湖北省宜昌市高二英语11月月考试题.doc

湖北省宜昌市2016-2017学年高二英语11月月考试题本试题卷共8页，四部分72小题。全卷满分150分，考试用时120分钟。祝考试顺利第一卷（选择题，满分100分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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. who is the man? a. the owner. b. a customer. c. a waiter.2. what can we learn about the woman? a. she is attractive. b. she praised a man.c. she doesnt like her work. 3. what will the speakers probably do next? a. have a rest. b. see a doctor.c. move the bed.4. what does the man suggest the woman do?a. feed the dog.b. call franklin for help. c. show a toy to charlie. 5. what does the woman want to do? a. read a magazine.b. watch a tv show.c. read a book. 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、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，将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出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 are the speakers mainly talking about? a. a painting.b. a photograph.c. a basket. 7. where did the man find the thing? a. in an art gallery.b. at a hospital.c. on the street. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. what will the man do with the tomatoes? a. put them in a salad.b. give some to his neighbors.c. use them to grow his own.9. according to the woman, what is the first step when growing tomatoes? a. to prepare good soil.b. to give them lots of light.c. to grow them close together.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. where is the womans husband from?a. italy. b. america.c. china.11. what do the speakers have in common?a. they speak chinese. b. they come from china.c. they like chinese food. 12. where does the conversation probably take place?a. in a restaurant. b. in a store. c. at a farmers market. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. how do the speakers know each other? a. they were high school classmates. b. they studied their masters degree together.c. they worked in hollywood years ago. 14. who is steve rodgers?a. the man. b. the mans son. c. the womans husband.15. where did the woman live in 2006?a. in iceland. b. in los angeles. c. in berkeley. 16. how many daughters does the man have?a. none.b. one.c. three.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. how many emergency exits are there on this plane?a. five.b. six.c. sixteen.18. according to the announcement, where might the closest exit be?a. behind the passengers.b. at the front of the plane. c. at the back of the plane. 19. what should passengers do with their luggage?a. give it to the air hostess.b. store it safely during the flight. c. take it away during an emergency.20. when can this announcement be heard?a. before the plane takes off. b. just before landing.c. at the airport security. 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。awhen was the last time you lost something? what was it?according to a recent survey, we spend about ten minutes a day looking for lost things. over an average lifetime, this adds up to an incredible 3,680 hours (or 153 days). is there anything we can do about it?the study of 3,000 adults was carried out by home insurance company esure. they found that mobile phones and car keys were the most frequently lost items. other things on the list included: house keys, bills, sunglasses, wallets, bank cards, watches, jewellery (particularly rings and earrings).so, whats going on? “most blame it on a busy lifestyle,” says nikki sellers, the head of esure. others say its the fault of spouses (配偶) or children for not putting things back where they belong. a few admitted to untidiness, absent-mindedness and a poor memory, with some wishing they were more organized.whats the solution? “you need to choose a particular place for something and always put it back there,” said nikki sellers. “and you need to make sure everyone else in the house knows where to put it back too. you also need to keep your house tidy, label boxes clearly and find a place near the front door for all the items that you need in the morning. a good idea would be to have a shelf there with a bowl for your keys, purse, wallet and anything else.” she added.if you are still having trouble finding things, dont worry things could be a lot worse: fourteen people in the survey said they spent over an hour every day looking for lost items. surely you cant be as bad as that!21. according to the survey, which do people lose most frequently?a. house keys.b. cell phones.c. bank cards.d. sunglasses.22. the majority of people surveyed think that they lose something because of _.a. the fault of their family membersb. their bad memoryc. lack of organizationd. their busy life23. from the text we learn that _.a. many people in the survey spend over an hour looking for the lost itemsb. a shelf near the front door is a must if you are to avoid losing moneyc. the author is quite worried about those who have trouble finding thingsd. nikki sellers suggests always putting things back where they were b a woman from japan was telling a friend about her trip to the united states. the woman had visited major businesses and investment companies in new york city and chicago.