河南省鄭州市106中學(xué)2018-2019高一3月月考英語試卷(含答案)

1、河南省鄭州市106中學(xué)2018-2019學(xué)年下學(xué)期高一年級英語學(xué)科3月月考試卷第一部分：聽力（略）第二部分：閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分 40分） 第一節(jié)（共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的ABCDH個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。ALynda La Plante is the writer of Prime Suspect and the best-selling author of more than 40 books. Her new novel Hidden Killers is out now. She is talking about three books tha

2、t deeply affected her.Wuthering Heights By Emily BronteOne night as a child, I walked quietly into the bathroom when I heard a voice calling,“Letme in; let me in! ” along with a terrible knock on a window coming from my grandma' s room. Quiteafraid, I cried, “Help me! Where' s the ghost? ” G

3、randma looked up and said,"Don' t be silly;I' m listeningto a story on the radio called Wuthering Heights." I joined mygrandma and realizedthen how you could take a story from a book and change it to a different medium （媒介）.aThe Water-BabiesBy Charles KingsleyThis classic Victorian

4、 story caught myimagination as a child. It made meconsider the unfairness of life why is one child sleeping in comfort and another forced to climb through a chimney （煙囪）？ I especially loved all the questions Tom asks on his adventures, many of which are about social unfairness. All my life I' ve

5、 asked questions too.The Faerie Queene By Edmund SpenserI used to have problems reading - I was told I had “word blindness ” . My mother gave me a copy of Spenser ' s poem and said, “If you can learn some of this then you ' ll be able to read anything. " I rose to the challenge. I learn

6、ed it off by heart and was so proud of myself for keeping something that difficult in mind. Then I learned that I could learn words just as well as anyone.A. By reading a book borrowed from her grandma.B. By listening to it on the radio.C. By listening to her grandma ' s story.D. By reading a gh

7、ost story.22. Which book made Lynda form the habit of asking questions?A.Hidden Killers .B.Wuthering Heights .C.The Water-Babies .D.The Faerie Queene .23. What change did Lynda show after readingThe Faerie Queene ?A. She found pleasure in writing poems.B. She fell in love with poems.C. She began to

8、believe in herself.D. She became word-smart.BMy name is Deirdre Veneracion and I am a paraglider（滑翔傘）pilot. I ' ve been paraglidingsince I was 11.My dad and I arrive at our local fly site on a June morning. We meet our instructor and spendthe first 20 minutes watching the wind cycles. I go throu

9、gh my pre-flight steps and turn on my radio. At last, I take a step and feel the ground under me fall away. I feel the pressure of my weight on the canopy （傘衣）.After 15 minutes of playing with the wind, my father radios me from the place where he is about to take off. "How is the wind? ”"P

10、erfect! ” I say. Dad takes off behind me.I have done almost 100 flights and yet every flight amazes me just as much or even more thanmy first. I love the unpredictability of each flight. Every flight is different. After 15 minutes, I decide to land.Now, I ' m over a rice field. It is a much smal

11、ler landing than most landing zones but it' spossible.Out of nowhere, I feel my canopy become unstable （不穩(wěn)定的）.It loses pressure and fallsdirectly in front of me. I am falling.I have butterflies in my stomach. I pull my brake （ 制動器）line, in the hope that my wing will get pressure again butit does

12、n ' t. I look towards mydad and see that he is also in trouble. It' s as if we were inside a washing machine being thrownup and down. I won ' t make it to the landing zone in front of me. To my right is a narrow （狹窄的）stream with hardly any water in it. I make my decision: the narrow stre

13、am is my best chance of landing safely.As I touch down, I check on my dad and am glad to hear that he is fine. Local villagers cometo check on me but, surprisingly, I am uninjured.This is one of those times when we are reminded that no preparation can prevent Mother Nature from surprising us.24. Wha

14、t does the author do before taking off?A. She watches the weather.B. She has a talk with her father.C. She turns off the radio.D. She gives instructions.25. What doe s the attraction of paragliding lie in the author' s eyes?A. The pleasant wind.B. The success of each flight.C. The excitement of

15、landing.D. The uncertainty of each flight.26. What kind of feeling does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 probably show?A. Happiness. B. Nervousness. C. Anger.D. Luck.27. What happens in the process of the author ' s landing?A. She hurts herself.B. She asks her dad for help.C. She sees a wa

16、shing machine below.D. She changes her mind about the landing site.CJapan is starting to experiment with self-driving buses in rural （鄉(xiāng)村的）communities, suchas the town of Nishikata, where the elderly are living a hard life because of fewer bus and taxi services as the population ages and becomes smal

17、ler.The advance of the self-driving technology is making cities such as Paris and Singapore experiment with such services, which could prove important in Japan, where populations are not only graying, but becoming smaller, in rural areas.Japan could start the self-driving services for communities th

18、at are far from cities by 2020, if the experiments begun this month prove successful.The government plans to turn highway rest stops into centers from which to drive the elderly to medical and banking services.“Smaller towns in Japan are graying even faster than cities, and there are just not enough

