江西新余市2018届高三英语上学期第一次月考!

2018届高三上学期第一次段考英语试题时间：120分钟满分：150分第一部分：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。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the man mean?A. There is something wrong with the printer.B. The woman is unable to work the printer.C. There is probably a power failure.2. How are the prices in the restaurant?A. Reasonable.B. High.C. Low.3. What is the man’s problem?A. He has no patience to wait for his wife.B. He can’t see the sign clearly.C. H e’s parked in the wrong place.4. What day is it when the conversation takes place?A. Saturday.B. Sunday.C. Monday.5. What will Nancy do?A. Play volleyball.B. Watch a game.C. Find a player.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。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What probably is the woman?A. A bank clerk.B. A post office clerk.C. A hotel clerk.7. How much does the man plan to put in the account today?A. $100.B. $200.C.$500.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where did the woman stay during her holiday?A. In a hotel.B. At a farmhouse.C. At their camp.9 .What kind of weather did the woman have during her holiday?A. Sunny.B. Rainy.C. Terrible.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Why is the man at the shop?A. To order a mobile phone for his wife.B. To have a mobile phone repaired.C. To get a mobile phone changed.11. What colour does the man want?A. Pink.B. Black.C. Orange.12. What will the man do afterwards?A. Make a phone call.B. Wait until further notice.C. Come again the next day.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What’s the woman’s major now?A. Hotel management.B. French.C. Computer science.14. Why did the woman change her major?A. Because she received a four-year academic scholarship.B. Because she wanted to find a job more easily later.C. Because she wanted to major in French at first.15. How does the woman pay for college?A. With the money from her parents.B. With an academic scholarship.C. By doing a part-time job.16. What can be learnt about the man’s part-time job?A. His fellow workers are friendly, but the pay is bad.B. He works three times a week at a campus.C. He works at a restaurant and is paid well.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What’s the purpose of the talk?A. Offering some advice on sleeping problems.B. Telling people how to exercise.C. Stressing physical exercise.18. Why is it useless to keep turning around when you can’t sleep?A. It increases heart rate.B. It makes you worry.C.It’s tiring.19. Which of the following can cause sleeplessness?A. Eating cheese before you go to bed.B. Lack of sleep on weekends.C. Too much exercise in the evening.20. What can we learn about sleeping pills?A. They work well.B. They worsen sleeping.C. They help relax.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，选出最佳选项。

AThe Nobel Prize Winners in LiteratureRabindranath Tagore( 1913)Prize motivation: "because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West"William Faulkner (1949)Prize motivation: "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954)Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea"John Steinbeck (1962)Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception"Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953)Prize motivation: "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values"Claude Simon (1985)Prize motivation: "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition"Mo Yan (2012)Prize motivation: “he, with dreamlike realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary".Bob Dylan(2016)Prize motivation: "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"21. Which writer won Nobel Prize for his poetry?A. William Faulkner.B. Bob Dylan.C. Rabindranath Tagore.D. Claude Simon.22. Which writer won Noble Prize for his specific work instead of his lifelong achievements?A. Ernest Hemingway.B. John Steinbeck.C. William Faulkner.D. Winston Churchill.23. Whose works will you turn to if you are interested in a song writing Nobel Prize winner?A. Mo Yan’s.B. Bob Dyl a n’s.C. Claude Simon’s.D. Rabindranath Tagore’s.24. Who described real life experience in his historic works?A. John Steinbeck.B. Mo Yan.C. Ernest HemingwayD. Winston Churchill.BTo my Charlie on his wedding day—I know you think these notes are silly. I have watched you wear a long face over the years when I give them to you. But understand that sometimes I want to tell you something and I want to get it just right. Putting it down on paper helps me do that.I wish I had been a better writer. I wish I had gone to college. If I had, I think I would have studied English and maybe my vocabulary would have improved. So many times I feel I am using the same words over and over. Like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!What I want to say to you, Charley, is you are marrying a wonderful girl. I think of Catherine in many ways like I think of Roberta. Like a daughter. She is sweet and patient. You should be the same with her, Charley.Here is what you are going to find out about marriage: you have to work at it together. And you have to love three things. You have to love1) Each other.2) Your children (when you have some).3) Your marriage.What I mean by that last one is, there may be times that you fight, and sometimes you and Catherine won’t even like each other. But those are the times you have to love your marriage. It’s like a third party. Look at your wedding photos. Look at any memories you’ve made. And if you believe in those memories, they will pull you back together.I’m very proud of you today, Charley. I am putting this in your tuxedo pocket because I know how you lose things.I love you every day!Mom25. Why did the mother write the letter to Charlie?A. To congratulate her son.B. To give him some advice.C. To show her pity.D. To talk things through.26. What kind of