“i studied english before i left home,” she said. “but i still was not sure that people were speaking english.”her problem is easy to understand. americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. they have a language of their own. some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry.one such saying is “get your act together”. when things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry. he may shout, “stop making mistakes. get your act together.” or, if the employer is calmer, he may say, “let us get our act together.” either way, the meaning is the same. getting your act together is getting organized. in business, it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.it is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. but, it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry. perhaps the other day when one actor was nervous and made a lot of mistakes, the director may have said, “calm down, now. get your act together.” word expert james rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s. mr. rogers says the manchester guardian newspaper used it in 1978. the newspaper said a reform policy required that the british government get its act together. now, this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. one company even called its yearly report, “getting our act together.”the japanese visitor was confused by another expression used by american business people. it is “cut to the chase”. she heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company. one official was giving a very long and boring report, and finally, the president of the company interrupted and said, “cut to the chase.” cut to the chase means to stop spending so much time on details or unimportant materials. hurry and get to the point. and naturally, this saying was started by people who make movies. next time, if your employer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly.24. after the woman visited the united states she might feel that . a. her english was poorer than she had expectedb. it was great fun to learn english and its culture c. american employers were sometimes rude d. it was difficult to do business with americans25. in which situation could the words “get your act together” be used? a. youve won a job opportunity in a law firm.b. players perform badly in a match and seem to lose. c. visitors make a tiresome and unpleasant trip to someplace. d. audience is satisfied with the actors performance in a movie.26. what do the sayings “get your act together” and “cut to the chase” have in common? a. their use.b. their meaning. c. their origin.d. their popularity. 27. the text is most likely to be found in a book about _.a. life attitudeb. travel and culturec. language and cultured. business managementchuman beings have used tools for a very long time. in some parts of the world you can still find tools that people used more than two million years ago. they made these tools by hitting one stone against another. in this way, they broke off pieces from one of the stones. these chips of stone were usually sharp on one side. people used them for cutting meat and skin from dead animals, and also for making other tools out of wood. human beings needed to use tools because they did not have sharp teeth like other meat eating animals, such as lions and tigers. tools helped people to get food more easily. working with tools also helped to develop human intelligence. the human brain grew bigger, and human beings began to invent more and more tools and machines. the stone chip was one of the first tools that people used, and perhaps it is the most important. some scientists say that it was the key to success of mankind. since 1960 a new kind of tool has appeared. this is the silicon chip - a little chip of silicon crystal. it is smaller than a finger nail, but it can store more than a million “bits” of information. it is an electronic brain. every year these chips get cleverer, but their size gets smaller, and their cost gets less. they are used in watches, calculators and intelligent machines that we can use in many ways. in the future we will not need to work with tools in the old way. machines will do everything for us. they will even talk and play games with us. people will have plenty of spare time. but what will they do with it? human beings used stone chips for more than two million years, but human life changed very little in that time. we have used silicon chips for only a few years, but life is changing faster every day. what will life be like twenty years from now? what will the world be like two million years from now? 28. from paragraph 1, we can know _.a. why early human beings cut skin from dead animals b. how early human beings discovered the toolsc. what early human beings used the tools ford. what food early human beings stored29. the stone chip is thought to be the most important tool because it _. a. was very important to the development of mankindb. led to the invention of machines in the early timec. developed cooking abilities of mankindd. was one of the first tools of mankind30. the silicon chip is mentioned in the passage to a. show the changes of tools b. introduce a new kind of toolc. give an example of using tools d. compare the effects of two kinds of tools31. at the end of the passage the author seems to suggest that life in future is _. a. out of order b. hard to predict c. less colorful d. full of meaningsda new study published in the journal of marriage and family claims that all the time you spend parenting just doesnt matter. but its a claim that, despite the enthusiastic and widespread coverage by the media, does not hold water. the research suggests that child outcomes (including behavior problems, emotional problems, and academic performance) are barely (几乎没有) connected with the time that parents spend with their children. the researchers examined the time diaries of 1,600 children, looking at parenting time and outcomes when the kids were aged 3 to 11 in 1997, and again in 2002, when they were between 8 and 16. (a time diary is a detailed report of all activities you carry out in a day.)this