衡陽市八中2019級高三第六次月考試題 卷.docx

1、衡陽市八中2019級高三第六次月考英語試題命題人：易建華審題人：劉君時量：120分鐘總分:150分第一部分聽力（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分）第一節(jié)（共5小題；每小題1.5分，滿分7.5分）聽下面5段對話，每段對話后有一個小題。從題中所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出最佳選項, 并標在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽完每段對話后，你都有10秒鐘的時間來回答有關(guān)小題和閱讀下一小題。 每段對話僅讀一遍。1. How was the weather last week?Wet.A. Cold.B. Warm.C.2.What do the speakers disagree with about the holiday?3.4

2、.5.A. How to go. B. What to do.What will the man do for the cell phone company?A. Look for customers.B. Advertise cell phones.Who is the woman?A. A tourist.B. A tour guide.What are the speakers talking about?A. A meeting. B. A project.C.C.C.C.When to leave.Improve the image.A hotel receptionist.An a

3、rtwork.第二節(jié)（共15小題；每小題1.5分，滿分22.5分）聽下面5段對話或獨白。每段對話或獨白后有幾個小題，從題中所給的A、B、C三個選項中選出 最佳選項，并標在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。聽每段對話或獨白前，你將有時間閱讀各個小題，每小題5秒 鐘；聽完后，各小題將給出5秒鐘的作答時間。每段對話或獨白讀兩遍。聽第6段材料，回答第6至7題。6. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a pet store.B. In the man's home.C. In the woman's home.7.What does

4、 the woman suggest the man do?A. Feed a cat.B. Buy a pet cal.C. Try another cat food.聽第7段材料，回答第8至9題。8.How does the man feel now?A. Upset.B. Nervous.C. Tired.9.Which month is it probably now?A. April.B. May.C. June.聽第8段材料，回答第10至12題。1().How does the woman suggest the man travel to Paris?A. By plane.B.

5、 By coach.C. By train.11.Who will the man travel with?A. Lily.B. Peter.C. Dieter.12.Where are Alvaro's friends?A. In France.B. In Germany.C. In Mexico.聽第9段材料，回答第13至16題。13. When has the man been studying at home?C. Since age eight.C. Write a report.C. English.C. A tennis player.C. Asian rice.C. O

6、n Sunday.A. Since age four. B. Since age seven.14. What does the man think is difficult to do?A. Decide topics.B. Find material.15. What subject does the man enjoy now?A. History.B. Biology.A. A teacher.B. A film-maker.16. What does the man want to be in the future?聽第10段材料，回答第17至20題。17. What kind of

7、 rice absorbs the least water?A. European rice. B. American rice.18. When is the noodle museum closed?A. On Tuesday. B. On Thursday.19. Where can the visitors see the process of making noodles?A. On the first floor. B. On the floor B1. C. On the floor B2.20.What time does the noodle shop stop taking

8、 orders?A. At 10:00 pm. B. At 10:30 pm.C. At 11:00 pm.第二部分閱讀(共兩節(jié)，滿分50分)第一節(jié)(共15小題；每小題2.5分，滿分37.5分)閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出最佳選項。ARachel Kunhner, the author of Telex from Cuba, The Mars Room, and The Flamethrowers, has got some excellent books for you.Agortino by Alberto Moravia (1944).When my son t

9、urned 13, my mother said to me, "You have to read Agostino Agosino is a perfect novella and perhaps the best literate ever written about being a 13-year-old boy. Ifs painful and tender and funny. A masterpiece.The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen(l 967- 1971).Ditlevsen was a 20th-century Da

10、nish writer. Her trilogy of short memoirs, Childhood, Youth, and Dependency, is becoming the subject of a literary craze. As soon as you sink your teeth in, you'll understand why. The books are fascinating. The problem is they bite back. I'm still recovering.Star by Yukio Mishima (I960).Ther

11、e are a lot of Mishima novels that haven't been translated into English. This novella about a movie star losing touch with reality only recently was. "A true star, " Mishima writes, "never arrives. Showing up is for second-rate actor who need to seek attention. " Want to seem

