高二第二学期5月份英语月考卷
I. Listening Comprehension(30%)
Part A Short Conversations
Directions: In part A, you will hear ten shorts conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers in your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. Listening Comprehension
1. A. They were tall. B. They were friendly.
C. They were strange. D. They were happy.
2. A. A person. B. A car. C. An animal. D. A dress.
3. A. Detective stories. B. Stories about jail escapes.
C. Love stories. D. Stories about royal families.
4. A. Something went wrong with the bus.
B. She took somebody to hospital.
C. Sonething prevented her from catching the bus.
D. She came on foot instead of taking a bus.
5. A. His father. B. His mother. C. His brother. D. His sister.
6. A. In a bank.. B.In a clothing store.
C.In a school. D.In a barbershop.
7. A. He wants to get a new position.
B. He is asking the woman for help.
C. He has left the women a good impression.
D.He enjoys letter writing.
8. A.The professor’s presentation was not convincing enough.
B.The professor’s lecture notes were too complicated.
C.The professor’s spoke with a strong accent.
D.The professor spoke too fast.
9. A. The furnished apartment was inexpensive.
B. The apartment was provided with some old furniture.
C.The furniture in the market was on sale every day.
D.The furniture he bought was very cheap.
10. A. He was kept in hospital for a long time.
B. He was seriously wounded in a mine explosion.
C.He was slightly injured in a traffic accident.
D.He was fined for speeding.
Part B Passages
Directions: In Part B, you will heat two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passage. The passage will be read twice, but the quescious will be spaken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on you paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Love. B.Conflict. C.Violence. D.Mystery.
12. A. The main character remains the same.
B. The main character dies in the end.
C. The main character gains nothing.
D. The main character undergoes a changes.
13. A. We can learn how bad persons can improve themselves.
B.We can learn how to deal with people.
C.We can understand life a little better.
D. We can find better ways to cope with conflicts.
14. A. 320,000 B. 579,000 C. 2011 D. 134,000
15. A. Human kindness. B. Money-making opportunities.
C.People’s education. D.Public security.
16. A. After the agreement,the United States will have more Chinese tourists.
B. Qingdao is among the 2007 Happiest Cities of China.
C. The election of the happiness cities began in April 2007.
D. The citizens of the 269 cities asked to score the cities live.
Part C Longer Conversations
Directions: In Part C. you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you ore required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answer an you answer sheet.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
| Purpose | To 17.___________________ a taxi |
| Name | 18.________________ Jackson |
| Address | 243 19.__________________ Street |
| Telephone | 20.__________________. |
| Jane’s new hairstyle looks 21.___________________. |
| Before using a shampoo, Jane will brush thoroughly to 22. _________ in her hair. |
| Mr. Johnson uses a 23. _______________ and he thinks a balance diet and 24. ________ will help keep hair healthy. |
Complete the from. Write NO MORE THAN TOREE WORDS for each answer.
II、Grammar and Vocabulary(16%)
25. After studying chemistry for years, I can only say I have _____ general knowledge of this subject.
A. / B. a little C. a D. some
26. She ____ the hospital so soon, for she has not yet recovered.
A. wouldn’t have left B. shouldn’t have left
C. mustn’t have left D. hadn’t had left
27. Even at the narrowest of the Pacific, it is about 3,200 km ____________.
A. widely B. with cross C. crossing D. in width
28. The ______ student standing at the gate speaks very good Chinese.
A. tall young American B. young tall American
C. American tall young D. American young tall
29. Our English teacher had us all _______our names on a card.
A. written B. to write C. write D. for writing
30. They ______ be at home. You see, the door is locked from the outside.
A. can’t B. may C. must D. mustn’t
31. The farmer who admitted ______ the tiger was severely punished.
A. to kill B. killing C. killed D. to have killed
32. So often ______ in recent years that it has almost become a rule.
A. has this happened B. this has happened
C. is this happening D. for this to happen
33. A reward of 1,000 dollars will be given ________ can find the lost child.
A. whomever B. whoever that C. to whomever D. to whoever
34. I thought it a pity __________ him to the tea party.
A. being not invited B. not to have invited
C. to not have invited D. not to have been invited
35. After they were given several terrible blows, the enemy did not _____ out after dark.
A. dared to come B. dared come C. dare to come D. dare coming
36. I seated myself in the front row so as to make myself ______ the speaker.
A. understand B. understood C. understanding D. to understand
37. Where was ______ the traffic accident happened last night?
A. it B. the place that C. the place D. it that
38. I haven’t the slight idea _______________.
A. where does he live B. that he lives where
C. where he lives D. that where he lives
39. Don’t forget to bring the dictionary when you come next time, _________ ?
A. do you B. will you C. don’t you D. mustn’t you
40. The girl lay _______ on the ground, thinking about something good.
A. quite B. quiet C. quietly D. quietly
III. Cloze: 24%
(A)
Directions: Complete the passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.
