月考试题
一． 单项选择（每题1分， 共15分）
1. —Have you finished designing the machine?
—____ finished but there is still something to improve.
A. More or less B. Sooner or later C. Less than D. More than
2. He said that his bike ____ stolen and he ____ have to telephone the police.
A. was; would B. has; will C. has been; will D. had been; would
3. Do you know his difficulty he had ____ five children at school?
A. to keep B. to have kept C. keeping D. having kept
4. She knew he felt just the same ____ he did.
A. as B. like C. what D. that
5. It is said that the weather will ____ hot for another three or four days.
A. look B. last C. stay D. get
6. Chuck is very ____. He never tells lies.
A. loyal B. wise C. honest D. smart
7. Tom is always ____ busy ____ he has little time for his friends.
A. too; to B. so; that C. enough; that D. either; or
8. They got up early ____ catch the first bus.
A. so that B. in order that C. in order to D. so as
9. Stephanie is ____ classical music and her sister is ____ rock music.
A. like; fond of B. enjoy; into C. fond of; into D. fond to; interested in
10. Friends should ____ happiness and sorrow ____ each other.
A. share; with B. solve; with C. share; from D. share; to
11. The majority of the students in China ____ hardworking.
A. is B. are C. has been D. have been
12. English has developed into the language most ____ in the world.
A. widely spoken B. widely using C. widely speaking D. wide use
13. Those football players had no strict ____ until they joined our club.
A. practice B. education C. exercise D. training
14. Beethoven was walking in the street ____ he heard someone ____ his Sonata in F.
A. before; play B. after; playing C. when; playing D. while; to play
15. The teacher asked Jim ____.
A. why was he late for school B. why he was late for school
C. how was he late for school D. how he was late to school
二. 完型填空（每题1分， 共20分）
An old friend from abroad（国外）__1__ I wanted to stay with telephoned me from the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I was still in the __2__, but I had done something to get ready for his coming. After explaining where my new room was, I told him __3__ I had left the key under the doormat（门垫）. __4__ I would be home rather __5__, I asked him to go into the kitchen and __6__ himself to some food and drink.
Two hours later, my friend telephoned me from the __7__. At the moment, he said __8__ was __9__ the radio __10__ having a truly wonderful meal. He had cooked two eggs and helped himself __11__ some __12__ chicken from the refrigerator. Now, he said, he was drinking a glass of milk __13__ he hoped I would __14__ him. When I asked him if he had __15__ the room without __16__, he answered that he had __17__ been able to find the key under the doormat. As the living-room window just __18__ the apple tree had been left __19__, he had climbed in. I listened to all this in __20__. There in no apple tree in front of my living-room. There is one in front of my neighbor’s.
1. A. what B. that C. which D. whom
2. A. room B. office C. station D. airport
3. A. that B. where C. why D. how
4. A. For B. When C. So D. As
5. A. late B. soon C. on time D. early
6. A. eat B. help C. cook D. make
7. A. airport B. station C. bus stop D. living-room
8. A. I B. he C. she D. my boss
9. A. repairing B. buying C. listening to D. hearing
10. A. after B. before C. as D. while
11. A. to B. with C. for D. from
12. A. cold B. hot C. new D. warm
13. A. and B. but C. because D. though
14. A. help B. see C. join D. join in
15. A. got B. arrived C. reached D. came
16. A. joy B. regret C. thinking D. difficulty
17. A. also B. always C. not D. none
18. A. in front of B. near C. far away from D. around
19. A. open B. dirty C. closed D. shut
20. A. silence B. surprise C. the room D. the office
三．阅读理解（每题2分， 共30分）
A
Joker found one of the biggest diamonds in the world right in his own backyard. He sold the stone to a diamond dealer for over three hundred thousand dollars. In New York, the diamond was resold— this time for almost eight hundred thousand dollars. The true value of a diamond is never known until it has been cut. Once cut successfully, its value can increase a thousand times. It’s easy to understand why the owner of Joker’s diamond went to the best diamond cutter he knew, Kaplan. The cutter studied the diamond for twelve whole months.
When he felt he was ready to start work, he discovered a flaw（瑕疵）. He had to begin his calculations（计算） all over again, or he might have made the stone useless. Six more months passed, and Kaplan finally said to the owner, “I am ready to start my work. There will be one excellent diamond that will be comparable to （可与……相比的） any in the world, plus eleven small diamonds of first-class quality（质量）.” Kaplan waited a few more days until he felt he was in the best physical and mental（精神的） condition possible. He picked up his tools and held his breath as he made the first blow. The diamond split（分开） exactly as he promised.
