河南省伊川高中-上学期高三第二次月考英语试卷

伊川高中2007－2008学年上学期高三第
二次月考英语试卷
命题人：范克英
第Ⅰ卷（共85分）
第一部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1. I am sure that you can pass the difficult but important exam, because you study very hard;
_____ you’re so clever.
A. or rather
B. in general
C. on the other hand
D. in turn
2. A very little boy lifted quite a heavy stone at the first attempt, ______ was really much more than I could imagine.
A. which
B. that
C. as
D. what
3. ----There is so much noise here day and night that I can hardly stand it any more.
----Will you consider ______ away?
A. move
B. moved
C. to move
D. moving
4. As a middle school teacher, I think that I should really try to ______ all of my students from any possible danger.
A. prevent
B. protect
C. forbid
D. hold
5. ----All of us study five other subjects_______ English.
---- It is no wonder that you live such a hard life now.
A. as well as
B. but
C. except
D. without
6. I’m sure whenever you pay a visit to the West Lake, you can’t help being______ by its beauty.
A. hit
B. knocked
C. struck
D. beat
7. Born in a very poor family, these students once______ all kinds of hardships in their childhood.
A. went through
B. lived through
C. got through
D. pulled through
8. I’m very sorry that I can’t think out a situation for you ______this word can be correctly used.
A. which
B. that
C. where
D. there
9. ----Do you know how many people attended the lecture last night?
----It was said that there were 800 people_____.
A. in all
B. above all
C. at all
D. after all
10. Drivers who use mobile phones on ______road are more likely to have______ accidents, a science report said recently.
A. the; /
B. a; the
C. the; the
D. /; the
11. Mr. Clement from our factory always______ his wealth _____hard work and good luck.
A. owns; to
B. owes; for
C. owes; to
D. owns; for
12. ----Did Jack come back early last night?
----Yes. It was not yet eight o’clock______ he arrived home.
A. before
B. when
C. that
D. until
13. The reason______ Mr. Smith didn’t join us yesterday was______ he met with the traffic jam.
A. that; why
B. why; that
C. that; because
D. why; because
14. It seems as if the golden sun ______ by the broad sea and ocean.
A. is risen
B. were risen
C. is raised
D. were raised
15. ----Why did you apologize to that guy after he stepped on your foot?
----______.
A. My calling his names
B. With my impoliteness
C. For my impolite words
D. That I called his names
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
This story took place a long time ago. But it has been repeated time and time again. Everyone is 16_by the true story.
An old man was _17_down by a car and was taken to_18 .He was badly hurt, and during his few _19_ to consciousness, he repeatedly_20__ for his son. None knew where his son was. A dirty _21__ was found in one of his pockets. The nurse learned that his son was a soldier in North Carolina.
The hospital called the Red Cross office to_22__ the young man. The young soldier rushed to the airport in time to __23_ the plane. It was 24___ when the young soldier walked into the hospital. A nurse took him to the 25_ of the old man. “Your son is here,” she said to the man. She had to repeat the words several times26 the ol d man’s eyes opened. He dimly saw the young man and got great 27_ He reached out his hand. The young soldier held the old man’s hand and offered words of _28_.
All through the night the young soldier sat beside the bed. The nurse29_ to watch instead of him for a while. He30__. At dawn the old man died. The nurse started to comfort him_31__ the soldier asked her, “32__ was that old man?”
“He was your father,” she answered.
“No, he wasn’t. I _33 saw him before. I knew right away there was a _34__, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. I 35_ I was needed. So I stayed.
16.A. cheated B. interested C. moved D. removed
17.A. knocked B. brought C. got D. turned
18.A. home B. factory C. village D. hospital
19.A. keeps B. returns C. feelings D. coming
20.A. called B. answered C. questioned D. scolded
21.A. money B. bill C. handkerchief D. letter
22.A. arrest B. search C. find D. inform
23.A. control B. catch C. explore D. take
24.A. morning B. evening C. afternoon D. dawn
25.A. surface B. room C. bedside D. thought
26.A. before B. after C. unless D. since
27.A. money B. help C. happiness D. comfort
28.A. story B. understanding C. hope D. value
29.A. spoke B. advised C. offered D. refused
30.A. agreed B. refused C. nodded D. added
31.A. but B. and C. so D. once
32.A. What B. Who C. How D. Where
33.A. hardly B. seldom C. often D. never
34.A. mistake B. problem C. matter D. trap
35.A. recognized B. doubted C. wondered D. realized
第二部分阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
Dogs are a very popular pet in the United States. Most dogs just live with their families, but some dogs have very special jobs to do. Some dogs help police find criminals. Other dogs are trained to find out drugs or explosives. Some dogs assist people who are blind, deaf, or have trouble getting around. Dogs that help their owners are called “Assistance Dogs.”
