四川省绵阳中学高三英语补习班第一次月考

绵阳中学2010届高三补习班第一次月考
英语试题
第I卷
第一部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分50分）
第一节语法和词汇知识（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. They were walking along the shore _______ a huge wave appeared out of nowhere, sweeping
them out to see.
A. as
B. while
C. when
D. though
2．—Why didn’t you try your best to get on the bus?
—I tried to , but _______ I could, it started moving.
A．before B．when C．until D．after
3. It’s already 10 o’clock. I wonder how it_______ that she was two hours late on such a short trip.
A. came over
B. came about
C. came out
D. came up
4. Every possible means ______to prevent the air pollution, but the sky is still not clear.
A. is used
B. are used
C. have been used
D. has been used
5. News reports say peace talks between the two countries have broken down ______ no agreement
reached.
A. with
B. as
C. because
D. like
6. You have made a mistake --- you have _______ the letter e.
A. left aside
B. left alone
C. left out
D. left behind
7. Why don’t you just your own business and leave me alone?
A. make
B. open
C. consider
D. mind
8. --- Would you like to join us?
--- Sorry, I'm not _______as any of you.
A. so good a player
B. a player so good
C. a so good player
D. so a good player
9. _______ boys and girls in that school are almost equal.
A. A number of
B. The numbers of
C. Numbers of
D. The number of
10. Most birds find it safe to sleep in the trees, but _______they have eggs or young chicks, they
don’t use a nest.
A. why
B. how
C. unless
D. where
11. ---She isn't a dancing teacher, is she?
---_______.
A. No, but she was.
B. Yes, she isn't
C. Yes, she wasn't
D. No, she is
12. The country life he was used to _______greatly since 1992.
A. change
B. has changed
C. changing
D. have changed
13.He______ on the grass, looking at the clouds in the sky.
A. is laying
B. has laid
C. was lying
D. has lied
14. ---I want to apologize for us all.
---_______ .
A. Don't think more about it
B. It's very kind of you to say that
C. Thank you very much
D. It doesn't matter
15. That bicycle doesn't _______to Peter.
A. owe
B. afford D .lend D. belong
16. The United States _______one of the lowest smoking rates －25.5 percent of the population.
A. is
B. have
C. has
D. are
17. -- Have you moved into the new house?
-- Not yet. The rooms _______.
A. are painting
B. are being painted
C. are painted
D. are being painting
18. _______, and the problem will be straightened out.
A. There being a little effort
B. Having a little effort
C. If you have a bit more effort
D. A bit more effort
19. We’ll arrive in_______ European country in half ___________ hour.
A. a; an
B. an; an
C. a; a
D. an; a
20. The news came as no surprise to me, for I _______of it earlier.
A. hear
B. heard
C. had heard
D. have heard
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My son Joey was born with club（畸形）feet. The doctors told us that with treatment he would be able to walk 21 —but would never run very well. The first three years of his 22 were spent in surgery. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw him 23 .
The children in our 24 ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be 25 to run as well as the other children .So he didn’t know.
In seventh grade he 26 to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran 27 than any of the others —perhaps he 28 that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come 29 to him. Although the entire team runs, only the 30 seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
He 31 to run four to five miles a day, every day —even the day he had a fever. I was
32 , so I went to look for him after school. I found him running alone. I asked him how he felt. “33 ”, he said. He had two more miles to go. The 34 ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. 35 he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he 36 run four miles wit h a fever. So he didn’t know.
Two weeks later, the 37 of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade—the 38 six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn’t 39 to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it. We never told him he couldn’t do all those things. So he didn’t know. He40 did it.
21. A. silently B. usually C. particularly D. normally
22. A. school B. life C. illness D. time
23. A. play B. laugh C. walk D. talk
24. A. neighbourhood B. city C. family D. childhood
25. A. pleased B. forced C. able D. willing
26. A. refused B. decided C. remembered D. hesitated
27. A. faster B. sooner C. less D. more
28. A. sensed B. understood C. learned D. proved
29. A. certainly B. actually C. naturally D. possibly
30. A. oldest B. earliest C. first D. top
31. A. continued B. had C. wanted D. stopped
32. A. upset B. angry C. worried D. disappointed
33. A. Sorry B. Okay C. Right D. Absolutely
34. A. tears B. heat C. sweat D. rain
35. A. Thus B. Then C. So D. Yet
36. A. couldn’t B. wouldn’t C. mustn’t D. needn’t
37. A. parents B. names C. teachers D. members
38. A. next B. last C. other D. remaining
39. A. expect B. wish C. fail D. want
40. A. seldom B. just C. always D. never
第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)
第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
A
Here are a few tips we’ve put together to help you learn English well .
Speak , speak , speak !
Practise speaking as often as you can —even speaking to yourself is good practice .
Try recording yourself whenever you can . Compare your pronunciation with the master version （版本）, see how you can do better and have another go . If you do this several times , you will find that each version is better than the last .
Why not learn with someone else ?
It helps if you can learn with someone else . If you can persuade a friend or family member to study with you , it will make you keep working .
Don’t get stuck by a word you don’t know .
Practise improvising （即兴的）ways of getting your meaning across when speaking spontaneously （本能地）, even if you don’t know the exact words or phrases . Think of things you might want to say whenever you have spare time . Use facial expressions , hand movements , anything to get your meaning across .
Language learning is also about intuition （直觉）.
