2019-2020学年江苏南京市东山外国语学校高三上学期月考英语试卷(23页)

2019-2020学年江苏南京市东山外国语学校高三上学期月考英语试卷第一部分：听力略第二部分：英语知识综合运用第一节从A、B、C和D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

（共15小题，每题1分，满分15分）1. Difficult as rumors on micro blog or weibo are ___________, the authorities will step up supervision so that people will not be easily misled.A. to preventB. to be preventedC. preventedD. preventing2. On the first day of term, there were crowds of people in the dormitory, _________ for where they should go.A.all lookedB. all were lookingC. all to lookD. all looking3. There are three main classes of drugs, ___________ has a different effect on the body.A. all of whichB. and all of themC. each of themD. of which each4. How did it _________ that you failed to ___________ in time yesterday?A. come up; turn downB. come on; turn overC. come about; turn upD. come over; turn off5. As a keen netizen, she thinks there ____________ be better ways for the government to deal with the Internet cafes rather than to shut them down.A. wouldB. shouldC. couldD. might6. —The housing prices have been rising these months. But you can buy a flat on1mortgage.—____________. We have to save up what we can to send our son abroad for further study.A. You can’t be serious.B. Anything but that.C. You bet.D. That’s a good point.7. The theatre turns out to be a(n) ___________ and so few people go the re; it’s not worth maintaining.A. old dogB. stupid monkeyC. white elephantD. black sheep8. Don’t worry! You can easily find a job ___________ skilled workers are badly needed.A.whenB. thoughC. unlessD. where9. —Oh, dear! You are just teasing me.—No actually. I’m __________ serious.A. greatlyB. largelyC. simplyD. deadly10. —How do you think I can make up with my wife?—Put aside ___________ you disapprove and attempt to find _________ you have in common.A.what; whatB. where; whatC.what; whereD. what; whether11. Mr. White was surprised and annoyed that the boy had ___________ a story which was too good to be condemned as a simple lie.A. thoughtB. invitedC. consideredD. spun212. Before signing the employment contract,you have to pay much attention to the numerous conditions_______the enterprise attached to it.A.whatB.asC.whereD.that13.If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it,you are___________ to make the same one againA.boundB.contentC.dueD.keen14.Confidence helps you to take a leap of faith when it comes to going after____________ it is that you trulydesire.A.whyB.whatC.whereD.how15.—It's said that you will resign the present job,why?—____________. The atmosphere of the firm makes me feel at home.A.That dependsB.It's not the caseC.That's for sureD.It's hard to say第二部分：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）Accomplishment is often deceptive (导致误解的) because we don’t see the pain and perseverance that produced it. So we may credit the (1)_________with brains or lucky break, and let ourselves off the hook(为自己开脱) because we(2)_________ in both two. Not that we could all be concert pianists just by exercising enough3discipline.(3)__________, each of us has the makings of success in some effort, but we will achieve this only if we (4)____________ our wills and work at it.How can we acquire stick-to-itiveness? There is no simple, fast (5)__________. But I have developed a way of thinking that has (6)___________ my own weak will more than once. Here are the basic elements:“Won’t” power. This is as important as will power. Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more. Every prize has its (7)___________. The prize is the yes; the price is the no. Igor Gorin, the noted Ukrainian-American baritone(男中音), told of his early days studying(8)_________. He loved to smoke a pipe, but one day his professor said, “Igor, you will have to made up your mind (9)_________you are going to be a great singer, or a great pipe smoker. You cannot be both.” (10)_________, the pipe went.Delayed gratification (喜悦). M. Scott Peck, M.D., author of the best-seller The Road less Traveled, (11)_________ this tool of discipline as “a process of(12)__________the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the(13)___________ by meeting and experiencing the pain first and (14)_________ it over with.”This might (15)__________routine daily decisions—something as(16)_________as skipping a favorite late-night TV show and getting to bed early, to be wide awake for a meeting the next morning. Or it might involve longer-term (17)____________.4The secret of such commitment is getting past the pain and seeing the delight. “The fact is that many (18)___________efforts aren’t fun,” says one radio and TV commentator. “True, all work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy. But trying to turn everything we do into (19)__________ makes for terrible frustrations, because life—even the most rewarding one—includes circumstances thataren’t (20)____________ at all. I like my job as a journalist. It’s personally satisfying, but it isn’t always joyful.”1. A. producer