重庆市第一中学2020届高三英语下学期5月月考试题.doc

重庆市第一中学2020届高三英语下学期5月月考试题

重庆市第一中学2020届高三英语下学期5月月考试题

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重庆市第一中学2020届高三英语下学期5月月考试题（含解析）
英语试题卷共9 页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：
1. 答题前，务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡规定的位置上。
2. 答选择题时，必须使用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。
3. 答非选择题时，必须使用0.5毫米黑色签字笔，将答案书写在答题卡规定的位置上。
4. 所有题目必须在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上答题无效。
第Ⅰ卷
Ⅰ.听力部分 （共二节，每小题1分，满分20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。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 will the man do next?
A. Give Sam a call. B. Find an expert. C. Buy a computer.
2. What does the woman want to be now?
A. A singer. B. A doctor. C. A teacher.
3. How will Sophie spend her weekend?
A. Doing her job. B. Staying at home. C. Visiting her friend.
4. Where did the woman buy her shoes?
A. In a store. B. In a supermarket. C. On the Internet.
5. What’s the relationship between the speakers?
A. Friends.
B. Boss and employee.
C. Salesman and customer.
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。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. Who did the man go on holiday with?
A. His parents. B. His friends. C. His relatives.
7. Where didn’t the man go?
A. Edinburgh. B. St. Andrews. C. Highlands.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In an office. B. In a school. C. At a bank.
9. What does the woman do at last?
A. Check her account.
B. Open a savings account.
C. Open a checking account.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What did the man drink?
A. Tea. B. Juice. C. Cola.
11. What was the cause of the man’s problem?
A. He ate too much.
B. He needed exercise.
C. He didn’t sleep well.
12. How often should the man take the pills a day?
A. Once. B. Twice. C. Three times.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. What is William doing at the beginning of the conversation?
A. Reading a book.
B. Watching a video.
C. Looking at Facebook.
14. What are the speakers discussing?
A. Why Steve Jobs started his company.
B. How Steve Jobs felt about his company.
C. How the name the Apple Computer came from.
15. How many reasons does Tammy mention?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three.
16. What did Steve Jobs think of the company name?
A. He thought the name was funny.
B. He thought the name was too simple.
C. He thought the name represented his company well.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What did Ulysses S. Grant do for Yellowstone National Park?
A. He gave it a name.
B. He signed a law to protect it.
C. He made it larger than before.
18. What activity is popular in Yellowstone?
A. Rock climbing. B. Camping. C. Fishing.
19. In what state is the main attraction located?
A. Wyoming. B. Montana. C. Idaho.
20. What is located under Yellowstone Lake?
A. Colorful rocks. B. Green mountains. C. A volcano.
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）
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。
A
◆ Welwitschia mirabilis
Title: the world’s most resistant plant
It’s not pretty to look at, but welwitschia mirabilis is unique. It consists of only two leaves and a strong stem with roots. Two leaves continue to grow and the stem thickens and can grow to be almost 2 meters high and 8 meters wide. Its lifespan is 400 to 1,500 years. It can survive up to five years with no rain. The plant is said to be very tasty either raw or baked in hot ashes.
◆ Dionaea muscipula
Title: the Venus Fly Trap
Dionaea muscipula is the most famous carnivorous(肉食性的) plant due to the active and efficient nature of its unique trap. It may be famous, but it’s also threatened. It produces a short leaf that forms two sides of a trap. Each side contains some sensitive hairs. When it is touched two to three times, the trap will shut in less than a second, fast enough to catch flies and other insects. The leaf, once closed, produces some enzymes(酶) that slowly dissolve the insects and supply the plant with food.
◆ Rafflesia arnoldii
Title: the world’s largest flower
Rafflesia arnoldii, the largest flower in the world, is an exotic and rare plant. The flower is 3 feet across and weighs 15-24 pounds. However, you wouldn’t want to grow it in your garden. In a rainforest-type environment, it gives off a most unpleasant smell, which is somewhat like rotten meat. This is why it is often called the Corpse Plant by some natives of Indonesia where it comes. Its flowers only last for three days to a week.
◆ Euphorbia obese
Title: the Baseball Plant
Euphorbia obese is known as the Baseball Plant. Over-harvesting by plant collectors for its interesting and curious appearance has severely reduced the wild population. However, it has become very common now. By growing euphorbia obese in large numbers, many gardens have been working to ensure that the plants being traded and sold among plant collectors are not wild plants.
