上海市吴淞中学2013-2014学年高一上学期第一次月考英语试题

吴淞中学2013-2014学年高一上学期第一次月考
英语
Listening Comprehension (20’)
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
A. 15 minutes. B. 45 minutes. C. 50 minutes D. 30 minutes.
A. Policeman and driver. B. Policeman and thief.
C. Teacher and pupil. D. Director and actress.
3. A. In a factory. B. In a shopping mall. C. At an airport D. In a restaurant.
4. A. The seventh anniversary. B. The eighth anniversary
C. The ninth anniversary. D. The eleventh anniversary.
5. A. Harry is still seriously ill. B. Harry has almost recovered.
C. Harry feels the same as before. D. Harry is still troubled by illness.
6. A. The man hates physics very much.
B. The man is selfish. He doesn’t like to help others.
C. Physics is the favorite subject of the woman.
D. The man will help the woman with physics.
7. A. They plan to make the meeting room into a reading room.
B. The man agrees with the woman about the plan.
C. The man disagrees with the woman about the plan.
D. The man is afraid there will be no meeting room at all.
8. A. They are crossing the street when the red light is on.
B. There are no traffic lights at all.
C. One of the two persons is blind.
D. Both of them are very careful.
9. A. Christina. B. The man. C. Both Christina and the man. D. Nobody.
10. A. Some students at the back cannot hear the professor.
B. The professor has changed his reading assignment.
C. Some of the students are not on the professor’s list.
D. The professor has brought extra of his assignment.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. It was crying. B. It was dying.
C. It was sitting. D. It was sleeping.
12. A. To have a rest. B. To save her baby.
C. To protect herself. D. To prevent the nightmare.
13. A. It was a message to the baby’s father.
B. It had already been sent out when found.
C. The mother hoped that her baby could survive.
D. The mother wouldn’t like the message to be found.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Students call their teachers Professor Smith, Mrs. Jones and so on.
B. Students discuss their ideas with their teachers.
C. Students have to take many exams.
D. Teachers dress formally.
15. A. Swimming pools. B. Fast food restaurants.
C. Tennis courts. D. Basketball courts.
16. A. Teaching methods. B. Teaching styles.
C. College facilities. D. University dinning rooms.
Section C
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
Talking about Hometown
Location: about 100 ___17____ from the sea
Population: about ___18___
Many buildings: about ___19___years old
Main industry: ___20___
Weather: cold in winter
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A （10’）
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
25. The memory of the holiday spent in Europe with her husband will _____ all through her life.
A. stay B. live C. leave D. impress
26. We’re conducting a nationwide survey of people’s reading habits. Would you have five minutes ________ a few questions?
A. answering B. to answer C. to have answered D. having answered
I’ve already told you that I’m going to buy a new iPad, _____.
A. how much does it cost B. however much it costs
C. no matter how it costs D. however does it cost much
I stayed up late doing my homework yesterday, so I had trouble _____ up early this morning.
A. get B. getting C. got D. to get
Tony is a quiet boy and he is accustomed ______ at meals, which is always appreciated.
A. not to talk B. to not talk C. to not talking D. not to talking
Most probably it will be another 7 hours _____ you can have next meal, so each of you must have your stomach full.
A. since B. when C. after D. before
John is not a man to count on, and it is very likely that the work ____ by the time he arrives here.
A. is finished B. has finished C. will finish D. will have been finished
32. The experienced teachers try their best _____ the younger ones _____experience.
A. to help…getting B. help…get
C. to help…to get D. helping…get
33. The businessperson wanted to sell his goods fast: ______, he chose his partner with great care.
A. and B. otherwise C. however D. therefore
34. She is not going to buy the sofa because it _____ too much room in the living room.
A. takes away B. takes on C. takes down D. takes up
Section B (9’)
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. essential
B. endangered
C. going
D. performance
E. crises
F. supposed
G. consequence
H. material
I. exposed
J. involves
As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Once you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the 41 from morning till night, it is hard to slow down. But relaxation is 42 for a healthy mind and body.
Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. In fact, it is not the bad thing as often 43 to be. A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor 44 and ill health.
The amount of stress a person can stand depends very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress, and such characters are obviously prime 45 for managerial responsibilities; others lose heart at the first sign of unusual difficulties. When 46 to stress, in whatever form, we react both chemically and physically. In fact we make choice between “flight or fight” and in more primitive (远古的) days the choices made the difference between life or death. The 47 we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it 48 the same response. It is when such a reaction lasts long, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes 49 . Since we can’t remove stress from our lives (it would be unwise to do so even if we could), we need to find ways to deal with it.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A (15’)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
We all laugh. We all hurt. We all make mistakes. We all dream, that’s life. It’s a journey. Please follow these rules to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!　
50 positive through the cold season could be your best 51 against getting ill, new study findings suggest.
