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1、银川一中 2024 届高三年级第二次月考英 语 试 卷命题教师注意事项：1答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2回答选择题时，选出每小题的答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷及草稿纸上无效。3考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 7.5 分）听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和
2、阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1.Where is the man from?A.Washington.B.LosAngeles.C.New York.2.What is the woman going to do next?A.Buy New Years gifts.B.Go to the library.C.Meet her parents.3.How does the woman find playing volleyball?A.Beneficial.B.Difficult.C.Interesting.4.How much will the man pay?A.$25.B.$28.C
3、.$53.5.Who is Cristina talking to?A.Her classmate.B.An eye doctor.C.Her father.第二节（共 15 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 22.5 分）听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6.Why does the man make the call?A.To make a reservatio
4、n.B.To confirm a reservation.C.To reschedule a reservation.7.When will the man go to dinner on Sunday?A.At 6:00 p.m.B.At 8:00 p.m.C.At 9:00 p.m.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8.What class did the speakers probably just take?A.Chinese.B.Physics.C.English.9.How does Lucy feel about physics?A.Disappointed.B.Con
5、cerned.C.Interested.10.Where will the speakers probably go next?A.To the classroom.B.To the library.C.To their home.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11.What is the movie the speakers mention based on?A.Areal life event.B.Agood novel.C.Afamous play.12.What does the man say about the box office of the movie?A.I
6、t has got to the top.B.It is beyond his expectation.C.It will continue to grow.13.What type of movies does the man prefer?A.Thrillers.B.Science fiction movies.C.Comedies.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。14.Why does Sam look frustrated?A.The number of his customers is decreasing.B.He argued with some customers
7、.C.He cant satisfy his customers.15.Where does the woman suggest Sam advertise?A.In newspapers.B.On the Internet.C.On billboards.16.What will the speakers do first?A.Go to Sams company.B.Come up with a solution.C.Go to a restaurant.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17.What is Shahzad Qureshis main purpose of
8、planting urban trees?A.To provide a habitat for animals.B.To create a shady spot for people.C.To cool the air.18.What did Shahzad Qureshi do in 2017?A.He helped plant an urban forest in a school.B.He set up a grammar school.C.He planted 14 urban forests in Pakistan.19.Who is Muneeza Shaikhli?A.An en
9、vironmentalist.B.Astudent.C.Aheadmaster.20.What can students do in the forest at Karachi Grammar School?A.Do science experiments.B.Observe the insects.C.Play with birds.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题;每小题 2 分，满分 30 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。AFeeling hungry?Well,get your chopsticks rea
10、dy!Ho Chi Minh City Food Tours are thetastiest way to travel around the city.Big eat&Small seatThis afternoon food tour by motorbike is focused on family-run local restaurants.These placesare often small and tight with little stools.This is a tour we recommend for travelers that want to bethrown int
11、o the citys delicious street food.It lasts from 1 pm to 5 pm at$65 per person.Ataste of VietnamThis tour is absolutely comfortable for everyone with indoor seating and atmosphere.Themenu is diverse,featuring some hands-on cooking experience and a bowl of whole crab soup thatyou can only find in Ho C
12、hi Minh City.It lasts from 6 pm to 10 pm at$73 per person.Chefs tourThe concept for Chefs tour is simple:We will drive you from location to location to try someof our favorite street eats in the city while adjusting the menu as much as possible to meet yourtastes and personality.It lasts from 5 pm t
13、o 10 pm at$123 per person.Street food strollThis tour will leave you happy,full,and filled with a new appreciation for our history andculture.We will eat delicious street food while exploring the French architecture and the uniqueculture in the heart of Ho Chi Minh Citys District Three.A bit differe
14、nt from other tours,we willnot use any taxi or motorbike to get from place to place.The walk tour lasts from 5 pm to 9 pm at$38 per person.Note:During all the above tours,prices take in all food and drinks and we will also takedigital photos during the trip that we send to you the next day by email.
