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高三第一学期月考英语试题
Listening Coprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A; you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
Section A
A. Students and teachers. B. Secretary and boss.
C. Librarian and reader. D. Patient and nurse.
A. The food will arrive shortly. B. He’ll order his food later.
C. He’s ready to order no D. He has any friends.
A. At 10:20. B. At 10:30.
C. At 10:50. D. At 11:20.
A. Have a celebration party. B. Interview a person.
C. Accept a new job. D. Go for a job intervie
A. Not to quit baseball practice. B. Not to worry about his grades.
C. To get the baseball gae tickets. D. To spend ore tie on his studies.
A. Towels can’t be taken out of the roo.
B. Towels can be bought at the poolside.
C. Towels are offered at the poolside.
D. Towels can’t be taken out of the pool.
A. ake the request soe other day. B. Cofort the boss first.
C. Have lunch with the boss. D. Pay for the lunch.
A. The car is faulty.B. The car looks funny.
C. The garage is too noisy.D. The car needs washing.
A. She’s still looking for an apartent.
B. She was told the doritory was full.
C. She doesn’t plan to ove back at all.
D. She wants to ove out of the doritory.
A. The woan wants to use the phone. B. The an is disturbing others.
C. obile phones are banned inside. D. Phone signals are weak inside.
Section B
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
A. The plane was stuck in a tree.
B. The pilot worried about the strong wind.
C. The plane lost both its wheels.
D. The pilot was injured in the air crash
A. On top of a tree. B. On top of a fire engine.
C. On top of the airport building. D. On top of a lorry.
A. An unusual air crash. B. A agic landing.
C. A brave firean. D. A daaged lorry.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following report.
A. 87 billion dollars. B. 87 illion dollars.
C. Hundreds of billions of dollars.D. One billion dollars.
A. By developing foreign arkets.B. By providing financial aid.
C. By cutting labour and aterial costs.D. By reducing incoe taxes.
A. Produce ore cars.B. Buy ore stocks.
C. Try to regain reedit.D. Start to save oney.
Section C
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
Potters Electrics Ltd
Service Departent
Custoer Service Sheet
Nae: s Lucas
Address: 32 17 Road, Croydon
Phone Nuber: 18
Proble: icrowave keeps 19 things
Service Tie: 9:30 20 orning
Coplete the for. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
When will the new songs be played? At the end of 21 .
Why does Nick always have a pen and soe paper with hi?To write down his ideas when he is
22 around.
What does Karen write?Soe of the 23 songs.
According to Nick, who do the songs belong to in the end? 24 , not just hi or Karen.
Coplete the for. Write NO ORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
II. Graar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices arked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best copletes the sentence.
Julia felt superior, when she was a general anager, _____ any respects _____ her colleague.
A. to…inB. in…toC. by…toD. to…by
“Since etals will expand when heated and contract when cooled”, the little boy said, “holidays in suer should be longer than _________ in winter.”
A. that B. one C. those D. these
y friend has returned fro the UK. She ____ at Oxford for four years, during which we counicated with each other on the Internet.
A. studied B. has studiedC. had studiedD. has been studying
John _____ a restless person, for he kept transferring fro one copany to another.
A. ust be B. ust have beenC. should have beenD. should be
_____ put into prison _____ to regret what he had done.
A. Not until was he…he beganB. Not until he was…did he begin
C. Only after he was…that he beganD. Scarcely had be been…than
According to statistics, a an is ________ to die of skin cancer as a woan.
A. ore than twice as likelyB. twice ore than as likely
C. as likely ore than twiceD. twice ore than likely as
____ fro the oon, our earth, with water ____ 70% of its surface, appears to be a “blue ball.”
A. Seen…covered B. Seeing…coveringC. To see…to coverD. Seen…covering
Everyone knows that _____ is dangerous to play with fire, but _____ is difficult is to prevent children fro playing with fire.
