高二英语12月月考试题1(2)
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山东省枣庄市第八中学东校区2016-2017学年高二英语12月月考试题本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。
共150分。
考试用时120分钟。
第一卷（三部分,共90分）注意事项：1．答第一卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。
2．每小题选出答案后,用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。
不能答在试卷上。
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. Which country found lovely music is good for people’s hearts?A. America.B. Australia.C. Russia.2. What did the man do this morning?A. Walked the dog.B. Did the laundry.C. Watered the plants.3. What is the woman going to buy?A. A book on planes.B. Pictures of ships.C. A book on ships.4. Why doesn’t the woman buy the coa t?A. It is expensive.B. There isn’t her size.C. She doesn’t like the color.5. What has happened to the man?A. He had a car accident.B. He was struck by something.C. He stepped on some chewing gum.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。
每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段对话,回答第6至7题。
6. What are the two speakers doing now?A. Travelling.B. Making a call.C. Seeing a doctor.7. What’s the cause of the woman’s illness?A. It’s the hot weather.B. Drink too little water.C. Eat too much.听第7段对话,回答第8至9题。
8. What do you learn from the dialogue?A. The man can drive properly.B. The man is afraid to drive a car.C. The man doesn’t like to be a passeng er.9. Which of the following does the man prefer?A. Driving slowly in jams.B. Being a passenger on long empty roads.C. Driving a car on long empty roads.听第8段对话,回答第10至12题。
10. How far away is Hill Farm?A. Nearly a mile.B. Just a mile.C. More than a mile.11. Which is the route to Hill Farm?A. Left track→bridge→road.B. Road→left track→bridge.C. Bridge→road→left track.12. What would the man like the woman to do towards the end of the conversation?A. Give him a ride.B. Repeat what she said.C. Walk him to Hill Farm. 听第9段对话,回答第13至16题。
13. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In a restaurant.B. In a school canteen.C. In a food store.14. How many children are there in the woman’s family?A. 10.B. 11.C. 12.15. What does the woman’s father do?A. A cab driver.B. A shop owner.C. A pilot.16. What can we know from the conversation?A. The woman is the oldest child of the family.B. The woman gets along well with her siblings.C. The man and the woman are classmates.听第10段独白,回答第17至20题。
17. How often does the man have salads?A. Sometimes but not often.B. Almost every meal every day.C. Never because of busy work.18. What kind of drink does the man like best?A. Green tea.B. Black tea.C. Coffee.19. Why does the man never go to a gym?A. He has no girlfriend.B. He is too busy now.C. It’s too expensive.20. Why can’t the man usually go swimming?A. He is too busy.B. He can’t swim at all.C. He is afraid to go swimming now. 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。
AWhen I was eight, I saw a movie about an island that had an erupting volcano and jungles filled with wild animals. The island was ruled by a beautiful woman called Tondalaya, the Fire Goddess of the Volcano. It was a low-budget(小成本) movie, but to me, it represented the perfect life. But through the years, Tondalaya was forgotten.The week I turned 50, my marriage came to a sudden end. My house, furniture and everything I’d owned was sold to pay debts that I didn’t even know existed. In a week I had lost my husband, my home and my parents who had refused to accept a divorce (离婚) in the family. I’d lost everything except my four teenage children.I used every penny I had to buy five plane tickets from Missouri to Hawaii. Everyone said I was crazy to think I could just runoff to an island and survive. I was afraid they were right.I worked 18 hours a day and lost 30 pounds because I lived on one meal a day. One night as I walked alone on the beach, I saw the red orange lava (火山岩) pouring out of Kilauea Volcano in the distance. It was time to live my imagination!The next day, I quit my job, bought some art supplies and began doing what I loved.I hadn’t painted a picture in 15 years.I wondered if I could still paint. My hands trembled the first time I picked up a brush. But before an hour had passed, I was lost in the colors spreading across the canvas (画布) in front of me. And as soon as I started believing in myself, other people started believing in me, too. The first painting sold for $1,500.The past six years have been filled with adventures. My children and I have gone swimming with dolphins, watched whales and hiked around the crater rim (火山口边缘) of the volcano. We wake up every morning with the ocean in front of us and the volcano behind us. The dreamI had more than 40 years is now reality. I’m living freely and happily ever after.21.Why did the writer go to Hawaii?A. To realize her childhood dream.B. To free herself from trouble.C. To spend her holiday.D. To make a living.22.Which of the following is the writer’s dream?A. Living in nature with animals.B. Becoming a successful painter.C. Getting close to wildlife.D. Living a free and happy life.23.We can infer from the passage that .A. the writer’s husband took away most of her moneyB. the writer wasn’t sure whether she could survive in Hawaii at firstC. the writer had never done painting beforeD. the writer’s parents encouraged her to divorceBArgentina in the late nineteenth century was an exciting place. Around 1870, it was experiencing an economic boom（繁荣）, and the capital, Buenos Aires, attracted many people. Farmers, as well as a flood of foreigners from Spain and Italy, came to Buenos Aires seeking jobs. These jobs didn’t pay well, and the people felt lonely and disappointed with their new life in the city. As the unhappy newcomers mixed together in the poor parts of the city,the dance known as the tango(探戈舞)came into being.At the b eginning the tango was a dance of the lower classes. It was danced in the bars and streets. At that time there were many fewer women than men, so if a man didn’t want to be left out, his only choice was to dance with another man so that he could attract the attention of the few available women. Gradually, the dance spread into the upper classes of Argentinean society and became more respectable.In Europe at this time, strong interest in dance from around the world was beginning. This interest in international dance was especially evident in Paris. Every kind of dance from ballet(芭蕾舞)to belly dancing could be found on the stages of the Paris theaters. After tango dancers from Argentina arrived in Europe, they began to draw the interest of the public as they performed their exciting dance in cafes. Though not everyone approved