2017-2018学年江西省九江第一中学高二上学期第二次月考英语试题

2017-2018学年江西省九江第一中学高二上学期第二次月考英语试题

九江一中2017-2018学年上学期第二次月考考试试卷 高二英语 命题人：高二英语备课组 审题人：高二英语备课组 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分 第Ⅰ卷 第一节 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. What does the man advise the woman to do?‎ A. Give up her vacation. B. Borrow some money. C. Start saving money. ‎ ‎2. Where does the conversation probably take place?‎ A. In a café. B. In a library. C. On a subway. ‎ ‎3. How does the woman find the man’s Spanish? ‎ A. Terrible. B. Just so-so. C. Excellent. ‎ ‎4. What do we know about the tour?‎ A. It lasts two days. B. It’s free of charge. C. It’s a self-guided tour. ‎ ‎5. What does the man mean?‎ A. He isn’t good at math. B. He doesn’t have time. C. He is doing his homework. ‎ 第二节 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。‎ 听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。‎ ‎6. What is the man interested in at the mall?‎ A. Clothes. B. Furniture. C. Sweets. ‎ ‎7. How will the speakers go to the mall?‎ A. By bus. B. By car. C. By taxi. ‎ 听下面一段对话，回答第8和第9两个小题。‎ ‎8. Where are the speakers?‎ A. In a travel agency. B. In the office. C. At home. ‎ ‎9. What do the speakers plan to do?‎ A. Go skiing. B. Go climbing. C. Go hiking. ‎ 听下面一段对话，回答第10至第12三个小题。‎ ‎10. What troubles the woman about the first program?‎ A. The language. B. The time. C. The place. ‎ ‎11. Where does the man want to go?‎ A. Australia. B. Japan. C. Poland. ‎ ‎12. Which activity is the woman most likely to do?‎ A. Produce a festival. B. Teach Japanese. C. Restore a castle. ‎ 听下面一段对话，回答第13至第16四个小题。‎ ‎13. What is the man doing?‎ A. Having an interview. B. Applying for a course. C. Organizing an activity. ‎ ‎14. How long will the course run this year?‎ A. 6 weeks. B. 7 weeks. C. 8 weeks. ‎ ‎15. What surprised the woman last year?‎ A. The weather was hot. B. Assistants were inexperienced. ‎ C. Many children attended the course. ‎ ‎16. What new activities will be added this year?‎ A. Adventure sports. B. Fun programs. C. Creative classes. ‎ 听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20四个小题。‎ ‎17. What is the talk mainly about?‎ A. How children spend their free time. B. How Australians enjoy themselves. ‎ C. What old people like in Australia. ‎ ‎18. What do most children do after school?‎ A. Read books. B. Read newspapers. C. Go out to play games. ‎ ‎19. When do old people stay at home and watch TV?‎ A. In the evening. B. In the afternoon. C. In the morning. ‎ ‎20. How do young people probably feel when they go home on Sundays?‎ A. Nervous. B. Anxious. C. Relaxed. ‎ 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）‎ 第一节 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）‎ A ‎“In my latest film, I act with my real-life love Kalika Chandana. I play the boy next door and the film is about his love life. It’s an interesting tole though I would not like to be limited to a lover-boy role in all my films. The frustrating thing is the interest people are taking in linking our personal lives with the romance on-screen.”‎ ‎---- Prabir Amar ‎“I write fiction about science, but I think I’m really writing design fiction. I spend a lot of time designing imaginary industrial products in my brain and I’ve found that a designer’s approach is fruitful. It is very productive, authentic and more convincing.”‎ ‎---- Bruce Sterling ‎“The job of the make-up designer is quite a lengthy process. I start with an initial idea and then I research it. Sometimes, I have to go into quite a lot of historical detail--not just make-up. In addition, many young people don’t realize that they have to work as apprentices (学徒) for five or six years. People would like to speed up that process but you can’t, so the best thing to do is to work with the designers and climb through the ranks.”‎ ‎ ---- Ivana Primorace ‎“Hollywood has gone digital, and the old ways of creating visual effects are dead. As film editors we now sit in front of computer screens, editing entire films, while adding digitally-created sound. Film-goers can now lose themselves in special effects in movies that could never have been achieved with such a degree of realism using conventional methods.”‎ ‎---- Gillian Roderick 21. What makes Prabir Amar upset?‎ A. People relate his real life with the film.‎ B. People don’t like his latest film.‎ C. He always plays similar roles.