内蒙古阿拉善左旗高级中学2018届高三第一次月考英语试卷

阿左旗高级中学2018届高三年级第一次月考

英语试卷

命题教师：石丽

本试卷满分120分，时间100分钟

第一部分：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、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 

A

In this digital age, we search almost everything online before we decide what to do. According to a US－based business reviewing website, the top searches at different times of the night in different European countries vary a lot. Below are some of the more interesting findings. Take a look.

Italy:  While most Europeans are searching for restaurants or bars around 6 p．m., the Italians are searching for messages, shoes and job agencies.

Germany：Coming from perhaps the most organized and efficient country, the average German is attracted to food and drink. Having looked up restaurants and bars earlier in the evening, they have already been searching for breakfast and brunch by 9 p.m.

UK: Karaoke is one of the most popular pastimes in Asia, but in Europe, the UK seems to be the only nation to look first for Karaoke bars in its Internet searches, roughly around 9 p.m. Later into the night, Britons are going to 24－hour pharmacies (药房)by 10 p.m., and then there is a steady interest in 24－hour food stores and delivery, until 1 a.m.

France：The French call it a day online quite early, at about 10 p.m. But they don't do it until they've had a chance to put their dancing shoes on, after searching for “night club” and “dance”.

Spain: The Spanish seem to be quite practical. They search for elementary schools and dermatology (皮肤科) at 10 p．m., followed by swimming lessons at midnight.

21. A man searching for education information online often probably comes from ________．

1. Spain      B. UK       C. France      D. Germany

22. What can we learn from the text ?

1. The Italians don't like restaurants or bars. B. UK is considered the most organized country.

C. Asian people often look for Karaoke first online. D. Usually French people end their online search early.

23. In which section of a magazine does this text probably come from?

1. Opinion.   B. Lifestyle.     C. Society.     D. Technology.

B

On the day of college graduation, I announced to my friends and family: I was leaving the country I had lived in since childhood. “I just need a change,” I told them, but there was more. I was heartbroken. My relationship with the United States is the toughest one I have ever had, as a country I loved and believed in did not love me back.

Back in the 1990s’, my mother brought me from our home in the Caribbean islands to America when I was four. She worked as a live-in nanny(保姆)for two years, playing mommy for white kids whose parents had better things to do. She was thirsty to embrace her American dream, hoping that her children would be educated and she might have nannies of her own one day.

That was our path—get a “good education.” When the neighborhoods with quality schools became too expensive for my mom to afford as a single parent, we went across the United States with GreatSchools Net as our compass: New Jersey, elementary school; Texas, middle school; Florida, high school; New York City, private university.

For a long time I survived by covering myself in all kinds of labels so that people would ignore the color of my skin, yet I existed on the edge of ugly, ignorant and uncolored. “Black people don’t really know how to swim,” a white lady told me when I worked as a swim instructor at my neighborhood’s pool. “The black children don’t like to read very much,” I overheard one librarian discussing with another while l was reading.

I was never able to make America my home. When I stripped myself of the labels painfully one by one, beneath them there is a wounded colored woman who refuses to be faceless anymore. My face may be disgusting to some since it bears proof that race continues to be a problem. My hope is that it will force Americans to reexamine their “post—racial” beliefs.

24. What was the real reason that made the author leave the United States?

1. It couldn’t provide her with good education. B. She just needed a challenge in her way of life.

C. The way she was treated there broke her heart. D. She was tired of living in a strange country.

25. The author gives two examples in Paragraph 4 to show that  _________  .

1. she needed to cover herself in all kinds of labels.
2. Black people and children don’t like swimming and reading at all.
3. racial discrimination still exists in such a developed country.
4. white people in America are ignorant and rude.

26. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

1. The author’s mother was well educated and hoped the author could receive good education as her.
2. The author and her mother referred to GreatSchools Net when the author wanted to choose schools to attend in America.
3. The author once worked as a nanny as well as a swimming instructor.
4. The author found it easy to adapt to the life in America when she first arrived there.

