in a Bible translation of 1535: Treasures that are badly gotten, profit nothing. It was used for centuries before being combined with the past tense, got, in Britain. Not that America was entirely conser
30、vative; it has a got too. But Americans use it differently: Hes got a car means he owns one, while Hes gotten a car means he has acquired one.Americans have indeed innovated extensively with English, as with other things. But language never sits still: the British variety itself went on changing aft
31、er 1776, as all living languages must. Americans, for their part, eagerly import fashionable British slang(俚语). Instead of complaining about Americanisms, British observers could say thanks to the old colonies(殖民地)for keeping traditional English safe.28. Why does the author raise the questions in th
32、e first paragraph?A. To express his serious doubts. B. To introduce the topic of the text.C. To add some background information. D. To appeal to readers concern about English.29. What can we know from the second paragraph?A. British speakers are willing to accept American habits.B. Actually, America
33、 is conservative about language change.C. English has changed greatly in the past hundreds of years.D. The differences between BE and AE are very easy to notice.30. Whats the proper attitude of British observers to English development in America?A. Grateful. B. Doubtful. C. Negative. D. Favorable.31
34、. Whats the best title of the text?A. The Way to Tell BE from AE CorrectlyB. How America Saved Old-fashioned EnglishC. How Britain Gave the English Language New LifeD. The Development of English in Different CountriesDDo a countrys people get happier as it gets richer? Most governments seem to belie
35、ve so, given their constant focus on increasing GDP year by year. j Reliable, long-term evidence linking wealth and happiness is, however, lacking. And measuring well-being is itself filled with problems, since it often relies on surveys mat ask participants to assess their own levels of happiness s
36、ubjectively.Daniel Sgroi of the University of Warwick and Eugenio Proto of the University of Glasgow, both in Britain, think, nevertheless, that they have an answer. By examining millions of books and newspaper articles published since 1820 in four countries(America, Britain, Germany and Italy), the
37、y have developed what they hope is an objective measure of each places historical happiness. And their answer is that wealth does bring happiness, but some other things bring more of it.Previous research has shown that peoples underlying levels of happiness are reflected in what they say or write. T
38、hrough research, Dr. Sgroi and Dr. Proto found how changes in national happiness reflect important events. In Britain, for example, happiness fell sharply during the two world wars. It began to rise again after 1945, reached its highest level in 1950, and then fell gradually, including through the s
39、o-called Swinging Sixties, until it reached the lowest point around 1980.As to wealth, the steady progress of the Victorian period matched a steady increase in British happiness, as did the economic boom of the 1920s, which also lifted American spirits. Both countries spirits fell again in the Great
40、 Depression that followed the stockmarket crash of 1929. After the lows of the 1970s, though, happiness in both has been on the rise ever since.Overall, then, Dr. Sgroi and Dr. Proto found that happiness does vary with GDP. But the effect of health and life expectancy(寿命)is larger, even when the ten
41、dency of wealth to improve health is taken into account. And, as the grand historical sweep suggests, it is the war that causes the biggest drops in happiness. The final result appears to be that, while increasing national income is important to happiness, it is not as important as ensuring the popu
42、lation is healthy and avoiding conflict.32. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Measuring peoples well-being is easy to do.B. The richer people are, the happier they are.C. Most governments focus on peoples happiness.D. There is no clear evidence linking wealth and happiness.33. How did Dr
43、. Sgroi and Dr. Proto conduct their research?A. By analyzing the causes of wars in different countries.B. By examining millions of books and newspaper articles.C. By asking participants to assess their own levels of happiness.D. By making a comparison between different levels of happiness.34. When d
44、id the British people feel happiest according to the third paragraph?A. During the two world wars. B. In 1950.C. In the Swinging Sixties. D. In around 1980.35. What did Dr. Sgroi and Dr. Proto find through their research?A. Peoples happiness does not vary with wealth.B. Peoples happiness needs more
45、public attention.C. Peoples happiness is reflected in what they say or write.D. Peoples happiness is determined by a good many aspects.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。When was the last time you read a book? Do your daily reading habits center around tweets, Facebook upd
46、ates, or the directions on your instant oatmeal packet? If youre one of countless people who dont make a habit of reading regularly, you might be missing out a lot. 36 Mental Stimulation(刺激)Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress of dementia(痴呆), since keeping your
47、brain active and occupied prevents it from losing power. 37 So the phrase use it or Lose it is particularly proper when it comes to your mina. Doing puzzles and playing games such as chess nave also been found to be helpful with cognitive(认知的)summation.Stress ReductionNo matter how much stress you have at work, in your personal relationships, or countless other issues faced in daily life, it all just slips away when you lose yourself in a great story. 38 An interesting article will attract your attention and allow you to relax.
