江西省南城县2020学年高二英语下学期第二次月考试题（无答案）(1)

2020年下学期第二次月考试卷高二英语第I卷第一节（共5小题：每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的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秒钟的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.What does the woman prefer doing?A.Going cycling. B. Going camping. C. Going swimming.2.What does the man want to do?A.Lend the woman a book. B. Buy a new book. C . Read a book.3.What does the man mean?A.Its too far away to walk.B. Its within walking distance. C. Its better to take a taxi.4.When did the man graduate from Michigan University?A. In 1960. B. In 1937. C. In 1956.5.What does the woman mean?A.The man cannot post his letter now. B.The post office is still open for business now.C.The man can post his letter on Saturday afternoon.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 读各个小题，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。听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。6.Where does the man want to go?A.Hangzhou.B. Hainan.C. Guilin.7.What will the manager talk about at the meeting?A.The business model.B. Travel plans.C. The goal of the company.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8.Why havent the family had dinner together?A.She is too busy with her work. B.Her parents schedules are different.C.She is extremely exhausted.9.What is the womans attitude towards her parents now?A.Complaining. B. Afraid. C. Worried.10.What can we learn about the woman?A.She likes hamburgers very much. B. Her mother is a doctor.C.Her father works in a hospital.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 至 13 题。11.Who put the book in the drawer?A.Jean. B. Tina. C. Bill.12.What do we know about the man?A.He has a bad memory. B.He has to return the book today.C.He paid ten dollars for the book.13.Where did the man get the book?A.From the library. B. From Tina. C. From a bookstore.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 17 题。14.What are the speakers going to do this weekend?A.Go on a picnic.B. Go on a trip.C. Go out for dinner.15.What kind of food does the woman like?A.Italian food.B. Thai food.C. Chinese food.16.Where is the restaurant that the speakers have chosen?A.On Nanjing Road.B. On Chinese Road.C. On Liuquan Road.17.When will the speakers meet?A. At 6:15.B. At 6:00.C. At 5:45.听第 10 段材料，回答第 18 至 20 题。18.Whom are the exhibits designed for?A.People working on research projects.B.Individuals who are interested in original documents and other items.C.People who want to see rare materials related to research projects.19.What should visitors do first in the main lobby?A.Stop at the admissions desk to register.B.Tell the staff what documents they want to research.C.Download a brief registration form.20.What should visitors check in the coat room?A.Their belongings.B. Photo identification.C. Research materials第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）AADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia One of the worlds most famous fossils (化石) the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton (骨骼) unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 will go on an exhibition tour abroad for the first time in the United States, officials said Tuesday.Even the Ethiopian public has only seen Lucy twice. The Lucy on exhibition at the Ethiopian National Museum in the capital, Addis Ababa, is a replica while the real remains areusually locked in a secret storeroomA team from the Museum of National Science in Houston,Texas, spent four years discussing with the Ethiopians for the U.S. tour, which will start in Houston next September.“Ethiopias rich culture of both the past and today, is one of the best kept secrets in the world,” said Joel Bartsch, director of the Houston museum.The six-year tour will also go to Washington, New York, Denver and Chicago. Officials said six other U.S. cities may be on the tour. But they said plans had not been worked out.Travelling with Lucy will be 190 other fossils.Lucy, her name taken from a Beatles song that played in a camp the night of her discovery, is part of the skeleton of what was once a 312 -foot-tall ape-man (猿人).21The author writes this text mainly to.Aintroduce a few U.S. museums Bdescribe some research workCreport a coming event Ddiscuss the value of an ape-man22What does the words “a replica” in Paragraph 2 refer to?AA painting of the skeleton. BA copy of the skeleton.CA photograph of Lucy DA written record of Lucy.23How many cities has Lucys U.Stour plan already included?AFour. BEleven. CSix. DFive.24What was the skeleton named after?AAn ape-man. BA song. CA singer. DA camp.BWhen I visit Merle, I always head straight to the kitchen. I play with her dog, and get settled at the table while Merle makes cups of tea for us.We talk about anything we can think of: politics, dogs, the weather, and work. Its a ritual that I look forward to days in advance.To an outsider, my visit appears to be simply the typical act of a granddaughter visiting her grandmother. But Merle and I are not related. She is my surrogate(代理) grandmother.I didnt even realize I was in the market for a new grandparent until I gradually found that the relationship between Merle and I was exactly what I had with my maternal(母性的） grandparents-safe and comfortable.While our relationship developed organically, there are plenty of people who have gone out searching for a grandparent-grandchild relationship.Sydney-based Cate Kloos started “Find a Grandparent” in May 2020, after moving to Australia from Germany. While she enjoyed a close relationship with her grandparents in her native country, she realized her own children would be without their extended family(大家庭). She wanted them to benefit in the same way that she had. Grandparents, she says, offer a different but essential kind of support.