27.The author writes the passage to hope  _____________ .

1. immigrants get ready for more hardship
2. the US people reflect on how it treated the colored people
3. her family can understand her decision
4. the black people reexamine their ways of life

 C

Forests are amazing, and so are the animals that live in them. We enjoy watching TV shows about bears, bats (蝙蝠) or monkeys. We know a lot about their lives: how they find food or what they do at different times of the year. But what about smaller animals that are more difficult to see or film?

Many small animals that live in forests are very important for the soil. A French scientist, Francois Xavier Joly, is studying one of them---the millipede(千足虫).

The importance of leaves

When the leaves begin to die in fall, they turn from green to yellow and fall from the trees. As they decompose on the ground, nutrients(营养物质) are returned to the soil and carbon dioxide to the air. Life in the forest needs these nutrients. Without them, plants could not grow and there would be no food for animals such as the millipede.

Food on the forest floor

Some living things, like mushrooms, break the leaves into small pieces and eat them. In a few months there is nothing left of them. But for mushrooms, not all trees are the same. Mushrooms prefer some types of leaves to others. This means that some leaves take much longer to be broken down than others. Sometimes it takes years. So what happens to these? This is where millipede can help.

More on the menu

The millipede also likes leaves and it eats any type. But when it has finished, it produces waste. This waste then becomes the food of mushrooms. When mushrooms eat leaves they choose only certain types but when they eat waste, they will eat any kind. This is how the millipede turns dead leaves into food for others and helps life continue.

So next time you are walking through a forest, remember that something may be having a meal right under your feet.

28. According to the passage, what can we learn about the millipede?

1. It can often be seen on TV shows. B. It mostly feeds on the nutrients in the soil.

C. It is too small to be noticed by people. D. It lives under mushrooms in the forest.

29. Which of the following phrasal verbs is closest in meaning to the underlined word “decompose”in Paragraph3?

1. break down     B. dry up    C. dig in     D. make up

30. What does the author want to tell us by mentioning mushrooms?

1. The millipede eats mushrooms in the forest.
2. The millipede helps to provide food for mushrooms.
3. Mushrooms play an important part in helping millipedes out.
4. Mushrooms decide what types of leaves the millipede will eat.

31. According to the author, the millipede is ___________  .

1. poisonous     B. rare    C. unimportant     D. amazing

 D

     There was a time when a trip to the supermarket in the United States often ended with a seemingly simple question from the cashier: “Paper or plastic?” Well, which type of bag would you choose?

While all types of bags have some influence on the environment, it has long been supposed that paper bags are kinder. They are made from a renewable source, break down easily, burn without giving off thick smoke and can be recycled. However, the producing process behind paper bags uses more energy than that of plastic ones. How can this be true?

     Studies show that paper bag production requires four times as much energy as plastic bag production. And the amount of water used to make them is twenty times higher. Besides, the influence on forests is very serious. It takes about fourteen million trees to produce ten billion paper bags, which happens to be the number of bags used in the United States yearly. In terms of recycling, the idea that paper bags are more environment-friendly than plastic ones can be quickly discarded.Research shows it requires about 98% less energy to recycle plastic than it does paper.

     Even though paper bags might be more harmful than plastic ones, plastic still seems to be considered by governments as the more harmful of the two. In Ireland, for example, a tax has been introduced to discourage the use of plastic bags. People have to pay 22 cents for every plastic bag, and as a result, their use has dropped quickly.

There’s no doubt that it makes more sense to reuse these bags. However, we don’t seem to be doing that at present. That may be because they fall apart quickly. If so, cloth bags are a better choice, but still, their production also has a bad influence on the environment. So what to do? How should we answer the question of “Paper or plastic?” It seems that we first need to ask ourselves one more general question: “What can I do to help the environment?”

