榆树一中2019—2020学年度高三上学期第一次月考
英语试题
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分:听力(共两节,满分30分)略 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）
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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Music Festivals
21．Why do people in the Buku Music Festival need to catch up on their sleep? A． The performances will last overnight. C． Sleep during the night is difficult.
B．Buku has a post-industrial setting.
D．The tickets for the festival are very expensive.
22．Which music festival can you find sports programs? A． Horizon Festival. C．Gasparilla Music Festival.
23．Where is the Golden Plains Festival held? A．On a mountain. C．In a music hall.
B．In a downtown square. D．In an open-air theatre.
B
Emilia Dobek traces her interest in space and the universe back to third grade when she and her father watched a blood moon—a total lunar eclipse (月蚀) —on the roof of their house.
Now a seventh-grader at East Prairie Elementary School, Dobek recently won the national Discovery Education Lockheed-Martin Beyond Challenge by designing a space station for travelling to Mars.
She says that night watching the lunar eclipse started a strong desire in her. So when her teacher Andrea Smeeton received information about the national challenge, Smeeton said she immediately had one student in mind.
“I knew she would love the challenge and that she would go way beyond in her research,” Smeeton said. “She immediately started researching bone density (密度) of astronauts and how to have food on Mars.”
“My design will ensure the safety of the astronauts but also make sure their comfort is out of this world,” Dobek says. Dobek’s design calls for building the MSS or Mars Storage Station to put the supplies in. It also includes the SGF or Self-Growing Farm, and she details how it would work with the elements on Mars.
Then there is physical and leisure activity for the astronauts under Dobek’s design. A simulator (模拟装置) allows astronauts to choose their exercise machine and virtual (虚拟的) reality environment. Rooms have circular ceilings so astronauts will be able to watch downloaded shows and even see places on Earth, such as their homes.
“I want to tell other kids to follow their passions,” Dobek said. “Whatever they want to do, they should push for it and always try their best.”
24.What did Dobek tell other kids?
A.Kids should stay in the comfort zone. B. Kids should follow their dreams . C. Kids should travel to Mars. D. Kids should care about others.
25. Dobek first became interested in space when .
B． Buku Music Festival. D．Golden Plains Festival.
A. she was still a seventh-grader B. she studied at junior high school C. she lived on the top of their house D. she watched an eclipse of the moon 26. Smeeton recommended that Dobek take the challenge because . A. she knew Dobek liked challenges in life B. she had no other students interested in Mars
C. she was sure that Dobek would have outstanding performance D. Dobek knew how to research bone density of astronauts 27. What does Dobek focus on when designing the space station? A. The environment on Mars. B. The supplies of food C. The physical activities for astronauts. D. The safety and comfort of the astronauts.
C
William I, who conquered England some 930 years ago, had wealth, power and an army. Yet although William was very rich by the standard of his time, he had nothing like a flush toilet (抽水马桶), paper towels, or riding lawn mower (除草机). How did he get by?
History books are filled with wealthy people who were poor compared to me. I have storm windows, Croesus did not. Entire nations trembled before Alexander the Great, but he couldn’t buy cat food. Czar Nicholas lacked an electric saw.
Given how much better off I am than so many famous dead people, you’d think I’d be content. The trouble is that, like most people, I compare my wealth with that of living persons: neighbors, school classmates, famous TV people. The greed I feel toward my friend Howard’s new kitchen is not reduced by the fact that no kings ever had a refrigerator with glass doors.
There is really no rising or falling standard of living. Over the centuries people simply find different things to feel sad about. You’d think that simply not having disease would put us in a good mood, but no, we want a hot bath too.
Of course, one way to achieve happiness would be to realize that even by today’s standards the things I own are pretty nice. My house is smaller than the houses of many investment bankers, but even so it has a lot more rooms than my wife and I can keep clean.
Besides, to people looking back at our era from a century or two in the future, these bankers’ fancy counter tops and my own worn Formica will seem equally shabby. I can’t keep up with my neighbors right now. But just wait. 28. What does the underlined phrase “get by” in the first paragraph mean? A. Succeed as a king.
B. Deal with complaints. D Get the money needed. C. 5.
D. 6.
C. Live in a satisfactory way. A. 4.
B. 3.
29. How many historical figures are mentioned to compare lives in the past and present? 30.According to the passage, the author intends to . A. warn us to live in a simple way.
B. tell us to be content with life
D. encourage us to struggle for wealth C. Cautious.
D
Marvin Minsky is often called the Father of Artificial Intelligence. His work helped inspire the creation of the personal
C. teach us to learn lessons from life A. Doubtful.
31.What’s the author’s attitude towards life?
B. Optimistic.
D. Negative.
吉林省榆树市第一高级中学2020届高三上学期第一次月考英语试卷 含答案
