安徽省淮北一中2015届高三第一学期第一次月考英语试卷Word版

安徽省淮北一中安徽省淮北一中 20152015 届高三第一学期第一次月考英语试卷届高三第一学期第一次月考英语试卷 第 I 卷 共 115 分 第二部分 英语知识运用 共两节 满分 75 分 第一节 单项选择 共 15 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 15 分 请认真阅读下面各题 从题中所给的 A B C D 四个选项中 选出最佳选项 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑 21 The astronauts were so struck by beauty of nature that they took lots of pictures in space A the B the the C the D 22 Why can t you and Mary go to the movie tonight We to have a maths test tomorrow A are supposed B have supposed C are supposing D will suppose 23 After the earthquake in Sichuan in 2008 people around the world began to their clothes food and money to the disaster areas A buy B get C donate D sell 24 A computer is so useful a machine we can use everywhere A that B which C as D what 25 For the last two years he a book on the Second World War but he hasn t finished it A has written B has been writing C wrote D has been written 26 I regret you John has been fired I can hardly believe my ears He s such a fine worker A telling B having told C to tell D to have told 27 It was a pity that the great writer died his work unfinished A of B from C for D with 28 They are trying to the project to meet the deadline A Speed up B set up C look up D pick up 29 The accident is reported the workers misusing the machine A to have been resulted in B to be resulted from C having resulted in D to have resulted from 30 Will you be free next week Mr Chairman I m afraid not I a meeting on global warming from Monday to Friday A am having B will be having C will have D will have had 31 It was Yang Liwei s high scores on the psychological tests finally won him his position as China s first astronaut A which B that C what D as 32 Whom should I give this dictionary to You may give it to A whoever you think needs it most B whomever you think needs it most C no matter who you think needs it D no matter whom you think needs it most 33 He arrived in Yangzhou in 2001 some years later he became a professor A when B that C where D which 34 you know when an idiom is being used you can t easily understand what you read A Unless B Until C If D Once 35 The story is very interesting Tell me quickly A That s a no brainer B Don t be a wet blanket C I m all ears D Don t pull my leg 第二节 完型填空 共 20 小题 每小题 1 5 分 满分 30 分 请认真阅读下面短文 从短文后各题所给的 A B C D 四个选项中 选出最 佳选项 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑 One day before Christmas all of us children from the Children s Home Society Orphanage 孤儿院 were taken to the Mayflower Hotel in downtown to attend a Christmas party After the man on the stage said a prayer 祈祷 we were told to 36 Within minutes we were 37 a meal which was fit for a king I ate 38 I could eat no more As we ate Santa Clause came walking out onto the 39 The kids cheered with 40 Everyone began clapping their hands and yelling as 41 as they could I too was excited 42 but I knew better than to yell out loud or to jump up and scream Mrs Winters the head matron sat only three seats from me She had 43 it very clear to everyone that we were to 44 ourselves in a proper manner and that there was to be no yelling or shouting One orphan at a time was led up onto the stage and each kid was handed a 45 by Santa Claus himself As the line became shorter and shorter my 46 finally came He smiled at me Then he reached over and handed me a 47 box which had two gold ribbons 丝带 on it As I leaned 向前倾 to take the box I tripped and I 48 to my knees Santa reached over and helped me to my feet Move 49 Kiser called out Mrs Winters I was now leaning against Santa Claus leg and I was looking 50 into his eyes His face was less than an inch from mine Can I 51 you Santa I asked him The next thing I knew Mrs Winters had caught me up by my shirt collar and was 52 me away from the line of children I sat down in my chair just crying Once in a while I would 53 at the stage to see if my gift was still sitting by Santa Claus When we all lined up waiting HO HO HO I 54 coming from behind me As I 55 there stood Santa Claus holding my large box Then he knelt down and he hugged my neck as hard as he could 36 A stand up B go outC sit downD keep silent 37 A taken B servedC broughtD supplied 38 A until B unlessC beforeD after 39 A tableB hotel C seatD stage 40 A encouragement B excitement C disappointment D astonishment 41 A loud B big C highD low 42 A outside B beside C asideD inside 43 A took B made C demanded D warned 44 A behave B perform C practiceD act 45 A favor B box C gift D medal 46 A turn B way C chance D gift 47 A golden B yellow C small D large 48 A sat B fell C dropped D turned 49 A by B on C in D out 50 A quickly B directly C immediately D finally 51 A tellB call C hug D leave 52 A pushing B keepingC stoppingD pulling 53 A look B jump C put D stand 54 A watched B found C heard D observed 55 A turned around B turned up C turned awayD turned down 第三部分 阅读理解 共 20 小题 每题 2 分 满分 40 分 请认真阅读下面短文 从短文后各题所给的 A B C D 四个选项中 选出最 佳选项 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑 A Natural ways of keeping time In ancient times people had to use the sun and the moon to tell time They got up when the sun came up and worked in the fields until the sun went down Man made things The sand clock is made of two glass balls joined by a narrow neck The top ball was filled with sand The sand slowly moved through the neck into the bottom ball People knew how much time had passed when all the sand had fallen to the bottom ball People also made the water clock They made a small hole near the bottom of a pot Then they filled the pot with water Markings inside the pot showed how much time passed as the water dripped 滴 out of the hole Nature s Clocks in Living Things Animals Body Clock Animals do not need clocks to know time They have a way of telling time by their bodies Birds know when to fly to warmer places before winter Some animals know when to keep more food for the cold winter months Some fish know when it is time to move up the river and lay eggs