1、- 1 -兰州一中 2018-2019-1 学期 9 月考试题高二英语说明：本试卷分第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）两部分。满分 120 分，考试时间100 分钟。答案写在答题卡上，交卷时只交答题卡。第 I 卷（选择题）第一部分： (共三节，满分 60 分)第一节 阅读理解（共 10 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 20 分）AThe U.S. Department of Labor statistics (统计) show that there is an oversupply of college-trained workers and that this oversupply
2、is increasing. Already there have been more than enough teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts, and other specialists. Yet colleges and graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs that arent there. The result is that graduates cannot enter t
3、he professions for which they were trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree.On the other hand, there is a great need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, TV repairmen.These people have more work than they can deal with, an
4、d their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The old gap that white-collar workers make a better living than blue-collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen.The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that co
5、llege degree is a passport to a prosperous future. A large part of American society matches success in life equally with a college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating (灌输) their children with this myth before they are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high sc
6、hool education were a preparation for college rather than for life. Under this pressure the kids fall in line. Whether they want to go to college or not doesnt matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments (入学) go up and up, and more and more g
7、raduates are overeducated - 2 -for the kinds of jobs available to them.One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who do not belong there. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of them do not graduate with their class. Many of
8、 them drop out within the first year. Some struggle on for two or three years and then give up.1. Its implied but not stated in the passage that _ . A. many other countries are facing the same problem B. white-collar workers in the US used to make more money than blue-collar workersC. fewer students
9、 will prefer to go to college in the futureD. the law of supply and demand has a strong effect on American higher education2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why college enrollments go up every year?A. Many people believe that the only way to success is a college education.B. Many parents wan
10、t their children to go to college.C. High school teachers urge their students to go to college.D. Every young man and woman wants to go to college.3.By saying that“many people go to college who do not belong there”, the author means that _ .A. many people who are not fit for college education go to
11、collegeB. many people who do not have enough money go to collegeC. many people who go to college drop out within the first yearD. many people who go to college have their hopes destroyed4. We can infer from the passage that the author believes that _ .A. every young man and woman should go to colleg
12、eB. college education is a bad thingC. people with a college education should receive higher payD. fewer people should go to college while more should be trained for skilled jobsB One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit ones mistakes. It is extremely hard s
13、ometimes to say a simple thing - 3 -like“I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say,“I was wrong, and you were right about that.”I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain store in
14、 the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons (in many countries, eggs are sold by the dozen and are put in cartons.) Then he related an incident (event, matter) and I began to remember unclearly the incident he was describing.I was about eight years old at the t
15、ime. I went into the store with my mother to do some shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the food department where the incident took place.There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there were lots of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were
16、put three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of the piles of egg cartons. Just then a woman came by pushing her shopping cart and knocked off the cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the eggs back together, so I went to work.The manager heard the noise and came rus
17、hing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees looking at some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I was the one who just did it. He severely reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for any broken eggs. I tried to explain, but it
18、did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, it is plain that the manager did not.5. Which is the correct order of the following?a. I forgot all about the incident. b. I went into the store.c. A woman knocked off the egg cartons. d. I stood in front of the egg cartons.e. The man
19、ager reminded me of the incident. f. The manager didnt believe my explanation.g. I picked up the unbroken eggs.A. b; d; g; c; a; f; e B. b; d; c; g; f; e; a C. b; c; d ;g; e; f; a D. b; d; c; g; f; a; e6. The word “reprimanded” in the last paragraph most exactly means “_ ”.- 4 -A. frightened B. scol
20、ded C. warned D. comforted7. The best title for this passage should be_ .A. A Case of Mistake B. The Manager I Never ForgetC. The Manager and I D. An Incident 15 Years AgoCOne morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all
21、night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream.He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose
22、king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with the
23、ir spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small
24、 hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practised sewing machine.Elias Howes was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way.Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came
25、into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still activ
26、e part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you ar
27、e awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses - 5 -strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.8. The problem Howe was trying to solve was_.A. what kind of thread to useB. how to d
