高三英语上学期第二次月考

第一学期高三英语月考（二）

(完卷时间：120分钟满分：150分)

第I卷

I. Listening Comprehension (30%)

Section A Short Conversations

Direction: 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 questions you have heard.

1. A. Ask someone else when he gets to the corner.

B. Go to the right on the second street.

C. Take the second left.

D. Turn right at the corner.

2. A. They have lost their tickets.

B. They are already late.

C. They almost couldn’t go out.

D. They don’t know where they’re going.

3. A. Jack. B. Jane. C. Tommy. D. The bakery.

4. A. In a nurses’ office.

B. At a dentist’s clinic.

C. In a medical ward.

D. In a friend’s home.

5. A. What she should wear.

B. Where the man lives.

C. Who will speak at the meeting.

D. Why a meeting is necessary.

6. A. He got sick flying. B. He just got a new flute.

C. He doesn’t eat enough fruit.

D. He is no longer ill.

7. A. He wants to know where the train station is located.

B. He hopes to know if he can catch a train to California.

C. He wants to find out when the trains depart for California.

D. He is inquiring about the prices of train fare.

8. A. They have no assignments.

B. They are supposed to read the next chapter.

C. They need to write an essay about the show they will watch.

D. They are supposed to discuss their opinions about the program.

9. A. Find a cleaner room. B. Have another meeting.

C. Clarify the issues.

D. Clean the reference room.

10. A. It cannot be sent easily.

B. He is not sure if it can fit inside the container.

C. There are several different rates.

D. The package looks heavy.

Section B Passages

Direction: In section B, you will hear two short passages and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. The staff.

B. Professional journalists.

C. The faculty.

D. A group of students.

12. A. One. B. Two. C. Five. D. Seven.

13. A. Immediately. B. Tomorrow. C. In a couple of days. D. On the sixth day.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. To persuade Bret Chrysler to turn away from quiz shows.

B. To entertain other readers with old news pictures.

C. To express his appreciation of the programme.

D. To have his story told on the programme.

15. A. He hadn’t got a return ticket.

B. He had lost his bus ticket.

C. He didn’t like big crowds.

D. He missed the bus home.

16. A. He should have told the conductor then.

B. He should have been well treated.

C. He regrets going to school alone.

D. He wishes it hadn’t happened.

Section C Longer Conversations

Direction: In section C, you will hear two longer conversations. Each conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A (16%)

Direction: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.

25. After earning a bachelor’s, master’s and Ph. D ______ physics, Ride planned on continuing her studies.

A. on

B. at

C. between

D. in

26. In no country ______ Britain, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.

A. other than

B. more than

C. better than

D. rather than

27. There ______ be any trouble in winning the first prize in the singing competition next month since you have got so well prepared.

A. needn’t

B. shan’t

C. mustn’t

D. shouldn’t

28. You ______ to park your car here. It’s for private parking only.

A. are not supposed

B. don’t suppose

C. haven’t supposed

D. supposed

29. That is the only way we can imagine ______ the overuse of water in student s’ bathroom.

A. reducing

B. to reduce

C. reduced

D. reduce

30. Nobody believed his reason for being absent from the class ______ he had to meet his uncle at the airport.

A. why

B. that

C. where

D. because

31. From my point of view, it’s very refreshing to find someone like you ______ not entirely in tune with the surroundings here.

A. which is

B. who is

C. who are

D. that are

32. Before I buy a car, I would like to have a mechanic, whom I truly trust, ______.

A. look it over

B. looking it over

C. to look it over

D. looked it over

33. ______ on his father’s shoulders made it possible for Victor, a boy of five, to watch the show.

A. Having carried

B. Carrying

C. Being carried

D. Carried

34. Though he sometimes complained bitterly about it, he would not, ______, exchange it for the more predictable climate of other lands.

A. since he can

B. even if he could

C. although he should

D. but he could

35. With a lot of school time being devoted to non-academic activities, parents might wonder ______ their children would have time for traditional learning.

A. that if

B. though

C. when

D. since

36. Chemical processes ______ in the treatment of materials for clothes ______ the environment badly in some countries nowadays.

