2017-2018学年安徽省蚌埠市第二中学高二8月月考英语试题

2017-2018学年安徽省蚌埠市第二中学高二8月月考英语试题

蚌埠二中2017年8月初月考新高二英语试卷 注意事项：‎ 1. 本试卷分为第I 卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，共8页。满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。‎ 2. 作答选择题必须用2B铅笔。作答第II 卷时必须使用‎0.5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔书写在答题卡（卷）上的指定位置，在其它位置作答一律无效。‎ 第I卷（选择题，共两部分，满分80分）‎ 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）‎ 第一节（共5篇20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）‎ ‎ 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。‎ A If you have to attend a party or other social events where a lot of people will be present, do you feel confident that you will make a good impression on others? Or do you feel shy? In any case, you should increase your confidence at social events.‎ Whenever you are meeting new people at any social event, you should wear proper clothes. Before you attend the event, try to find out how other people will be dressing. If everyone else is wearing business clothes, you should, too. If the event is informal, you should wear informal clothes so that you fit in.‎ If you are going to meet people from a certain business or profession, try looking through a few professional magazines or checking on the Internet ahead of time to get some conversation ideas which are related to their fields of interest. This can prevent you getting tongue-tied at the event.‎ When you are at the event, don’t worry about whether or not other people you are talking with like you. Instead, try your best to find reasons to like them.‎ When you are making conversation with people, be sure to keep good eye contact, and make your facial expression soft. Nod to show you’re listening. Let your face and body relax so that you can make natural gestures.‎ After the event is over, take a bit of time to think of your social performance and the conversation you had with people. Tell yourself exactly what you did very well at the event. For example, perhaps you made a big effort to really listen to the people you were talking with,or you may have asked several people some good questions that really got them talking. By doing so, your conversation confidence will gradually improve.‎ 1. What should you find out before attending a social event?‎ ‎ A. how other people will be dressing. B. a few professional magazines ‎ C. some conversation ideas D. reasons to like other people ‎2. What should you avoid in a social event according to the 4th paragraph?‎ A. Attending a party with your good friends ‎ B. Ignoring eye contact with others C. Wearing informal clothes and shoes ‎ D. Caring much about what others think of you ‎3. After coming back from a social party, we need to form the habit of _____.‎ A. Looking for the positive things in our performance B. Calling the host to show that we are thankful C. Communicating with the people we met once again ‎ D. Thinking about how to improve our social ability ‎4. What is the passage mainly about? ‎ A. How to take part in social events. ‎ B. How to believe in ourselves in daily life. ‎ C. How to be more confident at social events. ‎ D. How to get along with others at social events.‎ B Try this: For an entire day, forget about the clock. Eat when you’re hungry and sleep when you’re tired. What do you think will happen?‎ You may be surprised to find that your day is much like most other days. You’ll probably get hungry when you normally eat and tired when you normally sleep. Even though you don’t know what time it is, your body does.‎ These patterns of daily life are called circadian rhythms（生理节奏）, and they are more than just habits. Inside our bodies are several clocklike systems that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle. Throughout the day and night, our inner clocks direct changes in temperature, body chemicals, hunger, sleepiness and more.‎ Everyone’s rhythms are different, which is why you might like to stay up late while your sister always wants to go to bed early. But on the whole, everyone is programmed to fell tired at night and energetic during the day.‎ Learning about our body clocks may help scientists understand why problems arise when we act out of step with our circadian rhythms. For example, traveling across time zones can make people wake up in the middle of the night. Regularly staying up late can make kids do worse in tests.‎ ‎“There is a growing sense that when we eat and when we sleep are important parts of how healthy we are,” says Steven Shea, director of the Sleep Disorders Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.