山西省山大附中高一英语下学期4月月考试卷

山西大学附中 2014~2015学年高一第二学期4月（总第六次）模块诊

断英语试题

（考查时间：100分钟）（考查内容：以必修三前四个模块为主）

注意：本考试严禁使用手机，电子词典或其它电子存储设备，违者按作弊

．．处理。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共60分）

第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共15小题，每题1.5分，满分22.5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的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。

A

The following form shows the result of a survey of parents from five countries, who were asked why children are important to them. They were required to choose three main reasons from seven dealing with personal interests, family relations and social responsibility. Each number in the form is the percentage of parents who chose what

1. Compared with the parents in other countries Korean parents are least interested in ______.

A. receiving cares in old age

B. raising responsible citizens

C. keeping the family line

D. enjoying raising children

2. In which country parents pay the most attention to learning from the experience?

A. In Britain.

B. In USA.

C. In Japan.

D. In Korea.

3. From the above percentages, we can infer ______.

A.parents in Western countries care more about family relationship

B.parents in Asia want their children to be useful for the society most

C.ideas of raising children between East and West are somewhat different

D.parents all over the world usually do not think about their own old ages

B

It was a village in India. The people were poor. However, they were not unhappy. After all, their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries.

Then one day，some visitors from the city arrived. They told the villagers there

were some people elsewhere who liked to eat frog’s legs. However, they did not have enough frogs of their own, and so they wanted to buy frogs from other places.

This seemed like money for nothing. There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were no use to the villagers. All they had to do was catch them. Agreement was reached, and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money. For the first time, the people were able to dream of a better future. But the dream didn’t last long.

The change was hardly noticed at first, but it seemed as if the crops were not doing so well. More worrying was that the children fell ill more often, and, there seemed to be more insects around lately.

The villagers decided that they couldn’t just wait to see the crops failing and the children getting weak. They would have to use the money earned to buy pesticides(杀虫剂) and medicine. Soon there was no money left.

Then the people realized what was happening. It was the frog. They hadn’t been useless. They had been doing an important job --- eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were increasing more rapidly. They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases.

Now, the people are still poor. But in the evenings they sit in the village square and listen to sounds of insects and frogs. These sounds of the night now have a much deeper meaning.

4. From paragraph 1 we learn that the villagers __________.

A. worked very hard for centuries

B. dreamed of having a better life

C. were poor but somewhat content

D. lived a different life from their forefathers

5. Why did the villagers agree to sell frogs ?

A. The frogs were easy money.

B. They need money to buy medicine.

C. They wanted to please the visitors.

D. The frogs made too much noise.

6. What might be the cause of the children’s sickness?

A. The crops didn’t do well.

B. There were too many insects.

C. The visitors brought in diseases.

D. The pesticides were overused.

7. What can we infer from the last sentence of the text?

A. Happiness comes from peaceful life in the country.

B. Health is more important than money.

C. The harmony between man and nature is important.

D. Good old days will never be forgotten.

C

I hated dinner parties. But I decided to give them another shot because I’m in London. And my friend Mallery invited me. And because dinner parities in London are

very different from those back in New York. There, “I’m having a dinner party means: “I’m booking a table for 12 at a restaurant you can’t afford and we’ll be sharing the cheque evenly, no matter what you eat.” Worse, in Manhattan there is always someone who leaves before the bill arrives. They’ll throw down cash, half of what they owe, and then people like me, who don’t drink, end up paying even more. But if I try to use the same trick, the hostess will shout: “Where are you going?” And it’s not like I can say I have somewhere to go: everyone know I have nowhere to go.

But in London, dinner parties are in people’s homes. Not only that, the guests are an interesting mix. The last time I went to one, the guests were from France, India, Denmark and Nigeria; it was like a gathering at the United Nations in New York. The mix is less striking. It’s like a gathering at Bloomingdal e’s, a well-known department store.

For New Yorkers, talking about other parts of the world means Brooklyn and Queens in New York. But at Mallery’s, when I said that I had been to Myanmar recently, people knew where it was. In New York people would think it was a usual new club.

8. What does the word “shot” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A. Choice

B. Try

C. Style

D. Goal

9. What does the writer dislike most about dinner parties in New York?

A. There is a strange mix of people.

B. The restaurants are expensive.

C. The bill is not fairly shared.

D. People have to pay cash.

10. What does the author think of the parties in London?

A. A bit unusual

B. Full of tricks

C. Less costly

D. More interesting

11. What is the author’s opinion of some New Yorkers from her experience?

A. Easy-going

B. Self-centred

C. Generous

D. Conservative

D

Every people has its own way of saying things, its own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based on colors.

Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot they are very angry about something. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods are called red hots for their color and their fiery taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot, especially the kind called Dixieland jazz.

Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health.

The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green.

A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green.

Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper money.

The color black is used often in expressions. People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day. The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day. A blacklist is illegal now. But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.

In some cases, colors describe a situation. A brown out is an expression for a reduction in electric power. Brown outs happen when there is too much demand for electricity. The electric system is unable to offer all the power needed in an area. Black outs are common during World War Two. Officials would order all lights in a city turned off to make it difficult for enemy planes to find a target in the dark of night.

12. Americans use “red hot” to describe the following EXCEPT____.

A. something

unfair

B. small hot-tasting peppers

C. the person who is very

angry D. popular music like Dixieland jazz

13. People use “in the pink” to express they are in good health because____.

A. the expression has a very long history

B. the color pink makes people feel happy

C. people think the color pink is gentler than red

D. healthy babies are born with nice pink skin

14. In the writer’s eyes，what is related to a black day?

A. Being sent a beautiful

gift

B. Passing a very difficult test

C. Being refused during an important interview

D. Being invited to an exciting party

15. The writer wants to tell us ______in American everyday expressions

A. the most popular

colors B. different meanings of colors

C. how to use colors

correctly D. why Americans like to use colors

第二节（共5小题，每小题1.5分，满分7.5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。

Health is the most important thing in the world. Nothing is more important than health. If one takes away our money, houses, cars, or even our clothes, we can still