重庆市育才中学2015-2016学年高一下学期第一次月考英语试题Word版含答案(共14页).doc

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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上重庆育才中学高2018级高一（下）第一次月考英语试题出题人：刘念 朱永忠 陶源 陈静 审题人：陆冬林第一卷 （共三部分，满分100分）第一部分：听力（总分30分，每小题1.5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 speakers like the restaurant? A. Very much B. Just so-so. C. Not at all.2. Where do

2、es the conversation probably take place? A. In a plane. B. In a boat. C. In a bus.3. What will the speakers probably do? A. Go shopping. B. Watch a play. C. Visit Mr. Taylor.4. Why doesnt the skirt suit the woman? A. She bought the wrong size. B. She became thinner. C. She gained some weight.5. What

3、 is the woman going to do this Friday? A. Give a speech. B. Give a concert. C. Go to the concert. 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. Whats the man? A. A bus driver. B. A taxi driver. C. A pilot.

4、7. What does the man think of his job? A. Not bad. B. Boring. C. Thrilling.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. What does the man consider more about the apartment? A. The location. B. The rent. C. The condition.9. What is “Old Town”? A. A place for shopping. B. A place for entertainment. C. A place for kids.听第8段材料，回答

5、第10至12题。10. What does the man like to take photos of? A. People. B. Sceneries. C. Animals.11. What might the man do when he was photographed? A. Keep smiling. B. Act cutely. C. Make a silly face.12. What picture does the man put in his wallet? A. Himself as a child. B. His wife. C. His parents.听第9段材

6、料，回答第13至16题。13. Why does the woman want to go to Thailand? A. She loves the country. B. She has never been there. C. She has friend there.14. How long would it take the woman to get there? A. About 7 hours. B. About 9 hours. C. About 17 hours.15. How is Tom Yang Gung, a Thai soup? A. Salty. B. Sour.

7、 C. Spicy.16. What do the speakers both like? A. Mountains. B. Valleys. C. Beaches.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What does Taishan look like? A. Hes 120kg heavy. B. Hes 210cm tall. C. He looks like a mountain of a man.18. Where did Taishan start his professional career as a heavyweight boxer? A. In China. B

8、. Around Asia. C. In the US.19. How is Taishan as a professional boxer? A. New. B. Good. C. Experienced.20. Who is John Bray？ A. Taishans partner. B. Taishans trainer. C. Taishans competitor 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）阅读下列短文，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 mother has lost

9、 parts of both of her legs after she saved the lives of her two children by lying on top of them as a deadly tornado swept through their home. Stephanie Decker, 36, lost one leg above the knee and the other above the ankle, yet her son and daughter escaped without a single scratch after the tornado

10、destroyed their Henryville, Indiana home. Henryville was nearly entirely destroyed by a series of tornadoes that hit the South and Midwest, killing 39 and leaving thousands homeless. But while the Decker family lost their dream home to the severe weather, they are celebrating their safety. Mrs. Deck

11、er is now in a stable condition; her husband said, “What I told her was, you are alive and you get to see your kids grow up. ” Joe Decker told the reporters. Mr. Decker said that he had sent a text message to his wife from his workplace to tell her a tornado was heading for their three-story home. S

12、he rushed their eight-year-old son Dominic and five-year-old daughter Reese into the basement, where she tried her best to protect them from the storm. Mrs. Decker typed out what had happened by using an iPad in the hospital. She saw part of the house collapse（坍塌）on her and pulled her daughter out o

13、f the way. She doesnt remember anything after that. The home, which was partly built by Mr. Decker and his wifes father, is now completely destroyed, with a bathtub 200 feet away in a filed, the Courier Journal reported. The house took about nine mouths to build and four seconds to fall, Mr. Decker

14、added. CEO Carl J. Tyler praised the Deckers who lost everything and said that the company has set up a trust fund to help pay their medical bills and the losses they suffered. He added, “They are some of the hardest working, giving people you could ever want to meet.”21. The Deckers attitude toward

15、s their suffering from the tornado is .A. pessimistic B. optimistic C. angry D. unsure22. When the tornado was about to hit their home, Mr. Decker was .A. setting out to go back home B. working by using an iPadC. sending text messages to other workers D. reminding his wife about the tornado23. What

16、can we infer from the passage?A. Mrs. Deckers brave deed is thought highly of.B. Mrs. Decker was asked to apply for a trust fund.C. The Deckers are considered to be the hardest workers.D. The Deckers are under great pressure to pay medical bills.B Here are some books published this year. The followi

17、ng introductions of these books may help you choose a book to your own taste. Life Simplified If you are looking for a book that will transform your life for good, Life Simplified is that book. If you are looking for a guide to inspire and lead you back to your inherent self, Life simplified will ac

18、t as your compass. Life Simplified provides readers with a carefully mapped approach to create life changes. The reader will develop a sense of personal pride in their progress as each chapter is completed, motivating them further. The book is an absolute must read if you would like an uncomplicated

19、 method in positively improving your life.Building the Best You How can you become the person youve always dreamed of being? Personal transformation begins when you take stock of where you are and what you are doing right now.and work to change it. All you have to do is to answer some basic question

