武平县第一中学2015届高三上学期12月月考

英语试题 2014-12-16

第I卷（选择题，共105分）

第一部分:听力(共两节, 满分20分)

第一节(共5小题, 每小题1分, 满分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. Who is coming for tea?

A. John. B. Mark. C. Tracy.

2. What will the man do next?

A. Stay for dinner. B. Leave right away. C. Catch a train.

3. What does the man come for?

A. A lecture. B. A meeting. C. A party.

4. What size does the man want?

A. 35. B. 9. C. 39.

5. What are the speakers talking about?

A. Life in Southeast Asia. B. Weather conditions. C. A holiday tour.

第二节(共15小题, 每小题1分, 满分15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. Chairing a meeting. B. Giving a speech. C. Introducing a person.

7. Why does the woman sing so well?

A. She has a great teacher. B. She teaches singing. C. She is young.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What is the second gift for Jimmy?

A. A watch. B. A car. C. A computer.

9. Why does Jimmy feel happy?

A. He lives with his parents.

B. He’s got what he dreamt of.

C. He’s received lots of presents.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A. They are strangers to each other.

B. They are friends.

C. They are husband and wife.

11. Why does the woman come to talk with the man?

A. To get a job. B. To take a test. C. To see the secretary.

12. What does the man mean by saying sorry?

A. He doesn’t need a designer.

B. He can’t hear the woman clearly.

C. He can’t help the woman.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What do we know about the woman?

A. She lives close to the office.

B. She is new to the company.

C. She likes the big kitchen.

14. How does the man go to work?

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

15. Why was Susan late for work?

A. She missed the bus.

B. Her train was late.

C. Her car broke down.

16. What will the man do the next day?

A. Visit Lily in her flat. B. Go to work by train. C. Leave home earlier.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where can you most probably hear this talk?

A. In a class of the English language.

B. In a class of the Greek language.

C. In a class of the French language.

18. How long does the Class last?

A. 13 weeks. B. 11 weeks. C. 15 weeks.

19. What is “the short-cut” to learning words according to the speaker?

A. Taking more courses.

B. Reading basic words aloud.

C. Learning how words are formed.

20. Why is the class popular?

A. It’s taught by Professor Morris.

B. It is not offered each term.

C. It helps to master some useful rules.

第二部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)

单项填空(共15小题; 每小题1分, 满分15分)

从A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白出的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. — Would you mind giving me advice on how to improve my record?

— If you make _______ most of your potential, there will be ________ rise in your achievement.

A. 不填；不填 B. the; a C. 不填; a D. the; 不填

22. You may depend on it_______ I shall always help you.

A. that B. what C. which D. whether

23. It is Tom as well as his two friends that _______ for the job.

A. have applied B. have been applied C. has applied D. has been applied

24. Anyone _______ be in a rough life time, whether he is “Bai Fumei” or “Gao Fushuai.”

A. must B. will C. can D. should

25. Take care! _______ to frequent smog does great harm to your health.

A. Exposing B. To expose C. Exposed D. Being exposed

26. It is uncertain ________ side effect the medicine will bring about, although about two thousand patients have taken it.

A. that B. what C. now D. whether

27. Chinese President Xi Jinping has _______ a vision of Chinese-driven Asia-Pacific dream at the APEC CEO summit in Beijing.

A. put forward B. figured out C. signed up D. adapted to

28. Slowly the old woman took out her pocket book, and an old photograph _______ out of it.

A. had been dropped B. was dropped C. was dropping D. dropped

29. Liberia has seen more Ebola deaths than the other affected countries but there are now some _______ signs.

A. efficient B. positive C. individual D. negative

30. The house I grew up _______ when I was in Australia has been taken down and replaced by an office building.

A. in which B. in it C. in D. in that

31. With alcohol and drugs _______ out of their life, the post-1990s young people now tend to develop healthier hobbies.

A. kicked B. to kick C. having kicked D. kick

32. The traffic on the main streets has a longer green signal than _______ on the small ones.

A. one B. this C. that D. it

33. The film “Pirates of the Caribbean” _______ a great success and brought in a large profit to the cinema across the country.

A. appreciated B. enjoyed C. made D. secured

34. The old man has a strange way of speaking. Here is a recording of his speech, but no clear _______ of what he has said could be made at all.

A. meaning D. idea C. explanation D. sense

35. One’s life has value _______ one brings value to the life of others.

A. so that B. no matter how C. except that D. as long as

第二节 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）, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid, who dreamed of becoming a doctor.

My mother was a 36 ．Through her work, she observed that 37 people spent a lot more time reading than they 38 watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three pre-selected TV 39 during the week. With our 40 time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and 41 written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a 42 . My mother was illiterate（文盲）. 　　When I entered high school I was a(n) 43 student, but not for long. I began to like the fancy clothes. I wanted to 44 the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home from her various jobs and I 45 about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, "Okay, I'll give you all the money I have 46 this week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With the money 47 , you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want." I was very pleased with that 48 but once I got through allocating（分配）money, there was 49 left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep the roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, let alone buy 50 . I also realized that my 51 wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my 52 and became an A-student again, and 53 I realized my dream and I became a doctor.　　My story is really my mother's story — a woman with 54 formal education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around, especially her children. There is no job more important than 55 . This I believe.36．A．nurse B．teacher C．servant D．doctor 37．A．honest B．hardworking C．reliable D．successful38．A．spent B．paid C．did D．took 39．A．programmes B．plays C．films D．games40．A．weekend B．free C．evening D．play 41．A．read B．present C．teach D．translate 42．A．trick B．means C．tool D．joke 43．A．extreme B．normal C．immoral D．top 44．A．get rid of B．break away from C．hang out with D．keep in touch with 45．A．complained B．forgot C．worried D．argued 46．A．deposited B．exchanged C．earned D．won47．A．left over B．paid off C．used up D．carried out 48．A．proposal B．command C．requirement D．arrangement 49．A．much B．none C．something D．nothing50．A．garments B．shirts C．houses D．books 51．A．television B．money C．desire D．dream 52．A．guys B．mother C．school D．studies 53．A．happily B．eventually C．immediately D．exactly 54．A．little B．low C．strict D．high55．A．persuading B．educating C．parenting D．working

第三部分: 阅读理解(共20小题; 每小题2分, 满分40分)

第一节 阅读下列短文, 从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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Even with the multimedia excitement of the web. Electronic Mail, e-mail, is the most frequently used application of the Internet. Many people who have a chance to use the Internet at school, home, and work. They use the Internet for no other purposes than to send or receive e-mails.

It's all very easy. You prepare the message, log onto(登录) the Internet, and send it. The message first goes to your Internet Service Provider's mail server, which in turn sends it to the recipient's(邮件接收者) mail server. On the way your message may go through several servers, each reading the name in order to send it to the right server. The message then remains in the recipient's mail e-mail server until he requests it by “checking his mail”．

The benefits of e-mails are obvious: mostly it's quick. Also, many people feel that the rules for regular mails don't apply to e-mail, making it less formal, which in turn make e-mail easier to write and send.

It's not just friends and co-workers that are receiving e-mails. Wherever you look, the Web is providing e-mail addresses. This has made communication between strangers easier than ever. You can read an interesting article online and immediately send the author an e-mail. Anyone who posts his e-mail address on a Web page is saying he wants to receive e-mail.

There are places you can go if you don't know someone's