重庆市杨家坪中学高二英语上学期第一次月考试题

杨家坪中学高2018级高二（上）第一次月考
英语试题
英语试题卷共9页。

满分150分。

考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：
1. 答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。

2. 答选择题时，必须使用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。

3. 答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。

4. 所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。

第I卷
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节
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. What does the man say about the paintings?
A. They are very expensive.
B. They are very beautiful.
C. They look like kids’ art.
2. What does the man want to do?
A. Look for a pet store
B. Buy something for dogs.
C. Let the woman take care of his dogs.
3. What are the speakers doing?
A. Taking pictures
B. Doing exercise.
C. Playing a video.
4. What day is it today?
A. Sunday.
B. Saturday.
C. Friday.
5. Why does the woman want a later appointment?
A. Her flight was delayed.
B. She needs to pick up someone.
C. She has to take her mother to the hospital.
第二节
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. What are posted on the wall of the cafeteria?
A. The food prices.
B. Some pictures.
C. The introduction to the cafeteria.
7. What will the man probably have?
A. Chicken.
B. Fish.
C. Noodles.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. According to the woman, what was the party like this year?
A. It was very relaxed.
B. It was too wild and crazy.
C. It ended up a failure.
9. What can we learn about the man?
A. He has a secretary named Maggie.
B. He had never been to an office party before.
C. He wore a black suit to the party.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is bothering the man and his wife?
A. The noise.
B. The size of their room.
C. The service of the elevator.
11. What will the man do?
A. Check out today .
B. Wait in the hotel.
C. Call the police.
12. What did the woman promise to do?
A. Repair the elevator.
B. Cut down the price.
C. Give the man a suite tomorrow.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why was the man so late?
A. He was stuck in traffic.
B. The bank opened late.
C. He forgot about the time in the bank.
14. Where is Henry from?
A. America.
B. Germany.
C. France.
15. What did Henry give the man?
A. A guidebook.
B. Some money.
C. A map of the bus system.
16. What is true of the speakers?
A. They both work in a bank.
B. They are traveling in Europe.
C. They just came back from a holiday.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. When is the opening day?
A. July 4.
B. July 7.
C. September 4.
18. What do we find out about the America’s Cup?
A. It is a boat race.
B. It has been held in San Francisco before.
C. The city spent one year preparing for it.
19. Which team won the race last year?
A. Italy.
B. New Zealand.
C. America.
20. How many teams will be competing in the Challenger Series?
A. Five.
B. Four.
C. Three.
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，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
You’ve heard it repeatedly: Make s ure you drink at least eight glasses of water per day. The key words are “at least”, because, unless you are a child, you need more water than that. The rule is, for every 50 pounds of body weight you carry, drink one quart of bottled or filtered (过滤的) water per day. The average person weighs 150 poun ds, so they should drink three quarts per day. A 200 pounds person should drink a full gallon per day. Athletes should drink even more than that. Follow these and you’ve adopted one of the most important health habits.
Our bodies are mostly water, and water is essential to our every function. Drink the appropriate amount, and everything is much more likely to function at the best levels. If
you don’t drink enough water, over the short term you will experience t iredness, dry skin, he adaches and constipation (便秘); over the longer term, everybody function will degrade more quickly. It really is as simple as that.
Things get a bit more complicated in what type of water to drink. Bottled water and filtered water are both good options. Do not drink tap water or distilled water (蒸馏水).Bottled water should be bottled in clear glass containers, not the plastic containers that transfer far too many chemicals into the water. Filtered water can be obtained through low-cost filters.
Tap water should be avoided because it contains chlorine (氯) and may contain fluoride (氟化物), which is poisonous and can have terrible consequences for the body. Distilled water should also be avoided because it can burn up your body of necessary minerals. It has been tied to hair loss, which is often associated with certain mineral lack.
Finally, drink water at room temperature if possible, as ice-cold water can harm your stomach.
21. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “degrade”?
A. Improve.
B. Strengthen.
C.
Reduce. D. Recover.
22. What kinds of water are proper for drinking?
A. Tap water and bottled water.
B. Tap water and distilled water.
C. Bottled water and filtered water.
D. Distilled water and filtered water.
23. What’s the main reason that distilled water isn’t recommended to drink?
A. It isn’t clean enough to drink.
B. It leads the body to lack certain minerals.
C. It contains too many chemicals.
D. It contains fluoride.
24. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. It is harmful to drink plenty of icy water.
B. One may feel tired due to lack of water for a short time.
C. The water in plastic containers is safe to drink.
D. The water wi th chlorine is not suitable to drink.
B
Four interesting festivals
25. A couple with his son like to listen to music, they can attend_______.
A. Grand Old Days
B. Minnesota State Fair
C. Uptown Art Fair
D. Nativity County Fair
26. T he author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to
A. advertise some popular festivals
B. introduce some festival activities
C. give advice on kids’ festival safety
D. compare the costs of different festivals
27. Where can you probably find the passage?
A. In a museum guide
B. In a business report
C. In a book review
D. On a tourist website
C
