湖南省益阳市箴言中学2018_2019学年高二英语下学期4月月考试题.docx

湖南省益阳市箴言中学2018-2019学年高二英语下学期4月月考试题时间：120分钟 总分：150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。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. Where does this conversation take place?A. At home. B. In a hospital. C. At a hotel.2. What does the man think of Mr. Stones lessons?A. Meaningless. B. Helpful. C. Unnecessary.3. What does the woman think of the play?A. Enjoyable B. Terrific. C. Too modern.4. When will the man check out?A. September 7. B. September 10. C. October 10.5. What is the mans opinion of the exam?A. The exam questions were too difficult.B. The questions had little connection with the course.C. He found the questions confusing. 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。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至7 题。6. How long does the school day last?A. About 8 hours. B. About 6 hours. C. About 7 hours.7. How does Jack usually go to school?A. By bus B. On foot. C. By car.听第7段材料, 回答第8至9题。8. What does Jim do?A. A professor. B. A park employee. C. A student. 9. What did the woman suggest Jim do in order to make traveling cheaper?A. Stay in a cheap hotel. B. Rent camping equipment.C. Stay in his brothers house.听第8段材料, 回答第10至12题。10. What is the woman doing?A. Checking some information about a job.B. Reading a piece of job advertisement. C. Having an interview.11. What does an office assistant have to do?A. Do the typing. B. Answer telephones. C. Arrange meetings.12. What do we know about the woman?A. She doesnt know English well,B. She doesnt have a school certificate.C. She doesnt want to apply for the job.听第9段材料, 回答第13 至16题。13. What is the relationship between the two speakers?A. Customer and waitress. B. Boss and employee. C. Husband and wife.14. What does the woman want the man to do?A. Go back to bed. B. Hunt for a job. C. Write a book.15. What does the woman need to buy?A. A new car. B. New clothes. C. A new computer.16. What do we know about the man?A. He is a successful writer. B. He doesnt have a real job.C. He has a lot of work to do.听第10段材料, 回答第17至20题。17. What are people like nowadays according to the speaker?A. They are too lazy to cook. B. They prefer fast food.C. They are in a hurry every day. 18. What do most people want to do?A. Enjoy home-made dishes with families. B. Eat out more with friends.C. Start food businesses on the Internet.19. What does the speaker suggest people do?A. Find a good restaurant in their neighborhood.B. Cook healthy meals at home.C. Order food online.20. What kind of talk is the speaker giving?A. A lecture on food and health.B. An advertisement for a food website.C. The development of cooking.第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWelcome to Princeton Princeton University is a vibrant university. It is the fourtholdest college in the United States and is an independent institution that provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the arts and humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. As a wellknown research university, Princeton seeks to achieve the highest levels in the discovery and spread of knowledge and understanding. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.AcademicsFaculty, including full time, part time and visiting: 1,238 (spring 2018)Undergraduate studenttofaculty rate: 5：1Departments: 36Schools within the University: School of Architecture, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.LibraryPrinceton University Library consists of the Firestone Library and nine buildings across campus. The librarys collections include more than 8 million books and impressive rare books, prints and other materials that require special handling. The librarys extensive electronic resources include databases and journals, images and digital maps. Exhibitions from the librarys rich collections are free and open to the general public.Campus LifeA vast range of cultural, educational, athletic and social activities are available to Princeton students. Getting involved in campus life is the quickest way to become a part of the University community, and to create ones own Princeton experience. Campus life activities are built around the concepts of encouraging each community member to display his or her talents and to learn to respect all members of our community.Aid Program Our aid program is designed to encourage all qualified studentsregardless of financial circumstancesto consider applying for admission to Princeton. Any family, who feels they may need help to pay for a Princeton education is welcome to apply for aid. For more information, please visit: http：/.21. What makes Princeton University outstanding among research universities?A. Its long history. B. Its wide range of courses.C. Its ambition to be the best. D. Its undergraduate teaching.22. What can you enjoy as a Princeton University student?A. Free undergraduate education. B. Access to rare books and databases.C. Free membership of sports clubs. D. Material benefits of the University community.23. The aid program of Princeton University is intended for_A. poor families B. qualified applicants unable to afford to pay for PrincetonC. students admitted into university D. top students with money problemBLoneliness has been linked to depression(抑郁) and other health problems. Now, a study says it can also spread. A friend of a lonely person was fifty-two percent more likely to develop feelings of loneliness. And a friend of that friend was twenty-five percent more likely to do the same. Earlier findings showed that happiness, obesity(肥胖) and the ability to stop smoking can also spread like infections