20、s and take five minutes of “focus time” daily to get there. You are responding to questions like “What am I grateful for today?”, “What challenged me?” and “How can I overcome that challenge?”The Gifts of Imperfection In this latest book, the writer Brown emphasizes that above all other ingredients

21、of living an emotionally healthy life is the importance of loving ourselves. The point is to embrace(接受)life and oneself with all the imperfections, releasing the stress of overdoing and overworking. Brown offers exercises for readers to understand their own emotions and begin to develop the kind of

22、 resilience（适应力）needed to refuse unrealistic expectations of others and ourselves.The Strengths Book You are remarkable. But do you always realize it? Realize your strengths and you will be realizing the best of you. Do you want to be confident, successful, and sustainably happy? Do you want to achi

23、eve your goals and enjoy better relationships? The Strengths Book reveals the sixty strengths that make us who we are. If you are a manager, a parent, a career changer, or even just you, remarkable as you are, The Strengths Book is for you. Discover your strengths-what you do best and love to do-and

24、 transform your life by realizing the best of you.24. Building the Best You helps you achieve personal transformation by .A. reading some stories B. asking some questionsC. answering some questions D. accepting some suggestions25. The Gifts of Imperfection consists of the following ideas except .A.

25、nobody is perfect B. set a realistic goalC. accept and love yourselfD. practice makes perfect26. Which book doesnt involve the topic of change? A. Life Simplified.B. Building the Best You.C. The Gifts of Imperfection.D. The Strengths Book.27. Which word can best describe the four books?A. Inspiring

26、B. Thrilling C. Touching C. InterestingC Taste is such a subjective matter that we dont usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyones preference, is that its one persons opinion. But because the two big cola companies-Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola are marketed so aggressiv

27、ely, we have wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi fans: find your brand in a blind tasting.We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either

28、Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi, Diet (低糖的) Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they d have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand.We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regula

29、r colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi, then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants choices with what mere guess-work could have accomplished.Getting all four samples right was a tough test, bu

30、t not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 of 27 identified all four samples correctly. While

31、 both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half of the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burno

32、ut, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.28. It is implied in the first paragraph that _. A. the purpose of taste tests is to promote the sale of colas B. the improvem

33、ent of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies C. the competition between the two colas is very strong D. blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans29. According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to _. A. find out the role taste preference plays in a perso

34、ns drinking B. reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers C. show that a person s opinion about taste is mere guess-work D. compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks30. The word burnout underlined in Paragraph Five, refers to the state of _. A. being seriously bur

35、nt in the skin B. being unable to burn for lack of fuel C. being badly damaged by fire D. being unable to function because of excessive use31. The authors purpose in writing this passage is to _. A. show that taste preference is highly subjective B. argue that taste testing is an important marketing

36、 strategy C. emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other D. recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colasD The greatest contribution to civilization in the century may well be the air-conditioning- and American leads just as amazing is the speed with

37、 which this situation came to be. Air-conditioning began to spread in industries as a production aid during World War . Today most Americans need to take air-conditioning for granted to homes, offices, factories, theatres, shops, studios, schools, hotels, and restaurants, and we can see it almost ev

38、erywhere in todays America. But not everybody is aware that high cost and easy comfort are merely two of the effects of the vast cooling of American. In fact, air conditioning has substantially altered the countrys character and customs. Many of the byproducts are so conspicuous（显而易见的） that they are

39、 scarcely noticed. To begin with, air-conditioning transformed the face of America by making possible those glassy, boxy, sealed-in skyscrapers. It has been indispensable, no less, to the functioning of sensitive advanced computers, whose high operating temperatures require that they be constantly c

40、ooled. . . It has, at will, forced families into going back into families with closed doors and shut windows to improve the effects of the air-conditioning, reducing the interactions of neighborhood life. I think there is no need explaining the seriousness of this consequence（后果）. It is really surpr

41、ising that the publics often noted withdrawal into self-pursuit and privacy has kept in pace with the historic spread of air-conditioning. Though science has little studied how habitual air-conditioning affects mind and body, some medical experts suggest that, like other technical avoidance of natur

42、al changes in climate, air-conditioning may damage the human capacity to adapt to stress. If so, air-conditioning is only like many other greatly useful technical developments that liberate（解放） man from nature by increasing his productivity and power in some way - while indirectly weakening him in o

43、thers.32. According to this passage, which of the following played a role in the forming of the unique character of U.S.? A. Its advanced computerized civilization. B. Its excessive use of air-conditioning. C. Its publics retreating into self-pursuit. D. Its greatest contribution to human civilizati

44、on.33. According to the author, the chief consequence brought about by the wide application of air-conditioning is _. A. the loss of human capacity to adapt to changes in climate B. the reduction of social communications of neighborhood life C. the active life style of all its users D. the decreased

45、 human production and power34. The tone of this passage reveals that air-conditioning _. A. has little effect on its users B. has more effect on body than on mind C. brings only damage to its users D. does harm as well as good to its users35. What is the authors overall attitude towards air-conditio

46、ning? A. NeutralB. ObjectiveC. CriticalD. Compromising 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。Culture ShockCulture shock refers to the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, uncertainty, confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within a different and unknown cultural or social environment, such as a foreign country.Generally speaking, we could say that there are four stages of culture shock. The first stage is called “the honeymoon”. In this stage, yo