山西省晋中市平遥县第二中学2020学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题

山西省晋中市平遥县第二中学2020学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题一阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）（A）Chinas government has been trying all measures to reduce pollution in the past few years. Now people can enjoy a fresh environment everywhere. The following two graphs are adopted from the column of “City Information” on the webpage of Beijing Review.Graph 1: Olympic Cities Air Quality Report CityDateAPIMajorPollutantAir QualityDegreeQualityConditionBeijingSep. 837N/AVery goodQinhuangdaoSep. 852PM10GoodQingdaoSep. 868PM10GoodShanghaiSep. 867PM10GoodShenyangSep. 888PM10GoodTianjinSep. 854PM10GoodGraph 2: Chinese National StandardAPI ValuesLevels of health concernColorsWhen the API is in this range:.air quality conditions are:.as symbolized by this color:0 to 50Very goodBlue51 to 100GoodGreen101 to 150Slight pollutionYellow151 to 200Moderate pollutionOrange201 to 250Medium pollutionRed251 to 300High pollutionPurple301 to 500HazardousBrownNotes: *API stands for Air Pollution Index(指数). *Particulate matter (PM10) is a major component of air pollution that threatens both our health and our environment. It consists of very small liquid and solid particles floating in the air. *Sulfur dioxide(SO2) acts as an acidInhalation(吸入) results in labored breathing, coughing, or a sore throat and may cause permanent lung damage.1. According to Graph 1, which of the following cities has the worst air pollution?A. Qinhuangdao.B. Tianjin.C. Qingdao. D. Shenyang.2. If your city is symbolized by either red or purple, the pollution in your city is .A. Moderate or high. B. Moderate or slight. C. Medium or high. D. Medium or slight. 3. Which of the following statements is TURE?A. With API value below 150 the air is free from being polluted.B. The colors from purple to Yellow indicate the air quality is becoming much worse.C. When there are floating solid particles and dust in the air, it is dangerous pollution.D. On September 8th the color-symbol of Beijing Citys air quality is Blue.4. When more citizens are beginning to have labored breathing soon after they are in the open air, it suggests that .A. there is a large amount of sulfur dioxide in the air B. it is so cold that they may have caught a coldC. they are starting to cough or have a feverD. they must be infected with permanent lung disease (B) Not everyone in the world requires the same amount of living space. The amount of space a person needs around him is a cultural (文化的) difference, not an economic one. Knowing your own psychological (心理的) space needs is important because they strongly affect your choices, including, for example, the number of bedrooms in the home. If you were brought up in a two-child family and both you and your sister or brother had your own bedrooms, the chances are if you have two children or more, that you also will offer separate bedrooms for them. In America, for example, they train people to want to have their own rooms by giving them their own rooms when they are babies. This is very rare in the world. In many other countries, the baby sleeps in the same bed with his parents or in a bed near them. The space in the home also shows a lot about psychological space needs. Some families gather closer to each other and the size of their house has nothing to do with it. Others have separate little corners where family members go to be alone. Although it is true that psychological space needs are not decided by economic reasons, they sometimes have to be changed a little because of economic pressure（压力）. It is almost impossible, however, to completely change your psychological space needs.5.The first sentence in Paragraph 1 “Not everyone in the world requires the same amountof living space” means “_”.A. Not two people need exactly the same amount of living spaceB. Living space requirements are not always the sameC. The world requires the same amount of living spaceD. Nobody needs a required amount of living space6.Some families gather closer to each other at home than others because _.A. they have limited living spaceB. they are brought up in a large familyC. it satisfies（满足） their psychological space needsD. the children in the family sleep in the same bed with their parents7.Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Americans are trained to live in the large rooms at birth.B. Economic situation decides ones amount of space needs.C. People in different countries demand(need) different psychological space.D. Knowing your psychological space needs is important, as it has effect on your future.8.The best title for this passage is _.A. American Way of Living B. Psychological SpaceC. Space Needs in Different Countries D. Psychological Space and Economic Pressure(C)The tea gardens in Sri Lanka are actually large estates.