2021年全国统一高考英语试卷（全国乙卷）

The  Biggest  Stadiums  in  the  World

People have been pouring into stadiums since the days of ancient Greece. In around 80 A.D. , the Romans built the Colosseum, which remains the world's best known stadium and continues to inform contemporary design. Rome's Colosseum was 157 feet tall and had 80 entrances, seating 50,000 people. However, that was small fry compared with the city's Circus Maximus, which accommodated around 250,000 people.

These days,safety regulations-not to mention the modern sports fan's desire for a  good view  and a  comfo rt able  sea t -tend to k eep  stad ium  cap acitie s（容量 ）  slight ly lo w e r. Even soccer fans tend to have a seat each; gone are the days of thousands standing to watch the match.

For the biggest stadiums in the world, we have used data supplied by the World  Atlas  list  so  far, which  ranks  them  by  their  stated  permanent capacity,as well as updated information from official stadium websites.

All these stadiums are still functional,still open and still hosting the biggest events in world sport.

• Rungrado  1st  of  May  Stadium,Pyongyang,D.P.R-Korea.Capacity.150,000.Opened：May1,1989.

• Michigan  Stadium,Ann Arbor, Michigan,U.S. Capacity:107,601.Opened.October1, 1927.

• Beaver  Stadium,State  College,Pennsylvania,U.S.Capacity:106,572.Opened:September17,I960.

• Ohio  Stadium,Columbus,Ohio,U.S.Capacity:104,944.Opened:October7,1922.

• Kyle  Field,College Station,Texas,U.S.Capacity:102,512.Opened:September24,1927.

1.How many people could the Circus Maximus hold?

2.Of the following stadiums,which is the oldest?

3.What do the listed stadiums have in common?

When almost everyone has a mobile phone,why are more than half of Australian homes still paying for a landline (座机)?

These days you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Australia over the age of 15  who  doesn't own a mobile phone. In fact plenty of younger kids have one in their pocket. Practically everyone can make and receive calls anywhere,anytime.

Still,55 percent of Australians have a landline phone at home and only just over a quarter（29%） rely only on their smartphones ,according to a survey（调查）.Of  those Australians who still have a landline,a third concedethat it's not really necessary and they're keeping it as a security blanket - 19 percent say they never use it while afurther 13 percent keep it in case of emergencies. I think my home falls into that category.

More than half of Australian homes are still choosing to stick with their home phone .Age is naturally a factor （因素）-only 58 percent of Generation Ys still use landlines now and then, compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers who've perhaps had  the  same  home number for 50years.Age isn't the only factor;I'd say it's also to do with the makeup of your household.

Generation Xers with young families,like my wife and I,can still find it convenient to have a home phone rather than providing a mobile phone for every family member. That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents,to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone （using Caller ID would take the fun out of it）.

How attached are you to your landline? How long until they go the way of gas street lamps and morning milk deliveries?

4.What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about mobile phones?

5.What does the underlined word "concede"in paragraph 3 mean?

6.What can we say about Baby Boomers?

7.What can be inferred about the landline from the last paragraph?

You've heard that plastic is polluting the oceans-between4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes enter ocean ecosystems every year. But does one plastic straw or cup really make a difference? Artist Benjamin Von Wong wants you to know that it does. He builds massive sculptures out of plastic garbage, foreing viewers to re-examine their relationship to single-use plastic products.

At the beginning of the year, the artist built a piece called"Strawpocalypse,"a pair of 10-foot-tall plastic waves, frozen mid-crash. Made of 168,000 plastic straws collected from several volunteer beach cleanups, the sculpture made its first appearance at the Estella Place shopping center in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam.

Just 9% of global plastic waste is recycled. Plastic straws are by no means the biggest source (来源)of plastic pollution, but they've recently come under fire because most people don't need them to drink with and, because of their small size and weight,they cannot be recycled.Every straw that's part of Von Wong's artwork likely came from a drink that someone used for only a few minutes. Once the drink is gone,the straw will take centuries to disappear.

In a piece from 2018,Von Wong wanted to illustrate (说明) a specific statistic:Every 60 seconds, a truckload's worth of plastic enters the ocean. For this work, titled "Truckload of Plastic, " Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic ,which were then tied together to look like they'd been dumped(倾倒)from a truck all at once.

Von Wong hopes that his work will also help pressure big companies to reduce their plastic footprint.

8.What are Von Wong's artworks in tended for?

9.Why does the author discuss plastic straws in paragraph 3?

10.What effect would "Truckload of Plastic"have on viewers?

11.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

During an interview for one of my books,my interviewer said something I still  think aboutoften.Annoyed by the level of distraction(干扰)in his open office, he said,"That's why I have a membership at the coworking space across the street-so I can  focus. "His comment struckme as strange. After all, coworking spaces also typically use an openofficelayout (布局). But I recently came across a study that shows why his approach works.

The researchers examined various levels of noise on participants as they completed tests of creative thinking .They were randomly divided into four groups and exposed to various noise levels in the background, from total silence to 50 decibels(分贝),70 decibels, and 85 decibels. The differences between most of the groups were statistically insignificant; however,the participants in the 70 decibels group-those exposed to a level of noise similar to background chatter in a coffee shop-significantly outperformed the other groups. Since the effects were small, this may suggest that our creative thinking does not differ that much in response to total silence and 85 decibels of background noise.

