新津中学2016-2017年高二12月月考英语试题及答案.doc

新津中学高2015级高二12月月考英语试题第I卷（选择题，共100分）一、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，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟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. How will the woman go to New York? A. By car. B.By air. C.By train.2. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The woman had a photo shop of her own. B. The woman developed all her photos all by herself. C. The woman developed parts of her own films.3. What are the two speakers going to do tomorrow afternoon?w w w .x k b 1.c o m AGo shopping. BReturn to the beach. C Pay a visit to Joe and Linda.4. What does the man mean? A. He doesnt understand pop music at all. B. He doesnt like pop music. C. He likes pop music very much.5. What do we know about the man? A. He once visited Barcelona. B. He is going to Barcelona with the woman. C. He wishes the woman would go to Barcelona. 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，每段对话或独白后面有几个小题，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。6. What do we know about the man? A. He knows little about the English corner. B. He shows no interest in speaking English. C. He never talks with others in English.7. What do people usually talk about at the English corner? A. Only English study. B. Anything interesting. C. Only current affairs.8. What will people do if they cant be understood at the English corner? A. Do not say it any more. B. Go on to another topic. C. Explain it.9. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Driver and policeman. B. Taxi driver and passenger. C. Driving instructor and learner.10. Whats the first thing the woman should do? A. Start the car. B. Fasten the seat-belt. C. Remember three things.11. What do we know about the woman? A. She will meet the man again three days later. B. She has broken some traffic rules. C. She has just had an accident.听第 8段材料,第 12至 14题。12. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Teacher and student.来源:Z#xx#k.Com B. Mother and son. C. Husband and wife.13. Why didnt the boy attend classes last week? A. Because he did not finish his homework. B. Because he liked playing computer games very much. C. Because he was having family problems.14. Where was the boy last week? A. In his relatives. B. At home. C. In an Internet cafe.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. What is the man going to do? A. See an accident. B. Have lunch. . C. Watch TV.16. What did the woman see? A. She saw a car run over somebody. B. She saw a car almost run over somebody. C. She saw somebody walking a dog in the street.17. How did the woman look out of the window? A. On purpose. B. By chance. C. Carefully,听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. Whom is the speaker talking to? A. His friends. B. A group of new students. C. A group of teachers.19. What is the total number of the departments in the college? A. Six. B. Five. C. Four.20. Where do the teachers in the English department mainly come from? A. England and America. B. America and Australia. C. America and Canada.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。A Although Americans are well known for getting down to business, Indians working in overseas teams, MNCs, and BPOs should know the importance of small talk. While Indians have a true interest in talking to Americans and getting to know them, they also hesitate to do so for some reasons. Americans engage in less personal small talk than Indians. And the topics and questions used in English vary widely based on language differences and cultural differences. Here are three things to keep in mind while you are trying to make small talk with your American clients and colleagues. Amencans love to ask about, and then complain about the weather. They may talk about how the weather prevented them from having fun or how the weather supported their outdoor events. You can talk about the weather with them to begin a conversation. While talking, they always try to follow up on their answer by asking another open-ended question or make a statement, such as Wow, that sounds like fun ! or You went to St. Louis. In which state is that? Be creative in your questions. Feel free to ask one or two, but not very personal ones about relations. Stick to the facts or events that were already referred to. Sometimes, some words used in India will totally confuse an American. For example, Americans use the word weekend instead of holiday for Saturdays and Sundays ( non-working days) , and use the word vacation or days off instead of out-of-station . Always be interested, optimistic and happy. Talk with a smile! Vary the sound of your voice. Do not sound like a computer. If you are unsure how you sound, a good tip is to record yourself and listen to it later. Doing this helps you know how your voice sounds, and if you dont sound as you want to be heard, it may be time to work on enhancing your voice.21. For Indians, having small talk with American colleagues is . A. boringB. uselessC. importantD. interesting22. