辽宁省阜新市海州高级中学2020┄2021届高三第一次月考英语试题 Word版含答案

第一部分：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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

ALearning any language is hard, but learning English can be especially challenging. Why？ Because native speakers use the language in some ways that textbooks could never describe. In particular, words that British people use cause many language students to scratch（抓） their heads.Here’s an example：You overhear（无意中听到）an Englishman calling someone a “wazzock”. But what exactly is a wazzock？This word, in fact, means a foolish person, although there’s nothing about it that would help you guess that. There are many strange terms like this in British English –the Oxford English Dictionary would be much smaller without these odd （古怪的） usages filling its pages.How can these odd words be explained？Part of the answer is the British sense of humor. The British don’t like to take things too seriously, and this is obvious through many British words and phrases. For example, to “spend a penny” means to use the bathroom. It refers to the days when people had to pay a penny to use a public toilet.In an interview for the BBC’s website, British linguist David Crystal suggested there may be historical reasons for the number of odd words and phrases in British English. He thinks that they began in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This was a great age for thetheater, when Shakespeare and other writers worked hard to keep up with the demand for new plays. The theater’s popularity also created an incentive （刺激）to invent new words.With this in mind, perhaps Shakespeare and his peers are to blame for unusual British words such as “codswallop” and “balderdash” –which both mean “nonsense”.While these strange words may be confusing to non-native speakers, they certainly make studying English a lot more interesting.21. According to the text, why may non-native speakers find it hard to learn English？A. Dictionaries don’t explain odd usages of many words.B. A great many strange words make no sense to them.C. The English textbooks they study are usually out of date.D. They are unable to understand the humor in conversations.22. With the example of “spend a penny”, the author intends to _________.A. explain one reason of how some strange phrases were createdB. complain about the meaning and background of the phraseC. show what typical British sense of humour isD. show British people’s attitude toward strange words23. According to David Crystal, _________.A. many of the words that Shakespeare invented were nonsenseB. Shake speare’s works are boring because of the odd words involvedC. the theatre’s success in the 17th century inspired the birth of many odd wordsD. the odd words in Shakespeare’s plays contributed a lot to the theatre’spopularity24. What is the text mainly about？A. The development of the British English.B. Shakespeare’s influence on British English.C. The origin and meanings of British humour.D. Some reasons for the large number of odd words in British English.BShortly after my fourth birthday, my parents and I arrived from China in Sydney, Australia. It was 1991 and my mother had left behind everything she knew-family, friends and career.Yet within two years, my parents’ marriage had broken down. After one particularly unpleasant fight, my mother left my father, taking me with her. With no family or friends, and in a country where she couldn’t even communicate, she took me to Chinatown, the only area of Sydney she was familiar with. That night she laid me on a bench in Dixon Street, packing suitcases around us for security（安全）. I will never forget the despair in her face that night.At around 4 am, a group of four young Chinese men noisily exited a club nearby. I remember them falling silent as they saw us. They approached and asked my mother why she was sleeping on the streets with such a young child. My mum burst into tears as she told them our story. Without hesitating, they warmed me up, took our suitcases, and drove us to their students housing.In the weeks that followed, the men looked after us with a youthful enthusiasm. Being poor students living on their own for the first time, they simply knew how to cook in a stupid way. However, they insisted that a child should have homemade meals. They quickly adjusted their lives around us, buying fresh food, cooking, teasing me to make me laugh, and advising my mum on how to sort out her life.Eventually, Mum reconciled （和解）with Dad and we moved back in with him, although they continued to split and make up several times.Gradually we lost touch with the men as we all moved on. But at every milestone of my life-graduations, entering university, getting a good job-I never forget that all of this was made possible because 22 years ago, a group of complete strangers took us in and shared everything they had to save us from life on the street.25. Why did Mom and I stay in Dixon Street that night？A. We were waiting for the Chinese men.B. Mom was unfamiliar with Australia at all.C. It was safe to stay there for night.D. We had no other place to go.26. How did the students feel the moment they saw us in the street？A. Ashamed.B. Shocked.C. Amused.D. Nervous.27. What message is conveyed in the passage？A. There is no perfect husband or wife in marriage.B. It’s the timely help to someone in need that matters.C. It’s a great challenge for the Chinese to study abroad.D. Childhood memory contributes to guiding present behavior.CStill seeking a destination for your weekend break？