2019-2020年高一下学期第二次月考英语试题

1、2019-2020年高一下学期第二次月考英语试题说明：答题时间120分钟，总分150分。第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 20分）第一节听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题 和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What is the man doing?A. Shopping at a store.B. Looking at an art exhibit.C. Choosing a bag in his closet.2. What does the woman proba

2、bly like to eat in summer?A. Bananas.B. Apples.C. Strawberries.3. What is the weather like outside?A. It ' s sunny.B. It ' s cloudy.C. It ' s rainy.4. Why isn ' t the man ready to rent the apartment?A. He doesn ' t like it.B. It ，s too close to the train.C. He doesn ' t know

3、if his wife will like it.5. Where does the woman want to go?A. To the Big Splash Pool.B. To the Mega Slide.C. To the Wacky Waves.第二节听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、日C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. Why doesn ' t the woman like

4、the class?A. There is no water.B. She thought it would be easier.C. She likes to exercise with more people.7. What is the woman likely to do?A. Return to the class later.8. Exercise with a bigger group.9. Quit the class.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What does Mr. Bridges ask for?A. Orange juice.B. Sugar in his

5、 coffee.C. Toast.9. What happened to Mr. Bridges?A. He had a bad weekend.B. His dog ran away.C. He lost his hat.10. How does the woman know Mr. Bridges?A. He is a regular customer.B. She works with him.C. They always eat in the same restaurant.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11 、 12 题。11. How will the man create jobs?

6、A. By training new workers.B. By attracting more businesses.C. By providing more cleaning jobs.12. What is the man doing?A. Being interviewed.B. Giving a speech.C. Trying to raise money.听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。13. Who is James talking to?A. His principal.B. His mother.C. His friend.14. Why doesn t Ja

7、mes want to go to Northwestern University?A. It s too expensive.B. It s far from his family.C. None of his friends are going there.15. What is most important to James?A. Going to an inexpensive school.B. Going to a well-known teaching school.C. Going to an easy school.16. What is James like?A. He s

8、a hard worker.B. He makes friends easily.C. He s confident he ll make the right choice.听第 10 段材料，回答第17 至 20 题。17. When did Vincent van Gogh move to France?A. In 1889.B. In 1888.C. In 1886.18. Where is The Starry Night painted?A. In a hospital.B. In a museum.C. In a park.19. What has The Starry Night

9、 inspired today?A. French culture.B. American movies.C. Museums in New York City.20. What is true about the owner of the painting?A. They want to sell it.B. They bought it in 1941.C. They don t show it all the time.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）AIf you are like most people, your

10、intelligence varies from season to season.You are probably sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year.A famous scientist, Ellsworth Huntington（1876-1974）, concluded, from his work among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our men

11、tal abilities.He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to

12、 be lowest in the summer.Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason maybe that in spring man s mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about rapid growth of everything in nature.Fall is the next-best season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to

13、be good time to take a long vacation from thinking.21. According to this passage, your intelligence probably.A. stays the same throughout the yearB. varies from day to dayC. changes with the seasonsD. changes from year to year22. It seems that the cold of winter .A. increases the ability to thinkB.

14、is the best time for thinkingC. is better for thinking than the heat of summerD. decreases the ability to think23. The two best seasons for thinking seem to be.A. spring and fallB. winter and summerC. summer and spring D. fall and winterBMy shoe lesson number one.Back in mydays as a salesman, I was

15、on myway to deliver a speech in Newfoundland. Sitting fortably in the airplane seat, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat as I realized I had left my dress shoes at home. I was wearing running shoes for an important speech.I knew I could buy a new pair when I landed. Too late; the stores were alread

16、y closed. What about in the morning? No, the next day was Sunday and my speech was scheduled for 9:00 a.m. Ninety seconds later, however, my cold sweat has been replaced with a single idea.The next morning, I beg an my speech, “You might be wondering why I am wearing running shoes today. Well, it &#

17、39; s about this request here. When I ' m done speaking, I ' ll be running door to door and I want every one of you to e running with me, too.” My little "goof-up " became a clever demonstration （示范）of action speaking louder than words.My shoe lesson number two.My brother was getti

18、ng married. Wehad just witnessed the signing of the papers at their house, and they were rushing over to another place for the ceremony. As we loc ked up their house, my wife ' s shoes broke. So off to the nearest shoe store we flew. We knew they would wait for us before starting the ceremony. W

19、hat we did not know was how long they would wait.That day, my wife performed a miracle （奇迹）that no other womanhad done before or since. She went into the store and cameout just five minutes later with the perfect pair of shoes.Perhaps the most important lesson here is that, contrary/opposite to popu

20、lar belief, the shoe does not make the man/woman. But the lack （缺乏）of shoes can surely build character.24. Upon thinking of his shoes on the plane, the author feltA. proud B. delighted C. panicky and tenseD.encouraged25. What does the underlined part “ goof-up " probably mean ?A. ImageB. Mistak

21、e C. SuccessD. Present26. Before entering the shoe store, the author thought it.A. strange to be in a dilemma/trouble for a second timeB. a great pity to have to miss his brother' s weddin gC. important to test the quality of a new pair of shoesD. unlikely for his wife to finish shopping in a sh

22、ort time27. What ' s the message the author shows in the text?A. Emergencies can help shape our character.B. You can never judge a person by his looks.C. It ' s hard to change our character overnight.D. Never buy shoes without trying them on first.CIn the United States and several other coun

23、tries, 2.5 million children playbaseball in an organization called Little League. They play on teams in their hometowns. Their parents and other adults in the munity coach orinstruct them andserve as umpires （ 裁判员 ）to make sure that everyone follows the rules. Local businesses give money for the bal

24、l fields and the uniforms. Local teams pete against each other and the winners get to play teams that are more distant. Eventually, the top teams go to the Little League World Series.One hundred years after Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, NewYork, in 1839, Little League got started

25、 in Pennsylvania. Three men started the game for neighborhood boys with a smaller playing field and fewer innings （局）than adult baseball. Little League became popular after World Warn when the gamespread across the United States. By 1955 it was played throughout North America and within five years i

26、t had spread to Europe. Children's baseball really caught on in Japan andTaiwan of China and teams from those areas won the World Series seven out of eight years. After this, the organization tried banning foreign teams from the World Series, but the ban came to an end after one year.At first, L

27、ittle League was only for boys aged nine to twelve. However, in 1974, the parents of girl baseball players brought a law suit. The courts ruled that LittleLeague had to include both boys and girls. Later Little League added on softballand other games for teenagers up to age eighteen. Occasionally, a

28、 Little Leaguer bees a professional player. For example, Gary Carter went from Little League to playStar player. By andnineteen seasons in the Major Leagues, ten of them as an All large, youngsters play baseball for fun, but their parents are proud of them.28. The mothers and fathers of Little Leagu

29、e players B. travel with coachesD. help run the gamesC. 1955B. To have fun and please theirA. play in the World SeriesC. give the teams money29. In what year was Little League established?A. 1839B. 1939D. 173930. Why do most players take part in Little League?A. To play in the Major League.parentsC.

30、 They expect a profit from All Star games. D. They want to learn how toserve as umpires.31. What is TRUE about players today?A. Little League is only for neighborhood boys.B. Girl players have to buy their suits.C. Girls and boys can participate up to age eighteen.D. Children can only play until age

31、 twelve.DIn many countries, heart disease kills a lot of women and even more men. There are four major causes of this disease and these are smoking, poor or bad diet, a family history of heart disease and stressful work. Among these main wrong-doers, the most mon cause is stress.What is stress and h

32、ow do you feel when you are under stress? Imagine you livealone - you are lying in bed at night and, suddenly, you hear someone in the kitchen. Immediately your heart begins to beat very fast and you feel that you can hardly breathe. What you are felling is not stress, but fear. However, your body c

33、hanges in the same way when you feel stress. That means that if you feel anxious and worried during an important examination, your heart may beat very fast and you may feel breathless too. You are experiencing stress. Another mon situation in which a person is likely to feel stress is to have to do

34、something, for example, performing a boring duty, every day.Let us look at the case of Annie who was a nurse. She felt a lot of stress in her work and began to have very bad headaches at the end of the day. Each morning she woke up more tired than she was when she went to sleep. She did not want to

35、go out in the evening with her friends and she felt unhappy all the time.Finally, she sat down and thought about her life. She saw a lot of illness and death in her work but that was not the reason why she was under stress. The real reason was that she felt unable to make a positive decision in her

36、job- she hadto do what the doctors and sisters told her.So, Annie went back to college for further study. Whenshe graduated, she found a job where she was part of a team, as before, but where she had responsibility in making decisions. Her working hours were longer and her work more difficult than w

37、hen she was a nurse but she enjoyed it. She felt she was in control of her life and her work. For Annie, stress in her old job had made her change her life and end a difficult situation. Stress in her new job became a good thing because it helped her achieve satisfaction in her life and in her work.

38、32. Feeling is one form of stress.A. tiredB. aloneC. anxiousD. breathless33. According to the passage,die of heart disease.A.mostmenB. more men than womenC. more women than menD. bothmen and women34 .When Annie was a nurse, she felt no real in her work or in her life.A. unhappinessB. breakdownC.sati

39、sfactionD. responsibility35 . What is one major difference between Annie ' s new job and her old one?A. It included team work.B. It demands higherqualifications. C. It ensures satisfaction.D. It involvesdecision-making.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。选项有两项为多余选项。Rules on how to

40、be a fit kidBeing fit is a way of saying a person; a person eats well, gets a lot of physical exercise, and has a healthy weight. 36 .If you're a kid who wants to be fit, hereare three rules to live by.1. Eat a variety of foods.You may have a favorite food, but the best choice is to eat a variet

41、y. 37 Taste new foods and old ones you haven't tried for a while. Somefoods, such as green vegetables, are more pleasing the older you get. Shoot for at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day two fruits and three vegetables.2. 38What does it feel like to be full? Whenyou're eatin

42、g, notice how your body feels and when your stomach feels fortably full. Sometimes, people eat too much because they don't notice when they need to stop eating. 39 . And over a period of time, overeating can lead to unhealthy weight gain.3. Limit screen timeWhat's screen time? It's the a

43、mount of time you spend watching TVor DVD5, playing video games, and using the puter. The more time you spend on these sitting-downactivities, the less time available for active stuff, like basketball, bike riding and swimming. 40These rules aren't magic. However, follow them most of the time an

44、d you can bee a fit kid sooner or later.A. Drink water and milk.B. Try to spend no more than 2 hours a day on screen time.C. Eating too much can make you feel unfortable.D. If you eat different foods, you're more likely to get the nutrients your body needs.E. Listen to your body.F. Ask your pare

45、nts to help you do your favorite activities regularly.G. There're a lot of discussions these days about fit kids.第三部分：语言知识运用（共三节，满分 55分）第一节：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 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to preparefor a sur

46、prise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin.The professor41 the question papers, with the text facing down as usual.42 he handedthem all out, he asked his students to 43 the page and begin.To everyone's surprise, there were no 44 , just a black dot （点）in the centerof t

47、he page. The professor, seeing the expression on everyone's face, told them the following:"I want you to write what you 45 there.”The students, 46 , got started on the inexplicable （令人费解的）task.At theend of the class, the professor 47 all the answer papers and startedreading each one of them

48、 aloud in front of all the students. All of them,with no 48 , described the black dot, trying to explain its position inthe middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been 49 , the classroom wassilent, the professor began to explain:I'm not going to grade this. I 50 wanted to give you something to

49、think about. No one wrote about the 51 part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our 52 . We have a white paper to observe and 53 , but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a 54 given to us with love and care and we always have 55 to celebrate: nature re

50、newing itself every day, our friends around us. the job that 56 our livelihood andthe miracles we see every day.57 , weinsij:t on focusingonly on the dark spots:the health issues thatbother us, the lackwith a friend, and etc.of money, the 58relationshipwith colleagues, the 59The dark spotsthey are t

51、he onesare very 60 paredthat pollute our minds.to"everythingwe have in our lives, but41. A. handed outB. turned upC.referred toD. pointed at42. A. SinceB. UntilC.IfD. After43. A. foldB. turnC.openD. use44. A. exercisesB. choicesC.questionsD. scores45. A. rememberB. imagineC.studyD. see46. A. su

52、rprisedB. confusedC.curiousD. displeased47. A. collectedB. finishedC.markedD. selected48. A. excuseB. doubtC.exceptionD. explanation49. A. saidB. answeredC.returnedD. read50. A. alsoB. justC.evenD. finally51. A. bigB. blackC.beautifulD. white52. A. livesB. classroomsC.collegesD. studies53. A. sendB.

53、 keepC.enjoyD. show54. A. burdenB. giftC.pressureD. lesson55. A. reasonsB. timeC.freedomD. festivals57. A. HoweverB. ThereforeC. BesidesD. Moreover58. A. closeB. plicatedC. specialD. strong59. A. stayB. contactC. satisfactionD. disappointment60. A. darkB. roundC. smallD. dirty56. A. threatensB. ruin

54、sC. providesD. changes第 II 卷第三节 语法填空(共10 题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15分)阅读下面的单句，在空白处填入适当的内容( 1 个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。61. My excitement is beyond (describe), so I don t know what to say.62. I have fully realized important part that words play in Englishlearning.63. By the time I graduate next year, I (receive) more fr

55、iendships frommy classmates.64. Her voice (sound) happy when I phoned her to talk about the travelling.65. They took part in a (heat) discussion about the problem.66. He was banned driving for three months for careless driving.67. A scientist, as well as a writer, must be creative and (imagine).68.

56、It was the most (delight) garden I have ever seen.69. we are going to Hainan for holiday is certain.70. The factory used 65% of the raw materials, the rest of which (be)saved for other purpose.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 )下列句子中均有一处错误，错误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(A),并在其

57、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：改正格式不正确不给分。71. Their diet last month was largely consisted of grain and vegetables.72. What worried the officials is that a number of immigrants has risen sharply.73. Cleaning women in big cities usually get paying by the hour.74. It wasn t until nearly a month later when I received the manager s reply.75. Walters was not informed the reason for change of the plan.76. Conside