2019-2020年高三英语12月月考试题(VIII).doc

2019-2020年高三英语12月月考试题(VIII)第一部分听力 (共两节，满分30分)第一节 (共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)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. What kind of music does the woman like?A. Classical music. B. Rock music. C. Country music.2. What does the woman want to buy?A. Sweets and apples. B. Oranges and apples. C. Vegetables and apples.3. What does the man mean?A. He had a good time at the party.B. He doesnt want to see his friends again.C. He didnt enjoy the party at all.4. What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Go on a diet. B. Talk to her sister. C. Introduce himself first.5. What will the man probably do tonight?A. Read Chapter 4. B. Study in the library. C. Watch the football match.第二节 (共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)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. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Travel agent and customer.B. Husband and wife.C. Boss and secretary.7. When will the meetings end?A. At 3:00 p.m. B. At 5:00 p.m. C. At 6:30 p.m.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Why does Diana say sorry to Peter?A. She has to give up her travel plan.B. She wants to visit another city.C. She needs to put off her test.9. What does Diana want Peter to do?A. Help her with her study.B. Take a book to her friend.C. Teach a geography lesson.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why cant Jim find Susans home?A. Because he hasnt been told how to get there.B. Because he forgot to bring the map Susan gave him.C. Because he is so forgetful that he cant remember her address.11. Where is the bank?A. It is next to the bus stop.B. It is on the corner beside the bus stop.C. It is on the corner across the street.12. Where is Susans house?A. It is the seventh house from the corner on Jims right.B. It is the seventh house from the corner on Jims left.C. It is the seventeenth house from the corner on Jims right.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Where are the new houses?A. On the main road. B. Close to a bus station. C. Near the sports center.14. What does the woman like most about the new houses?A. The sports center. B. The space. C. The quietness.15. Why does the man sound uninterested?A. Because he is very interested in the book.B. Because he doesnt want to move.C. Because he has to finish his work first.16. What can we know about the man in the end?A. He is interested in the new houses.B. He will change his mind.C. He will go to see the new houses.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Why have many people done everything possible to make sure the test goes smoothly?A. Because the students have less choices now.B. Because the test has bee more important than in the past.C. Because the test is an important and life changing event.18. What is TRUE about traffic control during the Gaokao?A. It lasts for a long time.B. It aims to create a peaceful environment for students.C. It does not only happen around the examination sites.19. What is the most important lesson students should learn before graduation?A. Respect other peoples interests.B. Dont be too sensitive to the Gaokao.C. Depend on themselves in life.20. What is the speakers attitude toward traffic control in the end?A. Negative. B. Positive. C. Neutral.第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分, 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。GETTING A GRANTWho pays?The local education authority (LEA) for the area in which the student is living.Who can get this money?Anyone who gets a place on a first degree course, although a student who has already attended a course of advanced further education may not. Students must also have been resident in the UK for at least three years, which can exclude some students from overseas.SPECIAL CASESIf a student has worked before going to college?A student who is 26 or more before the course starts and who has worked for at least three of the previous six years will get extra money 155 a year if 26, increasing to a maximum of 615 at 29 or more.If a student is handicapped?LEAs will give up to 500 to help meet extra expenses such as buying a tape recorder for a blind student, extra heating or special food.Banking?Most of the big banks offer special services to students who open accounts (in the hope that they will stay with the bank when they bee rich officials). A student wont usually have to pay bank charges as long as the account stays in credit. Some banks allow students to overdraw by 100 or so, and still dont make charges (though they do charge interest).21. The underlined phrase “a grant” in the first line most probably means _. A. bank interestB. a credit cardC. financial aidD. an education fee22. A 31-year-old nurse wishes to qualify as a doctor at a university. She has worked since she was 25. How much extra money will she get a year?A. None.B. 155.C. 515.D.615.23. A big bank offers a new student special services because _. A. they need student accounts badly B. they charge students extra interest C. they hope hell be a potential customer D. they know he can get money regularlyB Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors(流星) but also because of rays from the sun and others stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays e through the air from outer space, but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft, if they are inside, do prevent a lot of radiation damage. Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “rem”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged; the figure of 60 rems has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage - a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her physical organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed children or even grandchildren.Missions of the Apollo flight have had to cross belts of high amount of rems. So far, no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported, but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere, working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation, but no really effective ones have been found so far.24. According to the first paragraph, the atmosphere is essential to man in that _ A. it provides enough light for plant growth. B. it protects man against the harmful rays from space. C. it supplies the heat necessary for human survival. D. it screens off the falling meteors.25. Why is it difficult to identify space radiation damage?A.The effect of exposure to radiation is slow in ing.B. Tiny amounts of radiation do no harm to human body.C. Only more than 60 rems of radiation can be discovered immediately.D. Astronauts in spacesuits wont be hurt by radiation.26. It can be inferred from the passage that _ A. the Apollo mission was very successful. B. protection from space radiation is no easy job. C. astronauts will have disabled children or grandchildren. D. radiation is not a threat to well-protected space explorers.27. The best title for this passage would be _.A. The Atmosphere and Our EnvironmentB. Research on RadiationC. Importance of Protection Against RadiationD. Effects of Space RadiationCEvery April I am troubled by the same concern - that spring might not occur this year. The landscape looks dull, with hills, sky and forest appearing gray. My spirits ebb, as they did during an April snowfall when I first came to Maine 15 years ago. Just wait, a neighbor advised. Youll wake up one morning and spring will just be here. And look, on May 3 that year I awoke to a green so amazing as to be almost electric, as if spring were simply a matter of flipping a switch. Hills, sky and forest revealed their purples, blues and green. Leaves had unfolded and daffodils were fighting their way heavenward. Then there was the old apple tree. It sits on an undeveloped lot in my neighborhood. It belongs to no one and therefore to everyone. The trees dark twisted branches stretch out in unpruned（未经修剪的） abandon. Each spring it blossoms so freely that the air bees filled with the scent of apple. Until last year, I thought I was the only one aware of this tree. And then one day, in a bit of spring madness, I set out with pruner to remove a few disorderly branches. No sooner had I arrived under the tree than neighbors opened their windows and stepped onto their porches(门廊). These were people I barely knew and seldom spoke to, but it was as if I had e uninvited into their personal gardens. My mobile-home neighbor was the first to speak. Youre not cutting it down, are you? she asked anxiously. Another neighbor frowned as I cut off a branch. Dont kill it, now, he warned. Soon half the neighborhood had joined me under the apple tree. It struck me that I had lived there for five years and only now was learning these peoples names, what they did for a living and how they passed the winter. It was as if the old apple tree was gathering us under its branches for the purpose of both acquaintanceship and shared wonder. I couldnt help recalling Robert Frosts words: The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods One thaw led to another. Just the other day I saw one of my neighbors at the local store. He remarked how this recent winter had been especially long and plained of not having seen or spoken at length to anyone in our neighborhood. And then, he looked at me and said, We need to prune that apple tree again. 28. By saying that “my spirits ebb” (Para. 1), the author means that _. A. he feels blueB. he feels relievedC. he is surprisedD. he is tired29. The apple tree mentioned in the passage is most likely to _. A. have been abandoned by its original owner B. be regarded as a delight in the neighborhood C. have been neglected by everyone in the munity D. be appealing only to the author30. According to Para. 4, why did the neighbors open their windows and step onto their porches? A. They were surprised that someone unknown was pruning the tree. B. They wanted to prevent the author from pruning the tree C. They were concerned about the safety of the tree D. They wanted to get to know the author31. It can be inferred that the authors neighbor mentioned in the last paragraph most cared about _. A. the neighborhood gatheringB. how to pass the long winter C. when spring would arriveD. the pruning of the apple treeD Taste is such subjective matter that we do not usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyones preference is that its one persons opinion. But because the two big cola panies - Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola are marketed so aggressively, weve wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-Cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting.We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola or Pepsi, Diet Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought theyd have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand.We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to pare the participants choices with what mere guess-work could have acplished.Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse-only 7 to 27 identified all four samples correctly.While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round tasting as on the first, so tiredness or taste burnout was not a factor. Our preference test result suggests that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.32. According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to_. A. show that a persons opinion about taste is mere guess-work B. show which cola is the more liking of the drinkers C. find out the role taste preference plays in a persons choice of drinking D. pare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks33. It is implied in the first paragraph that _.A. the petition between the two colas is very strongB. the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola panies C. the purpose of taste tests is to promote the sale of colasD. blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans34. The statistics recorded in the preference tests show that_.A. Coca-Cola and Pepsi are peoples two favorite drinksB. few people had trouble telling Coca-Cola from PepsiC. peoples tastes differ from one anotherD. there is not much difference in taste between Coca-Cola and Pepsi35. The authors purpose in writing this passage is to _A. argue that taste testing is an important marketing strategyB. show that taste preference is highly subjectiveC. emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each otherD. remend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colas.第二节 (共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分) 根据短文内容，从文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Food manufacturers and retailers are letting shoppers down. This is the view of the CWS, which has just brought out a new report.According to the report, shoppers believe food labels because they think there are strict regulations in place.36So the food industry can get away with all sorts of tricky strategies to make products look bigger and sound better than they are.The report has identified the different ways in which shoppers are misled. 37 Descriptions on packaging are sometimes inaccurate in an attempt to oversell the product. One example given in the report is the phrase haddock fillets, used for a product that is in fact cut from big blocks of fish rather than individual slices. 38 These include traditional, wholesome, or premium. The claim that a brand is 90% fat-free hides the fact that it contains 10% fat, which is above remended levels. Phrases such as free from preservatives make a virtue out of a normal attribute of food. Labels have a wide variety of text sizes on them. You sometimes need a magnifying glass to read the small print. 39Another deliberate type of misinformation lies in the image. Many pictures on packets use small plates to make the product look bigger.40 However, misleading messages on packaging could soon be a thing of the past. The CWS recently produced a code which, if used, would end the current inaccuracies and half-truths. It has called on the government to support it as a way of improving food standards.A. An officer says the labels will receive very serious consideration.B. Meaningless adjectives are often used to give a positive message.C. Photographs are sometimes retouched (修饰) to achieve the same effect.D. The rules are, in reality, very weak at present.E. By contrast, the hard sell (强行推销) information is given emphasis.F. The most mon of these is poor labeling.G. This result has not pleased the food industry.第三部分 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Dropping into hopelessness pletely, Jack wandered on the streets, knowing he came to the end of life. In his mid-fifties,Jack had never been41 , experienced thejoy of having children or spent holidays with his family. On this miserable rainy night, he felt as if there was 42 in the entire world who cared whether he lived or died.Meanwhile, I was sitting in my room watching the rain 43 my window. When I heard the doorbell ring, I44 from my chair and raced out. But my mother was already at the door. Opening it, she found herself face-to-face with a very dirty-looking man with tears streaming down his face. My mother, overe by45 , invited the man inside, and he sat with my parents in our living room 46 ,I walked secretly downstairs so that I could get a better look. I couldnt understand what they were saying, but the sight of the man,47 his head in his hands and crying, made my chest ache. I raced back upstairs to myroom and48 my hand into my money jar. Pulling out my only half-dollar coin, I ran back downstairs.When I reached the door of the living room, I walked right in. The three 49 looked at me in50 as I quickly made my way over the stranger. I put the half-dollar in his hand and told him that I wanted him to have it. Then I gave him a51 , turned and ran as fast as I could out of the room and back upstairs. I felt excited but happy.Downstairs, Jack sat quietly with his head52 .Tears streamed down his face as he53 held that coin. Finally looking up at my parents, he said, “Its just that I thought nobody cared. For the last twenty years, I have been so54 . That is the first hug I have ever got. Its hard to believe that somebody55 .”Jacks life changed that night. When he left our house, he was56 to live instead of die. Although we never saw Jack again, we received letters from him57 , letting us know that he was doing fine.My life changed that night, too, as I58 the huge healing power of giving, even if its only a gift of fifty cents. Before Jack left, my parents askedhim why he had knocked on our door. Jack said that59 he was walking along the streets that rainy night, 60 and ready to die, he noticed a sticker on the car. It read: SOMEBODY LOVES YOU.41A. employed B.understood C. married D.managed42A.anybody B.somebody C.everybody D.nobody43A.beat B.approach C.break D. cover44A. ran B.jumped C. looked D. settled45A.pity B.anxiety C. guilty D.fear46A.Worried B. Annoyed C.Excited D.Curious47A.shaking B.holding C. nodding D. resting48A. adjusted B.presented C.reached D.pushed49A. strangers B.neighbors C. adults D. visitors50A. anger B.delight C. fun D.surprise51A. smile B. hug C.kiss D.hands