B. applicant C. achiever D. performer2. A. fall short B. come over C. leave behind D. work out3. A. Meanwhile B. Still C. Rather D. Besides4. A. restrict B. delay C. apply D. prefer5. A. dimension B. formula C. dilemma D. foundation6. A. damaged B. allowed C. suffered D. rescued7. A. root B. result C. price D. goal8.A. sound B. voice C. noise D. whistle9.A. that B. if C. whether D. how10. A. Instead B. Moreover C. However D. Therefore11. A. forms B. manages C. shapes D. describes12. A. determining B. scheduling C. mixing D. substitutes13. A. commitment B. tool C. mind D. pleasure14. A. look B. think C. take D. get515. A. make B. involve C. attach D. undergo16. A. reasonable B. delightful C. simple D. strange17. A. resolutions B. debates C. contrasts D. routines18. A. visible B. experimental C. worthwhile D. challenging19. A. work B. play C. hobbies D. efforts20. A. unique B. smooth C. easy D. fun 第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）AThe Chocolate MuseumThe story of chocolate through the ages● Experience chocolate-making from cocoa bean to chocolate bar● Enjoy the smell, taste and texture of freshly made chocolateOpening hoursTues. — Fri. 10 am to 6 pmSat.&Sun. + public holidays 11 am to 7 amClosed on Mondays, Christmas Day and during Carnival week.Entrance feesAdults ＄6.00Concessions (over 65 years old) ＄3.00Groups (of 15 people or more) ＄5.00More than a museum!6The Panorama Restaurant can cater for all your corporate events: business lunches, anniversaries, weddings and parties. Groups of 30 — 300 people are welcome.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Welcome To Auckland Museum"Nau mai haere mai"Auckland Museum has a constantly changing feast of fresh events and new exhibiti ons reflecting the culture of New Zealand. This year is no exception.Click here to find out more >>Latest newsBe inspired by the da Vinci Machines exhibition and design and build your own ori ginal flying machine. The best entry will win the budding inventor a helicopter ride o ver Auckland for a family of four.Avoid the traffic, enjoy hassle-free parking and view the exhibits in peace and quie t on Wednesday evenings! Open till 7:30 pm.From 28 November until 4 March there will be no public access to the Reading Ro om.Click here to find out more >>Museum opening hours10 am — 5 pm daily (except Christmas Day)1. If 16 adults, including 3 aged 70, plan to visit the Chocolate Museum, how much should they pay at least？7A. ＄69.B. ＄78.C. ＄80.D. ＄87.2. According to the information of Auckland Museum, we know that _______.A.it opens from 10 am to 5 pm every dayB. it has a feast of fresh events except this yearC. the winner will fly a helicopter as a rewardD.the museum focuses on New Zealand's cultureBChimps(黑猩猩）will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct(本能）to help each other. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly decline t o share food with their children, who are able from a young age to gather their own fo od.In the laboratory, chimps don't naturally share food either. If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or, with no greater effort, a pl ate that also provides food for a neighbor in the next cage, he will pull at random — h e just doesn't care whether his neighbor gets fed or not. Chimps are truly selfish.Human children, on the other hand, are naturally cooperative. From the earliest a ges, they desire to help others, to share information and to participate in achieving co mmon goals. The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this cooperativeness in8a series of experiments with very young children. He finds that if babies aged 18 mo nths see an unrelated adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will imme diately try to help.There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught, but naturally possessed in young children. One is that these instincts appea r at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave soci ally. Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are reward ed. A third reason is that social intelligence develops in children before their general cognitive(认知的) skills, at least when compared with chimps. In tests conducted by Tomasello, the children did no better than the chimps on the physical world tests but were considerab ly better at understanding the social world.The core of what children's minds have and chimps' don't is what Tomasello call s shared intentionality. Part of this ability is that they can infer what others know or ar e thinking. But beyond that, even very young children want to be part of a shared pur pose. They actively seek to be part of a "we", a group that intends to work toward a s hared goal.1. What can we learn from the experiment with chimps?A. Chimps seldom care about others' interests.B. Chimps tend to provide food for their children.C. Chimps like to take in their neighbors' food.9D.Chimps naturally share food with each other.2. Micheal Tomasello's tests on young children