广东省汕头市潮南实验学校2017_2018学年高一英语4月月考试题201805041311.doc

1、广东省汕头市潮南实验学校2017-2018学年高一英语4月月考试题试题分值120分 考试时间120分钟 第卷（70分）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。ASan Francisco Fire Engine Tours San Francisco Winery Tour Running：February 1st through April 30th This delicious tour goes through the city on its way

2、 to Treasure Island where we will stop at the famous Winery SFHere you can enjoy 4 pours of some of the best wine San Francisco has to offer（Included in ticket price） Departing from the Cannery：Tell time upon request Duration（时长）：2 hours Price：$90 Back to the Fifties Tour Running：August 16th through

3、 August 31st This tour transports you back in time to one of San Franciscos most fantastic periods，the 1950s!Enjoy fun history as we take you through San Francisco for a free taste of ice cream Departing form the Cannery 5：00 pm and 7：00 pm Duration：2 hours Price：$90 Spooky Halloween Tour Running：Oc

4、tober 10th through October 31st Join us for a ride through the historical Presidio districtAuthentic fire gear （服装）is provided for your warmth as our entertainers take you to some of the most thrilling parts of San Francisco Departing from the Cannery：6：30 pm and 8：30 pm Duration：1 hour and 30 minut

5、es Price：Available upon request Holiday Lights Tour Running：December 6th through December 23nd This attractive tour takes you to some of San Franciscos most cheerful holiday scenesAuthentic fire gear is provided for your warmth as you get into the holiday spirit Departing from the Cannery 7：00 pm an

6、d 9：00 pm Duration：1 hour and 30 minutes Advance reservations required21.Which of the tours is available in March？ _ A. San Francisco Winery TourB. Back to the Fifties TourC. Spooky Hallowen Tour D. Holiday Lights Tour22.What can tourists do on Back to the Fifties Tours？ _ A. Go to Treasure IslandB.

7、 Enjoy the holiday scenesC. Have free ice creamD. Visit the Presidio district23.What are tourists required to do to go on Holiday Lights Tour？ _ A. Take some drinks B. Set off early in the morningC. Wear warm clothes D. Make reservations in advanceB In the story of “The crow and the Pitcher” from Ae

8、sops Fables, a thirsty crow(乌鸦) drops stones into a narrow jar to raise the low level of water inside so he can take a drink.Now scientists have evidence to back up that story. New Caledonian crows actually do understand how to make water displacement work to their advantage, experiments showed. The

9、 results suggest that the birds are, at least in some aspects, as smart as first-graders, according to the study.Researchers, led by Sarah Jelbert at the university of Auckland in New Zealand, presented six crows with tubes filled with water. Inside the tubes, a worm or piece of meat on a piece of w

10、ood was floating, just out of reach of the crow. In front of the tubes, the researchers arranged a bunch of heavy rubber erasers that would sink, and light plastic objects that would float. The crows found out that they could drop the heavy objects into the tubes in order to raise the water level an

11、d get their snack.However, the birds handled awkwardly in experiments in which they could choose to drop objects in either a wide tube or a narrow tube to get a snack, the researchers said. Dropping objects into narrow tube would lift the water level by a greater amount and put the treat within reac

12、h after just two drops. In contrast, it took around seven drops to raise the snack to the same level in the wide tube. The crows obviously didnt realize this, and most of them went for the wide tube first.Previous studies showed that chimps and human children can solve similar tasks. In a 2011 study

13、, chimps and kids found out that they could put water into a tube to reach a peanut that was floating in small amount of water at the bottom. 24. What does the text focus on? A. Aesops predictionB. Crows intelligenceC. The development of crowsD. Human-animal communication25. How did the crows get th

14、e worm in a tube in Sarah experiment? A. By dropping in the heavy erasers.B. By removing the plastic objects.C. By standing on the wood.D. By breaking the tube.26. What does the underlined part “the treat” in Paragraph 4 refer to? A. The tube.B. The object.C. The snackD. The water.27. What did the e

15、xperiment with wide and narrow tubes show?A. Crows are sensitive to surroundings.B. Crows have the ability to recognize shapes.C. Crows are cleverer than chimps and children.D. Crows understand water displacement incompletely.CEmpathyLast year, researchers from the University of Michigan reported th

16、at empathy, the ability to understand other people, among college students had dropped a lot over the past 10 years. That could be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time, the researchers said. Today, people spend more time alone and seldom join groups and clubs. Jennifer Fre

17、ed, a director of a teen program, has another explanation. on the TV, and youre showered with news and reality shows full of people fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect(尊重). Humans learn by exampleand most of the examples on it are anything but empathetic.There are

18、 good reasons not to follow those bad examples. Humans are socially connected with nature. Having relationships with other people is an important part of being humanand having empathy is important to those relationships. Researchers have also found that empathetic teenagers always have high self-res

19、pect. Besides, empathy can be helpful for loneliness, sadness, anxiety, and fear.Empathy is also necessary for a good leader. In fact, Freed says, many top companies report that empathy is one the most important things they look for in new managers. Social skillsincluding empathyare a kind of “emoti

