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在学生就要走出校门的时候，班级工作仍要坚持德育先行，继续重视对学生进行爱国主义教育、集体主义教育、行为规范等的教育，认真落实学校、学工处的各项工作要求广东省清远市阳山县2016-2017学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题第I卷（选择题满分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。1What will the woman probably do next?ABuy some batteries BFix her smoke alarm CPut out the fire2Who is the man speaking to ?AHis boss BA delivery worker CA customer service representative3What time is the mans appointment?A2:15 p.m. B2:30 p.m. C2:45 p.m.4What does the man mean?AHe likes the womans idea BThe deal sounds impossibleCHe has some questions to ask5What will the man wear?AA blue shirt BWhite shoes CA brown jacket第二节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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，各个小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6What do we know about the man?AHe is good at marathon BHe just ran a marathon CHes a beginner runner 7What does the man decide to do in the end?AGo to gym BGive up his idea CExercise outdoors听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8What is the man doing?ADoing some last-minute Christmas shoppingBPreparing for an emergencyCGetting camping supplies9What does the woman say about earthquakes?AThere hasnt been one in a long timeBYou need to be preparedCTheyve been increasing in recent years听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10Who does the man recognize?AUncle Charlie BBobby and Sally CGrandma and grandpa11What is Max doing?APlaying with a ball BRunning after Joe CSitting on the ground with Sally12What can we learn about the man?AHe spends a lot of time in the garageBHe gives the children candy CHe loves cucumber听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13Why does the man say its so hot?AThey are close to A friesBThey are never out in the sunCThey have been on the beach too long14How is the woman getting information?AFrom a tour guide BFrom a guide book CFrom a travel website15Where did the speakers take a boar?AFrom Tunisia BFrom India CFrom Italy16What is true about Poetto Beach?AIt is free for tourists BIt has white sandCIt is 120 miles from the speakers听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17Why is the speaker making this announcement?ATo celebrate a graduationBTo congratulate a prize winnerCTo thank someone18What do we know about Ms. Greens uncle?AHe got a bunch of flowers from BobbyBThe speaker visits him every yearCHe has passed away19Who owns a flower shop?ABobbys mother BMs. Green CMrs. Jenkins20What does the speaker want students to learn?AThe benefits of working hard BThe importance of being nice CThe need to respect your elders第二部分阅读理解（共2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。ADuolingo Cost: Free This language learning app offers courses in Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese. And its not all about reading and writingit uses the phones microphone to test users pronunciation skills as well.LumosityCost: Free trial; $14 per month. Lumosity aims to improve users thinking abilities by using simple games and tests that adapt to users cognitive. (认知的) levels to improve their memory and attention. The company says no two users will have the same experience. More than 18 million people have downloaded it.Daily art Cost: Free. Each day the app presents a different -classic painting from storied artists such as Vincent Van Vogh and Monet. Even if you have known the work, you may not know all the fascinating details the app serves up on the back story of the art.Vocabulary. com Cost: $ 2.99 per month.Never again get embarrassed using the wrong word at a dinner party with this app. It has more than 120,000 questions that can help you learn over 12, 000 words. Users can even battle their friends to see who the biggest word master is.Todays documents Cost : Free. The U. S. National, Archives manages this educational app, which serves up a historical document or photo each day of the year. Pastdocuments include everything from a letter by Woodrow Wilson creating Mothers Day to a photo of Gerald Ford as a baby.21. Where must these apps mentioned in the passage be used?A. On the computer. B. In the movie.C. In the car. D. On the phone.22. What can we know about the app Lumosity?A. It provides the same text. B. It can solve mental problems.C. It is very popular. D. Its totally free.23. How much should you pay per year for using the app to learn words?A. $ 2.99. B. $14. C. $ 35. 88. D. $168.24. Which would you download if youd like to know more about the past?A. Todays documents. B. V.C. Duolingo. D. Daily art.B Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia. The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didnt become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around. But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces werent going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modern road design. In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of roada base layer of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same time, metal hubs(the central part of a wheel) came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre (充气轮胎) in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads (柏油路). As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster. 25. What might explain why transport wheels didnt become popular for some time? A. Few knew how to use transport wheels. B. Humans carried farming tools just as well. C. Animals were a good means of transport. D. The existence of transport wheels was not known. 