宁夏青铜峡市高级中学2017_2018学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题.doc

宁夏青铜峡市高级中学2017-2018学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题第一部分：听力（30分） 第一节：请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。1.Whats the probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Classmates. B. Workmates. C. Strangers. 2.Whats the date today? A. July 4. B. July 3. C. July 2. 3.What does the man mean? A. The concert last night was a failure. B. Many people attended the concert. C. People at the back of the concert hall were talking loudly. 4.What happened to the man? A. He probably swallowed the belt. B. He probably went to Italy. C. He had a big bowl of noodles. 5.Which is the best word to describe the mans character? A. Humorous. B. Strict. C. Kind. 第二节：请听第6段材料，回答第6-8题。6.How many questions are there in Peters exam paper? A. Four. B. Six. C. Five. 7.How did Peter feel about the exam? A. Quite satisfied. B. Very much disappointed. C. A little regretful. 8.Why did Peter fail to finish the last question? A. Because it was too difficult for him. B. Because he didnt have enough time. C. Because he was too nervous to see it. 请听第7段材料，回答9-11题。9.What time does the train leave and arrive? A. It leaves at 5: 00 and arrives at 7: 10 tomorrow. B. It leaves at 5: 15 and arrives at 7: 20 tomorrow. C. It leaves at 5: 00 and arrives at 7: 10 at night. 10.What is she going there for? A. To spend her holiday. B. To see her parents. C. To meet her parents. 11.Which of the three can be TRUE? A. Lucys parents will arrive in Beijing at 7: 10 a. m. . B. Lucys parents arent going with her to the station. C. Lucys parents are going to see her off. 请听第8段材料，回答第12-14题。12.What did the man ask the woman to do on Sunday afternoon? A. To come to a dinner party. B. To watch a volleyball game. C. To meet his friends. 13.What did the woman have to do then? A. To invite some friends. B. To go to Mexico City. C. To pick up her brother-in-law at the airport. 14.What did the man suggest? A. She come over after she gets back from the airport. B. She bring something to eat. C. She order pizza for dinner. 请听第9段材料，回答第15-17题。15.Why did Mark call Kathy? A. To invite her out to the movies. B. To ask her to think of a good ending for his paper. C. To invite her to a museum to walk through a new exhibit. 16.Why is Kathy interested in Indian culture? A. She studied Indian culture in a class. B. She has a paper to write about Indian culture. C. She teaches Indian culture to children. 17.Why didnt Mark accept Kathys invitation? A. He didnt have enough money. B. He wasnt interested in what she was going to do. C. He would rather work on his history project. 请听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18.What is the result of air pollution? A. Loss of land. B. Killing fish. C. Illness and even death. 19.What are the forms of pollution? A. Air, water and soil. B. Oil and wood. C. Marine life. 20.What can pollution of soil cause? A. Ugliness to mans natural beauty.B. Illness and death. C. The reducing of the amount of useful land. 第二部分：阅读理解（40分） A Its time to study like a rock star! Many rock stars are smart enough to know that its cool to go to a top-rated school. Lets check out these musicians who went to Ivy League colleges. Rivers Cuomo The lead singer and guitarist of the band, Weezer, is an Ivy League rocker, graduating from Harvard with outstanding performance. Rivers Cuomo earned his bachelors degree in English after 10 year on-off work at this famous university.John Legend The Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter had scholarship offers from Harvard, Georgetown and Morehouse before attending the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in English with an emphasis on African American literature. John Legend famously contributed to Kanye Wests album, “The College Dropout”. He always supports education reform and has even taken part in a public performance for dropout prevention for free. Lisa Loeb It was just a few years after she graduated from Brown University with a degree in comparative literature that singer Lisa Loeb had a hit single (畅销的单曲唱片) with her song “Stay”. The smart rocker made history with “Stay” as the only artist to ever have a number one single before being signed to a recording contract. Greg Graffin The lead singer of the L.A. punk band, Bad Religion, earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He later worked at the University of California at Los Angeles as a life science professor. Greg Graffin has said, “Evolution (进化) is a controversial topic that I research both on an academic (学术的)level and in my music.”21.We can learn from the text that John Legend _.A. won a Grammy Award at college B. majored in comparative literatureC. became famous for The College DropoutD. once performed to help school dropouts22.Which of the following musicians taught at a university?A. Rivers Cuomo. B. John