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1、江苏省盐城中学2021届高三下学期四月质量检测英语试题学校:姓名：班级：考号：一、阅读理解Win an Interview with NYT Bestselling Author J. ElleIn addition to your private online Zoom interview, you will also win a print copy of her book, Wings of Ebony, a PDF copy of the book, and the chance to have your interview published in Teen Ink.How to E
2、nter:1. Follow Teen Ink on Instagram(teen. ink)2. Comment two of your potential questions for J. Elle on our contest post, or email them to 3. We will be choosing the winner based on these questions so do your best!About the Book:Wings of Ebony is part of YA fantasy books about a black teen goddess
3、named Rue who must rise up against racist gods, who poisoned her block with drugs, violence, and crime. It extends a unique perspective on racism, privilege, cultural appropriation, and community.About J. Elle:J. Elle is a former teacher to inner-city students, and the founder of Your Story is Your
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5、r their dreams. She drew inspiration for the novel from her own experience growing up poor, which is clearly reflected in her book.1. What will the winner get?A. A face-to-face interview with Elle.B , A book with J. Elles signature.C. A PDF copy of Wings of Ebony.D. A published copy of Teen Ink.2. T
6、he winner will be picked out by participants.A. entries.B. comments. C. emails.D. questions.3. What inspired Elle to write the book? love that sews it together that makes it beautiful. This quilt will keep you warm on a cold night like tonight. And I know that fbr a fhct. Grandma put her hand on my
7、shoulder, Not everyone is as lucky as we are. Here, put on your coat. Well get a second opinion about how ugly my quilts are.”Grandma folded a finished quilt and tucked it into a shopping bag. Afterwards, we got in the car and drove downtown. The white snow turned grayer as we got to the city. Event
8、ually, Grandma pulled up at a dark alley （胡同）and we got out of the car. The terrible smell of rotting garbage made me feel sick and pinch my nose shut. Grandma took my hand and led me to the street lamp. I could see the snow shimmering （发出微光）in the light.Grandma paused. Theres usually somebody down
9、this alley. Ws quiet and out of the wind-a good place to stay on cold nights. A nice warm quilt might make it even better.”The dark engulfed （吞没）Grandma and I as we stepped deep into the alley. The pavement was cracked and missing in spots. Chicken bones and stained boxes littered their way. And Gra
10、ndmas shoes made a loud sound with each step. Feeling frightened, I squeezed Grandmas hand. Grandma squeezed my hand back. Its OK. she smiled.“Whos there? shouted a voice out of the darkness.Paragraph 1:“I have a nice warm quilt, if you want it J said Grandma.Paragraph 2:Back home, I found a worn-ou
11、t quilt by accident in a cupboard.试卷第10页，共10页A. Her love for teaching.B , Her experience in poverty.C , Her dream of writing.D. Her education in college.Located in the Bahamas, Andros Island is also known as “The Sleeping Giant”, yet with only about 8.000 people living on it. Now the island has a ne
12、w luxury resort Caerula Mar Club- which opened this February. The once-abandoned property was discovered by a well- known HGTV reality star couple who transformed it into a hotel. The Canadian design duo Bryan and Sarah Baeumler were vacationing in the Bahamas in the summer of 2017 when they discove
13、red a once-abandoned resort. They instantly decided to purchase it with hopes to transform the 10-acre beachfront property into a luxury hotel.However, they had no idea how much the investment would end up costing them. Here most supplies had to be shipped in, and the property was in bad shape. The
14、budget for the remodelling should be around $ 4 million, but theyve spent well over $ 10 million. Whats worse, in the fall of 2019, category 5 Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas, and their employees and friends were affected.Finally, several months later, as they prepared to open the resort to the pub
15、lic, the Coronavirus pandemic （大流行病）struck. Theyd just been fully booked throughout the fall and winter months when the new disaster stopped everything as the Bahamas were put on lockdown.With tourism opening up again, new plans are now for an October launch, but theyre just taking things one day at
16、 a time. nI think at the end of this pandemic, well find many people are searching for a different experience, “ says Bryan. nInstead of crowding into large resorts, theyll be going to properties where they can meet people, connect with the locals and experience nature. Our hotel is just such a plac
17、e.Now the couple is focusing on the future while creating new development for visitors. “We certainly have plans to responsibly and sustainably develop the island that will help support the local economy says Bryan.4. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A. Life on Andros Island is fast-paced.