| A.sharing B. right C. an easier way D. if E. As for F. ate out G. terrible H. about I. Since then J. learned from |
Both and Pat were married in 1991. After they married, Pat worked as a secretary to help put him through university. _41__ Bob has been the football coach while Pat raised the kids. Then two years age Pat went back to work. “I had been _42__ children so much.” She sighs, “I couldn’t talk to a grown-up.”
Then Bob decided to take over the motherhood responsibility. He tried hard to learn coking, but the meals he prepared were _43__. For the last three weeks, the family _44__a lot --- sometimes having MacDonald’s hamburgers for lunch and dinner.
_45__housekeeping , a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean _46__ the bed is made. “I found _47___ --- I shut the doors,” he says. Soon the kids were wearing their shirts inside out. “When we went to fetch Pat at work, I made them wear their shirts _48__ side out so they would look clean.”
Now that Bob has publicly admitted that he can’t do it alone, he is _49__ the child-raising and household tasks with Pat.
(B)
Jeanne Calment, a French woman, because a record breaker on 17 October of 1995, when at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record.
Jeanne Calment is now in a wheelchair, but her doctor describes her being “more like a 90-year-old in _50__ health” than someone of 120. She still has a lively sense of _51__ .When asked on her 120th birthday _52__ she expected of the future, she replied: “A very short one.”
So what is the key to a _53__ life? According to some doctors, diet, exercise and no smoking are the three important factors. Jeanne Calments has54__ two of them. She has always eaten a healthy diet, and she used to do _55_ every day until she broke her hip at the age of 115. However, _56_ she drank two glasses of strong red wine a day, and she _57_ smoke (now only a little). __58_ , Leanne Calment might have got very good genes from her parents. Her father lived _59__ the age of 94 and her mother to 86.
A local _60 bought her house when she was 80 under an agreement that he would pay her some money every year _61_ her death. It must have seemed a _62 decision at the time, but so far the lawyer has paid her _63_ three times the value of the house. Every year on her birthday Jeanne Calment sends him a card saying: “Sorry, I’m still _64__.”
50.A. failing B. strong C. ill D. good
51. A. hearing B. business C. humor D. judgment
52. A. how B. what C. why D. when
53. A. natural B. quite C. comfortable D. long
54. A. followed B. considered C. rejected D. memorized
55. A. reading B. cooking C. housework D. exercises
56. A. until recently B. long age C. for some time D. all her life
57. A. does B. will C. may D. can
58. A. Therefore B. Moreover C. However D. Besides
59.A. at B. over C. to D. for
60. A. businessman B. lawyer C. doctor D. for
61. A. until B. after C. because of D. in spite of
62. A. fair B. quick C. hard D. good
63. A. only B. less than C. at least D. more
64. A. happy B. rich C. alone D. alive
IV.Reading Comprehension (35 points)
Directions: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. Her pink clothes are bloodied and her eyes stare at something only she can see. She has suffered from a bombing near her home in southern Iraq.
Every day we see images like this on our televisions. We see young Iraqi children begging for food and water from American and British soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad. We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of belongings almost the same size as their small bodies as they flee their homes in Baghdad.
They represent just some of the young lives that have been turned upside down by the ongoing war. And they show the terrible price being paid by Iraqi children.
“Dad, why are the Americans striking us? Are we going to be killed?” asks the son of Abu Sinar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.
He tries to comfort him by saying: “The bombs are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We’re going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows this isn’t always the truth.
In southern parts of the country, like Iraq’s second largest city, Basra, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund is working to repair the damage caused by fighting. The organization is working to provide clean water and restore electrical power, said Geoffrey Keele, a UNICEF spokesman.
But little else can be done. In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to try and let them escape the sound of exploding bombs. And all the schools are closed.
“All they can do is listen to and hear the war,” said Keele. “There is suffering in Baghdad. It is clear that the bombing is affecting the mental well-being of the children.”
