高二年级第二次月考试题
Ⅰ单项选择 （共15题， 每小题1分， 满分15分）
1. —I’ll be away on a business trip. Would you mind looking after my cat?
—Not at all. ____.
A. I’ve no time B. I’d rather not C. I’d like it D. I’ll be happy to
2. When my hand touched the letter in my pocket, I realized that I had forgotten ____ it.
A. having posted B. posting C. to have posted D. to post
3. ____ they won the prize was ____ we had expected.
A. That; which B. What; that C. That; what D. What; which
4. How I wish I ____ to your party, but I was too busy.
A. had came B. could come C. came D. had come
5. ____ from his accent, he must be from the south.
A. Judged B. Being judged C. Judging D. To judge
6. He is the only one of the students who ____ a basketball game before.
A. hadn’t watched B. haven’t watched
C. doesn’t watched D. hasn’t watched
7. ---- I just heard that the tickets for tonight’s football match have been sold out.
---- Oh, no! ____.
A. I was looking forward to that. B. It doesn’t matter.
C. I knew it already. D. It’s not all exciting.
8. He tried to cope with the ever increasing burden of his work, but finally he ____ and had to take a complete rest.
A. broke away B. broke down C. broke out D. broke in
9. ____ his composition, mine is not good enough.
A. Comparing to B. Compared with
C. Be compared with D. Being compared to
10. Although it was raining heavily, yet ____ no one stopped ____.
A. almost; to work B. nearly; to work
C. almost; working D. nearly; working
11. Jack is a very talkative boy. On the ____, his brother is rather silent.
A. contrast B. comparison C. opposite D. contrary
12. Allen had to call a taxi because the box was ____ to carry all the way home.
A. much too heavy B. too much heavy
C. heavy too much D. too heavy much
13. I know he hasn’t finished the work, but ____, he’s done his best.
A. first of all B. in all C. after all D. at all
14. ____ can you expect to get a pay rise.
A. With hard work B. Although work hard
C. Only with hard work D. Now that he works hard
15. Quite a few people used to believe that disaster ____ if a mirror was broken.
A. was sure of striking B. was sure of having stuck
C. was sure to be struck D. was sure to strike
Ⅱ 完形填空 （共20题， 每小题1分， 满分20分）
The Voice of America began during World War Ⅱ, when Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international __16__. American officials believed they should __17__ the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world _18__. The first VOA news report began with these words in __19__: “The __20__ may be good or bad, but we shall __21__ you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA __22__ were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.
After World War Ⅱ __23__ in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s __24__ has to be changed, __25__ the Soviet Union(苏联) became enemy of America. They wanted to __26__ Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.
In the first years VOA began __27__ something new to its broadcast that was called, “Music America”. Another new idea came __28__ in 1959. VOA knew that many listeners did not know __29__ English to completely understand its __30__ English broadcast. So VOA __31__ a simpler kind of English, __32__ uses about 1,500 words and is spoken __33__. Of course, it is Special English.
In the __34__ of most VOA listeners, the most __35__ program is the news report. News from around the world fly into the VOA newsroom in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in major cities and also from other broadcasts like BBC. VOA writers and editors use these materials to prepare news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.
16. A. business B. culture C. support D. information
17. A. reply B. answer C. join D. interrupt
18. A. accidents B. incidents C. events D. peace
19. A. time B. short C. English D. German
20. A. news B. problems C. effects D. opinions
21. A. prove B. tell C. say D. express
22. A. stations B. news C. announcers D. officials
23. A. broke out B. developed C. won D. ended
24. A. home B. position C. purpose D. result
25. A. if B. supposing C. considering D. in order that
26. A. reach B. satisfy C. attack D. support
27. A. connecting B. adding C. sticking D. leading
28. A. into B. across C. down D. along
29. A. American B. British C. standard D. enough
30. A. normal B. fast C. good D. exact
31. A. invented B. discovered C. taught D. stopped
32. A. it B. who C. which D. that
33. A. slowly B. rapidly C. normally D. loudly
34. A. pleasure B. course C. opinion D. advice
35. A. difficult B. important C. various D. common
Ⅲ 阅读理解 （共20小题， 每小题2分， 满分40分）
（A）
We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a number of things to happen. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this means your troubles are beginning. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table, destroying your half-prepared meal. You hang up hurriedly and attend to your baby. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this is not enough to bring you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly, bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong with a number of people on the road. During the rush hour one evening two cars hit each other and both drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic(恐慌) and stopped her car. This made the driver following her stop suddenly. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the window and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a truck driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the truck onto the road. This led to another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the truck driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs were enjoying themselves from the accident, for they were happily having what was left of the cake.
