1、海南省海口市湖南师大附中海口中学届高三上学期第一次月考 英语试题海口中学2021届高三第一次月考卷英语时量：120分钟 分值：150分 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1.What does the man mean？ A.He doesnt have anything to do. B.He believes the woman is wrong abo
2、ut the time. C.Time passes very quickly. 2.What did Paul do this morning？ A.He had a history lesson. B.He had a chemistry lesson. C.He attended a meeting. 3.What does the woman mean？ A.Jimmy is going to set out tonight. B.Jimmy has not decided on his journey. C.There is no need to have a farewell （告
3、别） dinner. 4.What does the woman worry about most？ A. Bad weather. B. Bus strike. C. Heavy traffic.5.What did the man say about his camera？ A.He enjoyed using his new camera. B.He left his camera in his friends car. C.He lost his camera. 第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中
4、所给的 A、B、C 三个 选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个 小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间，每段对话或读白读两遍。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 至第 7 题。6. How old is the woman now？A. Ten years old. B. Nineteen years old. C. Eighteen years old.7.How does the woman make some money？ A.She gives lessons. B.She plays the piano at the co
5、ncerts. C.She plays the piano at parties. 听下面一段对话，回答第 8 至第 9 题。8. When does the woman plan to leave？A. On Wednesday morning. B. On Friday afternoon. C. On Saturday night.9.What does the woman think about the cost？ A. Low. B. Reasonable. C. High听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第 12 题。10. What is the girls nationality
6、？A. Chinese. B. Japanese. C. Indian.11. What is the most probable relationship between the two speakers？A. Customer and shop assistant. B. Student and teacher. C. Classmates.12.What does the man mean when he says “Very good”？ A.He thinks the girl can easily understand his words. B.He thinks the girl
7、 understands how to use “Excuse me” and has used it correctly. C.He thinks the girl is clever. 听下面一段对话，回答第 13 至第 16 题。13. Where does this conversation take place？A. At a travel agency. B. At the railroad station. C. At the bus station.14.Why does the traveler want to take a bus？ A.The bus tickets ar
8、e cheaper than the train tickets. B.The traveler wants to experience another way of traveling. C.Bus stops at several cities along the way. 15.Why are the bus tickets much cheaper than the train tickets？ A.The bus trip takes longer time. B.The bust stops at several cities. C.There is no rest room in
9、 the bus. 16.Why couldnt the passenger use the train ticket to pay for the bus ticket？ A.The train ticket costs more than the bus ticket. B.The train station belongs to another company. C.Her uncle and aunt dont agree with her to do so. 听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 题。17. What is the speaker doing？A. Giving
10、a lesson. B. Making a speech. C. Introducing a family.18.How long was the company in business？ A.For over a century. B.For about half a century. C.For about a quarter of a century. 19.Why did the company nearly go out of business？ A.They paid for the fire loss. B.They spend too much building the new
11、 factory. C.They paid the employees regularly while rebuilding. 20.What do we know about Arden Textile？ A.They received an award from the public. B.People had different views on what they did. C. They have helped others make great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）AYou never see him, but they
12、re with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast youre traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book. Theyre known as the black box.When planes fall
13、 from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine （潜水艇） detected the devices homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determin
14、ing the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which became a requirement on all U.S. commercial flig
15、hts by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane the area least subject to impact from its original position in the landing wells （起落架舱）. The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required tha
16、t the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.Modern airplanes have two black boxes：a voice recorder, which tracks pilots conversations, and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investi
17、gators reconstruct the aircrafts final moments. Placed in an insulated （ 隔绝的） case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000. When submerged, theyre also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts
18、believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say theyre still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one planes black boxes were never recovered.21. In Paragraph
19、 1，the author wants to say the black box_.A. is an necessary device on an airplane B. comes from a comic bookC. can prevent disasters D. can control the function of an airplane22. Why was the black box redesigned in 1965？A. New materials became available by that time.B. The early models often got da
20、maged in the crash.C. Too much space was needed for its device.D. The early models didnt provide the needed data.23. The black boxes were painted orange or yellow to_.A. distinguish them from the colour of the plane.B. warn people to handle them with careC. make them easily identified.D. obey the in
21、ternational standards.24. What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447？A. There is still a good chance of their being recovered.B. There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.C. They have stopped sending homing signals.D. They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.BHaving
22、 a tattoo（纹身） can reduce your chance of getting a job, but it depends on where the tattoo is, what it expresses and if the job involves dealing with customers, new research says.Dr Andrew R Timming told the British Sociological Association conference on work, employment and society in Warwick today
23、that employers were likely to view tattoos negatively. Dr Timming of the school of Management at the University of St Andrews said he had spoken to 15 managers involved in hiring staff about their reaction to interview candidates with visible tattoos. Most respondents agreed that visible tattoos are
24、 astigma, Dr Timming told the conference. One woman manager told him that they make a person look dirty. Another male manager told him subconsciouslythat would stop me from employing them. The managers were concerned about what their organisations customers might think, said Dr Timming. Hiring manag
25、ers realise that, ultimately, it does not matter what they think of tattoos - what really matters, instead, is how customers might think of employees with visible tattoos.Dr Timming said：The one qualification to this argument is there are certain industries in which tattoos may be a desirable charac
26、teristic in a job interview. For example, an HR manager at a prisonnotedthat tattoos on guards can be something to talk about and an in that you need to make a connection with the prisoners.The negative attitude to tattoos did not extend to ones that could be easilycoveredby clothing. Dr Timming als
27、o found that in some of the organisations it was only certain types of tattoos that diminished the chances of getting a job at interview. One male manager told him：If its gang culture-related you may have a different view about the tattoo than if its just because its a nice drawing of an animal that
28、 theyve done on their arm.25. Why do managers really refuse to hire a person with tattoos？A. They dont like tattoos themselves.B. Tattoos can turn customers away.C. People with tattoos dont obey the rules.D. People with tattoos are gang members.26. A person with tattoos can probably work as _.A. a d
29、oorkeeper B. a salesman C. a prison guard D. a manager27. Who would be most likely to be turned down by employers？A. A person who has his tattoos covered.B. A person who has tattoos of an animal.C. A person with a gang culture-related tattoo.D. A person with a drawing of flowers on his arms.28. We c
30、an infer from the last paragraph that _.A. not all tattoos reduce ones chance if employment.B. some tattoos are helpful to a job interviewee.C. its no use covering ones tattoos.D. tattoos are hard to hide.CAs early as the mid-18th century, some people began raising doubts about Marco Polos travels.
31、They pointed to seemingly obvious omissions in his descriptions of the Far East. In 1995, historian Frances Wood argued in her book “Did Marco Polo Go to China？” that the famous explorer from Venice never made it pass the Black Sea. She noted that his travel journal “ The travels of Marco Polo” left
32、 out the Great Wall of China, chopsticks and tea drinking among other details. Furthermore, Chinese documents from Polos day make no mention of the explorer and his men.Wood and other scholars have argued that Marco Polo based his tales of China on information collected from fellow trades who had actually been there. Last year, a team of Italian research