15、21.How much should a tourist pay for the tour with hands-on cooking experience?A.$38.B.$65.C.$73.D.$123.22.What is unique about the last tour?A.The tourists have to walk all the way.B.The tourists can have free digital photos.C.The tourists will eat in big restaurants.D.The tourists can try the whol
16、e crab soup.23.Which tour lasts the longest?A.Big eat&Small seat.B.Ataste of Vietnam.C.Street food stroll.D.Chefs tour.BFor 20 years,two brothers living in the dirty neighborhood of Wazirabad in Indias capital,Delhi,have been treating wounded black kites(鸢)that fall from the citys skies.Mohammad Sau
17、d and Nadeem Shehzad rescue birds of preymostly injured by paper kitestringsand carry them to a basement garage at home.Here,they begin nursing them to health:cleaning and bandaging wounds,fixing wings and broken bones.Small miracles happen in the basement.Here lives are saved,a living is made and t
18、heressome happiness too.“You dont care for things because they share the same country,religion orpolitics,”say the brothers.“Life itself is relationship.Thats why we cant abandon the birds.”The brothers talk about how a neighborhood bird hospital refused to treat the first kite theyrescued because i
19、t was a“non-vegetarian bird”.At that time,they,were teenage bodybuilders andthats how they“came to know about flesh and muscles”.They figured out ways to bandage thekites.They became passionate about birds.“Wed lie on the ground,watching the elegant flights inthe sky,”they say.“The head would spin.H
20、ave you ever felt dizzy looking into the sky?”The street outside the brothers home becomes a smelly pool of sewage water which comesinto the basement during the rainy season.Pigs wander in a muddy channel.Air quality reachesdangerous peaks.Yet theres life and hope.Monkeys climb playfully over some e
21、lectric wires thathang unsteadily over narrow streets.An airplane in the sky is reflected in a pool of quiet water.When the weather clears,skies are filled with paper kites.And then the birds begin dropping,and the brothers are back at their job.Sometimes the birds fall after bumping against buildin
22、gs inthe smog or getting entangled(缠住)in overhead wires.At one point,there were more than 100wounded birds in the basement.The brothers once swam across the river to rescue a bird with abroken wing.24.Why do the brothers treat wounded kites?A.They believe they are interconnected.B.They like to see m
23、iracles happen.C.They are deeply religious people.D.They do it for political reasons.25.Why did the hospital refuse to treat the wounded kite?A.Kites are not protected birds.B.Kites feed on other creatures.C.Kites keep their heads spinning.D.Kites are dangerous to human beings.26.How does the author
24、 develop paragraph 5?A.By listing some statistics.B.By depicting a miserable scene.C.By making an analysis.D.By making comparisons.27.What can we learn from the two brothers?A.Look at the positive side of a thing.B.Start a great cause with small deeds.C.Live in harmony with creatures around.D.Lend a
25、 helping hand to people in need.CA century ago,the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and travelers.Alongwith the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who hadno intention to stay,and 7 million people arrived while about 2 million departed.Abo
26、ut a quarter ofall Italian immigrants,for example,eventually returned to Italy for good.They even had anaffectionate nickname,“uccelli di passaggio”,birds of passage.Today,we place more restrictions on immigrants.We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad.We acknowledge the
27、m as Americans in the making,or identify themas aliens to be kicked out.That framework has contributed a great deal to our broken immigrationsystem and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.We dont need more categories,but weneed to change the way we think about categories.We need to look
28、beyond strict definitions oflegal and illegal.To start,we can recognize the new birds of passage,those living and thriving inthe gray areas.We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.Crop pickers,violinists,construction workers,entrepreneurs,engineers,home health-careaides and physicist
29、s are among todays birds of passage.They are energetic participants in a globaleconomy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas.They prefer to come and go as opportunitycalls them.They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.With or without permission,they straddle(跨越)laws,ju
30、risdictions and identities with ease.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a whilewithout committing themselves to staying forever.We need them to feel that home can be both hereand there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.Accommodating
31、this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sidesof the immigration battle.Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means openingup the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple pathsand multiple outcomes,including some
32、that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existingsystem.28.What does the underlined phrase“birds of passage”in Paragraph One indicate?A.people immigrating across the Atlantic.B.people staying in a foreign country temporarily.C.people leaving their motherland for good.D.people finding permanent
