福建省莆田第一中学2020届高三12月月考英语试题

莆田一中2019-2020学年度上学期12月月考试卷

高三   英语

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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. What does the man want the woman to make?

A. Roast pork.    B. An orange cake.    C. Potatoes with the steak.

2. How much will the man spend?

A. $75.       B. $200.      C. $400.

3. Where does the woman want to spend the day?

A. At the beach    B. At their house.   C. In the forest.

4. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Husband and wife.   B. Co-workers.     C. Doctor and patient.

5. What does the man mean?

A. He doesn’t know the way to the destination.

B. He doesn’t know any magicians.

C. He won’t be able to get to the destination on time.

第二节 (共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. At the office.     B. At a café.     C. At the gym.

7. What will the speakers buy on their way home?

A. Iced coffee.     B. Powders.     C. Honey.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Why is the woman joining the event?

A. To win a prize.    B. To exercise more.   C.To raise money for children.

9. Who is organizing the event?

A. Hospital workers.     B. Marathon runners.   C. Local businessmen.

10. How much money will the man give?

A. One dollar per kilometer.  

B. Five dollars per kilometer.  

C. Ten dollars per kilometer.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Which fact about elephants has the woman already known?

A. They live on two continents.

B. They are the biggest land animals.

C. They differ in weight and height.

12. What do we know about the African forest elephants?

A. They are larger than Asian elephants.

B. They are the tallest elephants in Africa.

C. They are the smallest type of elephants.

13. How does the man end the conversation?

A. Thoughtfully.     B. Humorously.    C. Impatiently.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. Family relations.    B. Housing markets.   C. Western culture.

15. How does the woman feel about the news?

A. She becomes sad.    

B. She is shocked.   

C. She thinks it is common.

16. What are the parents in the news story trying to do?

A. Help their son find a job. 

B. Force their son to move out.

C. Convince their son to go to the university.

17. Where does Liam want to go to study?

A. UC Berkeley.     B. UCLA.     C. Harvard.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What was Jason’s reaction when Mary spilled coffee on his jacket?

A. Friendly.      B. Sad.      C. Angry.

19. What did Mary do with the jacket?

A. She bought a new one.  

B. She washed it herself.

C. She sent it to her grandma.

20. What was the result of the incident?

A. A new washing powder.  B. A marriage.    C. A garden.

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A、B、C和 D的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Leila’s Hair Museum

Before the invention of photography, people kept memories of loved ones by creating mementos (纪念物) using human hair. In 1986, Leila Cohoon opened a museum in Independence, Missouri, to show her collection of more than 2, 000 pieces of hair-based art collected over 30 years. Built as the only hair museum in the world, it includes more than 400 braided hair wreaths (花环) and 2,000 pieces of jewellery dating back to the mid-1600s. “My museum is filled with other people’s families,” Leila says. “It tells a story. ”

International UFO Museum and Research Center

On July 7, 1947, a farmer discovered mysterious metallic debris (金属碎片) in his farm outside Roswell, New Mexico. Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) originally said it recovered a flying disc. The next day, RAAF changed its words: The object was a weather balloon. Stories of a UFO and a government cover-up spread. Each year, 180,000 people check out the dirt from the UFO crash site, photos, and reports about the Roswell incident.

Museum of Bad Art

Not all art is created equal. After finding an oil painting in the rubbish in 1993 — the now classic Lucy in the Field with Flowers — Scott Wilson started collecting bad art. Before long, he showed his finds at the Somerville movie theater. The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) gives the public a firsthand look at some of the world’s worst “disaster-pieces”. Popular paintings include Mona Lisa, Hollywood Lips, and Drilling for Eggs. “MOBA is always on the lookout for the best of the worst,” said co-founder Marie Jackson. “But what an artist considers to be bad doesn’t always meet our low standards. ”

Mutter Museum

Welcome to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — home to more than 5,000 brains, bones, and dead bodies! In 1858, Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter gave his collection of preserved body parts, and bones to the College of Physicians to improve medical education, which led to the museum’s creation in 1863. Today, Mutter is the most famous medical museum in America, housing a wall of bones, and pieces of Albert Einstein’ s brain.

21. What is special about Leila’s Hair Museum?

A. It houses the world’s greatest photos.    

B. It is full of family stories.

C. It holds collections from around the globe. 

D. It was opened to remember Leila’s loved ones.

22. What can you find in the Mutter Museum?

A. Photos about the Roswell incident.   B. Mona Lisa.

C. 2,000 pieces of jewellery.     D. Some of Albert Einstein’s brain.

23. What do the four museums have in common?

A. They are newly-founded museums.   B. They are quite unusual.

C. They are unpopular among visitors.   D. They are art-centered.

B

Ernest Gaines, the son of sharecroppers (佃农), was born in January 15, 1933 on the River Lake Plantation near the small village of Oscar, Louisiana. He attended school for kids more than five months out of the year. But that was more education than his family before him had received. He would say later in life that his ear for the stories of his elders was developed as he wrote letters for adults who couldn’t read or write.