A very special group of dogs are known as “Therapy Dogs.” These dogs are family pets with special training. The training allows them to go into public buildings and comfort people in need. The dogs are trained to be calm and quiet. Loud noises and unfamiliar places don’t frighten them. They enjoy spending time with people.
Some therapy dogs go into places such as hospitals and nursing homes. When the patients visit with the dogs, the patients are cheered up. They enjoy petting the dogs, and look forward to their visits. The dogs help to brighten their day. Therapy dogs can improve people’s health as well. Studies show that when people pet animals, their blood pressure and heart rates go down. They are calmer, and their mood improves.
Other therapy dogs work in schools and libraries. In one town in California, the local library has trained eight dogs to be listening companions for young readers. The dogs make a great audience. They don’t judge a child who cannot read well, they just listen calmly. The kids find it less nervous than reading in front of their class. The dogs are quiet and attentive. They listen very well. The children look forward to reading to the dogs, and the library and the teachers are very happy with the program.
36. What do most American dogs do?
A. Visit nursing homes.
B. Help police officers.
C. Live with families as pets
D. Help children become better readers.
37. What can therapy dogs do?
A. They help police find criminals.
B. They help find out explosives or drugs.
C. They help disabled people get around.
D. They provide comfort and help people feel better.
38. Therapy dogs are helpful to hospital patients because______.
A. they help doctors and nurses with treatments
B. they help lower heart rates and blood pressure
C. they are good listeners for the patients
D. they help keep patients calm and gentle
39. Why do some children feel nervous while reading before their classmates?
A. Because they are not clever students.
B. Because they don’t like their teacher.
C. Because they are afraid of their classmates.
D. Because they’re not sure of their reading ability.
B
During the early years of American settlement, a new form of English was beginning to develop in the islands of the West Indies and the southern part of the mainland, spoken by the incoming black population. The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the emergence of the slave trade. Ships from Europe traveled to the West African coast, where they exchanged cheap goods for black slaves. The slaves were shipped in terrible conditions to the Caribbean islands and the American coast, where they were in turn exchanged for such products as sugar and molasses. The ships then returned to England, completing an “Atlantic triangle” of journeys, and the process began again. Britain and the United States had outlawed the slave trade by 1865, but by that time, nearly 200 years of trading had taken place. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there were over four million black slaves in America.
The policy of the slave –traders was to bring people of different language backgrounds together in the ships, to make it difficult for groups to plan rebellion. The result was the growth of several pidgin forms of communication, and in particular a pidgin between the slaves and the sailors, many of whom spoke English. Once arriving in the Caribbean, this pidgin English continued to act as a major means of communication between the black population and the new landowners, and among the blacks themselves. Then, when children came to be born, the pidgin became their mother tongue, thus producing the first black Creole speech in the region. This Creole English rapidly came to be used throughout the cotton plantations, and in the coastal towns and islands. Similarly, creolized forms of French, Spanish and Portuguese emerged in and around the Caribbean.
40. Which of the following shows the route of slave trade correctly?
A. Europe → West African coast → the Caribbean islands and the American coast → Europe.
B. Europe → West African coast → Europe → the Caribbean islands and the American coast.
C. West African coast → Europe → the Caribbean islands and the American coast → Europe.
D. West African coast → Europe → the Caribbean islands and the American coast → West African coast.
41. The underlined word “outlawed” (in Paragraph 1) means____.
A. finished
B. made something no longer legal
C. blamed
D. thought something wrong
42. It can be inferred that the slaves in the same ship____.
A. didn’t communicate with each other
B. could understand several languages
C. spoke different languages
D. came from the same place
43. Creole speech comes from ____.
A. Spanish and English
B. English and an African language
C. a European language and American language
D. an African language and an American language
C
BEIJING, Dec.4 (Xinhua)---Nearly half of the readers of a leading Chinese national new spaper profess to feel more stressed than five years ago as the country’s fast-paced industrialization brings greater social pressures.