28、esign a needle which would not breakC. where to put the needleD. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle9. Thomas Edison is spoken of because _ .A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine B. he got some of his ideas from dreamsC. he was one of Howes best friends D. he also h
29、ad difficulty in falling asleep10. Dreams are sometimes called“secret messages to ourselves” because _ .A. strange images are used to communicate ideasB. images which have no meaning are usedC. we can never understand the real meaningD. only specially trained people can understand them第二节（共 5 小题，每小题
30、 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 于 选 项 。What will you do if you cant eat everything bought in the canteen? _11_ According to a survey, what students waste every year could feed over 10 million people._12_ According to Xinhua News Agency, the food
31、 wasted by Chinese people is about 50 million tons of grain every year, which could feed 200 million people.Food waste, which has become a global issue, serves as a mirror that reflects various cultural and social issues in different countries. In the West, for instance, consumerism, the belief that
32、 its a good thing to use a lot of goods and services, is often to blame for food waste. _13_ Chinese people are well known for being hospitable and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food. On campus, a generation of single children is less aware of the fo
33、od waste issue. Students nowadays are well protected by their families and hardly have any concept of how much toil others - 6 -go through in order to provide them with the food they eat._14_ There are over 925 million hungry people in the world, most of whom live in underdeveloped countries and are
34、as. They dont have enough food to eat. Many children die for lack of nutrition each year in some African countries. And farmers work very hard to grow the crops. _15_ Its also important that everyone should think about how they can do their bit to reduce food waste.A. Students waste is extremely ser
35、ious.B. China, in turn, features its own eating culture.C. But canteen waste is extremely the tip of the iceberg.D. Students can never realize the serious food crisis.E. Compared with them, some live in a different world.F. So theres no excuse that we should waste our food.G. Most of us would simply
36、 throw away any leftover food.第三节 完形填空(共 20 小题; 每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Weve heard it before-weve heard it on the news, from teachers, from parents children and teenagers today are growing up too fast. There are not too many people that will 16 with that statement
37、. Teenagers are faced with serious problems and decisions at an early 17 . In fact most teenagers daily schedules are as 18 as those of an adults. I have been working since I was thirteen, and always in 19 in which I was working with adults. I have had to learn to think and 20 like an adult to be ta
38、ken seriously. So, I count myself as one who has grown up too fast. I just graduated from high school, and have recently spent some time reflecting on the 21 eighteen yearsthinking about myself, what I have gained, and what 22 I have yet to achieve. We are expected to work hard, get excellent 23 , b
39、e in a good relationship, and know what we want to do 24 . The list goes on and on. But the 25 is clear: We live in a society today that is 26 our childhood. We no longer have many years to be careless and fancyfree. We are expected to 27 the strict school rules and to excel （擅长）in everything we do.
40、 Ive known these things for a long time, and knew that they 28 me. But, I never really admitted it until last night, when I learned a 29 lesson, - 7 -taught to me by my boss where I work. We had finished a job at a remote site. It was about 11:30 at night, and we had 30 to his house. We were talking
41、 about the 31 he had been making to his home. One of the things he said was “I 32 my basketball hoop（圈）. ”Then he threw a basketball to me. I hadnt 33 a basketball in five years. We proceeded to shoot hoops for about 40 minutes. Both of us were terribly bad at it, but we spent the whole time 34 like
42、 children. Then I realized something: I am still a child. Oh, the law says Im an adult. But, we are still really and truly children. We all need to have 35 once in a while. 16. A. argue B. disagree C. satisfy D. discuss17. A. age B. stage C. year D. grade18. A. certain B. busy C. careful D. perfect1
43、9. A. companies B. places C. positions D. offices20. A. study B. speak C. work D. act21. A. last B. other C. rest D. coming22. A. purposes B. success C. goals D. jobs23. A. textbooks B. grades C. teachers D. schools24. A. in life B. in time C. for ages D. for ever25. A. information B. message C. not
44、ice D. idea26. A. ruining B. correcting C. envying D. shortening 27. A. respect B. accept C. learn D. follow 28. A. inspired B. disappointed C. affected D. frightened29. A. valuable B. serious C. important D. useful30. A. walked B. flown back C. gone back D. - 8 -driven 31. A. furniture B. improveme
45、nts C. equipment D. arrangements32. A. moved B. fixed C. sold D. broke33. A. played B. caught C. kicked D. held34. A. laughing B. shouting C. running D. shooting35. A. a rest B. a talk C. fun D. sports第 II 卷（非选择题）第二部分（共两节 , 满分 25 分）第一节 单词拼写(一空一词 共 15 小题,每小题 1 分,满分 15 分)36. She was even less _(热情的) a
46、bout going to see the film.37. Only because of the color he disliked, the boy r_(抛弃) his new shoes.38. He c_ his speech with an interesting story.39. I know he s_ me of my honesty.40. She opened the door _(谨慎) so as not to wake the baby.41. The football team, c_ of 22 players and three coaches, was
47、set up about 3 years ago.42. D_ into three groups, the students began cleaning the classroom.43. These gates are always open for the _(方便) of visitors.44. The _(辉煌的) image of Lei Feng will forever live in the heart of the people.45. Her parents gave her so much money that shes got no _(动机) to get a
48、job.46. I recognized her the _(立刻) I saw her.47. They argued that the plan would damage the islands _(生态).48. So a_ was he in his work that he didnt notice that it was raining hard.49. The beauty of the scenery here is beyond d_, that is, the beauty of the scenery is hard to describe.50. _(缺乏) in co
49、nfidence, he didnt accomplish his speech.- 9 -第二节 (共 10 小题,每小题 1 分,满分 10 分)阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式(不多于 3 个单词)The “selfie” is used to describe the self-taken photo, often from a smartphone. Someone takes about 10 selfies each time he does, and he only ends up _51_ ( post) one or two of those. H