‎ D. His new role is not attractive.‎ 22. What does Ivana Primorace advise new make-up designers to do?‎ A. To learn a bit history. B. To pay attention to details.‎ C. To climb the career ladder patiently. D. To have respect for experiences designers.‎ 23. What is Gillian Roderick’s attitude towards new ways of creating visual effects?‎ A.He is curious about them. B.He is surprised at them.‎ C.He approves of them. D.He doubts them.‎ 24. The four people all say something about ________.‎ A.their job B. their dreams C.the film industry D.the design process B To ordinary people, the Australian Chestnut-crowned babblers sound like any other birds. However, to ornithologists (鸟类学家) it is a series of sounds which when combined, forms a unique language. These tiny birds are the first nonhuman species known to communicate using language.‎ Before exploring the language of the babbler, it is important to define what that means. According to language experts, communication or exchange of information can mean various things----from the aggressive roar of a lion to the never stopping buzzing of honeybees. Language, on the other hand, is the ability to piece together phonemes----letters like p, a, b, and t. The sounds are meaningless on their own, but when strung together in different arrangements, they transform into meaningful words. For example, b, a, t can be rearranged to form “bat”, “tab” or simply “at”.‎ The research that was led by Dr. Andy Russell, identified fifteen distinct calls that the birds make. Two, in particular, were of great interest because they seemed to share similar sounds that had been rearranged.‎ The first is the “flight” call, which is heard when the babblers are flying over their Australian habitat. It is a short, squeaky (短促尖叫的) sound that the scientists represented as “AB”. The other, known as the “prompt” call, is made when the birds arrive at the nest to feed their chicks. It is similar to the first call except it has one more sound in the beginning, which happens to be the last sound of the flight call.‎ The scientists are still puzzled about one thing. Why did the babblers decide to communicate using this primitive language instead of belting out complex constantly changing songs like other birds? Professor Russell speculates it could be that the smart birds figured out that rearranging sounds they already know to mean different things was easier than constantly creating songs with ‎ new sounds!‎ 25. What’s the purpose of Paragraph 2?‎ A. To compare different ways of communication.‎ B. To introduce how babblers communicate.‎ C. To show the importance of language.‎ D. To explain what language means.‎ 26. What should the prompt call sound like?‎ A. ABA. B. ABB. C.BAA. D.BAB.‎ 27. What does the underlined word “speculates” in the last paragraph mean?‎ A. Guess. B. Believe. C. Explains. D.Conclude. ‎ C The day finally came. I was very excited as I stood in line, waiting to receive my high school diploma. I looked around at the graduating class of our small Christian school and wondered how we had grown up so fast. After that weekend we would go our separate ways. Many planned on attending college far away, as I did. Others had jobs lined up and few were thinking about marriage.‎ Directly in front of me was a friend I’d known for six years; we had been on many adventures together. He grinned, looking a little smug(洋洋得意的). He and a couple of students had played one last trick before they graduated: The night before, they’d slipped into the principal’s home and used rolls of toilet paper to decorate his house and yard. I eyed the principal on the stage. He gave no indication that anything was wrong.‎ We moved slowly up in line. My friend walked across the stage and received his diploma. Then my name was called. I took a deep breath, nervously climbed the steps, crossed the stage under the hot lights and stopped in front of the principal. He gave me a big smile, shook my hand and handed me my diploma. I couldn’t wait to open the diploma case and find my name, certifying that I had graduated. However, when my friend opened his case, we all burst out laughing. Instead of a diploma, a single square of toilet paper was placed inside.‎ Our high school principal had a great sense of humor and took this opportunity to play a trick back on the boys. I thought they were required to clean his house and yard, but they got off easily. They were allowed to graduate.