四川省眉山中学届高三英语月考试题.docx

1、四川省眉山中学届高三英语月考试题眉山中学2016届9月英语月考试题第卷第一部分 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.How many students are there in the Western Culture class today?A. 92. B. 18. C. 74.2.Whose car was stolen? A. Karens. B. The ma

2、ns. C. The womans.3.Where is the woman now? A. In Oxford. B. In Harvard. C. In Cambridge.4.How does the woman think of her life now? A.A little bad. B. Wonderful. C. Very common.5.Why do most of people raise pets according to the man? A. To find comfort. B. To kill time. C. For meat.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5

3、分，满分22.5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.What is the woman going to do?A. Buy a birthday gift for her son.B. Buy a pet for her husband.C. Go to Davids birthday party.7.What can we learn from the c

4、onversation?A. David likes keeping rabbits.B. David doesnt like animals.C. Trees are very important.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8.What does the woman want her son to know most of all?A. Tree-Planting Day is important.B. Cutting down trees is necessary.C. David likes keeping a pet.9.What can we learn about the bo

5、y?A. He likes asking questions.B. He enjoys planting trees.C. He has enough knowledge about planting trees.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.What is the woman doing when the man talks to her?A. Listening to music. B. Watching a film. C. Writing a letter.11.How long will the woman stay in Japan?A. A year. B. A mon

6、th. C. Two years.12.What will the woman do before she leaves for Japan?A. She will read more Japanese novels.B. She will attend a language class.C. She will apply for a new program.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13.When will the man go back to London?A. Next month. B. Tomorrow. C. In three days.14.How long has th

7、e man been in Japan?A. For two months. B. For nine months. C. For two years.15.What will the man miss the most? A. The drinks. B. The food. C. The nightlife.16.Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The man is excited to go home.B. The man doesnt like dancing.C. The drinks in Japan are cheaper

8、 than those in London.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.Whats the main topic of this passage? A. The public school. B. Electronic books. C. Online textbooks.18.How many students attend the public schools in Fairfax County? A. More than 175,000. B. More than 157,000. C. About 170,500.19.Which of the following sta

9、tements is NOT the electronic textbooks advantage?A. They look like regular textbooks.B. Publishers can quickly update their content.C. They cost less than printed textbooks.20.Which one is NOT true according to the passage?A. Students like online textbooks.B. Students can individualize their learni

10、ng when they use online textbooks.C. No other school is planning to use online textbooks.第二部分：阅读（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。AForrest Gump came out in the United States on July 6, 1994. The film, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Wi

11、nston Groom, was well received by critics and became a commercial success. The following is a summary of the plot.In 1981, Forrest Gump is waiting at a bus stop and begins telling his life story to strangers sitting next to him. The story begins with the leg braces he had to wear as a child, which r

12、esulted in him being teased by children. On a bus for his first day of school, Forrest meets Jenny and they become best friends. Forrest can run very fast which, despite his below-average intelligence, earns him a scholarship to the University of Alabama.After graduating, Forrest enlists in the Unit

13、ed States Army, where he becomes friends with Benjamin Buford Bubba Blue, and they agree to go into the shrimping business together. They are sent to Vietnam, and in a battle on 7gh June 1965,Bubba is killed, and Forrest saves many of the men in his group, including his leader 2nd Lt. Dan Taylor.The

14、n Forrest buys a shrimping boat, keeping his promise to Bubba, and Dan joins Forrest. After Hurricane Carmen destroys every other shrimping boat in the area, their Bubba Gump Shrimp Company becomes a huge success. Forrest then returns home to care for his sick mother, who dies soon afterwards.Jenny

15、returns to visit Forrest and stays with him. Forrest asks her to marry him, but is turned down. Feeling upset, Forrest decides to go for a run, which turns into a three-year coast-to-coast marathon. One day he stops suddenly and returns home. He receives a letter from Jenny asking to meet, which bri

16、ngs him to the bus stop where he began telling his story. After he and Jenny meet, they get married, but Jenny dies of an illness the next year.21.What do we know about Forrest as a child?A. He had lots of friends. B. He met his best friend Jenny on bus.C. He couldnt run because of the leg braces.D.

