2020-2021年高三7月适应性测试(英语)试卷

2020 届高三 7 月适应性测试 英语
第一部分：知识运用（共两节，45 分）
第一节 语法填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 15 分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写 1 个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空
白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
A
The U.S. National Park Service had been celebrating its 100
th
anniversary in 2016. Woodrow Wilson,
America’s 28
th
president, _ 1 (establish) the National Park Service in 1916 to “protect the wild and
wonderful landscapes”. But it is an earlier leader who 2 (consider) the father of the America’s national parks.
In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt, America’s 26
th
president, signed the American Antiquities Act. The act led to the 3
(create) of many of the 413 sits within the National Park Service today.
B
Hotel guests in China might no longer have to worry about waiting in line to check in.
At the Alibaba’s futuristic hotels, guests can scan their IDs, take a photo and input personal details using a
machine to check 4 (they) in. The smart equipment will then provide a room key card after the information
is checked. The process will take less than a minute, according to the company. 5 (target) only Chinese
customers for now, the new service will be gradually expanded globally. The rapid growth of mobile usage and
mobile payment adoption can show 6 convenient people’s life is becoming in China.
C
This is a story of a long fight between an old, experience fisherman and the best fish he ever caught. Santiago
has returned to the village 7 any fish for 84 days. On the eighty-fifth day, a huge fish takes the bait. He
tries to pull the fish up, 8 the fish is too big and strong. Instead, the fish begins to pull the boat. The old
man continues to fight and hold on to the line. On the third day, the fish gets 9 (tire). Santiago is able to
pull the fish closer and kill it. But the blood of the fish 10 (attract) sharks. A shark has eaten the meat of
the fish and now only the skeleton is left.

第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，共 30 分）

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上
将该项涂黑。
About six years ago I was going through a tough time, trying to work two jobs to afford my rent. On a cold
Sunday morning, I went to GameStop—a video game retailer(零售商), to 11 the game I’d reserved. A woman
in a car parked outside called me when I 12 the store. Though it was in broad daylight, I was 13 about
it and kept some distance when I walked over. She said she couldn’t walk and 14 me to purchase a Kinect, a
popular game, for her as her 15 Christmas gift. Due to her leg disease it was 16 for her to move around. She
called ahead but the employee wasn’t willing to 17 . She gave me about $$100 in cash and her credit card.
I walked back in and bought the Kinect. Then it occurred to me that this woman, a complete stranger, 18 me.
What was it that stopped me from lying about the payment method and just 19 her cash? She couldn’t know I
wasn’t a 20 and how could she possibly have so much 21 in someone?
I handed her the cash back, 22 that I had to pay with her card—it was above $$100 at the time, and handed
over the 23 and her credit card. “This is what my son’s been longing for. Thank you! By the way, just from
24 at you, I know you are the one who’ll be a friend to someone 25 . You have a face of angel!” She said.
She gave me $$10 and 26 to take it back. Then she 27 , saying “Merry Christmas!”
She had no idea how much of a 28 even $$10 made. I was able to buy a few cheap groceries for the week
and it really made a 29 time in my life a little better. She may think I helped her; 30 , I truly feel like the
one who was being gifted something amazing.

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11. A. donate
12. A. kept
13. A. shy
14. A. forbade
15. A. own
16. A. painful
17. A. order
18. A. fooled
19. A. throwing
20. A. seller
21. A. affection
22. A. arguing
23. A. game
24. A. laughing
25. A. in need
26. A. offered
27. A. came over
28. A. difference
29. A. happy
30. A. finally
B. cancel
B. approached
B. crazy
B. encouraged
B. employer’s
B. convenient
B. share
B. trusted
B. tearing
B. porter
B. faith
B. lying
B. check
B. glancing
B. in public
B. managed
B. drove away
B. living
B. carefree
B. therefore
C. win
C. decorated
C. disappointed
C. requested
C. husband’s
C. funny
C. help
C. inspired
C. pocketing
C. guard
C. worry
C. promising
C. wallet
C. yelling
C. in return
C. refused
C. fell down
C. bargain
C. confusing
C. however
D. return
D. exited
D. positive
D. allowed
D. son’s
D. secure
D. pay
D. annoyed
D. losing
D. cheat
D. interest
D. explaining
D. change
D. pointing
D. in danger
D. decided
D. pulled up
D. profit
D. hard
D. otherwise

