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高二上学期第一次月考英语试题满分：150分；时间：120分钟第i卷 听力部分（共30分）第一节 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. where does the conversation take place?a. in a classroomb. at a bookstorec. in a library2. what will the woman do this saturday night?a. attend a danceb. help her mother with a partyc. dance with her mother3. how much will the woman pay for the room?a. $100b. $ 80c. $504. when will the man fly to paris?a. on august 5thb. on august 3rdc. on august 4th5. what are the speakers mainly talking about?a. a bandb. a posterc. a person第二节. 听下面55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，每小题将给出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 does the man say about his roommate?a. he likes partiesb. he works hardc. he works at a library7. what was jane always doing?a. playing music all nightb. taking about people behind their backsc. borrowing the womans things听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. why cant the woman arrive at the mans house on time?a. she left home lateb. she lives far from the mans housec, she has been held up by a traffic jam9. how is the woman going to the mans house?a. by carb. by busc. by taxi10. when will the speakers probably have dinner?a. at 12:00 p.m.b. at 1:00 p.m.c. at 2:00 p.m.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. what is the weather like?a. hotb. coolc. warm12. what does the man suggest doing?a. reading booksb. playing catchc. watching tv13. what do we know about the woman?a. she hates to play with the manb. she is in the living roomc. she will sit on the sofa听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. what disaster did the man experience?a. aearthquakeb. a floodc. an storm 15. where is the woman from?a. tokyob. torontoc. the midwest16. what do we know about the woman?a. her house was damaged in a floodb. her fathers car destroyed in a floodc. her new car was washed away in a flood听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. why does the speaker want his dream home to be next to a park?a. to get a beautiful viewb. to have walks in the parkc. to do exercise in the park18. how many bathrooms does the speaker want?a. 2b. 3c. 419. how will the speaker decorate his dream house?a. hell buy a lot of furnitureb. hell hand some paintings on the wallsc. hell put a few vases in the living room20. where does the speaker want to put the tv?a. in the kitchenb. in the living roomc. in the main bedroom英语知识运用（共两节，计45分）第一节 单项选择（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） 从a,b,c,d四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项：第二节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从3555各题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项 i did very badly at school. my headmaster thought i was _36_ and when i was 14 years old, he predicted, “you are never to be _37_ but a failure.” after 5 years of poor jobs, i fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. it was the best thing _38_ could have happened to me. i _39_ i should do something positive with my life because i wanted to prove _40_ her that what people said about me had gone _41_, especially her mother, who once said to me, “lets _42_ it. youve failed every thing youve ever done.” so i tried hard with my _43_ and went to _44_. my first novel _45_ while i was still a college student. after college, i taught during the day in high schools and attended _46_ classes at london university, where i _47_ a degree in history. i became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of _48_ that job to write full time when i was _49_ a part-time job at leeds university. i began to feel proud of myself-here was a working-class boy whod _50_ school early, now teaching at the university. my writing career _51_ when i discovered my own writing _52_. now im rich and famous, have been on tv, and met lots of film stars. _53_ what does it mean? i just wish that all those people who have _54_ me down had just said, “i believe in you and you will be _55_.”36. a. naughty b. lazyc. uselessd. raggy37. a. nothingb. somethingc everythingd. anything38. a. whenb. thatc. whichd. as39. a. thoughtb. promisedc. decidedd. expected40. a. tob. for c. withd. at41. a. ridiculousb. acceptablec. believabled. wrong42. a. seeb. facec. treatd. react43. a. writingb. experimentc. practiced. composition44. a. schoolb. collegec. clubd. company45. a. went acrossb. put asidec. came outd. set off46. a. lectureb. writingc. teachingd. evening47. a. receivedb. acceptedc. gaved. offered48. a. giving upb. paying forc. signing upd. ridding of49. a. paidb. madec. offeredd. tried50. a. finishedb. gonec. delayedd. left51. a. made offb. took offc. gave offd. moved off52. a. styleb. habitc. idead. skill53. a. thereforeb. butc. thoughd. for54. a. writtenb. turnedc. tornd. put55. a. cheerfulb. enjoyablec. successfuld. forgettable阅读理解（40分）阅读以下五篇短文，从各题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中选出最佳选项 amother teresa was born in yugoslavia, on august 27th, 1910. she attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. at that time, some doctors and nurses from yugoslavia were working in india, and they often wrote to the school about their work. she decided to join them one day.when she finished school, she went first