1、 佛山市佛山市 2021 届普通高中高三教学质量检测届普通高中高三教学质量检测 英英 语语 本试卷满分 120 分，考试时间 120分钟 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。如需改动，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
2、最佳选项。 A There are many options for free video conferencing （会议）apps. Heres our short list of the best ones, where they shine and where they fall short. Google Hangouts The free video chat app from Google is a great example of a consumer-grade app. It integrates with Gmail and Google Calendar, making
3、 it easier for users to operate. Up to 10 participants can join the live conference with a plug-in application. And as it doesnt support dual stream video and content, some users complain that the video is not clear or reliable. Skype The app, developed by Microsoft, gives 10 users access to a confe
4、rence. Ifs worth noting that Microsoft is integrated with Skype. A plug-in application is required. Advanced features are fascinating, but only available for paid subscription. Zoom The free video conferencing solution from Zoom provides a service for group video calls with over 100 participants. Th
5、e Zoom Basic plan allows users to have 40-minute calls with a handful of features like screen sharing, local recording and camera filters. A plug-in application is necessary. All calls, which are limited to 40 minutes or less, are secured. Lifesize Lifesize has been in the video conferencing industr
6、y for long. By setting up a free account with Lifesize, you can quickly start a free video call with up to 25 participants. It is web-based and doesnt require downloads or an application on your devices. Guests can join the live call right from the website by clicking on your personal meeting ID lin
7、k. To use the additional features like 300-way calling, Microsoft integrations and 4K video conference room systems requires a paid subscription. 1. Which aspect of Google Hangouts is not satisfactory? A. User capacity. B. Video quality. C. User-friendliness. D. Technical support. 2. Which app offer
8、s a ten-minute conference service with 30 people for free? A. Google Hangouts. B. Skype. C. Zoom. D. Lifesize. 3. What is special about Lifesize? A. It integrates with Microsoft. B. It is completely free of charge. C. There is no time limit to its conferences. B Moving can be daunting - whether its
9、to a new city or an entirely new country. The good news? Volunteering can be a great way to settle into a new community, meet people, and learn valuable skills. Kajal Patil moved to the United States from India in February 2017. Having previously volunteered for two years as an assistant yoga teache
10、r in her home country, Kajal was enthusiastic about volunteering and began looking for volunteer opportunities that match her interests. She was drawn to a volunteer opportunity to review applications on behalf of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI), which aims to help Latin American
11、 and Caribbean business to bring positive changes to their societies and contribute more fully to economic development, prosperity and security in those places. After connecting with the opportunity and successfully completing the application process, Kajal got to work. Her role involved reviewing 4
12、4 in-depth applications from potential candidates across Latin America and the Caribbean for a four week fellowship in the US. She was responsible for describing the business ideas presented by these candidates, assessing the social impact of their businesses, and determining the strength of candida
13、tes to carry out their plans. With almost 4,000 applicants in 2017, volunteers like Kajal were important members of the YLAI team. Kajal says that this volunteer opportunity super-charged her existing skills, while helping her build new ones such as time management, business analysis, decision-makin
14、g, planning, and presenting. She is now looking for her next volunteer opportunity and reflects positively on her experience with YLAI. A new country brings in a lot of new experiences and volunteering helped me to settle into a new environment, adds Kajal. “By helping others, I felt needed in socie
15、ty. It promoted my confidence, and other people benefited too. Volunteering is a great opportunity to improve yourself others, and the whole society.” Whether you recently moved to a new place or are looking to expand your influence on your current community, find a volunteer opportunity to empower
16、yourself, and others. 4. What do we know about Kajal? A. She is an experienced volunteer. B. She received education in the U.S. C. She founded a volunteer organization. D. She worked as a professional yoga teacher. 5. What was included in Kajals voluntary work for YLAI? A. Carrying out the selected
17、business plans. B. Assessing the applications of candidates. C. Helping candidates think up business ideas. D. Simplifying candidates application process. 6. What does Kajal think of volunteering? A. It contributes to local economy. B. It focuses on skills development. C. It helps develop peoples in