A. involve…damaging

B. involved…damaged

C. involving…damage

D. involved…damage

37. Parents and their children often disagree about the amount of freedom and responsibility that young people ______.

A. would have

B. are having

C. are to have

D. are about to have

38. Only when your identity has been checked ______.

A. you are allowed in

B. you will be allowed in

C. will you allow in

D. will you be allowed in

39. Though ______ of danger, he still went swimming in the river, which cost his life.

A. was warned

B. warned

C. warning

D. to be warned

40. Westerns do not like to be too close to one another ______ there is a reason.

A. when

B. if

C. unless

D. whatever

Section B (9%)

Direction: Complete the passage with the words given in the box. Each word can only be used

An eyeglass maker called Antonie van Leeuwenhoek lived in Holland in 1676. He liked to look closely at things with his special ___41___. By this way, he noticed active little animals in what he had observed. As a result, the ___42___ world of microbes (微生物) was discovered.

Microbes live everywhere and have the same needs as all living things. Microbes need to ___43___, eat, reproduce, and get rid of waste materials. They eat in a special way. They send out ___44___, like saliva, which change the food into a liquid, to break down what they will eat. Microbes are ___45___. About nine trillion microbes would fit into a one-inch box!

Most microbes are parasites (寄生虫). They need to ‘hitch a ride’with another living creature, which will supply the microbes with what they need to ___46___.

There’re different kinds of microbes. Some cause food to ___47___ and may make us sick while others help clean up the environment. Still others live in our bodies and produce vitamin K, which helps stop the ___48___ when we get a cut.

As you can see, microbes play many ___49___ in the world, even saving lives. It’s lucky we have microbes around us!

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A (15%)

Direction: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Imagine a world where a clock dances with a pair of shoes. Where a man runs ___50___ a cliff-top and falls ___51___ hurting himself. Where a train has a face and can talk. Where things ___52___ the wrong way –they drop up instead of down. Imagine all this, and you have the

___53___ of Animation.

Animation means making things which are lifeless come ___54___ and move.

From earliest time, people have always been fascinated by movement. But ___55___ this century have we ___56___ to capture movement, to record it, and in the case of Animation, to re-create it. ___57___ all this, we use a movie camera and a projector.

In the world of cartoon Animation, nothing is impossible. You can make the characters you ___58___ do exactly what you want them to do.

A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat, created by Pat Sullivan in America in the early nineteen twenties. Felix was a marvelous cat. He could do all sorts of things no ___59___ cat could do, ___60___ taking off his tail, using it as ___61___ and then putting it back. The famous Walt Disney cartoon characters ___62___ to life after 1928.

Animated cartoons are used for all sorts of purposes: for entertainments, for TV commercials, in educational films. The Animation ___63___ is borning. Most film companies have very large Animation departments, where all kinds of specialists in art and camera movement work together. There is even a new form of Animation which has been ___64___ by many organizations since the mid-nineteen sixties – Animation by Computer.

50. A. at B. on C. over D. above

51. A. in B. with C. while D. without

52. A. work B. move C. go D. walk

53. A. world B. place C. country D. way

54. A. life B. living C. alive D. awake

55. A. now B. not C. when D. not until

56. A. tried B. attempted C. managed D. used

57. A. Doing B. To do C. Having to do D. Done

58. A. know B. discover C. create D. invent

59. A. another B. natural C. unusual D. single

60. A. as B. even C. like D. in

61. A. handle B. hand C. tail D. form

62. A. began B. came C. turned D. jumped

63. A. task B. company C. business D. industry

64. A. forced B. developed C. improved D. opened

Section B (22%)

Direction: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

Maybe it is true that we do not know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we do not know what we have been missing until it arrives.

It takes an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Do not expect love in return; but if it does not, be content it has grown in yours. Do not rely on one’s appearance; it can trick you. Do not rely on wealth; even that fades away. Rely on someone who

makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them. Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You cannot go on well in life until you let your past failures and heartaches go off. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trails to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. The happiest of people do not necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness waits for those who cry, those appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Always put yourself in others’ shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

65. In this passage, the writer wants to tell us ______.

A. what to do in our life

B. where to go with other persons

C. how to treat our life

D. how to get on well with other persons

66. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. If you give someone your love, you are sure to receive love in return.

B. We often don’t know what we have lost until it happens someday.

C. It is wise not to rely on anybody because you are likely to be deceived.

D. If it takes you a short time to love someone, you will easily forget the person.

67. If you put yourself in another person’s position, ______.

A. you shouldn’t do what will hurt other people

B. you should put on other people’s shoes

C. you should believe in other people

D. you should depend on your imagination

68. In the last paragraph the writer is actually telling us that a person in the world should be one who ______.

A. can accept the suggestions made by others

B. can live happily and forget the past

C. does good for other people and is respected and loved by them

D. has made a lot of money for himself before he dies

(B)

