高一英语上学期第一次月考试题46.doc

三明一中2016-2017学年上学期第一次月考试题
高 一 英 语
本试卷共9页，全卷满分100分，考试用时120分钟。
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第Ⅰ卷
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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. When is the math test?
A. Today.
B. Tomorrow.
C. Next week.
2. What does the man want to buy?
A. A shirt.
B. A suit.
C. A tie.
3. What does the woman think of Linda’s brother?
A. He is friendly.
B. He doesn’t like to talk.
C. He is not a pleasant person.
4. What time is it now?
A. 6:30 p.m.
B. 7:00 p.m.
C. 7:30 p.m.
5. What kind of movie did the speakers watch?
A. A horror movie.
B. A romantic movie.
C. An action movie.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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. How long is each class period?
A. One hour.
B. Two hours.
C. Three hours.
7. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Classmates.
B. Mother and son.
C. Teacher and student.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What is the woman worried about?
A. The radio is expensive.
B. The radio won’t be loud enough.
C. The radio might break under the water.
9. When can the woman return the radio?
A. Within 3 days.
B. Within 7 days.
C. Within 30 days.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What does the woman think of the play?
A. Boring.
B. Exciting.
C. Confusing.
11. When did the man read the play?
A. Last year.
B. Last month.
C. Last week.
12. What does the man suggest the woman do?
A. Read it out loud.
B. Act out the play.
C. Join a study group.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. Who is the man probably?
A. A doctor.
B. The woman’s teacher.
C. The woman’s boss.
14. What is wrong with the woman?
A. She hurt her leg.
B. She caught a cold.
C. She hurt her back.
15. What was the weather like yesterday?
A. Rainy.
B. Sunny.
C. Snowy.
16. When will the woman be OK?
A. In two days.
B. In a week.
C. In a month.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How many times can you wear the clothes before they need to be washed?
A. Ten.
B. A hundred.
C. Hundreds.
18. Who have tested the clothes?
A. Top scientists.
B. Ordinary people.
C. Fashion experts.
19. What is true about the clothes?
A. They can keep away dirt.
B. They may smell bad.
C. They are made of very common materials.
20. How much are the socks?
A. 75 dollars a pair.
B. 49 dollars a pair.
C. 29 dollars a pair.

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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
Commuting (乘车上下班) doesn’t have to be terrible. I used to hate jumping on the train or taking the bus, but not any longer now. I always have a book ready, or my iPod loaded up with material for me to listen to. I’ve learned a lot while sitting on trains, buses and airplanes. Here are a few things you can do while commuting:
1. Read a Book
You may not have time to read books, but if you’re commuting and doing nothing, you’re wasting a good opportunity to get friendly with the interesting world of books. If you aren’t a good reader, it may feel hard to get started, but as you keep reading, you’ll find it more and more fun.
2. Write
If you’re eager to become a writer of any kind, you can carry a laptop, put on some music and start writing while sitting on the train or bus. If you don’t have a laptop, there are a lot of ways to find a really cheap one. If you’re only using it for writing and surfing the web, you don’t really need the best one.
3. Listen
If you’re commuting and can’t really read or write, you can always buy audio books and audio courses on many different topics. There really are no excuses to waste your commuting time.
4. Learn a Language
I’ve recently started learning Spanish and I am having a lot of fun doing it. Language learning can be fun. You don’t need to sit in school and study grammar to learn a language. If you can devote 30~60 minutes to a language per day, you will make progress. If you can do more, you will learn more.
Commuting may at first seem boring，but when you really think about it, it’s an opportunity for you to do valuable things while the world passes you by.
21. While commuting now the writer always make use of the time to ________.
A. write books
C. prepare material for his iPod
B. get some knowledge
D. do some shopping
22. While commuting reading books can help you ________.
A. get more friends
C. become a writer of any kind
B. become a good reader
D. make up more funny stories
23. What does the underlined word “one” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to?
A. Writer
B. Bus
C. Laptop
D. Train

B
English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mails are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary — perhaps as many as two million words.
However, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two meese?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English was invented by people, not computers, and it shows the creativity(创造力)of human beings. That’s why, when stars are out, they can be seen; but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
24. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. There should be egg in an eggplant.
B. Pineapples are the apples on the pine tree.
C. Sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different things.
D. Boxing rings should be round.
25. Which of the following is the correct plural?
A. Beeth.
B. Tooth.
C. Meese.
D. Geese.
26. Which of the following includes two items which have the similar meaning?
A. Quite a lot and quite a few.
C. A wise man and a wise guy.
B. Overlook and oversee.
D. Hot as hell and cold as hell.
27. What does the underlined words “wind up” in the last paragraph probably mean ?
A. get tired of
B. recover
C. finish
D. add up
28. What does the writer want to tell us through the many paradoxes in the English language?
A. Human beings are clever.
C. Human beings are hard-working.
B. Human beings are crazy.
D. Human beings are dull.