(种植园) The best tea usually comes from plants grown on high grounds, the cool hilltops with rows and rows of tea plants. The plants are about one metre about. The plant is often pruned so that it remains only 60 to 90 centimetres high.Pruningis important because it encourages the growth of tender shoots, or young leaves. It is from these shoots that the best tea is got. Practically all the tea pickers are women. The estates prefer to employ women pickers because they are more careful. Their thin fingers can easily remove the twin leaves and new shoots from the plant,which are the parts used for processing (加工) tea. The pickers carry large baskets into which they throw their pickings. A skilled worker can harvest between 9 to 14 kilogrammes of tea leaves a day. Usually new shoots can be picked from the plants about every ten or fifteen days. Processing tea shoots into the familiar dry tea leaves requires great care and skill. There are variousmethods of processing depending on the type of tea required. For black tea, the young green leaves arefirst spread out on shelves to dry. This process removes much of its water and the leaves become soft.After this, the leaves are passed through heavy rollers. This operation will press the leaves for juiceswhich give the tea both its colour and taste. Then the leaves are spread out on floors and left to ferment(发酵)under wet conditions. Fermentation develops the rich taste of black tea. The fermented leaves arethen dried with a hot-air blower until they become rolled-up black leaves. The final step is to sort and grade them before the black tea is ready for sale to countries all over the world.9. In the first paragraph, the word pruning means.A. regular cutting of the plants B. frequent wateringC. regular use of chemicals D. growing the plants high in the mountain10. One of the reasons why women are employed to do the picking is that.A. they work harder than men do in the pickingB. they can throw their pickings more easily into the basketsC. their fingers fit them better for the jobD. they can more easily find the twin leaves11. How many processing steps for black tea are mentioned in the last paragraph?A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.12. What is the writers purpose in writing the passage?A. To introduce various methods of tea processing.B. To persuade readers to buy tea from Sri Lanka.C. To tell a story that had happened in the tea gardens.D. To inform readers of tea growing, picking and processing.(D)When I first got an e-mail account ten years ago, I received communications only from family, friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my e-mail, I have an endless series of advertisements and other correspondence that do not interest me at all. If we want e-mail to continue to be useful, we need specific laws that make spamming(发送垃圾邮件) a crime.If lawmakers do not do something soon to prohibit spam, the problem will certainly get much worse. Computer programs allow spammers to send hundreds of millions of e-mails almost instantly. As more and more advertisers turn to spam to sell their products, individual(个人的) e-mail boxes are often flooded with spam e-mails. Would people continue to use e-mail if they had to deal with an annoying amount of spam each time?This problem is troubling for individuals and companies as well. Many spam e-mails contain computer viruses that can shut down the entire network of a company. Companies rely on e-mail for their employees to communicate with each other. Spam frequently causes failures in their local communications networks, and their employees are thus unable to communicate effectively. Such a situation results in a loss of productivity and requires companies to repeatedly repair their networks. These computer problems raise production costs of companies, which are, in the end, passed on to the consumer.For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate (立法) against spam. Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people. E-mail is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spam is destroying this convenience.13. According to the text, what is the major cause of the flooding spam? A. Companies rely on e-mail for communications.B. More people in the world communicate by e-mail.C. More advertisers begin to promote sales through spam.D. Many computer viruses contain spam e-mail.14. According to Paragraph 3, who is the final victim of spam? A. The business B. The advertiser C. The consumer D. The employee 15. What is the purpose of the text?A. To inform B. To educate C. To instruct D. To persuade (E) My mother is a diligent and kind woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a teacher, she works hard. 16 Both my brother and I love her dearly as she loves us.My mother has been teaching math at a middle school in my hometown. She goes to work early in the morning and does not return home until late in the afternoon. 17 She treats them with patience and teaches them well. For her excellent quality and very good teaching results, she has been elected as a model teacher several times. 