2021学年第二学期高三年级英语学科线上教学评估
120 minutes | 满分140分
I. Listening Comprehension (25%)
Section A (10分)
Directions:In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. Manager and cretary. B. Customer and salesgirl.
C. Man and wife.
撩人不倦D. Salesman and manufacturer.
2. A. $ 240. B. $ 290. C. $250. D. $ 200.
3. A. At a muum. B. At a library. C. At a bookstore. D. At a coffee shop.
4. A. Tonight. B. On Friday night. C. On Saturday. D. Next week.
5. A. Take care of the baby. B. Fix the air-conditioner.
C. Stay in the room alone.
D. Get a repairman.
6. A. There is no convenient store nearby.
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B. Convenient stores may not ll phone chargers.
C. The phone charger sold online is of poor quality.
D. Nobody will be available at the convenient store.
7. A. His membership is no longer valid. B. He is tired of that gym.
C. He never went to that gym.
D. He went to that gym only once.
8. A. He might be a perfectionist.
B. He is arguing with his colleagues.
C. He is annoyed by the constant changes.
D. He is not bright enough to understand the plan.
9. A. More cours benefit the woman.
B. The woman will be worn out if she takes 6 cours.
C. The woman will have to book a room in the library.
D. The woman should live in the library for the exams.
10. A. She can only cook Chine-style dishes.
B. She learned her cooking from her mother.
C. It always takes her a long time to prepare a meal.
D. She will order some food for her hou-warming party.
Section B
Directions:In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked veral questions on each of the passages and the longer conversation. The passages and the longer conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are bad on the following passage.
11. A. Bad weather. B. Mistakes made by the air traffic controllers.
源源不断的近义词C. The loss of control of the airplane.
D. The duty of the pilot.
12. A. The pilot of the cond plane made a big mistake.
B. They avoided each other by turning in different directions.
C. They narrowly escaped crashing into each other.
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D. One plane was suddenly out of control.
13. A. Air controllers are often careless.
B. The importance of the pilots.树间
C. Air travel is much safer than other means of travelling.
D. The potential danger of air travel.
Questions 14 through 16 are bad on the following passage.
14. A. Parents have little control over what children are watching or playing.百合糖水
B. The media are full of violence.
C. Children think that violence and crime are normal.
D. Young people are harder to discipline.
15. A. They should keep their kids from watching movies or playing games.
香附的作用和功效B. They should ask for help from the schools.
C. They should speak out against the entertainment industry.
D. They should take their children out for walks.
16. A. The differences between the past and the prent.
B. People’s attitudes toward violence in the media.
C. How violence in the media affects society.
D. The necessity of keeping children from playing video games.
Questions 17 through 20 are bad on the following conversation.
17. A. Something is wrong with the engine. B. The car never went wrong before.
C. The car is too old to drive.
D. She is not sure about the problem.
18. A. In Japan. B. In Germany. C. In America. D. In Italy.
19. A. The mechanic charged her a reasonable price.
B. The mechanic gave her an unreasonable price.
C. The mechanic overcharged her.
D. The mechanic undercharged her.
20. A. The mechanic is undependable. B. The mechanic is tricky.
C. The mechanic is trustworthy.
D. The mechanic is helpful.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%)
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, u one word that best fits each blank.
Tea in Britain
Tea may be thought as the most typical of English drinks, but it is actually a relative latecomer to British shores. Although the custom of drinking tea (21)______(date) back to the 3rd millennium(一千年) BC in China, the drink didn’t appear in England until the mid-17th century.
Curiously, it is said that it was the London coffee hous (22)______ were responsible for introducing tea to England. One of the first coffee hou merchants (23)______(offer) tea was Thomas Garway, who sold both liquid and dry tea to the public as early as 1657. Three years later, he issued a big brochure advertising the virtues of tea, (24)______ its positive effect on health.
Tea gained popularity quickly in the coffee hous, and this distresd the pub owners (25)______ tea cut their sales of beer. At the same time, it was also bad news for the government officials, (26)_
_____ ______ many depended on a steady stream of revenue from taxes on liquor sales. By 1750, tea (27)______(become) the favored drink of Britain’s lower class.
罗马古城A 1676 act taxed tea and required coffee hou operators to apply for a licen. The heavy taxation had the effect of creating a whole new industry --- tea smuggling(走私). Even smuggled tea was expensive, however, and therefore extremely profitable, so many smugglers began to adulterate(掺假) the tea with other substances, such as willow and sloe leaves. (28)______(u) tea leaves were also redried and added to fresh leaves.
Finally, 1784 William Pitt the Younger determined to take (29)______ measures that could rever the situation. He introduced the Commutation Act, which dropped the tax on tea from 119% to 12.5%, effectively ending smuggling. He also took many other measures, hoping that such attempts (30)______ stop adulteration. But adulteration remained a problem until the Food and Drug Act of 1875 brought in vere punishment for the practice.