Legend. C. Lisa Loeb. D. Greg Graffin.23.Which university did the singer of “Stay” graduate from?A. Harvard University.B. The University of Pennsylvania.C. Brown University. D. Cornell University.24.The text mainly aims to _. A. advise readers to pursue their studiesB. advise readers to learn to enjoy rock musicC. show the importance of entering a top-rated schoolD. show the relationship between education and musicBBranches hit my face, sending blood down my cheeks. Every one of my pores (毛孔) was filled with sweat, but I couldnt stop. They were close behind. I could not, I would not go back. They only saw my black skin and did not know of the human soul that lived under by flesh.The sound of the dogs came closer. I hid myself in the shadows beneath the trees above me, thankful for the first time for my black skin. My bare feet bled. The moonlight threatened to give me away. Its brightness seemed to make fun of me as I ran. Even the moon was white. The whole world seemed to be made for people with a white surface. Suddenly I fell down to the forest floor. My legs begged me not to make them run. I ignored them and desperately tried to escape and run away from these evil people, the moon, and my own dark skin. It was a failed attempt. I had hardly ran ten steps when the dogs teeth were in my face. Tears burned my face, tears of anger, hate, and fear. “Please!” I begged. “Please let me go!” My breath was short, and my whole body was filled with blood. I stopped for breath. “Actually were all the same! Thats what really matters! Please let me go.” “Let you go?” a man laughed. “How could it be? You were born to serve us.” They laughed as they marched along, pulling me by a long rope like a dog. I was exhausted after running for days and I could feel that blood was flowing down my body. At last, I fell down in the grass, covered with blood. My soul moved away from my body and I was free at last. 25. According to the text, the author was probably _.A. a slave B. a hunter C. a thiefD. a prisoner 26. To ask the men to let him go, what reason did the author give?A. He was bleeding. B. He was out of breath.C. He was also a human. D. He was afraid of dogs. 27. It can be inferred from the text that _.A.a man treated the authors wounds B.the dogs bit one of the authors legsC. a man set the author free out of mercyD. the author lost consciousness in the end 28. Whats the best title for the text? A. A failed attempt to get freedom B. A dangerous hunting experienceC. A story of an adventure in wood D. A struggle for survival and power CDear students,Most of us get some exercise walking or riding our bikes to school, but that just isnt enough. Why not get into shape by playing the most popular sport in the world soccer?Two weeks ago, Ms. Goldstein, the physical education teacher, posted a notice about an exciting new soccer club (for Grades 3-5). To join, all you have to do is sign your name and be at school for the fun of it on Saturday mornings. Youll make new friends and share information about famous teams and players.Ms. Goldstein will teach, so youll learn basic skills and new techniques to improve your game. Thats good news because soccer is a game you can love three seasons a year. The only time you cant play is when there is snow.However, it is hard to believe that only nineteen people signed up for the new club. Maybe kids dont want to give up their Saturday mornings. But if you think about how we spend Saturday mornings now, soccer looks good. Doing housework and watching TV are not as much fun as playing soccer with friends. If you didnt sign up because youve never played soccer before, dont worry. Beginners are welcome and Ms. Goldstein will give you more help.Just act now! The equipment is cheap. All you have to bring is your feet.The Students Union29. We can learn from the text that the club _.A.is just open to students of Grade 3 B.was probably started two weeks ago C.is available every day except for Sundays D.was first set up for beginners 30. What does the author think of playing soccer?A. It makes people famous easily. B. It does students a lot of good.C. It is a very dangerous game. D. It is as interesting as watching TV.31. The author writes the text mainly to _.A. talk about how to be an excellent playerB. encourage the students to join a soccer clubC. advise the students to take more exerciseD. introduce Ms. Goldstein to the students DDo American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten to fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really is pretty much for handwriting. Many adults remember learning that way by copying letters over and over again. Todays thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write. Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility, which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school. But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about one fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs. But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive(草写体), which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75% of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive. 32.From Paragraph 1 we can learn _.A. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in teaching jobB. most teachers prefer to teach handwritingC. teachers spend little time in teaching handwritingD. a keyboard has taken the place of the handwriting entirely33.The underlined word “legibility” in Paragraph 3 means _.A. being easy to read B. being complexC. being unexpected D. being unreadable34.The best title for the passage is _.A. How to improve handwriting in schoolB. Right or wrong: the death of handwritingC. Handwriting involves two skillsD. Handwriting lessons are on the way out35. The authors attitude towards whether still to learn handwriting in school is_. A. negative B. objective C. critical D. optimistic七选五：I know that something you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work-your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star . 36 The truth is, being successful is hard. You wont love every subject that you study. 37 Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you wont necessarily succeed at everything the first time your try.Thats okay. 38 J. K. Rowling- who wrote Harry Potter-her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and over again in my life. And thats why I succeed.These people succeeded because they understood the secret of success -you cant let your failures define you.39 You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesnt mean you are a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. 40 A. If you get a bad grade, that doesnt mean youre stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.B. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who have had the most failures.C. You have to let your failures teach you.D. You wont get along well with every teacher that you have.E. So many of you dream of being successful by hard work.F. Failures can lead you to success.G. Chances are youre not going to be any of those things.第三部分：完形填空（30分） Whats on your life card?Theres a book where the author, Elizabeth, suggests that everyone have a life card. This is 41 to a business card, but instead of listing what you do for a living, it 42 things that have happened in your 43 that you dont want to explain, but would like people to 44 before dealing with you.Elizabeths first child, her son, was born still and she writes about her 45 . She talks about having to deal with insensitive (不顾他人感受的) comments and 46 conversations with others who didnt know of what 47 and how she wished she had her 48 life card that said her first child had died.Wouldnt this be great? You could 49 those things that you most need others to understand before having a 50 with you. Your life card could 51 I have a child with a disability or my mother has cancer. With this 52 , others could be more careful with their 53 so they didnt cause unintentional harm. But we dont all have life cards. Instead we must bear these 54 from others who dont know or 55 . Perhaps this makes us stronger or at the very least we 56 to guard our hearts. What it does 57 us is that we need to keep the idea of life cards in 58 when dealing with others. Think of what would go on your life card and with this, 59 others have their own tragedies and heartaches on their cards 60 you will deal differently with them. 41. A. familiarB. similarC. usefulD. harmful42. A. expressesB. sharesC. suggestsD. lists43. A. dreamB. life C. imaginationD. past44.A. knowB. acceptC. overcomeD. hold45.A. exercisesB. effectsC. experiencesD. directions46.A. boringB. uncomfortable C. politeD. wise47.A. existedB. operated C. happenedD. developed48.A. only B. great C. strange D. own49.A. put downB. hand out C. take overD. bring in50.A. competition B. relationship C. holidayD. trade51.A. find B. deny C. say D. forget52.A. wealthB. gestureC. appreciationD. information53.A. methodsB. demandsC. wordsD. appearances54.A. differences B. hurtsC. expectationsD. diseases55.A. understand B. complain C. mindD. look56.A. promiseB. learn C. afford D. like57.A. spare B. pay C. lend D. teach58.A. memoryB. businessC. mind D. hand59.A. remember B. realizeC. remindD. warn60.A. becauseB. if C. and D. until第四部分：短文填空（15分） Animals can become endangered for a number of reasons, but many experts believe that loss of habitat is the main cause. Some animals are put 61._danger when people take over their habitats. This often 62._(occur) because people want one or more of the resources in those areas. Some forests, for example, provide wood 63._is used for things like paper and furniture, etc. Many trees 64._(cut) down every day for such purposes but not enough are being planted. It has seriously decreased the population of many speci