A. it, it B. what, what C. it, what D. what, it
Fireworks, _____ of gun powder or flash powder _____ in a tight paper tube, ake the big flash or boo effect.
A. consisting…wrapping B. consisting…wrapped
C. consisted…wrapped D. being consisted….wrapped
The news that they failed their driving test discouraged hi, _____?
A. did they B. didn’t they C. did it D. didn’t it
Just like a voyage at sea, our life, _____ days are liited, is full of uncertainties.
A. whichB. thatC. itsD. whose
I had just stepped out of the bathroo and was busily drying yself with a towel _____ I heard the steps.
A. while B. when C. since D. after
With ore forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth _____ each year.
A. is washing away B. is being washed away
C. was washing awayD. are being washed away
_________ good Tony Blair did for his country ---- actually quite a lot ---- is totally overshadowed by cries in Iraq.
A. Whatever B. Whichever C. However D. How
The fact has worried any scientist _______ the earth is becoing warer and warer these years.
A. whatB. which C. that D. though
When _______ different cultures, we often pay attention only to the differences without noticing the any siilarities.
A. coparedB. being copared
C. coparing D. having copared
Section B
Directions: Coplete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word ore than you need.
A. reinder B. destination C. argued D. reasonable E. disadvantage
F. bother G. stops H. likely I. nae J. enjoy
Package holidays, covering a two weeks’ stay in an attractive location, are increasingly popular because they offer an inclusive price with few extras. Once you get to the airport, it is up to the tour guide to see that you get safely to your 41 . Excursions, local entertainent, swiing, sunbathing, skiing—you 42 it—it’s all laid on for you. There is, in fact, no need for you to 43 to arrange anything yourself. You ake friends and have a good tie, but there is very little chance that you will really get to know the local people. This is even less 44 on a coach tour, when you spend alost your entire tie traveling. Of course, there are carefully scheduled 45 for you to visit historic buildings and onuents, but you will probably be allowed only a brief stay overnight in soe faous city, with a polite 46 to be up and have breakfast early in tie for the coach next orning. You ay visit the beautiful, the historic, the ancient, but tie is always at your elbo There is also the added 47 of being obliged to spend your holiday with a group of people you have never et before, ay not like and have no 48 excuse for getting away fro. As against this, it can be 49 that for any people, particularly the lonely or elderly, the feeling of belonging to a group, for a short period on holiday, is an additional benefit. They can sit safely back in their seats and watch the world go by.
III. Reading Coprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases arked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
A true apology is ore than just acknowledgeent of a istake. It’s recognition that soething you’ve said or done has daaged a relationship—and that you 50 enough about the relationship to want it 51 .
It’s never 52 to acknowledge you are in the wrong. Being huan, we all need the art of apology. Look back and think how 53 you’ve judged roughly, said unkind things, pushed yourself ahead at the 54 of a friend. Soe deep thought in us know that when 55 a sall istake has been ade, your feeling will stay out of balance until the istake is acknowledged and your regret is 56 .
I reeber a doctor friend, telling e about a an who cae to hi with 57 illnesses: headache, insonia (失眠), stoachaches and so on. No physical 58 could be found. Finally the doctor said to hi, “ 59 you tell e what’s on your conscience, I can’t help you.”
After a short silence, the an told the doctor that he 60 all the oney that his father gave to his brother, who was 61 . His father had died, so only he hiself knew the atter. The old doctor ade the an write to his brother aking an 62 and enclosing a 63 . In the post office, the an dropped the letter into the ail box. As the letter disappeared, the an burst into tears. “Thank you, doctor,” he said, “I think I’ all right no” And he 64 .
