（上外版2020）2023-2024学年高一英语上学期 必修一 第一次月考卷2

2023-2024学年高一英语上学期第一次月考

A卷·基础知识达标检测

（考试时间：90分钟  试卷满分：100分）

（测试范围：上外版2020必修第一册Unit 1 School Life）

I．Word-spelling  (10’)

1. He s ___________ （分类）the materials into their folders.
2. It would be a mistake to i__________（忽视）his opinion. 
3. If this offer is g__________（真心的）, I will gladly accept it.
4. He said many h__________ （刺耳的）and unkind things about his opponents.
5. China made a clean sweep of the medals in the _________（体操）events.
6. The move follows growing public__________ （担心）over the spread of the disease.
7. The assessment for the course involves written a__________（任务）and practical tests.
8. It's harmful for your eyes to s__________（凝视）at the computer or mobile phone screen for a long time. 
9. There is little doubt, however, that things will improve in the not too__________ （遥远的）future.
10. Over the next few years many people had occasion to __________（反思）on the truth of his warnings.

II. Fill in the blanks with phrases(10’)

11. Things will ___________ right.
12. Time's up. Stop writing and __________ your papers.
13. The police had to use force to ____________ the crowd.
14. He is leaving the band to _________________ his writing.
15. _____________ you inspect the goods before signing for them.
16. Success of a man _________ directly_________  the choice made by himself. 
17. ____________ from the public, many regional governments cleaned up their beaches.
18. You can____________ multiplayer games either on a LAN network or via the Internet.
19. He stole a _______________the pretty girl across the table.
20. Teenagers may find it difficult to resist ________________.

III. Verb-filling (10’)

21．Either the beautiful sights of this modern city or its local custom ________________ (attract) thousands of visitors during the past years.

22．He ________________ (speak) at the meeting, but his heart attack prevented him.

23．Shortly after we ________________ (seat), a waiter came over to our table with a smile.

24．Go straight on, and at the street corner you ________________ (find) a big supermarket.

25．What the government decides to do contributes to ________________ (fuel) development of that area.

26．Every high school has their own homecoming tradition. Sometimes, homecoming________________ (consist) of a week of events, including a pep rally, parade, and a big football game, typically a match-up against your school’s rivals.

27．While William________________ (expect)to become the new Prince of Wales eventually, it wasn’t clear when Charles would decide to grant him the title.

28．The iPhone 14________________ (feature)a 6.1-inch OLED display and the iPhone 14 Plus grows that to 6.7 inches.

29．The common regulations and system________________ (intend) to prevent competition among the organizations in staff recruitment and to facilitate exchange of staff.

30．We really regret________________ (say) that you are wrong.

IV. Grammar （10’）

Hungry Students Get Healthy Choices

It is a well-known scientific fact that teenagers eat 50 percent more than the average person. Well, actually three meals a day just isn’t enough 31                (satisfy) their endless hunger.

Recently Tongji University 32              (decide) to keep its canteens open till 11 p.m. and to serve healthy meals at affordable prices. Fu Qinjun, the director of the university’s food services, 33              (quote) as saying, “Students are usually hungry after studying late into the night, but our canteens used to stop service after 7 p.m. That’s 34              students turned to outside vendors (小贩) but the quality and safety of the food is not good enough.”

This is good news for the students 35              now have healthy late-night choices for their diet instead of relying on fast food and the snacks available at convenience stores. Those foods tend to contain a lot of salt, fat and sugar which set off pleasure receptors (感受器) in our brains but are basically unhealthy when 36          (eat) in excess and can make us fat.

If you’re a boarding student, you probably know about fat because you have likely put on a little weight since you started school. In North America, this phenomenon is called the “Freshman Fifteen.” 37            refers to the fact that many students gain up to fifteen pounds during the first year they are away from home. Without mum 38___ _________ (look) after them, they tend to eat more than they should.

For young people, though, having a healthy appetite is a good thing. Your body keeps growing until about the age of twenty-one, so you need to eat. However, it’s important to learn how to eat well. So, kudos (赞誉) to Tongji University for helping students fill their bottomless pits (无底洞) 39             healthy food. And now maybe the university will keep its gym open late at night 40______         students can walk off some of those extra calories!

