英语月考试题第Ⅰ卷 (共103分)I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In a library. B. In a bookstore.C. In the classroom.D. In a department store.2. A. Its price. B. Its location.C. Its comfort.D. Its facilities.3. A. He is just a passer-by like the woman.B. He is unwilling to tell the woman anything.C. He doesn’t know where the closest bo okstore is.D. He can’t understand the woman’s question thoroughly.4. A. He would rather have American food.B. He has always liked American food.C. He is accustomed to eating American food.D. He ate American food more in the past.5. A. Five minutes. B. Fifty minutes.C. Forty-five minutes.D. Fifteen minutes.6. A. The man has left a good impression on her family.B. The man can dress casually for the occasion.C. The man should buy himself a new suit.D. The man’s jeans and T-shirts are stylish.7. A. Grey pants made from pure cotton. B. Fashionable pants in bright colors.C. 100% cotton pants in dark blue.D. Something to match her brown pants.8. A. They’d better not go riding. B. It’s not good riding in the rain.C. They can go riding half an hour later.D. Riding a bike is a great idea.9. A. Peter hasn’t found Mr. Johnson’s hat yet.B. Peter didn’t go to Mr. Johnson’s class.C. Peter lost a hat in Mr. Johnson’s class.D. Peter found a hat in Mr. Johnson’s class.10. A. By car. B. By bus. C. By train. D. On foot.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Near the entrance of a park. B. In his building’s parking lot.C. At a parking meter.D. At a street corner.12. A. It had been taken by the police. B. It had been moved to the next block.C. It had been stolen by someone.D. It had been parked at a wrong place.13. A. At the Greenville center. B. At a public parking lot.C. In a neighboring town.D. In the city garage.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. You will buy his meal. B. You are expected to pay foryour own meal.C. You’ll treat someone.D. You’ll be paid for the meal by someone.15. A. You will be in Holland. B. You will hear Dutch for a second time.C. You will be in trouble.D. You will find it hard to communicate.16. A. People hated the German as much as the Dutch.B. People made a mistake in pronunciation at the beginning.C. People made a joke about the German.D. The German immigrants insisted that they were Dutch.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.A Break-inName: Mrs. JenkinsTime: Between 12:00 and 17Lost belongings : 18 (Value: 240 dollars)19 (Value: 800 dollars )Other information:The husband is on a trip to 20Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for eachanswer.What is the survey mainly about? It’s on 21 Which two sports are most favored? 22What does the woman decide to do?To expand their line of 23 ogan.What does the result say about older customers?They are more 24 II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanksto make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blankswith a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.( A )Playing a violin with three stringsOn Nov.18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage togive a concert. The audience sat quietly while he made his way acrossthe stage to his chair and began his play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on hisviolin broke. We thought that he would have to stop the concert. (25)________ everyone’s expectation, he waited a moment, closed his eyesand then signaled (26) ________ conductor to begin again.The orchestra began and he played with such passion and suchpower and such purity(27) ________ they had never heard before.Of course, anyone knows that no one (28) ________ play a harmonious work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, (29) ________ that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. He smiled, wiped the sweat from his brow and then he saidin a quiet, sacred tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with (30) ________ you have left.”This powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the definition of life –not just for artists but for all of us.He has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; so it is with three strings(31) ________ he makes music, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more memorable than any that (32) ________ (make) before.( B )Emoji — a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc. in electronic communications, areeverywhere. The little illustrated characters that are on Smartphone keyboards (33) ________ (take) over the world now. There are shoes with emoji on them, pants with emoji on them, emoji stickers, emoji yoga, and the list goes on and on with no sign of ending. As emoji spreads into our cu lture, I’ve actually heard the following question：Is emoji moving to replace the written word in communication?To find out, I communicated by iMessage using only emoji forfive days. That meant(34) ________ ________ someone sent me a text or I wanted to send a text, I could only use the popular tiny picture characters (35) ________ (respond) to or start a conversation.I wasn’t allowed to cheat by moving the conversation to Facebook or Twitter, etc., but I could send a phone emoji to indicate tothe recipient of my texts that they should call me instead; I could not encourage the phone call myself. I wanted to see if it was (36) ________ (easy) than I expected it to be, yes, but I also wanted to see if I could influence (37) ________ I was communicating with to overthrowtheir use of text and start using emoji while talking to me.