高二英语下学期第一次月考试题承智班

我们在这里，召开私营企业家联谊会，借此机会，我代表成都市渝中工商局、渝中区私营企业协会，祝各位领导新年快乐、工作愉快、身体健康，祝各位企业家事业兴旺河北定州2016-2017学年第二学期高二承智班第一次月考英语试卷第一部分：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. What will the man do later?A. Go to the post office. B. Attend a meeting with his boss. C. Go to a hospital.2. What does the man suggest?A .Getting faster Internet service. B. Changing Internet companies.C. Buying a new computer.3. Who taught the woman how to make cake?A .Her mother. B. Her grandmother.C. Fantasy Bakery.4. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Try the mew recipes another night. B. Cook some new dishes for the Johnsons.C. Ask the Johnsons what they want for dinner.5. Which hat is the man looking for? A. The cowboy hat. B. The one with the stars. C. The one with the baseball logo.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。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. Why is the woman talking with the man?A. To get a raise. B. To quit her job.C. To confirm a meeting.7. When will the speakers meet next?A. Later that day after lunch. B. Thursday afternoon.C .Thursday morning.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. Where does the man work?A. At the library. B .At a restaurant.C. At a bookstore.9. Which professor does the man dislike?A. His biology professor. B. His French professor.C. His accounting professor.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Where is the cheapest gas station located?A. About two miles away. B. About five miles away.C. About ten miles away.11. How can the woman get to the closest gas station?A. Take a right and go down two blocks. B. Take a left and look on the right side.C. Take a left and go down two blocks.12. What should the woman do if she cant make it? A.Call the gas station. B. Push her car to the gas station.C. Fill up a bottle with gas from station.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is the woman doing at the beginning of the conversation?A. Having coffee. B. Eating lunch.C. Talking a walk.14. What does the manager think of the woman?A. Her sales figures arent satisfactory. B. She should be more confident.C. He appreciates her effort.15. How long have the speakers been working together?A. Less than one month. B. About one year.C. Several years.16. What does the woman say about Manchester?A. Its a good place to travel. B. Its a good area to work in.C. There are few businesses there.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Why does the man want to help the school?A. He went to high school there. B. He went to college there.C. His children attend the school.18. How long will it take to build the new building.A. About one year. B. About two years.C. About four years.19. How many game rooms will the new student center have?A. Five B. Three C. Two20. What will be part of the new student center?A. The student radio station. B.A financial aid office.C.A food service area.二、阅读理解Its an ordinary morning，like all the othersBut instead of being woken up by the buzzing of an alarm clock, youll be roused by the smell of freshly made coffee，light entering your room as the curtains open automatically，and a gentle back massage（按摩）provided by your high-tech bed.This is what a typical(典型的) persons life will be like two decades from now，according to The Guardian. Want to know more?After you get up, your apartment will be like an electronic orchestra with you as the conductor. With simple moves of your hand and spoken instructions, youll be able to control your apartments temperature, humidity, music and lighting. Youll be able to look through the days news on translucent screens while your breakfast waits for you in the automatic oven.As you move into your kitchen, you might accidentally hit your toe on a cupboard. If you do, youll grab your cell phone and open the diagnostics(诊断) app. Inside your phone there will be a tiny microchip(芯片) that uses X-ray waves to scan your body. The scan will tell whether your toe is bruised or broken.After breakfast, your driverless car will take you to work. While you “drive”, your central computer system will suggest a list of chores(家务事) that your housekeeping robots can do that day and it will also remind you to buy a gift for your mothers upcoming birthday.As you can see, with the help of advanced technology, our lives will be more efficient(有效率的). Technology will mitigate our forgetfulness and free us of many small burdens that distract us, such as buying a ticket. Our brain will therefore be able to focus on more important things like preparing for a presentation or doing “deep thinking”.However, the development of technology might have some disadvantages as well. By 2036, well be relying heavily on the virtual(虚拟的) world, which will mean that all of our data will be stored in the cloud, a remote digital storage system with near limitless capacity(容量). That will increase the possibility of someone else accessing, sharing or manipulating(操控) our personal information.21What might be the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To stress the importance of developing technology.B. To remind people not to depend too much on computersC. To introduce one new invention that will benefit our future