陕西省安康中学2023-2024学年高一上学期10月月考英语试题

陕西省安康中学2023-2024学年高一上学期10月月考

英语试题

第一部分听力

第一节  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。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 did the man do last Saturday?

A.Watched a film.      B. Did some cleaning      C.Watered the flowers.

2. What is the man doing?

A. Looking for his clothes.      B. Enjoying a party.      C. Watching TV.

3. Why does the man walk through the woman's yard?

A. It's safer.     B. It's a short-cut.      C.The yard is beautiful

4. What flavor of ice cream is the most popular?

A.Strawberry       B. Chocolate.       C. Lemon.

5. What is the man going to do today?

A. Have a job interview.    B. Meet his new boss.       C. Take a photo.

第二节  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。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.What kind of restaurant does the man prefer?

A Chinese restaurant.        B. An Italian restaurant.       C. A Mexican restaurant.

7. What can be known from the conversation?

A. They will have dinner at 8:00.

B. They will drive to the restaurant.

C. The man probably does not like smoking.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What's new about Karen?

A. She is thinner.      B. She is taller.         C. She is fatter.

9. What did Karen do during the summer holiday?

A.She leaned how to swim.

B. She kept exercising to lose weight.

C. She made efforts to improve her study.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where does the conversation take place?

A.In a waiting room.     B. In the doctor's office.     C. Over the phone.

11.What's wrong with the man?

A.He has a toothache.     B. He has a stomachache.    C. He has a headache.

12. When can the man come to see the doctor?

A. Right now.      B. This afternoon.      C. Tomorrow.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.What did the man do last night?

A. He saw a movie.    B. He watched a match.     C. He went to a concert.

14. How did the man go out?

A. With his brother.     B.Alone.      C. With his sister.

15. What can be known from the conversation?

A. Children are the main audience.

B. Too many people in Africa die of hunger.

C. The concert was held to collect money for poor children.

16. What is the woman's opinion?

A. The government should take some measures.

B. All people should contribute some money.

C.The Red Cross should do something for it.

听第10段材料,回答第17至20题

17. Where does the speaker live?

A. In the college.      B. In Henderson,       C. In a small town.

18. What happened on the speaker's way to the college?

A. The speaker witnessed an accident.

B. Her car broke down.

C. Her car hit a tree.

19. Who did the speaker ring?

A.The President of the college.

B.One of her students.

C.American Automobile Association.

20. What kind of person is the speaker?

A.She is an optimistic person.

B.She is a careless person.

C. She is warm-hearted.

第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分50 分)

第一节(共15小题,每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)

阅读下列四篇短文,从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A

You may be familiar with the following famous people, but have you heard of their graduation speeches, in which they either share their unforgettable experiences or give you some

great inspiration?

●Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin

And now you've finished something great and important here, and it's time for you to move

on to what's next. And you must not let anything prevent you from taking those first steps. You must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you've been

blessed with and go.

●J. K. Rowling, Harvard University

Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between my ambition and the expectations from my parents who were not rich. But what I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure. The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you know little about failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.

●Steve Jobs, Stanford University

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work: is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle.

●Bill Gates, Harvard University

We need as many people as possible to have access to the advanced technology, and they can lead to a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches and deal with the world's inequities (不公平) like hunger, poverty and so on.

21. What Michael Dell said is to encourage us to

A. love our work          B. listen to expectations

C. follow our dreams      D. follow others' example

22. When she was in university, J. K. Rowling was afraid

A. to dream     B. to fail    C. of being poor      D. of being hungry

23. What does Bill Gates suggest students doing?

A. Helping solve some global problems together.

B. Taking responsibility for their own behavior.

C. Making contributions to their own country.

D. Mastering as much knowledge as possible.

B

A storm hit Houston, Texas, on Tuesday. It brought heavy rains and rising food-waters. By Tuesday night, some pats of the city had rived 10 inches of rain. Police and firefighters helped people move to safe places. They also saved people from cars and buses that were stuck on roads.

Certain areas around Houston were hit rally hard. In just four hours, more than seven inches

of rain fell in Sugar Land in the southwest of Houston. Cars could not pass through any of the areas main roadways. On Twitter, Sugar Land city officials asked people to get to high ground.

Tuesday's rain hit parts of Texas that Hurricane Harvey had already damaged almost two years ago. Hurricane Harvey in August, 2017 was the second most costly hurricane in US history.

