陕西省镇安中学2018届高三上学期第一次月考英语试题

2018届高三年级第一次月考试题（卷）A
21. Why is TOKNOW a special magazine?
A. It entertains young parents.
B. It combines fun with complex concepts.
C. It provides serious advertisements.
D. It publishes popular science fictions.
22. What does TOKNOW offer its readers?
A. Online courses.
B. Lectures on a balanced life.
C. Articles on new topics.
D. Reports on scientific discoveries.
23. How much should you pay if you make a 12-mouth subscription to TOKNOW with gift pack from China?
A. £55.
B. £60.
C. £65.
D. £70.
B
Steve Flaig of Grand Rapids, Michigan, knew he’d been adopted as a baby, and when he turned 18, in 2003, he decided he’d try to track down his birth mother. The agency fro m which he’d been adopted gave him his mother’s name: Christine Tallady. But online searches didn’t turn up any results, and Flaig let it go.
In 2007, though, he searched for the name again online. This time, the search results included a home address near the Lowe’s store where Flaig, then 22, worked as a deliveryman (送货员).
When he mentioned the search results to his boss, his boss said, “You mean Chris Tallady, who works here?”
Flaig and Tallady, 45, a cashier, had said hi to each other a few times at the store, but they’d never really talked. He hadn’t even known her name. Flaig thought, “There’s no possible way she’s my mother.”
For a few months, Flaig avoided Tallady. “I wasn’t sure how to approach her,” he told a local reporter. Finally, an adoption-agency employee volunteered to call Tallady for him.
When Tallady realized that the nice guy she’d been waving at was her son, she sobbed. She’d always hoped to meet her birth son one day. Later that day, mother and son
talked for almost three hours at a nea rby bar. She’d given him up for adoption in 1985, when she was unmarried. “I wasn’t ready to be a mother,” she told him. Married with two other children, Tallady says, “I have a complete family now.”
24. What does the underlined phrase “track down” in the first paragraph mean?
A. To follow.
B. To forgive.
C. To look for.
D. To give up.
25. Before Tallady met Flaig and realized that he was her birth son, _______.
A. they had been strangers and had never seen each other.
B. they had met but hadn’t known about each other very well.
C. Flaig’s boss had known the real relationship between them.
D. Tallady had refused to accept the fact that Flaig was her birth son.
26. How did Tallady feel when she met her birth son, Flaig, on that day?
A. Excited.
B. Depressed.
C. Calm.
D. Angry.
27. What is the best title of the passage?
A. A Life Story
B. A Special Family
C. An Adopted Son
D. An Unusual Reunion
C
Suppose you’re in a rush, fe eling tired, not paying attention to your screen, and you send an email that could get you in trouble.
Realisation will probably set in seconds after you’ve clicked “send”. You freeze in horror and burn with shame.
What to do? Here are four common email accidents, and how to recover.
Clicking “send” too soon
Don’t waste your time trying to find out if the receiver has read it yet. Write another email as swiftly as you can and send it with a brief title explaining that this is the correct version and the previous version should be ignored.
Writing the wrong name
The sooner you notice, the better. Respond quickly and briefly, apologising for your mistake. Keep the tone measured: don’t handle it too lightly, as people can be offended, especially if your error suggests a misunderstanding of their culture (i.e.
incorrect ordering of Chinese names).
Clicking “reply all” unintentionally
You accidentally reveal (透露) to the entire company what menu choices you would prefer at the staff Christmas dinner, or what holida y you’d like to take. In this instance, the best solution is to send a quick, light-hearted apology to explain your awkwardness. But it can quickly rise to something worse, when everyone starts hitting “reply all” to join in a long and unpleasant conversation. In this instance, step away from your keyboard to allow everyone to calm down.
Sending an offensive message to its subject
The most awkward email mistake is usually committed in anger. You write an unkind message about someone, intending to send it to a friend, but accidentally send it to the person you’re discussing. In that case, ask to speak in person as soon as possible and say sorry. Explain your frustrations calmly and sensibly—see it as an opportunity to clear up any difficulties you may have with this person.
28. How are you likely to feel after realising an email accident?
A. Tired.
B. Awful.
C. Curious.
D. Funny.
29. What is the best solution if you have written the wrong name in an email?
A. To apologise in a serious manner.
B. To tell the receiver to ignore the error.
C. To learn to write the name correctly.
D. To send a short notice to everyone.
30. What should you do when an unpleasant conversation is started by your “reply all” email?
A. Meet other staff members.
B. Try offering other choices.
C. Avoid further involvement.
D. Make a light-hearted apology.
31. How should you deal with the problem caused by an offensive email?
A. By talking to the receiver face to face.
B. By asking the receiver to control his anger.
C. By promising not to offend the receiver again.
D. By seeking support from the receiver’s friends.
D
As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations —UNESCO and National Geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.
Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.
Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China . But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.
At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials —including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.
Now, through the two organizations that he has founded—the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project—Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.
32. Many scholars are making efforts to ______.
A. promote global languages
B. search for language communities
C. rescue disappearing languages
D. set up language research organizations.
33. What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Living with the native speaker.
B. Telling stories about language users.
C. Writing books on language teaching.
D. Having full records of the languages.
34. What is Turin’s book based on?
A. The cultural studies
B. His personal experience in Nepal.
C. His language research in Bhutan.
D. The documents available at Yale.
35. Which of the following best describe Turin’s work?
A. Collect, protect and reconnect.
B. Write, sell and donate.
C. Record, repair and reward.
D. Design, experiment and report. 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。