‎ Sometimes we get lucky when we do something wrong. However, sometimes we don’t. I often ‎ wonder how those who do wrong things get rid of troubles. We have decisions to make throughout our lives. The surest way to stay out of trouble is to avoid it in the first place.‎ ‎28. What would the writer do after graduating from high school?‎ A. Get married. B. Become a principal.‎ C.Continue his study. D. Find a regular job.‎ ‎29. Why did the writer’s friend seem pleased before receiving his diploma? ‎ A. Nobody had discovered his criminal behavior.‎ B. He was about to graduate from high school with great honors.‎ C. He had been praised by the principal for his achievements.‎ D. He had succeeded in teasing the principal.‎ ‎30. How did the author’s friend feel the instant he opened his diploma case?‎ A. Astonished B. Embarrassed. C. Touched. D. Calm.‎ ‎31.What would be the best title for the passage?‎ A. Keeping away from Wrong Choices B. Cherishing Every Opportunity in Life C. Avoiding Making One Mistake Twice D. Learning Valuable Lessons from Failure D The old traditional saying about sleeping with one eye open in an unfamiliar place may not be too far off the mark. Over the course of three experiments on 35 young and healthy volunteers, researchers in a new study measured brain activity during two continuous nights of sleep.‎ Sasaki and colleagues performed a series of lab tests by stimulating the left and then the right hemisphere(大脑的半球)with sounds. On the second night, there wasn’t any difference in reactions to tests between the left and right hemispheres, even during deep sleep. This suggests that there is a first-night-only effect specifically in one hemisphere of the brain during deep sleep, the authors conclude. The way participants responded to the sleep lab tests points to the potential for the brain to be on high alert for danger during the first night in unfamiliar surroundings. While this may be bad news for business travelers who regularly make brief overnight trips, it may not be as troublesome for people who go away for longer periods of time, Sasaki added by email. “Frequent travel may lead to unrestful sleep,” Sasaki said. “But if you stay for a few days at the same place, your sleep ‎ might catch up.” ‎ Some birds have been found to actually sleep with one eye open and one side of the brain awake when they’re in a dangerous setting, and some marine mammals have similar abilities, the authors note. But the new study focuses on healthy volunteers but not people with insomnia(失眠) or other sleep disorders, the authors note. ‎ ‎“The clinical implications haven’t been confirmed at the moment,” Finan, a psychiatry（精神医学）and behavioral health researcher said. “However, the level of specificity provided by these analyses could be an important first step in understanding what sleep disorders like insomnia arise from, which is thought to be driven in many patients by continuing having a lot of worries.” . ‎ ‎32. What do the underlined words “may not be too far off the mark” in Paragraph 1 mean? ‎ A. May be contradictory B. May make sense ‎ C. May cause arguments D. May be disturbing ‎ ‎33. What can we know from Paragraph 2?‎ A. People are used to waking up and going to bed early when travelling.‎ B. Business travelers usually have a brief sleep at night.‎ C. It brings much trouble to those who stay far away from their homes.‎ D. It takes time for people to adapt themselves to a new environment.‎ ‎34. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?‎ A. The researchers measure brain activity during two nights of sleep.‎ B. The researchers concentrate on volunteers with insomnia.‎ C. Some birds and marine mammals have the similar ability to sleep with one eye open.‎ D. Only 35 young volunteers participate in the study.‎ ‎35. According to Finan, the study is helpful in ________. ‎ A. comforting as many patients with sleep disorders as possible. ‎ B. telling the effect of worries on sleep disorders. ‎ C. finding out the cause of sleep disorders. ‎ D. offering ways to free the patients from the suffering of sleep disorders.‎ 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。