to britain. then a year later she went to india, where she began to train to be a teacher. after training, she was sent to calcutta, where she taught geography at a school and soon after became headmistress(女校长). however, although she loved teaching, in 1946 mother teresa left the school and went to work in the poor parts of calcutta. later she trained to be a nurse in panta, and then began her work helping the poor and comforting the dying in the streets of the city. slowly, others came to help her, and her work spread to other parts of india.mother teresa is now a well-known person. many photos have been taken of her, as she travels the world to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries. in 1979, she was given the nobel peace prize for the lifetime of love and service she has given to the poor.56. what first inspired mother teresa to work in india?a. her visit to the poor parts of calcutta. b. her visit to britain after she left school.c. the medical workers letters to her school.d. the work of the nurse in the city of panta.57. in which order did mother teresa do the following things? a. trained to be a nurse b. went to india. c. helped the dying. d. studied to be a teacher. e. went to britain. f. worked as a headmaster. a. b, a, c, e, d, f b. b, f, a, d, e, c c. e, b, d, f, a, c d. e, a, b, c, d, f58. mother teresa gave up teaching because she wanted to _.a. look after the poor. b. travel to poor countriesc. build hospitals for the poor d. train nurse to care for the poor59. mother teresa is now a famous person because she has _.a. saved many poor people in india b. helped to bring about world peacec. helped to make india a more peaceful place d. taken care of many poor people in the world b many people say pennies are not worth saving. after all, a penny is only worth a cent. but one unusual penny turned out to be worth a lot more when a coin collector paid $1.7 million for it earlier this month.the coin is one of a kind. it is the only penny that the denver mint(铸币厂) made out of copper, instead of steel, in 1943. because it is unique, it is also very valuable. no penny has ever sold for so much money.the changing pennythe lincoln penny first appeared in 1909. for 34 years, the one-cent coin was made out of copper. then, in 1943, the penny changed. world war ii was going on, and copper was needed for equipment. so for one year, pennies were made out of steel instead. at least most of them were.only a few coins were made out of unused copper. there are three main mints, or places where coins are made, in the united states. of the known copper pennies from 1943, twelve were made in the philadephia mint, and five were made in the san francisco mint. only one was made in the denver mint.nobody knows for sure why a copper penny was made at the denver mint in 1943, coin dealers andy skrabalak told time for kids. “there is a rumor that a mint employee made the coin in the middle of the night.”a special setthe coin collector who bought the $1.7 million penny wants to remain unknown. but the reason for the trade is known. he already had two copper pennies from 1943 one from the san francisco mint and one from the philadephia mint. to complete the set, he needed the denver penny. the three coins will go on display at a coin exhibition in tampa, florida.the collector who sold the penny is also keeping his name a secret. it took four years to convince him to give up the rare coin. now that he has finally donating all of the money to charity.60. why is the lincoln penny worth over one million dollars? a. because it has a history of thirty-four years. b. because it was made out of a rare material. c. because it was made on one night of 1943 by the denver mint. d, because it was the only coin denver mint made out of copper in 1943.61. before the lincoln penny was sold, people thought one-cent coins _.a. were worth collecting for selling laterb. were surely valuable if not made out of steelc. wouldnt be sold for large amounts of moneyd. were only useful for some coin museums62. at least how many copper coins were made in 1943? a. five b. twelve c. seventeen d. eighteen63. what can we learn about the collector who sold the penny? a. he already had two copper pennies from 1943. b. he wanted to complete the set of copper pennies. c. he didnt want to sell his penny in the beginning. d. he was a well-known coin dealer in tampa, horida.cjohann gutenberg, who worked as a goldsmith(金匠)，took what has already been discovered, and created a small invention that changed history. he created a machine that allowed him to move small blocks of letters in such a way that written material could be printed and mass-produced. few people could read before johann gutenberg made the invention, but once books became less expensive, more europeans could read and write.block printing existed long before gutenberg. the chinese had been using wood blocks to print books as early as 868, but a new set of woodcuts(木刻印版) had to be made for each book. producing one book was not easy; producing all kinds of books was more difficult.writing ink dates from about 2500 bc in egypt and china. johann gutenberg use an oil-base printing ink that would last longer than other inks used in his time. we dont know much about