安徽省合肥九中2020届高三英语上学期第二次月考试题.docx

安徽省合肥九中2020届高三英语上学期第二次月考试题第卷第一部分 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，并标在试题卷的相应位置。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 are the speakers probably doing?A. Booking a hotel.B. Writing postcards.C. Looking at photographs.2. Who will go to China next month?A. Lucy.B. Alice.C. Richard.3. What will the two speakers buy after school?A. Bikes.B. Boats.C. Tents.4. What was the mans overall GPA in his college?A. 8.B. 9.C. 10.5. Who will finally decide whether the girl can go to London?A. Herself. B. Her father. C. Her mother.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三个选项选出最佳选项，并标在试题卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将时间阅读各个小题，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. Where will the speakers go?A. Boston.B. Florida. C. Hawaii.7. What will the woman do after the conversation?A. Wash clothes.B. Get the car started.C. Get ready for clothes.听第7段材料，回答8至9小题。8. Why didnt the man take the exam yesterday?A. Because he got sick. B. Because he didnt want to do so.C. Because he got the examination date wrong.9. How will the man get home?A. He drives a car himself.B. On foot.C. The woman will send him home by car.听第8段材料，回答10至12小题。10. Where are the two speakers now?A. In a supermarket.B. In front of the cinema.C. In the street.11. What is the weather like? A. Rainy.B. Snowy. C. Cloudy.12. How did the woman get there?A. By car.B. By bus.C. By train.听第9段材料，回答13至16小题。13. What is the man now?A. A professor.B. A university student.C. A doctor.14. What is wrong with the man?A. He finds it hard to sleep well.B. He finds it easy to be hungry. C. He finds it hard to have dinners.15. What is good for reducing pressure?A. B12 Vitamin.B. B6 vitamin.C. B5 vitamin.16. What is the womans advice?A. Take some pills.B. Relax and form a good living habit.C. Sleep earlier and get up later than usual.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is Albert according to the speech?A. A French economist.B. The survey organizer.C. A website manager.18. How many people visited his website per month last year probably?A. 16,000. B.30,000. C. 8,000.19. Why do these used items as gifts come to be so popular?A. Because they are more expensive and attractive.B. Because they are cheaper and eco-friendly.C. Because they are products online.20. What will consumers take into consideration while buying second-hand goods?A. Lower prices.B. Websites businesses.C. French items.第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，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。AThe Coolest InventionsAn Oceans VacuumTheres a collection of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its bigger than Texas and growing. The way to clean it up now is to catch it with nets. That is both costly and slow. Instead, the Ocean Cleanup Project proposes a 62-mile-long floating barrier that would use natural currents to trap trash. If next years trials succeed, a full cleanup operation would aim to start in 2020. It could reduce the trash by 42% over 10 years.Easy-On ShoesIn 2012, Matthew Walzer, a high school student with a disability, sent a note to Nike. “My dream is to go to college,” he wrote, “without having to worry about someone coming to tie my shoes every day.” Nike assigned a design team to the challenge. This year, they came out with their solution: the Fly Ease. The basketball shoe can be fastened with one hand. A pair of Nike Fly Ease shoes sells for $ 130.An Airport for Drones (无人机）As Amazon, Google, and others get ready for drone delivery service, there is one big question: What kinds of home bases will their drones have? Rwanda, in Africa, may have the answer. There, workers will soon start work on three “drone ports”. The goal is to make it easier to transport food, medical supplies, electronics, and other goods through the hilly countryside. Construction is set to be completed in 2020.21. Whats the advantage of the Oceans Vacuum? A. It can grow year by year. B. It can be a money-saver.C. It can tear plastic into pieces.D. It can be put into wide use soon.22. What do we know about Nike? A. It offers free shoes to the disabled.B. It is designing new shoes frequently.C. It provides customer-friendly services. D. It responded to Matthews request passively.23. Why is Rwanda setting up “drone ports”？A. Because they are receptive to new technology.B. Because there are too many drones.C. Because theyre easier to construct than roads.D. Because road travel there is rough.BFive thousand square meters of old damaged cars, motorcycles and boats fill this junkyard. For a casual onlooker, this might be a very sad sight. But for Andy, its a real treasure. “Ive been a junk hoarder (囤积者) for my whole life and I like fixing up what shouldnt be thrown away. Around 200 old cars end up in this junkyard every week. Some of them are sold for parts, others get repaired, and still others are beyond repair.”His father Bobby started the business some 50 years ago and still spends every morning there. The father and son have very different approaches to their work. They got a Dean cab that was getting thrown away and that was the fathers project, which Andy did not want him to do. “He did basically the opposite of everything I told him and I think he did it just to make me mad. He dumped a ton of money into this car, but in the end it wouldnt run.” Andy said jokingly.The unusual family business attracted the attention of a TV crew. Thats how the show Janka Empire came to be featured on a network of the Discovery Channel. This show, five years of shooting, five seasons and 60 episodes (集), is popular. “There are