1、 衡中清大 2017-2018学年高一年级第三次月考 英语试题 (满分： 150 分 时间： 120 分钟 ) 第 卷 (选择题，共 100 分 ) 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30分） 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，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. Where was the boy hiding? A. Behind the door. B. Under the bed. C. In the closet. 2. What will
2、 the man do during winter break? A. Go skiing. B. Stay home with his dog. C. Visit some overseas friends. 3. Where did the man get the vegetables? A. From his school. B. From the community garden. C. From the grocery store. 4. What kind of food does the woman want the man to buy? A. Junk food. B. Ch
3、eap food. C. Good quality food. 5. What size does the woman need? A. Large. B. Medium. C. Small. 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，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. How does the womans family celebrate Christmas
4、? A. They eat turkey. B. They go skating. C. They hold a great party. 7. Who might the man be? A. A waiter. B. An actor. C. A reporter. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、 9 题。 8. When does the man want to go to Mexico? A. In January. B. In February. C. In August. 9. What can the speakers find in Mexico during the wint
5、er? A. Snow. B. Very hot water. C. Whales. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. Why does the woman read the book so quickly? A. The story is too exciting. B. She just wants to get it over with. C. She has to return it very soon. 11. How many days are there before Saturday? A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. 12. What
6、 will the woman do for the rest of the week? A. Read another book. B. Read the book again. C. Write a book review. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. Where does the man dream about going? A. To a desert. B. To a big city. C. To a quiet island. 14. How long would the man like to be away? A. For around half
7、a year. B. For at least a whole year. C. For about six years. 15. What did the young guy in the story do for work? A. He was a travel agent. B. He was a fisherman. C. He ran his own Internet business. 16. What does the woman think about the young guys story? A. She is impressed. B. She isnt interest
8、ed at all. C. She will do the same thing. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. How long did it take to build the Golden Gate Bridge? A. Three years. B. Four years. C. Seven years. 18. What must you bring with you if you decide to visit the Bridge? A. A camera. B. A bike. C. A jacket. 19. How many bridges ar
9、e longer than the Bridge? A. Four. B. Eight. C. Twelve. 20. What is true about the Bridge according to the speaker? A. Its not worth visiting now. B. Its still a famous attraction in the world. C. Its the oldest bridge of its kind in the world. 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 )
10、 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。 A Annie Oakley was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her family was very poor. She decided to help her family even when she was very young, so she learned to use a gun, and began hunting animals for food. She could shoot them without losing the important p
11、arts of the meat. Soon her shooting ability became well known. When she was sixteen, she was invited to a competition with a famous marksman (神枪手 ), Frank Butler. Annie surprised everyone by winning the competition. Later that year she and Frank married. In 1882, Annie Oakley and Frank Butler starte
12、d putting on shows together. Frank Butler was the star of the show and she was his assistant. The famous Native American leader, Sitting Bull, thought so highly of her shooting ability that he called her “Little Sure Shot“. Later Annie Oakley became the star of the show and Frank Butler was her assi
13、stant. Posters (海报 ) for the show called her the “Champion Markswoman“. During World War One, Annie Oakley wanted to train a group of women volunteers for the army, but the United States did not accept it. She gave American soldiers shooting lessons, and traveled across the country visiting many tra
14、ining camps. She gave shooting performances and raised money to support the American soldiers. Annie Oakley died on November 3, 1926. Eighteen days later, Frank Butler died too. 21.According to the passage, Annie Oakley _. A. lived a hard life as a child B. often went hunting with her family C. join
15、ed the army during World War One D. trained women soldiers during the war 22.Which of the following names was given by Sitting Bull? A. Annie Oakley. B. Frank Butler. C. Little Sure Shot. D. Champion Markswoman. 23.Which of the following shows best that Annie was skilled at shooting? A. She could sh
16、oot animals without harming the important parts of the meat. B. She offered to help the army by training women to be soldiers. C. She put on shows as her husbands assistant. D. She raised money to support the American soldiers. 24.Which of the following is in the RIGHT order about Annie? a. She took