V. Cloze (15’)

Directions: 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.

Should you listen to music when you work?

Do you like to listen to music when you work?

Ask this question at a party, and you’ll probably get ____41____ responses. Some will say they love it, claiming that it improves their performance; others will say they find it distracting (分散注意力的) and cannot work ____42____ with music playing in the background.

Interestingly enough our research has found that both of these viewpoints can be true. It just ____43____ on what sort of work you’re doing.

In a recent study, we brought participants into our lab to perform a variety of tasks. They included a(n) ____44____ task-searching through word lists and crossing out words containing the letter “a” and a more difficult task—memorizing word pairs and ____45____ word to its partner. Some participants completed all of the tasks in silence, ____46____ others completed the tasks with instrumental music that was either loud or soft, and either simple or complex, the latter meaning music with more instruments being played. Several key findings ____47____ from our study.

We found that participants who listened to simple music or no music performed about the same on the easy task. However, participants who listened to ____48____ music performed best on the easy task.

On the contrary, participants performed worse on the more difficult task when they listened to any music, regardless of complexity or volume, compared to those who didn’t listen to any music.

How should we ____49____ these findings?

We suggest that people have limited mental resources from which both _____50_____ and tasks can draw. We can become _____51_____ and our minds may wander when these resources are not fully used. But we also can become over-excited and _____52_____ when these resources are used up.

Not surprisingly, we typically need to use fewer of our mental resources when we perform easy tasks, whereas demanding tasks require more brainpower. However, because we might be less _____53_____ during easier tasks, there’s a greater risk of drifting off. Music might give us the extra _____54_____ we need to overcome the monotony (单调). However, difficult tasks already demand lot of our resources. Listening to music can become too much.

So best _____55_____ should appear when we strike “sweet spot,” which may depend on the type of music and the type of task.

41. A. fixed B. similar C. various D. positive
42. A. effectively B. immediately C. exactly D. happily
43. A. depends B. focuses C. carries D. takes
44. A. unpleasant B. familiar C. impossible D. easy
45. A. matching B. realizing C. suggesting D. creating
46. A. until B. while C. since D. when
47. A. faded B. appeared C. survived D. responded
48. A. dull B. reliable C. necessary D. complex
49. A. make up for B. make out C. make use of D. make up
50. A. music B. work C. study D. culture
51. A. surprised B. bored C. afraid D. proud
52. A. interested B. distracted C. attracted D. worried
53. A. disgusted B. embarrassed C. frightened D. engaged
54. A. obstacle B. push C. opportunity D. rule
55. A. action B. program C. performance D. problem

VI.  Reading （22’）

A

All Miss White had been told about the new boy was that he’d spent most of his life in some kind of orphanage, and that the gray-haired “aunt and uncle” with whom he now lived were really foster parents (养父母), paid by the Welfare Department of the City of New York. A less devoted teacher might have pressed for more details, but Miss White was content with the rough outline. It was enough to fill her with a sense of mission that shone from her eyes, from the first morning he joined the fourth grade.

He arrived early and sat in the back row, his backbone very straight, his ankles crossed precisely under the desk and his hands folded on the center of its top, and while the other children were filling in, he received a long, expressionless stare from each of them.

“We have a new classmate this morning,” Miss White said, “His name is Vincent Sabella, and he comes from New York City. I know we’ll all do our best to make him feel at home.”

This time they all swung around to stare at once, which caused him to duck his head slightly and shift his weight from one side to the other. Ordinarily, the fact of someone’s coming from New York might have held a certain status, for to most of the children the city was a frightening, adult place that swallowed up their fathers every day. But anyone could see at a glance that Vincent Sabella had nothing to do with it. Even if you could ignore his twisted black hair and gray skin, his clothes would have given him away: ridiculously new pants, ridiculously old sports shoes and a yellow sweatshirt, much too small, with the faded remains of a Mickey Mouse design stamped on its chest.

