2021年高考英语押题密卷B（新课标III卷）（含听力音频）

Since you can't get to theaters, museums, galleries, music venues or opera houses during these difficult days due to coronavirus, instead they'll come to you. Here's a list of some of Europe's best-known museums.

Louvre Museum in Paris

As the most visited museum in the world, it offers virtual tours online. It also has a number of "Visitors Trails" in different themes, designed to give an overview of the scope and wealth of the museum's collections. Each trail is based on a selection of works that characterize a period, an artistic movement or a theme, including the artworks from JAY-Z and Beyoncé's music video.

Schirn Museum in Frankfurt

It has digitally opened its current exhibition, now closed due to the virus, called "Fantastic Women" (scheduled from February 13 to May 24), highlighting the works of 34 women artists and their contributions to Surrealism (超现实主义), including Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning and Dora Maar.

Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

Are you looking for ways to entertain your children with an educational twist? Then the Van Gogh will bring the great artist to you and also invite you to a virtual visit inside the Museum. The museum explores the painter's life, his relationship with his brother Théo, his passion for Japan and also his mental illness. Everything is in high definition.

Of course, a range of recent opera and ballet productions are also available, with the hope to give pleasure to as many people as possible. Please get more information at www. forbes. com.

A US government study has found that facial recognition technology is getting better at identifying people wearing masks. The study is part of an ongoing research by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The agency has examined the effectiveness of more than 150 facial recognition systems on people wearing face coverings. The systems are powered by machine learning algorithms (算法).

The first results of the study were announced in July, as health officials across the world urged people to wear masks to limit the spread of COVID-19. New findings were released this week. Police agencies have long used facial recognition technology to search for and help catch criminals. It can also be used to unlock phones or other electronic devices. Some robots use facial recognition technology to recognize the people they are communicating with. However, the wide use of masks in public has created major difficulties for such systems.

The study looked at facial recognition systems already in use before the pandemic. It also looked at systems specially developed to work on masked faces. The NIST said it processed a total of 6. 2 million images for the experiment People in the images were not actually wearing masks. So, the researchers digitally added different mask shapes to faces in the pictures for use in the study. In some cases, up to 70 percent of a person's face was covered in the images. Overall, the research shows the top-performing facial recognition systems fail to correctly identify unmasked individuals about 0. 3 percent of the time and the failure rate rose to about 5 percent with masked images. Many of the lower performing algorithms, however, had much higher error rates with masked images — as high as 20 to 50 percent.

In the latest findings, researchers included results from 65 new facial recognition systems that have been developed since the start of the pandemic. "Some of these systems performed "significantly better" than the earlier ones," Mei Ngan, a lead researcher on the project, said in a statement. The study also found round-shaped masks — which cover only the mouth and nose — led to fewer errors than wider ones that stretch across the cheeks. The new study also ran tests to see whether different colored masks would affect error rates. The team used red, white, black and light blue. The research findings suggested that generally, the red and black masks led to higher failure rates than the other colors.

Huge areas of the Amazon, which serves as the lungs of the planet by taking in carbon dioxide and producing oxygen, are burning. Smoke from the widespread fires have turned day into night in Sao Paulo. The fires have covered the Brazilian city of San Paulo in dark smoke, and raising concerns that the rainforest, which is one of the most biologically diverse regions on earth.

The recent Amazon fires have been widespread and some happened rather suddenly. Farmers cleared land for agriculture and also burned areas of rainforest for further development. Cleared rainforests in this region are typically used for cattle farming and growing soybeans, and much of the land-clearing is done illegally. One contributing factor to the fires in the Amazon is the fact that it is the dry season there, the time of year when wildfires tend to break out from human activities, either intentionally or by accident.

The Amazon, which spans 2.12 million square miles, sucks up about a quarter of the 2.4 billion metric 57 tons of carbon that global forests absorb each year. However, the ability of the rainforest to pull in more carbon than it releases is diminishing weakened by changing weather patterns, deforestation and increasing tree mortality (死亡率), among other factors.

According to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, the fires have led to a clear increase in carbon monoxide- emissions as well as planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions, posing a threat to human health and aggravating global warming.

If the Amazon were to turn into a consistent net source of carbon emissions, it would accelerate global warming while also leading to a huge loss in species that are not found anywhere else on earth.

Every day, we have messages to give people through Post-it Notes. They have a special glue on the edge (边缘) of the paper. They are sticky so that you can leave them anywhere and they won't fall off. You can reuse the notes because the special glue on the back doesn't wear off easily.