18 Every day, when she comes back home from work, she sets about doing housework, sweeping the living room and bedrooms or cleaning the furniture, and putting everything in good order. She seems to be busy all the time. As she has been very busy working every day, she looks older than her age. But she looks as cheerful and happy as ever. Mother never buys expensive dresses for herself, but she often buys some inexpensive but high quality clothes for us. 19 She just eats a plain meal outside when she is too busy to cook herself. She lives a busy yet simple life, without any complaints.Often she says to us, “work while you work, and play while you play. That is the way to be happy and gay. If you do not work, you will become lazy and be of no use to society”. What a piece of good advice this is! 20 This advice of hers will always serve as a guide to my behavior. My mother is great indeed, and I always feel proud of her.A. She enjoys listening to classic music.B. As a mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort.C. She loves her students and cares for them.D. She never goes to expensive restaurants to enjoy meals.E. My mother is hard-working and never wastes money.F. I never forget it and always bear it in my mind.G. Can you tell us something about your mother?二完形填空（每空2分，共40分）When I woke next morning, I was dying of _21_. I seemed to have a hole instead of a _22_. I dressed quickly and hurried down to the dinning-room. It was a big room with six tall windows and the ugliest wallpaper I had ever seen! _23_, I had been told the hotel was not beautiful but that you were better _24_ there than in any other hotel; and that was _25_ I wanted just then.The waiter came hurrying up. Before I came downstairs, I had prepared _26_ carefully for what I must _27_. I had looked three times in my dictionary to make sure _28_ “breakfast” really meant “breakfast” I had tried to get the right _29_ and I had stood in the front of a mirror and twisted my mouth until it ached. The waiter asked me _30_ I could not understand, but I spoke only my one prepared word “breakfast”. He looked at me in a31way. So I repeated it. Still he did not understand. It was32that English people didnt understand their language. The waiter33 his head and went away, but he came back in a minute and brought a tray with tea, bread and butter enough to feed a small army and went away. But I was hungry, and I left34. When the waiter came back I thought his face showed a little35, but you can never _36_. What a waiters face really shows! In another minute he brought _37_ tray with some bacon(熏肉) and some eggs. He38have misunderstood me, but I thought it was no use explaining to people who dont understand their own language, so I just set to work on the bacon and eggs, wondering whether I could possibly clear that plate. Well, I finished the bacon and eggs. I got up and made my way slowly to my room at least five pound39. I never believed until then that any meal could40me, but on that day I met my Waterloo(滑铁卢).21. A. hunger B. cold C. anger D. illness22. A. stone B. head C. breast D. stomach23. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. So D. However24. A. received B. fed C. cared D. eating25. A. just B. what C. that D. why26. A. English B. meal C. questions D. myself27. A. speak B. answer C. say D. explain28. A. that B. about C. of D. to29. A. pronunciation B. meaning C. form D. spelling30. A. whether B. something C. when D. what31. A. surprised B. friendly C. puzzled D. touched32. A. unbelievable B. true C. thought D. a pity33. A waved B. shook C. bowed D. patted34. A. much B. a little C. nothing D. empty35. A. pleasure B. surprise C. pride D. satisfaction36. A. tell B. guess C. design D. express37. A. other B. another C. more D. me38. A. should B. might C. would D. must39. A. lighter B. heavier C. weightier D. more40. A. hurt B. fat C. defeat D. please三语法填空 （共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） Just as I began a new job in New York, I had to learn another important job: father. I was a businessman. At the office I had three new_1_ (project), and at home I had a young son who was growing fast and_2_ (need) me. I was puzzled and didnt know how to deal with the relationship between job and family until one day, during my business trip in Chicago, I came_3_ an old family friend Dan, _4_ was once a patient of my father. He told me something about my father. _5_was my father that helped him go through the cancer. When Dan knew he got cancer, he was very upset and wanted_6_ (give) up, but my father, his doctor, encouraged him to go on_7_ (fight) against the cancer. My father said to him, “You have_8_ wonderful life and three fine children. Take some time with them. Its family that we live fornot just ourselves. Think of that_9_ you will know lifes worth the fight.” His words touched me, and I_10_ (sudden) realized that family are the most important in the world.I should spend more time staying with them.四写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）A Chinese scientist, Mr. He Jiankui claimed that he has successfully created the worlds first genetically-edited babies. In a interview, Mr. He said he had edited the genetic substance, or DNA, of twin girls born a few weeks early. Though Mr Hes claim was immediately condemned by some scientists as unsafe and unethical, but he defended his work. He said the gene editing, that was to help protect the babi