lives.D. To describe how advanced technologies will affect our future lives.22According to the text, in two decades, _.A. youll be able to rely on an electronic orchestra to wake you up instead of an alarm clockB. a tiny microchip in your phone will treat you when you are sickC. you will be able to adjust the conditions of your apartment via oral instructions or simple hand gesturesD. technology will be smart enough to help us with important things like preparing for a presentation23What does the underlined word “mitigate” in Paragraph 6 mean?A. Make up for. B. Worsen. C. Cure. D. Take advantage of.The implication(含义) of saying “You are the prettiest girl in class,” or talking about the goals she scored but not her overall effort, is that you love her only when she looks the best, scores the highest, achieves the most. And this carries over to the classroom.Social psychologist Carol Dweck, PHD, tested the effects of over-praise on 400 fifth graders while she was at Columbia University. She found that kids praised for “trying hard” did better on tests and were more likely to take on difficult assignments than those praised for being “smart”.“Praising attributes(品质) or abilities makes a false promise that success will come to you because you have that quality, and it devalues effort, so children are afraid to take on challenges,” says Dweck, now at Stanford University, “They figure theyd better quit while theyre ahead.”24A. tired of being praised B. worthy of being praisedC. very proud of being praised D. extremely fond of being praised25A. better-known B. better-organizedC. more persuasive D. more interesting26A. praise for efforts should be more encouragedB. praise for results works better than praise for effortsC. praising a childs achievements benefits his or her success in lifeD. praising a childs abilities encourages him or her to take on challengesCertain aspects of music have the same effect on people even when they live in very different societies, a new study reveals.Researchers asked 40 Mbenzele Pygmies in the Congolese rainforest to listen to short clips of music. They were asked to listen to their own music and to unfamiliar Western music.The same 19 selections of music were also played to 40 amateur or professional musicians in Montreal. Musicians were included in the Montreal group because Mbenzele Pygmies could be considered musicians as they all sing regularly for ceremonial purposes, the study authors explained.Both groups were asked to rate how the music made them feel using emoticons, such as happy, sad or excited faces.There were significant differences between the two groups as to whether a specific piece of music made them feel good or bad. However, both groups had similar responses to how exciting or calming they found the different types of music.Our major discovery is that listeners from very different groups both responded to how exciting or calming they felt the music to be in similar ways, Hauke Egermann, of the Technical University of Berlin, said in a news release from McGill University in Montreal. Egermann conducted part of the study as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill.The Montreal participants felt a wider range of emotions as they listened to the Western music than the Pygmies expressed when listening to either their own or Western music. This may be due to the different roles music plays in the two cultures.Negative emotions are felt to disturb the harmony of the forest in Pygmy culture and are therefore dangerous, Nathalie Fernando, of the University of Montreals faculty of music, said in the news release. If a baby is crying, the Mbenzele will sing a happy song. If the men are scared of going hunting, they will sing a happy song in general, music is used in this culture to evacuate all negative emotions, so it is not really surprising that the Mbenzele feel that all the music they hear makes them feel good, she explained.27Why could Mbenzele Pygmies be regarded as musicians?A. They are crazy about music.B. They major in music at school.C. They can play musical instruments well.D. They often sing songs on ceremony.28The study mainly finds that _.A. music is universal across culturesB. music varies among different countriesC. western music results in negative emotionsD. music makes people happy29The underlined word “evacuate” probably means _.A. set off B. benefit from C. get rid of D. account for30The examples mentioned in the last paragraph are to show that _.A. music plays different roles in the two culturesB. music plays the same role in the two culturesC. negative music disturbs the harmony of the forestD. happy music is welcomed everywhereA new study finds that young females in one group of African chimps(黑猩猩) use sticks as dolls more than their male peers (同龄) do, often treating pieces of wood like a mother chimp caring for a baby. In human cultures around the world, girls play with dolls and pretend that the toys are babies far more than boys do.Chimp observations, collected over 14 years of field work with the Kanyawara chimp community in Kibale National Park in Ugandan, provide the first evidence of a nonhuman animal in the wild that exhibits sex differences in how it plays. This finding supports an argument that biology as well as society underlies boys and girls different toy preferences.Stick play occurred most commonly between ages 3 and 9. Females spent a lot more time carrying sticks than males did. Young male chimps occasionally used sticks to mimic(模仿) childcare. “Far more often, they fought with sticks, an infrequent behavior among females,” say Sonya Kahlenberg of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and Richard Wrangham of Harvard University.