江西省上饶县中学高二英语上学期第三次月考试卷

江西省上饶县中学2014-2015学年高二英语上学期第三次月考试卷
第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节（共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
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. Where will the woman go first?
To the beach. B. To the bank. C. To the bathroom.
2. What does the woman mean?
A. The man forgot to do his hair.
B. The man forgot to put on a tie.
C. The woman is wearing clothes that don’t match.
3. How does the woman probably feel?
A. Annoyed.
B. Hungry.
C. Excited.
4. Why didn’t the man answer the phone?
A. He lost it.
B. He didn’t hear it.
C. His phone ran out of power.
5. Who did the woman want to call?
A. James.
B. Drake.
C. Daniel.
第二节（共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
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 does the man order?
A. Hot dogs and fries.
B. Burgers and fries.
C. Sandwiches and sodas.
7. How much does the man give the woman a tip?
A. Three dollars.
B. Two dollars.
C. One dollar.
听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。

8. Where are the speakers?
A. In a car.
B. On a boat.
C. On a motorcycle.
9. What is the man doing?
A. Looking at a paper map.
B. Trying to find a website.
C. Using a phone to give directions.
听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。

10. What does the man like about YouTube?
A. Watching funny home videos.
B. Learning about the special TV channels.
C. Putting his own videos on the website.
11. What kind of meals do the guys make in Epic Meal Time(《超级开饭时间》)?
A. Low fat meals.
B. Unhealthy meals.
C. Vegetarian meals.
12. What happens to the meals in the end?
A. They are tasted by the audience.
B. They are given to the homeless.
C. They are eaten by the cooks and their friends.
听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。

13. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Their vets.
B. Money spent on pets.
C. Ways to buy dogs’ medicine.
14. What is the man’s dog’s name?
A. Brett.
B. Fargo.
C.Ferguson.
15. What doesn’t the woman like about her vet?
A. The limited services.
B. The prices her vet charged.
C. The difficulty of getting an appointment.
16. What isn’t one of the man’s suggestions?
A. Going to his vet.
B. Looking online.
C. Going to a special pet store.
听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。

