2021年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（新高考全国II卷）
英语
本试卷共11页，共100分.考试时长90分钟.
考生务必在答题卡指定区域作答，在试卷上作答无效.
考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回.
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
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。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。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。
例：How much is the shirt?
A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.18. C. ￡9.15.
答案是C。
1. Why did the woman go to Mallorca?
A. To teach Spanish. B. To look for a job.
C. To see a friend.
2. What does the man ask the woman to do?
A. Take him to hospital. B. Go to a class with him.
C. Submit a report for him.
3. Who will look after the children?
A. Jennifer. B. Suzy. C. Marie.
4. What are the speakers going to do?
A. Drive home. B. Go shopping C. Eat out.
5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. How to fry fish. B. How to make cofree.
C. How to remove a bad smell.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. When does Gomez watch a football game on TV?
A. When he fails to get a ticket.
B. When the stadium is crowded.
C. When his friends are too busy.
7. How much did Gomez pay for the football game last time?
A. $20. B. $25. C. $50.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What did Alex do in the afternoon?
A. He had a walk. B. He went hunting.
C. He planted trees.
9. What did Alex bring back?
A. Flowers. B. Leaves. C. Books.
10. What was Bob doing when Alex saw him?
A. Fishing. B. Taking pictures. C. Swimming.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What did David do on his most recent holiday?
A. He had a boat trip.
B. He took a balloon flight.
C. He climbed a mountain.
12. What is on David's list?
A. Gifts he needed to buy.
B. Things he wished to do.
C. Dates he had to remember.
13. Where does the woman suggest David go for his next holiday?
A. Australia. B. California. C. The Amazon.
听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。
14. Why did Sarah make the phone call?
A. To ask a favor. B. To pass on a message.
C. To make an appointment.
15. Where is Sarah now?
A. In Brighton. B. At her home.
C. At the Shelton Hotel.
16What time is Michael leaving his place tomorrow morning?
A. At 7：40. B. At 8：00. C. At 8：20.
17. What is the probable relationship between John and Sarah?
A. Neighbors. B. Fellow workers.
C. Husband and wife.
听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
18. What do most people think is very important in spoken communication?
A. Pronunciation. B. Vocabulary. C. Grammar.
19. Why should you listen to experts according to the speaker?
A. To develop your reading fluency.
B. To improve your note-taking skills.
C. To find out your mispronunciations.
20. What is the speaker's last suggestion?
A. Spell out the difficult words.
B. Check the words in a dictionary.
C. Practice reading the words aloud.
第二部分阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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
Things to Do in Yorkshire This Summer
Harrogate Music Festival
Since its birth, Harrogate Music Festival has gone from strength to strength. This year, we are celebrating our 50th anniversary. We begin on 1st June with Manchester Camerata and Nicola Benedetti, presenting an amazing programme of Mozart pieces.
Dates:1 June-31 July
Tickets:￡12-￡96
Jodie's Fitness Summer Classes
As the summer months roll in, our Georgian country estate makes the perfect setting for an outdoor fitness session. Come and work out with our qualified personal trainer, Jodie McGregor, on the grounds of the Middleton Lodge estate.
We will be holding a free taster session on 23rd May, at 10 am, to demonstrate the variety of effective and active exercises. There are eight spaces available for the taster session. Advance bookings are required(info@middletonlodge.co.uk.paris)
Dates:23 May-11 July
Tickets: ￡7.50 per session
Felt Picture Making
Working from an inspirational picture, this workshop at Helmsley Arts Centre will teach you the techniques you will need to recreate your picture in wool.
We will also discuss the origins of felt, what enables wool fibres to become felt and how the processes we use work.
Dates: 12 June-12 July
Tickets: ￡40 including materials
Figure It Out!-Playing with Math
A new exhibition in Halifax uses everyday activities to explain the hidden math principles we all use on a regular basis. Pack a bag, cut a cake, guess which juice container holds the most liquid, and much more. Discover how architects, product designers and scientists use similar skills in their work.
Dates:7 May-10 June
Tickets: Free
1.What should you do if you want to attend the taster session of Jodie's fitness classes?
A.Join a fitness club.B.Pay a registration fee.
C.Make a booking.D.Hire a personal trainer.
2.How much is the ticket for Felt Picture Making?
A.￡7.50.B.￡12.C.￡40.D.￡96.
3.Which of the following starts earliest?
A.Harrogate Music Festival.B.Jodie's Fitness Summer Classes.
C.Felt Picture Making.D.Figure It Out!-Playing with Math.
B
I have worked as a keeper at the National Zoo, Paris for 11 years. Spot and Stripe are the first tiger cubs that have ever been born here. Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don't make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home.
