高中英语真题:学2017-2018学年高一英语12月月考试题

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学2017-2018学年高一英语12月月考试题
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分听力(共两节,满分30分)
做题时,先将答案划在试卷上,录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答案卡上。

例:How much is the shirt?
A. £19.15
B. £9.15
C. £9.18
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。

每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1.How many brothers does the man have?
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
2.Why can’t the man return his camera?
A. It is broken
B. It was bought on sale
C. It was bought over a week ago
3.Where does the conversation take place?
A. At a store
B. In a classroom
C. At a bus stop
4.What does the woman mean?
A. The sweater was washed wrongly
B. The water was too hot to drink
C. The toy bear is too small
5.What are the speakers talking about?
A. What present to buy
B. Which dress to wear
C. When to attend the party
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。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料,回答第6、7题。

6.Where are the speakers?
A. At home
B. At a restaurant
C. At a sports center
7.When does the man begin his work?
A. In the morning
B. In the afternoon
C. At night
听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。

8.What will the woman do next month?
A. Visit the man
B. Make a business trip
C. Do shopping in Mexico City
9.Where can the woman see amazing paintings?
A. At outdoor markets
B. At the Palace of Fine Arts
C. At the Museum of Modem Art
听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。

10.What did the woman get yesterday?
A. The key to her apartment
B. A copy of the house rules
C. A parking space for her motorbike
11.Where did the woman used to park her motorbike?
A. At the entrance to her apartment building
B. On the street beside her apartment building
C. On the sidewalk in front of her apartment building
12.What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Take a bus to work
B. Attend the next house owner’s meeting
C. Have a talk with the apartment manager
听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。

13.What was the woman doing when she met a group of guys ?
A. She was walking on the road
B. She was looking at the bus schedule
C. She was getting aboard a bus
14.What language did the guys speak to the woman?
A. French
B. German
C. English
15.How did the woman feel when she first met the guys?
A. Thankful
B. Strange
C. Confused
16.What did the woman lose?
A. Her wallet
B. Her airline ticket
C. Her passport
听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。

