正定中學(xué)07―08學(xué)年高二年級第一次月考

               英 語 試 卷        （07.9）

本試卷分為第一卷（選擇題）和第二卷（非選擇題）兩部分. 滿分150分，考試時間120分鐘。

第一卷（95分）

注意事項：

1．答第一卷前，考生務(wù)必將自己的姓名、準(zhǔn)考證號、考試科目用鉛筆涂寫在答題卡上。

2．每小題選出答案后，用鉛筆把答題卡上對應(yīng)題目的答案標(biāo)號涂黑。如需改動，用橡皮擦干凈后，再選涂其它答案標(biāo)號。不能答在試卷上。

第一部分 英語知識運用（共三節(jié)，滿分50分）

第一節(jié) 語音知識(共5小題；每小題1分，滿分5分)

從A、B、C、D四個選項中，找出其劃線部分與所給單詞的劃線部分讀音相同的選項。

1．exactly    A．expert       B．examination  C．excuse        D．extraordinary

2．decision  A．observe    B．treasure      C．dust         D．design

3．a(chǎn)nswer     A．within       B．twenty      C．whoever     D．whether

4．height      A．eight          B．foreign       C．weight       D．neither

5．idiom       A．mild           B．fighting    C．district         D．recite

第二節(jié) 語法和詞匯知識（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）

從A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。

6．Mr. Smith said that he would not be late for the appointment, ______ he were late?

A．so that                B．a(chǎn)nd what about  C．but what if        D．how about when

7．Drivers who use mobile phone on _____ road are more likely to have _____ accidents, a science report said yesterday.

A．a(chǎn) ; the              B．the ; 不填         C．不填 ; the         D．the; the

8．I’m going to Paris tomorrow. Which hotel can you ______ to me?

      A．relate               B．suggest             C．a(chǎn)dvise                 D．recommend

9．Our limited time should _____ the most of ______ us for the approaching examination.

     A．make; to prepare                                B．be made; preparing                           C．make; preparing           D．be made; to prepare

10．Reading _______ the lines, I would say they are more worried about their children’s future.

     A．beyond            B．a(chǎn)long             C．between            D．Neither

11．_______, her house looked in a mess.

     A．Being painted   B．Painted               C．Having been painted           D．Painting

12．―Thank you very much.

 ―You are welcome. I was ______ pleased to help.

     A．only too          B．too much          C．not so             D．very much

13．Food is to men _____ oil is to machines.

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

14．The chair looks rather fine, but in fact, it is uncomfortable to ______.

     A．sit on                 B．sit                       C．be sat                D．be sat on

15．These examples show us that once _____ ,the poems are better understood.

     A．reciting          B．having recited   C．recite              D．recited

16．She tried to ______ some time each day to read to her children.

    A．set out             B．set aside            C．put away         D．set off

17．People have made poems since human society _________.

   A．came into use                                   B．came into being                           C．come into use           D．come into being

18．The fact ______ Great Britain is made up of three countries is still unknown to many

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

19．He has a high salary. Every year he earns ________ $100,000

    A．a(chǎn)s many as     B．a(chǎn)s much as        C．so many as       D．so much as

20．I don’t want any bad words ______ about him behind his back.

     A．saying            B．spoken               C．told                D．said

第三節(jié) 完形填空(共20小題; 每小題1.5分, 滿分30分)

閱讀下面短文, 從各題所給的四個選項(A、B、C、D )中,選出最佳選項。

Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her diary. Now, a teenager with the same    21   might go onto the Internet and write about them in a   22   . In many ways, a diary and a blog are very similar. So, what makes blogging    23   from writing in a traditional diary?
　　The biggest difference is that blogging is much more    24   than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of    25   that she does not want to share.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I    26   online to read her blog. She writes about things   27   waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. When I was her age, I wrote about the same things,   28    only in my diary. Then I    29  hide my diary in a secret place because I was worried that my sister might read it!