C
For Pineda, it was a long way to succeed.
His story began in El Salvador, where he was born with something wrong with his mouth. He had great difficulty in speaking. At age 2, his family’s home burned down. Pineda was injured, and his legs needed to be cut. His mother died when he was 8, and he spent years on the streets before he was taken in by an orphanage (孤儿院).
Finally, at the orphanage, Pineda began to receive support and encouragement. He taught himself to play guitar. He began to perform with other musicians. Then the group went to Chicago, where Pineda, then 18, caught the attention of many people, who wondered what they could do to help him.
Shriners Hospitals offered him free medical care. A group called the Mulliganeers agreed to pay for Pineda’s flights to and from El Salvador.
When he was in the hospital, Pineda began writing music, and wondered if he might be able to record his own album. Soon with the help of a musician, “The Sound of Gratitude (感激)”, was born. On October 15th, Pineda went to a Chicago club to play his new songs to strangers, and to the friends who had helped him come so far.
Pineda was amazed that he had come into such a good luck, after having so many years of hardship. “We have a saying in El Salvador, ‘Suffer first, then enjoy.’ I guess that’s what’s happening,” he said.
29. What happened to Pineda after the fire?
A. He couldn’t hear.
C. He couldn’t see.
B. He couldn’t walk.
D. He couldn’t speak.
30. When did Pineda learn to play guitar?
A. When he was two years old.
C. When he was ten years old.
B. When he was eight years old.
D. When he was in the orphanage.
31. Why did Pineda go to a Chicago club to play his new songs?
A. To learn singing skills.
C. To help poor people.
B. To make some money.
D. To express thanks.
32. What could be the best title of the passage?
A. Good Beginning, Half Done.
C. Suffer first, then Enjoy.
B. Practice Makes Perfect.
D. Every Little Helps.

D
In all the world’s cultures, people sing, play instruments, and celebrate with music. It plays such an important part in our lives that all fields focus on its study, including one looking at the biology of music. Experts are finding that because of the way our brains process music, learning to play an instrument or just listening to music can have a wide range of benefits.
Music education has received a lot of attention. Learning to play an instrument can help children improve math, science, and language skills. One study in Canada tracked children’s IQ scores for nine months, discovering that children who studied music had the biggest test score improvements. The secret may lie in the way reading music and playing notes uses several areas of the brain, increasing our ability to learn school subjects. For example, reading notes improves spatial (空间的) reasoning skills, which are helpful in solving math problems like fractions (分数).
Music is also used for medical purposes, such as the treatment of diseases which affect memory. The secret lies in the way the brain processes music. One area near the forehead, the medial prefrontal cortex, connects music with memories stored in two other areas: the amygdale and hippocampus. That’s why an old song can remind you of something that happened years ago. For patients suffering from diseases like Alzheimer’s, listening to music can help unlock buried memories by strengthening musical pathways to memories.
With the evidence of music’s benefits pouring in, it’s no wonder some countries make music study a part of their education systems. People are recognizing that more than just a form of entertainment, music is also great for the brain.
33. Why are scientists studying music?
A. Because music can be used for medical treatments.
B. Because music plays a very important role in our lives.
C. Because our brains can possess music in different ways.
D. Because music education has received a lot of attention.
34. According to the Canadian study, which children had increased IQ scores?
  A. Those who already had high IQs.
  B. Those who had always played music.
    C. Those who could not play any instrument.
  D. Those who studied music for a period of time.
35. Which of the following is a kind of disease?
A. Alzheimer’s
C. The amygdale and hippocampus.
B. Spatial reasoning.
D. The medial prefrontal cortex.

第二节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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，选项中有两项为多余选项。
If you are hungry, what do you do? Have your favorite meal and stay quiet after that?  36  But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your friends or favorite stars. So it silently serves your needs and never lets itself grow. When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity gets a full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next?”, “Why can’t I think?”
  37  Why reading but not watching TV? It is because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from childhood. Since it develops other aspects of our life, we have to get help from reading.
Once you read a book, you run your eyes through the lines and your mind tries to explain something to you.   38  Now this seed is unknowingly used by you to develop new ideas. If it is used many times, the same seed can give you great help to relate a lot of things which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams!
This is nothing but creativity.   39  Within no time you can start talking with your friends in English or any other language and never run out of the right words.
So guys, do give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading.   40  Go and get a book!

A. Now what are you waiting for?
B. Reading can help you make more friends, too.
C. Why not do some reading while you are hungry?
D. Just like your stomach, your mind is also hungry.
E. Also this plays an important part in enriching your vocabulary.
F. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed.
G. Hunger of the mind can be actually solved through wide reading. 

第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I 41 on a glass which cut my eye badly enough to make it 42 . Trying to save the eye, the doctors 43_ on my eye, leaving a big scar (疤) in the middle of it. And as I grew, this sightless eye in so many ways 44 me.
I walked with my face looking at the floor so people would not see the 45 scar. I grew up imagining that everyone looked at me with disdain (鄙视). I always 46 _ like I was a freak.
Yet Mama would say to me, at every turn, “ 47 your head up high and face the world. People will see your 48 soul.” She continued this message whenever I wanted to 49 .
  Those words have meant different things to me over the 50 . As a little child, I thought Mama meant, “Be careful, 51 you will fall down or bump into something 52 you are not looking.” As a teenager, my mama’s words helped me begin to 53 that by letting people look at my face, I let them recognize the beauty 54 both eyes even though they couldn’t see it on the surface.
In high school I got on well with my study and was even chosen class 55 , but I still felt like a freak. When things got really 56 , I would cry to my mama and she would look at me with 57 eyes, saying, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them 58 the beauty inside.”
“Hold your head up high” has been 59 many times in my home. Each of my children has felt its 60 . The gift my mama gave me lives on in another generation.
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41.
A. tried
B. land