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承德市第八中学2013-2014学年度第二学期第二次月考高二英语满分150分 时间 90分钟第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分,满分7.5分)请听下面5段对话,选出最佳选项。 1. how does the man come here? a. by bus. b. by taxi. c. by car.2. why isnt helen present? a. she forgot to come. b. she changed her decision. c. she wasnt invited.3. whats the probable relationship between the two speakers? a. husband and wife. b. mother and son. c. doctor and patient.4. whats the mans job? a. a shop assistant. b. a tailor. c. a salesman.5. what does the man mean? a. he cant go to the cinema. b. he can go to the cinema on saturday morning. c. he can go to the cinema on saturday evening.第二节（共15小题； 每小题1.5分,满分22.5分） 请听下面5段对话或独白,选出最佳选项。请听第6段材料,回答第6、7题。6. when will the man go on holiday? a. in spring. b. in summer. c. in winter.7. where is the man going? a. switzerland. b. italy. c. austria. 请听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。8. what is the man? a. a businessman. b. a salesman. c. a scientist.9. where does this conversation most probably take place? a. on a train. b. on a bus. c. on a plane.10. why is the woman traveling? a. she is traveling on holiday. b. she is traveling on business. c. she is traveling to give some lectures. 请听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。11. why is the woman calling? a. to buy a table. b. to book a table. c. to serve lunch.12. when does this restaurant stop serving lunch? a. 1 pm. b. 2 pm. c. 3 pm. 13. how many people will come with the woman for lunch? a. one. b. two. c. four. 请听第9段材料,回答第14至17题。14. what is the man? a. a nurse. b. a doctor. c. a chemist.15. what is wrong with the woman? a. she is wet all over. b. she has a bad headache. c. she has had a cough for three days.16. what does the man tell the woman to do? a. stay in bed for some time and take some medicine. b. go around from time to time. c. come to see him tomorrow morning.17. where does this conversation most probably take place? a. in a garden. b. in the mans office. c. in the womans house.请听第10段材料,回答第18至20题。18. what is the main topic of the passage? a. the barcelona olympic games. b. tv programs on chinese television. c. effects of television on our lives.19. where was the survey of 300 youngsters made? a. in shanghai. b. in wuhan. c. in beijing.20. according to the passage, what is quickly taking the place of printed material as the major source of news for most chinese? a. internet b. television c. reading第二部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）aonce upon a time， there were two sheep. one was a small sheep， so small. it has a soft voicebaa！ the other was a big sheep， so big. it has a loud voicebaa！ the two sheep are brothers. every day， big sheep and small sheep would go out to the fields to play together and to look for grass to eat. one morning， as always，the two sheep went out. big sheep and small sheep gambolled（跳跃） out to the fields to look for grass to eat. now it has not been raining for many days and most of the grass had dried up. big sheep and small sheep gambolled for a long time but they could not find any green grass to eat. their feet were tired and they could no longer gambol. so they walked. they walked and walked from morning until afternoon but there were no green grass. as far as they could see all the green grass had become brown. the sun was getting hotter. big sheep and small sheep were tired，hungry and thirsty. but they continued walking and soon they came to a river. they lowered their heads and lapped up some water with their tongues. when big sheep lifted his head， he saw a small green patch under a tree. he gambolled over to the tree. it was a patch of green grass.“baa， baa！” he shouted to small sheep to come over. both big sheep and small sheep were very excited. but the small patch of grass was a very small patch. it was just enough for one sheep. what should they do？ who should eat the small batch of green grass？ “baa， baa！ “go ahead and eat it. i am not very hungry. ”said big sheep and he began to move away. ”baa！ “let us share the green grass.” said small sheep. so big sheep and small sheep shared the small patch of small grass. they were very delighted and they gamboled all the way home. 21. what should be the best title for the passage？ a. big sheep and his grass b. sharing with one another c. sheep like grass d. looking for grass 22. what can we learn from last sentence in the second paragraph？ a. it has rained for long. b. the grass is dry. c. the two sheep like to eat dry grass. d. it is hard for the two sheep to find green grass. 23. what did the two sheep do when coming to a river？a. they had a good rest and went home. b. they got tired and slept. c. they lowered their heads and drank some water. d. they ate some brown grass. 24. what did big sheep do when he found the green grass？ a. he asked small sheep to eat the green grass by excusing that he was not hungry. b. he asked small sheep to share the green grass. c. he ate the green grass by himself. d. he told small sheep to take the green grass home. 25. what does the underlined word “delighted” mean in the last paragraph？ a. envious b. sad c. happy d. bitterbagainst the supposition than forest fires in alaska, canada and siberia warm the climate, scientists have discovered that cooling may occur in areas where burnt trees allow more snow to mirror more sunlight into space.this finding suggests that taking steps to prevent northern forest to limit the release of greenhouse gases may warm the climate in northern regions. usually large fires destroyed forests in these areas over the past decade. scientists predict that with climate warming, fires may occur more frequently over next several centuries as result of a longer fire season. sunlight taken in by the earth tends to cause warming, while heat mirrored back into space tends to cause cooling.this is the first study to analyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climate. earlier studies by other scientists have suggested that fire in northern regions speed up climate warming because greenhouse gases from burning trees and plants are released into the atmosphere and thus trap heat.scientists found that right after the fire, large amounts of greenhouse gases entered the atmosphere and caused warming. ozone（臭氧）levels increased, and ash from the fire fell on far-off sea ice, darkening the surface and causing more radiation from the sun to be taken in. the following spring, however, the land within the area of the fire was brighter than before the fire, because fewer trees covered the ground. snow on the ground mirrored more sunlight back into space, leading to cooling.“we need to find out all possible ways to reduce the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” scientists tracked the change in amount of radiation entering and leaving the climate system as a result of the fire, and found a measurement closely related to the global air temperature. typically, fire in northern regions occurs in the same area every 80 to 150 years. scientists, however, found that when fire occurs more frequently, more radiation is lost from the earth and cooling results. specifically, they determined when fire returns 20 years earlier than predicated, 0.5 watts per square meter of area burned are soaked up by the earth from greenhouse gases, but 0.9 watts per square meter will be sent back into space. the net effect is cooling. watts are used to measure the rate at which energy is gained or lost from the earth.26. according to the new findings, taking steps to prevent northern forest fires may _ .a. result in a warming climateb. cause the forest fires to occur more frequentlyc. lead to a longer fire seasond. protect the forests and the environment there27. the following are all the immediate effects after a forest fire except _.a. large amounts of greenhouse gases enter the atmosphereb. the levels of ozone which is a type of oxygen increasec. snow on the ground mirrors more sunlight back into spaced. ashes from the fire fall on the ice surface and take in more radiation from the sun28. earlier studies about northern forest fires _.a. analyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climateb. indicate that forest fires will pollute the atmospherec. suggest that people should take measures to protect environmentd. suggest that the fires will speed up climate warming29. the underlined phrase “soak up” in the last paragraph most probably means _.a. released b. absorbed c. created d. distributed30. from the passage we can draw a conclusion that forest fires in alaska, canada and siberia may _.a. warm the climate as the supposition goesb. allow more snow to reflect more sunlight into space and thus cool the climatec. destroy large areas of forests and pollute the far-off sea iced. help to gain more energy rather than release more energycsaturday, october 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for anna politkovskaya. two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the moscow metro while on his way to visit politkovskayas mother, raisa mazepa, in the hospital. she had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husbands funeral. “your father will forgive me, because he knows that i have always loved him,” she told anna and her sister, elena kudimova, the day he was buried. a week later, she had an operation and since then anna and elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into politkovskayas apartment, on lesnaya street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “anna had so much on her mind,” elena kudimova told me when we met in london, before christmas. “and she was trying to finish her article.” politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper novaya gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of chechnya. this time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the prime minister, ramzan kadyrov, who are in favour of russia. in the past seven years, politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “a small corner of hell: reports from chechnya.” politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other russiansand almost no other reporterscared to think about. 