indicate that they _____. .A.have the instinct to help othersB. know how to offer help to adultsC. know the world better than chimpsD.trust adults with their hands full3. The passage is mainly about _____.A. the helping behaviors of young childrenB. ways to train children's shared intentionalityC. cooperation as a distinctive human natureD. the development of intelligence in childrenCEnough "meaningless drivel". That's the message from a group of members of th e UK government who have been examining how social media firms like LinkedIn ga ther and use social media data.The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's report, released l ast week, has blamed firms for making people sign up to long incomprehensible legal contracts and calls for an international standard or kitemark(认证标记) to identify sites that have clear terms and conditions."The term and conditions statement that we all carelessly agree to is meaningles s drivel to anyone," says Andrew Miller, the chair of the committee. Instead, he says,10firms should provide a plain-English version of their terms. The simplified version w ould be checked by a third party and awarded a kitemark if it is an accurate reflection of the original.It is not yet clear who would administer the scheme, but the UK government is l ooking at introducing it on a voluntary basis. "we need to think through how we make that work in practice," says Miller.Would we pay any more attention to a kitemark? "I think if you went and did the survey, people would like to think they would," says Nigel Shadbolt at the Universit y of Southampton, UK, who studies open data. "We do know people worry a lot abou t the inappropriate use of their information." But what would happen in practice is an other matter, he says.Other organizations such as banks ask customers to sign long contracts they may not read or understand, but Miller believes social media requires special attention be cause it is so new. "We still don't know how significant the long-term impact is going to be of unwise things that kids put on social media that come back and bite them in 20 years' time," he says.Shadbolt, who gave evidence to the committee, says the problem is that we don't know how companies will use our data because their business models and uses of dat a are still evolving. Large collections of personal information have become valuable o nly recently, he says.11The shock and anger when a social media firm does something with data that pe ople don't expect, even if users have apparently permission, show that the current situ ation isn't working. If properly administered, a kitemark on terms and conditions coul d help people know what exactly they are signing up to. Although they would still ha ve to actually read them.1. What does the phrase "meaningless drivel" in paragraphs 1 and 3 refer to?A. Legal contracts that social media firms make people sign up to.B. Warnings from the UK government against unsafe websites.C. Guidelines on how to use social media websites properly.D. Insignificant data collected by social media firms.2. It can be inferred from the passage that Nigel Shadbolt doubts whether .A. social media firms would conduct a survey on the kitemark schemeB. people would pay as much attention to a kitemark as they thinkC. a kitemark scheme would be workable on a nationwide scaleD. the kitemark would help companies develop their business models3. The writer advises users of social media to _____.A. think carefully before posting anything onto such websitesB. read the terms and conditions even if there is a kitemarkC. take no further action if they can find a kitemarkD. avoid providing too much personal information4. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?12A. Say No to Social Media?B. New Security Rules in Operation?C. Accept Without Reading?D. Administration Matters!DThere are many heartbreaking moments in this beautifully written book, Letter t o Louis, by Alison White, but the first comes before it even begins. In the devotion to her son Louis, author Alison White says how she wanted to write it so that people w ould understand disability and caring, but also, "to be totally honest, I wanted to write something that would make people consider being Louis's friend". Beneath that simp le plea(恳求) lies the great fear of so many parents who nurse a severely disabled child through to adulthood: "What will happen when I'm gone?" Instead of giving a vivid account of the fear and anxieties that accompany long-term caring, she just tells us what it's li ke, and it is equally admirable, uplifting, terrifying.As a society, we are fond of praising short--term heroism: the soldier or firefighter, bravery containable within a single story. Th e uncomfortable truth that Letter to Louis lays bare is that the heroism of long--term toughness, the daily caring over many years, is neither great nor interesting. At times, with two other children to care for and Louis waking five times a night, still