陕西省西安市第七十中学2015-2016学年高二英语上学期12月月考试题

1、高二英语第一学期月考试卷 2015.12考试时间： 120 分钟 总分： 150 分 班级： 姓名：第卷（满分100分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5个小题：每小题1. 5分，满分7. 5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的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 does the man like about the play?A. The actor. B.The ending. C. The story.2.Which place are

2、 the speakers trying to find?A. A restaurant. B.A bank. C. A hotel.3.At what time will the two speakers meet?A4:40. B. 5:10 C. 5:20 4.what will the man do ?A. Sort things out B.Wait for a phone call C. Change the plan5.What does the woman want to do ?A. Listen to some great music.B. Offer the man so

3、me help C.See a film with the man.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。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料，回答6、7题。6.Where is Ben？A. In the park. B. At school. C. In the kitchen.7.What will the children in the afternoon?A. Do their homework. B. Have a party. C. Help set the table.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8. What are the two speake

4、rs talking about?A. A travel plan. B. A business trip. C. A Family holiday.9. Where did Rachel go?A. China. B. Italy. C. Spain.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10.How did the woman get to know about third-hand smoke?A. From some smoking parents. B. From a newspaper article.C. From young smokers.11. Why does the man

5、 say that he should keep away from babies?A. He is a smoker.B. He wears dirty clothes. C. He has just become a father.12. What does the woman suggest smoking parents should do ?AReduce dangerous matter in cigarettes.B. Smoke only outside their houses.C. Stop smoking altogether.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. W

6、here does Michelle Ray come from?A. A big city B. A small town. C. A middle-sized city14. Which place would Michelle Ray take her visitors to for shopping?A. The Red River area. B. The Highlands. C. The Zen Garden15. What does Michelle Ray do for complete quiet?A. Read at home. B. Study in a library

7、. C. Go camping16.What are the speakers talking about in general?A. Louisville. B. Asian food. C. Late-night shopping.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Why do some people say they never have dreams according to Dr Garfield ?A. They have no bad experiences.B. Thy dont want to tell the truth.C. They forget about

8、their dreams.18. Why did Davis stop having dreams?A. He was frightened by a terrible dream.B. He was too sad about his brothers deathC. He got a serious heart attack.19. What is Dr Garfield s opinion about dreaming?A. It prevents the mind from working.B. It makes things worse.C. It is very useful.20

9、.Why do some people turn off their dreams completely?A. To stay away from their problems.B. To recover from illnesses. C. To recover from illnesses.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。 APeter, a high school student, was pretty busy with

10、 school, and he was on the soccer team. High school was hard, because everyone wanted to have nice clothes, hang out, drive cars, and all these cost money. Peters father was the sort of guy that believed you had to earn whatever you got, so he wasnt just about to hand over lots of money for Peter to

11、 use to have fun. So, he had to get a job.During his freshman year summer vacation, his classmate got him a job working on a hay (干草) farm. He threw hay up into wagons as the tractor drove around fields, and then they stacked (剁起) it in the hot barn. It was a hot, lowpaying job. He once worked a few

12、 nights a week at a grocery store. He put things on the shelf. It was a lot of lifting and carrying, and his arms were strong from this and the previous job. It was dull and didnt pay much.He took some time off when soccer got serious, but the following summer he tried working at a lumber yard. It w

13、as hot outside, but he got a lot of exercise lifting and carrying things like boards and drywall. He also learned a lot about building supplies. It still didnt pay well.From there, he spent a year doing some tutoring for a friend of the family, but that was piecemeal. His first real job came the las

14、t year at school, when he fixed registers and worked on computers at a big box store. It was his favorite job yet, but it still didnt pay well.What Peter realized with all of these jobs was that he needed a better paying job! The only way to get that was to get trained or educated. He could go to sc

15、hool and get a 2year degree in an office or technical position. His other choices were going to a 4year college or joining the army. He wasnt sure what he was going to do yet, but he knew he had to do something. Jobs were a lot of work, money was hard to earn, but he liked staying busy and being abl

