邯郸市汇文中学4月份英语月考试卷

1、邯郸市汇文中学4月份英语月考试卷姓名： 填空题 *_班级： 填空题 *_（本套试题共四部分，满分150分）第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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.How old is the mans grandmother？ 单选题 *A.65.B.75.C.85.(正确答案)2.What is the boys favorite story about？ 单选题 *A.A

2、train.B.A carpet.(正确答案)C.A boy.3.What does the man mean？ 单选题 *A.He will buy a dictionary for the girl?B.He will help the girl with the words.C.The girl should use the dictionary.(正确答案)4.Where is the nearest post office？ 单选题 *A.Next to a park.B.Beside a supermarket.(正确答案)C.On the left of a hospital.5

3、.What is the conversation about？ 单选题 *A.An interview.(正确答案)B.An exam.C.A boss.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5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。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6.What is the woman？ 单选题 *A.A businesswoman.B.A writer and prod

4、ucer.C.An artist.(正确答案)7.What does the man do first after getting home from work？ 单选题 *A.He takes his dog for a walk.(正确答案)B.He plays with his son.C.He reads books.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8.What is the possible relationship between the speakers？ 单选题 *A.Brother and sister.B.Colleagues.(正确答案)C.Waiter and custo

5、mer.9.What is the man going to order？ 单选题 *A.Fish.(正确答案)B.Pizza.C.Chicken.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.Where is the boy now？ 单选题 *A.At school.(正确答案)B.At a stadium.C.At Toms house.11.How will the boy get home？ 单选题 *A.By bike.B.By bus.C.By car.(正确答案)12.What is the time now？ 单选题 *A.3:30.B.4:00.(正确答案)C.5:00.听第9段

6、材料，回答第13至16题。13.What relation is Joan to the speakers？ 单选题 *A.Their sister.B.Their former workmate.C.Their old classmate.(正确答案)14.When did the speakers get together with Joan last time？ 单选题 *A.Ten years ago.(正确答案)B.Fifteen years ago.C.Twenty years ago.15.What does Joan look like？ 单选题 *A.She has grey

7、 hair.B.She appears young.(正确答案)C.Shes put on some weight.16.What does the woman think of Joan？ 单选题 *A.She is successful.(正确答案)B.She is forgetful.C.She is respectable.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17.Where was John Dean when it started raining？ 单选题 *A.In a supermarket.B.Outside his car.(正确答案)C.Inside his car.18

8、.When was Joan Dean surprised？ 单选题 *A.When he felt the raindrops on his head.B.When he dropped some fish on the ground.C.When he realized where the fish came from.(正确答案)19.When was the first report of a fish shower made？ 单选题 *A.In August 2004.B.In December 2002.C.In the first century A.D.(正确答案)20.Wh

9、at caused fish showers according to scientists？ 单选题 *A.Bad weather.(正确答案)B.Global warming.C.Pollution.第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项。AWhen you are about to go to a boarding school in England. there are many different questions that may come to mind. But

10、 once you look at them with some perspective. you will certainly feel easy. Here is a normal boarding day.Early Morning:Usually boarders get up around 7: 00 am and have around an hour to take a shower and put on their uniform before breakfast.Lessons:Classes start at 9: 00 am and every lesson lasts

11、for 50 minutes. After two lessons. at 10: 40 am. youll have a short break. The next period of classes will include two more lessons.Lunch:Lunch is usually held around 12: 30 pm at the dining hall. where youll join your friends to enjoy a hot dish.After an hour of lunch. youll have three or four more

12、 lessons to attend.Dinner:At 5: 00 pm you will have finished your school lessons for the day. Most boarding schools in the UK offer their full boarders different kinds of hot meals to choose from.Activities/ Sports:All boarding schools in the UK provide many different kinds of activities for their b

13、oarders. such as football. swimming. golf or art.Prep:An important part of boarding school life is the supervised homework session known as prep”.Although prep might sound stressful. its a great way for you to keep up with your studies.Free time:Once you are done with all your classes and activities

14、. its time to relax.Bedtime:In most boarding schools. the lights go out around 10: 30 pm.Being nervous just before you go to a boarding school is completely normal and understandable. Hopefully being aware of the usual routine youll be following can help you. Once you are there. you will also see ho

15、w exciting life in a boarding school in England can be.21. What can help you keep up with your studies in the boarding school? 单选题 *A. Doing activities.B.Enjoying free time.C. Supervised homework sessions.(正确答案)D. Having lessons.22. What do we know about boarding schools in England from the text? 单选

16、题 *A. Classes usually start at 8: 30 am.B.They turn off the lights around 10:30 pm.(正确答案)C. Students can have a short break after four lessons.D. They dont give students any free time.23. What is the purpose of the text? 单选题 *A. To help students know about boarders life.(正确答案)B. To attract more stud

