中学16—17学年上学期高二第一次月考英语试题(扫描版)(无答案)

2016高二英语十月月考试卷第I卷第一部分：听力（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)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。

AThe house was quiet at 5 am and Tim’s mother was asleep. Only the sound of the big freezer broke the quiet. He’d dreamt of the cave last night. The purring (轻微颤动声) of the freezer had been the sea.Tim pulled on a sweater and put some apples into his schoolbag. It was too early for breakfast. He’d eat after he’d b een through the cave, sitting on the rocks and staring at the sea. He wished he had a proper pack. His schoolbag would have to do. What else? Sandwiches-but his mother might wake up if he started pulling out bread for sandwiches, she' d want to know why he had to leave so early. He settled for some biscuits, and left a note stuck to the table: Gone to Michael’s. Back tonight, Tim.The sky was high and soft and light outside, though the sun still wasn't up. Even the highway up the hill was quiet as he made his way down the street. The wind from the sea was fresh and sweet.The sand hills still breathed heat from yesterday’s sun, though the top of the sand was cool. He ran down to the beach impatiently, but there was no one, just dry sand dancing in the early wind and seabirds marching up and down watching the waves.The light changed suddenly. The first rays of sunlight stretched across the sea. The sun was pushing its way over the edge of the world.Over the first rocks, along to the point, Tim glanced back. The beach was still empty. The sun sailed higher in the sky.He could see the cave now, even darker in the morning light. The sand turned silver then dark gold as the water flowed away from it. He had to force himself to go closer. Why was it so much more mysterious now? But it would be silly to go back now after so much trouble. He needn't go in all the way...21. What did Tim do at the beginning of the story?A. He put a sweater in his schoolbag.B. He had breakfast at home.C. He left a note on the freezer.D. He left the house quietly.22. What made it possible for Tim to see the entry to the cave?A. The height of the first rocks.B. The change in the position of the sun.C. The ups and downs of the waves.D. The vast stretch of the sunlit beach.23. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the story?A. Tim was the only person on the beach.B. Seabirds flew away when Tim arrived.C. The sea looked like a piece of gold.D. The sky got dark as Tim reached the cave.24. In the story, Tim’s mood changed from_________.A. loneliness to crazinessB. anxiousness to excitementC. eagerness to nervousnessD. helplessness to happinessBYou may know your mother, but how well do you really know Mother’s Day? Cards, flowers, sales, TV specials, and a day off for someone who really deserves (应得) it ---- those are what probably come to mind for many people when they think of Mother’s Day. But there’s more to the story.The earliest Mother’s Day celebrations were held during spring in ancient Greece. The celebrations honored Rhea, the Mother of the gods. During the 1600’s, England celebrated a day called Mothering Sunday. On this day even servants were given the day off to spend with their families. A mothering cake was even served with the family meal.In the US, Mother’s Day began in 1872 when Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the words to the famous song The Battle Hymn of the Republic, suggested it as a day devoted to peace. But it didn’t really become popular until 1907 when Anna Jarvis started a campaign to honor mothers. She believed that mothers could help people get over the pain they experienced during the Civil War. The US isn’t alo ne in devoting a day to mothers. Many other countries including Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Japan, and Belgium also honor their mothers in May. Other countries honor their mothers at different times of the year.Learning more about Mother’s Day and celebrating Mother’s Day are important, but probably not as important as understanding what your own mother, or grandmother, or aunt has really done for you. And that will certainly be appreciated more than one day in a year.25. What is the passage mainly about?A. The reason why people celebrate Mother’s Day.B. The ways people honor mothers.C. The history of Mother’s Day.D. The contribution of mothers.26. Where was the earliest Mother’s Day celebrated?A. In ancient Greece.B. In the US.C. In England.D. In Italy.27. We can learn from the passage that _____.A. Rhea is the mother of a king in ancient GreeceB. all the countries don’t celebrate Mother’s Day in MayC. only mothers were given a day off on Mothering SundayD. it was in 1872 that Mother’s Day really came into being28. The last paragraph tells us that _____.A. all the people should celebrate Mother’s Day by doing something good to their mothers.B. only mothers are honored on Mother’s DayC. understan ding mothers’ work is more important than just celebrating Mother’s DayD. people should celebrate Mother’s Day every dayCA warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night’s sleep. But now a study has found it really does help people nod off—if it is milked from a cow at night.Researchers have discovered that “night milk” contains more melatonin(褪黑激素), which has been proven to help people feel sleepy and reduce anxiety.The study, by researchers from Seoul, South Korea, involved mice being fed with dried milk powder made from cows milked both during the day and at night.Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in The Journal of Medicinal Food.Night milk quickened the start of sleep and caused the mice to sleep longer.While the effect of cows milk harvested at different time has not been tested on humans up to now, taking melatonin drugs has been suggested to those who are struggling to fall asleep at night. Previous studies have also indicated that milk can be excellent for helping sleep because of the calcium (钙)content, which helps people to relax.Milk is also sugar-free and additive-free with nutritionists recommending(推荐) skimmed milk as the best choice before bed as it is the least fattening. The more fat you take in before bedtime, the greater burden you will put on your body at night.29. According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk_______.A. started sleep more easilyB. were more anxiousC. were less activeD. woke up later30. Which of the following is true of melatonin according to the text?A. It’s been tested on mice for ten timesB. It can make people more energeticC. It exists in milk in great amountD. It’s used in sleeping drugs31. What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Night Milk and SleepB. Fat Sugar and HealthC. An Experiment on MiceD. Milk Drinking and Health32. How does the author support the theme of the text?A. By giving examples.B. By stating arguments.C. By explaining statistical data.D. By providing research results.DA. In May 2016B. In May 2017C. In September 2017D. In September 201634. Who is more likely to get the job?A. Sam, English major, member of the college basketball teamB. Judy, IT staff with night classes, children’s basketball team coachC. Ted, computer major, basketball fan, free on evenings and weekendsD. Molly, part-time programmer, high school basketball player, new mother35. Whom should you contact if you want to apply for the job in Rockville?A. JorgeB. MichaelC. GauriD. Gary第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

2016年第一学期高二级英语月考试卷（考试时间：120分钟总分：150分）本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分第Ⅰ卷（选择题共80分）第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分50分）第一节单项选择（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）1. What George said just now suggests that he ____ something that he shouldn’t have done.A. should doB. would doC. has doneD. had done2. Only in this way ______ progress in your English.A. you makeB. you be able to makeC. can you makeD. you can make3. Alexander tried to get his work _______ in the medical circle.A. to recognizeB. recognizingC. recognizeD. recognized4. This medicine will ______ him of his cough.A. recoverB. cureC. treatD. heal5. He always brings me a pretty gift ______ he comes to visit me.A. by the timeB. sometimesC. every timeD. at times6.—Do you know who _____ a theory about black holes?—Yes, it is Stephen William Hawking.A. put awayB. put forwardC. put downD. put on7.You shouldn’t keep silent when ____A. speakingB. spoken toC. spokenD. speaking to8. My car _____ on the way; what was worse, I couldn’t find anywhere to repair it.A. slowed downB. got downC. broke downD. put down9. I have had my bike ______, and I’m going to have somebody _____ my radio tomorrow.A. repair; to repairB. repairing; to be repairedC. repaired; repairD. to repair; repairing10. _______ by his speech, the boy who was not good at running broke the school record finally.A. EncouragedB. EncouragingC. To encourageD. Being encouraged11.________sports do great harm to people who have heart problems.A．Thrilled B．Thrilling C．Entertaining D．Entertained 12. The opening province ________ thirteen counties and three coastal cities will quicken itspace of economic development.A．consists of B．making up ofC．consisting of D．which consist of13.________ to have a picnic here!A．What great delight B．How great delightC．What a great delight D．How a great delight14. To keep the Milu deer safe，they ________ some soldiers to protect them.A．have arranged B．have arranged for C．arranged D．found15.The company is starting a new advertising campaign to ______ new customers to its stores.A．join B．attract C．stick D．transfere and see me whenever ________.A．you are convenient B．you will be convenientC．it is convenient to you D．it will be convenient to you17. The way he suggests to us doesn’t make______A. differenceB. opinionsC. useD. sense18.The whole class were______into seven groups and each group went on their_______trips.A．separated；divided B．divided；separatingC．divided；separate D．separate；dividing19.The rooms are ____, so you can’t move in.A. paintedB. paintingC. being paintedD. to be painted20. The ___ look on his face showed that he hadn’t expected it .A. astonishedB. astonishingC. being astonishedD. having astonished第二节完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）Most people in school liked Gloria．So when she got sick，some boys 21to visit her．But none of them wanted to 22 any money for a gift to bring along．Then Willie said，“We can23 some flowers from a 24 .”Gloria will not know 25 they come from，and the dead man will not 26 them．Everybody was afraid，27 Willie．So he went alone and 28 some beautiful flowers．Then they went to Gl oria’s29 ，and the boys acted as if the flowers were from all of them，but 30 did not mind．After their visit，Willie 31 the other boys，“It is a good thing that I was not afraid．Gloria 32 the flowers．”The other boys laughed．Gloria would not have liked the 33 if she had known they had come from a grave．That night，Willie was reading a book 34 his mother came into his room．“Willie，did you and other boys buy some flowers today 35 Gloria？”she asked．“There’s a man36 asking for you，”she added．“He says that you didn’t37 the flowers．”“What does he look38 ？”Willie asked．“That’s hard to say，”Willie’s mother answered．“He is all39 with mud．”Willie，all of a sudden，turned 40 ．21. A. thought B. asked C. planned D. took22. A. keep B. cost C. take D. spend23. A. steal B. pick up C. buy D. plant24. A. shop B. store C. street D. grave25. A. how B. where C. when D. why26. A. miss B. lose C. hate D. love27. A. beside B. besides C. including D. except28. A. saw B. thought C. looked for D. found29. A. room B. hospital C. school D. library30. A. Gloria B. some C. Willie D. nobody31. A. told B. asked C. said to D. explained32. A. refused B. liked C. hated D. missed33. A. boys B. flowers C. secret D. news34. A. as B. when C. while D. suddenly35. A. to B. for C. on D. with36. A. inside B. outside C. still D. also37. A. ask for B. water C. like D. pay for38. A. as B. about C. like D. for39. A. painted B. dressed C. wrapped D. covered40. A. sad B. red C. pale D. glad第二部分阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）AVery few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner did not know what to do. The price was reasonable and the food was of good quality, but nobody seemed to want to eat there.Then he did something that changed all that, and in a few weeks his restaurant is always full of men with their lady friends. Whenever a gentleman came in with a lady, a smiling waiter gave each of them a menu(菜单), The menu looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter gave to the man supplied the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine. while the menu that he gave to the lady supplied a much higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous(慷慨) than he really was.41. Why didn’t people come to the White Rose Restaurant to eat at first?A. Because the price was high.B. Because the food was too cheap.C. Because the food was not good.D. The passage didn’t mention.42. According to the passage we can conclude that the people who eat at this restaurant aremostly _______________.A. poor old peopleB. rich young peopleC. men with their girl friendsD. parents with their children43. The difference between the two kinds of menu lie in ______________.A. the colorB. the shapeC. the priceD. the food44. According to the passage we can infer that when men with their girl friends eat at thisrestaurant, the food was paid ___________________.A. always by the ladies onlyB. always by the men onlyC. sometimes by the ladiesD. either by the men or by the ladies45. According to the passage we can know that, generally speaking, ____________.A. men are more generous than womenB. women are more generous than menC. men like their lady friends to be generous.D. women like their men friends to be generousBEveryday we go to school and listen to the teacher, and the teacher will ask us some questions. Sometimes, the classmates will ask your opinions of the work of the class. When you are telling others in the class what you have found out about these topics, remember that they must be able to hear what you are saying. You are not taking part in a family conversation or having a chat（闲谈）with friends — you are in a slightly unnatural situation where a large group of people will remain silent, waiting to hear what you have to say. You must speak so that they can hear you — loudly enough and clearly enough but without trying to shout of appearing to force yourself.Remember, too, that it is the same if you are called to an interview whether it is with a professor of your school or a government official who might meet you. The person you are seeing will try to put you at your ease（轻松）but the situation is somewhat（一点儿）different from that of an ordinary conversation. You must take special care that you can be heard.46.When you speak to the class, you should speak _______________.A．as loudly as possible B．in a low voiceC．loudly D．forcefullyually, when you speak to the class, the class is _________________.A. noisy B．quiet C．having a rest D．serious48.The situation in the class is _______________ that in your house.A．not very different from B．sometimes the same asC．sometimes not the same as D．not the same as49. If you are having a conversation with an official, the most important thing for you is ______.A．to show your ability B．to be very gentleC. to make sure that you can be heard D．to put the official at ease50.The main idea of this passage is _______________.A．that we must use different ways at different situationsB．that we must speak loudlyC．that we must keep silent at any timeD．that we must talk with the classCRuben lived in a small village. There was no school there and he had to study in a school in the town. It was nearly five kilometres away from his village. His father couldn't buy a bike for him and he had to go to school on foot. He got up early in the morning. Usually he had to run there in order not to miss the first class. He kept running every day and it was helpful to him. He’s strong and tall now and he ran faster than any other man in his village. He took part in several sports meetings and won some medals. The young man is proud of and always wants to have a race with others.One day his mother was ill and his father told him to buy some medicine for headache in the town. The young man got there soon. There were many people in the chemist's shop while he was waitin g there. And when his turn came, he couldn’t find his money. An old woman hinted（暗示）a young man had stolen it. He saw the thief had already left the shop. He ran towards him quickly. The thief found it and began to run. He was happy and tried to catch up with him.“Let’s have a race and see who will run faster, ”Ruben called out behind.Soon after that he caught up with the thief. But he didn't stop and went on running. At a crossing one of his friends asked, “What are you running for, Ruben? ”“I’m running after（追）a thief. ”“Where’s the thief, then? ”“He wants to show that he’ll run faster than me, but he’s fallen behind!”51. Ruben had to run to school because ______________.A. he had no bikeB. he hoped to win some medalsC. his village was a little far from the schoolD. he was afraid to be late for class52.______________ , so he won some medals.A. Ruben is good at runningB. Ruben went to school on timeC. Ruben often took part in the sports meetings.D. Ruben likes to have a race with others53. The phrase “a chemist’s shop” in the story means ______________.A. 化工商店B. 药店C. 化工厂D. 制药厂54. Ruben’s money was stolen ______________.A. on his way to the townB. before he went in the shopC. when he was waiting in the shopD. after he had left the shop55. Ruben was happy because ______________.A. he could easily catch the thiefB. he had a chance（机会）to have a raceC. he knew who had stolen his moneyD. he would win another medal that day第Ⅱ卷（非选择题共70分）第一节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）There are two basic stages to learn English. The first stage of learning this language would be very ___56__ (interest). Once you have a good command of the alphabets(字母), __57__ (gradual) you can learn many words. It would always be better to follow the method of reading first, then writing. When you feel 58___ you have understood the words, you can make sentences. This is the most amusing stage to learn. You just think of a sentence in your mother language, and try to set ___59__ the same sentence in English. There could be some mistakes, ___60___ you should not worry about it. You’d better write the same se ntence by ___61__ (make) use of many different words till you are satisfied ___62__ your sentence. If you follow this way, very soon you can create sentences of your own.___63___ second step is learning the grammar. Compared with __64___ languages, Englishis quite simple and very systematic(系统化的). There are certain rules and regulations for each and every topic in grammar of this language. As long as you follow the rules and regulations, ___65__ would be a difficult task to make mistakes.第二节：短语翻译（15分）66.蒸汽机_____________________67.提出_____________________68.得出结论____________________69.对……严格的________________________70.有意义________________________71.睁大你的眼睛__________________72.省去不考虑遗漏____________________73.列出关于…的清单________________74.在特殊的场合___________________75.入睡____________76.脱离_________________77.提及，指的是____________78.值得赞扬的是________________79.在建设中__________________80.出故障，抛锚_______________第三节：单词拼写（10分）81. The farmers in this area had a good harvest last year thanks to the s_____________farming.82. He was a____________________in the book.83. He finished his work in a p__________________（积极的）way.84.We must try to _________________（分析）the causes of the strike.85. The famous Korean play actor got an________（热情的）reception in Hong Kong.86. A v_________________is a kind of germ that can cause disease.87. To his _______________(高兴), he got the last ticket for the wonderful performance.88. This engine is used for p_________water out of the mine.89. The new railway station under ________ (建设)will be completed by the end of the year.90.Please write me a letter telling me where you are at your _____________(方便).第四节：短文改错（10分）读下面的短文，文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

