天津市武清区梅厂高中2020学年高二英语第二次月考

天津市武清区梅厂高中2020学年高二第二次月考（英语）听力略单项选择（1x15）21When he left _ college, he got a job as _ reporter in a newspaper office.A. X, a B. the, a C. the, the D. the, x22. - Thanks for the lovely party and the delicious food.-_.A. with pleasure B. All right C. Never mind D. My pleasure23. Nick is looking for another job because he feels that nothing he does _ his boss.24. Helen always helps her mother even though going to school _ most of her day.25. - Why didnt Ann see me wave to her?- She _ in the other direction.26. The man in black was about to set fire to the house _ the police came.A. while B. after C. before D. when27. If the company wants to fire me. They had to give me three months _.A. advice B. information C. notice D. message28. He _ to lend me his new bicycle but I refused, for I didnt want to trouble him.A. failed B. considered C. offered D. insisted29. - What was your daughter doing when I _ you?- She _ back from school and was doing her homework.A. telephoned; had just come B. was telephoning ; just cameC. had telephoned; have just come. D. would telephone; was just coming.30. As the bike is_, there is no need for you to buy a new one.A. under good conditions B. in good conditionC. on condition D. in one condition31. I _ while reading the English textbook. Luckily, my roommate woke me up in time!A. was falling asleep B. fell asleep C. had fallen asleep D. fall asleep32. - Does this dress fit Mary?- I dont know. She is very _bout what she wears.A, special B. especial C. general D. particular33. _ heart trouble for years, Professor White has to take some medicine with him wherever he goes.A. Having suffered B. Suffering from C. Having suffered from D. Being suffered34. Can you imagine the great effect the medicine has _ my body?A. on B. to C. in D. for35. The teacher demanded that he _ his homework at once.A. hand in B. would turn in C. turned in D. should be turned第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，撑握其大意，然后从3655各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项A store owner was putting a sign above his door that read “Puppies For Sale”. Signs like that have a way of 36 small children, and 37 enough, a little boy appeared under the store owners sign. “ 38 are you going to sell the puppies for?” he asked.The store owner replied, “ 39 from $ 30 to $ 50.”The little boy 40 in his pocket and pulled out some 41 . “I have $ 2.37,” he said. “ 42 I please look at them?”The store owner 43 and whistled and out of the kennel（狗窝）came Lady, who ran down the aisle（过道）of his store 44 by five puppies. One puppy was 45 . Immediately the little boy singled out the puppy and said, “Whats 46 with that little dog ?”The store owner explained that the veterinarian（兽医）had 47 the little puppy and had discovered that it didnt have a hip socket. It would always walk slowly and with difficulty. It would always be lame. The little boy became 48 “Thats the little puppy that I want to buy.”The store owner said, “No, you dont 49 to buy that little dog. If you really want him, Ill just give him to you.”The little boy got quite upset. He looked 50 into the store owners eyes, pointing his finger and said, “I dont want you to give him to me. That little dog is worth every bit as much as all the other dogs and Ill pay 51 price. In fact Ill give you $ 2.37 now, and 50 cents a month 52 I have him paid for.”The store owner answered, “You really dont want to buy this little dog. He is never going to be able to jump and play with you like the other puppies.”To his surprise, the little boy reached 53 and rolled up his pant leg to show a badly twisted, crippled（残疾的）left leg 54 by a big metal brace（支架）. He looked up at the store owner and softly replied, “Well, I dont run so well myself, and the little puppy will need someone who 55 !”36Aabsorbing Battracting Cbargaining Dgreeting37Asure Bluckily Csurprisingly Dinterestingly38AWhat BHow come CWhen DHow much39AAnything BAnybody CAnywhere DAnyhow40Aput Barrived Creached Dfilled41Acoin Bnote Cvalue Dchange42ACan BShall CWill D Must43Afrowned Bsmiled Cdisagreed Dannounced44Aapplied Bguided Cfollowed Dlinked45Afalling behind Bsetting foot Clending a hand Dputting forward46Athe price Bthe matterCthe weight Dthe name47Atested Bstudied Cexamined Dexperimented48Aexcited Bshocked Cworried Ddisappointed49Aafford Bwant Ctend Dmean50Astraight Bdeeply Cclosely Dtotally51Ahalf BlowerChigherDfull52AunlessBafterCuntilDonce53AupBdownCout Dover54Asupported BassistedCadjustedDsurrounded55AencouragesBcooperatesCunderstands Drecognizes第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40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。AYou do not need every word to understand the meaning of what you read. In fact, too much emphasis（强调）on separate words both slows your speed and reduces your comprehension.First, any habit which slows down your silent reading to the speed at which you speak, or read aloud, is inefficient. If you point to each word as you read, or move your head, or form the words with your lips, you read poorly. Less obvious habits also hold back reading efficiency（效率）. One is “saying” each word silently by moving your tongue or throat; another is “hearing” each word as you read.These are habits which should have been outgrown long ago. The beginning reader is learning how letters can make words, how written words are pronounced, and how sentences are put together. Your reading purpose is quite different; it is to understand meaning.It