2021届重庆市高考第一次预测性考试英语试题

2021届重庆市高考第一次预测性考试英语试题

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The Costa Book Awards consistently pick winners that are

both of the moment and subsequently endure. It's our pleasure

to confirm this year’s Category Winners.

First Novel Award Winner

Book: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Author: Gail Honeyman

Eleanor is 31 years old; work finishes on a Friday and begins

again on a Monday. Between, her only company will be two

bottles of vodka and her own solitary, unique wit (机智). It is

contentment, of a kind, but an unexpected shared experience

suddenly opens the door to possibility. Challenging reader

expectations with a living, breathing character, Gail Honeyman’s

debut (初次登台、开张)is a funny and moving diamond.

Biography Award Winner

Book: In the Days of Rain

Author: Rebecca Stott

The Exclusive Brethren were a closed community who

believed the world is ruled by Satan. Into this is born Rebecca.

Her father had been an influential Brethren Minister. As her father

lay dying, he begged her to help him write the memoir. He

wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had

all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect.

Poetry Award Winner Book: Inside the Wave

Author: Helen Dunmore

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it

breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the

borderline between the living and the dead — the underworld

and the human living world – and the acutely intense being of

both.

Children's Award Winner

Book: The Explorer

Author: Katherine Rundell, Hannah Horn

Four children survive their aircraft plunging into the Amazon

jungle, but for Fred and his friends it’s only the beginning of a

cruel battle for survival. Brimming with adventure and a real

command of character and incident, Rundell has few peers in

superb children's fiction.

1．What kind of life does Eleanor lead?

A．boring and lonely. B．funny and touching.

C．exciting and complex. D．ordinary and happy.

2．Why did Rebecca Stott write In the Days of Rain?

A．To introduce beliefs of the Exclusive Brethren.

B．To help her father fulfill his last wish.

C．To share the life of fundamentalist Christians.

D．To pass on her family traditions.

3．For a young adventurous soul, which book seems more

appealing?

A．Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine B．In the Days of

Rain

C．Inside the Wave D．The Explorer

We are in lack of enough sleep，according to Arianna Huffington,the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington

Post.And this has great consequences on our health,our job

performance，our relationships and our happiness.What is

needed,she boldly declares,is nothing short of a sleep

revolution.Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we

take back control of ourlives. In her bestseller Thrive,Arianna

wrote about our need to redefine success through well

being,wisdom,wonder,and giving.Her discussion of the

importance of sleep as a gateway to this more fulfilling way of

living struck such a powerful chord（弦）that she realized the

mystery and transformative power of sleep called for a fuller

investigation（调查）.

The result is a scientifically sweeping and personal

exploration of sleep from all angles,from the history of sleep,to

the role of dreams in our lives,to the consequences of sleep

deprivation（剥夺），and the new golden age of sleep science

that is showing the vital role sleep plays in our every waking

moment and every aspect of our health—from weight

gain,diabetes,and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer's.

In The Sleep Revolution,Arianna shows how our cultural

removal of sleep as time wasted damages our health and our

decision-making and our work lives and shortens our personal

lives.She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going

on while we sleep and dream.She decides the dangerous

sleeping pill industry,and all the ways of our addiction to

technology disturb our sleep.She also offers a range of

recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can

get better and more restorative sleep.

4．What is the first paragraph mainly about? A．The importance of sleep.

B．The necessity of improving sleep.

C．The way to improve our sleep.

D．The effect of sleep on health.

5．What can be inferred about Arianna’s attitude to

success?

A．She thinks good sleep is more important.

B．She doesn’t think much of becoming successful.

C．She thinks it wrong to sacrifice health to success.

D．She is concerned about the nature of success.

6．What can be said about Arianna’s investigation?

A．It is really of great value.

B．It is scientific and historical.