12、 glamorous? Stay home. Attending things is for the second-rate.The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes (1963).Donna Tart once recommended Hughes to me. Tin so glad she did. While Hughes' most famous book, deservedly so, is In a Lonely Place. The Expendable Man has one of the best opening sequenc

13、es of any mystery novel: A man driving from L. A. to Phoenix picks up a hitchhikera dirty and ungraceful teenage girlwith grave consequences.21. Which book may appeal to readers crazy about mystery-solving stories?A. Star. B. The Expendable Man. C. The Copenhagen Theology. D. Agostino.22. What do we

14、 know about these books?A. There has been no English version of the book Star up to now.B. The Copenhagen Trilogy describes the author's whole life.C. All these books are recommended to Rachel Kuchner by others.D. Agostino is a good choice for parents of teenagers.23. Where is this text most lik

15、ely from?A. A column. B. A guidebook C. An announcement. D. A textbook BI'm rather good at using maps. But I forgot the maps and here we were, late afternoon, last day of vacation, my daughter, my cousin and I, driving along a two-lane highway in Oregon. No other car in sight, and the sun had ju

16、st gone down. Where was that sweet little village?It was supposed to be right along this river. We drove on, farther into the unknown, river always at left as our guide. We kept passing farms and fields and now a few lights were coming out. In my head, I was doing a lot of self-criticisms: Why didn&

17、#39;t we start earlier, bring the map and on and on? My cousin and I were both impatient and stressed. My daughter, at least, was happy in the back seat, text messaging a friend. I pulled up on the shoulder of the road to think.Just then WOW! Amazing! A new scene had appeared. Where did it come from

18、?Right there, out of nowhere: a magical misty landscape. Fields stretched in silent purples, with rows of tall trees, darkening in the dusk. I turned the car engine off. All was silent in the hot summer air. Beside us, a plum-colored river hardly moved between a border of trees, its dark lazy water

19、reflecting the last light of day.How breathtaking! Where had it been? If I had seen even a bit of this beauty while driving along, I could have stopped and taken a look. I had missed it all.Wc miss a lot, almost everything, in fact, in our world. Our task-focuscd filters （過濾器）take care of that, sele

20、cting only what we need. Wc need to get to work. Have some lunch. Wc sec what we need to see, often for purposes of survival. Gregory Bateson, speaking of beauty, said the judgment is selection of a fact. In our daily lives, who or what is doing the selecting? Can we make a change? Can we see furthe

21、r?24. Which of the following might be the destination of the author's driving?A. Her own home. B. A vacation spot. C. A tourist centre. D. Her cousin fann.25. What made the author keep blaming herself in the beginning?A. That the vacation was below her expectations.B. That she wasn't as good

22、 at using maps as before.C. That her cousin and daughter couldn't get along.D. That lack of full preparations got her to lose her way.26. The author felt really amazed because.A. her carelessness brought an unexpected pleasureB. she discovered a tourist spot unknown to the publicC. she unintenti

23、onally reached what she had planned toD. the right route to her destination came out of nowhere.27. What does the story intend to tell us?A. Stay cool when you are trapped in trouble.B. Make a change for the purpose of survival.C. Slow down your paces to enjoy beauty in life.D. Be positive because t

24、here's always an alternative.COn a September afternoon in 1940, four teenage boys made their way through the woods on a hill overlooking Montignac in southwestern France. They had come to explore a dark, deep hole said to be an underground passage to the nearby manor （莊園）of Lascaux. Squeezing th

25、rough the entrance one by one, they soon saw wonderfully lifelike paintings of running horses, swimming deer, wounded wild oxen, and other beingsworks of art that may be up to 20,000 years old.The collection of paintings in Lascaux is among some 150 prehistoric sites dating from the Paleolithic peri

26、od （舊石器時代）that have been documented in France's Vezere Valley. This corner of southwestern Europe seems to have been a hot spot for figurative art. The biggest discovery since Lascaux occurred in December 1994, when three cave explorers laid eyes on artworks that had not been seen since a rocksl

