高一英语下学期第一次月考试题普通班.doc

广东省广州市南沙区2016-2017学年高一英语下学期第一次月考试题（普通班）
（本试卷150分，共8页）
第I卷
听力测试题：每小题1分，15小题，共15分
Section A 请选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。
Directions: In this section, you will hear six conversations between two speakers. For each conversation, there are several questions and each question is followed by three choices marked A,B and C. listen carefully and then choose the best answer for each question.
You will hear each conversation TWICE.
Conversation 1
1. What is Mr Brown most probably doing now?
A. On the way to a conference.
B. Talking on the phone.
C. Attending a meeting.
2. When can the woman see Mr. Brown?
A. Between 9:00 am and 10:30 am tomorrow.
B. After 3:00 tomorrow afternoon.
C. At 3:00 this afternoon.
Conversation 2
3. What day is it today?
A.Monday B. Wednesday C. Thursday
4.Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A. At home. B. At a drug store C. At the doctor’s
Conversation 3
5. What is the woman listening to?
A. A new story. B. A new song. C. An old song.
6. What does the man probably like doing?
A.Listening to music. B. Learning about singers.
C.Reading books
Conversation 4
7.How long did the woman’s father smoke ？
A.For 16 years. B. For 18 years. C. For 20 years.
8.Why did the woman’s father quit smoking?
A.His family asked him to?
B.He was suffering from cancer.
C.He was worried about his health.
9.What wil the man try harder to do?
A.Give up smoking. B Persuade his father to quit smoking.
C. Persuade his brother to quit smoking.
Conversation 5
10.What did the two speakers talk about at first?
A.When to join a club? B. Which club to join?
C. What club is popular?
11.What does the article show?
A.Everyone can help protect the environment.
B.Our environment is becoming better.
C.Many people care little about the environment.
12. How does the man find the woman’s way of protection?
A. Helpless. B. Surprising. C. Important.
Conversation6
13. What is the woman doing?
A. Asking for help. B. Selling something.
C. Greeting the man
14.What does the woman think of the air in Atlanta?
A.Terrible. B. Wonderful C.Disappointing
15. Why did the woman’s family move here?
A.Her husband got a good job here.
B.She wanted to look for work here.
C.They didn’t like Chicago.
第一节 阅读理解（共15小题，每题2分，满分30分）
A
Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive in the street.Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather and the life of American people. Most of the radio programs are music. Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape and radio stations usethem in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people will buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes,all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star. There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories aboutthe common (普通的) life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. It is about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl friend. They are very popular amongyoung people.

16. How many kinds of music are mentioned in this passage?
A. One.
B. Two.
C. Three.
D. Four.
17. The pop singers can make much money because______.
A. they make CDs or tapes
B. many young people buy their tapes
C. they are national stars
D. all the people want to meet them
18. The best title for this passage should be "______".
A. Everyone likes music in America
B. Pop music in America
C. Music in America
D. Music is important to Americans
B．
Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.
19.Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?
A. They thought spinach made them strong.
B. They thought Popeye was funny.
C. Spinach had a lot of iron.
D .People liked folic acid.
20.A research group told people that spinach______.
A .made Popeye strong
B. was a green vegetable
C .had less iron than other green vegetables
D. had more iron than other green vegetables
21.The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.
A. iron B .folic acid C. spinach D. exercise
22.Folic acid is ______.
A. something in food B. a vegetable
C. dangerous D. a certain kind of spinach