There are some places which are probably a mere walk away from your college.King's Art CentreA day at the Centre could mean a visit to an exhibition of the work of one of the most interesting contemporary artists on show anywhere. This weekend sees the opening of an exhibition of four local artists.You could attend a class teaching you how to ‘learn from the masters’ or get more creative with paint—free of charge.The Centre also runs two life drawing classes for which there is a small fee.The Botanic Garden The Garden has over 8,000 plant species；it holds the research and teaching collection of living plants for Cambridge University.The multibranched Torch Aloe here is impressive. The African plant produces red flowers above blue green leaves，and is not one to miss.Get to the display house to see Dionaea muscipula，a plant more commonly known as the Venus Flytrap that feeds on insects and other small animals.The Garden is also a place for wildlife enthusiasts. Look for grass snakes in the lake. A snake called ‘Hissing Sid’ is regular ly seen lying in the heat of the warm sun.Byron's PoolMany stories surround Lord Byron's time as a student of Cambridge University. Arriving in 1805，he wrote a letter complaining that it was a place of “mess and drunkenness”．However，it seems as though Byron did manage to pass the time pleasantly enough. I'm not just talking about the pet bear he kept in his rooms. He spent a great deal of time walking in the village.It is also said that on occasion Byron swam naked by moonlight in the lake，which is now known as Byron's Pool. A couple of miles past Grantchester in the south Cambridge shire countryside，the pool is surrounded by beautiful circular paths around the fields. The cries of invisible birds make the trip a lovely experience and on the way home you can drop into the village for afternoon tea. If you don't trust me，then perhaps you'll take it from Virginia Woolf—over a century after Byron，she reportedly took a trip to swim in the same pool.28．As mentioned in the passage，there is a small fee for ______.A．attending the masters' class B．working with local artists C．learning life drawing D．seeing an exhibition 29．“Torch Aloe” and “Venus Flytrap” are ______.A．common insects B．impressive plants C．rarely seen snakes D．wildlife enthusiasts 30．We can infer from the passage that Byron seemed ______.A．to fear pet bears B．to like walking C．to be a heavy drinker D．to finish university in 1805 31．What is the passage mainly about？A．Some places for weekend break.B． A way to become creative in art.C．The colourful life in the countryside.D．Unknown stories of Cambridge University.DBlack Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. It has been regard ed as the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Although it’s not an official holiday, millions of employers give their employees the day off, and many people use that day to get a jump-start on their holiday shopping. A similar day in Canada and Great Britain is called “Boxing Day”.Black Friday has become somewhat of a marketing sensation（营销效应）in recent years. Since 2005, it has been the busiest shopping day of the year. To lure shoppers, retailers （零售商） routinely open their doors as early as 4 a. m. and offer special sales and promotions to the shoppers that arrive early. Some of the special deals offered by stores are only available in limited quantities. That is why some shoppers intent on getting the best deals often camp out in front of stores ov ernight so that they’ll be the first in line when the doors open.But why Black Friday？ Historians believe the name started in Philadelphia in the mid-1960s. Bus drivers and police used “Black Friday” to describe the heavy traffic that would block city streets the day after Thanksgiving as shoppers headed to the stores.Businesses, however, didn’t like the negative tone associated with the “Black Friday” name. In the early 1980s, a more positive explanation of the name began tospread. According to this alternative explanation, Black Friday is the day when retailers finally begin to turn a profit for the year. In accounting terms （会计行业）, operating at a loss is called being “in the red” because accountants traditionally used red ink to show negative amounts. Positive amounts were usually shown in black ink. Thus, being “in the black” is a good thing because it means stores are operating at a profit.Recently, for those who are too busy to shop on Black Friday or who just don’t want to fight the crowds, the Monday following Black Friday has become known as Cyber Monday （网络星期一） for the many online deals.32. On Black Friday，the Americans .A. don’t have to go to work as usualB. look exactly like the CanadiansC. are usually busy doing shoppingD. stay at home and relax themselves33. The underlined word “lure” （in Paragraph 2） probably means .A. protectB. attractC. persuadeD. remind34. How do the retailers understand Black Friday？A. It is totally different from Boxing Day.B. They usually lose some money on the day.C. It never keeps them very busy.D. It probably brings them more money.35. The author writes this passage in order to .A. state the development of Cyber MondayB. tell the difference between red and blackC. introduce Black Friday to the readersD. explain the meaning of Boxing Day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。