山西省河津市第二中学2019届高三9月份月考英语试卷.doc

河津二中2018-2019学年高三9月份月考
英语试题
考试时间：120分钟 满分150分
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，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中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
A
Disasters almost always arrive unexpectedly. But there are apps to help people prepare for disasters. Some apps alarm users when a disaster has taken place. Other disaster apps can be used when people need rescue or other help.
SirenGPS Mobile
The free SirenGPS Mobile app connects users to emergency services. The app will let emergency workers know where the person in need is. The app works over cell networks. But it also works on Wi-Fi if cell networks are down after an emergency. Users can create a personal health report on the app to share with emergency services. This will provide information important to treatment decisions.
Guardly
Guardly is an app that can help keep people safer in places such as businesses and universities. This app permits workers and students to report about unsafe conditions. Reports can be made to an organization’s own security division as well as to government emergency services. The reporter’s location can be sent with the report so security or emergency services help can arrive more quickly. The app is free, but Guardly charges for its services.
Life360
The Life360 app provides a service to keep loved ones connected. Users can set up a network of people to share their location, chat, and get a warning when they are near someone in their network. The app helps users communicate when they are in a disaster. The location share action can be forbidden when desired. The Life360 app is free, with some services available for a fee.
Red Panic Button
When a person is in a dangerous situation, the Red Panic Button app might help. This app can send a text message or email to chosen contacts providing the user’s location. You can also add a voice or video message or photo to your text and email. Red Panic Button is free, but extra functions are available for a fee.
1. What does the SirenGPS Mobile app work on when cell networks are not available?
A. Emergency services. B. Wi-Fi.
C. A personal health report. D. Text messages and emails.
2. When using Guardly, people can get timely security services because
A. the app is a perfect tool
B. the app causes little trouble
C. the report can show where the reporter is
D. the report can tell how to save the reporter
3. Which app can send video messages?
A. Life 360. B. Guardly.
C. Red Panic Button. D. SirenGPS Mobile.
4. Which of the following is TRUE about the four apps mentioned in the passage?
A. All of them are available for a fee.
B. All of their services are chained.
C. All of their extra functions are used for free.
D. All of them can tell the user’s location.
B
I believe in the power of the unknown. I believe that a sense of the unknown pushes us forward in all of our creative activities, from science to art.
When I was a child, after bedtime I would often go to the window and stare at the stars. I had so many questions. How far away were those tiny points of light? Did space go on forever and ever, or was there some edge? And if so, what lay beyond the edge?
Another of my childhood questions: Did time go on forever? I looked at pictures of my parents and tried to imagine their parents, and so on, back through the generations. Does time go on forever? Or is there some beginning of time?
When I grew up, I became a professional astrophysicist. Although I never answered any of these questions, they continued to challenge me, to haunt me, to drive me in my scientific research, and to cause me to live on tuna fish and no sleep for days at a time while I was crazy about a science problem. These same questions, and questions like them, challenge and haunt the leading scientists of today.
Einstein once wrote that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the beginning of true art and true science.” What did Einstein mean by “the mysterious?” I don’t think he meant that science is full of unpredictable or unknowable or supernatural forces. I think that he meant a sense of awe, a sense that there are things larger than us, that we do not have all the answers at this moment, and that we can stand right at the boundary between known and unknown.
Scientists are happy, of course, when they find answers to questions. But scientists are also happy when they become stuck, when they discover interesting questions that they cannot answer. That is when their imaginations and creativity are set on fire. That is when the greatest progress occurs.
5. As a child, the author was
A. cautious B. generous
C. curious D. doubtful
6. What does the underlined word “haunt” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Make someone to feel annoyed. B. Make someone to feel excited.
C. Cause great trouble to someone. D. Keep coming to someone’s mind.
7. What is the source of pleasure according to the passage?
A. Exact prediction. B. Creativity in experiments.
C. Rich imagination. D. Exploration of the unknown.
8. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. The Power of Mysteries. B. The Characters of Mysteries.
C. The Significance of Science. D. The Beauty of Art.
C
According to scientists, a study of more than 50 plants and animals suggests their ability to adapt to changes in rainfall and temperature will be vastly outpaced by future climate change.
Amphibians, reptiles and plants are harmed more easily in particular, according to US researchers. And tropical (热带的) species are at higher risk than those in temperate zones. Some animals might be able to move geographically to deal with rising temperatures, but others live in remote areas where they cannot move, such as in nature reserves or on mountains or islands.
Ecologists analyzed how quickly species had changed their climatic niches (the conditions where they can survive) over time, and how these rates compared with that of global warming. They analyzed populations of plants and animals, including insects, amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles. Rates of change in climatic niches were much slower than rates of projected climate change, by more than 200,000 fold for temperature on average, they said.
“Overall, our results show that rates of climatic niche change among populations of plants and animals are remarkably slower than projected rates of future climate change,” said Tereza Jezkova and John Wiens, of the University of Arizona.
Mammals might be better placed to survive than amphibians and reptiles, because they had the ability to regulate their own body temperatures, said Dr. Wiens. Besides, while some species might be able to move to higher latitudes (纬度) to survive, “for a lot of organisms, that is not an option.” “It’s a double danger of climate change and habitat destruction,” he added.
9. What species are likely to suffer most?
A. Mammals in temperate regions.
B. Reptiles in temperate regions.
C. Mammals in tropics.
D. Amphibians in tropics.
10. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A. Amphibians. B. Mammals.
C. Reptiles. D. Plants.
11. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Human beings should find some ways to fight against climate change.