20、onal(情感的) intelligence that will help you succeed in many areas of life. “Tests results are important. But if you dont have emotional intelligence, you wont be as successful in work or in your love life,” she says.Whats the best way to up your EQ(情商)? For starters, let down your guard and really lis

21、ten to others. “One doesnt develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking,” Freed says. To really develop empathy, youd better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital, join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a “sharing circle” with your family, or spend ti

22、me caring for pets at an animal shelter.28. Why does empathy among college students drop a lot?A. They spend too much time on screen.B. Understanding each other is hard for them.C. They are busy with their studies.D. Programs on screens are attractive.29. What does Jennifer Freed think of reality sh

23、ows on TV?A. Exciting. B. Boring. C. Bad. D. Good.30. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?A. Necessary social skills in daily life. B. The importance of empathy for leaders. C. Successful leaders with high empathy. D. The requirements for new managers.31. What are people encouraged to do accordi

24、ng to the last paragraph? A. Show your opinions freely. B. Work as doctors.C. Develop empathy in different ways. D. Protect animals.DRecently, weve been talking about how we need better teachers. Theres no doubt that great teacher can help in a students learning but heres what some new studies are a

25、lso showing: We need better parents.Every three years, the organization called O.E.C.D. organizes exams as part of the Program for International Student Assessment(评估), or PISA, which tests 15-year-olds on their abilities to deal with real problems. Americas 15-year-olds have not done as well as stu

26、dents in Singapore, Finland and Shanghai in the PISA exams.To better understand the reasons, the PISA team, starting with four countries in 2006, and then adding 14 more in 2009, went to the parents of 5,000 students. They interviewed them about how they raised their kids and then compared it with t

27、he test results for each of those years. Two weeks ago, the PISA team published the main finding of its study.Fifteen-year-olds whose parents often read books with them during their first year of primary school get much higher scores in PISA 2009 than students whose parents dont often read with them

28、 or not at all. Parents concern for their children is strongly connected with better results in PISA.According to Schleicher, the leader of the team, just asking your children how their school day was and showing great interest in their learning can help a lot. It is something every parent can do, n

29、o matter what their education level is. The study found that getting parents concerned about their childrens learning at home is more powerful than parents attending parent-teacher meetings, volunteering in classrooms, taking part in money-raising, and showing up at back-to-back nights. To be sure,

30、nothing can replace a good teacher. But lets stop putting the whole duty on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make teaching more beneficial. 32. What can we learn about the organization O.E.C.D ?A. It tests teenagers learning skills. B. It calls for better teachers. C. It org

31、anizes PISA exams every 3 years.D. It compares parents from different countries. 33. Why does the PISA team interview some parents? A. To understand students better. B. To get along well with parents. C. To help students with bad test results. D. To find out why students have different test results.

32、34. According to the study, parents are advised to .A. try to search for better teachersB. put the whole duty on teachersC. care about their childrens school lifeD. ask their children to read more books.35. Whats the best title for the passage? A. Better Parents Are Needed B. Better Teachers Are App

33、reciated C. A Study by the PISA Team D. An Interview with Parents.第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。How to Help Children Learn From Their MistakesEveryone makes mistakes. 36 As parents, its our duty to help our children learn from their mistakes. Turning a mistake into a

34、 learning experience will help your child grow. Here are some tips for helping children learnt from their mistakes.Explain exactly what the mistake is. Its important to make your child accept the fact that he made a mistake. Talk with your child and help him exactly understand what he did is not rig

35、ht. 37 Never imagine he knows; always talk over the problem early.Ask your child to make an apology if his mistakes hurt others. This step takes a mistake that is connected with another person even further. 38 By making your child go to see and talk with the person who was hurt, he will more fully u

36、nderstand the results of the mistake and learn from that bad experience.Offer suggestion in different ways to lead your child to avoid making the same mistakes again. You can choose to share your personal examples if you had the same problem before. 39 He may not want to do exactly the same thing, b

37、ut it will get him to start in the right direction. 40 Having your child try to work through the problem and know how to deal with it on by himself will help develop his reasoning skills, which is good for his self-development. In this way, he will know what he should do if a similar situation appea

38、rs in the future.A. Tell your child how you dealt with the problem.B. Now its time to help him properly correct mistakes.C. Praise him if he fully understands the- mistake he made.D. Children need to learn the results of their mistakes.E. Learning from mistakes is what makes us become better people.