Plants have their own clocks Plants also have their own clocks to keep time Plants know when to open flow ers or when to drop their leaves The Body Clock in Human Beings People also have their own body clocks When we get used to our lives our body clocks can be very accurate 准确的 It can tell us when it is time to wake up It can also tell us when to eat or to go to sleep 56 How could an ancient farmer know when to go back home in the daytime A By looking at the moon B By looking at the stars C By looking at the sun D By feeling whether tired or not 57 How many kinds of living things with nature s clocks are mentioned here A 2 B 3 C 5 D 6 58 From the passage we know what man made things have in common is that A both of them have a hole B both of them are designed with glass balls C both of them can be used only once D both of them tell time in the same way B AVERAGE RESOURCES 620 m3 water If we put fresh water and sea water together we can each have 620 m3 water But remember sea water is too salty for us to drink if the factories don t process it first So 620 m3 is little Saving water in daily use is important 0 5 hectares of forests There are 3 869 billion hectares 公顷 of forests on Earth But we are losing them mainly because we cut trees too much If we calculate 计算 at the size of a football field we are losing 343 000 football fields every day or 1 431 per hour or 24 per minute 1 5 centimeters long corals 珊 瑚 All the corals that we have now spread for about 100 000 km in 109 countries But each of us can only have such a little piece because seas are getting polluted and corals are dying 33 stars According to the latest report there are 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Each of us can have 33 of them Unfortunately we cannot see most of the 200 billion stars from Earth We can only see about 6 000 stars If we don t use telescopes or we have bad weathers we can only see about 2 000 stars 90kg rice On average we harvest 0 54 billion tons of rice each year round the world and each of us can have 90 kg Asia produces and eats 90 of all the rice How long will it take you to eat up this 90 kg rice 1 iceberg Luckily we still have icebergs to share when Earth gets warmer and warmer Each of us can have an iceberg of 170m 170m 170m Up to 10 of Earth surface is covered by ice There is 31 000 000km3 of ice on Earth in all 59 On average we each probably have fresh water in the world A 620m3 B more than 620m3 C far less than 620m3 D no more than 620m3 60 We are losing the forests on Earth because of A the man made damage B the climate change C the construction of many football fields D the environmental pollution 61 When we use telescopes or the weather is fine we can see stars from Earth A all the stars B about 200 billion C about 2 000 D about 6 000 62 According to the table above we each can only have because of pollution A less water B fewer icebergs C fewer corals D less rice C In Brazil soccer is considered an art form So it is only fitting that the sport Brazilians call the beautiful game gets its own museum This is the land that produced football great stars such as Garrincha Zico Romario Ronaldo Kaka and the most famous of all Pele It is the only country to have qualified for every World Cup and the only one to win it five times But until now Brazil has never had a truly national museum honoring the sport that stands for Brazilian culture That changed last month when the Museu do Futebol or Football Museum opened at Pacaembu Stadium in Sao Paulo Upon entering the museum visitors are greeted in Portuguese Spanish and English by a life size image of Pele who is so respected in Brazil that he is known as The King The Louvre has the Mona Lisa We have our own piece of art Pele said Hugo Sukman of the Roberto Marinho Foundation which helped fund the construction of the museum In many ways the museum is a shrine 圣祠 to Pele One of its most impressive displays is a temporary exhibit with 140 items from Pele s personal collection including the wooden shoeshine box he used as a boy to earn spare change and the ball from his 1 000th goal in 1969 The museum traces football s transformation from a sport for the noble to the passion of the 190 million common people From the jungles of the Amazon to the slums 贫民窟 of cities like Rio de Janeiro and Recife soccer unites Brazilians from all walks of life In general a museum about football is also a museum about the history of Brazil and Brazilian culture said Leonel Kaz the museum s curator 博物馆馆长 63 When visiting the museum we can enjoy the displays except A a life size image of Pele B the Mona Lisa C a wooden shoeshine box of Pele s D the ball symbolizing Pele s 1000th goal 64 What can we know about the museum according to the passage A People visiting the museum could be greeted just in Spanish and English B The building of the museum shows the popularity of the sport in Brazil C The museum is actually a shrine to Pele D Until now Brazil has never had a truly national museum honoring the sport that represents Brazilian culture 65 At Pacaembu Stadium in Sao Paulo the Museu do Futebol opened because A in the Brazilians opinion as an art form soccer represents their culture and should be worth the name B Brazil is the only country to have qualified for every World Cup C many famous football stars were born in Brazil including Pele D people in Brazil want to honor Pele 66 The author mainly wants to tell us that A Brazil is a multiracial country full of passion for football B the history of Brazil and Brazilian culture can be known in the museum C Brazil opened up its first football museum D known as The King Pele is thought highly of in Brazil D Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week EU scientists warned The scientists study requested by the European Commission attacked the concept of leisure noise saying children and teenagers should be protected from increasingly high sound levels with loud mobile phones also coming in for