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1、山东省德州市2019-2022 学年高三上学期英语期末试卷汇编阅读理解山东省德州市 2021-2022 学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 37.5 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。AThere really are apps for everythingand some could save your life.What3wordsThis free download is one of a growing number of smartphone apps that coul
2、d mean thedifference between life and death.What3Words divides the world into 3x3 metre squares,givingeach one a unique combination of three words.This allows emergency servicesor anyone elseyou give the location to-to reach you.WhatsAppLots of us use WhatsApp for messaging and calling,but do you kn
3、ow it also has a LiveLocation feature that can let a loved one know your whereabouts in case youre in danger?Yousimply press the+key in a chat,select“Location”,and then press“Share Live Location”,whichenables any participant in the chat to see your location in real time for the duration you choose.S
4、kin VisionYou will have to pay for this digital skin check app,but with an estimated fifth of skincancers going undiagnosed during lockdown,it could be well worth it.You simply take a photo ofany spot with your phone and youll then receive a risk indication within 30 seconds.Stay AliveWith mental he
5、alth problems on the increase not helped by the pandemic,this app could beextremely helpful.It offers a wealth of resources,ranging from strategies for staying groundedwhen you feel overwhelmed,to breathing exercises to direct links to national and local crisisresources.St JohnAmbulance First AidAn
6、app like this is more useful for saving someone elses life than your own,but arguably itsa must-have on your smartphone.It gives advice in dealing with emergencies,including choking,allergic（过敏）reactions and performing CPR.You dont have to have an Internet connection inorder to use it.1.What do What
7、3words and WhatsApp have in common?A.They are a little pricey.B.They are hard to operate.C.They can sense danger.D.They offer location services.2.Who might be the potential users of Stay Alive?A.Pandemic contactsB.Skin cancers patients.C.Emergency rescuers,D.Mental problem sufferers.3.What is specia
8、l about St JohnAmbulance First Aid?A.It can eventually cure Your illness.B.CPR is convenient to perform.C.Network connection is not necessary.D.It offers resources about dangers.BAn Indonesian librarian is lending books to children in exchange for trash they collect in anovel way to clean up the env
9、ironment and get the kids to read more.Each weekday Raden rides her three-wheeler with books piled up at the back for children inMuntang village to exchange for plastic cups,bags and other waste that she carries back.She toldReuters she targets to promote reading in the kids as well as make them awa
10、re of the environment.As soon as she shows up.little children,many accompanied by their mothers,surround her TrashLibrary and clamour for the books.They are all carrying trash bags and Radens three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as thebooks fly out.Shes happy the kids are going to spend less tim
11、e on online games as a result.Kevin,a keen 11-vearold reader,searched for waste lying in the village.When there is toomuch trash,our environment will become dirty and its not healthy.Thats why I look for trash toborrow a book,he said.Let us build a culture of literacy（识字）from young age to reduce the
12、 harm of the onlineworld.Raden said,We should also take care of our waste in order to fight climate change and tosave the earth from trash She collects about 100 kg of waste each week,which is then sorted out by her colleagues andsent for recycling or sold.She has a stock of 6,000 books to lend and
13、wants to take the mobileservice to neighbouring areas as well.Raden said:The literacy rate for above-15-year-olds in Indonesia is around 96 percent,but aSeptember report by the World Bank warned that the pandemic will leave more than 80%of15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency level.And
14、she wanted to do her part tomake things better.4.What is Radens purpose of establishing Trash Library?A.To earn money for Trash Library by selling trash.B.To develop the childrens creativity from young age.C.To raise the kids awareness of environment while reading.D.To promote the relationship betwe
15、en children and mothers.5.What made Kevin willing to borrow books with trash?A.Passion for reading.B.Concerns about pollution.C.Addiction to the Internet.D.Determination to volunteer.6.What is Radens attitude to the youngs literacy rate during pandemic?A.Indifferent.B.Worried.C.Appreciative.D.Tolera
16、nt7.Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?A.ANovel Way to Improve LibraryB.The Indonesian System for ReadingC.Your Trash Benefiting the EnvironmentD.Your Collected Trash for Our BooksCThe days of staring at the computer screen pretending to be interested in an assignment eventhough
