1、西藏拉萨中学2021届高三英语上学期第四次月考试题（满分：150分，考试时间：120分钟。请将答案填写在答题卡上）注意事项：1. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。3. 一卷填涂在答题卡上完成，二卷完成在答题纸上。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）答题过程中，请先将答案标在试题上。录音内容结束后，你将有2分钟时间将答案转涂到答题卡上。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
2、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。例：How much is the shirt? A. 19.15 B. 9.18 C. 9.15答案是C。1What will the woman do this afternoon?AGo shopping. BDo some exercise. CWash her clothes. 2Why does the woman call the man?ATo cancel a flight. BTo make an apology. CTo put off a meeting. 3How much more does David
3、 need for the car?A$20,000. B$ 5,000. C$25,000.4What is Jane doing?APlanning a tour. BCalling her father. CAsking for leave.5How does the man feel?ADizzy. BTired. CThirsty. 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
4、独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What does Jack want to do?A. Go to the zoo. B. Play outside. C. Watch TV.7. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At home. B. In a cinema. C. In a supermarket.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What does Richard do?A. Hes a newsman. B. Hes a researcher. C. Hes a manager.9. Where
5、 is Richard going next week?A. Birmingham. B. Mexico City. C. Shanghai.10. What will the speakers do tomorrow?A. Eat out together. B. Visit a university. C. See Professor Hayes.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Librarian and library user.B. Teacher and st
6、udent.C. School friends.12. Why does Jim suggest Mary buy the book?A. Its sold at a discount price.B. Its important for her study.C. Its written by Professor Lee.13. What will Jim do for Mary?A. Ask Henry for help.B. Lend her some money.C. Share his book with her.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14.Where does Stell
7、a live?A. In Memphis. B. In Boston. C. In St Louis. 15.What would Peter and his family like to do on Beale Street?A. Visit a museum. B. Listen to music C. Have dinner. 16.What kind of hotel does Peter prefer?A. A big one. B.A modern one. C. A quite one. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.How many lab sessions wil
8、l the students have every week?A. One. B. Two. C. Three.18.What are the students allowed to wear in the lab ?A. Long scarves. B. Tennis shoes. C. Loose clothes. 19.Why should the students avoid mixing liquid with paper?A. It may cause a fire. B. It may create waste. C. It may produce pollution.20.Wh
9、at does the speaker mainly talk about?A. Grades the student will receive. B. Rules the students should follow. C. Experiments the students will do.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，并在答题卡上将该题涂黑。ABayfield Shopping Coupons (优惠券)1. Six Hours Free ParkingIf you
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16、 November 14.21. What are these ads for?A. Special offers at a shopping center.B. Food you can order for delivery.C. Places to go on vacation.D. Things on sale in a big store.22. Which of the following is true according to the ads?A. Spending $ 50 means 3 hours of free parking.B. One person can buy
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18、e centerC. you may get a free one if you buy a shirt, or a tie, or a pair of shoesD. you wont get a free soft drink unless you spend more than 10 dollars on the mealBWhile employers are all highlighting the importance of crucial (决定性的) soft skills such as emotional intelligence and learning ability
19、as determinants（决定因素）of performance, the most competitive roles require graduate credentials, to the point of going beyond current levels of supply. At the same time, the number of people going to university continues to rise, effectively devaluating the undergraduate degree. So more and more of the
20、 workforce is considering going to graduate school.What, then, are the pros and cons you should weigh up if you are trying to decide whether or not to go to graduate school?In terms of advantages, a graduate education increases your salary potential its no secret that people who have graduate school
21、 degrees are generally paid more money than those who dont.Moreover, as AI and automation are replacing many roles with others, a growing percentage of workers are being pushed to reskill and up skill to remain relevant, and theres no doubt that most of us will have to reinvent ourselves at some poi
22、nt if we want to do the same. If you find yourself in this situation currently, grad school may not be a bad choice.The challenge will be picking what to major in. If you set yourself to be a strong candidate for jobs that are in high demand, you risk being too late to the game by the time you gradu
23、ate.But what if you can learn for free? There is much online content books, videos and more now widely available, at no cost, to the general public. If you want a masters degree simply to gain more knowledge or acquire a new skill, its important to recognize that its possible to recreate learning ex
