1、高三年级第一学期月考英语试题命题人: 第一部分: 听力(共两节,满分 30分)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。1 How does the man get his allowance(零 用 钱 )?A. By taking a part-time job. B. By asking from his parents. C. By applying to the schoo
2、l. 2 What does the woman say?A. She will invite the man to dinner.B. The man will give her a big dinner.C. They will go home for a delicious dinner.3 What are the speakers talking about?The decoration of the house. B. The snow last night. C. The party on Saturday.4 How long does Tom usually stay in
3、the library every day?A. One hour. B. Two hours. C. Three hours.5 How often should the woman take the medicine?A- Three times a day B. Four times a day. C. Five times a day.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,并标在试卷的相应位置。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;
4、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。听第 6 段材料,回答第 6 至 7 题。6 How long does the woman spend online on weekends?A. Three hours. B. Six hours. C. Nearly all day.7 What do we know about Lucy?A. She will go to see a movie with Linda.B. She is Johns best friend.C. She is a computer game developer.听第 7 段材料,回答第 8
5、 至 9 题。8 Why is the woman going to learn English?A. She wants to go abroad.B. She wants to find a good job.C. She wants to meet new students.9 What will the woman do next Monday?A. She will go abroad. B. She will take classes. C. She will go to work.10 What are they mainly talking about?A. Ideas for
6、 going abroad. B. Information about jobs. C. Courses in the centre.听第 8 段材料,回答第 11 至 13 题。11 What day is it today?A. Wednesday. B. Thursday. C. Friday.12 What is the excuse for the mans being late yesterday?A. He didnt feel well.B. The taxi he took was out of order.C. There was no bus because of the
7、 heavy rain.13 What can we learn from the conversation?A. The man is not clever but hard-working.B. The woman doesnt mind the mans being late.C. The man always has excuses for his being late.听第 9 段材料,回答第 14 至 16 题。14 Why isnt the woman interested in traveling?来源:学.科.网A. It is too boring. B. It is to
8、o tiring. C. It is too expensive.15 What do both speakers like?A. Reading and country music.B. Doing exercise and reading.C. Country music and exercises.16 How can reading help the man?A. He can know more about himself.B. He can improve his writing ability.C. He can make more friends.听第 10 段材料,回答第 1
9、7 至 20 题。17. Why didnt the author finish her reading?A. She was tired of literature.B. She had an attention disorder.C. She wanted to take the task home.18 What can we know from the conversation?A. The speaker always get an F.B. Mrs. Smith teaches literature.C. Mrs. Smith didnt mark the speaker s pa
10、per.19 How long did the speaker spend in finishing the paper?A. Within 45 minutes. B. About 90 minutes. C. About 2 hours.20 What was Mrs. Smiths attitude to the author at the end of the story?A. Impatient. B. Sympathetic. C. Encouraging.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
11、四个选项(A、B 、C 和 D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AA Guide to the UniversityFoodThe TWU Cafeteria is open 7 am to 8 pm. It serves snacks, drinks, ice cream bars and meals. You can pay with cash or your ID cards. You can add meal money to your ID cards at the Front Desk. Even if you do not buy your food in the ca
12、feteria, you can use the tables to eat your lunch, to have meetings and to study.If you are on campus in the evening or lat at night, you can buy snacks, fast food, and drinks in the Lower Caf located in the bottom level of the Douglas Centre. This area is often used for entertainment such as concer
13、ts, games or TV watching.来源:学科网 ZXXKRelaxationThe Globe, located in the bottom level of McMillan Hall, is available for relaxing, studying , cooking, and eating. Monthly activities are held here for all international students. Hours are 10 am to 10 pm, closed on Sundays.HealthLocated on the top floo
14、r of Douglas Hall, the Wellnes s Centre is committed to physical, emotional and social health. A doctor and nurse is available if you have health questions or need immediate medical help or personal advice. The cost of this is included in your medical insurance. Hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am to n
15、oon and 1:00 to 4:30 pm.TransportationThe TWU Express is a shuttle service. The shuttle transports students between campus and the shopping centre, leaving from the Mattson Centre. Operation hours are between 8 am and 3 pm. Saturdays only. Round trip fare is $1.21What can you do in the TWU Cafeteria
16、?A Do homework and watch TV B Have meals and meet with friendsC Buy drinks and enjoy concerts D Add money to your ID and play chess22Where and when can you cook your own food?A The TWU Cafeteria , Friday B The Lower Caf, SundayC The Globe, Friday D The Mattson Centre, Saturday.23The Guide tells us t
