浙江省2021年1月普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试题（真题和详细解析）

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2021 年1月普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（浙江）
英 语
选择题部分
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 35 分）
第一节（共 10 小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分 25 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题
纸上将该项涂黑。
A
More than 25 years ago, Saroo Brierley lived in rural (农村) India. One day, he played with
his brother along the rail line and fell asleep. When he woke up and found himself alone, the 4-
year-old decided his brother might be on the train he saw in front of him — so he got on.
That train took him a thousand miles across the country to a totally strange city. He lived on
the streets, and then in an orphanage (孤儿院). There, he was adopted by an Australian family and
flown to Tasmania.
As he writes in his new book, A Long Way Home, Brierley couldn’t help but wonder about
his hometown back in India. He remembered landmarks, but since he didn’t know his town’s
name, finding a small neighborhood in a vast country proved to be impossible.
Then he found a digital mapping program. He spent years searching for his hometown in the
program’s satellite pictures. In 2011, he came across something familiar. He studied it and realized
he was looking at a town’s central business district from a bird’s-eye view. He thought, “On the
right-hand side you should see the three-platform train station” — and there it was. “And on the
left-hand side you should see a big fountain” — and there it was. Everything just started to match.
When he stood in front of the house where he grew up as a child, he saw a lady standing in
the entrance. “There’s something about me,” he thought — and it took him a few seconds but he
finally remembered what she used to look like.
In an interview Brierley says, “My mother looked so much shorter than I remembered. But
she came forth and walked forward, and I walked forward, and my feelings and tears and the
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chemical in my brain, you know, it was like a nuclear fusion ( 核聚变). I just didn’t know what to
say, because I never thought seeing my mother would ever come true. And here I am, standing in
front of her.”
21. Why was Brierley separated from his family about 25 years ago?
A. He got on a train by mistake. B. He got lost while playing in the street.
C. He was taken away by a foreigner. D. He was adopted by an Australian
family.
22. How did Brierley find his hometown?
A. By analyzing old pictures. B. By travelling all around India.
C. By studying digital maps. D. By spreading his story via his book.
23. What does Brierley mainly talk about in the interview?
A. His love for his mother. B. His reunion with his mother.
C. His long way back home. D. His memory of his hometown.
B
At the start of the 20th century, an American engineer named John Elfreth Watkins made
predictions about life today. His predictions about slowing population growth, mobile phones and
increasing height were close to the mark. But he was wrong in one prediction: that everybody
would walk 10 miles a day.
Today, in Australia, most children on average fall 2,000 steps short of the physical activity
they need to avoid being overweight. In the early 1970s, 40 per cent of children walked to school,
while in 2010, it was as low as 15 per cent.
The decline is not because we have all become lazy. Families are pressed for time, many with
both parents working to pay for their house, often working hours not of their choosing, living in
car-dependent neighborhoods with limited public transport.
The other side of the coin is equally a deprivation: for health and well-being, as well as lost
opportunities (机会) for children to get to know their local surroundings. And for parents there are
lost opportunities to walk and talk with their young scholar about their day.
Most parents will have eagerly asked their child about their day, only to meet with a “good”,
quickly followed by “I’m hungry”. This is also my experience as a mother. But somewhere over
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the daily walk more about my son’s day comes out. I hear him making sense of friendship and its
limits. This is the unexpected and rare parental opportunity to hear more.
Many primary schools support walking school-bus routes ( 路 线 ), with days of regular,
parent-accompanied walks. Doing just one of these a few times a week is better than nothing. It
can be tough to begin and takes a little planning — running shoes by the front door, lunches made
the night before, umbrellas on rainy days and hats on hot ones — but it’s certainly worth trying.
24. Why does the author mention Watkins’ predictions in the first paragraph?
A. To make comparisons. B. To introduce the topic.
C. To support her argument. D. To provide examples.
25. What has caused the decrease in Australian children’s physical activity?
A. Plain laziness. B. Health problems.
C. Lack of time. D. Security concerns.
26. Why does the author find walking with her son worthwhile?
A. She can get relaxed after work. B. She can keep physically fit.
C. She can help with her son’s study. D. She can know her son better.
C
Researchers say they have translated the meaning of gestures that wild chimpanzees (黑猩猩)
use to communicate. They say wild chimps communicate 19 specific messages to one another with
a “vocabulary” of 66 gestures. The scientists discovered this by following and filming groups of
chimps in Uganda, and examining more than 5,000 incidents of these meaningful exchanges.
Dr Catherine Hobaiter, who led the research, said that this was the only form of intentional
communication to be recorded in the animal kingdom. Only humans and chimps, she said, had a
system of communication where they deliberately sent a message to another group member.
“That’s what’s so amazing about chimp gestures,” she said. “They’re the only thing that looks
like human language in that respect.”
Although previous research has shown that apes and monkeys can understand complex
information from another animal’s call, the animals do not appear to use their voices intentionally
to communicate messages. This was a significant difference between calls and gestures, Dr
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