高考英语 - 2021年真题原文

第二部分 阅读
第一节
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Things to Do in Yorkshire This Summer
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Harrogate Music Festival
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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.
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Dates: 1 June — 31 July
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Tickets:£12 — £96
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Jodie's Fitness Summer Classes
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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.
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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).
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Dates:23 May — 11 July
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Tickets: £7.50 per session
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Felt Picture Making
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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.
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We will also discuss the origins of felt, what enables wool fibres to become felt and how the processes we use work.
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Dates: 12 June — 12 July
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Tickets: £40 including materials
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Figure It Out!—Playing with Math
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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.
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Dates:7 May — 10 June
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Tickets: Free
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I have worked as a keeper at the National Zoo 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.
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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.
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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’d get 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A British woman who won a $1 million prize after she was named the World's Best Teacher will use the cash to bring inspirational figures into UK schools.
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Andria Zafirakou, a north London secondary school teacher, said she wanted to bring about a classroom revolution. "We are going to make a change," she said. "I've started a project to promote the teaching of the arts in our schools."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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 on the animals will measure temperature changes. The quality of grassland will be tracked by monitoring the shape，color and texture of grass. That way，cattlemen will know whether they need to move their cattle to another field for nutrition purposes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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第二节
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. Here are some tips to help improve your reading speed.
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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. Keep the room cool rather than warm to avoid feeling sleepy.
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Spend a few minutes looking through the book. 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.
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If you decide that you need to read the whole book, decide how much you can read at a time. This depends on the type of book you are reading. 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.
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Always keep a pencil and paper beside you. Make a note of any page which is of special importance. 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.
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第三部分 语言运用
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Over the past 38 years, Mr. Wang has pretended to be someone else many times,and has even learned to speak different dialects，leading to him being described as an "Oscar-winning actor".
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The 60-year-old is not an actor, but a policeman. However,he is more devoted to his "role" than any real actor.
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In the 1990s, a group of thieves often sold stolen goods with the help of some beggars. To look into the case，Wang disguised himself and joined the beggars．Dirty shorts and old shoes gave him the appearance of a real beggar and his convincing dialect soon won him the trust of the beggars.
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"I often invited them to drink alcohol. Once they were drunk, they began to talk a lot," Wang said. "I'd then excuse myself to use the toilet, note down what the beggars said, and send the information to my teammates."
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Wang，who is often in dangerous situations，is also a judo master．"As long as I get close enough, no criminal can escape from me," he said.
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Wang's courage won him several honors, including a National May Day Labor Medal and 11 Citations of Merit.
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第二节
I've always loved the ocean. In the seventh grade,I started volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. I was upset to learn that many sea animals eat plastic garbage,thinking it is food.
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I decided to do something to 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 that/which used a lot of plastic, I'd send it an email urging it to cut back.
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One day, I saw a commercial for a health-care company. People in the ad were using plastic straws．I found the contact information of the company and emailed its president. I told him how harmful plastic could be to the environment and asked him to consider using more eco-friendly options. I was so excited when he wrote back to me.He said he would make sure that the company cut its use of plastic straws in half.
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I kept going. Whenever I heard of businesses using plastic, I'd send an email. One of the biggest companies I wrote to was Alaska Airlines. A company representative wrote back and told me the airline was switching over from plastic to paper cups on all of its 1,200 daily flights.
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第四部分 写作（略）