A survey by China Youth Daily polled 2,134 readers, including 1,770 on-line, and found that
47.8 percent felt more worried in their daily life than five years ago. Just under 32 percent said they had not experienced any change and 12 percent said they felt less stressed as their living conditions had improved.
According to the survey, college students panic about job-hunting, white-collar workers are tired of working overtime and migrant workers fear they might not be able to afford a ticket to go back home during the Spring Festival.
The majority of respondents are most concerned with employment and education pressures and nearly one third feel stressed because they feel their lives lack direction.
The newspaper cited the example of Chen Fan. She has a comfortable family background and married a well-paid husband. But she was so worried that she would be left feeling washed out by the fast-developing society. She chose to quit her job and stay at home.
The survey also said 64.6 percent believed they could shake off the stress by pursuing something spiritual. However, conversely, a steady life, a well-developed social insurance system and abundant wealth are all considered as guarantees to free people from their worries, according to the survey.
The survey also found that people with high education, the poor and government officials were the most likely sectors of society to suffer from stress.
44. According to the survey, about ______respondents felt more worried in their daily life than five years ago.
A. 950
B. 1,000
C. 1,200
D. 1,850
45. College students feel stressed because they are afraid that they will _______.
A. have to leave college if they don’t study hard
B. be blamed by their parents if they can’t get any scholarships
C. not be able to afford a ticket to go home during the Spring Festival
D. not be employed after graduation
46. China Youth Daily cited the example of Chen Fan to show that________.
A. more Chinese women don’t need to work but stay at home after getting married
B. living standard has been improved a lot in most Chinese families
C. more and more Chinese women are purchasing something spiritual
D. more and more Chinese women are experiencing much stress
47. According to the passage, who might suffer less stress?
A. College students.
B. A public servant.
C. A wealthy businessman
D. A worker who can’t afford to send his sick wife to hospital.
D
Our planet is getting warmer, and ice at the North and South Poles is melting. Global warming may be happening on Mars too.
When the sun shines on a planet, the planet’s surface reflects some of the sunlight back into space. Some other sunlight gets absorbed and warms the planet. Light-colored surfaces, such as white ice caps, reflect more sunlight than dark surfaces do. By contrast, dark surfaces absorb more of the sunlight, which makes them get hotter.
Scientists who have compared pictures of Mars taken by satellites in the 1970s to images taken more recently have noticed that the Red Planet’s surfaced looks different than it used to. In
some areas, the landscape looks much darker, while in others, it looks lighter. On the whole ,the surface of Mars—especially in the planet’s southern hemisphere—has grown darker over the past 30 years.
Most of those changes probably occurred because Martian winds blew away light-colored dust that had covered many regions. That exposed darker rocks that had been covered with dust.
The darkening of Mars has caused the planet to get warmer, a new study suggests. Scientists calculated how much more sunlight and heat Mars absorbs now. They compared that to how much it absorbed in the late 1970s. The y estimate that the planet’s atmosphere is almost 1℃ warm, on average, than it was 30years ago. Some areas of mars have warmed more than average. For example, the planet’s south pole may be 4℃warmer than it was in the late 1970s.
48. 30 years ago, the surface of Mars looked________.
A. lighter
B. darker
C. as dark as it is now
D. as light as it is now
49. What is the main cause of climate change on Mars?
A. Increases in the sun’s radiation.
B. Increases in heat Mars absorbs.
C. The change of Martian surface color.
D. The change of Martian wind direction.
50 The biggest temperature change may happen in _______.
A. the northern hemisphere of Mars
B. the southern hemisphere of Mars
C. the north pole of Mars
D. the south pole of Mars
51. What is mainly discussed in the passage?
A. Exploration on Mars.
B. Global warming on Mars.
C. Factors affecting climate change.
D. The relationship between color and sunlight.
E
When nature takes something away from a person, it rewards him or her with something else. When someone loses one or more senses, the surviving senses become stronger. This may or may not be true, but history gives many examples of disabilities that not only did not break a pers on’s spirits. On the contrary, it inspired the greatest talents in him or her.