32. The questions in Paragraph 1 are used to ___________     .

1. express the author’s doubts   B. tell readers how to save money

C. introduce points for discussion   D. show the kindness of the cashier

33. Compared with plastic bags, paper bags  _____________.

1. need more water to produce    B. require less energy to recycle

C. take more time to break down   D. have less influence on forests

34. The underlined word “discarded” in Paragraph 3 probably means “ _____________    ”.

1. shared    B. given up     C. discussed    D. put forward

35. Which question does the author probably hope the cashier will ask ?

1. Paper or cloth?     B. Paper or plastic? C. A small bag or big one?    D. A new bag or your own one?

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。

Some people get pleasure from picnics and tours. Others like to discuss various topics and find pleasure in it. But the reading of books provides us with such pleasure as we do not get from any other activity.

Books are written by learned people. They contain the best experiences and thoughts of their writers. Writers put in their books not only their own ideas and feelings, but also what they observe and find in society. 　  36　

If we are in a cheerful mood, our joy is increased by reading.  　37  　They provide us with the best advice and guidance in our difficulties. Indeed, books are our best friends as they help us in our hour of need.

　       38　They entertain us in our spare moments. Good novels, books on poetry and short stories, give us great enjoyment. At times we become so absorbed in our books that we forget even our important arrangements. Loneliness is no trouble for a reader.

　  39  　They give us sound moral advice. It is through the reading of books that we learn what to love and what to hate. The reading of good books develops and improves our character.

It was the English author Bacon who said that reading makes a full man. No one can question the truth of this saying.　40    Some books are such that instead of doing any good, they do harm to the readers. So it is the reading of good books alone that presents us the greatest benefit.

1. Books keep us well-informed.
2. Books contain grains of wisdom.
3. When we are alone, books are our best friends.
4. Books enable us to know the best of the colorful world.
5. When we are in a depressed mood, books comfort our troubled minds.
6. But we cannot get full advantage from reading, if our choice is not good.
7. By reading books written by great thinkers, we come in contact with their minds.

第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节完形填空(共20小题，每小题1.5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。

In 1994 I was in the midst of a depression (抑郁症）. When I was depressed, I    41 __  . One day I was clearing up the rooms and found a CD covered with    42 __  . I wiped it off, put it in the    43   and started washing dishes. A man’s voice, reading poetry,    44    my house. The sound of the speaker’s voice and the words of the poems reached something deep inside me. I stopped and  45___  

I began to take poems into my    46   , not simply reading them, but developing rich relationships with the  47   I learned many by heart. They became my therapy (治疗）and   48    . Those poems made me wiser and healthier.

49     , in the fall of 2008, poetry    50   me in a way I had never expected. I had put all my   51__    in a small, local fund (基金).Two months later, the leader of the fund left me a message: “The financial crisis   52 ___   our fund particularly hard. We've lost everything.”

I stood there,   53     .

Suddenly I heard a poem,    54   , called Kindness in my mind. It felt like the poem had been written for me   55___ , for this exact moment, like the perfect helper   56    on the scene at the instant of an accident. Kindness became my  57    I read it before going to bed, and at breakfast every morning. It reminded me that this was not a   58 ___  , but a path to sympathy, and I was not walking alone. Even now, I   59 ___  Kindness several times a week to carry me  60   __  the heart of what really matters to me.

