高一英语月考.docx

海州高中 2016—— 2017 上学期高一年级10 月份月考英语试卷

命题人孙淑芝马娇时间 100 分钟满分 150 分第一部

分：阅读理解 (共两节，满分 40 分 )

第一节：（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。

(A)

Miss Gogers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she explained to one of her classes

about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She

said to them,“ Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?”

Tom at once answered,“Your brother.Because electricity travels faster th an sound waves. ”“ That'severy good, “ MissGogers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gogers said.“ Yes, Kate.”

“I disagree, “Kate said. “Your brother would hear you earlier because when it's 11 o'clock here it's only 8 o'clock in Los Angeles.”

1. Miss Gogers was teaching her class_________.

A. how to telephone

B. about electricity

C. about time zone( 时区 )

D. about sound

2.Miss Gogers raised this question because she wanted to know whether______.

A.it was easy to phone to Los Angeles

B.her student could hear her from 75 feet away

C.her students had grasped her lesson

D.sound waves were slower than electricity

3.Tom thought that electricity was _________.

A. slower than sound waves

B. faster than sound waves

C. not

so fast as sound waves D. as fast as sound waves

4.Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______.

A.clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York

B.electricity was slower than sound waves

C.Tom was not good at physics at all

D.Tom's answer had nothing to do with sound waves

(B)

It was Monday. Mrs. Smith's dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house.

Considering that there was no better way. Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the

following words on it:“ Give my dog half a pound of meat.”veThenthe shepapergato her dog and

said gently:“ Takethis to the butcher(person whose job is selling meat). and he's going to give you

your lunch today.”

Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher's. It gave the paper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized that it was really the lady's handwriting and soon

did it as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up at once.

At noon, the dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading

it. he gave it half a pound of meat once more.

The next day, the dog came again exactly at noon. And as usual, it brought a piece of paper in the

mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers (people who buy something from a shop).

But, the dog came again at four o'clock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butcher's more surprise, it came for the third time at six o'clock, and brought with it a third piece of

paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled. He said to himself,“ This is a small dog. Why does Mrs give it so much meat to eat today?”

Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on it!

5. Mrs. Smith treated her little dog quite_________.

A. cruelly

B. fairly

C. kindly

D. rudely

6. It seemed that the dog knew well that the paper Mrs. Smith gave it_______.

A. might do it much harm

B. could do it much good

C. would help the butcher

D. was worth many pounds

7. From its experience, the dog found that ________.

A. only the paper with Mrs. Smith's words in it could bring it meat

B. the butcher would give the meat to it whenever he saw it

C. Mrs. Smith would pay for the meat it got from the butcher

D. a piece of paper could bring it half a pound of meat

8.At the end of the story, you'll find that _______.

A.the dog was clever enough to write on the paper

B.the dog dared not go to the butcher's any more

C.the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog

D.the butcher found himself cheated by the clever animal

(C)

Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the many colleges and universities in the

United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.

In the early years, these school were much alike (*similar).Only young men went to college. All

the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Little was