17、hat the Wellness Centre _.A gives advice on mental health B offers services free of chargeC trains students in medical care D is open six days a weekB“Youll be blind by the time youre twenty-five,” a doctor at Childrens Hospital predicted. “Your blood sugars are much too high.” It consumed me. No ma
18、tter where I was or what I was doing, it was overhead like a dark cloud, waiting for just the right opportunity to break open and destroy my world.I liked painting. Losing myself in painting filled me with peace. Painting provided me with the only place where I could escape from those threatening wo
19、rds.When I was twenty-one, my right eye went blind. Precisely three months after my twenty-fifth birthday, I had a massive hemorrhage (大出血 ) in my left eye because of an accident. For the next twenty years, vision came and went. I went through many eye operations in an attempt to keep my vision. But
20、 after one final operation, I lost the battle and all remaining vision. And I buried all dreams of painting.Desperate, I enrolled in (注册) a sixteen-week program for the blind and visually impaired (损伤的). I learned personal adjustment and the use of a computer with adaptive software. A whole new worl
21、d opened up to me through this program.“Jaws and Window-Eyes are leading software for the blind,” my instructor told me. “You can use the Internet, e-mail and Microsoft with all its tools and features.” Its amazing! Hope went up for the first time in years. “By learning how to use hot keys to contro
22、l the mouse, you can use Microsoft Access, Excel and Powerpoint,” my instructor added.For the next several years, I learned that when one door closes, another door opens. There are plenty of choices available for the blind and visually impaired through the gift of technology. Not only do I have a sp
23、eaking computer, but I have a speaking watch, alarm clock and calculator.24What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refer to?A The right opportunity. B Losing my sight in the future.C Consuming too much sugar D The childrens hospital.25What happened when the author was 25 years old?A He gav
24、e up painting. B He went blind completelyC He injured one of his eyes. D He picked up a new hobby26What brought a turning point to the author?A A special course. B A meaningful eventC An inspiring speech. D An important interview.27What does the author intend to tell us?A No pain, no gain.B Every ma
25、n has his price.C Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.D Be optimistic in the face of lifes difficulties.CBullying (欺凌) among schoolchildren is nothing new. Calling someone names, stealing their possessions, threatening and even beating them up are all well-established bullying techniques. Yet f
26、or young people today there is a relatively new form of bullying which can occur even when the bullies are nowhere near their victims and it can have equal, if not more damaging effects.Online-bullying is one of the downsides of new technology and involves using devices like mobile phones and comput
27、ers. Online-bullies can strike at any time, no matter where they, or their victims are. About 22 percent of young people in the UK claim to have suffered from online-bullying.Not only are online-bullies harder to avoid, they are also harder to catch. It is all too easy to send an anonymous (匿名的) thr
28、eat by text on a pay-as-you-go phone with an unknown number. It takes no time at all to set up a false Facebook, Twitter, blog or social network account and to post an insulting message. And, if you know how to hide your IP address, you can upload an offensive video to a website like You Tube and yo
29、ur victim wouldnt know who to blame.One of the most upsetting things about online-bullying is that it can involve more people than traditional forms of bullying. A bully can insult you or tell lies about you and share that information with the entire school at the touch of a button-and for some teen
30、agers that is all too hard to bear. The UK Charity Beatbullying suggests that up to 44% of suicides among ten-to-fourteen-year-olds may be bullying-related.The good news is that the world is starting to wise up to online-bullying. Schools and websites like http:/www.chlidnet-int.org/ offer lots of a
31、dvice and victim support and social network site s now advise users to think carefully about their privacy settings so that personal information is only shared with friends.The underlined word “downsides” in Paragraph 2 probably means _.A Benefits B effects C disadvantage s D pointsAccording to the
32、writer, it is difficult to _.A download a false video B post a unfriendly messageC know who sends online-bullies D set up a true Facebook accountWhy do online-bullying involve more people than traditional forms of bullying?A More people like to tell lies.B Online-bullying is easy to spread.C More pe
33、ople want to become famous.D More people like to make fun of others.What could be the best title of the passage?A Bullying is harmful.B Bullying goes high-tech.C Online-bullying is hard to catch.D People can get rid of online-bullying.DDo you listen to the songs that your parents like? Chance are th