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，40 分）
第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，共 30 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
NAME：LINDA C. MAYNARD
JOB OBJECTIVE

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Seek special education, primary school, or middle school math teaching position.
EDUCATION
Rivier College, Nashua, NH Bachelor of Arts in Education – May, 2016
Major: Elementary Education
Have successfully completed PRAXIS I and PRAXIS II.
Meet highly qualified testing requirements for Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
November, 2015 – January, 2016 Wilkins Elementary School, Amherst, NH
Student Teacher
? Developed and completed student- centered lessons in all subject areas for various groups of fifth grade special
and regular education students.
? Adapted lessons to meet students’ needs by reviewing their backgrounds and learning needs through IEPs.
? Communicated with parents on a regular basis via newsletters, daily or weekly progress reports, phone calls,
and email, resulting in increased parental participation at home.
August, 2005 - November, 2005
Charlotte Avenue Elementary School, Nashua, NH
Student Teacher
? Taught reading and writing through Language Experience Approach methods.
? Introduced a Writer’s Workshop appropriate for first grade students to help them to develop their writing skills.
? Developed learning stations in reading and science, enabling students to be more independent learners.
Spring, 2015
Wilkins Elementary School, Amherst, NH
Designed and taught a unit on Insects and Spiders, based on New Hampshire Standards to 23 self-contained, third

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and fourth grade students with disabilities.
Fall, 2014
Amherst Street Elementary School, Nashua, NH
Taught a class of 24 third grade students with a wide range of abilities.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
? After-School Aid, Amherst School District, Amherst, NH (2014-2015)
? Summer Camp advisor, YMCA, Nashua, NH (Summers, 2012 and 2013)
? Big BrotherBig Sister Volunteer, Nashua, NH (2012-2015)

31. What kind of job does Linda want to get?
A. A Big BrotherBig Sister Volunteer.
C. A special education advisor.
B. A middle school math teacher.
D. A summer camp advisor.
. 32. Linda has worked for the following schools EXCEPT
A. Rivier College, Nashua, NH
B. Wilkins Elementary School, Amherst, NH
C. Charlotte Avenue Elementary School, Nashua, NH
D. Amherst Street Elementary School, Nashua, NH
33. What can we know about Linda according to the passage?
A. She is majoring in math education.
C. She has plenty of experience in teaching.
B. She has a master degree in education.
D. She works as an advisor after getting her degree.

B
San Diego Summer
The summer after my second year in high school, I finally had the opportunity to live with my super-cool sister
in San Diego for three weeks. It was going to be great! I would lie on the beach in the sun. Perhaps I would surf a
little or ride my bike around Coronado Island.
Meanwhile, I would spend every morning, Monday through Friday, teaching YMA (Young Men’s Association)

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kids how to play tennis… for FREE. Since college wasn’t too far off, and since I had practically zero hours of
community service, my volunteering at the YMA was smart. I like tennis and I even kind of like little kids. Anyway,
life was going to be amazing for those three weeks.
On my first day at the YMA, I was shocked by the smallness of the children. The kids could barely grasp a
racket ( 球 拍 ), let alone swing one. This is when it occurred to me how potentially terrible the situation was—a
group of thirty small kinds with rackets in hand and only four coaches. The odds were definitely against us. Luckily,
the kids did not have blood on their minds, and they were relatively obedient and cooperative.
It soon became painfully obvious that I was the only “coach“ actually coaching. Rather ironic when one
considered that I was the only one of the four not being paid. I must admit, however, that despite all of my efforts
these children were not getting much. I had to keep telling myself that while I couldn’t enjoy the fruits of my labor
at the moment, I would be reveling in the benefits once college application time came. Thus, I soldiered on.
As I returned home the day before the opening of school, I had complete peace of mind. Although I did not
spend every day at the beach as I had initially hoped to do, I did accomplish several things and I felt as if I were a
better person because of my three weeks in San Diego.