Who invented Post-it Notes? Art Fry was a scientist who worked for the famous 3M Company. He needed a bookmark that stayed in place but didn't tear (撕) the page when he wanted to remove it. So he took some of the weak glue a friend made and put it on the back of a yellow piece of paper. Then he wrote a report to his boss and put the yellow sticky paper on the top page. His boss took off the note, wrote an answer, stuck the paper back on, and sent it back. This was the beginning of Post-it Notes. It was a new and creative way to communicate.

Today, Post-it Notes are one of the most popular office products. Everyone uses them for many different purposes. One man used one to write a marriage proposal (求婚) and put it on his girlfriend's front door. She wrote her answer and put the note back on his door. One mother put a note on the back of her son's car before he left on a long trip. When he arrived, he found the note. After 3,000 miles, it was still on the car. One university student was waiting in the bus station and started to feel sleepy. She didn't want to miss her bus so she put Post-it Notes all over herself. The notes asked people to wake her up in time for her bus. She did fall asleep but her plan worked. Someone saw the notes and woke her up.

There are Post-it Notes to please everyone's tastes. You can buy Post-it Notes in fifty different colors, twenty-seven different sizes, and fifty-six different shapes. More than 400 Post-it products are sold in more than 100 countries around the world. Art Fry should be proud of his invention.

How to Get the Sleep You Need

Mary Ladd's husband could sleep through the night, but she couldn't. And part of it felt out of her control. A breast cancer survivor with an elderly mother, Ladd found that her worries would come to her mind at bedtime.

It's not just a matter of feeling tired. Over the long run, lack of sleep can contribute to diseases like depression, obesity, heart attack, and even cancer.

Unfortunately, telling patients to sleep more doesn't mean they'll be able to do it.Exercise more, stick to a sleep schedule, avoid caffeine in the evening. As a result, a third of adults report that they fail to get a seven-to-nine-hour sleep a night.

The good news is that science has begun figuring out sleep's mysteries and the following are some of the latest ideas to improve our bedtime.

Don't Go Toward the Light.

Our brains react to the blue light given off by computers, smart-phones, and even LED bulbs much as they do to daylight. If you can't avoid screens before you head to bed, try wearing light-blocking glasses.

Become a Dream Weaver.

People with fewer dreams are more likely to be sensitive to pain and anxious. Unfortunately, some sleeping pills can disturb REM sleep-the last and most dream-filled sleep cycle. Alcohol does too.Training yourself to wake naturally takes practice, but you'll be more rested if you can do it.

Don't Worry About It.

Such anxieties can transform lack of sleep into chronic insomnia (慢性失眠). A recent research shows you will still get through the day if you don't get enough sleep. Therefore, if you lose sleep, tell yourself that it's OK.

When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper (志愿护士长) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespiel. He never had any 1, and nobody seemed to care about his2. I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, 3anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, 4he responded with only a(n) 5 squeeze of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was6. I didn't have the7to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might8me he had died.

Several 9 later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I10who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was 11! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie, With a (n)12 look on his face, he replied yes. I13how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever14.

He began to tell me how, 15he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could16me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie17believed that it was my voice and18that had kept him alive.

Although I haven't 19him since, he fills my heart with 20every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.

Busy Colombians living in a city can be pressured. But there is a place for people to relieve stress in Bogota. (sit) at the top of Monserrate Hill, east of the city, the place is a protected park for hummingbirds. The area contains a forest that has turned into a peaceful and  (harmony) world for both people and birds.

With the hummingbirds flying from flower to flower, some people study them through binoculars (双筒镜) and  (other) take pictures with cameras or phones.

"Sometimes it doesn't seem real because we are close to city of eight million residents  generate noise every day," says Camilo Cantor, a caretaker in the park, whose job is to mix water and sugar and put it in bird feeders along a 300-meter path "The park is (true) special place, like an oasis (绿洲). It is place where people can go  (ease) stress, forget about troubles and get  break from busy city life," he added.

Ten years ago, the hill  (destroy), mercilessly and completely, meaning there were no trees left on it. But workers began to replant local trees and flowers to bring the forest back  life. Presently, visitors to the park can see over100 species of birds there.

Hummingbirds can  (find) only on the American continent and Colombia is home to many different kinds.

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删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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⑴每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

⑵只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

What is the standard of beauty？Different time have different standards. In our parents' generation, it is believed that a girl should be a little fatter, because it meant that she lived better life. While the thin girls, which would be thought to be lacking for happiness, were not appreciated. And today, the most important standard of beauty is to be thin. The thinner, the better. At the commercial ads, all of the models are skinny, look so elegant. When I see my friends work hardly to lose weight, I feel worried about them. The beauty's standard will change over time and that health is more important than meeting any supposing standard of beauty.

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⑵详细的行程安排；

⑶此行将会有何收获。

注意：

⑴词数80左右；

⑵可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Paul,

……

Yours,

Li Hua