24、periences without paying thousands of dollars for a class.And you may be wasting your time. Historically, people have mostly learned by doing there is a big difference between communicating the theoretical experience of something and actually going through that experience.Most people would probably
25、prefer the qualifications of a graduate degree without the underlying experience and education, to the actual experience and education without the formal qualifications that follow. What is actually valued are the consequences of having a degree, rather than the degree itself.24. In employers eyes,
26、graduate credentials .A. are far more important than soft skillsB. are still necessary for the most wanted positionsC. are becoming less and less valuableD. guarantee the possession of crucial soft skills25. What can we learn from Para. 4?A. Everyone needs self-improvement to stay employed.B. Techni
27、cal development is driving people to improve themselves.C. AI and automation are making self-improvement increasingly easy.D. Technical development will lead to more serious unemployment.26. What might the author think of learning with online content?A. Convenient and affordable.B. Not as reliable a
28、s graduate school classes.C. Time-consuming with the large amount of content.D. More interesting with the diverse forms of materials.27. Which is the best title for this passage?A. How Will A Graduate Degree Change Your Life?B. How Much Value Does A Graduate Degree Have?C. Should You Go To Graduate
29、School?D. Which Is More Important: A Degree or Ability?CResearchers have found, for the first time plants letting out sounds when they are stressed. According to a study a team of scientists recorded tomato and tobacco plants producing sound frequencies which humans cannot hear in stressful situatio
30、nssuch as when they experienced a lack of water or their stems were cut.Previous research has shown that plants respond to stress by producing several visual and chemical signals. For example, stressed plants may differ in color and shape compared to unstressed plants. Meanwhile, some are also known
31、 to let out things in response to drought or being eaten.The latest study, meanwhile, is the first to identify plants making sounds which can be detected over a distance. The team detected the tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour on average when they were exposed to drought conditions, while the tob
32、acco plants produced 11. When the stems of the plants were cut, the tomato plants made 25 sounds an hour on average and the tobacco plants produced 15. As a comparison, unstressed plants made less than one sound per hour on average, according to the study.The team say that while they only tested tom
33、ato and tobacco, its possible that other plants could also produce sounds, adding that the latest findings could have an influence on agriculture. “Plant sound production could offer a new way for monitoring crops water statea question of key importance in agriculture”, the authors wrote in the stud
34、y more precise irrigation can save up to 50 percent of the water cost and increase the production.“In times when more and more areas are exposed to drought due to climate change, while human population and consumption keep increasing, effective water use becomes even more important for food security
35、”, they said “Our results, showing the ability to distinguish between drought-stressed and control plants on the basis of plant sounds, open a new direction in the field of precision agriculture.”28. Which of the following best describes plants response to stress in the study?A. Sing. C. Cry. B. Lau
36、gh. D. Sigh.29. What can we know from the first 3 paragraphs?A. Humans can hear the sound produced by plants.B. Stressed and unstressed plants look the same.C. Stressed tomato plants make more sounds than tobacco.D. Plants in stressful situations make the fewest sounds.30. How can the study help agr
37、iculture?A. Lower the cost. B. Better the quality.C. Monitor climate change. D. Control the pests.31. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?A. Culture. B. Health. C. Education. D. Science.DThe future home is something that people have talked about for decades. Because the future home
38、idea inspires our imagination, scientists and engineers have been working hard to develop different systems to make houses smarter.The video camera at the entrance recognizes visitors using facial recognition software. The facial recognition software of the future home will not only recognize friend
39、s, but strangers as well. And the software in your future home will run the strangers faces against a database of criminals.The future home will also have smart appliances as well. There will be a vast networking system connecting them. Ovens, microwaves and refrigerators will be controlled automati
40、cally, so remote cooking will be a possibility and meals are prepared for your arrival.There will also be green systems in place such as saving and reusing wash water and bath water. Plants and people may receive pure or mineralized drinking water.If you think this future home idea is pie in the sky
