高一12月学情检测
英语试题
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阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A. Doctor and patient. B. Husband and wife. C. Parent and child.
2. What is the weather like now?
A. Rainy. B. Snowy. C. Sunny.
3. What is John doing now?
A. Playing football. B. Watching TV. C. Doing revision.
4. When will the next bus leave?
A. At 9:30. B. At 9:35. C. At 10:00.
5. Where does the woman plan to take her holiday this year?
A. In Canada. B. In Turkey. C. In Italy.
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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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 is the blouse so expensive?
A. It’s from China. B. It’s made of silk. C. It looks nice.
7. How much will the woman pay in total?
A. 150 dollars. B. 240 dollars. C. 300 dollars.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What is the man planning to buy?
A. A garden. B. A house. C. A farm.
9. What do we know about the house?
A. It is large. B. It needs fixing. C. It has one bedroom.
10. What does the man suggest growing?
A. Corn. B. Rice. C. Potatoes.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. When did the man begin his first horse riding lesson?
A. Yesterday. B. Last week. C. A month ago.
12. What did the man think of his first horse riding lesson?
A. Boring. B. Difficult. C. Interesting.
13. What did the woman say about her teacher?
A. She was a good teacher. B. She was an excellent rider. C. She was a humorous person.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Why does the woman go to England today?
A. To visit a friend. B. To go shopping. C. To do business.
15. What kind of tickets will the woman buy?
A. Single ones. B. First-class ones. C. Weekly return ones.
16. When will the return flight leave?
A. At 8:15 am. B. At 6:50 pm. C. At 9:30 pm.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. How long will it take to get to the museum?
A. About 20 minutes. B. About 30 minutes. C. About 50 minutes.
18. What is special about the trip for the students?
A. They can pick up ancient pots to study.
B. They can take old rings out of the glass case.
C. They’ll take a related test when back at school.
19. How do the students find information in the Technology Center?
A. By using iPads. B. By using computers. C. By asking Jane Witton.
20. What does the speaker want the students to do after the trip?
A. Make postcards B. Draw posters. C. Give reports.
第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节 （共15小题，每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Let a trained driver worry about the traffic while you enjoy New York City’s best sights. We have selected the top bus tours, perfect for your adventure in the City That Never Sleeps.
USA Guided Tours — Discover NY Tour
Price: Adults from $99; kids from $89
Duration: 6 hours
On this full-day bus tour, you’ll drive through some of the city’s most famous and most-visited areas. You’ll enjoy the expert commentary and a history lesson from your tour guide. A 15-minute walk through each of the main stops is included, as is a boat cruise that takes you to see the famous NYC skyline.
Tours depart at 9 and 10 a. m. daily. It also offers a night tour.
A Slice of Brooklyn Bus Tours — The Original Brooklyn Pizza Tour
Price: Adults from $105; kids from $95
Duration: 4. 5 hours
Brooklyn has so much to see and do — and eat! This tour will take you throughout Brooklyn to sample delicious slices from places like Grimaldi’s and L&B Spumoni Gardens. You’ll also see filming locations for movies like “Saturday Night Fever” and “Goodfellas”.
Tours are available Friday through Monday and Wednesday at 11 a. m.
On Location Tours — “Sex and the City” Hotspots Tour
Price: From $66
Duration: 3. 5 hours
Fans of “Sex and the City” can visit over 40 movie spots during this bus tour. View iconic filming locations, walk past Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone apartment, sample cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery, drink a cosmopolitan and shop in Greenwich Village.
Participants must be 18 or older. Tours depart Thursday to Sunday at 3:15 p. m. To read more, click here.
21. What is special of USA Guided Tours?
A. It provides a boat tour.
B. It only offers services during the daytime.
C. It teaches visitors a history lesson from experts.
D. It drives visitors through the whole New York City.
22. What can visitors do in A Slice of Brooklyn Bus Tours and On Location Tours?
A. Go shopping. B. Cook delicious food.
C. Watch ironic films. D. View filming locations.
23. Where is the text taken from?
A. An entertainment magazine. B. A tourist brochure.
C. A travel agency website. D. A pre-travel checklist.
B
Have you ever played a computer game for a long time and then kept seeing the game’s images afterward? This happened to me with the classic shape-falling game Tetris (俄罗斯方块), created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov.