Section B
Bathroom Reveals Your Repayment Ability
Banks and other lenders typically look at borrowers’ credit histories, tax forms and other financial information to determine whether they will get paid back. In China, (31) _______ lenders also look at borrowers’ bathrooms.
As the economy slows, the government wants to develop a credit culture to get Chine families spending instead of saving. While the country is getting wealthier, the financial system has not kept (32)______. Some people have had no (33) _______ to credit card or mortgage, so lenders often have little reliable information about potential borrowers.
To fill the gaps, one lender, China Rapid Finance, assigns its investigators to check for the number of toothbrushes or towels to determine how many people are living in a hou. They look for dirty dishes in the kitchen. They take photos of a potential borrower at work to (34)______ employment status.
A growing number of companies are trying to crack the credit code in China. The Internet giants Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu are developing credit (35) _______ systems bad on urs’online transactions(交易) and arch histories.
The World Bank estimated that 79 percent of China’s population above the age of 15 have bank accounts, while only 10 percent have ever borrowed from the formal financial system. China’s banks have a(n) (36) _______consumers lending business. Contrarily, online lenders are (37)______ as the pioneers, satisfying China’ s rising consumer class.
Alibaba’s financial affiliate(隶属机构), Huabei, makes small loans to online shoppers and vendors(小贩)on its e-commerce platforms. Peer-to-peer platforms have proved hugely popular in China, but the industry’s reputation has been ruined by scandal, like the (38)______ of Ezubao(易租宝).
After that, regulators have stepped up their supervision of online lenders, which includes tting (39) _______on the amounts that can be borrowed. The regulators’tightening management is “something like a shepherd herding(放牧) his sheep into a(n) (40)______ narrowing pen(围栏),” said Mark Natkin, the founder and managing director at Marbridge Consulting, bad in Beijing.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context.
“It will be marvelous. It will be spiritual.” This is the ___41___ tagline that Virgin Galactic ud
in 2004 to attract potential customers to its planned space tourism rvices. It promid that, within five years, it would take a total of over 3,000 pasngers on life-changing trips in its spaceships. On July 11, 2021, after a last 90-minute delay, Virgin Galactic finally began its fulfillment of that original ___42___. For four minutes, its six temporarily weightless pasngers, including the firm’s British co-founder, Sir Richard Branson, saw the planet against the blackness of outer space.
Back on the ground, Sir Richard called the experience “magical”. He may have ___43___ the fact that he was able to reach space earlier than Jeff Bezos, a fellow billionaire but much wealthier. On July 20, Bezos would go slightly higher, for slightly less time, in a vehicle that had been built by his own spacefaring company, Blue Origin.
The two tycoons(大亨)are among a growing number of ___44___ who believe that space tourism’s time has c ome. Suborbital(亚轨道的) tourism is part of a broader space economy that has rapidly grown over the past decade ___45___ technological advances. However, it is highly ___46___ that this will be true.
For now, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic will offer ___47___ suborbital flights to paying customers. Bl
ue Origin is focusing much more on the development of a large new rocket that will be ud for the launching of satellites, on lling advanced rocket engines to other companies, and on bidding(投标) on NASA contracts such as the recently announced plan to nd humans back to the moon. ___48___, Bezos doesn’t e Blue Origin as a provider of rvices to adven ture-ekers.
Even this 4-minute suborbital travels have a(n) ___49___, apparently. A major survey found that nearly two in five people with a net worth of over five million dollars would consider paying $250,000, Virgin Galactic’s current price, for a ticket. The business could be ___50___, once regular flights begin to offt(抵消)t he rockets’ development costs. But how fast and by how much is ___51___. Without tourist-friendly destinations to visit (the capacity of the International Space Station is strictly limited), orbital tourism, with its far higher ticket prices, will not be a huge earner.
Another challenge --- and the industry’s biggest remaining uncertainty --- relates to ___52___. History has shown that a disaster, ___53___ in the early stages of an industry, can t progress back by years. NASA ___54___ its plan to nd the untrained to orbit in 1986 after a school teacher was killed along with the rest of the crew in the Challenger tragedy. It was another 15 years before the next untrained person would ___55___ the journey on a Russian craft.
41. A. modest B. demanding C. motivational D. unclear
42. A. obligation B. commitment C. requirement D. survey
43. A. felt ashamed of B. kept an eye on C. felt content with D. got upt with
44. A. optimists B. opponents C. experts D. objectors
45. A. thanks to B. but for C. apart from D. in spite of
46. A. impossible B. undoubted C. probable D. favorable
47. A. long-lasting B. inexpensive C. automatic D. brief