27、ide 22,000 years ago closed off a large deep cave in southern France. Here, by unsteadily shining firelight, prehistoric artists drew outlines of cave lions, herds of rhinos （犀牛）and magnificent wild oxen, horses, cave bears. In all, the artists drew 442 animals over perhaps thousands of years, using

28、 nearly 400,00（） square feet of cave surface as their canvas. The site, now known as Chauvet-Pont-1 'Arc Cave, is sometimes considered the Sistine Chapel of prehistory.For decades scholars had theorized that art had advanced in slow stages from ancient scratchings to lively, naturalistic interpr

29、etation. Surely the delicate shading and elegant lines of Chauvet's masterworks placed them at the top of that progression. Then carbon dates came in, and prehistorians felt shocked. At some 36,000 years old一nearly twice as old as those in Lascaux hauvet's images represented not the peak of

30、prehistoric art but its earliest known beginnings.The search for the world's oldest cave paintings continues. On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, for example, scientists found a large room of paintings of part-human, part-animal beings that are estimated to be 44,000 years old, older than any

31、figurative art seen in Europe.Scholars don't know if art was invented many times over or if it was a skill developed early in our evolution. What we do know is that artistic expression runs deep in our ancestry.28. According to the passage, where did the boys find the paintings?A. In the woods o

32、n a hillB. In a deep cave in France.C. In a manor of Lascaux.D. On an Indonesian islandAccording to the passage, figurative art in paragraph 2 is a form of art that.A. conveys concepts by using accurate numbers and formsB. makes stories in contrast to scientific subjectsC. represents persons or thin

33、gs in a realistic wayD. expresses ideas or feelings by using shapes and patternsIt can be inferred from the passage that.A. the Chauvet's paintings had been sealed by a rockslide until 1994B. the style of Chauvet's paintings is similar to that of the Sistine ChapelC. Chauvet's images are

34、 the earliest figurative paintings that have been foundD. the main objects of Chauvet's images are part-human, part-animal beingsWhich of the following is the best title of the passage?A. Value of Paleolithic ArtworkB. Preservation of Figurative ArtC. Artistic Expressions of NatureD. Searches fo

35、r Cave PaintingsDThe 1930s and early 1940s were a good time to fish for sardines （沙丁魚）off California. Centered on Monterey Bay, catches increased dramatically and supported the state's economy. But the situation began to change in 1946, and sardine catches eventually fell from an average of 234,

36、000 tons to just 24,000 tons. The industry wnet belly-up.Scientists have guessed for decades about what caused this phenomenon, but they lacked data to test their theories. Now researchers have finally found one apparent cause: cycles of ocean upwelling, a defining feature of the West Coast sea envi

37、ronment in which deep, nutrient-rich water rises to the nutrient-poor surface and restores the food supply there. The key that unlocked this phenomenon turned out to be old seaweed specimens （標本）gathered around the U. S.“Plants are just sitting there, recording data about the state of the ocean,&quo

38、t; says Kyle Van Houtan, chief scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and senior author of the new study. Van Houtan and others had suspected the impact of upwelling, but scientists only started measuring the process in Monterey Bay in 1946. Historic seaweed specimens, Van Houtan realized, might fil

39、l in the blanks for earlier yearssimilar to the way ice cores can help reconstruct CO2 levels from times before researchers started collecting real-time measurements.For the new study, the scientists relied on the fact that deeper water near Monterey typically hosts more of a particular nitrogen iso

40、tope （氮同位素）.Looking at modern upwelling data and recently collected seaweed, they found that higher levels of this nitrogen in the plants* cells corresponded with periods of more upwelling. Next they measured the isotope levels in 70 historic specimens of the red seaweed Gelidium, gathered from Mont

41、erey as far back as 1878. The results suggested a gradual increase in upwelling and then a dramatic decrease, which lined up with the sardine population's growth and decline."This paper is an excellent example of the creative detective work of historical ecology," says Loren McClenacha

42、n, a marine ecologist at Colby College, who was not involved in the research. "There are thousands and thousands of similar specimens in collections around the world, and applying similar methods could teach us a great deal about long-term ocean change.29. What does the underlined part uwent be

