高一下第一次英语月考试卷

青铜峡市一中高一年级下学期第一次月考英语试卷（2月）出卷人：赵芳第一部分：听力（每小题1.5分，共20小题，满分30分）请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。

1.What is Linda probably going to do tonight?A. Go out alone.B. Look after William.C. Go out with William.2. How many students took the exam?A. 25.B. 40.C. 503. What is the woman going to do tomorrow?A. Go to a concert.B. Have an exam.C. Join a party.4. What does the woman mean?A. She doesn’t like skating.B. She is in bad health.C. She will go skating later.5. What do they mean?A. They enjoyed themselves.B. The party is funny.C. Their friends are funny.请听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. What did the man do yesterday?A. Enjoyed himself at Uncle’s.B. Listened to a lecture.C. Learned some classic music.7. What is the lecture mainly about?A. A famous musician from Japan.B. Classic music and popular music.C. The different kinds of music in Japan.8. What do the students think of the lecture?A. It’s practical.B. It’s wonderful.C. It’s boring.请听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What room does the man need?A. A single room.B. A double room.C. A three-person room.10. How much will the man spend on living?A. $400.B. $800.C. $1200.11. What will the man do before he lives in the room?A. Have breakfast.B. Fill in a form.C. Clean the room.请听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Where does the conversation take place?A. At the man’s home.B. At the woman’s home.C. In the classroom.13. Why does the man refuse to climb the mountain?A. Because it’s cold here.B. Because his knees hurt.C. Because he has been there.14. Where are they probably going at last?A. To a seaside.B. To a library.C. To a museum.请听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What is the man’s daughter’s interest?A. Painting.B. Science.C. Music.16. What book does the man buy?A. A book about Van Gogh.B. A book about Madame Curie.C. A book about Beethoven.17. How much does the book cost?A. $3.B. $7.C. $10.请听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. How much time can they have their breakfast tomorrow?A. About three hours.B. One hour at most.C. About half an hour.19. Where would they get on the bus?A. At the bus station.B. Behind the hotel.C. Behind the restaurant.20. What must the listeners remember to bring tomorrow?A. Food.B. Sunglasses.C. A jacket.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题，每题2分，共30分）AIt doesn’t matter when and how much a person sleeps , but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That’s what all doctors thought , until they heard about Herpin. Herpin, it was said , never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw him sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.21. The main idea of this passage is that_____rge numbers of people do not need sleepB. a person was found who actually didn’t need any sleepC.everyone needs some sleep to stay aliveD.people can live longer by trying not to sleep22. The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting_____A.to cure him of his sleeplessnessB.to find that his sleeplessness was not really trueC.to find out why some old people did not need any sleepD.to find a way to free people from the need of sleeping23. After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Herpin_____A.needed some kind of sleepB. was too old to need any sleepC.needed no sleep at allD. often sleep in a chair24. One reason that might ex plain Herpin’s sleeplessness was _____A.his mother’s injury before he was bornB.that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habitC.his magnificent physical conditionD.that he hadn’t got a bedBWhen it comes to learning a foreign language, many people wonder if they will be able to memorize enough vocabulary. But this question never happens about their mother tongue, and yet, it was a foreign language once. However, among all the questions that new parents ask, no doctor has ever heard: “Will my baby be able to learn my language?” Be honest. Do you know all the words of your mother tongue? The answer is: “no”.New words, and new ways of using old words, appear every day. Twenty years ago, who would have been able to understand a sentence like this: “Click here to download your digital book”? Nobody. You never stop learning new vocabulary and you never know how long you will need it.Sometimes, you have the word on the tip of your tongue ... and it sticks there! But you do know this phenomenon (现象) and don’t think that it is because of a bad memory. You should not give this phenomenon more importance in the language you are learning than in your mother tongue.You need to learn only 2,000 or so basic words to be able to create any phrase you need. You can’t avoid (避开) some work in order to learn these necessary words and all the more if you want to learn quickly. And before you consider buying into any method, be sure it is right for you. It is not wise to depend on any method based upon memotechnics (记忆术). The first words seem very easy to learn; so, you buy the course; but then you discover quickly, though too late, that a dozen words later, it is all the more difficult to learn a new word when you have also to learn the trick to memorize it. 25. From the first paragraph, we know that ______.A. there is no need to know all the words of a foreign languageB. it is honest to answer “no” to a question you don’t knowC. a baby can know all the new words of its mother tongueD. people find it hard to memorize vocabulary of their language26. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 probably means ______.A. you have no courage to speak the wordB. you just fail to remember the wordC. you are not sure of the wordD. you daren’t open your mouth to speak the word27. To learn a foreign language, the author advises you ______.A. to remember new words according to memotechnicsB. to keep up with new ways of using old wordsC. to learn at least 2,000 necessary wordsD. to pay more attention to your bad memory28. The passage is mainly about ______.A. using old words in a new wayB. learning new words from the contextC. finding a method to memorize vocabularyD. learning vocabulary of a foreign languageCCan we give a hand to those endangered animals? Yes, we may only do a little bit, but together our small actions add up to a lot.1. Protect wildlife habitat.Perhaps the greatest threat that faces many species is the widespread destruction of habitat. Cutting down forests, farming, and development all result in loss of wildlife habitat. In areas where rare species live, habitat destruction can quickly force a species to extinction. By protecting habitat, entire communities of animals can be protected together naturally. Parks and reserves are now all too often the only habitats that are left untouched by habitat destruction.2. Reduce the threat of invasive (入侵的) species.The spread of non-native species has greatly reduced native populations around the world. Invasive species compete with native species for resources (资源) and habitat. They can even prey on native species directly, forcing native species towards extinction.3. Place decals (贴花纸) on windows.It is reported that as many as one billion birds in the United States die each year because of collisions (碰撞) with windows. You can help reduce the number of collisions simply by placing decals on the windows in your home and office.4. Slow down when driving.Many native animals have to live in developed areas and this means they must move in human-living areas. One of the biggest obstacles (障碍) to them is that created by roads. Roads divide habitat and present a constant risk to any animal attempting to cross from one side to the other. So when you’re out and about, slow down and keep an eye out for wildlife.29. What would be the best title for this passage?A. How animals go to extinctionB. The importance of protecting wildlifeC. What to do to help save wildlifeD. How to protect wildlife habitat30. By writing the underlined sentence, the writer means that _____.A. more parks and reserves should be builtB. we should have more habitats free of destructionC. there is a need for improvement in parks and reservesD. parks and reserves are good examples of protecting wildlife31. People are advised to put decals on windows to _____.A. decorate the houses and beautify the environmentB. protect the windows from birds hittingC. attract more birds to make homes nearbyD. avoid birds hitting the windows by mistake32. The underlined phrase “prey on” in the passage means _____.A. drive awayB. live withC. kill for foodD. fight withDLight travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. In one second, light travels about 300,000 km, but sound travels only 344m. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke come from his gun before the sound reaches your ears. This great speed of light produces (产生) some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays（光线）left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light which you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km per minute. In some cases（在某种情况下）the light from one of tonight’s stars started on its journey to you before you were born.Thus, if we want to be honest, we cannot say “The stars are shinning tonight.” We have to say, “The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago but their light has only just reached Earth.”33. If you stand 200 meters away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that _____.A. you can hear the gun before you see the smoke.B. sound does not travel as fast as light.C. the sound of the gun will reach you before the man fires his gun.D. sound travels about a million times faster than light.34. .Sunlight clearly _____ than the light of the moon.A. has to travel a greater distanceB. moves less quicklyC. travels much more quicklyD. is less powerful35. The scientific way of saying “ The stars are shining tonight” should be________.A. the stars have been shining all the time.B. the stars seen tonight will be shining four years later.C.the stars were shining long ago but are seen tonight.D.the starlight seen today could be seen four years ago.第二节：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。