Because blogging is such a public way of writing, it has    30  good and bad points. The biggest problem with blogging is that anyone can   31   what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something   32    about her in my diary, she would never know.   33   , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might read her blog and become angry.   34  , we have to be very careful of what we write.

There are also advantages to blogging, of course. People choose to blog   35   they know that their friends will read what they write. If I was   36    sad one day and wrote in my diary, nobody   37   me, because no one knows about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly   38    and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people   39   contact with their friends and hear what the people around them are doing. Blogs are a very good way to write about   40  , as long as people are careful about what they write.
　  21. A. problems            B. questions                  C. difficulties                D. worries
　　22. A. diary                  B. notebook                  C. blog                         D. book
　　23. A. similar               B. different                   C. alike                        D. equal
　　24. A. private               B. public                      C. interesting                D. selfish　　

25. A. secrets                B. tales                         C. ideas                        D. dreams　　

26. A. call                    B. get                           C. surf                         D. go　

27. A. as                      B. for example                     C. like                          D. as to

28. A. but                     B. so                            C. however                   D. and
　　29. A. will                    B. would                      C. might                       D. could
　　30. A. both                   B. neither                            C. either                       D. all
　　31. A. see                            B. exam                       C. read                         D. study
　　32. A. crazy                  B. fashionable               C. curious                     D. bad
　　33. A. As a result          B. Generally speaking    C. However                  D. In fact
　　34. A. Therefore           B. Then                        C. Nevertheless             D. Even so

       35. A. so                      B. because                    C. when                       D. although

       36. A. looking              B. getting                     C. feeling                     D. turning

       37. A. cares about         B. understand                C. look after                 D. protect

       38. A. return                 B. reflect                      C. imitate                            D. respond

       39. A. stay                    B. get                           C. lose                         D. break

  40. A. practice              B. experience                C. way of life               D. daily life

第二部分 閱讀理解（共20小題。每小題2分，第二節(jié)每小題1分；滿分45分）

（A）閱讀下列短文，從每小題所給的四個選項（A、B、C、D）中，選出最佳選項。

A

Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket-anything with a round ball. I was useless.” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year , he met John Ridgway, who because famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean , Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s School of Adventure in Scotland ,  where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.

Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. “John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ‘You’re completely crazy,” “Saunders says .

In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier , Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite , had a close encounter (遭遇)with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit .

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pale, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1,800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis .

41．The turning point in Saunders’ life Saunders’ life came when          

A．he started to play ball games

B．he got a mountain bike at age 15

C．he ran his first marathon at age 18

D．he started to receive Ridgway’s training

42．We can learn from the text that Ridgway            .

A．dismissed Sounders’ dream as fantasy

B．built up his body together with Saunders

C．hired Saunders fro his cold-water experience

D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

43．What do we know about Saunders?

A．He once worked at a school in Scotland.

B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.

C．He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.

D．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

44．The underlined word “Intrigued” it the third paragraph probably means           .

A．Excited

B．Convinced

C．Delighted

D．Fascinated

45．It can he inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole        .

A．was accompanied by his old playmates

B．set a record in the North Pole exposition

C．was supported by other Arctic explorers

D．made him well-known in the 1960s

B

My friends, Emma Daniels, spent the summer of 1974 traveling in Israel. During her month-long stay in Jerusalem she often went to a café called Chocolate Soup. It was run by two men, one of whom ? Alex ? used to live in Montreal. One morning when Emma went in for coffee, while chatting with her new friend Alex, she mentioned that she had just finished the book she was reading and had nothing else to read. Alex said he had a wonderful book she might like, and that he’d be happy to lend it to her. As he lived just above the café, he quickly ran up to get it. The book he handed to Emma just minutes later was Markings, a book by a former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN).