B. Many species will be unable to adapt fast enough to survive climate change.
C. Climate change will cause great damage.
D. Climate change is increasingly terrible.
D
From the first days of nursery school to the first days of college, parents and children are faced with feelings brought about by separation. Children of all ages may experience some anxiety about managing on their own. Young children are still struggling to control their impulses (冲动) and may need a parent’s presence to feel secure. Older children leaving home may experience their own anxiety about managing on their own due to homesickness.
Children’s protests (抗议) about parents leaving them in a new situation often take the form of crying, which causes parents’ considerable concern. Generally, children’s protesting behavior around separation gets the most attention. At times, a different point of view may arise between parents and teachers about the best way to handle the situation. Teachers may think a child will be fine if the parent just leaves, while a parent may see the child as needing her presence. These roles are sometimes interchanged.
Although it is the apparent upsets that get the most attention, when observing pre-school groups one can see the various ways children deal with the feelings aroused by separation. Some children deal with the situation by removing themselves from the group. In a recent observation, a little girl removed herself from the activity but continued to watch carefully everything that was going on.
In another group, a more obvious separation scene took place. The mother seemed clearly prepared to stay while the boy joined the group on his own. He seemed most competent until his mother suddenly decided to leave. At that point the child broke down completely, crying pitifully - different from the formerly competent boy.
In situations like this one, mothers always wonder why their own child is not able to master separating from them as other children do. But the real point here is that separation is a developmental step which children deal with in different ways. When children don’t openly cry and protest, it doesn’t mean they are not struggling to master the same feelings, each in his or her own way. It just means they express their feelings in a different way.
12. How will children feel when they are separated from their parents?
A. They will feel upset about relying on themselves.
B. They will feel excited about managing their own business.
C. They will feel angry for being left alone.
D. They will feel scared of being abandoned.
13. As to the best way to deal with separation, .
A. parents and teachers always disagree with each other
B. some parents argue that there is no solution to the problem
C. parents sometimes think that they can be absent
D. some teachers misunderstand parents’ behaviors
14. The author uses the observation of pre-school groups to .
A. compare different ways children deal with the feelings
B. present how children handle the feelings differently
C. criticize the cruelty of separation
D. show the harmful effect of separation
15. Which of the following does the author probably agree with?
A. How children express their feelings varies from person to person.
B. How to deal with separation remains to be discussed.
C. Separation will cause children to suffer a lot.
D. Separation will give rise to a similar reaction.
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。
On Friday, the Ministry of Education, along with eight other central departments, published a document on preventing campus violence. The document stresses that if the perpetrators (作恶者) break the law they should be handed over to the police.___16___ As early as May, it launched a campaign to deal with the issue.
___17___ Several cases have even aroused nationwide concern.
The root problem lies in some schools insisting on punishing the perpetrators with campus rules instead of calling the police, even though some incidents have already broken the law and the perpetrators should face legal punishments.___18___.
The schools do not want the perpetrators to go to court because it may harm their reputations so they prefer to forget the bad things”.___19___. The problem is, the more they try to hide it, the bigger their scandal (丑闻) is.
___20___ When the students who treat their schoolmates violently get extremely light punishments because of their young age, they might commit serious crimes in the future. Such cases should arouse our concern. It is time we solved the problem of campus violence with rules of law.
A. Yet campus violence is still quite wild.
B. The punishments of the schools are, of course, much lighter than legal punishments.
C. Schools must be aware of the consequences of bullying and violent incidents in schools
D. This is not the first time that the ministry has introduced measures aimed at stopping campus violence.
E. They think that by turning a blind eye to any wrongdoing that happens on campus, they can cheat everybody.
F. Worse, by trying to hide the scandal instead of solving it, the schools have actually encouraged campus violence.
G. Students with severe behavioral problems should be transferred to special schools suitable to their needs or receive criminal punishments.
第二部分 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、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。
Did you ever have one of those dreams that seemed to go on forever? I had one like that last night. I was ___21___ down an old, side road that I used to walk along as a teenager. I wasn’t quite ___22___ where 1 was headed, but I felt very determined to get there. Like in many ___23___, time seemed fluid and people seemed ageless. As I walked along I kept meeting people from both my ___24___ and my present. I saw both my Mom and my Grandma who have passed away and I was able to ___25___ them both one more hug. I ___26___ many childhood friends and we talked, joked, and laughed just like we were ___27___ again.
Still, I kept walking, hoping to reach ___28___ I was headed. Around every turning, though, there was ___29___ new. I saw strangers ___30___ and stopped to help them. I met a smiling, old man who ___31___ shared his life’s wisdom with me and then I ___32___ passed it on to young children further down the road. With every few steps it seemed there was a ___33___ adventure in learning and love. I never got to where I was going and ___34___ feeling like I had lived a lifetime in a single ___35___. It ___36___ me a bit that I never ___37___ where I was headed,___38___ then I realized that this dream was a lot like our life. It is the walk that ___39___. You will meet a lot of wonderful people and ___40___ a lot of interesting experiences.
21. A. walking B. running C. driving D. looking
22. A. puzzled about B. interested in C. happy D. sure
23. A. roads B. dreams C. journeys D. nights
24. A. future B. past C. family D. experience
25. A. show B. owe C. give D. ask
26. A. chatted with B. searched for C. consulted with D. ran into
27. A. neighbors B. adults C. kids D. friends
28. A. wherever B. whenever C. however D. whatever
29. A. anything B. something C. everything D. nothing
30. A. in need B. in delight C. with respect D. for certain
31. A. seriously B. hesitantly C. happily D. casually
32. A. lovingly B. unwillingly C. surprisingly D. jokingly
33. A. dangerous B. familiar C. fresh D. similar
34. A. jumped up B. woke up C. lay down D. bowed down
35. A. life