43、lly-up" in paragraph 1 mean?A. Sprang up. B. Caught on. C. Crashed. D. Participated.30. What docs the author want to show by mentioning ice cores?A. The significance of historic specimens.B. The severity of global climate change.C. The effectiveness of real-time measurements.D. The necessity of

44、 sea level reconstruction.31. How did the scientists caiTy out the new study?A. By comparing different kinds of seaweed.B. By analyzing historic and current data.C. By recording the upwelling process.D. By measuring the CO? levels.35 . What can be the best title for the text?A. The Rise and Fall of

45、Red Seaweed GelidiumB. Sardines Have Been Hard Hit by OverfishingC. The Hidden History of Fisheries in the West CoastD. Old Seaweed Reveals Secret of Monterey Sardine History第二節(jié)（共5小題；每小題2.5分，滿分12.5分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后的選項中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。Self-esteem is the ruling view you have of yourself. This i

46、ncludes your beliefs about your inner qualities and how you think others see you. 36. Someone can develop low self-esteem even when they are highly functional and greatly skilled. Understanding this mysterious emotional currency might be the key to unlocking your own self-worth.People with healthy s

47、elf-esteem don't need to boast about themselves to others. People with low self-esteem may tell you how much everyone loves them, what a great job they do at work, and how amazing they are at pretty everything under the sun even though they really wonder if it's true. People may see them as

48、obnoxious or 'Tull of themselves'1. 37. They are not shy about sharing ideas, including constructive criticisms of others. They also take care of themselves without second-guessing or apologizing. They are the people who we say seem "sure of themselves".If you're starting to th

49、ink you may have low self-esteem, you can work on the way you talk to yourself. When you turn off negative self-talk, you can open the floor to positive reinforcements and access the courage to show different sides of yourself. It isn't going to feel good at first, though. Keep going until it be

50、comes less and less and maybe even a few awkward laughs in the mirror may help. 38.However, in serious cases of low or even non-existent self-esteem, you may want to call in a professional or a specialist. Good mental health is important, and professionals doing psychotherapy do not pass judgement o

51、r give corrections. 39. It is the best way to get at the roots of your real self-esteem problems.4（）. It will take some work but your entire life一from your relationships to your body image to your work habits一will be touched with the kind of power that only conies from someone believing in themselve

52、s. This is the hardest part, and the greatest leap. With some changes and support, you can improve your self-esteem and see how everything else changes as a resultSelf-esteem is not always rooted in reality, though.A. You have the power to shape a new self-perceptionThis encourages you to speak open

53、ly without worry.B. The real test of character is whether they can learn from their mistakesSelf-esteem refers to a person's overall sense of his or her value or worth.C. People with a healthy level of self-esteem present themselves with a casual confidence.G With some practice and persistence,

54、you will win this internal struggle to see your self-worth.第三部分語言運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分） 第一節(jié)（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）閱讀下面短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。Six days of spring rain had created a raging river running by Nancy Brown's farm. As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she 41 and hit her head o

55、n a fallen tree trunk. The fall knocked her out for a moment or two. When she 42, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking herface. The water was 43. Nancy got up and began walking slowly with Lizzie. The water was nowwaist high. Nancy's 44 got slower and slower. Finally, all she

56、 could do was to 45 her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to 46. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to successfully 47herself and Nancy out of the raging water and onto a bit of high land, a small island now in the middle of acres of 48 water.49 it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the

57、rain and lighting so bad that it took 50 another two hours to discover Nancy. A helicopter lowered an ambulance man, who 51 Nancy to a life-support hoist. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym where the Red Cross had set up an emergency 52.When the flood went down two da

58、ys later, Nancy 53 went back to the "island11. Lizzie was 54. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy lost. "I owe my life to her'1 said Nancy 55.41. A.roseB. succeededC. slippedD. stayed42. A.turned upB. came toC. got backD. gave in43. A.risingB. flowingC. approachingD. changing44. A.mindB. heartbeatC. paceD. breath45.A.stretchB. throwC.feelD. bend46.A.hang onB. come alongC.run awayD. pull through47.A.directB. seizeC.pullD. carry48.A.pureB. stillC.frozenD. white49.A.Now thatB. Even thoughC.As ifD. E