江苏省南京市中华中学2020-2021学年高一(上)十月阶段考试英语试卷 含答案

2020-2021 学年中华高一上学期10 月月考

英语试卷

第一部分阅读理解(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A、B、C 和D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Cowboys, Policemen, Princesses and Superheroes are all characters kids choose to be on any given day. Putting on a play can be a fun activity that lets them act out their favorite characters as well as use their artistic ( 艺术的) ability to create the stage.

Best of all, they will be able to use their favorite line (台词) “look at me” as the audience sits down to enjoy the production.

Help your kids decide on a play they would like to act out. Use the Internet or library to find scripts (剧本) for older reading kids. For younger kids, you can act out a favorite story or fairy tale. Of course, you could always help them write their own script.

Decide how many characters are needed. Invite neighbors and friends to be in your play or let your kids play more than one character. Make sure you teach them to change the way they look, move and speak so the audience can tell the difference.

Search for costume and prop (工具) supplies. Find clothes from your closet or attic (阁楼), or go to a garage sale. Help everyone make a mask or put on makeup to represent their character.

Get creative. Make tickets, invitations, movie p osters and props for your kids’ play. You can even decorate a curtain and hang in front of the stage. Set up chairs for the audience.

Invite the audience to sit down and enjoy the play.

1. Which of the following characters may NOT be chosen by kids?

A. Policemen

B. Princesses.

C. Superheroes.

D. Beggars.

2.Which of the following tips is given?

A.Put on a play to improve kids’ learning ability.

B.Choose different scripts for kids of different ages.

C.Let a kid act out a single character in the same play.

D.Buy unique costumes and props for unique scripts.

3.The best title for the passage is .

A.How to Help Kids to Put on a Play

B.How to Give Kids Useful Advice on Performance

C.How to Get Kids Interested Performing

D. How to Teach Kids to Represent Their Character

B

An NPC deputy (人大代表) during this year’s two sessions suggested dividing the winter and summer vacations into four shorter vacations. Though it seems helpful, the proposal is out of the realities.

Firstly, the deputy believed that shorter vacations could alleviate ( 缓解) parents’ burden of caring for their children at home and offer families more opportunities to travel together. However, the general consensus (共识) is that most parents are often so busy trying to make enough money to provide for their children’s education and household costs that they don’t even have enough time to keep their kids company, let alone to be able to take their kids on vacation.

Secondly, each of the breaks will only last for about three weeks. Even though this is generally a long enough time for students to go to tutoring centers (培训机构) if their parents pay extra attention to their children’s studies, they may end up finding themselves continuously having to shift between a busy school term and a more relaxed period of time off. While this may help to prevent children from playing with their mobile phones or video games, is it really necessary to create new term system (体系) to do so? As the saying goes, “Penny wise and pound foolish.”

Moreover, as some netizens have mentioned, the main purpose of winter and summer vacations is to give students more time to celebrate the Spring Festival and to escape the summer heat. Not only do longer vacations spare many students the efforts of travelling from home to school, but they also offer chances for them to do things with long-lasting positive effects, such as volunteering in the community or joining in overseas exchanges.

In a word, there is still a long way to go to improve the vacation system before a better option turns up. So what we students need to do for now is just make the best of our vacation time and prepare ourselves for the future terms.

4.Why did the deputy make the new proposal?

A.To pay more attention to children’s learning

B.To encourage children to relax themselves

C.To increase parents-children caring and love

D.To greatly reduce children’s learning burden

5.If kids have shorter vacations, they may .

A.have more time to learn their school subjects

B.Find their study and rest both poorly affected

C.feel more relaxed and will do better in new terms

D.not be interested in phones or computer games

6.Which “spare” of the following sentences shares the same meaning with the underlined “spare” (para 4)?

A.I tried to spare Tom the trouble of coming late for school.

B.Whenever our guests come, we have some free rooms to spare.

C.I have decided that I will spare no effort to improve my English.

