1、相城区 2020-2021学年高三第一学期阶段性诊断测试 英语 （考试时间 120 分钟，满分 150 分） 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需 改劢，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上， 写在本试卷上无效。 3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 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
2、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. Why is the woman upset? A. The flower shop is closed. B.She received the wrong delivery. C.Her delivery hasnt been ready in time. 2.How much tax should the man pay per night? A.$5. B.$10. C.$15. 3.How did the man feel when he was called on?
3、A.Worried and frightened. B.Quite embarrassed. C.Deeply ashamed. 4.What does the woman imply the man should do? A.To cut his jeans short. B.To go on a diet. C. To buy a pair of jeans. 5.What does the man mean? A.Mr Johnsons ideas are nonsense. B.He quite agrees with Mr Johnsons views. C. Mr Johnson
4、is good at expressing his ideas. 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，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、7题。 6.What problem are the speakers discussing? A. A late delivery. B. A truck accident. C.A d
5、amaged box. 7.What will the man probably do? A. Check the package himself. B. Leave the box on the truck. C.Place another order. 听第 7段材料，回答第 8、9题。 8.Who is the woman? A.A customer. B.A bookstore clerk. C. A newspaper journalist. 9. What is the man unclear about? A. The name of the book. B.The locati
6、on of the store. . C. The article in todays newspaper. 听第 8段材料，回答第 10至 12题。 10. Where are the two speakers? A. Inside a plane. B.At an airport. C.In a shopping center. 11. What was the man most pleased with? A. The clean environment. B.The goods in the duty-free shop. C.The distance from the Gate to
7、 Immigration. 12.What can we learn about the man? A. He is a Canadian. B.He has just got his suitcase. C. He is going to an Asian country. 听第 9段材料，回答第 13至 16题。 13. What do we know about the speakers? A. They are finding a place to live. B. They both have plans for the future. C. They are studying in
8、 a foreign country. 14.What does the man find hard to do? A. Do the course in English. B. Find his accommodation. C.Understand other students jokes. 15.What is the woman busy with? A.An essay. B.A job. C.An exam. 16.Why wont the woman visit the mans university? A. She is quite busy. B. She isnt inte
9、rested. C.She doesnt have money. 听第 10段材料，回答第 17至 20题。 17.What did the speaker like doing at school? A.Solving math problems. B.Doing sports. C.Playing computer games. 18.Why did the speaker stop studying at college? A.He liked to work in a bike shop. B. He was given a job in a company. C.He was not
10、 interested in engineering. 19.How did the speaker manage to increase the sales of the frozen food company? A. By the improvement of service. B.By the development of the staff. C.By the introduction of new products. 20.How does the speaker feel about working in Electra? A.Ashamed. B. Satisfied. C.Wo
11、rried. 第二部分 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 A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A You may have seen the term “bullet journal” floating around online, but what exactly is a bullet journal? This article will highlight the uses for a bullet journal and why theyre great for people who wish to
12、 be more organized. What is a bullet journal? A bullet journal is a planner system which allows you to plan for the future, track the past and keep your life organized with lists separated by bullet points. It is a place for you to create clear, yet simple to-do lists and a place to keep a note of y
13、our life goals and aspirations. What does it help with? A bullet journal is perfect for people who like writing lists to keep themselves organized. Theyre great for doing as a hobby and you can get creative with the way you present your lists. Theyre also perfect for people who constantly write down
14、 to-do lists or make hand-written notes. Why is it important? A bullet journal is important because we all feel better when our life is organized. Organization can reduce stress and make you happier.Having your life in order, you will know exactly what you have to do every day so that you can rememb
15、er all of your life goals. How to create a bullet journal? The instructions will help you embark on your bullet journal. Step 1.Find or buy a blank notebook Any notebook with blank pages will do because if you are someone who is creative and artistic,you can decorate the notebook any way you like. S
16、tep 2.Find or buy pens Its best to start off simple and choose a pen that you find easy to use and that you would feel comfortable writing with every day. Step 3.Monthlies In this section,you can put a list of important dates for that particular month. Step 4. Dailies and Weeklies Put all of your da
