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1、清远市第一中学实验学校2015-2016学年度第一学期高二级第一次月考英语试卷 （本试卷分为第卷选择题和第卷非选择题试卷总分150分考试时间120分钟）第一部分 阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列两篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。A The famous American gorilla(大猩猩) expert Diane Fossey had a completely new way to study gorillasshe pretended to be one of them. She copied their actions and
2、way of lifeeating plants and getting down on her hands and knees to walk the way a gorilla does. It was a new relationship. Diane Fossey was murdered in Rwanda in 1985 and her story was made into the popular film Gorillas in the Mist. It was a long way from King Kong, which is about a gorilla as a m
3、onster (a frightening animal), and helped to show a new idea: the real monster is man, while the gorilla is to be admired.Today there are thoughtto be around 48,000 lowland gorillas and maybe 400450 mountain gorillas in the wild. From the Congo in West Africa, to Rwanda and Uganda further east, they
4、 are endangered by hunting and by the cutting down of their forest homes. Some time ago, I found in my letterbox a little magazine from the World Wide Fund for Nature. It had two photos side by side. One was of a young gorilla.“This is a species of mammal(哺乳类动物),”said the words below it.“It is being
5、 destroyed by man. We must save it for our own good.”The other photo showed a human baby. The words also read,“This is a species of mammal,”but then went on:“It is the most destructive(破坏性的) on earth. We must retrain it for its own good.”1. The text mainly talks about _.A. Diane Fossey B. the gorill
6、as in RwandaC. the protection of the gorillas D. the film Gorillas in the Mist2. We can learn from the text that _.A. Gorillas in the mist was based Fosseys experiencesB. Lowland gorillas live longer than mountain gorillasC. King Kong showed us that a gorilla is admirableD. Diane Fossey was murdered
7、 by a gorilla3. What message can we get from the two photos in the magazine?A. Gorillas are mans close friends.B. Both man and the gorilla need to be saved.C. Young gorillas are as lovely as human babies.D. Man should live peacefully with the gorilla.B My father had returned from his business visit
8、to London when I came in, rather late, to supper. I could tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-serious way I knew so well, he said, How would you like to go to Eton? You bet, I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expe
9、nsive, the most famous of schools. You had to be entered at birth, if not before. Besides, even at 12 or 13, I understood my father. He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life, which was in the middle of the middle class, our house was medium-sized; he had avoided
10、 joining Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he felt embarrassed driving it, and quickly changed it for an Austin 1100. This could only be his delightful way of telling me that the whole boarding sch
11、ool idea was to be dropped. Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone else, if it did not conflict（冲突）with his fear of drawing attention to himself. It seemed that he had happened to be talking to Graham Brown of the London office, a very nice fellow,
12、 and Graham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that part of the world he thought he might just as well phone them. I remember my eyes stinging（刺痛）and my hands shaking with the puzzlement of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness. Oh
13、, he doesnt want to go away, said my mother, You shouldnt go on like this.” Its up to him, said my father. He can make up his own mind.”4. The house the writers family lived in was_. A. the best they could afford B. right for their social position C. for showing off D. rather small5. His father sold
14、 his Roils-Royce because_. A. it made him feel uneasy B. it was too old to work well C. it was too expensive to possess D. it was too cheap6. What was the writers reaction to the idea of going to Eton? A. He was very unhappy. B. He didnt believe it. C. He was delighted. D. He had mixed feelings.7. W
15、e can know from the passage that_. A. Children who can go to Eton are very famous B. Children can go to Eton if they will C. It is very difficult for a child to get admitted by Eton D. Children dont have the right to decide whether they will go to EtonCComputer programmer David Jones earns $35,000 a year designing new computer games. Yet he cannot find a bank ready to let hi
