四川省棠湖中学2020届高三英语下学期第一次在线月考试题.docx

四川省棠湖中学2020届高三英语下学期第一次在线月考试题注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30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1.5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。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15.B. 9.18.C. 9.15.答案是C。1.What was the weather like on Saturday?A. Sunny.B. Cloudy.C. Windy.2.What does the man want to do next?A. Stop for some coffee.B. Keep on working.C. Leave for home.3.Why does the girl talk with the man?A. To send an invitation.B. To seek for help.C. To ask for permission.4.What are the speakers talking about?A. An applicant.B. An experience.C. A job.5.Which part of the mans body hurts?A. His back.B. His neck.C. His arm.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。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.Where will the man go first?A. To his office.B. To a library.C. To a shop.7.What will the man buy?A. A book.B. A jacket.C. A CD.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8.Why does the man dislike the telephone sales job?A. Its unsuitable for him.B. It needs long working hours.C. Its pay is quite low.9.What does the man think of working as a director assistant?A. Boring.B. Tiring.C. Appealing.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.Why does the man call the woman?A. To tell her about her new job.B. To ask about her job program.C. To plan a meeting with her.11.Who needs a new flat?A. Alex.B. Andrea.C. Miranda.12.Where is the woman now?A. In Baltimore.B. In New York.C. In Avon.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.What is the woman going to do?A. Meet some customers.B. Attend a make-up party.C. Meet her college friends.14.What does the man suggest the woman doing?A. Buying a blue dress.B. Changing purple shoes.C. Wearing a white necklace.15.Where will the man go first?A. To his company.B. To his daughters school.C. To his parents home.16.What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Manager and secretary.B. Father and daughter.C. Husband and wife.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.What do we know about the Plaza Leon?A. Its a new building.B. Its a small town.C. Its a public place.18.When do parents and children like going to the Plaza Leon?A. Saturday nights.B. Sunday afternoons.C. Fridays and Saturdays.19.Which street is known for its food shops and markets?A. Via del Mar Street.B. Fernando Street.C. Hernandes Street.20.Why does the speaker like Horatio Street best?A. It has an old stone surface.B. It is named after a writer.C. It has a famous university. 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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AKeep up-to-date on the topics you love the most with a discount magazine subscription. 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Order your discount subscription to the scientific world today!Our Price: $ 12.00Cover Price: $ 47.88For more information, please click /.21.Which magazine will you subscribe if you want to send a gift to a 5-year-old girl?A. Taste of Home.B. Popular Science.C. Disney Princess.D. National Geographic Kids.22.What is SPECIAL about National Geographic Kids?A. It combines fun with learning.B. There are articles about scientific discoveries.C. Kids can learn science, technology, and the animal kingdom.D. It is a publication about what is popular in the world of science.23.Where can you find the passage?A. A newspaper.B. A guidebook.C. A magazine.D. A website.BThe Alexander techniqueUntil earlier this year, I didnt know anything about the Alexander techniqueand saw no reason to think I should. One day, the backache I regularly suffered was more painful. I was brought up to think that the preferred way of dealing with aches is to do nothing and hope theyll go away, but I eventually went to the doctor. After examining me, he said, “You actually have bad posture (姿势). Go off and learn the Alexander technique.” Three months later I could walk straighter and sit better.The Alexander technique is a way of learning how you can get rid of harmful tension in your body. The teaching focuses on the neck, head and back. It trains you to use your body less severely and carry out the movements that we do all the time with less effort. There is little effort in the lessons themselves, which sets apart the Alexander technique from yoga or pilates, which are exercise-based. A typical lesson involves standing in front of a chair and learning to sit and stand with minimum effort. You spend some time lying on a bench with your knees bent to straighten the spine (脊椎) and relax your body while the teacher moves your arms and legs to train you to move them correctly.The technique helps to break the bad habits accumulated over years. Try folding your arms the opposite way to normal. This is an example of a habit the body has formed which can be hard to break. Many of us carry our heads too far back. The head weighs four to six kilos, so any inappropriate posture can cause problems for the body. The technique teaches you to let go of the muscles holding the head back, allowing it to go back to its natural