17、 part in a shooting competition. b. She gave shooting performances and raised money. c. She hunted animals for food. d. She put on shows with Frank Butler. e. She was called the “Champion Markswoman“. f. She married Frank Butler. A. a, c, d, f, b, e B. a, c, b, e, f, d C. c, a, d, f, e, b D. c, a, f
18、, d, e, b B Worldwide, the most people willing to return your mobile phone if youve lost it are to be found in Slovenia, and the fewest in Malaysia. This finding is the result of an interesting study in 32 of the worlds largest cities. Altogether, researchers “lost“960 new mobile phones. They got ba
19、ck 654 of them, or 68 percent. Prague came in at number eight. There, 23 out of 30 people who were willing to return the mobile phone. It wasnt a traditional study. Two researchers carefully chose different places, such as areas with high crime (犯罪 ) and busy downtown shopping areas, to “lose“ the p
20、hones. When one of the researchers dropped a phone, the other would keep watching from a distance. The honest finders tried their best to find the owner with the help of the address book in the phone. They were told why the study was done and asked why they acted the way they did. It was found that
21、the busier the place where the researchers dropped the phone, the greater the chance of it being returned. Another interesting finding was that women were generally more likely than men to return the phone. Researchers also found that most people still have a sense of honesty. “Crime is simply not g
22、ood behaviour (行为 ),“said an expert. “People want to trust others, and want to be trusted.“ 25.Who would be most likely to return a phone, according to the study? A. A man who found it in a park. B. A woman who found it in a park. C. A man who found it in a shopping center. D. A woman who found it i
23、n a shopping center. 26.Which of the following are findings of the study? a. Prague placed number 8 among the 32 cities. b. Men were less likely to return phones than women. c. It was a traditional and interesting study. d. The busier the place, the greater the chance of the phone being returned. A.
24、 abc B. bcd C. acd D. abd 27.Why did most people return the phones? A. They knew they belonged to the researchers. B. They wanted to be normal people. C. They wanted to be trusted. D. They didnt want to commit a crime. 28.This passage is mainly about _. A. why most people returned the phones B. whet
25、her people in busier places are more honest C. a study of peoples honesty D. the honesty of people who return phones C Where can you go to listen to important people talk about important subjects? BigT is a new website that allows Internet users to discuss certain topics with world experts . Subject
26、s discussed on BigThink include the environment, music and questions about happiness and personal identity. The website has been called a YouTube for thinkers. Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins created BigT. They said that people needed an international place to communicate with each other and discus
27、s the important issues (话题 ) of our times. On the BigThink website, when you click on（点击） a subject, you will find a video of a person talking about his or her ideas. For example, you can listen to United States Senator Ted Kennedy talking about education and other things. Besides, you can read the
28、comments(评论 ) and questions written by other visitors to the website. More than one hundred experts have expressed their ideas on the website. BigThinks creators started the website by first getting famous people to agree to be videoed. They began by interviewing several well-known professors from H
29、arvard University. Then they used the names of these professors to gain the trust of others and get them to take part in the project. The website says BigThink belongs to everyone. Its motto (格 言 ) is: “We are what you think.“ So, go online and start thinking big. 29.BigT was created to _. A. discus
30、s important people B. show Internet users funny videos C. introduce the latest IT knowledge and help Internet users solve problems D. offer Internet users the chance to communicate with experts 30.If you visit BigT, you can _. A. listen to your favorite music B. chat with thinkers face to face onlin
31、e C. communicate with people worldwide D. get an online education 31.Why did the creators of BigT start interviewing famous people? A. To get their agreement to be videoed. B. To gain their trust for the website. C. To attract peoples attention to the website. D. To use their names in discussions. 3
32、2.Whats the text mainly about? A. How to set up ones own website. B. A brief introduction to BigT. C. What to do on BigT. D. The importance of sharing ideas with others. D A middle-aged man with a long beard was caught by the police for bad behavior and property damage. The man, Bill Wild, checked i