17、ents to boarding schools.C. To introduce a new school life.D. To advertise for boarding schools.BMaybe youve heard about the saying. A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.” Im sure that T. J. Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.By high school. T. J. was the most famo

18、us troublemaker in his town. He got into lots of fights. He failed almost every exam but was passed on each year to a higher grade level. Teachers didnt want to have him again the following year.When I showed up to lead the first training for a leadership retreat, a program designed to have students

19、 become more involved in their communities. The community leaders told me about T. J. Ware, the boy with the longest arrest record(警察局笔录) in the history of town. Somehow. I knew that I wasnt the first to hear about T. J.s darker side as the first words of introduction.At the start of the retreat. T.

20、 J. didnt readily join the discussion groups and didnt seem to have much to say. But when his group started a discussion about positive and negative things that had happened at school that year, he joined in and had clear thoughts on those situations, and the other students in his group welcomed his

21、 comments. Suddenly. T. J. felt like a part of the group. and soon he was treated like a leader. He was saying things that made a lot of sense. and everyone was listening. By the end of the retreat he had joined the Homeless Project team. He knew something about poverty. hunger and hopelessness. The

22、 other students on the team were impressed (打动) with his ideas and love for the homeless. They elected T. J. vice-chairman of the team.Two weeks later. the Homeless Project team organized a community-wide service projecta giant food drive. Seventy students led by T. J. collected a school record: 2.8

23、54 cans of food in just two hours, enough to take care of poor families in the area for 75 days. The local newspaper covered the event with a fullarticle the next day. T. J.s picture was up there for doing something great. T. J. reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs mending. But once

24、it has healed. it can fly higher than the rest.24What can be learned about T. J. before the author met him? 单选题 *A. He didnt have a good teacher.B. He was feeling hurt every day.C. He would graduate the next year.D. He was not welcome in the school.(正确答案)25What is the turning point for T.J. Wares ch

25、ange? 单选题 *A. The leadership retreat.B. The group discussion.(正确答案)C. The community-wide service project.D. The school record in the food drive.26T. J. was treated like a leader by the group members because _. 单选题 *A. he joined the leadership retreatB. he was part of the groupC. his words was meanin

26、gful(正确答案)D. his deeds were famous at school27Which is the best title for the passage? 单选题 *A. Love Leads to SuccessB. Love Changes EverythingC. A Broken Wing Mended(正确答案)D. A Bird with Broken Wing.CMy best friend and I made our first trip to Ireland less than a year ago. I wasnt very excited about

27、it at the very beginning. But my uncle wanted me to go and offered to pay for my trip. Then I did.All of the words magical charming or memorable” dont even touch what Ireland is. Our favorites were Kilkenny. Cobh. and Killarney. We did a self-drive tour. which was not as hard as people made it sound

28、.We stayed in a castle in Dublin for two days. where my ancestors came from. The town we thought we might be bored in was Kilkenny. but we loved every minute we were there. There were so many places to explore and the pictures we took were beautiful.Our driver was so informative and entertaining tha

29、t he knew just where to stop for the best photos.And seeing the little village of Cobh and knowing it was the last stop for the Titanic were so touching.We loved the visitors center there and the little shops. We never got any bad food there. It was so mouth-watering at every stop!And when we stayed

30、 in Westmeath and looked out for our window to see the Trim Castle and found some scenes from Brave Heart were filmed there. we were so impressed. Again, more beautiful pictures were taken in that tiny town.We love the country. the people. the food. and the magic! We would go back very soon. I was s

31、o indebted to my uncle who had given me the chance to be here.The one piece of advice I would offer is to bring your own washcloths. Only one of our hotels supplied them, because people there think they are not environmentally-friendly. I have no words to adequately describe our trip. Go. explore th

32、e small villages. eat and enjoy! I still look at my pictures and cant believe I was actually there.28. How did the writer find Kilkenny? _ 单选题 *A. It was not interesting at all.B. It was not worth staying at for a long time.C. It needed to open up to visitors more.D. It was also a wonderful place.(正

33、确答案)29. What can be inferred from the passage? _ 单选题 *A. Their driver helped a lot during the journey.(正确答案)B. The Titanic was filmed in Cobh.C. The writer knew nothing about Brave Heart.D. The writer visited the Trim Castle alone.30. What does the underlined word indebted”most probably mean in Para

34、graph 5? _ 单选题 *A. Angry.B. Thankful.(正确答案)C. Stressed.D.Amazed.31. Which statement is NOT true according to the passage? _ 单选题 *A. The writer didnt show great interest in visiting Ireland at first.B. The trip was more exciting than they expected.C. They had thought the self-drive tour was very easy

