2021-2022学年广东省清远市佛冈县第一中学高三英语模拟试题含解析

1、2021-2022学年广东省清远市佛冈县第一中学高三英语模拟试题含解析一、 选择题1. Making mistakes is a natural part of the learning process _ you can turn your errors into learning points.A. what B. which C. that D. where参考答案：D试题解析：句意：犯错误时学习过程中很自然的一部分，在这个过程中你可以把错误变成学习的要点。定语从句修饰的先行词是process，为抽象的地点概念。故选D2. Generally speaking, confident pe

2、ople are more likely to _their weaknesses in public.A.admitB.admireC.acquireD.advocate参考答案：A句意:通常来说,自信的人会更有可能在大庭广众下承认自己的弱点。根据句意选admit,表示承认。3. Much as he _ he has a good command of English, he sometimes feels it hard to find an appropriate version for some Chinese idioms. A. complains B. declares C.

3、confirms D. claims参考答案：D4. Why is the librarian looking so hard at me?You _ to read aloud in the reading room.A. dont suppose B. havent supposed C. are not supposed D. are not supposing参考答案：C略5. Focusing on the unfairness of circumstances keeps you comparing yourselves with others _ appreciating you

4、r own special uniqueness.A. rather than B. more than C. better than D. other than参考答案：A6. 一You seem to be familiar with this city一I_ here for three yearsIts great to be backAwill live Blived Chad lived Dlive参考答案：B略7. The headmasters office is equipped with _ furniture.A. old French brownish wooden B

5、. old brownish wooden French C. old brownish French wooden D. French old brownish wooden 参考答案：C8. _ teachers are present today, and _ them is 300 AA great many; a number of BA number of; the number of CA dozen of; a great many DThe number of; a number of参考答案：B考查主谓一致及固定搭配。A great many、a dozen of和a nu

6、mber of后面的名词为中心词（主语），谓语要用复数形式。据此可排除此三项。The number of“的数量，主语为number，谓语要用单数，故答案B。句意“许多教师今天都出席了，有300人。”the number of指“的数目”，它的谓语动词用单数; a number of many，它所修饰的主语的谓语动词用复数。9. The boys, _ with this somewhat terrifying figure, had lost their tongues.A. to face B. having faced C. faced D. facing参考答案：C10. - Did

7、 you talk with _ present at the meeting yesterday? - No. Only a few of them. A. anyone B. everyone C. someone D. no one 参考答案：B略11. Sir, _ you park your car at this Fire Engine Access?Sorry, I didnt notice thatAcan Bmust Cwill Dmay参考答案：B12. Yesterday,IreadWhite Night by Higashino Keigo. Such a good b

8、ook! _.NoonecanmatchHigashino Keigo inartistictalent.A.YousaiditB.You dont say C.You cant be seriousD. You set me up参考答案：A13. Ling Feng won the first prize in the national English competition and Im glad that her efforts at last _. A. worked out B. got back C. paid off D. gave out参考答案：C14. The succe

9、ss of Barack Obama shows that a man should be not by the color1 of his skin but by the content of his characterA defeated B praised Cjudged D accepted参考答案：C15. You must find the club poster funny. _. It makes no sense. A. So it isB. Not in the leastC. It dependsD. I couldnt agree more参考答案：B16. -Are

10、you going somewhere during the winter vacation? -Yes, Ive found a nice beach _ I can enjoy swimming even in February Athat Bwhen Cwhere Dwhich参考答案：C略17. Alfred pretended to be calm when the two policemen suddenly appeared but he knew he.A.has been arrestedB.would be arrestedC.will be arrestedD.was a

11、rrested参考答案：B考查时态。句意:当两个警察突然出现时,Alfred假装很镇定,但他知道他会被捕的。从knew看出,本句应用过去时态,且本句中被捕相对于knew而言,是发生在将来的动作,故此处应用过去将来时。18. That is the only way we can imagine the overuse of water in students bathrooms. A. reducing B. to reduce C. reduced D. reduce参考答案：B二、 单词拼写19. 短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）

