东莞七中2015高三第一次月考英语试题及答案

东莞市第七中学2015届高三第一次月考英语试题


Ⅰ语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
   Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials to make the light bulb. When none worked successfully, his assistant   1  , “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.”
   Thomas Edison replied very   2  , “Oh, we have come a long way and we have   3   a lot. We now know that there are two thousand materials which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.”
   If you learn from your mistakes, then you are   4  . If you learn from someone else’s mistakes, then you are a talent. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines   5   daily and failure is nothing more than a few small   6   repeated daily.
   How   7   the above lines are! Success takes time. We’ll make mistakes if we do things in too much of a hurry. When we do not practice disciplines in life, we don’t build enough confidence to   8   new and challenging tasks which are important and matter in life. Our confidence   9   what we think of ourselves and whether we believe in ourselves. We are all born with exceptional qualities, but only a few really   10   their true potentials and make efforts in life, and the others just lead a(n)   11   life. Do you want to be exceptional?
   Success is a fruit which everyone wants to eat, but it is not found everywhere and no one can   12   it without serious efforts.
Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don’t will find a(n)   13  !
Success depends on   14  , and without it we will end in failure.
When you are   15  , please enjoy it and give your hand to others who want to accomplish something.                   
1. A. celebrated B. complained   C. explained D. answered
2. A. confidently B. madly C. carelessly  D. angrily
3. A. remembered B. refused       C. learned D. ordered
4. A. healthy B. enthusiastic   C. intelligent D. generous
5. A. shown B. prevented   C. recorded D. practiced
6. A. errors   B. machines   C. jobs D. steps
7. A. common   B. strange       C. familiar D. true
8. A. keep   B. attempt   C. give D. see
9. A. depends on B. sets aside C. turns down D. sets up
10. A. own   B. realize C. provide      D. research
11. A. active B. hard C. rich D. average
12. A. achieve B. watch C. offer D. recognize
13. A. story B. excuse C. key   D. plan
14. A. preparation B. influence C. life D. generation
15. A. powerful B. wonderful C. successful D. hopeful
第二节 语法填空 (共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分) 
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格出填入一个适当的词或者使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
Why don’t birds get lost on their long flights from one place to another? 
Not long ago, experiments showed that birds rely  16     the sun to guide them during daylight hours. But what about birds  17     fly by night? Tests with artificial（人造的）stars have proved that certain night flying birds are able to follow the stars in their long-distance flights.
A dove（鸽子） had spent its lifetime in a cage and had never flown under a  18     (nature) sky. Yet   19     showed an inborn ability to use the stars for guidance. The bird’s cage  20    (place) under an artificial star-filled sky. The bird tried to fly in the same direction  21    (take) by his outdoor cousins. Any change in the position of the make-believe stars caused  22    change in the direction of his flight.
Scientists think that doves, when  23    (fly) in daylight, use the sun for guidance. But the stars are apparently their principal means of navigation. What do they do  24     the stars are hidden by clouds?  25     (obvious), they find their way by such landmarks as mountain ranges, coastlines, and river courses. But when it’s too dark to see these, the doves circle helplessly, unable to get their position.
Ⅱ阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
    I am a 21-year-old boy, and this is my story.
One month after I graduated from high school in 2009, I was coming home from swim practice and was involved in a car accident. I was so seriously injured that I was in a coma（昏迷）for over two months at Prince Georges Hospital.
I died eight times during my coma and I couldn’t talk or communicate when I woke up. Walking was never going to happen again due to all the extreme injuries. Just like my body, my dreams were almost shattered. But I was not going to let my injuries prevent me from living my dreams. 
After 14 operations and blood transfusions, I had to learn how to talk, eat, walk, shower and live independently again. When I was out of hospital, I still had to go to outpatient therapy in Waldorf, Maryland. After spending a few months in a wheelchair, I took baby steps to walk on my own. It was a miracle that I could walk again, but I wanted to prove that I could not only walk, but run. When it came true, I wanted to get back in the pool again. After a few lung tests, I was able to go in the pool a little bit each week. After a few months of swim training, I began my freshman year at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and became a proud member of the swim team.
By telling my story, I want to make a positive influence on the world. I am just trying to live each day to the fullest and inspire other people never to give up their dreams no matter how bad a situation is. I remember when I was still in my hospital bed, I would have my mom and dad push me around in my wheelchair to the other rooms to see the other patients and talk to them and their families. I wanted to let them know that everything was going to be okay. Somehow, things would work out for the best.
26. When the car accident happened, the author ________. 
A. was a high school student B. had finished his high school education
C. was a college student D. was returning home from a swim competition
27. What does the underlined word “shattered” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. begun     B. destroyed      C. shared     D. taken
28. It can be inferred that the author ________ after he woke up from his coma. 
A. was out of hospital   B. was in surprise
C. faced physical and mental challenges D. was worried about his lung
29. What does the author mainly want to show in the last paragraph?
A. His purpose of sharing his story. B. His painful experiences.
C. His influence on students. D. His great achievements.
30. The best title for this passage would be ______.
A. Attitude Is Everything.           B. Actions Speak Louder than Words.
C. Everything Happens for a Reason D. A Good Beginning Is Half Done.
B
Whether you admit it or not, music improves our daily life and makes us feel easy, especially the music of Beethoven and Mozart. But can you believe that a school in England is using classical music to cut down students’ bad behavior?
The head teacher Brian Walker at the West Park School in Derby asks some students to stay behind after school on Fridays. He forces his students to listen to Mozart and other classical music. He also makes them copy his favorite poems and they have to watch educational videos.
Mr. Walker says his main aim is to stop noisy pupils causing trouble in class for students who want to study. He said the students staying behind were “not the smokers or drinkers, the truants (逃学生) or the people who are late for school…It’s those who have slowed the learning and teaching in class for everyone”. Mr. Walker said this was unacceptable, because it was making the rest of the students fail to focus their attention on their study.
Mr. Walker believes what he does reminds students that education is something to value. “It helps them see they are part of something bigger that will improve their life chances,” he said. The head teacher thinks students in fact learn from being kept behind after school. “Hopefully, I open their ears to an experience they don’t normally have and don’t want to have again, so it’s both educational and acts as a warning.”
Music has had success elsewhere in reducing bad behavior. In 2004, it reduced crime on London’s subway by 25 percent. Researchers from a Belfast university found it helped stop elephants’ bad behavior.   
However, one West Park student called Kieran said, “An hour of Mr. Walker’s music is a real killer.”
31. Mr. Walker asks his students to listen to music to _______________.
A. make them rest after a day’s study       B. punish them for their bad behavior
C. get them to love arts gradually          D. reduce their bad behavior
32. A student who _____ may be left behind to listen to Mozart after class.
A. plays truant   B. smokes in class                               
C. bothers others in class       D. comes late for class
33. Why does Mr. Walker say some students’ bad behavior is unacceptable?
A. Because the rest of the students hate them.
B. Because they are wasting their life.
C. Because they are disturbing teachers.
D. Because they have a bad influence on the other students.
34. In the eyes of Mr. Walker, _____.
A. some students don’t realize education is valuable   B. all students can learn from music
C. music must be taught after class                D. students ought to love music
35. It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that _____.
A. the action Mr. Walker takes sometimes doesn’t really work as planned
B. Mr. Walker aims to tell students study is important
C. once music helped animals behave well
D. animals also like to listen to music