31. politkovskayas father died of _.a. tiredness b. a heart disease c. an attack d. an accident32. from the text we know that raisa mazepa _.a. didnt love her husband b. didnt attend her husbands funeralc. was having an operation the day her husband was buriedd. was too sad to attend her husbands funeral33. the underlined word “emerged” most likely means _.a. came out b. went into c. disappeared d. left for34. how many family members of anna are mentioned in the passage?a. three. b. four c. five d. six35. which of the following words can best describe politkovskayas character?a. curious b. easy-going c. careless d. responsible第三部分：完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）there is no doubt that the earth is becoming warmer and that it is human activity that has caused this global warming rather than a random but natural phenomenon. all scientists subscribe 36 the view that the increase in the earths 37 is due to the 38 of fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to produce energy. some byproducts of this process are called greenhouse 39, the most important one of 40 is carbon dioxide. dr janice foster explains: there is a natural phenomenon that scientists call the greenhouse effect. this is when small amounts of gases in the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour, trap heat from the sun and 41 warm the earth. 42 the greenhouse effect, the earth would be about thirty-three degrees celsius 43 than it is. so, we need those gases. the problem begins when we add huge quantities of 44 carbon dioxide into the 45. it means that more heat energy tends to be 46 in the atmosphere causing the global temperature to go up. we know that the levels of carbon dioxide have 47 greatly over the last 100 to 150 years. it was a scientist called charles keeling, 48 made accurate measurements of the amount of 49 in the atmosphere from 1957 to 1997. he found that between these years the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere went up from around 315 parts to around 370 parts per million all scientists 50 this data. they also agree that it is the burning of more and more fossil fuels 51 has 52 this increase in carbon dioxide. so how 53 will the temperature increase go? dr janice foster says that 54 the next 100 years the amount of warming could be as low as 1 to 1.5 degrees celsius, but it could be as high as 5 55.36. a. in b. to c. for d. from37. a. condition b. position c. temperature d. economy38. a. burning b. burnt c. to burn d. burn39. a.oil b. gases c. water d. field40. a. what b. when c. that d. which41. a. therefore b. however c. that d. besides42. a. unless b. because c. without d. otherwise43. a. deeper b. hotter c. cooler d. thinner44. a. little b. extra c. clean d. warm45. a. atmosphere b. lake c. sea d. mountain46. a. reached b. added c. picked d. trapped47. a. increased b. decreased c. realized d. remained48. a. where b. what c. who d. that49. a. water vapour b. carbon dioxide c. natural gas d. greenhouse gases50. a. refuse b. fight c. mention d. accept51. a. which b. that c. how d. whom52. a. take in b. give in c. result in d. look in53. a. long b. high c. far d. wide54. a. over b. before c. after d. ago55. a. meters b. depth c. degrees d. miles第四部分：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）when 56 (boil) rock erupts from a volcano and crashes back to earth, it causes less damage than you might imagine. this is 57 no one lives near the top of mount kilauea, 58 the rocks fall. the lava that flows slowly like a wave down the mountain causes far more damage because it buries 59 in its path under the molten rock. 60 , the eruption itself is really exciting to watch and i shall never forget my first sight of one. it was in the second week after i arrived in hawaii. having 61 (work) hard all day, i went to bed early. i was fast asleep when suddenly my bed began shaking and i heard a strange sound, 62 a railway train passing my window. having experienced quite a few earthquakes in hawaii already, i didnt take much notice. i was about to go back to sleep 63 suddenly my bedroom became as bright 64 day. i ran out of the house into the back garden where i could see mount kilauea 65 the distance. there had been an eruption from the side of the mountain and red hot lava was fountaining hundreds of meters into the air. it was an absolutely fantastic sight.承德市第八中学2013-2014学年度第二学期第二次月考年级 班级 考号 姓名 高二英语答题卡说明：155题的答案涂在机读卡上，其余的答案写在本卡上。第四部分（共三节，满分50分） 第一节：（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 第五部分： 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。每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：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，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仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。i have greatest job in the world. i travel to unusually places and work alongside people from all over the world. sometimes working outdoors, sometimes in an office, sometimes use scientific equip