1、 Unit3 Sea Exploration 第一部分第一部分 听力（共两节，满分听力（共两节，满分 30 分） （略）分） （略） 第二部分第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分阅读（共两节，满分 50 分）分） 第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 37.5 分）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 A Guide to Botany: Online Botanical Painting Session Our Guide to Botany class is back online! Join us for thi
2、s unique lecture and Botanical Painting session (课)! This lecture and all our classes are now “pay what you can”. We suggest a donation of 8 but if you are having a tough time with money, even 5 is still amazing, or please feel free to consider this one on the house. Drawing from both the rich histo
3、ry of female Botanical Art, as well as the inspiring stories of women botanical explorers, this class will be a great opportunity to immerse (沉浸) yourself in the work of artists such as Maria Sybilla Merian, Marianne North, Rachel Ruysch and others! The session will include a short lecture during wh
4、ich you will be able to make quick sketches (素描) if you choose from your own collections of plants, leaves and flowers, and then students will be guided through some basic watercolour techniques and exercises. Materials: You will need a variety of plants, flowers, leaves or dried flowers to work fro
5、m! You dont need too many, just enough to make an interesting arrangement, but if youre really caught short, just one or two houseplants will be fine. Watercolours A variety of brushes, from mop-headed to thin detail brushes Watercolour paper Date and Time: Friday, 22 January 2021 13:30-15:30 Thursd
6、ay, 25 February 2021 14:30-16:30 Location: Online event 21. What can you learn from the class? A. How to plant flowers. B. Basic watercolour techniques. C. Basic knowledge of garden design. D. How to make artworks with dried leaves. 22. What should students take to the class? A. A donation certifica
7、te. B. A variety of drawing tools. C. A collection of female statues. D. A history book of Botanical Art. 23. What can be learned about the class? A. It is delivered online. B. It costs 8 per class. C. It is held weekly on weekends. D. It is aimed particularly at botanists. B I was 13 or 14. It was
8、summer. We lived in an old house with no screens on the window in the attic (阁楼), where my sister and I slept in the same bed. While thinking about how I might escape, I leaned sideways, and my hand landed on a floorboard that popped up (突然爆开) and almost hit me in the head. When I looked inside the
9、open space, I could not believe my eyes: There was gold in there! I picked up a handful of gold cubes ( 方块) and ran to the bottom stair and yelled, “Mama I found gold up here under the floor!” Mama simply said, “Chile, thats insulation. Now put it all back.” When I reached inside, my hand touched wh
10、at felt like a book. I pulled it out. It was Bartletts Familiar Quotations. And since I was bored, I decided to see what was inside this book. On the top left- and right-hand corners of each page was a word or phrase. I opened it to “comfort” and then “comfort and despair,” and then farther down was
11、 “comfortable.” I remembered “Doubt” “Peace” “Hope and Hopeful.” I had discovered that I was not alone in some of the things I felt and thought: What does grief feel like? What is the value and power of dreams? In ninth grade, I got my first job, as a page at our local library. I often hid in the la
12、dies room, where no one would see me, and I would read. It was at this library that I realized how some of those emotions Id felt while reading Bartletts came to life in the characters I had started discovering in novels. When I went to college, Bartletts came with me. Over the years, Ive kept my or
13、iginal copy, and to this day I often refer to it. I have bought a few of the newer editions, but the first one is the one that helped me see more than what my young mind was able to understand. 24. Why did the author shout? A. She hurt herself in the head. B. She had a quarrel with her sister. C. Sh
14、e found something under a floorboard. D. She failed to get the gold out of the attic. 25. What is paragraph 3 mainly about? A. What the value of dreams is. B. How different words relate to each other. C. How the authors life was in her childhood. D. What the author learned from the book she found. 2
15、6. What can we learn about the author when she went to college? A. She met Bartlett in real life. B. She got her first job at the local library. C. She seldom referred to the books she read before. D. She kept Bartletts as one of her greatest treasures. 27. What is the authors purpose of writing thi
16、s text? A. To introduce a famous book. B. To show the importance of libraries. C. To tell readers how a book changed her life. D. To explain how she became a best-selling writer. C The US Ambassador to the UK officially launched a ship named Mayflower on Wednesday, 400 years to the day after a woode
17、n ship with that name sailed from an English port and changed the history of two continents. Unlike the merchant ship that carried a group of European settlers to a new life across the Atlantic Ocean in 1620, the new Mayflower named by U S Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson has no crew or passengers. It
