山东省济宁市兖州第一中学届高三月考英语试题含答案.docx

1、山东省济宁市兖州第一中学届高三月考英语试题含答案2015届山东省济宁市兖州第一中学高三3月月考英语试题 本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分，考试时间为100分钟。第一部分 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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑A By the time I reached junior high，I was sure I wanted to be a nurse. If you didnt study Latin，you couldnt be a nur

2、se，so I enrolled. Many Latin words were familiar to me. The hard part turned out to be the usage and creating sentences with the words that seemed so easy to pronounce. Several weeks into the course my teacher came to me，saying，“I think you should withdraw from this course. It seems to be too hard f

3、or you. ”That was the day I learned I wasnt smart enough to become a nurse. With shame, I handed in my Latin textbook. After high school，the years raced by. I married and had children. Then one day my husband John came home. “Carol, Max died this afternoon.” I looked at my husband with disbelief. Jo

4、hn was touched by this tragedy. Finally one evening he said，“Carol，Jackie has never worked and now shes alone with four children. Ive been thinking if anything happens to me. I want you to be able to take care of yourself and the children. Why dont you think about what youd like to do and get the tr

5、aining youll need to do it?”I signed up for the entrance exam for nursing programs. One day I received a letter from the schoo1. I wanted so badly to open it，but with my lack of confidence，I laid it on the kitchen counter saying, “Im not in the mood for a rejection letter today.”Finally I forced mys

6、elf to open it. “Dear Carol，”I read. ”We are pleased to inform you that you successfully passed the entrance exam.”An insensitive teacher once stole my dream. If you have a dream, exhaust every effort to reach it. Ive worked thirty years now as a nurse and Ive never been more certain that this is wh

7、at I was meant to be.1Why did John advise Carol to find a job?ATo support the family BTo provide more money for her kidsCTo live a more colorful life DTo be able to live independently 2From the text, we know what the teacher said_Adestroyed Carols dream to be a nurse. Bhelped Carol find her true int

8、erestCsaved Carol from wasting her time Dencouraged Carol to be careful in learning3After receiving the letter from the schoo1, Caro1_Awas uncertain about the result Bhad no mood to read it thenCdidnt take it seriously at all Dcouldnt wait to open it4What may be the best title for the text？AA dream

9、too high to achieve BToo stupid to be a nurse?CNever too late to 1earn DA chance too important to missBA British shopper, Emma Mumford, who was named “the Coupon（优惠券） Queen” has spent just 350 on a luxury（奢侈） Christmas for her and her family-but got 2,500 worth of food, drink and presents thanks to

10、coupons and offers.Ms Mumford is a so-called “extreme couponer” and spends hours hunting out the best deals and bargainsShe has been preparing for this Christmas since the end of the last oneMs Mumford made the huge savings by checking price comparison websites and as a result collected more present

11、s than she needed for ChristmasAfter sorting out gifts for all of her family, she has even been able to donate 1,000 worth of presents to her local hospital. “It has been so nice to have Christmas sorted and not having to worry about breaking the bankI wanted to get high quality presents for my fami

12、ly and show that you can do it without spending a fortuneThere is a misconception that everyone who does couponing only gets value products but through my careful shopping I have managed to purchase designer perfumes（香水）, a high-end coffee machine .”she explained.She said “What started as a hobby to

13、 help me save money has turned into my life and I am able to run a business helping people save moneyI know what it feels like to struggle as my ex-partner had a lot of debt which I took on for himWe were in a poor situation where every penny countedThats what really inspired me.” She has now turned

14、 her bargain-hunting addiction into a business where she searches for the best deals and offer tips to the general public through video blogging and her Facebook Page“I try and show people that it is just a little bit of work in the beginning but it will eventually pay offOne of the best things to d

15、o is just to be a bit forward thinking and save throughout the year.”5How did Emma make the huge savings?AShe compared prices through websites.BShe hunted out bargains in real shops.CShe used coupons and offers worth 2,500.DShe collected more Christmas presents than needed.6What does “breaking the b

