内蒙古集宁一中2024-2024学年高一英语3月月考试题
本试卷满分为120分，考试时间为100分钟。
第Ⅰ卷 （选择题 共70分）
第一部分 阅读理解（共2节，满分40分） 第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D 中，选出最佳选项，并在该答案上将该项涂黑。
A
Saturday, March 24th
We have arrived in the hot, wet city of Bangkok (曼谷). This is our first trip to Thailand. All the different smells make us want to try the food. We are going to eat something special for dinner tonight. The hotel we are staying in is cheap, and very clean. We plan to stay here for a few days, visit some places in the city, and then travel to Chiang Mai(清迈) in the North. Tuesday, March 27th
Bangkok is wonderful and surprising! The places are interesting. We visited the famous market which was on water, and saw a lot of fruits and vegetables. Everything is so colorful, and we have taken hundreds of photos already! Later today we will leave for Chiang Mai. We will take the train north, stay in Chiang Mai for two days, and then catch a bus to Chiang Rai. Friday, March 30th
Our trip to Chiang Rai was long and boring. We visited a small village in the mountains. The village people here love the quiet life — no computers or phones. They are the kindest people I have ever met. They always smile and say \hello\Kathy and I can only speak a few words of Thai, so smiling is the best way to show our kindness. I feel good here and hope to be able to come back next year. 1. The diary above show the writer's _____ days in Thailand.
A. 3 B.30 C. 15 D. 7 2. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Chiang Mai is a beautiful city in the south of Thailand. B. The writer went to Chiang Rai by bus. C. Chiang Rai is a boring city in the mountains.
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D. The writer is traveling alone in Thailand. 3. The people in the village of Chiang Rai _____.
A. are friendly to others B. like to speak English C. are very weak D. hope to live in the cities
B
In my long years of teaching, I often ask my students to read the texts until they can recite them, and I tell them that recitation is an important part of their homework. However, some of my students are tired of doing so, thinking that it is both hard and useless. They argue that it takes a long time to recite a text from memory and text itself never appears in a test paper.
In my opinion, it naturally takes time to recite a text, but it is worth doing so. When you are able to recite a text, you are sure to be familiar with the words and expressions. When you need them in reading or writing or doing exercises, they will come to your mind quickly, and so you will give quick response to all kinds of language situation. How can we say that it is useless?
Besides, many students complain that they soon forget what they were once able to recite. This is true, but you don’t need to worry. While you are reading and forgetting the texts, your language level is being raised. Sure you don’t remember your Chinese texts that you once read in the primary school, but now you are able to read novels and newspaper. So, recitation of the texts will help you improve your language ability.
4. The writer often asks his students to recite the texts. _______
A. But they don’t like to do so. B. And they are eager to do so
C. But they wrote a letter to the Department of Education reporting the thing. D. But they do more exercises instead of reciting the texts. 5. What do the students think about the teacher’s advice?
A. The English teacher tries his best to help them with English. B. The English teacher is very kind to them.
C. The English teacher asks them to do something useless.
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D. The English teacher should let them study on their own. 6. According to the text, which of the following is correct?
A. The teacher thinks the students are too naughty to learn English well. B. The students think they spend a lot of time in reciting the texts and get
nothing.
C. The students say that they often forget the words. D. The students take no interest in English.
7. When the students are against his suggestion, the writer_______.
A. often criticizes them
B. patiently explains to them why they should recite the texts C. wants to give up his idea
D. is afraid that he is criticized by the headmaster.
C
With the development of the economy, loose change (零钱) is often ignored by most of us. We have forgotten how those little, round metal pieces can add up. However, if you were a kid that had to clean the house for extra money, you’ll understand how important it is.
When I was a kid, I knew my parents could afford whatever I wanted, but Dad made me work for things that were “wants”. I knew Dad always carried a lot of change in his pockets. He had taught me that enough pennies would still get me what I wanted in the end.
Dad had his favorite reclining chair (躺椅) in his room where he would go after a long day at work. When he reclined in the chair, the change would fall from his pockets onto the floor under the chair, which was really a good chance for me to collect pennies. I’m sure he realized he had empty pockets when he took his clothes off, but he never said anything and never stopped sitting in the chair.
My kids learned early that change worked just as well as dollars and they also knew their dad saw no value in change. In fact, he saw it as a pain-in-the-neck so instead of asking him for money, they always asked if they could have his change.
Whenever I see a penny on a floor, I always pick it up. They’ve come in handy
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over the years, like at the check stand when someone needs a penny to check out, or my children are twelve cents short of their bus fare — little things, but important things.
8. Why is loose change ignored at present according to the author? A. Because people’s lives have improved a lot. B. Because loose change is often noisy. C. Because loose change isn’t easy to carry. D. Because people find it is of no use.
9. Why did the author’s father ask her to work for her own “wants”? A. To help her earn a lot of money. B. To tell her that pennies add up. C. To save enough money for future use. D. To let her know it was hard to earn money.
10. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that the author’s father _____. A. didn’t care about loose change B. taught the author a good lesson C. was really a hard-working person D. was too tired to look after his child 11. The underlined word “pain-in-the-neck” means that the author’s husband _____. A.
was
really
rich B. was very generous
C. had a problem with his neck D. paid little attention to change
D
Many parents often say their teenage son looks like a grown man. He is taller than his father, and his voice has turned deep. But his behavior is another matter. He makes hurried decisions, tries to smoke and drink, drives cars too fast and always makes his parents annoyed. Why?
That’s because his brain is developing more slowly than his body. Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health and UCLA carried out a long-time study of normal brain development. They found that the frontal lobe（大脑额叶）, the area
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responsible for understanding future influences, making wise decisions and controlling impulses（冲动）, does not become mature until the early 20s. Because of the immature brains, teenagers are easily influenced by the environment and unexpected behavior. So their death rates rise sharply. Research shows that rates of death by injury for people between the age of 15 and 19 are six times those seen in kids aged 10 to 14. The government reports that teens are four times more likely than older drivers to be involved in a car accident and three times more likely to die in one.
Teens may be attracted to drugs and alcohol. Rates of drug and alcohol use are high when compared with those of other age groups. Frances Jensen and David Urion, doctors at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, discovered that adult brain cells recovered more quickly from alcohol influence than younger brain cells. Jensen said in Harvard Magazine: “For a teenager, what he drank on the weekend is still with him during that text on Thursday.”
Teens aren’t making trouble on purpose. They long for freedom, but they are still young. They’re still forming into the adults they’ll eventually be. And, of course, they won’t be at this age forever. Home education plays one of the most important roles in young people’s growth, and the influence is more lasting. Finally, they will grow up and becomes wise adults.
12. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the typical behavior of a teenage boy?
A. Driving cars too fast. B. Making their parents annoyed. C. Quarreling with their friends. D. Making careless decisions.
13. Teen’s death rates rise sharply because of their ________. A. immature brains
B. brave and impatient character C. small and cheap cars D. changeable environments
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内蒙古集宁一中2024_2024学年高一英语3月月考试题