Guesswork is an important way to learn a new language . When listening to recorded material , you aren’t expected to understand everything first time round . If you play the same piece se veral times , you will most probably understand something new each time .
Build up your vocabulary .
A wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning but don’t try to learn too much at once. It’s best to study frequently , for short periods of time . Take at most six or seven items of vocabulary and learn them .Put them into sentences to fix them in your mind , then come back to them later .
And above all , have fun !
41. Why should one have himself recorded when practicing speaking ?
A．To improve his speaking . B．To record his own progress .
C．To encourage others to start . D．To compare himself with others .
42. In the writer’s opinion, which of the following is the most important in learning English ?
A．Speaking. B．Pleasure . C．Intuition . D．V ocabulary .
43. It is implied in the passage that is helpful when you are learning English .
A．body language B．a good material
C．a good friend D．a proper dictionary
44.According to the passage , one should when learning English .
A. always work with other people
B. be able to guess everything new
C. often review what he has learnt
D. take little notice of grammar
B
A new study says the world needs four million more health workers to improve public health. Southern Africa alone needs an estimated（估计）one million more health workers just to meet the Millennium Development Goals. These United Nations goals aim to improve health by two thousand fifteen.
The study is by a group of health and development organizations called the Joint Learning Initiative. The Lancet in Britain published the results.
The researchers estimate that more than one hundred million people work in health care worldwide. But the study says only about one-fourth of these people are trained as doctors, nurses or midwives. The others are believed to be traditional, community or other kinds of health workers.
The study examines the way skilled professionals are spread throughout the world. For example, it says sub-Saharan Africa has one-tenth as many nurses and doctors for its population as Europe has. Italy has fifty times as many as Ethiopia has.
The study blames several things. First is the AIDS crisis. Health workers face more work and the danger of infection. The study says many no longer act as healers but as providers of care for the dying.
Second is the so-called "brain drain" of skilled workers from poor nations to countries that can pay them more. And third is a lack of enough investment in health workers in many countries.
But the study says official development assistance is finally increasing after ten years. Currently, about four thousand million dollars a year in foreign aid for health is spent on human resources, such as pay and training. The researchers say foreign aid providers must work together to better organize their investments. They say ten percent, or four hundred million dollars, should go toward workforce development.
The study also suggests better use of resources such as paraprofessionals. These are people trained to do much of the work of doctors, including some operations. But they are not doctors, so there is less chance they might leave for wealthier countries that need doctors.
Lincoln Chen at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, helped write this call for action. What we do or fail to do today, he says, will shape the direction of world health in the twenty-first century.
45. From the report is most likely to make the results of the new study known to the public.
A. the Joint Learning Initiative
B. the health and development organizations
C. the Lancet
D. the Millennium Development Goals
46. The researchers estimate that the world now in need of about health workers.
A. more than 104 million
B. more than 100 million
C. 5 million
D. 4 million
47. It can be inferred from the report that .
A. many health workers are not afraid of the danger of infection
B. some skilled health workers no longer work in their poor countries
C. health workers act as healers instead of attending the dying
D. in many countries most of the money invested in health workers
48. According to the report, which of the following statements is true？
A. Only about a quarter of the health workers are doctors
B. The researchers believe most of the money from foreign aid must go toward workforce
development
C. The study suggests more doctors should be trained
D. The Millennium Development Goals aim to improve public health by the year 2015
C
In the 1960s , medical researchers Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed a checklist of stressful (有压力的) events . They found out that any major change can be stressful . Negative events like “serious illness of a family member” were high on the list, but so were some positive life-changing events, like marriage. When you take the Holmes-Rahe test you must remember that the score does not show how you deal with stress—it only shows how much you have to deal with . And we now know that the way you deal with these events has a great effect on your chances of staying healthy.
By the early 1970s, hundreds of similar studies had followed Holmes and Rahe. And millions of Americans who work and live under stress worried over the reports. Somehow, the research got boiled down to a memorable message. Women’s magazines ran headlines like “Stress causes illness! “If you want t o stay physically and mentally healthy the articles said, avoid stressful events. But such simplistic advice is impossible to follow. Even if stressful events are dangerous , many—like the death of a loved one—are impossible to avoid . Moreover , any warning to avoid all stressful events is a prescription （处方）for staying away from opportunities as well as trouble . Since any change can be stressful, a person who wanted to be completely free of stress would never marry, have a child, take a new job or move.
The idea that all stress makes you sick also takes no notice of what we know about people. It is supposed that we’re all weak and passive in the face of difficulty. But many come through periods of stress with more physical and mental strength than they had before. We also know that a long time
without change or challenge can lead to boredom, and physical and mental damage.