1. From the passage, we know that __________.
A. welwitschia mirabilis is very beautiful
B. dionaea muscipula is famous for its trap
C. rafflesia arnoldii feels like rotten meat
D. euphorbia obese can be used as baseball
2. According to the passage, rafflesia arnoldii __________.
A. shuts its trap two or three times in one second.
B. gives off a special smell to attract flies and insects
C. smells bad in a hot and wet environment
D. has a big flower, a strong stem and two leaves
3. Plant collectors like euphorbia obese because __________.
A. it looks strange
B. it tastes delicious
C. it can be planted in the garden
D. it is worth a big fortune
【答案】1. B 2. C 3. A
【解析】
本文是说明文。介绍了世界上几种比较独特的植物。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。根据第二部分Dionaea muscipula中的Dionaea muscipula is the most famous carnivorous(肉食性的) plant due to the active and efficient nature of its unique trap. It may be famous, but it’s also threatened.和When it is touched two to three times, the trap will shut in less than a second, fast enough to catch flies and other insects.可知捕蝇草是最著名的肉食植物，由于其活跃高效的特性和其独特的陷阱出名。当苍蝇和其他昆虫接触两三次后，捕蝇草的陷阱就会快速关闭将其逮住。故选B。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三部分Rafflesia arnoldii中In a rainforest-type environment, it gives off a most unpleasant smell, which is somewhat like rotten meat.可知Rafflesia arnoldii在雨林类型湿热的环境中，它会发出一种非常难闻的像腐肉的气味。故选C。
【3题详解】
细节理解题。根据最后一部分Euphorbia obese中Over-harvesting by plant collectors for its interesting and curious appearance has severely reduced the wild population.可知植物采集者因其有趣和好奇的外表而喜欢Euphorbia obese，故选A。
B
The tough challenge of a six-month, 3,200-kilometer walk across the South Pole, in the long darkness of the Antarctic winter when temperatures can fall to -90℃, proved irresistible to the experienced British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Fiennes’s hero, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, wrote “great God, this is an awful place” when he reached the South Pole a century ago, before freezing and starving to death with his team on the return journey.
That journey was made in summer. Nobody before has attempted to cross the pole in winter. In a statement, Fiennes said, “This will be my greatest challenge to date. We will stretch the limits of human endurance.”
However, Fiennes could not explain why anyone should consider such a venture, still less a man aged 68 who has survived cancer, heart surgery and the loss of most of the frozen fingertips on one hand. “It’s what I do,” he said, looking slightly puzzled at the question.
Fiennes, the world’s greatest living explorer, according to the Guinness Book of Records — was the first to cross the Antarctic continent unsupported; the first to cross both polar ice caps; and the first to travel across the globe from pole to pole.
Fiennes admitted his wife, Louise, and their six-year-old daughter were not thrilled. “But I’ve never done anything else; it’s how I earn my living. And you’re much more likely, statistically, to die on the roads than on the polar ice,” he said.
After training in the Swedish Arctic in a relatively balmy -40℃, Fiennes’ team will set sail from London on Dec. 6 on a South African research ship. The ice trek will begin on Mar. 21, the spring equinox (春分) that marks the official start of the polar winter, from the Russian base of Novolazareskaya. Fiennes and his five team members must then climb more than 3,000 meters on to the inland plateau, walk for several hundred kilometers using an ice tractor to pull all the supplies and equipment they need, descend another 3,000 meters and finally reach the Ross Sea. If they reach Captain Scott’s old base at McMurdo Sound by the spring equinox six months later, they will still have to wait for months until the sea ice backs off enough for their ship to collect them.