18、 will cross the sea powered by sun and wind, and controlled by artificial intelligence (AI). Johnson said the high-tech ship, developed jointly by British-based research organization ProMare and US tech giant IBM, showed that “the pioneering spirit of the Mayflower really lives on”. “Were heading ou
19、t with the same spirit of adventure and determination and hope for the future as the original colonists (殖民者),” said Johnson. Like the Mayflower in 1620, the new ship will travel from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts. The ships launch in Plymouth is one of several Mayflower commemoratio
20、ns.They involve British, Americans and Dutch institutions many of the 17th-century colonists had left England for Holland before the voyage and the Wampanoag people, who had lived for thousands of years in what is now New England. In 1620, the Wampanoag helped the exhausted Mayflower settlers surviv
21、e their first winter. But soon colonial expansion and new diseases were having a big impact on North Americas Native Indians. Wampanoag stories have been marginalized (使边缘化) on past Mayflower anniversaries (周年纪念), but they are playing a big part in events and exhibitions this time around. “The story
22、 of the Mayflower is one that really cant be told without telling also the story of the Wampanoag,” said Paula Peters, a Wampanoag writer. The Mayflower Autonomous Ship is intended to explore parts of oceans too difficult or dangerous for people to reach. Andy Stanford-Clark, Chief Technology Office
23、r for IBM in the UK and Ireland, said the ships launch “is a very exciting stage of the journey toward crewless shipping” that could pave the way for AI-driven commercial ships and research ships. The 50-foot ship will go through six months of sea trials and make short trips before setting out on it
24、s trans-Atlantic trip to measure ocean health: assessing the impact of climate change, measuring micro-plastic pollution and studying populations of whales and dolphins. 28. What do we know about the new Mayflower? A. It is a wooden ship. B. It is powered by clean energy. C. It will carry a large lo
25、ad of goods. D. It will carry a small number of passengers. 29. What does the new Mayflower represent according to Johnson? A. The sufferings of the British people in history. B. The friendship between the US and the UK. C. The long-lasting bravery of humankind. D. The development of high technology
26、. 30. What change can the launch of the new Mayflower bring? A. It will seek help for Native Americans. B. It will bring Wampanoag stories to light. C. It will encourage more and more sea exploration. D. It will help describe the colonists journey in detail. 31. What is the practical use of the new
27、Mayflower? A. It can protect commercial ships. B. It can carry out certain surveys. C. It can save animals stuck in water. D. It can get rid of underwater dangers. D In the summer of 2010, the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer started its voyage of exploration. The expedition was the combination of a long
28、planning effort that involved high-level science, and technical leadership in the U.S. and Indonesia. Indonesias land and shallow seas are rich with a diversity of marine life. What particularly intrigued (引发) the interests of both U.S. and Indonesian ocean scientists was to find out if Indonesias d
29、eep seas, which are nearly unexplored, are really biologically diverse. The scientists worked out an exploration plan that they believed offered a high probability of finding never-before-seen ecosystems in the deep seas. The expedition planning began with highly skilled mapping technicians working
30、closely with the scientists to create a map of the area of interest. Using this map, the team could pick targets where active volcanoes were likely to be encountered. Once Okeanos Explorer reached the targets, her sonar (声呐) mapping system was used to create more detailed maps of the exploration are
31、as. Once the map was completed, volcanic features were identified by the science team. The second stage of exploration consisted of steaming slowly over the areas. At the same time, a sensor package was repeatedly lowered and raised. Operated by a technician on the ship, the sensor provided real-tim
32、e data that revealed whether or not there were heat and chemical plumes (羽流) in the water column. The third and final step of the exploration was then to use a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to start a near-bottom visual search for active venting (喷发). The ROV, Little Hercules, which was made state
33、-of-the-art for this expedition, produced impressive HD video imagery of both the geology and biology of the dive sites after returning. Despite all the technologies and methods, theres more to explore. It is through exploration that we obtain our fundamental knowledge and basic understanding of thi
34、ngs and places previously unknown to us. 32. What is the purpose of the expedition mentioned in paragraph 1? A. To promote the exchange between the U.S. and Indonesia. B. To make a huge profit from exploring the Indonesian ocean. C. To find out about the ecosystems of the Indonesian deep seas. D. To