学益高二年级英语月考第一卷第一部分:阅读理解阅读下列短文，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。

AWith big handbags becoming a key fashion accessory(配饰) for working women, health experts are warning they can also become a key health concern.Bags for women have become bigger and heavier as designers combine briefcases with handbags and straps have become longer, resulting in many users complaining of neck, shoulder and back problems.“I see so many women with neck pains and headaches and what I usually do is look for their purse and pick it up,” said Jane Sadler, a family practice physician at Baylor Medical Center in Garland, Texas. “We take it over to the scale and weigh it and usually they’re anywhere from 7 to 10 pounds. We’re really going to see women with more and more prob lems later on if we continue the big purse craze.”William Case, a physical therapist(临床医生)in private practice in Houston, Texas, urged designers “to place a cute, educational caution tag(标签) on all bags to inform buyers of potential neck and shoulder dangers.”Above all, he suggested correct posture while carrying big purses, keeping the head and shoulders upright. Patients should also often change the size and weight of purses carried.“The extra-large purses are quite extraordinary. They look beautiful when the women wear them, but I don’t know how aware they are of the potential problems,” Case said.Placing objects on one shoulder was one of the least efficient(高效率的) ways of carrying a load, according to a professor from Cornell University in New York State. “This causes a great imbalance,”he said. “If a big bag is a fashion accessory, then occasional and symbolic use is fine. If not, then keep it light.”1. Jane Salder would “look for their purse and pick it up” in order to see whether the purses .A. contained enoughB. were worth a lot of poundsC. were too heavyD. were too large2. Which correctly explains the meaning of the underlined word “posture” in the 4th paragraph?A. The way you position your body.B. The part of your body where you place a weight.C. The strength you use to carry a weight.D. The height of the weight you carry.3. None of the experts advised big bag users to .A. be aware of the big-bag problemsB. wear big bags in the right wayC. avoid using big bags very oftenD. give up the fashion to keep fitBBEIJING, China(CNN)—Chinese workers and army soldiers were racing to sweep snow-covered highways and railway routes for millions of travelers trapped by cold weather.More than 67 million people have been affected by the weather and economic losses are expected to reach as much as $3 billion, Chinese officials say.In the past week, the snowstorms have hit the provinces in central, eastern and southern China—places that used to have mild winters.“We’ve never seen such a cold weather lasting for such a long time,” said Tang Shan, a man in his 70s Changsha, Hunan Province. “The last time we had one here was over 50 years ago, a nd not this bad.”The snow has blocked roads, railways and airports, leaving tens of millions of travelers stranded(滞留)，officials say. Many of them are going home ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival.The Lunar New Yea r travel is China’s busiest travel period of the year. But the snow is changing travel plans. Railway and highway routes have been brought to a pause, a situation in which all activity or movement has stopped and several regional airports have been closed.In the southern city of Guangzhou, as many as 500,000 train passengers were stranded in the past few days when a power failure in neighboring Hunan seriously damaged the regular train services, local officials said. About 100,000 passengers crowded the square in front of the train station, while others found shelter in schools and other public buildings while waiting for their trains.More terrible weather is expected. China’s weather office on Monday issued a warning of more severe(恶劣的) snowstorms in the coming days. If so, the number of stranded travelers will surely increase.4. What would be the best title for the passage?A. Travelers in ChinaB. Snowstorms Cause Economic LossesC. Dealing with Terrible WeatherD. Snowstorms Hit Parts of China5. The word “trapped”underlined in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by“”.A. beatenB. disturbedC. blockedD. destroyed6. We can know from the passage that .A. the coming snowstorms will leave more people strandedB. there will be more snowstorms next yearC. snowstorms usually cause a power failureD. more people are going home for Lunar New Year this year7. The passage is probably taken from a .A. guidebookB. news reportC. science magazineD. textbookCSince 1989 University of Phoenix Online offered online degree programs to working adults around the country. You attend classes whenever and wherever you want via the Internet for complete flexibility(机动性) and convenience.Earn your degree via the Internet for more career opportunities and higher income potential(潜在的) with University of Phoenix Online.Many of our students complete their degree in about 2 to 3 years. With over 99000 online students, University of Phoenix Online has one of the most successful online degree programs in the country.There is no need for residency(居住) in the United States, since 100% of the coursework is done online.Bachelor’s Degree Admission Requirements:●A high school diploma(毕业文凭) or equivalent.●Student must be 21 years of age or older.●A minimum score of 550 on the paper-based exam or 213 on the computer-based exam of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOFEL) for non-native speakers of English.●Current employment or access to an organizational environment.Master’s Degree Admission Requirements:●A regionally accredited US bachelor’s degree or equivalent.●A cumulative undergraduate GPA of 2.5 or better●Three years significant working experience.●A minimum score of 550 on the paper-based exam or 213 on the computer-based exam of the Test of English as Foreign Language (TOFEL) for non-native speakers of English.●Current employment or access to an organizational environment.For further information, please click .8. The passage is ? .A. a storyB. a fableC. a piece of newsD. an ad9. Which of the following conditions is a must if you want to earn either of the two online degrees?A. You have to rent an apartment in the United States.B. You must take part in an exam of English language if you are a non-native English speaker.C. You must be at least 21 years old.D. You must be employed and have a few years’ working experience.10. Who will not apply for the program?A. Those who will go to the States to study.B. Those who want better income.C. Those who are adults.D. Those who are not English native speakers.11. What’s the main advantage of the program?A. It’s free.B. It costs litt le.C. Courses online.D. No entrance exams.DNothing can spoil a vacation quicker than losing your money or credit cards. A few simple steps before you head out of the door can help protect your cash, card and personal information while you’re traveling.Paul Stephens, a policy analyst San Diego, notes that people spend a lot of time planning their trips, from buying guidebooks to finding just the right beach outfits（装备）.“But their eyes glaze （呆滞）over when the subject of keeping money safe comes up,” he said.“Why not take a few minutes to do something that could probably save your vacation?”Stephens asked. ”In most cases, they can go on your to-do list with ’buy travel bags’and everything else,” he added.The top recommendation is to clean your wallet. Remove unnecessary credit cards and any other unneeded documents that could compromise（危及...的安全）your identity if lost or stolen while you’re on vocation.Then make a photocopy of the cards you’ve decided to take along and keep it in a secure location with you（not in your wallet）or leave it with a trusted relative or friend back home. Then you will know who you need to contact and how to reach it if your wallet is missing.‘Travelers should never leave their wallets or any identifyin g documents in their hotel room when they’re not there,” he said.” Choose a hotel with a safe to keep your valuable things in. Or keep your wallet and documents with you at all times. ”12．According to passage, _______can destroy one’s vacation the most quickly.A．being lost on vacation B．losing money or credit cardsC．living in a bad hotel. D．losing contact with family13．What does the underlined word stand for?A．The people who are going traveling.B．The outfits that are prepared for traveling.C．The suggestions on what to buy when traveling.D．The steps to avoid losing money or credit cards.14．What should people do with their wallet before they go on vacation?A．Take it with them all the time.B．Put it in a safe place at the hotelC．Remove unnecessary cards and documents.D．Leave it with family or friend.15．What is the topic of the passage?A．How to prepare for travel.B．How to be happy during your vacation.C．How to keep cash and cards safe on vacation.D．How to protect your luggage on vacation.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

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第一部分阅读理解（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。

AThere are two factors（因素）which determine an individual's intelligence. The first is the so rt of brain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably, s ome being more capable than others. But no matter how gooda brain he has to begin with, an individual will have a low ord er of intelligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So the second factor is what happens to the individual－the sort of environment in which he is brought up. If an individ ual has less chances environmentally, it is likely that his brain will fail to develop and he will never obtain the level of intellige nce of which he is capable.The importance of environment in determining an individual' s intelligence can be shown by the case history of the twins. When they were three months old, their parents died, and the y were placed in separate homes. Peter was brought up by pa rents of low intelligence in a separate community with poor ed ucational opportunities. Mark was brought up in the home of well-to-do opportunity to be encouraged intellectually.This environmental difference continued until the twins were i n their late teens, when they were given tests to measure thei r intelligence. Mark's IQ was 125, twenty-five points higher than the average and fully forty points highe r than his twin brother. Given equal opportunities, the twins, h aving similar brains, would have tested at roughly the same le vel.1. This passage can best be titled______.A. Measuring Your IntelligenceB. Intelligence and EnvironmentC. The Case of Peter and MarkD. How the Brain Influences IntelligenceThe best statement of the main idea of this passage is that___ ___.A. human brains differ considerablyB. the brain a person is born with is important in determining h is intelligenceC. environment is important in determining a person's intellige nceD. persons having similar brains will have roughly the same in telligenceAccording to the passage, the average IQ is______.A. 85B. 100C. 110D. 1254. This passage suggests that an individual's IQ______.A. can be foretold at birthB. stays the same thro ughout his lifeC. can be increased by educationD. is determined by hi s childhoodBShort and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class pick ed for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless,” he says now with alaugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gy m classes in England's rural Devonshire.It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that c hanged him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby for est. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradu ally, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing hi s speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first m arathon.The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famo us in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic O cean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's scho ol of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits(成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explore rs and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British count ry boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. “J ohn Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You are com pletely crazy,'” Saunders says.In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his fi rst long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbi te, had a closer encounter with a polar bear and pushed his b ody to the limit.Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himsel f than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe th e transformation.This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.5. The turning point in Saunders' life came when _____A. he started to play ball gamesB. he got a mountain bike at age 15C. he ran his first marathon at age 18D. he started to receive Ridgway's training6. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.A. dismissed Saunders' dream as fantasyB. built up his body together with SaundersC. hired Saunders for his cold-water experienceD. won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic7. What do we know about Saunders?A. He once worked at a school in Scotland.B. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.D. He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.8. The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph prob ably means_____.A. ExcitedB. ConvincedC. DelightedD. FascinatedCToo much TV-watching can harm children's ability to learn and even reduce their chances of getting a college degree, new studies sugges t in the latest effort to examine the effects of television on chil dren.One of the studies looked at nearly 400 northern California thi rd-graders. Those with TVs in their bedrooms scored about eight points lower on math and language arts tests than children wi thout bedroom TVs.A second study, looking at nearly 1,000 grown-ups in New Zealand, found lower education levels among 26-year-olds who had watched lots of TV during childhood. But the res ults don't prove that TV is the cause and don't rule out that alr eady poorly motivated youngsters (年轻人) may watch lots of TV.Their study measured the TV habits of 26-year-olds between ages 5 and 15. Those with college degrees had watched an average of less than two hours of TV per weeknig ht during childhood, compared with an average of more than 2.5 hours for those who had no education beyond high school .In the California study, children with TVs in their rooms but no computer at home scored the lowest, while those with no bed room TV but who had home computers scored the highest.While this study does not prove that bedroom TV sets caused the lower scores, it adds to accumulating findings that childre n shouldn't have TVs in their bedrooms.9. According to the California study, the low-scoring group might＿＿＿＿.A. have watched a lot of TVB. not be inter ested in mathC. be unable to go to collegeD. have had c omputers in their bedrooms10. What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?A. More time should be spent on computers.B. Children should be forbidden from watching TV.C. TV sets shouldn't be allowed in children's bedrooms.D. Further studies on high-achieving students should be done.11. What would be the best title for this text?A. Computers or TelevisionB. Effects of Television on ChildrenC. Studies on TV and College EducationD. Television and Children's Learning HabitsDThat cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San F rancisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning aft er a tiring practice at the theatre. With opening night only a we ek away, I was still learning my lines. I was having trouble dea ling with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about giving up both acting an d San Francisco. City life had become too much for me.As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began running, both to keep warm and to ke ep away from any possible robbers. Very few people were still out except a few sad－looking homeless people under blankets.About a block from my apartment, I heard a sound behind me.I turned quickly, half expecting to see someone with a knife o r a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetli ght. Still, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run f aster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been m y wallet falling to the sidewalk.Suddenly I wasn't cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to where I'd heard the noise. Although I searched th e sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhe re to be found.Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice called from the inside,“Alisa Camacho?”, I thought I was dreaming. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and o ut jumped a small red-haired man with an amused look in his eyes.“Is this what you'r e looking for?”he asked, holding up a small square shape.It was nearly 3 a.m. by the time I got into bed. I wouldn't get m uch sleep that night, but I had gotten my wallet back. I also ha d gotten back some enjoyment of city life. I realized that the ci ty couldn't be a bad place as long as people were willing to he lp each other.12. How did the writer feel when she was walking home after work?A. Cold and sick.B. Fortunate and helpful.C. Satisfied and cheerful.D. Disappointed and helpl ess.13. From the first paragraph, we lean that the writer was busy ______.A. solving her problem at the bankB. taking part in various city activitiesC. learning acting in an evening schoolD. preparing for the first night show14. On her way home the writer______.A. lost her wallet unknowinglyB. was stopped by a garbage truck driverC. was robbed of her wallet by an armed manD. found some homeless people following her15. From the text, we can infer that the writer______.A. would stop working at nightB. would stay on in San FranciscoC. would make friends with cleanersD. would give up her job at the bank第二节 (共5小题，每小题3分，满分15分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

