高二英语下学期第一次月考试题7

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清新区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。1. How will the woman travel in Cairo? A. By car. B. By bike. C. By underground. 2. What is Johns new home number? A. 9731 4322. B. 9731 3456.C. 9452 3456. 3. What is the weather like? A. Cloudy.B. Sunny. C. Windy. 4. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. The mans health. B. The woman s hometown. C. The womans parents. 5. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. At an airport. B. At a caf. C. At a drugstore. 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段材料，回答第6、7题。 6. What relation is the woman to the man? A. His teacher. B. His classmate. C. His mother. 7. What will the man do next? A. Meet Randy. B. Review his lessons C. Find a classroom.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 8. What did the woman forget to do? A. Pass on a message. B. Write a report. C. Prepare a presentation. 9. When will Mr. Lee return the Harris report? A. This morning.B. This afternoon. C. Tomorrow.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Who is Phyllis? A. Teds wife. B. Tanyas aunt. C. Hermans sister. 11. What is Tom doing? A. Standing under a tree. B. Running after a cat. C. Taking care of a baby.12. What do we know about Sam? A. He likes drinking tea. B. Hes serving in the army C. He has a two-month-old son.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why is the man talking with the woman? A. To book a trip. B. To find a place. C. To ask for information.14. At what time will the man take the railway express? A. 9:30 a.m. B. 10:30 a.m. C. 11:00 a.m.15. What will the man do before taking the 792 bus? A. Take the 706 bus. B. Walk a few kilometers. C. Change to the 638 bus. 16. At which stop will the man get on the 792 bus? A. Bayswater Shopping Center. B. North Street. C. Central Park.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What can the listeners borrow at the Riding Center?A. Sunglasses. B. A hat. C. A jacket.18. Where will the listeners go for a horse ride today? A. Along the river. B. Near the beach. C. On the farm.19. How much should adults pay for the horse ride today? A. $19.70. B. $27.50. C. $29.70. 20. What will the listeners do next? A. Take their cameras. B. Get the horses. C. Go to the office.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。AStaying silent can be just as powerful as the words you mean to say, like when the act of hugging will be more comforting than saying, “Sorry for your loss.”Another time when silence is golden is when you are unsure of what to say. If you are confused about your own feelings concerning a matter, its best to stay quiet until you are more certain because more harm can be done by revealing false or exaggerated feelingsChoose silence instead of blurting out “in-the-moment” feelings that are hurtful and not really how you feel in the grand scheme of things. When you feel the urge to say an unkind thing, take a few breaths and think of the possible consequences of your words.Silence can be your best friend during negotiations. Say your piece, then close your mouth, and let the other person come to their own conclusions. Your silence shows that one, you are confident in what you just said, and two, you respect the other person enough to hear what they have to say.Sometimes silence is the best and most timely solution because the other person is not in a position to hear what you have to say. For example, when a friend needs for you to listen to her problems, but she is unable to accept your advice at that moment.Practice being silent at work when you dont have anything meaningful to contribute. Unless you can start the conversation by pointing out something interesting, missing, or beneficial, its best to just observe and learn.Finally, silence is golden when you dont want to engage in a fools argument. As some squabbles(口角) will never be resolved, one must agree to disagree.However, there will be times in your life where you will need the power of your voice,the voice within you that wants and needs to be respected and appreciated.21The passage mainly tells us about _A. whether or not to stay silent B. why to stay silentC. how to stay silent D. when to stay silent22What is the best to do during negotiation?A. Grasp every chance to say more than the otherB. Close your mouth and just listen to the otherC. Speak out your own points and discuss with othersD. Keep silent after expressing yourself23To follow this passage, the writer is likely to continue telling about_A. the occasions when you should speak upB. the power of your voiceC. the advantages of speaking upD. the disadvantages of staying silentBA Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Dont start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off （打盹）at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce (确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead students arent used to the early hour.“Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies,” says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problem of adolescent sleep at Browns School of Medicine.Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And, at a more basic level，she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns.Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less, as commonly thought.Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at night and sleep later in the morning. But its not just a matter of choice their bodies are going through a change of sleep patters.All of this makes the transfer(转移) from middle school to high schoolwhich may start one hour earlier in the morning - all the more difficult , Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the “sleep late, rise late” pattern, adolescent are up against difficulties when it comes to trying to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their bodys way of saying. “I need a timeout.”24. Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because _.A. it is really tough for parents to enforce bedtimeB. it is biologically difficult for students to rise earlyC. students work so late at night that they cant get up earlyD. students are so lazy that they dont like to go to school early25. The underlined phrase “nod off” most probably means “ _”.A. turn around B. agree with others C. fall asleep D. refuse to work26. What might be a reason for the hard transfer middle school to high school?A. Adolescents depend more on their parents.B. Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns.C. Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood.D. Adolescents need more sleep than they used to.27. What is the test mainly about?A. Adolescent heath care. B. Problems in adolescent learning. C. Adolescent sleep difficulties. D. Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns.CWould it surprise you to learn that, like animals, trees communicate with each other and pass on their wealth to the next generation?UBC Professor Simard explains how trees are much more complex than most of us ever imagined. Although Charles Darwin thought that trees are competing for survival of the fittest, Simard shows just how wrong he was. In fact, the opposite is true: trees survive through their co-operation and support, passing around necessary nutrition “depending on who needs it”.Nitrogen（氮） and carbon are shared through miles of underground fungi（真菌）networks, making sure that all trees in the forest ecological system give and receive just the right amount to keep them all healthy. This hidden system works in a very similar way to the networks of neurons（神经元）in our brains, and when one tree is destroyed, it affects all.Simard talks about “mother trees”, usually the largest and oldest plants on which all other trees depend. She explains how dying trees pass on the wealth to the next generation, transporting important minerals to young trees so they may continue to grow. When humans cut down “mother trees” with no awareness of these highly complex “tree societies” or the networks on which they feed, we are reducing the chances of survival for the entire forest.“We didnt take any notice of it.” Simard says sadly . “Dying trees move nutrition into the young trees before dying, but we never give them a chance.” If we could put across the message to the forestry industry, we could make a huge difference towards our environmental protection efforts for the future.28. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Old Trees Communicate Like HumansB. Young Trees Are In Need Of ProtectionC. Trees Are More Complex Than You ThinkD. Trees Contribute To Our Society 29. In Simards opinion, trees _ . A. depend on each other B. protect their own wealthC. compete for survival D. provide support for dying trees30. We can learn from the passage thatA. “mother trees” are usually of no use to other trees.B. Charles Darwin had the same thought as Simard.C. people know much about the complex “tree societies”.D. if “mother trees” are cut down, the survival for the entire forest will be affected.31. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to . A. how trees grow oldB. how “tree societies” workC. how forestry industry developsD. how young trees surviveDSome colors people see late at night could cause signs of clinical depression.That was the finding of a study that builds on earlier study findings.They show that individuals who live or work in low levels of light overnight can develop clinical depression.Doctors use the word “clinical depression” to describe severe form of depression.Signs may include loss of interest or pleasure in most activities，low energy levels and thoughts of death or suicide.In the new study，American investigators designed an experiment that exposed hamsters(仓鼠)to different colors.The researchers chose hamsters because they are nocturnal，which means they sleep during the day and are active at night.The animals were separated into four groups.One group of hamsters was kept in the dark during their nighttime period.Another group was placed in front of a blue light，a third group slept in front of a white light，while a fourth was put in front of a red light.After four weeks，the researchers noted how much sugary water the hamsters drank.They found that the most depressed animals drank the least amount of water.Randy Nelson heads the Department of Neuroscience at Ohio State University.He says animals that slept in blue and white light appeared to be the most depressed.“What we saw is that these animals didnt show any sleep uneasiness at all but they did mess up biological clock genes and they did show depressive sign while if they were in the dim red light，they did not.”Randy Nelson notes that photosensitive(感光的)cells in the eyes have little to do with eyesight.He says these cells send signals to the area of the brain that controls what has been called the natural sleepwake cycle.He says theres a lot of blue in white light.This explains why the blue light and white light hamsters appear to be more depressed than the hamsters seeing red light or darkness.32Researchers use hamsters in the experiment because _Athey are similar to humans in dealing with colorsBthey are easy to observe and studyCthey are sensitive to colors like human beingsDthey are active at night and sleep during the day33What sign shows that the hamsters are depressed?AThey drink less sugary water.BThey dont sleep well.CTheir eyesight becomes worse.DTheir energy level becomes low.35_ tends to cause hamsters to be depressed.ADim light BRed lightCBlue light DDarkness35What can help people who work late at night to avoid being depressed?ANot being exposed to dim red light when using computers.BEquipping their computer screen to put it more in the reddish light.CLiving or working in low levels of light overnight. DGoing to see doctors of clinical depression regularly for help.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。Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nationsThey say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago 36 The scientists say that the human life has changed greatlyOur bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses 37 So they are called diseases of civilizationMany cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none 38 However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today. Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic onesThey ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruitsThey did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains 39 We eat six times more salt than our ancestorsWe eat more sugarWe eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C. 40 But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.AStone Age people lived a simple life.BThese new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.CIn that case, they would live much healthier.DAncient people also got lots of physical exercise.EBut today, we enjoy eating a lot of these.FPeople today probably dont want to live like our ancestors.GModern people used to suffer from diseases of civilization.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。I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still 41 _ the brightness of sunshine. It would be 42 _ to see again, but a 43 _ can do strange things to people. I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the 44 _ of them made me 45 _ the more what I had.Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more 46 _ his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never 47 _. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in methe 48 _ to livewhich I didnt see, and they made me want to 49 _ against blindness.The hardest 50 _ I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of 51 _ that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real, 52 _ person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.It took me years to discover and 53 _ this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I cant use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he 54 _me, “and roll it around.” The words 55 _ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought 56 _: playing baseball. At Philadelphias Overbrook School for the Blind I 57 _ a successful variation of baseball and I called it ground ball.All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my 58 _. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach 59 _ that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would 60 _sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.41. A. rememberB. affectC. measureD. bring42. A. possibleB. wonderfulC. hopefulD. reasonable43. A. questionB. mistakeC. disasterD. situation44.A. importance B. valueC. lossD. attention45. A. recordB. expectC. offerD. appreciate46. A.naturalB. modernC. meaningfulD. challenging47. A. necessaryB. easyC. difficultD. practical48. A. right B. planC. placeD. potential49. A. guard B.