It caused $125 billion worth of damage in Texas. In the Houston area, 36 people died and about

150,000 homes were flooded.

A spokesman for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management spoke with the Houston Chronicle. The spokesman said that this week's rain is "hot

in any way a Harvey-level event."

But the worst may not be over yet. People will have a break from the heavy rain on Wednesday. According to the National Weather Service, the Texas Gulf Coast will continue to experience heavy rain later in the week.“Today should be our quietest over the next few days for

rainfall," said Don Oettinger, a National Weather Service meteorologist (气象学家).

Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peia warned,“As there is too much water on the ground, these

are perfect conditions for flash floods, so we hope people are careful of what they 're doing and

encourage them to stay home. There's no sense in putting yourself, firefighters or anybody in

danger needlessly.”

24. What are Paragraphs 1 and 2 mainly about?

A Hurricane damage in Houston.          B. Flood prevention in Houston.

C. Heavy floods hitting Houston.          D. People fighting heavy snow in Houston.

25. What do we know about Hurricane Harvey?

A. It caused no deaths or injuries.           B. It did a lot of damage to Texas.

C. It was less serious than this week's rain.   D. It was the biggest hurricane on record.

26. What can we learn from the weather report of the National Weather Service?

A. Fine days are coming.         B. It will rain non-stop for a whole month.

C. A hurricane is unavoidable.     D. Floods will continue.

27. What did Samuel suggest local people do?

A. Stay indoors.               B. Join firefighters.

C Give up needless things.      D. Comfort those who lost homes.

C

Even small amounts of physical activity, like quick walking, may greatly lower the risk of depression, according to a new data analysis (分析).

Recommended levels of exercise in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), include aerobic (有氧的) activity at proper levels for 2.5 hours a week, along with a workout of all major muscle (肌肉) groups twice a week. Or, a person

can choose a high-level aerobic exercise, such as running, for 1.25 hours each week, along with the same amount of strength training.

Middle-to-high-level exercise is good for us, according to the CDC. It improves sleep, lowers

blood pressure, protects against heart disease and diabetes, reduces stress, improves mood, and

fights anxiety and depression. But in today's busy world, many people find it difficult to fit in a jog or a visit to the gym. Add depression to the mix, and the motivation for exercise drops even further, experts say.

The analysis, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, looked at 15 studies involving over 190,000 people to determine how much exercise was needed to reduce depression.

Adults who did activities equal to 1.25 hours of quick walking per week had an 18% lower risk of depression compared with those who did not exercise, the study said. Moving up to an “activity amount equal to 2.5 hours of quick walking per week was associated with 25% lower risk of depression," the study authors said.

The benefits were strongest when a person changed from being a couch potato to adding movement to the day, the study said. However, exercising over the recommended levels did not provide any additional benefits.

“Our findings therefore have important new implications for health doctors making lifestyle recommendations, especially to inactive individuals who may perceive the current recommended target of exercise as unrealistic," the authors wrote.

A study in 2018 found similar results: People who exercised had about 43% fewer days of poor mental health.“Even just walking three times a week seems to give people better mental health than not exercising at al," said study author Adam Chekroud, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University.

28. Why does the writer use the figures in Paragraph 2?

A. To provide different ways of exercise.        B. To illustrate the benefits of doing exercise.

C To recommend the proper levels of exercise.  D. To identify which exercise is better for health.

29. How do you understand the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3?

A. Running may possibly add to depression.

B. Depressed people are less willing to exercise.

C. People tend to exercise more when depressed.

D. Working out regularly helps increase motivation.

30. What does the analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry suggest:

A. Over 190, 000 people suffer from poor mental health.

B.2.5 hours of quick walking per week is a must for adults.

C. A couch potato benefits much when taking proper exercise.

D. The recommended levels by CDC go for people of all ages.

31. Which of the following agrees with Adam Chekroud's idea about exercise?

A. Practice makes perfect.             B. Rome wasn't built in a day.

C. Half a loaf is better than no bread.    D. Where there is a will, there is a way. .

D

When did you have a really deep conversation where you felt truly heard? Connections of this kind are completely necessary for people but they are not always easy to find. That's why one woman decided to take listening to the streets. Her name is Traci Ruble, a therapist (治疗师) who is concerned that people today are experiencing loneliness and lack personal connections. She understands that with busy lives and demanding jobs, people are unable to make these

connections.