Feeling stressed one evening, I turned on my Switch to find a game to play and relax with. That’s when I discovered Tetris. Before I knew it, I was obsessed. Even when I stopped, my brain was still playing, with the blocks falling in my mind. I started looking at objects in the real world and thinking about how they could be moved and stacked together. I even dreamed about Tetris. I was experiencing the common “Tetris effect”.
Introduced by journalist Jeffrey Goldsmith in his 1994 Wired magazine article called This Is Your Brain on Tetris, the effect has been observed by psychologists and researchers. The lasting images of Tetris are due to the “Zeigarnik effect”, in which people have better memories of uncompleted tasks than those of completed ones. Tetris, being a game that technically never ends, keeps you thinking of the game’s unfinished task, reported Tech Times. And the catchy music stays with you, too.
There are also positives to the Tetris Effect. In his 1991 study, psychologist Richard Haier at the University of California found that continuously playing Tetris resulted in the thickness of the cerebral cortex (大脑皮层) increasing, which improves brain efficiency (效率), reported psychology website Practical Pie. Haier’s discovery got Tetris put into the Guinness World Records Video Gamer’s Edition 2008, as the “first video game to be proven to improve brain functioning and efficiency”.
So, the next time you want to play a computer game, why not try the classic Tetris and see if it improves your brain function? But be warned, you’ll likely be seeing falling blocks everywhere.
24. What does the underlined word “obsessed” in paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. quite shocked. B. extremely interested. C. highly satisfied. D. very curious.
25. What can we learn about the “Tetris Effect” from the text?
A. It is connected to the way our memory works. B. It is an uncommon occurrence among children.
C. It can cause the “Zeigarnik effect”. D. It is primarily related to the game’s music.
26. What benefit can people get from continuously playing Tetris, according to Haier?
A. Improved memory. B. Lifted mood.
C. Better brain function. D. Fewer painful experiences.
27. What is the author’s tone in the last paragraph?
A. Serious. B. Amusing. C. Worried. D. Doubtful.
C
Many of us think, wrongly, that the moon doesn’t change. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ruoxu once wrote that “Generations have come and passed away; From year to year the moons look alike, old and new.”
However, a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that the moon is in fact slowly reduced in size over time. For the study, a group of US scientists examined and analyzed thousands of photographs taken by the NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (月球勘测轨道飞行器照相机). They found that there were lots of faults (断层) on the surface of the moon. These faults were formed by recent movement on the moon.
According to NASA, the moon is made up of pieces of rocks with a hot core. The moon continued to expand as it was born. But in this process, it released energy and cooled down. Then it began to shrink, in away comparable to the shrinking of a grape into a raisin（葡萄干）. Over the past several hundred million years, it has become 46 meters “skinnier”.
But due to its hard and rocky layer, the moon’s surface continues to push up. “Some of these quakes can be fairly strong, around five on the Richter scale (里氏震级),” said Thomas Watters, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in the US.
But does that mean the moon is a dangerous place that human shouldn’t try to explore and live on in the future? Maybe not, reported The Telegraph. “This isn’t anything to worry about. The moon may becoming smaller, but not by much. It’s not going anywhere,” Watters comforted us.
The new discovery proves that the idea that the moon is a dead, boring place is wrong. “We have been to the moon and we’ve done some great science, but there is still a lot we don’t know. The moon is shrinking — we didn’t really realize that until recently. It’s a much more active and interesting place than we thought and we should explore that,” NASA scientist Nathan Williams said.
28. Which point of view about the moon may the writer agree to?
A. It stays the same as before. B. It is becoming slightly smaller.
C. It is getting older and older. D. It has passed away.
