河北冀州中学2014-2015学年上学期高三年级第一次月考考试英语试题

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节

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. How does the man usually get to his office?

A. By taxi. B. By bus. C. On foot.

2. What does the man mean?

A. He can’t help the woman. B. He’ll pick the woman up.

C. He’ll go to the engineering building.

3. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Colleagues. B. Classmates. C. Neighbors.

4. What does the man ask the woman to do?

A. Buy him some cigarettes. B. Lend him some money.

C. Give him some change.

5. What is the woman doing?

A. Apologizing. B. Expressing thanks. C. Complaining.

第二节

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，各个小题将给出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 kind of exercise does Michael do every day?

A. Walking. B. Fishing. C. Cycling.

7. What is the most important thing about doing exercise?

A. Doing it regularly. B. Keeping safe.

C. Choosing suitable activities.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Why does the boy still want to be a boy?

A. To be a better boy. B. To be different.

C. To have more experience.

9. What do we know about the girl?

A. She hates living an unpredictable life.

B. She likes challenges. C. She dislikes the boy.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. When will the woman go home?

A. Tomorrow. B. In two weeks. C. Still uncertain.

11. What’s the doctor’s suggestion for her?

A. Take the medicine every day. B. Avoid any physical exercise.

C. Have medical checks regularly.

12. How soon will the woman get well completely?

A. In a few days. B. In quite a long time.

C. As soon as she is out of the hospital.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. Why will the woman visit her daughter?

A. Her daughter is ill.

B. Her daughter gave birth to a baby.

C. She misses her daughter.

14. When was the man in New York?

A. About a year ago. B. About a month ago. C. About a week ago.

15. What do we know about the woman’s husband?

A. He is traveling with the woman.

B. He is in China now. C. He loved traveling.

16. Who is traveling with the man?

A. His wife and a friend. B. His colleagues. C. None.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What was Mr. Perkins like?

A. He tried to be the same as others.

B. He tried to be better than others.

C. He was always different from others.

18. Where did he go the day after he bought his new car?

A. His office. B. His friend’s house. C. The country.

19. How did he find his car?

A. By trying his key in every car.

B. By waiting until all other cars had left.

C. By checking the plate number.

20. When did he leave the car-park?

A. Around 5:00 p.m. B. Around 6:00 p.m. C. Around 7:00 p.m.

第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，40分)

第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Submitting Assignment Online

In order to upload an assignment (work given to students) to the system properly, you must save the assignment using one of the following applications: Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, or Microsoft Excel.

After you complete an assignment, it is important to save your work. This ensures that assignment being uploaded to the system is the most updated version. Your word processing program may attempt to save the assignment to a folder on your computer. We recommend creating a new folder, named after your course, in a location that is easy to remember, such as “My Documents.”

File Name Requirements

Select a file name for the assignment that is easy to remember. The file name must NOT contain spaces. Any spaces used in the file name will prevent the file from uploading to the system. File names using the extensions .rtf, .html, .zip, .jpg, or .exe are NOT allowed.

Assignment Upload Procedure

Make sure you save the assignment using one of the applications previously identified and ensure that it meets the file name requirements described above. When the file is ready to upload, follow these steps:

1. Sign in the system.

2. Enter your address information and click the CONTINUE button. You will be routed to the “Directions” screen.

3. Review the directions and click the CONTINUE button. You will be routed to the “Special Assignment Upload” screen.

4. Click the SEARCH button. The “Choose File” pop-up window appears.

5. Find the location on your computer where you saved your assignment, and select the file.

After you have selected the file, click the UPLOAD button to upload your assignment to the system. Assignment Submission Dates

Assignments must be submitted by midnight on the specified due date. Submit your assignment on time so that it reaches the system on or before the due date. No late assignments will be accepted or marked. Assignments delivered after the due date will not be assessed and will be failed. Please manage your time carefully as family and work demands will not be accepted as excuses for late or non-submissions. Tutors and administrators do not have the authority to grant extensions.

