辽宁省大连市普兰店区第三十八中学2021届高三英语上学期第四次考试试题总分：120分时间：100分钟第一卷第一部分阅读理解（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。

并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑．AOur new childcare location in Scheveningen!The center is surrounded by numerous international institutes and embassies and is conveniently located just 10 minutes from The Hague city center. You can easily pick up and drop off your child thanks to the many parking spaces close to the entrance.Our servicesBig Ben Kids provides day care, preschool care and after-school care. Our activity programme includes language lessons, violin lessons, guitar lessons and much more. Activities are held indoors, but can also be external, such as swimming in the river, and field trips to the woods. Children learn dancing, making music, and the native language ——Dutch! They learn through play. Our curriculum is carefully designed in such a way that the children don’t eve n notice how much they learn each day. For them，it’s all about playing and having fun!What does Big Ben Kids offer your family?• Homelike environmentA warm and stimulating(趣味盎然的）atmosphere that allows children to grow and develop safely.• A truly international placeOur staff members come from all over the world, just like the families we serve. We are therefore acutely aware that our centers should be much more than places that simply care for children. We always go the extra mile to help families and try to bring everyone together to form a friendly international community.• Healthy mealsAt Big Ben Kids, we serve two warm, healthy, homemade meals each day. The snacks are nutritious as well, with lots of fruit and vegetables. Parents receive our menu every week in advance.21. Where does the center probably lie?A. Germany.B. France.C. Holland.D. Sweden.22. Who is the center mainly intended for?A. Foreign children.B. Preschool children.C. Native children.D. Athletic children.23. What are parents aware of about their children ahead of time?A. What activities their children join.B. What meals their children are served.C. How their children perform in class.D. Whether their children finish homework.BAs Americans live longer and the job market stays competitive, fast-food chains are increasingly hiring from senior centers, churches and aging advocacy groups like AARP, Bloomberg reports. And it's not just death rates and economic trends driving the change. Seniors have more polished social skills, hut teens are stopped from growing up online with fewer real-world connections.“I spend a lot of time with young kids. They can he very disrespectful,” 63-year-old Church's Chicken manager Stevenson Williams tells Bloomberg of his teen coworkers. “You have to coach them and tell them this is your job, not the street,” Williams says. Having “soft skills” such as politeness often comes more easily to the seniors, who have had a lifetime of experience in the workforce to learn how to treat customers compared with young people.Employers thus get a more mature worker at no additional cost but the reasons for seniors outpacing teen hires are many. The US Census Bureau reported this year that, by 2035, there will be more Americans over age 65 than there are children under age 18. Plus, fewer people in their prime (盛年)are working—thanks to the unaffordable childcare that forces many parents to stay at home, according to a study by Princeton University.The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts the number of American workers aged between 65 and 74 will swell 4.5 percent by 2024, while the 16-to-24s will shrink 1.4 percent. By 2024, the BLS projects the labor force will grow to about 164 million people. That number includes about 41 million people aged 55 and older about 13 million of whom are expected to be aged 65 and up.So don't be surprised to see even more service with a smile and silver hair in that drive-through lane.24.What does the underline d part “the change” in Paragraph 1 refer to?A.Fast-food chains hire more senior people.B.Americans live longer.C.Senior centers are becoming more popular.D.The job market gets competitive.25.Why are seniors the hot new fast-food employees according to Williams?A.They demand less pay.B.Teens are easy to quit.C.Teens are hard to control and manage.D.They are good at socializing.26.Which of the following can be regarded as a “soft skill”?A.Knowing customers’ needs.B.Having high education.C.Having lots of connections with the real world.D.Being skillful at computer.27.Why do many parents stay at home?A.They prefer to look after children.B.They find it hard to pay for childcare.C.They find it hard to find a job.D.They are unwilling to work with senior citizens.CThe ruins of a Maya city have been discovered in Guatemala with the help of the remote sensing technique LiDAR. This lost city envelops sites like Tikal, Holmul, and Witzna, but shows that these famous areas are a small part of this lost urban network.Hidden under the jungles of the Maya Biosphere Reserve site, more than 60,000 human-made features — homes, canals,highways,and more — have been identified in aerial (从飞机上的)images collected by some international researchers headed by the PAGUNAM