A. loseB. careC. adviseD. hear
A. builtB. foredC. repairedD. picked
A. difficultB. easyC. foolishD. shy
A. longB. oftenC. uchD. soon
A. expenseB. worthC. valueD. bargain
A. stillB. evenC. onlyD. such
A. shownB. explainedC. offeredD. expressed
A. strange B. seriousC. variousD. uch
A. signsB. reasonC. causeD. arks
A. WheneverB. UnlessC. SupposeD. Although
A. stoleB. acceptedC. seizedD. wasted
A. adB. lostC. abroadD. dead
A. orderB. excuseC. agreeentD. apology
A. noteB. cardC. checkD. photo
A. shouldB. didC. hadD. was
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished stateents. For each of the there are four choices arked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the inforation given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
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Advertising Rates
Published every Wednesday and Friday
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—Engageents; arriages; Births; Deaths; Obituaries; Funerals; Birthday greetings; Holiday greetings; Anniversaries
Shopping Guide: RB 100 yuan / c
—Departent store and superarket shops only
Education: RB 100 yuan / c
—Vocational training or courses for foreigners offered by universities and college.
Services: RB 120 yuan / c
—Coputer service; Business centers; Interior decoration; Cars for lease; Used cars wanted / for sale; Business offices wanted; Travel; Restaurants and entertainent
Recruitent: RB 140 yuan / c
Property, Trade and Investent: RB 170 yuan / c
—erchandise wanted / for sale; Business / capital solicited
Legal ≈ General Notices: RB 170 yuan / c
—General and legal announceents; Auctions; Lost ≈ Found; Changes of address
Surcharges: 30col x c plus 20% Half page: 40% Full page: 50%
All art or production fees carry a surcharge.
1. China Daily reserves the right to ake any alterations (修改) when it sees necessary and to reject advertiseent which breaks the Advertiseent Law of the People’s Republic of China or contains fraudulent, deceptive, or isleading stateents or illustrations.
2. Advertisers who wish to insert an ad should subit an Advertising Order For with all advertiseent inforation and any necessary docuents 10 days before the date of publication. After this deadline, additional charges will he incurred.
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Which of the following advertising rates is the lowest?
A. Services. B. Recruitent.
C. Education. D. Legal ≈ General Notices.
If soeone wants to advertise his trade goods in the newspaper, the least fee he’ll pay is RB ______ yuan.
A. 140 B. 170 C. 360 D. 510
China Daily refuses to accept the advertiseent that ______.
A. contains any illustrations B. is put in after the deadline
C. contains anything false D. is too long
(B)
In July 1994 Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar syste, was struck by 21 pieces of a coet(慧星). When the fragents(碎片) landed in the southern part of the giant planet, the explosions were watched by scientists here on earth. But what if our own planet was hit by a coet?
The year is 2094. It has been announced that a coet is heading towards the earth. ost of it will iss our planet, but two fragents will probably hit the southern part of the Earth. The news has caused panic.
On 17 July, a fragent four kiloeters wide enters the Earth’s atosphere with a huge explosion. About half of the fragent is destroyed. But the ajor part survives and hits the South Atlantic at 200 ties the speed of sound. The sea boils and an enorous wave is created and spreads. The wall of water rushes towards southern Africa at 800 kiloetres an hour. Cities on the African coast are totally destroyed and illions of people are drowned. The wave oves into the Indian Ocean and heads towards Asia.
illions of people are already dead in the southern part of the Earth, but the north won’t escape for long. Tons of broken pieces are thrown into the atosphere by the explosions. As the sun is hidden by clouds of dust, teperatures around the world fall to alost zero. Crops are ruined. Wars break out as countries fight for food. A year later civilization has collapsed. No ore than 10 illion people have survived.
Could it really happen? In fact, it has already happened ore than once in the history of the Earth. The dinosaurs were on the Earth for over 160 illion years. Then 65 illion years ago they suddenly disappeared. ary scientists believe that the Earth was hit by a space fragent. The dinosaurs couldn’t survive in the cold cliate that followed and they becae extinct. Will we eet the sae end?
Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the author’s description of the disaster in 2094?
The whole world becoes extreely cold.
All the coastal cities in Africa are destroyed.
The whole ankind becoes extinct.
The visit of the coet results in wars.
Why does the author ention dinosaurs at the end of the passage?
