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1、绝密启用前2021 年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（全国乙卷）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 分听力（共两节,满分 30 分)做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的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、
2、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有 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。1.What is the man doing?A.Asking the way.B.Giving directions.C.Correcting a mistake.2.What dress size does the woman want?A.8.B.10.C.12.3.What is the woman likely to do?A.Make a phone call.B
3、.Handle the problem.C.Have a rest.4.Which tour does the man seem to be interested in?A.The evening tour.B.The half-day tour.C.The full-day tour.5.Where are the speakers?A.At a canteen.B.At a clinic.C.At a bank.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
4、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。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料,回答第 6、7 题。6.What does the woman think of the match?A.Entertaining.B.Discouraging.C.Boring.7.What do the speakers plan to do on Tuesday afternoon?A.Watch a game.B.Play tennis.C.Go to the cinema.听第 7 段材料,回答第 8 至 10 题。8.What does the man
5、 advise Mrs.White to do?A.Go on a diet.B.Do more exercise.C.Get enough sleep.9.Which can be included in Mrs.Whites breakfast?A.Eggs.B.Sausages.C.Porridge.10.What is the man?A.Ateacher.B.Aphysician.C.Achef.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 14 题。11.How does Nancy look to Daniel?A.Confused.B.Excited.C.Anxious.12.Why d
6、oes Daniel mention his performance in a play?A.To comfort Nancy.B.To express his regretC.To show his pride.13.What is Nancy going to do next week?A.Take a school testB.Have a check-up.C.Go in for a competition.14.What does Daniel offer to do for Nancy?A.Rewrite her lines.B.Drive her to the theatre.C
7、.Help her with the practice.听第 9 段材料，回答第 15 至 17 题。15.What was Prof.Stones grandfather afraid of?A.Leaving his home.B.Parting from his son.C.Taking early retirement.16.What does old age mean to many elderly Americans?A.Lack of moral support.B.Loss of self-worth.C.Change of living habits.17.What will
8、 Prof Stone talk about next concerning elderly people?A.Public services they ask for.B.Health care available to them.C.Contributions they can make.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18.What does the speakers mother want her to be?A.Aconfident person.B.Awarm-hearted person.C.Ahumorous person.19.Why did the spea
9、ker feel lonely in her childhood?A.She often traveled by herselfB.Her family moved frequently.C.Her mother was busy working.20.What does the speaker mainly talk about?A.Importance of home schooling.B.Mother-daughter relationship.C.Arole model in her family.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
10、分 30 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AThe Biggest Stadiums in the WorldPeople have been pouring into stadiums since the days of ancient Greece.In around 8A.Q.,the Romans built the Colosseum,which remains the worlds best knownstadium are continues to inform contemporary design.Romes Colosseum
11、was 157feet tall and had 80 entrances,seating 50,000 people.However,that was small frycompared with the citys Circus Maximus,which accommodated around 250,000people.These days,safety regulations-not to mention the modern sports fans desire for agood view and a comfortable seat-tend to keep stadium c
12、apacities（容量）slightlylower.Even soccer fans tend to have a seat each;gone are the days of thousandsstanding to watch the match.For the biggest stadiums in the world,we have used data supplied by the WorldAtlas list so far,which ranks them by their stated permanent capacity,as well asupdated informat
13、ion from official stadium websites.All these stadiums are still functional,still open and still hosting the biggestevents in world sport.Rungrado 1st of May Stadium,Pyongyang,D.P.R-Korea.Capacity.150,000.Opened.May 1,1989.Michigan Stadium,Ann Arbor,Michigan,U.S.Capacity:107,601.Opened.October1,1927.
