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江苏省泰州中学2008—2009学年度第二学期 高一英语第一次月考试卷 2009.3 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分20分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。 第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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. When will the woman get to the bus station? A. Before 8:00. B. By 8:15. C. After 8:30. 2. What are the speakers talking about? A. When the children left for school. B. How the children went to school. C. Why the children stayed at school. 3. On what day does the conversation take place? A. Monday. B. Saturday. C. Friday. 4. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The man doesn’t think the woman works at the bank on High Street. B. The woman doesn’t know the man. C. The woman has been here for a long time. 5. What can we know about the man? A. He can understand nothing. B. He understood the main idea at last. C. He still can’t understand the main idea. 第二节 (共15小题；每题1分，满分15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秒针：听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。 6. Why did Mary stay at home yesterday evening? A. To do her homework B. To take care of her baby sister. C. To watch TV. 7. What was on TV last night? A. Boxing. B. Singing. C. A good film. 8. What did John do last night? A. He watched a basketball match. B. He enjoyed music. C. He saw a film. 听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。 9. How old is the house? A. 30 years. B. 23 years. C. 33 years. 10. Why does the woman want to sell the house? A. She doesn’t like it. B. She wants to live in the country.
C. She needs money to buy a house for her son. 11. How much does the woman want for the house? $15,000. B. $50,000. C. $150,000. 听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。 12. What was the woman’s purpose in going to New York during the vacation? A. To visit an American family. B. To learn English. C. To go sightseeing. 13. When did the woman come back from America? A. On July 5th. B. On July 25th. C. On August 25th. 14. What can we know about the American classes? A. The teachers taught mostly speaking. B. The teachers were serious. C. The students were quiet. 听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。 15. What does the man consider a challenge? A. Managing staff. B. Solving finances. C. Teaching tennis. 16. What kind of person does the woman think the man is? A. One who can handle everything. B. One who can’t handle pressure. C. One who is easily nervous. 17. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Teacher and student. B. Boss and secretary. C. Workmates. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. What is the talk mainly about? A. Why people read newspapers. B. How people read newspapers. C. When people read newspapers. 19. Which of the following isn’t mentioned in the talk? A. How news passed five hundred years ago. B. How newspapers get the information. C. How long it took for important news to be passed five hundred years ago. 20. What is the speaker’s attitude towards ads in newspapers? A. They are boring. B. They cheat the customers. C. They are beneficial for both the companies and the newspapers. 第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分) 第一节：单项填空 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分) 请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 21. We stood at the top of the mountain ________ east of the city, watching a burning sun ________ . A. /; rising B. the; rising C. /; raising D. the; raised 22. —What did the young man come to your company for? —He wanted a job, ________ he has never experienced before. A. what B. the one C. that D. one 23. With three children ________, Mrs. Smith had to work hard to make ends meet. A. raising B. to raise C. raised D. raise 24. —I heard Back Street Boys would sing at the New Center Theater. —Where did you ________? A. pick that up B. put that up C. make that up D. turn that up 25. —Now that you like the cell phone so much, why not carry it back? —Well, you know, I’m a student, and I can’t afford ________ mobile phone. A. that expensive a B. a that expensive C. so an expensive D. such expensive a 26. When I try to understand ________ that prevents so many Americans from being what one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes. A. why it takes B. what it does C. what it is D. why it is 27. ________ was most important to her, she told me, was her family. A. It B. This C. What D. As 28. As we all know, the UK ________ four parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Island. A. is consisted of B. is made up of C. is made of D. consists 29. —Which of the two computer games did you prefer? —Actually I didn’t like ________. A. all of them B. either of them C. none of them D. neither of them 30. —I enjoy the food and the music very much. —I’m glad you like it. Please drop in any time you like. —________ A. Is it all right? B. I’m afraid I won’t be free. C. Thank you. I will. D. That’s OK. 31. ________ a tourist attraction, it now needs cleaning because of the heavy pollution. A. When it was B. When used to be C. Once used to be D. Once 32. The shock made my heart ________ faster. A. beating B. jumping C. beat D. jump 33. —Do you have the Harry Potter? —Yes, but no more than one copy. Would you like to take ________? A. some B. them C. it D. one 34. Our city has developed into a big city, which is ________ it used to be. A. four times larger than that B. four times the size of what C. four times the size larger than what D. as four times the size as that 35. The girl ________ to be a good dancer if she is well trained in an art school. A. expects B. allows C. wishes D. promises 第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen 36 for almost a month. The crops were dying. Every day, my husband 37 to get water to the fields. But 38 we saw some rain soon, we would lose everything. However, one day I learned the true lesson of 39 and witnessed the only miracle I had 40 seen before. I was cooking in the kitchen when I saw my son, Billy, 41 toward the woods. He was walking 42 with effort, trying to be as still&n
