河北省阜平中学2018_2019学年高二英语上学期12月月考试题201903060263.doc

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1、- 1 -阜平中学 2017级高二第一学期 12月月考英语试题满分：150 分 考试时间：120 分钟第卷 (选择题）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)听下面 5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中给出的 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秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。例：How much is the shirt?A. 19.15. B. 9.15. C. 9.18.答案是 B。1. On which day will the woman return t

2、o work?A. Wednesday. B. Friday. C. Next Wednesday.2. What time is it now?A. About 6:00 p.m. B. About 5:40 p.m. C. About 5:20 p.m.3. What does Mr. Black look like?A. He has black hair. B. He is short. C. He wears glasses.4. What does the woman dislike about her photo?A. Her eyes. B. Her hair. C. Her

3、dress.5. Where does the conversation take place?A. At a restaurant. B. At the womans house. C. At a garden.第二节（共 15小题；每小题 1.5分，满分 22.5分）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、B、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. What kind of sport d

4、oes the woman want to learn?A. Volleyball. B. Tennis. C. Basketball.- 2 -7. When will the woman probably take the course?A. On Sundays. B. On Fridays. C. On Mondays.听第 7段材料，回答第 8、9 题。8. What is the woman doing?A. Preparing for a party. B. Visiting a doctor. C. Enjoying some music.9. What does the ma

5、n mean in the end?A. His brother is busy on Saturday.B. His brother has got a bad cold again.C. His brother is too young to play at the party.听第 8段材料，回答第 10至 12题。10. What are the speakers talking about?A. When they will move into the apartment.B. How they will decorate the apartment.C. What the apar

6、tment is like.11. What does the woman say about the apartment?A. It is large. B. It is far from the ocean. C. It must be cool in summer.12. What is the mans attitude towards the apartment?A. He is fond of it. B. He is uninterested in it. C. He is curious about it.听第 9段材料，回答第 13至 16题。13. How was the

7、weather last weekend?A. Windy. B. Rainy. C. Sunny.14. What does the woman like to do on Sunday?A. Do some reading. B. Enjoy concerts. C. Go to the cinema.15. What time does the man usually get up on Sunday?A. At about 6 oclock. B. At about 7 oclock. C. At about 10 oclock.- 3 -16. What do we know abo

8、ut the man?A. He dislikes spending much time cooking. B. He doesnt care what he eats. C. He isnt good at cooking.听第 10段材料，回答第 17至 20题。17. Why did the speaker decide to start a new magazine?A. To become famous. B. To start a different one. C. To get more money.18. In what respect is the magazine diff

9、erent from a local newspaper?A. What it looks like. B. What it contains. C. Where one can buy it.19. Where can people get the information about film reviews?A. In the first part. B. In the second part. C. In the third part.20. What can people find in the second half of the magazine?A. Advice on loca

10、l business development.B. Reviews of local artists works.C. Articles about local people.第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 40分 ）第 1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。AHello! My name is Lisa, and I am a lioness. I live on the open grasslands of Africa with my family. Lions living i

11、n a group are called a pride.My father is strong and powerful. He and his cousin are the leaders of our pride. The other members are my mother, her sisters, and their children.The area where a pride lives is big! We roar (咆哮) to tell each other where we are and to warn strangers to stay away.Meet my

12、 new baby brother. His name is Leon. See the spots on his fur? We - 4 -lions are born spotted or striped (有条纹的). As we grow older, the spots gradually disappear.Lionesses usually spend their entire lives with their birth pride, but Leon will leave when he is about three years old. Hell run around wi

13、th a male (雄性的) friend or relative for a few years until they take over a pride of their own.But for now, we have lots of fun together. We often play and fight for hours, which can help us practice skills that we will need for hunting.We lions keep ourselves very clean. Just like a house cat, I clea

14、n my fur (毛) with my tongue. We clean for each other, too, to show were friends.Lions like to sleep for most of the day. We hunt in the cool evening. Female (雌性的) lions hunt more often than male lions. We work together as a team. At the right moment, we attack and kill our prey. Then we share it. Ma

15、le lions usually eat first. Females eat next. Baby lions are the last to eat. The smallest one gets the least food.Since we are full, its time to go to find a nice place for a sleep. Bye!21. Lisa in this passage is the name of _.A. a girl B. a male lion C. a female lion D. a pride22. The underlined

16、word “prey” in the passage probably means _.A. the animal that is hunted B. the animal that is dangerousC. the animal that is powerful D. the animal that is ill23. Which of the following is NOT true?A. Lions sometimes clean their fur for each other.B. Lions also develop their skills of hunting by ha