As computers become more popular in China, Chinese people are increasingly depending on computer keyboards to input Chinese characters. But if they use the computer too much, they may end up forgetting the exact strokes of each Chinese character when writing on paper. Experts suggest people, especially students, write by hand more.
Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing, students start using a computer as early as primary school. And computer dependence is more wide-spread among university students. Almost all their homework and essays are typed on a computer.
All the students interviewed say they usually use a computer.
It's faster and easier to correct if using a computer. And that's why computers are being applied more and more often to modern education. But when people are taking stock in computers increasingly, problems appear.
"When I'm writing with a pen, I find I often can't remember how to write a character, though I feel I’m familiar with it."
"I'm not in the mood to write when faced with a pen and paper."
Many students don't feel this is something to worry about. Now that it's more convenient and quick to write on a computer, why bother to handwrite?
Many educators think differently. Shi Liwei, the headmaster of a famous primary school in the capital said “Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic(审美的) value. But those characters typed with computer keyboards only have their practical value. All the artistic beauty of the characters is lost. And Handwriting contains the writer’s emotion. Through one’s handwriting, people can get to know one’s thinking and personality. Beautiful writing will give people a better first impression of them.”
To encourage students to handwrite more, many primary schools in Beijing have made writing classes compulsory and in universities, some professors are asking students to turn in their homework and essays written by hand.
28 .The students interviewed prefer to write using a computer mainly because______.
A. they are usually asked to e-mail their homework and Essays
B. they can correct the mistakes they make quickly and conveniently
C. they find it not easy to remember how to write a character
D. computers have become popular in China
29. Which of the following statements is NOT the advantages of handwriting?
A. Handwriting contains the writer's emotion.
B. The writer’s thinking and personality are shown in his or her handwriting.
C. Handwriting can impress people well and build up one’s self-confidence.
D. Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic value.
30. The underlined expression “taking stock in” (Paragraph 4) probably means_____.
A. getting bored with
B. g etting dependent on
C. becoming crazy about
D. getting curious about
31. We can draw the conclusion from the passage that_______.
A. more and more students will give up writing on a computer
B. writing by hand will give way to typing by computer one day
C. more and more students will pay attention to handwriting
D. the typing article better expresses one’s emotion and quality
D
Some people like to listen to the Beatles．while others prefer Gregorian chants．When it comes to music , scientists find that nurture can overpower nature．
A study shows musical preferences seem to be mainly shaped by a person’s cultural upbringing and experiences rather than biological factors．“Our results show that there is a profound cultural difference in the way people respond to consonant(和谐的)and dissonant(不和谐的)sounds，and this suggests that other cultures hear the world differently,” says Josh McDermott．a scientist in Cambridge．
Some scientists believe that the way people respond to music has a biological basis and that this would overpower any cultural shaping of musical preferences , effectively making them a universal phenomenon．Some musicians．by contrast , think that such preferences are more a product of one’s culture．If a person’s upbringing shapes their preferences，then they are not a universal phenomenon．
The trick to working out where musical preferences come from was to find and test people who hadn’t had much contact with Western music．McDermott and his team travelled by airplane，ca r and canoe to reach the remote villages of the Tsimane’ people，who are largely isolated from Western culture．
In their experiments，McDermott and his colleagues investigated responses to Western music by playing combinations of notes to three groups of people：the Tsimane’ and two other groups of Bolivians that had experienced increasing levels of exposure to Western music．The researchers recorded whether each group regarded the notes as pleasant or unpleasant．
The Tsimane’ are just as g ood at making ac oustic(声响的)distinctions as the groups
with more experience of other types of music，the scientists find．Most people prefer consonant tones，but the Tsimane’ have no preference between them．“This pretty convincingly rules out that the prefere nces are things we’re born with，’’ McDermott argues．
“Culture plays a role．We li ke the music we grew up with，”agrees Dale Purves，a scientist at Duke University．“Nature versus nurture is always a fool’s errand．’’It’s almost always a combination，he adds．
32．Why does the author mention Beatles in the first paragraph?
A．To arouse reader’s interest．
B．To stress the importance of music．
C．To introduce the topic to be discussed．
D．To encourage readers to listen to their music．
33．McDermott would most probably agree that __________．
A．people’s music preference is a universal phenomenon
B．Chinese and Japanese have different music preferences
C．the way people respond to music is biologically decided
D．parents have nothing to do with children’s music preference
34．What do we know about the Tsimane’ in the experiment?
A．They prefer consonant tones．
B．They are born with excellent music talent．
C．They do well in telling acoustic distinctions．
D．They have never had contact with Western music．
35．Wh at does the underlined phrase “a fool’s errand” in the last paragraph refer to?
A．Something meaningless．B．Something significant．
C．Something reliable．D．Something sensitive．
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。