has been supposed that up to 75% of the words in English sentences are not really necessary for expressing the meaning. The secret of silent reading is to find out those key words and phrases which carry the thought, and to pay less attention to words which exist only for grammatical completeness.An efficient reader can grasp the meaning from a page at least twice as fast as he can read the page aloud. He takes in a whole phrase or thought unit at a time. If he “says” or “hears” words to himself, they are selected ones, said for emphasis.56This passage is mainly about .Aimproving eye movement Breading more widelyCchanging poor reading habits Dreading as fast as you can57Saying each word to yourself as you read .Aimproves comprehensionBincreases reading speedCgives too much emphasis Dreduces reading efficiency58Our reading purpose should be .Ato understand all the words Bto make fewer eye movementsCto understand meaning Dto understand the grammatical structures59While reading, efficient readers usually .Amove their eyes quickly Btake in whole phrases or thought unitsCpoint at key words Dread only important points for speedBDespite their name, the Want Family dont want much. They want enough money for a nice house and a holiday every year. But they dont want to be millionaires. They want to do well at their jobs. But they dont want to be the big boss. They do want to spend time improving their garden, visiting their families and taking their two kids, Nicolas and Leuan, to McDonalds for lunch. But they dont want to be famous.The Wants just want to be normal. Thats why they are famous. They have been selected as the most normal family in Britain. After a six-month search for the most ordinary family in Britain, the Wants were selected from hundreds of applicants.John wants a job in marketing for a food company, Claire has a part-time job renting out childrens play equipment. John doesnt understand why they were chosen to represent ordinary English families. How are they normal?That is not a bad question. Nearly everyone does some of the things that the Wants do. But very few people do all of them. There have been great changes in the social structure of British life. It is becoming more common for people to have children when they are older than the Wants, and to have one child instead of two. A household with two children may be headed by a single parent, usually the mother. Or perhaps dad and mum are still together, but not married. Or maybe dad and mum are married. Dad goes out to work and mum stays at home and looks after the kids. They have traditional values Every weekend the whole family goes to church.“What we have here is not an average family, but a traditional family,” says Cary Cooper, professor of philosophy at Lancaster University. “There is no such thing as a normal family any more, in the way there was 20 or 30 years ago. Of course the Wants exist, but for what do we need to celebrate them?” Perhaps because we think normal families are an endangered species. Examples of them have to be preserved（保护）to show future generations.60The Wants were selected as the most normal family in Britain because .Athey represent traditional English families Bthey dont want muchCthey dont want to be famous Dthey want to be normal61The following statements describe the great changes in British life EXCEPT that .Apeople have kids later than 20 or 30 years agoBsome children are brought up by a single parentCmost families go to church every weekendDits more common for families to have only one kid62We may infer from the passage that .Amost British families hold traditional valuesBtraditional families are becoming fewer and fewerCfuture generations are expected to study traditional familiesDtraditional families no longer exist in Britain63What might be the most suitable title for this passage ?AAn Ordinary Family BFamilies of Future GenerationsCCelebration of a Family CompetitionDA Normal But Special FamilyCTo understand the marketing concept, it is only necessary to understand the difference between marketing and selling. Not too many years ago, most industries fixed their attention mainly on the production of goods, and then depended on “persuasive salesmanship” to move as much of these goods as possible and then change them into money.Marketing, on the other hand, focuses on the wants of customers. It begins with first understanding the preferences and demands of consumers and then producing goods that will satisfy them. This eye-on-the-consumer way is known as the marketing concept, which simply means that instead of trying to sell whatever is easiest to produce or buy for resale, the makers and dealers first try to find out what the consumer wants to buy.This concept does not mean that business is friendly or that consumer satisfaction is more important than profit in a company. Successful businessmen and producers, however, recognize that the surest route to profit is through understanding and satisfying customers. A striking example of the importance of satisfying customers presented itself in mid-1985, when Coca-Cola changed the flavor of its drink. The non-acceptance of the new flavor by a large majority of the public brought about quick return of the Classic Coke, which was then marketed alongside the new. King Customer ruled !64The marketing concept discussed in the passage is .Athe practice of turning goods into moneyBthe customer-centered wayCa way of making more goodsDa form of persuasive