Britain is facing a sharp rise in its rat population as growing numbers of people leave fast food scraps in the street, an environment group warned. Keep Britain Tidy said the rodents (啮齿动物) were stopping their traditional hunts underground and were roaming the streets, tempted by discarded burgers, pizzas and crisps. “The rat population is on the rise and soon it’ll be as common to see a rodent on our street as it is to see a dog or a cat,”said group Director, Sue Nelson. The practice of dumping fast food litter and scraps on the street rather than in the trash –with young men the worst offenders –was behind the rise. According to the National Rodent

Survey in , Britain’s rat population has grown by nearly one quarter since and is now estimated at 60 million, two million more than the human population. On average a rat can give birth every 24—28 days and just a single pair of rats can produce a colony of a year. Around 200 people a year get Weil’s Disease –an infection which can lead to liver or kidney (肝肾) failure and eventually death and which is carried in rat’s waste. To highlight the issue, Keep Britain Tidy launched a cinema ad entitled “How close do you want them to get?” The ad gave a shocking image of a young woman sleeping in a bed of rats – echoing the nightmare scene from James Herbert’s classic horror tale The Rats, in which mutant rodents begin to prey on (捕食) humans.

69. Where did to rodents use to search for food?

A. In the street.

B. Under the ground

C. From the trash cans

D. In burger shops

70. What is the human population now according to the writer?

A. 60 million

B. 58 million

C. 35 million

D. 2 million

71. We may infer from the passage that ______.

A. Weil’s Disease will finally end the world

B. pizzas and crisps will become poisonous

C. rats will endanger human beings’ life

D. young people are blame for the rat population

72. By writing the passage, the author tries to ______.

A. close some of the burger and pizza restaurants

B. draw the public attention to the problem of rats

C. prevent the rats from growing up

D. making advertisement for the classic horror film The Rats

(C)

People in Matsushiro, Japan, lived through one, hundreds, and sometimes thousands a day. But they couldn’t get used to it.

What was it? It was a string of earthquakes that made the small town shake all the time. This went on for more than a year. Sometimes the quakes were very small. Only certain instruments could pick them up. At other times, the quakes damaged houses and land. The people were always afraid. They wished they knew how to stop the ground from shaking.

People all over the world would like to know when an earthquake is coming. But an earthquake is almost always a surprise. Under the surface of the Earth, huge blocks of rock drift apart or slide against each other. The ground above splits apart or rumbles and shakes.

Some scientists hope to predict quakes by keeping a close watch on animals. It seems that some animals can sense an earthquake coming. In 1969, animals in a Chinese zoo began to act funny one day. Swans flew out of their pond. A panda sat down, covered its eyes with its paws, and groaned. The animals seemed to know that something was about to happen. And it did. An earthquake struck. What was it that the animals sensed? Scientists are trying to find out.

Keeping close track of the Earth’s magnetic force in earthquake areas may also help. A few years ago, in Hollister, CA, scientists kept a record of the area’s magnetic pull. For one week, the force grew stronger. Then it weakened suddenly. A day later, an earthquake struck.

It may become possible to know when and where an earthquake will happen. But it will be much harder to stop one from happening.

Many scientists think that the Earth’s covering is not smooth. They say the earth’s “skin” is made up of huge puzzle pieces called plates. Land and ocean floors make up these huge plates.

Under the Earth’s crust (外壳), or plates, is hot rock. The plates float on top of this rock. Sometimes the rock forces its way through the crust. What happens then? A volcano is born! More often, the rock moves and forces the plates to pull away from each other, causing earthquakes to happen. (V olcanoes and earthquakes often go together.)

Sometimes, the plates end up on top of each other. When this happens, the land above may look strange. Seen from the air, there seems to be a long scar in the Earth. This is called a fault (断层). The areas along faults have more earthquakes than other parts of the Earth.

For now, we’ll just have to shake along with the Earth. It goes through millions of small earthquakes every year. With luck, you won’t feel a thing!

73. In order to predict earthquakes, scientists can ______. Which is wrong according to this passage?

A. keep a close watch on animals

B. keep close track of the Earth’s magnetic force in earthquake areas

C. keep a record of earthquake area’s magnetic pull of force

D. keep inventing instruments to pick up every earthquake

74. When the rock forces its way through the Earth’s crust, ______.

A. an earthquake happens

B. a volcano is born

C. a fault forms

D. the Earth’s covering becomes smooth

75. How does a fault form?

A. When the plates end up on top of each other.

B. When California rests on two separate plates.

C. Before an earthquake happens.

D. After volcano comes.

Section C (5%)

Direction: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A—AC for each

76. ______

Lie detectors are widely used in the United States to find out whether a person is telling the truth or not. Polygraphers, the people who operate them, claim that they can establish guilt by detecting physiological changes that accompany emotional stress. The technique adopted is to ask leading questions such as: “Did you take the money?” or “Where did you hide the money?”mixed in with neutral questions, and measure the subject’s electrical resistance in the palm or changes in his breathing and heart rate. Such apparatus has obtained widespread recognition. 77. ______

Whether lie detectors will ever be adopted on a similar scale in Britain is still a matter of opinion. At first sight, it appears obvious that any simple, reliable method of convicting (定罪) guilty people is valuable, but recent research sponsored by the U.S. Office of Public Health not only raises doubts about how lie detectors should be used but also makes it questionable whether they should be employed at all.