What do the world’s most successful people all have in common?
By examining the work habits of over 150 greatest writers and artists and scientists, the researchers including Standford Professor Jeffrey Preffer found that high achievers like Robert Moses turn out to be all alike:
Busy ! Busy!
36 In a study of general managers in industry, John Kotter reported that many of them worked 60 to 65 hours per week—which translates into at least six 10-hour days. The ability and willingness to work difficult and tiring hours has characterized many powerful figure s. Energy and strength provide many advantages to those seeking to build power.
Just Say No!
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no”to almost everything. And that’s what gives them the time to accomplish so much. 37 And focus means saying “no” to a lot of distractions(分神).
Know What You Are!
Ignore your weakness and keep improving your strengths. Don’t waste time exploring skill areas where you have little competence. Instead, focus on—and build on—your strengths. 38 .
Create Good Luck!
Luck is not magical—there is a science to it. Richard Wiseman studied lucky people for his book Luck Factor, and broke down what they do right. 39 By being more outgoing, open to new ideas, following the feeling that something is true, being optimistic, lucky people create possibilities.
Does applying these princ iples to your life actually work? Wiseman created a “luck school” to test the ideas—and it was a success. In total, 80 percent of people who attended Luck School said that their luck had increased. 40 .
A. Spend enough time to improve your weakness.
B. Achievement requires focus.
C. On average, thes e people reported that their luck had increased by more than 40 percent.
D. High achievers never stop working and they never lose a minute.
E. Busy people are more likely to be lucky.
F. This means knowing who you are, what you are and what you are good at.
G. Certain personality types are luckier because they behave in a way that offers the chance for good opportunities.
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四个选项（A、B、C、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。

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons (猎鹰)．They were the most beautiful birds he had ever seen．He gave the ___41___ birds to his head falconer to be ___42___.
Months passed, and one day the head falconer informed the king that ___43___ one of the falcons was flying high in the sky, the other bird had not ___44___ from its branch since the day it had arrived.
The king ordered healers from all the land to ___45___ the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly．He ___46___ the task to the members of his court, ___47___ the next day, the king saw ___48___ the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its branch.
Having ____49____ everything else, the king thought to himself, “Maybe I need someone more ___50___ the countryside to understand the nature of this probl em.” So he cried out to his court, “Go and get a ___51___.”
In the morning, the king was ___52___ to see the falcon flying high above the palace garden．He said to his court, “___53___ me the doer of this miracle.”
The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king．The king asked him, “___54___ did you make the falcon fly?”
With his head ___55___, the farmer said to the king, “It was very easy．I ___56___ cut the branch where the bird was sitting.”
We are all made to fly—to realize our ___57___ potential as human beings．But instead of doing that, we sit on our branches, hanging on to the things that are ___58___ to us．The possibilities are ___59___, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered．We ___60___ to
the familiar, the comfortable, the boring．So for the most part, our lives are mediocre (平庸的) instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling.
41．A．curious B．precious C．expensive D．clev er 42．A．tested B．exhibited C．appreciated D．trained 43．A．as B．if C．though D．since 44．A．eaten B．sung C．moved D．waken 45．A．tend to B．watch for C．drive away D．pick up 46．A．reduced B．presented C．removed D．brought
47．A．until B．so C．but D．as
48．A．through B．across C．beyond D．behind 49．A．learned B．tried C．prepared D．understood 50．A．beneficial to B．fit for C．friendly with D．familiar with
51．A．farmer B．gardener C．falconer D．healer 52．A．embarrassed B．thrilled C．anxious D．relaxed 53．A．Tell B．Award C．Create D．Bring
54．A．When B．Why C．How D．Where 55．A．stretched B．stuck C．bowed D．turned 56．A．simply B．narrowly C．necessarily D．nearly 57．A．unavoidable B．virtual C．imaginary D．unbelievable 58．A．proper B．familiar C．unusual D．similar 59．A．endless B．limited C．changeable D．uncertain 60．A．apply B．refer C．direct D．stick
第II卷
第二节语法填空（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或括号内单词的正确形式。

