都哦哦哦来了看看湖南省益阳市箴言中学2017-2018学年高一英语上学期12月月考试题
考试时间:120分钟 考试总分：120分
第Ⅰ卷（满分90分）
第一部分 听力(共两节, 满分20分)
做题时,先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后,你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。 第一节(共5小题;每小题1分,满分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称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。
例: How much is the shirt? A. ￡19.15. 1. What time is it now? A. 9:10.
B. 9:50.
C. 10:00.
B. ￡9.18.
C. ￡9.15. 答案是 C。
2. What does the woman think of the weather? A. It’s nice. 3. What will the man do? A. Attend a meeting.
B. Give a lecture.
C. Leave his office.
B. It’s warm.
C. It’s cold.
4. What is the woman’s opinion about the course? A. Too hard.
B. Worth taking.
C. Very easy.
5. What does the woman want the man do? A. Speak louder.
B. Apologize to her.
C. Turn off the radio.
第二节 (共15小题;每小题1分,满分15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、7题。
6. How long did Michael stay in China? A. Five days.
B. One week.
C. Two weeks.
7. Where did Michael go last year? A. Russia.
听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。 8. What food does Sally like? A. Chicken.
B. Fish.
C. Eggs.
B. Norway.
C. India.
9. What are the speakers going to do? A. Cook dinner.
B. Go shopping.
C. Order dishes.
都哦哦哦来了看看听第 8段材料,回答第10至12题。 10. Where are the speakers? A. In a hospital. 11. When is the report due? A. Thursday.
B. Friday.
C. Next Monday.
B. In the office.
C. At home.
12. What does George suggest Stephanie do with the report? A. Improve it.
听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。
13.What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Salesperson and customer. C. Husband and wife.
14.What kind of apartment do the speakers prefer?
A. One with two bedrooms. B. One without furniture. C. One near a market. 15.How much rent should one pay for the one-bedroom apartment? A.＄350.
B. ＄400.
C. ＄415.
B. Homeowner and cleaner.
B. Hand it in later.
C. Leave it with him.
16.Where is the apartment the speakers would like to see? A. On Lake Street.
B. On Market.
C. On South Street.
听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。
17.What percentage of the world’s tea exports go to Britain? A. Almost 15%.
B. About 30%.
C. Over 40%.
18.Why do tea tasters taste tea with milk? A. Most British people drink tea that way. B. Tea tastes much better with milk. C. Tea with milk is healthy. 19.Who suggests a price for each tea? A. Tea tasters.
B. Tea exporters.
C. Tea companies.
20.What is the speaker talking about? A. The life of tea tasters. C. The London Tea Trade Centre. 第二部分：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）
A
“When an American asks me this question, it’s like a wall of ice crashing down between us.” my Moscow-born friend Galina said. The question is “How are you?”.
The answer Americans give, of course is, “Fine.” But when Russians hear this ,they think
B. Afternoon tea in Britain.
都哦哦哦来了看看one of two things: you are experiencing a rare moment of fineness or you are lying.
If you ask a Russian “How are you?” , you will hear the truth. I have experienced many painful minutes of silence after my grandmother made her answer: “Terrible,” to which she might add, “Why? Because being old is terrible and I am very old.”
“‘Fine’ makes Russians think that Americans are telling a lie,” I explained recently to an American-born friend,“That they just want to go home, eat a frozen dinner in front of the TV, and wait out the hours before going to work to make money again.”
The thing most Russians don’t realize is that, in English, “How are you?” isn’t a question at all, but a form of “hi”, like the Russian “privyet!”
So guide books for Americans who are traveling to Russia had better tell them not to greet Russians by using American approach “How are you?” because it will confuse and upset Russians. “Why ? Does my face indicate illness?” is what they have in mind when meeting this question. 21. When you ask a Russian “how are you” the Russian will ________. A. answer “fine” B. tell you the truth C. make no answer D. get angry and walk away
22. If an American answers “fine” to the question “how are you”, the Russian will think ______. A. he is not honest B. he will go home C. he likes watching TV D. he is living a bad life
23. We can infer Russians’ answer to “how are you” can make Americans feel ________. A. happy B. angry C. puzzled D. touched
B
Wicked! Notice the intonation(语调). It means “wonderful”, “great”, “cool”, “splendid”. It came into English from United States’ slang(俚语) in the 1980s or maybe earlier. Certainly it arrived in Britain in the late 1980s.
