广东省梅州中学2013届高三第一次月考英语试题

（本月考试卷由四大部分组成，分为选择题和非选择题。考试范围：新人教版第一册至第四册共20个单元；考试时间120分钟；分值150分）

注意事项：

1.答题前，学生务必将自己的姓名、班级、座号用钢笔或墨水笔写在答题卷上。

2.每小题选出的答案后，请写在答题卷对应题目的位置上，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净。答案不能答在试卷上。

3.考试结束，学生可只交答题卷。

第一部分：语言知识与应用（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。

After their business trip, John and Mary returned, eager to see their lovely children. As they drove into their home town feeling glad to be back, they noticed 1 , and they went off their usual route to see what it was. They found a 2 in flames. Mary said, “Oh, well, it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.

But John 3 closer and screamed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be off work yet, maybe there is something we could do.” It has nothing to do with us, Mary 4 .

But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror-stricken to see the whole house in 5 . A woman on the lawn was screaming, “The children! Get the children!” John 6 her by the shoulder saying, “Get a hold of yourself and tell us where the children are!” “In the 7 ,” cried the woman, “down the hall and to the left.”

In spite of Mary’s disagreement John 8 for the basement which was full of smoke and 9 hot. He found the door and two children. As he left he could hear some more sobbing. He delivered the two badly frightened children into 10 arms and started back asking how many more children were down there. They told him two more and Mary grasped his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s 11 ! That house will fall down any second.”

But he ran into the smoke-filled hallway and at last he found both children. As he climbed up the 12 stairs, the thought went through his mind that there was something strangely 13 about the little bodies next to him, and at last when they came out into the 14 and fresh air, he found that he had just 15 his own children.

The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some shopping.

A．direction B．mistake C．danger D．smoke

【答案】D

【解析】根据in flames. Mary said, “Oh, well, it isn’t our fire, let’s go home.及which was full of smoke 可知应选D。

A．plant B．store C．home D．kitchen

【答案】C

【解析】根据下文That home belongs to Fred Jones可知应选C。

A．walked B．drove C．ran D．rode

【答案】B

【解析】根据上文As they drove into their home town可知他们是开车回家故选B。

A．whispered B．nodded C．required D．disagreed

【答案】D

【解析】根据He wouldn’t be off work yet, maybe there is something we could do.” It has nothing to do with us,和In spite of Mary’s disagreement可知约翰要救人救火，而玛丽不同意，故选D。

A．ruins B．flames C．pieces D．silence

【答案】B

【解析】根据上文They found a 2 in flames，可知整个房子都起火了，故选B。

A．pushed B． greeted C．seized D．stopped

【答案】C

【解析】这里是短语seize sb by the shoulder抓住某人的肩膀，这里约翰抓住了她的肩膀故选C。

A．department B． hall C． house D．basement

【答案】D

【解析】 根据John 8 for the basement可知孩子在地下室，故选D。

A．rushed B．reached C．asked D．went

【答案】A

【解析】rush for冲向；reach for伸手去拿；尽管玛丽不同意救人，但是约翰还是冲向地下室，故选A。

A．heavily B．slightly C．partly D．terribly

【答案】D

【解析】heavily重地；slightly轻微地； partly在一定程度上；terribly非常地；根据常识可知着火了肯定是地下室相当的热，故选D。

A．waiting B．freezing C． cheering D．suffering

【答案】A

【解析】他把两个吓坏了的孩子递给正在等待人的胳膊里，故选A。

A．dangerous B．foolish C．practical D．painful

【答案】A

【解析】根据上文可知在大火中救人肯定是危险的。他的妻子喊道“约翰，不要再回去了那是危险的”，故选A。

A．final B．wide C．endless D．dirty

【答案】C

【解析】约翰跑进了充满烟的大厅，最后找到了两个孩子，当他爬上这没有尽头的楼梯是，他感觉有奇怪的事情，故选C。这里用endless表示一种心里的急切的心情。

A．particular B．familiar C．interesting D．fortunate

【答案】B

【解析】约翰感觉对于身边的小孩有奇怪的熟悉的感觉，故选B。

A．car B．sunlight C．crowd D．arms

【答案】B

【解析】根据and fresh air可知最后，当他走出来进入阳光里，故选B。

A．lost B．found C．rescued D．missed

【答案】C

【解析】他发现他救的是自己的孩子，故选C。

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，在空格处填入一个适当的词或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。

My friend had a chance to make a trip to Hong Kong 16. ________ August 15, 2011. He had dreamed about 17. ________ (visit) it since his boyhood and it was the first time that he 18. ________ (be) there. The following was 19. _________ he had seen.