An idea to cycle to Tibet 61 (occur) to me one year ago. I know 62 idea is qui te practical in economical way. For one thing, I can’t have too much money. For another, it is bound to do me good because I can take in fresh air 63 the way there. I called Tom, 64 had borrowed me a sum of money, telling him my idea. He was excited at my words and
promised to pay off his debt as soon as possible. He also offered to team up with me. 65 (apparent), he also showed great interest in this trip. Five months 66 our trip, we kept taking exercise and built up strong body because we knew 67 would be impossible to realize our dream without being 68 (health). I used to hear that some people 69 (make) a trip there died from the lack of oxygen---- they did devote their lives to their dream ! But the cost is too much. So 70 of us insisted on running in the morning from time to time.
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处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅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：在错的词下画一横线，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。

It is Mother’s Day today.Though it’s a western festival, it’s popular in China now. Mom has a full-time job, so she has to do most of the houseworks. She is a great mother .Both Dad or I planned to do something on Mother’s Day.We get up early in the morning. Dad cleaned the house, and then went on shopping. When he came back, I found a bunch of flowers in her hand. I asked Mom to stay in the sitting room and I cooked in kitchen. The dishes what I cooked were Mom’s favoritiest. At dinner, we said to her, “Happy Mother’s Day！”Mom was grateful and moving.
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是一位英语成绩优秀的同学，应校英语社团的邀请，与高一新生分享英语学习的方法和经验。

请你根据下表所提示的信息，用英语写一篇发言稿。

1.兴趣是最好的老师
2.词汇量是关键
3.好的工具书是良师益友
4.对新生的建议和鼓励
注意：1.对所给要点逐一陈述，适当发挥，不要简单翻译。

2.词数：100词左右。

开头已经写好，不计入总词数。

Hello, everyone,
It’s a great pleasure for me to be here today and share my experience of English
learning with you.
参考答案
听力
1—5 CBABB 6—10 ABABA 11—15 BCCAC 16—20 BAACC
阅读：CCBC BAD BCBC CBCA DBFGC
完型
.BDCCA .BCABD .ABDCC .ADBAD
61．occurred 62．the 63．on 64．who 65．Apparently 66．before
67．it 68．healthy 69．making 70．both
改错
1.so—but
2.houseworks—housework
3.or--and
4.get--got
5.去掉 on
6.her—his
7.在in
和kitchen之间加the 8.what—that/which（或去掉what）。

9.favoritest—favorite 10.moving—moved
范文参考：
Hello, everyone!
It’s a great pleasure for me to be here to share my English learning experience with you. As the saying goes, “Interest is the best teacher”. It’s impossible for us to learn English well without being interested in it. So the first thing I do is to get myself interested in English and enjoy it. Besides, I always try my best to build up my vocabulary as I know vocabulary is of vital importance in understanding what I read or listen to. So every day I will spend some time memorizing words and reading China Daily. In addition, I often turn to my dictionary and grammar books for help whenever I meet some new words when I cannot understand some grammatical problem.
All in all, English is learned but not taught. You should take responsibility for your study. If you want to improve your English, you should do more speaking, reading, writing and listening. Only in this way can you make progress in your English learning and I sincerely hope all of you can improve your English.。