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? A. What Americans like talking about in their daily life. B. How Americans usually start a conversation with others. C. Why talking about the weather is good to begin a conversation. D. What people can say when having small talk with Amencans.23. What does the underlined word enhancing in the last paragraph mean? A. Lowering. B. Replacing.C. Improving. D. Examining.24. Whats the writers purpose in writing the passage? A. To prove that having small talk is not very hard. B. To explain why Indians hesitate to talk with Americans. C. To show the differences between Americans and Indians. D. To tell how to make small talk with American clients and colleagues.B Consider yourself warned. Sunday is April Fools Day, a day when you are encouraged to play tricks on loved ones and even the people you meet at the bus stop. Its a strange tradition, but how did it get started? Nobody is completely sure about the origin of this, the silliest of holidays. However, the urban legend experts at Snopes. com say that most experts owe it to Pope Gregory X, who, in the 1500s, gave the world the Gregorian calendar. In 1562, the Gregorian calendar moved the first day of the year from April l to January l. Word did eventually get around, but some people were a bit slow to hear the news. These folks continued celebrating the new year on April l , unaware that they were now three months behind the times. These April fools were tricked by those who knew it. The tradition eventually made its way to the US. And its still going strong. Over the past week, Web searches on April Fools Day jokes and April Fools Day tricks have more than doubled, and related lookups for easy April Fools Day tricks and April Fools Day jokes for work have also increased greatly. Bottom line: Keep your guard up, especially if somebody offers you a word search puzzle. Lookups for impossible April Fools Day word searches are up by 200%. But really, there is no way to be certain youll escape trickery because even companies are out to trick you on April l. In 1957, the BBC reported Swiss farmers were harvesting spaghetti(意大利面) from trees. And in 1996, Taco Bell took out ads in major newspapers announcing that the company had purchased the Liberty Bell and renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell.25. What is the authors purpose of writing the text?A. To teach us how to avoid being tricked.B. To point out the best way to trick others.C. To introduce the history of April Fools Day.D. To stress the importance of April Fools Day.26. What can we know from Paragraph 3? A. April lst was once the first day of the year. B. April Fools Day was set by Pope Gregory X. C. April Fools Day has been celebrated for thousands of years. D. Started in the US, April Fools Day is popular around the world.27. From the 4th paragraph, we can learn that . A. people enjoy being April Fools B. April Fools Day is still very popular C. those tricks used on April 1 are much the same D. people like to celebrate April Fools Day online28. The examples listed in the last paragraph are used to show . A. a modern farming technology B. what newspapers without ads are like C. how the Taco Liberty Bell got its nameD. how some companies trick the publicCTwelve years ago, Rachel Miller was lost when it came to her son John. The 7-year-old was seriously disabled because of his autism(自闭症). Unable to speak, he withdrew from people at school and, worse, from his family.In March 2003, Miller was introduced to Jeff Hancock, a one-on-one therapist(治疗师) for people with autism. Hancock was hired to be Johns companion. The two would go people-watching at the mall on the weekend. Hancock chatted throughout their trips, even though John couldnt talk back.Their relationship developed when Hancock introduced John to the Special Olympics. Whenever John was running or being active, he was smiling.When John turned 12, Hancock introduced him to track at the Special Olympics. For the first three years, the pair just observed the sport by watching practices and events. Hancock worked daily with John, showing him everything, including where to sit, stand and walk, so he would understand the flow of the events.Eventually, the lessons clicked, and John was off doing 50-meter sprints. But as John got older, he got stronger and faster. At 16, he was jumping hurdles and doing 800-meter races. Miller started seeing her son as a serious athlete.In May 2014, Johns training brought him to the Special Olympics State Summer Games in Orlando. The 18-year-old was competing in the 800 meters and the 110-meter hurdles.As the 800 was setting up, Miller remembered, she pressed her face against the fence, anxiously waiting for John to compete. But as soon as the race started, all Miller saw was an athlete, her athlete.I just wanted to see the best performance. It seemed much more significant than whether he would ever speak or respond to me, she said.John ended up winning the gold medal for the 800. Sports completely changed John, and Miller said that is because of Hancock.A person with a disability can feel hopeless and isolated, and I think that can happen to parents, too. 29. The first paragraph mainly tells usA. how Rachel Miller felt 12 years agoB. how serious Johns autism wasC. John wasnt good at communicationD. when John became seriously disabled30. Miller considered John to be a serious athlete .A. in 2011B. in 2012C. in 2013D. in 201431. When Miller saw Johns performance in the 800, she felt .A. curiousB. amazedC. delightedD. upset32. The passage is mainly carried out .A. by giving examplesB. in a sad toneC. in space orderD. in time orderDOSLO ( Reuters) -Six of the worlds eight bear species are under threat of extinction after the addition yesterday of the sun bear, the worlds smallest type of bear, to a Red List which says Chinas panda is most at risk. The sun bear is threatened partly by poachers(偷猎者) who sell its bile(胆汁)as medicine, said the World Conservation Union which runs the list of the threatened wildlife.Things are getting worse for all the bear species except the American black bear which is