湖北荆州中学届高三第二次全真模拟考试英语试题.docx

1、湖北荆州中学届高三第二次全真模拟考试英语试题湖北荆州中学2021届高三第二次全真模拟考试英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、阅读选择 In the long history of humans, womens stories have often been overlooked. Yet as modern society has allowed women to speak for themselves, more and more women are standing up to choose how to live their lives. Here are five power

2、ful films that just might inspire you to re-imagine what it means to be a woman.Hi, Mom (2021)Directed by Chinese comedian Jia Ling, this heartwarming comedy, about a woman who accidentally meets her mother during time travel, became a hit with audiences this year, leading the mainland box office ri

3、ght after Chinese New Year.Leap (2020)This 2020 film about the Chinese national womens volleyball team presents their history from 1981, when they won the Womens World Cup, to the year 2016. Actress Gong Li stars as the legendary volleyball player Lang Ping, and Peter Chen from Hong Kong is the dire

4、ctor.Coco Avant Chanel (2009)The life of Coco Chanel serves as a guide to all women wishing to establish their own careers. Audrey Tautou, famous for her iconic performance in Amelie, stars as the glorious French fashion designer. It is French director Anne Fontaines most famous film.The Joy Luck Cl

5、ub (1993)Based on the novel The Joy Luck Club, Chinese director Wang Ying tells the stories of four Chinese women and their daughters who were all born and lived in the US. Their conflicts also reflect the collision between traditional Chinese culture and American culture.The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)D

6、irected by Zhang Yimou, the 1992 film describes a peasant woman Qiu Ju who lives in a rural area of China and fights for justice. It is a screen adaptation of writer Chen Yuanbins novel The Wan Familys Lawsuit.1Why does the author select the above 5 movies?ATo arouse attention to women.BTo speak hig

7、hly of great mothers.CTo support womens fight for equal rights.DTo introduce the history of women movies.2How does Coco Avant Chanel differ from the other 4 movies?AIt inspired a lot of women.BIt is set in a foreign country.CIts actress became world-famous for her role.DIts director has a different

8、culture background.3Which film concerns generation gap?AHi, Mom BLeapCThe Joy Luck Club DThe Story of Qiu Ju In Los Angeles, UPS driver Hector Vesco noticed that while he did his normal route, there was one kid who looked sad.Once Hector understood why the boy looked upset, he jumped into action. A

9、father of two himself, he knew that he would have to check in with the parents. Using a blank UPS slip, Hector wrote out a note reading, “Hi, this is Hector, your UPS driver. Ive seen your son plenty of times on the balcony and he seemed very sad that he didnt get any package. When he asked me if I

10、had any package for him, I told him, Dont worry. Maybe next time. So, anyway, Ive bought something and put it in box. Just wanted to know his name.” Hector also shared his number so that the parents could contact him directly.After getting all the information he needed from the mother Brooke Walbuck

11、, Hector showed up the next day and surprised the boy, Langston, with the delivery.Of course, the gesture of delivering the parcel was nice enough, but it turned out what was inside make it even better! When Langston opened up the box, he found a collection of toy cars and a bunch of candy. It didnt

12、 get much better than that for a little boy.After the delivery was made, Brooke sent a follow-up text to thank Hector again. In his reply, Hector stated that he had two daughters himself. He kept a bunch of toy cars he had collected over the years. When he met Langston, he knew it was the perfect op

13、portunity to put them to good use.In his message back to Brooke, he also intentioned that Langston helped him remember how many kids, along with his, had to live through the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our kids are our world and the future,” he said. “I just want to show some love.”Before the pandemic, you

14、probably didnt think too much about the people who delivered your packages. But in times of pandemic, delivery drivers like Hector have some of the most important jobs!4What do we know about Hector Vesco?AHe collected toy cars for boys. BHe worked for a delivery company.CHe was familiar with the Wal

15、bucks. DHe informed Langston of his own number.5Which of the following does the underlined it in Paragraph 4 refer to?AThe box. BThe gift. CThe gesture. DThe parcel.6How were the Walbucks influenced by the delivery?ABrooke was grateful to Hectors kids. BBrooke was regretful for ignoring her son.CLan

