1、2018 至 019 高三英语上学期第二次月考试题与答案本试卷分为第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）两部分, 共 150 分。考试时间 120 分钟。第 I 卷第一部分 听力（略）第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 60 分）第一节 （共 15 小题，每小题 3 分，满分 45 分）ATears ran down from my eyes as I saw the essay my high school English teacher had just handed back. A big F was written on top. I was hopeless. I was st
2、upid! My face burned with shame when my classmates called me stupid.“Im the only one who doesnt know my ABCs!”I sobbed to Mom.Ill help,”she promised.Every day I sat with her, but to me, cat looked like cta and red was reb. Frustrated, I would return to my bedroom and draw, filling the paper with hou
3、ses, restaurants and offices.“When I grow up, I want my own store,”I told Mom, pointing to my drawings.“Thats great !”she said,“ but first you have to learn to read.”Later, I was diagnosed with dyslexia (失读症). So Mom took me to a learning centre, where I was given reading exercises. But I still had
4、a hard time. Finally, I graduated, but I was afraid of my reading skills.“Ill never get a job!”I cried to Mom later again.“Dont focus on what you cant do,” she comforted, “Concentrate on what you really can.”But what can I do? I wondered. Suddenly, I thought of the drawings Id made as a child and my
5、 dream of h aving my own store. I enjoyed sales so much that over the next few years, I tried my hand at other businesses. Today, I watch over seven branches. We have 187 employees and $15 million in sales.While Ill never be what my teachers might have wanted, I am a success-on my own terms. The oth
6、er day a student sent me a card, reading: You gave me so much confidence. I hope to be like you when I am big. Tears of joy filled my eyes. This was my A, and I smiled.21.Why did the author feel so ashamed at school?A.His teacher ignored him in class.B.His teacher didnt grade his essay.C.He failed t
7、o finish his essay in time.D.His classmates looked down upon him.22.Which of the following best describes the authors feeling to his mother?A.Grateful.B.Guilty.C.Doubtful.D.Regretful.23.Which of the following can match the text?A.No pains, no gains.B.Never too old to learn.C.Every man has his value.
8、D.Two heads are better than one.BWhen other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she fought to find a place to sleep on the street. But she beat these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gai
9、n entry into Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”.Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up with two drug-addicted parents. There was never enough food
10、 or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just l5 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died. She decided
11、to do something about it.Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, and by understanding that there was a whole o ther way of bein
12、g. I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She f
13、inished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I
14、 never forget that they love me all the time. ”Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.24.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?a. Her mother died of AIDS.b. She got admitted into Harvard.c. She worked at a petrol st
15、ation.d. The movie about her life was put on.e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.A.c, a, e, b, dB.a, b, c, e, dC.c, d, b, a, eD.b, e, a, d, c25.What actually made her go towards her goal?A.Envy and encouragement.B.Willpower and determination.C.Decisions and understanding.D.Love and respect f
16、or her parents.26.What does Liz mean by saying “What drove me to live on.I had only experienced a small part of the society”?A.She had little experience of social life.B.She could hardly understand the society.C.She would do something for her own life.D.She needed to travel more around the world.27.
17、What does the passage mainly tell us?A.Why Liz loved her parents so much.B.How Liz made efforts to change her life.C.What a hard time Liz had in her childhood.D.How Liz managed to enter Harvard University.CA heated debate is currently going on in our town. Should we allow the cinema to be constructe
18、d in the Havenswood Shopping Center? There is just one large lot left to build on, and the theater would use up all of that space. Some people are excited at the idea of finally having our own movie theater. Others would rather travel ten miles to the nearest theater to keep our quiet town the way i
19、t is. They say it is enough to have Marvins Movie Video Rentals. After all, Marvins store keeps thousands of the latest videos.There are certainly benefits to renting videos. For one thing, you can plan your own schedule when it is convenient for you. You can relax on your sofa, and take a break whe
20、never you need one.You can also talk to others without bothering any strangers seated nearby. In addition, it is a less expensive way to view a movie compared to going to a theater.On the other hand, seeing a movie in a theater is an experience all its own. First, you can see the movie on wide scree
21、n as the filmmaker intended. To be viewed on a television screen, a film must be changed in some way to make it smaller. One is the “pan-and-scan” method, which involves removing some of the details in the picture. The other way, called “letterboxing”, keeps the image the way it is on the big screen
22、, with one annoying exception; because the big-screen version is wide, the same picture on a television screen must be long and narrow.Another problem is sound. The sound from a television cannot compare to the sound system in a theater. Your experience of a movie improves when you can clearly hear
23、all of the sounds. Furthermore, at home, viewing companions often talk during a movie, which makes you miss out on whats happening in the film.Besides, having a movie theater will not mean that you cant still go to Marvins! You will just have a choice that you didnt have before. Isnt it time for Hav
24、enswood residents to enjoy a little progress?28.The underlined word “lot” in Paragraph 1 means “_”.A.a great numberB.a complete groupC.an area of landD.a result of chance29.How does the author mainly state his point?A.By using examples.B.By making a comparison.C.By carrying out a surveyD.By presenti
25、ng different peoples view.30.Why do some people think it is enough to have Marvins Movie Video Rentals?A.Marvins store stocks lots of recent videos.B.It very convenient to go to Marvins store.C.the owner of the store is friendly and helpful.D.It is more comfortable to see films at home than in the t
26、heater.31.What is the authors attitude towards building a new cinema?A.Cautious. B.Approving. C.Doubtful. D.Worried.DStaying positive through the cold season could be your best defense against getting ill, a new American study suggests.In an experiment that exposed healthy volunteers to a cold or fl
27、u virus, researchers found that people with a generally sunny character were less likely to fall ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence that a “positive emotional style” can help ward off the common cold and other illness.Researchers believe the reasons
28、 may be both objectiveas in happiness improving immune function(免疫功能)and subjectiveas in happy people being less troubled by a sore throat or runny nose.“People with a positive emotional style may have different immune responses to the virus,” explained leading study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carne
29、gie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.“And when they do get a cold, they may interpret their illness as being less severe.”Cohen and his colleagues have found in a previous study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, but some questions remained as to whether the emotional quality its
30、elf had the effect.For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults complete standard measures of personality qualities, physical health, and emotional “style”. Those who tended to be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged as having a positive emotional style, while those who were often unhappy, tense, and hostile had a negative style.