18、terests. D. It benefits individuals and society. 7. What is the purpose of this text? A. To share experience of volunteering. B. To recognize the contribution of YLAL C. To suggest a way to settle into a new place. D. To evaluate the benefits of volunteering abroad. C For most business speakers, the
19、 necessary stage time, structure, and conscious editing to bring about maximum effect just arent there - most people dont have to speak often enough to get it. Conversely, the speakers who deliver their talk most tend to be the best and most polished. They know where the laugh lines are, they know w
20、hat phrasing works best, and they know their timing. Just like standup comedians. Standup comedy, at its basic principles, is a combination of material (what you say) and delivery (how you say it). It is no different than typical speeches or presentations. TV slots (节目时间)for new comedians tend to be
21、 under five minutes, which forces them to continuously refine and refine again in order to achieve maximum effect from each word. Conference organizers still tend to book speakers in 40-60 minute time slots but who, these days, has an hour to focus on one person? Some of the best speeches in history
22、 have clocked in at less than 20 minutes. Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg Address was 272 words and lasted two minutes. Winston Churchills Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” speech was 688 words. The most powerful emotional expression two humans can say to each other is just three words: “love, and “care.” M
23、ost people switch off at around the ten-minute mark. As mentioned in Brain Rules. studies by noted educator Wilbert McKeachie demonstrate that typically, attention increases from the beginning of the lecture to ten minutes into the lecture and decreases after that point.” This is why the organizatio
24、n for online talk TED has shortened its earlier 18-minute format. They figured out that brevity is levity. However, many conference and event producers havent got it right. Most speakers cant hold the attention of an audience for 40-60 minutes. Its something even the best standup comedians battle wi
25、th. Yet business speakers seldom ask for a shorter slot. They should. 8. What pushes new standup comedians to improve their presentations? A. The limited given time. B. The topic of their speeches. C. The audiences expectation. D. The place of their performance. 9. Why does the author mention the be
26、st speeches in history in Paragraph 3? A. To expand the influence of the two speeches. B. To prove that powerful speeches can be brief C. To illustrate the power of emotional expressions. D. To show how famous people shortened speeches. 10. Why did TED reset a time limit? A. The organizers cant book
27、 long TV slots. B. The audience cannot focus for a long time. C. The access to online speeches was limited. D. The speakers tend to deliver short speeches. 11. What are business speakers advised to do? A. To cut down their speech time. B. To interact more with the audience. C. To pay more attention
28、to the contents. D. To battle against the standup comedians. D Social distancing is not a new concept in the natural world, where infectious diseases are commonplace. Through specialized senses animals can detect certain diseases and change their behavior to avoid getting ill. In 1966, while studyin
29、g chimps （猩猩） in a Tanzanian national park, zoologist Jane Goodall observed a chimp named McGregor who had caught a highly infectious virus. His fellow chimps attacked him and threw him out of the troop. In one instance, McGregor approached chimps in a tree. He reached out a hand in greeting, but th
30、e。others moved away without a backward glance. “For a full two minutes, old McGregor sat motionless, staring after them,” Goodall notes in her 1971 book In the Shadow of Man. 4CIfs really not that different to how some societies react today to such a tragedy.” Not all animals are so aggressive towar
31、d their ailing neighbors. Sometimes its as simple as avoiding those who may infect you. When Kiesecker, a lead scientist in America, studied American bullfrog in the late 1990s, he found that bullfrogs could not only detect a deadly smell of infection in other bullfrogs, but healthy members actively
32、 avoided those that were sick. Bullfrogs rely on chemicals signals to determine who is sick or not. Caribbean lobsters also shun diseased members of their community, well before they become infectious. It takes about eight weeks for lobsters infected with the deadly virus Panulirus argus mininuceovi
33、rus to become dangerous to others. Normally social animals, lobsters begin keeping away from the diseased as early as four weeks after infection - once the lobsters can smell certain chemicals released by sick individuals. Overall, its important to note that, unlike us, animals dont realize if they
