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2021年广州市第三中学高三英语第四次联考试卷及参考答案

第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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

Many workers have had no choice but to adapt to working from home in recent months since offices shut

down due to the COVID-19 pandemic (新冠疫情). And the noisy situation and endless housework may result in a

terrible emotion. A new option is waiting foryou. That is WFH: work from a hotel.

Hotel Figuero

A special program titled Work Perks aims to reposition some of 94-year-old Hotel Figuero’s 268 rooms as

day-use offices.

According to Managing Director Connie Wang, the set-up launched in June and is a great opportunity to get

out of their houses with high-speed Wi-Fi, unlimited printing privileges and free parking. The 350-square-foot

rooms sell for $ 129 per day, with an option to extend to an overnight stay for an additional $ 20.

The Wythe

A boutique hotel in Brooklyn. The hotel recently announced a partnership with co-working office space

company Industrious through which it is recycling 13 second-story guest rooms to serve as offices for up to four

people.

Each of the rooms has a small outdoor platform, and dogs are welcome. Pricing starts at $ 200 and goes up to

$ 275, depending on how many people use the space.

The Sawyer

The Sawyer, in Sacramento, California, is offering pool cabanas (更衣室) for use as outdoor offices, complete

with fast Wi-Fi, free parking and catered lunch for $ 150 per day.

HotelsByDay

Yannis Moati founded HotelsByDay back in 2015. That company has grown to include more than 1,500 hotels,

and has seen a significant increase in the number of inquiries for day-use bookings lately.

Moati said the current situation will force hotels to upgrade themselves to stay alive, and he predicted that

offering rooms for day-use only is one of the directions they will go.

much should one pay for a 24-hour stay in Hotel Figuero?

A.$ 129. B.$ 149. C.$ 150. D.$ 200.

hotel allows pets in?

Wythe. Sawyer.

ByDay. Figuero.

do we know about Yannis Moati?

started a program titledWork Perks.

has upgraded at least 1,500 rooms.

usually predicts everything correctly.

is optimistic about the WFH trend.

B

In recent years, with the development of technology, it is common to see robots into our homes in the form of

toys and vacuums (吸尘器) without question. Children’s toys that rely on robotics for both entertainment and

education are becoming more popular and more easily accessible. Robot vacuums, too, are so popular that the

Roomba has even earned itself a name in popular television.

A selection of other household wares can be purchased and owned for a reasonable cost, but they all look and

perform like vacuums. Our domestic helpers are currently designed to vacuuming, mopping, sweeping and

mowing.

Of course the best known of these is the Roomba, but there is actually some competition amongst the

autonomous vacuum manufacturers. Roomba, made by iRobot, now comes in several designs and has been

through many versions of improvements. The basic model is just about $400, but there’s a more attractive version,

complete with a wireless command center to control the robot from anywhere in the home. Samsung also has a

vacuum, called the Smart Tango, which makes increased improvements on the Roomba by including brushes for

cleaning corners. It’s possible that some of the less well-known vacuums might be even more exciting, like the

Neato Robotics XV that takes on a square shape to better clean corners. Incremental (增值的) improvements are

what drive the home robot industry.

Now that domestic robots are becoming more popular, the near future should be exciting. If we are going to

welcome robots into our lives and our homes, we should expect them to work for it, and work hard. It’s the dawn

of the robot revolution, whether we like it or not, and it would be great to see that technology put to use in more

innovative(创新的) ways.

4. What does Roomba in the passage mean?

A. A man’s name who has bought a domestic robot. B. A name of a big company who makes

robots.

C. A type of vacuum whose name is Roomba. D. A place where people can buy proper robots.

5. The Smart Tango is different from other types in that ________.

A. it has a wireless command center B. it has brushes for cleaning corners

C. it is more famous and exciting D. it is driven without electricity

6. What can we infer according to the last paragraph?

A. Domestic robots will free us from housework.

B. Domestic robots will become cheaper and cheaper.

C. Domestic robots have brought environmental revolution.

D. Domestic robots takes the lead in science and technology.

7. What does the author intend to tell in the passage?

A. Domestic robots are closely related to our daily life.

B. It is interesting to see domestic robots at home.

C. Domestic robots are too expensive for most people.

D. It is convenient to buy a domestic robot.

C

While space travel still gets lot of attention, not enough attention has been paid to the exploration of oceans,

about which we know much less than the dark side of the moon.

