永川中学2016～2017学年上期12月月考高2017级 英语试题
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
Suddenly another thought went through Kate’s mind like an electric shock.An express train was due to go past about thirty minutes later. If it were not stopped, that long train, full of passengers, would fall into the stream. “Someone must go to the station and warn the station-master,” Kate thought. But who was to go? She would have to go herself. There was no one else.
In wind and rain she started on her difficult way. Soon she was at the bridge that crossed the Des Moines River, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across Honey Creek. The storm had not washed this away, but there was no footpath across it. She would have to cross it by stepping from sleeper (枕木) to sleeper. With great care she began the dangerous crossing, sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild flood waters below. If she should slip, she would fall between the sleepers, into the rapidly flowing stream.
At last ---she never knew how long it had taken her--- she felt solid ground under her feet. But there was no time to rest. She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left. Unless she reached the station before the express did, many, many lives would be lost.
She did reach the station just as the train came into sight. Fortunately the station-master was standing outside. “The bridge is down! Stop the train! Oh, please stop it!” Kate shouted breathlessly.
The station-master went pale. He rushed into the station building and came back with a signal light. He waved the red light as the train came into the station. It was not a second too early.
21. What did Kate decide to do?
A. Stop the express train. B. Check the signal light.
C. Meet the passengers. D. Visit the station master.
22. Which of the following word best describes Kate’s journey?
A. Fruitless. B. Boring. C. Well-planned. D. Risky.
23. Why did the station-master turn pale?
A. He suddenly fell ill. B. He realized the danger.
C. He discovered his mistake. D. He became over-excited.
B
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator (发电机). The idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity ---roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will be given meat tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity. The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.
The plan, a world-first, will start on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part. Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said, “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be people who will cycle just to get a free meal, but generally I don’t think people will take advantage of our programme.”
Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work each day, one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website visitcopenhagen.dk.USenvironmental website treehugger.com recently voted Copenhagen the world’s best city for cyclists. “Because Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling, we felt the bicycle would work well as a symbol of the hotel’s green profile (形象)."
If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in theUK, the hotel said in a statement.
24. What is the main purpose of the free meal programme?
A. To promote the hotel's green concept.
B. To make the city known to the world.
C. To attract people to the hotel restaurant.
D. To get guests to stay longer at the hotel.
25. How can a participant get a free meal?
A. By becoming a professional cyclist. B. By cycling to produce some electricity.
C. By linking a smart phone to a bicycle. D. By monitoring his or her carbon footprint.
26. Who are most likely to enter for the programme?
A. The poor local people. B. The environment activists.
C. Health-conscious hotel guests. D. Visitors fond of Copenhagen food.
27. According to paragraph 3, Copenhagen has one of the world's ______.
A. best chain hotels B. greenest natural environments
C. longest bike path D. highest rate of people cycling to work
C
Digital technology ---email and smart phones especially--- have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office. Even so, most white-collar work still happens in an office. One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey of office workers conducted by Wakefield Research for the IT company Citrix, most bosses are doubtful about remote working. Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it and only 35 percent say it’s tolerated.
Skeptical bosses will likely have their doubts reinforced (加深) by the same survey, which shows that 43 percent of workers say they’ve watched TV or a movie while “working” remotely, while 35 percent have done housework, and 28 percent have cooked dinner.
It is true, however, that working at home makes people much more efficient (高效的), because it allows workers to take care of annoying housework while still getting their jobs done. It’s much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.
The fact that such practices remain officially unaccepted reflects how far we haven't come as a society from the days when we expected every full-time worker to be supported by a full-time homemaker.
More broadly the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be missing a low-cost way to give workers something of value. Sixty-four percent of those survey participants who have worked remotely would rather give up some bonus in order to get even one day a week working from home. Under such circumstances, smart firms need to find ways to let their employees have enough flexibility to manage their time efficiently.
28. Why do some employers hesitate to allow remote working?
A. They fear losing control of their workers.
B. They want to stick to their routine practice.
C. They have little trust in modern technology.
D. They are used to face-to-face communication.
29. What seems to be most workers’ attitude toward remote working?
A. Doubtful B. Favorable C. Reserved D. Disapproving
30. What does the author suggest smart firms do?
A. Shorten their office hours. B. Give employees a pay raise.
C. Adopt flexible work patterns. D. Reduce their staff’s workload.
31. What does the underlined word “flexibility” in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. challenge B. stubbornness C. freedom D. talent
D
Comfort zone is the mental place surrounded by borders in our mind where we feel secure.Even though this comfort area and its boundaries are just a state of mind that has nothing to do with reality, it plays a huge role in the progress of our development. Since the comfort zone is limited, there is not much benefit for you inside your comfort zone. Nothing new will happen until you open yourself and leave your comfort zone.