34、stay home, they might actually reduce the infection rate, Kiesecker explains, As humans, we have that ability. Its a big difference. 12, What can we learn about the chimps from Goodalls observation? A. They kept a distance from one another. B. They became aggressive when infected. C. The infected av
35、oided contact with others. D. The infected were forced to leave the group. 13. What does the underlined word shun in Paragraph 6 probably mean? A. Avoid. B. Cure. C. Get rid of. D. Get along with. 14. How are humans different from animals according to Kiesecker? A. Humans are more sensitive to virus
36、. B. Humans are less likely to get infected. C. Humans treat infectious diseases in a wiser way. D. Humans can detect chemical signals more quickly. 15. Which might be the best title for the text? A. Help Me Out B. Leave Me Alone C. Stay Away From Us D. Stay Home Stay Healthy 第二节（共 5小题；每小题 25 分，满分 1
37、2.5 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。 Most people dont change. They just become more the way they already are. While there are exceptions, most people find change difficult for several reasons. 16 Few people have an accurate view of who they are and therefore dont recognize the aspects
38、of themselves that need improvement. Most people want to believe theyre well-balanced and even outstanding in many ways. 17. Then there is the human tendency to explain ones difficulties, short-comings and failures by blaming somebody else. You may find many people around you blame their poor perfor
39、mance on others. 18 You will probably never hear anyone tell you, I got fired because I was doing a terrible job. Few people are willing to accept that their own character traits （弱点）and choices are the main causes of the kind of life they lead. Finally, most people find it too challenging to change
40、 as it involves a lot of hard work and difficult choices. Even when you have learned enough about your true nature, you then need to do something about it. 19 Meanwhile, the reality can be really discouraging: you do much hard work but the results are never the sort of ideal change youre looking for
41、. No matter how difficult it is, you still need to find your own way to change. 20 Real change begins with the recognition of these ways in which you have remained the same and made the same unfortunate choices your entire life. A. And you need to do that over and over again. B. However, you have li
42、ttle choice but to change, C. They dont know themselves very well, to begin with. D. They all want to think of themselves as special and gifted. E. At first, they dont think change can bring about encouraging results. F. You can review the past and make a list of the ways in which you havent changed
43、. G. They are likely to paint themselves as victims but never recognize their own problems. 第二部分语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分） 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 1分，满分 15分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空格处的 最佳选项。 Theres a lot that can be conveyed in a handshake. Throughout history, such a(n) 21 was used to complete a business
44、deal, 22 friendship, or signal trust. But touching strangers can also lead to other, less beneficial shared 23 - like disease outbreaks. As fears about COVID-19 increase, France has warned its citizens to 24 handshakes. However, with histories dating back thousands of years, the greeting is likely t
45、oo 25 established to be so easily stopped. A popular theory about the handshakers 26 is that it began as a gesture of .27 . Grasping hands proved you were not holding a weapon -and 28 them was a way to ensure your partner had nothing hiding up their sleeve. There may be a 29 explanation for its last
46、ing power. In a 2015 study, researchers in Israel filmed handshakes between hundreds of strangers and found nearly a quarter of participants 30 their hands unconsciously afterwards. 31, they concluded that a handshake may be used to detect chemical signals, and possibly as a means of 32 -just as oth
47、er animals do by smelling each other. Behavioral scientist Vai Curtis in London says that one possible 33 for the handshake as greeting is to imply that the other person is 34 enough to share germs (细菌)with. Because of this, the 35 can go in and out of style depending on public health concerns. 2 1.
48、 A. message B. expression C. act D. solution 22. A. indicate B. describe C. value D. end 23. A. outcomes B. beliefs C concerns D. emotions 24. A. understand B. pause C. study D. change 25. A. clearly B. originally C. officially D. firmly 26. A. advantage B. meaning C. benefit D. origin 27. A. peace
49、B. appreciation C. power D. satisfaction 28. A. waving B. holding C shaking D. searching 29. A. detailed B. historical C. scientific D. cultural 30. A, washed B. sniffed C. clapped D. grasped 31.A. Besides B. Therefore C. Meanwhile D. However 32. A. protection B. warning C. control D. communication 33. A. role B. reason C. means D. source 34. A. mature B. cautious