Despite UNICEF’s efforts, dirty water is being blamed for cholera outbreaks in southern Iraq. Diarrhea is spreading among the children, sometimes leading to death.
Nearly 50 percent of Iraq’s population is under 15 years old. And 30 percent of them already suffered before the war from malnutrition, according to international aid organizations.
Now the situation is worse, but continual fighting makes it impossible to count the number who are hungry, sick, injured or even dead.
65． The underlined word diarrhea” in the last paragraph but two must be _______
A. a kind of horrendous food B. a kind of infectious disease
C. a new toy D. a piece of terrible news
66. Parents give their children sleeping pills _________.
A. to get rid of the terrible sound of exploding bombs
B. to help children to go to sleep because they are very tired
C. in case their children should be frightened by the sound of exploding bombs
D. so that their children would not have their hearing harmed
67. What is the writer’s attitude towards Iraqi people in this article?
A. The writer loves only the children of Iraq.
B. The writer wants to know more about how many people will go hungry or even die.
C. The writer shows sympathy for Iraqi people.
D. The writer will help Iraqi people to get over any difficulty
(B)
Creativity is the key to a brighter future, say education and business experts. Here is how schools and parents can encourage this important skill in children.
If Dick Drew had listened to his boss in 1925, we might not have a product that we now think of as of great importance: a new type of tape. Drew worked for the Minnesota Mining company. At work he developed a kind of material strong enough to hold things together. But his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Finally, using his own time, Drew improved the tape, which now is used everywhere by many people. And his former company learned from its mistake. Now it encourages people to spend 15 percent of their work time just thinking about and developing new ideas.
Creativity is not something one is just born with, nor is it necessarily a character of high intelligence. The fact that a person highly intelligent does not mean that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of using the resources one has to produce new ideas that are good for something. Unfortunately, schools have not tried to encourage creativity. With strong attention to test results and the development of reading, writing and mathematical skills, many educators give up creativity for correct answers. The result is that children can give back information but can not recognize ways to use it in new situations. They may know the rules correctly, but they are unable to use them to work out practical problems.
It is important to give children choices. From the earliest age, children should be allowed to make decisions and understand their results. Even if it’s choosing between two food items for lunch, decision-making helps thinking skills. As children grow older, parents should let their children decide how to use their time or spend their money, but not help them too much if they make the wrong decision. The child may have a hard time, but that is all right. This is because the most important character of creative people is a very strong desire to find a way out of trouble.
68. What did the company where Drew once worked learn from its mistake?
A. They encouraged people to work a longer time.
B. They discouraged people from thinking freely.
C. They asked people to spend all their work time developing new ideas.
D. They encouraged people to spend some of their work time considering and improving new ideas.
69．Creativity is something __________.
A. that people are born with
B. that depends on intelligence
C. that is a way of using what one has learned to work out new problems
D. that is not important at all
70. What should the parents do when their children decide how to spend their money?
A. Try to help them as much as possible.
B. Take no notice of whatever they do.
C. Help them if their decision is wrong but not too much.
D. Leave them as they are.
71. This passage mainly deals with the question of __________.
A. what is the key to a brighter future
B. what creativity is
C. how schools and parents can encourage creativity in children
D. whether schools and parents should allow children to make choices and decisions
(C)
Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become annoyed and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance the well-being (health and happiness) of local inhabitants.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first-class roads, and other support facilities needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money.
Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers (阴沟) to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.
72. Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraph that goes before the passage?
A. It is extremely important to develop tourism.
B. Building roads and hotels is essential.
C. Support facilities are highly necessary.
D. Planning is of great importance to tourism.
73.Too much tourism can cause all these problems EXCEPT ___________.
A. a bad impact on other industries
B. a change of tourists’ customs
C. overcrowdedness of places of interest
D. pressure on traffic
74. It is good for local people to be well aware that tourism will __________.
A. use up a large amount of water
B. weaken their economy
C. help establish their traditions
D. help improve their life
75. The word handle in the last paragraph most probably means “__________”.
A. carry away B. pick up C. get in D. take down
(D)
Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations , broken up by long ‘dark ages’ in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.
However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted . Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred ? The next thousand? The next million ? That’s much more difficult.
When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can’t think of.
So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.
Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you think about the future.
76. A particular mention made of Stapledon’s book in the opening paragraph _______.
A. serves as a description of human history
B.serves as an introduction to the discussion
C. shows a disagreement of views
D. shows the popularity of the book
77. The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that _______.
A. human history is extremely long
B. life has changed a great deal
C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years
D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future
78. Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to ______.