In an experiment that 52 healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a 53 sunny characteristic were less likely to 54 ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence that a “positive emotional style” can help 55 the common cold and other illnesses.
Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness increasing immune(免疫的) fun_ction and subjective as in happy people being less 56 by a scratchy throat or runny nose. “People with a positive emotional style may have different immune 57 to the virus,” explained the lead study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “And when they do get a cold, they may 58 their illness as being less severe.”
Cohen and his colleagues had found in a 59 study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, but some questions remained as to whether the emotional tendency itself had the effect.
For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults with complete standard measures of personality tendency, health-consciousness and emotional “style”. Those who 60 be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged as having a positive emotional style, 61 those who were often unhappy, tense and unfriendly had a negative style. The researchers gave them drops through their noses 62 either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the 63 reported on any aches, pains, sneezing they had, while the researchers collected 64 data, like daily mucus(黏液) production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes(鼻部的不适), happy people were less likely to develop a cold.
　　
50. A. Living
B. Staying
C. Pulling
D. Surviving
51. A. safeguard
B. opportunity
C. caution
D. defense
52. A. excluded
B. explored
C. exposed
D. escaped
53. A. generally
B. commonly
C. frequently
D. perfectly
54. A. change
B. fall
C. turn
D. remain
55. A. keep
B. avoid
C. deny
D. remove
56. A. suffered
B. troubled
C. disturbed
D. hinted
57. A. fun_ction
B. ability
C. response
D. action
58. A. think
B. relate
C. interpret
D. translate
59. A. formal
B. current
C. previous
D. precious
60. A. tended to
B. opposed to
C. used to
D. stuck to
61. A. while
B. however
C. what’s more
D. therefore
62. A. implying
B. matching
C. containing
D. occupying
63. A. patients
B. adults
C. volunteers
D. researchers
64. A. objective
B. impressive
C. positive
D. effective
Section B (18’)
Directions: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B,C or D. Choose the one that suits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
What I like to advise people is to find out what it is that makes them happy. What do you love to do? If you truly love what you do just go ahead and try to make a living by doing it. People will throw money at you to do it. But you will always have to work hard at it. I have to draw every single day of my life. I have to draw about 20 ideas. My advice is to put aside a certain amount of time every day and make you draw or whatever, especially when you don’t feel like it. Only in this way will you be able to perfect your talent.
The first step you take is to go to your local library and ask for the publications issued in the current years. When you get these publications, try to find the names of the top people concerned and their presidents. After you find these, write down their names and addresses. Keep this list and update it every year. Next thing you want to do is to create at least 40 cartoons. Get a grid（格子） from one of the strips in the newspapers, enlarge it to whatever size you wish and draw inside this grid. Now take the best 20 of your ideas and make them into finished pieces. To do this, you would want to copy them in ink because if you were a professional cartoonist, that was what you should do. Now you can reduce the size of the finished cartoons to fit onto a regular comic’s page. By comparing yours with the others already in print, it gives you a good idea of clarity to your cartoon.
The next step is to write letters to presidents of the publication. In the letters, explain who you think would read your work, or in other words, what group do you think you would target. After you complete these, send all of your information enclosed with letters in the appropriate envelope.
Now as soon as you send out these letters, start to create a brand new strip with all new characters. Don’t get married to one idea because if your idea gets turned down then you will give up. And always remember. If you receive a rejection from any of them, keep in mind that you are working on something better. You will be working on something new and more exciting and the rejection letter will not have any impact. With this in mind…
65. What is the advice from the writer in the first paragraph when you want to succeed in your life?
Stop doing anything until you find something quite suitable for your future career.
Put aside a certain amount of time every day to consider how to make a living.
Make a living by something that you truly like to do as your profession and work hard at it.
Perfect your talent only by drawing some cartoons.
66. The purpose of writing a letter to the president was to ____.
get some money to support the later career
enclose the information on how to become cartoonists with the letter
focus his attention on the work
explain who would be the readers of the work
67. The underlined phrase “get married to one idea” in the last paragraph probably refers to ______.
having a strong desire to get married
fixing all attention on one idea
marrying someone is a good ideas
refusing one idea to get married
(B)
Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the well-being (health and happiness) of local inhabitants.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first-class roads, and other support facilities needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.
Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers（阴沟） to handle waste, arid water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.
68. Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraph that goes before the passage?
It is extremely important to develop tourism.
Building roads and hotels is essential.
Support facilities are highly necessary.
Planning is of great importance to tourism.
69. Too much tourism can cause all these problems EXCEPT ______.
a bad impact on other industries
A change of tourists’ customs
overcrowdedness of places of interest
pressure on traffic
70. It is good for local people to be well aware that tourism will _____.
use up a large amount of water
weaken their economy
help establish their traditions
help improve their life
(c)
Every time you go to the supermarket you come away with your purchases packed in plastic bags. But wouldn’t it be kinder to the environment if you asked for paper bags instead?