criticism 批评 There has been increasing concern about exposure from the new generation of personal music players which can reproduce sounds at very high volumes without loss of quality the Commission the EU s executive arm said in a statement Risk for hearing damage depends on sound level and exposure time it said More and more young people were exposed to the great threat 威胁 that leisure noise posed to hearing it said Commission experts said that between 50 and 100 million people listen to portable music players on a daily basis If they listened for only five hours a week at more than 89 decibels 分贝 they would already be beyond EU limits for noise allowed in the workplace they said But if they listened for longer periods they risked permanent hearing loss after five years The scientists calculated the number of people in that risk category at between five and 10 percent of listeners meaning up to 10 million people in the European Union Sales of personal music players have soared in EU countries in recent years particularly of MP3 players I am worried that so many young people who are frequent users of personal music players and mobile phones at high acoustic levels may be unknowingly damaging their hearing she said in the statement 67 Which of the following can be the best title of the article A Youngsters across Europe suffer permanent hearing loss B MP3 players sell best but do harm to youngsters C The scientists study requested by the EU D EU warns youth turn your MP3 players down 68 This passage is most likely to be taken from a A textbook B medical report C teen magazine D governmental newspaper 69 The underlined part in the forth paragraph most probably means A were uncovered B felt C realized D were faced with 70 From the passage we know that A besides the high sound levels scientists also criticized loud mobile phones B if one listened for 5 hours more a week at 100 decibels he would risk permanent hearing loss C it is only the level of the sound that can do damage to hearing D the scientists said there were 5 10 percent of MP3 listeners risking hearing loss around the world E Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events love sadness good times and bad times It tells real life stories and sounds the way people really talk As life becomes more complicated 复杂 it is good to hear music about ordinary people Country music sometimes called country western comes from two kinds of music One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern Unite States The other is traditional cowboy music from the west The singers usually play guitars and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars At first city people said country music was low class It was popular mostly in the South But during World War II thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories They took their music with them Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps 军营 in the South They learned country music Slowly it became popular all over the country Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada in small towns and in New York City among black and white and among educated and uneducated people About 1 200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty four hours a day English stars sing it in British English and people in other countries sing it in their own languages The music that started with cowboys and poor southerners is now popular all over the world 71 It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from A the Northeast and Midwest B factories and army camps in the South C the Appalachian Mountains and the West D real life stories in small towns 72 Before World War II country music was popular mainly in A the south B the north C the Midwest D the Northeast 73 During World War II many Southerners went to the Northeast and the Mid west because A they wanted to take music with them B they wanted to make other people like country music C they wanted to work in the factories there D they wanted to make country music popular 74 Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the world today because A city people said it was low class B people could sing it in many different languages C it started with cowboys and poor Southerners D it is loved by different kinds of people in the world 75 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage A Country music is about human feelings and events B Country music is sung by stars all in English C Country music is popular among city people today D City people didn t like country music at first 第 II 卷 共 35 分 第四部分 任务型阅读 共 10 小题 每小题 1 分 满分 10 分 请认真阅读下列短文 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格中填入最适当的 单词 每空格 1 个单词 It is an all too familiar story A natural disaster strikes in a remote part of the world causing destruction and suffering Villages are flattened and people are forced into camps It is now happening in China after the earthquake of magnitude 里氏 8 that was centered on Wenchuan but shook the entire country Actually in the past centuries there were hundreds of thousands of earthquakes in different parts of the world In Sept 1923 Tokyo and Yokohama were both destroyed by an earthquake and the fires that followed it They had to be completely rebuilt One of the most serious earthquakes was in China s Shanxi Province in 1556 It claimed almost one million people We measure an earthquake s strength on the Richter scale The Richter scale was introduced in 1935 in Southern California in the USA It measures earthquakes on a scale of one to ten Any earthquake measuring five or more is usually serious The earth s crust 地壳 is made up of layers of rock called plates As these plates move they sometimes crash against each other causing the crust to quake In cities such as Tokyo where small quakes happen quite often many modern buildings are designed to be flexible so when the earth moves they move with it Earthquakes can also break up gas or oil pipes This can cause fires to break out which can do as