‎ My children came home from school before spring break with homework again. It’s vocation. How would we adults feel if our boss hand us five hours of work to get done before we return from a vocation? 36 ‎ My children’s homework often interfered with our evening family plans. Even weekend plans are often dropped because of the amount of work they need to get done before Monday. They frequently are up past midnight finishing their homework. 37 ‎ The famous Duke University homework study concluded that students should get no more than 10 minutes per grade level, meaning a first-grader should be assigned yo to 10 minutes and the 12th-grader no more than 120 minutes. In our household, these guidelines are exceeded every year.‎ ‎ 38 Many families spend time together, and kids are able to catch up with their friends and participate in activities they may not have time for when school is in session.‎ School vocations are also a time when some students get a break from homework. 39 The school board for the Princeton Public Schools in Princeton, New Jersey, recently decided to ban homework during the winter and spring vocation periods.‎ This generation of children is overweight and anxious. 40 They should have their weekends to be with their friends and family. And that should surely be true for their vocations.‎ A. We do this to our children all the time.‎ B. They do not get chance to relax and be kids.‎ C. Some parents don’t care about their kids’ homework.‎ D. Now that they are in high school, it does so constantly.‎ E. For many students, school breaks are a time to rest and recharge.‎ F. Then they must try their best to stay awake during school the next day.‎ G. Some school districts and teachers have stopped giving homework over breaks.‎ 第三部分　语言知识运用(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)‎ 阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ As a doctor, I have worked with many children infected with the virus which causes AIDS.The relationships that I have had with these 41 kids have been presents in my life. They have taught me so many things, but I have especially learned that great 42 can be found in the smallest of the ‎ groups. Let me tell the story of Tyler.‎ Tyler was born infected with HIV: his mother was also infected. From the very beginning of his life, he was 43 on medications to enable him to survive. At times, he also needed supplemented oxygen to support his breathing.But Tyler wasn’t willing to 44 one single moment to this deadly disease. It was not 45 to find him playing and racing around his backyard, 46 his tank of oxygen (氧气瓶) behind him. All of us who knew Tyler were amazed at his pure 47 in being alive and the 48 life gave him. Tyler’s mom often 49 him that he moved so fast that she needed to dress him in red. That way, when she 50 the window to check on him playing in the yard, she could quickly 51 him.‎ The dreaded disease 52 wore down even the likes of a little dynamo（发电机）like Tyler. He grew quite ill and, 53 , so did his HIV-infected mother. When it became apparent that he wasn’t going to 54 , Tyler’s mom talked to him about 55 . She 56 him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him soon in heaven. ‎ A few days before his death, Tyler called me to his hospital bed and 57 , “I might die soon. I’m not 58 . When I die, please dress me in 59 . Mom 60 she’s coming to heaven, too. I’ll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me.”‎ ‎41. A. terrible B. special C. lively D. delighted ‎42. A. happiness B. memories ` C. courage D. love ‎43. A. dependent B. based C. reliable D. alive ‎44. A. break down B. give up C. pick out D. give out ‎45. A. unusual B. common C. impossible D. familiar ‎46. A. pushing B. putting C. dragging D. burying ‎47. A. upset B. pain C. joy D. sadness ‎48. A. energy B. fortune C. confidence D. challenge ‎49. A. blamed B. teased C. concerned D. charged ‎50. A.got through B. saw C. passed D.looked through ‎ ‎51. A. permit B. follow C. watch D. spot ‎52. A. completely B. gradually C. eventually D. regularly ‎53. A. unfortunately B. happily C. naturally D.surprisingly ‎ ‎54. A. respond B. succeed C. play D. survive ‎55. A. death B. ending C. belief D. relief ‎56. A. frightened B. comforted C. warned D. informed ‎57. A. shouted B. cried C. reminded D. whispered ‎58. A. embarrassed B. scared C. satisfied D. discouraged ‎59. A. red B. white C. bright D. colors ‎60. A. voted B. expected C. promised D. dreamed 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（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。