甘肃省兰州第一中学2019届高三12月月考英语试卷含答案

兰州一中 2018—2019第一学期高三年级月考试题

英语

(考试时间100分钟，试卷满分120分)

第Ⅰ卷选择题（共三节满分70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。

A

Membership

All you need to do is fill out the order form at the bottom of the page, select your first order from our book list and then post the completed form back to us.

Special offers for new members

As a special offer, you may choose any reduced-price books from our new members’ book list, to the value of 100 yuan in total. Tick the box on your form to order a free watch. Join before the end of this month and you receive another free book carefully chosen by our staff. Order an audio-book from the many on offer, at half the recommended retail price.

When you’ve joined

As a member you get around 50% off the publisher’s price of every book you buy, and what’s more, they come straight to your door. Your free club magazine arrives once a month to keep you up to date with the latest best-sellers we’ve added to our list. On the Internet, you can find all our titles for the year at our exclusive members’ website. Our website also has a book swap service where members can request or

offer books for exchange.

Being a member

All you have to do is order four books during your first year. After that, you can decide on the number of books you wish to take. In each of your monthly club magazines, our experienced staff choose a “Book of the Month” for you, which is offered at an extra-special price. If you do not want this book, just say so in the space provided on the form and send it back to us. We always send the book if we do not receive this form.

Once we receive your order, your books are delivered within one week. And remember, you have up to a fortnight to decide if you wish to keep the books you have ordered. If they aren’t what you expected just end them back!

1. How can you become a member of the Metropolis Book Club?

A. By ordering a watch free of charge.

B. By sending the advertisement to the club.

C. By returning the completed order form

D. By choosing books with special prices..

2. What information does the monthly magazine give members?

A. The percentage saved on each book.

B. The names of all the books sold by the club.

C. The list of the newest books available to buy.

D. The books that can be swapped by club members.

3. What can we infer from the last part of the passage?

A. At least four books should be bought each year.

B. Members need to buy the “Book of the Month”.

C. The more books bought, the higher the member’s grade.

D. Members can look at the books before they buy them.

B

Cold weather during winter months may keep many people from leaving home and running in the open air.

However, a new study shows that the drop in temperature is a good reason to run. In fact, researchers say, running in cold weather helps improve one’s performance.

Many people say running in the winter can be difficult. Two reasons are the low temperatures and bitter winds. Yet many runners might find it easier than running in hot weather.

That could be because lower temperatures reduce stress on the body. When you run in cold weather, your heart rate and the body’s dehydration (脱水) levels are lower than in warmer conditions. The body needs less water on a cold day than in warm weather.

This information comes from sports scientists at St. Mary’s University in London. John Brewer is a professor of applied sport science at St. Mary’s.

For this study, he and other researchers put a group of people into a room they called an “environmental chamber.” The researchers then recreated summer and winter weather conditions in the room. The test subjects were asked to run 10,000 meters under both conditions. Brewer says he and his team recorded biological measurements of the runners.

“We’ve got a group of subjects into the environmental chamber, we’ve changed the conditions to replicate the summer or winter and we’ve got them to run a 10km under both of those conditions and taken various measurements on each runner while they’ve been completing their 10km.”

Brewer says every movement runners make produces heat. He explains that one way in which we lose heat is by sweating. The body loses heat through droplets of sweat. He says the body also loses heat by transporting the blood to the surface of the skin.

4. What can we know about running in winter?

A. It increases pressure of the body.

B. It improves the function of body.

C. It makes your heart rate higher.

D. It needs more water than in summer.

. What can we know about the research according to the text?

A. Researchers interviewed the subjects

B. Subjects were asked to run in winter and summer.

C. Subjects built the “environmental chamber”.

D. Biological measurements of the runners were recorded.

6. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “replicate” in Paragraph 7?

A. Combine.

B. Remember.

C. Copy.

D. Decorate.

7. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Environmental Chamber

B. The Way of Losing Heat

C. Running in Cold Weather Improves Performance

D. Biological Measurements of the Runners

C

Time flies, but the tracks of time remain in books and museums. This is what made a recent tragedy in Brazil even more terrible.