‎ One way to learn about how our body clocks tick is to mess them up and see what happens. That’s what neurologist（神经病学家）Frank Scheer and his workmates did in a recent study.‎ Staying up night after night, their studies suggest, could make kids extra hungry and more likely to gain weight. And regularly sleeping too little, Scheer says, may be one cause of the recent increase in childhood obesity. ‎ ‎5. What will happen if you forget about the clock according to the passage?‎ A. You will feel upset. ‎ B. You will behave normally.‎ C. Your body will not know what time it is. ‎ D. You will probably get hungry more easily.‎ 6. Mike feels energetic at 12 midnight while Tom feels sleepy. What advice would be given by the writer?‎ A. Both should see a doctor.. B. Tom should see a doctor. ‎ C. Both should take it easy. D. Mike should have a watch.‎ ‎7. How do Frank Scheer and his workmates study body clocks?‎ A. By seeing what happens when they are messed up. ‎ B. By asking questions and collecting answers.‎ C. By studying people traveling across time zones. ‎ D. By programming people with man-made clocks.‎ ‎8. What will the writer most probably talk about next?‎ A. Other examples of what people will do when their body clocks go wrong. ‎ B. Medicines that can keep people from putting on weight.‎ C. Why it is important to have a normal body clock. ‎ D. What circadian rhythms are.‎ C ‎ Each year, we are exposed to ten thousand ads on average. They try to sell us their products by using beautiful art, videos, images or slogans that are catchy. The most famous companies have highly popular logos that can be recognized by almost everybody. For those of you who have seen the movie Finding Forrester, there is that scene where Jamal walks up to some guy with a BMW and asks him what the car logo means. The man did not know the answer and since that day, whenever I see a famous company logo I try to find the meaning of it.‎ ‎ Many think the horse on the Ferrari logo represents the horsepower of the cars they manufacture. The story behind it is far more interesting. During World War I, a pilot, Count Francesco Baracca, painted the horse on his airplane to bring him luck. He had it on his plane because it was the logo of his squadron（空军中队）. Baracca’s mother then convinced Enzo Ferrari to put the logo on his racing cars in the early ‎1930’‎s to bring good luck to the drivers. The logo then stayed the same ever since. The yellow on the background represents the birthplace of Enzo Ferrari.‎ ‎ Starbucks started in 1971, in Seattle. The mermaid（美人鱼）represented on the logo is now known by any coffee drinker. It is a mythological sea creature with the look of a female, the only difference being that they have a tail of a fish. The reason why Starbucks incorporated one in their company logo is that it was believed that mermaids used to sing to sailors in order to make them walk away from their ship or to ground their ships. In the 1500s, spices, tea and coffee were ‎ popular merchandise to trade. So the mermaid in the logo of Starbucks is the one that “brings” coffee and tea to the stores.‎ ‎9. The writer became interested in logos of some famous brands after _______.‎ ‎ A. he watched an attractive movie B. he saw a scene in a movie ‎ C. he walked up to some guy with a BMW D. he noticed some famous logos ‎10. Many companies use logos because _________.‎ ‎ A. people enjoy beautiful logos ‎ B. people are more likely to buy their products ‎ C. people can recognize the products more easily ‎ D. people are interested in the meanings of the logos ‎11. Which of the following is true according to Paragraph3?‎ ‎ A. Starbucks was once a company trading spices, tea and coffee.‎ ‎ B. Hearing mermaids sing, sailors would know the right direction.‎ ‎ C. Starbucks has a history of more than five hundred years.‎ ‎ D. The logo of Starbucks is believed to make the business years.‎ ‎12. The underlined word “incorporated” in the third paragraph probably means _____.‎ A. included B. abandoned C. corrected D. designed D What’s the biggest online shopping day in the world? Not Valentine’s Day. Not Cyber Monday or Black Friday. The winner is China’s Singles’Day, celebrated on November11, or 11.11.‎ Singles’Day began as a day for unmarried or uncoupled people to celebrate their lives. Single students, looking for an excuse to buy themselves presents, started it on November11,1993, reported The Guardian. It is symbolized by the four mumber ones in the date of November11 and is also called Double Eleven, in reference to the day it was started, said the BBC. It became a major shopping day in 2009. The CEO of an online shopping site --Alibaba-- tried to increase sales at the e-commerce company. The CEO, Daniel Zhang, launched an annual online sale on that day, said Fortune. When it first began, “Sigles’Day was very much an offline comfort to actual single people,”noted the website atlas Obscura.”A small group of students at Nanjing‎ ‎University are said to have chosen 11.11 as a day that singles could do activities like karaoke together.”It quickly became a cultural phenomenon.