12、首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。As is known to all, music is now becoming popular among people. It is playing the most important p_in our day-to-day lives. It is mainly 76._played for _（舞蹈）, drinking, eating, loving and thinking. Some songs 77._may make us recall ou

13、r childhood and youth, while _ may remind us 78._ the people whom we love. Many important occasions like those of 79._weddings or sports and games have their _(特殊) music. Every nation 80._has its national song. With years p_ by, music grows and changes. 81._ Modern music has a_changed music. Inventi

14、ons like records, radios, 82._movies, electric _(乐器), tapes, recorders and videos have changed 83._the way in _ we play and listen to music; they have, to a great degree, 84._h_ to make music an important form of international communication. 85._参考答案：76. part 77.dancing 78.others 7 9.of 80.special81

15、. passing 82. also 83.instruments 84.which 85. helped三、 阅读理解20. Most people know precious gemstones (宝石) by their appearances. An emerald flashes deep green, a ruby seems to hold a red fire inside, and a diamond shines like a star. Its more difficult to tell where the gem was mined, since a diamond

16、from Australia or Arkansas may appear the same to one from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, recently, a team of scientists has found a way to identify a gemstones origin.Beneath the surface of a gemstone, on the tiny level of atoms and molecules（分子）, lie clues (线索) to its origin. At th

17、is years meeting of the Geological Society of America in Minneapolis, Catherine McManus reported on a technique that uses lasers (激光) to clarify these clues and identify a stones homeland. McManus directs scientific research at Materialytics, in Killeen, Texas. The company is developing the techniqu

18、e. “With enough data, we could identify which country, which mining place, even the individual mine a gemstone comes from,” McManus told Science News.Some gemstones, including many diamonds, come from war-torn countries. Sales of those “blood minerals” may encourage violent civil wars where innocent

19、 people are injured or killed. In an effort to reduce the trade in blood minerals, the U.S. government passed law in July 2010 that requires companies that sell gemstones to determine the origins of their stones.To figure out where gemstones come from, McManus and her team focus a powerful laser on

20、a small sample of the gemstone. The technique is called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Just as heat can turn ice into water or water into steam, energy from the laser changes the state of matter of the stone. The laser changes a miniscule part of the gemstone into plasma, a gas state of matte

21、r in which tiny particles（微粒）called electrons separate from atoms.The plasma, which is superhot, produces a light pattern. (The science of analyzing this kind of light pattern is called spectroscopy.) Different elements produce different patterns, but McManus and her team say that gemstones from the

22、 same area produce similar patterns. Materialytics has already collected patterns from thousands of gemstones, including more than 200 from diamonds. They can compare the light pattern from an unknown gemstone to patterns they do know and look for a match. The light pattern acts like a signature, te

23、lling the researchers the origin of the gemstone.In a small test, the laser technique correctly identified the origins of 95 out of every 100 diamonds. For gemstones like emeralds and rubies, the technique proved successful for 98 out of every 100 stones. The scientists need to collect and analyze m

24、ore samples, including those from war-torn countries, before the tool is ready for commercial use.Scientists like Barbara Dutrow, a mineralogist from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, find the technique exciting. “This is a basic new tool that could provide a better fingerprint of a materia

25、l from a particular locality,” she told Science News. 56. We learn from Paragraph 1 that _. A. an emerald and a ruby are names of diamonds. B. its not difficult to tell where the gem was mined. C. appearances help to identify the origin of gemstones. D. diamonds from different places may appear the

26、same. 57. Why did the U.S. government pass law that requires companies selling gemstones to determine the origins of their stones?A. To look for more gemstones. B. To encourage violent civil wars. C. To reduce the trade in blood minerals. D. To develop the economy. 58. Which of the following facts most probably helps McManus and her team in identifying the origin of stones? A