34. Before going to San Diego the author was full of
A. expectation B. confidence

C. doubt
.
D. curiosity
35. The author taught YMA kids to play tennis because she
A. would like to do something for poor children
B. loved small children and was active as a volunteer

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C. must do community service to be admitted to college
D. wanted to earn some money to pay for her college fees
36. The underlined words “I soldiered on” reflect the author’s
A. desire to join the army
C. satisfaction with young learners
.
B. love for teaching tennis
D. determination not to give up
in the future. 37. According to the last paragraph, we can predict that the author will
A. become a teacher
C. play tennis professionally
B. move to the beach
D. help others more willingly

C
Brown- headed cowbirds are obligate brood parasites(寄生生物). That means they lay their eggs in the nests
of other birds, leaving all the hard work of incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks to somebody else. Luckily,
many of those other species have evolved some anti-parasitic defenses. Yellow warblers, for example, produce a
certain type of call to warn other warblers about nearby cowbirds. Researchers call it a “seet” call.
“We were working on the yellow warbler. And whenever we were doing seet call playbacks to the yellow
warblers, the red- winged blackbirds kept showing up…that was truly a discovery, this aha moment that allowed us
to explore this question even further.” Ecologist Mark Hauber from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
who ran the study.
The yellow warblers’ seet call is called a “referential alarm call,” because it is only produced for a single threat,
the brown-headed cowbird. “And in response to the seet call, the female yellow warbler, instead of attacking or
mobbing the cowbird, she sneaks back to her nest and sits on it tightly so as to prevent the cowbird from being able
to lay a parasitic egg.”
Red-winged blackbirds, which sometimes nest near warblers, do not produce referential alarm calls. But it
turns out that they can eavesdrop on the yellow warblers' calls. And they respond to the seet calls the same way they
do to the sounds of cowbirds themselves. The results were published in the journal Communications Biology. So
red-winged blackbirds prefer to nest near yellow warblers, since the warblers provide additional vigilance against
brown- headed cowbirds.
The researchers say that this is the first known evidence of animals eavesdropping on anti-parasitic referential

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alarm calls. “These birds, yellow warblers and red-winged blackbirds, they speak different languages. They
understand their own communication signals and systems. And what we discovered here is basically a bilingual red-
winged blackbird that can understand the vocalization systems and the communication systems of another species.”
Young birds learn their vocalizations much like young humans learn languages. In future research, Hauber
hopes to understand whether the birds rely on the same underlying neurobiology(神经生物学) to understand the
calls of other species as they do when they hear the sounds of their own species—and what that might mean for our
own efforts to learn additional languages.
38. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Brown-headed cowbirds are attached to other birds.
B. Birds have the capability to learn and speak languages.
C. Birds rely on the neurobiology to understand the warning call.
D. Red-winged blackbirds understand warnings from yellow warblers.
39. What does the underlined word “seet” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. alarm B. panic C. notice
40. In response to the seet call, the female yellow warblers will .
A. attack or mob brown-headed cowbirds to protect their own eggs.
B. take effective action to prevent brown- headed cowbirds laying an egg.
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D. trick

C. hide their nests to forbid brown-headed cowbirds laying a parasitic egg.
D. warn other female yellow warblers about nearby brown-headed cowbirds.
41. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To present new findings on birds
C. To introduce the function of seet call.
B. To explain a study method on birds.
D. To propose new means to learn languages.