Because they could only live in the war cliate.
Because they once doinated the earth.
Because their extinction indicates future disasters.
Because dinosaurs and huans never live in the sae age.
In writing the passage, the author intends to ______.
give an accurate description of the possible disaster in the future
prove that huans will sooner or later be destroyed
tell the historical developent of the Earth
warn of a possible disaster in the future
It can be concluded that the passage is ost probably part of a(n) ______.
A. horror story B. news report
C. research paper D. article of popular science
C
The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness, if fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain ust be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: ore often than not things that lead to happiness involve soe pain.
As a result, any people avoid the very attepts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as arriage, raising children, professional achieveent, religious coitent, self-iproveent.
Ask a bachelor (单身汉) why he resists arriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of aking a coitent. For coitent is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, exciteent. arriage has such oents, but they are not its ost distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the ost liberating realizations. It liberates tie: noe can devote ore hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates oney: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now sees pointless. And it liberates us fro envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so uch fun actually ay not be happy at all.
According to the author, a bachelor resists arriage chiefly because ______.
he is reluctant to take on faily responsibilities
he believes that life will be ore cheerful if he reains single
he finds ore fun in dating than in arriage
he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and exciteent
Raising children, in the author’s opinion, is ______.
A. a oral duty B. a thankless job
C. a rewarding task D. a source of inevitable pain
To understand what true happiness is one ust ______.
have as uch fun as possible during one’s lifetie
ake every effort to liberate oneself fro pain
put up with pain under all circustances
be able to distinguish happiness fro fun
What is the author trying to tell us?
A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.B. One ust know how to attain happiness.
C. It is iportant to ake coitents. D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
Section C
Directions: Read the following text and choose the ost suitable heading fro A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
A.Classroo participation
B.Differences in Aerican university education
C.Exaination syste
D.Copetition aong students
E.Honest policy in students’ school work
F.Students’ responsibility for learning
76.
There is considerable variety in university classroo in the United States. Because of diverse teaching ethods and non-standardized curricula, no two courses are the sae. Undergraduate courses are considerable different fro graduate courses. The classroo atosphere in expensive, private universities ay differ fro that in counity colleges which are free and open to everyone.
77.
Participation in the classroo is not only accepted but also expected of the student in any courses. Soe professors base part of the final grade on the student’s oral participation. Although there are foral lectures during which the student has a passive role (i.e., listening and taking notes), any courses are organized around classroo discussions, student questions, and inforal lectures.
78.
any teachers believe that the responsibility for learning lies with the student. If a long reading assignent is given, instructor expects students to be failiar with the inforation in the reading even if they do not discuss it in class or give an exaination. (Courses are not designed erely for students to pass exas.) The ideal student is considered to be one who is otivated to learn for the sake of learning, not the one interested only in getting high grades.
79.
Ideally, the teacher-student relationship at universities is characterized by trust. The honor syste, put forward by the teacher and the university deands that the student be honest in all areas of school work. Thus , cheating on tests, plagiarizing (抄袭) in written work, presenting other’s ideas as original, and turning in hoework copleted by soeone else are all prohibited.
80.
Relationships between students in the classroo can be cooperative or copetitive. International students should not hesitate to ask for help if it is needed. There are courses, however, where grades are calculated in relation to other student’s scores. Therefore, in classes where such a grading curve is used, students ay be reluctant to share lecture notes or inforation for fear that their own grades will suffer.
Section D
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions and coplete the stateents in the no ore than 10 words.
“Soon, you’re going to have to ove out!” cried y neighbor upon seeing the largest toato plant known to ankind or at least known in y neighborhood.
One tiny 9-inch plant, bought for $1.25 in the spring, has already taken over uch of y rose bed, covering uch of other plants, and is well on its way to the front door.