unquestionably increasing, said Simon Smart, senior species adviser for the Union.The addition of the sun bear to the authoritative Red List after a major review means the American black bear and the brown bear, found from Europe to Alaska, are the only two of eight species still considered robust(强的) . The sun bear, found in Asia from Bangladesh to Borneo and weighing up to about 70kg, was rated vulnerable(脆弱的) by experts at the Union,which consists of more than 80 governments, conservation groups and scientists. The union said there were several thousand sun bears in the wild. We estimate that sun bears have declined by at least 30 percent over the past 30 years, and continue to decline at this speed, said Ron Steinmetz, head of the Swiss- based Unions sun bear expert team.Scientists did not change the level of threat to any bear species (except sun bears). Deforestation, loss of habitat to roads and cities and poaching are among risks. The Asian black bear, the sloth bear and the Andean bear were all proved again as vulnerable after reassessment of land-living bears. The polar, the only species not reassessed, is separately rated as vulnerable. Pandas were regarded again as endangered, one step closer to extinction than vulnerable, in spite of Chinas protection efforts for the bamboo-eaters.33. How many kinds of threats are particularly mentioned to bear species?A.2.B.3.C.4.D.5.34. According to the text, pandas .A. are in the greatest danger of extinction on the Red ListB. are in less danger of extinction now with the Chinas protection effortsC. are one step closer to extinction than ever beforeD. are not among the 8 bears mentioned in the text35. We can infer from the text that .A. the World Conservation Union is not in charge of protecting wildlife in the worldB. pandas are rated as endangered after the reassessmentC. there are several kinds of land-living bears in the worldD. sun bears remain vulnerable , compared with 30 years ago第二节 七选五(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，将正确的答案填写在答题卷对应的题号上。 The English language is a result of the invasions of the island of Britain over many hundreds of years. The invaders lived along the northern coast of Europe. 36 The Angles were a German tribe who crossed the English Channel. Later two more groups crossed to Britain. They were the Saxons and the Jutes. Through many years, the Saxons, Angles and Jutes mixed their different languages. The result is what is called Anglo-Saxon or old English. The next great invasion of Britain came from the far north beginning about l,100 years ago. People called Vikings came to the coastal areas of Britain. 37 Words like sky , leg , skull , egg , lift and take are from the old languages of the far northern countries. The next invasion of Britain took place more than 900 years ago, in 1066. 38 William the Conqueror led it. The Normans were a French-speaking people from Normandy in the north of France. They became the new rulers of Britain. These new rulers spoke only French for several hundred years. It was the most important language in the world at that time. 39 But the common people of Britain still spoke old English. Old English took many words from the Norman French. Some of these include damage, prison and marriage. The French language used by the Norman rulers greatly changed the way English was spoken by 800 years ago. 40 Middle English sounds like modern English. But it is very difficult to understand now. The history of the English language continues as Middle English becomes Modern English, which is spoken today. A. History experts call this invasion the Norman Conquest. B. It was the language of educated people. C. English became what language experts call Middle English. D. Therefore most common people speak the language. E. Few people spoke Middle English at that time.x k b 1 . c o m F. Many English words used today come from these ancient Vikings. G. The first invasions were by a people called Angles about l,500 years ago.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。 It was early when Mom Racer awoke. Quietly she 41 out of bed and moved through the silent house. In the hallway she stopped at the bedroom of her younger son, Mike. She entered and saw him 42 peacefully in his bed; it had been a long time 43 he had done so, since nightmares had been 44 for him because of the accident. Not wanting to 45 his sleep, Mom continued down the hallway. 46 at the next door that was closed, she quietly entered the room. It was 47 painfully the same, and Moms breath caught in her throat at the 48 of empty, still-made bed before her. For some reason, unknown even to her, Mom had 49 her older son to be in it. Brushing away a tear from her cheek, she went to the bed and 50 the pillow. Holding it 51 , she was able to catch the 52 of her lost child. 53 to be in her sons room any longer, Mom put down the pillow and 54 left the room. As she passed the glass door to the backyard something outside 55 her eye and made her stop in her tracks. It was a single white rose bud(蓿蕾) lying on a sheet of paper. She went outside and picked up, and a 56 had been written on it. The handwriting was very 57 , and Mom had tears in her eyes as she read it. Dear Mom, I love you. Mom wasnt sure how, but 58 reading those words, 59 she saw that Rex had given her a message that he was with them. Yes, its 60 who you will always think of and no matter you are happy or depressed, rich or poor, mothers love will always stay with you.w!w!w.!x!k!b!1.com41. A. jumpedB. slippedC. broughtD. pulled42. A. layingB. singingC. sleepingD. playing43