19、 workers to drive buses and taxis, “ said Hiroshi Nakajima of mobile gaming software maker DeNACo.In the initial （ 最初的）experiments, the elderly of Nishikata were sent from a service area to some organizations providing healthcare services.“I worry about not being able to go out when I' m no long

20、er able to drive, " said one testrider, Shizu Yuzawa, adding that she would be open to using such services.The test also checked the vehicle ' s safety in road conditions, and if those crossing its path would react to the warning it gives.The ride,at a speed of about 10 kilometersper hour,

21、felt comfortable and safe, said test takerMieko Shimazaki, 71, but her 72-year- old husband, Susumu, said, aSelf-driving cars could be useful in the future, but I ' d like to see them go faster, at least at 40 kilometers per hour.”28. Why are driverless buses appearing in Nishikata?A. Nobody the

22、re can drive a bus.B. Its population is aging and falling.C. People there welcome new things.D. People there can hardly afford cars.29. What does the government plan to do?A. Provide healthcare services.B. Train more bus and taxi drivers.C. Produce more and more driverless cars.D. Set up centers for

23、 picking up passengers.30. What was Shizu Yuzawa ' s attitude toward the self-driving services?A. She was in favor of them.B. She was doubtful about them.C. She was uncertain about them.D. She was strongly against them.31. Which of the following about self-driving buses did Susumu think could im

24、prove?A. Their speed. B. Their safety. C. Their space. D. Their price.s going on.DThe skies are raining big blocks of ice, and experts are trying to learn whatFor the second time in six days, California was attacked by ice balls. The latest happened on early Thursday. A large block of ice dropped in

25、to Loma Linda, California. The ice crashed through the metal roof （ 房頂）of a fitness center, leaving a hole up to 2? feet wide. No one was hurt.Two tennis players were playing outside the Drayson Center on Thursday morning. Suddenly they heard a strange sound, said Crawford, an official of the Loma L

26、inda Fire Department.A similar event happened last Saturday in Oakland, California. Early in the morning an ice ball dropped into a field at Bushrod Park and made a hole up to 2 feet wide. Luckily, no one in the park was injured.One theory （ 理論）is the ice was dropped from planes. But there' s li

27、ttle direct support forthat. A few experts have suggested there may be other causes of similar ice falls, perhaps even global （ 全球的）warming.Stories about dropping ice go back for centuries. They didn' t begin to receive seriousscientific attention until a few years ago, however, when Spain was a

28、ttacked by a dozen large ice balls in 2000.Scientist Jesus Martinez-Frias in Madrid and his team have collected reports of forty cases around the world since 1999 of puzzling falling ice. He thinks the ice forms in the air by a process similar to the formation of hail （冰雹）inside storms but without a

29、 storm.Martinez-Frias believes global warming is causing the troposphere（對流層）to rise. This means theroof of the troposphere is forced to a greater height, where it cools more than normal. Thus, the temperature difference between warm and cold air in the troposphere produces strong up-and-down winds

30、that repeat the hail-formation process, without a storm.32. What took place on Thursday morning?A. A fitness center caught fire.B. A big ice ball fell in Loma Linda.C. There was heavy rain in Loma Linda.D. Two tennis players were hit by an ice ball.33. What is the similarity between the two events i

31、n California?A. Both were seen by Crawford.B. No building was destroyed.C. No one was injured.D. Both caused a large number of holes.A. It is very common around the world.B. It often happens in Spain in recent years.C. It is most likely to be produced by planes.D. It has been carefully studied since

32、 2000.35. What is the cause of ice falls according to Martinez-Frias?A. Strong winds above the troposphere. B. The formation of hail.C. Global warming.D. Big storms.第二節(jié)（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。Secret codes （密碼）keep messages private. Banks, companies, and government

33、agencies use secret codes in doing business, especially when information is sent by computer.People have used secret codes for thousands of years. _36_ Code breaking never lags（落后）farbehind code making. The science of creating and reading coded messages is called cryptography.There are three main ty

34、pes of cryptography. _37 For example, the first letters of “My elephant eats too many eels " Spell out the hidden message “ Meet me.”38 You might represent each letter with a number, for example. Let' s number the lettersof the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26. If we substitute a number for

35、 each letter, the message“Meet me” would read “13 5 5 20 13 5.”A code uses symbols to replace words, phrases, or sentences. To read the message of a real code, you must have a code book. 39For example,“bridge " might standfor "meet"and"out" mightstand for "me." The

36、 message“Bridge out "would actually mean“Meet me."40However, itis also hard to keep a code book secret for long. So codes must be changed frequently.A. You can hide a message by having the first letters of each word spell it out.B. In any language, some letters are used more than others.C.