35、 raise public awareness of protecting the Indonesian deep seas. 33. What was the first step of the expedition planning? A. Picking out the positions of active volcanoes. B. Working out a map of the exploration area. C. Getting a rough idea of the exploration targets. D. Identifying volcanic features
36、 by sonar systems. 34. What can we learn about Little Hercules? A. It was part of the sensor package. B. It was specifically designed for this expedition. C. It should be operated by a technician on the ship. D. It aimed to collect data about heat and chemical plumes. 35. Which of the following show
37、s the organization of the text? A. B. C. D. (P= Paragraph) 第二节（共第二节（共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 12.5 分）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。 In 1999, journalist Nicholas D. Kristof reported a surprising encounter on a tiny African island. Here, Kristof met a number of elderly men who tol
38、d him that they were descendants of Chinese sailors many centuries ago. Their ancestors had traded with local Africans, who had given them giraffes to take back to China. 36 Six centuries ago, a large number of Chinese ships crossed the sea, then travelled west to East Africa. 37 These seven great e
39、xpeditions brought a vast web of trading links under Chinese government control. 38 Most of the trading involved spices (香料), wood, and medicines. Zheng He brought them back to the capital. Although these goods were mainly presented to the emperor for his consumption and disposal, foreign ambassador
40、s who came to China were permitted to trade with locals in the capital for handsome profits, which also allowed ordinary Chinese to benefit from international trade. 39 In the regions they visited, Zheng He and his fleet (船队) remained a long-lasting theme in popular Southeast Asia folk tales. Two su
41、rviving records of the expeditions provide detailed accounts of unique Chinese navigation technologies of the time, leaving Chinese rich maritime legacy (遗产) to later generations. However, the Chinese expedition never sought to establish colonial rule over these oceans by military force. 40 Chinas m
42、aritime dominance disappeared suddenly in the 1430s because of domestic changes, and the overseas expeditions were eventually ended by the court. All this happened only decades prior to the occurrence of the great age of European discovery and exploration. A. Seven times, the treasure fleets set off
43、 for the unknown. B. Zheng Hes great voyage started at the port of Nanjing. C. Aside from the economic impact, there was more cultural print. D. The actual economic impact of the expedition was difficult to evaluate. E. Zheng He traded Chinas products for foreign luxuries and daily products. F. It w
44、as intended to facilitate international and trade relationships with others. G. If its true, this remote village is evidence of an astonishing episode of maritime exploration in China. 第三部分第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）分） 第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1 分，满分分，满分 15 分）分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出
45、可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Despite the fact that the ocean plays a role in everything from the air we breathe to daily weather and climate patterns, we know very little about our ocean. And, most of our 41 of the ocean lies in shallower waters. Deeper waters remain a 42 even though we are relying more and more o
46、n these areas for food, energy, and other resources. Ocean exploration is about making discoveries, 43 things that are unusual and unexpected. Such searches, however, are not done randomly (随意地) 44 finding something new. They are disciplined and 45 and include rigorous (细致的) observations and documen
47、tation of biological, chemical, physical, geological, and archaeological aspects of the ocean. Findings made through ocean exploration are fundamental to reducing 46 in deep-ocean areas and providing the high-value environmental intelligence needed to 47 both current and emerging science and managem
48、ent needs. Exploration helps to ensure that ocean resources are not 48 managed, but managed well, so those resources are around for future generations to 49 . Information from ocean exploration is 50 to everyone. Unlocking the mysteries of deep-sea ecosystems can 51 new sources for medical drugs, fo
49、od, energy, and other products. Information from deep-ocean exploration can help predict earthquakes and tsunamis and help us understand how we are 52 and being affected by changes in Earths environment. Ocean exploration can improve ocean literacy (认识) and 53 young people to seek careers in science
50、, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The challenges of 54 the deep ocean can provide the basis for technology and engineering innovations that can be 55 in other situations. 41. A. discussion B. knowledge C. decision D. judgment 42. A. task B. business C. mystery D. headache 43. A. searching