2016-2017学年第一学期武威五中高二年级英语试题第一部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给四选项（A 、B 、C 和D ）中，选出最佳选项AA man who failed to return more than 700 children’s books to five different libraries in the county was put into prison. Yesterday he was set free after a book publisher agreed to post his bond (担保金) of $1,000. The publisher said, “There’s a story here. This is a man who loves books. He just can’t let go of them. He hasn’t stolen a single book. So what’s the crime? We think that Mr. Brush has a story to tell. We plan to publish his story.”When asked why he didn’t return the books, Mr. Brush said, “Well, how could I? They became friends to me. I was afraid to return them, because I knew that kids or dogs would get hold of these books and chew them up, throw them around, rip the pages, spill soda on them, get jam and jelly on them, and drown them in the toilet.”He continued, “Books are people, too! They talk to you, they take care of you, and they enrich yo u with wisdom and humor and love. A book is my guest in my home. How could I kick it out? I repaired torn pages. I dusted them. I turned their pages so they could breathe and get some fresh air.“Every week I reorganized them on their shelves so they could meet new friends. My books were HAPPY books. You could tell just by looking at them. Now they’re all back in the library, on the lower shelves, on the floors, at the mercy of all those runny-nosed kids. I can hear them calling me!I need to rescue them. E xcuse me. I have to go now.”1. Why was the man put into prison?A. Because the book publisher persuaded the police to do so.B. Because he refused to return the books that he had borrowed.C. Because he stole 700 children's books from the five different libraries.D. Because he wanted to publish his story.2.How did the man treat books? A. He treated them as his furniture. B. He treated them as his own children. C. He treated them as his job. D. He treated them as real people.3. From the passage we can learn that the man is _____.A. a thiefB. a writerC. crazy about booksD. unfortunate4. What might happen after the man was set free?A. He might stop borrowing books from libraries.B. He might start a library of his own.C. He might return all his books to the libraries.D. He might go on borrowing books from libraries.BWinners ClubYou choose to be a winner!The Winners Club is a bank account specially designed for teenagers. It has been made to help you better manage your money. The Winners Club is a transaction account（交易账户）where you receive a key-card so you can get to your money 24/7 –that’s 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!It’s a club with impressive features for teenagers:No account keeping fees!You’re no millionaire so we don’t expect you to pay large fees. In fact, there is no account keeping or transaction fees!Excellent interest rates!You want your money to grow. The Winners Club has a good rate of interest which gets even better if you make at least two deposits（储蓄）without taking them out in a month. ConvenientTeenagers are busy –we get that. You may never need to come to a bank at all. With the Winners Club you can choose to use handy tellers and to bank from home using the phone and the Internet－You can have money directly deposited into your Winners Club account. This could be your pocket money or your pay from your part-time job!Mega magazine includedAlong with your regular report, you will receive a FREE magazine full of good ideas to make even more of your money. There are also fantastic offers and competitions only for Winners Club members.The Winners Club is a great choice for teenagers. And it is so easy to join. Simply fill in an application form. We can’t wait to hear from you. It’s the best way to choose to be a winner!5. Which of the following is TRUE about the Winners Club?A. Special gifts are ready for parents.B. The bank opens only on work days.C. Services are convenient for its members.D. Fees are necessary for the account keeping.6. The Winners Club provides magazines which ________.A. encourage spendingB. are free to all teenagersC. help to make more of your moneyD. are full of adventure stories7. What is the purpose of this text?A. To set up a club.B. To provide part-time jobs.C. To introduce a new banking serviceD. To organize key-cards.CAmmie Reddick from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, was only 18 months old when she had the accident that had scarred(留下创伤) her for life. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Ammie horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Ammie’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue(组织) taken from unburned areas of Ammie’s bod y, doctors performed complex skin transplants(移植) to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”Today, aged 17, Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.She is a membe r of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Ammie will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridge shire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Ammie loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”8. What did other children do when Ammie first went to school?A．They were friendly to her. B．They showed sympathy to her.C．They looked down upon her. D．They were afraid of her.9. Ammie will teach the younger children at the Graffham Water Center to___________. A．hide their scars by proper B.face others’ unkindness bravely dressing C．live a normal life D．recover quickly10. What does the underlined word “permanent” in the 4th paragraph mean?A. life-longB. necessaryC. difficultD. important11. What can be the best title of the passage?A．A Seriously Burned Girl Survives B．Ways to Get Rid of Unkind StaresC．A seriously burned angel of Hope D．Permanent Scars And Pain For a GirlDAttitudes to AIDS NowMost people say that the USA is making progress in fighting AIDS, but they don't know there's no cure and strongly disagree that "the AIDS epidemic(传染病) is over," a new survey finds.The findings, released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, reassure activists who have worried that public concern about AIDS might disappear in light of recent news about advances in treatment and declines in deaths."While people are very optimistic about the advances, they're still realistic about the fact that there is no cure" says Sophia Chang, director of HIV programs at the foundation.The Kaiser survey, like a recent USA TODAY Gallup Poll, does find that the number of people ranking AIDS as the country's top health problem has fallen. In the Kaiser Poll, 38% say it's the top concern, down from 44% in a 1996 poll; in the Gallup Poll, 29% say AIDS is No.1, down from 41% in 1992 and 67% in 1987.Other findings from Kaiser, which polled more than 1,200 adults in September and October and asked additional questions of another 1,000 adults in November:52% say the country is making progress against AIDS, up from 32% in 1995. 51% say the government spends too little on AIDS. 86% correctly say AIDS drugs can now lengthen lives; an equal number correctly say that the drugs are not cures. 67% incorrectly say that AIDS deaths increased or stayed the same in the past year; 24% know deaths fell. Daniel Zingale, director of AIDS Action Council, says, "I'm encouraged that the American people are getting the message that the AIDS epidemic isn't over. I hope the decision-makers in Washington are getting the same message … We have seen signs o f complacency.12. What do activists worry about?A. Recent news about AIDS is not true.B. Advances in AIDS treatment are too slow.C. People may stop worrying about AIDSD. Deaths caused by AIDS may not decline. 13. According to the passage, people's attitude toward the cure of AIDS isA. optimistic.B. hopelessC. RealisticD. pessimistic.14. The Gallup Poll shows that the number of people___________.A. who think AIDS is the country's top health killer has fallen.B. who suffer from the worst disease -- AIDS has fallen.C. who worry about AIDS and health problems has fallen.D. who think AIDS threatens the countryside has fallen.15. According to the Kaiser Poll, which of the following is NOT Correct?A. More and more people die of AIDS now.B. The country is making progress against AIDS.C. AIDS drugs can now make people live longer.D. AIDS drugs still cannot save people's lives.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

人教版2017高二上学期第一次月考英语试题含答案第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每題所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AAs a boy, Sanders was much influenced by books about the sea, but by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a doctor. So he was often with the doctors and got along very well with them. When he was fourteen, he was already hanging around the hospital where he was supposed to be helping to clean the medicine bottles, but was actually trying to listen to the doctors’ conversations with patients in the next room.During the war Sanders served in the army as a surgeon(外科医生). “That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with real sufferers and on the whole making a success of my job.” In Rhodes he taught the country people simple facts about medicine. He saw himself as a life-saver. He had proved his skill to himself and had a firm belief that he could serve those who lived simply, and were dependent upon him. Thus, while in a position to tell them what to do he could feel he was serving them.After the war, he married and set up a practice deep in the countryside, working under an old doctor who hated the sight of blood. This gave the younger man plenty of opportunities to go on working as a life-saver.1. When he was a small boy, Sander was influenced by books about ______.A. the hospital.B. the war.C. the sea.D. the countryside. 2. At the age of 14, Sanders ______.A. worked as a doctor in the hospital.B. got along well with the patients.C. was interested in talking with doctors and patients.D. helped to clean the medicine bottles in the hospital.3. When the war was over, he ______.A. had the happiest time of his life.B. started to hate the sight of blood while working.C. served the countrymen under an old doctor.D. had few chances to be a “life-saver” because he was younger.BIn the United States and several other countries, 2.5 million children play baseball in an organization called Little League. They play on teams in their hometowns. Their parents and other adults in the community coach or instruct them and serve as umpires to make sure that everyone follows the rules. Local businesses give money for the ball fields and the uniforms. Local teams compete against each other and the winners get to play teams that are more distant. Eventually, the top teams go to the Little League World Series.One hundred years after Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839, Little League got started in Pennsylvania. Three men started the game for neighborhood boys with a smaller playing field and fewer innings than adult baseball. Little League became popular after World War Ⅱ when the game spread across the United States. By 1955 it was played throughout North America and within five years it hadspread to Europe. Children's baseball really caught on in Japan and Taiwan of China and teams from those areas won the World Series seven out of eight years. After this, the organization tried banning foreign teams from the World Series, but the ban came to an end after one year.At first, Little League was only for boys aged nine to twelve. However, in 1974, the parents of girl baseball players brought a law suit. The courts ruled that Little League had to include both boys and girls. Later Little League added on softball and other games for teenagers up to age eighteen. Occasionally, a Little Leaguer becomes a professional player. For example, Gary Carter went from Little League to play nineteen seasons in the Major Leagues, ten of them as an All－Star player. By and large, youngsters play baseball for fun, but their parents are proud of them.4．The mothers and fathers of Little League players ________．A．play in the World Series B．travel with coachesC．give the teams money D．help run the games5．In what year did baseball come into being?A．1739 B．1939 C．1955 D．18396．Why do most players take part in Little League?A．To play in the Major League.B．To have fun.C．They expect a profit from All－Star games.D．They want to learn how to serve as umpires.7．What is TRUE about players today?A．Little League is only for neighborhood boys. B．Girl players have to buy their suits.C．Girls and boys can participate up to age eighteen.D．Children can only play until age twelve.CA man steps on what seems like solid ground but discovers with horror that the ground is giving way beneath his feet. The man struggles desperately, but he is trapped. He cannot escape. Slowly he sinks deeper and deeper until at last he is gone, buried in the treacherous earth. The solid ground was solid only in appearance. It was actually quicksand, which is a deep mass of fine sand mixed with water.How is quicksand formed? Water pushes up from below the surface and is held by the sand. The grains of sand are forced apart by the water. They cannot hold any weight. The subsurface water may have come from a spring, a river or a stream. Sometimes pools of water near beaches become filled with sand. When the soil under these pools does not allow for good drainage（排水）, the sand can become stretches of quicksand.Is it true that a man who steps into quicksand is doomed to(注定)die? No, for men have fought their way from quicksand to firm land again. It is panic(恐慌)that creates the condition that can result in death, for the more a person struggles, the worse matters become. Quick movements will make the sand give way temporarily(临时地), but then it rushes and settles solidly around the body. A man trapped in quicksand should either lie back, or not move at all, except to stretch out his arms. When the weight of the sand his body has displaced equals his weight, he will stop sinking. With feet held still, and with slow movements of the arms, as in the backstroke in swimming men can manage to roll to safety and reach firm ground.8. What is quicksand?A. A piece of solid ground mixed with water.B. A pool near the beach filled with water.C. A deep mass of fine sand mixed with water.D. A piece of sinking land in the water.9. The underlined part “giving way” in the first paragraph probably means ______.A. shaking and movingB. allowing others to be firstC. rising to the topD. breaking or breaking into pieces10. A person stops sinking when the weight of his body is _____ that of the sand hisbody has displaced.A. greater thanB. the same asC. half ofD. close to11. Men can manage to reach firm ground by ______.A. holding feet still and moving arms slowlyB. lying back calmly and moving arms frequentlyC. stretching out arms and swimming quicklyD. swimming quickly and moving arms slowlyDThe Parthenon(帕特农神庙) in Athens is a building with a long and complex(复杂的) history. Built nearly 2,500 years ago as a temple celebrating the Greek goddess Athena, it was for thousands of years the church of the Virgin Mary of the Athenians, then a mosque (清真寺), and finally a ruin. The building was changed and the sculptures(塑像) much damaged over the centuries. By 1800 only about half of the original sculptural decoration remained.Between 1801 and 1805, Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire(奥斯曼帝国), which controlled Athens, acting with the full knowledge and permission of the Ottoman authorities，removed about half of the remaining sculptures from the fallen ruins and from the building itself. Lord Elgin loved Greek history and transported the sculptures back to Britain. The arrival of the sculptures in London had a huge effect on the European public, greatly increasing interest in ancient Greek culture and influencing contemporary artistic trends. These sculptures were gained from Lord Elgin by the British Museum in 1816 and since then they have all been on show to the public, free of charge.Since the early 1980s, however, the Greek government has argued for the return of all the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum. They have also challenged the British Museum Board of Trustees’ legal title to the sculptures.The British Museum, however, insists that it exists to tell the story of cultural achievement throughout the world, from the dawn of human history over two million years ago until the present day. The museum considers itself an important resource for the world: the breadth and depth of its collection allows the world public to re-examine cultural identities and explore the complex network of interconnected world cultures. It also says that, within the context of this unparalleled collection, the Parthenon sculptures are an important representation of ancient Athenian civilization. Each year millions of visitors admire the artistry of the sculptures and gain insights on how ancient Greece influenced — and was influenced by — the other civilizations that it came across.12．For most of its history people went to the Parthenon to ________.A. admire the goddess AthenaB. pray to their godC. search for sculpturesD. learn about its complex history13．What can we infer from the passage?A. The sculptures introduced ancient Greek culture to the west.B. Ancient Greek culture has greatly influenced world culture.C. The British Museum has made much money from the Parthenon sculptures.D. The British Museum is the most suitable place for protecting these sculptures. 14．What can we learn about Lord Elgin from the passage?A. He is greatly admired in Greece.B. He worked for the Ottoman Empire.C. He saved the Parthenon sculptures from being destroyed.D. He had a deep interest in Greek culture.15．The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to tell________.A. the history of the Parthenon and its sculpturesB. what people can see in the British MuseumC. why the British Museum refuses to return the sculpturesD. the influence of Greece on British culture第二节（共5小题；每小题 2分，满分10分）根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答題卡上将该项涂黑。

育英中学2016高二摸底考试英语试卷第一部分：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。

ATen years ago I used to be very fit. I rode a bike to work and I got a lot of exercise at weekends. I usedto play tennis a lot and go for long walks. In those days I didn’t earn very much. I had a job in an office. It wasn’t a very good job but I had a lot of time to do the things I enjoyed doing. Then, about eight years ago, I got a much better job. The pay was better, but the hours were a lot longer. I bought a car and drove to work every day. I began to take people out to lunch. And I began to put on weight, too. I stopped playing tennis and going for long walks at weekends because I just didn’t have any time for things like that anymore. There’s a lot of stress in my job. Perhaps that is why I started drinking more than I used to. For example, I used to have only half a glass of whisky when I got home, but then I started filling my glass to the top, and instead of having one glass, I would have several. I started smoking a lot, too. I never used to smoke at all.Two months ago I had a heart attack. At first I just couldn’t believe it. Luckily it wasn’t very serious. The doctor advised me to stop smoking and to eat less. He also advised me to work less and get more exercise. But I just haven’t any time! My job takes everything out of me! Sometimes I wonder if I should get another job. Perhaps I could do something like I used to do. But if I do that, I won’t earn as much. I have a family to support. I have to think of them, too. I just don’t know what I should do. What do you think?1．Compared with ten years ago, what is worse for the author now?A. His job.B. His pay.C. His means of transport.D. His health.2．According to the passage, when the author got the better job, which of the following is NOT true?A. He got higher pay.B. His working hours weren’t long.C. He found it very stressful.D. He had little free time at weekends.3．After the author had a heart attack, the doctor advised him _____.A. not to work any longerB. to take a long vacation abroadC. to stop smoking and take exerciseD. not to eat out any more4．What can we learn about the author?A. The author is not sure what he should do now.B. The author has taken the doctor’s advice.C. The author has got another new job.D. The author feels much better now.BIn the US，people prefer waiting for a table to sitting with people they don’t know．This means a hostess may not seat a small group until a small table is available．even if a large one is．If you are sitting at a table with people you don’t know，it is impolite to light up a cigarette without asking if it will disturb them．At American restaurants and coffee shops you are usually servedtap water(自来水)before you order．You may find the bread and butter is free，and if you order coffee，you may get a free refill．Most cities and towns have no rules about opening and closing time for stores or restaurants，though they usually do make rules for bars．Especially in large cities, stores may be open 24 hours a day．Serving in restaurants is often large, too large for many people．If you can’t fini sh your meal but would like to enjoy the food later．ask your waitress or waiter for a‖ doggie bag‖．It may have a picture of a dog on it，but everybody knows you’re taking the food for yourself．Supper and dinner are both words for the evening meal．Some people have―Sunday dinner‖．This is an especially big noon meal．Tips are not usually added to the check．They are not included in the price of the meal，either．A tip of about 15％is expected and you should leave it on the table when you leave．In some restaurants，a check is brought on a plate and you put your money there．Then the waiter orwaitress brings you your change．5．Which of the following statements is true?A．American people like sitting with people they don’t know．B．A hostess always seats a small group at a large table．C．American people never sit with people they don’t know．D．American people will not light a cigarette if the people who sit at the same table mind their smoking．6．What is served before you order?A．Bread．B．Butter．C．Coffee．D．Cold water．7．What do American people always do when servings are too large for them?A．They take the food home with a―doggie bag‖for their dogs．B．They leave the food on the table and go away．C．They take the food home with a―doggie bag‖and enjoy the food later．D．They ask the waitress or waiter to keep the food for them．8．What can you learn abou t―tips‖according to the passage?A．Customers often add tips to their cheek．B．The price of the meal usually includes the tip．C．People are not expected to pay tips in addition．D．Tips are supposed to be left on the table when customers leave．C9．Sunny English Club is for _____.A. nursesB. policemenC. businessmenD. students10．You will pay _______ if you want to stay in the English club for half a year.A. 300 yuanB. 600 yuanC. 1200 yuanD. 2400 yuan11．You can visit Ocean Museum _______ .A. on SaturdayB. on WednesdayC. on MondayD. anytime12．If you are interested in the life of fish, you should go to ______ .A. Health CentreB. Ocean MuseumC. Sunny English ClubD. 16 Yong Le StreetDPingyao, in the center of Shanxi Province, is a famous historic cultural city of China and a world cultural heritage (遗产) site. It’s 90 kilometers south of Taiyuan on the Fen River. People lived in Pingyao during the New Stone Age. Its long period as a county government seat has left Pingyao with lots of historic buildings and sites, with a 2,700-year history.Ninety-nine of them are under government protection, including Zhengguo Temple, Shuanglin Temple and Pingyao Ancient City. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, businessmen organized commercial groups that did business nationwide. Shanxi Province had some of the most important ones and Pingyao was their center. In 1823, a store, known as Rishengchang (Sunrise Prosperity), traded in bank checks rather than in silver or gold coins. It was the beginning of modern Chinese banking. Branch (分支) banks were soon set up in major cities in China and other parts of Asia, leading to great development in Pingyao. Its lacquer ware (漆器) becamewell Give you good advice to keephealthy!known. In Pingyao Ancient City are many traditional houses and commercial buildings, 3,797 of which are protected and more than 400 of which are in good condition. Not only do the houses in Pingyao show Shanxi’s history and culture, but this large number is valuable for studying its history, customs, ancient buildings and art. Most of these houses are still used as homes and shops of local people. In 1997, Ancient Pingyao City was listed in World Heritage List as ―World Culture Heritage S ite‖.13．What does the underlined word ―them‖ (in Paragraph 2) refer to?A. Historic buildings and sites.B. The three temples.C. The county government seats.D. The 2,700-year history.14．Which of the following about Pingyao is NOT mentioned in the passage?A. Its location.B. Its tourism.C. Its business.D. Its history.15．During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Pingyao was a leading center in _____.A. agricultureB. raising cattleC. commercial tradeD. making gold coins第二节：（共5小题，每小题3分，满分15分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