20. _________ (arrive) there, he 21. __________ (impress) by its beautiful scenery and tall buildings. It is said that Hong Kong has the most skyscrapers in the world. Wherever he went, he saw many smiling faces there. People in Hong Kong were kind, generous, easygoing and ready to help 22. _________. Much to his surprise, he saw that people there always kept order in public places. 23. _______ crowds of people were waiting for the next train at the subway station, they were talking in such a low voice as not to disturb one another.

Chinese and English are their official languages. English is 24. _________ (wide) used in governments, markets, service centers and other fields.

Staying there for only a week was a good experience for him, 25. ________ he will never forget.

第二部分：阅读（满分40分）

第一节 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。（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

A

Do you know anything about the history of weather? Don’t look at the sky．Don’t look for old weather reports．Looking at the tree rings is more important．Correct weather reports date back only one century, but some trees can provide an exact record of weather even further back．

It is natural that a tree would grow best in a climate with plenty of sunlight and rainfall．It is also expected that little sunlight or rainfall would reduce the growth of a tree．The change from a favorable to an unfavorable climate can be found out by the reading pattern of rings in a tree trunk．To find out the weather of ten years ago, you can count the rings of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside．If the tenth ring is far from the other rings, then it is certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred．If the rings are close together, then the climate was bad for the tree．

A scientist studied the pattern of the rings of dead trees that had grown there．He made up his mind that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees．Trees were necessary to make fires and buildings．So, after the people destroyed the trees, they had to move．

In this example studying tree rings uncovered an exciting fact about the history of man．

We can find out the weather of five years ago by counting the rings of a tree trunk ____．

A．from the left to the right B．from the right to the left

C．from the inside to the outside D．from the outside to the inside

【答案】D

【解析】细节理解题。根据To find out the weather of ten years ago, you can count the rings of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside．故选D。

If the ring was far from the others, we can conclude that the weather of that year was ______．

A．bad B．favorable C．sunny D．rainy

【答案】B

【解析】细节理解题。bad 不好的；favorable有利的；sunny阳关充足的；rainy多雨的；根据If the tenth ring is far from the other rings, then it is certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred．Favorable既能说明有阳光又能说明雨量充足，故选B。

By studying the rings of dead trees in an area of New Mexico, the scientist found _______．

A．what the people had to eat B．where the people had to go

C．why the people had to leave D．how the people left

【答案】C

【解析】细节理解题。根据倒数第二段可知人们把树都给砍了，以致于他们不得不迁移，故选C。

The ancient people usually lived where there were plenty of trees mainly because ______．

A．trees provided an exact record of weather

B．trees were materials for fires and buildings

C．trees could supply them with shades

D．trees could supply them with fruit and food

【答案】B

【解析】细节理解题。根据Trees were necessary to make fires and buildings．故选B。

By giving the example of an area of New Mexico, the author tries to prove______.

A．trees can’t live in the area without population

B．what the relation is between tree rings and the history of man

C．that studying trees is important for the history of man

D．the history of man is important for the history of trees

【答案】C

【解析】细节理解题。根据Looking at the tree rings is more important．研究树对于研究人类的发展史很重要的，故选C。

B

Like distance runners on a measured course, all of us will move through time in a roughly predictable pattern.

In the first stage of our lives, we develop and grow, reaching toward the top of physical vitality (活力,生气).

After we grow up, however, the body begins a process of gradually wearing out.

A new awareness of physical fitness may help lengthen our years of health and vitality, yet nothing we do will work to stop the unavoidable force of aging.

Most of the changes of aging take place deep inside the body. The lungs become less able to take in oxygen. Powerful muscles gradually lose their strength. The heart loses power and pumps less blood. Bones grow easier to break.

Finally, we meet a stress, a stress that is greater than our physical resistance. Often, it is only a minor accident or chance infection (a disease caused by virus), but this time, it brings life to an end.

In 1932, a classic experiment nearly doubled the lifetime of rats, simply by cutting back the calories in their diet. The reason for the effect was then unknown.

For the first time, the mystery of why we age is being seriously challenged. Scientists in many fields are now making striking and far-reaching discoveries.

An average lifetime lasts 75 years, yet in each of us lies a potential for a longer life. If we could keep the vitality and resistance to disease that we have at age twenty, we would live for 800 years.

What does the underlined word “it” refer to?

A. Physical vitality. B. Stress.

C. Aging. D. Physical resistance.

【答案】B

【解析】词义猜测题。根据Finally, we meet a stress, a stress that is greater than our physical resistance. Often, it is only a minor accident or chance infection (a disease caused by virus), but this time这段主要谈论的是压力，故选B。

Which of the following is not a change of aging?

A. People gradually lose their muscle strength.

B. Bones tend to break more easily.

C. The heart loses power and pumps less blood.

D. The lungs become unable to take in oxygen.

【答案】D

【解析】细节理解题。根据The lungs become less able to take in oxygen.这个是年龄的问题，故选D。