(38) ________ (communicate) with emoji was a way more difficult than I expected. There were people who were annoyed with me. There were people who gave up after a few back-and –forths. There were missed messages, (39) ________ (mix) messages, and messed up plans. There were people who immediately just called my phone to get the conversation (40) ________ (move) faster. And there was my mother who doesn’t have an iPhone and texts me often.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. moderatelyB. chancesC. accommodateD. volumeE. conflictingF. flowG. constantH. tappedI. instinctJ. seeminglyK. slowingThere’s nothing that will ruin your day faster than being stuck in a traffic jam all morning, and it’s even worse when there’s (41)________ no reason for it. There’s a lot of interesting sci ence behind traffic, though, and while understanding it might not make sitting in it any better, it can teach you how to avoid some of the mistakes we all make behind the wheel.1. The way we merge (合并) causes problemsWhether you’re merging from the l eft or the right, (42)________ are good that you’re doing it wrong and causing all sorts of problems. When most people see that they need to merge, their first (43) ________ is to do it right away. They brake, slow down, speed up, and change lanes in between oncoming traffic. According to the Minnesota department of Transportation, that’s completely wrong. Sudden (44)________ causes traffic to back up, a problem that’s made worse by sudden lane changes and other cars braking to (45) ________ the merging traffic.So what should you do? Exactly what you probably blame drivers for doing: waiting until the last minute. If you do that, traffic will fall into a more natural pattern called a “zipper merge”, meaning there are no surprises, no sudden braking, and a smoother transition from one lane to another, which cuts down on backups. This does, of course, rely on other drivers to let you in at the last minute and be polite enough not to cut you off, which causes all sorts of other problems.2. You are causing the traffic Jams you hateTraffic jams have long been chalked up to (取决于) the (46)________ of traffic on the roads, but it turns out that even heavytraffic can (47) ________ smoothly if people maintain a (48) ________ speed. The problem is that we ca n’t. Researchers have found that just one person even slightly stepping on their brakes can have a terrible effect on the traffic around them.On even (49) ________ busy road, it can be only a few minutesfor traffic to a complete halt behind someone who (50) ________ their brakes to let another driver merge. The standstill usually occurs several minutes after the braking, well after the person that causes the problem in the first place has gone on his way.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Corporate scandals (丑闻), like political scandals, start with shocking revelation and then move inevitably into who-knew-what stage. This is where executives can start reestablishing their (51) ________ --or deepen the damage.Since they were forced to (52) ________ one of the biggest frauds (欺诈行为) in auto industry history last month, the executives at Volkswagen have offered (53) ________ and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars (柴油车). But they haven’t explained who ordered, (54) ________ and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests whileemitting (55) ________ on the road. Nor has Volkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars, which many customers bought in the belief that they were fuel (56) ________ and clean.On October 8, German prosecutors (检察官) broke into the corporate offices as part of their investigation. Meanwhile, Matthias Muller, the (57) ________ appointed chief executive, continued to insist that the former executive, Martin Winterkorn, who resigned shortly after the scandal, knew (58) ________. “Do you really think that a chief executive had time for the inner functioning of engine software?” he said in a recent interview, as if the problem was some(59) ________ shortcoming and not an elaborate effort to (60)________ regulators and customers around the world.If Mr. Winterkorn was not responsible, who was? Nobody believes that the handful of senior managers could have (61) ________ this scheme without any support. Hans-Dieter Potsch, a supervisory board chairman, issued a statement earlier this month, saying it would take time before Volkswagen could make (62) ________ the findings of its internal investigations. “We must overcome the crisis,” he explained, “but we must also ensure that Volkswagen continues to grow.” That seems to miss the point that Volkswagen will neither overcome the crisis nor grow unless it can instantly produce some (63) ________ answers and explanations.Even if they manage to fix millions of cars, Volkswagen executives will still face an enormous (64) ________ from lawsuits, lost sales and the (65) ________ to Volkswagen’s reputation. There is no device to block the angry and urgent questions that they face. Apologizing is just the easy part.51. A. reputation B. revenge C. responsibility D. revolution52. A. commit B. recognize C. admit D. revise53. A. gratitude B. apologies C. guidance D. authorities54. A. approved B. chose C. withdrew D. undertook55. A. light B. ashes C. smell D. pollutants56. A. effective B. efficient C. extinct D. essential57. A. officially B. voluntarily C. temporarily D. newly58. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything59. A. minor B. major C. inferior D. superior60. A. conceal B. confuse C. attract D. deceive61. A. held on B. got rid of C. carried out D. made up62. A. clear B. public C. possible D. convenient63. A. convincing B. likely C. factual D. solid64. A. conflict B. opportunities C. competitions D. challenges65. A. response B. blow C. solution D. key。
