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安徽省舒城晓天中学2015-2016学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题第一部分：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） 请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。 1. what are the two speakers talking about? a. an athlete called liu xiang. b. competitions in the world. c. 2004 olympic games. 2. where does the conversation most probably take place? a. by the window.b. in a post office. c. on the steps.3. how does the woman really feel? a. surprised. b. light-hearted. c. worried.4. what is the time now? a. 8:45. b. 9:00. c. 9:15.5. what does the man take finally? a. the blue tie. b. the yellow tie. c. both the two ties. 第二节(共15小题; 每小题1.5分，满分22.5分) 请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. what are the two speakers going to do? a. go for a walk. b. go for a picnic. c. go out for supper.7. how will they go there? a. on foot. b. by taking a taxi. c. by driving a car themselves.请听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. whats the weather like these days? a. its very hot.b. its very cool. c. its warm.9. how does the man feel at home? a. sad. b. disappointed. c. bored.10. whats the womans idea? a. watching tv at home. b. going to green park. c. talking on the phone.请听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. where is the woman going? a. hawaii. b. los angeles. c. the airport.12. when is the womans sisters wedding? a. on oct. 12th. b. tomorrow. c. on oct. 11th.13. when will the woman leave? a. in a few hours.b. right now. c. on oct. 9th. 请听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. how does the girl find the news her father is watching? a. unforgettable.b. uninteresting. c. unfortunate.15. what does her father advise her to know about?a. current world situation. b. the news media. c. something about tv.16. why does the girl tell her father to change to channel 7? a. the program on channel 7 is very interesting. b. she likes to see a musical play on channel 7. c. the anchorman on channel 7 is very popular.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. at what time did sally give up her tennis dreams? a. after she entered a college. b. after she earned her degrees. c. after she spent 3 months practicing.18. how many degrees did sally earn in stanford university? a. two. b. three. c. four.19. when did sally ask for the space program? a. in 1970. b. in 1977. c. in 1978.20. how many women were among the 35 people? a. only one. b. five. c. six.第ii卷（选择题，共85分）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、d）中，选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ai first went to harrow in the summer term. the school had the biggest swimming pool i had ever seen. it was a good joke to come up behind a naked boy, and push him into the pool. i made quite a habit of this with boys of my own size or less.one day i saw a boy wrapped in a towel on the side of the pool. he was no bigger than i was, so i thought him a fair game. coming secretly behind, i pushed him in, holding on to his towel so that it would not get wet, i was surprised to see an angry face come out from the water, and a being of great strength masking its way by face strokes (猛力地划)to the shore. i fled, but in vain. he overtook me, seized me violently, and threw me into the deepest part of the pool. i soon climbed out on the other side, and found myself surrounded by a crowd of younger boys.” do you know what you have done?” they said, “its amery; he is in grade six. he is champion at gym; he has got his football honor.”i was frightened and felt ashamed. how could i tell his position when be was wrapped in a bath towel and so small.” he didnt seem pleased at all, so i added in a most brilliant word,” my father, who is a great man, is also small.” at this be laughed, and after some general words about my rude behavior and how i had better be careful in the future, signified the incident was closed.21 the writer thought amery” a fair game” because the boy . a. looked like an animal b. was fond of gamesc. was of similar size d. was good at sports22. the writer felt” ashamed” because .a. he was laughed at by other boys b. amery turned out to be in the same gradec. he pushed amery hard and hurt him d. he played a joke on an outstanding athlete23. by saying “my father, who is a great man, is also small”, the writer . a. tried to please amery b. challenged ameryc. threatened amery d. admired his father24. which of the following is true? a. the writer could run faster than amery. b. the writer liked playing on boys of all sizes.c. amery was a student in grade four.d. amery forgave the writer for his rude behavior.bhuntingthe days of the hunter are almost over in india. this is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive.some people say that man is naturally a hunter. i disagree with this view. surely out earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.i believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. there are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. i can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself.the greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives(动机).one of them wrote.“you must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animals own territory(领地)。you must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. this is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals, hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people.”i can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears(矛) and bravely caught them by the tail. but this is very different from many tigershoots i have seen, in which modern weapons were used. the socalled hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants. such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.25. there is no more hunting in india now partly because_.a. it is dangerous to hunt there b. hunting is already out of datec. hunters want to protect animals d. there are few animals left to hunt26. the author thinks modern hunters kill mainly_.a. to make the countryside safe b. to earn peoples admirationc. to gain power and influence d. to improve their health27. what do we learn about the big-game hunters?a. they hunt old animals b. they mistreat animalsc. they hunt for food d. they hunt for money28. what is the authors view on the tiger-shoots he has seen?a. modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-faceb. modern hunters should use more advanced weaponsc. modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigersd. modern hunters should put their safety firstcearly one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an american inventor called elias howe finally fell asleep. he had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: it seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.though he was tired, howe slept badly. he turned and turned. then he had a dream. he dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. when he tried to do so, howe ran into the same problem as before. the thread kept getting caught around the needle. the king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill howe. they came up towards him with their spears raised. but suddenly the inventor noticed something. there was a hole in the tip of each spear. the inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. this was the simple idea that finally made howe design and build the first really practiced sewing machine.elias howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.thomas edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. so did the great physicist albert einstein. charlotte bronte also drew in her dreams in writing jane eyre.to know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. even then, a part of your mind is still working. this unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. it stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. it is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. however, the unconscious part acts in a special way. it uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. this is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.29 according to the passage, elias howe was_.a. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleepb. much more hard-working than other inventorsc. the first person to design a sewing machine that really workedd. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams30. the problem howe was trying to solve was_.a. what kind of thread to useb. how to design a needle which would not breakc. where to put the needled. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle31. thomas edison is spoken of because_.a. he also tried to invent a sewing machineb. he got some of his ideas from dreamsc. he was one of howes best friendsd. he also had difficulty in falling asleep32. dreams are sometimes called” secret messages to ourselves” because_.a. strange images are used to communicate ideasb. images which have no meaning are usedc. we can never understand the real meaningd. only specially trained people can understand themdin 1977, a dead author of detective stories saved the life of a 19-month-old baby in a most unusual way. the author was agatha christie, one of the most successful writers of detective stories in the world. in june 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in qatar, near saudi arabia. doctors were unable to find out the cause of her illness with confidence, so she was sent to hammersmith hospital in london. she was then only semi-conscious and on the dangerously ill list. a team of doctors hurried to examine the baby only to discover that they, too, were confused by the very unusual symptoms (症状). while they were discussing the babys case, a nurse asked to speak to them. excuse me, said nurse marsha maitlan, but i think the baby is suffering from thallium (铊) poisoning.what makes you think that? dr. brown asked. thallium poisoning is extremely rare. a few days ago, i was reading a novel called a pale horse by agatha christie, nurse maitlan explained. in the book, somebody uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms are described. theyre exactly the same as the babys. youre very thoughtful and you may be right, another doctor said. well carry out some tests and find out whether its thallium or not. tests showed that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium, a rare metallic substance used in making special glass. once they knew the cause of the illness, the doctors were able to give the baby the correct treatment. she soon recovered and was sent back to qatar. later it was reported that the poison might have come from an insecticide (杀虫剂) used in qatar. 33. the one who first suggested the correct cause of the babys illness was _. a. a doctor in qatar b. nurse maitlan c. dr. brown d. agatha christie 34. the baby was sent to london because _. a. she was born there b. the hospitals in qatar were full at that time c. she was the daughter of a doctor in london d. the qatar doctors were not sure whether they could cure her 35. as far as we can tell from the passage, agatha christie _. a. had never met this baby b. had spent a long time studying the babys case c. visited the baby in the hospital at hammersmith d. gave nurse maitlan some advice on the phone 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。ali is from a middle eastern country. he now stays in the usa. he smokes a lot of cigarettes every day. he has smoked for nine years. ali says, “ i tried to quit smoking in my hometown, but it was impossible. my parents smoke. my brothers smoke. all my friends smoke. at parties and at meetings, almost all the men smoke. here in the united states, many people dont smoke. _36_ ” many smokers are like ali: they want to stop smoking. _37_. they know it can cause cancer and heart disease. but it is difficult for them to give up smoking because cigarettes have a drug in them. the drug is nicotine. people who smoke a lot need nicotine. _38_ because the nicotine makes him uncomfortable. but in a few days, the smokers body is used to the nicotine, and he feels fine. later, the smoker needs nicotine to keep feeling fine. without nicotine, he feels bad. _39_ many people who quit will soon smoke again. at a party or at work they will decide to smoke “just one” cigarette. then they will smoke another cigarette, and another. soon they become smokers again. how can we quit smoking? _40_ a. it is very difficult to quit smoking.bso it will be easier to change the smoking habit here.cthus it makes smokers addicted to cigarettes.dthe smokers know that smoking is bad for their health.e. when a person first begins to smoke, he doesnt feel good.f. maybe there is only one easy way to quit smoking: never start.g. but it is said that medicine is needed to stop them from smoking. 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。“where would we be right now if i did not have the restaurant? how else would i be able to provide for our family? who give me, a man without41，a job?” my father 42 say these things on our car rides to the stores that supply our 43he would tell me stories of long, hard hours spent 44in the hot kitchen and helping all the 45 now i 46 late on weekends to welcome him when he comes home， 47 that he will tell me something 48 .he always knows how to inspire me. i could never understand 49 he grew to be so wise without even having the opportunity to complete high school.“make sure you get a job 50 you have to wear a tie!” hed always say with a smile. they were like a paintbrush(画笔) that began 51 this beautiful picture in my head that i have entitled(有资格的)my 52 in life.my father has worked day in and day out，with few days off, for 20 years, never53 .he would explain how this is 54 he had to do to make my 55 better. my father worked so i 56go to the best schools. he worked to supply me with 57 that would provide a job where i had to wear a tie.my father is a 58 in which i can only hope to catch a reflection(反省)of myself. he is the one i strive to model myself after. 59 , when i make a great name for myself as a doctor, someone will ask, “where did you get such a great work ethic (道德) ?”“my father!” i ll say, adjusting(调整) my 60 and i ll smile.41. a work b education c money d an education42. a used to b would c always d might43. a family b kitchen c restaurant d hotel44. a to work b work c works d working45. a friends b cooks c customers d waiters46. a hold up b keep up c stand up d stay up 47. a wished b wishing c hoped d hoping48. a wonderful b interesting c big d wise49. a why b how c where d when50. a when b where c which d that51. a drawing b describing c imagining d painting52. a job b success c goal d future 53. a complained b complains c complaining d complaint54. a what b that c which d why55. a job b life c days d future56. a would b could c should d should57. a opportunities b hopes c occasions d possibilities58. a model b mirror c hero d example59. a the other day b another day c some days d one day60. a tie b suit c dress d shirt 第二节：语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。once there lived a rich man 61 wanted to do something for the people of his town. 62 first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help. in the centre of the main road into the town, he placed 63 very large stone. then he 64 (hide ) behind a tree and waited. soon an old man came along with his cow