宁夏银川一中2021届高三英语上学期第一次月考试题（Word版附答案）

宁夏银川一中2021届高三英语上学期第一次月考试题（Word版附答案）

银川一中2021届高三年级第一次月考 英 语 试 卷 命题人： ‎ 注意事项：‎ ‎1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。‎ ‎2．回答选择题时，选出每小题的答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷及草稿纸上无效。‎ ‎3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。‎ 第一部分：听力理解(共两节。满分30分)‎ 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。‎ 第一节 ‎ (共5小题：每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)‎ 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。‎ 例：How much is the shirt ?‎ ‎ A.＄19.15. B.＄9.18 C.＄9.15 ‎ 答案是C.‎ 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）‎ 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。‎ ‎1. Which group will the man be working with? ‎ A. Group C. B. Group B. C. Group A. ‎ ‎2. Where will the man probably get change? ‎ A. From the woman. B. From a jewelry store. C. From a change machine. ‎ ‎3. Why are the two speakers upset? ‎ A. The dog barks too loudly. B. The dog destroys their gardens ‎ C. The dog leaves its wastes everywhere. ‎ ‎4. What is the man dissatisfied with about the job? ‎ A. The salary. B. The working hours. C. The amount of paid leave. ‎ ‎5. What will the man probably do next? ‎ A. Attend the meeting. B. Buy a drink somewhere else. C. Wait for the bar to open. ‎ 第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）‎ 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前, 你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。‎ 请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。‎ ‎6. Where will Cindy go to study? ‎ A. England. B. Canada. C. America. ‎ ‎7. What major does Cindy want to choose? ‎ A. Accounting. B. Engineering. C. Mathematics. ‎ 请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。‎ ‎8. When will the man come to the restaurant? ‎ A. At about 9: 00. B. At about 9:30. C. At about 10: 00. ‎ ‎9. What can we learn from the conversation? ‎ A. Nine students will come for the meal. ‎ B. The restaurant’s big tables have been reserved. ‎ C. The man has booked three tables next to the window. ‎ 请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。‎ ‎10. How does The Old Guitarist most probably make people feel? ‎ A. Cheerful. B. Puzzled. C. Depressed. ‎ ‎11. What do Mother and Child and The Peasants have in common? ‎ A. Both were created for Pablo’s friend. ‎ B. Both belong to the same period. ‎ C. Both have colder colors. ‎ ‎12. What does the creation of Three Musicians show? ‎ A. Pablo liked trying new things. B. Pablo loved listening to music. ‎ C. Pablo loved to learn from others. ‎ 请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。‎ ‎13. How many complaints did the company receive two years ago?‎ ‎ A. 7,300. B. 4,990. C. 1,809‎ ‎14. What do customers complain about most often? ‎ A. Photographic equipment. B. Electrical appliances. C. Clothing. ‎ ‎15. What does the man say about the complaints about travel agencies? ‎ A. Few of them are for poor accommodation. ‎ B. Most of them are for delayed air tickets. ‎ C. About 90 percent of them are reasonable. ‎ ‎16. How quickly does the man think he can complete the investigation of a complaint? ‎ A. Two weeks. B. Three weeks. C. Four weeks. ‎ 请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。‎ ‎17. What happened after powerful storms blew through Massachusetts? ‎ A. At least 20 people were injured. ‎ B. Thousands of people lost power. ‎ C. Two people lost their lives. ‎ ‎18. Which of the following states had rainstorms on Sunday? ‎ A. Virginia and Kentucky. B. Massachusetts and Virginia. ‎ C. Kentucky and Michigan. ‎ ‎19. When was the town of Wolcott hit by a small tornado? ‎ A. On Sunday. B. On Thursday. C. On Monday. ‎ ‎20. What will the speaker talk about next? ‎ A. The causes of a tornado. ‎ B. Ways‎ to survive a tornado. ‎ C. The weather in the following days. ‎ 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） ‎ 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ A CROSS IT OFF YOUR BUCKET LIST ‎ Any time is the right time to visit Grand Central Terminal! Located at the intersection of Park Avenue and ‎42nd Street, the terminal is easily accessible on foot, by subway, by bus and by Metro-North train.‎ Please note that the terminal does not offer luggage storage. Please plan ahead.‎ ‎ Plan your visit & things to do ‎※Take a tour! You can see the most famous terminal. ‎ ‎※Head upstairs if you're looking for dinner under the stars at Cipriani Dolci or Michael Jordan's The Steak House N. Y. C. or a cocktail at The Campbell.