17.Where did the old lady stay for ten days?
A. In the bedroom
B. In the kitchen
C. In the bathroom
18.Who found the old lady first?
A. Her neighbor
B. The firefighters
C. Her son
19.Where did the young woman behave strangely?
A. At an airport
B. At a police station
C. At a wildlife center
20.What was in the young woman’s large bag?
A. A baby tiger
B. A baby dog
C. A baby cat
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,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A
John Michael Thomas, 14, Florida
When John Michael Thomas decided to honor his friend and c lassmate Elizabeth Buckley, who died from cancer, her reme mbered how much she loved peacocks(孔雀).
He wanted to build a life-
sized peacock fountain in Elizabeth’s favorite park in the city. He thought it could be a place for people to relax and be inspi red.
John Michael raised $52,000 to build the fountain. Barrett England, 13, Utah
The wheels began to turn for Barrett England when he heard about Karma Bike shop, a place where young people can ear n free bike by reading and performing community service. Barrett visited Karma’s owner with his idea: He would collect and repair used bikes and donate them to the shop.
He expected to get about 10 donated bikes. In the end, Barret t received 39.
Zachary Blohm, 15, Wisconsin
The 25-year-
old playground at an elementary school near Milwaukee, Wis. , was so small that only 70 of its 575 students could play on it at a time.
That’s when Zachary Blohm saved the day. He and some vol unteers build a huge playground. To raise money, Zac planne d T-
shirt and bake sales, sold tickets and more. He held monthly
money-
raising events for more than a year. Overall, he collected $13 0,000--enough to finish his project.
Jack Zimmerman, 16, New Jersey
For some people, finding a meal is as simple as opening the r efrigerator. For more than 366,000 hungry kids in New Jersey , it’s not that easy.
That fact didn’t sit well with Jack Zimmerman, who organized a drive to lessen childhood hunger in his state. His goal: creat e 40,000 packaged meals that could be donated to those in n eed.
On game day, Jack and his volunteers started their work. Afte r the final count, the team had packaged 47,124 meals--
well above Jack’s goal.
21. The peacock fountain was built in a park .
A. to encourage people
B. for the love of animals
C. in memory of a teenager
D. to cure a cancer sufferer
22. What did Barrett do for Karma Bike Shop?
A. He donated bikes to it
B. He repaired bikes there
C. He helped it win customers
D. He offered a reading service there
23. Who improved a place for children to play?
A. Jack
B. John
C. Barrett
D. Zachary
24. What do the four people have in common?
A. They’re top students
B. They care about others
C. They like various public activities
D. They’re money raisers for the poor
B
There are so many expressions in American English that sou nd pleasant but are not. “Face the music” is a good example. Imagine a friend asks you to take care of her beautiful red spo rts car. She gives you the key and says, “Thanks so much for watching my car while I’m away. But please, do not drive it. It i s an extremely fast car.” But you do not listen. You want to sh ow off and pretend the car is yours. So, you drive it around th e town. As a result, you lose control of the car and drive it into a stop sign. The damage is serious. When your friend returns , you must tell her what you have done and “face the music.”That could mean losing her friendship or paying for repairs to
her sports car or both. Whatever the music is, you must face it .
The expression is more than 150 years old. In 1851, the writer James Fenimore Cooper explained “face the music” as theatr ical term. In a theater, the orchestra(管弦乐
队) often sits in the front of the stage facing the musicians. Ma ny actors are very nervous, a condition called stage fright. “Fa ce the music” came to mean accepting stage fright and not gi ving in to it.
Word experts also say “face the music” may have come from t he military. A soldier who did something terrible could be forc ed out of the army. When that happened, the army drummers would play slow, sad beat. The soldier would be led away sea ted backward on a horse and facing the music of the drums. There are other American expressions that mean the same thi ng as “face the music.” If someone says, “You made your bed . Now lie in it,” they mean you created a bad situation and no w you will experience the result.
25. What does the underlined part “the music” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The unpleasant music
B. The beautiful red sports car
C. The music played by the orchestra
D. The bad result of your actions
26. Which of the following is an example of “face the music”?
A. You have held a concert successfully
B. You will buy the sports car you like best
C. Your friend invites you to attend a live concert
D. You have to go home with your bad exam results
27. What is most likely to be discussed following the last para graph?
A. The origin of “You made your bed. Now lie in it.”
B. Some other expressions similar to “face the music.”
C. The true meaning of “You made your bed. Now lie in it.”
D. Other examples to explain the meaning of “face the music.”C