1. Joker found one of the biggest diamonds in the world ____.
A. in a minute B. at the foot of a big mountain
C. in his own backyard D. in a garage（车库）
2. A diamond dealer is a person ____.
A. in the diamond business B. who stole diamonds
C. who cuts diamonds D. who sells diamonds
3. When the diamond was resold, ____.
A. the dealer lost a lot of money B. Joker made some more money
C. the dealer got 800 000 dollars D. Kaplan got 800 000 dollars
4. The owner of the diamond knew that if the diamond was cut successfully it might be worth ____.
A. ＄300 000 B. ＄500 000 C. ＄3 000 000 000 D. ＄800 000 000
5. Kaplan studied the diamond for ____.
A. more than one and a half years B. more than half a year
C. over eight months D. more than nineteen months
B
If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise, and as a result, we are growing old unnecessarily soon.
Professor Taiju Mutsuzawa wanted to find out why quite healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down.
With a team of researchers at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain sizes of a thousand people of different ages with different jobs.
Computer technology helped the researchers to get most exact measurements of the sizes of the front and side parts of the brain, which have something to do with thinking and feeling, and decide the human character. As we all know, the back part of the brain, which controls tasks like eating and breathing, does not contract（萎缩） with age.
Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple way to prevent the contraction— using the head.
The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those with least possibility, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors. White-collar workers doing the same works day after day in government offices are, however, as possible to have contracting brains as the farm workers, bus drivers and shop assistants.
6. The team of doctors wanted to find out ____.
A. at what point people grow mentally old
B. how to make people live longer
C. the size of certain people’s brains
D. which people are the most clever
7. Their research findings are based on ____.
A. an examination of farmers in northern Japan
B. tests given on a thousand old people
C. examining the brain sizes of different people
D. using computer technology
8. The doctors’ tests show that ____.
A. our brain contract as we grow older
B. one part of the brain does not contract
C. sixty-year-olds have better brains than thirty-year-olds
D. some people’s brains have contracted earlier than other people’s.
9. According to the article, ____ are growing mentally old earlier.
A. engineers B. office clerks C. professors D. researchers
10. The most possible conclusion of the article is that ____.
A. most of us should take more exercise
B. the brain contracts if it is not used
C. it’s better to live in the towns
D. the more one uses his brain, the sooner he becomes old
C
The word horsepower was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt had made the world’s first widely used steam engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring power.
Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He called that unit one horsepower. With this unit he could measure the work his steam engine could do.
He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute.
Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse. Watt called it a ten-horsepower engine.
11. The passage tells us that Watt made the first ____.
A. engine B. steam engine C. widely used steam engine D. powerful engine
12. Watt wanted to find a way to ____.
A. measure the work his engine could do
B. tell people how powerful his engine could do
C. lift a 3300-pound weight
D. both A and B
13. Watt made a unit of measurement according to the strength of ____.
A. a man B. ten horse C. his engine D. a horse
14. One horsepower is equal to the ____.
A. work a horse could do in a minute
B. weight a horse could lift
C. work a horse could do in ten minutes
D. weight of one horse
15. Which of the following best gives the main idea of the passage?
A. How Watt called his engine.
B. How the word HORSEPOWER came into use.
C. How Watt measured his engine.
D. How the measurement was discovered.
四．改错（每题1分，共10分）
The Dead Sea is really a larger lake. The river Jordan 1.____
flows into it. It’s surface has an area of over a thousand 2.____
square kilometers. Because there is no outlet and the weather is 3.____
very hot, the water is slowly flowing up, the water in the sea 4.____
has unpleasant smell and a very salty bitter taste. It is full 5.____
with salt and other minerals. Human bodies will not sink in 6.____
it. People can sit up there and to read newspapers without 7.____
sinking, but it is not a good place for swimming, so the water 8.____
is bad for the skin. No alive things can live in it. That is 9.____
why it called the Dead Sea. 10.____
五．书面表达（共25分）
在日常生活中，因特网发挥越来越重要的作用，请根据下表所给提示为某杂志社写一篇题为On the Internet的征文（100字左右）
| 信息 | 看新闻，获取其他信息 |
| 通讯 | 发e-mail，打电话 |
| 学习 | 上网上学校，阅读各种书籍，自学外语 |
| 娱乐 | 聊天，欣赏音乐，观看比赛玩游戏 |
| 生活 | 购物 |
高一月考参考答案
一．单项选择（每题1分，共15分）
1—5 ADCAC 6—10 CBCCA 11—15 BADCB
二．完型填空（每题1分，共20分）
1—5 DBADA 6—10 BDBCA 11—15 AAACC 16—20 DCBAB
三．阅读理解（每题2分，共30分）
1—5 CACDA 6—10 ACDBB 11—15 CDDAB
四．改错（每题1分，共10分）
1．larger----large 2. It’s----Its 3. weather----climate 4. √
5. unpleasant前加 an 6. with----of 7. 去掉to
8. so改为because或for 9. alive----living 10.called前加is
五．书面表达（共25分）
On the Internet
The Internet is playing an important role in our everyday life. From it, we can learn the news both at home and abroad as well as all kinds of other information. We can also send e-mails to each other, make calls, go to net schools, read a variety of books and teach ourselves foreign languages. What’s more, we can enjoy music, watch live matches and play games through it. On the Internet, we can even do some shopping, have a chat with others and make friends with them. In short, it has made our life more colorful.