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1、英语试卷第一部分 听力 （共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有1个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C3个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AYou may know the English letters A, B and C, but do you know there are people cal
2、led ABCs? You may like eating bananas, but do you know there is such a thing as “a banana person”? How strange! Are these people from another earth? No. They are just Chinese people like you and me.ABC means Americaborn Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the US. Sometimes, people call an
3、ABC “a banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside thinking like a westerner and yellow outside looking like a Chinese.Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them can not speak
4、Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics.But if ABCs cant speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas Chinese. These people may be citizens of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore, but they have Chinese blood
5、. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the Peoples Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang (杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for physic
6、s in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.21. “ABC” in the passage stands for_.A. 3 English letters B. a kind of banana C. Chinese born in America D. Americans born in China22. Chinese in western countries are called “banana persons” because_.A. their bodies are white inside
7、but yellow outsideB. they think like westerners but look like ChineseC. they were born in China but go to study in AmericaD. they like to eat bananas23. This passage mainly talks about_.A. different kinds of bananas B. overseas ChineseC. the Nobel Prize D. the life story of C. N. YangBDroughts (干旱)
8、are a common feature of the weather in the UK, with one around every 5 to 10 years on average. After 18 months since the drought began to hit the UK, most of the east and south-east of England is affected by drought. Luckily, a new water plant(工厂) in Beckton, East London, is helping to ease the drou
9、ght by turning seawater into drinking water.The 270-million plant uses a process called desalination, through which salt and other minerals are taken out of seawater. The plant takes seawater from the Thames Estuary when the sea is at low tide, filters (过滤) it and then pumps it through a membrane (薄
10、膜) with lots of little holes in it. The process makes the water so clean that essential minerals have to be put back into it. Around 150 million liters of water will be produced in this way each day, supplying 1.4 million people with water.With summer drawing near, the project has been developed to
11、help the widespread drought across the UK. Seven water companies have announced the limited use of water, and hosepipe (水龙带) bans are likely to be announced next month. The ban could affect one in three homes and people caught breaking the rules could face a fine of up to 1,000.As the desalination p
12、rocess is expensive to run and uses a lot of energy, it will only be used in times of drought. Martin Baggs, chief executive of Thames Water, said that more money is needed to help build reservoirs (水库) and develop new technology. He added, “People must use less water during extreme conditions.”24.
13、The process of desalination refers to the process of _. A. removing salt from seawater B. adding minerals into seawaterC. taking water from the sea D. supplying people with water25. It is implied in the text that in summer, _. A. the drought in the UK will be less severeB. more methods will be used
14、to ease droughtsC. more drinking water will be accessible in the UKD. the UK will be threatened by more serious droughts26. The process of desalination might not be widely used mainly because _. A. new technology can be developedB. it costs too much money and energy.C. it cant produce enough drinkin
15、g waterD. the water made this way isnt healthy27. What is the text mainly about?A. Droughts have been common in the history of the UK.B. The technology of taking salt out of seawater is being tested.C. Seawater is being turned into drinking water in the UK.D. Different methods are used to ease the d
16、roughts in the UK.CNews 1December 18, 2020 This year shows strong growth for wind power when the total global installed capacity (能量) added a record 62,000 MW, making the total capacity more than 680,000 MW. Wind power is by far the renewable (能再生的) source with the largest growth in worldwide capacity during
