2017届高三英语月考测试卷（一）

本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分，共150分。考试用时120分钟。

第I卷

第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）（略）

第二部分阅读理解（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（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

A

Dear Coach，

I have been out of work for almost six months now and things are starting to get very tough for me. I am practically living out of my savings. I have been looking for a job,but things are really bad and 1 cannot find a single person who wants to hire me. I know that the main problem is that I do not have a degree. I want to go back to school and get my degree,but I also need a job now. I owe money to some people who have been helping me. Because I am out of work，I cannot pay them back. What do you think 1 should do? I need to find a job as quickly as possible, and want to know what else to do to get people to give me a chance to work for them.

The Unemployed.

Dear Unemployed，

Before you get yourself in a really bad situation, you need to stop borrowing money from people. If you continue doing that,you will be deep in debts and the situation will get even worse for you. The next thing you need to do is look for a job depending on your abilities, skills, and experience. By doing that, you will be increasing your chances of finding a job that suits you best. And the last thing I will suggest is that you should stop feeling sorry for yourself and continue working hard to get a job that you need. Borrowing money, complaining, and feeling bad for your situation will do no good to you. Stay strong and get out there and start showing the world

what you can offer. I promise if you work hard and never give up,you will soon find the job that you are looking for. And while you are doing it,thing about getting your degree as well because it will help you to become more challenging. Try those tips.

The Coach

21.Why did the unemployed write to the coach?

A. To ask for some advice.

B. To tell his great difficulty.

C.To ask for a job.

D. To ask the coach to pay back his money.

22. The unemployed couldn’t find a job mainly because .

A. he always borrowed money

B. he didn’t have a degree

C. he didn’t work well

D. he didn’t get on well with others

23. The coach told the unemployed to stop borrowing money so as to .

A. save more money B. be able to get back to school

C. avoid running into deep debts D. prevent people laughing at him

B

Clare is a third grader at Hoover Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa. She often saw somebody outside during a class break, sitting alone and not having any friends to play with. When seeing this scene,she felt bothered,for in her mind everybody in the world needed friends. That was why Clare came up with an idea — “a buddy bench”.

Buddy benches have been tried at other schools. In 2012, a girl named Acacia came up with the idea of the friendship bench with her parents’ help. The students found it was something that was badly needed. Many students went there and found their friends. Other students learnt the importance of social communication with the words，like“hope”，“respect”，“listen”and“dream”， painted on the benches. The friendship bench was also praised by teachers there.

Clare thinks her school also needs such benches. So she has been working on raising the money to pay for the benches and talking with school officials about getting them installed. “They are certainly something that I think will be great additions to our school, ”said Claret principal , Kathleen. ^Clare thinks that everybody needs friends, ” said her mom, Tricia. “Moreover , she wants everybody to be her friends. Clare had been inspired by her elder sister who is disabled. ”“Having seen her sister's struggles,she understood what other kids felt when they were struggling. Clare didn’t want to see her sister or anybody else struggle. ”

As the actor Will Rogers said,“A stranger is just a friend I haven’t met yet. ”That’s apparently how Clare sees people as well. “I hope that I can have thousands and thousands of friends, ” Clare said. “Everybody needs friends. ”

24.Buddy benches will be added to Clare’s school to .

A. remind students of their old friends

B. help students improve their communication

C. provide students with more activities to relax

D. offer students more chances to make friends

25. According to Paragraph 2,the friendship bench .

A. was launched with the help of Clare

B. turned out to be a success at that school

C.had no similarity with the buddy bench

D.showed that primary students needed friendship

26. What is Kathleen’s attitude towards buddy benches at his school?

A. Positive. B. Negative.

C. Critical. D. Unconcerned.

27. According to her mother’s words,Clare .

A. always inspired her disabled sister

B. should urge others to make more friends

C. felt sympathetic to her sister and others in trouble

D. showed no interest in making friends with other people

C

An increasing number of people are being allowed to finish the working week early during the summer months. Does your boss trust you to spend an afternoon in the sun?

Each year the number of companies which offer employees the choice of an early finish to the working week grows. Or, perhaps, each year,more people who work on ordinary Fridays hear about people playing on summer Fridays.

When the sun is shining,it makes sense that you should be given Friday afternoons off,right? Sadly,not all managers agree with the policy.

Companies that offer employees Friday afternoons off usually expect the hours to be made up. UK publishers Pan Macmillan and Penguin Random House (PRH) are among those offering summer hours. At PRH, those who wish to take off Friday afternoons are expected to work an extra 45 minutes a day from Monday to Thursday. On Fridays, a rota(值班表)ensures each team has been covered. “Most of us don’t leave at exactly lpm，”Editor Anderson says. Depending on your workload,you might just leave an hour or so early,but it’s still nice to do. ”

Simon Hayward, CEO of Cirrus, says that the “Summer Fridays” policy requires trust, and that managers need to be seen to take advantage of the offer too. “If a manager offers summer Fridays and then obviously expects employees to work on Friday afternoons, there is a risk associated with it that reduces the sense of well-being(幸福）.I think there’s a genuine fear in some organizations about flexible working hours. Do you trust your employees to do their best for the buti- ness as well as for themselves and their families,or do you fundamentally mistrust them?”

Managers in the former camp tend to be comfortable with summer hours. Those in the latter worry that summer Fridays will lead to late Mondays and long-lunch Tuesdays.

28. What’s the good policy for some employees in summer?

A. They don’t work on Friday.

B. They have flexible working hours on Friday.

C. They can take Friday afternoons off.

D. They might leave an hour early on Friday afternoon.

29. Usually in companies, this policy causes the employees to .

A. work extra time from Monday to Thursday

B. actually work on Friday afternoons

C.have a short lunch on Tuesdays

D.start work early on Friday mornings

30. What is Editor Anderson’s attitude towards the policy at PRH?

A. Opposed. B. Supportive. C. Neutral. D. Indiffer-ent.

31. The underlined part in the last paragraph refers to .

A. managers who trust their employees to do their best

B. companies which can manage the employees well

C. managers who mistrust employees

D. companies which offer Friday afternoons off

D

Happiness is a journey

We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, than another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more content when they are. After that we’re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be

happy when they are out of that stage.

We always tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse (配偶) gets his or her act together. When we get a nice car, and are able to go on a nice vacation when we retire. The truth is, there’s no better time than right now. If not now, when? Our life will always be filled with challenges. It’s best to admit this to ourselves and decide to be happy anyway.

One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred Souza. He said, “for a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin a real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way,something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ”

This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment that you have.

And remember that time waits for no one. So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school; until you get married, until you get divorced； until you have kids; until you retire； until you get a new car or home； until spring； until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy...

Happiness is a journey, not a destination. So, work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching.

32. In the third paragraph, the author uses Alfred Souza’s quote in order to .

A.support his viewpoint B. introduce one more topic

C.enrich the content of the article D. compare their different views on happiness

33. The underlined word “this” in the second paragraph probably refers to “ ”.

A. Life will be better after we get married, have a baby and another.

B. Our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together.

C. When we retire, we are able to go on a nice holiday.

D. Our life is always filled with challenges.

34. The best title of the text might be .

A. Owning the present is owning the future

B. Pursuing Happiness is Nature of Us Humans

C. Happ