2021年广东第二师范学院番禺附属中学高三英语月考试题及答案

2021年广东第二师范学院番禺附属中学高三英语月考试题及答案

第一部分阅读（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A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项

A

NAME: John

FAVORITE SPORT: Basketball FAVORITE SNACK: Pizza

HOBBY: Photography PET: Beagle named Max

FUNNIEST MOMENT: “On Max's birthday, we sang the ‘Happy Birthday’ song to him and he got a big treat. A month later, my family sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to me. Max got so excited because he remembered the song. He whined(嘀咕) when he didn't get a treat, so we gave him one.”

NAME: Sarah

FAVORITE SPORT: Track and field FAVORITE SNACK: Granola

HOBBY: Guitar PET: Cat named Lulu

FUNNIEST MOMENT: “One day in my kindergarten, I opened my snack bag and found a tennis ball and a sock! My little brother had played his first practical joke. Thanks, Bryan!”

NAME: Paul

FAVORITE SPORT: Baseball FAVORITE SNACK: Apple with peanut butter

HOBBY: Making comics PET: Tropical fish

FUNIEST MOMENT: “In a school play, I was supposed to say the line ‘Stop right there, cowboy!’ Devin was playing the cowboy, and 1 said, ‘Stop right there, Devin!’ It was supposed to be a serious part of the play, but Devin cracked up. Then everybody else laughed, too, including me.”

NAME: Scott

FAVORITE SPORT: Soccer FAVORITE SNACK: Bananas

HOBBY: Drawing dinosaurs

PET: Hermit crab named Hermie

FUNNIEST MOMENT: “One night, we were camping in a state park. I heard a loud thumping(砰砰作响) outside the tent. I was sure that it was a bear! I used my flashlight to look around the campsite(野营地) and saw a little toad hopping away, going thump, thump, thump!”

1.Whom will you get in touch with if you also like taking photos?

A.Scott.

B.Sarah.

C.John.

D.Paul.

2.Where did Sarah find the tennis ball and the sock?

A.At her friend's birthday party.

B.In her kindergarten.

C.In her school.

D.In a state park.

3.Outside the tent, what thumped that night?

A.A bear.

B.A cat.

C.A fish.

D.A toad.

B

"Long time no see." is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend's e-mail, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect example of Chinglish.

Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greeting with wrong English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American greeting. I was too surprised to believe her. Her words were unbelievable at all. So I did research onGoogle. com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages containing "Long time no see." Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily. Interestingly, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

Nobody knows the origin of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan's movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully created a worldwide famous Chinese detective named "Charlie Chan" on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting Confucius. "Long time no see." was his symbol. Soon after Charlie Chan, "Long time no see." became a popular expression in America thanks to the popularity of these movies.

Some scholars compare America to a hugemelting pot. All kinds of cultures are mixed in the pot together, and they change the colour and taste of each other. Language is usually the first thing to be influenced in the mixed pot.

You can have some examples from other countries such as pizza from Italian, sushi from Japanese, and déjà vu from French etc. There is a long list! Since Americans admire Chinese culture more and more nowadays, I believe more Chinese words will become American English in the future. In this way, the American's melting pot keeps adding richness and flavour.

4. What did the writer himself feel surprised at?