江西省南城县第一中学2015-2016学年高二英语上学期12月月考试题

1、南城一中2017届高二上学期12月份月考英 语 试 题本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分，满分150分，考试时用120分钟。第卷第一部分 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. Who is probably the owner of the book?A. Frank. B. Tony. C. Lucy. 2. Where is the bike now

2、?A. At the gate. B. Under the stairs. C. In the garden. 3. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?A. About the work. B. About a film. C. About a match. 4. When does the conversation take place?A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening. 5. What does the woman mean?A. She doesn

3、t like a seat near the stage. B. There are not any tickets left. C. It is not an easy thing to get a ticket.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至7题。6. Where are they going?A. To the

4、 college. B. To the station. C. To the airport. 7. How will they get there?A. By taxi. B. By bike. C. By train.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What do we know about the man?A. He wants to have his phone fixed. B. He wants to buy a new cellphone. C. He wants to post letters in the post office.9. Where can you most

5、 probably hear this talk?A. Next to the post office. B. Near the store. C. On the street. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How does the man feel?A. Happy. B. Terrible. C. Excited.11. What happened to the man?A. He was knocked down by a car.B. He damaged a car round the corner. C. A car drove into his car.12. Wh

6、y did the accident happen?A. The driving mirror was broken. B. The roadside mirror was broken. C. The other driver drove too fast.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why does the woman want to buy her father a present?A. He fathers birthday is coming. B. She wants to send him a present on Fathers Day. C. Her fathe

7、rs handbag is worn.14. Which handbag will her husband probably get?A. The brown one.B. The yellow one. C. The black one.15. How much will the woman pay?A. $180. B. $300. C. $270.16. What does the woman think of the yellow handbag for her father?A. Too modern. B. Very suitable. C. Too cheap.听第10段材料，回

8、答第17至20题。17. Where is the speaker from?A. The United States.B. Latin America.C. Spain.18. What do the Latinos spend most of their lunchtime doing?A. Waiting for their orders.B. Chatting with friends. C. Talking about their studies.19. What do the American students usually do when they finish their l

9、unch?A. They leave in a hurry.B. They have some drinks.C. They stay a little longer.20. What do the Spanish speakers consider more important than others?A. Their studies and work. B. Their family and friends. C. Their soda and coffee.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

10、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AThe fierce competitiveness of todays job market has driven one university president to look online. He Hua,39, the president of Kunming University, has set up a store on Taobao where employers can browse（浏览）and “buy” the young graduates. He, the youngest university president

11、in China, hopes that his action will help students get on the career ladder.Mr. He announced the online store at a graduation ceremony attended by 4,500 students and teachers on July 2, 2015. The “Kunming University talent shop” shows the universitys top 65 graduates, who each have an online profile

12、（个人简介）showing off their talent. All of the graduates are wearing white T-shirts bearing the Kunming University logo.The students are divided into four categories: “along the way style,” “2025 style,” “Internet style” and “elite collection style”. Clicking on each persons photograph will show more ab

13、out their character and skills. Students have also listed their career ambitions and preferred salaries. If a company is interested in hiring any of the graduates they must pay the university 1,000 Yuan to “catch” or reserve the talent. The university will then check the companys credentials（证件）and

14、arrange phone calls and conversations between the future employer and employee. Whether or not a job offer is made, the university will return the money to the company after a week.Mr. He says he wants to use Taobao, which gets millions of views a month, to build a bridge between companies and stude

15、nts. His motto is “seek and you shall find”. He says that this is just one of many new ideas he has for the university.The university has also recently started its own online creative market for students to help themselves show their own products as well as has a financing platform which provides st

16、udents with outstanding entrepreneurial（创业者）credentials money to realize their ambitions.21. The information of the graduates below is showed in the shop EXCEPT ?A. their photographs. B. their talent. C. their career ambitions. D. their work experience.22. Which of the following orders is right acco

17、rding to the passage?a. check the companys credentials.b. charge 1,000 Yuanc. provide students information on Taobaod. return the moneye. arrange phone calls and conversationsA. cdebaB. acbde C. cbaed D. bcaed23. In order to help the students realize their ambitions, the university .A. starts its ow

18、n online market B. establishes its own companiesC. encourages its students to start businessesD. sets up more stores on TaobaoBI started dancing when I was 11 years old. It was all I wanted for my 11th birthday and I promised my parents I would never ask for an MP3 player or iPhone or even a car eve

19、r again if I could start ballet（芭蕾）classes. If they couldnt put me in classes because it was too expensive, I asked for ballet in a box, a video and books to follow. My parents decided that maybe they should make real ballet classes happen.I was the tallest in my level 1 class most of the other stud

