学年12月天津南开区天津市第二十五中学高二上学期考英语试卷详解版

1、20182019学年12月天津南开区天津市第二十五中学高二上学期月考英语试卷(详解)一、单项填空（共15小题；前5小题，每题0.5分；后10小题，每小题1分，满分12.5分）1.We brought some food to the party but there was too much, so we any.A. dont have to bringC. didnt have to bringB. neednt have broughtD. neednt bring【答案】 B【解析】 考查情态动词的用法。neednt have done意为做了什么事，但是本不必，本不需要；not hav

2、e to意为不必。根据题意：我们带了一些食物到聚会上，但是食物太多了，所以我们本不需要带的。故选B。2.After listening to the teachers explanations, John what he had done was wrong.A. was aware thatC. was nervous aboutB. had been aware thatD. had been nervous about【答案】 A【解析】 考察时态和短语辨析。that引导的宾语从句用的是一般过去时所以主句应该用一般过去时相对应，而what he had done是从句里的主语而不是从句的

3、时态。be aware that意识到，be nervous about对感到紧张。故选A。3.Tell me which team .Now the third quarter is over, and the Sun does.A. has wonB. gets the highestC. takes a leadD. takes the lead【答案】 D【解析】 考察动词短语辨析。由答句可知比赛还没有结束所以不是问的输赢而是问的谁领先，take the lead领先，固定搭配冠词用the。故选D。4.5.To learn English well, you must speak an

4、d read more. , you must build up yourvocabulary.A. ThereforeB. SoC. In additionD. However【答案】 C【解析】 考查连词的辨析。A选项意为因此；B选项意为所以；C选项意为又、还；D选项意为然而。根据题意：为了学好英语，你必须多读，还需要加强词汇。故选C。6.from heart trouble for years, Professor White has to take some medicine withhim wherever he goes.A. SufferedB. SufferingC. Havi

5、ng sufferedD. Being suffered【答案】 C【解析】 考察现在分词作状语。对Professor White来说遭受是主动关系，现在完成时表示一直在遭受。故选C。7.As long as you are careful, I think you can the cheats tricks.A. see throughB. look upC. look intoD. see to【答案】 A【解析】 考察动词短语。A.识破，看穿B.查阅；拜访C.调查；审视D.料理；看到。只要你认真我觉得你能够看穿这个假把戏。故选A。8.While building a tunnel thr

6、ough the mountain, .an underground lake was discoveredthere was an underground lake discovereda lake was discovered undergroundthe workers discovered an underground lake【答案】 D【解析】 考查非谓语动词和主句关系的用法。根据题意：当工人们在山中挖隧道时，发现了一个地下湖。可知，是工人修建隧道，所以主句的主语应该是工人the workers。故选D。9. Saying you are sorry wont the damage

7、 done to our friendship.A. make upB. take upC. put upD. pick up【答案】 A【解析】 考察动词短语辨析。A.，弥补；化妆；组成B.占据；开始从事C.张贴；举起D.捡起；学会。说对不起不能弥补友谊的裂痕。10. When I looked at the pictures, my childhood was suddenly brought mind.A. forB. toC. atD. on【答案】 B【解析】 考查介词。to在这里表示童年一下子被带到我的脑海里。故选B。11. We often show victory with f

8、ingers V .A. in the form ofB. with the letterC. in the shape ofD. as the shape of【答案】 C【解析】 考查介词短语。A.以的形式B.有字母（字样）C.以形状D.作为形状。我们经常将手指比成V的形状来表示顺利。故选C。12. Dont living a comfortable life if you are not willing to work hardA. dream toB. dream ofC. dreamD. dream up【答案】 B【解析】 考察动词辨析。A.无此搭配。B. dream of doi

9、ng sth梦到做某事C.梦到，不可以后面直接用doing，后面跟从句时做及物动词，否则后面要加上of/about才能跟动词D.虚构；凭空想出。故选B。13. I usually go there by train.Why not by boat for a change?A. try goingB. to try to goC. try to goD. to try going【答案】 A【解析】 考察固定搭配。Why not后面用动词原形，try后面的动词用ing形式，故选A。14.15. We are thinking about having a party this weekend.

10、 Whats your opinion? . I think its a very good idea.A. Never mindC. Im not sure I agree with youB. I couldnt agree moreD. Im not sure about that【答案】 B【解析】 考察情景交际。A.没关系B.我同意C.我不赞同D.我不确定。我们想这个周末办一个派对，你觉得呢？我同意，我觉得这是一个非常好的想法。故选B。二、完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）16.We had the meanest mother in the whole world! W

11、hile other kids ate candyfor 1 , we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast.When others had a Pepsi for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was 2 from what other kids had, too.Mother 3 on knowing where we were at all times. Youd think we were convicts（罪犯）

12、in a（n） 4 . She wanted to know who our friends were, and what we were doing with them.We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to 5 the Child Labor Laws by making us work. We had to wash the dishes, 6 the beds, and do all sorts of 7 jobs.I think she would lie 8 at night thinking of more th

13、ings for us to do. She always insisted on us 9 the truth.By the time we were teenagers, she could 10 our minds. Then, life was really tough!Mother wouldnt let our 11 just honk（使鸣响）the horn（汽车喇叭）when they drove up. They had to come up to the door so she could 12 them. While everyone else could date w

14、hen they were 12 or 13, we had to wait 13 we were 18.Because of our mother, we 14 out on lots of things other kids experienced.We 15 got drunk, stayed out all night, or did a million other things other kidsdid.Sundays were reserved for 16 and we never missed it once. We knew better than to ask to sp