One night, Pilar was in a deep sleep when she was woken by her cat Inti. Inti was meowing wildly outside Pilar’s bedroom a nd throwing himself against the closed bedroom door. When Pilar opened her eyes, she saw that her bedroom was filled wi th smoke. As she escaped her house with Inti in her arms, sh e saw that a fire was burning in her kitchen. Pilar could easily
have lost her life, but Inti would not let that happen. Even thou gh Inti could have escaped the house through a cat door, he wouldn’t leave Pilar.
As amazing as this story is, it is not as uncommon as you ma y think. Take the example of Charlotte Lee and her horse, Th under. One summer night, the whole family was asleep with t he windows open. It was normally very quiet where they lived. Suddenly, there was a loud noise. Charlotte woke up from he r sweet dream, and the noise continued. Then she heard a ho rse running fast towards the house. The next thing she saw w as Thunder standing outside her window, neighing(嘶
叫) and shaking his head. She knew something was wrong. C harlotte quickly got everyone out of the house before the eart hquake hit. Thunder has saved her life.
There are also stories of wild animals coming to the rescue of humans. One animal known to be a friend of humans is the d olphin. Once, Todd Endris was surfing with his friends when h e was attacked by a 13-foot(4-
meter) shark. In the middle of the attack, a group of dolphins c ame to his rescue by forming a protective ring around Endris until he could get safely to shore. Without the help of the dolp
hins, there is little chance that Todd could have escaped.
No one is sure why animals have so often come to our rescue . However, it is clear that humans and animals enjoy a close r elationship. It is important that we care for them as much as w
e can.
28. Why did Inti throw himself against the door?
A. He was trying to wake up his owner
B. He wanted to get out of the room
C. He felt bored and was playing by himself
D. He couldn’t find the way out because of smoke
29. Before the earthquake hit, Charlotte .
A. closed the windows
B. was sleeping deeply
C. ran to warn her neighbors
D. got her horse out of the stable
30. Both Inti and Thunder .
A. were shy and quiet
B. used to make noise at night
C. were brave and smart
D. saved their owners several times
31. What might Todd say to those dolphins?
A. Leave me alone
B. You are real heroes
C. Why are you leaving
D. What are you doing here
D
When parents discover their children have lied to them for the first time, it can often come as a shock to find their little treas ures are capable of such a trick. But new research has sugge sted many parents may not even notice many of the lies their children tell them.
Psychologists have discovered that most parents are over-confident in their children’s honesty and this may impair their ability to discover a lie.
The findings may help to explain why some parents seem to b e willing to let their children get away with almost anything ev en in the face of the evidence. They say parents suffer from a “truth bias(偏
见)” with their own youngsters, but when faced with lies from other people’s children, they have less difficulty telling if a stat
ement is true or not.
Dr Angela Evans, a psychologist at Brock University in Canad a, said, “The close relationship that parents share with their o wn children may lead to parents failing to detect their children’s lies. Parents’ truth bias may result in parents being less sus picious of their children, allowing them to successfully cheat t hem.”
Most children are thought to start lying as early as two years o ld but start telling more believable lies at around the age of fo ur years old. Learning how to lie is considered as a key part of cognitive(认知
的) and social development in children. But many parents are shocked when their children start lying to them. In their study, Dr Evans and her colleagues filmed 108 children aged betwe en 8 and 16 as they performed a test after being asked not to look at the answers. They were then asked afterwards if they had looked, with 50 truthfully denying looking, 49 lying about l ooking and 9 admitting to looking.
Videos of those denying looking were then shown to 152 pare nts of children aged 8 to 16, 80 of whom had children who ha
d taken part in th
e test. The researchers found that the parent s were less able to spot lies told by their own children than by other peo ple’s children.
32. What does the underlined word “impair” in Paragraph 2 m ean?
A. show
B. develop
C. damage
D. recognize
33. When lying to their parents, children can’t be easily found because .
A. their parents pretend not to see the lies
B. their parents aren’t prepared for the lies
C. they are very good at hiding their lies
D. they know how to lie to their parents
34. What does Dr Evans want to find about children’s lying?
A. What makes parents lose trust in their children
B. What causes children to tell lies to their parents
C. What makes parents fail to see their children’s lies
D. What affects children’s relations with their parents
35. What can be inferred from Dr Evans’s study in the last two paragraphs?
A. Parents tend to protect their own children
B. Lying is a part of children’s development
C. Children aged 8 to 16 are very likely to tell lies
D. Parents can judge lies told by children of others more easil y
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。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

