高一英语11月月考试题2.doc

2016-2017学年度白水高中高一英语11月月考试题
（时间：120分钟 分值150分）
本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分，考试用时120分钟。
注意事项：
1．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。
2．全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
第I卷
第一部分听力(共两节，满分30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。
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 mean?
A. The woman must complete a form first.
B. The woman’s application was lost in the fields.
C. The woman’s not suitable for the job.
2. Which dress does the man like?
A. The red one. B. The white one. C. The purple one.
3. What subjects does the woman like best?
A. Maths and Geography. B. Maths and English. C. Chinese and English.
4. Which class will the woman take at 2:00 pm?
A. History. B. Physics. C. Chemistry.
5. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The woman visited the Sydney Opera House.
B. The woman has been to America recently.
C. The woman likes beautiful buildings.

第二节：(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. Where does the conversation take place?
A. In the police station. B. In the customs office. C. In the tourists center.
7. What is the purpose of the woman’s trip?
A .Visiting her parents. B. Returning to her hometown. C. Attending a conference.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What would the woman like to eat?
A. A sandwich. B. Fried rice. C. Pizza.
9. What drink will the man buy?
A.A Coke. B. A hot coffee. C. An orange juice.
10. How much money does the woman give the man?
A. 2. B. 3. C. 5.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Husband and wife. B. Friends. C. Teacher and student.
12. What’s wrong with Tom?
A. He felt sick.
B. He felt upset for his behavior.
C. He didn’t know what to do with his CD player.
13. What can we know from the conversation?
A. Tom stole a CD player.
B. The CD player belonged to Jenny.
C. Tom didn’t follow Jenny’s suggestion.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. How many girl children does the family have altogether?
A. Five B. Nine. C. Four.
15. What was the woman’s childhood like?
A. Quarrelsome and free. B. Poor but happy. C. Rich but unhappy.
16. Which of the following is NOT true about her wealthy cousins?
A. They had to behave themselves and did not have so much freedom.
B. They envied her way of life.
C. They were living in a huge family.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How long is the speaker staying in Finland?
A. The whole winter. B. For two weeks. C. For three weeks.
18. Why is she in Finland?
A. To buy clothes.
B. To attend a conference.
C. To experience the weather.
19. What was the speaker’s biggest problem with preparing the trip?
A. Getting the right kind of clothes.
B. Getting used to the weather.
C .Selling warm clothes.
20. Why could Julia help?
A. She’s been to Northern Europe.
B. She’s from Finland.
C. She makes clothes.

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。
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Many blind people use guide dogs to help them get safely from place to place and to warn them of danger. But what can blind people do if they are allergic(过敏的) to dogs or just don’t like them? For these people, they can turn to the Guide Horse Foundation.
Janet and Don Burleson founded(成立) the organization in 1999. They began training miniature horses to help guide blind people. Miniature horses look just like common horses, only much smaller. They are generally less than 34 inches tall.
Cuddles was the foundation’s first guide horse in full service. She became 45-year-old Dan Shaw’s helper. Shaw has an eye disease and his sight is very poor. One night, while filling out a form to get a guide dog, Shaw heard a news story on TV about people training horses to guide the blind. Shaw loves horses and wanted a guide animal that would live a long time. So he applied(申请)，and a year later, Cuddles and Shaw began training as a team.
On a trip to New York, Cuddles helped Shaw safely visit many places of interest .They even traveled on a boat and on the subway system.
Shaw says that he is very lucky to have Cuddles. He believes that Cuddles has changed his life for the better by giving him the chance to do things himself and making him feel much more confident about himself.
21．The Guide Horse Foundation_____.
A. was set up by one person
B. has different kinds of horses
C. trains horses to guide blind people
D. has a history of several hundred years
22．According to the text, miniature horses_______.
A. live a shorter life than guide dogs.
B. are much smaller than common horses.
C. are more friendly to people than dogs.
D. are different from common horses in many ways.
23． We know from the text that Dan Shaw______.
A. became blind at age 45
B. has a great love for horses
C. heard about guide horses from a friend
D. got a guide horse as soon as he applied

