1、2019 届四川省棠湖中学高三上学期第一次月考英语试题（解析版）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，写在本试卷上无效。3. 考试结束后，请将答题卡交回。第 I 卷 选择题（100 分）第一部分 听力 (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
2、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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19. 15 B. 9. 18. C. 9. 15.答案是 C。1. What does John find difficult in learning German?A. Pronunciation. B. Vocabulary. C. Grammar.2. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Colleag
3、ues B. Brother and sister. C. Teacher and student.3. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a bank B. At a ticket office. C. On a train.4. What are the speakers talking about?A. A restaurant. B. A street. C. A dish.5. What does the woman think of her interview?A. It was tough. B. It w
4、as interesting. C. It was successful.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。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6. When will Judy go to a party?A. On Monday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Tuesday.7. What will Max do
5、next?A. Fly a kite. B. Read a magazine. C. Do his homework.听第 7 段材料,回答第 8、9 题8. What made the boss angry with the man?A. His not working hard. B. His taking a coffee break. C. His being late for work.9. How long did the boss let the man have lunch?A. Eight minutes B. Thirty minutes C. Twenty minutes
6、听第 8 段材料,回答第 10 至 12 题10. What is the relationship between the speakers probably?A Husband and wife. B. Father and daughter. C. Friends.11. What illness did the man have?A. A toothache B. A headache C. stomachache12. Why did the woman bring magazines for the man?A. To encourage him to rear. B. To he
7、lp him kill time. C. To help recover quickly.听第 9 段材料,回答第 13 至 16 题13. What does the man want to do?A. Take an English course. B. Borrow English books. C. Have an English test.14. What did the man think of English learning?A. Very important. B. Too difficult C. So easy.15. How many people learn Engl
8、ish as a foreign language?A More than 375 million. B. More than 750 million. C. More than 715 million16. Where does the womans friend come from?A. Australia B. England. C. America听第 10 段材料+,回答第 17 至 20 题17. How did the speaker begin his class?A. By asking some questions. B. By teaching Japanese. C.
9、By introducing himself.18. How did the speaker feel about his teachingA. Embarrassed B. Excited C. Disappointed19. Why was the speaker surprised at the students questions at first?A. He thought it impolite to ask personal questions.B. He didnt know how to answer their questions.C. He thought their q
10、uestions very interesting.20. What can we learn from the conversation?A. Japanese pay more attention to moral education.B. Japanese children always ask strange questions.C. Different countries have different customs.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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出最
11、佳选项。APopular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.Adult drivers listen to music on the car radi
12、o as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programs are music.Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all ov
13、er the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called fo
14、lk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This is started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching.1. This passage mainly talks about _.A. American music B. American popular musicC. three sorts of music D. popu
15、lar music singers2. The first three paragraphs mainly tell us _.A. that Americans dislike popular musicB. that popular music is an important kind of music in AmericaC. how to become an international star as a pop singer in AmericaD. popular music in America is what every teacher like3. In the USA, a
16、s a pop singer, if you want to become a national star, youll have to _.A. earn a lot of money B. make a radio stations buy your CDs or tapesC. make many CDs or tapes D. make young people love you and what you sing【答案】1. A 2. B 3. D【解析】本文是一篇说明文，文章介绍了几种美国音乐：流行音乐、民间音乐和乡村音乐等。其中最重要的是流行音乐。【1 题详解】主旨大意题。根据文
17、章第一句 Popular music in America is what every student likes.可知，流行音乐是美国的学生喜欢的，文章对美国流行音乐进行了详细说明。文章最后一段 There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This is starte
18、d by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching.还介绍了美国的民间音乐和乡村音乐。 故本文主要介绍了美国的音乐。故 A 项正确。【2 题详解】段落大意题。文章前三段告诉我们流行音乐在美国很受欢迎，很多人都喜欢流行音乐，音乐行业在美国是一个很大的产业。流行音乐是美国一种非常重要的音乐形式。故 B 项正确。【3 题详解】推理判断题。根据文章第三段可知，流行音乐歌手要想成为巨星，一定要让听众喜欢他们唱的歌曲，进而购买他们的 CD 或者磁带。故 D 项正确。BThen comes the July, and wit
