四川省新津中学2020届高三英语12月月考试题.docx

四川省新津中学2020届高三英语12月月考试题第卷第一部分 听力(共两节，满分30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，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. What will the man buy for the woman? A. Notebooks. B. Paper. C. Pencils. 2. Where does the conversation take place? A. In a bookstore. B. In a library. C. In the womans office. 3. Why will Mr. Rogers be out of the office next week? A. To take a holiday. B. to attend a wedding. C. To travel on business.4. What does the man mean? A. The woman cant leave early. B. Hell pick up the womans parents. C. Mr. Black wont come at 4 oclock. 5. What are the speakers talking about? A. A lift worker. B. The mans sister. C. A lift accident. 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. Why did Gareth Jones quit the game halfway? A. He got hurt. B. He was too tired. C. He broke match rules. 7. What will the speakers do next Saturday? A. Visit Gareth. B. Watch a game. C. Play a match. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. What impressed the man most? A. The plot. B. The main performers. C. The songs. 9. What do we know about the musical? A. The woman has seen it. B. The writer won awards for it. C. People speak highly of its plot. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. What did the woman think of the house owner? A. Kind. B. Cold. C. Serious. 11. Why did the woman leave the flat? A. The rent was high. B. The room was too cold. C. The neighbors were noisy. 12. How did the womans neighbor act when they met one morning? A. Angrily. B. Sadly. C. Dishonestly. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. How high does the woman need to climb for the walking? A. 1,500 meters. B. 2,000 meters. C.4,000 meters. 14. How did the woman prepare for the walking? A. She slept out in the tent in winter. B. She climbed a 4,000-meter high mountain. C. She took long walks through the hills daily. 15. What did the woman think of the walking? A. It was hard but enjoyable. B. It was difficult and tiresome. C. It was wonderful and smooth. 16. What was the most exciting moment during the walking? A. Watching the sunset. B. Seeing the ruined buildings. C. Walking through the Sun Gate. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. How long does the break in Barcelona last? A. Two nights. B. Three nights. C. Seven nights. 18. What costs extra money for the Barcelona break? A. Flights. B. Breakfast. C. Evening meals. 19. On what can visitors get discounts with a discount card? A. All the city sights. B. Some restaurants. C. 5-star hotels. 20. When is the deadline of the booking for the Barcelona break? A. September 30th. B. October 5th C. October 31st. 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。 AA year after graduation, I was offered a position teaching a writing class. Teaching was a profession I had never seriously considered, though several of my stories had been published. I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Davis. My father went by the same name, and I liked to imagine people getting the two of us confused. “Wait a minute!” someone might say, “are you talking about Mr. Davis the retired man, or Mr. Davis the respectable scholar?” The position was offered at the last minute, and I was given two weeks to prepare, a period I spent searching for briefcase (公文包) and standing before my full-length mirror, repeating the words, “Hello, class. Im Mr. Davis.” Sometimes I would give myself an aggressive voice. Sometimes I would sound experienced. But when the day eventually came, my nerves kicked in and the true Mr. Davis was there. I sounded not like a thoughtful professor, but rather a 12-year-old boy. I arrived in the classroom with paper cards designed in the shape of maple leaves. I had cut them myself out of orange construction paper. I saw nine students along a long table. I handed out the cards, and the students wrote down their names and fastened them to their breast pockets as I required. “All right then,” I said. “O key, here we go.” Then I opened my briefcase and realized that I had never thought beyond this moment. I had been thinking that the students would be the first to talk, offering their thoughts and opinions on the events of the day. I had imagined that I would sit at the edge of the desk, overlooking a forest of hands. Every student would yell. “Calm down, youll all get your turn. One at a time, one at a time!” A terrible silence ruled the room, and seeing no other opinions, I inspected the students to pull out their notebooks and write a brief essay related to the theme of deep disappointment. 21. The author took the job to teach writing because _. A. he wanted to be respected B. he had written some stories C. he wanted to please his father D. he had dreamed of being a teacher 22. What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 2? A. He would be aggressive in his first class. B. He was well-prepared for his first class. C. He got nervous upon the arrival of his first class. D. He waited long for the arrival of his first class. 23. Before he started his class, the author asked the students to _. A. write down their suggestions on the paper cards B. cut maple leaves out of the construction paper C. cut some cards out of the construction paper D. write down their names on the paper cards 24. The author chose the composition topic probably because _. A. he got disappointed with his first class B. he had prepared the topic before class C. he wanted to calm down the students D. he thought it was an easy topic BHow should one invest a sum of money in these days of inflation (通货膨胀)? Left in a bank it will hardly keep its value, however high the interest rate. Only a brave man, or a very rich one, dares to buy and sell on the Stock Market. Today it seems that one of the best ways to protect your savings, and even increase your wealth is to buy beautiful objects from the past. Here I am going to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks, which I personally consider are among the most interesting of antiques. I sometimes wonder what a being from another planet might report back about our way of life. “The planet Earth is ruled by a mysterious creature that sits or stands in a room and makes a strange ticking sound. It has a face with twelve black marks and two hands. Men can do nothing without its permission, and it fastens its young round peoples wrists so that everywhere men go they are still under its control. This creature is the real master of Earth and men are its slaves.” Whether or not we are slaves of time today depends on our culture and personality, but it is believed that many years ago kings kept special slaves to tell the time. Certain men were very clever at measuring the time of day according to the beating of their own hearts. They were made to stand in a fixed place and every hour or so would shout the time. So it seems that the first clocks were human beings. However, men quickly found more convenient and reliable ways of telling the time.They learned to use the shadows cast by the sun. They marked the hours on candles, used sand in hour- glasses, and invented water-clocks. Indeed, any serious student of antique should spend as much time as possible visiting palaces, stately homes and museums to see some of the finest examples of clocks from the past. Antique clocks could be very expensive, but one of the joys of collecting clocks is that it is still possible to find quite cheap ones for your own home. After all, if you are going to be ruled by time, why not invest in an antique clock and perhaps make a future profit? 