高一英语下学期第一次月考试题.doc

普宁勤建中学2016-2017学年度高一第二学期第一次月考
英语试题
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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 does the man want to do?
A. Go to work. B. Go out. C.Stay in bed.
2. Why can’t the woman tell the time?
A. Because there is something wrong with her watch.
B. Because she doesn’t want to tell the man.
C. Because she has no watch.
3. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In the hospital. B. In the library. C. In the restaurant.
4. When is the man sure to finish the project?
A. By September. B. By July. C. By March.
5. Why can’t the man have coffee with the woman?
A. Because he has to prepare for a class tomorrow.
B. Because he has to prepare for an exam tomorrow.
C. Because he has to prepare for a presentation tomorrow.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分 ）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。听下面一段材料，回答第6至8题。
6. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Sister and brother. B. Teacher and student. C. Husband and wife.
7. Where is Tom?
A. At football practice. B. At the library. C. In the bathroom.
8. How many people probably are there in the house at the moment?
A. Three. B. Five. C. Six.
听下面一段材料，回答第9至11题。
9. What is the weather like now?
A. Warm. B. Snowy. C. Windy.
10. What do we know about the woman?
A. She loves winter sports. B. She hates slippery roads.
C. She heard the radio forecast.
11. What will the two speakers do tomorrow?
A. Go skiing. B. Go skating. C. Go shopping.
听下面一段材料，回答第12第14题。
12. When did the two speakers get there?
A. At 8:50. B. At 9:10 C. At 9:15.
13. How long have they been waiting?
A. For 15 minutes. B. For 25 minutes . C. For 30munites.
14. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. It’s the first time that the woman visits the museum.
B. They can see some big guns used in old days.
C. There is something wrong with the side door.
听下面一段材料，回答第15至第17题。
15. What was true about the exam?
A. It had 15 true-false questions. B. It was 60 minutes long.
C. It has three essays.
16. How did the man feel about the true-false questions?
A. He liked them less than the essays. B. He didn’t think they were too hard.
C. He didn’t know the answers to them.
17. How did the woman do on the essay answers?
A. She wrote the information in a hurry.
B. She didn’t know the answers. C. She wrote her answers clearly.
听下面一段材料，回答第18至第20题。
18. When did Harry Houdini’s career take off?
A. In 1899. B. In 1908. C. In 1913.
19. Where did Houdini first introduce his escape?
A. In New York. B. In England. C. In St. Louis.
20. Which of the following is true about Houdini?
A. Houdini took Giant Milk Can Escape on tour in several countries.
B. Houdini’s escape from milk can made his magic more dramatic.
C. Houdini had a successful career throughout his whole life.
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
Promoted by World magazine, travel. Sohu. com and other media, “Most Beautiful Tourism Destinations of China” has attracted over 1 million netizens. Here, we’ll introduce some beautiful geological（地质学的）parks in China. They are famous for their excellent scenery as well as their unique geologic formations.
Wudalianchi Geological Park
Located in Heilongjiang Province, Wudalianchi Geological Park covers an area of 1,060 square kilometers and features extensive volcanic landforms. The Wudalianshan National Forest Park boasts the world’s most well-preserved, concentrated and complete volcanic landforms. With its common and typical volcanic landforms, Wudalianshan holds the reputation of being a “National Volcanic Museum” and an “Open Textbook on Volcanoes”.
Yandang Mountain World Geopark
Located in Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province, Yandang Mountain is 300 km away from Hangzhou,70 km away from Wenzhou and covers roughly 295 square kilometers. Yandang Mountain is famous for its screen-like peaks, caves and waterfalls. It’s a mountainous natural resort（度假胜地）on the seaside and known as “emperor of mountains” and a “marvelous beauty of the world”.
Mount Danxia Geological Park
Mount Danxia is a famous scenic area in the northeastern suburbs（郊区）of Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, covering a total area of 319 square kilometers. This geopark consists of several Scenic Spot Areas. Aizhai and Jinjiang Long Corridor Scenic Spot Areas show the natural beauty of mountain and water scenery specifically for sightseers. Additionally, these areas provide good opportunities of scientific surveying, rock climbing and exploration for tourists.