16、ank” in the third paragraph mean?ABuying presents of low quality BSpending more money than you have.CBreaking into the bank. DTaking out money from the bank.7What really inspired Emma to help people save money?AHer addiction to bargain-hunting.BThe financial difficulties she shared with her ex-partn

17、er.CThe poor situation people around her were going throughDHer experience of running an unsuccessful business.8Which of the following can best describe Emma?AAmbitious and creative. BSensitive and determined.CBrave and lucky DCareful and caring.CAcross the United States, there are several places wh

18、ere two independent towns grew together to become one city but kept both their namesWinston-Salem is one of themIts a mid-sized city in whats called the plateau（high land）, between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North CarolinaThe Winston part is a relatively new place, f

19、ounded early this centuryIts home to the nations biggest open-air tobacco market The giant RJReynolds Tobacco Companys headquarters is in Winston-Salem, and Winston is the name of one of Reynolds best-known cigarette brandsFast-growing Winston soon surrounded the much older town of Salem, so in 1913

20、, people in the area voted to combine them into a single place From a historical and tourist point of view, Salem, or Old Salem, as its called today, is the interesting and unusual part of town Salem was founded in the 1700s by the MoraviansThey spoke German, and their community was religiously base

21、d, with single men and single women living apart in separate dormitoriesThe Moravians greatly valued womens work and brainpowerIn fact, one of the nations oldest boarding schools for young women the MoraviansSalem Academy founded in 1772 is still in operation Over the years, Salem lost its Moravian

22、characterThat all changed, though, when a nonprofit group began to rehabilitate the historic areaThese days Old Salem is whats called a living history museum, with exhibits, music, and tours of 18th-century houses, bars and Moravian dormitory buildings just seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper（h

23、igh building） in Winston-Salem The historic community is booming againJust as RJReynolds is taking in millions of dollars making cigarettes across town, Old Salem is making about $ 15 million a year in tourism revenue（收入） and donations 9From the passage we can know that_ AWinston-Salem is the name o

24、f a city BSalem is home to the tobacco market Cthe city Winston-alem has two namesDOld Salem is the name of a tobacco brand10It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that_ Athe two cities benefited each otherBSalem developed faster than WinstonCRJReynolds Company has moved into SalemDthe combination meet

25、s the wishes of the people11The underlined word “rehabilitate” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to “_” Areconstruct Bevaluate Cenlarge Ddecorate 12What will probably be talked about in the following part? ASome other attractions in Winston-SalemBHow Winston makes profits from tourismCOther examp

26、les of cities combined by two parts DSomething about the boarding school for womenDEnergy independenceIt has a nice ring to itDoesnt it? If you think so, youre not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American president for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, w

27、hen the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession“Energy independence” and its rhetorical （修辞的） companion “energy security” are, however, slippery concepts that are rarely through, thoughWhat is it that we want independence from, exactly?Most people

28、would probably say that they want to be independent from imported oilBut there are reasons that we buy all that oil from elsewhereThe first reason is that we need it to keep our economy runningYes, there is a trickle（涓涓细流）of biofuel（生物燃料）available, and more may become available, but most biofuels ca

29、use economic waste and environmental destructionSecond, Americans have basically decided that they dont really want to produce all their own oilThey value the environmental quality they preserve over their oil imports from abroadVast areas of the United States are off-limits to oil exploration and p

30、roduction in the name of environmental protectionTo what extent are Americans really willing to endure the environmental impacts of domestic energy production in order to cut back imports?Third, there are benefits to tradeIt allows for economic efficiency, and when we buy things from places that hav

31、e lower production costs than we do, we benefitAnd although you dont read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of oil products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countriesThere is no question that the United States imports a great deal of energy and, in fact, relies on that steady flow to maintain its economyWhen that flow is interrupted, we feel the pain in short supplies and higher prices, at the same time, we derive massive economic benefits when we buy the most affordable e