高三第十四次月考
英语试卷
第一部分阅读理解（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
Opera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241-2742. http://www.cityopera.com. Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 723-1182 for more information. http://www.chamberorch.com.
Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 381-3300. Regular season runs September through May at Music Hall in summer at Riverbend. http://www.symphony.org/home.asp.
College Conservatory of Music (CCM): Performances are on the main campus(校园) of the university, usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater. CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the well-known LaSalle Quartet, CCM?s Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with I.D. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183. http://www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calendar. Riverbend Music Theater: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theater with the closest seats under cover (price difference).Big name shows all summer long! Phone:232-6220. http://www.riverbendmusic.com. 1.Which number should you call if you want to see an opera?
A. 241-2742. B. 723-1182. C. 381-3300. D. 232-6220. 2.When can you go to a concert by Chamber Orchestra?
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A. February. B. May. C. August. D. November. 3.Where can students go for free performances with their I.D. cards? A. Music Hall. B. Memorial Hall.
C. Patricia Cobbett Theater D. Riverbend Music Theater. 4.How is Riverbend Music Theater different from the other places? A. It has seats in the open air B. It gives shows all year round. C. It offers membership discounts. D. It presents famous musical works.
B
Grandparents Answer a Call
As a third generation native of Brownsville, Texas, Mildred Garza never pleased move away,. Even when her daughter and son asked her to move to San Antonio to help their children, she politely refused . Only after a year of friendly discussion did Ms Gaf finally say yes. That was four years ago. Today all three generations regard the move to a success, giving them a closer relationship than they would have had in separate cities.
No statistics show the number of grandparents like Garza who are moving closer to the children and grandchildren. Yet there is evidence suggesting that the trend is growing. Even President Obama?s mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, has agreed to leave Chicago and into the White House to help care for her granddaughters. According to a study grandparents com. 83 percent of the people said Mrs. Robinson ?s decision will influence the grandparents in the American family. Two-thirds believe more families will follow the example of Obama?s family.
“in the 1960s we were all a little wild and couldn?t get away from home far enough fast enough to prove we could do it on our own,” says Christine Crosby, publisher of grate magazine for grandparents .We now realize how important family is and how important”” to be near them, especially when you?re raining children.”
Moving is not for everyone. Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is
willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say no and visit frequently instead. Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, but giving up the life you know may be harder.
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5. Why was Garza?s move a success?
A．It strengthened her family ties. B．It improved her living conditions. C．It enabled her make more friends. D．It helped her know more new places. 6.What was the reaction of the public to Mrs. Robinson?s decision?
A．17% expressed their support for it. B．Few people responded sympathetically. C．83% believed it had a bad influence. D．The majority thought it was a trend. 7. What did Crosby say about people in the 1960s?
A．They were unsure of raise more children. B．They were eager to raise more children. C．They wanted to live away from their parents. D．They bad little respect for their grandparent. 8. What does the author suggest the grandparents do in the last paragraph?
A. Make decisions in the best interests' of their own B. Ask their children to pay more visits to them C. Sacrifice for their struggling children D. Get to know themselves better
C
Reading can be a social activity. Think of the people who belong to book groups. They choose books to read and then meet to discuss them. Now, the website BookCrossing.com turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.
Members go on the site and register the books they own and would like to share. BookCrossing provides an identification number to stick inside the book. Then the person leaves it in a public place, hoping that the book will have an adventure, traveling far and wide with each new reader who finds it. Bruce Pederson, the managing director of BookCrossing, says, “The two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read. BookCrossing combines both.”
Members leave books on park benches and buses, in train stations and coffee shops. Whoever finds their book will go to the site and record where they found it.
People who find a book can also leave a journal entry describing what they thought of it. E-mails are then sent to the BookCrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found. Bruce
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peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home. BookCrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the “real” and not the virtual(虚拟). The site now has more than one million members in more than one hundred thirty-five countries.
9. Why does the author mention book groups in the first paragraph? A. To explain what they are. B. To introduce BookCrossing.
C. To stress the importance of reading. D. To encourage readers to share their ideas.
10. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2refer to?
A. The book. B. An adventure. C.A public place. D. The identification number.
11. What will a BookCrosser do with a book after reading it?
A. Meet other readers to discuss it. B.Keep it safe in his bookcase. C. Pass it on to another reader. D. Mail it back to its owner. 12. What is the best title for the text?
A. Online Reading: A Virtual Tour B. Electronic Books: A new Trend
C. A Book Group Brings Tradition Back D. A Website Links People through Books
D
A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.
Frank Hurley?s pictures would be outstanding----undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism---if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck(海滩), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.
The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica?s Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled(雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.
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As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott?s last journey, completed as be lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world?s imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.
13. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley? A. They were made last week B. They showed undersea sceneries C. They were found by a cameraman D. They recorded a disastrous adventure
14. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text? A. Frank Hurley B. Ernest Shackleton
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C. Robert Falcon Scott D. Caroline Alexander
15. What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage? A. Artistic creation B. Scientific research C. Money making D. Treasure hunting
E
Tips for Cooking on a Tight Schedule
From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don?t cook more often: ability, money and time, ____16__Money is a topic I?ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule: 1. Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I?m already hungry and there is
nothing ready to eat. So think about of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials ready?_____17___
2. Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself
time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread? ___18___ it takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.
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3. ____19____ This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is
experimentation. It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.
Hopefully that gives you a good start. ____20___ and don?t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!
A. Try new things. B. Ability is easily improved. C. Make three or four instead. D. Understand your food better. E. Cooking is a burden for many people.
F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden. G. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on. 第二部分 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the West Face of the Siula Grande in the Andes mountains. They reached the top 21_____, but on their way back conditions were very 22______. Joe fell and broke his leg. They both knew that if Simon _23_____ alone, he would probably get back 24______. But Simon decided to risk his 25_____ and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope（绳）.
As they 26_____ down, the weather got worse. Then another 27____ occurred. They couldn?t see or hear each other and, 28____, Simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice（峭壁）. It was 29____ for Joe to climb back or for Simon to pull him up. Joe?s 30_____ was pulling Simon slowly towards the precipice. 31____, after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold, Simon had to 32_____. In tears, he cut the rope. Joe 33_____ into a large crevasse（裂缝）in the ice below. He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain. He couldn?t walk, but he 34_____ to get out of the crevasse and started to 35____ towards their camp, nearly ten kilometers 36_____.
Simon had37____ the camp at the foot of the mountain. He thought that Joe must be 38_____, but he didn?t want to leave 39____. Three days later, in the middle of the night, he heard Joe?s voice. He couldn?t 40____ it. Joe was there, a few meters from their tent, still alive.
21.A. hurriedly B. carefully .C. successfully D. early 22. A. difficult B. similar C. special D. normal 23. A. climbed B. worked C. rested . D. continued 24. A. unwillingly B. safely C. slowly D. regretfully 25. A. fortune B. time C. health D. life 26. A. lay B. settled C. went D. looked 27. A. damage B. storm C. change D. trouble
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28. A. by mistake B. by chance C. by chance D. by luck 29. A. unnecessary B. practical C. important D. impossible 30. A. height B. weight C. strength .D. equipment 31. A. Finally B. Patiently .C. Surely D. Quickly 32. A. stand back B. take a rest C. make a decision .D. hold on 33. A. jumped B. fell C. escaped D. backed 34. A. managed B. planned C. waited D. hoped 35. A. run B. skate C. move D. march 36. A. around B. away C. above D. along 37. A. headed for B. travelled C. left for D. returned to 38. A. dead B. hurt C. weak D. late 39. A. secretly B. tiredly .C. immediately D. anxiously 40. A. find B. believe C. make D. accept
第二节（共10小题：每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
The adobe dwellings(土坯房） 41 (build) by the Pueblo Indians of the America Southwest are admired by even 42 most modern of architects and engineers. In addition to their
simple beauty, what makes the adobe dwellings admirable is their 43 (able) to “air condition ”a house without 44 （use）electric equipment. Walls made of adobe take in the heat from the sun on hot days and give out that heat45_____（slow）during cool nights，thus warning the house. When a new day breaks, the walls have given up their heat and are now cold enough
__46 _ (cool) the house during the hot day； __47__ the same time, they warm up again for the night This cycle _48 __ (go) day after day: The walls warm up during the day and
cool off during the night and thus always a timely offset（抵消）for the outside temperatures. As __49__(nature) architects, the Pueblo Indians figured out exactly__50__thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.
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第三部分 写作 （共两节 满分 35） 第一节 短文改错（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；
只允许修改10处，多改（从第11处起）不计分。
The summer holiday is coming. My classmates and I are talking about how to do during the holiday. We can chose between staying at home and take a trip. If we stay at home, it is comfortable but there is no need to spend money. But in that case, we will learn little about world. If we go on a trip abroad, we can broaden you view and
gain knowledges we cannot get from books. Some classmates suggest we can go to places of interest nearby. I
thought that it is a good idea. It does not cost many, yet we can still learn a lot. 第二节书面表达（满分25分）
假如你是李华，计划和同学去敬老院（nursing home）陪老人们过重阳节（the Double Ninth Festival）。请给外教露西写封邮件，邀她一同前往，内容包括： 1.出发及返回时间；
2.活动：包饺子、表演节目等。 注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯
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