33、 jobs overseas.29.What do we know about the current immigration system in the US?A.It needs new immigrant categories.B.It has loosened control over immigrants.C.It should be reformed to meet challenges.D.It has been fixed through political means.30.According to the author,how should todays“birds of
34、passage”be treated?A.They should be treated with legal tolerance.B.They should be treated with economic favors.C.They should be treated as faithful partners.D.They should be treated as powerful competitors.31.What is the best title for the text?A.Come and Go:Big Mistake.B.Living and Thriving:Great R
35、isk.C.With or Without:Great Risk.D.Legal or Illegal:Big Mistake.DIn 2014,UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book The Drunken Monkey:Why WeDrink and Abuse Alcohol,proposing that our attraction to alcohol arose millions of years ago,whenour monkey ancestors discovered that the smell of alcoho
36、l led them to ripe and nutritious fruit.Recently,a new study led by Christina Campbell of California State University,Northridge(CSUN)supports this idea,which Dudley calls the“drunken monkey”hypothesis(假说).In his book,Dudley laid out evidence for his idea,which showed that some fruits known to beeat
37、en by monkeys have a naturally high alcohol content of up to 7%.But he did not have datashowing that monkeys or apes preferentially sought out and ate fermented(发酵的)fruits,or thatthey digested the alcohol in the fruit.For the newly reported study,the CSUN researchers analyzed the alcohol content in
38、the fruitseaten by black-handed spider monkeys at a field site,Barro Colorado Island in Panama.They foundthat the fruits routinely had alcohol concentrations of between 1%and 2%,a by-product of naturalfermentation by yeasts.Moreover,the researchers collected urine(尿液)from the free-moving monkeys and
39、 foundthat the urine contained secondary metabolites(代谢产物)of alcohol.This result shows that theanimals were actually using the alcohol for energyit wasnt just passing through their bodies.“They would get more calories from fermented fruit than they would from unfermented fruit.Thehigher calories mea
40、n more energy,”Campbell said.The need for the monkeyshigh caloric intake may similarly have influenced human ancestorsdecisions when choosing which fruit to eat,Campbell added.“Human ancestors may also havepreferentially selected alcohol-laden fruit for consumption,given that it has more calories,”s
41、hesaid.Today,the availability of alcohol in liquid form,without the belly-filling pulp of fermentingfruit,means its easy to have too much of it.The idea that humans natural love for alcohol comesfrom our primate ancestors could help society deal with the consequences of alcohol abuse.“Heavyalcohol c
42、onsumption can be viewed conceptually as a disease of nutritional excess,”Campbell said.32.What is the“drunken monkey”hypothesis about?A.Monkeys can hardly resist the attraction to alcohol.B.Monkeys get drunk easily by eating fermented fruits.C.It is difficult for humans to deal with drunken monkeys
43、.D.Our love for alcohol has its roots in our monkey ancestors.33.What can we learn from Dudleys book written in 2014?A.Some fruits are high in alcoholB.Monkeys prefer to eat fermented fruits.C.It takes a long time for monkeys to digest alcohol.D.Alcohol in the fruit harms monkeys digestive system.34
44、.What did the researchers find in the urine samples?A.Alcohol has obvious effects on monkeys.B.Monkeys take in the alcohol for some energy.C.Alcohol can stay in monkeys bodies for long.D.Unfermented fruit is much healthier for monkeys.35.What does the author want to tell us in the last paragraph?A.T
45、he significance of the new research.B.The ways to fight against alcohol abuse.C.The problem of heavy alcohol consumption.D.The effects of alcohol abuse on human health.第二节（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。It has been proved that self-care helps people lower stress and
46、get healthier.And anotherinteresting finding has been revealed recently.36._ As a typical form of caringabout others,volunteering has been proved to be beneficial to us in the following ways.Volunteering makes us happier.Throughout history,cooperation and community have been essential parts of human
47、 survival.One reason we feel so rewarded when helping others is that the happiness of those around us hastaken root in our survival instinct.According to one study,people who volunteered at least once amonth reported better mental health than those who didnt.37._Volunteering increases our sense of p
48、urpose.Typically,the act of volunteering involves taking action and engaging with others.These aretwo mental health needs shared by most humans,especially people feeling aimless anddisconnected.38._ As a result,they can have clearer goals in their own life andincrease the sense of responsibility.Vol
49、unteering helps manage depression.39._ Thats because taking positive action helps to change the negativethoughtswhether by interacting with other people or realizing you have useful skills to share withthe world.Based on that,some researchers even suggest including volunteering as an approach totrea
50、ting depression.40._Some researchers have discovered a link between volunteering and a lower risk of early death.This effect comes in part from how volunteering can reduce stress and depression,which in turnpromote life span,improved physical health,and better management of chronic diseases.A.Volunt