I've got two children—the younger one, Kynan, was extremely happy about the tigers arriving - but all of us really looked forward to being part of their lives and watching them grow. I wasn't worried about bringing them into my home with my wife and kids. These were cubs. They weighed about 2.5 kg and were so small that there was absolutely no risk.
As they grew more mobile, we let them move freely around the house during the day, but when we were asleep we had to contain them in a large room, otherwise they'dget up to mischief. We'd come down in the morning to find they'd turned the room upside down, and left it looking like a zoo.
Things quickly got very intense due to the huge amount of energy required to look after them. There were some tough times and I just felt extremely tired. I was grateful that my family was there to help. We had to have a bit of a production line going, making up “tiger milk”, washing baby bottles, and cleaning the floors.
When Spot and Stripe were four months old, they were learning how to open doors and jump fences, and we knew it really was time for them to go. It was hard for us to finally part with them. For the first few days, Kynan was always a bit disappointed that the cubs weren't there.
I'm not sad about it. I'm hands-on with them every day at the zoo, and I do look back very fondly on the time that we had them.
4.Why did the author bring the tiger cubs home?
A.To ensure their survival.B.To observe their differences.
C.To teach them life skills.D.To let them play with his kids.
5.What do the underlined words “get up to mischief” mean in paragraph 3?
A.Behave badly.B.Lose their way.C.Sleep soundly.D.Miss their mom.
6.What did the author think of raising the tiger cubs at home?
A.Boring.B.Tiring.C.Costly.D.Risky.
7.Why did the author decide to send Spot and Stripe back to the zoo?
A.They frightened the children.B.They became difficult to contain.
C.They annoyed the neighbours.D.They started fighting each other.
C
A British woman who won a S1 million prize after she was named the World's Best Teacher will use the cash to bring inspirational figures into UK schools.
Andria Zafirakou,a north London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution(变革). “We are going to make a change, ”she said.“I’ve started a project to promote the teaching of the arts in our schools.”
The project results from the difficulties many schools have in getting artists of any sort - whether an up-and-coming local musician or a major movie star - into schools to work with and inspire children.
Zafirakou began the project at Alperton Community School, her place of work for the past twelve years. “I've seen those magic moments when children are talking to someone they are inspired by - their eyes are shining and their faces light up,” she said. “We need artists . more than ever in our schools."
Artist Michael Craig-Martin said: “Andria's brilliant project to bring artists from all fields into direct contact with children is particularly welcome at a time when the arts are being downgraded in schools." It was a mistake to see the arts as unnecessary, he added.
Historian Sir Simon Schama is also a supporter of the project. He said that arts education in schools was not just an add-on. “It is absolutely necessary. The future depends on creativity and creativity depends on the young. What will remain of us when artificial intelligence takes over will be our creativity, and it is our creative spirit, our visionary sense of freshness,that has been our strength for centuries."
8.What will Zafirakou do with her prize money?
A.Make a movie.B.Build new schools.
C.Run a project.D.Help local musicians.
9.What does Craig-Martin think of the teaching of the arts in UK schools?
A.It is particularly difficult.B.It increases artists' income.
C.It opens children's mind.D.It deserves greater attention.
10.What should be stressed in school education according to Schama?
A.Moral principles.B.Interpersonal skills.
C.Creative abilities.D.Positive worldviews.
11.Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A.Bring Artists to SchoolsB.When Historians Meet Artists
C.Arts Education in BritainD.The World's Best Arts Teacher
D
An Australian professor is developing a robot to monitor the health of grazing cattle, a development that could bring big changes to a profession that's relied largely on a low-tech approach for decades but is facing a labor shortage.
Salah Sukkarieh, a professor at the University of Sydney, sees robots as necessary given how cattlemen are aging. He is building a four-wheeled robot that will run on solar and electric power. It will use cameras and sensors to monitor the animals. A computer system will analyze the video to determine whether a cow is sick. Radio tags(标签)on the animals will measure temperature changes. The quality of grassland will be tracked by monitoring the shape, color and texture(质地)of grass. That way,cattlemen will know whether they need to move their cattle to another field for nutrition purposes.
Machines have largely taken over planting, watering and harvesting crops such as com and wheat, but the monitoring of cattle has gone through fewer changes.
For Texas cattleman Pete Bonds, it's increasingly difficult to find workers interested in watching cattle. But Bonds doesn't believe a robot is right for the job. Years of experience in the industry - and failed attempts to use technology - have convinced him that the best way to check cattle is with a man on a horse. Bonds, who bought his first cattle almost 50 years ago, still has each of his cowboys inspect 300 or 400 cattle daily and look for signs that an animal is getting sick.
Other cattlemen see more promise in robots. Michael Kelsey Paris, vice president of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, said a robot could be extremely useful given rising concerns about cattle theft. Cattle tend to be kept in remote places and their value has risen, making them appealing targets.
12.What is a problem with the cattle-raising industry?
A.Soil pollution.B.Lack of workers.