On Sept.2, a big fire ripped through the National Museum of Brazil. “ Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge were lost, ” Brazilian President Michel Temer wrote on Twitter after the fire. “It's

a sad day for all Brazilians.”

Most of the 20 million pieces of history are believed to have been destroyed. Only as little as 10 percent of the collection may have survived, Time reported. Among all the items, there were Egyptian mummies, the bones of uniquely Brazilian creatures such as the long－necked dinosaur Maxakalisaurus, and an 11, 500－year－old skull called Luzia, which was considered one of South America's oldest human fossils.

Besides these, Brazil's indigenous(本土的，土著的) knowledge also suffered. The museum housed world－famous collections of indigenous objects, as well as many audio recordings of local languages from all over Brazil. Some of these recordings, now lost, were of languages that are no longer spoken.

“The tragedy this Sunday is a sort of national suicide, a crime against our past and future generations,”Bernard Mello Franco, one of Brazil's best－known columnists, wrote on the O Globo newspaper site.

The cause of the fire is still unknown, as BBC News reported on Sept. 3. After the fire burned out, crowds protested outside the museum to show their anger at the loss of the irreplaceable items of historical value.

According to Emilio Bruna, an ecologist at the University of Florida, museums are living, breathing stores of who we are and where we've come from, and the world around us.

Just as underwater grass floats on the surface if it loses its roots, a nation is lost without its memories. The fire at the National Museum of Brazil teaches the world an important lesson: We should never neglect history.

8. What can be summarized as the main idea of the 3rd and 4th paragraphs?

A. Long history of South America.

B. Remains from the fire.

C. Mysteries to be solved.

D. History and knowledge burned up.

9. What opinion may be shared by Bernard Mello Franco and the protesters?

A. The government is to blame for the tragedy.

B. The museum should be rebuilt

C. The loss can't be made up for.

D. The criminal should be sentenced to death.

10. What does Emilio Bruna compare museums to?

A. Living stores of our past.

B. Underwater grass.

C. The oldest fossils.

D. National suicide.

11. What may be the best title of the passage?

A. Death of a civilization

B. Functions of museums

C. Gone with the fire

D. Brazilians' memories

D

These days，North Kickapoo Street in Shawnee，Oklahoma，is a four-lane road leading out to the highway，and lined with all kinds of places to eat and shop. But in the mid-1950s, it was just a gravel(砂砾) country road, the perfect place for our daddies to teach us how to drive.

We didn’t have driver’s education at Shawnee High Schoo1. We were on our own. Mom took me to pick up an instruction handbook. I was the oldest of my friends, so we were excited at the prospect of a whole new world opening up. We’d have freedom to get around. Best of all, we could go to the Starlite Drive—In theater on 50-cents-a-carload night. We’d have it made.

Mom let me back our 1949 Ford out of the garage a few times to get used to the clutch (离合器) and gearshift (变速排挡杆). I got familiar with the motion but was hardly ready for my road test.

Finally, the day came for Daddy to give me a real lesson. He drove out to the end of the paved section of Kickapoo Street and across to where the gravel started. My daddy had come from a family of 10, and they had been farmers in a poor area in Oklahoma. There was only one way to do things, and that was the

Praises were rare, so when he expressed his approval it was special. I didn’t want to experience his glare if I ground the clutch or the car shook as I tried to get it going.

I took a deep breath, slowly let out the clutch, pushed the stick into second gear, eased down the road, and then carefully moved into third gear. He had me stop and repeat the procedure two or three more times until I came to the end of the section. I was feeling pretty good as I came to a stop and looked to Daddy for approval.

He glared at me and then barked，“You’ve been driving, haven’t you?”

He must have thought I’d been practicing in somebody else’ s car. I quickly explained that my training was all done on the Ford.

That was 60 years ago. I can still see the nod he gave me when he said，“Well, you did a good job. ”

12. How did the author learn to drive at the beginning?

A.He was taught by his mother.

