扬州中学高三英语10月份月试卷及答案
江苏省扬州中学2008—2009学年度第一学期10月月考
高三英语试卷08.10 第一部分：听力
第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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，并标准试卷的相应位置。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. When will the woman graduate?
A. Next month.
B. Next March.
C. Next year.
2. Where do you think the book is now?
A. Under the chair.
B. In the kitchen.
C. On the shelf.
3. What was the result?
A. Italy won the game.
B. France won the game.
C. Germany won the game.
4. How much is the TV set?
A. $60.
B. $ 120.
C. $ 90.
5. What do they say about the restaurant?
A. It’s the best place to eat in.
B. They are disappointed in its recent change.
C. They like it all the time.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。
听下面一段材料，回答第6—8题。
6. What does the woman want to do?
A. To find a house with lower rent.
B. To share a room with his close friend.
C. To rent some place quiet enough to study.
7. Does the woman get familiar with the city?
A. Maybe, as she has a little information to offer the man.
B. Sure, as she knows where to find what the man needs.
C. Yes, as she is in charge of the affairs.
8. What does the man probably do?
A. A money cashier working in a supermarket.
B. A student studying in a college.
C. A manager arranging part time jobs.
听下面一段材料，回答第9—11题。
9. What season is it now?
A. It is spring.
B. It is autumn.
C. It is winter.
10.What do we know about the woman?
A. She likes sports.
B. She hates cold weather.
C. She never does housework.
11. What is the weather like now?
A. It is cloudy.
B. It is sunny.
C. It is snowy.
听下面一段材料，回答第12—14题。
12. What does the man come for?
A. He wants to join a tour to Liverpool.
B. He wants to book a ticket to Liverpool.
C. He asks for some information about the trains to Liverpool.
13. Which bus will the man take?
A. 8:10.
B. 10:20.
C. 12:30.
14. How much is the commission charge(手续费)?
A.￡2.
B.￡10.
C.￡20
听下面一段材料，回答第15—16题。
15. What started Don’s career as a singer?
A. The city of Shanghai.
B. A cafe shop.
C. A musical instrument.
16. What does Don say about his job as a singer?
A. “It helps me make a good living.”
B. “It helps me meet different people.”
C. “It helps me travel to Shanghai.”
听下面一段材料，回答第17—20题。
17. What is the speaker in charge of?
A. A small supermarket.
B. A large supermarket.
C. A small branch of a large supermarket.
18. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
A. The prevention of shoplifting.
B. The causes of shoplifting.
C. The purpose of shoplifting.
19. Who form the great part of shoplifters?
A. People in their early thirties.
B. People in their twenties.
C. Teenagers.
20. Which measures is NOT taken to prevent shoplifting?
A. Putting chains or alarms on goods.
B. Hiring store detectives.
C. Using closed-circuit television.
第二部分英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)
第一节单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21.Centuries ago, ____ man discovered that removing moisture(水分) from food helps to preserve it, and that the easiest way to do this is to expose ______ food to sun and wind.
A. a; the
B. the; 不填
C. 不填; the
D. the; the
22. When it comes to listening to the opinions of members of your school community, do you think you are already “all ears”? The underlined expression most probably means______.
A. in full strength
B. bearing ideas in mind
C. ready to listen attentively
D. having enough preparation
23. To be living at the start of the new millennium is _______ in the most advanced technological era in history.
A. existing
B. being existed
C. to be existed
D. to exist
24. Male and female students are quite different from each other______ the age at which they begin to develop an intellectual self-discipline.
A. with regard to
B. in the light of
C. in honor to
D. on account of
25. We ______ at a very attractive hotel on the way back from Paris.
A. put up
B. dropped out
C. took in
D. picked up
26. It was strange that you ______ for Maggie’s address. I just got a letter from her---the first one since her family moved on August 31, 1999.
A. should have asked
B. would have asked
C. shall ask
D. might ask
27. ______, and students having returned, this college too will start out with _______ effort in the work that lies before them.
A. The summer vacation is over; great
B. The summer vacation being over; renewed
C. As the summer vacation over; refreshing
D. Had the summer vacation been over; sacred
28. Well, really _____ now is start learning what to do with this software and read a lot of references, learn and practice _______ you can.