17、ving fun.C. Lions in Africa usually hunt for food in the evening.D. Baby lions are often the first to get food in their group.24. The passage is written for _.A. doctors B. tourists C. children D. huntersBThe last few days before Christmas passed quickly and it was soon Christmas Eve. That night whe

18、n everyone went to bed, Bunny couldnt sleep. He still - 5 -couldnt think of what he wanted his Christmas gift to be. He wondered how Father Christmas would know what to bring him if he didnt know himself.As he was sitting up in bed, Bunny heard a big noise on the roof (屋顶) and a sound downstairs. It

19、 was Father Christmas, he realized. Bunny jumped out of bed and raced down the hall to the stairs hoping to have a look at the old man with his own eyes.By the time Bunny reached the bottom of the stairs, though, everything was again silent. Beautiful gifts were piled (堆积) under the Christmas tree,

20、but Father Christmas was gone. He looked for him for a few minutes, but it was already too late. Bunny turned to climb back upstairs when he heard a cry.“Hello,” said Bunny. “Is somebody there?”He was answered by another cry. Bunny looked around the big pile of gifts to see what was making the noise

21、. Right under the tree was a funny looking brown animal with big feet and sad eyes. Bunny might have mistaken it for a dog, if it hadnt been for the antlers (鹿角) on its head.“Are you a reindeer (驯鹿)?” asked Bunny.“Yes,” replied the animal, “my name is Ralph.”“And you were pulling Father Christmas sl

22、ed (雪橇)?”“I was until I got airsick,” replied Ralph, “Im afraid I wasnt cut out for the job. Now Im stuck here and I dont know how to get back to the North Pole.”“Well, if you like, you can stay with us as a friend,” said Bunny. As he made the offer, Bunny suddenly realized the gift he wanted from F

23、ather Christmas was a new friend!25. Why couldnt Bunny fall asleep on Christmas Eve?A. He had a lot of things to do. B. He was disturbed by a big noise.C. He was thinking of what gift he would get. D. He wanted to have a look at the reindeer.26. As soon as Bunny came downstairs, he _.- 6 -A. was pro

24、bably very sad B. found what he wantedC. ran into a reindeer D. heard a loud cry27. What would be the best title for the text?A. A strange Christmas tree B. A special Christmas giftC. A quiet but smart boy D. A lovely reindeerCThroughout history scientists have risked their health and their lives in

25、 their search for the truth.Sir Isaac Newton, the seventeenth century scientist, was very smart, but that didnt stop him from doing some pretty stupid things. In his laboratory in Cambridge he often did the strangest experiments. Once, while testing how light passes through lenses (晶状体), he put a lo

26、ng needle into his eye, pushed it to the back, and then moved it around just to see what would happen. Luckily, nothing long-lasting did. On another occasion he stared at the sun for as long as he could bear, to discover what effect this would have on his sight. Again he escaped suffering permanent

27、damage, though he had to spend some days in a darkened room before his eyes recovered.In the 1750s the Swedish chemist Karl Scheele was the first person to find a way to produce phosphorus (磷). He in fact discovered eight more chemical elements including chlorine (氯), though he didnt get any praise

28、for them. He was a very clever scientist, but his one failing was a curious habit of tasting a little of every substance he worked with. This risky practice finally caught up with him, and in 1786 he was found dead in his laboratory surrounded by a large number of dangerous chemicals, any of which m

29、ight have been responsible for his death.Eugene Shoemaker was a respected geologist. He spent a large part of his life studying craters (火山口) on the moon, and how they were formed, and later did research into the comets of the planet Jupiter. In 1997 he and his wife were in the Australian desert whe

30、re they went every year to search for places where comets might have hit the earth. While driving in the Tanami desert, normally - 7 -one of the emptiest places in the world, another vehicle crashed into them and Shoemaker was killed on the spot. Some of his ashes (骨灰) were sent to the moon aboard t

31、he Lunar Prospector spacecraft and left there he is the only person who has had this honor.28. What does the underlined word “permanent” in Paragraph 2 mean?A. Brief. B. Slight. C. Lasting. D. Ordinary.29. What did Karl Scheele like doing when performing experiments?A. Tasting chemicals. B. Staying

32、in the empty lab.C. Experimenting in darkness. D. Working together with others.30. What special honor was Shoemaker given after his death?A. He was buried in the Tanami desert.B. Some of his ashes were placed on the moon.C. One comet of Jupiter was named after him.D. A spacecraft carrying him travel

33、ed around Jupiter.31. The text is mainly about three great scientists _.A. special honors B. great achievementsC. famous experiments D. suffering in the jobDHere is an astonishing and significant fact: Mental work alone cant make us tired. It sounds absurd. But a few years ago, scientists tried to f

34、ind out how long the human brain could labor without reaching a stage of fatigue(疲劳). To the amazement of these scientists, they discovered that blood passing through the brain, when it is active, shows no fatigue at all! If we took a drop of blood from a day laborer, we would find it full of fatigu

35、e toxins(毒素)and fatigue products. But if we took blood from the brain of an Albert Einstein, it would show no fatigue toxins at the end of the day. So far as the brain is concerned, it can work as well and swiftly at the end of eight or even twelve hours of effort as at the beginning. The brain is t

36、otally tireless. So what makes us tired?Some scientists declare that most of our fatigue comes from our mental and - 8 -emotional (情感的)attitudes. One of Englands most outstanding scientists, J. A. Hadfield, says, “The greater part of the fatigue from which we suffer is of mental origin. In fact, fat

37、igue of purely physical origin is rare. ”Dr. Brill, a famous American scientist, goes even further. He declares, “One hundred percent of the fatigue of a sitting worker in good health is due to emotional problems. ”What kinds of emotions make sitting workers tired? Joy? Satisfaction? No! A feeling o

38、f being bored, anger, anxiety, tenseness, worry, a feeling of not being appreciatedthose are the emotions that tire sitting workers. Hard work by itself seldom causes fatigue. We get tired because our emotions produce nervousness in the body. 32.What surprised the scientists a few years ago?A. Fatig

39、ue toxins could hardly be found in a laborers blood.B. The brain could work for many hours without fatigue.C. Albert Einstein didnt feel worn out after a days workD.A mental workers blood was filled with fatigue toxins.33. According to the author, which of the following can make sitting workers tire

40、d?A. Challenging mental work. B. Unpleasant emotions. C. Endless tasks. D. Physical labor.34.Whats the authors attitude towards the scientists ideas?A. He doubts them. B. He agrees with them.C. He argues against them. D. He hesitates to accept them.35.We can infer from the passage that in order to s

41、tay energetic, sitting workers need to .A. enjoy their work B. have some good foodC. exercise regularly D. discover fatigue toxins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。- 9 -Time is on your sideHow frequently do you say “I dont have time”? Quite often, I guess. Every time w

42、e say those words, they make us feel weak and out of control. You are in control of your hours and your life. 36 I know its not as easy as simply turning off the TV. But here are two steps that will help you take back control and get time on your side. 37 Be honest: do you spend an hour or two visit

43、ing Weixin and QQ every day? Are you spending time with people that you dont really like just to please them? Are there meetings you attend that you can politely refuse?Its time to get real about the hours that add up to a lot of dissatisfying nothing. Think how you can cancel daily activities that

44、are not useful. 38 Change your language.Words matter. They have power. Saying “I dont have time” is an excuse for not wanting to do something. Here are some good, empowering alternatives (选择):“I choose not to start that project until next year.”“ 39 ”“Id love to go out this weekend but have importan

45、t work I need to do first.”Get better at saying no. 40 Use little pockets of time (friend running late, car stuck in traffic, meeting ending 10 minutes early) to do some productive thinking. All these things can add up over time more than you believe!A. Identify your blocks.B. But you are likely was

46、ting a lot of it!C. I really dont have enough time to do it.D. Replace them with things that satisfy you.E. Take no notice of all those unimportant messages on your phone.F. Id love to read that book Ill get to it after my homework is complete!G. When you dont have a plan for your life, someone else

47、 will plan it for you.- 10 -第三部分: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，从短文后所给的四个选项(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。When I was a small boy my family was very poor. My father always used his savings to 41 my mother to visit her parents who lived far away. There was just my younger brother an

48、d myself in the house. One evening Dad came home from _42_ and there was no food in the house, not _43_ a piece of bread. Although we were _44_, my brother and I went to bed without eating anything.My father had no money, but l knew from the _45_ on his face that he could not let us have an empty st

49、omach. He _46_ the house and about two hours later returned and quickly _47_ us up. He had in his hand two small potato pies, which he gave us to eat. I dont know where he got the _48_ but somehow he _49_ to get us something to eat.My father had not eaten and had worked all day _50_ he sat there with great satisfaction watching us eat. This has _51_ stayed in my mind and left