B. He was taught at Shawnee High Schoo1.

C.He learned to drive with the help of his father.

D. He taught himself by an instruction handbook.

13. While Daddy was teaching him, the author operated carefully to__________.

A. avoid making him angry

B. pass the road test

C. show his driving skill

D. stop the car being damaged

14.Why did Daddy glare at the author when he stopped?

A. He thought he had been cheated.

B. Something was wrong with the car.

C. He was disappointed at his son’s driving skill.

D. The son didn’ t operate properly while

15.Which of the following best describes Daddy’s character?

A. untalkative.

B. bad-tempered.

C. Strict.

D. Helpful.

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。

Rich and Famous

Twenty years ago the most common ambition of American children was to be a teacher, followed by working in banking and finance, and then medicine. But today’s situation is quite different. 16 Instead they most commonly say they want to be a sports star, a pop star, or an actor—in other words, they hope to become a celebrity .

According to experts, young people desire these jobs largely because of the wealth and the fame. 17 Let’s take athletes and singers as an example. Their careers are short-lived. Many athletes’ best time only lasts a few years and singers can have a very limited career. The field that was once the focus of their lives becomes something they have little or no involvement in. As a result, they’ll have a feeling of worthlessness and a lack of control. 18 The truth is quite simple: they have been so far removed from it for so long.

In spite of these disadvantages, there is greater ambition than ever among young people to achieve that status. They are not satisfied just making a living—they want to be rich and famous. Globally, more and more TV shows provide talent competitions where winners can achieve their goals in just a few weeks or months. 19 They unrealistically believe that this lifestyle is easily obtained and leads to great satisfaction.

While many people argue that there is nothing wrong with having such ambitions, others feel that this trend will finally lead to dissatisfaction as more and more people are unable to reach their goals. 20

That means they ignore the simple fact that great effort is needed before success. As a result, many people won’t realize their childhood dreams, which could have a negative effect on their happiness.

A. In many ways this has been brought about by the celebrity culture.

B. People no longer have a sense of satisfaction once their goals have been achieved.

C. Besides, it can be difficult for them to adapt back to a normal everyday life.

. The younger generation don’t favor these professions any more.

E. Unfortunately, they do not always have a positive effect on people’s life.

F. The reason is that they don’t realize it takes talent and hard work to be rich and famous.

G. This quick way of gaining wealth and fame creates a celebrity culture among people.

第三节　(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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳

选项。

I was walking down a dimly lit street late one evening when I heard 21 coming from behind bushes．22 I slowed down to listen and panicked when I realized that what I was hearing were the sounds of a struggle. Only yards from where I stood, a woman was being attacked. Should I get 23 ? I was frightened for my own safety, and I hated 24 for having suddenly decided to take a(n) 25 route home that night．“ What if I'm hurt too? Shouldn't I just run to the nearest phone and call the police ? ” Although it felt like a century, my thought process had only 26 seconds．But already the cries were growing 27 . I knew I had to act fast．"How could I walk away from this?” I asked myself．

“ No ”, I finally resolved, I could not turn my 28 on the fate of this unknown woman, 29 it means 30 my own life.I am not a brave man, nor am I 31 . I don't know where I found the moral courage and physical strength, but 32 I had finally decided to help the girl, I became suddenly

changed．

I ran behind the bushes and 33 the attacker off the woman. Struggling, we fell to the ground, 34 we fought for a few minutes until the man jumped up and escaped. 35 heavily, I got to my feet and 36 the girl, who was sobbing behind a tree. In the darkness, I could certainly 37 her trembling shock. Not wanting to frighten her any further, I at first spoke to her from a 38 . “ It's OK ,” I said soothingly. “ The man ran away. You' re safe now.’’ There was a long pause and then I heard the words, uttered in 39 . “ Dad, is that you? ” And then, from behind the tree, 40 my youngest daughter, Katherine. God has a way of allowing us to be in the right place at the right time．