‎ ‎※Head downstairs if you're looking for a quick bite in the Dining Concourse. Shake Shack burger or a memorable meal at the historic Oyster Bar &Restaurant, anyone? ‎ ‎※Head to Grand Central Market if you're looking for a unique shopping experience. Enjoy a great meal at local vendors (摊贩) like Murray's Cheese, Eli Zabar's Farm to Table and Pescatore Seafood Company. ‎ Accessibility: The terminal is accessible to visitors with disabilities, but does not provide wheelchair rentals.‎ Audio(声音的) tours Orpheo's state-of-the-art audio device(设备)and headset comes with a map of the terminal for just $9 per adult and $7 discounted (seniors, military, students, kids). ‎ The audio tour is also available seven days a week (closed only on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day) at the tours’ office in the Graybar Passage. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., but may be extended during the holidays. The self-guided tour can last as short as 30 minutes to just over an hour. ‎ Docent-led(有讲解员带领的) tours ‎ The tour lasts 75 minutes. The cost is $30 for adults or $20 for seniors (65+), students and kids. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., but may be extended during the holidays. Space is limited.‎ ‎21. Where can tourists go when visiting Grand Central Market? ‎ A. The Campbell. B. Eli Zabar's Farm to Table. ‎ C. Cipriani Dolci. D. The historic Oyster Bar & Restaurant. ‎ ‎22. What can be offered by the terminal? ‎ A. Luggage storage. B. Free audio devices. ‎ C. Travel discount for students. D. Wheelchair rentals.‎ ‎23. What do audio tours and docent-led tours have in common? ‎ A. They are normally available for 9 hours each day. ‎ B. Each of their tours lasts less than an hour. ‎ C. Each of their tours is self-guided.‎ D. They can be booked in advance during the holidays. ‎ B I've come back to check on a baby. Just after dusk I'm in a car down a muddy road in the rain, past rows of shackled (戴镣的) elephants, their trunks swinging. I was here five hours before, when the sun was high and hot and tourists were on elephants’ backs.‎ Walking now, I can barely see the path in the glow of my phone’s flashlight. When the wooden fence post stops me short, I point my light down and follow a current of rainwater across the concrete floor until it washes up against three large, gray feet. A fourth foot twisted above the surface, tied tightly by a short chain and choked by ring of metal spikes(尖刺). When the elephant tires and puts her foot down, the spikes press deeper into her ankle.‎ ‎ Meena is four years and two months old, still a child as elephants go. Khammon Kongkhaw, her caretaker, told me earlier that Meena wears the spiked chain because she tends to kick. Kongkhaw has been responsible for Meena here at Mactaman Elephant Adventure, near Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, since she was 11 months old. He said he keeps her on the spiked chain only during the day and takes it off at night. But it's night now.‎ ‎ I ask Jin Laoshen, the Mactaman worker accompanying me on this nighttime visit, why her chain is still on. He says he doesn’t know.‎ Mactaman is one of many animal attractions in and around tourist-crowded Chiang Mai. ‎ Meena's life is set to follow the same track as many of the roughly 3,800 captive(被捕获的) elephants in Thailand. When Meena is too old or sick to give rides -- maybe at 55, maybe at 75 she’ll die. If she’s lucky, She will get a few years of retirement. She'll spend most of her life on a chain. ‎ ‎24. Why does the author decide to come back? ‎ A. She knows a baby is in need of help urgently.‎ B. She wants to feed those shackled elephants.‎ C. She wants to release those shackled elephants ‎ D. She wants to check baby elephant Meena.‎ ‎25. What can we conclude from the second paragraph? ‎ A. The author is scared of walking in the path. ‎ B. Meena only has three healthy legs. ‎ C. Meena is treated badly and very painful. ‎ D. One of Meena's legs is badly broken. ‎ ‎26. What's the author’s attitude towards those elephants? ‎ A. Indifferent B. Critical ‎ C. Sympathetic D. Negative ‎ ‎27. We can infer that the purpose of the author’s writing is ___________.‎ A. to appeal to people to care about the fate of those elephants ‎ B. to describe those elephants to attract tourists around the world ‎ C. to tell readers the story of a baby elephant in Chiang Mai‎, ‎Thailand ‎ D. to tell the reason why the number of elephants is decreasing C Languages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly connected groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.