The girls decided that he wasn’t very nice and turned away, but the boys remained in their inspection, looking him up and down with faint smiles. This was the kind of kid they were accustomed to thinking of as “tough,” the kind whose stare has made all of them uncomfortable at one time or another in unfamiliar neighborhoods; here was a unique chance for revenge.

56．What can you learn about Miss White and Vincent from the first two paragraphs?

A．Since nobody had ever seen Vincent’s parents, he now lived all by himself.

B．Miss White knew Vincent so well that she’d like to focus every bit of attention on him.

C．Vincent sat in the back row so as to arouse attention caused by his late arrival.

D．Miss White made an attempt to do her part to make Vincent feel welcome.

57．Why does the author mention “New York” in the third and the fourth paragraphs?

A．To state a certain distinction between Vincent and people’s imagination.

B．To demonstrate children’s desire to go to see their fathers.

C．To illustrate Vincent’s distant origin.

D．To emphasize Vincent’s low social status from his shabby clothes.

58．Which of the following words can best describe Vincent?

A．Nervous and uneasy. B．Devoted but shy.

C．Silent and genuine. D．Sensitive but unfortunate.

59．What can you infer from the text about Vincent’s new classmates?

A．They used to consider people like Vincent to be very tough.

B．They were either unconcerned or unfriendly toward him.

C．They barely noticed the new boy sitting in the back of the classroom.

D．They were very curious about the newcomer in a kind and considerate manner.

B

Columbus College, 241 Queen Elizabeth Drive, Kowloon City MEMO

To: All staff

From: Jakie Mok, Secretary; Sports Development Committee

Date: May 20, 2010

A week ago, “Sports for Life” programme was sent to the parents, requiring them to select a sport they wanted their child to play. Since then, our staff have received lots of calls from parents asking for more information about it. Here is a memo for your reference when you answer the phones.

Sport 1: Basketball

We expect that this will be the most popular of the four sports. Therefore, students should be advised to sign up as soon as possible. Students will take a private bus to and from KwunTong Sports Park. To cover the cost of hiring a bus, each student will have to pay $10 each time. There will be four basketball courts available for our use with one teacher watching over each game.

Sports 2: Gym

We will be using St. Peter’s Memorial Park. Thee are two reasons for choosing this park. First, it is not very busy and crowded before 6 :00 p.m.. Second, it has lot of trees with plenty of shade. Students must bring along two bottles of water to prevent thirst. Three activities, skipping, jogging, outdoor aerobics (有氧运动), all of which are free of charge, will be arranged. And there will be a teacher on duty for each of the activities.

Sport 3: Hiking

Hiking will take place at Kowloon Peak. The activity will start at 2:30 p.m. and finish 90 minutes later. Three teachers will accompany the students, and a hiking instructor will accompany each group of 15 hikers. Each instructor will cost $75/hr.

Sport 4: Swimming

The Kowloon City Aquatic Centre is a 10-minute walk from our school. Four teachers will go the pool and conduct the goings-on from the poolside. We will only be able to reserve the pool for one hour (i. e. 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.). Only students skillful at swimming can take up this activity. The pool will have two lifeguards present. Girls must wear a swimming suit. The cost is $10 per visit.

60．Which can be inferred from the passage? ________.

A．Students taking part in basketball will walk to the courts

B．Every student can gain admission to one of the four sports

C．Hiking students can have a regular rest in the shade of trees

D．Students taking up the four sports should bring bottles of water

61．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Students selecting basketball had better register early.

B．Students participating in gym should arrive at 6:00 p.m.

C．Hiking usually begins at 2:30 p.m. and lasts 2 hours.

D．Students having swimming suits can take up swimming.

62．The memo aims to ________.

A．attract students’ interest in the programme

B．help the staff explain the programme to the parents

C．require the parents to select a sport for their child

D．remind teachers and lifeguards to be present on time

C

When Americans think of the lunch menu at their childhood school cafeterias, they probably imagine a shapeless, tasteless pile of mystery meat – plus some brown much（糊状物）,to match. But for children in Japan, school lunches are a rich experience where culture, nutrition and sustainability collide.

