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1、中小学资料山西大学附属中学学年高一英语下学期月考试题山西大学附属中学2017-2018学年高一英语下学期3月月考试题考试时间：90分钟 满分：100分 注意：本考试严禁使用手机，电子词典或其它电子存储设备，违者按作弊处理。第I卷（选择题 共60分）第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分30分）第1节（共15小题；每题1.5分，满分22.5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ADifferences are important and they should be respected. For example, many important p

2、eople throughout history were considered different, such as Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln. They did great things, but some people thought they were strange because they had strong feelings about something. I can understand these people because Ive been in that situation before m

3、any times.It all started in elementary school when I realized that I wasnt like everyone else. My mom says that I have a tendency to be obsessed(着迷)with certain subjects. Unfortunately, these subjects dont interest other kids of my age and they really dont interest my teachers. In fact, my kindergar

4、ten teacher said she would scream if I mentioned snakes or lizards one more time while she was teaching the days of the week. I would get into trouble for not paying attention and the teasing began.In the third grade, my teacher informed me that I have Aspergers Syndrome（症状）. I said, “So what? Do yo

5、u know that Godzillas suit weighs 188 pounds?”Later, I asked my mom, “Whats Aspergers Syndrome? Am I gonna die?” She said that its like having blinders on, and that I can only see one thing at a time, and that its hard to focus on other things.People also make fun of me for knowing facts about volca

6、noes, whales, tornadoes and many other scientific things. My mom says that she has been able to answer many questions on Jeopardy! just by listening to what I have to say, but Ive even been laughed at for being smart. Maybe someday Ill become a gene engineer and create the real Godzilla. I can dream

7、, Cant I?1. Why does the author mention people like Albert Einstein? A. To examine differences B. To show his admiration C. To make comparison D. To support his idea2. How did the kindergarten teacher feel about the author? A. Angry B. Worried C. Sorry D. Curious3. Whats Jeopardy! most probably? A.

8、Its a program intended for young kids. B. Its a quiz show covering various topics.C. Its a novel telling about adventure stories. D. Its a magazine about scientific discoveries.B The more interested you are in a topic, the more likely you may be to form “false memories” about the events related to t

9、hat topic.“Most people are pretty confident about their own memory for some events, but new research shows that false memory is a lot more frequent than many people realize. In terms of daily life, the key point here may be to understand that someone who remembers an event differently from yours isn

10、t necessarily lyingsomeones memory may be faulty, or it might be you,” said study co-author Ciara Greene, a psychologist at the university College Dublin.In the study, the researchers asked 489 people to read four news stories about events that were related to the topics they ranked as the most inte

11、resting, and four stories about events related to the topics they rated as the least interesting. In each case, three of these events really did occur, but the fourth one was made up.It turned out that people tended to remember the stories of the topics they said they were more interested in compare

12、d with the topics they were not interested in. However, the participants also tended to store more false memories related to the topics they were interested in compared with the topics they were not interested in, the researchers found.The more people know about a topic, the more memories related to

13、 this topic they have stored in their brains, the researchers said. Therefore, when a person meets new information on this topic, that information may find traces of similar memories that have already stored in the brain, Greene said.“This can result in a sense of familiarity or recognition of the n

14、ew material, leading to the conviction (确信) that the information has been met before and is in fact an existing memory,” Greene said. In other words, this new material or information may “feel” familiar and therefore the person may believe it must be true, he said.Learning more about how false memor

15、ies work may help protect against the harmful results of them, such as when eyewitness accounts(证言) of crimes are faulty. 4. What Ciara said in Paragraph 2 suggests that you shouldnt _. A. forget the frequency of false memory. B. lie to someone with different memories.C. believe faulty memories of o

16、ther people. D. completely trust your memory.5. In the study, people who were interested in a topic_. A. were less likely to form false memories related to itB. tended to remember false information about itC. could remember any information about it easilyD. wanted to know more about it6. Whats the m