17、 He went to university because he was smart.22.The underlined words“enlist in” in Paragraph 3 can best be replaced by“ ” A. joins B. leaves C. leads D. trains23.In 1981,Forrest came to the bus stop where he talked to strangers because .A. he wanted to take a bus B. he was on his way homeC. Jenny ask

18、ed to meet him D. the strangers invited himBThe Renaissance is generally considered to have started in Florence, Italy around the years 1350 to 1400. The start of the Renaissance also was the end of the Middle Ages.HumanismIn the Middle Ages people thought that life was nothing but hard work and war

19、. However, around the 1300s, the people in Florence, Italy started to think that people should be educated and that things like art, music, and science could make life better for everyone.Florence, ItalyAt the start of the Renaissance, Italy was divided up into a number of powerful city-states. One

20、of the major city-states was Florence. In the late 1300s, Florence had become a rich city. Wealthy businessmen had the money to hire artisans. This inspired competitions among artists and thinkers. Art began to flourish and new thoughts began to appear.Petrarch and HumanismFrancesco Petrarch is ofte

21、n called the “Father of Humanism”. He studied poets and philosophers from Ancient Rome such as Cicero and Virgil. His ideas and poetry became an inspiration to many writers and poets throughout all of Europe as the Renaissance spread.Giotto di BondoneGiotto was a painter in Florence, Italy. He was t

22、he first painter to break away from the standard Byzantine style painting of the Middle Ages and try something new. Giotto is said to have started the Renaissance in art with his new style of realistic painting.DanteAnother major contributor to the start of the Renaissance was Dante Alighieri. He li

23、ved in Florence and wrote the Divine Comedy in the early 1300s. This book is considered to be the greatest literary work ever written in the Italian language.New Ideas SpreadThis new way of thinking and style of art quickly spread to other wealthy Italian city-states. This early part of the Renaissa

24、nce is often called the Italian Renaissance. Italy would become wealthy through trade and their new ideas soon spread throughout all of Europe.24.In the Middle Ages people thought that .A. life was really hard B. life could be enjoyableC. they could be educated D. they should live differently25.Whic

25、h of the following was the first Renaissance painter?A. Francesco Petrarch. B. Giotto di Bondone.C. Dante Alighieri. D. Cicero.26.What would be the best title for the text?A. What does the Renaissance mean?B. How did the Renaissance begin?C. The artists in the RenaissanceD. Literature in the Renaiss

26、ance27.The text is most probably taken from .A. a book review B. a history paperC. a newspaper ad D. a travel magazineCDarwins frogs are a family of small frogs found on the southwest coast of South America. They were named after Charles Darwin, who happened to see one of the two species in 1834. Th

27、ese creatures usually reach a size of only 3 cm in length. They are mostly green frogs, and have long, narrow noses. When threatened, they roll over and play dead until the danger has passed, looking like dead leaves.Darwins frogs are the only known species of frogs where males can get“pregnant”. Th

28、ey swallow their babies into their vocal sacs, protecting them from enemies until they have become fully grown. But nothing can protect them from a deadly fungus, which has helped push one of the two species of these frogs to probable extinction, and driven a decline in the second variety, new resea

29、rch shows.Researchers looked at museum specimens of both species and found that the fungus started showing up in these and other frogs in the 1970s, about when populations of both began to decline, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. One of the species, the northern Darwins frog,

30、 hasnt been seen since 1980 and is likely extinct.“The fungus is probably the main reason for the frogs disappearance,” said Marcus Rowcliffe, a researcher at the Zoological Society of London.The southern Darwins frog is still around, but has declined faster than previously thought in recent years.

31、The researchers found that a small percentage of them were infected with the fungus, although at lower rates than other species. This could mean that the fungus more easily kills them. They also found that populations of Darwins frogs were lower in areas with higher rates of fungal infection. In 200

32、7,30 wild southern Darwins frogs were caught to be raised in Germany, but all of them died from the fungus. The International Union for Conservation of Nature, an environmental group, called the fungus the worst infectious disease ever recorded among animals with backbones.28.Darwins frogs are unusual because .A. both females and males can get pregnant