But since the results at 70 decibels were significant,the study also suggests that the right level of background noise-not too loud and not total silence-may actually improve one's creative thinking ability.The right level of background noise may interrupt our normal patterns of thinking just enough to allow our imaginations to wander, without making it impossible to focus.This kind of"distracted focus"appears to be the best state for working on creative tasks.

So why do so many of us hate our open offices?The problem may be that, in our  offices, we can't stop ourselvesfrom getting drawn into others' conversations while we're trying to focus. Indeed, the researchers found that face-to-face interactions and conversations affect the creative process,and yet a coworking space or a coffee shop  provides a certain level of noise while also providing freedom from interruptions.

12.Why does the interviewer prefer a coworking space?

13.Which level of background noise may promote creative thinking ability?

14.What makes an open office unwelcome to many people?

15.What can we infer about the author from the text?

According to Jessica Hagy,author of How to Be Interesting,it's not difficult to make yourself interesting at a dinner party.

  16     ，if you're out of your comfort zone or if you're wandering into somebody's house for the first time. So the main thing is just to show up and be adventurous, trying different foods and talking to strangers.

People love to talk about themselves. If you can start the conversation with aquestion other than "What do you do for a living?", you'll be able to get a lot more interesting conversation out of whomever it is you're talking to.       17      . it can bring in "I have this old, broken-down vehicle" or "I rode the bus with these crazy people who were laughing at silly jokes in the back." It just opens up conversation.

        1 8 ? If you can't take their wine away , you should certainly try to take away their soapbox （讲台）. If you're the host, you can ask them to help you in the kitchen with something and just remove them from the situation. 19           .

And what about that other dinner-party killer :awkward silence? If you're faced with an awkward silence at a dinner party, the only thing that always gets everyone talking  again is to give the host a compliment (赞扬). 20        .Just quickly turn around and say,"This cake is extremely delicious and you have to tell me all about it."

So being interesting at a dinner party isn't that hard.

A.How  do  you know  the host

B.The  first step is to go  exploring

C.If  you  ask  the  question" How  did  you get  here?"

D.Be  prepared  to have  awkward conversations  with  strangers

E.Or  turn the conversation  into a topic where  they  have little to say

F.What about that person who has  had too much to  drink or won't stop talking

G.He  or she  is the person who is feeling  the weight of that awkwardness  the most

Simply saying thank you doesn't seem enough in certain situations.I was considering this while working as a  21       Just a few weeks ago.And it came to me then how

much easier it would be if we had a range of words that express different 22          of gratitude (感谢).

My thoughts were soon    23        .We had a woman patient who was 24          from a knee replacement operation. One afternoon,while   25       to get into bed she collapsed(倒下) from what was  26          discovered to be a heart attack.The collapse was disastrous,   27        the  emergency medical team and good teamwork. But she recovered,though     28      ,and was ready for discharge (出院)after four weeks.

She was    29   for everything that the medical and nursing team had done for her.On her day of discharge,we shared in her  30             at her recovery.As she was

  31  she was eager to say   32   to each of us in the nursing team.When she       33    one nurse, she tried to press a five-pound note into her hand. My colleague     34    to accept it, saying that we were all just      35      our job. The patient looked puzzled, and then       36      : "Oh this isn't for the       37_    I had. Itake that as a  38_       .No,this is for setting my hair yesterday.''

And there you have it. To many people,     39     lives is part of the job but styling hair is an  40_          and should be rewarded.

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Ecotourism is commonly regarded as low impact ( 影响)travel to undisturbed places .It is different from traditional tourism because it allows the traveler to become 4 1       (educate )about the areas -both in terms of geographical conditions and cultural characteristics, and often provides money for conservation and benefits the  4 2      (develop)of the local areas.

Ecotourism has 4 3       (it) origin with the environmental movement of the 1970s. It was not widely accepted as a travel concept 4 4        the late 1980s. During that time,increasing environmental awareness made it desirable.

Due to 4 5      growing popularity of environmentally-related and adventure travel,various types 4 6         trips are now being classified as ecotourism. Actually, a true eco-friendlytrip must meet thefollowing principles:

  Minimize the impact of 4 7        (visit) the place.

        Build respect for and awareness of the environment and cultural practices.

        Provide 4 8         (finance)aid and other benefits for local peoples.

        Make sure that the tourism provides positive experiences for both the visitors and the hosts.

Komodo National Park,officially recognized in 1980,is popular for ecotourism because of its unique biodiversity. 4 9          (activity)there range from whale watching to

hiking ( 远足 )and accommodations aim 5 0        (have )a low impact on the natural environment.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。 文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加，删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧ ） ，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改 10 处，多者（ 从第11 处起）不计分。

I love doing housework. I always assist my parents in doing the dish after meals. I also water the flowers in the yard and tidying up my own bedroom whatever necessary. In  my  opinion, students  can  benefit  a  lot  doing  some housework.Firstly,doing housework  was  helpful  for  us  to be a responsible person. Also, it gives our parents more time to do what they are like and it improves the family relationship.What's most,doing housework can be a form of mentally relaxation from study. That's our view on housework. And hopes this can inspire more thinking on the topic!

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