A. that you need do; whatever B as should you do; the longer hours
C. how you should start; the most
D. what you should do; as much as
29.I really _______ when I asked him how his wife was---they got divorced last year!
A. landed on my feet
B. got off the wrong foot
C. found my feet
D. put my foot in it
30. At the last place Gary worked, they ______ an annual company picnic. All the employees _____ bring their families along and spend the day at a nearby park. It was great.
A. had to have; had to
B. used to have; couldn’t
C. would have; didn’t have to
D. used to have; would
31.My friend Tanya _____ Japanese for six years before she _______ Japan. I’ve just received a letter from her. It says she has been studying Chinese for three months and _____ for China in a month.
A. studied; had visited; leaves
B. had been studying; visited; is leaving
C. has studied; visited; would leave
D. was studying; has visited; leaves
32. _______ the interview in Boston lasted so long, I missed my connecting flight to New York.
A. Due to
B. So long as
C. As
D. Despite
33. _________, I would like to thank Professor Osterhaus for offering me the chance to do this study, and for all the support throughout the study period.
A. In the beginning
B. At first
C. To begin with
D. To start
34. The hero of the book, Charles, is a conventional nineteenth-century gentleman; the heroine Sarah, ______ by her lover, is a “fallen woman”, whom Charles tries to help.
A. to be discarded
B. to have abandoned
C. having thrown away
D. having been deserted
35. Lucy’s new job paid twice as much as she had made ____ in the restaurant.
A. working
B. work
C. to work
D. worked
第二节完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Wr ite the article. Run for classes. Haven’t finished the readings. House cleaning. Assignment to 36 in two hours. Out of breath, time, and still late.
That’s been me for the past three weeks. And then yesterday, as my fingers 37 hit the keyboard, I 38 to look outside. Through the half open blinds of my kitchen window, I caught the bright glow(光线) of sunshine 39 through the freshly cleaned air. Shining 40 the yellow-green leaves of a tree. It could have been the four days of continual rain and gray gloomy skies, or my own self, 41 endless activity. I don’t know what it was, 42 I just sat there looking at the dancing sun rays.
Not a 43 in my head. No crowded feelings of approaching work, of people or even friends. Just watching. I felt my body 44 . And after a long time…felt calm.
The break passed. I went back to my 45 . But something about the rhythm of the day 46 . It was the difference between rushing to catch the bus and riding on your own horse.
Later that evening, I 47 how we’ve come to inhabit（居住）a place where rest and moments of peace were means to be 48 . If you weren’t tired out, over worked and well near 49 ---you didn’t 50 to enjoy moments of peace. 51 me of the poem Leisure, written by W.H.Davies in the early 20th century. More 52 today than ever before:
No time to stand beneath the boughs(树干).
And stare as long as sheep and cows.
No time to see the woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
And then we’re53 as to why as a creature we’re so upset. If we can’t be 54 with ourselves, how can we hope to find a common 55 we can inhabit with others?
36. A. submit B. do C. handle D. sacrifice
37. A. patiently B. quickly C. anxiously D. peacefully
38. A. stopped B. meant C. desired D. happened
39. A. breaking down B. streaming down C. jumping down D. falling down
40. A. through B. from C. by D. on
41. A. fond of B. particular about C. tired of D. proud of
42. A. or else B. but C. therefore D. however
43. A. clue B. hesitation C. pause D. thought
44. A. relax B. drop C. die D. weaken
45. A. kitchen B. room C. article D. class
46. A. started B. continued C. occurred D. changed
47. A. wondered B. hoped C. imagined D. supposed
48. A. adapted B. earned C. encouraged D. arranged
49. A. comfort B. collapse(崩溃) C. encouragement D. death
50. A. desire B. declare C. deserve D. demand
51. A. Informs B. Reminds C. Keeps D. Convinces
52. A. enjoyable B. remarkable C. applicable D. fashionable
53. A. shocked B. discouraged C. settled D. confused
54. A. at peace B. at ease C. in disagreement D. in discomfort
55. A. time B. range C. distance D. space
第三部分阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Could someone be swallowed by a whale and live? In 1891, a young English sailor named James Bartley was, and he did.