20、ents were 7 and 8 years old. I stuck out like a strange and foolish thumb（拇指）. Nine months later, I mastered pointe（芭蕾舞中足尖站立的姿势）and a year after that, I was invited to join my studios Company Two and I really started to get serious about ballet. A secret hope began to grow. My instructors and my par

21、ents kept telling me that I had talent. I was tall for my age and had all long arms and legs; ballet just felt right in my body. When dancing, I felt so free that I was oblivious of my technique. Being able to move in such a different way made me free and easy.I dont still like to look in the mirror

22、, honestly. Seeing myself made me uncomfortable; I thought I wasnt pretty and I didnt look as graceful（优雅的）as I felt but the studio mirror is one of the main tools a dancer has to use and eventually I had to face myself. It wasnt easy.When I was 5, I went through a very painful experience that chang

23、ed me. I became terrified of just everything in life as a result of the harm I experienced from a teenage boy of our neighbor. To this day, even with lots of comfort, I still struggle with that fear and shame. But when I dance, I feel free.What I didnt know at first was that ballet would also be hea

24、ling. It has been five years since I started ballet, during which I have learnt how not to live in fear and shame. I will never stop dancing.24. What do you know about the author from Para.2? .A. Her progress inspired her to go on dancing. B. She made the least progress in the dance class.C. She rea

25、lized she could do ballet professionally. D. She could have given up without others encouragement.25. What does the underlined word “oblivious” mean?A. Afraid.B. Forgetful.C. Nervous.D. Sure.26. Why didnt the author want to look in the mirror?A. She thought she wasnt good enough. B. She felt upset w

26、hen others looked at her.C. It made her look less pretty.D. It made her recall bad memories.27. We can learn from the passage that the author .A. has left the old place with her familyB. is still suffering from the bad memoriesC. is stepping out from the shadow of her lifeD. feels so shameful as to

27、refuse to see a doctorCPeople enjoy spouting off（滔滔不绝地讲）on social media, including their jobs. The surprising thing is that they express their adoration for their jobs more often than they express hate. Thats according to a new survey of over a million online posts performed by an employment website

28、 Monster.The report shows that during the 12 months ending in March 2015, people were 4.7 times more likely to talk about loving their jobs than hating them.“We can learn a lot about how people are feeling about the job market and their careers through social media,” said Joanie Courtney, senior vic

29、e president for Monster.The expectation of yet another work week makes Sunday the least likely day to express love for jobs and 20 percent of job searches happen on Monday. People tend to express love for their jobs most often when theyre about to be away from the office for the weekend.The people w

30、ho like to express hate for their jobs tend to be from low-wage jobs like retail（零售） and food service, according to the data. Retail workers made up 37 percent of all dissatisfied posts about their jobs, almost twice the positive ones. “Retail workers tend to be younger,” Courtney said, “those posit

31、ions also tend to be customer-oriented（以顾客为中心的），which is evidently a difficult issue.”Tech workers were the least likely among the broad industry categories studied to express any emotion for their jobs. Only two percent of job-hating posts were from tech, suggesting tech workers have a sense of neg

32、ative consequences that can come with publicly expressing ones job frustrations.“We live in kind of a fishbowl today,” Courtney said. “You can see in and see out and as an employee you really have to be careful about what you are saying on social media, especially about your employer.”Americans livi

33、ng in the west tend to express appreciation for their jobs more than their easterly neighbors. All but one of the top 10 states by ratio（比例）of love to hate posts are west of the Mississippi. Hawaiians express love for their jobs nearly 10 times as much as they express derision（嘲弄）. Floridians are th

34、e least likely to express love for their jobs online.28. The underlined words “adoration” in the first paragraph can be replaced by .A. loveB. dissatisfaction C. expectationD. plan29. On which day are people most likely to express their love for work?A. Monday. B. Tuesday.C. Friday.D. Sunday.30. Why

35、 do retail workers feel dissatisfied with their work?A. They dont get equal pay or respect in their work.B. Dealing with customers may be hard for them. C. They have no patience with their work.D. They dont like to take challenges.31. The last paragraph suggests that peoples love for their jobs may

36、be influenced by ?A. ageB. sexC. the geographical factor D. working nature.DIve never heard of a highly creative or successful person being too busy. Think about the people who you hear say “Im too busy.” More often than not, those people arent actually busy at all. Theyre just filling their days to

37、 hide insecurities.I recently listened to an excerpt（摘录）of an audio book by Tim Kreider, which was featured by Tim Ferriss. In the book, he says that though highly creative or successful people are doing more things in a day than most people do in a week (or even a month), they never say they are bu

38、sy. Mr. Kreiders thoughts on being busy resonated with me. If I was “too busy” to listen to that excerpt, this article wouldnt exist and I wouldnt have become a slightly better version of myself with something to share.The digital age we live in should provide us with more time than we could ever im