Emma had never read it, nor had she ever bought a copy. But, when she opened it up, she was floored to see her own name and address inside the cover in her own handwriting（筆跡）.It turned out that the summer before, at a concert back in Montreal, Emma had met a Californian who was in town visiting friends. They decided to exchange addresses, but neither of them had any paper. The man opened up a book he was carrying in his backpack(背包) and asked Emma to write her name and address inside. When he returned to California, he left the book behind in Montreal, and his friend Alex kept it. When Alex later moved to Jerusalem, he took the book along.

46. Alex lent Emma the book, Markings,           .

A. to show his friendliness to her

B. to show his interest in reading

C. to tell her about the importance of UN

D. to let her write her name and address inside

47. How did Emma feel the moment she opened the book?

    A. Pleased.                         B. Satisfied.

    C. Worried.                         D. Surprised.

48. We can learn from the text the Californian             .

    A. met Emma at a concert

    B. invited Emma to a concert

    C. introduced Emma to his friend

    D. left Emma his backpack

49. Who was supposed to be the first owner of the book?

    A. An official of the UN.

    B. A coffee shop owner.

    C. A friend of the author’s.

    D. Alex’s friend form California.

C

    A study of English learning problems was carried out among a total of 106 foreign students. It shows that most students considered understanding spoken English to be their biggest problem on arrival. This was followed by speaking. Writing increased as a problem as students discovered difficulties in writing papers that they were now expected to hand in. Reading remained as a significant(顯著的) problem.

    The information gained helped us in determining where special attention should be paid in our course. Although many students have chosen to join the course with a reasonable motivation(動機(jī)), we considered it important to note what seemed to encourage interest. Nearly all the students have experienced some kind of grammar-based English teaching in their own country. To use the same method would be self-defeating because it might reduce motivation, especially if it has failed in the past. Therefore a different method may help because it is different.

    Variety of activity was also seen as a way of maintaining(保持) or increasing motivation. Several years ago we had one timetable that operated throughout, but we soon found that both the students and the teachers lost interest by about halfway through the ten weeks. This led us to a major re-think, so finally we brought it into line with the expressed language needs of the students.

50. What is the text mainly about?

A. Foreign students have more problems.

B. There are many ways to improve English.

C. Teaching should meet students’ needs.

D. English learning problems should be studied again.

51. Writing became a bigger problem when foreign students________.

A. had to write their papers

B. became better at speaking

C. became less interested in reading

D. had fewer problems with listening

52. We may infer from the last two paragraphs that ________.

A. different teaching methods should be used

B. grammar-based teaching seems to be encouraging

C. English courses are necessary for foreign students

D. teaching content should be changed halfway.

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

A. re-think

B. activity

C. motivation

D. timetable

D

    Since my retirement(退休) from teaching music in 2001, I have spent a good deal of time painting as an artist. I actually began drawing again in the summer of 1995 when my father died, so perhaps I was trying to recover from the loss of my father, or maybe it was just that it brought back memories of him. In any case, I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes(風(fēng)景畫) much influenced(影響) by Krenkel and St. John for five years.

    For some strange reason, I had been waiting until my retirement to start doing watercolors again, but as soon as I walked out of the school door for the last time I picked up my brushes and rediscovered Andrew Wyeth, who quickly became my favorite artist. I had looked through all the art books I had on my shelves and found his watercolors to be the closest to how I thought good watercolors should look. So I painted landscapes around Minnesota for three years and tried out many other types of painting. However, watercolors remained my first choice, and I think I did my best work there, showing my paintings at a number of art exhibitions.

    Art is now together with my piano playing and reading. There is a time for everything in my world, and it is wonderful to have some time doing what I want to do. As Confucius once said, “At seventy I can follow my heart’s desire.”