26. What do we know about road design from the passage? A. It was easier than wheel design. B. It improved after big changes in vehicle design. C. It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles. D. It provided conditions for wheel design to develop. 27. How is the last paragraph mainly developed? A. By giving examples. B. By making comparisons. C. By following time order. D. By making classifications. 28. What is the passage mainly about? A. The beginning of road design. B. The development of transport wheels. C. The history of public transport. D. The invention of fast-moving vehicles.C The Chinese television reality show called “Wonderful Friends”, where entertainers hug whale sharks, kiss lions, feed pandas and dress up baby chimpanzees, has come under fire from wildlife protectors who want it to be stopped, saying such activities are cruel and are dangerous for both the humans and animals.The show is the latest hit from Hunan TV, which has attracted more than 196,000 followers. In each show, popular stars are given zoo-keeping tasks that allow them to interact with wild animals in order to bring humans and animals closer together.Animal welfare advocates(倡导者) say that is exactly what should be avoided. Dave Neale of Animals Asia (an advocacy group) said, “It is hugely misleading to the public about the needs and welfare of captive animals (圈养动物) and putting the animals welfare and health at risk.”“What they dont realize is that wild animals need space,” said Xie Yan, a zoologist and China director of the Wildlife Conservation Society. “Putting clothes on chimpanzees is not as adorable as you may think from the animals point of view. I guess their idea was to get their viewers to love and protect the animals,” Ms. Xie added, “but we do not agree with this approach for entertainment.”Using famous people to focus public attention on wildlife is a common practice in conservation campaigns. The Chinese basketball legend Yao Ming went to Africa and highlighted the problem of elephant and rhinoceros poaching (偷猎) in the documentary “The End of the Wild”. “But differently, he, as a human observer, kept his distance and was there to see the hard truth of poaching, and that is different from a show created to attract viewers.” Ms Xie said.Critics (评论家)also argue that the show violates (违反) Chinese wildlife protection laws.29. Which one of the following statements is TRUE?A. Many people like the show because of its dangerous activities.B. Xie Yan is against persuading the public to love and protect animals.C. The reality show makes no difference to wildlife at all.D. Some think the show is against wildlife protection laws of China.30. According to Ms Xie, “Wonderful Friends” is basically different from “The End of the Wild”, because _.A. they both invite different popular stars to show up B. they shoot(拍摄) different numbers and kinds of speciesC. their filming locations are differentD. their purposes and ways to approach animals are different31. Whats the authors attitude towards “Wonderful Friends”?A. Worried.B. Disappointed.C. Uninterested.D. Not mentioned.32. The passage would most likely be found _.A. on a notice boardB. in a newspaperC. in a fashion magazineD. in an ad of wildlife protectionDIn order to increase their job chances after college, Chinese students are turning to a special practiceEiffel Tower nose jobs(鼻整形手术).The latest trend in plastic surgery promises to create a nose that is similar to the curve of the Eiffel Tower.Surgeon Wang Xuming said: “We are influenced by the beauty of the Eiffel Tower. We are not content to just add something to the nose; we reconstruct it.” The surgery costs about US$ 10,000 and involves the enlarging of the nose using tissue from the forehead.Hundreds of posters advertising the procedure are put up all over Chongqing city, where surgeon Xuming runs his private practice. They show a Western-looking woman with an almost-too-perfect nose, against an outline of the Eiffel Tower.Interestingly, many young women in China are eager to achieve a western appearance, as they believe it will give them an advantage in the highly competitive job market. “Some students face a lot of employment pressure after graduation. If their facial features are good, theyll have more chances of finding a job,” said surgeon Xuming. “Weve had students getting the Eiffel Tower nose; its helped them a lot.”Apparently, Chinese employers are quite particular about appearances and prefer attractive candidates. Some of them even go as far as putting height and weight requirements in their employment ads. Plastic surgeons across the country are reporting an increase in the number of students choosing beauty “improvement”.According to a Mr. Li, hospital manager at surgeon Xumings clinic, most of their customers are female and the bill is taken care of by the family. “They usually come in with their mothers, and tend to be from well-off backgrounds.” he said.Personally, I dont think it so important to “improve” our appearance as long as we are skilled at our jobs. We cant decide how we look, but we can decide how well we live and work.33. What is mainly talked about in Paragraph 3?A. The posters. B. A nose job. C. The Eiffel Tower. D. A plastic surgery procedure.34. It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that _.A. employers are potential customers B. attractive appearance seems to increase job chances C. appearance is as important as height and weightD. ads promote the plastic surgery35. From what Mr. Li said we can learn that _.A. most families cant afford the surgeon B. the number of plastic surgeons is increasingC. patients can be well looked after at the clinicD. their customers are usually from wealthy families 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。