A. tools used in farming
B.ideas about modern life
C. unknown things in the future
D. hunting skills in the Stone Age
79. According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will _____.
A. serve the interests of the present and future generations
B. enable us to better understand human history
C. help us to improve farming
D. make life worth living
(E)
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80. ________ Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns.
81. _______The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, and so do other violent attacks. Murder, moreover, is more than seasonal: it is a weekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
82. ________Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, burglary(盗窃) has a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in December, January, or February. The most uncriminal month of all? May -- except for one strange statistic. More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.
83. ________ Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminal tendencies. Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings and make the highest scores on examinations. In all instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntington's studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicides(自杀) and admissions to mental hospitals. June is also a peak month for marriages!
84. _________ Possibly, high temperature and high humidity(湿度) bring on our strange and terrifying summer actions, but police officials are not sure. "There is, of course, no proof of a connection between humidity and murder," they say, "Why murder’s high time should come in the summertime we really don't know."
A. Patter of murder
B. Intellectual seasonal cycles
C. Cycle of crime
D. Possible explanations
E. Other patters of crime
F. Ways to avoid crime
第二卷 （共45分）
I. Translations
1．他有可能来参加下周举行的晚会吗？ ( chance )
2．正是由于他未能在恰当的时候澄清这一误会他该受到责备。(It, failure)
3．政府部门呼吁大众为西部贫困地区慷慨解囊。(appeal)
4．身处异乡，你得谨防被骗钱财。(care n.)
5．古典音乐似乎不为任何年龄层次的人所接受，但它确实能使我们的生活更充实。(acceptable)
6. 当谈到男女平等时，我们不得不承认当今很多女大学生还是没有平等的就业机会。(come)
II. Guided Writing
最近媒体正在广大市民的参与帮助下曝光上海人的一些不良礼仪，希望引发整个社会的关注和讨论，从而提升上海人的形象。你认为上海人应具有哪些良好的礼仪才能不愧为这个国际大都市中的一员。
Answer Sheet
Score ___________
一、Listening Comprehension:
17. ______ 18.______. 19. ______. 20. ______
21. ______ 22.______. 23._______. 24._______
二、完型填空
41.______.42.______.43._____.44._____.45.______.
46.______.47._______.48.______.49._______.
三、Reading Comprehension:
80.______ 81. ______ 82.______ 83.______. 84.______
三、Translation:
1.______________________________________________________
2.______________________________________________________.
3.______________________________________________________
4.______________________________________________________.
5.______________________________________________________.
6.______________________________________________________.
四、Writing:
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Answer
1.B 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. D. 6. A. 7.A. 8. D.9. D 10. C
11. B 12. D 13. C 14. A. 15. C 16. D
17. book 18. Peter 19. Mail 20. 21. smooth and soft 22. loosen (any)dirt 23. comb regularly/often 24. plenty of exercise
25------30 C B D A C A 31------35 B A D D C
36------40 A D C B B
41.I 42.H 43.G 44.F 45.E 46.D 47.C 48.B 49.A
50---54 DCBDA 55---59DAADC 60---64 BADCD
65． B 66. C 67. C
68. D 69. C 70. C 71. C
72.D 73. B 74. D 75. A
76. B 77. D 78. C 79. A
80. C 81. A 82. E 83. B 84. D
1．他有可能来参加下周举行的晚会吗？ ( chance )
Is there any chance that he will come to the party to be held next week?
Is there any chance of his coming to the party…..?
2．正是由于他未能在恰当的时候澄清这一误会他该受到责备。(It, failure)
It was for his failure to clear up the misunderstanding at the proper time that he was to blame.
3．政府部门呼吁大众为西部贫困地区慷慨解囊。(appeal)
The government appealed to the public to donate money generously to the poverty-stricken areas.
4．身处异乡，你得谨防被骗钱财。(care n.)
While staying in a different / foreign country, you should take care not to be cheated of your money.
5．古典音乐似乎不为任何年龄层次的人所接受，但它确实能使我们的生活更充实。(acceptable)
Classical music doesn’t seem to be acceptable to people of any age group, but it can make our life fuller.
6. 当谈到男女平等时，我们不得不承认当今很多女大学生还是没有平等的就业机会。(come)
When it comes to the equality of men and women, we can’t but admit that nowadays many girl university students still haven’t got / haven’t equal employment opportunities.