四川省眉山中学2020届高三英语9月月考试题

眉山中学2020届9月英语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.How many students are there in the Western Culture class today?A. 92.B. 18.C. 74.2.Whose car was stolen?A. Karens.B. The mans.C. The womans.3.Where is the woman now?A. In Oxford.B. In Harvard.C. In Cambridge.4.How does the woman think of her life now?A.A little bad.B. Wonderful.C. Very common.5.Why do most of people raise pets according to the man?A. To find comfort.B. To kill time.C. For meat.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至7题。6.What is the woman going to do?A. Buy a birthday gift for her son.B. Buy a pet for her husband.C. Go to Davids birthday party.7.What can we learn from the conversation?A. David likes keeping rabbits.B. David doesnt like animals.C. Trees are very important.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8.What does the woman want her son to know most of all?A. Tree-Planting Day is important.B. Cutting down trees is necessary.C. David likes keeping a pet.9.What can we learn about the boy?A. He likes asking questions.B. He enjoys planting trees.C. He has enough knowledge about planting trees.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.What is the woman doing when the man talks to her?A. Listening to music.B. Watching a film.C. Writing a letter.11.How long will the woman stay in Japan?A. A year.B. A month.C. Two years.12.What will the woman do before she leaves for Japan?A. She will read more Japanese novels.B. She will attend a language class.C. She will apply for a new program.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.When will the man go back to London?A. Next month.B. Tomorrow.C. In three days.14.How long has the man been in Japan?A. For two months.B. For nine months.C. For two years.15.What will the man miss the most?A. The drinks.B. The food.C. The nightlife.16.Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The man is excited to go home.B. The man doesnt like dancing.C. The drinks in Japan are cheaper than those in London.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.Whats the main topic of this passage?A. The public school.B. Electronic books.C. Online textbooks.18.How many students attend the public schools in Fairfax County?A. More than 175,000.B. More than 157,000.C. About 170,500.19.Which of the following statements is NOT the electronic textbooks advantage?A. They look like regular textbooks.B. Publishers can quickly update their content.C. They cost less than printed textbooks.20.Which one is NOT true according to the passage?A. Students like online textbooks.B. Students can individualize their learning when they use online textbooks.C. No other school is planning to use online textbooks.第二部分：阅读（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2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、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。AForrest Gump came out in the United States on July 6, 1994. The film, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom, was well received by critics and became a commercial success. The following is a summary of the plot.In 1981, Forrest Gump is waiting at a bus stop and begins telling his life story to strangers sitting next to him. The story begins with the leg braces he had to wear as a child, which resulted in him being teased by children. On a bus for his first day of school, Forrest meets Jenny and they become best friends. Forrest can run very fast which, despite his below-average intelligence, earns him a scholarship to the University of Alabama.After graduating, Forrest enlists in the United States Army, where he becomes friends with Benjamin Buford Bubba Blue, and they agree to go into the shrimping business together. They are sent to Vietnam, and in a battle on 7gh June 1965,Bubba is killed, and Forrest saves many of the men in his group, including his leader 2nd Lt. Dan Taylor.Then Forrest buys a shrimping boat, keeping his promise to Bubba, and Dan joins Forrest. After Hurricane Carmen destroys every other shrimping boat in the area, their Bubba Gump Shrimp Company becomes a huge success. Forrest then returns home to care for his sick mother, who dies soon afterwards.Jenny returns to visit Forrest and stays with him. Forrest asks her to marry him, but is turned down. Feeling upset, Forrest decides to go for a run, which turns into a three-year coast-to-coast marathon. One day he stops suddenly and returns home. He receives a letter from Jenny asking to meet, which brings him to the bus stop where he began telling his story. After he and Jenny meet, they get married, but Jenny dies of an illness the next year.21.What do we know about Forrest as a child?A. He had lots of friends.B. He met his best friend Jenny on bus.C. He couldnt run because of the leg braces.D. He went to university because he was smart.22.The underlined words“enlist in” in Paragraph 3 can best be replaced by“ ”A. joinsB. leavesC. leadsD. trains23.In 1981,Forrest came to the bus stop where he talked to strangers because .A. he wanted to take a busB. he was on his way homeC. Jenny asked to meet himD. the strangers invited himBThe Renaissance is generally considered to have started in Florence, Italy around the years 1350 to 1400. The start of the Renaissance also was the end of the Middle Ages.HumanismIn the Middle Ages people thought that life was nothing but hard work and war. However, around the 1300s, the people in Florence, Italy started to think that people should be educated and that things like art, music, and science could make life better for everyone.Florence, ItalyAt the start of the Renaissance, Italy was divided up into a number of powerful city-states. One of the major city-states was Florence. In the late 