Roses require a good deal of care, and if it weren’t for the pleasure they give, it wouldn’t be worth the work. As it is, I have a garden full of sweet-selling roses for ost of the year. Bushes ust be pruned (剪枝) in early spring, leaving ugly woody branches until the new growth appears a feeeks later. It was the space available in the garden that led e into planting just one little toato plant. A big istake.
Soil conditions ade just perfect for roses turn out to be even ore perfect for toatoes. The daily watering coupled with full sun and regular fertilizing have turned the little plant into a tall bush. The cage I placed around it as the plant grew has long since disappeared under the thick leaves.
Now the task I face in harvesting the fruit is twofold: First, I have to find the red ones aong the leaves, which eans I alost have to stand on y head, and once found I have to reach down and under, pick the toatoes and withdraw y full fist without dropping the prize so dearly won. I found two full-blown white roses copletely hidden as I picked toatoes in June, but they were weak and the leaves already yellow for lack of light.
Here I a faced with a painful sall decision: To tear up a wonderful and productive toato plant that offers up between ten and twenty ripe sweet toatoes each day or say goodbye to several expensive and treasured roses. Like Scarlett in Gone With the Wind, I’ll think about that toorro
What are the requireents for the healthy growth of roses?
The writer planted the toato because ___________________________________________.
By saying “the prize so dearly won” in paragraph 5, the writer wants to _________________.
What is the painful choice the writer is faced with?
第II卷 （45分）
I. Translation (20*)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
他太骄傲不肯承认自己的错误。(too...to)
人们普遍认为，价格越贵的产品质量越高。（accept）
应该鼓励学生养成勤查字典的习惯。（encourage）
一旦我们有进一步的消息，就会立刻通知你。(infor)
今天我们开会的目的是要讨论如何解决问题， 而不是争论该怪谁。（blae）
II. Guided Writing (25*)
Directions: Write an English coposition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
在一个人的成长过程中，家庭教育十分重要，同时朋友的影响也不可忽视。这两者中你认为哪一个更重要？请谈谈你的看法。
参考答案
（以下每题1分）
01—05. ABCDD 06—10.CAACB
11—13. CDB 14—16. ABD
17. Hart 18.7930705
19.burning20. Sunday
21. next onth 22. walking
23. fast dance 24. The whole band
25-29 BCABB 30-34ADCBD 35-40 DBDACC
41—45. BIFHG 46—49. AEDC
50-54 BCBBA 55-59 BDCCB 60-64 CCDCD
（以下每题2分）
65-67 CDC
68-71 CCDD 72-75 ACDA
76-80 BAFED
A lot of / A great deal of care and the right soil.
there was roo for it in the garden
show the difficulty in picking the toatoes
To tear up the toato plant or the roses.
I. Translation (20*)
He is too proud to adit his own istake.
It is widely accepted that the ore expensive a thing is, the higher its quality is.
Students should be encouraged to for the habit of referring to a dictionary often.
Once we have further inforation, we will infor you of it iediately.
The purpose of our eeting today is to discuss how to solve the proble, not to argue about who is to blae.
II. Guided Writing (25*)
Iportance of Faily Education
Parents often show love for us, supervise us to be a responsible person and encourage us to create a proising future, yet we can’t deny the fact that our friends always exert a subtle influence on us . It’s really hard to say which of the two is ore iportant, for they affect us at different ties and in respective ways. However, fro y point of view, friends’ influence plays the doinant role.
To start with, ost of our friends have their own talents in a certain field, fro which we can learn to ake up for our weaknesses . oreover, since our friends are fro different failies, we can have the opportunity to share different lifestyles ,and perfect our own living habits. Furtherore, our peers undoubtedly know ore about the latest trend, and accordingly, it is our friends that help us keep pace with the ties. Last but not least, our parents will leave us sooner or later. By contrast, friends’ effect will last uch longer due to the fact that we will ake ore and ore friends on the life road.
Coparatively speaking, our friends, to soe extent, teach us ore than parents do. So it’s necessary to bear in ind that our rosy lives lie ostly in the lessons our friends present to us and it is a ust to cherish our friendship.