Ninety percent of the ocean floor has not even been recorded and while we have been to the moon, the

technology to explore the ocean's floors is still being developed. For example, a permanent partially-underwater

sea exploration station, called the Sea Orbiter, is currently in development.

The oceans play a major role in controlling our climate. But we have not learned yet how to use them to cool

us off rather than contribute to our overheating. Ocean organisms are said to hold the promise of cures for a wide

of the unique eyes of skate (ray fish) led to advances in conquering blindness, the horseshoe crab was important in

developing a test for bacterial pollution, and sea urchins helped in the development of test-tube fertilization(人工

授精). The toadfish's' ability to regenerate its central nervous system is of much interest to neuroscientists. A

recent Japanese study concluded that the drug Eribulin, which was taken from sea sponges, is effective in fighting

with breast, colon, and Urinary cancer.

Given the approaching crisis of water insufficiency, we badly need to improve current methods, of

desalinating(淡化) ocean water and make them more efficient and less costly. By 2025, 1.8 billion people are

expected to suffer from severe water shortage, with that number jumping to 3. 9 billion by 2050-well over a third

of the entire global population.

If the oceansdo not make your heart go beating faster, how about engineering a bacterium that eats carbon

dioxide — and thus helps protect the world from overheating — and produces fuel which will allow us to drive our

cars and machines, without oil? I cannot find any evidence that people young or old, Americans or citizens of

other nations would be less impressed or less inspired with such a breakthrough than with one more set of photos

of a faraway galaxy or a whole Milky Way full of stars.

8. What does the author think about the ocean exploration?

A. It is equal to the space exploration. B. It is well developed.

C. It deserves more attention and devotion. D. It is beyond our knowledge.

9. What technology has been developed to make use of the oceans?

A. Curing human diseases with ocean organisms.

B. Preventing the world getting warmer.

C. Mapping the global ocean floor.

D. Removing salt from sea water.

10. What does the author imply in the last paragraph?

A. The temperature rise will be overcome by a bacterium.

B. Solving the existing problems is more significant.

C. The space exploration is worth the efforts.

D. The ocean exploration is not inspiring.

11. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Oceans, the Last Hope. B. Oceans, the Hidden Treasure.

C. Space, the Final Frontier. D. Space, the Faraway Dream.

D

Nowadays medical technology seems to be advanced enough for doctors to perform brain transplants (移植).

Though this procedure (程序) has only been successfully performed on animals so far, doctors are still hopingto

perform this procedure on humans. However, in my opinion, brain transplants should not be performed at all,

especially not on humans because of the large number of problems and side effects that could come along with.

Hopefully these dangerous side effects will convince doctors not to perform this procedure on humans.

Despite many benefits technology brings. I do not think this medical technology of brain transplants will help.

We were all born with one brain and through childhood to adults our mind developed into who we are, so if with a

different brain we would no longer be unique. A person with a different brain would seem to be a total stranger

and in many ways they would be. No one should steal our identity from us, even if we are seriously injured, and

change it to a completely new one. Also for the people who have died with healthy brains, that was their identity

and it should not be given to anyone else.

Another problem with brain transplants is how doctors can choose what are “healthy” or “normal” brains. An

elderly person who has died would have an aged brain that would not be as efficient as younger person’s brain.

Then would doctors have to find healthy brains of the same age as the person who needs it? This could also bring

up other factors such as intelligence, sex, or physical problems that a person might have had before death. Also

another problem might be how long a brain can be kept “alive” after death and how it can be kept “alive” without

damage.

Overall. my feelings about this operation are that it should not be done on humans until doctors have

overcome all the problems and challenges that stand in their way of making human brain transplants successful.

12. Why does the author think brain transplants should not be performed at all?

A. The cost of the operation is extremely high.

B. Doctors are not able to perform brain transplants.

C. A good many problems and side effects may arise.

D. This procedure has only been successful on animals

13. What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A. People shouldn’t give their healthy brains to others.

B. Having a brain transplant means losing one’s identity.

C. Transplanting brains is changing old brains into new ones.

D. Having brain transplants indicates stealing identity from others.

14. What is the writers’ attitude towards brain transplants an humans?

A. indifferent B. favorable

C. disapproving D. objective

15. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A. To encourage brain donation.

B. To stress the importance of brain operation.

C. Toargue against brain transplants on humans.