On a spring day in 2015, Ruble and a small number of volunteers set up chairs on sidewalks in 12 locations around San Francisco and invited people passing by to sit for a few minutes and chat. This was the beginning of the nonprofit Sidewalk Talk. The mission is to create public spaces

of connections for people. Today, the organization has more than 4,000 volunteers in 40 cities. These volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds and receive training from the organization.

Sidewalk Talk gives people a chance to speak and be listened to but it is not therapy.“Volunteers are not communicating as a therapist out there. They're not there to solve someone's problems. They're there to practice being human," Ruble said. According to Ruble, therapy is one-sided and therapists are taught to avoid self-disclosure (自我表露) but by“being human”volunteers could approach interactions with communication about their own life and by showing sympathy (同情) for the people they talk with.

Today, an increasing number of people experience loneliness, according to a report from Harvard University. In fact, 31 percent of all Americans feel serious loneliness including 61 percent of young adults. To deal with that, rebuilding community relationships is vitally important.While Sidewalk Talk will not solve the loneliness problem, these chats could help someone have a brighter day. Knowing that there are sympathetic people who are willing to fully listen and share people's feelings could make all the difference to a lonely person.

32. What is the purpose of Sidewalk Talk?

A. To provide training for those volunteers.

B. To teach the passers-by how to communicate.

C. To offer public chances of personal conversations.

D. To help people reduce pressure at work.

33. What is the difference between the volunteers of Sidewalk Talk and therapists?

A. Volunteers provide non-professional therapy.

B. Volunteers prefer one-sided communication.

C. Volunteers are good at showing their success.

D. Volunteers express their experiences and feelings.

34. What can we infer about Sidewalk Talk from Paragraph 4?

A. It makes people more sympathetic to others.

B. It offers a solution to the loneliness problem.

C. It helps treat depression.

D. It has promoted community relationships.

35. What is the text mainly about?

A. A woman guiding others to lead an active life.

B. An organization taking listening to the streets.

C. Therapists setting up chairs on sidewalks.

D. Volunteers helping others learn how to talk.

第二节(共5小题,每小题2.5分,满分12. 5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。

While it's wonderful to share a special trip and new experience with friends or family, there's an attractive case for travel alone from time to time. Solo travel can work for anyone.__ 36_

You needn't discuss with others.

It can be challenging to talk over a trip and time away from work with another busy person in your life,__ 37_. Usually, these challenges can be overcome by simply planning far in advance.

However, if you can't find a travel partner on short notice, it may be the perfect time to pack your

bags and go anyway.

You're your own great partner.

_38_ ，you may be surprised at how enjoyable it can be. Just accompany yourself.Depending on the destination, a solo trip can be a powerful and life-changing experience. Imagine sitting on a peaceful beach at sunset or taking an inviting morning hike alone. You can enjoy such a hike without making conversation with anyone.

Meet new people.

If you are a born open person, traveling alone can be a wonderful way to meet locals and

make new friends. Often, people who are alone appear more approachable (亲近的) to others.

_39_.You could even join a group of like-minded people for yoga on the beach. The key is to keep an open mind while keeping safety in mind, especially in a foreign land.

    _40_

For some reason, service at hotels and restaurants seems better when you re traveling alone.People tend to admire those who travel by themselves.

A. Enjoy great service

B. Do everything you want

C. and it's even more difficult when you try to make plans with a group

D. If things don't go well, the entire trip can be terrible

E. You could be chatting with some interesting people at a sidewalk cafe

F. If you seldom spend important time alone

G. Here are good reasons why you should try it

第三部分语言运用(共两节， 满分30分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入对应空白处的最佳选项。

“Long time no see" is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend's email. I laughed. I thought it was a typical example of Chinglish.

Obviously it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings with a_41_English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American_42_. I was too thrilled to believe her. Her words could not convince me at all.So I did a_43_on Google. com. To my surprise, I found there were over 40 thousand web pages containing“Long time no see." This sentence has been_44_used in emails, letters,newspapers, movies, or any other possible place. Though it is._45_informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily._46_, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word,the_47___ will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

Nobody knows the_48_of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan's movies. In 1930s, Hollywood movie maker successfully_49_worldwide famous Chinese detective named“Charlie Chan”on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting(引用)Confucius.“Long time no see.”was his trademark. Soon“Long time no see." became a_50_ phrase in America_51_the popularity of these movie's.