“Japan’s standpoint is that school lunches are a part of education, not a break from it,” Masahiro Oji, a government director of school health education in Japan, told The Washington Post.

Fare offered at schools in Japan is affordable, fresh, and made by the students themselves. And Japanese children don’t just eat the food they prepare; they learn about the nutritional and cultural elements of their meals, too. The food is grown locally and includes a balanced menu of rice, vegetable, fish and soups. As a bonus, each meal costs just $2.50.

“Parents hear their kids talking about what they had for lunch,” Tatsuji Shino, the principal at Umejima Elementary School in Tokyo, told The Washington Post, “and kids ask them to re-create the meals at home.”

Japanese students also learn cooperation and etiquette（礼仪）as they serve and clean up after each other. Mealtime is a scene of communal duty: In both elementary and middle schools, students in white coats and caps serve their classmates. Children eat in their classrooms. They get identical meals, and if they leave food untouched, they are out of luck: Their schools have no vending machines. Children in most districts are barred from bringing food to school, either, until they reach high school.

Considering the fact that Japan has one of the world’s lowest childhood obesity rates, the U.S. probably has a lot to learn from this country’s school lunches. A 2011 study found that American students who regularly ate the school lunch – where options include pizza, chicken tenders（炸鸡柳）and French fries – were 29 percent more likely to be obese than those who brought lunch from home.

63．According to the article, which word best describes what Americans think of their lunch at school?

A．Tasty. B．Ordinary.

C．Disgusting. D．Unique.

64．The underlined word “Fare” in the third paragraph probably means________.

A．food B．breakfast

C．drinks D．price

65．What is the main purpose of students’ preparing lunch by themselves in Japanese schools?

A．To allow students to learn cooperation.

B．To teach students some basic life skills.

C．To let students learn about nutritional values of foods.

D．To inspire students to share their food with others.

66．What can we infer from the passage?

A．Japan has the lowest rate of obesity in the world.

B．Japanese schools lay great emphasis on cooperation and etiquette.

C．American school children don’t bring homemade lunches.

D．Students in Japan are healthier in every way than those in America.

VII. Reading and restoring sentences （8’）

What time do schools typically start? It depends on where they are. Some schools start early — at 7 a.m. in Brazil. In France, schools start at 8. In Australia, schools open their doors an hour later, at 9 a.m. In the U.S., schedules vary, but many opening school bells ring before 8.

So is an earlier or a later start time better? For years, this has been debated.     67     They have long said that asking teens to show up to class before 8:00 a.m. isn’t good for their health or their report cards.

In recent years, 70 districts across the U.S. have also changed their hours. Supporters of this idea expect that more school districts will follow. One reason for the later start times is that people have mostly stopped debating the science that supports it.

In 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a statement regarding school start times. Starting later isn’t the cure for all teen health and academic problems, the AAP said.     68     “Essentially, across the board, any area that you look at improves pretty dramatically” with later school start times, said an expert. In fact, research from countries around the world confirms that adolescents who get enough sleep are healthier overall. They also do better in school.

So why don’t teens — who need about nine hours of sleep each night — just go to bed earlier? Researcher Paul Kelley from the University of Oxford in England says that adolescents experience a change in their biological clocks.     69     Teens are also wired to wake up later in the morning. Therefore, Kelley says, early wake times can cause teens to be short on sleep.

So why don’t all high schools start later? The obstacles are often financial. In the U.S., public schools in St. Paul, Minnesota, delayed the adoption of later start times for all its high school students because of transportation issues. It would have cost St. Paul about $8 million to buy the additional buses needed, explained Jackie Statum Allen, assistant director for strategic planning and police.     70   

VIII. Translation (15’ =2’+3’+3’+3’+4’)

71. 他有脾气，可能会让人讨厌。（nasty）

72. 我们需要在垃圾车来前就做好垃圾分类.(sort)

73. 一个人的成功与他自己的选择直接相关。(relate)

74. 它说明了如何准备一份简历，并提了一些有关求职的建议。（tips ）

75. 他迷恋于自己的兴趣爱好，周围的人对此评价不一。(crazy)