届西藏拉萨中学高三上学期第一次月考英语试题 及答案.docx

1、届西藏拉萨中学高三上学期第一次月考英语试题 及答案拉萨中学高三年级（2016届）第一次月考英语试卷命题： 审定： （满分150分，考试时间120分钟，请将答案填写在机读卡和答题卡上）第卷 (共115分)第一部分：听力理解(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的阅读下一小题，每段对话仅读一遍。1Where are the speakers most probably?AIn Australia. BOn a

2、plane. CIn a company.2What is the man doing most probably?ASleeping. BReading a book. CWriting a paper.3What did they plan to do together?AWatch a football game. BBuy a mobile phone. CGo to the cinema.4How will the woman go to the train station?ABy car. BBy bus. CBy bike.5When will Helens mother com

3、e to visit her? AThis Friday. BThis Sunday. CNext Friday.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白，每段对话和独白后有几个小题，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，听每段对话和独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5分钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话和独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6 What can the woman see on the way?AA large restaurant. BA large bank. CA large book

4、store.7Why will the woman go to the gym?ATo meet a friend. BTo play basketball. CTo watch a game. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8What are the two speakers doing?AClimbing mountains. BPlaying basketball. CWalking in a park. 9What will the woman do first?ATake some photos. BEnjoy the view. CFix the camera.10What do

5、es the woman like best?AThere arent any buildings. BIts very quiet here. CThere are lots of people. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11How do we know about Er Shun?AIt is a five-year-old female panda from Chengdu. BIt is a four-year-old male panda from Chongqing Zoo.CIt is a five-year-old female panda from Chongqin

6、g Zoo.12How long the pandas stay at the Toronto Zoo?A5 years. B10 years. C15 years.13What will the woman do this afternoon probably?AVisit Sara with the man.BGo to the Zoo with the man.CSpend time with her Grandma.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14What did the boy do before he asked the woman for help?AHe borrowed

7、 a book form the library.BHe gave a call to the librarian.CHe checked the book on the website.15Why has the professor placed the book on reserve?ATo make sure all students can read it.BTo make it clean and complete.CTo make it easy to be found.16What can we learn about the book?AIt is about biology.

8、BIt cant be taken out of the library.CEach student can keep it for a week. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17Where did April Fools Day first start according to some people?AIn England. BIn America. CIn France. 18When did people begin to celebrate New Year at first?AOn January first. BOn March 25th. COn April 1st.

9、19How do Americans celebrate April Fools Day?AThey dont wear shoelaces.BThey Put a paper fish on their backs.CThey play jokes on someone.20What will people call you if they fool you in England?AApril Fool. BApril Noodle. CApril fish.第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；，每小题2分，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）AWhen Christophe

10、r Columbus landed on the then unnamed Costa Rica in 1502, he saw many Indians wearing gold earrings. So he thought the land must be rich in gold. He named the place Costa Rica, which means “rich coast” in Spanish.Though little gold was found, Costa Rica today is indeed rich with coffee and bananas.

11、Coffee is the most important product in Costa Rica and most of it is exported (出口) to other countries like America and West Germany. Bananas are the countrys second most important export.Costa Ricans also grow many other crops such as fruits, corn and beans for their own use. Costa Ricans love color

12、s and their houses are painted in bright colors. Education is very important to the Costa Ricans. Almost every village has a school and education is a must for children between seven and fourteen years of age. Boys and girls go to separate (单独的) schools. Classes begin in March and end in November.Th

13、e other three months of the year are harvest time and the children have to help their parents to pick coffee beans.21Whats the main idea of the first paragraph?AHow Columbus found Costa Rica. BHow Costa Rica got its name.CWhat the Costa Ricans wore. DWhat language the Costa Ricans spoke.22The Costa

14、Ricans may NOT paint their houses _.Apink and red Bgrey and black Cblue and green Dyellow and orange23From December to February, school children in Costa Rica _.Ahave lessons every day Bhave their examinationsChelp their parents pick coffee beans Dhelp their parents decorate their houses BDo you wan

15、t to love what you do for a living? Follow your passion. This piece of advice provides the foundation for modern thinking on career satisfaction. But this can be a problem.Ive spent the past several years researching and writing about the different strategies we use to seek happiness in our work. It

