湖南省岳阳市第七中学2020届高三英语9月月考试题.docx

湖南省岳阳市第七中学2020届高三英语9月月考试题本试卷分为第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分, 考试时间为120分钟。第I卷第一部分：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和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AAlan Naiman was known for being very careful about how he spent his money. But even those closest to him had no knowledge of the fortune he quietly gathered and the last act he had planned.Naiman died of cancer at age 63 last January. The man from the American state of Washington gave most of his money to groups that help the poor, sick, disabled and abandoned children.He gave them $11 million. The large amount of his fortune shocked the groups that received his gifts and even his best friends. That is because Naiman had been known to repair his own shoes with duct tape. He had sought deals to buy food from grocery stores at closing time and taken friends out to lunch at low cost restaurants.Naiman died unmarried and childless. He loved children but also was intensely private. He saved, invested and worked extra jobs to gather money. He rarely spent the money on himself after seeing how unfair life could be for children who suffer most.Naiman was a former banker who worked for the past 20 years at the state Department of Social and Health Services. He earned $67,234 a year and also took on side jobs. Sometimes, he worked as many as three at a time. He saved and invested enough to make several millions of dollars. He also received millions more from his parents after they died.He left $2.5 million to the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Washington. The center is a private organization that cares for babies born to mothers who abused drugs and children with drug dependency. The center used the money to pay off its mortgage (按揭) and buy a new vehicle to transport the children.Naiman gave $900, 000 to the Treehouse, where children without parents can choose toys and necessities for free. Treehouse is using Naimans money to expand its college and career support services Statewide.1. Why were Naimans best friends shocked at his donation?A. He left nothing to his relatives.B. He was dishonest in his economic conditions.C. He received wealth from his parents secretly.D. He used to be very careful to spend money.2. Naiman was greatly concerned about _.A. his money B. his career C. children in trouble D. life after retirement3. What does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about?A. Why Naimans parents turned rich.B. Where Naimans fortune came from.C. How hard Naiman worked all his life.D. How clever Naiman was to gather money.4. How did Naimans money benefit the Pediatric Interim Care Center?A. It improved its transport system.B. It offered more toys to children.C. It sent more children to college. D. It helped more women give up drugs.BChina Small Group ToursTour Route 1: 11 Days Private Beijing Lhasa Xian ShanghaiTour Highlights :Must-see sights in Chinathe Great Wall, Forbidden City, Terracotta WarriorsFollow us on a Buddhist pilgrimage to Tibet & appreciate the profound cultureHave a leisurely walk or an exciting bicycle ride on the time-honored City Wall of XianView the soaring city skylines and feel the pulse of modern ShanghaiFrom $ 2, 459 per personTour Route 2: 11 Days Private Bejing Xian Chonqing Yangtze River Cruise Yichang ShanghaiTour Highlights:Must-see sights in Chinathe Great Wall, Forbidden City, Terracotta WarriorsTry biking on the Ming Dynasty City Wall of Xi an, or tour by electric carEnjoy the Three Gorges scenery on Yangtze River & feel totally relaxedFrom $ 1, 879 per personTour Route 3: 12 Days Private Beijing Shanghai Xian Guilin Yangshuo Guilin Hong KongTour Highlights:Must-see sights in Chinathe Great Wall, Forbidden City, Terracotta WarriorsExperience the Bund, classical garden, modern and old in contrast in ShanghaiFeel the lively atmosphere & explore busy markets freely in Hong KongWalk into a local family, learn to cook Chinese food & dine with the hosts in their homeFrom $ 2, 499 per personTour Route 4: 12 Days Private Beijing Xian Chengdu Guilin ShanghaiTour Highlights:Must-see sights in Chinathe Great Wall, Forbidden City, Terracotta Warriors, Giant PandasCome to Chengdu，the hometown of giant pandas to visit and observe the cute creatureCruise on the meandering Li River & admire Guilin landscapeWalk into a local Chinese family, interact & dine with the hosts in their homeFrom $2, 079 per person5. What do Tour Route 1 and Tour Route 2 have in common?A. They have cycling activities.B. They include a visit to Tibet.C. Visitors enjoy the Three Gorges scenery.D. Visitors pay the same amount of money.6. What is special about Tour Route 2?A. Tourists can travel by bike.B. Tourists can visit a huge dam.C. Tourists can dine with a family.D. It is the most expensive of the four.7. Where can visitors enjoy Chinas rare animals?A. Tour Route 1.B. Tour Route 2. C. Tour Route 3.D. Tour Route 4. CGoldfish have pretty boring lives, so maybe its a good thing they can only concentrate for nine seconds! But according to a new research, humans are becoming like goldfish.Our attention span (时长) is getting shorter .and its all because of technology.