place on the top of our spines.So who was Alexander and how did he come up with the technique? Frederick Alexander, an Australian actor born in 1869, found in his youth that he had vocal (声音的) problems during performances. He analyzed himself and realized his posture was bad. He worked on improving it, with excellent results. He brought his technique to London and opened a teacher-training school, which is still successful today.So if youre walking along the road one day with shoulders bent forward, feeling weighed down by your troubles, give a thought to the Alexander technique. It will help you walk tall again.24.What does the author suggest in Paragraph 1?A. She felt no better after the treatment.B. She got bored with the Alexander technique.C. She was sceptical about the doctors method.D. She was unwilling to seek treatment for her backache.25.What is the principle of the Alexander technique?A. Physical tension shouldnt be completely relieved.B. The technique shouldnt be combined with other exercises.C. The practice of the technique shouldnt be attempted alone.D. Familiar physical actions shouldnt be done with much effort.26.What can we learn about Frederick Alexander?A. He managed to recover his vocal powers.B. He was eager to make a name for himself.C. He developed a form of exercise for actors.D. He had to leave home to develop his technique.27.What is the main idea of the passage?A. The occurrence of back pain is widespread.B. Alexander improved the technique to treat body pain.C. The Alexander technique helps overcome posture problems.D. People with back pain are victims of inappropriate postures.CThe problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they dont know. By next year，half of the calls we receive will be scams(欺诈).We are finally waking up to the severity of the problem by supporting and developing a group of tools，apps and approaches intended to prevent scammers from getting through. Unfortunately，its too little，too late. By the time these “solutions(解决方案)become widely available，scammers will have moved onto cleverer means. In the near future，its not just going to be the number you see on your screen that will be in doubt. Soon you will also question whether the voice youre hearing is actually real.Thats because there are a number of powerful voice manipulation ( 处理 ) and automation technologies that are about to become widely available for anyone to use .At this years I/O Conference ,a company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist and book a reservation without detection.These developments are likely to make our current problems with robocalls much worse. The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision A decade of data breaches(数据侵入)of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother s name ，and far more. Armed with this knowledge. theyre able to carry out individually targeted campaigns to cheat people. This means. for example，that a scammer could call you from what looks to be a familiar number and talk to you using a voice that sounds exactly like your bank teller s，ricking you into confirming your address，mothers name，and card number. Scammers follow money，so companies will be the worst hit. A lot of business is still done over the phone，and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships. Voice manipulation technologies may weaken that gradually.We need to deal with the insecure nature of our telecom networks. Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real. That might mean either developing a uniform way to mark videos and images, showing when and who they were made by. or abandoning phone calls altogether and moving towards data-based communicationsusing apps like Face Time or WhatsApp, which can be tied to your identity.Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to harder from here on out.28.How does the author feel about the solutions to problem of robecalls?A. Panicked.B. Confused.C. Embarrassed.D. Disappointed.29.taking advantage of the new technologies，scammer can_.A. aim at victims preciselyB. damage databases easilyC. start campaigns rapidlyD. spread information widely30.What does the passage imply?A. Honesty is the best policy.B. Technologies can be double-edited.C. There are more solutions than problems.D. Credibility holds the key to development.31.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Where the Problem of Robocalls Is RootedB. Who Is to Blame for the Problem of RoboeallsC. Why Robocalls Are About to Get More DangerousD. How Robocalls Are Affecting the World of TechnologyD Many of us listen to music while we work, thinking that it will help us to concentrate on the task at hand. And in fact, recent research has found that music can have beneficial effects on creativity. When it comes to other areas of performance, however, the impact of background music is more complicated.The idea that listening to music when working is beneficial to output probably has its roots in the so-called “Mozart effect”. Put simply, this is the finding that spatial rotation performance(空间旋转能力) is increased immediately after listening to the music of