21. Which of the following file names is acceptable for submitting assignment?

A. research paper.doc B. research paper.pdf

C. researchpaper.doc D. researchpaper.rtf

22. Students are advised to save an assignment to a specific folder in order to _____.

A. sign in the system B. remember where the document is

C. choose the appropriate application D. remember the document name quickly

23. If you summit your assignment late, you _____.

A. can have a second chance B. should ask a tutor for help

C. may apply for an extension D. will get a fail for the work

B

My favorite English teacher could draw humor out of the driest material. It wasn’t forced on us either. He took Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, Addison’s essays, and many other literary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them hilarious, even at eight o’clock in the morning. The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own some of them seemed dead, but the second time, after his explanation, I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t seen the humor. The stories and poems and plays were suddenly filled with allusions(典故) and irony and hilarious moments. I learned more from him than from any other teacher.

My least favorite English teacher also made people laugh. Some students found him to be wonderfully funny. Many others did not. He assigned journals over a six week period, to be written in every day. At the end of the six weeks I had a notebook full of bits and pieces about my ideas, short stories, reactions to what we had read, and so on. Our teacher announced that we would be grading each other’s journals. Mine was passed to Joe, that class clown, who always behaved in a funny or silly way. He saw it fit to make joke of and said, “This writing isn’t fit to line the bottom of a birdcage.” Our teacher laughed at that funny remark. It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ever since.

So what makes the difference? Humor is one of the most powerful tools teachers or writers have. It can build up students and classes and make them excited about literature and writing, or it can tear them apart. It is true that humor is either productive or counter-productive and self-defeating.

24. The passage mainly discusses _____.

A. teaching B. literature C. humor D. knowledge

25. The underlined word “hilarious” in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.

A. funny B. tiring C. inspiring D. brilliant

26. With his favorite English teacher, the writer found it most amazing that _____.

A. his teacher was very learned

B. his teacher was very humorous

C. the works by Johnson and Addison were very humorous

D. few were able to find humor in works by Johnson and others

27. The English teacher the writer disliked most _____.

A. was not able to make students laugh B. hurt his students’ feelings

C. didn’t let his students do the grading D. had no sense of humor

C

Does money buy happiness? Not! Ah, but would a little more money make us a little happier? Many of us smirk(傻笑，假笑) and nod. There is, we believe, some connection between financial fitness and emotional fulfillment. Three in four American college students—nearly double the 1970 proportion— now consider it “very important” or “essential” that they become “very well off financially”. Money matters.

But a surprising fact of life is that in countries where nearly everyone can afford life’s necessities, increasing wealth matters surprisingly little. The connection between income and happiness is “surprisingly weak,” observed University of Michigan researcher Ronald Inglehart in one 16-nation study of 170,000 people. Once comfortable, more money provides diminishing returns(报酬递减). The second piece of pie, or the second $100,000, never tastes as good as the first. Even lottery winners and the Forbes’ 100 wealthiest Americans surveyed by University of Illinois psychologist Ed Diener have expressed only slightly greater happiness than the average American. Making it big brings temporary joy. But in the long run wealth is like health: its complete absence can create suffering, but having it doesn’t guarantee happiness. Happiness seems less a matter of getting what we want than of wanting what we have.

Has our happiness, however, floated upward with the rising economic tide? Are we happier today than in 1940s, when two out of five homes lacked a shower or tub? Actually, we are not. Since 1957, the number of Americans who say they are “very happy” has declined from 35 to 32 percent. Meanwhile, the divorce rate has doubled, the teen suicide(自杀) rate has increased nearly three times, the violent crime rate has gone up nearly four times, and depression has mushroomed. Economic growth has provided no boost to human morale. When it comes to psychological well being, it is not the economy.

I call this soaring wealth and shrinking spirit “the American paradox.” More than ever, we have big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low confidence, secur