‎ Last year, Alibaba sold more than $1 billion worth of products inthe first three minutes of the sales, reported Bloomberg News. Total sales on Singles’Day soared to $9 billion within 24 hours. That’s four times bigger than Cyber Monday in the U.S.‎, which is the Monday after Thanksgiving and traditionally a big shopping day. By comparison, online sales in the U.S.‎ last year on Black Friday were just $1.5 billion, reported TechCrunch.‎ Today, Singles’Day is very successful. Analysts say that this year, sales on China’s Singles’Day will increase to a new high. In the U.S.‎, Jennifer Wang, a co-founder of a company ‎ targeting Chinese-Americans, said, “We expect to have 3 million people coming to click Dealmoon for the Singles’Day launch.” Some observers think Singles’Day could catch on globally.‎ ‎13. How did the author introduce the topic of the passage?‎ A. By describing a holiday. B. By asking a question C. By making a list. D. By telling a story ‎14. What’s the second paragraph mainly about?‎ ‎ A. How Singles’Day came into being. B. Why Singles’Day became popular.‎ ‎ C. When Singles’Day was started. D. Who first celebrated Singles’Day.‎ 15. Why did China’s Singles’Day become a major shopping day?‎ ‎ A. Because singles celebrated their happy lives on November11.‎ ‎ B. Because students at Nanjing university took part in activities together.‎ ‎ C. Because an annual online sale was started on that day by Alibaba.‎ ‎ D. Because single students chose that day to buy themselves gifts.‎ 16. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “soared”in ‎ Paragraph3?‎ A. Increased sharply. B. Decreased quickly.‎ C. Returned gradually. D. Appeared suddenly.‎ E English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary--perhaps as many as two million words.‎ However, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweetmeats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.‎ We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes（自相矛盾的说法), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.‎ And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese--so one moose, two meese?‎ How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?‎ English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of human beings. That’s why, when stars are out, they are visible; but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.‎ 17. What does the first paragraph mainly talk about?‎ ‎ A. English has a long history. B. English is widely spread.‎ ‎ C. English makes a great difference D. English is used to translate books. ‎ 18. Which of the following includes two items that have the similar meaning? ‎ ‎ A. A wise man and a wise guy. B. Overlook and oversee.‎ ‎ C. Quite a lot and quite a few. D. Hot as hell and cold as hell.‎ 19. The underlined words “wind up” in the last paragraph probably mean “__”.‎ ‎ A. blow B. roll up C. get hurt D. finish ‎ 20. What does the last paragraph want to show?‎ A. Human beings are very clever. ‎ B. English is difficult to learn.‎ C. There are too many words in English. ‎ D. The same words have different meanings. ‎ 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概括每段主题的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。‎ ‎ Everyone wants to perform well at school. Add these tips to your life and you should be on your way to being a top student!‎ ‎ 21 I cannot stress how important it is to pay attention to what your teacher is teaching you. Take part in class discussions if you have something worth adding. Pay attention during class, especially during lectures.‎ ‎ Taking notes is important. You don’t need to write down every single word your teacher says but write down what he or she writes on the board, or any special fact you think you might need for a test. 22 This way it will help you learn more effectively by actually thinking about what you are writing.‎ ‎ Don’t skip school. You will be missing out on stuff. 23 However, you will have more work and you have missed lectures. Also, try not to be late for class. It’s most likely that your teacher won’t appreciate it and you will get yourself behind.