高三年级月考试卷（英语）使用时间：2014年12月27日测试时间： 120分钟总分： 150 分第I卷第一部分：听力(略)第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节 （共15小题，每小题3分，满分45分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Horse Riding LessonsPrice: Private lesson30 per hour; Group Lesson25 per hour (3 or more riders)Holiday Club 50 per dayDuration: 1 hourorfull day club for young ridersLocation: Looe PL14 4REAge Restrictions: 5 years or over Notes: In the interests of your safety, please wear smooth-soled shoes with low heels（后跟）. Please note that all riders will be advised to wear hats before starting a lesson. Polmartin Riding is close to Looe and Liskeard. Horse riding and lessons are available all year, whatever the weather. Situated in around sixty acres of Cornish landscape, our training farm offers stunning 360-degree views of the sea and farmland. Our treks(长途跋涉) wind through fields, lakes, streams, woods and hillsides, resulting in a unique and wonderful ride, in safety and without the worry of meeting any traffic. If you prefer to learn to ride or improve your skills, our riding lessons are varied and are matched to your needs and ability. You can be assured that all lessons are of the highest standards. We are able to train riders in a variety of disciplines according to the formal BHS standards. Our Holiday Clubs are for the young riders who really want to learn about horses, not just riding. They will learn how to feed and clean horses, and how to help others by leading horses. They will have a group lesson of an hour in the morning or in the afternoon, a ride out on the farm. Children planning for the day must be at least 8 years old and should also bring a packed lunch.1. If you attend the private lesson for five hours, you will pay_. A. 100.B. 150.C. 200.D. 250.2. The children attending Holiday Clubs have to_. A. buy a hatB. bring lunch C. lead a horseD. feed a horse3. Which of the following statements is TRUE? A. The horse riding training runs only in spring and summer.B. The Holiday Clubs provide more varied lessons for the learners.C. The riding lessons provided by the training are varied but amateur.D. You should choose a proper training time to avoid the traffic congestion.BIceland is experiencing a book boom（突然风靡的时期）. There is a phrase in Icelandic, “ad ganga med bok I maganum”, meaning everyone gives birth to a book. Literally, everyone “has a book in their stomach”. One in 10 Icelanders will publish one.“Does it get rather competitive?” I ask the young novelist, Kristin Eirikskdottir. “Yes, especially as I live with my mother and partner, who are also full-time writers. But we try to publish in alternate years so we do not compete too much.” “Writers are respected here,” Agla Magnusdottir tells me. “They live well. Some even get a salary.” Magnusdottir is head of the new Icelandic Literature Centre, which offers state support for literature and its translation. “They write everything modern sagas （长篇小说）, poetry, childrens books, literary fiction but the biggest boom is in crime writing,” she says.So what has led to this extraordinary book boom? I would say it is due to a crop of good writers, telling interesting tales with elegant economy and fantastic characters.Icelands black lava （火山岩） riverbeds, its steaming, bubbling earth, with its high volcanoes and great streams also make it the perfect setting for stories. Solvi Bjorn Siggurdsson, an Icelandic novelist, says writers owe a lot to the past. “We are a nation of storytellers. When it was dark and cold we had nothing else to do,” he says. “Thanks to the poetic works and medieval （中世纪的） sagas, we have always been surrounded by stories.”Siggurdsson shows respect to Icelands Nobel Literature winner, Halldor Laxness, whose books are sold in petrol stations and tourist centres across the island. Locals name their cats after Laxness and pay visits to his home. “When Laxness won the Nobel Prize in 1955 he put modern Icelandic literature on the map,” Siggurdsson tells me. “He gave us confidence to write.”4. The phrase in Icelandic “ad ganga med bok I maganum” in Paragraph 2 suggests that _.A. Icelanders love reading B. Icelanders love writingC. there are a lot of good books in Iceland D. its competitive to publish a book in Iceland5. What kind of book is the most popular in Iceland?A. Poetry. B. Medieval sagas. C. Crime novels. D. Childrens stories.6. What can we learn from the last paragraph?A. Halldor Laxness is the teacher of Siggurdsson. B. Halldor Laxness is greatly respected in Iceland.C. Writers in Iceland benefit from its literary tradition.D. Siggurdsson won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.7. According to the passage, Iceland _. A. has more writers than any other country in the world B. possesses some factors to be the perfect setting for stories C. publishe