西安市远东第一中学2012-2013学年度第一学期

高一年级12月月考英语试题

命题人：仇素玲 审题人：陈艳洁

I. 语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

1. melted??? A .? accustomed?? B.? amazed???? ?C. disappointed?? ???D . embarrassed

1. hear?? ??? A. ?nearly??? ????B. ?search???? ??C. bear ???????? ?????D. heart

2. change?????? A. ?machine ?????B. ?headache?? ??C. chemistry? ??????D. research

3. surprise???? A. ?police ???????B. ?apologize? ? ??C. bridge? ?????????D. children

5.museum???? A. subject?? ??????B. true? ??? ??????C. huge?? ??????????D. busy

II. 单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

6. — It’s getting late. I'm afraid I must be going now.??

—OK. _________.

A. Take it easy??? ???? B. Go slowly?????? C. Stay longer???? D. See you

7． The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted _____ a good answer.

A. came up to ???????B. came up with? ?????C. came over to?? ??? D. came along with

8. ?Mr. Huang will ________ in the movement.

A. play a leading part??? B. take parts? ???C. play leading part????? D. take a part

9. We are confident that the environment ______ by our further efforts to reduce pollution.

A. had been improved? ?? B. will be improved???? C. is improved??????????? D. was improved

10. That salesman _____ me to buy his MP4, but it doesn’t work well now.

A. advised??????????? ????? B. persuaded???? ??? C. preferred??????????????? D. expected

11. —Are you still busy?

—Yes, I______ my work, and it won’t take long.

A. just finish??? B. am just finishing?? ?C. have just finished??? D. am just going to finish

12. Anything _____ could be found has been used to repair the damaged bridge.

A. which ???????????? B. that???????? ??????????? C. what???????? ????? D. 不填

13. The sun heats the earth, ___________ is very important to living things.

A. that??? ??????????B. what?? ??????????C. which?? ??????????D. where

14. He is a man with rich experience, from _______ much can be learned.

A. whom ?????????? B. which??? ?????????C. where ????????????? D. what

15. The kind lady devoted all her life to _____ those homeless children.

A. help???????????????? B. helping????? ??????? C. be helping ????? D. being helped

16. Yesterday I met a(n) _____ teacher by chance who taught me English in the university three years ago.

A. early???? ?????B. former?? ????? ??????C. first?????? D. advanced

17. If you don’t go to the museum tomorrow, _____.

A. I will either???? ??? B. nor will I??? C. I neither will??? ????? D. either I will

18. The reason ____he was late was ____he had taken a wrong bus.

A. why; because?? ? B. for; because of?????? C. why; that??????? D. for; that

19. ?—How can we get to the airport, Jane? It’s too far and too expensive to take a taxi.

—Don’t worry. There is a _____ bus service to the airport.

A. regular? ??????????????? B. general? ? ??????????C. normal??? ??????????????? D. usual

20. Let me introduce my cousin to you, who _____ to a famous university last year.

A. had been admitted ??????? B. admitted?? C. was admitted?? D. has been admitted

III. 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his__21__important inventions was the train.? He _22__his first train when he was forty-four years old. When he was experimenting with the __23__engine on the train, he met with __24__from the government, the newspapers and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would __25__ cows, horses and sheep, that the _26__ would burst or that the hot coals from it would __27_ their houses. At that time, __28__people believed what they said.

George Stephenson __29__the people that the train could go on small _30_, could pull carriages __31_goods and passengers and there was __32__to them. It was a very __33__ matter for him to __34__ them believe. However, after _35_, he was able to do it; and the first train that _36__by Stephenson himself __37_ what he had said.

The first day _38_the people along the way _39_the noises of the train in the distance and saw it running quickly to them, they ran back home as quickly as they could and closed their doors__40___, for they thought it a genius(妖怪).They did not dare to come out until it had passed.