54. What is the text mainly about?

A. Learning to paint in later life.                    

B. How to paint watercolors

C. An artist-turned teacher                          

D. Life after retirement

55. The author started drawing again in 1995 because_________.

A. he hoped to draw a picture of his father

B. he couldn’t stop missing his father

C. he had more time after retirement

D. he liked animals and landscapes

56. We can infer from the text that the author__________.

A. had been taught by Krenkel and St. John

B. painted landscapes in Minnesota for 5 years

C. believed Wyeth to be the best in watercolors

D. started his retirement life at the age of seventy

57. How does the author probably feel about his life as an artist?

A. Very enjoyable.   B. A bit regretful     C. Rather busy.        D. Fairly dull.

E

Phillip Island Penguins(企鵝)

    The Little Penguin has called Phillip Island home for untold generations. Get to Phillip Island in plenty of time to watch s summer sunset at Summerland Beach ? the stage is attractively set to see the little Penguin leave water and step onto land.

    ?Leave Melbourne at 5:30 pm for a direct journey to Phillip Island.

    ?See the Gippsland area ? Guinness Book of Records place for the world’s longest earthworm(蚯蚓)

    ?Journey along the coastal highway around the Bay with French Island and Churchill Island in the distance

    ?Cross the bridge at San Remo to enter Phillip Island ? natural home for Little Penguins and many animals

    ?Take your place in special viewing stands(看臺) to watch the daily evening performance of the wild Little Penguins

Ultimate Penguins (+U)

    Join a group of up to 15. This guided tour goes to an attractive, quiet beach to see Little Penguins. You can see penguins at night by wearing a special pair of glasses.

    Adult(成人) $60.00         Child $30.00

Viewing Platform Penguin Plus (+V)

    More personalized wildlife viewing limited to 130 people providing closer viewing of the penguin arrival than the main viewing stands.

    Adult $25.00         Child $12.50

Penguin Skybox (+S)

    Join a group of only 5 in the comfort of a special, higher-up viewing tower. Gain an excellent overview of Summerland Beach.

    Adult 16yrs

58. What kind of people is the text mainly written for?

A. Scientists.      B. Students        C. Tourists.         D. Artists.

59. We can learn from the text that Little Penguins__________.

A. have been on Phillip Island for years

B. keep a Guinness record for their size

C. are trained to practice diving for visitors

D. live in large groups to protect themselves

60. How much would a couple with one child pay for a closer viewing tour?

A. $37.50.        B. $62.50.          C. $180.00.         D. $150.00.

（B）根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容，從對話后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

-----Hi, Jane. Where are you going?

-----I’m not sure.   61  .

-----Really? Have you decided what color to use?

-----   62  . I’m thinking about white walls and light blue furniture. But I can’t decide what kind of carpet to get.

-----   63  .

-----I worry about expensive things like that. I’m afraid I won’t be able to take it back if I decide I don’t like it.

----There are a few carpet stores ahead.   64    .

----That’s a good idea.   65  .

A.     I think you should look for cream color to go with the wall.

B.      I want to decorate my living room.

C.      Wonderful!

D.     Well, not yet.

E.      I’m glad I ran into you today.

F.      I’ll give you a hand.

答案：

1-5BBCDC  6-10CBDDC       11-15AABAD    16-20BBCBD     21-25ACBBA     26-30DCABA             31-35CDCAB     36-40CADAD 41-45BDADB 46―50 ADADC 51―55 AADDB

56―60 CACAB 61---65 BDAFE

66. convenient 67.construction 68.loneliness 69. fantasy 70. atmosphere 71.glory 72 contributed 73. absence 74. influenced 75.consisting

76 happens---happened  77 off---on  78. 去掉 the  79. has---was  80.  he---she

81. 去掉when  82. Saw---Seeing  83.√  84. glanced 后加at  85. quick---quickly

One possible version:

Now in country areas, there are many children out of school. I think one of the reasons is that their families are too poor to afford their school. As a result, they have to stay at home to get money to keep their families. Another reason is that many parents think it useless for the girls to study and they would not like them to go to school. A third reason is that some children are not interested in their lessons, and would not like to go to school. In my opinion all the children including the girls should have the chance to receive education. All the people should pay attention to the children who will play a very important part in the future of our country.