“We move quickly from one site to another on the web,” said Doctor Ted Selker, a computer scientist from Massachusetts, “and we are losing the ability to concentrate.” With millions of websites to choose from, the attention span of the average internet user is just seconds.There are other digital distractions（分心）too: email, instant messaging and quickie movies on websites.Some people are worried about the effect on young people.“You need time to understand and think about what you read,” said Julia Wood, from London. “Young people search the net all the time and their brains become full of useless information but there is no time to make sense of it.I am trying to persuade my pupils to read more books, so that they concentrate on one subject for longer.”Other teachers are trying more unusual methods to improve studentsconcentration. Anne Savan, from Wales, was so worried about her students that she started playing Mozart during her science lessons.She says that it had an amazing effect: “The music made them calmer, and their concentration was much better.”But not everyone believes that there is a problem.Ray Cole, an educational psychologist says,“On the web, young people learn to make quick decisions about what is and isnt worth reading. They might look at five unhelpful websites very quickly, before stopping and reading a sixth useful website more carefully.In a world with so much information available, this is an important skill.”8.Why does the writer mention “goldfish”?A.To introduce background.B.To compare two species.C.To introduce a topic.D.To suggest a way out.9. What may cause a shorter attention span according to Dr.Ted Selker?A.Skipping around the internet. B.Time to digest information.C.Traditional methods of reading. D.Making decisions.10.What will help students overcome a short attention span?A.Composing music.B.Texting messages C.Reading more books.D.Watching quickie movies.11.What is Ray Coles attitude towards looking through websites quickly? A.Cautious. B.Unfavorable. C.Skeptical. D.Supportive.DThe idea of progress started to flower in the 17th century. At that time, many wise thinkers believed that man liberated by reason would rise to ever greater heights of achievement. The many expressions of human naturewould be the engines of progress: language, business, science, and moral sensibility（道德感）. Unfortunately, most of those engines have failed to bring the desired human progress.The modern age has belonged to material progress and its main source has beenscience. Science gives people huge power to change the world. But can people be trusted to use it always for good? Think of biotechnology and information technology. And it is not just that scientific progress does not deliver the emotional good. People also fear that mankind is failing to manage science properly. The forests are disappearing; the ice is melting; privacy is leaking; life is becoming a depressing march in an ugly world. The point is not that science is harmful, but that scientific progressneeds to be mapped tidily onto human progress. That relies on moral sensibility in its widest sense. This liberal force offers hope for a better future. The very idea of moral sensibility probably sounds out-of-date. But researchers find that people desirea sense of moral purpose which would give life dignity. People want to determine how the world works, not always to be determined by it. Moral sensibility is why people will suffer for their beliefs，and why acts of noble self-sacrifice are so powerfulIt is admitted that our moral ideals will never be realized completely. But sometimes, however imperfectly, we can make progress. Human dignity requires the love of ideals for their own sake, but nothing requires that the love be returned. Human progress is neither guaranteed nor hopeless. Instead, it is up to us. 12. What do we know about human progress from Paragraph 1?A. Human beings were greatly liberated by the idea of progress.B. Language failed to serve as an expression of human progress.C. Peoplebegan to think about human progress in the 17th century.D. Many thinkers in the 17th century were optimistic about human progress.13. Why does science fail to bring the desired human progress?A. Scientific progress does not give people dignity.B. Proper governing is not guaranteed in the use of science.C. Science is misunderstood because of improper management.D. The engine of progress is sensitive and unreliable.14. What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. Depressing life.B. Harmful science. C. Human progress. D. Moral sensibility.15What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To stress the function of the idea of progress.B. To express concern about the death of moral sensibility.C. To show the importance of moral sensibility in human progress.D. To blame the harm of material progress to human development.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填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school. 