Bartley was a crew member on the whaling ship Star of the East. As his boat closed in on a whale, the animal lashed out with its tail. The whale’s blow lifted the boat into the air and capsized it. Sailors in another boat captured the whale, and the overturned boat was
turned upright, but Bartley was missing.
The next morning, as sailors were cutting up the dead whale, they noticed a movement in its stomach. When it was opened, Bartley was found inside it! He was unconscious, and his face, neck, and hands had been bleached white by the whale’s stomach juices. Other than that, he seemed unhurt.
Later, when Bartley recovered, he described his experience. He had been aware of being in the water. Then he was in darkness, sliding along a slimy passageway. The heat was so great that it made him pass out. When he woke up, he was back on board the ship! 56. We may infer from the context that the word “capsized”in the second paragraph means______.
A. caught hold of
B. turned upside down
C. broke into pieces
D. sank into the sea
57.It can be learned from the passage that________.
A. the whale was caught by sailors on Bartley’s ship
B. the whale was killed by Bartley
C. the whale escaped from the sailors
D. the whale was caught by sailors on another ship
58. A suitable title for the passage might be ________.
A. In the Stomach of the Whale
B. A Whaling Ship in the 1800s
C. A Young English Sailor
D. A Sailor’s Whaling Dream
B
I was dirty, smelly, hungry and somewhere beneath all that, suntanned. It was the end of an Inter-Rail holiday. My body couldn’t take any more punishment. My mind couldn’t deal with any more foreign timetables, currencies or languages.
“Never again,” I said, as I stepped onto home ground. I said exactly the same thing the following year. And the next. All I had to do was buy one train ticket and, because I was under twenty-five years old, I could spend a whole month going anywhere I wanted in Europe. Ordinary beds are never the same once you’ve learnt to sleep in the passage of a train, the rhythm rocking you into a deep sleep.
Carrying all your possessions on your back in a rucksack makes you have a very basic approach to travel, and encourages incredible wastefulness that can lead to burning socks that have become too anti-social, and getting rid of books when finished. On the other hand, this way of looking at life is entirely in the spirit of Inter-Rail, for common sense and reasoning can be thrown out of the window along with the paperback book and the socks. All it takes to achieve this carefree attitude is one of those tickets in your hand.
Any system that enables young people to travel through countries at a rate of more than one a day must be pretty social. On that first trip, my friends and I were at first unaware of the possibilities of this type of train ticket, thinking it was just an inexpensive way of getting to and from our chosen camp-site in southern France. But the idea of
non-stop travel proved too attractive, for there was always just one more country over the border, always that little bit further to go. And what did the extra miles cost us? Nothing.
We were not completely uninterested in culture. But this was a first holiday without parents, as it was for most other Inter-Railers, and in organizing our own timetable we left out everything except the most available sights. This was the chance to escape the guided tour, an opportunity to do something different. I took great pride in the fact that, in many places, all I could be bothered to see was the view from the station. We were just there to get by, and to have good time doing so. In this we were no different from most of the other Inter-Railers with whom we shared passage floors, food and water, money and music.
The excitement of travel comes from the sudden reality of somewhere that was previously just a name. It is as if the city in which you arrive never actually existed until the train pulls in at the station and you are able to see it with your own tired eyes for the first time.
59. At the end of his first trip, the writer said “Never again” because_______.
A. he fell ill
B. he disliked trains
C. he was tired from the journey
D. he had lost money
60. What does the writer mean by “this way of looking at life” in Paragraph 3?
A. Worrying about your clothes.
B. Throwing unwanted things away.
C. Behaving in an anti-social way.
D. Looking after your possessions.
61.Why did the writer originally buy an Inter-Rail ticket?
A. To get to one place cheaply.
B. To meet other young people.
C. To see a lot of famous places.
D. To go on a tour of Europe.
62. What the writer liked about traveling without his parents was that________.
A. he could see more interesting places
B. he could spend more time sightseeing
C. he could stay away from home longer
D. he could make his own decisions
63.What does “it” in the last sentence of Paragraph 6 refer to?