Taking good notes Have you ever stared at your heavy textbook, your piles of handouts and wished you knew just what questions your teacher planned to put on the next big test? Lacking a crystal ball, most students feel they have no choice but to look through all that material, drill it into their brains, and hope they can remember the right parts at test time. 36 If you learn the best ways to take good notes, you11 make the job of studying for tests a lot easier from now on. Keep up with your assigned textbook reading. Come to class with an interest in the material and with questions to be answered. You can develop these by thinking about and expecting the lecture and by pre-reading the text. 37 Date each days notes and leave wide margins (页边空白) . Dated notes guide you to the right material to study for a test. At test time, the extra margins give you room to add more information if you need it. 38 Write down main ideas and underline or highlight them. Main ideas give you the “big picture of information, the reasons why events took place. Write out a main idea whenever you think you hear one. _39 This kind of notetaking helps you connect related information, making it easier for you to remember it for a test later on. Use abbreviations and symbols to make notetaking easier. Here are a few simple ones: + plus, and = equal, same as, similar, like eg for example w/o without 40 If you write down something that doesnt make sense, talk to someone right away to clear up the problem.A. Write out a main idea.B. See your teacher or a classmate about confusing notes.C. Thats the hard way to study.D. This gives you an overall sense of what the text is about.E. Then use single words or short phrases to list related details that tie into the big idea.F. Also, the extra space will make it easier for you to find the material.G. When you are prepared, your teachers comments make more sense.第三部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A young man went to the local expert on gems (珠宝) and said he wanted to become a gemologist. The expert turned him down because he 41 the youth would not have the patience to learn. The young man 42 a chance. Finally, the expert told the youth, “Be here 43 .” The next morning the expert put a jade stone in the youths hand and told him to 44 it. The expert then went about his work, cutting, weighing and setting gems. The boy sat 45 and waited. The following morning the expert again 46 the jade stone in the youths hand and told him to hold it. On the third, fourth and fifth days, the expert asked the young man to do 47 thing. On the sixth day, the youth held the jade stone, but he could no longer 48 the silence. “Master, 49 am I going to learn something?” he asked. “You will learn,” the expert said and 50 his business. Several more days 51 and the youth almost lost his 52 . But one morning as the master placed the stone in the youths hand, the young man said 53 looking at his hand, “This is not the same jade stone!” “You have begun to learn,” said the master. Practice makes 54 . The experience we learned from practice teaches us and 55 our abilities. Experience is the best teacher. Even the most successful person has no 56 confidence once. It is 57 that gives people confidence. The truth is: if you do the work and 58 the experience, youll have more 59 because youll actually know 60 youre doing.41. A. knew B. fearedC. realizedD. understood42. A. asked forB. cared forC. called forD. looked for43. A. yesterdayB. tomorrowC. todayD. that day44. A. catchB. carryC. holdD. take45. A. eagerlyB. anxiouslyC. nervouslyD. quietly46. A. placedB. replacedC. arrangedD. exchanged47. A. difficultB. differentC. the sameD. similar48. A. keepB. standC. breakD. sit49. A. howB. whereC. whetherD. when50. A. went toB. went overC. went throughD. went about51. A. cameB. went byC. appearedD. disappeared52. A. patienceB. temperC. heartD. confidence53. A. withB. beyondC. withoutD. under54. A. goodB. excellentC. brilliantD. perfect55. A. promotesB. improvesC. developsD. increases56. A. absoluteB. enoughC. fullD. total57. A. abilityB. patienceC. experienceD. confidence58. A. gainB. loseC. keepD. remain59.A.understandingB. realizationC. ideaD. confidence60. A. that B. whatC. howD. when第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下列短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入适当的词，或者用括号中所给词语的正确形式填空。每空最多填入不超过3个词。答案写在答题纸的相应位置。A bus driver has became since a picture of him helping an elderly lady to cross a road 61.(publish) online.Mark Adams was seen parking his bus in the Jerico area of Oxford to help a 90-year-old lady 62.(call) Maureen.His act of kindness was photographed by a builder 63.(use) his smartphone and sent to the bus company. 64.Driver, from Wallingford, said his act of kindness was something he d