“Biological differences between the sexes make female chimps more receptive to stick-mothering than males,” says Wrangham.Consistent with reported cultural traditions among adult chimps, Kanyawara youngsters learned from each other to play with sticks as if caring for babies. Stick play among young chimps showed no evidence of being directly influenced by older chimps. Child-bearing females never played with sticks and thus didnt model such behavior for younger chimps.Young females carried sticks for anywhere from a few minutes to several hours. They often rested in nests with their sticks, sometimes playing with them much as chimp mothers play with their babies though they didnt get any form of teaching from the adults.31What does a stick seem like to a young female chimp who plays with it?A. A doll. B. A mother. C. A baby. D. A toy.32We can see from the text that young female chimps _.A. often carry sticks with males B. always carry sticks with malesC. never use sticks in fighting D. seldom use sticks in fighting33From whom do the young chimps pick up the stick play behavior?A. From each other. B. From older chimps.C. From their mothers. D. From male chimps.34What does the text mainly tell us about young chimps stick play?A. The types of stick play and social influence.B. The sex differences and social influence.C. The sex differences and age differences.D. The ways of stick play and age differences.三、完形填空My husband, Rashid, arrived in New York on his own from India. He stayed in a _for a short time while _for a house for me and our children.During the first week of his _, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was _. He was extremely worried _ the suitcase had all his important papers, _ his passport.He reported the _ to the police and then sat there，lost and _ in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to_ in a new one.Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a(an) _. He was trying to pronounce my husbands name and was asking him a lot of questions. _ he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）_had been left out on the footpath.My husband_ to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of _papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly _ addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written _in the pile in which my husband had given his new _ number to a friend.That family not only restored(归还) the important documents to _that day but also restored our faith and _ in people. We still remember their _ and often send a warm wish their way.35A. school B. museum C. hotel D. shelter36A. leaving B. looking C. waiting D. paying37A. design B. change C. offer D. stay38A. gone B. shared C. cost D. returned39A. if B. as C. though D. after40A. including B. containing C. case D. holding41A. thought B. complaint C. case D. pain42A. happy B. lonely C. satisfied D. confident43A. grow up B. break down C. lie down D. settle down44A. officer B. stranger C. friend D. passenger45A. Then B. So C. But D. Yet46A. where B. what C. that D. it47A. moved B. rushed C. skated D. wandered48A. unfamiliar B. favorite C. similar D. expensive49A. suitable B. flexible C. convenient D. foreign50A. e-mail B. letter C. paragraph D. essay51A. flight B. bus C. telephone D. diploma52A. us B. you C. them D. me53A. friendship B. justice C. trust D. devotion54A. curiosity B. confidence C. patience D. kindness四、七选五How to keep a nearly lost friendship alive There are times when a friendship has to go through huge tests. It is a battle between staying together and moving away from each other.55More often than not, it is pride that destroys a friendship. Relax your pride. This is easy to say, but very difficult to do. You may ask yourself, “Why should I say sorry when he does not show any regret for what he has done?”56If you find yourself saying any of these things, you should understand that it is your pride talking. Allowing your pride to control your feelings will leave you bitter and confused. Talk about the problem. Face the problem calmly.57it may sound silly, but it could certainly heal the wounds that you have caused each other. If you avoid facing the problem, your pain will only grow. Remember, you want to keep the friendship and not worsen the problem. Laugh about it.58After some time, when both of you have become calm and renewed your confidence in each other, go back to the time when you had nearly fallen apart. Laugh about your foolishness, and promise to never let pride take over your friendship. Friendship is a valuable thing.59Rapport（融洽的关系）is what creates a friendship. Love, understanding, acceptance and forgiveness are what lead to a long-lasting friendship.A. Try to save your friendship.B