17. When will the fire arrive close to Lakewood?
A. By six o’clock in the evening.
B. By five o’clock in the evening.
C. By six o’clock in the morning.
18. Where shouldn’t residents go to escape the fire?
A. Springfield.
B. Western Hill.
C. Point Cabina Station.
19. How long will it take residents to reach the safe zone?
A. Lesson than ten minutes.
B. Lesson than twenty minutes.
C. Less than thirty minutes.
20. What are residents advised to do before they leave?
A. Leave all pets behind.
B. Stay calm and do not panic.
C. Tell the state police where they are going
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
Active Challenge
Active challenge is a weight loss program specially for young women. The burden of being overweight is heavier than just the extra pounds. We use outdoor adventures to challenge the girls, to give them something to draw strength from.
Because you’ll be losing weight alongside young women just like you, you’ll find no one
laughing at you and you’ll help each other. At Active Challenge you’ll make lifelong friends with young women of your own age and learn to love new adventurous activities.
Unlike any other weight loss program, Active Challenge is designed so you’ll lose weight and have the strategies(策略) and skills to keep the weight off forever. Active Challenge does not put you on a diet. We follow the Canada Food Guide to healthy eating and exercise appropriate portion(一份) control. We help you develop healthy habits.
The staff at Active Challenge combine experienced outdoor adventure professionals with highly qualified clinicians. All of us are absolutely devoted to helping you achieve lasting behavioral change and weight loss. Most of all we are devoted to having a great time doing it.
Pre-camp: Upon registration(注册) in Active Challenge, a registration package will be sent out to you with forms to be completed before camping as well as program preparation materials, an introduction to Active Challenge and pre-program personal challenging assignments(任务) to get you on the way toward a healthier self.
Post-camp: Our post program is designed to keep you focused and remind you of the goals that you set during the camp. We will send you home your personal meal and exercise plan and keep in touch with you for a full three months after the camp ends through letters, emails and phone calls, tracking your progress and giving you strategies and support.
21. How will girls feel about the atmosphere at Active Challenge?
A. Friendly and supportive.
B. Competitive and challenging.
C. Cold but exciting.
D. Lonely but safe.
22. After registration, girls ___________ .
A. should go to buy the program preparation materials
B. will be informed how to get prepared for the program
C. should learn some skills and strategies to lose weight
D. will have to finish some challenging assignments at home
23. The post-camp help will last _______ .
A. until the end of November
B. until girls can keep their weight off forever
C. until the beginning of the next year
D. until girls achieve success in their lives
24. What is the main purpose of the text?
A. To explain why Active Challenge is popular.
B. To share skills and strategies of losing weight.
C. To show how important losing weight is.
D. To invite girls to join in Active Challenge.
B
Scientists recently discovered that pictures on cave walls at Creswell Crags are the oldest known in Great Britain. But they didn’t find out in the usual way.
Archaeologists often date cave art with a process called radiocarbon dating. The technique can measure the age of carbon found in charcoal(木炭) drawings or painted pictures. Carbon in an element found in many things, including charcoal and even people. But in this case, there was no paint or charcoal to test. People carved the pictures of animals and figures into the rock using stone tools. The scientists had an “aha!” moment when they noticed small rocks stuck to the top of the drawings. The small rocks must have formed after the drawings were made.
“It is rare to be able to scientifically date rock art,” said Alistair Pike, an archaeological scientist at Britain’s University of Bristol. “We were very fortunate that some of the engravings (雕刻) were
covered by stalagmites(石笋).
When a test proved that the stalagmites formed 12,800 years ago, the scientists knew the art underneath them had to be at least that old. And some of the animals shown, like the European bison, are now extinct-another tip-off（征兆）that the art is quite old.
The artists came to Creswell Crags. This place is one of the farthest points north reached by our ancient ancestors during the Ice Age. At that time, much of the North Sea was dry, so people could move about more easily.
Some tools and bones found there are 13,000 to 15,000 years old. They show that the travelers hunted horses, reindeer, and arctic hares. Their artwork is similar to art in France and Germany. It tells scientists that the Creswell Crags artists must have had a close connection to peoples several thousand kilometers away—another important evidence of understanding how humans spread out across the world.
C
Global warming is when the earth heats up, the temperature rises. It happens when greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide(二氧化氮), and methane(沼气) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, which increases the temperature. This is like when heat is trapped in a car. On a very hot day, the car gets hotter when it is out in the parking lot. This is because the heat and light from the sun can get into the car, by going through the windows, but it can’t get back out. Once the light is inside the car, it is trapped and the heat builds up, just like it does in the earth’s atmosphere. This is what the greenhouse effect does to the earth. The heat and light can get through the atmosphere, but it can’t get out. As a result, the temperature rises. Sometimes the temperature can change in a way that helps us. The greenhouse effect makes the earth appropriate for people to live on. Without it, the earth would be freezing, or on the other hand it would be burning hot. We would not get the sun’s heat and light to make the night somewhat warm. During the day, especially during the summer, it would be burning because the sun would be up with no atmosphere to filter(过滤) it, so people, plants, and animals would be exposed to all the light and heat.
Although the greenhouse effect makes the earth able to have people living on it, if there gets to be too many gases, the earth can get unusually warmer, and many plants, animals, and people will die.
They would die because there would be less food (plants like corn, wheat, and other vegetables and fruits). This would happen because the plants would not be able to take in the heat. This would cause us to have less food to eat, but it would also limit the food that animals have. Gradually, people, plants, and animals would die of hunger.
People are doing many things to try to stop global warming. One thing people are doing is carpooling. Carpooling is driving with someone to a place that you are both going to. This minimizes the amount of greenhouse gases put into the air by a car.
Another thing that people are doing is being more careful about leaving things turned on like the television, computer, and the lights. A lot of people are taking time away from the television, and instead, they are spending more time outdoors. This helps our planet out a lot. Now, more people are even riding buses, walking to school, and riding their bikes to lower the amount of greenhouse gases in the air.
Planting trees and recycling also help. If you recycle, less rubbish goes to the dump, and less rubbish gets burned. As a result, there are fewer greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Although adults do many things to help stop global warming, kids can do just as much.
28. Through the example given in Paragraph 1, the author wants to ________ .
A. explain how global warming happens
B. shows his feeling in a car in hot summer
C. tell us cars are causes of greenhouse gases
D. say that there are greenhouse gases in every car
29. What is the effect of atmosphere?
A. It only traps the heat of the sun.
B. It works the same way as greenhouse gases
C. It makes the earth neither too hot nor too cold.
D. It prevents all the light from the sun shining on the earth.
30. What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. If there is greenhouse effect, all plants will die.
B. Humans beings are likely to disappear from the earth.
C. Crops can’t take in the heat if there is greenhouse effect.
D. Although greenhouse effect is necessary, too much of it will cause us to die.
31. What will the author most probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?
A. Why cars and buses pollute the air a lot.
B. What kids can do to help stop global warming.
C. What global warming is doing to the environment.
D. Who should be responsible for the environmental problems.
D
“Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy ––they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.” –– Jeff Bezos.
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor.
I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better id ea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately (最后), I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.
32. What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?
A. His dream of being an inventor.
B. The support of his wife.
C. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.
D. Millions of exciting titles.
33. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?
A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.
B. He would be very excited if he tried it out.
C. He would be always havi ng a doubt if he didn’t try.
D. The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