4. Fiennes is going on this expedition because__________.
A. it is something he always does as a career
B. he wishes to inspire his family
C. he wants to travel with his wife and daughter
D. he hopes to improve his health
5. The underlined word in Paragraph 7 probably means “__________.”
A. warm and pleasant B. cold and harsh
C. tough and unbearable D. agreeable and relaxing
6. According to the article, Fiennes’ expedition will__________.
A. begin at an Antarctic base of Sweden
B involve climbing and going down a high plateau
C. start and finish exactly at the two spring equinoxes
D. finish in a few weeks after the ship arrives
7. Fiennes is attempting to cross the South Pole__________.
A. on the same route as Captain Scott’s
B. by himself during the winter months
C. by ice tractor for most of the trip
D. on foot during the worst trip
【答案】4. A 5. A 6. B 7. D
【解析】
【分析】
本文是一篇记叙文。文章介绍了经验丰富的英国探险家费因斯爵士的冬季南极穿越计划。
【4题详解】
细节理解题。根据第四段However, Fiennes could not explain why anyone should consider such a venture, still less a man aged 68 who has survived cancer, heart surgery and the loss of most of the frozen fingertips on one hand. “It’s what I do,” he said, looking slightly puzzled at the question. (然而，费因斯无法解释为什么有人会考虑这样的冒险，更不用说一个68岁的人，他曾经历过癌症、心脏手术和失去了一只手大部分冻僵的指尖。“我就是干这个的。”他说，对这个问题有点困惑)及上文可知，费因斯是经验丰富的探险家，他参加这次探险的原因是这是他职业生涯中经常做的事情。故选A。
【5题详解】
词句猜测题。根据第一段中的in the long darkness of the Antarctic winter when temperatures can fall to -90℃(在漫长黑暗的南极冬季，温会降到零下90摄氏度)可知，零下40摄氏度相对于零下90摄氏度来讲，是相对温暖和舒服的。由此可知，第七段中带下划线的单词可能意味着“温暖和愉快的”。故选A。
【6题详解】
细节理解题。根据最后一段中的Fiennes and his five team members must then climb more than 3,000 meters on to the inland plateau, walk for several hundred kilometers using an ice tractor to pull all the supplies and equipment they need, descend another 3,000 meters and finally reach the Ross Sea. (费因斯和他的五名队员必须爬上3000多米到达内陆高原，然后用一辆冰上牵引车拖着他们需要的所有物资和设备走几百公里，再往下走3000米，最终到达罗斯海)可知，费因斯的探险将包括翻越一个高原。故选B。
【7题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段The tough challenge of a six-month, 3,200-kilometer walk across the South Pole, in the long darkness of the Antarctic winter when temperatures can fall to -90℃, proved irresistible to the experienced British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. (在南极漫长黑暗的冬季，气温会降到零下90摄氏度，长达6个月、长达3200公里的艰苦跋涉对经验丰富的英国探险家费因斯爵士来说是无法抗拒的)及第三段中的Nobody before has attempted to cross the pole in winter.(以前没有人试图在冬天穿越南极)可知，冬天穿越南极将是最糟糕的旅行时段，而费因斯则试图徒步穿越南极。故选D。
【点睛】做阅读理解时要求考生对文章通读一遍，做题时结合原文和题目有针对性的找出相关语句进行仔细分析，结合选项选出正确答案。如第2小题，词句猜测题。要求猜测划线词balmy的意思。根据第一段中的in the long darkness of the Antarctic winter when temperatures can fall to -90℃(在漫长黑暗的南极冬季，温会降到零下90摄氏度)可知，零下40摄氏度相对于零下90摄氏度来讲，是相对温暖和舒服的。由此可知，第七段中带下划线的单词可能意味着“温暖和愉快的”。故选A。
C
Two musicians from Germany are using robotic equipment to add sounds to their performances. The two-man band performs with a robot that can play several musical instruments at the same time. The robot can sound like a guitar, keyboard, drum or other percussion instrument. When performing, members of the band provide many of the sounds, but others are controlled by a computer. Once connected to wires and set up, instruments can play on their own.
One of the instruments was created from a long, self-turning wooden stick that sits on top of a microphone stand. The stick contains long strings. They are tied on each end. The strings are connected to a small wooden ball. As the stick turns, the ball hits a block on the floor, creating a sound.
The two-man band, called Joasihno, recently performed at the South by Southwest Conference and Music Festival in Austin, Texas. They describe their electronic sound as “psychedelic (迷幻的) machine” music. “Actually, we call it a psychedelic robot orchestra,” said Cico Beck, one of the creators of the group.
The group’s other member, Nico Siereg, says playing in an experimental band with robots is not the same as playing in a traditional one. “It’s a little bit different because you also have in mind that there are machines playing around you, so there’s no reaction from them,” he said. But Siereg said that in some ways, the robots actually help him improve his performance. Since the self-playing instruments are programmed, he sometimes feels freer to center on what he is playing, and at times to even play without preparation.
The musician says he can imagine similar technology having a greater influence on many different kinds of music in the future. “Technology is like a very important tool that even, very often, it’s also a very important part of inspiration,” he said. But he also expressed hope that “real music won’t die.”
In addition to performing recently in Texas, Joashihno has been busy putting on shows in Europe and in Canada. The band hopes its high-tech music “experiment” will keep reaching new people and pleasing the ears of its fans.
8. According to the first paragraph, the robotic equipment __________.
A. is operated by a wooden stick
B. serves as a whole band
C. fuctions as musical instruments
D. is battery-powered
9. What does Nico Siereg think of playing music with robots?
A. It is better than playing with human being.
B. It is just a pity that the robots cannot respond to him.
C. It has a negative effect on his performance because robots distract him.
D. It is strange for him to have some machines playing around him.
10. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Robots will replace musical instruments.
B. This new style of performance has become popular around the world.
C. One member of the band doesn’t think playing with robots is real music.
D. The machines are programmed to create many sounds.
11. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Real Music Won’t Die
B. Adding New Blood to Traditional Music
C. High Technology Is Applied to Music
D. Robots Will Wipe Out Human Beings
【答案】8. C 9. B 10. D 11. C
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。文章讲述了，来自德国的两位音乐家正在使用机器人设备为他们的表演添加声音。
【8题详解】
细节理解题。由第一段中的“The robot can sound like a guitar, keyboard, drum or other percussion instrument. When performing, members of the b