海南省海口市湖南师大附中海口中学2020┄2021届高三上学期第一次月考 英语试题

海口中学2021届高三第一次月考卷英语时量：120分钟分值：150分第一部分：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.What does the man mean？A.He doesn’t have anything to do.B.He believes the woman is wrong about the time.C.Time passes very quickly.2.What did Paul do this morning？A.He had a history lesson.B.He had a chemistry lesson.C.He attended a meeting.3.What does the woman mean？A.Jimmy is going to set out tonight.B.Jimmy has not decided on his journey.C.There is no need to have a farewell （告别） dinner.4.What does the woman worry about most？A. Bad weather.B. Bus strike.C. Heavy traffic.5.What did the man say about his camera？A.He enjoyed using his new camera.B.He left his camera in his frie nd’s car.C.He lost his camera.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，每段对话或读白读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第 6 至第 7 题。

6. How old is the woman now？A. Ten years old.B. Nineteen years old.C. Eighteen years old.7.How does the woman make some money？A.She gives lessons.B.She plays the piano at the concerts.C.She plays the piano at parties.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 至第 9 题。

8. When does the woman plan to leave？A. On Wednesday morning.B. On Friday afternoon.C. On Saturday night.9.What does the woman think about the cost？A. Low.B. Reasonable.C. High听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第 12 题。

10.What is the girl’s nationality？A. Chinese.B. Japanese.C. Indian.11. What is the most probable relationship between the two speakers？A. Customer and shop assistant.B. Student and teacher.C. Classmates.12.What does the man mean when he says “Very good”？A.He thinks the girl can easily understand his words.B.He thinks th e girl understands how to use “Excuse me” and has used it correctly.C.He thinks the girl is clever.听下面一段对话，回答第 13 至第 16 题。

13. Where does this conversation take place？A. At a travel agency.B. At the railroad station.C. At the bus station.14.Why does the traveler want to take a bus？A.The bus tickets are cheaper than the train tickets.B.The traveler wants to experience another way of traveling..C.Bus stops at several cities along the way.15.Why are the bus tickets much cheaper than the train tickets？A.The bus trip takes longer time.B.The bust stops at several cities.C.There is no rest room in the bus.16.Why couldn’t the passenger use the train ticket to pay for the bus ticket？A.The train ticket costs more than the bus ticket.B.The train station belongs to another company.C.Her uncle and aunt don’t agree with her to do so.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 题。