16 Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65team US mens college basketball tournament. 17 Teams compete against each other in a single-elimination (单局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness. The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends. 18 Colleagues against bosses.Big-name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little-known universities.This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little-known George Mason University was one of the final four teams. 19 College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves. 20 About $ 4 billion will be spent gambling (赌) on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $ 500 million in advertising income this year, topping the postseason income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA.A. Husbands against wives.B. The players will go all out for the games.C. But that doesnt mean money isnt involved.D. College students will ignore piles of homework.E. People are willing to spend more money on watching it.F. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.G. Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.第二部分：英语知识运用完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。It was December 22. The bitter wind swept the countless snowflakes across my front yard. My dad was there sweeping the _21_. His nose was red as a cherry. With every breath he took, a white puff _22_ into the air. Inside, my mother was _23_ the last of the boxes. As I entered the front door, the _24_ that after today I wouldnt enter through that door _25_ again burned a hole in my stomach. I picked up my dog and sat Indian style with him in my lap on the _26_, wooden floor. I had no _27_ but to sit on the floor, for there was no longer any furniture occupying my house. I sat there in a daze (恍惚), just _28_. There was no reason for my parents to make me, a once _29_12-year-old kid, _30_. I had two best friends right across the street; I did well in school and I always kept my room clean. _31_, this was “my house”. By no means did I want a couple of _32_ living here. These recurring (重复) thoughts danced around in my mind and I couldnt find a(n) _33_. Out of the front window I could see the orange top of a truck pulling in the cleaned driveway and I knew it was the other U-Haul. Instantly three men came _34_ through the back door like World War III was starting. I watched _35_ as the men, my mother and my dad loaded the truck. My dog even winced（畏缩）as he stared out of the window. I wondered if he was _36_, too, or if he just wished to play outside in the snow. My mum came in, looking solemn（凝重）for my sake, I imagined. She turned _37_ the overhead light, put the _38_ in my arm and followed me out of the back door. A totally _39_ feeling filled my inside. For the first time in my life, I wondered what _40_would be to me tomorrow.21. A. stairsB. gardenC. sidewalkD. driveway22. A. escapedB. flowedC. roseD. flew23. A. pilingB. packingC. collectingD. locking24. A. ideaB. dreamC. thoughtD. opinion25. A. onceB. everC. quiteD. over26. A. coldB. wetC. brokenD. messy27. A. choiceB. mannerC. solutionD. means28. A. dreamingB. thinkingC. staringD. crying29. A. diligentB. cleverC. happyD. honest30. A. remainB. cryC. sufferD. move31. A. HoweverB. BesidesC. ThereforeD. Yet32. A. neighboursB. strangersC. visitorsD. elders33. A. wayB. keyC. answerD. decision34. A. marchingB. laughingC. talkingD. whistling35. A. silentlyB. casuallyC. carefullyD. helplessly36. A. afraidB. angryC. sadD. lonely37. A. downB. offC. onD. up38. A. boxB. dogC. bagD. hand39. A. excitedB. eagerC. emptyD. mixed40. A. lifeB. schoolC. homeD. world第II卷第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分25分）第一节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。A grape seed that falls into the soil of Xinjiang is very fortunate, as Xinjiang is _41_ (well) suited for growing grapes than anywhere else. Here, a grape seed can grow to its full potential. _42_ its high altitudes(海拔), long periods of dry weather and abundant sunshine, Xinjiang produces fruits with extremely high sugar content. Every fall, a large number of grapes are shipped from Xinjiang to other parts of China, _43_ the rest are made into raisins for easy storage.In the vineyards of Moyu, thanks to the hot and dry climate that results from being surrounded by the desert, huge quantities of large and _44_ (juice) grapes with very thin skins are produced. These grapes bring wealth as well as their delicious _45_ (sweet) to the locals.In mid-September, _46_ their Seedless White grapes ripen, local farmers are busy picking grapes_47_ (transport) to other parts of the country. Bunches of glowing white grapes _48_ (hang) on the vines, waiting to be picked. If you pick one and put_49_ in your mouth, you will surely never forget the wonderful taste produced by the _50_ (burn) sun and the desert wind of southern Xinjiang.第二节 课本知识运用（共30小题；每小题1分，满分30分）I.单词填空（共14小题；每小题1分，满分14分）（请用第8册书M1-3单元、学案或维词401-410词）51. My parents live on f_(固定的) incomes. 52. B_(基本上) I agree with your plans, but here are a few small points Id like to discuss.53.