17、ily or weekly tasks in this section so that you dont forget anything that you have to do during that day or week. Step 5.Life Goals Keep a life goals section. This can include different collections of goals, such as career, relationships,places you wish to visit and so on. Now start your bullet jour
18、nal! 21.Bullet journals are intended for those Who hope to A. keep life in order B.lead a relaxing life C.highlight their progress D.reduce their workload 22.Keeping bullet journals helps people A.develop artistic taste B.get rid of stress C.build a better mood D. give up a hobby 23.Which of the fol
19、lowing is most likely to be included in a bullet journal? A.Weekly expenses. B.Appointments with a dentist. C.Weather forecasts. D.Passwords to your computer. B Public toilets are known for a number of things, and theyre almost all bad. Theyre typically dirty, smelly and depending on where theyre lo
20、cated,crowded. Theres nothing worse than needing to use the restroom only to spot a public toilet and then walk up to see that its occupied.Tokyo is working to solve problems like this by renovating(翻修）dozens of public toilet locations around the Shibuya district, and theyve hired professional archi
21、tects to put their own spin on things. The Tokyo Toilet Project is an effort by the Nippon Foundation to revitalize the commonly used public toilets in Shibuya, and while each location will get its own unique trick, the transparent toilets are definitely getting the most attention from passersby. “T
22、here are two concerns with public toilets, especially those located in parks,”the Nippon Foundation says. “The first is whether it is clean inside, and the second is that no one is secretly waiting inside. Using a new technology, we made the outer walls with glass, so that a person can check inside
23、before entering. At night, they light up the parks like a beautiful lantern.” The toilets are lined with transparent glass,offering would-be bathroom users a hint as to whether theyre occupied or not. The real trick,however,comes when you close and lock the doors. Nobody wants to have people watchin
24、g them while theyre doing their business, and these transparent toilets have a very interesting trick up their sleeves. When you lock the doors, the specialized glass panels(嵌板） turn opaque, preventing anyone from peeping inside. When the door is unlocked, the glass becomes transparent once again. W
25、hether the good people of Tokyo will decide that these new and improved restrooms are worthy of use remains to be seen, but I cant imagine why anyone wouldnt want to spend some time in them. 24. Why are the public toilets in Tokyo being renovated? A. To inspire architects creativity. B. To better me
26、et users demand. C.To attract passersby s attention. D.To improve the urban environment. 25. The transparent toilet is designed to A. show if it is available B. provide enough light inside C.ensure it is easier to clean D. create a novel appearance 26. What is the function of the transparent toilets
27、 trick? A.It cuts the cost of power. B.It protects the users privacy. C.It stores personal belongings. D. It locks the door automatically. 27. What is the authors attitude towards the transparent toilet? A. Indifferent. B.Unfavorable. C.Optimistic. D.Neutral. C Up to 40 percent of all food in the Un
28、ited States is wasted. Producing food that people dont consume swallows up roughly 20 percent of Americas cropland and agricultural water, and produces greenhouse gas emissions(排放物） equal to 37 million passenger vehicles each year. Yet,37 million Americans lack consistent access to adequate and nutr
29、itious food. NRDC s Food Matters Initiative partners cities to confront food waste. Food Matters is piloting all-round,cutting-edge strategies that are easy to follow and share. The first two strategies -and arguably the most critical ones -are to estimate a local baseline level of food waste and th
30、en assess the potential for rescuing surplus food. A baseline is necessary in order to understand the scale and nature of the problem. It is also a prerequisite(先决条件）to assessing any progress made,which will help inform future program development. Using a calculator tool NRDC developed based on the
31、Food Matters research models, the Atlantas Mayors Office of Resilience had a better understanding of the quantities of wasted food and where it was likely occurring. This allowed the city to focus their attention on the solutions that were more closely related to the situation in Atlanta. As in many
32、 cities across the US,much of the food wasted in Atlanta occurs in households and consumer-facing businesses such as restaurants. Armed with this information, the Mayors Office of Resilience creates a restaurant challenge encouraging restaurants to work on the entire system of reduction, rescue, and
33、 recycling. After 90 days and participation from 6 restaurants at Atlantas Hartsfield Jackson airport, the program rescued 21,000 meals and saved owners over $62,000. Atlantas restaurant challenge is one of a handful of examples where cities have engaged(吸 引） consumer-facing food businesses to reduc