14、Beaver Stadium,State College,Pennsylvania,U.S.Capacity:106,572.Opened:September 17,I960.Ohio Stadium,Columbus,Ohio,U.S.Capacity:104,944.Opened:October 7,1922.Kyle Field,College Station,Texas,U.S.Capacity:102,512.Opened:September24,1927.21.How many people could the Circus Maximus hold?A.104,944.B.107
15、,601.C.About 150,000.D.About 250,000.22.Of the following stadiums,which is the oldest?A.Michigan Stadium.B.Beaver Stadium.C.Ohio Stadium.D.Kyle Field.23.What do the listed stadiums have in common?A.They host big games.B.They have become tourist attractionsC.They were built byAmericans.D.They are fav
16、ored by architectsBWhen almost everyone has a mobile phone,why are more than half of Australianhomes still paying for a landline(座机)These days youd be hard pressed to find anyone in Australia over the age of 15who doesnt own a mobile phone.In fact plenty of younger kids have one in theirpocket.Pract
17、ically everyone can make and receive calls anywhere,anytime.Still,55 percent of Australians have a landline phone at home and only just overa quarter（29%）rely only on their smartphones,according to a survey（调查）.Ofthose Australians who still have a landline,a third concede that its not reallynecessar
18、y and theyre keeping it as a security blanket-19 percent say they never use itwhile a further 13 percent keep it in case of emergencies.I think my home falls intothat category.More than half of Australian homes are still choosing to stick with their homephone.Age is naturally a factor（因素）-only 58 pe
19、rcent of Generation Ys still uselandlines now and then,compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers whove perhapshad the same home number for 50 years.Age isnt the only factor;Id say its also todo with the makeup of your household.Generation Xers with young families,like my wife and I,can still find itcon
20、venient to have a home phone rather than providing a mobile phone for everyfamily member.That said,to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phoneare our Baby Boomers parents,to the point where we play a game and guess who iscalling before we pick up the phone（using Caller ID would take th
21、e fun out of it）.How attached are you to your landline?How long until they go the way of gasstreet lamps and morning milk deliveries?24.What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about mobile phones?A.Their target users.B.Their wide popularity.C.Their major functions.D.Their complex design.25.What does th
22、e underlined word concede in paragraph 3 mean?A.Admit.B.Argue.C.Remember.D.Remark.26.What can we say about Baby Boomers?A.They like smartphone games.B.They enjoy guessing callersidentity.C.They keep using landline phones.D.They are attached to their family.27.What can be inferred about the landline
23、from the last paragraph?A.It remains a family necessity.B.It will fall out of use some day.C.It may increase daily expenses.D.It is as important as the gas light.CYouve heard that plastic is polluting the oceansbetween 4.8 and 12.7 milliontonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year.But does one plastic
24、 straw or cup reallymake a difference?Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does.Hebuilds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage,foreing viewers to re-examine theirrelationship to single-use plastic products.At the beginning of the year,the artist built a piece called“Strawpocalypse,
25、”apair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves,frozen mid-crash.Made of 168,000 plastic strawscollected from several volunteer beach cleanups,the sculpture made its firstappearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam.Just 9%of global plastic waste is recycled.Plastic straws are by
26、 no means thebiggest source(来源)of plastic pollution,but theyve recently come under firebecause most people dont need them to drink with and,because of their small sizeand weight,they cannot be recycled.Every straw that s part of Von Wongs artworklikely came from a drink that someone used for only a
27、few minutes.Once the drink isgone,the straw will take centuries to disappear.In a piece from 2018,Von Wong wanted to illustrate(说明)a specific statistic:Every 60 seconds,a truckloads worth of plastic enters the ocean.For this work,titledTruckload of Plastic,Von Wong and a group of volunteers collecte
28、d more than10,000 pieces of plastic,which were then tied together to look like theyd beendumped(倾倒)from a truck all at once.Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reducetheir plastic footprint.28.What are Von Wongs artworks intended for?A.Beautifying the city he lives
29、in.B.Introducing eco-friendly products.C.Drawing public attention to plastic waste.D.Reducing garbage on the beach.29.Why does the author discuss plastic straws in paragraph 3?A.To show the difficulty of their recycling.B.To explain why they are useful.C.To voice his views on modern art.D.To find a
30、substitute for them.30.What effect would Truckload of Plastic have on viewers?A.Calming.B.DisturbingC RefreshingD.Challenging.31.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A.Artists Opinions on Plastic SafetyB.Media Interest in Contemporary ArtC.Responsibility Demanded of Big Companie
31、sD.Ocean Plastics Transformed into SculpturesDDuring an interview for one of my books,my interviewer said something I stillthink about often.Annoyed by the level of distraction(干扰)in his open office,he said,“Thats why I have a membership at the coworking space across the street so I canfocus.His com
