高一上学期英语第一次月考试卷第9套真题

高一上学期英语第一次月考试卷

一、阅读理解

1. 阅读理解

Sheffield

Lincoln College of English

Classes for foreign students at all levels.

3 months, 6 months, 9 months and one year course.

Open all year.

Small class .

Library, language laboratory and listening center.

Accommodation with selected families.

25 minutes from London.

Course fees for English for one year are ￡1,380 with reduction for shorter periods of study.

（1）This passage is probably taken from _______.

A . an advertisement

B . a notice

C . a poster

D . a piece of news

（2）Who will be accepted by this college?

A . Both foreign and native students.

B . Only foreign beginners and the advanced.

C . Foreign students from beginners to the advanced.

D . Only foreign students advanced.

（3）While you stay there, who will take care of you?

A . Your parents.

B . Your classmates.

C . The school where you study.

D . The family you have chosen.

2. 阅读理解

Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always creating new words, and we are often able to know where most words come from.

Sometimes no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg. They didn’t speak good English, but they ate good food. When some Americans saw them eating a round piece of beef, they asked the Germans what is was. The Germans didn’t understand the question and answered, “We come from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant. He had an idea. He cooked some round pieces of bread and started selling them. Such bread came to be called “hamburgers”. Today, “hamburgers” are sold in many countries around the world.

Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any word has a certain meaning is interesting, too. This reason, for most English words, can be found in any large English dictionary.

（1）According to the writer, English is .

A . very difficult to learn

B . not so old as Chinese

C . as old as Chinese

D . older than Chinese

（2）Hamburg is .

A . a round piece of beef

B . a kind of food

C . a city in Germany

D . the name of a village

（3）Which of the following can often be found in any large English dictionary?

A . Where those Germans came from.

B . Where all the new words come from.

C . The reason why a word comes from.

D . The reason why English is spoken around the world.

3. 阅读理解

When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation. I suggested that they should stay at ‘bed and breakfast’ houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.

“We didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holi day.”

I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought ‘VACANCIES’ meant ‘holidays’, because the Spanish word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacancies’. So they did not go to house where the sign ou tside said ‘VACANCIES’, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said ‘NO VACANCLES’, because they thought this meant the people