16、 became clear early in the process that the suggestion to “ follow your passion”was flawed, for it lacks scientific evidence. However, it doesnt mean you should abandon the goal of feeling passionate about your work. The reality emphasizes that things are quite complicated.Passion is earned. Differe

17、nt people are looking for different things in their work, but generally, people with satisfying careers enjoy some combination of the following features ： autonomy，respect， competence，creativity，and a sense of impact. In other words，if you want to feel passionate about your livelihood，dont seek the

18、perfect job，but seek to get more of these features in the job you already have.Passion is elusive (难捉摸的）.Many people develop the rare and valuable skills leading to passion , but still end up unhappy in their work. The problem is that the features leading you to love your work are more likely to be

19、useful to you than your organization. As you become increasingly valuable”，for example, your boss might push you toward traditional promotions that come with more pay and more responsibility, as this is what is most useful to your company. However, you might find more passion by applying your value

20、to gain autonomy in your schedule or project selection.Passion is dangerous. Ive watched too many of my peers fall into anxiety and chronic job- hopping due to the follow your passion”advice. The issue is expectations. If you believe we all have a pre-existing passion，and that matching it to a job w

21、ill lead to instant workplace happiness， reality will always pale in comparison.Work is hard. Not every day is fun. If youre seeking a dream job, youll end up frustrated again and again. Dont set out to discover passion. Instead, set out to develop it. This path might be longer and more complicated

22、than what most cheerful career guides might advocate，but its a path much more likely to lead you somewhere worth going.24People satisfied with their careers are _.Aautonomous and passionate Bcreative and competentCrespectable and sensitive Dcreative and passionate25What is the authors advice on achi

23、eving career satisfaction?ADeveloping passion for what one is doing.BMatching the pre-existing passion to ones work.CFiguring out early what one will do in the future.DDiscovering skills that lead to interesting careers.26The underlined sentence in Para. 5 probably means that _.Ait is not easy to ma

24、tch our passion with our jobsBwe shouldnt think everyone has a pre-existing passionChigh expectations of passion in jobs bring disappointmentDworkplace happiness does not require a pre-existing passion27Whats the authors attitude towards the advice of ”following your passion”？AAmbiguous. BSupportive

25、. CCautious. DDisapproving.CHumans： Its time to abandon Earth or race extinction.It could be the plot of a summer blockbuster (巨片），but this prediction isnt science fiction. Its a glimpse of the future ，according to famous British scientist Stephen Hawking.“I see great dangers for the human race”he s

26、aid in an interview with global forum Big Think. There have been a number of times in the past when its survival has been a question of touch and go. ”“I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be in space”，he said. “It will be difficult enough to avoid disasters on planet Earth in

27、the next hundred years ，let alone the next thousand, or million. ”Hawking ，who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year, has recently voiced many concerns about the future of life on Earth.“If aliens visited us，the outcome would be as much as when Columbus landed in America, which did

28、nt turn out well for the Native Americans，” he said. “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads (游牧者），looking to conquer (征服）and colonize whatever planets they can reach. ”But Hawking says hes still hopeful for the future of humanity. He told Big Think. Weve made remarkable progress in the la

29、st hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years，our future is in space.”Getting to another planet will prove a challenge，not to mention colonizing it for humanity. Katherine Freese from University of Michigan told Big Think that “the nearest star to Earth is Proxima Centau

30、ri which is 4. 2 light years away. That means ，if you were traveling at the speed of light the whole time, it would take 4. 2 years to get there or about 50,000 years using current rocket science.”28. Humans are advised to abandon Earth mainly because _.A. aliens will take up our home planet soonB.

31、it was discussed in the forum Big ThinkC. many scientists like Hawking concern itD. many disasters will happen on the Earth29. Thinking about the future of humans, Hawking feels that _A. humans cant live on the earth any longerB. the earth will not be habitable for humansC. other planets are ready for humans to reachD. aliens are the biggest future threat to humans30. What is the writers key point in the last paragraph?A. It is impossible to get to another planet in space.B. It is urgent for Hawking to develop the space science.C.