江苏省苏州市新草桥中学2024-2024学年高一上学期12月
月考英语试题
(考试用时：120分钟 满分：150分)
第I卷（共 110 分）
第一部分 听力（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和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Where did the man probably come back from? A. A vacation.
B. A business trip.
C. A swimming training.
2. What does the man think of Mrs. Anderson’s lessons? A. Funny.
3. Who might the man be? A. A doctor.
B. A visitor.
C. A policeman.
B. Helpful.
C. Unnecessary.
4. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Strangers.
B. Workmates.
C. Classmates.
5. What are the speakers talking about?
A. The place to have lunch. B. The woman’s breakfast. C. The food for dinner. 第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分 每段对话或独白读两遍） 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. Why does the woman call the man? A. To book a room.
B. To change her date. C. To cancel a booking.
7. When does the hotel have a special offer? A. In January.
B. In February.
C. In March.
8. What does the woman say about her new apartment? A. It is large.
B. It is bright.
C. It is far from her office.
9. How does the woman go to work? A. By bike.
B. On foot.
C. By subway.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Where are the speakers? A. In a gym.
B. In a hospital.
C. In the man’s house.
11. What does the woman advise the man to do? A. Stay in bed.
B. Lift heavy things. C. Take light exercise.
12. What should the man do if he gets very sick in the daytime?
A. Ring the first aid room. B. Give the woman a call. C. Go to the woman’s office. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What is the woman doing? A. Introducing a job.
B. Doing an interview. C. Looking for someone.
14. What kind of people does the job want? A. Someone who has a degree in MBA. B. Someone who can speak foreign languages. C. Someone who has the experience of living abroad. 15. What is the date today? A. The 3rd of June.
B. The 3rd of July.
C. The 3rd of August.
16. What will the woman do next? A. Meet the man.
B. Ask for more information. C. Email the man something.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. When does the speaker give this talk? A. In the morning.
B. In the afternoon.
C. In the evening.
18. What is the camp manager’s duty? A. Preparing dinner.
B. Driving them to Perth.
C. Organizing the music festival.
19. What will the campers do at 11:00 tomorrow morning? A. Enjoy music.
B. Play in a band.
C. Prepare for the music festival.
20. How long will the music festival last? A. For two hours.
B. For three hours.
C. For six hours.
第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分35分)
第一节 (共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分)
A
Reading can open a world of joy for students, and one North Carolina principal (校长) wants to spread that moment of happiness to them on their birthday.
Glenn Cook, principal of Pleasant Ridge Elementary School in Gastonia, North Carolina, came up with an idea to give each student a book on their birthday. With about 900 students attending Pleasant Ridge, it is not an easy task, but Cook says he’s ready to “go big or go home”. He is going to include every student in this project.
“I didn’t have a lot of kids’ books,” said Cook. “So I put the idea online, and I wanted to see if any of my friends needed to clean off their bookshelves at home. I was hoping to get maybe 50 books for the first round of birthdays.” The number of books Cook received was surprising. “We’re probably getting maybe 500 books,” said Cook. There are so many books taking up space all over his office.
The idea started when Cook attended a professional development event. He asked another principal for advice. This principal told him that at her school, she gave her students a pencil on their birthday.
He wanted to take this idea to the next level, so he began reading himself. He came up with the idea that a principal should share his excitement and love for reading. The goal of giving these books to students is to find a book that’s right for each one, so they can experience the happiness of reading.
Local businesses have joined the project to donate books. Michelle Clear, a parent at Pleasant Ridge, decided to support Cook’s project and offer her store as a book donation center. “Reading just opens up so many ways in kids’ lives,” Clear noted. “Hopefully this will get across the nation to call on more people to donate books.”
21. What can we learn from “go big or go home” in Paragraph 2? A. Cook wants to collect many great books. B. Cook has made up his mind to run this project. C. Cook will visit each student’s home. D. Cook will face a lot of problems. 22. Why did Cook carry out the project?
A. To encourage students to read. B. To advertise his school online. C. To celebrate students’ birthdays. D. To help friends clean the bookshelves. 23. What can be the best title for the text? A. A principal is carrying out a big project B. Reading makes students and principal close C. A principal gives students a special birthday gift D. Reading brings students happiness and excitement
B
For more than 60 years, Lego bricks (乐高积木) have brought so much fun to children. Now, a new type of Lego is in the works. They’re Lego Braille (盲文) Bricks, and they’re being tested around the world.
Lego Braille Bricks are designed to help people learn Braille. That’s a set of writing in which letters are shown by raised dots (凸点). People who are blind or have some problems with their eyes use their fingers to read it.
According to the World Health Organization, 36 million people worldwide are blind. In the U.S., only 10% of blind children learn Braille. Lego Braille Bricks can help change that. The small raised dots on the bricks are placed as Braille letters. Blind children can use these raised dots to learn Braille.
Lego plans to start selling Braille Bricks next year. For some schools, the bricks will be free. Each set will contain about 250 bricks. Along with the letters, the bricks will have numbers and math symbols.
The Danish Association of the Blind was one of the first organizations to come up with the idea of using Lego bricks to teach Braille. Thorkild Olesen is the president of the group. In 2011, Olesen’s organization shared its idea for Braille Bricks with the Lego Foundation. Olesen explained to the toy maker that the raised dots on Legos are similar to Braille letters.
Olesen is blind. He says many teachers don’t have the tools and skills to help kids learn Braille. So they teach with audio (音频的) tools, such as audio books. “Like any other people, we need to express ourselves in writing,” Olesen said. “Audio is great. But it can never replace Braille.
Braille is the single most important tool for us in order to learn to spell correctly, read and write like sighted people.”
24. What do we know about Lego Braille Bricks? A. They are free for blind children. B. They tell stories to blind kids.
C. They are used to teach blind kids to read. D. They are mainly used to please blind kids. 25. What’s stressed in the third paragraph? A. The meaning of Lego Braille Bricks. B. The difficulties of blind children. C. The great need for learning tools. D. The fun of playing Legos.
26. Why is Thorkild Olesen mentioned in the text? A. To show how Lego Bricks help blind kids. B. To tell that blind kids get knowledge by listening. C. To prove that writing and reading help kids express. D. To show he put forward the idea of Lego Braille Bricks.
C
“If you don’t behave, I’ll call the police” is a lie that parents might use to get their young children to behave. A new psychology study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore suggests that it is connected with harmful effects when the children become adults.
The research team asked 379 Singaporean young adults whether their parents lied to them when they were children, how much they lie to their parents as adults, and how well they respond to adulthood challenges.
The first questionnaire asked these young adults to recall if their parents told them lies about eating, leaving or staying, spending money and so on. Some examples of such lies are “If you don’t come with me now, I will leave you here by yourself” and “I don’t bring money with me today; we can come back another day”. The second questionnaire included questions that could show how often they lie to their parents as adults. Lastly, these young adults filled in two other
江苏省苏州市新草桥中学2024-2024学年高一上学期12月月考英语试题
