宁夏育才中学2024届高三上学期第一次月考英语试卷
宁夏育才中学2024-2024-1高三年级月考1英语试题
第卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
第一节：（共5小题；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答案，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。
like the application to be sent?
A. By post.
B. By fax.
C. By e-mail.
3. Why is the man unhappy?
A. He hasn’t been well prepared for the exam.
B. He was scolded by his maths teacher.
C. He didn’t get a satisfying grade.
4. What does the woman do?
A. A police officer.
B. A ticket seller.
C. A driver.
5. What does the man think about Susan?
A. She is like many other people.
B. She always keeps her word.
C. She is tougher than men.
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。每段对话或独白读两遍.
请听第6段材料，回答6至7题’s husband.
C. A character in the woman’s book.
7. What kind of novel is Hot Lips?
A. A romantic one.
B. A detective one.
C. A political one.
请听第7段材料，回答8至9题。
the speakers?
A. At a club.
B. At the man’s house.
C. At the woman’s house.
9. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. Music.
B. Dance.
C. Wine.
请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
’s too expensive.
B. It’s too boring.
C. It’s too crowded.
11. What did the speakers do last year?
A. They went skiing.
B. They attended a New Year’s Eve party.
C. They travelled around Sky Valley Resort.
12. How does the woman feel in the end?
A. Worried.
B. Annoyed.
C. Excited.
请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
the two speakers mainly talking about?
A. How to save energy.
B. How to look after animals.
C. How to protect the environment.
14. What is the relationship between the speakers?
A. Teacher and student.
B. Customer and salesman.
C. Interviewer and interviewee.
15. How many miles does the man plan to drive this year?
A. About 8,000.
B. About 9,000.
C. About 10,000.
16. How many aspects does the man mention?
A. One.
B. Two.
C. Three.
请听第10段材料，回答17至20题。
and his wife do the other day?
A. They went fishing.
B. They went rock climbing.
C. They went swimming.
18. What was the weather like during the trip?
A. It became windy halfway.
B. It began to rain later.
C. It was cloudy at the beginning.
19. What happened to the boat right after the speaker got back into it?
A. It didn’t work.
B. It got stuck in rocks.
C. It was crashed into rocks.
20. How were the speaker and his wife rescued?
A. The local fisherman pulled them out of water.
B. The local fisherman searched the island for them.
C. Another boat pulled them to the mainland with a line.
第部分：阅读理解（共分）
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When you’re looking forward to taking a holiday in Egypt, you’re certainly not short of choices. The country has so many to see that you’ll probably not want to limit yourself to just one city.
Hurghada—A Water Sport Paradise
With 250 hotels ranking from comfortable 3-star hotels up to 5-star accommodation, the main attraction of staying here is the activities in and on the warm waters. It has become an international centre for water sports, allowing visitors to take part in surfing, sailing and deep-sea fishing. The waters are also home to a huge variety of coral and fish, making it a dream spot for diving. If all that isn’t enough, Hurghada is home to some of the world’s finest underwater gardens.
Luxor—An Open-air Museum of Ancient History
For those with an interest in Egyptian history, Luxor is an excellent place to stay and is built upon the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. If you make this the base for your Egypt holiday, you’re basically staying in an open-air museum! The morden city of Luxor has the ruins of Karnak. Across the Nile lie many more monuments, temples and tombs including the Valley of Kings and the Queens. The Nile sailing is necessary for those with an interest in the country’s ancient history.
Cairo—The Capital City
Finally, of course, there’s Cairo. It’s definitely a starting point for most of Egypt holidaymakers. Cairo offers an excellent mix of culture, art, cooking and sightseeing chances. With the famous pyramids, various temples and some fascinating museum, Cairo is a fantastic choice if you can come to the city.
21.Visitors flood to Hurghada mainly because it can offer them____________.
A. the funniest botanic gardens
B. choices of water activities
C. a brief history of Egypt
D. the mix of culture and art
22. Which of the following cities do most tourists visit first in Egypt?
A. Cairo
B. Luror
C. Thebes
D. Hurghada
23. This passage is most probably taken from____________.
A. a historical document
B. a science magazine
C. a travel guide
D. a book review
B
Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in additional to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practising. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won't put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.
Whatever you do , if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
24. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about __________.
A. the reasons for success
B. the meaning of success
C. the standards of success
D. the importance of success
25. In Paragraph 2, the underlined word “that” refers to __________.
A. being good at something
B. succeeding in life
C. putting in more time
D. setting a practical goal
26. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A. Successful people like to show their great skills.
B. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.
C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.
D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.
27. What is the main theme of the passage?
A. Having a goal is vital to success.
B. Being good is different from being great.
C. One cannot succeed without time and practice.
D. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.