gutenberg because he was not famous during his lifetime. he was born in germany about 1400. in 1448, gutenberg developed signatures for each number, letter, and punctuation mark(标点符号). he then built the molds (模型) to hold the signatures in place. johann gutenberg published the first mass-produced book: a 1,282 page bible. to this day, more copies of the bible have been printed the any other book.copies of gutenbergs invention spread throughout europe, but the german goldsmith did not get rich from his invention. some officials denounced the invention of printing because they feared that it would spread bad ideas. by 1500 there 1,700 printing presses in europe. the presses had already produced about 20 million volumes of 40,000 different books.64. what happened after johann gutenbergs invention? a. people could afford to read books. b. people became interested in inventing. c. it was still difficult to print all kinds of books. d. punctuation mark began to be used in printing.65. compared with block printing in china, johann gutenbergs method _. a. was difficult to run. b. needed harder paper c. used a new kind of ink d. was put into use earlier66. the underlined word “denounced” in the paragraph means _. a. fought against b. accepted c. laughed at d. supported67. what is the best title for the passage? a. a famous 1,282 page bible b. the life of a famous inventor c. an invention that changed history d. the development of printingd my husband, micheal, and i were at a restaurant with his boss, a rather stern(严厉的) elderly man. when micheal began a story i was sure he had told before, i gave him a kick under the table. there was no response, so i gave him another kick. still the story went on. suddenly he stopped and said with a smile, “oh, but ive told you this one before, havent i ?” we all chuckled and changed the subject. later, on the dance floor, i asked my husband why it had taken him so long to get my message. “what do you mean?” he replied. “i cut off the story as soon as you kicked me.” “but i kicked you twice, and it still took you a while to stop!” suddenly we realized what had happened and returned to our table. the boss smiled and said, “dont worry. after the second one i thought it wasnt for me, so i passed it along!”68. the writer kicked her husband because _. a. she didnt like him b. she didnt like stories c. he was telling a story he had told before d. the story he told was not interesting69.what can be inferred from the text? a. micheal was kicked three times. b. micheal kicked the boss. c. the boss was kicked twice d. the boss kicked the author.70. they all chuckled because _. a. they kicked each other b. they changed the subject in the end c. they were all satisfied with the dinner d. they all thought each of them had done something interesting71. it took micheal so long to stop his story because _. a. he wanted to finish the whole story b. he got a kick only after a long while c. he didnt understand at once why he was kicked d. the two kicks given were not heavy enough eas soon as you meet, or even see, a person, you form an impression of him based on his posture, gesture and facial expressions. this is why it is important to make a good first impression on the person who will be interviewing you. within the first 60 seconds of meeting you, the interviewer will have formed an impression about what type of person you are and what kind of employee you would become, and 55% of this will be based only on your body language. here are some tips to make you that impression a good one.first of all, relax. think positive thoughts and you are more likely to come across as a positive, confident person during the interview. dress smartly, as your appearance is one of the first things an interviewer will notice you. stand up straight, and walk in with your shoulders back and your head up. try to avoid slowing down as you walk into the room because this suggests fear and uncertainty. shake hands with the interviewer firmly. you should have a positive handshake and a warm smile. open your coat or jacket as you sit down shows that you, too, are open.posture is important. you should be sitting well back in your seat. sit up straight and lean forward slightly, but not too much. sitting at too much of an angel expresses discomfort and distrust. two of the most common defensive(防卫的) signals are crossing your arms and legs, so try to avoid them.another important issue is eye contact. looking someone in the eye shows confidence in yourself and trust in the other person. however, dont overdo it, as too much eye contact or starring will make the other person uncomfortable. use more eye contact when listening than when talking, and when you look away, look down. looking up at the ceiling will make you seem bored and rude.72. the purpose of the first impression is to tell readers _. a. what a good first impression is b. how to make a good first impression c. how long it takes to make a first impression d. the importance of making a good first impression73. which of the following does the author advise you to do when you are being interviewed? a. cross your arms or legs b. open your coat or jacket when sitting down c. go into the room more slowly than usual d. avoid looking at the eyes of the inte