3 Tips for protecting your eyes during the winter
We usually worry about staying warm during the winter month s, and think less about protecting our eyes. 36 . Here are thr ee things you can do to protect your eyes during winter month s.
Tip 1: 37 .
During the winter, our eyes are often exposed to blowing, dry, hot air that can cause them to become dry. Here are a few tr eatments: 38 . Keep yourself away from direct heat sources while sitting. Use a humidifier(加湿器) to help reduce dryness.
Tip 2: Wear sunglasses with UV(紫外线) protection.
UV rays in the winter can harm our eyes. 39 . Wear sunglass es when you’re outside, or driving, to protect your eyes from UV rays. This is especially important as days lengthen into sp ring and the sun gets stronger.
Tip 3: Goggles(护目镜) protect in many ways.
Goggles not only protect our eyes from UV rays, but they also help keep our eyes from drying out from the winter wind. In a ddition, think about all those branches, leaves, and dirty snow that can severely injure our eyes upon contact. 40 . Don’t fo rget them!
A. Clean your eyes carefully
B. Don’t let your eyes dry out
C. Goggles protect the eyes from the wind
D. Keep eye drops at hand to wet your eyes
E. It is wise to wear quality goggles
F. In fact, they can do even more harm when they’re reflecting (反射) off snow
G. However, the winter months can be as hard on our eyes as the summer months
第三部分英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节完形填空(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A、B、C、D四个选项中,选取可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Valerie was very worried about her dad. For some time now s he had noticed he was 41 his hair. One day, she asked him, “Daddy, every day you have less hair. 42 is that?” Her father smiled and said, “It’s the hair thief. He visits my 43 during th e night when I’m asleep.
One by one he pulls out my hair, and there’s no way to 44 hi m.”
This worried Valerie, but she was 45 to help her dad. That ni ght she stayed 46 as long as she could. When she was 47 her dad and mom had fallen asleep, she took a hammer and went to their bedroom slowly and 48 . She didn’t want the ha ir thief to 49 her. When she arrived at her father’s side, she c arefully inspected her father’s head in order to catch the hair t hief as soon as he 50 . Before long, she saw a shadow on h er father’s head and she 51 it with the hammer.
Her father 52 a loud cry and got out of bed at once. He turne d the 53 on, and trembling with 54 , he saw Valerie waving her hammer in the air. “Daddy, I 55 got him. But it looks like he 56 !” said Valerie. Meanwhile, the mother 57 . She burst into 58 when she knew what had happened.
So Valerie’s father had to explain that the hair thief didn’t exist , and that losing hair is something that just happens naturally t o most fathers. Valerie still 59 about her daddy, but she no lo nger waited for the hair thief. 60 , she bought her father a ver y nice sleeping hat.
41. A. checking B. losing
C. touching
D. protecting
42. A. When B. Where
C. Why
D. What
43. A. neck B. face
C. ears
D. head
44. A. catch B. throw
C. hold
D. keep
45. A. excited B. determined
C. expected
D. allowed
46. A. awake B. asleep
C. afraid
D. alone
47. A. glad B. sorry
C. upset
D. sure
48. A. sadly B. nervously
C. loudly
D. quietly
49. A. disappoint B. know
C. hear
D. catch
50. A. appeared B. left
C. returned
D. followed
51. A. caught B. felt
C. hit
D. covered
52. A. came out B. let out
C. sent out
D. set out
53. A. radio B. television
C. computer
D. light
54. A. shock B. delight
C. care
D. hope
55. A. still B. hardly
C. nearly
D. never
56. A. stayed B. escaped
C. failed
D. moved
57. A. woke up B. showed up
C. looked out
D. turned around
58. A. shouts B. tears
C. laughter
D. cheers
59. A. knew B. thought
C. wondered
D. worried
60. A. Though B. Instead
C. Otherwise
D. Besides
第II卷
第三部分英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第二节(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Eric Liddell, 61 was famous as the flying Scotsman was the 62 (fast) runner in Scotland. But he was most remembered a s a man of honor and bravery for his 63 (devote) to the Chin ese people.
Born in 1902 in Tianjin, Eric lived in China for a long time. In 1 920, Eric went to the University of Edinburgh 64 (study) scie nce. Sports played 65 important part in his life. In 1924, he jo
ined the Britain Olympic team and won a gold medal in the 40 0-meter race.
Though known as a hero in Scotland, Eric still loved China. In 1925, he went back to China and worked 66 a middle school teacher in Tianjin. When the Japanese invaded China, Eric c hose to stay, 67 (hope) to help the sick and give hope to the Chinese people. In 1943, he 68 (send) to a prison camp in Weifang by the Japanese, where he fell seriously ill two years later. He was given a chance to leave the camp, 69 he gave this chance to a woman with a newly-
born baby. This 70 (self) man died six months before the en d of the war.
第四部分写作(共两节,满分35分)
第一节短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文,文中共有10处错误,每句中最多有两处。