C
Thanksgiving Day is special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing.
Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest. On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.
The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel. Many of the Pilgrims died. But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Governor Bradford declared a three-day feast. The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.
In time, other colonies（殖民地）began to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed（宣布）the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbours. But the Canadian thanks-giving Day falls on the second Monday in October.
23. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated .
A. in spring B. summer
C. in autumn D. in winter
24. The first to celebrate thanksgiving were .
A. some people from England
B. the American Indians
C. Sarah Josepha Hale
D. Governor Bradford
25. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Thanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest.
B. Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on thanksgiving celebrations.
C. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to express the American and Indian people’s thanks to God.
D. There’s little difference between the American way and the Canadian way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
26. The passage mainly tells us .
A. how Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the U. S. A.
B. how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebrated
C. that Thanksgiving Day is in fact a harvest holiday
D. how the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and places
D
 Living a healthy lifestyle lies in forming the right eating habits. Here are some of the good habits you can develop when it comes to healthy eating.
Drink plenty of water. You must drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. You may need even more water if you are in a hot environment or if you are exercising.
Eat breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A recent study has shown that those who eat breakfast will consume(消耗) an average of 100 calories less during the day than their colleagues who skipped breakfast. They will also be able to concentrate(集中精神) better.
Don’t skip lunch. If you do so, your blood sugar level will drop and your metabolism (新陈代谢) will slow down. When you get home you are starving and eat everything you can find.
We all need to snack from time to time, but please choose your snacks carefully. In fact, it’s a good idea to eat two healthy snacks besides your three main meals. Choose healthy snacks like fruits and vegetables, low fat yogurt, cottage cheese with apple sauce, and so on.
Eat your fruit and vegetables. We should eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Take a piece of fruit for a snack, add some banana and raisins to your favourite breakfast cereal (谷类食品), have a salad with lunch, and eat at least one vegetable at dinner each night.
Do not eat your dinner too late. Try to eat dinner at least 3 hours before you go to bed. This will give your body a chance to digest most of the food before you rest for the next 8 hours. Plan dinner for the week ahead of time and make sure you have everything you need in the house so other family members can get a head start on dinner if you have a late meeting at the office.
27. How many good eating habits are mentioned in the passage?
A. 5. B. 6. C. 7. D. 8.
28. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. You should drink at least 8 glasses of water whatever the environment may be.
B. Breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, fruit and vegetables are equally important.
C. It is suggested that you eat your dinner at seven if you plan to go to bed at ten.
D. It is good for your health to eat fruits and vegetables at each meal every day.
29.The underlined word “raisin” most probably means “_____”.
A. a dried grape B. a peach leaf C. a piece of cheese D. a peanut
30. You may most probably find this article _____.
A. in a textbook B. in a science fiction book
C. in a website D. in an advertisement
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（A、B、C、D、E、F、G)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。在答题卡上将最佳选项涂黑。
Eyesight plays a very important role in our daily life. Every waking moment, the eyes are working to see the world around us. Over forty percent of Americans worry about losing eyesight, but it's easy to include steps into our daily life to ensure healthy eyes. Here are five suggestions for a lifetime of healthy eyesight：
•Schedule yearly exams.__31____Experts advise parents to bring babies 6 to 12 months of age to the doctor for a careful check. The good news is that millions of children now can have yearly eye exams and following treatment, including eyeglasses.
•Protect against UV rays(紫外线)．Long-term stay in the sun creates risk to your eyes. No matter what the season is, it's extremely important to wear sunglasses.___32___
•Give your eyes a break. Two-thirds of Americans spend up to seven hours a day using computers or other digital products.___33___ Experts recommend that people practice the 20/20/20 rule: every 20 minutes, take a 20-second break and look at something 20 feet away.
•___34___ As part of a healthy diet, eat more fruits and vegetables each day. Vitamins(维生素) C and E help protect eyesight and promote eye health.
•Practice safe wear and care of contact lenses(隐形眼镜)．Many Americans use contact lenses to improve their eyesight. While some follow the medical guidance for wearing contact lenses, many are breaking the rules and putting their eyesight at risk.___35___ Otherwise, you may have problems such as red eyes, pain in the eyes, or a more serious condition.
A．Eat your greens.
B．Eye care should begin early in life.
C．They can properly protect your eyes.
D．Stay in good shape by taking more Vitamins.
E．Parents usually don't care about their own eyesight.
F．Always follow the doctor's advice for appropriate wear.
G．This frequent eye activity increases the risk for eye tiredness.
第二部分 语言知识与运用（共两节；满分45分）
第一节 完形填空 （共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的各题的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
You have waited 45 minutes for the valuable 10 minutes’ break between classes. But when the bell for the next class rings, you can’t believe how ___36__ time has passed.
If you are ___37___ with this scene, you’ll know how time flies when you are having fun and __38__ when you are bored. Now scientists have ___39___ a reason why this is the case.
Scans have shown that patterns of activity in the brain ___40___ according to how we focus on a task. When we are ___41___ , we concentrate more on how time is passing. And ____42___ makes our brains think the clock is ticking more slowly.
In an experiment ____43___ by a French laboratory, 12 volunteers watched an image ___44___ researchers monitored their brain activity.
The volunteers were told to __45____ concentrate on how long an image appeared for, then ____46___ the color of the image, and thirdly, study both duration and color. The results showed that ___47__ was more active when the volunteers paid attention to ___48__ subjects.
It is thought __49____ if the brain is focusing on many aspects of a task, it has to ___50__ its resources, and pays less attention to the clock. ____51__ , time passes without us really __52___ it, and seems to go quickly. If the brain is not so active, it concentrates its ___53____ energies on monitoring the passing of time. __54__ , time seems to drag.
Next time you feel bored ___55___ , perhaps you should pay more attention to what the teacher is saying!
36. A. slowly B. quickly
C. terribly D. foolishly
37. A. disappointed B. satisfied
C. familiar D. similar
38. A. drags B. stops C. goes D. backs
39. A. thought over B. made up
C. suggested with D. come up with
40. A. change B. develop C. grow D. slow
41. A. sleepy B. bored C. excited D. active
42. A. which B. we C. this D. what
43. A. produced B. carried out C. tried D. did
44. A. where B. when C. while D. as
45. A. partly