D. It’s good and wonderful of you to spare time to come to see me.

7. The author thinks the proposal is .

A. valuable

B. charming

C. unpractical

D. challenging

C

Birds have nostrils on their beaks ( 喙) that can help them smell all kinds of things. When animals breathe air, they can also breathe in different smells.

The nose can pick up on smells and send information to the brain by the olfactory system. We have an olfactory system, too. This system can help animals understand the world through a sense of smell.

Maybe you’ve used your olfactory system to smell your breakfast, lunch, and dinner or you’re your new school books.

Birds can also use their olfactory systems to sniff out food. The kiwi bird uses its long beak to dig into the dirt. Its nostrils are on the outside and very tip of its beak. It’s thought that they use that sense of smell to pick up chemicals (化学物质) emitted by their food—grubs, worms, and other things that are in the ground.

One bird of prey that has a really great sense of smell are turkey vultures. Vultures are scavengers, meaning they eat dead animals. They have a fantastic sense of smell. They use their nose to pick up chemicals from things that are decaying (腐烂). Turkey vultures have one of the strongest senses of smells among birds. They have been known to smell food that was over a mile away.

But albatrosses, which can have wingspans around ten feet, have been known to sniff out food from even greater distances-about 12 miles away. These seabirds can pick up chemicals from dead fish or groups of fish. They can even sense the smell that krill give off when they are eaten by fish. That helps them find the fish via the k rill.

While a sense of smell is helpful for birds, it isn’t the only useful or even sometimes the strongest sense—they also use their senses of hearing, sight, and taste. The next time you watch your chickens, or other birds in the neighborhood, maybe you can observe how they use all these senses.

8.The first three paragraphs try to tell us .

A.animals can send information by smelling

B.birds use their beaks to get to know the world

C.we are fond of smelling things that interest us

D.the sense of smell is very important to animals

9.Which of the following are big birds with a stronger sense of smell?

A. Kiwi birds

B. Turkey vultures

C. Albatrosses

D. Krill

10.It can be learned that .

A.birds have the strongest sense of smell among animals

B.kiwi birds’ nostrils are on the lower end of the beaks

C.the sense of smell of birds is their smartest sense

D. birds understand the world through various senses

11. Who are the target readers of the passage?

A. Bird scientists

B. School kids

C. University students

D. General readers

D

“I’m sorry,” the bank teller said. “Your check has bounced (拒付).” Her words took a moment to sink in. This year had brought so much pain. A divorce (离婚), losing my house, then the loss of my job right before the holidays… and now the check for my car insurance had bounced!

Leaving the bank, I wondered what I would do. My unemployment (失业) checks were delayed, and everything seemed to be piling up. How long could I last without money? How I missed my parents in the faraway Los Angeles, whom I had not seen for five years.

December in Michigan meant it was not only dark, but cold and snowy. Despite ( 尽管) that, I had an urge to take a walk on my favorite trail. Being cold and dark also meant there was a good chance no one else would be out, so I decided to go.

On the trail, I was grateful for sounds of rushing water coming from the little river. They covered my soft sobs while I walked. Tonight, it all felt like too much to bear.

Eventually, when my tears dried up, I headed home. Approaching my apartment (公寓) door, I noticed something bulky hanging on the it. Probably another bill, I thought. While I struggled with my boots, I could see a card with my name on it through the clear plastic bag. Reaching in, I took out a very small, white envelope. Inside the envelope was a beautiful card with no name written on it, but it was stuffed with gift cards --- hundreds of dollars of gift cards that could meet my urgent needs!

I was in shock and awe. The timing of this amazing anonymous (匿名的) gift, arriving at exactly the right moment, was almost too much to comprehend. Again, I began crying, but now they were tears of joy. I felt so loved.

I would go to Los Angeles tomorrow!

12. What happened to the author?

A. Something was wrong with her check.

C. Her divorce made her house taken away.

13.The story may probably take place .

A. in the early morning

B. in the late morning

14.Who might send the anonymous gift? B. She had to sell her car for lack of money.

D. She didn’t succeed if finding a new job.

C. in the late afternoon

D. in the deep night

A. The bank teller

B. Her former husband

C. Her parents

D. Her friend

15.What is the process of the author’s emotion and feeling?