21. A．laughter B．whispers C．whistles D．screams

22. A．Shocked B．Alarmed C．Surprised D．Impressed

23.A．helped B．attached C．attacked D．involved

24. A．it B．myself C．this D．that

25. A．ordinary B．new C．normal D．old

26.A．cost B．taken C．spent D．paid

27. A．softer B．stronger C．weaker D．louder

28. A．body B．back C．face D．shoulder

29. A．as if B．in case C．if only D．even if

30. A．risking B．ruining C．damaging D．hurting

31. A．athletic B．energetic C．intelligent D．accessible

32. A．while B．until C．since D．once

33. A．pulled B．punished C．placed D．put

34. A．there B．then C．later D．where

35. A．Walking B．Breathing C．Sobbing D．Sighing

6. A．found B．approached C．hugged D．obtain

37. A．tell B．consider C．observe D．sense

38. A．distance B．bush C．place D．tree

39. A．vain B．amazement C．relief D．need

40. A．strike B．struggled C．stepped D．hid

第II卷非选择题卷（满分50分）

第一节语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Silk was not the only product to be transported along the Silk Road, 41 other goods such as tea, medicinal herbs also being exported from China. Many merchants found instant wealth through the trade in luxury items．

Rather than traveling the entire length of the Silk Road, each merchant traded goods along one section of the route, 42 (buy) them in one town and then selling in another. The travelers and merchants also 43 (carry) many ideas, philosophies and religions with them along the Silk Road. Of all these, Buddhism, 44 came from India, had the greatest influence on Chinese culture. It 45 (eventual) became China's primary faith, 46 （widespread) than the original Chinese religions of Confucianism and Taoism．

Silk Road trades traveled together in long caravans of camels. This mode of travel provided 47 (protect) from robbers who might attempt 48 (rob) the valuable goods being transported．The Silk Road was not only one single road, but 49 whole collection of routes by which goods 50 (transport) between the East and the West．

第二节　短文改错 (共10小题；每小题1分，满分10 分)

下面短文中文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均限一词; 2.只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不计分。

My mother is sixty-five years old, that devotes herself to the whole family and us three daughters. oday I still remember clearly that there was the time when life was really hard in a remote mountain village. People there have a strong prejudice that girls should not go to school. Besides, my mother held a total opposite view that her three daughters should get educated no matter what others thought and no matter what hard life was. My mother got little education and she decided not to let the same thing to happen to her girls. To his delight, we three sisters went to college and got well-educated. And now, we all have our jobs and our own happy family. We are such grateful for what Mum has done for us.

第三节书面表达(满分25分)

假如你是高三学生李华，计划10月6日动身前往温哥华(Vancouver) 姊妹学校交流一个月。请你给该校负责联络工作的布朗先生写一封信询问有关事项。

内容包括：

1. 课程开设；

2. 课外活动(extracurricular activities)；

3. 其他你关心的问题。

注意：1.词数100左右。2.可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

兰州一中2018—2019第一学期高三年级12月月考英语答案阅读理解

1——3 CCD 4——7 BDCC 8——11 DCAC 12——15 DAAC 16——20 DECGF

完形填空

21-25 DBDBB 26-30 BCBDA 31-35 ADADB 36-40 BDABC

语法填空

41.with 42. buying 43.carried 44. which

45.eventually 46. more widespread 47. protection 48. to rob 49. a 50. were transported

短文改错

1. that→who

2. 第二行the→a

3. have→had

4. besides→however

5.total→totally

6. what→how

7. 删掉第二个to

8. his→her9.family→families 10. such→so

书面表达

Dear Mr Brown，

I'm Li Hua, one of the senior three students in China. I'm going to Vancouver, your hometown, and study there for a month starting from October

6. I'm writing to ask you about what I will have to be reminded of.

I hear the classes and their arrangements are very different from ours. Is that true? I take a great fancy to sports and clubs. Are there any interesting extracurricular activities available out there? By the way, what about the weather conditions in Vancouver this time of year? Should I bring more warm clothes?

Please spare some time letting me know. Many thanks! Looking forward to your reply.

Yours，

Li Hua