Foundation, a Maya cultural and natural heritage organization. Those have experts rethinking the outlines and complexity of the Maya Empire.These ancient peoples obviously created these imaginative cultures based on their known relics (遗迹),but the new research has suggested that the size of this lost society is far beyond what experts imagined. The findings will be explored in a one-hour documentary called "Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings", to be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel.This breakthrough was possible thanks to LiDAR sensors, which can survey lands in 3D by bouncing pulses off the ground from unmanned air vehicles and others. LiDAR is exceptionally useful for detecting archeological(考古的)sites, as it gets through jungles and other features that hold up exploration on the ground. The technique has made many discoveries become a reality in recent years. For instance, major finds at Angkor, Cambodia and Caracol, Belize can explain what it did. The final goal is to survey Guatemala’s lowlands with it."There are entire cities we didn't know about now showing up in the survey data," Francisco Estrada-Belli, one of the lead archeologists on the project, said in Nat Geo's coming documentary. "There are 20,000 square kilometres more to beexplored and there are going to be hundreds of cities about the mysterious people who built this urban network there tha t we don’t know about,and we will push back the frontiers with the technology," he added.28.What made experts rethinking the outlines and complexity of the Maya Empire ?A.Jungles.B.Human-made features.C.Researchers.D.Aerial images.29.What does the author want to convey in paragraph 4?A.The working principle of LiDAR sensors.B.The process of researching Maya civilization.C.Great importance of Guatemalans lowlands.D.LiDAR’s contribution to discovering the relics.30.Which words can best describe the lost Maya city?A.Small and hidden.B.Famous and high-tech.C.Vast and complex.D.Fully-explored and imaginative.31.What will the archeologists do next?A.Continue to explore the unknown.B.Upgrade the LiDAR technology.C.Study the documentary carefully.D.Build a massive urban network.DThe negative health effects of sleep shortages during the week can’t be changed by marathon weekend sleep sessions, according to a new study.Researchers have long known that routine sleep deprivation(缺乏)can cause weight gain and increase other health risks, including diabetes. But there are stillsome people who hope that shutting off the alarm on Saturday and Sunday will repay the weekly sleep debt and remove any ill effects.The research, published in Current Biology, ruins those hopes. Despite complete freedom to sleep in and nap during a weekend recovery period, participants in a sleep laboratory who were limited to five hours of sleep on weekdays gained nearly three pounds over two weeks and experienced metabolic disruption(代谢紊乱)that would increase their risk for diabetes over the long term. While weekend recovery sleep had some benefits after a single week of insufficient sleep, those gains were wiped out when people returned right to their same sleep schedule the next Monday."If there are benefits of catch-up sleep, they’re gone when you,back to your routine. It’s very short-lived," said Kenneth Wright, who oversaw the research. "These health effects are long-term. It’s kind of like smoking once was-people would smoke and wouldn’t see an immediate effect on their health, but people will say now that smoking is not a healthy lifestyle choice. I think sleep is in the early phase of where smoking used to be.”Wright said that the study suggests people should prioritize sleep-cutting out the optional "sleep stealers" such as watching television shows or spending time on electronic devices. Even when people don’t have a choice about losing sleep due to child-care responsibilities or job schedules, they should think about prioritizing sleep in the same way they would think about a healthy diet or exercise.32.What had the researchers already known before doing the new research?A.The actual benefits of weekend recovery sleep.B.Harm to health caused by the lack of routine sleep.C.People’s habit of shutting off the alarm during holidays.D.The relationship between body weight and sleep amount.33.Kenneth Wright mentioned smoking to______.A.call on smokers to completely abandon smokingB.advise people to,to sleep when they want to smokeC.show people have known the harm brought by smokingD.show people will someday notice the bad effects of sleep deprivation34.What does the underlined word "prioritize" in the last paragraph probably mean?A.Putting tasks in order of importance.B.Getting more than enough of something to deposit it.C.Cutting down something that is not necessary any more.D.Treating something as being more important than others.35.What can be the best title for the text?A.Weekend catch-up sleep is a lie.B.Bad sleep habits are harmful to health.C.Smoking is not the worst thing to health.D.A new study has an unexpected discovery.第二节（共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）阅读下列短文，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。