湖南省衡阳市第八中学2019-2020学年高一英语下学期第一次（4月）月考试题.doc

湖南省衡阳市第八中学2019-2020学年高一英语下学期第一次（4月）月考试题请注意：时量 120分钟 满分 150分第卷（选择题部分）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. What time is it now? A. 6:30. B. 7:00 . C. 7:30. 2. When did the accident happen? A. Today. B. Yesterday. C. Two days ago.3. What does the man mean?A. He is likely to call. B. Hes talked to the doctor.C. Hes attended the program before.4. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Doctor and patient. B. Teacher and student.C. policeman and driver.5. Where does the conversation take place?A. On a farmB. In a market.C. In a restaurant. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满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。听下面一段对话，回答第6至第8题。6. Why didnt the man go to the concert?A. He failed to get a ticket. B. He was not interested in it. C. He was not free.7. How did the man feel about missing the concert?A. He felt it a pity. B. He didnt care. C. He regretted it.8. How did the woman like the concert?A. She liked it a little.B. She enjoyed it very much. C. She thought it was OK.听下面一段对话，回答第9至第11题。9. Whose keys are these?A. They are Jacks. B. They are Bettys. C. The owner hasnt been found yet.10. Why didnt Joe have a class this morning?A. He had a headache. B. He hurt his arm. C. He didnt like school at all.11. When does this conversation most probably take place?A. In the early morning. B. After classes in the morning. C. In the evening.听下面一段对话，回答第12至第14题。12. Where is the Korean Restaurant?A. In Green Street.B. In North Street.C. In Winter Street.13. What do we know about the woman?A. She never refuses the mans invitation.B. She likes Korean food.C. She will have dinner with the man this evening.14. When will the speakers meet?A. At 6:30. B. At 7:10. C. At 7:30.听下面一段对话，回答第15至第17题。15. Whats the mans problem?A. He lost his friend. B. He has no telephone. C. He went to the wrong place.16. Where is the man probably?A. At a bar.B. In a hotel.C. In the street.17. What is the woman?A. A policewomanB. A waitress. C. A passer-by.听下面一段独白，回答第18至第20题。18. What do Americans often do when they meet a stranger?A. They hug him or her.B. They kiss him or her cheeks.C. They call their names directly.19. What do Americans often do when they are about to leave?A. They shake hands with everyone.B. They say goodbye to everyone.C. They wave goodbye to the whole group.20. What does the speaker think of Americans putting their feet up on the office desk?A. Impolite. B. Not rude. C. Fashionable.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。*AConfucius said, “In a group of three people, there is always something I can learn. Choose to follow the strengths of others, and use their shortcomings to reflect upon ourselves.”  As you can see from what Confucius said, everyone that we come across can teach us something useful. As long as we reflect on the lessons learnt from and by other people, we can continuously improve ourselves. But take note that when you reflect on these lessons, you apply some wisdom to each lesson because each situation is unique although they share some common principles.We can learn a lot from everyone. We always tend to think that we can only learn from those who are higher in status or have more knowledge than us, but that is not really the case. We learn from those who are lower in status than us as well, because the experience and knowledge of each person is very different.The best thing about this type of learning, reflecting other peoples strengths and shortcomings onto ourselves, is that we do not pay for the mistakes that are made. The only cost to us is the time that is needed to learn about and reflect on these lessons from other peoples lives.As we all know, some mistakes can be ones which people cannot afford to make, for instance, a broken friendship or a financial loss. Thus constantly using other peoples strengths and shortcomings to reflect upon ourselves makes us realize the costs of these mistakes and reduces the possibility that we will make similar mistakes.What can we do now to learn from others? By keeping our eyes and ears open. Be observant and able to realize what strengths and shortcomings other people have. A lot of people in this world like to complain about their lives. Listen to them and make you own assessment, reflect upon your life and make improvements where necessary.21.The underlined part “this type of learning” in the fourth paragraph probably refers to_.A. learning from other peoples mistakesB. learning from others experiencesC. finding what strengths and shortcomings other people haveD. reflecting others strengths and shortcomings onto ourselves22.From the fifth paragraph, we learn that _.A. sometimes we can afford the costs of a broken friendshipB. our reflection will necessarily reduce our mistakesC. some reflection will help to improve ourselvesD. reflection will stop us from making any mistakes in life23.The passage is probably taken from _.A. a magazine about life                             B. a book about travelC. an advertisement                      D. a research report24.What does this passage mainly talk about?A. How to learn from mistakes.B. How to use the shortcomings of others to reflect upon ourselves.C. How to reduce the mistakes in ones life.D. How to learn from other peoples strengths and shortcomings.B I was born an albino（患白化病的人）in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1945. No one in my family had ever known what an albino was, what it meant to be an albino and what had to be done differently because I was an albino. My parents, relatives and friends treated me just like they treated everybody else. That was just about the best thing they could have done. It gave me a leg up on trusting myself, so when trouble came along, I could deal with them.Like most albinos, I had terrible eyesight. My grades suffered until eventually I overcame being self-conscious and realized it was okay to ask to sit in the front of the classroom so I could see the blackboard better. People stared at me when I held reading material right at the tip of my nose so I could see it well enough to read. Kids would tease me, asking if I was joining the circus（马戏团）and calling me “Whitey”. Even when I was eight or nine, movie-theater clerks started asking me to pay adult prices because I “looked older.” The worst part for me was that because my eyesight was so bad, I couldnt play sports very well.I didnt give up trying, though. I shot hoops every day and played whiffle ball(儿童作为棒球玩的一种塑料空心球) in summer. And I studied harder. Eventually, I got better at school and loved it. By the time I got to college I was double majoring, going to summer school and burying myself in every kind of after-class activity I could find. I tried my best to make “albino” a positive word. I couldnt see well enough to play sports, but with a solid education and the drive to do it, I could make a living involved in something I loved. Ive done it now for more than thirty years in print and in video, and now in cyberspace. People make jokes about how Im the only “blind editor” they know, but the jokes are well-meant, some of them signs of respect.I now realize that being born an albino helped me to overcome difficulties, gain confidence, and be proud of my personal achievement and modest about my professional accomplishments.25. Which of the following troubled the author as an albino most?A. He looked much older than his age.B. He had to read with books really close.C. He was often laughed at by classmates.D. He had difficulty in doing well in sports.26. Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE?A. He gets involved in a job related to sports.B. He spent most of his time studying in college.C. He continued to play sports regularly after college.D. He is often teased by his colleagues about his illness.27. What is the message the writer wants to convey in the passage?A. Sports can make people more optimistic about life.B. Difficulties provide people with a chance for growth.C. One should learn to enjoy hard times and look ahead.D. Peoples attitude toward you changes when you improve.CScience is finally beginning to embrace animals who were, for a long time, considered second-class citizens.As Annie Potts of Canterbury University has noted, chickens distinguish among one hundred chicken faces and recognize familiar individuals even after months of separation. When given problems to solve, they reason: hens trained to pick colored buttons sometimes choose to give up an immediate food reward for a slightly later (and better) one. Healthy hens may aid friends, and mourn when those friend die.Pigs respond meaningful to human symbols. When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs, only the O carriers offered food to the animals. The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O's. Then the team switched from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols. Still, the pigs walked only toward the O-shirted people: they had transferred their knowledge to a two-dimensional format, a not inconsiderable feat of reasoning.Ive been guilty of prejudiced expectations, myself. At the start of my career almost four decades ago, I was firmly convinced that monkeys and apes out-think and out-feel other animals. They're other primates(灵长目动物), after all, animals from our own mammalian(哺乳动物的) class. Fairly soon, I came to see that along with our closest living relatives, whales too are masters of cultural learning, and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social companions. Long-term studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a viewpoint shift in our society: the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedure kin laboratories, elephants forced to perform in circuses, and dolphins kept in small tanks at theme parks.Over time, though, as I began to broaden out even further and explore the inner lives of fish, chickens, pigs, goats, and cows, I started to wonder: Will the new science of "food animals" bring an ethical (伦理的) revolution in terms of who we eat? In other words, will our ethics start to catch up with the development of our science?Animal activists are already there, of course, committed to not eating these animals. But what about the rest of us? Can paying attention to the thinking and feeling of these animals lead us to make changes in who we eat?28. According to Annie Potts, hens have the ability of_.A. interaction     B. creation C. analysis     D. abstraction29. Paragraph 4 is mainly about_.A. the similarities between mammals and humansB. the necessity of long-term studies on mammalsC. a change in people's attitudes towards animalsD. a discovery of how animals express themselves30. What might be the best title for the passage?A. A Revolution in Food Animals B. The Lifestyles of Food AnimalsC. Science Reports on Food Animals D. The Inner Lives of Food Animals第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短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。*The sea has always interested man. From it he can get food, minerals and treasure.  31 But he couldnt go far beneath its surface.     32 However, he isnt a fish. Because he must breathe air, he cant stay under the waters surface for any length of time. To explore deep water, man faces even more dangers and problems.    A diver who wants to stay under water for more than a few minutes must breathe air or a special mixture of gases.  33 He can carry a tank of air on his back and breathe through a hose(软管) and a mouthpiece. Water weighs 800 times as much as air. Tons of water pushes against a diver deep in the sea.  34     When a diver is under great pressure, his blood takes in some of the gases he breathes. As he rises to the surface, the water pressure becomes less. If the diver rises too quickly, the gases in his blood form bubbles. The diver is then suffering from the bends（潜涵病）. The bends can cause a diver to double up in pain.  35  A. His body is under great pressure.B. Scientists are trying to find more about the sea.C. For thousands years, he could sail on it.D. They can even kill himE. He can wear a diving suit and have air pumped to him from above.F. The water pressure can cause a diver to breathe with difficulty.G. Man wants to explore deep into the sea.第三部分 语言运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完型填空（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）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。Jessica was ten years old, and her mother was a famous actress in California. One day, the actress came to visit Jessica at the summer gymnastics camp, which I run 36 for girls in the city. Time going for the training, the actress 37 her daughter from the sidelines. The girl was good in my eyes. But today, I found how 38 she was.When the girl finished, her mother 39 angrily, “That was terrible. You looked like a sack of potatoes falling downhill.” The girl burst into 40 . My heart went out to her.I found myself still remembering one of my gymnastic performances. 41 my mother was carrying her first child, she fell ill with polio(脊髓灰质炎). Since then, she had needed a wheelchair. However, she 42 to raise five children in the family.One day, I decided to join a gymnastics program. Before long, I was 43 buried in it. By 1972, I was on the US Womens Gymnastics Team for Munich Olympic Games. I thought of 44 else but winning a gold medal.That day in Munich, I was tense with the 45 to succeed. Although compared to the 46 of my ability, I didnt win a gold medal. After the winners were declared, I joined my parents in the stands, and we all cried. I managed a trembling 47 , “Im sorry. I really did my best.”“You know that,” my mother 48 and said ten words I never forgot, “Doing your best is more important than being the best.” 49 I understood my mother better than ever before. She had never let her 50 prevent her from always doing her best.Now I went over to the crying girl and 51 her. “Honey,” I said. “I know you have done your best, and 52 your best is more important than being the best. I 53 you for your performance today.”