34、at you dont. You probably think the music that they like is old and dull and that the Songs on your playlist are much cooler.But here is what scientists found recently: peoples music tastes change as they age, according to a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. So its
35、 likely that your own musical preference will follow a similar path to your parents whether you like it or not.We used to think that culture and personality arc the only factors that affect ones music choice. But researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, gathered data from more than 250,000 pe
36、ople over the past 10 years. They noticed that as people age, their social circumstances change, and so does their music taste.There are three musical periods that people pass through as they mature-intense”, “contemporary” and “sophisticated”.The first period comes in the teenagers years, during wh
37、ich time people like intense music such as punk and rock because teenagers tend to be aggressive and want to establish their identity as indepen dent individuals.But as people move into early adulthood, their lifestyle changesthey socialize more and want to build close relationships with others. As
38、a result, they become more fond of contemporary music, such as pop and R&B, which is usually uplifting and danceable and played at parties where people hang out together and chat.When middle age comes, things have settled down for most people. This period will be dominated (支配 ) by more “sophisticat
39、ed” music, such as jazz and classical, as well as more catchy music like country, folk, and blues.“For many, this life stage is frequently exhausted by work and family, and there is a requirement for relaxing, emotive (动情的) music,” Jason Rentfrow, a researcher member, told The telegraph.But you must
40、 be thinking: “Arent there old people who are still into rock music?” Of course there are. But Rentfrow explained that their reasons for listening to rock music may have changed. “We use music for different reasons,” he said, and thus at that age people may listen to remind themselves of their youth
41、s.Why do children usually like different songs from their parents according to the passage?A Children prefer cool music. B Music taste changes with age.C parents songs are always dull. D Parents have better social circumstances.The underlined word “catchy” in Paragraph 7 probably means _.A touching
42、and easily remembered B awkward and easily captured来源:学科网 ZXXKC elegant but difficult to understand D flexible and difficult to catchMiddle age is a period when people _.A have an aggressive goal B like Pop and R&BC desire close connections with others D lead a stressful lifeWhat can we infer from t
43、he last paragraph?A Old people dont like rock music. B Music can serve as a reminder.C Rock music makes old people younger. D Listening to rock music needs reasons.第二节(共 5 小题;每小题 2 分,满分0 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。选项中有两项是多余的。Abralda, one of the largest coral reefs in the world, is truly an amazi
44、ng place for scientific research. However, when we arrived there, things didnt go as smoothly as expected. It was raining so hard that we couldnt dive into the sea for reseach. Whats worse, we didnt know how long we had to wait. We did hope it would stop raining soon.Since we couldnt dive, we stayed
45、 on our boat that was meant to keep track of us when we were diving. We dived quickly down in depth into a warm and colourful place. Meanwhile, the boat was following us all the way.There were various sea creatures swimming around us. Interestingly, I was joined by a turtle which stayed on ray mask
46、for a while. And it followed me during the rest period of my dive. I was amazed and even shocked! Beautiful living coral covered nearly 100 percent of the bottom! Besides the turtle, many more sea animals passed by me closely. It was so fun. All stress, noise and troubles of life were left at the su
47、rface of the sea. I dived for as long as I could that day. This was how I felt about AbraldaI loved it and never wanted to leave. In fact, we are already planning another diving research in Abralda.A It made us disappointed and upset.B We were dissatisfied and decided to leave there.C However, we ha
48、d to do research on wildlife there.D I looked around to explore the fantastic underwater world.E. Exploring so well underwater, I was unwilling to leave the sea.来源:学#科#网 Z#X#X#KF. Luckily, the rain stopped on the fourth day,and we went diving.G. Therefore, we went to study and record the wildlife th
49、ere months ago.第三部分 英语知识应用(共两节,满分分)第一节 完形填空(共小题;每小题.分,满分0 分) 阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Whatever misfortune you face, just hold up your head and face it with a smile! I got to know this from a musical soul.The other day I was feeling quite_41_, having just been laid off from my job. With