un13diagnosed and in constant pain, White feels simple despair. "I picture the cliff. I pictu re jumping holding you tight in my arms, falling and falling through the air."Although there are moments of joy — when Louis first speaks, manages to walk a little — White offers no comforting platitudes(陈词滥调). "My destiny has been decided. The realisation hits me full force in the stomach. I don't want this destiny." Very soon, you come to admire White's courage not only in raising a child with a disability but in resisting the temptation to hit one or two of the many she encounters along the way: a Clarks shoe shop assistant who refuses to sell Louis, a wheelchair user, a pair of shoes because he can't walk across the room for he r to check the fit, and an unhelpful occupational therapist who won't authorise the toil eting equipment that he needs, insisting he has to learn to wipe his own bottom, even though it is a physical impossibility for him.It is shocking to learn that at Louis's most disabled, after a disastrous foot operat ion, the family are only entitled to two hours' help a month. Temporary care only com es, eventually, when they are close to breakdown. At one point, Louis has five differe nt social workers in eight months — and then, unbelievably, faces the overnight with drawal of all temporary care when he reaches his 18th birthday.On the other hand, White explains the difference that the support of family and f riends and small acts of kindness from strangers can make. When she takes Louis on a special day trip to London because he wants to travel on the tube, Transport for Lon don staff take it upon themselves to radio ahead to each other to make sure there is al14ways someone to help them at each station he wants to visit. Once in a while, a therap ist or doctor actually listens to White's knowledge and expertise regarding her son's c ondition.Eventually, though, the long-term consequences of constant lack of sleep and car ing work begin to take effect. A slightly mysterious chapter towards the end of the bo ok sees the author disappearing to Edinburgh to walk and sit in cafes: it's never stated clearly whether this is for work or because she has had a breakdown or a combinatio n of the two. The wonder is only that it has taken so long.This chapter is just one of the half-told stories in this book: the author is mindful of the need to protect the privacy of her husband, although it is clear their marriage h as come close to breaking point many times, as anybody's would, and that of her othe r two children. Beneath it all is a cold anger that any decent-minded reader will share towards a society that fails to understand that unless carers are properly cared for by t he rest of us, it all falls apart.Above all, this book is a plea for understanding, for the rest of society to pause a while when they encounter someone like Louis or his parents. The huge difference a kindly word or helpful act can make — and the destruction a thoughtless act can caus e — cannot be underestimated. This book is an essential read for anyone who has eve r complained about their taxes going to pay for disability services: it should be legally required reading for anyone in the medical profession or anyone with the power to de15cide about cuts to those services. The rest of us should read it for an acute insight into just how lucky we are.1. Alison White wrote Letter to Louis to _______.A. describe the hardships in bringing up her disabled childB. illustrate the sufferings and miseries of her disabled childC. promote acceptance of the disabled and concern for their carersD. express parents' worries about the future of their disabled children2. By comparing two kinds of heroism the author intends to _______.A. applaud the bravery of soldiers and firefightersB. encourage the parents of the disabled to live onC. blame people for their favor of short-term heroismD. emphasize the heroism of caring for a disabled child3. What can we infer from the 4th paragraph?A. Louis is able to depend on himself at 18.B. The Whites eventually break down in despair.C. Social workers are willing to offer help to Louis.D. Public support for the disabled is far from ideal.4. Alison White disappears to Edinburgh and stays there long probably because_______.A. social workers' help frees her from the toughness of lifeB. the cold and indifferent society makes her disappointed16C. she temporarily escapes from the endless caring workD. she wants to be relieved from the blow of her divorce5. What does the underlined sentence imply?A. Society should show concern for the carers of the disabled.B. Readers will misunderstand society if carers are neglected.C. It does not make any sense to be angry with society.D. The carers should be responsible for their own needs.6. The author of the passage concludes it with _______.A. strong recommendationB. obvious disapprovalC. cautious warningD. mild criticism第四部分：任务型阅读：请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最适当的单词。