(E=AB F=AC G=AD)
Reading is an important skill that everyone needs. Here are five things that, if practiced, can help you double your reading speed.
Don’t sound out e ach word. This is probably the most important thing to do to read faster and the most difficult thing to overcome. When we first learned to read, we were taught to pronounce each word properly. 36 Therefore, don’t sound out each word.
37 Looking at each word and sounding it out is a long way to get through a sentence. After you have mastered looking at the word and not sounding it out, then try doing it with two words, three words and then a group of words at a time.
Have proper eye span (视距). Don’t dwell on (停留) each word or phrase. 38 When you look at the last word in the sentence, move your eyes rapidly to the next line, and look and move along the sentence.
Do not regress (回顾). One of the biggest obstacles to reading fast is regressing.
39 As your reading speed increases, the tendency to regress will be less and less. Vary the speed. 40 Some things that are more technical will be read slower. The mind will pick up some things very quickly and others not as quickly. Move along at
a pace that is comfortable. Move as fast as you can while still understanding what is being read.
A. Read several words at a time.
B. Move your eyes at a good pace.
C. Pronounce each word as quickly as you can.
D. Everything does not have to be read at the same pace.
E. Read the whole sentence to double your reading speed.
F. It is natural to want to have a clear understanding of what is being read.
G. It takes much longer to pronounce each word than to look at and understand the word.
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。

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each 41 to help drain (引流) the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only 42 . The other man had to spend all his time 43 on his back.
The men 44 for hours on end. They spoke of everything from their families to their vocations. Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could 45 , he would pass the time by 46 to his roommate all the things he could “ 47 ” outside the window. The man in the other bed become 48 , for those one-hour periods his world would be 49 and enlivened (使……有或活力) by all the activity and color of the world outside.
As the man by the window described all in 50 , the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and 51 the wonderful scene.
Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day 52 arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died 53 in his sleep. She was sad and called the hospital workers to take the body away.
As soon it seemed 54 , the other man asked if he could be 55 to the bed next
to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch. Impatiently, he struggled on one elbow to take his 56 look at the world outside. He slowly turned to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank 57 !
The man asked the nurse what could have made his former 58 describe such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man was 59 and could not even see the wall. “He just wanted to 60 you,” she added.
41. A. morning B. afternoon C. evening D. midnight
42. A. chair B. desk C. window D. door
43. A. lying B. turning C. shaking D. wrapping
44. A. smiled B. debated C. cried D. talked
45. A. sit up B. raise up C. stand up D. hold up
46. A. writing B. recording C. describing D. showing
47. A. see B. remember C. hear D. predict
48. A. confident B. excited C. sad D. disappointed
49. A. shocked B. broadened C. challenged D. strengthened
50. A. public B. order C. general D. detail
51. A. imagine B. act C. doubt D. remember
52. A. worker B. nurse C. doctor D. cleaner
53. A. expectedly B. cruelly C. terribly D. peacefully
54. A. impossible B. unrealistic C. appropriate D. hurried
55. A. tied B. pulled C. moved D. pushed
56. A. first B. worst C. last D. best
57. A. screen B. curtain C. board D. wall
58. A. roommate B. relative C. teammate D. workmate
59. A. deaf B. blind C. weak D. stupid
60. A. annoy B. defeat C. cheat D. encourage
第二节（共10分；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。

It is very interesting to have a look at 61 (different) between schools in different countries. In many European countries, for example, the relationship 62 teachers and students is quite formal. This is true of Germany, France, and Spain, 63 discipline and respect for the teacher is considered very important. The same is true of Russia. In northern European countries, 64 , the relationship is much 65 (closely) and more relaxed. In America and Britain, the relationships are quite relaxed. Students really enjoy 66 (accompany) by their teachers at school. Another important difference is whether schools are state schools or private schools. State schools get financial support from the government while private schools 67 (pay) for by the parents. Germany and France have 68 state schools and private schools, but most students choose 69 (go) to state schools, which are very good.
70 (similar), America also has state schools and private school. Most American children go to state schools, but the private school can be very good.
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(Λ)，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. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I was used to feel sleepy in class and couldn’t focus on the lessons the t eachers give. As the result, not only did I do poorly in my studies, but also my health went from bad to worse. I was annoying with myself. About half a year ago, followed the head teacher’s advice, I began to take part some sporting activities. Now I play basketball for 45 minutes or so every day on the playground. My health has been greatly
improved, but at the same time, I’ve made great progresses in all my lessons. Physical
exercise has changed me into an entire new person, that is far beyond my expectation!
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，希望通过外籍教师John找一位英语笔友。

请写一封短信，描述一下你理想中
笔友的条件，并说明为什么选这样的笔友。

具体条件包括：
1. 年龄；
2. 性别；
3. 爱好（旅游、运动、养宠物等）。

注意：1. 词数100左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3. 开头语已为你写好。

Dear John,
I am writing to ask whether you are able to do me a favor. Yours
Li Hua。