Mozart, compared to no sound at all.How sound affects performance has been the topic of research for over 40 years, and is observed through a phenomenon called the irrelevant sound effect. To study irrelevant sound effect, participants in the research are asked to complete a simple task which requires them to recall a series of numbers or letters in the exact order in which they saw them. The tricky thing is being able to do this while ignoring any background noise.Two key characteristics of the irrelevant sound effect are required for its observation. First, the task must require the person to use their rehearsal abilities(复述能力), and second, the sound must contain acoustical variation(声学变化). Where the sound does not vary much acoustically, the performance of the task is much closer to that observed in quiet conditions.The irrelevant sound effect itself comes from attempting to process two sources of ordered information at the same timeone from the task and one from the sound. Unfortunately, only the former is required to successfully perform the recall task, and the effort in ensuring that irrelevant order information from the sound is not processed actually hinders(阻碍) this ability.A similar conflict is also seen when reading while in the presence of lyrical music. In this situation, the two sources of wordsfrom the task and the soundare in conflict. The cost is poorer performance of the task in the presence of music with lyrics.What this all means is that whether having music playing in the background helps or hinders performance depends on the task and on the type of music, and only understanding this relationship will help people maximize their productivity levels.32.“Mozart effect” is mentioned to _.A. explain how music can relax peopleB. show music can improve performanceC. advise people to listen to Mozart musicD. stress Mozart music gains wide attention33.It can be inferred that participants in the research _.A. have improved their rehearsal abilityB. perform better in the quiet conditionsC. ignore the background noise successfullyD. prefer the music with great sound variation34.Paragraph 6 is written to _.A. support an ideaB. make a contrastC. introduce a topicD. describe a fact35.What is the best title for the passage?A. Music shapes your lifeB. Music develops your creativityC. Choose quiet music for your workD. Does music make you concentrate? 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Rivers play an important role on the earth, and we cant imagine what the earth would be like without rivers. 36.With a length of 6, 650 kilometers, the Nile is the longest river in the world. The Nile River has been the source of human civilization since ancient times. The Nile has two main branchesthe White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile starts from the Great Lakes region of East and Central Africa through Lake Victoria.37. The Blue Nile carries with it a lot of fertile soil which turns out to be very important to farming in Egypt.The Amazon River is the worlds largest river with a width of about 40 kilometers during the rainy seasons but about 10 kilometers wide when it is not flooded. The Amazon River has such a big water volume that it accounts for(占.比例) more than 20% of all the worlds fresh waterfar more than any other river. 38.The main Amazon River flows mostly through Brazil and Peru but its tributaries can also be found in many other countries.39.It has a depth of about 250 meters. Its length is 4, 700 kilometers. The sources of the Congo River are in the highlands and mountains in the Eastern Africa Rift Valley. Its the second largest river in terms of water volume. 40.The Congo River basin(盆地) is the catchments(流域，集水区) area of the Congo River. It lies in both north and south of the Equator, making its flow very stable as there are always some tributaries experiencing a rainy season at any time.A. Some of them are worth mentioning.B. The Congo River is the worlds deepest river.C. Do you know which is the deepest river in the world?D. The Blue Nile originates from(发源于)Lake Tana in Ethiopia.E. Without rivers, there would be no living life in and along them.F. And it flows through the second largest rain-forests in the world.G. Streams that begin in the Andes Mountains are its sources.第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 （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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Cali Scores a GoalIt was the last game of the season. Cali had been playing soccer all summer. She really enjoyed _41_ around with the other players in her blue uniform, chasing the black and white ball across the grassy field. As much as she tried, _42_, Cali still had not scored one single goal.“Dont give up,” said her coach. He showed Cali and her team how to pass the ball to each other and take shots at the goal. Cali was pretty good at passing the ball, but she couldnt kick the ball _43_ the goalkeeper. She wondered if she should _44_ soccer.“Dont give up,” said her teammates. ”You just need to keep trying and you will get _45_ .” So Cali stayed on the team and did her best.“Dont