18、B , Andros Island is lightly populated.试卷第2页，共10页The couple built the hotel as planned.C. The couple found the luxury hotel accidentally.5. . What challenges did the couple face while building the hotel?A.Finances and disasters.B.The bad local economy.C.Poor health conditions.D.Local peoples objecti
19、ons.6. What, is Bryans attitude towards their hotel?A.He thinks its not worth the price.B.He is worried about it.C.He is confident about it.D.He thinks it should be reevaluated.7. What is mainly implied in the last paragraph?A. The sustainable ways of developing the island.B , The political effects
20、of the hotel on the island.C. The promising future of the tourism on the island.D. The couples determination to contribute to the island.In the past few decades, great changes have taken place in the literary world. With the time changing, Chinese university students show a typical characteristic in
21、 their after-school reading and this reflects the changes of thoughts and the quality of young people.The 1960s was the time for admiring heroes. Chinese university students had a thirst for reading heroic stories. Novels like The Song of Youth and How the Steel Was Tempered became extremely popular
22、 among university students. Lei Fengs Diary and Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung were almost a must to read. Everyone had a copy of China Youth, an encouraging and helpful magazine for the young. Harvest and Peoples Literature were fashionable among them as well.University students in the 1970s were q
23、uite industrious in study. They spent much time in study than in spare-time reading. They wished to enrich their reading so as to improve self-cultivation and expand their knowledge. Masterpieces such as works of Shakespeare were popular, Lu Xun Selected Works and Ba Jins trilogy were among the favo
24、rites of the students.The 1980s shot up many young lovers for literature. At that time, foreign and Chinese masterpieces, especially works of Hugo and Shelley were the books young people often read. A survey named The book that impressed you most during 1985 to 1989 indicated that Jin Yong*s works r
25、anked the second and works of Qiong Yao and San Mao the sixth.In addition to romantic fiction and martial arts fiction, a new type of books science fiction became popular among the male students in the 1990s. Apart from that, contemporary masterpieces including Chinese novels such as White Deer Plai
26、n, and foreign masterworks like War and Peace and The Thorn Birds were also popular.8. What is mainly described in the second paragraph?A. Real heroes in the 1960s.B. Foreign works in the 20th century.C. The role models in Chinese college students9 eyes.D. The popularity of heroic books among Chines
27、e college students.9. What does the underlined word industrious“ in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Smart.B. Hard-working.C. Casual.D. Absent-minded.10. What can we learn from the text?A. University students in the 1960s read more than those in the 1970s.B. Female university students liked science fiction most
28、in the 1990s.C. College students could choose to read from many books in the 1980s.D. The Thom Birds was the most popular novel in the late 20th century.11. Which can be a suitable title for the text?A. Life Expectations of Chinese University Students.B . What Books University Students Have Read Mos
29、t.C. Great Changes Have Taken Place in the Literary World.D. Changes in Spare-time Reading for Chinese University Students.Do you find yourself unable to go more than 15 minutes without reaching into your pocket, pulling out your smart phone and checking your e-mail or WeChat? Dont panic. You are ha
30、rdly alone. A recent survey shows that smart phone users have developed checking habit”frequently checks of e-mails and other Apps. The checks normally lasted less than 30 seconds and were often done every lOminutes.On average, the study subjects check their phones 34 times a day. And the strangest
31、part is that they dont even realize they are doing it. nI hadnt told my hand to reach out for the phone. It seemed to be doing it all on its own,1 wrote Elizabeth Cohen, a medical correspondent for CNN who watched her right hand sneaking away from her side to grab her试卷第4页，共10页 phone while sitting o
32、n the table at dinner with friends.Loren Frank, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), explains that checking smart phones is rewarding in some way. nEach time you get an e-mail, its a little bit exciting, because it means a positive feedback that youre an important
33、person/ Frank told CNN. Once the brain becomes used to this positive feedback, reaching out for the phone becomes an automatic action you dont even think about consciously, said Frank. Professor Clifford Nass of Stanford University added that constantly checking your smart phone is also “an attempt