2016～2017学年度第一学期高二英语月考试卷本试卷分为第I卷和第II卷，答题时间120分钟，满分150分。

答题时，请将答案填写在答题纸指定位置。

交卷时，只交答题纸。

第I 卷第一部分：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，并标在试卷的相应位置。

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 does the man probably do?A．A teacher. B. A lawyer. C. A doctor.2. What will the woman do this evening?A. Have a meal with the man.B. Help her brother with his English.C. Give the restaurant a phone call.3. Who is calling?A. Mr. Jacobs’ secretary.B. Mr. Smith’s secretary.C. Mr. Ford’s secretary.4. When will the morning tea break be after the conversation?A. At 10:00.B. At 10:30.C. At 11:00.5. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?A. Doctor and nurse.B. Doctor and patientC. Teacher and student.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。

每段对话后有几个小题，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。

江苏省启东中学2016-2017学年度第一学期第一次月考高二英语试卷2016.10第I卷（选择题共85分）第一部分：听力（共两节，20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）第一节听下面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，并标在试卷的相应位置。

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 woman doing now?A. Interviewing the man.B. Arranging an interview for the man.C. Introducing Mr. Sweeney to Mr. Jacobs.2. Where does the conversation take place?A. In a theatre.B. At home.C. In a hotel.3. What does the woman mean?A. The light isn’t bright enough.B. The dining hall isn’t large enough.C. She agrees with the man.4. When will the dinner party be held?A. This weekend.B. Not sure.C. Next weekend.5. How does the woman like modern plays?A. They are really modern.B. They are not worth talking about.C. They are noisy.第二节听下面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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

高二上学期英语第一次月考试卷一、阅读理解1. 阅读理解Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someone’s life?If yes，don’t care about sex or age! Come and join us, then you’ll make it!Position: Volunteer Social Care AssistantPlace: ManchesterHours: Part TimeWe are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Don’t miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!Role:You will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.Skills and Experience Required:You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honestand patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since you’ll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experience will be a great advantage for you.（1）The text is meant to ________.A . leave a noteB . send an invitationC . present a documentD . carry an. advertisement（2）What does the underlined part mean?A . You’ll make others’ lives more meaningful with this job.B . You’ll arrive home just in time from this job.C . You’ll earn a good salary from this job.D . You’ll succeed in getting this job.（3）The volunteers’ primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities ________.A . to get some financial supportB . to properly protect themselvesC . to learn some new living skillsD . to realize their own importance（4）Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer?A . The one who can drive a car.B . The one who has done similar work before.C . The one who has patience to listen to others.D . The one who can use English to communicate.2. 阅读理解Those accustomed to browsing through thousands of books in large bookstores may find Japan’s Morioka Shoten a little strange. That’s because this tiny bookstore that is located in Ginza, Tokyo sells only a single book at atime.Opened in May 2015, Morioka Shoten is the brainchild of Yoshiyuki Morioka. He began his career as a bookstore clerk in Tokyo’s Kanda district before branching out into opening his own store. It was here while organizing book reading and signing that he realized that customers usually came into the store with one title in mind. Morioka began to wonder if a store could exist by selling multiple copies of just one single book. In November 2014, he partnered Masamichi Toyama to establish a unique bookstore with the philosophy of “a single room with a single book”.The selections that are picked by Morioka change weekly and vary widely to attract customers with different interests. Recent choices include The True Deceiver, an award-winning Swedish novel by Tove Jansson, Hans Andersen’s fairy tales, and a collection of Karl Blossfeldt’s photography of plants. Morioka has also selected books written by a famous Japanese author Mimei Ogawa.To highlight his only offering, Morioka often uses clever tricks. For example, when selling a book about flowers, the storekeeper decorates his shop with the ones that have been mentioned in the book. He also encourages authors to hold talks and discussions so they can connect with customers. Morioka says his goal is to let customers experience being inside a book, not just a bookstore.Risky as the idea might seem, things appear to be going well. The storekeeper says he has sold over 2,100 books. Things can get better giventhat his bookstore is becoming increasingly popular not just among the locals but also visitors from other countries.（1）What inspired Morioka to open such a bookstore?A . A Swedish novelB . His present partnerC . A bookstore clerkD . His working experience（2）Why is Morioka Shoten unique?A . It is popular with foreignersB . It sells books of different topicsC . It is decorated with colorful flowersD . It sells various copies of a book in a week （3）Why does Morioka encourage authors to hold talks?A . To introduce his bookstoreB . To advocate his philosophyC . To make books better understoodD . To help readers connect with each other （4）What’s the author’s opinion about the bookstore’s future?A . RiskyB . PromisingC . UnpredictableD . Hopeless.3. 阅读理解Obviously, most people who try to lose weight generally focus all or most of their attention on the food they eat. But what about their behavior? Are there habits they could be breaking that would also help them lose weight?According to the Ohio State University Extension, which summarized the findings, the researchers learned people who routinely ate breakfasts, lunches, and dinners tended to have more success losing weight than people whose eating schedules were irregular. As a bonus, they were also more likely to eat a larger quantity of fruits and vegetables.One activity that brought a disaster to people who wanted to lose weightwas watching television, particularly if they ate while watching TV--especially if they ate while watching TV after 7 p.m. People who did these things, including simply watching a lot of television, tended to have a higher body mass index , as well as a higher intake of fat and sugars.Those who ate out a lot also tended to take in more fat and sugars, while eating fewer fruits and vegetables. For the purposes of the study, eating away from home was defined not only as eating in restaurants but also eating food provided by an employer or colleagues at work, buying food at convenience stores or gas stations, or buying food for fund-raisers.Finally, the best results were achieved by those motivated people who kept writing the track of the amount and type of exercise they did and how many calories they ate, who planned meals, and used meal replacements. Those who did these things the most generally lost more weight, ate less fat and sugars, ate more fruits and vegetables, and engaged in more physical activities.So cutting out all those high-calorie snacks will help you lose weight. If so, apparently, will change some of your habits and behavior.（1）According to the researchers we can know that____.A . losing weight depends on food a person eatB . regular eating routine is good for losing weightC . fruits and vegetables can keep you healthyD . eating irregularly will leave you in a good figure（2）Why did some people fail to lose weight?A . Because they had a particular love for sweetsB . Because they were fondof watching TV at nightC . Because they developed a kind of bad habitD . Because they did nothing but watch TV after 7 p.m.（3）The fourth paragraph implies that____.A . the bosses like to invite his employees to dinnerB . more and more people are content to eat outC . eating away from home does harm to healthD . it is very convenient to have dinners outside（4）What is the author’s purpose in the passage?A . To encourage people to eat at homeB . To inspire people to take exerciseC . To advise people to refuse caloriesD . To help people get more motivation4. 阅读理解How much weight a baby gains during its first month could determine its IQ, new research found. The study found that children who gain more weight, and whose heads grow quickly during the first month of life, tend to have a higher IQ when they start school.Researchers at the University of Adelaide, in Australia studied 13, 800 children who were born at full-term. They found that those who put on 40% of their birth weight in the first four weeks had an IQ 1.5 points higher than those who only put on 15% of their birth weight. Those who experienced the biggest growth in head circumference also had the highest IQs by the age of six.“Head circumference is an indicator of brain volume, so a greater increase in head circumference in a newly-born baby suggests more rapid brain growth, “says the author of the study, Dr. Lisa Smithers. She added,“Overall, newly-born children who grew faster in the first four weeks had higher IQ scores later in life. Those children who gained the most weight scored especially high on the verbal IQ at age 6. This may be because neural structures for the verbal IQ develop earlier in life, which means the rapid weight gain during the first month could be having a direct cognitive benefit for the children.”Previous studies have shown the association between early postnatal diet and the IQ, but this is the first study of its kind to focus on the IQ benefits of rapid weight gain in the first month of life. Dr. Lisa Smithers says the study further highlights the need for successful feeding of newly-born babies.” We know that many mothers have difficulty establishing breastfeeding in the first week of their babies’ life,” Dr. Lisa Smithers said.“The findings of our study suggest that if babies are having feeding problems, there needs to be early intervention in the management of that feeding.”（1）How did the researchers get their conclusion from the study?A . By asking questionsB . By making comparisonC . By having a discussionD . By referring to documents（2）According to Dr. Lisa Smithers, we can learn that___.A . a kid’s verbal IQ scores reach its highest at a ge sixB . this study helps parents find feeding problemsC . quick weight gain benefits newly-born babies on the verbal IQD . this study reminds parents of the need for breastfeeding （3）The study differs from previous ones that ___.A . it associates early postnatal diet with the IQB . it pays attention to the IQ of newly-born babiesC . it emphasizes the significance of successful feedingD . it first focuses on the relation between the IQ and weight gain in the first month of life二、任务型阅读5. 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

2016-2017学年高二上学期第一次月考英语试题第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）（共5小题；每小题 1.5分，满分7.5分）请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。

Where does the conversation probably take place?A. At an airport.B. In a library.C. In a hotel.What is the man doing probably?A. Taking a photo.B. Giving directions.C. Looking for a b uilding.What is the weather like today?A. Sunny.B. Windy.C. Rainy.How does the woman want to get to the zoo at first?A. By taxi.B. On foot.C. By bus.What will the man do next?A. Send someone to the woman’s room.B. Buy some buttons for the woman.C. Take an instruction book to the woman.（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)请听第6段材料。

回答第6、7题。

What does the man say about ?A. It’s really big and has a large population.B. It’s the best place to live in.C. There’s always something exciting to do there.Where are the speakers now?A. In .B. In .C. In the United State.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

密封线 学校 班级 姓名 学号密 封线 内 不 得 答 题2017－2018年度高二年级第一次月考英语试题英 语本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。

满分100分，考试时间90分钟。

考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

选 择 题注意事项：1.选择题答案必须填涂在答题卡上，写在试卷上的一律不计分。

2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、座位号、考试科目写在答题卡上。

3.考生须按规定要求正确涂卡，否则后果自负。

一、语音（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分）（一）从A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中，选出划线部分发音不同的一项。

( ) 1. A. native B. wave C. face D. rather( ) 2. A. human B. rude C. communicate D. uniform ( ) 3. A. pretend B. engage C. bless D. depressing ( ) 4. A. tolerant B. nod C. bottom D. overview ( ) 5. A. price B. consider C. collect D. contact ( ) 6. A. cough B. light C. enough D. laugh ( ) 7. A. agree B. guy C. gesture D. finger ( ) 8. A. army B. empty C. by D. symbol ( ) 9. A. rather B. thus C. thank D. there ( ) 10.A. taste B. Asian C. insist D. sad(二)从A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中,选出与所给单词划线部分读音相同的一项。

( ) 11.honestly A. hour B. hotel C. hate D. human ( ) 12.annoy A. shake B. admit C. gladly D. contact ( ) 13.instance A. communicate B. victim C. carefree D. face ( ) 14.tolerant A. general B. collect C. enter D. return ( ) 15.politely A. positive B. involve C. stomach D. bottom 二、单项选择题（本大题共30小题，每小题1分，共30分） 16.---How are you doing?---_____.A.Couldn’t be betterB.You are welcomeC.That ’s all rightD.No problem17.The polite response_____a compliment about your looks or your work is “Thank you”.A. toB. ofC. withD. for18.She______to understand what I said, but in fact she didn’t. A. pretends B. pretended C. to pretend D. pretending. 19.Did you have much trouble _____jobs?A. findB. foundC. to findD. finding 20.We finished the task_____of our teachers. A. with the help of B. with the help to C. ask for help D. under the help21.The man was poor, she thought, but_____he was honest. A. at once B. at least C. at times D. at noon 22. The old man______teaching all his life.A. is engaged withB. busy withC. is engaged inD. engage in 23. ______you are here, you’d better stay.A. Now thatB. Even thoughC. In case ofD. Because of 24.Don’t leave your little sister ______in the rain. A. to stand B. standing C. stand D. stood 25. Please explain this rule______her. A. with B. to C. in D. by26. Lily and I __________ go to the same ballet class together.A. are used toB. used to doC. used toD. use to 27. when we meet with difficulties, we should take a positive ________.A. thinkingB. meaningC. carefreeD. attitude28. Don’t feel _________ even if you are not successful in doing something.A. amazingB. depressingC. amazedD. depressed 29.---Mum. Chen Hui’s coming to have dinner with us. ---Let’s give her ________ to eat.A. different somethingB. different anythingC. something differentD. anything different30. I have a good idea. Why not ______ there and have a look ourselves?A. goingB. goC. goesD. to go密封线 学校 班级 姓名 学号密 封线 内 不 得 答 题31. I’m really grateful you. I want to thank you from the _________ of my heart.A. buttonB. bottomC. endD. top32. I tried to discuss it with her but only _____________ her angry. A. succeed in making B. success in making C. succeeded making D. succeeded in making 33. _______ this treatment, her condition has improved.A. Thank forB. Thanks forC. Thank toD. Thanks to 34. There was a serious traffic accident on the road yesterday. About 12 cars and trucks __________ in the accident. A. are involved in B. get involved in C. were involved in D. be involved in35. She was ________ that evening, and talkative. A. in friendly mood B. at a friendly mood C. at a friend mood D. in a friendly mood36.I ’m going to start early______I can catch the first bus.A.so;thatB.so thatC.such thatD.such;that 37.At last,I succeeded in making myself _____.A.understoodB.understandingC.understandD.to understand 38.---How do you like the two pairs of shoes?---They don’t fit me well. They are_____too big____too small. A.not only; but also B.both; and C.neither; nor D.either; or 39._____more time,we would be able to do the work much better. A.Give B.Giving C.Given D.Gave40._____hamburgers are junk food.many children like them.A.UnlessB.BecauseC.AlthoughD.If 41.I’ll leave him a note_____he may know where we are. A.in order to B.for C.so that D.in order42.Let’s try and arrange_____we can get there at one o’clock. A.so as to B.in order to C.hope that D.so that43.Some young people like to have their hair_____into different colors. A.dye B.dyed C.dying D.to dye 44.Canada is known as a rich and_____country.A.developB.developingC.to developD.developed 45.When_____who was on duty,Mary said she was. A.asking B.ask C.to ask D.asked三、完型填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）从A 、 B 、 C 、 D 四个选项中，选出空白处的最佳选项。