35、.(正确答案)D. It was the first time for the writer to visit Ireland.DThe comebackFausto Ruiz got off the boat at the port of the city where he was born fifty years ago, and to which he had been away for twenty years. There were lots of new buildings up on the hills around the city now, buildings which h

36、e didnt recognize. Yet many of the old buildings were exactly the same, although many of the old shops were there no more.He walked up the main road and saw that there was still one small cafe there which was the same as it had been. Walking into the cafe, he recognized the owner behind the bar as w

37、ell as the waiter working there. They both looked much. much older. Fausto felt certain that he didnt look as old as they did, even though they were all twenty years older now.Fausto sat at a table and waited. He raised his arm and shouted to the waiter, then to the owner behind the bar, but it was

38、useless. They didnt come and ask him what he wanted. They were ignoring him.Angry, Fausto got up and walked out of the cafe. Such ignorant people, he thought. Now I remember why I left this town twenty years ago, and why I never came back.He walked along the main street as far as the main square in

39、the town, and when he arrived there he remembered the other reason why he had never come back. In the main square there was the theatre. He had a terrible memory of what happened there twenty years ago.Twenty years ago, Fausto Ruiz was the most famous singer in the world. He had sung in all of the m

40、ost famous opera houses in the world. Everywhere he went, people paid large sums of money for tickets. When they saw him sing they clapped and applauded and cheered. When he was at the height of his fame, Fausto decided to come back and held a concert in the theatre.The concert was announced, and al

41、l the tickets sold out within a few hours. Thousands of people crowded into the theatre to see the legendary Fausto Ruiz sing in the theatre.There was silence as Fausto walked onto the stage. Then he began to sing one of his best known songs. And at the end of the song, there was just silence. Faust

42、o waited. very surprised for a moment, and then started to sing another song. At the end of this song, there was silence for a moment. Then the people began to boo, and to hiss. Fausto tried to cover the noise by singing another song very loudly this time. But it got worse. The louder he sang, the l

43、ouder the boos and hisses became. Soon. there was a rain of rotten fruit and vegetables and smelly old shoes falling down. Fausto was extremely angry. He stormed off the stage and out of the theatre. He left his hometown that night, and he said that he would never, ever go back there ever again.Now

44、he decided to walk into the theatre. As he walked in he saw it was the same man selling tickets in the box office. Fausto said hello to him but the man said nothing and ignored him. Still the same” thought Fausto. He felt sad. and left the theatre and decided to see the house where he had been born.

45、He walked all the way across the town, expecting to be recognized by people. He saw some men in the park, who were the same age as he was, and he remembered them. They were his friends when he was at school. He walked over to them to say hello, but they, too, ignored him.He was so angry and so disap

46、pointed that he began to shout. I am the great Fausto Ruiz! The greatest singer the world has ever heard!” Nobody took any notice of him.When he finally reached his old house, he at least had a pleasant surprise. Outside the house. there was a statue （雕塑） and it was a statue of himself. Finally!” th

47、ought Fausto. Somebody has recognized my genius!”Fausto went to have a closer look. There was some writing at the bottom of the statue.Fausto Ruiz” it said. Singer”. Fausto was disappointed that it did not say the greatest singer in the world”, but at least it was a statue. There was some more writi

48、ng. He looked carefully at it. There was his date of birth, fifty years ago. And then there was something else. It was another date. and it was yesterday. It was the date of his death.32.When he returned home twenty years later. Fausto Ruiz really expected . 单选题 *A.that the people as old as him coul

49、d remember who he was(正确答案)B. to see the great changes in his hometownC. that the people could still appreciate his singingD.to tell the people there that he could still recognize them33.Which of the following directly caused him to leave his hometown? 单选题 *A. His willingness to be famous all over t

50、he whole world.B. Too much admiration for him and his singing.C. His singing in the most famous opera houses in the world.D.What the people did to him in the theater.(正确答案)34.The underlined sentence Then the people began to boo. and to hiss” shows that the people there . 单选题 *A. thought highly of hi

51、m and his singingB. became very excited when hearing him singingC. were extremely disappointed in him and his singing(正确答案)D.were ignoring him and his singing35.We can say that Fausto Ruiz is_ according to the story. 单选题 *A. open-minded and humorousB. sensitive and proud(正确答案)C.ignorant and stupidD.

52、 lively and cheerful第二节(共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5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。Procrastination（拖延症）is a common problem we face, which harms not only our performance but also our self-confidence. 36 _ So, here we go. Plan in advanceIf you dont plan your day, you will find it difficult to be pr

53、oductive and get more done. You may not remember what you have to do, or even if you do remember, you may procrastinate. Therefore, make a list of everything you have to do the next day, most probably before sleeping at night. 37_Start from the most importantMost of the time, we complain that we dont get enough time. 38_ So, you