C.Aging machines.D.Low profitability.
13.What will Sukkarieh's robot be able to do?
A.Monitor the quality of grass.B.Cure the diseased cattle.
C.Move cattle to another field.D.Predict weather changes.
14.Why does Pete Bonds still hire cowboys to watch cattle?
A.He wants to help them earn a living.B.He thinks men can do the job better.
C.He is inexperienced in using robots.D.He enjoys the traditional way of life.
15.How may robots help with cattle watching according to Michael Kelsey?
A.Increase the value of cattle.B.Bring down the cost of labor.
C.Make the job more appealing.D.Keep cattle from being stolen.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
If the only reading you ever do is the novel or magazine, the speed at which you read -probably does not matter very much. But if you have to read a great deal for study, you will appreciate the benefits of being able to read more quickly.____16____
·Before you open the book, make sure that you are comfortable. You need a seat which supports your back and the book should be at the right distance from your eyes.____17____
____18____Look at the table of contents, the preface, the chapter heading,etc.This will help you to decide whether you really need to read the whole book or only certain parts of it. Ten minutes spent in this way could save you quite a lot of time in the long run.
If you decide that you need to read the whole book, decide how much you can read at a time.____19____A history book which may contain the facts in story form will be easier to read than one dealing with scientific subjects. In the former case you may be able to read a chapter. In the latter you may only be able to read one page.
Always keep a pencil and paper beside you.____20____Note also the facts important for your purpose as well as anything which leads you to further research. You don't have to write these things in detail. It is enough to put the page number and one or two words as a reminder .
A.Stop to have a rest now and then.
B.Spend a few minutes looking through the book.
C.This depends on the type of book you are reading.
D.Here are some tips to help improve your reading speed.
E.Make a note of any page which is of special importance.
F.You may find yourself having to leam something by heart.
G.Keep the room cool rather than warm to avoid feeling sleepy.
第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳
Over the past 38 years, Mr. Wang has pretended to be someone else many times,and has even learned to____21____different dialects（方言），leading to him being described as an “Oscar-winning actor".
The 60-year-old is not an actor, but a____22____However,he is more devoted to his “____23____"than any real actor.
In the 1990s, a group of thieves often sold stolen goods with the help of some beggars. To look into the____24____，Wang disguised（伪装）himself and____25____the beggars. Dirty shorts and old shoes gave him the____26____of a real beggar and his convincing dialect soon won him the____27____of the beggars.
“I often____28____them to drink alcohol. Once they were____29____,they began to talk a lot,"Wang said. “I'd then____30____myself to use the toilet,____31____what the beggars said, and send the____32____to my teammates.”
Wang，who is often in____33____situations，is also a judo（柔道）master. “As long as I get close enough, no criminal can____34____from me," he said.
Wang's____35____won him several honors, including a National May Day Labor Medal and 11 Citations of Merit.Paris.
21. A.teachB.compareC.assessD.speak
22. A.lawyerB.doctorC.policemanD.businessman
23. A.roleB.studyC.familyD.audience
24. A.minorB.caseC.futureD.question
25. A.interviewedB.joinedC.arrestedD.assisted
26. A.challengeB.experienceC.appearanceD.freedom
27. A.voteB.sympathyC.permissionD.trust
28. A.invitedB.forcedC.helpedD.expected
29. A.drunkB.desertedC.boredD.lost
30. A.guideB.persuadeC.excuseD.allow
31. A.refer toB.note downC.ask aboutD.miss out
32. A.planB.agreementC.directionD.information
33. A.awkwardB.dangerousC.unfortunateD.strange
34. A.separateB.recoverC.escapeD.hear
35. A.courageB.honestyC.kindnessD.optimism
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
I've always loved the ocean. In the____36____(seven) grade,I started volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. I was upset to learn that many sea animals eat plastic garbage,____37____(think)it is food.
I decided to do something____38____(educate) people about this problem. I held presentations at schools to teach kids about plastic waste. I wanted to reach businesses too. I decided that if I learned of a company____39____used a lot of plastic, I'd send it an email urging it to cut back.
One day, I saw a commercial for a health-care company. People in the ad were using plastic straws（吸管）. I found the contact information of the company____40____emailed its president. I told him how____41____(harm) plastic could be to the environment and asked him to consider using more eco-friendly options. I was so____42____(excite) when he wrote back to me.He said he would make sure that the company cut its use of plastic straws in half.
I kept going. Whenever I heard of businesses using plastic, I'd send an email. One of the biggest companies I wrote to____43____(be) Alaska Airlines Paris. A company____44____(represent) wrote back and told me the airline was switching over_____45_____plastic to paper cups on all of its 1,200 daily flights.
第四部分写作（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（满分15分）
46.你校英文报Youth正在庆祝创刊十周年。请你写一篇短文