Some people_52 _ 1 America to a huge melting pot(熔炉). All kinds of culture are_53_in the pot together, and they___ 54_the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic group in the United States, is also contributing some changes to the pot! Language is usually the first thing to be_55_in the mixed pot.

41. A. damaged  B. perfected  C. learned  D. ruined

42. A. custom  B. greeting  C. habit  D. proverb.

43. A. job  B. research  C. survey  D. search

44. A. widely  B. hardly  C. seldom  D. never

45. A. lots of  B. plenty of  C. amount of  D. sort of

46. A. Hence  B. Luckily  C. However  D. Suddenly

47. A. hardware  B. software  C. operator  D. speaker

48. A. use  B. origin  C. expression  D. meaning

49. A. created  B. published  C. did  D. discovered

50. A. ordinary  B. rare  C. modern  D. popular

51.A. as if  B. as to  C. thanks to  D. even though

52. A. compare  B. regard  C. send  D. demand

53. A. joined  B. mixed  C. compiled  D. done

54. A. improve  B. change  C. lower  D. promote

55. A. influenced  B. mentioned  C. used  D. considered

第二节(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1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

If you are _ 56_ (interest) in both China's ancient finance and architecture, Pingyao is a place you can't miss.

The Ancient City of Pingyao,__ 57___ _(locate) in the central Shanxi Province, China, is_58_

well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city. Its walls are about 12 meters high, and three to five meters wide at the top. The western and eastern sides of walls have two gates_59_

the southern and northern walls each have one gate only.

From the 19th century_60_the early 20th century, Pingyao,_61 _ _ (control) almost half of the economy of the country at its booming period, was a financial center for the whole of China. There_62_ (be) once over twenty draft banks' head offices, whose_63_ (branch) were distributed widely around the whole country, even in some western and southeastern countries.

Today when other Chinese cities have been more than happy to bury their history under skyscrapers, this___ 64_ (origin) Chinese Wall Street chooses not to. Ordinary people still live in the Chinese traditional courtyards as they did in the past. This city is helping Chinese rediscover the value of_65_ (protect) what little is left of the country's ancient buildings.

第四部分写作(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(满分15分)

假定你是李华，你的美国笔友Tom刚上高中，感觉学习生活- -团糟，他写信向你求助，请你用英语回信，给予他帮助。

要求:字数80 字左右，可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

Yours.

Li Hua

第二节(满分25分)

阅读下而材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

As a single mother, I've never doubted my daughter Jane's dream to be a singer on the stage.At an early age, she was crazy about singing. Whenever she had a chance, she would sing to her heart's content. Her sweet and charming voice tended to get people around attracted to her songs.

Living in a small city, I took several odd jobs, determined to do everything in my power to support her. Soon after Jane attended school, her music teacher Mary noticed her talent by chance and volunteered to give her some guidance on how to sing. Jane practiced so hard that before long she made great progress in singing.

Unfortunately, one noon a year later, Jane was crossing the street when a careless driver knocked her down. She was rushed to hospital. When I hurried there, the doctor told me that my

daughter would probably not stand on her own feet. I froze with shock, feeling as if I had been thrown into a dark world. Weak and dizzy, I was about to fall to the ground when someone took hold of me.

It was Mary, who got the news and raced here. She comforted me, saying firmly, “Grace, Jane needs you. You must stay calm and strong." I nodded. Having calmed down, I entered the ward with Mary.

That night, Jane recovered her consciousness (知觉) and opened her eyes. Holding her hand,I said,“My dear, everything would be fine." Mary comforted her gently,“I know you are a strong girl, Jane. Don't worry. We'll be standing by you." I was heartbroken to see tears streaming down Jane's cheeks.

After two months, we returned home from hospital. Her teachers and friends frequently visited her. Jane eventually accepted the fact that she would have to get around in a wheelchair.

Never did she refer to the subject of singing again. I knew she was a nice and understanding girl,

who was afraid that talking about her original dream would upset the two of us.

注意: 1.续写词数应为150左右;

2.请按如”下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

One day, however, Mary came with good news.

When the host announced it was Jane's turn, she was wheeled onto the stage.