阅读理解
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
With only about 1, 000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone(克隆) the animal and save the endangered species(物种). That’s a move similar to what a Texas A & M University researchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called “Noah’s Ark”.
Noah’s Ark is aimed at collecting eggs, embryos(胚胎), semen and DNA of endangered animals and storing them in liquid nitrogen（氮）. If certain species should become extinct, Dr. Duane Kraemer, a professor in Texas A & M’s College of Veterinary Medicine, says there would be enough of the basic building blocks to reintroduce the species in the future.
It is estimated that as many as 2,000 species of mammals, birds reptiles will become extinct in over 100 years. The panda, native only to China, is in danger of becoming extinct in the next 25 years.
This week, Chinese scientists said they grew an embryo by introducing cells from a dead female panda into the egg cells of a Japanese white rabbit. They are now trying to implant the embryo into a host animal.
The entire procedure could take from three to five years to complete.
“The nuclear transfer(核子移植) of one species to another is not easy, and the lack of available(capable of being used) panda eggs could be a major problem,” Kraemer believes. “They will probably have to do several hundred transfers to result in one pregnancy (having a baby). It takes a long time and it’s difficult, but this could be groundbreaking science if it works. They are certainly not putting any live pandas at risk, so it is worth the effort,” adds Kraemer, who is one of the leaders of the Project at Texas A& M, the first-ever attempt at cloning a dog.
“They are trying to do something that’s never been done, and this is very similar to our work in Noah’s Ark. We’re both trying to save animals that face extinction. I certainly appreciate their effort and there’s a lot we can learn from what they are attempting to do. It’s a research that is very much needed. ”
24．The aim of “Noah’s Ark” project is to _______.
A. make efforts to clone the endangered pandas
B. save endangered animals from dying out
C. collect DNA of endangered animals to study
D. transfer the nuclear of one animal to another
25．According to Professor Kraemer, the major problem in cloning pandas would be the lack of _______.
A. available panda eggs B. host animals
C. qualified researchers D. enough money
26．The best title for the passage may be _______.
A. China’s Success in Pandas Cloning.
B. The First Cloned Panda in the World.
C. Exploring the Possibility to Clone Pandas.
D. China —the Native Place of Pandas Forever.
27．From the passage we know that _______.
A. Kraemer and his team have succeeded in cloning a dog.
B. scientists try to implant a panda’s egg into a rabbit.
C. Kraemer will work with Chinese scientists in clone researches.
D. about two thousand of species will probably die out in a century.

Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884–1962) was an Austrian-American explorer, botanist, and anthropologist(人类学家). For more than 25 years, he travelled extensively through Tibet and Yunnan, Gansu, and Sichuan provinces in China before finally leaving in 1949.
In 1924, Harvard sent Joseph Francis Rock on a treasure hunt through China’s southwestern provinces—the Wild West of their day. But gold and silver weren’t his task: Rock, a distinguished botanist, sought only to fill his bags with all the seeds, saplings, and shrubs he could find. During his three-year expedition, he collected 20,000 specimens for the Arnold Arboretum(阿诺德植物园).
Botany, though, was just one of Rock’s strengths. As an ethnologist(民族学者), he took hundreds of photographs of the Naxi, a tribe in Yunnan province, recording their now-lost way of life for both Harvard and National Geographic, and took notes for an eventual 500-page dictionary of their language. His hand-drawn map of his travels through China’s “Cho-Ni” territory, in the Harvard Map Collection, includes more than a thousand rivers, towns, and mountains indicated in both English and Chinese, and was so well made that the U.S. government used it to plan aerial missions in World War II.
Scientist, linguist, cartographer, photographer, writer—Rock was not a wallflower in any sense. Arrogant and self-possessed, he would walk into a village or warlord’s place “as if he owned the place,” said Lisa Pearson, the Arboretum’s head librarian.
In declaring his successful return under the headline “Seeking Strange Flowers, in the Far Reaches of the World,” the Boston Evening Transcript ran a large photo of the daring explorer wearing in a woolly coat and fox-skin hat. “In discussing his heroism including hair-raising escapes from death either from mountain slides, snow slides and robber armies, he waves the idea away as if it is of no importance.”
The Arboretum and Rock parted ways after 1927, mainly because his trip cost Harvard a fortune—about $900,000 in today’s dollars. Fortunately, many of his specimens, many of his amazing photos, and his great stories remain.
28．What is the passage mainly about?
A. Rock’s service for the U.S government.
B. Rock’s cooperation with Harvard.
C. Rock’s work as a botanist.
D. Rock’s exploration in Southwest China.
29．What contribution did Rock make to the USA besides collecting new plants and specimens?
A. He traveled through some uncivilized places in China.
B. His hand-drawn map was used in World War II.
C. He showed heroism by escaping difficulties.
D. He made headlines in Boston Evening News.
30．How did Rock respond when people mentioned his heroic deeds?
A. Excitedly. B. Proudly. C. Calmly. D. Nervously.
31．What caused Rock to stop work for The Arboretum?
A. The vast expense. B. The dangerous journey.
C. The challenging tasks. D. The unknown world.