Xingwen Stone Forest Geological Park
Xingwen Karst Geopark is located in Xingwen County, Sichuan Province. Home to specific karst formations, Xingwen’s unique characteristics make it world-famous. Covering roughly 156 square kilometers, this geopark is a natural museum for studying karst formations, including the development and evolution of karst landforms.
21. Where will a tourist probably go if he’s interested in volcanoes?
A. Yandang Mountain World Geopark. B. Wudalianchi World Geopark.
C. Mount Danxia Geological Park.. D. Xingwen Stone Forest Geological Park.
22. What is special about Xingwen Stone Forest Geological Park?
A. It’s famous for caves and waterfalls. B. It’s a coastal scenic spot.
C. It has unique karst landforms. D. It’s a good place for rock climbing.
23. Where is the largest geopark mentioned in the text located?
A. In Sichuan. B. In Zhejiang. C. In Guangdong. D. In Heilongjiang.
B
Phil Donahue, the former television talk show host, had something of a reputation for giving clergy（神职人员）a hard time, and he has said the reason he’s that way is that he has little respect for them. Most clergy will do anything for some media attention, he says. In his autobiography(自传), however, he tells about an encounter with a minister who was different. It happened while Donahue was a young television reporter in Ohio, and one day he was sent to West Virginia in the bitter cold winter to cover a mine disaster. He went by himself in a battered little car, carrying a mini camera to film the story.
It was so cold when he got there, however, the camera wouldn’t work. So he put it inside his coat to warm it up enough to run. In the meantime, the families of the trapped miners were gathered around. They were just simple mining people—women, old men, and children. Several of the trapped men were fathers.
Then the local minister arrived. He was tall and thin, and he didn’t speak well at all. But he gathered all the families around in a circle, and then held one another in their arms while he prayed for them.
As this was going on, Donahue was still trying to get his camera to work, and he was extremely disappointed because he couldn’t film the scene. Finally, after the prayer was over, Donahue managed to get his camera operating. So he told the minister he had his camera working now and asked if the minister would please do the prayer again so he could film it for the evening news.
This simple West Virginia preacher, however, told Donahue, “Young man, we don’t pray for the news. I’m sorry, but we’ve already prayed, and I will not pose.”To this day, Donahue remembers that minister with respect. You don’t forget that kind of character, no matter who you are or what you believe.
24. We can learn from Paragraph 1 that Donahue _______________.
A. used to show much respect for clergy
B. always misunderstands clergy
C. used to have a hard time dealing with clergy
D. thinks most clergy tend to attract media attention
25. For what purpose did Donahue go to West Virginia one day?
A. To film the praying of a minister. B. To rescue the miners.
C. To report on an accident. D. To witness a disaster.
26. What did the minister refuse to do?
A. To pray for the accident. B. To cooperate with the reporter.
C. To make up the news. D. To pray for the trapped miners on TV.
27. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. A minister who gains Donahue’s respect. B. Praying saved the trapped miners.
C. The clergy are having a hard time. D. A mine disaster happened in Virginia.
C
Losing weight comes with a lot of health benefits—including making your brain sharper.
Yes, it turns out that overweight may damage cognitive functions (认知功能) such as memory and attention. There have been few studies of overweight and cognitive functioning, possibly because it is generally believed that it is not a primary risk cause for poor cognitive performance. Losing weight, therefore, may help improve these mental functions, according to a new research led by John Gunstad, assistant professor of psychology at Kent State University.
Growing evidence suggests that being fat is linked to cognitive deficits (缺陷). So Gunstad and his team guessed that losing weight might improve mental function. For their study, they measured memory and attention in a group of 150 overweight participants, some of whom had some kind of operation for weight loss and some did not. All of the volunteers completed mental skills tests to assess their abilities of memory and attention at the beginning of the study, and again 12 weeks later. To begin with, about 24% of the patients showed damaged learning and 23% showed signs of poor memory when tested. At the end of the study, those who had lost weight after operation improved their scores into the average or above average range for cognitive functions. Scores for the volunteers who didn’t lose weight dropped even further.