within social groups. The findings all come from a major health study in the American town of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 to investigate the causes of heart disease. Since then, more tests have been added, including measures of loneliness and depression. The new findings involved more than five thousand people in the second generation of the Framingham Heart Study. The researchers examined friendship histories and reports of loneliness. The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer close friends. For example, loneliness can affect relationships between next-door neighbors. The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together. The study also found that loneliness spreads more easily among women than men. The average person is said to experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year. The study found that having a lonely friend can add about seventeen days. But every additional friend can decrease loneliness by two and a half days. Lonely people become less and less trusting of others. This makes it more and more difficult for them to make friendsand more likely that society will reject(排斥) them. John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago led the study. He says it is important to recognize and deal with loneliness. He says people who have been pushed to the edges of society should receive help to repair their social networks.24. As an average person, if you make 2 more common friends, how many days a year might you suffer from loneliness?A. .48 days B. 43 days C. 65 days D. 17 days 25. What can we infer from the passage about lonely people?A. They can overcome loneliness themselvesB. They will decrease loneliness day by day.C. They need help to get back to normal social lifeD. They can help others to repair their social networks26. Whats the best way to help lonely people according to this passage?A. Bring them together. B. Make friends with them.C. Help them stop smoking. D. Help them lose weight27. Which of the following would be the topic of the passage?A. Loneliness and social network B. Social Networks and friendship C. Loneliness and diet. D. Help A Lonely PersonCWhy can some people sleep through noises like a honking car or flushing toilet, while others are awakened by the lightest sound? To find the answer, sleep researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an unusual study of 12 self-described deep sleepers. After tests confirmed that the healthy volunteers were solid sleepers, they took part in a three-night study in the universitys sleep laboratory. The participants spent the night in a big and comfortable room. But the room also included four speakers positioned near the top of the bed.During the night, the deep sleepers were subjected to 14 different recorded sounds, like street traffic, toilets flushing, and an airplane flying overhead. Next door, the researchers monitored their sleep patterns and brain waves.As expected, all of the participants slept relatively well, but there were differences in how they responded to the noisy interruptions. Some of the sleepers didnt wake up even when a sound was blasted at 70 decibels（分贝）；others were awakened by sounds at 40 or 50 decibels.The researchers discovered that the difference in a sleepers reaction to noise could be predicted by the level of brain activity called “sleep spindles（纺锤体）”. A sleep spindle is a burst of high-frequency brain activity coming from deep inside the brain during sleep. The source of the spindles is the thalamus（丘脑）, a part of the brain that sends sensory information to the rest of the cortex（皮层）.Before the study, the Massachusetts researchers theorized that the spindles are the brains way of preventing sensory information from passing through the thalamus and waking the rest of the brain during sleep. They found that sleepers who experienced the most sleep spindles during the night were also the soundest sleepers and were least likely to be awakened by noise.Scientists already know that most people become lighter sleepers with age, most likely because older people experience less “slow wave sleep”, which is the deepest stage of sleep. People also produce fewer sleep spindles as they age. But even when controlling for the stage of sleep a person was in, the number of sleep spindles still predicted their risk for awakening because of noise.More research is needed, but the findings suggest that a better understanding of sleep spindles could lead to new behavioral or drug therapies for people with sleep disorders. For example, future studies may try to determine whether diet, exercise or other behaviors may influence the number of sleep spindles a person produces during the night.28. Some participants can sleep well through loud noises mainly because _.A. their brains dont respond to outside noises B. their brains react differently to noises C. they adapt too the environment quickly D. they dont pay attention to the monitors29. Scientists believe that the key to affecting deep sleep _.A. sleep spindles B. stages of sleep C. sleep disorders D. sensory information30. It can be learned from the passage that_.A. The older a deep sleeper becomes, the lighter his sleep must beB. The more “slow wave sleep” one experiences, the deeper sleep one hasC. The more frequently a sleepers brain works, the less information it sendsD. The deeper sleep people have, the more likely they will be awakened by noise31. From the passage we can predict_ .A. more factors in influencing sleep spindles may be discoveredB. more solid sleepers will take part in relative experimentsC. sleep