“Find a Grandparent” works much like a match-mating service, where young families or individuals can ask for someone to act as a grandparent figure in their life. So far, several hundred families have made connections and spend time doing typical activities -lunch, going to movies and sharing stories.“It is very important to have another person to turn to when they have problems; often grandparents have a different approach to life,” said Kloos.25. How does the author feel about her visit to Merle?A. It is very formal. B. It makes her nervous.C. It gives her great pleasure D. It is a source of inspiration for her.26. Why did Kloos decide to start “Find a Parent”?A. To honor her grandparents. B. To make people closer to each other.C. To bring warmth to elderly people. D. To enable her kids to get m ore emotional support.27. What does Kloos stress in the last paragraph ?A. The qualities of grandparents. B. The important role of grandparents.C. We should have a positive attitude to life. D. We should spend more time with our family.28. Whats the best title for the text?A. Merle and I B. My role-modelC. Biological or surrogate? D. Finding surrogate grandparents.CMy husband and I are saving thousands of dollars every year by growing our own vegetables in our backyard. We learn something new every year and this website has been made to share tips with other people that would like to grow some of their own food.Its true that if you are starting from fresh, it will cost a little bit of money to get started. However, once everything is set up, the cost is very small and the rewards are huge. The size of your family and how many vegetables you eat determine exactly how much money you can save every year. We do a lot of juicing, so we are saving thousands of dollars by growing some carefully selected greens.There is an amazing sense of accomplishment when you grow your own vegetables. Vegetables out of your vegetable garden dont get any fresher, tastier or more satisfying. The whole family can get involved in this hobby and kids will learn where food comes from and appreciate nature even more.Our approach to vegetable gardening is completely different from the normal one. We are doing it in the lazy way with zero digging and fertilizing(施肥). The way we grow our vegetables is to emulate natural ecosystems. No rows of carrots can be found in our garden beds. Rain forests seem to do just fine without human interference(干预) or having plants sown in rows, so we have applied the same principle to our vegetable garden and we care producing more vegetables than ever.By copying nature we spend little time working in the vegetable garden but get a much better crop than previous years when we followed the rules. What can I say? Were such rebels.(叛逆者）29. What does author think about people growing their own vegetable?A. It is a rewarding activity. B. It is costly in the beginning.C. People should devote many efforts. D. People should share their tips.30. What does the underlined word “emulate” paragraph 4 mean?A. Create. B. Imitate. C. Preserve D. Improve.31. Why does the author call her and her husband “rebels”?A. They use unconventional ways to grow vegetables.B. They even try to grow vegetables in the rain forests.C. They dont buy vegetables from the market. D. They dont grow ordinary vegetables.DVery mobile ears help many animals direct their attention to the rustle(沙沙声) of a possible attacker. Researchers say these mobile ears have become a useful communication tool. Their studies of animal behaviour build up a picture of how communication and social skills developed.“Were interested in how they communicate,” said lead researcher Jennifer Wathan.“And being sensitive to what another individual is thinking is a fundamental skill from which other more complex skills develop.”Ms Wathan and her colleague Prof Karen McComb set up a behavioural experiment where 72 individual horses had to use visual clues from another horse in order to choose where to feed. They led each horse to a point where it had to select one of two buckets. On a wall behind this decision-making spot was a life-sized photograph of a horses head facing either to left or right. In some of the trials, the horses ears or eyes were covered.If the ears and eyes of the horse in the picture were visible, the horses being tested would choose the bucket towards which its gaze and its ears were directed. If the horse in the picture had either its eyes or its ears covered, the horse being tested would just choose a feed bucket at random.Like many mammals that are hunted by predators（捕食者）, horses can rotate（旋转）their ears through almost 180 degrees - but Ms Wathan said that in our human-centric view of the world, we had overlooked the importance of these very mobile ears in animal communication.It seems theres something in the visual clues-from both the eyes and the ears-that are really important, she told BBC News. Horses have quite rich social lives and relationships with other horses, so theyre a good species to look at this in. And the more we look at communication across different species, the more we can consider what might have promoted the evolution of sophisticated communication and social skills.32. Why does a horse rotate its ears?A. To tell each other where they can go for the buckets.B. To be curious about what the other horse is thinking.C. To warn the other horse when an attacker is coming closer.D. To express its hope to build up social relations with others.33. Why did the researchers use the life-sized photograph of a horse in the experiment?A. To help develop horses complex skills. B. To lead other horses to feed themselves.C. To make the horses in the experiment excited.D. To provide clues for the horses in the experiment.34. Why are ears and eyes important to horses?A. They can find the feeding buckets more easily with ears and eyes.B. With ears and eyes they can escape from dangers more easily.C. With ears and eyes they can communicate with other horses.D. Horses have quite rich social lives with ears and eyes.35. Where does this text probably come from?A. A scientific magazine B. A medical journal C. A school text book D. A tourist guide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，选项中有两项多余选项。