salesmanship65What mattered most for producers before the marketing concept was widely accepted ?ANeeds and understanding of the market.BProduction and profit of a company.CSatisfaction of customers.DPreference of businessmen.66According to the passage, the underlined word “move”（paragraph1）means .AsellBchange Cproduce Dconsume67What does the return of the Classic Coke best show ?ATraditional goods have a stronger attraction to the majority of people.BIt takes time for a new product to be accepted by the public.CConsumers with different tastes are often difficult to please.DProducts must be designed to suit the taste of the consumers.DTo Lauder Exchange Program:Gaia Filicori was a student in my Humanities class for the 2002-2020 year. From the first week of classes it was obvious that Gaia was an excellent student and a very sociable young lady. She was always eager to join in class discussions. Gaias ability to communicate her own ideas is a skill that many of us work for a very long time to achieve.Gaia also has a deep curiosity about the world around her. The simple fact that she desires to spend a year in another country is proof enough. I have also seen her show this curiosity in class. She asked some of the most interesting and thoughtful questions of any of the students in her class. When others were content to accept a point, Gaia would see from a new angle that none of us had tried.As a student in Humanities, Gaia was required to complete a group project. The project was to write a page for a Humanities textbook using text and multi-media. It was a challenging task and Gaias group was experiencing some difficulties. Yet, they had an easier time of it because they did not hesitate to come to me with their problems and try to work them out. As a result Gaia and her group had one of the more successful projects. The ability needed to recognize a problem and ask for help to solve it will be of great value if she is selected to be a Lauder Exchange student.Galas interest in the world around her will serve her well as a Lauder Exchange student. The ease with which she gets along with others and the ease with which she makes new friends will also help her as she tries to learn in a foreign setting. I have no doubts that Gaia would be a wonderful representative of the Lauder Program, Stuyvesant High School, and the United States.Perry JonesSocial StudiesStuyvesant High SchoolIf you have any ther questions please feel free to contact me.212-312-4800; pjones stuy. edu68The main purpose of this letter is toAexpress a students curiosity about the worldBintroduce a student to an exchange programCpraise an excellent studentDencourage a student to join in an exchange program69According to the writer, Gaia seems to have all the following abilities EXCEPT .Acommunicating well with othersBthinking about things from different anglesCmaking new friendsDlearning a language quickly in a foreign setting70Gaia shows her curiosity about the world by .Ahoping to spend a year in another countryBbeing content to accept a pointCgetting along well with othersDserving well as a Lauder Exchange student71Perry Jones might be .AGalas classmateBa person in charge of Stuyvesant High SchoolCGaias teacherDa person in charge of Lauder Exchange ProgramEWe sometimes think humans are the only species which can bear anxiety, but stress seems to affect the immune（免疫）system of lower animals too. In one experiment, for example, behavioral scientist Mark Lauden, at the University of Denver, gave mild electric shocks to 24 rats. Half of the animals could turn off the electricity by turning a wheel in their cage, while the other half could not. The rats in the two groups were paired so that each time one rat turned the wheel it protected both itself and its helpless partner from the shock. Lauden found that the immune reaction was below normal in the helpless rats but not in those that could turn off the electricity. What he has proved is that lack of control over an event, not the experience itself, is what weakens the immune system.Other researchers agree. Jay Weiss, a scientist at Duke University School of Medicine, has shown that animals who are allowed to control unpleasant stimuli（刺激）dont develop sleep disorder or changes in brain chemistry of stressed rats. But if the animals are faced with situations they have no control over, they later behave passively when faced with experiences they can control. Such findings make researchers believe that the experience or feeling of helplessness is one of the most harmful factors in stress.One of the most surprising examples of how the mind can change the immune reaction was discovered by chance. In 1995 Robert Ader at the University of Rochester School of Medicine experimented on mice to avoid saccharin（糖精）by feeding them at the same time with the sweetener and a drug that while harming their immune systems caused stomach upsets. Connecting the saccharin with stomach pains, the mice quickly learned to avoid the sweetener. In order to get rid of this dislike for the sweetener, Ader fed the animals with saccharin again, this time without the drug, and was astonished to find that those mice that had received the highest amount of sweetener the first time died. He believed that saccharin alone weakened their immune systems enough to kill them.72Laudens experiment showed that the immune system of those rats who could turn off the electricity.Awas strengthened Bwas not affectedCwas changed Dwa