hundreds of junkyards throughout the United States. I think whats interesting is that it is a family business. My father and I started the business and we joke very well back and forth and I think thats what people like. The cars that end up at the junkyard come out with endless surprises. See, this was a junk car and we restored it with a blown motor. Yet I dont get a chance to ride around it too often. Because despite its shining appearance, the noise of the engine is truly deafening and I worry my neighbors will not put up with it.”24. What does Andy seem to like about his junkyard?A. It is very large.B. It may be a bad sight.C. It is amazing and valuable.D. It is his life dreamland.25. What can we infer from the “one Dean cab” case?A. The father is ready to follow his sons advice.B. The son is impatient and fed up with his father.C. The father and son get on well with each other.D. The father and son often disagree with each other.26. Why is the show Janka Empire popular?A. There are hundreds of junkyards in the United States.B. Bobby and Andy run their family business in an unusual way.C. The show is a series of 5 seasons and 60 episodes.D. Bobby and Andy can make the junk car attractive.27. Which of the following words can best describe Bobby and Andy? A. Devoted and creative. B. Funny and ridiculous. C. Gentle and respectable. D. Economical and wealthy.CThe clock always seems to be ticking rather too fast in the doctors office and the queue of patients outside the door seems to be pressing rather too hard. Some say its high time for the model of short, sharp one-to-one appointments to give way to shared medical appointments (SMAs).SMAs are doctor-patient visits in which a group of patients receive patient education and counseling(咨询), physical examination and medical support in a group setting. Typically SMAs are designed to have one or more doctors attend to a group of patients who share a common illness or medical condition. In contrast to one-to-one visits, SMAS provide a longer appointment time-frame as well as the opportunity for patients to have improved access to their physicians and meanwhile pick up additional information and support from peers.However, doctors who have pioneered the shared appointment approach report that there are significant challenges involved. Dr. Sumego, director of shared medical appointments, Cleveland Clinic, identifies culture change as the most significant challenge. Physicians and nurses are trained in a model of personal service and privacy; the SMA approach is a fundamental challenge to those fixed ideas. They need shared goals and a way of testing the innovation against agreed standards. Dr. Sumego says, “The physicians may be worried about the possible chaos and efficiencies that are marketed. They also have to make the patients understand what their appointment is, and what the expectation is.”“So, if an organization was looking to start shared medical appointments, I would advise them to start the buy-in from a few champion physicians, develop the work-flow and develop some experience. Provide some support behind what that best practice should look like. Create some standards so that, as the concept spreads, you can employ that experience to start the next shared medical appointments and the next.”28. What is the purpose of the SMA approach?A. To improve medical service. B. To promote doctors reputation.C. To conduct medical research. D. To meet patients expectation.29. According to Dr. Sumego, what prevents the SMA approach from being widely adopted?A. Personal service. B. Fixed ideas.C. Lack of equipment. D. Shared goals.30. What can the underlined “buy-in” in Paragraph 4 be replaced by?A. Support. B. Organization. C. Practice.D. Purchase.31. What can be learned about the SMA approach in the last paragraph?A. It is currently being questioned.B. It is impractical in some areas.C. It will enjoy wide popularity soon.D. It should be carried out step by step.DAlison Malmon was trapping up (完成) the end of her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, US when she got the news: Her older brother Brian, a student at Columbia University, was suffering from mental illness. Inspired by this, Malmon formed a group at her university to empower students to talk openly about mental health. It soon blossomed into a national organization that today has more than 450 campus chapters. Leaders with the organization spend their time talking with college students about the pressure that todays young people face. “What you hear often is just a need to be perfect,” said Malmon, “and a need to present oneself as perfect.” And a new study in the UK proved that this need for perfectionism is simply part of todays society. In the study, two researchers studied more than 40,000 students from the US, Canada, and the UK. They found that what they called “socially prescribed(社会定向型的) perfectionism” increased by a third between 1989 and 2016. Lead researcher Thomas Curran said that while so many of todays young people try to present a perfect appearance online, social media isnt the only reason behind this trend. Instead, he said, it may be driven by competition in modern society, meaning young people cant avoid being sorted and ranked in both education and employment. That comes from new norms(准则) like greater numbers of college students, standardized testing and parenting that increasingly emphasizes success in education. For example, in 1976, half of high school seniors expected to get a college degree of some kind. By 2008, more than 80 percent expected the same. The researchers also said changes in parenting styles over the