D
During the school year many parents take on the role of driver as they drive their children from one lesson to
another. Understandably so. Many of us want our children to have a little taste of everything, from organized sports
to music, dance and more. But we can overdo it, leaving our children feeling a little burnt out, and according to
parent educator Diane Loisie, it’s their school work which suffers the most. “After school, if they’re busy in a
number of sporting events, besides they need to do their homework, then the time they’ll feel sleepy is in the
classroom. Your child needs free time. So if you’re filling up that after school time, then it’s during the day they’re
going to be taking a break.”
Professor Claire McDermott agrees that there’s a lot to be gained from sometimes putting those scheduled
lessons and activities away. “Relaxing time is important for children. It’s time just to do the things they want to do.
A child can go up to their room, or they can play around. It doesn’t look like productive time; parents certainly
wouldn’t be saying ‘Wow, are they ever learning things now?’ But this relaxing time gives both the body and the
brain just a wonderful chance to relax after a day. It helps a child prepare for sleep, put it also helps to understand
the learning that’s gone on that day.”
It’s hard to prevent signing our kids up for some activities and lessons. After all, many of us want our children
to have a head start in life and the chance to join in great activities in the arts or sports is a part of that. However,
Loisie feels that in the long run most children feel better with just a few key activities because it gives them an
opportunity to master them. “When we get our children in too many activities because we want our children to
experience everything, then what we’re doing is setting them up not to be good at one thing or gaining a skill.” So
choose your children’s activities wisely. It may be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your kids… and for
the family drivers!

42. What is the biggest disadvantage for children to attend too many lessons after school?

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A. They can get bored easily about everything.
B. They might have no time to do the homework.
C. They might not pay much attention to learning.
D. They can not easily focus on learning during the day.
43. What should we think of children’s playing around aimlessly?
A. It is productive. B. It is helpful. C. It is a bad habit. D. It is a waste of time.
44. Why should parents limit the activities our children attend?
A. Because children have no time.
B. Because children cannot learn many things.
C. Because children do not have enough sleep.
D. Because children cannot focus on too many activities.
45. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Don’t be children’s drivers after school.
B. Choose activities for your children wisely.
C. Make your children learn as much as possible.
D. Let children learn something from various subjects.

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第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，共 10 分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。
Seeing with Sound
According to a British news report, some blind people may finally get a chance to “see”. 46 Dr.
Peter Meijer, a scientist at Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands，has developed a new system called
the vOICe. The three middle letters in vOICe stand for “Oh, I see.” Meijer’s groundbreaking technology may change
the lives of visually impaired people all over the world.
A wearable setup of vOICe system consists of a head-mounted camera, stereo headphones and a notebook PC.
The system translates visual images from a camera into complex sounds. 47
The program is based on the theory that people can hear certain sounds and learn to translate them into meaningful
mental images. Everything has its own unique sound. 48 The height of an object or person could be
determined by pitch( 音 调 ). And a built-in color identifier speaks out color names when it is turned on. What the
vOICe users have to learn is which sound goes with which object. Meijer says that he is counting on the brain’s
ability to adapt.
49 Within two weeks, most people who experiment with the vOICe system are able to identify objects
such as walls and doors. They are also able to identify certain situations，including whether the lights in a room are
on or off. 50 Meijer thinks that translating will eventually become automatic for many users of the vOICe，
bringing a form of vision to them for the very first time.

A. Brighter areas sound louder than darker areas.
B. It then sends these sounds to a person through headphones.
C. However, they are not learning to see with their eyes；they are learning to see with their ears.
D. The vOICe system is aiming to treat blindness by translating images from a camera into audio signals.
E. Meijer supposes that the brain is interested in the information “content”, but not the information “carrier”.
F. To evaluate the new system’s effectiveness, a number of visually impaired people were chosen to test the vOICe.
G. Over time, some users have even learned to “watch” television or “recognize” the outlines of buildings as they
walk.

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第三部分： 书面表达 (共两节，35 分)
第一节（15 分）
假设你是红星中学学生李华。你的美国朋友Jim 在给你的邮件中询问你高三生活的收获。请你给他回复邮
件，内容包括：
1. 收获；
2. 感受；
3. 愿望。
注意：1．词数不少于 50；
2．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,



Yours,
Li Hua

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第二节（20 分）
假设你是红星中学学生李华。最近你们班参加了学校组织 的一次爱心助贫活动。请按顺序把活动过程写下来,
向校刊英语栏目投稿。 注意：词数不少于 60。




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