In the late 1940’s, at the age of 15, his family moved to the northern California where he could do something that had been forbidden in the South: visit a library. Ernest later attended San Francisco State University. Then he returned to Louisiana in 1963, inspired by James Meredith’s bid to enroll in the then-all-white University of Mississippi. He took it as a sign that the South was changing and that he could be part of that change. “As I’ve said many times before, the two greatest moves I’ve made were on the day I left Louisiana in 1948, and on the day I came back to Louisiana in 1963,” he said.

Less than 10 years later, in 1971, he published the novel that brought him attention, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman which told the story of a black woman born as a slave who lives long enough to witness the civil rights era. Ernest would later say that the fictional Jane was modeled after his disabled great-aunt, Augustine Jefferson, who could not walk, but was strong enough to raise a family. Another novel, A Gathering of Old Men, published in 1983, was made into a movie in 1987. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993 for his novel A Lesson Before Dying. A number of his stories and essays were gathered in the 2005 collection Mozart and Leadbelly.

His permanent residence in Louisiana was a house that he and his wife built on land that was once part of River Lake Plantation. Ernest talked about his home, “If Auntie could sit here with me, or my stepfather who took me away from here, or my uncle George, who used to take me to those old beat-up bars in Baton Rouge — if I could, I’d just buy him a good glass of Gentleman Jack, and we could sit here and talk. Oh, I wish I could do that.”

24. How did Ernest benefit from writing letters for adults?

A. It inspired great love for writing in him.

B. It made him enter the university successfully.

C. It laid the foundation for his writing of his elders.

D. It promoted his communication with his families.

25. What can we know about Ernest from paragraph 2?

A. Ernest got the freedom of education in California.

B. Ernest’s departure and return influenced his life a lot.

C. James helped him apply to University of Mississippi.

D. Ernest’s experience in the South affected him greatly.

26. In which novel can you know about Ernest’s auntie?

A. Mozart and Leadbelly.     B. A Lesson Before Dying.

C. A Gathering of Old Men.     D. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

27. What does Ernest convey in his words in the last paragraph?

A. He misses his relatives.      B. He hopes to leave again.

C. He cherishes his childhood.    D. He loves drinking and chatting.

C

Most people love to lose themselves in a great book, maybe a classic novel, a modern storybook or a great work of history. But many people also live busy lives, and for them finding time to sit quietly and read is difficult, if not impossible. Fortunately, with the coming of the Internet and high-tech tools like the iPod, more and more people are making literature a part of their lives again.

A very special website now makes it possible for people to listen to books that they simply would not have time to read. The site is called Audible Inc., and it’s the best place to download audio (音频的) books. Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of these books have been recorded. They include nearly every classic, as well as most newly-published ones. Most of these are read by voice actors who really bring the text to life.

Audible Inc. lets you easily and quickly download a book and load it onto your iPod or other MP3 players, or onto CDs so that you can listen in your car. The site is like Amazon.com, but for audio books. It includes thousands of recommendations and customer reviews that are extremely helpful. The site lets you listen to a free piece of each book so you can tell ahead what the narrator (讲述者) sounds like. No wonder that most people who listen to an audio book for the first time are immediately attracted.

This is the perfect opportunity to find out what so many people know about audio books. But be careful — you may become attracted to audio books for life.

28. Who might be most interested in Audible Inc.?

A. Book lovers with little free time.  B. People who travel a lot.

C. Teenagers who love writing.   D. People who have iPods. 

29. What does Audible Inc. offer people?

A. Free books.       B. Books about history. 

C. Books to listen to.      D. Traditional paper books.

30. Why is a free piece of each book given on Audible Inc.?

A. To meet the customers’ requirements.

B. To introduce different styles of modern books.

C. To provide a chance to learn to narrate stories.

D. To let people experience the narrative style ahead.

31. What can we know from the last paragraph?

A. The author advises people to choose audio books.

B. The author shows the benefits of audio books.

C. The author warns people against addiction to reading.

D. The author stresses the great attraction of audio books.

D

Growing up can sometimes seem like a roller coaster. There are ups and downs and unexpected turns. Abuse or neglect by adult can make the ride even rougher. But being bullied by another child can leave especially lasting scars. That’s the finding of a new study.