Fanny Crosby was blinded by an illness at the age of 6 weeks. Though her life was not easy, she never gave up. Known as an American hymn writer and poetess, Fanny Crosby wrote over 9.000 hymns during her life. She entered the.NY Institute at the age of fifteen, and afterward taught English and history. She lived a long and useful life, helping the poor and never complaining about her fate.
Ray Charles, a famous and multitalented African-American singer, songwriter, and pianist, lost his sight at the age of 7. He studied music, piano, and Braille at School for the Deaf and Blind in Florida. He went on to pioneer soul music, which became enormously popular among both black and white audiences. His style was influenced by soul music, rhythm and blues, and jazz. To this day he selects and produces his own music with a complete disregard for current trends. He is also known as an active fighter for African—Americans’ civil rights.
A premature birth, and the complications that followed, took away the ability to see from Stevie Wonder, but not his musical gift. As a child he mastered several instruments, and even formed a band by the age of ten. A winner of numerous music awards, Stevie was famous for romantic hits that earned him the admiration and respect of fans from all over the world. His blindness only made him feel deeper, and express it “from the bottom of his heart.”
These well-known musicians proved that blindness cannot be an obstacle to a full and meaningful life. Every member of society must have the chance to fulfill his or her dreams.
52. What may be the main factor that leads to the success of Fanny Crosby, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder
A. Their born disabilities.
B. The great abilities of arts.
C. Their strong determinations.
D. The basic surviving senses.
53. The underlined word “premature” (in Paragraph 4) means ________.
A. ahead of time
B. full of energy
C. beyond ability
D. with difficulty
54. Which of the following can be Ray Charles’ most important contribution?
A. He started lessons at School for the Deaf and Blind.
B. He developed the unique styles of black music.
C. His concerns and struggles for African civil rights.
D. His popularity with Africans and the whites as well.
55. In a sense, blindness did good to Stevie’s development in music because __________.
A. he could center his thoughts better on music
B. he could study instruments more conveniently
C. he could win the admiration and respect easily
D. he could make a better management of his band
第Ⅱ卷（共35分）
第一部分短文改错(共10分)
Li Ming is a taxi-driver, and he likes his job very much. One day, 56
a couple of old Americans take his taxi to their hotel. 57
It was not long when his passengers got to their hotel. 58
After said good-bye to the Americans, Li Ming went 59_________
on to look for new passenger. Suddenly he noticed a 60
black handbag on the back seat of his taxi. Realized it 61_________
must have been forgotten by one of his passengers, he 62
decided to stop working and return the handbag to his owner 63
first. He opened handbag and luckily he recognized a 64_________
photo in a passport. It was belonged to the old Americans. 65
第二部分书面表达(共25分)
假如你叫李平, 你的英国朋友Clement 来信询问你们学校开展“读名著”的情况。

请你根
注意：1.语言连贯，符合逻辑；2.合理添加你的观点；3.回信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

4.词数：120左右. 参考词汇：classic n. 名著cultivate v. 陶冶
Dear Clement,
I received your letter two days ago. Thank you for you letter. Now I will tell you something about reading classics in our school.
2007－2008学年上学期高三(应届)第二次月考
英语试卷答案
一.单项选择.(共15小题,每小题1分,共15分.)
1—5 CADBA 6—10 CACAA 11—15 CBBDC
二.完型填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分)
16—20 CADBA 21—25 DCBBC 26—30 ADCCB 31—35 ABDAD
三.阅读理解（共２０小题；每小题２分，共４０分）
36—40 CDBDA 41—45 BCBBD 46—50 DCACD 51—55 BCABA
四.短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分, 共10分)
56. 正确57. take------took 58. when-------before
59. said------saying 60 passenger-------passengers
61. Realized-------Realizing 62. forgotten --------left 63. his-------its
64. opened后加上the 65. 去掉was
五.书面表达。

Dear Clement,
I received your letter two days ago. Thank you for your letter. Now I will tell you something about reading classics in our school. The majority of students in our school think reading classics can help us know about some cultures and customs all over the world. And it can also cultivate our minds and improve our characters. Besides, we can learn something from classics because they have something to do with life today. However, some students think the language used in them is quite different from that used today, which makes them difficult to read. They also think classics are old-fashioned and boring.
Personally, it is necessary to read classics in our spare time. Because we can enrich our daily life, At the same time, we can care about nature and society by reading classics, so I like classics very much.
How about you?
Best wishes,
Yours,
Li Ping。