Another Way to Study English: Online Movie RentalsIt is generally accepted that the best way to learn a language is to totally involve yourself in its culture by living in the country where it is spoken. 36 . Fortunately, many aspects of a countrys culture have made their way to our lives in the form of various media and entertainment outlets(娱乐场所). Have you heard of online movie rentals? If not, there might be an option for you to increase your language skills and enjoy some entertainment at the same time. 37 .Most companies require customers to operate on the following model:Select and sign up for a payment program online, which will determine how many movies you can rent and hold at any one time. _38_. You can look up movies by title, actor or director. Then movies will be sent to you within 1-3 days, and shipping is covered by the company.Watch the movies, often with no late fees. If you havent finished on time, you can delay returning. _39_ . The envelope is prepaid and provided by the rental service. Check the sites for specific and up-to-date details because new companies and terms of service are always changing.Once you receive the movies, how can you improve your language skills with them? Well, just sitting in front of the TV with a drink in one hand isnt a bad way to relax, but you wont learn much. You should take notes of new expressions while watching a movie. Write them down and look them up in a good English-English dictionary to understand their possible meanings. 40 . If you dont know how to use words, learning vocabulary will lose all meaning.A. Return the movies in a return envelope.B. Watch movies as long as you have nothing to do.C. Please make the best use of time to watch movies.D. But many find packing up and moving to a country is not a practical option.E. Choose the movie you want to watch, generally 1-3 at a time.F. Then, think of some sample sentences for each word.G. Now, more companies are offering customers the chance to rent movies online第三部分 英语知识运用 （共两节， 满分45分）完形填空 （共20 小题；每小题1.5分， 满分30分）In the week before Christmas, one Delta airlines pilot gave a sad Arizona family a gift that no one else could.Father of three, Jay short died after a 41 with lung cancer Dec, 16th. Three days later, his family was attempting to 42 to Tennessee for the funeral scheduled for the next morning. But a 90-munite 43 at the Phoenix airport 44 them only seven minutes to make their connecting flight in Minnesota. “This was our 45 chance to say goodbye to my dad, and if we hadnt 46 the flight, we would have missed the 47 ” Jays daughter said. But when they arrived at the gate, the last plane of the day to Memphis was 48 away from the gate.“My son was 49 his arms and pleading with the pilot through the floor-to ceiling windows.” said Marcia, “I was 50 and comforting my girls who were also in tears when the phone rang, 51 us that the pilot was returning to the gate to let us 52 the plane.” Captain Adam Cohen saw the 53 on their faces through the gates windows and decided to turn the plane around. Airline experts pointed out Cohen could have 54 gotten into trouble for the 55 decision, but Delta 56 the move instead. “This is 57 well take with us, knowing we made a 58 .” confirmed Adam.This story is an 59 that we can bring humanity back to society. Show care and it may 60 you how far that you go.41. A. competition B. symptom C. connection D. battle42. A. ride B. run C. fly D. drive43. A. wait B. delay C. interval D. sleep44. A. left B. offered C. brought D. spared45. A. last B. slight C. rare D. proper46. A. followed B. caught C. booked D. confirmed47. A. doctor B. funeral C. polite D. meeting48. A. pulling B. bringing C. keeping D. taking49. A. raising B. waving C folding D. crossing50. A. struggling B. shouting C. prayingD. crying51. A. advising B. informing C. warning D. instructing52. A. boardB. guide C. change D. land53. A. appreciation B. satisfaction C. desperation D. caution54. A. easily B. merely C. optionally D. deliberately55. A. careless B. selfless C. unusual D. unwise56. A. resisted B. opposed C. sponsored D. praised57. A. nothing B. something C. anything D. everything58. A. difference B. change C. promise D. deal59. A. evidence B. event C. incident D. activity60. A. surprise B. panic C. disappoint D. embarrass第II卷第三部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)第二节 (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（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。The mooncake features on every Mid-Autumn Festival dining table, and 61._ (tradition) comes with fillings like five kernels(a mixture of five different nuts) and red bean paste. These mooncake flavors represent the tastes of various 62._(area) in China, with favorite fillings varying from province to province.However, traditions change with the times, and 63._do mooncake flavors.Today, many people like Hong Kong -style mooncakes, 64._(go) crazy for that unbeatable