feeling is mainly revealed in the letter?A. Regret.B. Pride.C. Care.D. Complaint.27. What is implied about Charley in the letter?A. He is forgetful.B. He is patient.C. He is boring.D. He is worried.CHave you ever found yourself in this situation: You hear a song you used to sing when you were a child – a bit of nostalgia(怀旧) or “blast from the past,” as we say. But it is not a distant childhood memory. The words come back to you as clearly as when you sang them all those years ago.Researchers at the University of Edinburgh studied the relationship between music and remembering a foreign language. They found that remembering words in a song was the best way to remember even one of the most difficult languages.Here is what they did. Researchers took 60 adults and randomly divided them into three groups of 20. Then they gave the groups three different types of “listen-and-repeat” learning conditions. Researchers had one group simply speak the words. They had the second group speak the words to a rhythm, or beat. And they asked the third group to sing the words.All three groups studied words from the Hungarian language for 15 minutes. Then they took part in a series of language tests to see what they remembered.Why Hungarian, you ask? Researchers said they chose Hungarian because not many people know the language. It does not share any roots with Germanic or Romance languages, such as Italian or Spanish. After the tests were over, the singers came out on top. The people who learned these new Hungarian words by singing them showed a higher overall performance. They did the best in four out of five of the tests. They also performed two times better than those who simply learned the words by speaking them.Dr. Katie Overy says singing could lead to new ways to learn a foreign language.The brain likes to remember things when they are contained in a catchy, or memorable, tune.Dr. Ludke said the findings could help those who struggle to learn foreign languages. On the University of Edinburgh’s website Dr. Ludke writes, “This study provides the first experimental evidence that a listen-and-repeat singing method can support foreign language learning, and opens the door for future research in this area.”28. The “song” mentioned in the first paragraph is intended to__________.A. recall the pastB. attract the readersC. introduce the topicD. compare the childhood with the present29. According to the passage which language doesn’t share the same root withGermanic or Romance languages?A. HungarianB. SpanishC. ItalianD. English30. Based on the last two paragraphs, we can conclude that __________A. singing is the best way to learn a language.B. the brain probably works best when the foreign language learners sing the words.C. a listen-repeat method is very effective for any language learner.D. Dr. Katie Overy and Dr. Ludke disagree with each other.31. In which situation can the finding of the research be applied?A. A mother is going to teach her baby how to speak.B. A child is going to have his first music lesson.C. A student is going to learn a new English song.D. An American is going to learn some Chinese.DA quick look at the lengths of children's index and ring fingers can be used to predict how well students will perform in education tests, new research claims.Kids with longer ring fingers compared to index fingers are likely to have higher math scores than literacy or oral scores on the college entrance exam, while children with the reverse finger-length are likely to have higher reading and writing, ororal, scores versus math scores.Scientists have known that different levels of the hormones testosterone (雄性激素) and estrogen (雌性激素) account for the different finger lengths, which area reflection of areas of the brain that are more highly developed than others, said psychologist Mark Brosnan of the University of Bath, who led the study.Exposure to testosterone is said to promote development of areas of the brain often associated with mathematical skills, he said. That hormone makes the ring finger longer. Estrogen exposure does the same for areas of the brain associated with oral ability and tends to lengthen the index finger relative to the ring finger.To test the link to children's scores on the College Board's Scholastic Assessment Test, Brosnan and his colleagues made photocopies of children's palms and measured the length of their index and ring fingers. They used the finger-length rates as a standard for the levels of testosterone and estrogen exposure.The researchers then looked at boys' and girls' test performances separately and compared them to finger-length rate measurements. They found a clear link between high testosterone exposure, indicated by the longer index finger compared to the ring finger, and higher scores on the math SAT.Similarly, they found higher literacy SAT scores for the girls among those who had lower testosterone exposure, as indicated by a shorter ring finger compared with the index finger.32. It’s likely that if a Chinese child with a longer index finger than his ring finger, he will probably get good marks in ______.A. mathB. physicsC. chemistryD. Chinese33. The underlined word “reverse” in Paragraph Two probably means_______.A. similarB. oppositeC. indifferentD.strange34. What can make your index finger longer than your ring finger according to the research?A. Estrogen.B. Testosterone.C. Vitamin.D. Vegetables.35. Which of the following statements is NOT correct in the passage?A. A child with a longer index finger than his ring finger will fail in the math exam.B. Girls with shorter ring fingers may get higher literacy SAT scores.C. Kids with longer ring fingers are likely to have higher math scores.D. The length of the finger has something to do with hormones.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10 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。