错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的
词。

注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

In the past, when batteries(电
池) run out, I would just put them in the garbage bag. Last we ek, I learned from a magazine that one battery could possible pollute 16 thousand liters of water. It is shocked that a battery can be so a heavy pollutant. Then I came up an idea. I decide d to change one of my shoe box into a battery recycling box. Then I put a box in front of our apartment building. To my deli ght, they filled up in a couple of days. Then I called the recycli ng center to collected the batteries. The staff spoke highly of t hat what I did.
第二节书面表达(25分)
假设你是李华,目前在新西兰做交换生
(an exchange student)。

不久前,你在当地旅行社
(travel agency)预定了“澳大利亚八日游(a 8-
day holiday to Australia)”,但因故需要取消(cancel)出游计划。

请你给该旅行社负责人写一封邮件,内容包括:
1.说明情况;
2.表示歉意;
3.询问是否能退回订金(deposit)。

注意:1.字数100左右(开头和结尾已给出,但不计入总词数);
2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

学2017-2018学年高一英语12月月考试题
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分听力(共两节,满分30分)
做题时,先将答案划在试卷上,录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答案卡上。

例:How much is the shirt?
A. £19.15
B. £9.15
C. £9.18
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。

每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1.How many brothers does the man have?
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
2.Why can’t the man return his camera?
A. It is broken
B. It was bought on sale
C. It was bought over a week ago
3.Where does the conversation take place?
A. At a store
B. In a classroom
C. At a bus stop
4.What does the woman mean?
A. The sweater was washed wrongly
B. The water was too hot to drink
C. The toy bear is too small
5.What are the speakers talking about?
A. What present to buy
B. Which dress to wear
C. When to attend the party
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。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料,回答第6、7题。

6.Where are the speakers?
A. At home
B. At a restaurant
C. At a sports center
7.When does the man begin his work?
A. In the morning
B. In the afternoon
C. At night
听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。

8.What will the woman do next month?
A. Visit the man
B. Make a business trip
C. Do shopping in Mexico City
9.Where can the woman see amazing paintings?
A. At outdoor markets
B. At the Palace of Fine Arts
C. At the Museum of Modem Art
听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。

10.What did the woman get yesterday?
A. The key to her apartment
B. A copy of the house rules
C. A parking space for her motorbike
11.Where did the woman used to park her motorbike?
A. At the entrance to her apartment building
B. On the street beside her apartment building
C. On the sidewalk in front of her apartment building
12.What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Take a bus to work
B. Attend the next house owner’s meeting
C. Have a talk with the apartment manager
听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。

13.What was the woman doing when she met a group of guys?
A. She was walking on the road
B. She was looking at the bus schedule
C. She was getting aboard a bus
14.What language did the guys speak to the woman?
A. French
B. German
C. English
15.How did the woman feel when she first met the guys?
A. Thankful
B. Strange
C. Confused
16.What did the woman lose?
A. Her wallet
B. Her airline ticket
C. Her passport 听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。

17.Where did the old lady stay for ten days?
A. In the bedroom
B. In the kitchen
C. In the bathroom
18.Who found the old lady first?
A. Her neighbor
B. The firefighters
C. Her son
19.Where did the young woman behave strangely?
A. At an airport
B. At a police station
C. At a wildlife center
20.What was in the young woman’s large bag?
A. A baby tiger
B. A baby dog
C. A baby cat
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,选出可以填入空白处的最
佳选项。