1300s, Florence had become a rich city. Wealthy businessmen had the money to hire artisans. This inspired competitions among artists and thinkers. Art began to flourish and new thoughts began to appear.Petrarch and HumanismFrancesco Petrarch is often called the “Father of Humanism”. He studied poets and philosophers from Ancient Rome such as Cicero and Virgil. His ideas and poetry became an inspiration to many writers and poets throughout all of Europe as the Renaissance spread.Giotto di BondoneGiotto was a painter in Florence, Italy. He was the first painter to break away from the standard Byzantine style painting of the Middle Ages and try something new. Giotto is said to have started the Renaissance in art with his new style of realistic painting.DanteAnother major contributor to the start of the Renaissance was Dante Alighieri. He lived in Florence and wrote the Divine Comedy in the early 1300s. This book is considered to be the greatest literary work ever written in the Italian language.New Ideas SpreadThis new way of thinking and style of art quickly spread to other wealthy Italian city-states. This early part of the Renaissance is often called the Italian Renaissance. Italy would become wealthy through trade and their new ideas soon spread throughout all of Europe.24.In the Middle Ages people thought that .A. life was really hardB. life could be enjoyableC. they could be educatedD. they should live differently25.Which of the following was the first Renaissance painter?A. Francesco Petrarch.B. Giotto di Bondone.C. Dante Alighieri.D. Cicero.26.What would be the best title for the text?A. What does the Renaissance mean?B. How did the Renaissance begin?C. The artists in the RenaissanceD. Literature in the Renaissance27.The text is most probably taken from .A. a book reviewB. a history paperC. a newspaper adD. a travel magazineCDarwins frogs are a family of small frogs found on the southwest coast of South America. They were named after Charles Darwin, who happened to see one of the two species in 1834. These creatures usually reach a size of only 3 cm in length. They are mostly green frogs, and have long, narrow noses. When threatened, they roll over and play dead until the danger has passed, looking like dead leaves.Darwins frogs are the only known species of frogs where males can get“pregnant”. They swallow their babies into their vocal sacs, protecting them from enemies until they have become fully grown. But nothing can protect them from a deadly fungus, which has helped push one of the two species of these frogs to probable extinction, and driven a decline in the second variety, new research shows.Researchers looked at museum specimens of both species and found that the fungus started showing up in these and other frogs in the 1970s, about when populations of both began to decline, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. One of the species, the northern Darwins frog, hasnt been seen since 1980 and is likely extinct.“The fungus is probably the main reason for the frogs disappearance,” said Marcus Rowcliffe, a researcher at the Zoological Society of London.The southern Darwins frog is still around, but has declined faster than previously thought in recent years. The researchers found that a small percentage of them were infected with the fungus, although at lower rates than other species. This could mean that the fungus more easily kills them. They also found that populations of Darwins frogs were lower in areas with higher rates of fungal infection. In 2020,30 wild southern Darwins frogs were caught to be raised in Germany, but all of them died from the fungus. The International Union for Conservation of Nature, an environmental group, called the fungus the worst infectious disease ever recorded among animals with backbones.28.Darwins frogs are unusual because .A. both females and males can get pregnantB. they eat their own babies when in dangerC. male frogs help raise the young in their mouthsD. they are the only animals infected with the fungus29. According to the text, the northern Darwins frog .A. suffered greatly from a fungusB. is likely to survive the infectionC. has already disappeared from the earthD. began to decline in the early 20th century30.The main purpose of the text is to .A. ask more people to protect Darwins frogsB. introduce the characteristics of Darwins frogsC. show the spread of a fungus and its influenceD. give an analysis of the decline of Darwins frogsDIts illegal for the police to attach a GPS unit to your car without your permission, as the U.S. Supreme Court settled in 2020. But if the police are in hot pursuit of a bank robber or other escaping criminals that threaten public safety, a GPS tracker is acceptable. But exactly how can the police GPS track a car that is moving fast?The answer to that question comes from StarChase, a new police technology being used by a small-but-growing number of law enforcement agencies. It allows the police to fire 4.5-inch glue-covered GPS bullet-like projectiles form an airgun fixed in their police cars. If the GPS tracker makes contact with the escaping robbers car, itll stick no matter how fast the vehicle is going. That way, the police will have a constant read on the cars location and heading.Aside from simply apprehending criminals, its believed this new technology could help save lives. If the police successfully fire a GPS unit at a speeding criminal, they can pull back from a high-risk chase. Chases can be incredibly dangerous to all involved, including innocent bystanders and other drivers. Once the GPS bullet connects, theres no need for the chase any longer.Now, predictably, a GPS-loaded gun isnt cheap. Police departments need to pay about $5,000 per