15、end the night with a friend on Saturdays.Nowwehave 17 home,andweareallGod-fearing,educated,三、阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）17.Less TV Reduces Kids WeightPALO AITO, California Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter even if they do not change their diet or increase the amou

16、nt they exercise, US researchers said last week.A study of 192 third and fourth grades, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds （0.91 kg） less, over a one-year period than those who did not change their televis

17、ion diet.The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity, said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician （儿科专家） at Stanford University.American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watchin

18、g television and videos or playing games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years, Robinson said.In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce thei

19、r television viewing by one-quarter to one-third.Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continue their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet nor took part in any

20、 extra exercise.One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around and burning off calories, Robinson said.Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in fron

21、t of the TV encourages people to eat more, Robinson added.（ 1 ）The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that .children will get fatter if they eat too much.children will get thinner if they eat less.children will get fatter if they spend less time watchingchildren will get fatter if t

22、hey spend more time watching TV.（ 2 ）According to the passage, the time American children usually spend on watching TV .18.In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in SanBernadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their

23、 own businesses for, years, first a theater, then a barbecue （烤肉） restaurant, and then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, a

24、nd no tips.Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks sticking to their routine. Their new d

25、rive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kro

26、c.Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milk shake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brothers fast- food restaurants and bought the right to franchise （特许经营） other copies of their restaurants. The agreement struck included the right to

27、duplicate the menu. The equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches （拱门）.Today McDonalds is really a household name. Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 197

28、6, McDonalds had over $1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modernAmerican business history.（ 1 ）This passage mainly talks about .the development of fast food serviceshow McDonalds became a billion-dollar businessthe business careers o

29、f Mac and Dick McDonaldRay Krocs business talent（ 2 ）Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except .A. a drive-inC. a theaterB. a cinemaD. a barbecue restaurant（ 3 ）We may infer from this passage that Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to KrocThe locati

30、on the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great19.Youre busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; letsassume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isnt it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on th

31、e form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees f

32、rom famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week.Pers

33、onnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicants lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them impostors （骗子）; another refers to them as special cases. One well-known West Coast school,

34、 in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by no such people.To avoid outright （彻底的） lies, some job-seekers claim that they attended or were associated with a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that attending means bein

35、g dismissed after one semester. It may be that being associated with a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century-thats when they began keepi

36、ng records, anyhow.If you dont want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony （假的） diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of non-existent colleges. The price begins at around twenty

37、dollars for a diploma from Smoot State University. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the University of Purdue. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana properly called Purdue University, the prices seemrather high for one sheet of paper.（ 1 ）The main idea of this passage

38、 is that .A. employers are checking more closely on applicants nowB. lying about college degrees hase a widespread problemC. college degrees can now be purchased easilyD. employers are no longer interested in college degrees20.Since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to connect the b

39、rain withcomputers.puter Interface （BCI） technology could help people withdisabilities send commands to machines.Recently, two scientists, Jose Millan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytehnic School in Lausanne, Switzerland, showed a small robotic wheelchair directed by a persons thoughts. In

40、 the laboratory, Tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right hand. He could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts.Our brain has billions of body cells （细胞）. These send signals through the spinal cord （脊髓） to the body part to give us t

41、he ability to move. But spinal cord injuries or other conditions can prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the body part. Tavella says. Our system allows disabled people to communicate with outer world and also to control machines.The scientists designed a special cap for the user. Thi

42、s head cover picks up the signals from the scalp （头皮） and sends them to a computer. The computer finds meanings of the signals and commands the wheelchair with an engine. The wheelchair also has two cameras that tell objects in its path. They help the computer react to commands from the brain.Prof.

43、Millan, the team leader, says “Scientists keep improving the computer software that finds meanings of brain signals and turns them into simple commands. The practical possibilities that BCI technology offers to disabled people can be grouped in two kinds: communication, and controlling objects. One

44、example is this wheelchair.He says his team has set two goals. One is testing with real patients, so as to prove that this is a technology they can get advantages from. And the other is to ensure that they can use the technology over a long period of time.（ 1 ）BCI is a technology that can .help to u

45、pdate computer systemscontrol a persons thoughtshelp the disabled to recoverconnect the human brain with computers（ 2 ）How did Tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory?A. By controlling his muscles.C. By moving his hand.B. By using his mind.D. By talking to the machine.（ 3 ）Which of the foll

46、owing shows the path of the signals described in Paragraph 4?A. scalp cap computer wheelchair四、阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）21.Now I can say with certainly that I had never understood others suffering from theloss of a dear person. For my part, it used to be a pity and sympathy. It was when my dear mother

47、died that I started to understand all those people who lost someone they loved. There are perhaps no exact words to describe this pain, at least none can be used on this planet. This intolerable pain tears you apart, which is like a stone on your heart and makes tears run down your face with each re

48、collection of the dear person who has passed away. Time is unlikely to lighten this hurt, no matter what others claim.Every morning I still wake up to think that my mom is there, drinking her tea in the room and watching her favorite program. Then the truth rushes up to me suddenly and I realize tha

49、t it is just a dream hanging around me and a sense of great sadness falling upon me. Despite my apparent peace and brightness, I feel empty inside. My mothers death was the most painful experience Ive gone through. It was the most disastrous loss in my life.The memory of my mother will follow me wherever I go. She was there to show me my first butterfly and my first dres