49. The result of Holmes-Rahe’s medical research tells us.
A．the way of dealing with major events may cause stress
B．what should be done to avoid stress
C．what kind of event would cause stress
D．how to deal with sudden changes in life
50. The studies on stress in the early 1970’s led to .
A．widespread worry over its harmful effects
B．great fear about the mental problems it could cause
C．a deep research into illnesses connected with stress
D．popular avoidance of stressful jobs
51.According to the passage people who have experienced ups and downs may become .
A．discouraged when faced with difficulty
B．physically and mentally weak
C．more experienced in the face of difficulty
D．uninterested in what happens to them
52. What’s the purpose of writing the text ?
A．To tell people the discoveries about stress .
B．To tell people how to keep healthy.
C．To help people avoid stressful events.
D．To help people view stress properly.
D
The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue. The time was about ten an night, but freezing wind with a taste of rain had almost emptied the streets. Trying doors as he went, swinging his club with many clever movements, he turned now and then to set his watchful eye down the peaceful street. When about midway of a certain block, he suddenly slowed his walk. In the doorway of a closed store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth. As the policeman walked up to him, the man spoke up quickly.
“It’s all right, officer,” he said, confidently. “I’m just waiting for a friend. It’s an appointment made twenty y ears ago. Sounds a little funny to you, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll explain. About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands—‘Big Joe’ Brady’s restaurant.”
“Until five years ago,” said the policeman. “It was torn down then.”
The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar.
“I came a thousand miles to stand in this door tonight, and it’s worth,” said the man, “Twenty years ago tonight, I dined here at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s with Jimmy Wells, my best friend. He and I were brought up here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. You couldn’t have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to
have our fortunes made, whate ver they were going to be.”
“It sounds pretty interesting,” said the policeman.
53. At the beginning of the story, the policeman was “on the beat”. He was most probably ______.
A. walking down the street on duty
B. swinging his club following a beat
C. on the point of beating a wrong doers
D. experiencing a fast heart-beating
54. The writer’s description about the weather at the beginning of the story is meant_________.
A. to sing the praises of the greatness of friendship
B. to create an atmosphere for the coming appointment
C. to praise the officer for his willing awareness of his duty
D. to inform us of the situations about the appointment made 20 years ago
55. Which of the following can NOT be a reasonable guess?
A. Jimmy may have come to the appointment as he had promised.
B. The man from the west might have made a lot of fortunes.
C. The man may have been to “Big Joe” several times in the past 20 years.
D. The officer might be Jimmy Wells himself.
E
The Golden Egg
“I don’t want to write a story about girls! I don’t know anything about girls, ” Louisa May Alcott told her publisher, Mr. Niles. But she was desperate for money. She seemed to be the only one in her family who could make any money. Niles had asked her to write about something she knew, instead of the romantic adventure stories she had been writing. “So I plod away,” Alcott wrote, “though I don’t enjoy this sort of thing.” It was 1867, and the horrible Civil War was over. Now Alcott could turn her energy to making money.
Alcott wrote a simple story of life in her family, their pillow fights on Saturday nights and the amateur(业余的)plays they performed. “Our experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it.” (“Good joke,” she wrote years later.) Her book described her days growing up with fou r sisters in a family that had no money. She sketched a loving mother who took time to be interested in each child, and she told of the death of a beloved sister. She portrayed her family and friends in her book Little Women. Finally, in July of 1868, she finished writing. With a sigh and a headache, she sent off all 102 handwritten pages of her book.
Niles thought the book was dull, and so did Alcott. But when she received her copies of the book, Alcott thought it seemed better than expected. “Not a bit sensational,” she wrote, “but simple and true. We really lived most of it.” Niles asked some girls to read Little Women, and they loved it. If the girls liked it, Alcott was satisfied.
In three months, all the copies of Little Women had sold. It was already time to print more books! Niles thought he could sell three or four hundred more copies. “An honest publisher and a lucky author made a dull book into a golden egg for an ugly duckling,” Alcott wrote in 1885. Later, with a great sigh of relief, she was ab le to write, “Paid off all the debts! Now I feel that I could die in peace. If my head holds out, I’ll do all I once hoped to do.”
56. Which of the following would be used to describe Alcott’s book?
A. funny
B. boring
C. magic
D. skillful
57. In which order did the following happen?
A. a, b, e, d, c
B. d, c, a, b, e
C. c, b, e, d, a
D. d, c, e, b, a
a. Alcott began writing Little Women
b. Niles asked Alcott to write about girls
c. Alcott wrote romantic adventure stories
d. Alcott performed plays with her sisters
e. Niles was not pleased with Alcott’s work.
58. When she handed her first writing in, Alcott was ________.
A. sure of her success
B. happy about her work
C. unsatisfied with the work
D. unpleased with the publisher
59. Alcott took up writing as a job due largely to ______.
A. love
B. poverty
C. interest
D. encouragement
60. We learn from the story that, after Little Women sold out, ____.
A. Alcott wrote another book
B. some girls started to read the book
C. Alcott paid off all her bills
D. Niles published hundreds of books girls liked
第二节根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最最佳选项，并将答案标号填写在本题下面相应题号后的横线上。