‎ ‎ 24 If you have an “I don’t care about school or this class” attitude, then teachers will be less willing to help you with problems or offer you extra credit. The same goes for lazy attitude. Have a respectful attitude to the teacher and other students. Try not to laugh when other students make mistakes.‎ ‎ Always ask questions. 25 If you don’t understand, ask someone. Read your textbook and notes, and then if that fails, seek help. Ask a teacher, friend, classmate, parent, etc. Get a tutor if you need one.‎ A. Be prepared.‎ B. Write in your own words.‎ A. Pay attention to everything the teacher says.‎ B. Staying organized will be helpful.‎ C. There is no shame in needing some help.‎ D. It is true that you could make up the work.‎ E. Keep a good attitude towards things.‎ 第二部分 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ ‎ There is so much competition in the world where we live. Every single person has a(n) 26 to succeed and be the best at what they can. There are college basketball players 27 reaching the professional level and students trying their best to get an “A” on their math test. We meet businessmen that have ‎28 a lot of money. We all have a role 29 we look up to, or have looked up to at some point in life, whether it is a respected elder in our family, a trusted friend around us, or a(n) 30 person often appearing on TV screens or magazine covers.‎ ‎ It is 31 having role models and looking up to people that 32 us. However, how often do you ask yourself, “Why is he smarter than me?” or “How did this person achieve such a great 33 at such a young age?” I went to a great high school that was very 34 and demanding; I saw many very 35 students graduate and get into a famous school. I also 36 when I got my math test paper back, I sometimes 37 why I never got consistent “A”s like the student sitting two seats away from me.‎ ‎ However, what I 38 after entering college was that one should never 39 their skills or levels of success with other people’s. Every single person is 40 and we all have some sort of unique talent. If you are not good at 41 or want to improve a specific skill, you have to learn how to be patient and understand your 42 and try to overcome them.‎ ‎ The 43 is that you can all become an honor student if you want to or even improve your running skills. But you have to keep in 44 that understanding your weaknesses and strengths is a very 45 step in the process. You have to learn how to look at yourself and set goals step by step so that you can track your improvement.‎ ‎26. A. desire B. choice C. stress D. ability ‎27. A. dreaming of B. informed of C. getting into D. broken into ‎28. A. spent B. taken C. earned D. offered ‎29. A. style B. model C. type D. pattern ‎30. A. cheerful B. strange C. famous D. awkward ‎31. A. funny B. astonishing C. ashamed D. great ‎32. A. dislike B. persuade C. follow D. motivate ‎33. A. prizes B. success C. medals D. goals ‎34. A. competitive B. acceptable C. diverse D. positive ‎35. A. careless B. generous C. bright D. curious ‎36. A. suspect B. suggest C. remember D. advocate ‎37. A. noticed B. explained C. wondered D. believed ‎38. A. achieved B. learnt C. checked D. removed ‎39. A. combine B. compare C. adopt D. relate ‎40. A. perfect B. simple C. ordinary D. different ‎41. A. anything B. nothing C. everything D. something ‎42. A. advantages B. weaknesses C. potential D. personalities ‎43. A. problem B. question C. truth D. doubt ‎44. A. contact B. touch C. action D. mind ‎45. A. important B. difficult C. interesting D. obvious 第II卷（非选择题，共四部分，满分70分）‎ 第一部分 单词拼写（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）‎ ‎ 根据下列各句句意及所给单词首字母或中文写出该单词的正确形式。‎ 46. Have you made an _______ to him for breaking his window?‎ ‎47. He begged for _____ (forgive) for what he had done.‎ ‎48. Reaching the top of the tower, he was out of _______.‎ ‎49. It is said Yoga is of great ______ to human health.‎ ‎50. The party will be held in the garden, weather _______ (permit).‎ ‎51. He _____ (生存) on milk and bread.‎ ‎52. The small village ____ by the mountains looks very beautiful.‎ ‎53. What a big snake! It ______ (measure) one and a half meters long.‎ ‎54. The trapped wolf _______(挣扎) to escape from the cage.‎ ‎55. At the sound of the gun, the birds flew in all ______.‎ ‎56. It’s ________(幸运的) to find a good job.‎ ‎57. With winter______(approach), the weather became colder. ‎ ‎58. The little boy, out of ______, took the TV set apart.‎ ‎59. Our soldiers ______(前进) bravely towards the enemy.‎ ‎60. Most parks in our city are free. They don’t charge money for ___(admit).‎ ‎61. A _____(vary) of books are sold in this bookstore.‎ ‎62. ______ speaking, the more expensive the computer, the better it is.