Even though your background may be affecting your present situation, what really matters is not where you were born, your skin color, race, age, gender, religion, government, or even the poor environment in which you have been living for so many years, but what really matters and makes a big difference in your life is your attitude, to understand your comfort zone, how you limit yourself within it, who you are, why you behave the way you do it, and mainly where you are going.
Sadly many people don’t go anywhere because they stay within their comfort zone. They accept defeat after defeat before even trying or knowing how capable or valuable they really are. These circumstances are not the cause of our actual situation but the conformism (因循守旧) and the poverty of our thoughts and therefore the weakness of our broken spirit. Leave your past behind; constantly go beyond your comfort zone! Your past within this comfort zone is nothing but a wasted load that you don’t need to carry at all.
Take constant action as many times as it is required and never, never quit. As Napoleon Hill said, “A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. Defeat is never a failure; no circumstance ever is failure until it is accepted by the individual as a failure.” Nothing is impossible for an optimist attitude; everything is possible when we start blindly trusting ourselves, when we have a burning desire to succeed and a blind determination to make our dreams come true; everything is possible when we don’t take a no for an answer.
32. What is comfort zone according to the passage?
A. A limited place in our mind where we feel safe.
B. A place in our realistic life where we obtain comfort.
C. A mental place in our mind where we stick to our beliefs.
D. A secret place in our mind where we communicate with ourselves.
33. The author believes staying in our comfort zone can________.
A. prevent us from being aware of the reality
B. protect us from the cruel reality
C. stop us making progress in life
D. push our development in life
34. Napoleon Hill is mentioned in the last paragraph to show that________.
A. it is important to take constant actions
B. one should not quit in order to succeed
C. a successful person can’t leave his comfort zone
D. there is a great difference between defeat and failure
35. The writing style of this passage can be described as________.
A. defensive B. supportive C. subjective D. persuasive
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。
How to Have a Successful Teenage Life
Everyone wants to succeed in their life, don’t they? Even as a teenager, you can achieve success in your life; it really isn’t that hard. 36 .
· Do well in school. No matter how boring it is now, education will help you be a productive member in society. Try your best for excellence in school; listen to the teachers, do your homework, study, and get good grades. Doing so will help you get into a better university, which will enable you to have a bright future. 37 !
· Do good in your community. Volunteering can not only improve your community's status, it could make you happier. Studies show that people who volunteer are less likely to develop depression (抑郁) than people who don’t. 38 . For example, if you love animals, volunteer at an animal shelter. If you love helping the environment, plant trees or pick up litter. When you help others, it will make you feel better about yourself.
· 39 . Remember, they’re there to help you be the best that you can be. Respect them and value their opinions, even if they annoy you sometimes. 40 . You don't get to choose your teachers or your family, but you still have to put up with them. Learn how to deal with people now, because when you’re an adult, you don’t get to choose your boss or your co-workers, so learn how to respect them now.
A. Live life to the fullest
B. School sets you up on the right track
C. Be nice to your parents and teachers
D. Find chances to do volunteer work that interests you
E. It will help you pass time and develop your personality
F. Here are some important points that you may find helpful
G. Keep in mind that they do the things they do because they care about you
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；每题1. 5分，满分30分）
When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to 41 , I bought twenty chickens and asked him to 42 them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would 43 the eggs from him. However, he would have to buy chicken 44 with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was 45 would be his to keep. Gene was 46 , thinking he would make his first 47 .
After several weeks’ successful work, I began to 48 that egg production was going down, I 49 nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn’t have 50 money to buy the feed. He said the chickens had never 51 a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped 52 eggs.
Then I asked him if he had 53 the amount of feed he had given the chickens. He was 54 . It was like he did not think anyone would ever 55 what he had done. After a long 56 , he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them 57 food. I asked him, “Did you fool the chickens?”
I was just astonished at the question in my own 58 . I was dumbfounded (惊呆）at the 59 of it. Yes. you can fool everyone else, but you cannot “fool the chickens," because 60 , you will find out, as the saying goes, "What goes around comes around."