last two decades might have had an impact. As parents feel increased pressure to raise successful children, they in turn pass their “achievement anxieties onto their kids through “excessive(过多的) involvement in their childs routines, activities or emotions”. Those in the mental health community like Malmon say theyre concerned about the impact the culture of perfectionism has on mental health on campuses. “Mental health has truly become this generations social justice issue,” she said. “Its our job to equip them with the tools and to let people know that its not their fault.”32. What inspired Alison Malmon to start a group related to mental health?A. Her brothers mental illness.B. Her project during the freshman year.C. The pressure she had experienced.D. Her strong interest in mental health.33. What may be pushing todays young people to struggle to be perfect, according to the article?a. The impact of social media.b. Parents high expectations of their children.c. The decreasing number of college students.d. The fierce competition in society.e. Their desire to draw their parents attention.A. a, b, cB. a, d, eC. a, b, dD. b, c, e34. What does Malmon think is a way to help young people manage the pressure of perfectionism?A. Enabling them to know what is to blame for their pressure.B. Lowering their expectations of themselves.C. Reducing parents involvement in their childrens life.D. Making them aware of what true social justice is.35. What is the article mainly about?A. The effects of the culture of perfectionism.B. Research into the trend of perfectionism.C. A group dedicated to helping people stay mentally healthy.D. Various pressures that todays young people are facing.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。From time to time, even the most productive professionals procrastinate(拖延). 36_, when your tendency to procrastinate is starting to make your overall quality of work and life suffer. Heres what Forbes Coaches Council members recommend doing to stop racing the clock.37_When you dont feel motivated, take the smallest step possible toward your goal. After taking that step, youre more likely to continue taking more steps toward that goal. Instead of telling yourself to work out for an hour, say youll go for 10 minutes.Give yourself a hard deadline, and then schedule itThe best way to overcome a natural tendency to procrastinate is to create a hard deadline for yourself and then put it on the calendar. 38_. Then honor it the same way you would if your boss were waiting for you to complete the task.Understand the underlying reasons youre procrastinating39_. Notice your thoughts, feelings, behaviors and the situation when you feel like procrastinating. Write these down. Often perfectionism, which we may experience as anxiety, underlies the tendency to postpone action. Once you understand your pattern, you can hold yourself accountable in a positive and self-compassionate way.Give yourself a reward for each task you completeMake a list of things you need to do and do the one you dont want to do first. 40 _ (piece of candy, a few minutes on social media, etc.). Then do something on your list that you want to do and continue alternating from there. This makes your tasks less daunting.A. Take the tiniest step possibleB. Identify a positive outcome from your actionC. Then give yourself a little reward for doing itD. Find a way to make overcoming procrastination interestingE. Its time to do a reality check and break yourself of the habitF. Treat the deadline the same as if your boss created itG. Become a detective or a scientist about your pattern of procrastinating第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空 (共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，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。 Maram Coulibaly is one of village women in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, who make their living picking up plastic waste on the city streets and selling it for recycling. Now they are 41._ players in a project that turns 42. _into plastic bricks to build schools across the country.They are working with a Colombian company to 43. _ plastic waste into useful materials that will help women earn a 44. _ living while cleaning up the environment and improving 45. _.In the past year, the company has built nine classrooms out of recycled plastic bricks for 46. _. The first schools were built with bricks 47. _ from Colombia. The new plastic-brick classrooms are 48. _ needed. Some classrooms now pack in 90 students in the country.In the tiny village, until this year, the children went to school in a (an) 49. _ mud brick and wood building. The mud brick eroded(侵蚀) in the sun and had to be constantly 50. _. But the 51. _ plastic classrooms could 52. _ practically forever. Though the plastic bricks 53. _ black and gray Legos, they can stop fire from 54. _ and stay 55. _ in hot weather.The first few classrooms cost about 14,500 each, 56. _ to 16,500 for a real brick classroom, Mr.Mendez said, who set up the plastic company.There is no 57. _ of plastic waste. Abidjan produces about 300 tons of it a day, but only 5 percent of it is 58. _. Now, with the help of the project, each 59. _ takes about five tons of plastic trash to build. So in the 60. _ there will be more schools built of plastic trash.41. A. mainB. fullC. trueD. final42. A. treasureB. bagsC. trashD. bottles43. A. takeB. changeC. burstD. dig44. A. lessB. worseC. moreD. better45. A. communityB. farmlandC. standardD. education46. A. demonstrationB. saleC. rent D. suggestion47. A. discoveredB. thrownC. imaginedD. imported48. A. usuallyB. badlyC. cautiouslyD. casua