The answer is not as easy as it might seem. Environmentalists say there are drawbacks to using both plastic bags and paper bags.
80 percent of groceries in the US are packed in plastic bags and the numbers are becoming huge. Consumers use between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags per year worldwide.
Some experts believe that all these bags harm the environment. Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down and, as it does so, poisonous materials are released into the water and soil.
Further damage is caused if plastic bags enter the sea. For example, endangered sea turtles cannot tell the bags from jellyfish, their main source of food, and often choke on them.
However, this kind of bag does have its advantages.
Paper bags use more energy and create more waste than plastic bags. Plastic bags require 40 percent less energy to produce and cause 70 percent less air pollution. They also release as much as 94 percent less waste into the water than paper ones do.
But paper bags do break down more quickly than plastic bags. They don’t endanger wildlife, either.
So what should we do? One possible solution would be to use biodegradable plastic bags. “Biodegradable” means that the bags break down naturally just like a piece of banana peel when it is left outside.
But until biodegradable technology improves, it might be easier to pack things you buy in reusable cloth bags.
71. Compared to paper bags, plastic bags ______.
produce 6 percent more waste
can be made biodegradable more easily
can be used as a source of food
save 40 percent of the energy
72. By saying “The answer is not as easy as it might seem,” (in paragraph 2) the writer means _____.
biodegradable plastic bags can compete with paper
paper bags seem to be kind to environment
it’s difficult to say whether plastic or paper bags are better for the environment
a huge number of plastic bags are produced without good reason.
73. What does the author suggest people use at the present time?
A. Paper bags B. Plastic bags
C. Biodegradable plastic bags. D. Cloth bags.
Section C (6’)
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
The scientists observed that the more junk food the rats ate, the more they wanted to eat – a behavior very similar to that of rats addicted(上了瘾的) to heroin, a dangerous drug. Johnson said the experiment shows that the brain chemistry of obesity(肥胖) and drug addiction may be quite similar.
In their experiment, Johnson and his team studied the “pleasure center” of rats’ brains. The pleasure center is a complicated network of nerve cells. If the animal exercises or eats, the cells reward the animal by releasing chemicals into the body that make it feel good. And when the body feels good, the animal – or person – will want to do the behavior again.
For the experiment, Johnson fed foods like cheesecake to one group of rats. Food like this is high in calories and fat. Another group of rats got a regular diet. The rats that ate junk food started to eat more and more.
“They’re taking in twice the amount of calories as the control rats,” says Paul Kenny, one of Johnson’s colleagues.
Kenny and Johnson wanted to know what was going on in the brains of these rats. They first designed a way to deliver a small electrical charge to the rats’ brains. This electrical charge would stimulate the pleasure centers to release pleasure-causing chemicals. The rats could control how much stimulation – and how much pleasure – they received by running on a wheel. The more the rat ran, the more pleasure it received.
The rats that had been eating junk food started running more and more. This behavior suggested that the junk-food-eating rats needed more brain stimulation to feel good compared with rats on a normal diet. In other words, their pleasure centers were becoming less sensitive and the junk food didn’t make them feel good unless they ate more and more.
Experiments like this one could help scientists understand how chemicals in the brain contribute to obesity. With that information, they may be able to help people avoid obesity in the first place.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)
81. The scientists suggested it was actually ___________________ that made the rats feel good.
82. How did the scientist know what was happening in the brains of the junk-food-eating rats?
83. What was the purpose of the experiment mentioned in the article?
IV. Translation（15’）
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English. You are required to use the word given in the bracket for each respective sentence.
他的成功与他的勤奋有密切关系。（relate）
那个有严重心脏病的老人明天将要动手术。(operate)
这个艺术家不得不在很小的时候自己照顾自己。（take care of）
任何事情如果要把它做好的话都需要大量的时间和精力。(involve)
老师坚持学生每日应有至少8个小时的睡眠。（insist）
V. Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of given words. (7’)
A double room with a balcony overlooking the sea had been __________ (reservation) for him.
Our new offices are still under ___________ (construct), and this is not my office.
Nov.11 is __________ (reference) to as “Singles’ Day” by netizens nationwide.
They launched a campaign to save wild pandas from __________ (extinct).
Her ___________ (decide) to live abroad was a terrible blow to her parents.
The directors of the company refused to undertake such a ___________ (risk) venture.
Children are not usually allowed in, but I’m prepared to make an __________ (except) in this case.
英语答题纸
Listening Comprehension:
17. _______________________ 18. _______________________
19. _______________________ 20. _______________________
Reading Comprehension
81. ____________________________________________________________________.
82.____________________________________________________________________.
83.____________________________________________________________________.
Translation
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4. __________________ 5. __________________ 6. ___________________
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Key: (答案)
81. chemicals in the brain
82. By delivering a small electrical charge to the rats’ brains.
83. To understand how chemicals in the brain contribute to obesity.
Translation