Bullied kids face a high risk of mental health problems as teens and as young adults. Indeed bullied kids might be worse off than those who had suffered physical abuse or neglect, the study found.

Dieter Wolke works at the University of Warwick in England. Until recently, most studies of child victims focused not on bullying but on maltreatment, this psychologist says. Maltreatment includes physical or emotional abuse, neglect or other behaviors that can harm a child.

Wolke’s team wanted to better understand how bullying’s long-term effects compare to those due to maltreatment. They focused on 4,026 children in the United Kingdom and 1,420 more in the United States. Information about bullying and maltreatment was collected for American children to age 13. They collected the same information for British youth up to age 16. The researchers also gathered data on each individual’s mental health as a young adult.

Among the Americans, 36 percent of bullied kids had mental problems later. Those problems included anxiety, which is a state of excessive worry. They also included depression. That is a feeling of hopelessness that can last a long time. Among kids who had been maltreated by adults, 17 percent later suffered mental health problems. That was less than half the rate seen in people who had been bullied as school kids.

In the U. K. group, the difference was less spectacular. Roughly 25 percent of the bullied kids reported mental health problems later, compared with about 17 percent who had been maltreated.

But however you look at it, the findings are disturbing, Wolke says. They show that bullied children have similar or worse mental health problems later in life. And that’s why he says schools, health services and other agencies must work together to end bullying.

32. According to the passage, which of the statements is TRUE?

A. Kids treated cruelly recover soon after they grow up.

B. Most studies didn’t pay much attention to bullying until recently.

C. All bullied kids have mental health problems.

D. Most kids with maltreatment experience tend to become violent adults.

33. How does the author support the theme of the text?

A. By providing research results.   B. By stating arguments.

C. By explaining statistical data.    D. By giving examples.

34. The underlined word “spectacular” in paragraph 6 could be best replaced by _______.

A. dramatic    B. specific   C. slight   D. similar

35. According to the text, what does Wolke suggest doing?

A. Taking good care of children.   B. Comparing different types of abuse.

C. Keeping psychologically healthy.  D. Joining hands to stop bullying.

第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从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。 

Many of us are hardwired NOT to ask for help. We think it makes us appear weak. We think people will say no. We think we have to do everything ourselves.   36  . We have to get over that, and there’s how:

Get over yourself

No one — and I mean NO ONE — got anywhere alone. You cannot and should not do everything yourself. You are not, in fact, always the best person for the job, or the “only” person who can do it. Asking for help is sign of strength, not weakness. Asking for help clears space for you and frees your time and energy.   37  .

Rebuild your thinking

Rebuild what it means to ask for help from “I am a weak, incompetent loser” to “I am strategically allocating my time to focus on what matters most.” Don’t focus on the fact that you can’t do something or don’t have the time.   38  . It’s a chance to connect, a chance to value a colleague, a chance to get something done faster or better, a chance to optimize (充分利用) your own time and talents.

    39                

Asking for help is about tapping valuable resources to get the best outcome the most quickly with the fewest resources expended. That’s a fancy way of saying “get the right people for the job.”   40  . And the best way to do that is to know your colleagues, and proactively build relationships.

A. It’s a smart strategy.

B. Know your colleagues.

C. Your energy can’t be wasted.

D. It’s all about building the right team.

E. Think about your colleagues.

F. Whatever the reason, we don’t ask for the help we need.

G. Instead, think about what you will gain from the ask.

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；每题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Christopher Garrett was an engineer with the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division. While serving in Afghanistan, Christopher was shot and   42  . He was hospitalized and then medically   42  .

Christopher was   43   to be returning home to his wife, Brittany, and was looking forward to getting back to normal life. Soon,   44  , it became clear that “normal” was going to have a new   45  .

Christopher’s   46   made things difficult. Things that had once come   47   to him — like mowing the lawn (修剪草坪) — now seemed almost impossible. Even still, Christopher was   48   not to let his injuries get the best of him. Even though he only had an old-fashioned, non-motorized push mower, he   49   to go out and mow the yard, working through the   50   until the job was done.

It was   51   for Brittany to watch her husband go through this pain. When she saw Christopher threw himself down on the ground in tears one day, she ran to him, thinking he was   52   an emotional breakdown. When she got out to the yard, however, she saw the   53   of Christopher’s tears. Sitting in the yard was a(n)   54   riding lawn mower. Attached was a note: “I hope this   55   time for the things that matter most in your life. Thank you for your   56   and for my freedom. A grateful American.”

Though the Garretts have no   57   who left the mower in their yard, it is clear a neighbor had seen Christopher   58   and wanted to help. That person may never know just how much the   59   meant to the Garretts, but for this couple it was life-changing.