选项中有两项为多余选项。

There are five keys to success in learning a foreign language.
Spend the time.
By far the most important factor is how much time you are immersed(浸入) in the language.
36 This does not mean looking out the window, nor getting explanations in your own language. This means spending time enjoyably connected to the language you are learning.
Listen and read every day.
Listen wherever you are on your MP3 player. 37 Listen to and read things that you like, things that you can mostly understand, or even partly understand. If you keep listening and reading you will get used to the language. One hour of listening or reading is more effective than many hours of class time.
38
Build up your vocabulary; you will need lots. Start to notice words and how they come together as phrases. Learn these words and phrases through your listening and reading. Gradually
you will be able to use them. Do not worry about how accurately you speak until you have accumulated plenty of words through listening and reading.
Take responsibility for your own learning.
If you do not want to learn the language, you won’t. 39 Do not wait for someone else to show you the language, nor to tell you what to do. Discover the language by yourself, like a child growing up. 40
Do not worry about what you can not remember, or can not yet understand. It does not matter. You are learning and improving. The language will gradually become clearer in your brain, but this will happen on a schedule that you can not control. So just make sure you spend enough time with the language. That is the greatest guarantee of success.
A. Relax and enjoy yourself.
B. Focus on words and phrases.
C. Read what you are listening to.
D. Chat with others in the language on the Internet.
E. If you do want to learn the language, take control.
F. The more time you spend with the language, the faster you will learn.
G. There are hundreds of easy conversations for you to practice speaking.
第三部分语言知识运用（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和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。

On a weekday evening, Jane was at home as usual. As her 41 swung between what she was going to do with her life and their dinner plans for the evening, she was unexpectedly 42 by an urgent call from her sister “Get over here! Turn on NBC and check these guys out. They are just like you…” One facebook message and a phone interview later, Jane 43 herself on a bus with 8 strangers in the middle of the sweltering(令人发昏的)desert heat of Utah, picking up trash and 44 awareness about zero-waste and climate change.
With a deep 45 of the environment and a desire to make a 46, Jane, Davey, and a group of self 47 “environmental pick-up artists” went on a coast to coast road side trash pick-up. As they walked, sometimes only 48 0.9 miles in an entire day, they 49 and steadily made their way across the United States for three years, picking up a total of 201,678 pounds of trash.
Jane and Davey 50 with us wonderful stories of hope and inspiration that fueled their 51 to continue their journey. After spending weeks silently 52 how she would have enough 53 to fly home for their two-week spring break, Jane found a blank, unidentified envelope 54 with $850 cash in the desert. Just enough to get her home and back. After their bus 55 outside of Denver, they unexpectedly got 56 and arrived in Yosemite National Park three weeks later, just in time for the “Yosemite Facelift” where 57 from all over the state came together with a 58 of cleaning up trash all over the park.
Being at the right place at the right time became almost normal, and they realized that much of what they 59 was more than just a mere coincidence. Together, their team learned to simply 60 themselves to their task, and surrender to the journey.
第II 卷
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节（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（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

We might see rats the size of sheep in a horror movie. However, scientists in England say that in the future, they could be real. Giant rats could be as big as sheep 61 they could weigh 80 kg. Rats are now all over the earth. They are 62 strongest animals on many small islands. One reason 63 this is they travel on ships and move to places that never had rats before. Another reason 64 (be) that large animals are becoming extinct. There are 65 (few) animals that might kill rats. Researcher Dr Jan Zalasiewicz said rats could probably grow 66 (become) the world’s largest rodent(啮齿动物).
Dr Zalasiewicz said rats are an example of a species that humans spread around the world. Up to now, they 67 (adapt) well to many of their new environments. He said, “There will be future thin rats, future fat rats, slow and heavy rats, fast and fierce rats, probably future aquatic（水生的）rats.”After the dinosaurs 68 (die), many small animals grew bigger. The same thing could happen with rats if there were no animals 69 (leave) that hunt and kill them. Do Zalasiewicz said “super-rats”would kill other species to make them extinct. This will damage food chains. He did not say 70 humans would do to deal with giant rats.
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。

错误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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词。

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

During the summer vacation this year, I thought I should do anything meaningful instead of staying at home, so I got a job at a KFC fast food restaurant, working there as a cleaner. I worked seven hours a day for three week. The job was hard and bored and seemed endless, which made me very tired that I nearly gave it up half way. And I went on with determination. Every day I started off for work early in the morning and got to home lately in the evening. Finally I finished the job before the new term begins. Now, I understand that work means. I think it is really successful experience.
第二节书面表达(满分25分)
上饶高铁(high-speed train)于12月10日起正式通车，上饶跨入高铁时代。

高铁速度超过300公里每小时，上饶到上海仅需2小时,但是票价比动车(“D”trains)贵了三分之一。

你们同学就高铁对经济、生活等的影响展开了讨论。

大部分同学认为高铁方便市民出行，缓解交通拥堵，促进经济和旅游发展。

也有同学认为并不是每个人都能承受昂贵的票价的。

你对高铁是怎么看的？
注意：
1. 文章应包含
1).高铁的基本情况介绍；
2).高铁对经济、生活等的影响；
3).你的看法。

2. 词数120左右。

上饶县中学高二上学期第三次月考英语试卷参考答案。