宝坻区林亭口高中2016-2017学年度第一次月考卷高二英语一、单项填空（共25小题，每小题1分，满分25分。

）1. We have really got something ________ common ________ some of the developing countries.A. in; forB. for; withC. in; withD. in; to2. The engine of the ship was out of order and the bad weather ________ the helplessness of thepeople at sea.A. resulted fromB. turned outC. made upD. added to3. The Chinese ________ their language as Han, which is often called “Mandarin” in the west.A. refer toB. come toC. belong toD. introduce to4 You can’t imagine the difficulty I ________ the house.A. had boughtB. have boughtC. had buyingD. have to buy5. The old man died,_______ a big house to his three sons.A. leavingB. to leaveC. leftD. to be left6.I didn’t hear the bell ring ; I_______ asleep.A. must beB. must have beenC. should beD. should have been7.---- Did you hear the loud noise ____ the flash of light last night?----Yes, I _____ TV.A. following, watchedB. following, was watchingC. followed, had watchedD. followed, was watching8. Jeremy Lin is a man with a strong will. After repeated_______ he finally succeeded in hiscareer.A. announcementsB. decisionC. remarksD. attempts9. Teachers words and deeds always _______ a great effect _____their students.A. have, onB. give, toC. make, onD. take, to10. The tickets are________ for 5 days only.A. favoriteB. availableC. convenientD. familiar11. He hurried to the stadium without supper, _________ the football match he had been lookingforward to watching was cancelled.A. only to be toldB. only tellingC. only to tellD. only told12. He tried to _______ his son of the danger of spending more than he earned.A. realizeB. tellC. persuadeD. warn13. Now I see you want to_______ the position as you said just now. Could you please give me a brief _______ your intention?A. apply for; account ofB. react to; introduction aboutC. reply for; descriptionD. remind of; instruction about14 Don’t play _____ trick on him. He is not in _____ mood for fun at the moment.A. a; /B. a; theC. the; aD. /; the15. ---- Mike, you are wanted on the telephone.---- I’m just coming.A. Have a day off!B. Who’s that?C. Get a move on.D. Hang on a minute.16. The air is badly polluted because some factories don’t_____ the rules to protect the environment.A. appreciateB. regardC. honorD. respect17. In some places women are expected to earn money_____men work at home and raise their children.A. butB. whileC. becauseD. though18.To keep healthy, he _____ cycling as a regular form of exercise.A. turned upB. set upC. took upD. made up19.One of the requirements for being admitted to the university is that you ____ the English test organized by it .A.passB. have to passC. will passD. must pass20.--- Where would you like to have your dinner, in the restaurant or at home?--- It _______ to me.A. is not differentB. makes not a differenceC. is not a differenceD. makes no difference21. In the last few years thousands of films _____ all over the word.A.have producedB. have been producedC. are producingD. are being produced22______our small apartment, our uncle`s house seemed like a palaceA Compare withB Compared withC Comparing with D. Comparing to23 Everybody in the village likes Jack because he is good at telling and _______jokes.A turning upB putting upC making upD showing up24.. He couldn’t continue to live such a poor life, so he left home, ______ not to come back if he couldn’t get rich.A. determiningB. determinedC. determineD. being determined25.He ______ his brother in appearance so much that people often mistake them for each other. A．is resembling B．resembles C．is resembled D．resembled二、完形填空（共20小题；每题1分, 满分20分）I have a dream, and I stay determined, work hard, and do everything in my power to make it a26 .Growing up, I had a lot of hard things in my life, but just recently, I experienced a 27 that I consider, a significant 28 towards my dream for life. During my primary school years, achieving A’s was never an easy task29 a mild learning disability. My disability led to low quality-test-taking ability, and it 30 me a lot with the SAT(学业水平测试), of which the Verbal Section was really to my 31 . During high school, 32 , I achieved almost all A’s in daily course valuations which I am very 33 . The SAT of course was the only thing 34 me back from getting into the school of my choice. When I got a letter from the school, saying my SAT score did not 35 the minimum for allowable admission, I began to lose 36 .Later, I 37 my admission advisor and asked him if there was anything else I could do to 38 my application. He gave me a second 39 to improve my scores and gave me suggestions of how to really 40 for the SAT. So, I bought a thick SAT preparation book, and41 for 3 hours each day before the test.I finally took the test, and remained 42 for 4 weeks before I received my final score,50 points more than before. My advisor sent my application to an appeal committee, 43 them that I really have the drive to go to their school and my daily grades were top-class. This just 44 that a simple test score doesn’t mean anything when it comes to measuring a person’s intelligence and potential. Eventually I was 45 . No matter how rough the sea may get, never give up.26. A. success B. reality C. advantage D. way27. A. failure B. success C. consequence D. sorrow28. A. step B. trend C. lesson D. manner29. A. in case of B. despite of C. as a result D. due to30. A. adapted B. encouraged C. affected D. confused31. A. compliment B. disadvantage C. emergency D. inspiration32. A. however B. but C. or D. and33. A. proud of B. on behalf of C. tired of D. addicted to34. A. leading B. welcoming C. holding D. frightening35. A. think B. reach C. equal D. lower36. A. hope B. passion C. sight D. face37. A. argued with B. called up C. lead to D. took up38. A. improve B. withdraw C. inspire D. seek39. A. state B. frontier C. platform D. chance40. A. depend B. blame C. leave D. prepare41. A. searched B. prayed C. drilled D. predicted42. A. nervous B. tricky C. innocent D. tentative43. A. begging B. entertaining C. convincing D. persuading44. A. calculates B. shows C. impresses D. circulates45. A. transformed B. rejected C. arranged D. admitted三. 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）AWhether you admit it or not, music improves our daily life and makes us feel easy, especially the music of Beethoven, Mozart. But can you believe that a school in England is using classical music to cut down on students' bad behavior?The head teacher Brian Walker at the West Park School in Derby asks some students to stay behind after school on Fridays. He forces his students to listen to Mozart and other classical music. He also makes them copy his favorite poems and they have to watch educational videos.Mr. Walker says his main aim is to stop noisy pupils causing trouble in class for students who want to study. He said the students staying behind were "not the smokers or drinkers, the truants (逃学的学生) or the people who are late for school... It's those who have slowed the learning and teaching in class for everyone". Mr. Walker said this was unacceptable, because it was making the rest of the students distract their attention on their study.Mr. Walker believes what he does reminds students that education is something to value. "It helps them see they are part of something bigger that will improve their life chances," he said. The head teacher thinks students in fact learn from being kept behind after school. "Hopefully, I open theirears to an experience they don't normally have and...don't want to have again, so it's both educational and acts as a warning."Music has had success elsewhere in reducing bad behavior. In 2004, it reduced crime on London's subway by 25 percent. Researchers from a Belfast university found it helped stop elephants' bad behavior. However, one West Park student called Kieran said, "An hour of Mr. Walker's music isa real killer."46. Mr. Walker asks his students to listen to music to _______________.A. make them rest after a day's studyB. punish them for their bad behaviorC. get them to love arts graduallyD. reduce their bad behavior47. A student who _____may be left behind to listen to Mozart after class.A. plays truantB. smokes in classC. bothers others in classD. comes late for class48. Why does Mr. Walker say some students' bad behavior is unacceptable?A. Because the rest of the students hate them.B. Because they are wasting their life.C. Because they are disturbing teachers.D. Because they have a bad influence on the other students.49. In the eyes of Mr. Walker,_____.A. some students don't realize education is valuableB. all students can learn from musicC. music must be taught after classD. students ought to love music50. It can be inferred from the last two paragraphs that_____.A. the action Mr. Walker takes doesn't really work as plannedB. Mr. Walker aims to tell students study is importantC. once music helped animals behave wellD. animals also like to listen to musicBI was at a dance club when I was nineteen. One day my new friend walked with me to my car. Itwas a very cold night. As we were walking to my car, a man walked up to us. Behind him was a woman pushing a stroller with a child inside who was about 2 years old. The child had only a jacket on and it wasn't zipped(拉上拉链). The man began to tell us he wanted to borrow some money for the night and that he had a job but no place to live and was waiting for his first paycheck. He confirmed he could get our mailing address and mail the money back to us.The guy I was with reached into his pocket to give this man a $20 bill. As the man was extending his hand out to take the money, I put my hand on my new friend's hand and said, "Can I talk to you for a minute?" I told him some people earned money by begging and that they always cheated those with soft hearts. And if they were truly worried about their child being out in the cold, they would have at least zipped his jacket.My friend looked at me with disapproval and said, "Michael, I know there are some people out there that take advantage of others. I also know some people out there that are one paycheck away from being homeless. If I gave $20 to 10 people and only one of them really needed it and used it for the right thing, it was worth it."I am now thirty-seven years old and have never forgotten what he said to me. I don't even remember his name now. But I do remember that this experience changed my perspective (观点).51. When the story happened, the authorA. was in his late thirtiesB. served as a car repairmanC. had much money in his pocketD. was walking towards his car with his friend52. The underlined word "stroller" in the first paragraph probably means "____".A. a big bookcaseB. a large boxC. a baby carriageD. a small bicycle53. Why did the author think the man was telling a lie?A. His expression was strange.B. He didn’t care for the ba by at allC. He said he had a job.D. He gave the author his mailing address.54. According to the author's new friend, some people____.A. were poor and about to be homelessB. often wished to have no paycheckC. weren't out of work but they said they wereD. were always making fun of others55. We can infer the author could learn from the experience that____.A. one should be very kind to everyoneB. anybody has a time when he needs helpC. one should do whatever is worthy activelyD. one should keep away from those poorCEveryone needs safe drinking water, but about 1.1 billion people have no access to clean water. Most of the world’s water is salty ocean water or frozen polar ice. By 2050, the world’s population could grow from 6.7 billion to more than 9 billion. All of those people will need water to drink. But the bad news is that some areas of the world are growing drier because of climate change. The total area of the Earth’s surface classified(划分) as very dry has doubled since the 1970s. Sadly, the precious resource is still misused in industry, in farming and at homes.Therefore, the world is facing a crisis over water. “You do the math, and it gets a little scary,” says Stuart Minchin, a water expert in Au stralia. “We’re waking up,” he says. “But not fast enough.”In southern Australia, farmers have been hit hard. They can’t irrigate(灌溉) their fields well enough. The Australian government has launched a $1.3 billion project to improve Australia’s irrigation system to stop the crop production dropping further.Australians have serious water worries, but it could be worse. They don’t have to fear that when they turn on the tap, nothing will come out. That’s the case in India. Many people in New Delhi, the capital, go without clean water for days.City leaders have taken stricter measures to save water. Users pay a very high but affordable price for it. Homeowners who waste water are given large fines. There are 1.9 million people who live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Now it has grown by more than 300,000 people since 2002. But it uses less water today than it did seven years ago.56. Which of the following is NOT a reason for a water crisis?A. Climate change.B. Water’s becoming salty.C. Population growth.D. Water’s being wasted.57. What can we learn from what Stuart Minchin said?A. The water crisis can be solved.B. Humans should take faster steps to protect water.C. Humans haven’t realized there is a water crisis.D. Humans find it impossible to protect water.58. What happened to the farmers in southern Australia?A. They can’t get enough fields.B. Their crop production has dropped a lot.C. They find no water coming out of the tap.D. They have to give up planting crops.59. What do people in Las Vegas think of the water-saving measures in their city?A. They have reduced the water usage.B. They are strongly against the measures.C. They feel they can’t afford the high price.D. They doubt the effects of the measures.60. What would be the best title for the passage?A. Water crisisB. Larger populationC. Falling crop productionD. Areas with a water crisisDEveryday rubbish could provide a valuable source of energy thanks to a clever new invention Smelly methane (沼气) gas expelled from landfill sites containing tons of rotting household waste could be used to produce a valuable energy resource. In Europe alone landfill tips can produce 94 billion cubic meters of methane per year but currently only one percent of what could be a valuable source of energy is used; the rest is burnt off to prevent an explosive build-up of gas. Methane gas forms when organic matter breaks down and is drawn off from large rubbish tips by pipes sunk into the middle of the waste. Until now this process wasn’t possible on small sites because the pipes allowed oxygen to seep (渗入) in and that stopped the breakdown process. Viktor Popov of the Wessex Institute of Technology has now developed a system to modify existing landfill sties by making them airtight while the methane is extracted from sunken wells. The site is covered by a special three-layered skin whose two outer layers are made of clay with apressurized layer of carbon dioxide gas in the middle. As the methane is sucked out through a central well it is replaced by carbon dioxide from the middle layer rather than oxygen, allowing the breakdown process to continue.Unfortunately there are no plans to use the power of methane even though Popov claims his invention could provide a valuable source of energy over the next 20 years.61. The passage mainly introduces _______ to us.A. how to make methaneB. a new way to make use of rubbishC. the valuable things in rubbishD. the amount of rubbish being reused62. From the passage we can see that ______.A. in Europe 94 billion cubic meters of methane is produced every yearB. some of the waste must explode if it is not burnt offC. 99% of the methane has been burnt off in EuropeD. only a very small part of the rubbish is used in Europe63. In second paragraph the underlined word “that” refer to ______.A. methane gasB. the long pipeC. oxygenD. waste64. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?A. Oxygen can cause the breakdown process to stop.B. When the methane is sucked out, oxygen will enter from the middle layer.C. Carbon dioxide doesn’t affect the breakdown proce ss.D. The new invention has not been put into use.65. According to the passage, what is the public’s attitude towards the use of methane power?A. Favorable.B. Unfavorable.C. Responsive.D. Indifferent.四. 阅读表达（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）Many American youngsters earn their own allowance by doing temporary jobs for their neighbors. Babysitting is one of the common of these jobs. Most couples do not have maids or relatives living with them, and they need to have someone watch the children if they want to go out.Another way is by mowing lawn in summer and clearing snow from side-walks and driveways in winter. Many people mow their own lawns, but often people prefer to give the job toa neighbor's child. In winter, snow clearing from streets and highways is the government's responsibility. Homeowners or tenants, however, must clear side-walks and driveways. Since clearing snow is very tiring, many people prefer to hire teenagers for this job rather than do it themselves.Besides, many American teenagers usually work two to three hours after school and all day on Saturday or Sunday at the local supermarket. They work as cashiers or stockroom clerks. Or they help customers carry things to their cars. Other favorite jobs are waiting on tables in restaurants or working part-time at stores or gas stations.By earning their own allowance（津贴）, teenagers acquire a feeling of independence and a sense of responsibility which prepares them for a productive life in society.66. What does the text mainly talk about? (within 15 words)67. What does the underlined word ‘babysitting’ mean in paragraph 1？(within 10 words)68. When it comes to clearing snow, what do many people like to do? (within 15 words)69. What is the advantages of youngsters earning allowance? (within 20 words)70. Who will clear the snow on the streets? (within 5 words)五、书面表达(满分15分)假设你校学生会定于4月10日组织一次高三学生的登山活动,请根据下面表格内容,以学生会的名义用英语写一则通知,欢迎同学们积极参加。

高二年级第一次月考英语试题第I卷第二部分：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中，选出最佳选项。