vehicle for the technology, and individual GPS bullets cost as much as $250 each. That may sound expensive, but remember: The alternative is often thousands of dollars in property damage, and great human cost in injury and lost life. According to StarChase, their GPS bullet system has an apprehension rate of 80% without any report of injury or property damage.If youd like to learn more about the StarChase system, Popular Mechanics has just published a good article about it. Theres also plenty more information available at the companys website.31.When the GPS bullet sticks to the escaping robbers car, the police can .A. know the cars conditionB. ensure the robbers safetyC. play a fair game with the robberD. know the cars position and direction32.The GPS bullets could help save lives mainly because .A. the bullets wont hurt peopleB. they can make the robbers car stopC. the police can stop the dangerous chasingD. they have more advantages than normal bullets33.From the text we can learn that GPS bullets .A. are useful for the policeB. are widely used in AmericaC. can control the rising crime rateD. can replace the police in the future34.What would be the best title for the text?A. How to use GPS bulletsB. It is legal to use GPS trackersC. GPS bullets are too expensiveD. GPS bullets could end car chases for good35.In which part of a newspaper can we read the text?A. LifeB. NatureC. FashionD. Technology第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从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。Sometimes willpower is a lot like the television remote control hard to find just when you want it most. 36 But there are ways to increase your willpower.Dont try to change your economic situation , win a promotion and lose weight all on the same morning. Set one clear , specific goal and make a realistic plan to achieve it. Extra willpower sometimes requires extra energy, so dont spread yourself too thin. 37Whatever your goal is, dont spread it overnight. 38 If you are trying to kick a coffee habit, start by replacing your morning cup of coffee with a glass of water, instead of promising never to drink coffee again. Congratulate yourself on the small achievements. These successes help your willpower grow.39 Ask friends, family or colleagues for assistance and tell them exactly how they can help. If your credit card bills have risen, for instance, let friends know that you are cutting back on expenses. Suggest having a common dinner instead of meeting at an expensive restaurant. Find support group or organization related to your goal and attend their meetings. You can get valuable advice, understanding and information.If possible, change your environment to encourage positive behavior. Want to get in shape? Keep a set of workout clothes in your office as a reminder to stop by the gym on the way home. Quitting smoking? 40A. Real success takes time.B. Focus on one goal at a time.C. Change your environment to change your life.D. Improve your willpower by a support network.E. Changing your behavior requires more than willpower.F. Avoid bars or restaurants where you night be attracted to light up.G. Breaking a bad habit or forming a new and healthy one can be difficult.第三部分：语言知识运用完型填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分,满分30分)Want a longer life? Volunteer to do good and you might have one. Visiting the sick and 41 the hungry are morally admirable. Besides, being 42 can be good for both body and soul.A new review of the 43 of volunteering found that helping others on a regular basis can reduce early mortality rates by 22%, compared to those in people who dont 44 such activities.The review also showed that volunteers benefit from 45 rates of depression and an increased sense of life 46 . “Our review shows that volunteering is associated with improvements in 47 ” lead author Dr. Suzanne Richards said in a statement.But dont 48 to gain the benefits of longer lives after putting a few coins in the next charity collection you meet with .It takes 49 devotion of time and effort .In the research, participants volunteered at least an hour of work once a month.Helping others probably benefits health by increasing social contact and reducing 50 .Socializing with friends and familywhich volunteer work 51 reduces dementia risk.But taken to extremes, 52 being selfless is not necessarily a good thing. The authors found some studies that suggested people who devoted their energies in order to 53 family members could become less healthy both emotionally and physically, since they are frequently 54 with so many responsibilities. The same can be 55 for other types of volunteering, if the activities start to become a burden rather than a 56 .“There may be a fine line between volunteering enough to 57 mental health benefits（up to 10 hours a month） and spending too much time volunteering,”the authors write.“ 58 volunteering becomes a burden, this may lead to burnout.”They also note that more work is 59 to understand whether volunteering actually improves health and leads to longer lives; it may be that volunteers are generally more 60 and socially involved, and therefore healthier to begin with.41. A. worryingB. feedingC. forgivingD. respecting42.A. calm B. strong C. selfless D. happy43.A. future B. history C. effects D. purposes44.A. participate inB. know about C. deal with D. set up45.A. increasedB. reducedC. adjustedD. fixed46.A.storiesB. newsC. cycleD. satisfaction47.A. educationB. serviceC. technologyD. health48.A. expectB. tryC. appear D. stop49.A. regular B. occasionalC. limited D. conditional50.A. blindness B. sadness C. loneliness D. tiredness51.A. creates B. promotes C. missesD. avoids52.A. still B. onlyC. even D. ever53.A. stay with B. see o