A. A name.
B. The city.
C. The train.
D. The station.
C
Two skulls found in Africa have been identified as the oldest human remains known to science. The fossilized(化石) bones found in 1967 were originally thought to be 130,000 years old. But a re-dating of rock layers near those which yielded the fossils showed they are actually about 195,000 years old---from the time modern humans appeared. The skulls, known as Omo I and II, push back the known presence of Homo sapiens (现代人) in Africa by 40,000 years. The previous oldest Homo sapiens skulls, dated to between 154,000 and 160,000 years old, were found near a village called Herto in the afar region of eastern Ethiopia. Omo I and II were unearthed by famous paleontologist Richard Leakey along the Omo River in southern Ethiopia, near the town of Kibish. Omo I’s more modern features led to disagreement among experts over whether they were the same age. The rocks in which they were found show they are, said an Australian archaeologist Prof. Ian
McDougall, who made the discovery. He told scientific journal “Nature”: “Omo I and Omo II are relatively securely dated to 195,000 years old, making them the oldest anatomically modern human fossils yet recovered”
64.By which means could scientists tell the age of fossils they have found?
A. The bones of the fossils.
B. The place where they were found.
C. The history of humans.
D. Identifying the rock layers of the fossils.
65.How many years older have modern humans become by the new discovery?
A. 130,000.
B. 40,000.
C. 195,000.
D. Between 154,000 and 160,000.
66. Which of the following statements are NOT true according to the passage?
A. The new discovery of the skulls and the research proved the modern humans might have started in Africa.
B. Prof. Ian McDougall thought Omo I and II were the oldest human fossils discovered.
C. Prof. Ian McDougall discovered that Omo I and II were not the same age.
D. Omo I and II were discovered in southern Ethiopia.
D
In the lumberyard (木材厂) by the lake, where trees from the woods were turned into boards for construction work, there was an old brick building two floors high, and all around the outside walls were heaped great piles of soft sawdust(锯木屑). There were many of these golden mountains of dust covering that part of the yard right down to the blue lake. That afternoon, bored with having nothing else to do, all the fellows followed Michael up the ladder to the roof of the old building and they sat with their legs hanging over the edge looking out across the lake. Suddenly Michael said, “I dare you to jump down,”and without thinking about it, he pushed himself off the roof and fell on the sawdust where he lay rolling around and laughing. “I dare you all!” he shouted. “You’re all cowards(胆小鬼),”he said, encouraging them to follow him. Still laughing, he watched them looking down from the roof, white-faced and hesitant, and then one by one they jumped and got up grinning (咧嘴笑) with relief.
In the hot afternoon sunlight they all lay on the sawdust pile telling jokes till at last one of the fellows said, “Come on up the old roof again and jump down.” There wasn’t much enthusiasm among them, but they all went up to the roof again and began to jump off in a determined, desperate way till only Michael was left and the others were all down below grinning up at him calling, “Come on, Mike. What’s the matter with you?” Michael wanted to jump down there and be with them, but he remained on the edge of the roof, wetting his lips, with a silly grin on his face, wondering why it had not seemed such a long drop the first time. For a while they thought he was only fooling them, but then they saw him fixing his fist tight. He was trying to count to ten and then jump, and when that failed, he tried to take a long breath and close his eyes. In a while the fellows began to laugh at him; they were tired of waiting and it was getting on to dinnertime. “Come on, you’re a coward, do you think we’re going to visit here all night?” they began to shout, and when he
did not move they began to get up and walk away, still shouting. “Who did this in the first place? What’s the matter with you all?” he called.
But for a long time he remained on the edge of the roof, staring unhappily and steadily at the ground. He remained all alone for nearly an hour while the sun, like a great orange ball getting bigger and bigger, rolled slowly over the grey line beyond the lake. His clothes were wet from nervous sweating. At last he closed his eyes, slipped off the roof, fell heavily on the pile of sawdust and lay there a long time. There were no sounds in the yard, the workmen had gone home. As he lay there he wondered why he had been unable to jump; and then he got up slowly and walked home feeling deeply ashamed and wanting to avoid everybody.
