辽宁省黑山县黑山中学2020-2021学年高一上学期第一次月考英语试题

黑山中学2020—2021学年度第一学期第一次考试

高一英语

考试时间：100分钟    试卷满分：120分   出题单位：凌海二高英语组   

 

第一部分：听力(略)

第二部分　阅读理解(共两节，满分50分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

My Favourite Books

Jo Usmar is a writer for Cosmopolitan and co­author of the This Book Will series (系列) of lifestyle books.Here she picks her top reads.

Matilda

Roald Dahl

I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful worlds.Matilda's battles with her cruel parents and the bossy headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, are equally funny and frightening，but they're also aspirational.

After Dark

Haruki Murakami

It's about two sisters—Eri, a model who either won't or can't stop sleeping, and Mari, a young student.In trying to connect to her sister, Mari starts changing her life and discovers a world of diverse “night people” who are hidingsecrets.

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

There was a bit of me that didn't want to love this when everyone else on the planet did，but the horror

story is brilliant.There's tension and anxiety from the beginning as Nick and Amy battle for your trust.It's a real whodunit and the frustration when you realise what's going on is horribly enjoyable.

The Stand

Stephen King

This is an excellent fantasy novel from one of the best storytellers around.After a serious flu outbreak wipes out 99.4% of the world's population, a battle unfolds between good and evil among those left.Randall Flagg is one of the scariest characters ever.

21．Who does “I” refer to in the text?

A．Stephen King.    B．Gillian Flynn.     C．Roald Dahl.     D.Jo Usmar.

22．Which of the following tells about Mari and Eri?

A．After Dark.      B．Matilda.       C．Cosmopolitan.   D．The Stand.

23．What kind of book is Gone Girl?

A．A folk tale.    B．A  horror story.    C．A love story.   D． A biography.

B

It is often said that Western Europeans speak English. From traveling all through Europe, I know that this is not entirely true. Some regions of Europe have a 90% of English speaking rate, while in other parts, English is generally a tongue which is impossible to understand. The divide, it seems, lies with the Romance languages.

In Scandinavia, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the rest of the Western European non­Romance language speaking regions, English seems to be understood and spoken just like the people's first tongue. In Iceland, I have never experienced English was spoken so well and so widely by a non­native speaking country. And I have almost never met a Dutch person who did not speak English almost as well as my countrymen.

But when you move to the south of Western Europe a little, something happens. English becomes a less useful language for traveling. You just cross over the Romance language barrier (障碍) and into Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, where English is spoken at a rate that does not seem to be much higher than in China, Latin America, or Southeast Asia.

Traveling through Europe and working in hotels around the world that are popular with Europeans have given me a deeper view of their usage of foreign languages. The northern Europeans can often speak

five or six languages, while the Romance speakers hardly know more than their birth tongue. And if you think that Spanish and Italian are so similar that their speakers can understand each other, I tell you that this is completely wrong. Spaniards and Italians don't even understand each other. It is also not a fact that people from both of these countries can communicate in French; only those who put a large amount of effort into learning English or have lived abroad for years can speak English well.

People often say that French people really understand English but refuse to speak it, but from watching hundreds of French travelers over the years struggle with English abroad as well as friends in France trying in vain (徒劳无益) to communicate with me, I know that this is not true. English is simply not widely spoken there outside the large cities.

24．What can we learn from the passage?

A．In Iceland, English is not spoken very well.

B．A Dutch person can almost speak English as well as the author himself.

C．Spanish and Italian are so similar that their speakers can understand each other easily.

D．English is as widely spoken as French in France.

25．The author is probably a(n) ________.

A．American    B．Dutchman    C． Frenchman    D．Chinese

26．What does “this” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Western Europeans speak English.

B．French people really understand English but refuse to speak it.

C．Hundreds of French travelers struggle with English abroad.

D．Friends in France try in vain to communicate with me in English.

27．Where is the passage most probably taken from?

A．A geography textbook.       B．A fashion magazine.

C．A travel journal.            D．A news report.

C