ARichie Kraus thinks all kids should receive birthday presents. And he's willing togive up his own presents to make that happen.When Richie was six, he helped collect holiday gifts for children whose familiescouldn't afford presents. He started thinking about how much he liked gettingpresents on his birthday. He asked his mom, "If we get kids presents during the holidays, who gets them presents on their birthdays?"Richie wanted to raise money for those birthday presents. So his mom helped him create the 2U Fund. The name 2U came from the well-known song "Happy Birthday to You."Richie explains how the fund works: "On our birthdays, we ask our friends to make a donation instead of giving us presents." Richie attaches a special sticker to his party invitations. The sticker tells about the 2U Fund and invites guests to participate, Richie and his mom then give the money to a local charity that has agreed to partner with them. The people at the charity make sure the donations go toward birthday presents for kids in need.Richie has had three 2U parties. "It just feels really, really good to help other kids," he says. Richie has encouraged others to try giving up some of their birthday presents to help others. His younger brother, Max, had a 2U party. Some of Richie's friends did, too. He also spoke about the idea at a summer camp and at a school assembly (集会). "There were close to 200 students and teachers in the assembly," Richie' s teacher, Janel McCormick, says. "They all wanted to help support 2U."Since Richie and his family started the 2U Fund, dozens of kids have helped raise more than $7,000. That money has bought dolls, books, and many other birthday toys for kids in need.21. Before Richie created the 2U Fund, he .A. had very few friendsB. had done some charity workC. had seldom received birthday presentsD. had already donated some birthday presents22. To help kids in need, Richie' s 2U parties mainly .A. hold birthday parties for themB. invite them to attend the partiesC. prepare birthday presents for themD. raise money for their birthday presents23. What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?A. All of Richie' s schoolmates plan to hold 2U parties.B. Richie is praised for his kindness.C. Richie' s acts of kindness have spread.D. Richie has made more friends.BV olunteeringJust like the animals we shelter, people are very special to us. The Animal Shelter ofSacramento County has 300 active volunteers and always wants to add more. If you havea few hours each week and a love for dogs and cats, we at the shelter welcome your coming.Children 10 years of age or older are allowed to take part in some of our programs as youth volunteers when accompanied (陪伴) by an adult. The adult car be a parent, or guardian (监护人) 18 years of age or oldenYouth V olunteer OpportunitiesYouth volunteers may fill the position of dog nuzzler, cat snuggler, or kennel aide, if there are openings (空缺). Please call our volunteer information hotline at 1-800-290-5992 to hear a recording of the positions available.Dog NuzzlersDogs need human care and exercise to keep their health and level of comfort around people. Dog nuzzlers walk and clean the dogs staying at the shelter. Dog nuzzlers must be knowledgeable about dogs and able to deal with medium-sized to large-sized dogs. Youth volunteer dog nuzzlers must be able to work at least two hours between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. on Sundays.Cat SnugglersHelp our cats keep their lovely qualities by giving them lots of attention. Cat snugglers must be knowledgeable about cats and their needs. Youth volunteer cat snugglers must be able to work at least two hours between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. on Saturdays.Kennel AidesProviding food and water for the animals at the shelter is a demanding job. Kennel aides assist the Animal Shelter staff in feeding the animals in our care. Kennel aides must be able to work at least two hours between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. on either Saturdays or Sundays.24. The main purpose of this text is to .A. look for youth volunteersB. call on people to protect animalsC. introduce what the voluntary work isD. teach people how to care for animals25. Any young person who wants to work shelter should .A. work all day longB. be over 18 years oldC. call its information hotline firstD. have rich experience of raising animals26. What' s the duty of a kennel aide?A. To walk the animals.B. To train the animals.C. To feed the animals.D. To treat the animals.CVisiting Balboa Island, in sunny southern California, proved an exciting experience that I will never forget. I had never been to Balboa Island, even though it is only about an hour from my home in northern San Diego.Our first stop was for a specialty called a "Balboa Bar". It is a famous chocolate covered ice cream on a stick, created many years ago. As we drove along the streets toward the boat, I also saw some interesting buildings that stood for many years. Many of the building designs seemed like dollhouses and someone in our group said that the style was called, Victorian.After we parked our car on one of the streets, we got on the boat sailing to Balboa Peninsula. As I looked around the boat, I saw a bird flying very close to the water and our boat. A little girl near the boat' s edge jumped out to touch it and shockingly fell into the water! Her dad, who stoodnearby, jumped in after her at once and everyone on the boat ran to help. The boat's engine stopped and both father and daughter got saved with the help of people on the boat.On Balboa Peninsula my family and I went to various shops, especially for food! We saw a restaurant at the very end. We enjoyed our lunch there, at the first Ruby's Diner ever opened in southern California. Although I have been to other restaurants of this popular chain (连锁店), being at the very first is a great memory.On our way back to Balboa island we stopped at the huge Ferris Wheel, bought some sugars and played games. It was an exciting afternoon walking around on Balboa Island. I look forward to returning soon to spend some time on the beach again or maybe even to try fishing!27. "Balboa Bar" is the name ofA. a streetB. a restaurantC. a foodD. a building28. What happened on the boat to Balboa Peninsula?A. A little girl fell into the riverB. The boat broke down halfway.C. People helped a girl catch a bird.D. A father quarreled with his daughter.29. The author' s dining experience at the first Ruby' s Diner wasA. boringB. interestingC. unpleasantD. unforgettable30. What did the author do on Balboa Island?A. He went fishing by the river.B. He walked along the beach.C. He rode the Ferris wheel.D. He bought some dolls.31. What' s the best title for the text?A. My trip to BalboaB. The first Ruby' s DinerC. My first boat rideD. Victorian buildingsDAsk any group of teenagers in the UK what they most like to eat, and foodslike pizza, burgers and chips are always mentioned.But what teenagers like to eat is not necessarily what they should be eating.According to the National Diet and Nutrition (营养) Survey, far too manyyoung people in the UK between the ages of 4 and 18 eat too much fat, sugar and salt in their diet and take in too many calories. And their intake of starchy carbohydrates (含淀粉的碳水化合物), fibre, iron,vitamins and calcium (钙) is too low.For a growing body, eating foods containing plenty of calcium, such as milk, yoghurt and cheese, is very important as calcium is essential for the development of healthy, strong bones. Similarly, foods that are rich in iron are good for young rapidly developing bodies, so red meat, bread, green vegetables, and dried fruit are also good to eat.It is during our teenage years that lifestyle habits can become entrenched (根深蒂固的), so it is important that young people are educated about what foods are good for them. In 2005, in order to change eating habits and open teenagers' minds to new tastes, chef Jamie Oliver started a "Feed Me Better" project. As part of a television series, "Jamie' s School Dinners", he worked with teachers and cooks in a number of schools across the UK to provide more nutritious school meals. Although some teenagers and parents refused to have a try at first, the project went very well and helped to influence governmental policy on nutritional standards for school meals.No one expects to end the teenage love affair with fast and junk food but, hopefully, if projects like "Feed Me Better" continue to give out the right messages, more young people will understand the importance of eating healthily.32. What problem do teenagers in the UK have?A. Most of them are too fat.B. Most of them eat too little.C. Many of them don' t eat healthily.D. Many of them are short of exercise.33. The underlined word "essential" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to" "A. difficultB. possibleC. commonD. necessary34. According to the text, the "Feed Me Better" project __A. proved to be a successB. taught teachers how to cookC. was started by the governmentD. was started at Jamie's school first35. Which of the following opinions does the author probably agree to?A. Lifestyle habits are difficult to change.B. Too much red meat is also bad for health.C. Teenagers should learn to feed them better.D. Teenagers should stop eating fast and junk food.第二节：（共5小题，每小题2分，共15分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