67.Why did the boys first decide to climb onto the roof of the building?
A. To test their courage.
B. to pass the time.
C. To keep out of the way of the workmen.
D. To get a better view of the woods.
68. When the boys jumped after Michael, they_______________.
A. were not afraid at all
B. wanted to do it again immediately
C. were glad they had got down safely
D. found the jump easier than expected
69. How did Michael’s friends react when he didn’t make the jump immediately?
A. They left him immediately.
B. They were not surprised.
C. They remembered how they had felt themselves.
D. They thought he was joking.
70. When Michael finally jumped the second time, he_________.
A. was proud of himself
B. improved on his first jump
C. could not understand what had stopped him
D. was not so angry with his friends
第四部分任务型阅读(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
请认真阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后的空格内填入最恰当的单词. 每空格1个单词，不得用文章中的单词。
A scientist once said that studying the stars from the earth is something like looking up at the sky from the bottom of a swimming pool. Even on the clearest night the earth’s dense atmosphere will dim stars in the sky as it screens out (遮挡) 30 percent of their light. Air turbulence (湍流) causes stars to winkle. Through a telescope, the stars seem to jump around dizzily.
Because the moon has no atmosphere, astronomers are looking forward to setting up an observatory there. On the moon, there will be no clouds to obscure the view. The sky will appear dark at all times, so astronomers can work twenty-four hours a day. Because there is not air turbulence, the stars will steady through a telescope.
Because the moon is relatively near the earth, moon-based astronomers will see the stars in familiar patterns known on earth. They will not need new star maps of the sky. Stars seen from the moon will appear to move very slowly. Because the earth rotates (自转) on its axis once every twenty-four hours, earth-based astronomers see the stars hurry across the sky each night. The moon rotates on its axis only once a month. To astronomers on the
moon, the stars will appear to stand almost still. Moon-based astronomers will have much more time to focus their telescopes and take time ---exposure photographs.
On the earth, man-made radio noises jam the airwaves and interfere with the reception of radio signals from certain stars. A radio telescope located on the far side of the moon will be permanently protected from such interference.
It won’t be easy to put telescopes o n the moon. However, astronomers are certain the job can be done. They are convinced that the moon is an ideal place to set up an observatory.
Title : The Reasons for establishing an observatory on the moon
第五部分书面表达(满分25分)
假如你是江城某中学高三学生名叫李想，住在江城。你的加拿大笔友Bob来信谈到了他所居住的城市，并希望了解你家乡江城的情况。请你用英语写一封回信。回信须包括下表中的内容。
注意：1．回信中不能使用“江城”以外的地名。
2．词数150左右。信的开头与结尾已为你写好，不计入词数。
Dear Bob，
It’s very kind of you to write me and let me know about your beautiful city. Now I’d like
to_______________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________
Yours ，
Li Xiang
命题、校对：双金麟
第二卷（非选择题，共35分）
第四部分 任务型阅读 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分) Title : The Reasons for establishing an observatory on the moon
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考场号_____ 考试号________________ 学号_____ 班级___________ 姓名_____________ ………………密……………封……………线……………内……………不……………要……………答……………题………………
注意：1．回信中不能使用“江城”以外的地名。
2．词数150左右。信的开头与结尾已为你写好，不计入词数。
Dear Bob，
It’s very kind of you to write me and let me know about your beautiful city. Now I’d like to____________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________
Yours，
Li Xiang
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Dear Bob，
It’s very kind of you to write me and let me know about your beautiful city. Now I’d like to tell you something about my hometown Jiangcheng.
Located on the bank of the Changjiang River, Jiangcheng is a beautiful city which is quite suitable for people to live in. With its fast economical development in the past ten years, new factories, houses and streets and roads have been built, which have invited more and more people from other places to come to work and live here. So, more schools and hospitals are available for its people.
However, there are some problems, such as water and air pollution and heavy traffic in rush hours. Our city government and people should pay special attention to protecting the environment. We should not develop at the sacrifice of our environment. So I think everyone will want to do something to make our city more beautiful.
I hope you will come to China and pay a visit to our city. You’ll have a good time here.
Yours,
Li Xiang