of the new dance, saying it was a little too shocking, the dance did find enough supporters to make it popular.The popularity of the tango continued to grow in many other parts of the world. Soldiers who returned to the United States from World War I brought the tango to North America. It reached Japan in 1926, and in 2003 the Argentinean embassy（大使馆） in Seoul hired a local tango dancer to act as a kind of dance ambassador, and promote tango dancing throughout South Korea.24.The origin of the tango is associated with .A. the capital of ArgentinaB. a Spanish cityC. American soldiersD. belly dancers25.Which of the following is true about the tango?A. A dancer in Seoul became the Argentinean ambassador.B. People of the upper classes loved the tango most.C. It was often danced by two males in the beginning.D. It was created by foreigners from Spain and Italy.26.Before World War I, the tango spread to .A. South KoreaB. JapanC. FranceD. America27.What can be the best title for the text?A. The Modern Tango BoomB. The History of the TangoC. How to Promote the TangoD. How to Dance the TangoCIn the English language there are striking similarities to many of the characteristics present in Spanish, French, and German. So what are the things that make English so difficult for foreign people to l earn?English doesn’t necessarily have more regular consonant(辅音)or vowel(元音)sounds than other languages, but how the stress is placed on some of those consonants or vowels makes it such a difficult language for learners. There are hard and soft consonants like “c”taking on a “k” sound or an “s” sound depending upon the situation. There are silent letters in some words and then some consonants that take on an entirely different sound ( like “th”) when combined. The changes in the pronunciation of words make English much more difficult to learn.Another thing that makes English difficult to learn has to do with verb tense. Some languages have very limited changes in verb tense, sometimes just present and past, which makes it relatively s imple to grasp. English, on the other hand, is a bit more difficult in this area. For example, in different situations it may be proper to use any of the following tenses: present, past, future, past perfect or present perfect. The verb “choose” can be used in the following forms depending on tense:choose, chose or chosen. This can be very difficult for a foreigner to grasp.Slang（俚语） is more widely used in American English than proper grammar. In the US just knowing the language as it’s generally taught isn’t enough. In every single region or even close neighborhoods, the same slang terms make an almost entirely different language. In some areas there are repeatedly used terms that wouldn’t even be found in the Webster’s Dictionary. They are created by locals and only locals understand them. This can make it very difficult for someone not familiar with the language to get used to it, especially if they don’t remain in one area for a very long period.28.The purpose of this passage is to .A. tell us how to deal with slang terms in EnglishB. encourage us to speak formal EnglishC. tell us why English is very difficult to learnD. give advice on how to learn Englishwell29. According to the passage, the letter “c” in English.A. is often silentB. has at least two soundsC. never takes on an “s” soundD. is always stressed30. Compared with other languages, ___________.A. English has very limited changes in verb tenseB. English has relatively simple verb tense to graspC. English has more forms of verbs according to the tenseD. English has three more verb tenses31. It can be inferred from the passage that .A. pronunciation is the most difficult thing in English learningB. all the slang terms should be added to the Webster’s DictionaryC. if you want to learn English well you first should learn some slang termsD. people may understand the local language after living in a place for yearsDEver wonder how much a cloud weighs? What about a hurricane? A meteorologist（气象学家） has done some estimates and the results might surprise you.Let’s start with a very simple white puffy cloud—a cumulus cloud(积云). How much does the water in a cumulus cloud weigh? Peggy LeMone, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, did the numbers. “The water in the little cloud weighs about 550 tons,”she calculates. “Or if you want to convert it to something that might be a little more meaningful...think of elephants.”Assume（假设） an elephant weighs about six tons, she says, that would mean the water inside a typical cumulus cloud would weigh about one hundred elephants.The thought of a hundred elephants’ worth of water floating in the sky begs another question—what keeps it up there?“First of all,the water isn’t in elephant-sized particles(微粒); it’s in tiny tiny tiny particles,” explains LeMone. And those particles float on the wa rmer air that’s rising below. But still, the concept of so much water floating in the sky was surprising even to a meteorologist like LeMone. “I had no idea how much a cloud would weigh,actually,when I started the calculations（计算）,” she says.So how many elephant units of water are inside a big storm cloud—10 times bigger all the way around than the “puffy”cumulus cloud? Again, LeMone did the numbers: About 200,000 elephants.Now, come to the calculations for a hurricane about the size of Missouri and the figures get really massive. “What we’re doing is weighing the water in one cubic meter theoretically pulled from a cloud and then multiplying by the number of meters in a whole hurricane,” she explains.The result? Forty million elephants. That means the water in one hurricane weighs more than all the elephants on the planet. Perhaps even more than all the elephants t hat have ever lived on the planet.32.The weight of is NOT mentioned in the passage.A. a cumulus cloudB. a storm cloudC. a hurricaneD. a tornado33.How did Peggy LeMone feel about the result of her calculations?A. She found it no t convincing.B. She thought it needed further calculations.C. She considered the calculations inaccurate.D. She was quite surprised at it.34.What can be inferred from the passage?A. A storm cloud weights about 200,000 elephants.B. The water in the cloud is in very tiny particles.C. There are less than forty million elephants living on the earth.D. The water in a hurricane weights more than that in any other kind of cloud.35.What is the best title for the passage?A. Surprising ResultsB. Elephants in the SkyC. How Much a Cloud WeighsD. How Much a Hurricane Weighs第二节信息匹配(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,选项中有两项为多余选项。