25. By quoting (引用) the remark of a being from another planet, the author intends to_. A. suggest human beings are controlled by a clock B. describe why clocks can rule the planet Earth C. tell readers what clocks look like D. compare clocks to human beings 26. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to measure the time? A. Counting the beating of ones own heart. B. Making use of candles, sand and water. C. Observing shadows cast by the sun. D. Keeping slaves busy day and night. 27. The underlined phrase stately homes in Paragraph 4 means _. A. state-owned houses B. houses in very good condition C. grand houses open to the public D. houses where statesmen meet regularly 28. The purpose of the passage is _. A. to introduce the culture of antique clocks B. to offer some advice on collecting antique clocks C. to compare different ways to make a future profit D. to explain convenient and reliable ways of telling time CTell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open peoples mind to another culture or race. People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own. “Most local stories are based on a larger theme,” American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, “ Cinderella, or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.” Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoners too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they dont like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “there is a greater need for communication” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says. Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere, she says. “I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,” she says, “ What I do is to focus on the value of the stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybodys story.” 29. What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2? A. They share the same way of storytelling. B. They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures. C. They learn their stories from the American natives. D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults. 30. The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _. A. start a new life B. settle down in another place C. direct films D. become good actors 31. Pugh has practised storytelling with _ groups of people. A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 32. What is the main idea of the text? A. Storytelling can influence the way people think. B. Storytelling is vital to the growth of business. C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school. D. Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others. D Monarch ButterfliesOne of the last West Coast homes of the Monarch butterfly, a type of insect, may soon disappear.Strangely, it is in a town that calls itself Butterfly USA, Pacific Grove, California. The town of Pacific Grove loves the butterflies. Every year they have a parade and hundreds of children dress up as butterflies. Monarch butterflies are the town mascot. Tourism is very important, and many people come to see the butterflies. The butterflies are good for the development of the town. In 1981 there were so many butterflies that it looked like it was raining butterflies. Tens of thousands of Monarchs stayed on tree branches near Pacific Grove. Now there are not so many. The building goes on a little bit at a time, and you dont notice it day by day. Over time, you can see that there has been a lot of development. As new buildings go up, many trees are cut down. This reduces the natural homes for the butterflies. Monarchs travel hundreds of miles each year, returning to the same woods, often to the same trees. The female Monarchs need milkweed to lay their eggs; the males will follow the females. Millions of Monarchs have traveled regularly along the same path for thousands of years. They start their trip in the mountains of Mexico and travel to the middle part of America. If the woods where the butterflies live are destroyed, the whole species could be lost. There have been Monarch butterflies along the coast of California for as long as man can remember, but no one is sure how much longer they will last. 33. Why are Monarch butterflies important to Pacific Grove? A. They may disappear. B. They come to stay every year. C. They help develop the towns tourism. D. They give a name to Pacific Grove. 34. The underlined word “mascot” in Paragraph 2 probably refers to_. A. a new type of butterfly B. an insect believed to bring good luck C. a parade organized by Pacific Grove D. a special dress for children in Pacific Grove 35. What problem do Monarch butterflies face now? A. New buildings take up their living space. B. There has been too much rain in recent years. C. Their natural homes are destroyed by tourism. D. They have to travel a long distance to get home. 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人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Hey there, So youre about to spend four years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars of your parentsmoney, and all you really know about college is that all of your friends are going. _36_ Relax. Youre making the right decision. First of all, youll discover what interests you by taking courses in many subjects. For example, its hard to decide if you want to be a painter if youve never painted any pictures; once youre in a drawing-room on campus, youll know one way or the other. College is also a lot of fun after you graduate, youll be working every weekday for 50 or so years. _37_ _38_ Fortunately, Johnson Review is here to help you every step of the way. * Researching Schools. To us, the most important decision youll make is to choose the school that really fits your best not the one that is the most competitive or has the best-equipped rooms. * Applying to School. 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And remember that college graduates earn about twice the income of those who never attended college. F. If this is so, why dont we work right now? G. Finding the right college can be difficult. 第三部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分) 第一节 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，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项。 When sailors are allowed ashore after a long time at sea, they sometimes get drunk and cause trouble. For this reason, the navy 41 has its police in big ports. Whenever sailors cause trouble, the police come and 42 them. One day, the police in a big seaport received a telephone call 43 a bar in the town. The barman said that a big sailor had got drunk and was 44 the furniture in the bar. The officer in charge of the police guard that evening said that he would come immediately. Now, officers who 45 and punish the sailors 46 drunk usually chose the 47 policema