17、 you are bored out of your mind may soon be coming to an end.Thats because if Dr HarryWitchel,Discipline Leader in Physiology at Englands Brighton and Sussex Medical School,hashis way,computers of the future will be able to detect boredom and even react to it real-time.But before you get concerned,t
18、he machine is not reading your mind.It is just keeping trackof the constant involuntary（无意识的）movements that people exhibit when in front of a computeror even a television.These are not the bigger instrumental actions like moving a mouse or usingthe remote,but barely noticeable movements like scratch
19、ing,fidgeting,or stretching.Witchel saysthe level of movement is directly linked to how absorbed the person is in what he or she is readingor watching.The higher the interest level.the less the movement!To test the theory,Witchel and his team invited 27 people and exposed them to a variety ofdigital
20、 content for three minutes at a time.The activities ranged from playing online games toreading documents like the banking regulations that most people would find boring.Avideo motion tracker monitored their movements as they powered through each assignment.Just as the researchers had expected,the in
21、voluntary actions decreased dramatically,by as much as42%,when the participants were totally absorbed in what they were reading or seeing.Fortunately,the scientists are not planning to use the findings to create machines that reportstudents who are not focusing at school.Instead,they believe that co
22、mbining the motion detectingtechnology with future computers will help enhance the digital learning experience.The scientists say that being able to measure the students interest level will enable educatorsto adjust the materials real-time and re-engage the students.Witchel also believes that thetec
23、hnology can provide filmmakers with honest audience opinions.8.According to Dr Harry,what will future computers be able to do?A.Keep a learner from distraction.B.Help a learner with his assignments.C.Read a learners mind exactly real-time.D.Identify dullness of a learner and respond to it.9.How does
24、 an absorbed learner tend to behave?A.Laugh and shout excitedly.B.Use less energy in an assignment.C.Perform fewer involuntary actions.D.Show noticeable movementsconstantly.10.What is the value of this technology for educators?A.Bettering their digital learning experience.B.Introducing more computer
25、s intoclass.C.Finding the absent-minded students in class.D.Detecting what interests the studentsmost.11.What is the authors purpose in writing the text?A.To introduce an upcoming technology.B.To update educators teaching concept.C.To show what learning will be like in the future.D.To explain how li
26、fe will be shaped by technology.DArecent study has followed the origins,or beginnings of the family of languages that includemodern Japanese,Korean,Turkish and Mongolian.The findings show a shared genetic ancestorfor the hundreds of millions of people who speak what the researchers call Transeurasia
27、n(跨欧亚的)languages.Such languages had their origin with millet farmers who lived in an area innortheastern China about 9,000 years ago.Millet is a small,round whole grain.It was animportant early crop as hunter-gatherers became farmers.The studys findings show how the use of agriculture following the
28、Ice Age powered themovements of some of the worlds major language families The research highlights the complexbeginnings of modern populations and cultures.Martine Robbeets,head of the Archaeolinguistic Research Group,said people often think ofJapan,Korea and China as powerful nations representing o
29、ne language,one culture and onepeople.“All languages,cultures and humans,including those in Asia,are mixed.”Robbeets said.“Accepting that the roots of ones language,culture or people lie beyond the present nationalboundaries is to surrender identity,which some people are not yet prepared to make.”Th
30、e researchers studied data of vocabulary from the 98 languages.They identified a group ofwords related to agriculture and created a language family tree.The researchers examined datafrom 255 archaeological sites in China,Japan,Korea and eastern Russia.They studied ancientobjects including pottery,st
31、one tools and plant and animal remains.They also included the datingof 269 ancient crop remains from different areas.The researchers found that farmers in northeastern China eventually grew rice and wheatalong with millet.The crops spread along with farming populations to Korea by about 1300 BCand f
32、rom there to Japan after about 1000 BC.As the ancient farmers moved across northeasternAsia,related languages spread into Siberia,Korea and Japan over thousands of years.12.According to the study,what do Transeurasian languages originate from?A.Ice Age people.B.Ancient Japanese.C.Ancient millet farm
33、ers.D.Early hunter-gatherers.13 What does the underlined word“surrender”probably mean in paragraph 3?A.give upB.maintainC.take inD.destroy14.How do the researchers conduct their study?A.By giving examples.B.By analyzing some statistics.C.By setting down general rules.D.By doing an experiment.15.What