16、e to buy things. Peter wanted the most out of life, and that meant education. 21. How many jobs had Peter taken?A. Five. B. Four. C. Three D. Six.22.All the jobs Peter had taken had one thing in common：_.A. They needed hard labour B. They were dull and tiresomeC. They didnt pay well D. They were don

17、e during his vacation23. _was the most important for Peter if he wanted a good job.A. Opportunity B. Education C.Confidence D. Wisdom24. We can learn from the text that_.A. it was very hard for Peter to make his choicesB. Peters father didnt care about himC. Peter knew what to do for his futureD. Pe

18、ter was determined to do whatever he liked BTayka Hotel De SalWhere: Tahua, BoliviaHow much: About $95 a nightWhy its cool: Youve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? Thats something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of saltincluding the beds (though youll sleep on regul

19、ar mattresses (床垫) and blankets).The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake thats the worlds biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain start

20、s to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.Green Magic Nature ResortWhere: Vythiri, IndiaHow much: About $240 a nightWhy its cool: Ridding a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of you

21、r open windowthere is no glass!you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You dont even have to come down for breakfastthe hotel will sen

22、d it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.Dog Bark Park Inn B&BWhere: Cottonwood, IdahoHow much: $92 a nightWhy its cool: This doghouse isnt just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his sid

23、e. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft in Willys head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant outside.Gamirasu Cave HotelWhere: Ayvali, TurkeyHow much: Between $130

24、and $475 a night.Why its cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic as

25、h, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65in summer.(Dont worrythere is heat in winter.)25. What is the similarity of the four hotels? A. Being natural. B. Being beautiful. C. Being expensive. D. Being unique.26. What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to? A. The name of the hotel. B.

26、The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner. C. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B. D. The name of the hotel owner.27. Which of the hotel makes you have a feeling of living in the far past? A. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B B. Green Magic Nature Resort C. Tayka Hotel De Sal D. Gamirasu Cave HotelCRecently, t

27、he TV show “Where are we going, Dad?” produced by Hunan Satellite Television is a big hit across nation. Many famous stars brought their children to a strange village alone, and they had to spend 72 hours with their children there. The program fully showed us a modern version of the “how to be a goo

28、d father”. As the young parents today are too busy to take care of their children, this new form of “Lost on the way” played by nanny Daddy and cute kids triggered（触发）a lot of peoples emotional resonance（共鸣）. Both the kids and their parents will find that their hearts are being drawn closer. But thi

29、s kind of feeling has just proved that there is a big spiritual barrier between the modern parents and children.The TV shows like “Children are hard to support!”, “Where are we going, Dad?”, “hot mom” and “cute kids” are becoming more and more popular. All of these show the new parents confusion in

30、childrens education and the appeal for the balance between career and family.In the real life, on the one hand the young parents feel helpless because they are too busy to accompany their children under the pressures of work and life; on the other hand they continue to do so. The data collected by H

31、NTV shows that nearly two-thirds of their audience are female, among whom 36% are aged from 25 to 34.We can imagine such a scene that one evening a young mother is watching the show with her young children, while her husband is still at work or trapped in socializing, or maybe is just playing comput

32、er games in the bedroom. The story of a child without the company of father is still going on. In fact, it is sometimes the same to mothers. In a modern family, it is often the old who take the responsibility of raising a child. The participation of mother in the childrens education is also very low

33、.It is just this kind of confusion where the parents have gone in the modern family education, and where the parents will guide their children to go that “Where are we going, Dad?” shows us. If a child wants to grow up healthily and safely into a modern citizen with independent personality and free

34、spirit, it is very important for him or her to follow the parents who serve as their first teacher. Maybe this is the real reason why such kind of TV programs could get hot. The truth is that children will go where their parents go; and society will go where the children go. 28. To raise a child in

35、modern society, parents should _.A. play computer games with their children B. balance well between family and careerC. break down the barrier between children and teachersD. keep their children at home to avoid socializing29. What does the underlined word “participation” probably mean?A. taking par

36、t B. understandingC. taking responsibility D. keeping company30. What attitude towards modern family education does the author express in the second paragraph?A. Proud. B. Indifferent. C. Optimistic. D. Worried.31. Which one is the best title of the passage?A. Confusion Behind “Where are we going, d

37、ad?”B. Modern Education is ImportantC. New problems in Modern Childrens EducationD. Nanny Daddy and Cute KidsDSome colors people see late at night could cause signs of the condition mental health experts call clinical depression(临床抑郁症). That was the finding of a study that builds on earlier study fi

38、ndings. They show that individuals who live or work in low levels of light overnight can develop clinical depression. Doctors use the word clinical depression to describe severe form of depression. Signs may include loss of interest or pleasure in most activities, low energy levels and thoughts of d

39、eath or suicide.In the new study, American investigators designed an experiment that exposed hamsters（仓鼠）to different colors. The researchers chose hamsters because they are nocturnal, which means they sleep during the day and are active at night. The animals were separated into four groups. One gro

40、up of hamsters was kept in the dark during their night-time period. Another group was placed in front of a blue light, a third group slept in front of a white light, while a fourth was put in front of a red light. After four weeks, the researchers noted how much sugary water the hamsters drank. They

41、 found that the most depressed animals drank the least amount of water.Randy Nelson, at Ohio State University, says animals that slept in blue and white light appeared to be the most depressed. “What we saw is that these animals didnt show any sleep interruptions at all but they did mess up biologic

42、al clock (生物钟) genes and they did show depressive sign but if they were in the dim red light, they did not.” He says theres a lot of blue in white light. This explains why the blue light and white light hamsters appear to be more depressed than the hamsters seeing red light or darkness.32. From the

43、text we know that _ made the hamster feel depressed. A. the loss of pleasure B. the colour of the light C. the amount of the water D. the level of energy33. What was the purpose of the experiment on hamsters? A. To explain why they liked dark colours. B. To see how much sugary water they drank. C. T

44、o show how well they slept. D. To find out what caused the depression on them. 34. The author explains the clinical depression by _. A. setting down general rules B. presenting research data C. reporting an experiment process D. giving his own experience35. Where can we probably find the text? A. In

45、 a tourist guidebook. B. In a physics textbookC. In a science magazine. D. In an official announcement.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。 Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good. 36 When people think of carrots, they usually picture in their mind a

46、 vegetable that is long, thin and orange. 37 And not all carrots are orange. For example, Paris Market carrots are about five centimeters around. Rome carrots are thin and about twenty-five centimeters long. And Belgian White carrots are, as their name suggests, white.For the best results, carrots s

47、hould be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time. The soil also should have no rocks. To prepare your garden for carrots, dig up the soil, loosen it and turn it over. Then, mix in some plant material or animal fertilizer (肥料). 38 Experts say warm days, cool nights and a medium s

48、oil temperature are the best conditions for growing carrots that taste great.Carrots need time to develop their full sugar content. This gives them their sweetness if you wait too long to pull them from the ground. 39 Usually, the brighter the color, the better the taste. 40 If the winter is not col

49、d enough to freeze the ground, you can grow and harvest carrots the same way as during the summer months. If the ground does freeze, simply cover your carrot garden with a thick layer of leaves or straw. This will prevent the ground from freezing.A. But carrots come in many different sizes and shape

50、s.B. They are economic crops.C. The best time for planting carrots is during the winter months.D. Weather, soil conditions and age will affect the way carrots taste.E. The best way to judge if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its color.F. And they contain a lot of carotene (胡萝卜素), which the b

51、ody make into vitamin A.G. Many people do not know that carrots can be grown during the winter months. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，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和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom wit

52、h my favorite shirt on.A 41 came. Nice shirt, I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, That shirt belonged to my dad. Gregs mother works for my family. We were going to 42 that shirt away, but gave it to her 43 . I was speechless. I wanted to hide.I 44 my shirt in the back of the closet an

53、d told my mom what had happened. She then dialed her 45 , I will no longer work for your family, she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldnt clean anymore; she knew her lifes 46 was something greater.The next morning she 47 with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told

54、 her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to 48 a university.After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, You are 49 , arent you? I think I have a 50 for you as a teachers assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are ment

55、ally challenged with little or no chance of 51 .” Mom accepted the opportunity very 52 .For almost five years, as a teachers assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling 53 . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal 54 in her classroom. The principal said, We have watched how you 55 the children and how they communicate with you an