research largely reflects the failure of the authors to correctly measure parental input (投入). it just looked at time diaries from two particular days one a weekday and the other a weekend day.trying to get a sense of the time you spend parenting from a single days diary is a bit like trying to measure your income from a single day. if yesterday was payday, you looked rich, but if its not, you would be reported as poor. you get a clearer picture only by looking at your income or your parenting time over a more meaningful period. what you did yesterday should not be taken as representative of what you did last year. this is why most high-quality studies of parenting time focus instead on how often parents read to their children, play with them or help them with homework over a period of month or longer long enough to represent their different approaches to parenting. as an exhausted parent who doesnt get enough time to work out, and who hasnt seen a movie for months, i understand why so many of us might seize on studies suggesting that we should take more time for ourselves. perhaps we should. but i agree with ariel kalil, a development psychologist, on the suggestion “that when parents spend high-quality time with their children, their children are more likely to succeed.” 32. the underlined words “hold water” in the first paragraph probably mean _. a. to be surprisingb. to be reasonable c. to be confusingd. to be usual33. the study was conducted to explore the link between _. a. parenting time and child outcomes b. time diaries and child development c. childrens habits and parents influence d. daily activities and childrens problems34. how is paragraph 4 mainly developed? a. by giving descriptionsb. by analyzing the cause c. by making a comparisond. by offering research findings35. the author may agree that high-quality studies of parenting time should _. a. be completed in one month b. adopt some different approaches c. concentrate mainly on learning time d. be based on data of a longer time period 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。how to break 5 bad financial habitseveryone has a bad financial habit. we live in a country that spends billions on advertising to make us want to make purchases; 36 . remember: even though the habits are hard to break and require great effort, there is payoff.1. pay bills when you receive them. think of all the stress and anxiety that you experience when you put off paying your bills. when you receive the email notice or open the bill in the mail, take care of it. it will only take five minutes, and you wont be flooded with bills at the last minute.2. 37 . you must have had a hard time controlling the amount of purchases you are making. minimize this urge by using your atm card once a week to withdraw the amount of money for the week. keep your cards at home, and even put your credit cards in a hard to reach place in your closet to keep you from using them.3. buy only what you really need. most of us take shopping trips to buy items we really dont really need. some claim shopping eases their tension, gets their mind off other things, or gives them much happiness. 38 . try to replace shopping with some hobbies like riding your bike or taking a walk with friends.4. track your expenses. sometimes restaurants and businesses will charge you the wrong amount, but you wont have the receipt to back up your claim. other times, you might have inadequate funds for the check you just wrote. keep your receipts, and spend a few minutes every night to double check your charges, and know the current balance of your bank account. 39 . 5. check your credit score annually. 40 . if you do notice something wrong, you can send in correction letters, so your applications for credit cards, car loans, or a mortgage(房屋贷款) are approved.a. take the time to figure out what makes you buy unnecessary items. b. change how you spend your money.c. it beats getting overcharged or having to pay an overdraft(透支) fee.d. so if youre the reason your money never seems to stick around, here are some strategies to help break five bad financial habits.e. use cash and not your card.f. get in the habit of checking your credit score to make sure there are no errors or inaccuracies. g. however, if you are looking to make change and break your bad financial habits, use these tips.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）some people allow bad past experiences to keep them in fear. a personal example of this happened when i was in middle school. we each were asked to give an oral 41 in front of the whole class. when my turn came, i became 42 and i started swinging my legs back and forth. i did this during the entire presentation (介绍). i was a 43student and i did not realize i was doing it.after i completed my presentation, i 44did or even wantedto give another oral presentation for the rest of my years in school. 45 i got older, i realized i wanted to improve my personality and build 46 over my fear. i began listening to motivational speeches (励志演讲). i would go to47seminars (研讨会) and found i was feeling better and better about myself. this 48 me to want to reach out and help others in need.after listening to one particular speaker many times, i decided to write to him for49 . he had advised in his speeches that if there was something you wanted to50, you should be persistent(坚持不懈的). so i became very persistent.i wrote to his office many times and they51called me back. they offered me help by instructing me to52 a local toastmasters and see what it was all about. toastmasters is a great organization for people who are interested in improvi