高二英语月考试题及答案-中山市第一中学2015-2016学年高二上学期第一次段考

中山一中2015-2016学年度第一学期第一次段考

高二 英语试题

第一部分 阅读理解（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。

A

How many men do housework? Recently a European commission tried to find out people’s

ideas and reactions to the women’s movement. As part of their survey, they asked many men and

women the question,” Who does the housework? ” The men answered very differently from the

women!

The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the

house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish(丹麦的)

men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework; many of them

said they never helped at all!

But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only

38% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever

helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men

were the most truthful husbands.

Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your

1. The survey was carried out in

A. Britain B. Italy C. Denmark D. Europe

2. The subject for the survey is

A. how many boys do the housework B. who does the housework at home

C. how many women do the housework D. who are more diligent, wives or husbands

3. From the passage we can see that

A. there were more husbands who did the housework than wives

B. husbands did half of the housework all the time

C. there were more wives who did the housework than husbands

D. wives did almost all the housework at home

4. More husbands help in the house than

A. British; Danish B. Italian; Danish C. Danish; British D. Italian; British

B

Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl. She had one big dream—to play the drums in a

band. But one big problem lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to

practice a lot, but she lived next-door to a lot of old people. Many of them are sick. She knew that

the sound of beating drums would really get on their nerves. So, she had tried playing in the

strangest places: a basement, a kitchen, and even in a shower. But there was always someone it

would annoy.

One day, while watching a science documentary on TV, she heard that sound cannot travel in

space, because there's no air. At that moment, Brenda Bongos decided to become a sort of musical

astronaut.

With the help of a lot of time, books and work, Brenda built a space bubble. This was a big

glass ball connected to a machine which sucked out all the air inside. All that would be left inside

was a drum kit（成套设备） and a chair. Brenda got into the space suit she had made, entered the

bubble, turned on the machine, and played those drums like a wild child.

It wasn't long before Brenda Bongos came very famous. Many people came to see her play in

her space bubble. Shortly afterwards she came out of the bubble and started giving concerts. Her

fame spread so much that the government suggested that she be part of a unique space journey.

Finally, Brenda was a real musical astronaut, and had gone far beyond her first ambition of

playing drums in a band.

Years later, when asked how she had achieved all this, she thought for a moment, and said: ''If

those old people next – door hadn't mattered so much to me, I wouldn't have found a solution, and

none of this would have ever happened.''

5．Why did Brenda try to play in the strangest places?

A. Because she didn't want others to hear her play

B. Because she didn't mean to disturb others.

C. Because she didn't have her own room

D. Because she didn’t like her neighbors.

6．Brenda started to give concerts .

A. after she practiced in her space bubble

B. when she became part of the unique space journey

C. after she became a real musical astronaut

D. when people came to see her in the space bubble

7．Brenda became famous because .

A. she was good at music and science B. she became a real musical astronaut

C. she invented a special way of practice D. she played well and had a talent

8．It can be inferred from the text that: " ".

A. He laughs best who laughs last B. It's never too old to learn

C. Two heads are better than one D. One good turn deserves another

C

Four people in England back in 1953, stared at Photo 51. It wasn’t much—a picture showing

a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really