A.Angry crazy calm grateful

B.Disappointed sad surprised warm

C.Disappointed moved surprised grateful

D. Crazy sad calm joyful

第二节(共5 小题；每小题2.5 分，满分12.5 分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

How to Welcome Change in Your Life

Do you embrace (欣然接受) the road you are now on or resist and avoid change at all costs when a recent event has shaken you greatly? 16

Don’t react.

What do we do when we don’t know what to do? First, stop, take a deep breath and don’t do anything. 17

It is having faith and trusting what you do know in the unknown.

Reflect on the past.

Another activity is to recall times in your life when you were faced with an unknown. Then, think about how you handled the situation. 18 Use your past experiences to bring you strength, and to remind you what you are capable of.

Make conscious decisions.

19 However, more possibilities open up when we are at peace. Go over you list of what ifs and make a more balanced list of the best and worst situations possible. Then talk to loved ones about what you would do in each situation and the choices you do have.

20

We often see fears as our greatest enemy, yet they provide us with an enormous opportunity for self-growth. What if we were to see them as friends who want to help us become a better person? Let your fears help you instead of hurting you. Then, write down what comes to you. You may be surprised by the answers.

A.Don’t panic.

B.Befriend your fears.

C.When we are fearful, our options seem limited.

D.Th en try to feel at ease with the state of “not knowing”.

E.Learning from past failures helps you make better decisions.

F.Remembering these incidents will remind you that you’ve gone through difficult situations.

G.Here are things you can do in the midst of uncertainty to choose differently to change the track of your l ife.

第二部分语言知识运用(共四节，满分50 分)

第一节(共15 小题；每小题1 分，满分15 分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C 和D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

The broken pot

A man had two large water pots. One pot had a crack (裂缝) in it，but the other was perfect and always carried

a(an) 21 pot of water.

At the end of the long walk from the river to the house, the cracked pot arrived 22 half full, with the man

23 one and a half pots full of water to his house.

The poor cracked pot was ashamed and 24 that it was able to do only half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of a 25 it believed to be, it spoke to its owner one day. “I am ashamed and I want to apologize because this crack in my side 26 water to leak out all the way. Because of my crack, you 27 to do a lot of this work, and you don’t get full value from your 28 .”

The man said to the pot, “Did you 29 that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side? That’s 30 I have always known about your 31 , and I planted flower seeds on your side, and every day while we walk back, you’ve32 them. For two years I have been able to 33 these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. 34 you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.”

Moral (寓意):

We’re all cracked pots, but it’s the cracks that make our lives so very interesting and rewarding. 35 to appreciate all the different people in your life!

21.A. clean

22.A. right

23.A. finding

24.A. satisfied

25.A. failure

26.A. helps

27.A. continued

28.A. acts

29.A. imagine

30.A. when

31.A. responsibility

32.A. watered

33.A. enjoy

34.A. For

35.A. Remember B. full

B. hardly

B. drinking

B. afraid

B. practice

B. drives

B. had

B. contributions

B. realize

B. because

B. secret

B. watched

B. thank

B. With

B. Stop

C. empty

C. only

C. using

C. sad

C. surprise

C. causes

C. decided

C. efforts

C. expect

C. why

C. technique

C. protected

C. pick

C. Beyond

C. Prepare

D. large

D. nearly

D. carrying

D. confident

D. success

D. invites

D. planned

D. tasks

D. notice

D. while

D. crack

D. reminded

D. buy

D. Without

D. Come

第二节(共10 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分15 分)

阅读下面短文，从空白处填入1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Few events can cause feelings of both excitement and 36 (anxious) for parents quite like planning a

child’s birthday. Often, we feel compelled (有必要) to have the next great party, but that could very likely set you up for unrealistic goals and very realistic stress. Don’t worry about 37 (keep) up with the Joneses. The focus should always be 38 your child and the relationship you share. While all of us want to do our best to create

39 fun and memorable even, most of us have to battle our natural enemy, lack of time. Let me offer realistic advice and suggestions for parents on planning for success and the things to avoid to prevent problems. The panning should revolve ( 绕转) around more than just t he party, but the birthday 40 (it). From the you’re your child

41 (wake) up, make him feel special whether it is with a special birthday breakfast 42 a decorated chair at the table. When the party begins, despite all your planning, things are bound (必定的) to happen: 43 (expect) guests arriving; the birthday cake falling on the floor. Be flexible and those moments will probably be the ones you laugh about in years 44 (come). My words of advice 45 (be) simple. Relax, keep it simple and most of all, keep your sense of humor!