39、agine. Twenty years ago when you wanted to look up a fact, you had to get in your car, drive to a library, find an encyclopedia（百科全书）, look through hundreds of pages of information, only then to find your answer. Nowadays, you just hold down a button on your phone and ask a nonexistent human your qu

40、estion. Or you Google it.We live in such a amazingly exciting time. The possibilities created by the Internet should not keep us tied to life full of feeling busy. Do yourself a favor and the next time you feel busy, just take a break. Take a few minutes to reassess your current situation. If you ar

41、ent willing to actually change it and make your life a little bit better through some hard work and tough choices, then at least stop complaining about it to other people. Be honest with yourself and make changes.Im not a self-made billionaire. I havent built a startup and sold it for a ridiculous a

42、mount of money. Im not a best-selling author with a potential movie deal. Im an entrepreneur（企业家）who isnt willing to live someone elses life. I measure my success by the things that make me happy, not by things that are glorified (美其名的)by our society.32. What can we learn from the passage?A. Tim Kre

43、ider is the most famous writer.B. People who say they are busy lack security in fact.C. Being busy is an excuse for avoiding trouble.D. Highly successful people dont say theyre busy.33. What does the underlined sentence mean?A. What I thought about being busy was taught by Kreider. B. Kreiders thoug

44、hts on being busy were deeply influenced by me.C. We both had similar thoughts on being busy.D. Kreider disagreed with what I thought about being busy.34. Whats the main idea of Para.4?A. Suggestions on how to live in the Internet age.B. Suggestions on how to deal with busyness. C. Suggestions on ho

45、w to work hard.D. Suggestions on how to stop complaining.35. What kind of person does the author belong to?A. A billionaire who built up from nothing. B. An entrepreneur who has sold his company.C. An author whose books are best sold. D. An entrepreneur who lives in his own style.第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10

46、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。What you should know when you travel 1. 36 Research it online and discuss it with your fellow travelers. Websites are a great place to see travel photos, journals and videos posted by real people sharing their experiences. Each trip offers you connected exp

47、eriences from real people so that you can get a better picture of the place you want to go.2. Change your money a t home.Some people say that carrying a large amount of cash makes you vulnerable（易受攻击的）to pickpockets. I agree. They say its better to rely on your ATM and credit cards. 37 In a lot of p

48、laces, ATM machines are hard to come by and may not accept all ATM cards. In some resorts and hotels, credit cards are not accepted, either. The exchange rate may also be far worse, depending on the location. Do your research before departure and prepare accordingly.3. 38 Last-minute deals are indee

49、d becoming more and more important nowadays. Youd better watch out for sales and promotions to save on air fares and hotel bookings. You may save a lot of money by booking in the last minute.4. Consider travel insurance.While you may not want to pay premium（保险费）rates for something that might not hap

50、pen, you should have some protection in case you could not travel during the time your tickets are booked for. The average one-week vacation will cost you in insurance needs about $75 dollars. 39 5. Pack light. 40 No one has ever said to themselves while on vacation, “Im glad I practically packed my

51、 entire closet.” Leave space for shopping and buying souvenirs. Moreover, traveling with lots of luggage limits your movement and causes discomfort.A. Choose your location.B. I would say it depends.C. Deals on last-minute booking.D. Only take the necessities with you when you travel.E. This is not a

52、 lot of money considering the security it buys you.F. Some expensive things arent worth the top dollar they ask for.G. If the trip is more than you are willing to spend, make cuts where you can.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。Being a p

53、olice officer is a tough job. I think we can all agree that it takes courage and 41 to be the one protecting our streets and neighborhoods. But it doesnt 42 that they dont have a sense of humor. My story below 43 my point.A 2-year-old little boy named Jaxon Arbuckle was minding his own business and

54、44 along in his toy car when his mom, Ashley, decided to have some 45 . A police officer Bill Mayo was nearby finishing a report on an accident. Ashley 46 her plan. Ashley thought it would be interesting 47 this officer would “pull over” her little Jaxon. She thought it might be a 48 story and she w

55、ould take pictures of the police officer and her son. She thought she could put the 49 on the Internet. Believe it or not, officer Bill Mayo did as she 50 . It looked like he was having fun, too!Officer Mayo, after 51 his accident report, drove over to Jaxons street with lights on in hot pursuit（紧随其

56、后）of this lovely 52 . And it was interesting that Jaxon pulled his Little Tikes red car over. The little boy 53 the police officer to explain the situation. Jaxon thought this was AWESOME! As a (n) 54 , I too felt it was terrible when a police officer pulled me over. Anyway, Jaxon made a new 55 and officer M