2017-2018学年度下学期高一年级
第一次月考英语试卷
时间：120分钟 满分：120分*1.25=150分
第一部分：听力略
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四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
One night in December 2011, a bear came into the city of Vancouver in Canada. It walked through the streets past houses, shops and offices until it found some food in bins (垃圾桶) outside a restaurant and started eating. In the morning, someone saw the bear and called the police. They came with a vet (兽医) from the city zoo, put the bear in a lorry and took it back to the mountains. Luckily, the bear was safe, but what happens in other countries when big animals come into cities?
In Cape Town, South Africa, baboons (狒狒) enter the city when they are hungry. They go into gardens and eat fruit from trees, or into houses and take food from cupboards (碗橱) and fridges. Baboons are strong animals and they can scare people. But the city can be dangerous for baboons too.
Sometimes, they are killed in traffic accidents. Human food is very bad for their teeth because it has a lot of sugar. Now, there are baboon monitors (监督员) working in Cape Town to return the animals to the countryside.
In Berlin, pigs sometimes come into the city to look for food. They eat flowers and plants from parks and gardens, and cause accidents in the streets. Some people like the pigs and they give them food and water to drink. Other people do not and want the government and police to stop them.
In Moscow there are 35,000 wild dogs. They live in parks, old houses, markets and train stations. Many people give them food and water. Some make small houses for the dogs in their gardens. This helps them in winter, when the temperature is -10 C and there is a lot of snow and ice.
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In some cities, you can see birds, insects, mice and squirrels (松鼠) every day. But sometimes, it is dangerous when big animals come from the countryside to find food. We need some good ideas to stop animals coming into the city without hurting them.
21. Why should we stop animals from entering cities? A. They often kill people in the streets. B. They eat too much food in people’s gardens. C. They may harm other animals in the city.
D. They may cause trouble and endanger people’s lives. 22. How are baboons treated in Cape Town? A. They are sent to the city zoo. B. They are taken back to the wild. C. They are fed with special food. D. They are provided with houses in parks. 23. What can we learn from Paragraphs 4 and 5? A. Pigs are always well treated in Berlin. B. Wild dogs cause many problems in Moscow.
C. People are friendlier to dogs than they are to pigs. D. Many people take care of wild animals in cities. 24. What’s the article mainly about?
A. Problems caused by big animals in cities. B. How wild animals are treated in different cities. C. Living alongside wild animals in cities. D. How to keep big animals away from cities.
B
She had a few surgeries (手术) over the years, and before each one she’d have my father move the stove (火炉) out from the wall so she could clean behind it. It would have been hard for her to relax in the hospital if she knew there were dust balls behind the stove.
The entire house was tidy and organized – there was a place for everything and
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everything was in its place.
Mom would hang the sheets (床单) outside to dry rather than inside the house. And if storm clouds gathered, she would run outside, race down to the sheets, throw them into a bag, and then race back to the house as the rain started, satisfied that a major catastrophe had been avoided.
Throughout our entire childhoods, my sisters and I were spoiled with fresh bedding and cookies fresh from the oven.
There’s something beautiful about freshness, like the beginning of a school year, the start of a marriage, the birth of a child, moving to a new place, or starting a new job.
Freshness is like opening a new calendar that isn’t yet filled with neglected (被忽视的) tasks.
A new year always means a chance at a fresh start. But the question is, how do we choose to make this new start?
Maybe I need to do some housekeeping myself. A good sweeping usually leads to finding some interesting things – an old memory or two and new hobbies that fell by the wayside.
Perhaps it’s time to clean out all those drawers (抽屉) filled with junk – the ones holding old tapes that replay (重放) the things I regret doing and the things that I wish I had done.
My personality could use some polish (亮光剂) as well – the ability to listen more than I talk. Glass cleaner (玻璃清洁剂) would be a good idea too – something to give me a clearer view of the things that matter and the things that don’t. Cleaning is rarely my first choice of activity, but I’m ready to go and do what needs to be done.
Here’s to a fresh start and a new year.
25. What can we learn about the author’s mother according to the article? A. She preferred rainy days to sunny days.
B. She couldn’t bear anything to be unorganized in her house. C. She required her daughters to wash their own bedding.
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D. She asked her husband to do the housekeeping during her surgeries. 26. Why does the author decide to do some housekeeping herself? A. She wants to help reduce her mother’s burden.