It was part of a trend(趋势) which goes back decades to use bad words to mean good things, or some good words to mean bad things. I mean you might remember saying, “ That’s great” meaning “ It isn’t great”. And always there’s been this use of the word “naughty” to mean “nice”. It’s mainly used as an adjective in front of a noun, for example “ We had a wicked time!” Or, of course, you can use it alone by just saying “ Wicked!” as a reaction ― that’s how youngsters use it. And youngsters, of course, knowing that grown-ups are now using it as well, have decided to use other bad words in the same sort of way ― I’ve heard young people in recent years use words like “ evil” meaning “good”, or “brutal” meaning “good”.
“Wicked” is still around. This means, of course, that the traditional sense of “wicked” is now being squeezed（挤） out. So with \语调) is the only way to tell the old meaning from the new meaning, so you have to be careful, and pay very careful attention to the context.
And please pay attention that the use of the word is spreading . The other day, for the first time, I heard somebody say “wicked cool”, meaning “very cool”.
都哦哦哦来了看看24. What does the text mainly tell readers?
A. The changing meaning of English words. B. The change of the word ”wicked” in meaning. C. The way to use English words. D. English words from American slang.
25. The author tells readers to pay attention to the intonation of the word “wicked” because_____.
A. the word is easy to misunderstand
B. there is another word with the same pronunciation C. its intonation decides its meaning D. there are many meanings of the word
26. According to the text, which of the following words is often used to express its opposite
meaning?
A. Cool. B. Wonderful. C. Splendid. D. Evil. 27. According to the text, we know that the word “wicked”_____.
A. has been used in Britain for more than 20 years B. is only used in front of a noun C. has lost its old meaning
D. was first used by American children
C
When talking about colds, maybe some people say it is very common. During the cold winter days, many people will complain the cold winter makes them catch a cold, and what they feel upset are not only the headache, cough but also the runny nose. It is so embarrassing when they forget to take a handkerchief along with them.
Want to stay away from colds? Put on a happy face.
Compared（与...比较） to unhappy people, those who are cheerful and relaxed are less likely to suffer from colds, according to a new study. It’s possible that being happy helps the body fight illnesses, say the researchers from New York University.
“It seems that positive(积极的) feelings may reduce (减少)the danger of illness,” said the study’s chief researcher Sheldon Cohen.
In an earlier study, Cohen found that people who were cheerful and lively caught coughs and colds less often. People who showed feelings were also less likely to tell their doctors that they felt ill.
In this study, Cohen has interviewed 193 adults every day for two weeks. During the interviews, the people told researchers that they were given colds by doctors and had to stay alone in a room for six days.
The results showed that everyone in the study was equally(相等地) likely to get ill. But for people who said they felt happy during the research period, their illness are less serious and lasted for a shorter time.
都哦哦哦来了看看 Cohen believes that when people experience positive feelings, their body may produce a chemical that helps fight illness . So if you are worried about your health, look on the brighter side more often.
28. The underline part in Paragraph 5 is probably means ___________.
A. sad B. not positive C. thoughtful D. outgoing 29. What did the study find?
A. People who felt happy never got ill.
B. People’s feelings didn’t influence their health. C. People with good feelings became ill more easily. D. People with positive feelings had less serious illnesses. 30. According to Cohen, which of the following may help fight illness? A. Eating. B. Laughing C . Crying D. Sleeping. 31. What is the best title for this passage? ________
A. Smiles can fight colds B. Cause of colds found C. The danger of colds
D. How people get sick
D
I had an experience once which taught me something about the ways people make a bad situation worse by blaming(责备) themselves. One January, I officiated（主持）at two funerals for two elderly women. Both died a natural death. At the first home, the son of the deceased（已故）woman said, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on her going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride was more than she could take. It’s my fault.”
When things don't turn out as we would like them to, we tend to assume（假设）that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty(内疚). Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course, for example, keeping Mother at home, would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilty. The first lies in our belief that the world makes sense—there is a reason for everything that happens. The second is the thought that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and calls the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely give up that childish thought that our wishes cause things to happen. 32. What is true about the two deceased elderly women?
湖南省益阳市箴言中学2019-2020学年高一英语上学期12月月考试题
