第一学期高二英语月考试题（时间：90分钟分值：100分）第I卷(共75分)I. Listening Comprehension (16%)Section A (10%)Directions: 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. At a bank. B. At a hotel. C. At a restaurant. D. At a bus stop.2. A. $13. B. $30. C. $23. D. $40.3. A. Teacher and student. B. Boss and secretary.C. Waiter and guest.D. Policeman and driver.4. A. She agrees with the man. B. She prefers to go shopping.C. She dislikes raining days.D. She thinks it won’t rain.5. A. The air is fresh. B. It’s hot inside.C. The window is open.D. It’s noisy outside.6. A. A postman. B. A shop assistant. C. A cashier. D. A waiter.7. A. The size. B. The price. C. The location. D. The facilities.8. A. She is fond of pizza very much. B. She disagrees with the man.C. She doesn’t understand what the man says.D. She doesn’t like pizza very much.9. A. She doesn’t want a new hairstyle. B. She has no time to try a new hairstyle.C. She wants to try a new hairstyle at once.D. She accepts th e man’s advice.10. A. Jack is the better student. B. Jack and his brother are both pretty.C. Jack’s brother is cleverer.D. Jack’s brother is more hardworking. Section BDirections:In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide 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. Deciding on the stories. B. Checking the language.C. Finding mistakes.D. Writing headlines.12. A. Reporters. B. Cartoonists. C. Foreign editors. D.Page designers.13. A. The importance of reading newspapers.B. The steps of reading a newspaper.C. The process of making a newspaper.D. The similarity between Teens and daily newspapers.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. It’s a place for people to gamble at card.B. It’s a place where everyone makes a fortune.C. It’s a place to exchange shares of a factory or company.D. It’s a place where people exchange a factory or company.15. A. To earn more money. B. To try their luck.C. To save money.D. To buy a bigger flat.16. A. The fastest way of getting more money.B. The different purposes of buying stocks.C. The common knowledge of stock markets.D. The advantages of investing money in the stock.Section CII. Grammar and vocabulary ( 20%)Section A (10%)Directions:After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.When having an interview, it’s not just words you have to think about, but also ____17____ you express them. Avoid a flat monotone(单调的) voice that people sometimes get when they are nervous. And it can add so much if you show your excitement and your eagerness____18_____( work ) for that company, and that is where past performance will indicate future performance. So good interviewers will ask you very detailed questions where they’ll put you on the spot and they’ll want to know specifically your role in _____19_____you did for a particular project. And so the key to giving a good answer ____20_____ a behavioral interview question is to do what I call a STAR, S-T-A-R. The S and T stand for explaining a situation or a task that you ____21____(give) , the A is the action you took and the R is the results.In addition, you need to be prepared ______22_____ you walk in the door. Go through some mock interviews, if you can have friends ask you questions. Practice in the mirror, _____23______(answer) questions. Go in with three or four things you really want to stress about yourself. And then you can bring those out no matter what question is asked.To follow up after the interview, you can send ___24_____ thank-you letter. And you can do it by e-mail. In that thank-you letter you do a couple of things. You make sure thatyou show sincere appreciation for the time____25____ they spent interviewing you. You have _____26_____chance to make that case as to how your skills match their needs.Section B (10%)Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each wordRonaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima1 was born on 22 September 1976in a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro. Like most of his childhood friends,Ronaldo began his soccer career playing barefoot in the streets of hisneighborhood. At the age of 14, he joined Saint Cristov soccer cluband only two years later became the star of Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte___27___ a total of 58 goals in 60 matches and earning himself areputation for his explosive pace and ___28___ finishing skills. Hisgoal-scoring record and unusual quickness led him to be ___29___ in the Brazilian World Cup winning team the following year. After the World Cup, many top European football clubs were trying to ___30___ him. Many people, including Brazilian football legend Pelé, considered him as the most ___31___ footballer of his generation.Since his ___32___ to Dutch team PSV Eindhoven, Ronaldo’s biography is one of success after success. Two Copa América’s, a UEFA Cup, a Dutch Cup, a Spanish League Cup, and two awards as best player in the world, all in the space of two years, are some of Ronaldo’s impressive ___33___. On arrival to Inter-Milan in 1997, Ronaldo became the idol of the local fans who refer to him as “il Fenomeno(奇才).”Since the 98 World Cup he has suffered two serious knee injuries that have ____34_____limited his appearances. Just when people began to wonder whether Ronaldo would be able to continue with his football career, he ___35___ to the world that he still could play. In the World Cup held in Korea and Japan, the_____36____ striker won the Golden Shoe award and tied Pele’s Brazilian record for car eer World Cup goals with 12. He helped Brazil capture its fifth World Cup championship on June 30 with a 2-0 win over Germany. It was the third time that Ronaldo had ever played in the World Cup.III. Reading Comprehension. （39 %）Section A (15%)Directions: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 that best fits the context.Every year more people recognize that it is wrong to kill wildlife for “sport”. Progr ess in this direction is __37__ because shooting is not a sport for watching, and only those few who take part realize the cruelty and __38__.The number of gunners, however, grows rapidly. Children too young to develop proper judgments through __39__ thought are led along way away by their gunningparents. They are subjected to advertisements of gun producers who __40__ shooting as good for their health and gun-carrying as a way of putting redder blood in the veins (血管). They are persuaded by gunner magazines with stories __41__ the chase and the kill. In school they view motion pictures which are __42__ meant to teach them how to deal with arms safely and which are actually designed to __43__ a desire to own a gun. Wildlife is disappearing because of shooting and because of the loss of wildland habitat. Habitat loss will continue with our increasing population, but can we slow the loss of wildlife caused by __44__? There doesn’t seem to be any chance if the serious condition of our birds is not improved.Wildlife belongs to everyone and not to the gunners alone. Although most people do not shoot, they seem to __45__ shooting for sport because they know little or nothing about it. The only answer, then, is to bring the __46__ about sport shooting to the great majority of people.Now, it is time to realize that animals have the same __47__ to life as we do and that there is nothing __48__ or right about a person with a gun shooting the harmless and beautiful __49__. The gunners like to describe what they do as character-building, but we know that to wound an animal and watch it __50__ the pain of dying can make nobody happy. If they would have you believe, gun-carrying and killing improve human-character, perhaps we should __51__ war.37. A. rapid B. frightening C. great D. slow38. A. attraction B. prospect C. violence D. motion39. A. deep B. independent C. subconscious D. emotional40. A. describe B. praise C. distinguish D. admire41. A. criticizing B. honoring C.approving D. admitting42. A. deliberately B. supposedly C. necessarily D. eventually43. A. publicize B. withdraw C. increase D. stimulate44. A. shooting B. polluting C. infecting D. feeding45. A. forgive B. consider C. replace D. exchange46. A. result B. meaning C. background D. truth47. A. taste B. experience C. right D. problem48. A. fair B. considerate C. delicate D. beneficial49. A. beast B. rabbits C. targets D. creatures50. A. get over B. drop out C. go through D. turn away51. A. discourage B. encourage C. eliminate D. agreeSection B (16% )Directions: Read the following two 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 passageyou have just read.( A )American parents usually think that their child should not have more pocket money than the children whom he often connects with even if they are wealthier. And they don’t expect their children to compare with the richer if some conditions make it impossible for the children to get the same pocket money as the children in the neighborhood.The pocket money is not controlled by the parents, because a child can learn to use money correctly only through dealing with it himself. If a 7 –year – old child gets one dollar as a week pocket money and is made to put it all in his piggy bank to save it up, he can’t kno w what the real use for the money is. The children can use part of his pocket money to buy something he especially wants. By the time he is eight, he is old enough that parents can take the child to the bank, open a saving account for him, and encourage him to put a certain amount of his pocket money into the bank and watch his bank savings grow as entry by entry （存入）is made. He will be saving, earning, and spending suitable quantities all along in order to learn how to manage money and to keep him in a favorable position with his friends. If a boy can’t join his fellows in a sweet shop once in a while because he has to save every cent he gets or earns for some big unknown project his parents have chosen for him, he is a sorry child.52. A piggy bank in second paragraph refers to_______________.A. a kind of bank run by childrenB. a certain place in which pigs are raisedC. a bank whose building looks like a pigD. something in the shape of a pig for saving coins53. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. American children begin to learn how to manage money when very young.B. American children usually have their bank accounts until they are eight.C. American parents seldom care for their children’s spending money.D. Most of the rich people in America give children much pocket money.54. Suppose an 8-year–old child receives 10 dollars as his birthday gift, he may probably_____ .A. have most of it saved in the bankB. compare the gift with that of his friendC. put all the money in his piggy bankD. spend the money on the things he wants55. The boy is a sorry one if he saves every cent he gets or earns, because_____.A. he can not join the fellows in a sweet shop once in a whileB. he can not learn the use of money through spending it himselfC. he can not have any other choice but save, earn or spend moneyD. he can not manage his money and is kept himself in an unfavorable position( B )To Whom It May Concern,On March 5, 2012 , I bought a Perfect Muffin Kit(松饼粉) from your store at Midfield Shopping Center. The cashier who assisted me was George. George was very friendly and told me that the Perfect Muffin Kit would live up to the guarantee on the box: “Perfect Muffins Every Time!”.Unfortunately, this product did not live up to what it promised. The muffins I made were far from perfect. I followed the directions in the package very carefully. First, I removed the bag of mix from the box. Then, I poured it into a bowl. Next, I added the correct amount of water to the mix and stirred it. According to the directions, after stirring the mixture, I added half a cup of dried prapes, nuts, berries, or another favorite ingredient. My favorite ingredient happens to be hot sauce. I find that a bit of hot sauce makes pizza and soup taste very delicious. So, continuing to follow the directions, I added half a cup of hot sauce to the mix and stirred it. Finally, I poured the mix into muffin tins and baked it in the baker at 350 degrees for exactly 20 minutes.When the muffins finished baking, I was very excited to eat the “Perfect Muffins” as promised on the box. You can imagine my disappointment when, upon tasting the muffins, I discovered that they were not perfect. These muffins were, in fact, absolutely terrible. Not even my dog was interested in eating these supposedly “perfect” muffins.I would appreciate a full refund of $3.99 for this product as soon as possible. Enclosed are the receipt, the empty box, and one of the un-perfect muffins so that you can experience it for yourself. Thank you for your attention to this matter.Sincerely,Michelle Bauer56. This letter is most likely addressed to _______.A. the owner of the muffin mix companyB. a local storeownerC. the clerk at a local muffin bakeryD. George, the cashier who sold the muffin mix57. The tone of the author can best be described as ________.A. disappointedB. hopelessC. disgustedD. embarrassed58.The author was unhappy with the product because________.A. it was not up to the promise made on the boxB.the directions of the product contained a mistakeC. it was too difficult to follow the directionsD. it was worth less money than she paid for it59. The author’s main purpose in writing this letter is to ________.A. get back all the money paid from the shopB. persuade the company to change the wording on their boxC. prevent others from making the same mistakeD. complain about how bad the muffins tastedSection C:Directions: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable statement from A-F for each blank. There are two extra statements, which you do not need.How to Make FriendsFriendship is a very important human relationship and everyone needs good friends. Good friendship has many benefits. It offers companionship，improves self-worth and promotes good health. There are times in our lives such as when we have recently moved into a new town，or changed our jobs or schools. Such changes often leave us without a friend. ___60___But for many of us the process is difficult and requires courage. Below are some helpful suggestions on how to make and keep friends.1)Associate with others.The first step to making friends is associating with other people. You can go to public places to meet new people. Besides，you will need to make yourself known by becoming an active member of such places.2)Start a conversation.Starting a conversation is the second most important step in making new friends._____61_____ You can always start the conversation. Being able to make a small talk isa very useful skill in relating with other people.3) ____62___Choosing friends with common interests is important in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friend together. Hanging out will always be a pleasant experience.4)Let it grow.It is a good thing to stay in touch. However，try not to press your new friend with calls，messages or visits as this would likely wear him or her out and finally you may lose your friend. _____63_____ The best friendships are the ones that grow naturally.A. Be cheerful.B. Do things together.C. Do not wait to be spoken to.D. Try not to find fault with your friends.E. Making new friends comes easy for some people.F. So you will need to give your friend time to react to you.第I I 卷（共25分）I. Translation: (15%=2+3+3+3+4)Directions:Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1.许多圣诞节传统起源于德国。