37、 It is very hard to break a code without the code book.D. Only people who know the keyword can read the message.E. Another way to hide a message is to use symbols to stand for specific letters of the alphabet.F. As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.G. With a code book, y

38、ou might write down words that would stand for other words.第三部分：語言知識運(yùn)用（共兩節(jié)，滿分 45分）第一節(jié)（共20小題，每小題1.5分，滿分30分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的ABCDH個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。My fiance（ 未婚夫）and I were excited about shopping for our first home.But our funds were_41,and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.One agent 4

39、2 a house in particular.Although her description sounded wonderful,the price was 43 our range,so we declined.But she kept urging us to have a look44 .We finally did and it was 45 at first sight.It was Our Home,small and charming,overlookinga quiet lake.Walking through the rooms and talking with the

40、owners,a nice elderly couple,we feltthe happiness and 46 of the marriage within that home.As perfect as it was,the price remainedtoo high for us.But every day,we would sit by the lake,looking at the house and dreaming of47it would be like to live there.Days later,we made a（n） 48 far below the asking

41、 price.Surprisingly,they didn't49us.They renewed their offer 50 .It was also much more than we could afford,but far 11 than the original asking price.The next day,we got a 52 message that another buyer had offered a much higher price.Even so,we decided to talk with the 53 directly.We made our fi

42、nal offer,which 54 was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer ' s bid.We knew it, 55 we had to try."Sold! ” said the owner.Then he56 :He' d seen us sitting by the lake all those times;he knewhow much we loved the place and that we' d 57 the years of work they had put into th

43、eir home;herealized he would take a 58 by selling it to us,but it was worthwhile;we were the people they wanted to live there.He told us to consider the59 in the price “an early wedding present ".That' s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are60 ,they are notstrangers,o

44、nly friends we haven ' t ye t met.41.A.neededB.limitedC.enoughD.large42.A.recommendedB.decoratedC.soldD.rented43.A.belowB.withinC.beyondD.between44.A.at leastB.at mostC.at timesD.at hand45.A.reliefB.concernC.loveD.curiosity46.A.prideB.warmthC.challenge D.desire47.A.whichB.whyC.thatD.what48.A.eff

45、ortB.offerC.promiseD.profit49.A.come acrossB.look afterC.depend on D.laugh at50.A.insteadB.indeedC.asideD.apart51.A.worseB.betterC.lessD.higher52.A.relaxingB.disappointingC.pleasantD.regular53.A.agentB.buyerC.managerD.owner54.A.alreadyB.stillC.generallyD.ever55.A.soB.orC.forD.but56.A.apologizedB.com

46、plainedC.criticizedD.explained57.A.checkB.analyzeC.appreciateD.ignore58.A.lossB.riskC.chanceD.lead59.A.increaseB.differenceC.interestD.average60.A.kindB.politeC.smartD.energetic第二節(jié)(共10小題，每小題1.5分，滿分15分)閱讀下列短文，在空白處填入 1個適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。61.(celebrate) across Thailand, the Songkran Festival is a holiday

47、 62.welcomes the NewYear with a countrywide water fight. It is also celebrated in other Asian countries like Cambodia and Laos, but the celebration in Thailand 63.(know ) to be the most exciting.Songkran was at first a time to visit families, clean away the old year and bring in a freshone. Many Tha

48、is cleaned away the old year by 64.(wash ) their homes and any Buddhas ( 佛 像)around the house. They would collect the water that ran over the Buddhas and pour 65.onto the shoulders of family members for good luck.Finally the original purpose of the holiday became less important than the national wat

49、er fight loved by Thais and foreigners today. The 66.(energy) people use 67.they can get their hands on to make each other wet with water.Every year, 68. large number of tourists gather in Thailand to welcome the 69.(arrive) of Songkran. If you plan 70.(visit) Thailand, the days of Songkran are a gr

50、eat time to get to knowThai traditions.第四部分：寫作（共兩節(jié)，滿分 35分）第一節(jié)：短文改錯（共 10小題，每小題1分，茜分10分）假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（A ）,并在其下面寫出該加的詞。刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（）劃掉。修改：在錯的詞下畫一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。注意：1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；2.只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。Tom finished his mi

51、ddle school half a year before and then he worked for a postman in his smalltown. As he was afraid of dogs, he often had much troubles. One afternoon, he tried to take a postcard to a bigger house by bike. When he reached to the house and got off his bike at the gate,atonce a large dog came out, run

52、 to him with much noise. Tom quickly threw the card through the gate.With his surprise, the dog stopped making noise. It ran fast to a card, picked it up with itsmouth,carried it towards the house. Tom thought for a while and said to him,“the dog is a betterpostman than I am.”第二節(jié)書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）假定你是李華，想邀

53、請外教Lisa 一起參觀我校高一學(xué)生寒假作業(yè)精微素描展。請給他寫封郵件，內(nèi)容包括：1、展覽時間、地點(diǎn)；2、展覽內(nèi)容。注意：1、詞數(shù)100左右；2、可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。參考詞匯：subtle sketch精微素描;exhibition展覽座號答題卷閱讀下列短文，在空白處填入1個適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。61.(celebrate) across Thailand, the Songkran Festival is a holiday 62. welcomes the NewYear with a countrywide water fight. It is also cele

54、bratedin other Asian countrieslike Cambodia and Laos, but the celebration in Thailand 63.(know ) to be the most exciting.Songkran was at first a time to visit families, clean away the old year and bring in a freshone. Many Thais cleaned away the old year by 64.(wash ) their homes and any Buddhas ( 佛 像)around the house. They would collect the water that ran over the Buddhas and pour 65.onto the shoulders of family members for good luck.Finally the original purpose of the holiday became