上海市行知中学2024学年第一学期第一次月考高二年级英语学科试卷（试卷满分140分，考试时间120分钟）第Ⅰ卷（共100分）Ⅰ. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections:In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. 100 dollars. B. 200 dollars. C. 300 dollars. D. 600 dollars.2. A. In the hospital. B. At a nursery. C. At a police station. D. In a library.3. A. April. B. May. C. June. D. July.4. A. Go to visit the writer. B. Buy her new book.C. Ignore her new book.D. Write a book review.5. A. Jogging. B. Basketball. C. Swimming. D. Throwing.6. A. The lady’s room is far.B. She has to sign up for using the lady’s room.C. She is not able to use the lady’s room right now.D. He will lead her to the lady’s room.7. A. He will read it on Saturday. B. He will lend it to Sandy first.C. He will lend it to Jane first.D. He will keep the paper until Sunday.8. A. He probably just has got a headache.B. There’s no air-conditioner in the room.C. She thinks he is not seriously sick.D. She thinks he should go to see the doctor.9. A. They couldn’t change the plan.B. They should change their plan.C. She doesn’t believe the weather forecast.D. She thinks the basketball game won’t last.10. A. He can come for next party. B. He can bring his wife along to the party.C. He can stay at home for his wife.D. She will change the time of the party.Section BDirections:In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read rhe four possible answers on your paper anddecide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. They believed that he would realize his dream.B. They offered him help to achieve his dream.C. They didn’t believe that his dream would come true.D. They made no response to his announcement.12. A. That he was encouraged by the teacher.B. That he was encouraged by the local paper editor.C. That his first poem was published.D. That he was encouraged by a professional writer.13. A. It reminds him of his school life.B. It reminds him that dreams will come true through efforts.C. It reminds him how poor he used to be.D. It reminds him of the local paper.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Gardening. B. How to take care of birds.C. How to feed birdsD. How to get birds to the garden.15. A. Fruit, water and insects.B. Plants, sleeping place and food.C. Variety of plants, food and water.D. Different types of plants, seed and insects.16. A. Change the water for them. B. Play with them.C. Not to approach them.D. Play the music for them. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. The bookstore is sold out of the book.B. The bookstore he is in does not carry the book.C. His professor did not order enough copies of the book.D. The book is not being used for any course offered at the university.18. A. Save a copy of the book for him as soon as it comes inB. Order more copies of the bookC. Call the computer store across the StreetD. Find a store that sells the book if he cannot find it19. A. He is embarrassed that he did not think of it himself.B. He suggests that the information be posted in the store.C. He apologizes for bothering the woman.D. He is annoyed that the woman did not tell him sooner.20. A. To determine how urgent the student’s need is.B. To figure out why the book is not listed on the computer.C. To find out what level computer science course the man is taking.D. To explain why the book might be sold out.Ⅱ. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections:After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.AI and Culture: The Dawn Of The Omnistar (全能明星)Computers have spent decades transforming humdrum jobs. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for the most glamorous ones. Hollywood has been at a standstill for half the year, until studios agreed on November 8th to offer (21)__________ (strike) stars protection from robotic rivals.Stars may worry that AI is stealing their work and giving less talented performers the skills to snatch their audience. In fact, the famous stars complaining (22)__________ (loud) about the new technology are the ones who benefit the most. (23)__________ __________ reducing star power, AI will make the biggest celebrities bigger than ever, by allowing them to be in all markets, in all formats, at all times. Put your hands together - or insert your earplugs if you prefer - for the rise of the omnistar.This is not the first time that technology (24)__________ (change) the rules of the fame game. People began to talk of stars in the 18th century, after the spread of reading made it possible to be truly famous within your lifetime. Film and radio initially seemed like a threat to stars, who worried that their live performances (25)__________ be devalued. In fact, those technologies ushered in (开创) the era of the superstar, a term that caught on in the 1920s.(26)__________ similar panic greeted the invention of television and led to the last big Hollywood strike in 1960. But again, the new tech made the famous even more so, bringing them into every living room.As AI-generated content floods into the entertainment business, it will give the megastars the ability to be truly ubiquitous for their fans. AI-powered dubbing is already allowing actors and podcasters to speak to foreign audiences instantly and in their own voice. It will soon be standard for video to be edited (27)__________ __________ their lips match the new language, too. Besides, removing the Hollywood problem of crowded schedules, AI allows stars to perform alongside each other while not being together at all.These opportunities come with concerns (28)__________ (attach). The risk is boredom. AI is brilliant at remixing old material, but not as adept at generating novel and the pulse-racing stuff (29)__________ is, for now, a human speciality. Yet the entertainment market is strongly self-correcting. Audiences have the power to turn “a hot property” into a has-been in an instant. And even as Al-powered entertainment grows, consumers still seem to relish human drama. In the AI age, audiences will face heavy exposure to a handful of omnistars, from Taylor Swift to Darth Vader. (30)__________ it will be easier than ever for them to change the channel.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. rateB. superiorityC. matchD. attributesE. measuresF. short-livedG. overestimated H. enduring I. disillusioned J. reframe K. biasYou are not perfectWe humans have a natural tendency to magnify our positive qualities, and compare ourselves favorably with others. This is called “self-enhancement 31 ”, and it gives rise to all sorts of distortions in perception. Famously, back in the 1980s, researchers suggested that up to 80 percent of motorists considered themselves to have above-average driving skills. If you’re a regular driver, you have to know that this cannot be true - even if you persist in believing it about yourself.People also tend to 32 themselves more highly on positive moral traits: the odds are, for example, that they see themselves as industrious, honest, and warm. This is particularly pronounced among young and middle-aged adults, who often rank themselves as excelling beyond the norm on muitiple 33 . One reason for this tendency is that it acts as protection against the mental pain that comes from negative comparisons with others.Being told that you’re wonderful, even perfect, plays into your need to enact self-enhancement. You might do it to yourself, such as self-talk to boost one’s esteem through positive affirmations. However, it is a(n) 34 solution to life’s problems. You’re bound to be confronted with a painful adjustment to the truth sooner or later. For instance, researchers publishing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology demonstrated that when college students harbored a(n) 35 view of their academic capabilities, it augmented their mood—indeed, they experienced heightened levels of happiness. But the perception of 36 did not translate into more satisfactory academic performance. In fact, that in part led to lower self-esteem.All of this can explain why so many young people today wind up seeing the world as hostile (敌对的): “If I’m wonderful, other people must be creating many problems.”Consequently, you can see how some would feel 37 and wronged when confronted with a reality about their performance in school or at work that doesn’t 38 their self-enhancement propaganda (宣传).So we face a dilemma in life: we aspire to enhance our own well-being and to elevate the emotional state of others, but people’s tendency to do so through self-enhancement may possibly yield 39 ultimate costs. Here are some pearls of wisdom to consider: 40 your imperfections, not as failings but as interesting puzzles to solve.Ⅲ. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.What Does It Really Mean To Learn?During my sophomore year, I read “Middlemarch” and didn’t understand why Dorothea, a young and intelligent woman, despite warnings, married an annoying old man and, after 40 years of unfulfilled dreams and compromises, got divorced, finally realizing her grave mistake. Neither did my classmates, which frustrated our professor. “You’ll understand when you’re forty.” he said. At that age, we had never experienced the consequences of a hasty marriage, a career misstep, or the loss of a loved one.41 , it’s one of the tragedies of humanities education that so much of it occurs between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two. We don’t teach people to drive at twelve, when they’re carless; why should we make themread novels about life’s 42 when they have none? Yet there’s a theory behind: it’s that knowledge acquired too early gets stored. Patterns of thinking established now will be 43 later; ideas encountered first in art will prime us for the rest of life. This sounds vague until you reflect on the fact that knowledge almost never arrives at the moment of its 44 . You take a class in law school today only to argue a complicated case years later; you learnC.P.R. years before saving a drowning man; you read online about how to prevent a(n) 45 bear, because you never know.Leslie Valiant, a renowned computer scientist, calls our ability to learn over the long term “educability” and he embraces it as the key to our success. When we think about what makes our minds special, we tend to focus on 46 . But if we want to grasp reality in all its complexity, then “cleverness is not enough.” We need to build flexible theories about the world — theories that will serve us in 47 circumstances—and we do that by collecting different types of knowledge, often gradually and unexpectedly and then 48 them together. Through this process, we acquire systems of beliefs that are 49 than the ones we can create through direct personal experience.An educable mind, he writes, can learn from books, lectures, conversations, and experiences—from anything. Educability is similar to “ 50 smarts” which means having a practical ability to handle life’s challenges, and is closely related to having common sense in real-world contexts. When people strike us as particularly “well-educated”, this might mean that they’ve had lots of school, but it could also mean that they’re 51 educable, with the ability to “ 52 of whatever educational opportunities arise.”Valiant thinks at a time when accelerating technological change means there’s always more to learn, we might seek to create a more educable society in general. As for me, I would seek to learn about a wider range of disciplines, and simply try more things. Down in the basement, “Middlemarch” is there, along with many other books that I read casually then but have come to 53 with the passage of time. Reading widely about things that don’t seem immediately useful, in the hope that what you learn now may prove meaningful later—that’s pretty much the definition of a 54 education. Who knew that one of its best 55 would turn out to be a computer scientist?41. A. Scientifically B. Naturally C. Surprisingly D. Arguably42. A. happiness B. challenges C. regrets D. knowledge43. A. retraced B. repeated C. reopened D. reassured44. A. learning B. absorption C. application D. acquisition45. A. sleeping B. wandering C. roaring D. charging46. A. intelligence B. creativity C. imagination D. empathy47. A. unfolded B. unanticipated C. unreal D. related48. A. analyzing B. classifying C. knitting D. diversifying49. A. broader B. greater C. shallower D. newer50. A. cognition B. relationship C. study D. street51. A. exceptionally B. consistently C. coincidentally D. merely52. A. make control B. take charge C. on account D. take advantage53. A. perceive B. memorize C. realize D. value54. A. well-rounded B. professional C. technology D. public55. A. creators B. winners C. defenders D. writersSection BDirections:Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.(A)Human beings around the world delight in hot and spicy foods. Thai, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Ethiopian—the dishes that can take the roof off your mouth are numerous and flavourful. As you have these intense tastes, however, you may wonder, why do some dishes compete for the title of spicy champion, while others feature barely the hint of a burn?This is a question that has interested food historians for some time. Indeed, it’s a curious truth that places with warm climates do seem to have a heavier preponderance (优势) of hot and spicy dishes, which may have something to do with the fact that some spices have antimicrobial features, studies have found.In one survey of cookbooks from around the world, researchers note: “As mean annual temperatures increased, the proportion of recipes containing spices, number of spices per recipe, total number of spices used, and use of the most effective antibacterial spices all increased.” In hot places where before refrigeration food would have gone off very quickly, spices might have helped things keep a bit longer.It’s also been suggested that because spicy food makes most people sweat, it might help us to cool off in hot parts of the world. One study of people who drank hot water after exercise showed that they did cool down slightly more than those who drank cold water, but only in situations with low humidity. Thailand in August, that ain’t.But spice is hardly limited to the hot parts. While chilli peppers are originally from the Americas, this particular kind of heat grew widespread in the 15th and 16th centuries. Other spices not spicy in the same way as peppers, perhaps, but still strongly flavoured—had been circulating in Europe for centuries. Heavily spiced dishes were the darlings of many cuisines we currently don’t think of for their zing (活力): numerous recipes in one 18th-century British cookery book include strong spices, for instance. What happened?Well, one possibility is that it became a bit uncivilized to like quite so many flavours in one’s food, as Maanvi Singh has written over at The Salt. What we now consider classic European cuisine has a tendency to focus on pairing like flavours with like, rather than bringing in a crowd of strong, contrasting ones. That may be because, as spice prices dropped dramatically in Europe in the 1600s and it became easier for just anyone to season their food with them, tastemakers fell out of love with them. They began to emphasize dishes where the focus was the purest essence of the basic ingredients combined with flavours that served to bring that out. In a word, it may have been snobbery, Singh writes, that erased the joy of spice from many European tastes.56. Which of the following cuisines does NOT value hot and spicy flavour?A. Food in Europe before the 1600s.B. Dishes from places with warm climates.C. Food in the Americas.D. Dishes in today’s Britain.57. Which of the following is true about the relationship between temperature and spice?A. The higher the temperature is, the more spices are used.B. The lower the temperature is, the more chilli peppers are consumed.C. The higher the temperature is, the more expensive it is to get spices.D. The lower the temperature is, the more strongly flavoured the food is.58. In Paragraph 4, what does the sentence “Thailand in August, that ain’t” mean?A. People in Thailand don’t enjoy spicy food.B. Summer in Thailand doesn’t boast hot weather.C. Thai people don’t enjoy cold drinks in summer.D. Drinking hot water doesn’t help cool Thai people down.59. According to Maanvi Singh, today’s Europeans prefer pure tastes rather than strong, contrasting flavours, most probably because ________.A. the spice prices have grown too high for ordinary peopleB. people have been too used to food seasoned with spicesC. spice no longer represents a special right or advantageD. strongly flavoured spices no longer circulate in Europe(B)Memory expert Professor Jemima Gryaznov answers your most common questions about memory.1.____________________We remember the things that have strong connections in our mind, especially emotional connections. Childhood memories are often very emotional: we experience things for the first time so we have strong feelings of fear or excitement. Retelling events also helps to fix them in our memories and interesting or funny stories from our childhood are often told again and again!2. Do some people really have a photographic memory?It is well known that some people have an extraordinary memory. Daniel Tammet, for example, can remember the first 22,500 digits of pi and Stephen Wiltshire can draw a detailed picture of a city from memory after flying over it in a helicopter. However, neither Daniel nor Stephen has a photographic memory. They are good at remembering particular things for a limited time. A person with a photographic memory could remember every detail of a picture, a book or an event many years later. No one has yet proved that they have a photographic memory in a scientific test.3. Is computer memory better than human memory?That depends on what you mean by “better”! Information in a computer is stored in separate pieces. Human memory is stored in a different way. Each piece of information is connected to many other pieces. That’s why a particular smell can bring back memories of a holiday or a person. The problem with human memory is that it is messy and not very accurate. The problem with computer memory is that it can’t make connections between pieces of information — it isn’t creative.4. I’m 24. Is my memory getting worse?Not yet, but it will do soon. Our memory reaches its full power at the age of 25. At that point we can remember up to 200 pieces of information a second. After this age, however, the brain starts to get smaller. By the age of 40 weare losing 10,000 brain cells every day. By middle age our memory is significantly worse than when we were young.5. Is it possible to remember early childhood?Scientists used to believe that it was impossible to remember very early childhood, but recent research shows that babies are much cleverer than we previously thought. Some people really can remember being a baby. Others, however, remember nothing before the age of five or even ten!60. Which of the following questions best fits the blank in the passage?A. What can we do to improve our memory as we grow older?B. Can childhood memories help us remember what has happened recently?C. How do we establish emotional connections with our childhood experiences?D. Why can I remember events in my childhood but not what happened last week?61. What can we learn about photographic memory?A. Only some of us can benefit from it.B. There is no reliable evidence that it exists.C. We cannot acquire it without specialized training.D. It enables us to remember details in a limited time.62. Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?A. In most cases information is separately stored in human memory.B. Human’s ability to memorize things declines as the brain gets smaller.C. Computer memory is better than human memory from many perspectives.D. Whether we can remember our early-childhood needs more scientific research.(C)Dr. Donald Sadoway at MIT started his own battery company with the hope of changing the world’s energy future. It’s a dramatic endorsement (认可) for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark. But Sadoway isn’t alone in boasting about energy storage as a missing link to a cleaner, more efficient, and more equitable energy future.Scientists and engineers have long believed in the promise of batteries to change the world. Advanced batteries are moving out of specialized markets and creeping into the mainstream, signaling a tipping point for forward-looking technologies such as electric cars and rooftop solar propels.The ubiquitous (无所不在的) battery has already come a long way, of course. For better or worse, batteries make possible our mobile-first lifestyles, our screen culture, our increasingly globalized world. Still, as impressive as all this is, it may be trivial compared with what comes next. Having already enabled a communications revolution, the battery is now poised to transform just about everything else.The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities. In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power. Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.Today, energy storage is a $33 billion global industry that generates nearly 100 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year. By the end of the decade, it’s expected to be worth over 50 billion dollars and generate 160 gigawatt-hours,enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology. Even utility companies, which have long viewed batteries and alternative forms of energy as a threat, are learning to embrace the technologies as enabling rather than disrupting.Today’s battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet. Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.To be sure, the battery still has a long way to go before the nightly recharge completely replaces the weekly trip to the gas station. A battery-powered world comes with its own risks, too. What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build as: more and more people become “prosumers”, who produce and consume their own energy on site?No one knows which—if any—battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear. The future of energy is in how we store it.63. What does Dr. Sadoway think of energy storage?A. It involves the application of sophisticated technology.B. It is the direction energy development should follow.C. It will prove to be a profitable business.D. It is a technology benefiting everyone.64. What is most likely to happen when advanced batteries become widely used?A. Mobile-first lifestyles will become popular.B. The globalization process will be accelerated.C. Communications will take more diverse forms.D. The world will undergo revolutionary changes.65. In some rural communities of emerging economies, people have begun to ________.A. find digital devices simply indispensableB. communicate primarily by mobile phoneC. light their homes with stored solar energyD. distribute power with wires and wooden poles66. What does the author imply about the centralized electric grid?A. It might become a thing of the past.B. It might turn out to be a “prosumer”C. It will be easier to operate and maintain.D. It will have to be completely transformed.Section CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.A. Both the gorgeous (非常美丽的) and non-gorgeous improved by being with other people.B. Sometimes the subjects in the pictures were shown as part of a three-person group.C. It turns out that people don’t even need to be in an actual group to look more attractive.D. It’s no secret that our definition of beauty is defined by a very clear set of physical norms.E. A big nose in the company of a small nose does not look bigger still; rather, both noses move closer to the average.F. While being average-looking might seem like a bad thing, the research suggests that’s not necessarily the case for attractiveness.According to a new study just published in Psychological Science, any one person seen in a group just seems better looking than when viewed alone. The reason: human eyes average things out, and when it comes to faces, average is usually good.67 Facial analysis studies show the symmetry (对称) is almost always regarded as prettier that asymmetry and the most beautiful faces are the ones on which eyes are no more or less than a certain distance apart, and the forehead, chin, cheeks and other features take up no more than a certain share of the whole. It’s the reason that models may be gorgeous but can prove awfully difficult to tell apart.“Perhaps,” says psychological scientist Drew Walker of the University of California, San Diego, in a statement that accompanied the release of the study, “beautiful people are all alike, but every unattractive person is unattractive in their own ways.”To test how that plays out in a group setting, Walker and his UCSD collaborator, psychological scientist Edward Vul, recruited 130 undergraduate students and showed them pictures of 100 different men and women. 68 Other times they were cut out to show just one face at a time. Still other times, the faces were taken out of context and arranged on a simple grid (风格) of either four, nine or 16 faces.Consistently, the researchers found, the sole shots were regarded as less attractive than the faces viewed in a group—whether in a real setting or on the grid. This was true regardless of the gender of the subjects and regardless of whether they would broadly be described as following most definitions of attractiveness or unattractiveness. 69 The explanation for the phenomenon, they believe, is the averaging effect and how it works. 70 “Individuals with complementary features—one person with narrow eyes and one person with wide eyes—would enjoy a greater boost in attractiveness when seen together, as compared to groups composed of individuals who have similar features,” Walker and Vul write.Ⅳ. Summary Writing71. Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Curiosity Is an Increasingly Rare VirtueMost of the breakthrough discoveries and remarkable inventions throughout history, from flints (打火石) for starting a fire to self-driving cars, have something in common: They are the result of curiosity. But the journalist Ian Leslie, in his newly-published book Curious:The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It, insists that curiosity is a much-overlooked human virtue, crucial to our success, and we are losing it.Leslie presents considerable evidence for the claim that the society as a whole is growing less curious. In the U.S. and Europe, for example, the rise of the Internet, among other social and technological changes, has led to a declining consumption of news from outside the reader’s borders. Indeed, Google, for which Leslie expresses admiration, is also his frequent whipping boy (替罪羊): we seek only the information we want. But not everything is to be blamed on。

高二年级第一学期第1次月考英语试卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题：每题1.5分）听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一小题，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，听完每段对话后，你都有15秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话只读一遍。

1. How is the weather in the woman’s opinion?A. Warm.B. Cold.C. Hot.2. What does the man mean?A. He already has plans.B. The woman should decide.C. He will make a reservation.3. Why did the man go to Beijing?A. To visit his parents.B. To have an interview.C. To receive job training.4. What are the two speakers talking about?A. What to take up as a hobby.B. How to keep fit.C. How to handle pressure.5. What will the man do first?A. Tidy his room.B. Go on a picnic.C. Wear clothes.第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5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三个选项选出最佳选项，并标在试卷相应位置，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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。

2016-2017学年高二英语上学期第一次月考试题本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。

共150分，考试时间120分钟。

第I卷（选择题共100分注意：请将答案填涂在答题卡上）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，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒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。

What does the woman want to do?A. Buy a television.B. Look for a gift for her husb and.C. Bargain with the man.2. What will happen to the patient?A. He will be sent to ward 1.B. He might get an operati on on the arm.C. He will stay still at the Emergency Department.3. What does the man mean?A. The woman＇s family is rich. B. He would like to help the woman.C. The woman is often short of money.4. Who has a better taste in clothing?A. The man.B. The woman.C. The man＇wife.5. Why does the woman have to go?A. It＇s too late. B. Someone calls her. C. She has something important to do.第二节（共15个小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话。

卓越联盟2016—2017学年第一学期第一次月考高二英语试题本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。

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第Ⅰ卷（共100分）第一部分听力理解（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，并标在试卷的相应位置。

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. Where is Bill now?A. At the officeB. Away on vacationC. At home in bed2. What time will the game be finished?A.4:30p.mB. 3:40p.mC. 4:00p.m3. How will the man go to New York?A. By boatB. By planeC. By train4. Who parked the car in the space?A. The manB. The womanC. Neither the man nor the woman5.How old was his grandpa when he died?A. 56.B. 76.C. 38第二节（共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分）听下面5段对话或独白。

