河南省开封市兰考三高高三上学期第一次月考英语上学期第二次月考试题.doc

2014-2015 学年上期第一次月考试题 15届高三英语试题说明: 1. 本试卷分第 I 卷(选择题)和第 II 卷(非选择题)满分 120 分,考试时间 100 分钟。 2. 将第 I 卷的答案代表字母涂在答题卡中。第I 卷(选择题,共 70 分) 第一部分听力(共两节,满分 30分) (略) 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) A Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson River must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a branch of the great Appalachian family, and can be seen to the west rising up toa noble height and towering over the surrounding country. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their beautiful shapes on the clear evening sky, but sometimes when it is cloudless, gray steam gathers around the top of the mountains which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will shine and light up like a crown of glory ( 华丽的皇冠). At the foot of these mountains, a traveler may see light smoke going up from a village. In that village, and in one of the houses (which, to tell the exact truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years ago, a simple, good-natured fellow by the name of Rip Van Winkle. Rip's great weakness was a natural dislike of all kinds of money-making labor. It could not be from lack of diligence ( 勤劳), for he could sit all day ona wet rock and fish without saying a word, even though he was not encouraged bya single bite. He would carry a gun on his shoulder for hours, walking through woods and fields to shoot a few birds or squirrels. He would never refuse to help a neighbor, even in the roughest work. The women of the village, too, used to employ him to do such little jobs as their less helpful husbands would not do for them. Ina word, Rip was ready to attend to everybody's business but his own. If left to himself, he would have whistled ( 吹口哨) life away in perfect satisfaction; but his wife was always mad at him for his idleness ( 懒散). Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was endlessly going, so that he was forced to escape to the outside of the house -- the only side which, in truth, belongs toa henpecked hus