2020-2021届江苏省高三上学期期末英语试题
真题汇编--阅读理解
2021届江苏省苏州市高三上学期八校联考期末英语试题
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.
A
Soothing , softening, award-winning lip care , just In time for that bite in the air Natural Choice
Full of organic ingredients, this lip stick is packaged plastic-free in a handy tin. It us organic herbs that are great for comforting skin and lips. What's not to love about this tin of care?
• £4 each, uk
"A protective and healing stick for lips” JULIET, Yorkshire.
Mikes Sen
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Packaged in A clever plastic-free tube, this lip Mick wins our Eco Champion award. It is long-lasting and perfect for nsitive or sore skin. Effective!
• £3.90 each, scenccxo.uk
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''Looks lovely, and works!" ANDREA, London.
Moisture Miracle
Weleda's lip stick got top marks given by customers and was considered 'truly comforting', which cams it the Readers' Choice award. This product is lightly perfumed with esntial oils. The tube is recyclable.
• £4.95 each, uk
"This is skin food! It smells heavenly. My lips felt treated" HOLL Y, Hertfordshire.
Lipid for Lips
A vegan-friendly butter with a minty(薄荷)scent that comes in an easy-to-u tin. It's plastic-free and handmade in small batches(量) in Scotland with natural, 85 per cent organic ingredients.
• £4.50 each, uk
“Fresh, comforting, light and long-lasting” ESTHER, Oxford shire.
Shea's a Winner
This stick is made from natural, organic ingredients. It can cure your sore skin in one day- and this gorgeous product protects you with subtle minty scent.
• £6.95 each, uk/shop/fair-squared adore this product and its natural scent" NIKKl, ' Psychologies' Partnerships Director.
21. What do Makes Sen and Moisture Miracle have in common?
英语短文阅读A. They cost the same.
B. They have won awards.
C. They u esntial oils.
D. They are good for sore lips.
22. What is special about Lipid for Lips?
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A. It smells heavenly with mint.
B. It is made from organic ingredients.
C. It is handmade in small quantities.
D. It has discounts if you buy in batches.
23. Which of the following will a budget-conscious customer buy?
A. Makes Sen.
B. Natural Choice.
C. Moisture Miracle.
D. Shea's a Winner.
答案：21-23. BAC
B
A robot navigates through the strawberries. detecting ripe ones, picking without bruising and placing them in its basket. It sounds futuristic but it possible now thanks to Rubion, the picking robot for strawberries. This piece of Belgian innovation is not only un answer to the labor shortage in the agricultural industry, but also allows growers to Increa the quality of its produce - which in the end benefits the consumer.
Demographic（人口结构的）and socio-economic numbers show that the labor shortage in the agricultural industry is a fact. But for Octinion the focus is clearly on adding quality “Thanks to robotics, we have so many possibilities, much more than a human could ever do. Harvest prediction, picking according to market needs, simply picking when the berries arc ripe instead of when workers are available - the are just a few examples of what is possible now for a grower,“ says Tom Coen, CEO of the Octinion Technology Group. "The consumer will also notice the difference, as strawberries will be fresher and show less bruising.”
Introducing robots in an industry where almost everything gets done by hand is more of a revolution than an evolution. It calls for clo cooperation with all stakeholders（利益相关者）.Tom Coen: "not
only have we been working together with growers and test centers across the world for the past couple of years, breeders have also been keen on being part of the technological developments."
In 2014 a team of Belgian engineers started the development of the robot. In the meanwhile, Octinion wasn't the only company prenting a concept. Product Manager Laura Guillaume says it's not a surpri that the company from Leuven is the first to actually prent a commercial product: “by developing the robot from the beginning, we are able to make it practical in greenhous or tunnels.” Octinion plans on launching harvesting robots for other crops in the upcoming years.
24. What can we know about the robot?
A. It can help solve the problem of labor shortage.
B. It makes little difference to the quality of the fruits.
C. It is developed by a group of Belgian engineers independently.
D. It has been put into u around the globe.
25. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A. The good news of the robotic picking.
B. The advantages of the robotic picking.
C. How the robotic picking works.
D. Different attitudes to the robotic picking.
26. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. The robot was introduced to the market in 2014.
B. Octinion is the only company to put forward the idea of the robot.
xeroxC. The robot can be ud in any situation.
定义英文D. Various harvesting robots are on the way.
27.What can be the best title for the text?
A. How robots pick strawberries,
get ud to
B. Fruits will be picked by Robots,
C. Strawberry-picking robots are prented.
D. A new robot was invented.
答案：24-27. ABDC
C
“You can u me as a last resort（选择），and if nobody el volunteers, then I will do it." This was an actual reply from a parent after I put out a request for volunteers for my kids' lacros（长曲棍球）club.
I guess that there's probably some demanding work schedule, or social anxiety around stepping up to help for an unknown sport. She may just need a little persuading. So I try again and tug at the heartstrings mention the single parent with four kids running the show and I talk about the dad coaching a team that his kids aren't At this point the unwilling parent speaks up, “Alright. Yes, I'll do it."
I'm cretly relieved becau I know there's real power in sharing volunteer responsibilities among many. The unwilling parent organizes the meal schedule, nds out emails, and collects money for end — of — ason gifts. Somewhere along the way, the same parent ends up becoming an invaluable member of the team. The coach is able to focus on the kids while the other parents are relieved to be off the hook for another ason. Handing out sliced oranges to bloodthirsty kids can be as exciting as watching your own kid score a goal Still, most of us volunteers breathe a sigh of relief when the ason comes to a clo. That relief is coupled with a deep understanding of why the same people keep coming back for more: Connecting to the community as you freely give your time, money, skills, or rvices provides a real joy. Volunteering just feels so good.
In that n, I'm pretty sure volunteering is more of a lfish act than I'd freely like to admit However, if
others benefit in the process, and I get some reward too, does it really matter where my motivation lies?
28.What can we infer about the parent from her reply in paragraph 1?
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A. She knows little about the club.
B. She isn't good at sports.
C. She just doesn't want to volunteer.
D. She's unable to meet her schedule,
29. What does the underlined phra "tug at the heartstrings” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Encourage team work.
B. Appeal to feelings.
C. Promote good deeds.
D. Provide advice.
30. What can we learn about the parent from paragraph 3?
九年级英语单词录音A. She gets interested in lacros.
B. She is proud of her kids.
C, She'll wort for another ason. D. She becomes a good helper.
31 Why does the author like doing volunteer work?
A, It 0ves her a n of duty. B. It makes her very happy.
C. It enables her to work hard.
D. it brings her material rewards.
答案：28-31. CBDB
D
Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive (认知的) psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world's most complex learning system-the mind of a baby. Babies might em like no match for artificial intelligence (AI). They are terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text, and awful at video games. Then again, babies can do things beyond the reach of any AI. By just a few months old, they’ve begun to grasp the foundations of language, such as grammar. They’ve started to understand how to adapt to unfamiliar situations.
Yet even experts like Spelke don’t understand precily how babies — or adults, for that matter — learn. That gap points to a puzzle at the heart of modern artificial intelligence: We're not sure what to aim for.