选项中有两项多余选项。

（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
* 将答案写在答卷上。

Albert(A) and Syre(S), husband and wife, are talking about the coming Christmas.
A: Honey what would you say if we have a Christmas party at home this year?
S: 66 Where could you have it? The house is rather small.
A: 67 We could put food on the dinning-room table.
S: Then 68
A: Let me see,...the Turners, the Manders, and a few boys, and some girls from my office. We
may have music or...
S: 69
A: That’s plenty of time. We’ll get some invitations ready and sent out soon. We’ll call to get a small Christmas tree..., and 70
S: You mean YOU fix food?
A: Well, I can do some easy things. Maybe I can do some shopping..., or, at least, wash dishes.
第II卷（非选择题，共50分）
阅读理解第二节：(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
61._________ 62._________ 63._________ 64._________ 65._________
第三部分写作（共两节，满分50分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。

对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

English is a language speaking all around the world. For more 66. __________
than 375 million people in country such as England and America. 67.__________
English is their mother tongue. Other 375 million people 68.__________
learn English as the second language. However, most people 69.__________
learning English at school as a foreign language. The English 70.__________
language has also used by most international organizations as 71. __________
their working language, as well as in international 72. __________
trade but tourism. Most foreigners visiting China are either 73.__________ businessmen or tourists. If they cannot speak in Chinese, 74.__________
they use English to communicate Chinese people. 75. __________
第二节书面表达(满分35分)
假设你是李华，你的澳大利亚朋友Dick听说中国的中小学正在减轻学生的学习负担，来信询问有关情况。

请你根据下表提供的信息，写一封回信，谈一谈减负给你的学习和生活带来的变化。

注意: 1. 词数: 100左右;
2. 开头已为你写好。

生词：减轻学生负担– reduce learning load
Dear Dick
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英语试题答案
选择题答案：
1～20 CABDA CDABC ABCAD CBDAC
21～40: DBCAC BDACD ACBCD ABCAB
41～60 ABAC CABD CACD ABC ADCBC
61 ～65 FDAGC
非选择题答案：
第一节66.speaking改为spoken, 67. Country改为countries, 68. Other改为Another
69. the改为a, 70. learning改为learn，71. has改为is, 72. 正确
73. but改为and 74. 去掉in 75. 在communicate后加with
第二节One possible version:
Dear Dick,
How nice to hear from you again. You want to know what is going on in schools in China. In short, things have begun to improve since schools were called on to reduce learning load. I don't know about others, but I used to have to work even at weekends doing endless homework and attending classes as well. Now I have more free time. I can follow my own interests such as reading books, visiting museums, and taking computer lessons. In the evenings I can watch news on TV or read newspapers. What’s more, I can go to bed earlier. As far as I know, everyone is happy about this new arrangement of things.
Best wishes,
Li Hua。