广东省茂名市信宜市第三中学2024-2025学年高一下学期4月月考英语试卷（含答案）

2024-2025学年信宜市第三中学高一第二学期月考（二） 英语试题 共8页 满分共130分 注意事项： 1. 答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、就读学校等用黑色钢笔或签字笔写在答题卡上。 2. 选择题部分全部使用铅笔涂答，非选择题部分全部使用黑色钢笔或签字笔答题，不按要求不给分。选择题部分每小题选出答案后, 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, 再选涂其它答案标号。不能答在试卷上。 3. 考试结束后, 只收答题卡。 第一部分 阅读(共两节，满分42.5分) 第一节 (共12小题；每小题2.5分，满分30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 Most students in America like popular music. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to the music before class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to the music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about the sports, the weather and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music. Popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people will buy his or her CDs or tapes. Some of the money from them goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, most of the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star. There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music which tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. It was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows which they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. 1. What can we learn from this text A. Adult drivers play the music with large speakers. B. Most American students like popular music. C. Most American students like country music. D. Adult drivers listen to the world news. 2. How many kinds of music are mentioned in the text A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five. 3. How can popular music singers become national stars A. By going to other places to perform. B. By taking part in competitions. C. By making lots of money. D. By making a CD or tape. 4. What’s country music today about A. Life of western cowboys. B. Common life of Americans. C. Country life and love. D. School life in the country. B In the state of Qin, there was a man called Shang Yang. He was a statesman (政治家) and worked out many reforms for the state, like paying more attention to farming and giving rewards to soldiers who were successful when at war. But these reforms were not easily carried out at first. Most people didn’t trust Shang Yang. In order to solve this problem, Shang Yang came up with an idea. He put a thin wooden pole at the south gate of the Qin capital. Many people came to see him and the pole. Then, in front of the crowd, Shang Yang said loudly, “The man who takes this pole t ... ...