‎ Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuries, trade, industrialization, the development of the nationstate and the spread of universal compulsory education, especially globalization and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese are increasingly taking over.‎ At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. The distribution(分布) of these languages is hugely uneven（不均匀的）. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has only around 200 languages; the America about 1,000; Africa 2,400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of which Papua New Guinea（巴布亚新几内亚） alone accounts for well ‎ over 800. The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6,000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.‎ Already well over 400 of the total of 6,800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon (eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico (150), Lipan Apache in the United States (two or three) or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a questionmark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival.‎ ‎28．What can we infer about languages in huntergatherer times?‎ A. They developed very fast. B. They were closely connected.‎ C. They had similar patterns. D. They were large in number.‎ ‎29．Which of the following best explains “dominant” underlined in paragraph 2?‎ A. Powerful.　　 　B. Advanced. C. Complex. D. Modern.‎ ‎30．How many languages are spoken by less than 6,000 people at present?‎ A. About 6,800. B. About 2,400. C. About 3,400. D. About 1,200.‎ ‎31．What is the main idea of the text?‎ A. New languages will be created. ‎ B. Human development results in fewer languages.‎ C. People's lifestyles are reflected in languages. ‎ D. Geography determines language evolution.‎ D A team of engineers at Harvard‎ ‎University has been inspired by nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat house fly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.‎ ‎“It's extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components（组件）”, said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own. "he said. ‎ They engineered（策划） a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it's connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.‎ While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at ‎ rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.‎ Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics（飞行力学） and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.”‎ ‎32. Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met with while making the robotic fly? ‎ A. They did not have adequate fund. ‎ B. No ready-made components were available.‎ C. There was no model in their mind. ‎ D. It was hard for them to fit the components together.‎ ‎33. What can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4? ‎ A. The robotic fly has been put into wide application. ‎ B. The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system. ‎ C. Information from many sources can be collected by the robotic fly. ‎ D. The robotic fly can just fly in limited areas at present.‎ ‎34. Which of the following can be learned from the passage? ‎ A. Wood's design can replace animals in some experiments. ‎ B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments. ‎ C. The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects. ‎ D. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly. ‎ ‎35. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage? ‎ A. The Development of the Robotic Fly ‎ B. The Robotic Fly Promotes Engineering Science ‎ C. Harvard's Efforts in Making a Robotic Fly ‎ D. The Robotic Fly Imitates a Real Life Insect 第二节（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）‎ 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。‎ There is no need to say again in business psychology that high self-confidence is key to career success. Actually I think low self-confidence is more likely to make you successful. Sure, extremely low confidence is not helpful. It prevents performance by including fear, worry, and stress, which may drive people to give up sooner or later. 36 . If your confidence is low, rather than extremely low, you stand a better chance of succeeding than if you have high self-confidence. ‎ ‎ 37 . Therefore, you will be self-critical. Most people get trapped in their optimistic prejudice, ‎ so they tend to listen to positive feedback（反馈）and ignore negative feedback. Although this may help them come across as being confident to others, in any area of competition an achievement is 10% performance and 90% preparation. 