A
John Michael Thomas, 14, Florida
When John Michael Thomas decided to honor his friend and classmate Elizabeth Buckley, w ho died from cancer, her remembered how much she loved peacocks(孔雀).
He wanted to build a life-
sized peacock fountain in Elizabeth’s favorite park in the city. He thought it could be a place f or people to relax and be inspired.
John Michael raised $52,000 to build the fountain.
Barrett England, 13, Utah
The wheels began to turn for Barrett England when he heard about Karma Bike shop, a plac e where young people can earn free bike by reading and performing community service. Barrett visited Karma’s owner with his idea: He would collect and repair used bikes and dona te them to the shop.
He expected to get about 10 donated bikes. In the end, Barrett received 39.
Zachary Blohm, 15, Wisconsin
The 25-year-
old playground at an elementary school near Milwaukee, Wis., was so small that only 70 of it s 575 students could play on it at a time.
That’s when Zachary Blohm saved the day. He and some volunteers build a huge playgroun d. To raise money, Zac planned T-
shirt and bake sales, sold tickets and more. He held monthly money-
raising events for more than a year. Overall, he collected $130,000--
enough to finish his project.
Jack Zimmerman, 16, New Jersey
For some people, finding a meal is as simple as opening the refrigerator. For more than 366, 000 hungry kids in New Jersey, it’s not that easy.
That fact didn’t sit well with Jack Zimmerman, who organized a drive to lessen childhood hun ger in his state. His goal: create 40,000 packaged meals that could be donated to those in ne ed.
On game day, Jack and his volunteers started their work. After the final count, the team had packaged 47,124 meals--well above Jack’s goal.
21. The peacock fountain was built in a park .
A. to encourage people
B. for the love of animals
C. in memory of a teenager
D. to cure a cancer sufferer
22. What did Barrett do for Karma Bike Shop?
A. He donated bikes to it
B. He repaired bikes there
C. He helped it win customers
D. He offered a reading service there
23. Who improved a place for children to play?
A. Jack
B. John
C. Barrett
D. Zachary
24. What do the four people have in common?
A. They’re top students
B. They care about others
C. They like various public activities
D. They’re money raisers for the poor
B
There are so many expressions in American English that sound pleasant but are not. “Face t he music” is a good example.
Imagine a friend asks you to take care of her beautiful red sports car. She gives you the key and says, “Thanks so much for watching my car while I’m away. But please, do not drive it. It is an extremely fast car.” But you do not listen. You want to show off and pretend the car is y ours. So, you drive it around the town. As a result, you lose control of the car and drive it into a stop sign. The damage is serious. When your friend returns, you must tell her what you hav e done and “face the music.” That could mean losing her friendship or paying for repairs to h er sports car or both. Whatever the music is, you must face it.
The expression is more than 150 years old. In 1851, the writer James Fenimore Cooper expl ained “face the music” as theatrical term. In a theater, the orchestra(管弦乐
队) often sits in the front of the stage facing the musicians. Many actors are very nervous, a c ondition called stage fright. “Face the music” came to mean accepting stage fright and not giv ing in to it.
Word experts also say “face the music” may have come from the military. A soldier who did s
omething terrible could be forced out of the army. When that happened, the army drummers would play slow, sad beat. The soldier would be led away seated backward on a horse and f acing the music of the drums.
There are other American expressions that mean the same thing as “face the music.” If some one says, “You made your bed. Now lie in it,” they mean you created a bad situation and now you will experience the result.
25. What does the underlined part “the music” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The unpleasant music
B. The beautiful red sports car
C. The music played by the orchestra
D. The bad result of your actions
26. Which of the following is an example of “face the music”?
A. You have held a concert successfully
B. You will buy the sports car you like best
C. Your friend invites you to attend a live concert
D. You have to go home with your bad exam results
27. What is most likely to be discussed following the last paragraph?
A. The origin of “You made your bed. Now lie in it.”
B. Some other expressions similar to “face the music.”
C. The true meaning of “You made your bed. Now lie in it.”
D. Other examples to explain the meaning of “face the music.”
C
One night, Pilar was in a deep sleep when she was woken by her cat Inti. Inti was meowing wildly outside Pilar’s bedroom and throwing himself against the closed bedroom door. When Pilar opened her eyes, she saw that her bedroom was filled with smoke. As she escaped her house with Inti in her arms, she saw that a fire was burning in her kitchen. Pilar could easily h ave lost her life, but Inti would not let that happen. Even though Inti could have escaped the h ouse through a cat door, he wouldn’t leave Pilar.
As amazing as this story is, it is not as uncommon as you may think. Take the example of Ch。

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