34、 is the main idea of the text?A.Food has a close relationship with culture diversity.B.Alarge language family has ancient origins in China.C.Human activities lead to different language movements.D.The research on the language familys beginnings counts.山东省德州市 2020-2021 学年高三上学期期末考试英语试题第一节（共 15 小题；每小题
35、2.5 分，满分 37.5 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。ASome Phrases That Defined 2020For the first time since 2004,when Oxford Languages,the publisher of the O.E.D.,startedchoosing a Word of the Year 2020,it declined to pick just one.We couldnt pick one,either.Buthere are some words and
36、phrases that we think capture what it felt like to be alive in 2020,BlursdayThe passage of time itself became seemingly unreliable this year,as some days felt like aweek while some months flew by in an instant.Our friends even launched a newsletter calledWhat Day Is It?Remote learningFarah Miller,an
37、 editor,shares her familys experience with remote learning this year.Schools shuttered without a plan for how to teach homebound kids.My preschooler was givenfive worksheets and a list of activities she couldnt possibly do on her own.Or are they reallyremotely learning?That was the question I,along
38、with parents across the US,found myself askingin the spring.”Social distancingAs experts learned more about the spread of the virus 6 feet became the golden number;thedistance we should stay away from others to prevent the spread of COVID-19,yes,but also ashorthand for how to navigate socialization
39、in the new world.ZoomUp until around March of this year,Zoom was unknown to the public.Then the homebecame the office for millions ofAmericans,and our social lives moved entirely online.Almostovernight Zoom emerged as the go-to platform for private citizens,religious services anduniversities.We Live
40、 in Zoom Now,The Times even declared.1.In what situation can the word blursday be used according to the passage?A.One is anxious about humans future.B.One misses the good old days.C.One fails to choose a word to define 2020D.One is not sure what day it is.2.Whats the attitude of Farah Miller to remo
41、te learning?A.Indifferent.B.Doubtful.C.Curious.D.Satisfied3.What does Zoom most probably function as?A.An online platform keeping peoples social activities.B.An app reminding people of 6 feet social distance.C.Anewsletter to update the information of COVID-19.D.Ahi-tech instrument to keep track of p
42、eoples health.BIn the first days of my honeymoon,I travelled to Vasto,a small town with its beautifullandscape in central Italy,to retrace the same steps my great-grandmother Filomena walked afterher own wedding,almost 100 years earlier.Vasto wasnt on my radar in the early stages of planning my hone
43、ymoon,but when learningthat it wasnt far from the month-long route,I considered a visit.How could I be so close and notsee where Filomena came from?Anyway,Id been so busy planning my own wedding that I didnthave much time to think about what it meant to be married.As I was trying to figure out what
44、anew family might look like,it also made sense to turn to the past.The story of my family I knew started when Filomena set foot in New York by ship in 1922.But after I travelled to Vasto where she grew up,the starting point of her story shifted.I began toconsider Filomena as a young,adventurous woma
45、n planning a new life far from home.Herhusband,Domenico,had already gone ahead to work there.She had no other family in the US,and yet she was prepared to get on a boat in Naples and sail into the unknown.Her willingness tosee what could remind me of marriage:you dont have to know whats coming next,
46、you just needto want to go.Then we visited the edge of a valley near Filomenas house.In 1956,part of the worldFilomena grew up in almost disappeared during a landslide.When she returned for visits later inlife,she saw a landscape different from what she had remembered.Even the things we expect tobe
47、permanent arent always so.Afew days spent walking in Filomenas footsteps,knowing all the unexpected turns that lifethrew at her over five decades of marriage,I realized that you can never plan for lifesuncertainties or crave an outline for the future.If that kind of anxiety somehow creeps back in,Il
48、lthink of Filomena on the deck of a steam ship,uncertain,but moving forward anyway.4.Why did the author go to Vasto during her honeymoon?A.To find out what the lifestyle was like there.B.To explore the true meaning of marriageC.To reunite with her great-grandmother thereD.To enjoy the scenic beauty
49、of Italy5.What did the author find about her great-grandmother?A.She never expected a life abroad.B.She felt scared of the marriageC.She dared to challenge a new life ahead.D.She knew well what her future was like6.What inspiration did the changed landscape bring to the author?A.Humans need to prote
50、ct the nature.B.The power of nature is hard to control.C.Things always go smoothly as expected.D.Life is always full of uncertainties.7.How will the author react to the misfortunes in her life after the visit to Vasto?A.Check the situation and make plans for itB.Follow Filomenas footsteps and keep g