78. ______

The point is that, apart from many of the polygraphers being unqualified, the tests themselves are by no means free from error, primarily because they discount human imagination and ingenuity (机灵). Think of all those perfectly innocent people, with nothing to be afraid of, who blush and stammer when a customs officer asks them if they have anything to declare. Fear, and a consequently heightened electrical response, may not be enough to establish guilt. It depends on whether the subject is afraid of being found out or afraid of being wrongfully convicted.

79. ______

On the other hand, the person who is really guilty and whose past experience has prepared him for such tests can change the results by preparing for the important questions or deliberately giving exaggerated responses to neutral ones!

80. ______

The success rate of up to 90% claimed for lie detectors is misleadingly attractive. If we refer such a figure to a company with 50 employees, twenty of whom are thieves, the lie detector could catch 18 of them but in doing so would place 32 innocent employees under suspicion. The problem for the management would therefore become one of deciding how much industrial unrest they are prepared to cause in order to find out theft.

Section D (8%)

Direction: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words:

For any Englishman, there can never be any discussion as to who is the world’s greatest poet and greatest dramatist. Only one name can possibly suggest itself to him—that of William Shakespeare. Every Englishman has some knowledge, however slight, of the work of our greatest writer. All of us use the words, phrases and quotations from Shakespeare’s writings that have become part of the common property of the English-speaking people. Most of the time we are probably unaware of the source of the words we use, rather like the old lady who was taken to see a performance of Hamlet and complained that “It was full of well-known proverbs and quotations!”

However, our knowledge about the life of this great author is little. We know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, and that he died there in 1616.

He almost certainly attended the Grammar School in the town, but of this we cannot be sure. We know he was married there in 1582 to Ann Hathaway and that he had three children, a boy and two girls. We know that he spent much of his life in London writing his great books. But this is almost all that we do know.

But what is important about Shakespear e’s life is not its life details but its products, the

plays and the poems. Shakespeare’s poetry and Shakespeare’s people have long delighted not just the English but lovers of literature everywhere, and will continue to do so in the future.

81. What, according to the passage, does the word “suggest”in the first paragraph possibly mean?

82. The performance of Hamlet“was full of well-known proverbs and quotations”because _________________________________.

83. “Shakespeare’s people” in the last paragraph may mean ________________________.

84. What is for sure about Shakespeare?

(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN THIRTEEN WORDS)

第II卷

I. Translation (20%)

Direction:Translation the following sentences into English using the words given in the brackets.

1. 从某种程度上说，一个国家是否有高的国际地位取决于该国的经济。(depend)

2. 一场暴风雨后，他们发现自己面临着严重的水灾。(face)

3. . 学校应该注重培养学生对科学的热爱。(cultivate)

4. 他对医生的建议置若罔闻，这对他的健康不利。(bad)

5. 因为缺少实践，他没有通过驾驶考试。(The reason why…)

II. Guided Writing (25%)

Direction: Write an English composition in 120-150 words.

上海的大街小巷有许多快餐店，很多人称快餐是“垃圾”食品(junk food), 但快餐仍然非常流行。对快餐受欢迎这个现象，谈谈你的看法。

第一学期高三英语月考（二）答案

Listening

Part A

1-5 CCDBB 6-10 DCCDC

Part B

11-13 DCA 14-16 CAA

Part C

17. East 18. chemical 19. 15 20. envy

21. a strange pain 22. boiling water running 23. tests 24. local doctor

Multiple choices:

25-29 DADAB 30-34 BBACB 35-39 CDCDB 40. C

Translations

1.To some extent (degree) / In a way, whether a country has a high international position

depends on its economy.

2.After a storm, they found themselves faced with a serious flood.

3.Schools should focus on cultivating students’ love for science.

4.He turned a deaf ear to the doctor’s advice / He didn’t follow the doctor’s advice, which was

bad for his health.

5.The reason why he didn’t pass the driving test was that he lacked practice.