34、to not have to think hard but feel like you are doing something”.However, every coin has two sides. This habit can cause problems. Study show that whenever you take a break from what you are doing to check your smart phone, it is hard to go back to your original task, according to Adam Gazzaley, a n
35、eurologist at UCSF. Thats not the worst. A survey by South Korean marriage consulting agency Duo earlier this year shows that smart phones are destroying intimate relationships, reports The Korea Herald (韩国先驱 报).About half or the respondents said they had had fights with their boyfriend or girlfrien
36、d because of smart phones. And 32.8 percent of them fought about smart phone obsession. In this respect, checking smart-phones at regular intervals is a bad habit. But just as an old saying goes, nBad habits die hard.So to get rid of the checking habit, Cohen suggests establishing phone-free times a
37、nd zones.12. What is the most unusual part of the study subjects?A. The times of phone checks.B. The lasting time of phone checks.C. The unawareness of checking phones.D. The high frequency of checking phones.13. What does Loren Frank think of checking smart-phones frequently?A. It is worthwhile in
38、some way.B. It is necessary to think hard.C. It is unimportant for those busy people.D. It is likely to cause neurological diseases.14. Which of the following is the worst effect of the checking habit“ has on phone users? A. They might not have a good rest.B , They would be taken in by other people.
39、C. They might get distract from their work.D. They would lost time to keep close relationship.15 . What is the main purpose of writing this passage?A. To introduce a smart-phone consumption survey.B. To present the obsession with smart-phone checking.C. To list the advantage of smart-phone checking
40、habit.D. To offer the ways to quit smart-phone checking habit.二、七选五We automatically assume that as adults, were wiser than when we were children. However, actually we can learn a lot from our childhood self. For example, we can learn to develop optimism about the future. Do you remember how excited
41、you used to be just before Christmas? 16 Reintroduce that childlike wonder into our daily experiences.We can learn to dream big and imagine the impossible. How often have you heard a child say something like One day, Im going to be an astronaut? Our adult minds immediately laugh at this idea and thi
42、nk about all the logical reasons as to why this might never happen. 17 We minimize our chances of attaining what we dream about. It is okay to dream big just as our childhood self did.18 Our childhood self looked at possibilities and believed we could achieve them successfully. If we wanted to build
43、 a tree house, wed go about thinking about how to make it happen instead of focusing on all the reasons it might not happen. In this way we can fill our life with possibilities rather than regrets.We can learn to be playful and silly sometimes, 19 Children spend a large amount of time escaping from
44、reality to mess about and have fun. Make time for your childhood self to come out and play. Run around the garden, wear a silly hat or spend time laughing. 20.A. Dont imagine things could go wrong.B , We can learn to hold a “can do attitude.C. That feeling of great joy is hard to beat.D. Most childr
45、en tend to think in a positive way.E. All of these activities can make us feel happy and alive.试卷第6页，共10页F. We employ self-limiting beliefs without even realizing it.G. All work and no play makes a person very dull and upset.三、完形填空When 19-year-old Chloe Mitchelfs senior trip was canceled due to the
46、pandemic, she knew she couldnft just lie around the house. Not only is she a passionate volleyball player with an active lifestyle, shes also a teenager. Being 21 in the house all day with your parents isnt ideal-no matter how much you love them.“I was bored. I was really depressed because quarantin
47、e had taken away my senior year,“ she explained. needed something to 22 worries in my mind. I needed23 labor. I needed space from my family.”As a self-described DIY obsessive, Mitchell saw the shabby shed in the yard, a relaxing space to call her own. Unfortunately, as she set about 24 the forgotten
48、 shed into a stylish vacation homeShe Shed； Mitchell was upset that social-distancing rules meant she couldnt invite her friends over. So she decided to share the 25 with her 34 followers on TikTok, 26 close friends, letting them know every step she did during the following days.Over the next 10 day
49、s, Mitchell began to 27 the contents of her small shed used as a storage bam so that it could be cleaned easily. After that, she wiped down the original wooden beams before giving them a fresh layer of white 28 Once the paint had dried, she hung fairy lights, 29 the space with plants and added a telev