C
Research has shown that 85 percent of communication is nonverbal, so choosing what to wear to an interview is clearly an important part of your overall presentation. It won’t make up for weak answers, but it can communicate some positive things about your personality and what you might be like to work with.
· Blue: You can’t go wrong with darker shades of blue, especially navy. Choosing from this powerful color will project an image of someone who is in control. From the interviewer’s point of view, the color blue suggests calm, stability, trust, truth, confidence and security. These are all great messages to send without saying a word.
· Gray: After blue, gray is the second most popular color to wear for an interview. Like darker blue, it’s not a distracting color to the interviewer, which means they’ll be focused more on what you’re saying and how you’re saying it. Gray means sophistication(老成), so use it to your advantage.
· Black: This is a commanding color and represents authority. Black also suggests excitement, so use it carefully when putting together your interview outfit. You may want to use it as an accent(着重色) —like in a scarf or tie, for instance—rather than as the primary color.
· Red: This is an extremely powerful color. It’s so strong that you should only use it as an accent color. Reds are associated with energy, passion, desire, power and aggression. People think of intensity(紧张) and passion when they see the color red, so use it carefully or it could send the wrong message to the interviewer.
· White: White shirts and blouses are always appropriate. It sends the message of simplicity, cleanliness, precision(精细) and goodness.
28. Why is it important to choose what to wear to an interview?
A. Because it will make up for your weak answers.
B. Because it suggests something about your personality.
C. Because it will make you feel better.
D. Because the interviewer judges a person by his appearance.
29. Based on the passage, which of the following are the messages from “Blue”?
①stability
②energy
③power
④confidence
⑤security
A. ①②④
B. ②③④
C. ①④⑤
D. ②③⑤
30. If you want to leave an impression of being simple and clean, you should be in _____.
A. gray
B. red
C. black
D. white
31. From the passage we can infer that _______.
A. job interviewees should think twice before wearing red clothes.
B. the colors can send all the messages you want to convey.
C. you can wear white clothes if you want to appear active.
D. gray is the most popular color to wear for an interview.
D
Elephants scored a big win in Dohar, Qatar, on March 22. People from 175 countries met in the Middle Eastern country. They voted to continue a ban on the sale of ivory(象牙). Two African nations, Tanzania and Zambia, had asked to open up the ivory trade.
People feared that weakening a 21-year-old ban on the sale of ivory would encourage illegal hunting and hurt elephant populations. African elephants once numbered in the millions. Today, there are fewer than 500,000.
“People born in 100 years should be able to see an elephant,” said Noah Wekesa, Kenya’s minister of forest and wildlife. His country voted to keep the ban.
In the 1980s, as many as 1 million elephants were killed throughout Africa. Hunters killed the animals for their ivory tusks, which were used to make jewelry and other things. “The slaughter of elephants in Africa was terrible,” says Paul Todd of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The group works to protect animals.
The ivory wars continued until 1989, when the United Nations voted to ban all trade in ivory. With trade controlled, demand for ivory fell. Governments punished hunters. Elephant populations began slowly to increase.
Tanzania and Zambia asked to allow ivory sales from government stockpiles(库存). Ivory is so expensive that it’s known as “white gold”. Tanzania holds almost 200,000 pounds of ivory, which is worth as much as ＄20 million. Zambia has 48,000 pounds of the white gold. The countries said they need the money the ivory would bring. They say it was taken from hunters or came from animals that died naturally.
Experts believe that trading ivory encourages illegal hunting. They felt happy about the decision which forbids the sales. “This is a rare victory for elephants,” said Jason Bell. He works to protect animals.
32. Tanzania and Zambia asked to open up the ivory trade to____________.
A. sell elephants
B. sell jewelry made from ivory
C. sell their stocked ivory
D. continue hunting for ivory
33.The underlined word “slaughter” in paragraph 4 most probably means___________.
A. protecting
B. killing
C. increasing
D. searching
34. Ivory is known as “white gold” because___________.
A. it is as rare as white gold
B. it has the same value as white gold
C. it looks like white gold
D. it is as valuable as gold
35. The text is mainly about____________.
A. protecting endangered animals around the world
B. the effects of the ivory wars of the 1980s
C. the life of elephants in the wild
D. continuing a ban on the ivory sale to protect elephants
第二节：（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。其中有两项为多余选项。
Life is just like a box. Inside it are happiness and sorrow, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in it teach us new lessons and make us a better person.
Love
Love plays a key role on our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could become cruel and violent. In the early stage of our life, our parents are the ones who show us with unconditional love and care. They tell us what is right or wrong, good or bad. 36.________ . It is only after marriage and having kids that a person understands and becomes sensitive to the feelings of others. Kids make a person responsible and mature and help us to understand life better.