38 .‎ Lower self-confidence can get you to work harder and prepare more. If you are careful about your goals, you will work harder when you lack confidence in your abilities. 39 , low confidence is negative. If you really want to do what you want, your low confidence will only make you work harder to achieve it because it will make you know the distance to the goals. ‎ Lower self-confidence reduces the possibilities of pride and disappointment. 40 , they are more likely to admit mistakes instead of blaming others. This is the most important benefit of low self-confidence because it points to the fact that low self-confidence can bring success, not just to individuals but also to organizations and society. ‎ A. Actually when you are careless about your goals ‎ B. Lower self-confidence makes you focus on negative feedback ‎ C. So low confidence can only prevent you from succeeding ‎ D. Thus, the more you know weaknesses, the better prepared you will be ‎ E. But appropriate low confidence helps you adjust your goals to complete ‎ ‎ F. Indeed, if people have low self-confidence ‎ G. Then if you care about your inability very much 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）‎ 第一节 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）‎ 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。‎ Some years ago, when Pat Thorn asked her husband Frank what he was going to do when he retired, he replied: “ I’m going to volunteer with UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund).”‎ ‎ After 41 , Frank was true to his word, and he and Pat toured schools and organizations around Britain as he gave talks about UNICEF. When they 42 abroad, their original plans for a relaxing holiday would 43 often turn into a UNICEF fact-finding trip instead.‎ ‎ They threw themselves into achieving important goals--- whether it was raising people’s ‎ 44 of issues or sourcing(采购) sewing machines to send to communities in Kenya that had ‎ 45 them.‎ ‎ Pat and Frank were 46 travelers, and when they headed to different continents, they were inspired to find out for 47 how UNICEF put its child-focused plans into far-reaching 48 .‎ ‎“We met community leaders, and saw how UNICEF 49 non-governmental schools so that children 50 attend them when they wanted to, which really made education more 51 to everyone.”‎ ‎ “The point is that UNICEF has this network in place, doing good work 52 , not just 53 there's an emergency.”‎ ‎ Pat and Frank also discovered early in their involvement that UNICEF’s 54 programs are supported by donations, 55 any funding from the UN budget.‎ ‎ Frank had become a promoter(促进者) for UNICEF’s legacy-giving (遗产捐赠), He and Pat made the important 56 decision to 57 the charity in their own wills.‎ ‎ “It was a simple 58 for us to put UNICEF in our wills,” says Pat. “The people running UNICEF have always been sensible and 59 , and that’s the most important thing. My gift will join Frank’s when I 60 this world.” ‎ ‎41. A. unemployment B. retirement C. argument D. discussion ‎ ‎42. A traveled B. studied C. lectured D. lived ‎ ‎43. A. anyhow B. somewhat C. somehow D. anyway ‎ ‎44. A. awareness B. money C. importance D. seriousness ‎ ‎45. A. requested B. subscribed C. received D. scanned ‎ ‎46. A. wealthy B. absurd C. enthusiastic D. influential ‎ ‎47. A. it B. themselves C. them D. itself ‎ ‎48. A. effort B. goal C. difference D. effect ‎ ‎49. A. take up B. set up C. break up D. turn up ‎ ‎50. A. need B. should C. must D. could ‎ ‎51. A. accessible B. responsible C. meaningful D. interesting ‎ ‎52. A. above all B. all in all C. all the time D. after all ‎ ‎53. A. when B. before C. since D. after ‎ ‎54. A. time-consuming B. life-saving C. ever-changing D. fast-developing ‎55. A. besides B. except C. without D. beyond ‎ ‎56. A. single B. flexible C. adequate D. joint ‎ ‎57. A. determine B. recognize C. declare D. promise ‎ ‎58. A. decision B. sympathy C. assessment D. promotion ‎ ‎59. A. beneficial B. available C. reliable D. reachable ‎ ‎60. A. conduct B. enter C. desire D. leave ‎ 第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）‎ 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。‎ Every few years you face a problem-- 61 __ to do with an old phone? You can sell it or recycle it, but those choices may have serious 62 (safe) problems if done 63 (proper). So the appropriate way to protect yourself is to reset the phone and erase all contents.