33、nto a hotel last night, telling the clerk he would pay cash in advance and would be staying for four nights. He then asked her where the nearest store was and she told him it was John-Johns. Wild went to the store and bought three gallons of honey and four gallons of chocolate syrup (糖浆 ). The cashi
34、er asked him why he wanted these things and he replied, “Im trying to become a sweeter person.“ The cashier smiled at the joke. Wild drove back to the hotel. He opened all bottles and poured them into the bathtub . He added warm water to the mix. He tuned the radio to an opera music station, took of
35、f his clothes, jumped into the tub, and started singing loudly with the music. Fifteen minutes later, the neighbor phoned the clerk complaining about the noise. The clerk knocked on Wilds door, but he just kept singing. She phoned his room, but he didnt answer. Then she called the police, who arrive
36、d quickly. They broke into the room. The floor was covered in water and the bathtub was full of chocolate and honey. “He seemed so nice and friendly. Whod have thought he was a bathtub-singing nut?“ said the clerk. The police said this was the third time that Wild had been arrested for this kind of
37、behavior. 33.The man bought lots of honey and chocolate syrup to _. A. have a bath to make himself sweet B. do some interesting tests C. give people a surprise D. make a sweet cake 34.What caused the clerk to call the police? A. Wild bought honey and chocolate syrup. B. Wild mixed the water with the
38、 things he bought. C. Wild made too much noise and disturbed his neighbor. D. Wild didnt pay for the check. 35.We know from the passage that _. A. Wild didnt pay for the honey and the chocolate syrup B. the clerk didnt know Wild had behaved like this before C. Wild had been caught at least four time
39、s before D. Wild walked to John-Johns to buy the honey 第二节 (共 5 小题：每小题 2 分，满分 10 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。 （ E 涂 AB; F 涂 AC； G 涂 AD） Its important to prepare for rainy days. Similarly, its important to save money._36_ Why? Its because theyve got used to spending all the money the
40、y make. Sometimes, the hardest thing about saving money is just getting started. Here are some tips to help you save money. 37 The first step in saving money is to know how much youre spending. For one month, keep a record of everything you spend money on. Once you have your data, organize these num
41、bers by category(类别 ) and get the total amount for each. You can make a budget (预算 ). Now that you have a good idea of how much you spend in a month, what can you do now? 38_ To plan your spending, you can build a budget. In this way, you can limit over-spending and make sure that you put money away
42、 for unexpected situations. 39 Doing so make it much easier to get started. Begin by deciding how long it will take to reach each goal. Some short-term goals include starting a fund to cover 6 months to a year of living costs and saving money for a vacation. Long-term saving goals are often several
43、years or even decades away and can include saving for retirement and putting money away for a childs college education. Make saving money easier with automatic transfers (自动转帐 ). Automatic transfers to your savings account are very helpful. 40 By moving money out of your checking account, youll be l
44、ess likely to spend money you plan to use for savings. A. You can set savings goals. B. You can record your costs. C. You can plan your spending. D. You can keep a record of what you do. E. They can make saving money much easier. F. However, some people find it hard to save money. G. You can move mo
45、ney out of your savings account. 第三部分 英语知识运用 第一节 完形填空 (共 20 小题；每小题 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。 People have been raising pigeons(鸽子 ) for about 10,000 years. And pigeon keepers use different kinds of pigeons for different 41 . Some people use pigeons for 42 .
46、For example, in parts of the world, people cook a special meal with pigeon to celebrate the New Year, Some people also 43 pigeons because they look especially 44 . There are many interesting kinds of “pretty” pigeons. Different kinds of pigeons have interesting features(特点 ) 45 long, soft tails or d
47、esigns on their heads. The 46 of these kinds of pigeons enter them in 47 and the best looking pigeons are chosen to win prizes. But pigeons have many other 48 too. Pigeons can fly a long way without growing 49 . They also have another 50 sense. No matter how far from home they are, pigeons can usual
48、ly fly back to where they 51 . This is often called a “homing sense”. This sense makes them good for carrying 52 . In many cities around the world, pigeons live in special houses, 53 pigeon keepers spend a lot of money and time 54 their birds. When someone has a very good pigeon, he is very 55 . He may also have a way to make money. But this is not usually the main 56 people keep pigeons. For some people