The study helped Gunstad to find out whether losing weight had any effect on mental function. Now that he’s seen the positive effect that weight loss can have on memory and attention, he says he will next study those who choose to lose weight by the traditional way—eating healthier and getting more active. He expects that losing weight in this way will have a similarly positive effect on the brain. “If we can improve the condition with operations, then we can probably produce the same change with behavioral weight loss as well,” he says.
28. There is less research on overweight and cognitive functions because researchers _____.
A．have focused on ways to sharpen people’s mind
B．believe overweight only affects our body
C．are clear about the relation between weight and mental functions
D．do not consider overweight a main cause for low cognitive ability
29. The result of Gunstad’s study shows that ______.
A．losing weight has little effect on people’s memory
B．overweight people are likely to have psychology problems
C．losing weight can improve people’s mental functions
D．overweight people’s abilities of concentration differ greatly
30. What is Gunstad planning to prove next in his research?
A．Slim people are smarter than overweight people.
B．Healthy diet is better than exercise in losing weight.
C．Overweight people will get smarter by taking more exercise.
D．Traditional ways of losing weight are better than operation.
31. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
A．Losing Weight by Operation B．Body Weight and Health
C．Ways to Improve Mental Functions D．Losing Weight to Sharpen Your Mind
D
No matter what it is, chances are that it happened when you were older than 3, because previous studies of adults have shown that very few people can recall (回忆) memories from before the age of 3. This is what scientists call “childhood amnesia (失忆症)”.
But here is the strange part: 3-year-olds certainly have memories, don’t they? They remember what they had for lunch and whom they went to the zoo with. But they lose those memories somewhere between age 3 and adulthood. So when exactly does that loss occur?
In a recent study, scientists finally discovered the age when childhood amnesia first occurs – 7 years old. According to the Telegraph, scientists at Emory University in the US studied 83 3-year-olds. The children were asked about six different events, such as family outings or birthdays, which occurred over the previous six months. They could remember quite a lot about these experiences.
The children were then divided into five groups. The groups returned to the lab at ages 5, 6, 7, 8and 9, respectively to be asked about the same events.
It was found that children who were questioned again at ages 5, 6 and 7 were still able to recall 63 to 72 percent of the events. But children of 8 or 9 could only remember 35 percent. This shows that memories of early childhood start to decline quickly around the age of 7.
According to scientists, before the age of 7, children don’t have a sense of time or place to bring together all the pieces of information that make up a complex (复杂的) and strong memory.
“You have to learn to use a calendar (日历) and understand the days of the week and the seasons,” Patricia Bauer, who led the study, explained to Science Daily. “You need to [remember] information about the physical location of the event. And you need development of a sense of self.” For the next step of Bauer’s research, she hopes to find out when people begin to develop an adult memory system, which she believes to be between the age of 9 and 18.
Bauer thinks that learning about memory is important to understanding ourselves. After all, “remembering yourself in the past is how you know who you are today,” she said.
32. What was the main goal of the study led by Patricia Bauer?
A. To examine whether 3-year-olds have memories.
B. To check which age group has the best memory.
C. To find out when childhood memories are lost.
D. To see what the earliest childhood memory is.
33. The underlined word “decline” is closest in meaning to __________.
A. disappear B. improve C. change D. stop
34. Why does childhood amnesia first occur at the age of 7?
A. Because children don’t have a sense of time or place before 7.
B. Because children under 7 forget events within several months.
C. Because children don’t choose to what to remember before 7.
D. Because children focus more on the present more than the past before 7.
35. Which of the following statements about the study is TRUE?
A. Children of different ages were brought together for the study.
B. 3-year-olds could remember a lot about experiences they had had within the previous six months.
C. Different age groups performed exactly the same as each other.
D. The group of 5-year-olds recalled more events than any other age group