17、ain idea of the text? A. The harm of false information. B. Why people have a poor memory.C. Interesting topics may lead to false memories. D. How to make a good memory for some eventsC In the story of “The crow and the Pitcher” from Aesops Fables, a thirsty crow(乌鸦) drops stones into a narrow jar to

18、 raise the low level of water inside so he can take a drink.Now scientists have evidence to back up that story. New Caledonian crows actually do understand how to make water displacement work to their advantage, experiments showed. The results suggest that the birds are, at least in some aspects, as

19、 smart as first-graders, according to the study.Researchers, led by Sarah Jelbert at the university of Auckland in New Zealand, presented six crows with tubes filled with water. Inside the tubes, a worm or piece of meat on a piece of wood was floating, just out of reach of the crow. In front of the

20、tubes, the researchers arranged a bunch of heavy rubber erasers that would sink, and light plastic objects that would float. The crows found out that they could drop the heavy objects into the tubes in order to raise the water level and get their snack.However, the birds handled awkwardly in experim

21、ents in which they could choose to drop objects in either a wide tube or a narrow tube to get a snack, the researchers said. Dropping objects into narrow tube would lift the water level by a greater amount and put the treat within reach after just two drops. In contrast, it took around seven drops t

22、o raise the snack to the same level in the wide tube. The crows obviously didnt realize this, and most of them went for the wide tube first.Previous studies showed that chimps and human children can solve similar tasks. In a 2011 study, chimps and kids found out that they could put water into a tube

23、 to reach a peanut that was floating in small amount of water at the bottom. 7. What does the text focus on? A. Aesops prediction B. Crows intelligence C. The development of crows D. Human-animal communication8. How did the crows get the worm in a tube in Sarah experiment? A. By dropping in the heav

24、y erasers. B. By removing the plastic objects.C. By standing on the wood. D. By breaking the tube.9. What does the underlined part “the treat” in Paragraph 4 refer to? A. The tube. B. The object. C. The snack D. The water.10. What did the experiment with wide and narrow tubes show?A. Crows are sensi

25、tive to surroundings. B. Crows have the ability to recognize shapes.C. Crows are cleverer than chimps and children. D. Crows understand water displacement incompletely.第二节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处d的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。How to be realistic In order to be realistic, you must understand

26、 yourself and the world around you. 11 _ You still need to challenge yourself, but if you have tried something several times, then you need to accept that maybe you cant do it. Keep yourself firmly on the ground and read on.12 _ Try new things and do your best at them, but if you find that it is som

27、ething you can t do after many tries, accept the failures and be realistic.Explain to others that you are being realistic in your approach. When you hit the wall, back off. You cant continue to bang your head against the wall. 13 _ Some people dont accept them, but they are there.Challenge yourself.

28、 You need to try before you can be realistic and say, “I cant do that.” No one ever got anywhere without trying. 14 _ Sometimes you need to find the one that works for you.Follow what you believe. People may tell you that you can do something if you try hard enough, and sometimes they are right. But

29、 if you know that you cant do it, follow what you believe.See what is there. You dont need to analyze everything. Dont look below the surface. 15 _ Always expect what you know to be realistic. Dont look for miracles.A. Everyone has limitations.B. Approach life realistically.C. Just take everything a

30、t face value.D. You can be realistic and just go with the flow.E. Many things can be achieved in different ways.F. Understand what you can do and what you cant.G. You must be able to see exactly what you are capable of.第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第1节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）One cold December morning, my d

31、ad and I were walking along the road to a store to buy Christmas presents. Suddenly a car ran to us out of 16. _. Pushed away by my dad, I was 17. _ while he was unable to escape and injured. My dad 18. _ unconditional love to me when faced with the accident. Since that day, I have 19. _ the power o

32、f love and the 20. _it can teach to those who take anything for granted, as I did everything before.People wander into our lives for various reasons, but each one has something to 21. _, even the driver who caused the 22. _. He helped me a lot. Whether our 23. _ is entirely good or not, there remains something to be gained from every person we 24. _. I have come to view