桂林市第十八中学2014-2015学年高一12月月考

英语试题

第I 卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What are the two speakers talking about?

　A. Hobbies. B. Music. C. Play.

2. Where is Mr Jones now?

　A. At home. B. At the health center. C. At his office.

3. What do the two speakers think of Tom?

　A. He gets nervous very easily. B. He is not an experienced speaker.

　C. He hasn’t prepared his speech well.

4. Why was the woman so late?

A. Something went wrong with the bus. B. She took somebody to hospital.

　C. She didn’t catch the bus.

5. What does the man mean?

　A. He enjoys most types of sports. B. Basketball is his favorite sport.

C. He only plays basketball.

第二节（共15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. What is the man doing?

A. He is being interviewed. B. He is making a flash. C. He is playing computer games.

7. What do you think will happen after the conversation?

　A. The woman will call Mr. Taylor. B. The woman won’t make the website.

C. The woman won’t get in touch with Mr. Taylor.

听第7段材料，回答第8～10题。

8. What is the woman going to do?

A. Prepare lunch. B. Have a party. C. Go to a friend’s house for dinner.

9. What does the woman still need?

A. A tie. B. Some flowers. C. Some candy.

10. What should one do when he goes to a friend’s house for the first time according to the woman’s mother?

A. Take something. B. Get dressed up. C. Have dinner.

听第8段材料，回答第11～13题。

11. How many times did the man call Mr. Tuang last week?

A. Twice. B. Once. C. Three times.

12. What does the man want Mr. Tuang to do?

A. To have dinner with him. B. To call him back. C. To visit him.

13. What’s the man’s telephone number?

A. 37460. B. 37640. C. 36470.

听第9段材料，回答第l4～17题。

14. What does the woman want to do?

A. Rent a flat. B. Sell her house. C. Buy a house.

15. How many people are there in the woman’s family?

A. 2. B. 4. C. 6.

16. How much should the woman pay for the three-room flat every month?

A. 400 yuan. B. 600 yuan. C. 1,000 yuan.

17. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. You can take the lift at 1200 pm in the building.

B. You can’t take the lift at 600 am in the building.

C. The three-room flat is on the 8th floor.

听第10段材料，回答第18～20题。

18. What was wrong with Mrs. Jenkins?

A. Something was wrong with her heart. B. Something was wrong with her back.

C. Something was wrong with her foot.

19. What did the doctor do at first?

A. He listened to her voice. B. He listened to her heart.

C. He asked her to stop smoking.

20. What did Mrs. Jenkins like to drink?

A. Tea. B. Coffee. C. Water.

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）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A poor boy was selling goods from one door to another to pay for his studies. One day he found that he had almost no money, and he was hungry. So he decided to ask for a meal.

But when a woman opened the door, he only dared to ask for a glass of water. To his surprise, she gave him a large glass of milk. He drank it and then asked how much he should pay her. She said, “You don’t have to pay me anything. Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness” He was deeply moved and was determined to help those in need. The boy’s name was Howard Kelly.

Many years had passed. One day that woman became seriously ill. The local doctors could not help her. So they sent her to a big city where her rare (罕见的) disease would be studied by specialists (专家). Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for advice. When he entered her room in the hospital, he immediately spotted the woman. Howard Kelly was determined to do his best to help her.

The struggle was long, but together they succeeded in the end. After some time the woman received a bill for her treatment. She was worried that the amount would be so large that it would take the rest of her life to pay for it. However, when she looked at the bill, she found words on the side of the bill. They were, “Paid in full with a glass of milk.”

21. The woman came to a big city because 　　　.

A. she was ill and no local doctors could help her

B. she was invited by a group of specialists to a study

C. she wanted to visit the poor boy whom she had helped

D. her rare disease could only be dealt with by Dr. Howard Kelly

22. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to 　　　.

A. the rest of her life B. a glass of milk

C. her illness D. the bill for her treatment

23. What can we know about Howard Kelly according to the passage?

A. He earned a lot of money.

B. He was an experienced doctor.

C. He opened his own hospital in the city.

D. He became the best friend of the woman.

B

There is one language that is used in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and old, short and tall, thin and fat. It is everybody’s second language. It is easy to understand, although you can’t hear it. It is sign language.

?????? When you wave to a friend who is across the street, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone, you are saying, “I want to be friendly”, but you are not using speech. You are using sign language. When you raise your hand in class, you are saying, “Please ask me. I think I know the correct answer.”

?????? Babies who can’t talk can point at things. They are using sign language. A policeman who wants to stop traffic holds up his hands. He is using sign language.

?????? Many years ago, a French priest, Charles Michel de Epee, became interested in education for deaf people. He invented a finger alphabet (字母表). It is still in use. People can make the sign for letters and spell words with their hands, and deaf people can read and understand them. Soon there were schools for the deaf in many countries. The only university for the deaf is Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C.

?????? Today, in the United States, there are special TV news programs for deaf people. The newsreader tells the news in sign language. At the same time, the words appear on the TV screen.

?????? The actors in the Theatre of Deaf don’t spell every word. Sometimes they use hand signs. When they put two hands together, it means sandwich. They can make a roof with their hands when they want to show a house. One finger in front of an actor’s mouth can mean quiet. You can talk to people who are behind windows that are closed. And when you go swimming with your friends, you can have conversations under water.

?????? How many hand signs do you use every day?

24. Which of the following about sign language is TRUE?

A. It is a special language used in a few countries in the world.

B. It is a way to express one’s ideas without words.

C. It is only used by the deaf.????????????

D. It can be heard.

25. If you want to express the idea that “I am very friendly” to someone, you will ______.

A. raise your hand??????? ?? ?????????????? B. put one hand onto the other

C. smile to the person???????????????? ??? ?D. make a roof with your hands

26. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Hand signs instead of finger signs are used everyday.

B. There are schools, colleges and universities for the deaf in the USA.

C. The French priest Charles invented sign language.?????

D. Even babies are using sign language.

27. The passage is mainly about ______.

A. an introduction to sign language???? ?????? B. the importance of sign language

C. a famous priest in France??????? ?? D. how to use sign language?

C

Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.

My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”

At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to badly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school — walking on my own!

When the Great Depression (大萧条) hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support the both of us. At that moment, I was determined never to be poor again.

Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point occurred on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I was dissatisfied (不满意) with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for the average American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel (汽车旅馆) for families that would never charge extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.

Not surprisingly, mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of challenges. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul, I never doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world — Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year.

You may not have started out life in the best situation. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you