Christopher still has a long   60   ahead of him in the recovery process, but thanks to this generous stranger, the journey is now a little easier.

41. A. wounded   B. caught      C. trapped      D. killed

42. A. refused   B. recovered    C. retired    D. removed

43. A. fortunate   B. disappointed   C. unwilling    D. happy

44. A. though   B. therefore    C. meanwhile   D. instead

45. A. story    B. direction    C. meaning    D. result 

46. A. strength   B. disability    C. fear     D. appearance

47. A. easily    B. quickly    C. naturally    D. steadily

48. A. forced    B. astonished    C. determined   D. persuade

49. A. preferred   B. continued    C. promised    D. intended

50. A. hunger   B. sorrow    C. anger     D. pain

51. A. embarrassing  B. unusual    C. difficult    D. annoying             

52. A. suffering   B. imagining    C. overcoming   D. performing

53. A. outcome   B. source    C. purpose    D. power

54. A. ordinary   B. special    C. strange    D. new

55. A. saves    B. takes     C. occupies    D. leaves

56. A. honesty   B. kindness    C. service    D. attention

57. A. doubt    B. question    C. way     D. idea

58. A. searching   B. struggling    C. complaining    D. crying

59. A. note    B. gift     C. reward    D. solution

60. A. road    B. experience   C. wait     D. life

第二节  语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

There are many great destinations in the UK, one of   61   is the South-West of England. The most popular regions surrounding the South-West   62   (be) the counties of Devon and Cornwall. They are by the coast and known for having some of   63   sunniest weather in the UK.

In the heart of the South-West, Dartmoor National Park   64   (vote) the UK’s favourite in 2016. There are plenty of breathtaking walks to choose from which will lead you  65  (discover) Dartmoofs ancient and rugged (崎岖的) charm!

In the South-West you will find plenty of attractive and often deserted   66   (beach). Some examples include Whitesand Bay in Cornwall and Woolacombe beach in Devon. If you don’t mind the   67   (slight) cooler temperatures than other beach destinations in Europe, you are in for a real treat!

Apart from   68   (surround) by beautiful nature, the South-West is full of urban gems (精华). The city of Exeter in Devon has great centers, as well as lots of cafés   69   pubs. Cornwall has its own treasures too — pretty villages and towns such as St. Ives and Mousehole line the coastline, and make for the perfect locations to spend those   70   (relax) summer afternoons!

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。每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：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，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仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Our school sports meeting finally came to an end last Friday. Tiring but cheerful, we made it a success. I can say it’s best one I have ever been taken part in. The opening ceremony was a feast for the eyes. To begin with, the headmaster makes a speech. Then came various performance, including singing, dancing and kung fu. Besides, students dressed up as dolls, and that they wanted to show was confident and talent. When the teachers’ shows began, the students were crazily. As a class photographer, I took pictures of such many brilliant moments, which, with doubt, meant a lot to all of us.

第二节  书面表达（满分25分）

假定你是李华，想利用课后时间提高一下自己的英语口语水平，你对美国的一个远程在线英语口语课程比较感兴趣，请写封邮件，询问有关情况。内容包括：

1. 课时和费用；

2. 教师的情况；

3. 报名方式。

注意： 词数100左右；

Dear Sir / Madam,

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                     Yours,

Lihua

莆田一中2019-2020学年度上学期12月月考试卷答案

听力部分

1-5 ABCBC   6-10 CBCAB   11-15 BCAAC   16-20 BCABA

阅读理解

21-23 BDB   24-27 CBDA   28-31 ACDD   32-35 BAAD

七选五

FAGBD

完形填空

41-45 ACDAC  46-50 BACBD  51-55 CABDA  56-60 CDBBA

语法填空

61. which   62. are   63. the   64. was voted   65. to discover

66. beaches   67. slightly   68. being surrounded   69. and   70. relaxing

短文改错第一处： Tiring→Tired

第二处：it’s best中间加the

第三处：ever been taken中间的been去掉

第四处： makes→made

第五处： performance→performances

第六处： that→what

第七处： confident→confidence

第八处：crazily→crazy

第九处： such→so

第十处： with→without

作文范文

Dear Sir / Madam,

I’m a middle school student from China and I want to improve my oral English after school. I have interest in your online courses, but there are some details that I want to know more about.

First, how many classes does a course have and how long does each class last? And what about the fees? Second, I can't find any introduction about the teacher. Could you please offer me some information about the teacher who will give the lessons? And the last one, how can I register for the course?

Thank you very much for your time. I am looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua