辽宁省瓦房店市高二英语上学期第一次月考试题

1、辽宁省瓦房店市2017-2018 学年高二英语上学期第一次月考试题第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40 分） 第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。awe humans are superstitious（ 迷 信 ）, believing that friday the 13th is bad luck and finding a penny is good luck. here, then, are three of the most common superstitions.

2、carefulwiththatmirroraccording to folktales, breaking a mirror is sure to bring yourself sevenyears of bad luck. the superstition seems to arise from the belief that mirrorsdon t just reflect your image; theyhold bits of your soul. that belief led oldamericansoutherners tocover mirrors inahousewhen

3、someone died, for fearthattheirsoulmightbetrappedinside.like thenumber three,the number sevenisoftenassociated with luck. sevenyears is a long time to be unlucky, so people have come up with solutions after breaking a mirror. these include touching a piece of the broken mirror to a tombstoneorpowder

4、ingthebrokenmirror.knockonwoodthis phrase is designed to break away from bad luck: “b reaking that mirror didn t bring me any trouble. knock on wood.” the phrase may come from old tales about good spirits in trees or from an association with the christian cross.noumbrellasinsideand not just because

5、you ll hurtsomeone s eyes. opening an umbrellaindoors is supposed to bring bad luck. the origins of this belief vary from a story of an ancient woman who happened to have opened her umbrella moments before her house fell to the tale of a british prince who accepted two umbrellasfromavisitingkingandd

6、iedwithinmonths.21.whatmaybringgoodluck?a.datingon friday the13th.b.knockingon woodc.openingan umbrellainside.d.breakinga mirror.22.what should you do todrivebad luckaway afterbreakinga mirror?a. hide the pieces for seven years. b. put the pieces in a tombstone.c. cover the other mirrors in a house.

7、 d. make the pieces into powder.23.whichphrasemay originate（起源）fromreligion?a.carefulwith thatmirror.b.knockon woodc. no umbrellas inside. d. lucky number seven. bi was having a great morning until i sat down in front of my office computer.your password has run out, a server message flashed on my sc

8、reen, with instructions for changing it. coming up with a new code doesn t seem like a bigdeal unless you work at my company, where we have to change it monthly, using at least one uppercase（ 大写的 ）character, one lowercase character, one symbol, and one number. oh, and the whole thing can t be fewer

9、than eight characters. and i can t use any of the same passwords i ve used in the past three months.suddenly i was cross . what didn t make it any better was that i was deeplydepressed after my recent divorce. the flashing cursor（光标）was still waitingfor me to type a password that i d have to re -ent

10、er many times for the next 30 days. i remembered a tip from my former boss: i m going to use a password to change my life.i decided to choose a password, whichwould remind me that i shouldn t letmyself be a victimof my recent breakup and that i was strong enough to dosomething about it. i made my pa

11、ssword forgiveh3r.i had to type this statement several times a day. each time my computer would lock. each time my screen saver with her photo would appear. each time i would come back from eating lunch alone. in my mind, i wrote forgive her every day.the simple action changed the way i looked at my

12、 ex-wife.that constantreminder led me to accept the way things had happened at the end of my marriage and adopt a new way of dealing with my depression. as the month went on, i felt slow healing began to take place. by the time my server reminded me to reset my password the following month, i felt f

13、ree.24. according to the author s company, which code is suitable?d.persist4eva.never2&lateb.1u#lifec.healthy*keepinger25. which word can replace the underlined word cross in paragraph 2?a. nervous.b. curious.c. anxious.d. angry.26. why did the author change his password into forgiveh3r?a.to make it

14、 easier for him to remember.b.to protect his computer against hacker attacks.c.to reduce his frustration of the recent divorce.d.to inform people of the importance of forgiveness.27. what is the best title of the passage?a.how a password changed my lifeb.what an unsuccessful marriage taught mec.lear

15、n the best way to deal with depressiond.choose a suitable password for your computercmany animals recognize their food because they see it. so do humans. when you see an apple or a piece of chocolate you know that these are things you can eat. you can also use other senses when you choose your food.

16、you may like it because it smells good or because it tastes good. you may dislike some types of food because they do not look, smell or taste very nice. different animals use different senses to find and choose their food. a few animals depend on only one of their senses, while most animals use more

17、 than one sense.although there are many different types of food, some animals spend their lives eating only one type. the giant panda ea、ts only one particular type of bamboo. other animals eat only one type of food even when given the choice. a kind of white butterfly will stay on the leaves of a c

18、abbage, even though there are plenty of other vegetables in the garden. however, most animals have a more varied diet. the bear eats fruits and fish. the fox eats small animals, birds and fruits. the diet of these animals will be different depending on the season.humans have a very varied diet. we o

19、ften eat food because we like it and notbecause it is good for us. in countries such as france and britain, people eatfoods with too much sugar. this makes them overweight, which is bad for their health. eating too much red meat （羊肉，牛肉）and animal products, such as butter,can also be bad for the heal

20、th. choosing the right food, therefore, has become an area of study in modern life.28. we can infer from the text that humans and animals.a. depend on one sense in choosing foodb. are notsatisfied with their foodc. choose food in similarwaysd. eat entirely differentfood29. which of the following eat

21、s only one type of food? a. the whitebutterfly.b. the small bird.c. the bear.d. the fox.30. certain animals change their choice of food when.a. the seasonchanges.b. the food color changesc. they move to different placesd. they are attract _ed bydifferent smells31. we can learn from the last paragrap

22、h that.a. food is chosen for a good reasonb.french and british food is goodc. some people have few choices of foodd.some people care little about healthy dietdshake shack is a new kind of restaurant becoming more popular in theu. s. the restaurants are not “fast food ” . they are known as “fast casu

23、al ”.observers say americans want more choices and fresh food when choosing whereand what to eat . this trend is one reason why the fast food restaurant mcdonald s has struggled financially . in the last quarter of 2014, mcdonald snet incomedroppedby about $300 million.the januaryearnings report bro

24、ughtmore bad news. worldwide sales dropped for the eighth month in a row and even more thanexpected. whie mcdonald sisstrugglingto get theircustomersback , shake shack is doing well in making money . the new york-based burger chainhad a very successful ipo , or initial public offering, of shares at

25、the end ofjanuary . on its first day of trading, shake shack went from $21 a share to justunder $46 a share. being part ofthe“fast casual trend hashelped shakeshack. other fastcasual restaurants inthe u. s. include chipotle andpanerabread.bonnie riggs , a restaurant expert with npd has studied ameri

26、cans; restaurant habitsfor almost 30 years . she says one reason why americans likefast casual food is that it s new. it s creative , it s something different and people like to try new things . her study shows americans made 61 billion visits to restaurants last year . three out of four visits were

27、 to fast food restaurants, like mcdonald s . fast casual is still a smallpercentage ofrestaurantvisits, but it has developed fast . just as ms. riggs says ,it sgrowing by leaps and bounds , because they meet consumers needs . they knowfoodatwhattheysayarereasonable and affordablepricesoften3233manyw

28、eamericans still like their fast food . they just are not goingthey are findingotherways tohave a mealwha _t sthetroublewithmcdonald sa.itssharegoesdownto$21b.shakeshackhastakenitsplacec.it snotpopularwithamericansd .itssalesandincomehavedroppedcan learn from bonnie riggs that americansas?34 .a.don

29、tlikefastb.careonlyaboutc.liketotryd .paymorerestaurantvisitswhat does the underlined phraseby. leaps and boundsfoodanythesomethingtofast“ in paramorequalitynewcasual3 mean ?it s being prepared while they wait , it s fr esh , quality food , good tastinga.steadily .b . rapidly .c .slowly .d . normall

30、y .35whichof the followingbestdescribesfastcasual ?a.fresh-madeandtasty.b.high-qualityandexpensive.c.farm-to-tableandtraditional.d. time-consuming and special .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。parents are always told to control the amount of time their children spend us

31、ing phones. 36 researchers studied 55 parents, while they were eating ina fast food restaurant with their children. they found that one in three parentsused their phones during the meals. parents, who were busy with their phones seemed to have more negative communication with their children.37 they

32、studied five different acts from parents who didn t use theirphones at all during the meals, parents who put their phones on the tablebutdidn t use them, parents who used their phones now and then, parents who usedtheir phones at the end of the meals, and those who used their phones during the whole

33、 time of the meals. 38,_ more than 15 percent used their phones towardsthe end of the meals while the children were still eating,and continued using them until they left the restaurant.it s reported that young children use eye contact with their parents to form a good relationship and learn about th

34、e world. 39 when parents spenta long time looking at theirphones, theirchildren would be upset. reducingthis face-to-face contact could cause problems with further development and reduce the level of relationship between a parent and a child.this is the first study to examine how children behave whe

35、n their parents are using their phones. 40 more work needs to be done to find out how to improve the relationship between parents and children.a. the researchers think it is just the beginning.b. but their own habit of using phones could be bad, too.c. it is necessary for parents to spend time accom

36、panying them.d. almost 73 percent of the adults used their phones at least once during the meals.e. dr. radesky and her team observed parents behavior to see them in a “real - life setting .f. little eye contact and communication can reduce the close relationship with the children.g. so the more eye

37、 contact their parents use,the more chances the children have to succeed.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，茜分30分）阅读下面的短文，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。what is intelligence（ 智 力）anyway? when i was in the army i _41 an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, again

38、st_42of 100, scored 160.i had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not_43_ have scored more than 80.44, when anything went wrong with my car ihurried to him and he always_45_it.well, then, suppose my auto-repair man_46_questionsfor someintelligence tests. byevery one of t

39、hem id prove myself a _47. in a worldwhere i have to work with my_48_ , id do poorly.consider my auto-repair man _49_. he had a habit of telling_50_ .onetime he said, “doc, a deaf -and-dumb（聋哑）man 51 some nails. having entered a store,he put two fingers together on the counter and made_52_ movements

40、with the other hand. the clerk brought him a hammer. he _53_his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. the clerk_54_ him some nails. hepicked out the right size and left. well, doc, the _55 man who came in was blind. he wanted scissors（ 剪刀）.56_ do yousuppose he asked for them? ” ilift

41、ed my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. he burst out laughing andsaid, “why,you fool,he used his_5 7_andaskedforthem. ive been_58 that on all my customers today, but i knew _59_ id catch you.” why is that? ” i asked. abecause you are so goddamned educated, doc. i kn

42、ew you couldnt be very _60_ .”and i have an uneasy feeling he had something there. 41. a. failedb. wrotec.receivedd. choseexamd. a number43.a. alwayscertainlyb. possiblycd. frequently44. a. thentherefore45. a. fixeddrove46. a. answereddesigned47. a. teacherwinner48. a. brainshands49. a. againtoob. t

43、huscd. yetb. checkedcd. changedb.practisedcd. triedb. doctorc.d. foolb. effortc.d. attentionb. as usualcd. as well50. a. liesnewsb. jokescd. tales51. a. boughtfound52. a. cuttingwavingb. testedcd. neededb. hammeringcd. circling53.a. noddedshookb. raisedcd. turned54.a. broughtsentb. packedcd. sold55.

44、 a. cleverrightb. othercd. next56. a. whatwhob. howcd. which42.a. an averageb. a totalc. an- 9 - / 1357. a. imaginationb. handc.voiced. information58. a. tryingb. provingc.practisingd. examining59. a at onceb. for surec. infactd. right now60. a. clearb. sillyc.slowd. smart第二节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)阅读下

45、面材料，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。noth ing is worse than lying awake hour after hour, night after night, when you really want to do is sleep. insomnia is the word_61_ (use) to describe the habit of sleeplessness. for some unlucky people, sleeping difficulties may continue not just for days, _62 for week

46、s, or even years.being overtired can have a very bad effect _63 every part of our lives.we may get angry easily. we may catch colds easily or suffer more serious 64(sick).our work or study gets affected. our judgement 65(suffer)-many fatal accidents are caused by drivers _66(fall) asleep at the whee

47、l of a car.most of us need about eight hours sleep a night. if you have a few nightsin a row of sleeping less than eight hours, you should try to make up for thisby sleeping 67(much) when you get the chance. a 1959 american cancer studyof one million americans showed that people _68 sleep about eigh

48、t hours anight are likely_69 (live) longer than those who sleep less than seven hours.70 studie -s agree with these findings.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)with teachers day draw near, i would like to express my thanks to ms. li, who taught us english last year.at that time, i was hav

49、ing a trouble studying english and my scores fell. ms.li encouraged me and tell me her story that she never gave up before her studiesdidn t go well. she also said that it was necessary to make efforts so that iwould not regret waste time. her words were the best medicine because she stoodin her shoes to deal with problems and gave me sincere advices. she did n tsimple comfort me. her teaching methods also counted. it had never occurred me that studying could be so interested until i met ms. li.第二节书面表达（满分25分）假定你是李华，请给正在你校学习的英语交换生bob写