36. According to the author’s opinion, ____.
A. a small matter may cause great trouble
B. accidents may happen anytime
C. troubles always come in groups
D. anyone may have trouble any day
37. When the telephone rings, ____.
A. you’d better have your baby away from your table before going to answer the phone
B. your trouble is sure to come
C. you’d better just let it ring all the day
D. you should never go to answer it in a hurry
38. Who was responsible for the accident on the road?
A. The truck driver.
B. The woman driver.
C. The two drivers who hit each other.
D. It was not clearly mentioned.
39. From the story we can see ____.
A. such accidents are rather common
B. such accidents are rather strange
C. no one can explain why such accidents happen
D. some drivers are too careless
(B)
No one knows when Oxford University began. It may have started soon after the English students were expelled (开除) from the University of Paris in 1187 or 1168. Legend says it was founded by the mythical (神话的) king Mermpllrio or else by Alfred the Great, but the first record of it dates from the late 1100s. By the year 1200 Oxford University had nearly 3,000 students, who came from all over the world.
At first the university had no buildings, laboratories, or endowments (God). Masters taught in Latin the students who chose to come to their lectures. Their entire incomes came from the fees they collected from these pupils. The students were reckless (不计后果的) fellows who often quarreled with the townspeople. The “town-and-gown” fights lasted for centuries.
Today the organization, method, and spirit of Oxford University are strikingly (醒目地) different from those of colleges and universities in the United States. It is made up of 35 colleges, including three for women only. There are also five smaller private halls for theology (神学) students. Each college has its own history, income, rules, and type of organization. The university is a federation (同盟) of the colleges.
Women were granted (准予) full standing and degrees in 1920. The university is an independent self-governing corporation. It has its own police and its own courts. It disciplines (训练) students outside the walls of their own colleges. Its main functions are giving lectures and examinations and giving degrees.
40. According to the passage, Oxford University is ____.
A. a university which enrolls (招收) international students from the very beginning
B. an international university founded by Alfred the Great
C. a university mainly for international students
D. a university set up for students who majored in English in Paris
41. In its early stage, teachers at Oxford University offered courses in ____.
A. English B. French C. Latin D. Greek
42. According to the passage, Oxford University differs greatly from institutions of higher learning in America in terms of ____.
A. the organization
B. the enrollment process (注册程序)
C. the credit system (信贷系统)
D. the examination system
43. The main functions of the university include all the following except ____.
A. giving lectures to students
B. managing examinations
C. awarding degrees to qualified (合格的) students
D. setting up regulations for all the colleges
(C)
Among your favorite snacks (零食)， there may be chocolate biscuits called Oreos (奥利奥饼干). But you probably never know that with every mouthful, you may be harming your health.
A San Francisco lawyer filed a lawsuit (起诉) in early May against Kraft Foods, the maker of Oreos. Though he withdrew his charges on May 13, he said his move was only to get people to know about the dangers of trans-fat (转化油) found in the black and white biscuits.
The lawyer, Stephen Joseph, argued that the trans-fat that makes the filling creamy and the biscuit crisp is too dangerous for children to eat. He said there was a big difference between his lawsuit and others that were brought against tobacco and McDonald’s.
Consumers, Joseph said, already know that tobacco is bad for them and that McDonald’s food contains a lot of fat. But “trans-fat is not the same thing at all. Very few people know about it”.
The US National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, which advises the government on health matters, said last summer that this kind of fat should not be eaten at all. The organization said it is directly connected with heart disease and the build-up of bad cholesterol (胆固醇). But the US Department of Agriculture said vegetable oils that contain trans-fat are present in about 40 percent of the food in supermarkets. Biscuits, crackers and popcorn (爆米花) are the biggest carriers.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried to force food companies to include the trans-fat content on food packages, but the companies have objected to the rule. Even food labeled “low in cholesterol” may have high percentages of trans-fat. If customers know about trans-fat from food labels, it could prevent 7,600 to 17,100 cases of coronary heart disease (冠心病) and 2,500 to 5,600 deaths per year, the FDA said.
44. What’s the writer’s attitude towards Oreos?
A. The writer thinks Oreos should be forbidden to sell in American market.
B. The writer thinks Oreos is not as terrible as some people have described.
C. The writer warns people of the danger of Oreos to health.
D. The writer didn’t make it clear in the passage.
45. What the lawyer did about the maker of Oreos ____.
A. has caused great losses for the company
B. was to arouse (唤起) people’s consciousness of self-protect
C. improved his living standards
D. has brought him great trouble
46. The US Department of Agriculture ____.
A. suggests canceling (取消) the sales of Oreos in America
B. can’t do anything about Oreos
C. has found about two fifths of food in supermarkets won’t be allowed to sell
D. found it hard to prevent the sales of food containing trans-fat
47. We may draw a conclusion that ____.
A. most people dying from coronary heart disease were fond of Oreos
B. FDA can’t do anything about food companies
C. food containing trans-fat is not labeled by the fact
D. consumers care more about the taste of Oreos, even if they know the harm of it
(D)
Everyone talks about the “five” senses of man. And it is true that we get our information about the outside world from our sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. Researchers tell us that sense of sight—our visual (视觉的) sense—give us up to 80% of what we know about the world outside our bodies; while the other senses, the auditory (hearing), the olfactory (smell), the tactile (touch), and the gustatory (taste) bring into our brains information about the other twenty percent of what is happening. But there are two other senses that we cannot get along without it, though they are seldom noticed. These are the sense of balance, without which we would act like a drunk after a heavy drink, and the kinesthetic (运动感觉的) sense, which gives us ideas about our own motion (行动).