32、ment struck me as strange.After all,coworking spaces also typicallyuse an open office layout(布局).But I recently came across a study that shows whyhis approach worksThe researchers examined various levels of noise on participants as theycompleted tests of creative thinking.They were randomly divided
33、into four groupsand exposed to various noise levels in the background,from total silence to 50decibels(分贝),70 decibels,and 85 decibels.The differences between most of thegroups were statistically insignificant;however,the participants in the 70 decibelsgroupthose exposed to a level of noise similar
34、to background chatter in a coffeeshop-significantly outperformed the other groups.Since the effects were small,thismay suggest that our creative thinking does not differ that much in response to totalsilence and 85 decibels of background noise.But since the results at 70 decibels were significant,th
35、e study also suggests thatthe right level of background noisenot too loud and not total silencemay actuallyimprove ones creative thinking ability.The right level of background noise mayinterrupt our normal patterns of thinking just enough to allow our imaginations towander,without making it impossib
36、le to focus.This kind of distracted focus appearsto be the best state for working on creative tasks.So why do so many of us hate our open offices?The problem may be that,in ouroffices,we cant stop ourselves from getting drawn into othersconversations whilewere trying to focus.Indeed,the researchers
37、found that face-to-face interactions andconversations affect the creative process,and yet a coworking space or a coffee shopprovides a certain level of noise while also providing freedom from interruptions.32.Why does the interviewer prefer a coworking space?A.It helps him concentrate.B.It blocks ou
38、t background noise.C.It has a pleasant atmosphere.D.It encourages face-to-face interactions.33.Which level of background noise may promote creative thinking ability?A.Total silence.B.50 decibels.C.70 decibels.D.85 decibels.34.What makes an open office unwelcome to many people?A.Personal privacy unpr
39、otected.B.Limited working space.C.Restrictions on group discussion.D.Constant interruptions.35.What can we infer about the author from the text?A.Hes a news reporter.B.Hes on office manager.C.Hes a professional designer.D.Hes a published writer.第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项
40、。选项中有两项为多余选项According to Jessica Hagy,author of How to Be Interesting,its not difficult tomake yourself interesting at a dinner party._36_,if youre out of your comfort zone or if youre wandering intosomebodys house for the first time.So the main thing is just to show up and beadventurous,trying diff
41、erent foods and talking to strangers.People love to talk about themselves.If you can start the conversation with aquestion other than“What do you do for a living?,youll be able to get a lot moreinteresting conversation out of whomever it is youre talking to._37 _.it canbring in I have this old,broke
42、n-down vehicle or I rode the bus with these crazypeople who were laughing at silly jokes in the back.It just opens up conversation._38_?If you cant take their wine away,you should certainly try to takeaway their soapbox（讲台）.If youre the host,you can ask them to help you in thekitchen with something
43、and just remove them from the situation._39_And what about that other dinner-party killer:awkward silence?If youre facedwith an awkward silence at a dinner party,the only thing that always gets everyonetalking again is to give the host a compliment(赞扬)._40_.Just quickly tunaround and say,This cake i
44、s extremely delicious and you have to tell me all aboutit.”So being interesting at a dinner party isnt that hard.A.How do you know the hostB.The first step is to go exploringC.If you ask the question How did you get here?,D.Be prepared to have awkward conversations with strangersE.Or turn the conver
45、sation into a topic where they have little to sayF.What about that person who has had too much to drink or wont stop talkingG.He or she is the person who is feeling the weight of that awkwardness the most第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节（共 20 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处
46、的最佳选项。Simply saying thank you doesnt seem enough in certain situations.I wasconsidering this while working as a _41_ Just a few weeks ago.And it came to methen how much easier it would be if we had a range of words that express different_42_ of gratitude(感谢).My thoughts were soon _43_.We had a woman
47、 patient who was _44_from a knee replacement operation.One afternoon,while _45_to get into bed shecollapsed(倒下)from what was_46_discovered to be a heart attack.The collapse was disastrous,_47_ the emergency medical team and goodteamwork.But she recovered,though _48_,and was ready for discharge(出院)af
48、ter four weeks.She was _49_ for everything that the medical and nursing team had done forher.On her day of discharge,we shared in her _50_ at her recovery.As she was_51_ she was eager to say_52_ to each of us in the nursing team.Whenshe _53_ one nurse,she tried to press a five-pound note into her ha
49、nd.Mycolleague _54_ to accept it,saying that we were all just _55_ our job.Thepatient looked puzzled,and then_56_:Oh this isnt for the _57_ I had.Itake that as a _58_.No,this is for setting my hair yesterday.And there you have it.To many people,_59_lives is part of the job butstyling hair is an _60_
50、 and should be rewarded.41.A.cleanerB.chemistC.nurseD.doctor42.A.gradesB.meaningsC.needsD.expectations43.A.brushed asideB.put to the testC.brought under discussionD.taken into account44.A.departingB.escapingC.retiringD.recovering45.A.attemptingB.choosingC.pausingD.promising46.A.eventuallyB.fortunate