‎ ‎ Odysseus is a literary figure in the Odyssey written by Homer.He rejected the comfortable life of 61 Greek king and made a promise to help another Greek leader,Menelaus,get 62 wife back.But the war dragged on and on and he was away from his family for ten years.During this time the fortunes of the war were so 63 (change) that no one could predict ‎ 64 would win.Odysseus became tired 65 the war and the delay in Troy.He urgently wanted to return home,so when the Greek kings had the regular weekly meeting he suggested that they 66 (take) an opportunity to trick the Trojans.The Greeks built a giant 67 (wood) horse so that men could hide inside it.The Greeks then pretended to leave aboard their ships as if they68 (discourage)by the length of the war.The Trojans blessed their God for their good fortune and prepared to celebrate. That night the men climbed out of the horse and opened the city gates to the Greek army.The Trojans awoke to the sound of their warning bell ‎ ‎69 (announce) a Greek victory. So the war ended but the 70 (punish) of the Trojan people was only just beginning.‎ 第四部分 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）‎ 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加/删除或修改。‎ 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号∧，并在其下面写出该加的词。‎ 删除：把多余的词用划掉。‎ 修改：在错词的下面画—横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。‎ 注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均限一词 ‎ 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分 ‎“Sorry” is considering a symbol of politeness. I have learned it from my parents, both of who have good manners, but I don’t know why it is on the tip of my tongue so often. I just can’t get rid from it. I often say sorry because I would feel really guilt if somebody’s hurt just because of me. Besides, I say sorry even if I had done nothing harmful. My sister is like myself. For example, before talk to someone, she would say, “Sorry disturb you.” Or to me even “Sorry Kate, are you free?” Sometime, I ask her to stop saying sorry, but she thinks that “sorry” is a word that we should make the good use of. ‎ 第二节 书面表达（满分25分）‎ 假设你是李华，你所在的班级决定成立“大乐英语俱乐部”。请给你校的外教John写封信，邀请他加入该俱乐部，要点如下：‎ 1. 成立俱乐部的目的；‎ 2. 活动时间、地点和内容；‎ 3. 邀请加入。‎ 注意：1. 词数100左右，开头和和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；‎ ‎ 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ 参考词汇：大乐俱乐部 Big Fun English Club Dear John,‎ ‎_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎ Yours sincerely,‎ ‎ Li Hua ‎ 高二英语第二次月考考试答案 听力 ‎1—5 CBCBA 6—10 CBCAB 11—15 ACAAC 16—20 BBCAC 阅读理解 ‎21-24：ACCA 25-27 DDA 28-31CDBA 32-35 BDCC 36-40 AFEGB 完型填空 ‎41-45 BCABA 46-50CCABD 51-55 DCADA 56-60BDBAC 语法填空 61. a 62. his 63. changeable 64. who 65. of 66.（should） take 67. wooden ‎ ‎68. were discouraged 69. announcing 70. punishment 改错 ‎“Sorry” is considering (considered) a symbol of politeness. I have learned it from my parents, both of who (whom) have good manners, but I don’t know why it is on the tip of my tongue so often. I just can’t get rid from (of) it. I often say sorry because I would feel really guilt (guilty) if somebody’s hurt just because of me. Besides, I say sorry even if I had (have) done nothing harmful. My sister is like myself (me). For example, before talk (talking) to someone, she would say, “Sorry (+to) disturb you.” Or to me even “Sorry Kate, are you free?” Sometime (Sometimes), I ask her to stop saying sorry, but she thinks that “sorry” is a word that we should make the () good use of. ‎ 作文 Dear John, ‎ To arouse our interest in English learning and provide a platform for us to learn and practise English, our class has decided to set up Big Fun English Club.‎ ‎ We’ll gather in our classroom after school every Saturday, when a variety of activities will be organized, such as watching English movies, singing English songs, putting on English plays, having debates in English and so on.‎ ‎ On behalf of our class, I’m much honoured to warmly invite you to join us. I firmly believe that your appearance in our club will definitely inspire us all to become more ‎ interested in learning and using English and therefore work harder at English. We’ll be expecting you in our class at 5:00 pm this Saturday.‎ Yours sincerely Li Hua ‎