41、 or science fiction, then think again. Most of the systems described here are either in development or already out at the market. Future homes may not be standard yet for the middle class but this isnt as far ahead as many people would think.32. What can the facial recognition software be used for i
42、n future homes?A. Greeting friends. B. Collecting visitors information.C. Recognizing visitors. D. Following dangerous criminals.33. Which of the following indicates the future house is environment-friendly?A. Facial recognition software. B. Remote cooking.C. Saving and reusing water. D. mart refrig
43、erators.34. What does the underlined word standard in the last paragraph mean?A. Attractive. B. Common. C. Special. D. Excellent.35. What is the best title for the passage?A. Various Household Appliances B. A Smart Networking SystemC. Software in Future Home D. Smart Future Home 第二节 任务型阅读（共5小题。每小题2分
44、，满分10分）根据对话内容，从所给对话后面的选项中选出能填入文中空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。备选项中有两项为多余选项。Procrastination(拖延症) Tech SupportChoosing between immediate satisfaction and future benefit can easily lead to shortsighted decisions: Watching TV instead of going to the gym, for example, or going through social media rather than wor
45、king on a challenging project. 36 To guide individuals toward greatest choices, Falk Lieder, a cognitive scientist, and his colleagues designed a digital tool called a “cognitive prosthesis.” It uses artificial intelligence to match a decisions immediate reward with its long-term worth after making
46、a to-do list. The researchers developed a set of models and algorithms(算法) that consider various elements such as a list of tasks, an individuals unwillingness to each and the amount of time available. 37 It helps to encourage that person to complete them all.The idea was to turn the challenging pro
47、jects that people pursue in the real world into a game like environment. “The point system gives people achievable goals that signal that theyre making progress.” Lieder says. 38 The results, published online in August in Nature Human Behavior, revealed that the AI support system helped people make
48、better, faster decisions and procrastinate lessand it made them more likely to complete all the assigned tasks. In one experiment, in which the researchers presented 120 participants with a list of several writing assignments. 39 However, the rate was only 56 percent for those not using it.Lieder sa
49、ys one of the current tools limitations is that it can handle only short to-do lists. 40 At the same time, they are working with a company called Complice to integrate the tool into an existing to-do list app. The researchers also plan to run field experiments to see how well their cognitive prosthe
50、sis succeed in the real world.A. The team tested this tool in a series of experiments with human subjects.B. People often struggle to do whats best for them in the long run.C.The system then assigns reward points to each task in a way that is customized.D. They found that 85 percent of individuals w
51、ho used the tool completed all their tasks.E. And now, he and his team are trying to develop it up for a larger number of tasks.F. A study was conducted to find a way to help people increase their decision-making ability.G. This tool is a convincing demonstration that procrastination is something th
52、at this strategy can help with quite a lot.第三部分 英语知识应用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从后面各题所给的四个选项(A，B，C，D)中，选出能填入文中空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as terminally ill. He was given six months to live. His 41 for recovery was 1 in 500.He could see the worr
53、y, depression and 42 in his life contributed to his 43 . He wondered, If illness can be caused by being 44 , can health be created by being positive?He was 45 to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the 46 movies he could find-Keaton,
54、 Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. He 47 funny stories. He asked his friends to call him 48 they said, heard or did something funny.His pain was so great that he could not fall 49 . Laughing for 10 minutes, he found, 50 the pain for several hours so he could sleep.Surprisingly, he 51 recovered fro
55、m his illness and lived 52 20 happy, healthy and productive years. He 53 his recovery to the love of his family and friends, and laughter.Some people think laughter is a 54 of time.Nothing could be further from the truth. Laughter is very important to our 55 life, to our health and happiness, to our
56、 aliveness. If were not well, 56 helps us get well; if we are well, laughter helps us 57 that way.Since Cousins ground-breaking subjective work, scientific studies have shown that laughter has a healing 58 on the body, the mind and the emotions.So if you like laughter, 59 it sound medical advice as
57、often as you can. If you dont like a laughter, then take your 60 laugh anyway.41. Apower Bchance Cability Dright42. Ahappiness Bexcitement Canger Dpleasure43. Aaccident Bdisease Cincident Dfailure44. Acareless Bconfident Cpositive Dnegative 45. Adetermined Bsurprised Chonored Dallowed46. Ahorror Btr