48. The senses of hearing, smell, touch and taste supply us with ____.
A. about 80% of our information about the world
B. about half of our information about the world
C. about 20% of our information about the world
D. all the needed information about the world
49. According to passage, one misses most about the world when one ____.
A. is blind
B. is deaf
C. has no sense of taste and touch
D. has no sense of balance and motion
50. We know our own movements as a result of ____.
A. the sense of balance
B. the visual sense
C. the five senses
D. the kinesthetic sense
51. What makes the other senses different from the “five” senses?
A. The other senses are less important.
B. The other senses are even more important.
C. The other senses help us more directly to learn about the world.
D. The other senses do not help us directly learn about the world.
(E)
Some British and American people like to invite friends for a meal at home. You should not be upset (难受) if your English friends don’t invite you home. It doesn’t mean they don’t like you!
Dinner parties usually start between 7 and 8 pm and end at about 11. Ask your hosts what time you should arrive. It’s polite to bring flowers, chocolates or a bottle of wine as a gift.
Usually the evening starts with drinks and snacks (小吃). Do you want to be extra polite? Say how much you like the room, or the pictures on the wall. But remember—it’s not polite to ask how much things cost.
In many families, the husband sits at one end of the table and the wife sits at the other end. They eat with their guests.
You’ll probably start the meal with soup or something small, then you’ll have meat or fish with vegetables, and then dessert (甜点心), followed by coffee. It’s polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it.
Did you enjoy the evening? Call your hosts the next day, or write them a short “Thank you” letter. British and American people like to say “thank you, thank you, thank you” all the time!
52. You are going to attend a dinner party and ____.
A. you’d better bring a certain present with you
B. you must leave home for it at 7 pm
C. you should ask your host when you should leave
D. you must arrive at it before 8 pm
53. It’s impolite ____.
A. to say that you like the host’s room very much
B. for a guest to ask the host the price of the thing in the room
C. for guests to have drinks and snacks before the evening
D. for the host and the hostess to sit and eat with their guests
54. In which order will you eat or drink the following things at the meal?
A. Snacks, vegetables, meat, coffee.
B. Coffee, drinks, soup, fish, vegetables, dessert.
C. Soup, meat with vegetables,
dessert and coffee.
D. Drinks, soup,
something small, fish and vegetables.
55. Which is the good manners in which you express your enjoyment of the evening?
A. Before leaving for home, you should say, “thank you for inviting me”.
B. When you shake hands with your host, you should say, “I did enjoy the evening”.
C. You can write a “thank you” letter to your host after that.
D. You should finish everything on your plate and take more if you want it.
Ⅳ 短文改错 （共10小题， 每小题1分，满分10分）
Beside Egyptians, people of Mexico also builded 56.____
pyramids. They didn’t build the pyramids for 57.____
tombs. They were used to build a pyramid and 58.____
then build a temple on top of them. The 59.____
pyramids of Mexico are not as high as that 60.____
of Egypt, but they are big. Each pyramid has a wide
stairway that go from the bottom to the top. The 61.____
biggest pyramid in Mexico is almost 2000
year old. Scientists think it 62.____
spent 10,000 men more than ten years to 63.____
build. On top of it they built a temple 64.____
to worship the sun. The temple is no longer there
and people call it the pyramid of the sun. 65.____
Ⅴ 书面表达 （满分15分）
请以“Why Are Bicycle So Popular In China?”为题， 根据以下要点用英语写一篇120词左右的短文。
1. 大多数中国人居住的地方离上班或上学的地点不远，骑自行车很方便。而且，骑自行车是锻炼身体的好方法。
2. 自行车是一种很方便的交通工具（means of transportation）,骑自行车做短途旅行，想到哪都可以。
3．骑自行车可以节省能源，减少空气污染。Ⅰ
答案
1D 2D 3C 4D 5C 6D 7A 8B 9B 10C
11D 12A 13C 14C 15D
Ⅱ
16C 17B 18C 19D 20A 21B 22C 23D 24C 25C
26A 27 B 28D 29D 30A 31A 32C 33A 34C 35B
Ⅲ
36C 37D 38D 39A 40A 41C 42A 43D 44C 45B
46D 47C 48C 49A 50D 51D 52A 53B 54C 55C
Ⅳ
56. builded→built 57. √ 58. 把were去掉 59.them→it
60. that→those 61. go→goes 62. year→years 63.spent→took
64. 在第一个build后加上it 65. and→but
Ⅴ
Why Are Bicycles So Popular In China?
Bicycles are a convenient means of transportation. People can go
wherever they like by bike on a short trip. It is easy to go to work
or school by bike because most of the Chinese live not far away from
where they work or study. Riding bicycles is also good exercise, which
can help build people’bodies.
What’s more, riding bicycles can save energy. China has a population
of more than 1,300 million. As bicycles are not expensive, almost every
family has one. Now each family in China has at least a bike instead of a car. Thus a great deal of energy is saved and serious air pollution
is reduced.
That’s why bicycles are so popular in China.