江苏省扬州中学2016—2017学年第一学期开学考试高二英语试卷2016.8一、单项选择（共25分，每题1分）1. After graduation from high school we will reach a point we have to decide which university to attend.A. thatB. whatC. whichD. Where2. Despite the fact they lacked food, the explorers continued towards the goal.A. whichB. thatC. whatD. whether3. From his ________ look, we could see that the professor hadn’t expected that we could raise such _________ questions to him.A. confusing; confusingB. confused; confusedC. confusing; confusedD. confused; confusing4. A warm thought suddenly came to me________ I might use the pocket money to buy some flowers for my mother’s birthday.A. ifB. whenC. thatD. which5. —It shouldn’t take long to clear up after the party if we all _______to help.—That’s right. Many hands make light work.A. hesitateB. reachC. volunteerD. Enjoy6. The reason _________ he gave for his being away for such a long time is _________ his mother was ill.A. why; thatB. that; thatC. that; becauseD. why; because7. When and where we’ll hold the meeting ________ not been decided yet.A. hasB. isC. haveD. Are8. The visitors looked quite _________ by the beautiful view at the top of Mount Tai.A. tiredB. impressedC. worriedD. puzzled9. Sophie_______ to me, “Martin is said to be related to the murder. ”A. shoutedB. criedC. laughedD. whispered10. My father is __________to come to my house for this winter.A. likelyB. possibleC. probableD. perfect11. After a heavy ads campaign, our market share has increased ___15% ___ 60% in Asian market .A. with, toB. to, byC. at, aboveD. by, to12. Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player _____________.A. of all timesB. of all the timeC. of all the timesD. of all time13. You can't imagine ____ boy can do _____ work .A. so little, so muchB. such little, such muchC. so little a, such muchD. such a little ,so much14.The doctor ____ me to spend several days at the seaside, so that I’ll ____ soon. DA. considered; hold upB. hoped; bring upC. suggested; take upD. advised; pick up15. All through history, big changes have taken place in ________ English language, especially when Henry IV became ________ King of England.A. the; theB. 不填; theC. the; 不填D. an; 不填16. We have dealt with a large part of the problems, and the rest ________ by you.A. remains to solveB. remains to be solvedC. remain to be solvedD. remain to solve17. Some of the members demanded to know why they had been kept ______ the true facts until they reached the present critical stage.A. in ignorance ofB. in the light ofC. in honor ofD. in view of18. A new iPhone costs about of a second-hand one.A. the price of three timesB. three times the priceC. as much as the three times priceD. three times more than the price19. ---Where did you come across your old classmate Jane?---It was in the supermarket _________ she worked _________ I came across her.A. where; whenB. that; whenC. that; thatD. where; that20.The government is discussing the problem right now. It will ______ have been solved by the end of next month.A. eagerlyB. hopefullyC. immediatelyD. gradually21. ---Wh y! I couldn’t get you on the phone this morning.---We ____tennis in the yard when you phoned me.A. could be playingB. must be playingC. must have been playingD. should have played22. —I didn’t know your telephone number in Paris; otherwis e, I you.—Oh, I would rather you me.A. would have called; had calledB. would ring; callC. would have called; calledD. would ring; had called23.－Mary, how did your Math test go?24.－I had thought I _________, but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class.25. A.should have failed B.couldn’t have failed C.might have failed D.shouldn’t have failed26.24. I still remember my happy childhood when my mother ______ take me to Disneyland at weekends.27. A. might B. must C. would D. should28.25. — I promise her daughter ____ get a nice present on her birthday.29.— Will it be a big surprise to her?30. A. should B. must C. would D. Shall二、完形填空（共20分，每题1分）When I was about five years old, I used to watch a bird in the skies of southern Alberta from the Blackfoot Blood Reserve in northern Montana where I was born．I loved this bird; I would 26 him for hours．He would 27 effortlessly in that gigantic sky, or he would come down and light on the 28 and float there beautifully．Sometimes when I watched him, he would not make a sound and liked to move 29 into the grasses．We called him meksikatsi, which in the Blackfoot language 30 “pink-colored feet”; meksikatsi and I became very good friends．The bird had a very particular significance to me 31 I desperately wanted to be able to fly too．I felt very much as if I was the kind of person who had been born into a world where 32 was impossible．And most of the things that I 33 about would not be possible for me but would be possible only for other people．When I was ten years old, something unexpected 34 my life suddenly. I found myself become an 35 child in a family I was not born into; I found myself in a 36 position that many native Americans find themselves in, living in a city that they do not understand at all, not inanother culture but 37 two cultures．A teacher of the English language told me that meksikatsi was not called meksikatsi, even though that is what 38 people have called that bird for thousands of years．Meksikatsi, he said, was really “duck”．I was very 39 with English．I could not understand it．First of all, the bird did not look like “duck”, and when it made a40 , it did not sound like “duck”, I was eve n more 41 when I found out that the meaning of the verb “to duck” came from the bird．As I 42 to understand English better, I understand that it made a great deal of 43 , but I never forgot that meksikatsi made a different kind of meaning．I 44 that languages are not just different words for the same things but totally different 45 , totally different ways of experiencing and looking at the world．26．A．keep B．watch C．follow D．search27．A．jump B．dive C．circle D．wander28．A．nest B．hill C．water D．road29．A．quickly B．naturally C．freely D．quietly30．A．means B．reads C．shows D．states31．A．though B．because C．while D．until 32．A．communication B．imagination C．belief D．flight33．A．dreamed B．worried C．knew D．argued34．A．improved B．enriched C．changed D．ruined35．A．educated B．adopted C．outgoing D．independent36．A．weak B．comfortable C．terrible D．central37．A．between B．against C．without D．beyond38．A．most B．few C．their D．my39．A．desperate B．bored C．uncomfortable D．disappointed 40．A．noise B．call C．decision D．choice41．A．ashamed B．confused C．embarrassed D．frightened42．A．tried B．came C．determined D．expected 43．A．evidence B．distinction C．profit D．sense44．A．identified B．confirmed C．realized D．predicted 45．A．concepts B．regulations C．messages D．evaluations三、阅读理解（共30分，每题2分）AFrench surgeons have performed what they said on Wednesday was the world's first partial face transplant--- giving a new nose, chin and lips to a woman attacked by a dog.Specialists from two French hospitals carried out the operation on a 38-year-old woman on Sunday in the northern city of Amiens by taking the face from a brain-dead woman, who had hanged herself just hours before the operation. Her family agreed on the operation.“The patient is in an excellent state and the transplant looks normal,” the hospitals said in a brief statement after waiting three days to announce the pioneering surgery.The woman had been left without a nose and lips after the dog attacked her last May, and was unable to talk or chew properly. Such injuries are “extremely difficult, if not impossible” to repair using normal surgical techniques, the statement said.The statement did not say what the woman would look like when she had fully recovered, but medical experts said she was unlikely to resemble the woman who had been the source of her new face.The operation was led by Jean-Michel Dubernard, a specialist from a hospital in Lyon who has also carried out hand transplants,Skin transplants have long been used to treat burns and other injuries, but operations around the mouth and nose have been considered very difficult because of the area's high sensitivity to foreign tissue.Teams in France, the United States and Britain had been developing techniques to make face transplants a realityThere was a short-term risk for the patient if blood vessels became blocked, a medium-term danger of her body rejecting the new skin and a long-term possibility that the drugs used could cause cancers.Experts say that although such medical advances should be celebrated, the transplant had thrown up moral（道德的）and ethical(伦理的)issues. Little is known about the psychological effect of the transplant.46. The best title for the passage would be ________.A. First Face Transplant Opens DebateB. French Woman has First Partial FaceTransplantC. A Complete Face Transplant of a French WomanD. Risks and Ethical Problems of a Face Transplant47. Which of the following is NOT one of the risks of the operation?A. Heart damage.B. Organ rejectionC. Block of blood vessels.D. Side effect of the drugs48. What can we learn about the operation?A. There has arisen a debate about the operation.B. The woman had used the dead woman' s whole face.C. The woman will suffer from psychological damage soon.D. Such transplants have been performed by doctors.BThe largest campaign of killing rats in history is set to poison millions of rats on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Scientists say the campaign planned for 2013mand 2014 will restore beautiful South Georgia to the position it once held as the world’s most important nesting sites for seabirds.It was sailors in the late 18th century who unintentionally introduced rats to what had been a fresh environment. “If we can destroy the rats, at least 100 million birds will return to their home on South Georgia,” says Tony Martin, a biology professor at the University of Dundee who was invited to lead the project.South Georgia is by far the largest island to get rid of animals that destroy native wildlife after being introduced deliberately or accidentally by people. Though rats and mice have done the most damage, cats, foxes, goats, deer, rabbits and other species have been targeted in the campaigns around the world.South Georgia is seven times the size of New Zealand’s Campbell Island, currently the largest area ever killing rats. The successful war against Campbell Island rats was carried our in 2001 with 132 tons of poison dropped from five helicopters.“New Zealand pioneered the techniques for ridding islands of rats and in fact our operation on South Georgia is based on New Zealand’s technology.” Says Martin. “Some New Zealanders will be helping our campaign, including our chief pilot, Peter Garden, who was also chief pilot for theprojects at Campbell Island and Rat Island, in the Aleutian chain of the north Pacific.”The second and third stages in 2013 and 2014 will involve dropping as much as 300 tons of poison from the air onto every part of the island where rats might live. It is a huge operation, carried out during the stormy southern autumn when the rats are hungry and the risks of poisoning native wildlife are less than in the spring and summer months. “Ideally we’d do in winter but the weather makes that too risky,” Martin says.The ecological payback will be priceless. But Martin says, “The full benefits will take decades to arrive, because some of these birds are slow to hatch.”49. According to the passage, how did the rats appear on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia ?A. They were introduced there by sailors accidentally.B. They escaped there from Campbell Island.C. They were attracted there by wildlife.D. They were brought in by people deliberately.50. Which of the following is True about Peter Garden ?A. He is in charge of the campaign on the sub-Antarctic island.B. He will be the only pilot for the project on the sub-Antarctic island.C. He will benefit a lot from the campaign on the sub-Antarctic island.D. He made great contributions to the project at Campbell Island and Rat Island.51. The operation of ridding South Georgia of rats is to carried out in autumn because _________.A. the war against Campbell Island rats failed in all seasons except autumn.B. only then do the New Zealanders to help the operation have the spare time.C. the poison kills rats more effectively than it does in any other season.D. rats then need more food and the operation does less harm to native wildlife.52. What can we infer from the passage?.A. Rats aren’t the only species to be blamed for the disappearance of wildlife.B. The campaign of killing rats will benefit the native wildlife in a short time.C. The first stage of killing rats on the sub-Antarctic island didn’t make great achievements.D. The campaign in South Georgia will fully follow in the footsteps of that on Campbell Island.CAustralia has promised to introduce the most comprehensive （全面的）carbon trading program outside Europe in 2010. The government in Canberra plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions (排放) by at least five percent by 2020, but it could make bigger reductions if other countries agree to tougher targets.The Australian government warns that without tough environmental measures the country could lose key industries and jobs. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says the economy is under threat and decisive action is needed.Central to the government’s climate change plan is a carbon emissions trading p rogram that will be introduced within two years. It would involve one thousand of the nation’s biggest companies and would cover about three-quarters of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.Many scientists believe that greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, contribute to global warming. Many of them are released by burning fuels such as coal and oil.Companies will be required to buy permits for each ton of carbon they emit, although big polluting exporters will receive up to 90 percent of their carbon licenses free.Many business leaders want the government to delay the plan because of the current global financial crisis, which is slowing the Australian economy. Peter Anderson from the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says it is irresponsible to bring in a carbon trading plan now. Environmentalists, on the other hand, say Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has not properly addressed the threat of climate change. Activists had sought a minimum emissions cut of 25 percent. Instead, the Rudd government aims to cuts carbon emissions by at least five percent of 2000 levels by 2020. That amount could rise to 15 percent, if future global agreements set such a target.Ray Nias of the environmental group WWF says Australia will pay the price for lo w targets. “This is a deeply, deeply disappointing target,” Nias said. “It commits Australia to long-term climate change. It will make Australia’s ability to negotiate (协商) global agreements very, very difficult. It is much lower than even we had imagined.”Australia has one of the highest per-person greenhouse emissions rates in the world because of its reliance on coal for electricity.Some scientists warn that the vast, dry Australian continent, which has been suffering a series of droughts in recent yea rs, could be one of the region’s hardest hit by global warming.53. Which group supports to cut carbon emissions by at least 25%?A. EnvironmentalistsB. The governmentC. Business leadersD. Scientists54. Who most probably agrees to a higher goal of carbon emissions?A. Penny WongB. Peter AndersonC. Kevin RuddD. Ray Nias55. Many business leaders are against the Australian program because________.A. they believe the program will only benefit the big companiesB. they believe the program will cause the global warmingC. they don’t want to pay extra money for carbon emissionsD. they don’t think carbon emission will surely cause the global warming56. The underlined sentence means_________.A. The Australian government will be blamed for the low targetB. Australia will suffer a lot from climate change caused by carbon emissionsC. The Australian government will have to spend lots of money on carbon emissionsD. Many Australian companies will close down because of the low targetDThere was good news last week for people who struggle to get eight hours of sleep a night: they may not need so much shut-eye after all.Researchers from UCLA and elsewhere looked at sleep habits of remote hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia — groups with pre-industrial lifestyles whose sleep patterns are believed to reflect those of ancient humans. The researchers found that, on average, members of each group sleep a bit less than six and a half hours a night.The study, published in the academic journal Current Biology, indicates that “natural” sleep is less than eight hours a night and that modern society’s numerous electronic distractions (分心) aren’t necessarily to blame for people getting just six or seven hours of sleep.“The story that often gets out is that if you sleep for less than seven hours, you’re going to die early,” he told me. “That’s not true.”Yet Americans are addicted to getting more sleep — and on turning to medical shortcuts to help them.According to the Centers for Disease Control, as many as 70 million U.S. adults suffer from sleep disorders or sleeplessness. Only a third of Americans get the government’s recommended seven to nine hours of sleep a night.About 9 million American adu lts use sleeping pills to help get a good night’s rest, the CDC found. Siegel said the number of people relying on medicines “has gone up rather rapidly since then.”Industry consulting firm GlobalData estimates that worldwide sales for sleeplessness medicines will run about $1.4 billion next year and reach $1.8 billion by 2023, recovering from lower sales in recent years because of cheaper generics(仿制药) hitting the market.Dr. Roy Artal, a sleep specialist in West Los Angeles, said it’s understandable that busy people in today’s go-go world would turn to medicines to speed up the sleep process. But all they’re doing is building a reliance on powerful drugs for relatively little improvement.“There’s no magic pill that makes us sleep when we want and wake up when we want,” Artal said. “The effects of sleeping pills tend to be modest.”He and other experts say the answer to sleeplessness isn’t to be found in a pill bottle. It’s in what’s called “sleep hygiene (保健).”57. The research on sleep habits of remote hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia shows that ________.A. They have a lack of sleep because of their bad lifestyleB. “natural” sleep may be less than eight hours a nightC. Modern electronic products cause the sleeplessnessD. Pre-industrial lifestyles will be helpful to a better sleep58. Jerome Siegel believes that ________.A. We need to take sleeping pills to improve sleepB. Modern electronic products do harm to a good sleepC. Those who sleep for less than 7 hours will die earlyD. There is nothing wrong with a 6 or 7 hours’ sleep59. The underlined word “modest” probably means ________.A. obviousB. awfulC. smallD. large60. The main idea of this passage is that_________.A. People may not need eight hours of sleep a night.B. people need sleeping pills to have a good sleepC. sleeping pills have a long way to go for sleep improvementD. Sleeping pill industry will suffer great losses from the new discovery四、任务型阅读（共10分，每题1分）What is eco-fashion？Eco-fashion is about making clothes that take into account the environment, the health of consumers and the working conditions of people in the fashion industry. It is a complex phenomenon and the common use of the term covers two aspects of fashion —‘ecological’ and ‘ethical’．Ecological fashion usually refers to textile (织物) and clothing production processes and the environmental issues surrounding them；ethical fashion generally relates to the working conditions involved in the producing processes.What are the problems with fashion？A closer look at the fashion industry points out many problems that are common practices in the creation of our fashions from the field to the factory. Firstly，the production of textiles pollutes the environment heavily. Cotton-planting uses pesticides；sheep-farming and wool-cleaning contribute to global warming；synthetics-making (人造纤维生产) brings about waste which does harm to our environment. Secondly，every stage of clothing production has a significant effect on the environment. They all use a great deal of energy，and some also involve harmful chemicals. In addition to this，there is a lot of waste produced in the process，especially in the form of polluted water. Thirdly，growing consumption levels and our shopping habits further worsen the bad effects. We are now buying clothes in increasing quantities without realizing the scale on which it affects natural environment，and we are also quick to throw away clothes that have been worn only a couple of times.Then，how to solve the problems? Other industries that design products are ahead of the fashion industry when it comes to choosing sustainable materials, designing for minimum waste, choosing energy efficient manufacturing and creating products for longevity. The fashion industry has been slow to adopt these changes and part of the problem is the very nature of fashion. To a large degree，it is the fashion producers that really have the power and the responsibility to shape our future. There are numerous ways in which these producers can reduce their ecological footprint，from switching to green energy and reducing energy use，through selecting sustainable materials and choosing local suppliers，to recycle and minimize waste. On the other hand，as consumers we can all make contributions by selecting environmentally friendly clothing and reducing clothing consumption.There is some concern that eco friendly fashions are just a trend that we will eventually grow tired of but we can make sure that doesn't happen. Now many people are beginning to shop for organicfood products because the benefits of eating food free of chemicals are straightforward and immediate. They relate directly to our personal health. In fact, choosing eco-fashion can also contribute to our personal health, though it is mostly done by way of keeping the health of the planet.五、翻译句子（共10分，每题2分）71. 他们认为那是违背科学精神的。