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42.

38.

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第三节(共10 小题；每小题1 分，满分10 分)

根据首字母或中文提示写出句中所缺单词，注意使用正确形式。

46.He made a great c_ to the development of the new medicine.

47.I found it very refreshing to e ideas you’re your father as he has some very original views on how to deal with modern industrial pollution.

48.People under too much s may experience sleep problems.

49.I greeted him with a smile but he made no r .

50.Parents are more or less a_ about their children’s safety when they first leave the nest.

51.Generally speaking, successful people often hold a positive (态度) to life.

52.The competition is open to both teams and (个人).

53.Our plan needs to be (灵活的) enough to meet the need of everybody.

54.To fully realize your (潜力), it is of great importance for you to make the most of our school resources.

55.The government has declared a state of (紧急情况).

第四节(共10 小题；每小题1 分，满分10 分)

在下列句子的空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

A) 词汇知识运用

56.When you enter senior high school, you will find y our schoolwork more (challenge) compared with that of your junior high school.

57.There are lots of interesting stories and (adventure) experiences throughout his life.

58.Besides having an impressive academic (perform), I was actively involved in student activities.

59.Many people have come to realize that they should go on a (balance) diet and make room in their day for exercise.

60.Today is the start of a new term, the start of a three-year journey and the start of a (promise) future.

B) 语法知识运用

61.He volunteered (teach) in a mountain village after he graduated from Jiangsu University.

62.The key is to know to prepare yourself for the event and how to keep yourself (focus).

63.As a new student, I’m looking forward to (be) more independent and responsible.

64.It is the most instructive lecture that I (attend) since I came to this school.

65.After graduating from college, I took some time off to go travelling, turned out to be a wise d ecision.

第三部分书面表达(满分20 分)

66.假定你是李华，你校将举办英语演讲比赛，请给外语专家比尔教授写邮件邀请他来当评委包

(judge)。内容括：

1.比赛时间和地点；

2.比赛目的。

注意：

1.词数应为80 左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Professor Bill,

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

2020-2021 学年中华高一上学期10 月月考

英语试卷

参考答案

第一部分阅读理解(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)

A) DBA B) CBAC C) DCDB D) ACCB

第二节(共5 小题；每小题2.5 分，满分12.5 分)

GDFCB

第二部分语言知识运用(共四节，满分50 分)

第一节(共15 小题；每小题1 分，满分15 分)

21—25 BCDAC 26—30 CBCDB 31—35 DACDA

第二节(共10 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分15 分)

36. anxiety 41. wakes 37. keeping

42. or

38. on/ upon

43. unexcepted

39. a

44. to come

40. itself

45. are

第三节(共10 小题；每小题1 分，满分10 分)

46. contribution 51. attitude 47. exchange

52. individuals

48. stress

53. flexible

49. response

54. potential

50. anxious

55. emergency

第四节(共10 小题；每小题1 分，满分10 分)

A)56. challenging

B)61. to teach

第三部分书面表达Dear Professor Bill,

57. adventurous

62. focused

(满分20 分)

58. performance

63. being

59. balanced

64. have attended

60. promising

65. which

I’m writing this email to warmly invite you as one of the judges for an English speech contest to be held in our school next Sunday.

The contest is to start at 2:30 p.m. in our school hall with the aim of improving students’ English speech proficiency. I really hope that you can participate on this cultural activity, offering your professional comments and advice as a language expert.

I’d appreciate it if you could confirm your involvement at your early convenience.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua