2017湖南高一上学期人教版高中英语月考试卷

BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Friday) (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will enact(将……制成法律) more support policies to lift the country’s 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, President Xi Jinping pledged（保证）on Friday ahead of the 23rd International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Addressing the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum in Beijing, Xi said China will work to fight the hard battle against poverty. In his speech, Xi drew on his personal experience in the 1960s working as a farmer in a small village in northwestern Shaanxi Province, where he was struck by the poor living conditions in rural China. But over the past several decades, China has made remarkable progress in poverty relief.

China has lifted more than 600 million people out of poverty in the past 30 years, accounting for about 70 percent of those brought out of poverty worldwide. It was the first developing country to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of reducing the population living in poverty by half ahead of the 2015 deadline.“Despite the achievements, China remains the world’s biggest developing country, and narrowing the urban-rural gap remains a big challenge for us,” Xi said.

As of the end of 2014, China still had 70.17 million people in the countryside living below the country’s poverty line of 2,300 yuan (376 U. S. dollars) in annual income by 2010 price standards. The president said poverty alleviation will be a major part of China’s post-2015 agenda. While striving to reduce poverty at home, China has also actively supported the cause in other developing countries. Over the past 60 years, China has provided 166 countries and international organizations with nearly 400 billion yuan in assistance.

China has also announced seven times it would exempt(免除), without any conditions, the matured inter-governmental interest free loans owned by heavily-indebted poor countries and least developed countries. At a United Nations summit last month the goal of eliminating poverty in 15 years was laid out and China pledged an initial 2 billion U.S. dollars to establish an assistance fund to help developing nations fight poverty.

In a video message for Friday’s Forum, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised China’s remarkable achievements in poverty alleviation, saying the UN welcomes those significant and generous proposals from President Xi and looks forward to further progress with an indispensable partnership with China.

Saturday also marks China’s second National Poverty Relief Day.

21. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. President Xi once worked as a farmer in a small village.

B. China has made great contributions to poverty relief in the past decades

C. China has announced to exempt loans owned by heavily-indebted poor countries and developed countries

D. The UN thinks highly of China’s extraordinary achievements in poverty relief

22. The underlined word “alleviation” in the Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ________.

A. relief       B. line      C. reform      D. rise

23. According to the text, National Poverty Relief Day falls on ________.

A. Oct. 16      B. Oct. 15      C. Oct. 14       D. Oct. 17

24. The passage is most likely to be taken from ________.

A. a magazine      B. a newspaper      C. a research paper    D. a brochure

Eating processed meat can cause cancer, World Health Organization experts said Monday.

Processed meat is meat that has been preserved by curing, salting, smoking, drying or canning. Experts from the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, studied 800 cases. IARC researchers linked processed meat, such as hot dogs and ham, to bowel cancer, as well as pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer.

The IARC has included processed meat in its group 1 list, for which there is “sufficient evidence” of links to cancer. Tobacco, asbestos, and diesel fumes are also on the group 1 list. WHO experts also called red meat, including beef, lamb and pork, “probably” carcinogenic (致癌的) to humans.

Dr. Kurt Straif is with the IARC. He said in a statement that the risk of cancer increases with the amount of meat a person eats. A person who consumes 50 grams of processed meat per day – about two pieces of bacon-increases his or her risk of bowel cancer by 18 percent. Health experts in some countries already advise against eating large amounts of red and processed meat. But those advisories had been centered on the increased risks of heart disease and obesity.

Meat industry groups are protesting the WHO study. They say that meat is part of a balanced diet. They also say the causes of cancer are broad, and include environmental and lifestyle factors.

The WHO report cited the Global Burden of Disease project, which estimates that diets high in processed meat lead to 34,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide.

25. According to the text, which of the following does not belong to red meat?

A. pork      B. chicken      C. beef       D. lamb

26. In Dr. Kurt’s view, which of the following statement is TRUE?

A. Meat is absolutely harmful to people’s health.

B. Eating meat can cause bowel cancer for sure.

C. A person will not develop cancer if he or she consumes less than 50 grams of processed meat a day.

D. The more a person eats red or processed meat, the more likely he is to suffer from bowel cancer.

27. The main idea of the last but one paragraph is ________.

A. Meat industries’ protest against the study of WHO on red and processed meat.

B. Red meat and processed meat are considered a balanced diet by some meat industries.

C. There are some other factors causing cancer.

D. Bad environment and unhealthy lifestyle may result in cancer to some extent.

28. The best title of the text might be ________.

A. Factors Causing Cancers

B. A New WHO Study on Meat

C. WHO: Red and Processed Meat Can Cause Cancer

D. Meat Industry’s Protest against the Study on Meat

Here are the five crowd-funding projects(众筹融资项目) that have raised the most money to date:

1. Star Citizen

Goal: $500,000

Raised: $90 million to date

Star Citizen is a multi-player Internet video game set in outer space.

This crowd-funding project started on Kickstarter in 2012 with a goal of $500,000. Star Citizen raised over $2 million on Kickstarter. The company also uses its own website for crowd-funding and has raised over$90 million in totalto date.

Star Citizen has had troubles even though it raised a record amount of money. Some are wondering what the company has done with all the money it raised. An unhappy backer has threatened a lawsuit against the company.

2. Elio Motors

Raised: $37 million to date

Elio Motors has a goal of raising funds for a new type of car. The car has a base price of $6,800. The company is still taking deposits for its three-wheeled, two-passenger car. So far over 46,000 cars have been reserved.

3. Pebble Time

Goal: $500,000

Raised: $20,338,986

Pebble funded its first watch using Kickstarter. Pebble went back to Kickstarter to fund its Pebble Time watch with a color screen in February 2015. Pebble Time raised over $20 million and is the most successful Kickstarter project so far.This watch works with both iPhone and Android, and has a one-battery life.

4. Ethereum

Raised: $18 million

According to the Ethereum website, “Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third -party interference. Ethereum is how the Internet was supposed to work.”

Ethereum Businesses can use Ethereum to communicate over the Internet. It gives them a record of their communications. Ethereum applications can include exchanging money on the Internet. It also includes message programs.

5. Coolest Cooler

Goal: $50,000

Raised: $13,285,226

The Coolest Cooler raised over $13 million dollars from 62,642 backers for an insulated box that keeps your food and drinks cold. But the Coolest Cooler does more than keep things cold. The Coolest Cooler has been called “the Swiss Army knife” of coolers. The cooler has a charger, light, speaker and much more.

29. The two projects which run on computers are________.

A. Star Citizen and Elio Motors     B. Ethereum and Star Citizen

C. Pebble Time and Coolest Cooler   D. Elio Motors Pebble Time

30. The features of the Pebble Time watch include the following except for its________.

A. color screen            B. functions with both iphone and Anchoid

C. low price               D. fine battery life

31. Which of the following statements is FALSE according to the text?

A. Up till now, more than 46,000 cars of the new type have been sold out by Elio Motors

B. Pebble Time does the best among Kickstarlar project

C. Coolest Cooler is used for not simply keeping things cool.

D. Up to now, Star Citizen has the most raised money.

Residents of Guangdong Province are raising the most pets of any province on the Chinese mainland, tallying more than 10 percent of the 100 million pets registered nationwide, a recent survey reported.

One in every 13 people in China is raising a pet, on average, with dogs and cats accounting for about 80 percent the total, though tortoises have been seeing a rapid increase in the recent years. Guangdong is followed in pet popularity by Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Beijing and Shandong, said the survey by Zhongjinqixin, an international information consultant in Beijing. Among cities, Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, is among the top five in pet ownership on the mainland. The others are Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Wuhan.

The United States, for example, has registered more than 400 million pets, 1.3 times more than the country’s population, he said. Among pet owners, nearly 62 percent raise dogs, more than 19 percent raise cats and more than 6 percent have tortoises at home. Other popular pets include fish, rabbits and birds. “Many residents are now raising tortoises as pets at home, as tortoises indicate longevity in the minds of Chinese,” said a man surnamed Li, who lives in Guangzhou, and has been caring for a pair of tortoises for the past three years. “My family has treated the tortoises as our family members,” he said.

Most pet owners are younger than 45. The survey found that 6 percent were younger than 25, 37 percent were aged between 25 and 30, 24 percent were between 31 to 35 and 18 percent were aged 36 to 45. Those older than 45 were just 8 percent of the total.

32. Which of the following animals are the favorite pets in China in recent years?

A. dogs      B. cats       C. tortoises       D. birds

33. Many residents prefer to raise tortoises as pets at home mainly due to their _______.

A. lovely appearance   B. long life   C. living habit   D. friendly behavior

34. We can know from the passage that the majority of the pet owners are ________.

A. younger than 25     B. older than 45      

C. between 31 and 35   D. between 25 and 30

35. In which column of a newspaper do we probably find the passage?

A. Business         B. Entertainment       C. Lifestyle      D. Culture

Some people learn a second language easily. Other people have trouble learning a new language. How can you help yourself learn a new language, such as English?   36   

◆ Be patient.

You do not have to understand everything all at once.   37   We can learn from our mistakes.

◆ Practice your English.

For example, write in a journal(日记) every day. You will get used to writing in English, and you will feel comfortable expressing your ideas in English. After several weeks, you will see that your writing is improving.   38    You can practice with your classmates outside class. You will all make mistakes, but gradually you will become comfortable communicating in English.

◆   39  

If you believe that you can learn, you will learn.

◆ Keep a record of your language learning.

After each class, think about what you did. Did you answer a question correctly? Did you understand something the teacher explained? Perhaps the lesson was difficult, but you tried to understand it.   40 

◆ Be positive about learning English and believe that you can do it.

It is important to practice every day and make a record of your achievements. You will enjoy learning English, and you will have more confidence in yourself.

A. Write these achievements(成就) in your journal.

B. Besides, you must speak English every day.

C. Making mistakes is an unavoidable part in your life.

D. There are several ways to make learning English a little easier and more interesting.

E. Share your achievement with your parents and friends.

F. Feel confident(有自信心的) about learning English.

G. It is natural for you to make mistakes when you learn something new.

Once James Thornhill, a famous English painter, was asked    61   (paint) some pictures on the walls of the king’s palace in English. Then workers were sent for and   62   big platform was made.   63   the help of a worker, Thornhill started painting on the platform. They worked for a whole year   64   at last the pictures were ready.

Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were   65   (real) beautiful. He looked at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even    66   (much) beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally he was at the very edge of the platform, but he did not know it because he   67   (think) of his pictures.

The worker saw everything. “   68   should I do?” he thought. “Thornhill is at the very edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off the platform and surely be killed.” So the worker quickly took some paint and threw   69   at the picture. “What are you doing?” cried the painter,   70   (run) quickly forward to his pictures.

When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had   41   delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and   42   a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin    43   fixed to his belt. He   44   this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.

Of course, he delivered   45   milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our   46   , my mother would pen a note-“Please add a bottle of    47   next delivery” -and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically(魔术般)appear.

All of this was about more than convenience. There    48   a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille    49    had a key to our house, for those times when it was so   50    outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn’t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille    51    taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his   52   .

There is  53   no home milk delivery today. Big    54   allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it    55   for milkmen to compete(竞争).Besides, milk is for sale   56   , and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery  service.

Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw    57   my childhood memories. I took it home and   58    it on the back porch(门廊). Every so often my son’s friends    59   ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us    60   along with his milk.

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线＼划掉。

修改：在错词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：

1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2、只允许修改10处，多者从第11处不计分。

Dear Tricia,

I’ve come back home safely. Looked back to my stay in Britain, I felt so happy and satisfying. The beautiful scenery and friendly people impressed myself a lot. I also benefited a lot of from learning together with local students. More importantly, your help and kindness made easier for me to have a better understanding of British culture and adapt to the life here. So I’m so grateful for you.

By the way, attached to the letter is two photos taken with you, which I believe will remind you of the happy times we spent together.

You are expected to come to China soon.

Looking forward to hear from you.

Yours

Li Hua

一年一度的暑假即将来临。上周，你班同学就如何度过暑假进行了讨论。有的赞成呆在家里， 有的赞成外出旅游。请根据下表，用英语给校报写一篇短文，介绍同学们的观点以及你的看法。

注意：

1. 字数：100左右。

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。