58、agedy Cboring Dfunny47. Asold Btalked Crecited Dread 48. Ahowever Bwhenever Cwhatever Dwhichever49. Aasleep Bsilent Cill Dbehind50. Adeveloped Bproduced Cincreased Dreduced51. Afully Bequally CexactlyDfairly52. Aanother Bother Cthe other Dothers53. Adescribes Bsees Ctries Dowes54. Amatter Bwaste Cde
59、mand Dquestion55. Abalanced Bbusy Csocial Dcrazy56. Asongs Bthoughts Claughter Dunderstanding57. ARemainBstop Clead Dend58. AEffortBresult Ceffect Dreason59. AConsiderBConvinceCConnectDcompare60. ASubjectBMedicineCServiceDknowledge 第二节 语法填空（共10小题。每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当内容（不多于3个词汇）或括号中词汇的正确形式。并
60、将答案填写在答题卡第6170题相应位置上。Cultural TV programs experienced a come-back at the start of 2017. Two weeks after the 61 (conclude) of the hit show Chinese Poetry Competition 2, a new program, Readers, has become 62 (wide) popular, inspiring fresh enthusiasm for literature in China.The weekly talk show, produ
61、ced and hosted by famous TV personality Dong Qing, 63 (invite) people from all walks of life to read aloud excerpts of poems, essays and books they like or wrote. The 64 (participate) also share stories from their own life explaining why particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives.T
62、hree days after 65 (it) first broadcast on CCTV-1, Readers has enjoyed instant success and struck thousands of people. Through the poetic words, Readers has brought the 66 (lose) habit of reading aloud back into the public spotlight.Readers is one of the culture-themed TV programs to restore the cou
63、ntrys passion 67 literature in recent years. Its success is very 68 (encourage) in todays television world 69 reality shows have played a leading part so far.With more people 70 (reflect) on their own reading habits, the question now is: when is the last time you read a poem or book excerpts aloud?第
64、四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文改错（共10小题。每小题1分，满分10分）答题要求:增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。During the National Day, we had our first visit to the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei Province. After arriving, we put our luggage in the hotel room and booked one-day tour
65、. A taxi took us to the destination, and it was crowded with tourist. Having prepared well, we begin our sail in the Yangtze River. The more exciting moment of all was when we passed Gezhouba Dam. It was there where our ship got to a higher position and kept on sail in the great river again. As I wa
66、s getting off the ship, I suddenly found out my camera missing. Fortunately, a kind passenger picked it up and gave it to him. How impressive I was by the scenery or people there.第二节书面表达（满分25分）假如你是拉萨中学高三学生郭丽。近年来“高考移民”（ NCEE migrant）现象比较普遍。每年高考前他们设法到录取分数线较低的省份参加考试,这引起了同学们的关注。请你就此现象给校英语周报写一篇报道，表明你的看法。
67、注意: 1.词数100左右。开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数; 2.可适当增加细节, 使行文连贯。Dear Sir,Im Guo Li, a Senior Three student in our school. Recently, we have noticed some NCEE migrants from high-score areas move to other low- score areas to take the NCEE. Yours sincerely, Guo Li拉中高三年级（2021届）第四次月考英语答案第一部分 听力（满分30分） 1-5 ACBCA 6-10 CC
68、BBA 11-15 CBAAB 16-20 CABAB第二部分 阅读理解（满分40分） 21-23 ADB 24-27 BBAC 28-31 BCAD 32-35 CCBD36-40 BCADE第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空41-45 BCBDA 46-50 DDBAD 51-55 AADBA 56-60 CACAB第二节 语法填空61. conclusion 62. widely 63. invites 64. participants 65. its 66. lost 67. for 68. encouraging 69. where 70. reflecti
69、ng 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文改错 During the National Day, we had our first visit to the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei Province. After arriving, we put our luggage in the hotel room and booked （此处加上a）one-day tour. A taxi took us to the destination, and it was crowded with tourist（改为tourists）. Havin
70、g prepared well, we begin(改为began) our sail in the Yangtze River. The more（改为most） exciting moment of all was when we passed Gezhouba Dam. It was there where（改为that） our ship got to a higher position and kept on sail（改为sailing） in the great river again. As I was getting off the ship, I suddenly foun
71、d out(去掉out) my camera missing. Fortunately, a kind passenger picked it up and gave it to him（改为me）. How impressive（改为impressed） I was by the scenery or（改为and） people there. 第二节 书面表达Dear Sir,Im Guo Li, a Senior Three student in our school. Recently, we have noticed some NCEE migrants from high-score
72、 areas move to other low- score areas to take the NCEE. I am writing to show my opinions.On the one hand, I think it understandable for the students to move to other places to take the exam since they want to be able to study at a better university. And it seems to be the right of a student as a cit
73、izen to have such a chance, especially those from an area of high entry score.On the other hand, those who are from high score areas would add pressure to the areas they move to, which also means an unfair situation to those students in low-score areas. Whats more, it seems to be just favorable to the powerful and unfair to ordinary people. So I dont consider it a good phenomenon. Yours sincerely, Guo Li