41. A. ran                     B. slept                    C. cleaned                    D. sang

42. A. dust                    B. paper                    C. clothes                    D. bedding

43. A. drawer               B. player                  C. washer                     D. fridge

44. A. swept              B. occupied              C. decorated               D. filled

45. A. wept                   B. left                        C. laughed                    D. listened

46. A. home               B. life                        C. class                     D. mind

47. A. tunes               B. rhymes                  C. words                    D. CDs

48. A. medicine        B. food                    C. assistance               D. attention

49. A. Still                    B. Yet                        C. Then                     D. Soon

50. A. surprised         B. impressed              C. warned                     D. rescued

51. A. faith                   B. savings                  C. hope                    D. expenses

52. A. hit                     B. blew                     C. pushed                    D. pressed

53. A. fearless              B. thankless               C. breathless              D. defenseless

54. A. by coincidence  B. out of nowhere  C. in the distance     D. by accident

55. A. immediately       B. sincerely              C. casually                    D. personally

56. A. reading              B. arriving                  C. walking                    D. escaping

57. A. homework        B. religion                  C. prayer                    D. memory

58. A. mistake              B. lesson                  C. comfort                    D. tragedy

59. A. reach for             B. dream of                 C. refer to                    D. meet with

60. A. for                    B. with                        C. off                          D. into

第二节:语法填空(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。

   T Researchers find that   61  large amount of African dust can blow all the way across the Atlantic Ocean and fall on North and South Americas.

African dust storms can harm air quality    62     the ocean. But new research by scientists from some countries  __ 63    (show)the storms also can do some good.   64    is found that an average of 28 million metric tons of Saharan dust falls in South America’s Amazon River basin each year. Scientists say the dust is an important    65    (provide) of fertilizer. “Yes, it’s    66     (surprise) because of the huge amount of dust and phosphorous(磷),   67  is a nutrient that plants need    68     (grow),” one of them says.

In fact, the phosphorous    69     (fall) from the sky is about the same as the amount that rivers carry out each year. The thick rainforest and the desert dust    70   (join) together on one small planet.

第三部分：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。每处错误仅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.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

I'd like to talking about my most memorable experience. It was the trip to Australia I had three years before with my dance group to participate in international dance festival. It was the first time I had travelled by plane in my life. My mum worried a lot, so everything went smoothly. I stayed there for two week and it was the happiest time in my life. Besides our performances there, we have much excitement. We spent on almost every morning sunbathing on the beautiful beach and swam in the blue sea. But warmly Australian nights were which I adored most of all. It was a time of joy, lights, music and summer parties.

     Yours，

     Wang Kai

第二节 书面表达（满分25分）

假如你是李华，你的英国朋友Edward正在学习汉语，希望你推荐一个适合他学习汉语的网站。请你根据以下内容，给他回复邮件。

推荐网站：www.edchinese.com

网站内容：1. 网络课程：中文情景对话、中国风俗、中文电影、中文歌曲、成语和唐诗等；2. 有在线教师答疑解惑。

注意： 1. 词数100左右;  2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连3. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

 Dear Edward,

I’m more than pleased to know that you are learning Chinese. I’d like to recommend www. edchinese.com to you.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________-

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Wish you a happy learning time! Yours，

Li Hua

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高三年级 第一次月考 英语答案

阅读 ADB   CCBB    BABD     CABD    GECBF

完形 CABDA    BCACD  BACBD   BCDAD

语篇填空

61. a   62. across   63. shows    64. It   65. provider   66. surprising

67. which   68. to grow   69. falling   70. are joined

改错：

1.talking改为talk

2.before改为ago

3.international前加an

4.so改为but

5.week改为weeks

6.have (much excitement)改为had

7.spent后的on删去

8.swam改为swimming

9.warmly改为warm

10.which改为what

五. 书面表达

Dear Edward,

   I’m more than pleased to know that you are learning Chinese. I’d like to recommend www.edchinese.com to you. It’s a good website for non-Chinese speakers who are learning Chinese, especially for beginners.

    Firstly, it provides you with a variety of online courses, such as Chinese idioms, dialogues and customs. Through these courses, you will have a good understanding of the Chinese language as well as its culture.

Besides, it will help you learn Chinese in interesting and effective ways. Here you can learn to sing some Chinese songs, enjoy Tang poems and watch Chinese movies.

More importantly, there are teachers online whom you can turn to for help. And all this is free of charge.

     I hope you will find this website attractive and helpful.

     Wish you a happy learning time!

Yours，

Li Hua