41. A. cook B. share C. count D. work
42. A. take care of B. observe C. train D. play with
43. A. save B. borrow C. buy D. keep
44. A. nest B. soup C. meat D. feed
45. A. given back B. picked up C. left over D. brought in
46. A. thrilled B. worried C satisfied D. discouraged
47. A. deal B. contribution C. fortune D. choice
48. A. hear B. notice C. predict D. imagine
49. A. said B. found C. thought D. recalled
50. A. private B. honest C. pocket D. enough
51. A. missed B. wasted C. enjoyed D. finished
52. A. hatching B. laying C. gathering D. hiding
53. A. balanced B. checked out C. cut down D. measured
54. A. delighted B. shocked C. tired D. disappointed
55. A. forgive B. allow C. discuss D. know
56. A. silence B. absence C. negotiation D. preparation
57. A. heavy B. fresher C. less D. solid
58. A. life B. job C. ease D. mind
59. A. explanation B. significance C. trick D. example
60. A. in this respect B. in the end C. in contrast D in addition
第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（每空限填1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Magic Touch
From my hotel room window, I could see a large advertisement board with his face on it: Jason, the Great Magician.
I absent-mindedly turned the61(page) of the phone book and came across a city map. Drinking my iced coffee I ran my fingers along the streets62the hotel to the opera hall. Not more63 a half-hour walk, I thought.
I looked64(quick) at the clock, "The show starts in one hour; plenty of time! I drank the rest of my coffee and went to take a shower. Soon after, I was on my way to the show,65(carry) a fancy black handbag and a happy smile.
The hall was dark when I came in; the show was about66(begin). I made my way backstage just67the great magician was putting on his top hat.
“Daddy, I'm so glad to see you,” I68(whisper). “I'm in town for the writer’s class, but I just couldn’t miss your show.” I gave him a quick hug and went back into the seating area, leaving him with a69(surprise) smile. I settled down in the darkness, and the curtains opened.
Magically, that show remains the Great Jason's best70(perform) to this day.
短文改错
Dear Mike,
I am Li Hua fromChina. I am glad to read your notice on the Internet and I knew you want to make friends with a Chinese in order to learn the Chinese language and culture. I would like to be your friend. Now let me introduce me to you. I was born in the city of the Chongqing in 1996. I am studying in Xin Hua High School and I am fluently in English and Chinese.
I think I can help you to know aboutChinaby send e-mail. Beside, we can have chats on the Internet in Chinese or I can tell you about our customs, festivals, and the Chinese food. What’s more, whether it is convenient to you, please come toChinafor a visit. I will show you around many places of interests. I hope we can keep touch with each other.
I am looking forward to your reply.
Yours truly,
Li hua
书面表达（满分25分）
美国学生Jim即将作为一名交换生(an exchange student)到中国来学习。李先生一家是他约定好的住宿家庭(homestay)。请以Jim的名义给李先生写一封信，内容如下：
选择homestay的原因：
1.体验中国文化，了解中国，了解世界;
2.喜欢中国饭菜;
……
个人要求：
1.准备独立的房间
2.允许与家人一起用早、晚餐(周一至周五)
……
要求：
1.词数120左右，开头已经给出，不计入总词数；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
Dear Mr. Li,
I am very glad to be a guest of your family. Thank you for accepting me. ...
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这些卷子都是最新的高考模拟试题，最好打印出来使用，完型和7选5还有语法填空的空格横线，我WORD文档中是有的，可是复制到头条就没了，我实在没时间在一个个的去划线，请各位同学注意！
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永川中学高2017级高三上期12月月考参考答案
1-5 BACBA 6-10. ACBAC 11-15 BACCA 16-20 CBACB
21-25 ADBAB 26-30. CDABC 31-35 CACBD 36-40 FBDCG
41-45 DACDC 46-50 ACBAD 51-55 ABCBD 56-60 ACDBB
61. pages 62. from 63. than 64. quickly 65. carrying
66. to begin 67. as/when 68. whispered 69, surprised 70. performance
71. knew → know 72. me→myself 73. 去掉the Chongqing的the
74. fluently→fluent 75. send→sending 76. Beside→Besides
77. or →and 78. whether→if 79. interests→interest 80. keep后加in
One Possible Version
Dear Mr. Li,
I am very gladto be a guest of your family. Thank you for accepting me.
As an exchangestudent, I am eager to know more about your country’s culture. And I think thebest way to achieve the purpose is to stay with your family and communicatewith you. That’s why I choose homestay. What’s more, I love Chinese dishes,which plays an important part of Chinese culture. Also, homestay will give memore chances to make Chinese friends.
I will be in yourhome next month. Can you prepare me a separate room? And Can I have breakfastor supper with your family members from Monday to Friday?
Looking forwardto your reply. Best wishes！
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