The universe looks like a pretty quiet place to live. But the universe is filled with dangerous things, all struggling to be the one to wipe us off the planet. Happily for us, they’re all pretty unlikely, but if you wait long enough, one of them is certain to get us. But which one?
1. Death by Asteroid (小行星)
Of all the ways we might meet our untimely death, getting wiped out by an asteroid is the most likely. Why? Because we sit in a universal shooting gallery, with 100 tons of material hitting us every day. The problem, though, occurs every few centuries when something big this way comes. If you could ask a dinosaur, I’d imagine they would tell you to take this seriously.
2. Death by Exploding Star
When a huge star ends its life, it does so with a bang, which sends death spreading across space in the form of high-energy radiation. Many studies show that the bang would have to be closer than about 75 light years to do us any harm. The good news: no stars so close are able to do the deed.
3. Death by Dying Sun
The sun is important to us; without it, we’d freeze. But the sun is also middle-aged, already halfway to running out of fuel, expanding into a red giant, and cooking us to a fine crisp. Even long before then, it’ll warm up enough to raise our average temperature and cause a runaway greenhouse effect, boiling our oceans.
Happily, that’s a long time from now.
4. Death by Black Hole
Black holes are misunderstood. They don’t wander the galaxy looking for tasty snacks in the form of planets and stars; they turn around the Milky Way just like the hundreds of billions of other stars do. But it’s possible that one could wander too close to us. If it did, planetary paths would be disturbed, causing the Earth to drop into the sun or be thrown out into deep space.
Given that it could be trillions of years or more before even that happens, we don’t have to worry too much about black holes.
My advice? Go outside, look up, enjoy the sun, the moon, and the stars. They may be there forever as far as any one of us is concerned...and forever is a long, long time.
32．The underlined word “this” probably refers to ________.
A. getting wiped out by a dinosaur
B. an untimely death
C. a cosmic shooting gallery
D. 100 tons of material
33．Which of the following will cause the earth’s average temperature to go up dramatically?
A. The dying sun. B. The black hole.
C. The asteroid. D. The exploding star.
34．Which of the following statement is possible about black holes?
A. They wander the galaxy.
B. One of them wanders very close to the earth.
C. They turn around the galaxy.
D. They look for planets and stars.
35．While the author is introducing the ways the universe could wipe out humankind, he is ________ us.
A. warning B. comforting C. entertaining D. ignoring

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
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 guy who tried to edit English
The English vocabulary is not only huge, it is also full of words that mean practically the same thing. Get, obtain, acquire. Shine, gleam, glow, sparkle. 36．
That was the thinking of a British writer named C.K. Ogden, who in the 1930s promoted a new form of English with a vocabulary of just 850 words. He called the project Basic English. 37．
Ogden arrived at his 850-word list through experimentation. The words he finally included were not necessarily the shortest or most concrete. 38． Because any verbal (动词的) idea could be expressed with a small number of “operators”— words like come, go, take, have, make, be and do — Ogden argued that most verbs were unnecessary. In Basic English, eat is “have a meal” and forget is “go from memory.”
Winston Churchill was a fan of the concept as a way to get foreigners to speak English, and he encouraged the BBC to use it. 39． Roosevelt, who expressed mild interest, joked that Churchill’s famous speech about offering his “blood, toil, tears and sweat” to