16、gston was cheered up in the pandemic. DLangston was disappointed with the used toys.7What does the author mainly intend to convey in the text?AThe pandemic affects the globe. BChildren love toy cars and candies.COld products can serve new purposes. DOrdinary people can be extraordinary. Scientists o

17、ften compare coral reefs (珊瑚礁) to underwater rainforests, yet unlike the leafy plant base of a forest, corals are animals. The soft creatures are naturally half-transparent and get their brilliant color from algae (藻类) living inside them. When corals experience stress from hot temperatures or pollut

18、ion, they halt the interdependent relationship with algae, typically pushing them out and turning white. Corals are still alive when they are white, but theyre at risk and many eventually die, turning dark brown.Scientists around the world are looking for means to protect and maybe increase corals.

19、One common option is to create more protected areas essentially national parks in the ocean. Beyond nature preserves, some conservationists are looking for more hands-on methods. One research center in the Florida Keys is exploring a form of natural selection to keep corals remaining. The reef syste

20、m in the Keys has been hit hard by climate change and pollution, which is especially tough, because corals there help support fisheries worth $ 100 million every year.To keep the wild ecosystem alive, Erinn Muller, the centers director, and her team are harvesting samples of the corals that survived

21、 the environmental stress naturally, keeping them to make them reproduce, and then reattaching them to the reef. They have 46,000 corals on plastic frames under the sea. So far, the center has regrown over 70,000 corals from five different species on damaged reefs.In the Bahamas, Ross Cunning, a res

22、earch biologist at Chicagos Shedd Aquarium, focuses on corals with genes that could make them natural candidates for restoration projects. He published a study of two Bahamian reefs, one that survived an extreme 2015 heat wave, and one that didnt. “We think their ability to deal with these higher te

23、mperatures is built into their genes,” says Cunning. Theres evidence of corals evolving more quickly to resist rapidly warming climate. The big question scientists need to investigate, adds Gunning, is how much more heat corals can adapt to.8What does the underlined word “halt” in the first paragrap

24、h mean?AWeaken. BDevelop. CStrengthen. DEnd.9What do Muller and her team do to save corals?ARestore the damaged reefs. BGrow corals underwater.CCreate more protected areas. DMove corals to unpolluted areas.10What do Cunnings words suggest?AMany corals have been genetically improved.BCooling down the

25、 waters is the key to rescuing corals.CThe highest temperature corals can survive is unclear.DReasons for corals surviving heat waves need investigation.11Which is the text mainly about?AThe efforts made to save corals.BThe impact of climate warming on corals.CThe survival crisis faced by coral reef

26、s.DThe relationship between corals and algae. When music comes on, some people are toe-lappers or head-bobbers, others shake their hips，and then there are those who let the rhythm move them to a full-body boogie (布吉舞) . But, whatever it is, the way we dance to a beat is so noticeable to an individua

27、l that a computer can now identify us by our unique dancing “fingerprint”.Researchers at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research at Finlands University of Jyv skyl have been using motion capture (动作捕捉) technology to study what a persons dance moves say about his or her mood, personality, and

28、 ability to sympathize. They recently made an accidental discovery while trying to see if an ML machine, a form of artificial intelligence, would be able to identify which kind of music was playing based on how the participants of the study were dancing. In their study, the researchers motion captur

29、ed 73 participants with the AI technology while they danced to eight different music genres: electronica, jazz, metal, pop, rap, reggae, country, and blues. The only instruction the dancers were given was to move in a way that felt natural.But what it could do was more shocking. The computer was abl

30、e to correctly identify which music one of the participants was dancing to 94 percent of the time, regardless of what kind of music was playing, based on the pattern of a persons dance style. It was the movement of participants heads, shoulders and knees that were important markers in distinguishing

31、 between individual. “It seems as though a persons dance movements a kind of fingerprint. Each person has a unique movement signature that stays the same no matter what kind of music is playing,” said Pasi Saari, a co-author of the study, in a class.Its possible that dance-recognition software could

32、 become something similar to face-recognition software but it doesnt seem as practical. For now, researchers say that they are not as interested in possible surveillance (监视) uses of this technology, but rather what the results of this study say about how humans respond to music. So dont worry about being identified at nightclub by an AI via your signature dance moves yet.12What did the researchers expect to do with the ML machi