34、e their food waste. New York led the charge with a Mayors challenge to restaurants.Denver recently completed a series of neighborhood restaurant challenges. Nashville has an ongoing Mayors Food Saver Challenge including not just restaurants but other food businesses as well. Several other cities and
35、 counties throughout the country have similar business engagement success stories. 28.What are the data mainly about in paragraph 1? A. The harm of food waste. B.The cause of food pollution. C.The importance of food safety. D.The solution to food waste. 29.How does Atlanta benefit from the calculato
36、r tool of NRDC? A. It makes new plans for banning food waste. B.It helps the city better work on the solutions. C.It tests the work efficiency of the government. D. It increases the potential for recycling food waste. 30.What is the restaurant challenge mainly about? A. Inspiring customers to order
37、food based on actual need. B.Teaching waiters to deal with food waste in a greener way. C.Encouraging restaurants to reduce food waste in every process. D.Making restaurants compete with each other in waste recycling. 31. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A.Restaurant challenges only work i
38、n America. B.More and more cities are focusing on food waste. C.Food businesses are the main sources of food waste. D.Its difficult to complete the restaurant challenges. D Across the United Kingdom, as the COVID-19 crisis has bitten deeper, its citizens have started a new practice: Emerging from se
39、lf-isolation every Thursday night at 8 p.m. to clap, cheer, and bang pots and pans to show support for the countrys front-line doctors and nurses. But as the death toll today hit a single-day U.K. record of 980-and with the peak death rate still estimated to be two weeks away-the crisis caused by th
40、e scale of the pandemic(流行病）has been worsened here by a new degree of political uncertainty. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to the hospital on Sunday and has spent his days and nights in intensive care fighting the virus, surrounded by the doctors and nurses of the National Health Service
41、. The U.K. is not alone in showing new found public affection for key workers, nor in facing an unprecedented public health emergency that has, in Europe, especially affected Italy,Spain,and France. A recent U.K. government appeal for 250,000 volunteers to help the NHS (National Health Service) yiel
42、ded an army of 750,000 would-be helpers. But the pandemic finds the U.K. at a politically uncertain moment, as a nation finally emerging from three and a half years of political issue over its chaotic departure from the European Union.A. December election that gave a decisive victory to Mr. Johnson
43、and the ruling Conservative Party added clarity to a Brexit(英国脱欧）mandate and was seen by many as a potential first step in healing deep divisions in Britains political and social structure. Acknowledging the impact of the coronavirus on daily lives,Queen Elizabeth II, in a rare address on Sunday,pra
44、ised the national spirit and thanked NHS and care workers,whose every hour” of hard work brings us closer to a return to a more normal time.” Calling on citizens to “remain united and resolute to overcome the pandemic,she sought to provide comfort.While we may have still more to endure,better days w
45、ill return We will meet again, she said. 32. What contributed to worsening the current crisis in the U.K? A. The pandemic of COVID-19. B.The vote for Brexit. C.Political instability. D.The December election. 33.The British showed widespread support to the fight against cor navirus EXCEPT by. A. orga
46、nizing 750,000 helpers to join the army B.clapping,cheering,and banging pots and pans every Thursday night C.advocating volunteers to help the NHS D. praising the national.spirit in Queens speech 34. It can be inferred from the passage that A. The death toll set a new single-day record and the peak
47、death had arrived B.the COVID-19 has been found in European history C.Prime Minister Boris Johnson was receiving good medical treatment D.Conservative Party has healed the deep political and social divisions 35.Where might the passage come from? A.A noticeboard. B.A private e-mail. C.A research pape
48、r. D.A newspaper. 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。 Culture Shock Moving to a new country can be an exciting experience. In a new environment, you somehow feel more alive.Soon,however,the new and delightful feeling turns into stress and discomfort. 36 Although not everyone experiences culture shock in exactly the same way, many experts agree that it has roughly five stages. In the first stage, you are excited by, your new environment. Your feelings about the new culture