B. She sees it as a chance to improve herself and move on. C. She thinks it’s time to learn some life skills. D. She is quite bothered by her messy house. 27. The author wrote this article mainly to ______. A. recall her happy childhood spent with her sisters B. give advice on how to clean the house
C. inspire people’s thoughts and plans for the new year D. share the story of her mother’s strength
C
Mark Twain (1835-1910) is one of the great American authors. He published his most famous works in the later decades of the 19th century, when the US was still building a literary (文学的) tradition for itself.
Twain created a kind of writing that was named “local color literature”. The term means that the writing contains many references to the culture of the story’s location. For Twain in particular, his works are filled with references to the southern states of the US, particularly the lives of the people along the Mississippi river. You feel it in his descriptions (描述) of places and the way he makes his characters speak. This is clear in his most famous work, the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》，1884).
This story is the self-told tale of a boy who lives with a kind old woman. She wants Huck to grow up properly, and takes good care of him. However, like his friend Tom Sawyer, the famous character of an earlier novel by Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《(汤姆·索亚历险记》，1876), Huck doesn’t like to follow rules. He lives the way he wants to, not the way other people want him to.
During his adventures, Finn runs away from home – to get away from school, and his nasty father. Along the way, he creates a friendship with a runaway slave, Jim. Together, they forge (创造) the most famous childhood friendship in American
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literature.
Even though it’s his most famous work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is just one of Twain’s many achievements in literature. He’s also an author of “famous quotes (引语)”. As with words by other 19th century authors like Irish poet Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), many will have read words written by Twain, even if they don’t know his name.
One of his most famous quotes came from a letter he sent to a newspaper, after it had published that he’d died. “Rumors (谣言) of my death,” Twain wrote, “are greatly exaggerated (夸张)”.
28. According to the article, what is the main feature of Mark Twain’s works? A. They are mostly about children’s adventures. B. They are about every culture across the US. C. They focus on the lives of upper-class Americans.
D. They usually feature the culture of the southern states of the US. 29. What can we learn about Huck from the article? A. He lives a poor life with his mother. B. He loves to be free and be himself. C. He is smart and does well at school. D. He runs away to find his friend Jim.
30. What similarity does Mark Twain share with Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, according to Paragraph 5?
A. They all created impressive characters in literature. B. They all produced many well-known quotes.
C. They all made a great contribution to American literature. D. They all started a new literary tradition. 31. What’s the article mainly about? A. Mark Twain’s most famous novel. B. The origin of local color literature. C. Why Mark Twain is a great author.
D. The influence of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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D
Sharing illness isn’t weakness
It is OK not to be OK.
This is the simple encouragement people often use for themselves or others. But for professional athletes, this can be the hardest sentence to say.
On March 6, Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love posted an article titled Everyone is Going Through Something on the website The Players’ Tribune. In the article, the 29-year-old revealed (透露) how he suffered from his first panic attack on Nov 5 in a game against the Atlanta Hawks and why he was so worried about sharing his story with the public.
Love identified that what keeps people from speaking up about their mental health (心理健康) challenges is the fear that many people see them as a weakness.u “Growing up, you figure out really quickly how a boy is supposed to act. You learn what it takes to ‘be a man’. It’s like a playbook: Be strong. Don’t talk about your feelings. Get through it on your own,” he wrote.
And being an NBA player made his situation even more difficult. Love was afraid to share his struggles because he didn’t want his Cavaliers teammates to think that he was unreliable.
However, as it turned out, Love’s teammates understood and supported him. Cleveland superstar LeBron James even wrote on social media that Love is “even more powerful now than ever before”.
For Love, it was a journey of empowerment to accept and address his mental illness and share his experience with millions of people who face the same problems. In fact, he was inspired to talk about his situation by Toronto Raptors shooting guard (得分后卫) DeMar DeRozan, who had also opened up about his mental health issues. Last month, the 28-year-old told the Toronto Sun that despite being a top-performing and wealthy NBA player, he still deals with constant blues. “It’s one of the things that no matter how indestructible (坚不可摧的) we look like we are, we’re all human at the end of the day,” he said. “Sometimes ... it gets the best of you, [when] everything in the whole world’s on top of you.”
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