19、h it are examinations; but these are soon finished and with them ends the school year. Boys and girls have nearly two months holiday before them as they leave school by train and car to return home to their fathers and mothers.The summer holidays are the best part of the year for most children. The
20、weather is usually good, so that one can spend most of ones time playing in the garden or, if one lives in the country, out in the woods and fields. Even if one lives in a big town, one can usually go to the park to play.The best place for a summer holiday, however, is the seaside. Some children are
21、 lucky enough to live near the sea, but for others who do not, a week or two at one of the big seaside towns is something which they will talk about for the whole of the following year.In England, it is not only the rich who can take their children to the seaside; if a factory worker or a bus driver
22、, a street cleaner or a waiter wants to take his wife and children to Southend or Margate, Blackpool or Clacton, he is usually quite able to do so.Now, why do children like so much about the seaside? I think it is the sand, sea and sun more than any other things. Of course, there are lots of new thi
23、ngs to see, nice things to eat, and exciting things to do, but it is the feeling of sand under ones feet, of salt water on ones skin, and of the warm sun on ones skin, and of the warm sun on ones back that make the seaside what it is.4. Summer holidays start _.A. with July B. as soon as the examinat
24、ions are overC. in mid-June D. in August5. After the examinations, all the pupils leave for home -_.A. by train only B. by carC. by bike D. by either train or car6. The summer holidays last _.A. nearly three months B. more than three monthsC. one and a half months D. about two months7. Children like
25、 the seaside so much, because they can _.A. swim in the sea B. play with the sandC. take a sunbath D. do all of the above【答案】4. B 5. D 6. D 7. D【解析】本文是一篇说明文。英国学生的暑假有大约两个月的时间，对于大多数孩子来说，暑假是一年中最好的时间，可以到处去玩，但孩子们都更喜欢去海边度假。【4 题详解】细节理解题。根据第一段第一句 Then comes the July, and with it are examinations; but these
26、are soon finished and with them ends the school year. Boys and girls have nearly two months holiday可知，期末考试通常在七月，考试结束以后学年也结束了。暑假正式开始。故 B 项正确。【5 题详解】细节理解题。根据第一段第二句 Boys and girls have nearly two months holiday before them as they leave school by train and car to return home to their fathers and mother
27、s 可知，孩子们通常乘坐火车和汽车回家。故 D 项正确。【6 题详解】细节理解题。根据第一段第二句 Boys and girls have nearly two months holiday 可知，暑假通常有大约两个月的时间。故 D 项正确。【7 题详解】细节理解题。根据最后一段第二句 I think it is the sand, sea and sun more than any other things.可知，孩子喜欢海边是因为可以玩沙子，在海水里游泳还可以晒日光浴。这些都是孩子喜欢海边的原因。故 D 项正确。CBees seem to fly aimlessly as they sea
28、rch for the sugary liquid called nectar (花蜜). But their flight plans actually do have a pattern. Flowers act as the insects air-traffic controllers. And new research shows bees prefer flowers that arent too flashy.Flowers give bees clues about how much a plant can offer. Those clues can be in the co
29、lor of petals, in the type, in the smell or even in the electrical charge. All of these characteristics send signals to the bees, telling them whether to land or not, among which the colors play the most significant role. The insects keep track of the color of the flowers that are especially rich in
30、 nectar. They then visit more flowers of that color.However, color cant guarantee bees a good meal. It may change depending on the angle at which sunlight hits its petals. A yellow follower, for example, may look somewhat blue from one angle and red from another. Beverley Glover studies plants at th
31、e University of Cambridge in England. Glover and her colleagues showed that even when the color of petals looks similar, bees behave differently in searching for nectar. They started to guess that the strength of petals indescence (色彩斑斓) might be related to how bees find the petals.Glover and her co
32、lleagues tested their hypothesis in the lab. In their experiment, they found that bees felt confused sometimes when the petals were very iridescent and that bees had no problem finding the flowers with more nectar when the petals were not very iridescent. The team shared its new findings in the Marc
33、h 21 Current Biology.“At first glance, its very surprising because animals can usually detect a more vivid signal more easily,” says Klaus Lunau, a biologist in Germany, who was not involved in the study.8. What can we know about the flight of bees?A. They usually fly in a regular pattern.B. They fl
34、y under the direction of flowers.C. They usually fly without any purpose.D. They fly to some very flashy flowers.9. What is the most important clue for bees to search for nectar?A. The petals type. B. The followers smell.C. The followers electrical charge. D. The petals color.10. What does the under