17. What is the speaker doing？A. Giving a lesson.B. Making a speech.C. Introducing a family.18.How long was the company in business？A.For over a century.B.For about half a century.C.For about a quarter of a century.19.Why did the company nearly go out of business？A.They paid for the fire loss.B.They spend too much building the new factory.C.They paid the employees regularly while rebuilding.20.What do we know about Arden Textile？A.They received an award from the public.B.People had different views on what they did.C. They have helped others make great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）AYou never see him, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book. They're known as the black box.When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine （潜水艇）detected the device's homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed. In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which became a requirement on all U.S. commercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells （起落架舱）. The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility. Modern airplanes have two black boxes：a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations, and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments. Placed in an insulated （隔绝的） case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉. When submerged, they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.21. In Paragraph 1，the author wants to say the black box_________.A. is an necessary device on an airplaneB. comes from a comic bookC. can prevent disastersD. can control the function of an airplane22. Why was the black box redesigned in 1965？A. New materials became available by that time.B. The early models often got damaged in the crash.C. Too much space was needed for its device.D. The early models didn't provide the needed data.23. The black boxes were painted orange or yellow to_________.A. distinguish them from the colour of the plane.B. warn people to handle them with careC. make them easily identified.D. obey the international standards.24. What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447？A. There is still a good chance of their being recovered.B. There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.C. They have stopped sending homing signals.D. They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.BHaving a tattoo（纹身） can reduce your chance of getting a job, but it depends on where the tattoo is, what it expresses and if the job involves dealing with customers, new research says.Dr Andrew R Timming told the British Sociological Association conference on work, employment and society in Warwick today that employers were likely to view tattoos negatively.Dr Timming of the school of Management at the University of St Andrews said he had spoken to 15 managers involved in hiring staff about their reaction to interview candidates with visible tattoos."Most respondents agreed that visible tattoos are a stigma," Dr Timming told the conference. One woman manager told him that "they make a person look dirty." Another male manager told him "subconsciously that would stop me from employing them." The managers were concerned about what their organisations' customers might think, said Dr Timming. "Hiring managers realise that, ultimately, it does not matter what they think of tattoos -- what really matters, instead, is how customers might think of employees with visible tattoos.Dr Timming said："The one qualification to this argument is there are certain industries in which tattoos may be a desirable characteristic in a job interview. For example, an HR manager at a prison noted that tattoos on guards can be 'something to talk about' and 'an in' that you need to make a connection with the prisoners."The negative attitude to tattoos did not extend to ones that could be easily covered by clothing. Dr Timming also found that in some of the organisations it was only certain types of tattoos that diminished the chances of getting a job at interview. One male manager told him："If it's gang culture-related you may have a different view about the tattoo than if it's just because it'sa nice drawing of an animal that they've done on their arm."25. Why do managers really refuse to hire a person with tattoos？A. They don’t like tattoos themselves.B. Tattoos can turn customers away.C. People with tattoos don’t obey the rules.D. People with tattoos are gang members.26. A person with tattoos can probably work as ________.A. a doorkeeperB. a salesmanC. a prison guardD. a manager27. Who would be most likely to be turned down by employers？A. A person who has his tattoos covered.B. A person who has tattoos of an animal.C. A person with a gang culture-related tattoo.D. A person with a drawing of flowers on his arms.28. We can infer from the last paragraph that _______.A. not all tattoos reduce one’s chance if employment.B. some tattoos are helpful to a job interviewee.C. it’s no use covering one’s tattoos.D. tattoos are hard to hide.CAs early as the mid-18th century, some people began raising doubts about Marco Polo’s travels. They pointed to seemingly obvious omissions in his descriptions of the Far East. In 1995, historian Frances Wood argued in her book “Did Marco Polo Go to China？” that the famous explorer from Venice never made it pass the Black Sea. She noted that his travel journal “ The travels of Marco Polo”left out the Great Wall of China, chopsticks and tea drinking among other details. Furthermore, Chinese documents from Polo’s day make no mention of the explorer and his men.Wood and other scholars have argued that Marco Polo based his tales of China oninformation collected from fellow trades who had actually been there. Last year, a team of Italian researchers became the latest skeptics to challenge Polo’s accounts. They said that archaeological evidence didn’t support his description of Kublai Khan’s Japanese invasions.Now, however, research by Hans Ulrich Vogel of Germany’s Tubingen University might help prove Marco Polo was true. In a new book “ Marco Polo Was in China”, the professor of Chinese history counters the arguments most frequently made by skeptics. He tries to prove that Marco Polo spoke the truth. He suggests, for example, that Polo didn’t included the Great Wall in his book because it only achieved its great importance under the Ming Dynasty, several hundred years later. Vogel further explains that Chinese records from the 13th and 14th centuries routinely avoided setting down visits from Westerners.Historians before him have touched on these issues while defending Marco Polo’s honor. But Vogel also relies on another evidence：the explorer’s very detailed descriptions of currency and salt production in the Yuan Dynasty. According to Vogel, Polo documented these aspects of Mongol Chinese culture in greater detail than any other of his time. This is a hint that the Venetian relied on his own powers of observation.Will we ever know whether Marco Polo traveled to China？Perhaps not, but the consequences of his real of fictional journey are still felt across the globe. One reader of “The travels of Marco Polo”was Christopher Columbus, who stepped upon the New World while following in his Venetian idol’s footsteps.29. France Wood doubted Marco Polo’s travel’s to China because his description__________.A.missed some important culture of China.B.covered so much about trader’s life.C.was full of obvious mistakes.D.seemed less detailed.30.Vogel’s trust on Marco Polo is based on _______.a.the Great Wall didn’t gain its importance thenb.records in Yuan Dynasty mentioned Poloc.Polo’s mention of the currency and salt.d.Polo’s other works are believablee.Polo recorded what he saw in great detailA. a, b, dB. a, c, dC. a, eD. b, c31.Which of the following shows the structure of the text？A. B. P1 P3P5DFood picked up just a few seconds after being dropped is less likely to contain bacteria than if it is left for longer periods of time, according to the findings of research carried out at Aston University's School of Life and Health Sciences. The findings suggest there may be some scientific basis to the '5 second rule' --- the belief about it being fine to eat food that has only had contact with the floor for five seconds or less. Although people have long followed the 5 second rule, until now it was unclear whether it actually helped.The study, undertaken by final year Biology students and led by Anthony Hilton, Professor of Microbiology at Aston University, monitored the transfer of the common bacteria from a variety of indoor floor types such as carpet, cement floor to toast, pasta, biscuit and a sticky sweet when contact was made from 3 to 30 seconds. The results showed that： Time is a significant factor in the transfer of bacteria from a floor surface to a piece of food; and the type of flooring the food has been dropped on has an effect, with bacteria least likely to transfer from carpeted surfaces and most likely to transfer from cement flooring surfaces to moist foods making contact for more than 5 seconds. Professor Hilton said："Consuming food dropped on the floor still carries an infection risk as it very much depends on which bacteria are present on the floor at the time.”The Aston team also carried out a survey of the number of people who employ the five-second rule. The survey showed that： 87% of people surveyed said they would eat food dropped on the floor, or already have done so. 55% of those that would, or have, eaten food dropped in the floor are women. 81% of the women who would eat food from the floor would follow the 5 second rule. Professor Hilton added："Our study showed surprisingly that a large majority ofpeople are happy to consume dropped food, with women the most likely to do so. But they are also more likely to follow the 5 second rule, which our research has shown to be much more than an old wives tail."32. Eating food dropped on the floor still carries an infection risk because it relies on________ at that time.A. the type of bacteriaB. the carpetC. the cement floorD. the surface of table33. The passage is developed probably by __________.A. timeB. spaceC. contrastD. example34. How did Professor Hilton feel after analyzing how many people chose to eat dropped food？A. SatisfiedB. AstonishedC. PuzzledD. Upset35. What is the main idea of this passage？A. The food which is dropped on the floor can be eaten safely.B. The bacteria have no negative effect on the safety of food.C. A research on the safety of food dropped on the floor is undertaken.D. People surveyed in the research are willing to accept the idea.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。