21. A. very?????????? ??????? B. a lot????????? ???? ???C. most ??????????????? ????D. much

22. A. made ????????????B. bought ??????????? ???C. introduced ????????????? ????D. did

23. A. electrical ? ????????B. atomic ???? ???????C. steam??????????????? ???? D. oil

24. A. success ???? ????????B. troubles ????????? ???C. people ???????????????????? D. pleasure

25. A. kill ?????????? ????????B. buy ???????????????? ???C. interest ?????????????????? D. take away

26. A. smoke ????? ????????????B. noise ???????????????????? ???C. driver ???????????????????? ????D. engine

27. A. pull down ? ????????B. blow away ?????? ???C. set fire to ???????? ????D. pass

28. A. most ???????? ????????B. few ???????????????? ???C. only a few ??????? ????D. the rich

29. A. said ????????? ????????B. spoke ???????????? ???C. told ????????????????? ????D. warned

30. A. roads ????????????B. rivers ???????????? ???C. steam ???????????????????? ????D. rails

31. A. short of ??? ????????B. full of ???????????? ???C. empty of ????????? ????D. without

32. A. no great danger ????B. dangerous ???????C. a lot of danger ?????D. few danger

33. A. easy ?? ????????????B. difficult ?? ???????C. pleasant ?????????? ????D. light

34. A. get ??????????? ????????B. cause ????????????? ???C. make ?????????????? ????D. force

35. A. sometime ????????B. some time ????? ???????C. a few times ????? ????D. sometimes

36. A. was sold ??? ????????B. was driven ????? ???C. was pulled ??????? ????D. helped

37. A. believed ??? ????????B. seemed ?????????? ???C. sensed ????????????D. proved

38. A. of ????????????????B. when ???????????C. while ?????????????D. for

39. A. caught sight of ?????B. listened to ???????C. heard ?????????????D. thought

40. A. lightly????????? ???B.tightly ???????????C. secretly ???????????D. slowly

IV. 阅读理解（共10小题，每题2分，满分20分）

（A）

Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.

Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.

People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.

Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.

It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.???

41. A good title for this reading passage is______.

A. Popeye the Sailor?????????????????????????????????? ?? B. The Truth About Spinach

C.A Mistake with Numbers???????????????????????? D. Folic Acid Makes You Strong

42. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

A. They thought spinach made them strong.?? B. They thought Popeye was funny.

C. Spinach had a lot of iron.???????????????? D. People liked folic acid.

43. The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.

A. iron???????????????????? B. folic acid????????? C. spinach??????????? D. exercise

（B）

In 1977, a dead author of detective stories saved the life of a 19-month-old baby in a most unusual way. The author was Agatha Christie, one of the most successful writers of detective stories in the world.

In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Qatar, near Saudi Arabia. Doctors were unable to find out the cause of her illness with confidence, so she was sent to Hammersmith Hospital in London. She was then only semi-conscious and on the "Dangerously Ill" list. A team of doctors hurried to examine the baby only to discover that they, too, were confused by the very unusual symptoms (症状). While they were discussing the baby's case, a nurse asked to speak to them. "Excuse me," said Nurse Marsha Maitlan, "but I think the baby is suffering from thallium (铊) poisoning."

"What makes you think that?" Dr. Brown asked. "Thallium poisoning is extremely rare."

"A few days ago, I was reading a novel called A Pale Horse by Agatha Christie," Nurse Maitlan explained. "In the book, somebody uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms are described. They're exactly the same as the baby's."

"You're very thoughtful and you may be right," another doctor said. "We'll carry out some tests and find out whether it's thallium or not."

Tests showed that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium, a rare metallic substance used in making special glass. Once they knew the cause of the illness, the doctors were able to give the baby the correct treatment. She soon recovered and was sent back to Qatar. Later it was reported that the poison might have come from an insecticide (杀虫剂) used in Qatar.

44. The one who first suggested the correct cause of the baby's illness was _____.

A. a doctor in Qatar ???B. Dr. Brown ???C. Nurse Maitlan?? D. Agatha Christie

45. As far as we can tell from the passage, Agatha Christie _____.

A. had spent a long time studying the baby's case

B. visited the baby in the hospital at Hammersmith

C. had never met this baby

D. gave Nurse Maitlan some advice on the phone

46. It seems likely from the passage that the baby's illness had something to do with _____.

A. a harmful substance used to kill insects ?????B. a dangerous pair of glasses????????????

C. the water in Qatar ???????????????????????D. a dea