‎ ‎63. She ______(低语) to me that she felt very afraid.‎ ‎64. The centre is well _______(equip) for camping and fishing.‎ ‎65. He ______ (发表) the opening speech.‎ 第二部分 语法填空（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单词或括号内单词的正确形式。‎ Before the 17th century, most of the native English speakers lived in England. After the 17th century, British people began to move to other _66_ (country). Gradually, English was spoken there. At present _67_ (many) people speak English as their first, second or a foreign language than ever before. _68_ (luck), native English speakers can understand each other even if they don’t speak the same kind of English.‎ English _69_ (change) and developed when cultures met and communicated with each other over the past centuries. The English _70_ (speak) in England between about AD450 and 1150 was very different _71_ the modern English we speak today. It was the new settlers that enriched the English language and _72_ (especial) its vocabulary. The English language was settled by the 19th century _73_ two big changes in English spelling happened. English now is also spoken as a foreign _74_second language in South Asia. China may have the _75_ (large) number of English learners.‎ 第三部分 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。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单词。删除：把多余的单词用划掉。修改：在错的单词下面画一横线，并在该单词下面写出修改后的单词。‎ 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；‎ ‎ 2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。‎ The teenage year from 13 to 19 were the most difficult time for me. They were also the best and worse years in my life. At the first, I thought I knew everything but could make decisions by myself. Besides, my parents didn’t seem to think so. They always tell me what to do and how to do it. At one time, I even felt my parents couldn’t understand me so I hoped I could be freely from them. I showed them I was independent by wear strange clothes. Now I am leaving home for college. At last, I will be on their own, but I still want to have my parents to turn whenever I need help.‎ ‎ ‎ 第四部分 书面表达（25分）‎ 假设你是李华。自从进入高中后，你的父母就不要你做家务，在家里父母也不敢大声说话。最近学校英文报“Student Voice”栏目征文，你想据此给父母写一封信，谈谈你的看法，发表在该栏目。‎ 注意：1.词数100左右；‎ ‎ 2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。‎ Dear Mom and Dad,‎ ‎ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________‎ Yours Li Hua 蚌埠二中2016级8月初英语试卷参考答案 第I卷（选择题，共两部分，满分80分）‎ 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节25小题，每题2分，满分50分）‎ ‎1‎-4 A D A C 5-8 B C A A 9-12 B B D A 13-16 B A C A ‎ ‎17‎-20 C C D A 21‎-25 C B F G E 第二部分 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）‎ ‎26‎-30 A A C B C 31-35 D D B A C 36‎-40 C C B B D 41-45 D B C D A 第II卷（非选择题，共四部分，满分70分）‎ 第一部分 单词拼写（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）‎ 46. apology 47. forgiveness 48.breath 49. benefit 50. permitting ‎ 51. exists 52. surrounded 53. measures 54. struggled 55. directions ‎ 56. fortunate 57. approaching 58. curiosity 59. advanced 60. admission ‎ ‎61. variety 62. Generally 63. whispered 64. equipped 65. delivered 第二部分 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）‎ ‎66. countries 67. more 68. Luckily 69. has changed 70. spoken ‎ ‎71. from 72. especially 73. when 74. or 75. largest 第三部分 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）‎ The teenage year from 13 to 19 were the most difficult time for me. They were ‎ ‎ years also the best and worse years in my life. At the first, I thought I knew everything but ‎ ‎ worst and could make decisions by myself. Besides, my parents didn’t seem to think so. They ‎ ‎ However always tell me what to do and how to do it. At one time, I even felt my parents ‎ ‎ told couldn’t understand me so I hoped I could be freely from them. I showed them I ‎ ‎ free was independent by wear strange clothes. Now I am leaving home for college. At last, ‎ ‎ wearing I will be on their own, but I still want to have my parents to turn ˄ whenever I need ‎ ‎ my to help.‎ 第四部分 书面表达（25分）‎ Dear Mom and Dad,‎ ‎ Since I entered senior high school, I’ve sensed some changes at home. For one thing, whenever I try to help you with some housework, you’ll ask me to go back to my study, saying that my study is the most important thing for me. For another, you dare not make any noise at home, fearing it would make me unhappy and unable to put my heart into my study.‎ ‎ I know how you feel, but I don’t expect our family life goes this way. To begin with, I hope to see our family filled with laughter, which can certainly provide a nice environment for me. Besides, doing some housework can help me get away from my study for a short time. Yours Li Hua