39、F. Encourage your child to find a way to deal with the problem alone.G. Sometimes a child fails to know why the things he did are wrong.第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。In 1895, when he was 52, my grandpa, Dennis Fitzpatrick Sr. , had a

40、 young mans dream. He 41 to own land and build a barn(谷仓) and house on it. In order to 42 the dream, he left Hubbardston, Michigan and went to north to Slabtown. In the place, there was 80-acre wasted land with 43 fence(篱笆) and big bushes everywhere. Grandpa walked around the land, dreaming of the d

41、ay when he would 44 it into green meadow(牧场). where there are fields of crops, wandering _45_, a big barn and a new house.He 46 there and started working. In the summer, a 4-acre field 47 a lot of crops and in the fall, he started working on a new 48 , carrying stones from a mile away. After the bam

42、 completed, a new house was started. By the age of 82, his dream had 49 , 30 years after he started.But by the 1990s the barn was in bad need of 50 , or it would fall apart. So we worked to make it as strong as before. During the past years, it had 51 family, gathering, wedding reception, neighborho

43、od parties 52 music and dancing, Christmas ball and more.Grandpa is gone now, but his 53 is still with us. Now I, his great-grandson, 54 the land that he cleared. All seven of my 55 live on or within a mile of the farm. Grandpas dream so long agogreen meadow, fields of crops and a big barnis now 56

44、by his many descendants(子孙) more than a 57 later.Grandpa taught us very 58 lessons. It is never too late to 59 . If you have one, work at it 60 and youll turn it into reality.41. A. agreedB. expectedC. managed D. afforded42. A. preventB. haveC. consultD. explore43. A. rareB. newC. brokenD. high44. A

45、. admitB. turnC. divideD. measure 45. A. sheepB. visitorsC. carsD. thoughts46. A. settledB. walkedC. landedD. survived47. A. chargedB. receivedC. showedD. produces48. A. placeB. houseC. barnD. palace49. A. come trueB. cared about C. held onD. broken up50. A. repairB. fareC. paintD. helpers51. A. con

46、firmed B. interruptedC. seenD. affected52. A. atB.inC. withD. on53. A. exampleB. spiritC. feelingD. habit54. A. cleanB. sellC. presentD. farm55. A. ancestorsB. classmatesC. childrenD. neighbors56. A. sharedB. copiedC. spreadD. appreciated57. A. yearB. centuryC. weekD. month58. A. boringB. valuableC.

47、 interestingD. private59. A. learnB. apologizeC. changeD. dream60. A. hardB. happilyC. graduallyD. frequently第卷（非选择题，共50分）注意：将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。The first foreign language I studied was French, and I learnt it at a secondary school betw

48、een the ages of 11 and 18. It was a compulsory subject for the first three years and I 61. _ (choose) to continue studying it afterwards because I enjoyed it, found it 62. _ (interest) and was quite good at it. Outside class I practiced 63. _ (listen) to the French language radio and reading French

49、books.Before going to university, I spent three months working on 64. _ farm in southern France. This helped me become pretty fluent 65. _ French and acquire a rich farming-related vocabulary.My French has also been 66. _ (help) on holiday on Morocco and Portugal. French 67. _ (use) as a second lang

50、uage in Morocco and in other countries quite a few people speak French in places 68. _ a lot of tourists visit.In September 2009 I joined a couple of French conversation 69. _ (group) in Bangor and I have been going to them ever since. It has resulted in my 70. _ (improve) in my spoken French.Now I

51、can still speak French fluently and can also read it well, but my written French is not so good.第四部分写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用()划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均

52、仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。I have a good friend who name is Liu Mei. She is our monitor and one of the excellent student in our class. Though she is clever, but she works very hard. We have a lot on common and have a lot to talk about. One evening she told me that something happened when her par

53、ents was out. She was doing her homeworks one Sunday morning when she smelt something burning. She stopped to look out of the window and find a cloud of smoke coming out of her neighbors house. Concerning about their safety, she called 119 immediately. Ten minutes later, the firemen came and put out

54、 fire. They were very thankfully for my help.第二节 书面表达(满分25分）经过调查，人们对于学生上网交友持不同意见（见下表）。请你以“Should students make friends on line?”为题，用英语写一篇关于学生上网交友的短文，介绍人们的不同观点，并表达自己的看法。 词数：100左右参考词汇：网络朋友 on-line friend（s）；上当受骗 to be cheated答案阅读理解：21-23 ADC 24-27 BACD 28-31 ACBC 31-35 CDCA 36-40 EGDAF完形填空：41-60 BDCBA

55、; ADCAA; CCBDC; ABBDA语法填空：36. chose 37.interesting 38. listening 39. a 40. in 41. helpful 42. is used 43. which/that 44. groups 45. improvement短文改错：【答案】I have a good friend who name is Liu Mei. She is our monitor and one of the excellent student in our class. Though she is clever, whose studentsbut

56、she works very hard. We have a lot on common and have a lot to talk about. One evening she told me that something inhappened when her parents was out. She was doing her homeworks one Sunday morning when she smelt something burning. were homeworkShestopped to look out of the window and find a cloud o

57、f smoke coming out of her neighbors house. Concerning about their found Concernedsafety,she called 119 immediately. Ten minutes later, the firemen came and put outfire. They were very thankfully for my help. the thankful书面表达： Different people have different opinions on whether students should make f

58、riends on line. Some people say yesThe reason is that the Internet helps make many new friendsWhats more, while Chatting on line, students can freely express their feelings and opinions, and even get help with their foreign language studies. Others, however, just have the opposite opinionThey say ma

59、king friends on line is a waste of time that should be spent more meaningfully on studyBesides, some students get cheated on line. Its my opinion that students should put their study, health and safety at firstAs for friendship, we can readily find it among our classmates and other people around us.