‎ We've listed several 64 (practice) ways, which ___ 65___ (recommend) by experts, to reset the phone and erase data for iPhones and Android phones, but if you can't perform a proper reset, the experts suggest 66 (take) it to a reputable recycler like an Apple store. ‎ For an iPhone: Go to settings and choose to erase all contents. If you can't access the phone because of 67 broken screen, plug it into your computer. If your phone can power on and it automatically 68 (access) your Wi-Fi, use your computer to log on icloud.com. Then, sign in, ‎ locate your phone and choose the “erase the phone” option. ‎ For Android devices: You can reset your phone in your device’s settings app. There are step-by-step directions for how 69 (reset) an Android device 70 Google’s support page. ‎ 第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）‎ 第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）‎ 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，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。‎ Dear fellow students,  ‎ As is known by us, our government is trying to make our city the National‎ Civilized ‎City at present. We hope we can also do our bit to help fulfill this goal. ‎ First of all, we should mind our language and become civilized speakers. Always remember to say “Please” and “Thanks” and don’t talk and laugh loudly in public. Seen people in trouble, we might as well lend them a helping hand. In addition, to be civilized pedestrians. We must obey traffic rules and never cross the streets before the traffic lights are red. Keeping our environment cleanly is also advisable, it means we shouldn't litter or spit in public places. Only by starting with the little things around us we make a great difference to our city image. ‎ ‎​ Let’s take measure now and make joint efforts to make our city more civilized.  ‎ 第二节 书面表达（满分25分）‎ 假设你是李华，你所在的学生会将组织同学们在中秋节那天到学校附近的一家农场参加收割水稻采摘瓜果蔬菜活动，请你邀请你的交换生朋友 Victor参加。请根据以下要点给他写一封电子邮件：‎ ‎1. 活动时间，地点，农场情况；‎ ‎2. 活动安排；‎ ‎3. 活动的意义。‎ Dear Victor,‎ ‎________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎ Yours,‎ ‎ Li Hua 银川一中2021届高三年级第一次月考英语试卷答案 听力 ‎1—5 ACBCC 6—10 BBAAC 11—15 BAABC 16—20 BBCAC 阅读理解 ‎21—23 BCA 24—27 DCCA 28—31 DACB 32—35 BDAC 36—40 EBDAF 完形填空 ‎41—45 BACAA 46—50 CBDBD 51—55 ACABC 56—60 DBACD 语法填空 61. what 62. safety 63. improperly 64. practical ‎ ‎65. are recommended / have been recommended 66. taking ‎ ‎67. a 68. accesses 69. to reset 70. on 短文改错 Dear fellow students,  ‎ As is known by（改为to）us, our government is trying to make our city the(改为a) National Civilized City at present. We hope we can also do our bit to help fulfill this goal. ‎ ‎   First of all, we should mind our language and become civilized speakers. Always remember to say "Please" and "Thanks" and don't talk and (改为or) laugh loudly in public. Seen (改为Seeing) people in trouble, we might as well lend them a helping hand. In addition, to（删to） be civilized pedestrians. We must obey traffic rules and never cross the streets before (改为when / while) the traffic lights are red. Keeping our environment cleanly （改为clean）is also advisable, it (改为which) means we shouldn't litter or spit in public places. Only by starting with the little things around us (加can/ will) we make a great difference to our city image. ‎ ‎​   Let's take measure (改为measures) now and make joint efforts to make our city more civilized.  ‎ ‎ That’s all. Thank you for listening.‎ 书面表达 Dear Victor,‎ It will be a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival arrives, when we are scheduled to go to a farm near our school to experience the countryside life by the student / students’ union of our school. I'm writing to invite you to come along with us.‎ At 8 a.m. we are due to meet at our school gate and then set out / off for the farm, which covers / has an area of 200 acres and where a diversity of crops are grown, ranging from wheat, rice, corn, apples, grapes, eggplants, vegetables and so on. It will take us about half an hour to get there. After our arrival, some students especially the boys will assist the farmers to harvest / get in / reap the rice, while the others will pick fruit such as grapes and tomatoes and seasonal vegetables. At noon we'll enjoy a typical farmhouse meal there, which we have paid for in advance. At 4 p.m. we'll head back home. ‎ Indeed, I think it is a good opportunity for you to dip into Chinese culture and see what life is like in the countryside in China. For some more details, don't hesitate to contact me.‎ I am looking forward to your early reply.‎ Yours,‎ Li Hua