spindles will be applied to change ones behaviorsD. deep sleepers will probably enjoy a more healthy lifeDA new study has shown how computers and robots powered by artificial intelligence can read human eye movements to read human personalities.The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul. And if that is true, computers and robots powered by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms(算法)may soon have the ability to peer into your soul. That is the result of a new study on the connection between eye movements and personality, conducted by neuroscience researchers based at the University of South Australia and Published in the scientific Journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.Eye movements during an everyday task predict aspects of our personality, wrote the researchers, led by University of South Australia neuroscientist Tobias Loetscher, whose team follows 42 study subjects around the university campus recording their eye movements, then determines their personality traits(特点)with well-established questionnaires for determining personality type, according to a summary of the study published by the site Science Daily.The researchers fed the data into their Al algorithms and found that computers running the algorithms were able to record human eye movements and immediately determine a persons major personality traits, such as neuroticism, extraversion(外向)，agreeableness, conscientiousness, as well as perceptual curiosity, the scientists wrote.The new findings could improve the way human beings interact with their computers and other high-tech devices, even robots, allowing for more natural and realistic social interactions with machines, Loetscher said.People are always looking for improved, personalized services. Todays robots and computers are not socially aware so they cannot adapt to non-verbal information, Loetscher said in a statement quoted by Indian Express. This research provides opportunities to develop robots and computers so that they can become more natural, and better at interpreting human social signals.The study revealed previously undiscovered relations between specific personality characteristics and specific eye movement tendencies, according to a summary in Britains Daily Mail newspaper.32. What do the underlined words peer into in Paragraph 2 probably mean?A. understand B. stare atC. search for D. concern about33. How did the researchers conduct the research?A. It was carried out in a lab.B. 42 subjects eye movements were recorded.C. The students daily movements were tracked.D. Its subjects personalities were determined by computer.34. According to Tobias Loetscher, what can we know?A. Robots and computers are socially conscious.B. People care less about improved, personalized services.C. Todays robots and computers can accustom to non-verbal information.D. The discovery will improve the interaction between human beings and machines.35. What can be a suitable title for the text?A. Human Personality TraitsB. What Human Eye Movements AreC. Tell Personalities by Eye Movements.D. How Humans and Machines Interact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。Forget expensive gym memberships - you dont need to spend a fortune to exercise From the best free classes and apps to outdoor gyms， here is how to work out at a minimal（最低的） cost In-store exercise classes In the same way as bookshops double up as coffee shops， activewear shops have learned to multitask as gyms Outlets from Sweaty Betty（which has branches throughout the UK） to Asics and Nike offer free running clubs： check out their websites to sign up online 36 ， and some classes are heavily in demand Run I gave up the gym five years ago when I faced the fact that my monthly visit was costing me 80 With the first 80 saved I bought some discounted running shoes 37 Good Gym 38 ， then Good Gym could supply motivation while doubling the feel good factor It connects local runners with a range of necessary good deeds from gardening to changing a lightbulb Some jobs require two runners， others two dozen The idea is you run to the mission， do the deed， then run back， thereby combining altruism（利他主义）， fitness and socializing in one rewarding act 39 You might be surprised to discover how many cheap fitness options lie within a short walk of your doorstep Many local authorities offer fitness initiatives Mine （Hackney， in east London） organizes 1exercise classes from family taekwondo（跆拳道） to chair-based yoga 40 Check your local councils website They are also likely to run tennis courts A Embrace your community B Try to walk faster and further C I have been running weekly ever since D There is no fee， but you still need to book E If you dont mind your cross trainer sitting on carpets F If you are the sort of person who finds it hard to exercise alone G Others， such as Kent， have a walking and exercise referral programme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题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）In the summer before I entered middle school, I read the book They Cage the Animals at Night. Its a story about Jennings, a boy living in various orphanages（孤儿院）with only his stuffed animal（毛绒玩具）, Doggie, for companionship. Its a fascinating book, but little did I know how it would _41_ my life and the lives of others.One day, as I looked across my room at the pile of stuffed animals, a(n) _42_ came to me. I would _43_ stuffed animals for children like Jennings. _44_ , I contacted agencies that support those children and they said the stuffed animals would certainly _45_ childrens spirits.I named m