35、lined word “hypothesis” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Discussion. B. Method.C. Assumption. D. Invention11. What is the new finding of the team?A. Petals that are not very flashy are better for bees to make adjustments.B. Petals of different color usually give different signals.C. Petals that are v
36、ivid are detected by bees more easily.D. Petals of different types make bees confused to find the right flower.【答案】8. B 9. D 10. C 11. A【解析】本文是一篇说明文。蜜蜂似乎在寻找一种叫做花蜜的含糖液体时无目的的飞行。但他们的飞行计划确实有一个模式。花扮演着昆虫的空中交通管制员。新的研究表明，蜜蜂更喜欢不太浮华的花朵。【8 题详解】推理判断题。根据第一段中 But their flight plans actually do have a pattern. Flo
37、wers act as the insects air-traffic controllers. And new research shows bees prefer flowers that arent too flashy.可知，关于蜜蜂的飞行，我们能知道它们飞向花的方向。故选 B。【9 题详解】细节理解题。根据第二段第一、二句 Flowers give bees clues about how much a plant can offer. Those clues can be in the color of petals, in the type, in the smell or ev
38、en in the electrical charge.可知，蜜蜂寻找花蜜的最重要线索是花瓣的颜色。故选 D。【10 题详解】词义猜测题。根据第四段中 Glover and her colleagues tested their hypothesis in the lab. In their experiment, they found that bees felt confused sometimes when the petals were very iridescent and that bees had no problem finding the flowers with more
39、nectar when the petals were not very iridescent Glover 和她的同事在实验室里测试了他们的假设，在他们的实验中，他们发现，当花瓣非常艳丽时，蜜蜂有时会感到困惑；当花瓣不是很亮时，蜜蜂就会发现有更多花蜜的花朵。因此推断画线词的意思是“假设”，故选 C。【11 题详解】推理判断题。根据第四段中 they found that bees felt confused sometimes when the petals were very iridescent and that bees had no problem finding the flowe
40、rs with more nectar when the petals were not very iridescent.可知，这个团队的新发现是“不太光鲜的花瓣让蜜蜂调整会更好。 ”故选 A。DWITH ALL THE CONTROVERSY swirling around “fake news“ in the media, its a good time to remind you, dear readers, that you wont find any of that in Readers Digest Heres why: We are committed to publishing
41、 strong and accurate stories.Millions of people around the world turn to this little magazine every month because of the care with which we document our stories. We guard readers trust by holding our editorial researchers, editors and writers to high standards. For example, we require our writers to
42、 talk to people with first-hand knowledge of their subject Then we give their story to fact-checkers, who confirm that sources were accurately quoted. We get our facts straight.What about the articles we reprint from other publications, you ask? Thanks to our global presence, we have researchers and
43、 fact-checkers around the world who check these stories for us. For example, in this issue, “Making Yogurt, Healing Minds, “from the UKs Observer magazine, was checked by our European Editorial Office. “ I Was Blind But Now I see, “from Toronto Life, was thoroughly checked out by our editorial offic
44、e in Montreal. Our drama, “41 Hours Alone in the Snow, “from the Swiss Sonntags Zeitung magazine, was confirmed by our Swiss edition.You can feel secure in knowing that Readers Digest is in the real news business. Always have been. Always will be.No fake news here.12. How does Readers Digest guarant
45、ee the genuineness of its stories?A. It has many people around the world to check each story s source.B. The writer of each story experienced the story himself/herself.C. Its stories are all written by some famous people.D. It has severe punishment for those who write fake news.13. According the pas
46、sage, which of the following statement is true?A. Readers Digest is only sold in Swiss.B. Readers Digest enjoys world-wide popularity.C. The accuracy of the stories in Readers Digest is guaranteed by their writers.D. All the stories in Readers Digest are first published14. From this passage, as for
47、Readers Digest, we can know that the writer of this passage is_.A. considerate B. doubtfulC. determined D. negative15. Where can we find this passage?A. In a magazine. B. In a novelC. In a fairy-tale book. D. In a science book【答案】12. A 13. B 14. C 15. A【解析】本文是一篇说明文，文章中作者对 读者文摘中的作品真实性进行了确认 ，并介绍了读者文摘保
48、证所出版的文章真实性的方法。【12 题详解】细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“Thanks to our global presence, we have researchers and fact-checkers around the world who check these stories for us.”可知读者文摘保证稿件真实性主要是因为它在世界各地有很多核对者保证所出版的故事的真实性。故 A 项正确。【13 题详解】推理判断题。根据第二段第一句“Millions of people around the world turn to this little magazine every
49、month because of the care with which we document our stories.”可知每个月世界各地都有很多人阅读读者文摘这本书，说明这本书很受人们欢迎。故 B 项正确。【14 题详解】推理判断题。根据文章最后三句“You can feel secure in knowing that Readers Digest is in the real news business. Always have been. Always will be. No fake news here.”可知作者认为读者文摘总是能够给我们提供最真实的新闻，绝对不会有虚假新闻。说明作者是非常坚定的。故 C 项正确。【15 题详解】推理判断题。本文是读者文摘杂志对杂志文章真实
