湖南省益阳市箴言中学2015_2016学年高二英语上学期12月月考试题.doc

益阳市箴言中学20152016学年高二12月月考英语试题时量：120 分钟 总分：150 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 will the woman do? A. Return her shoes. B. Have her shoes repaired. C. Buy new shoes.2. Where does the conversation take place? A. At an airport. B. At a hotel. C. At a travel agency.3. Who will probably decide the place to go? A. The man. B. The woman. C. Harry.4. What makes the man so happy? A. Tom will play football with him.B. Tom will tell him the best news.C. Tom will play football more than hours.5. What does the woman like to watch in her spare time? A. Advertisements. B. TV plays. C. Art shows.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至8题。6. Why is the woman so excited? A. Her grandpa will come here. B. Her grandpa will cook for them. C. Her grandpa will give her a valuable present.7. How does her grandpa come here? A. By plane. B. By bus. C. By train.8. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The grandpa is independent.B. The grandpa will arrive at 6:00 a.m.C. The speakers will book a room for the grandpa.听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。9. Which two countries will have a football match tonight? A. Brazil and Japan. B. China and England.C. Brazil and England.10. What is the man busy with recently? A. His driving test.B. His final exam. C. His basketball training.11. When will the match start? A. At 1:00 a.m. B. At 1:00 p.m. C. At 11:00 p.m.听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。12. What is the matter with the womans computer?A. The screen is broken.B. The printer doesnt work. C. The computer has stopped working.13. Where does the conversation take place? A. Over the phone. B. At home. C. In an office.14. What is the cause of the problem?A. The screen is too old. B. The printer has no ink. C. The connector was loose.听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。15. Why is the house very convenient according to the man?A. Its near the bus stop. B. Its near the city center. C. Its near the subway station.16. What does the woman want the man to do?A. To cut down the rent.B. To do some repair work.C. To discuss with the landlord.17. What can we learn from the conversation? A. The woman hasnt made the decision yet.B. The man doesnt know how much the rent is. C. The woman doesnt think the house is good.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。18. How often is the lab class given? A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Three times a week.19. What is the result if one misses three lab classes?A. He cant graduate. B. He will get a low mark. C. He will be dropped. 20. What is forbidden in the lab? A. Washing hands. B. Wearing caps.C. Wearing large clothes.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。AFounded in 1764 by French traders, St. Louis today is the fifteenth largest urban area in the United States. There are many attractive destinations for tourists.American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog Dog lovers who visit St. Louis wont want to miss this 14,000-square-foot museum. Inside are over 500 paintings, prints, watercolors, and a variety of other dog art objects. The Museum is open year round, Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM, and Sunday 1 PM to 5 PM. Admission is 1 for children up to 13, 2.50 for senior citizens, and 5 for others.Anheuser Busch Brewery The Anheuser Buxch Brewery tour is not just for beer lovers. The tour includes the historic Brew House. Then the tour continues to the modern Bevo Packaging Plant. The best will be the Budweiser Clydesdale stables. The tours are always free. Gateway Arch Designed by Eero Sarinen and Hannskari Bandel, it took over two years and 900 tons of stainless steel to build. It is the tallest of the countrys National Monuments. The Arch is part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. About one million people per year come to the top of the Arch, where there is an observation platform providing a great view of the city.St. Louis Zoo First version of the St. Louis Zoo opened in 1904 at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, but in the century since it has grown into one of the foremost zoos in the world. The Zooline Raiload passenger train takes visitors around the Zoo, which contains over 9,000 animals of over 800 species. The Zoo is open every day but Christmas and New Year, with summer hours of 8 AM to 7 PM, and hours the rest of the year of 9 AM to 5 PM. Admission to the Zoo is free.21. If a senior high school student plans to visit American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog with his parents and his five-year-old brother, he has to pay _. A. 8.5 B. 12 C. 13.5 D. 16 22. Which of the following statements about Gateway Arch is TRUE?A. It was built in three years. B. You can see the city clearly on the top of the Arch.C. It is the largest of the countrys National Monuments. D. President Jefferson was buried there.23. If you plan to visit St. Louis Zoo, you can go there _. A. at 8:30 am in summer B. at 5:30 pm in autumn C. on Christmas D. on New Year BMy father was, by nature, a cheerful, kindly man. Until he was thirty-four years old he worked as a farm-hand for Thomas Butterworth near the town of Bidwell, Ohio. On Saturday evenings he drove his horse into town to spend a few hours in social intercourse with other farm-hands. He was quite happy in his position in life. It was in his thirty-fifth year that father married my mother, a school teacher. Something happened to the two people. The American passion for getting up in the world took possession of them. Mother induced father to give up his place as a farm-hand, sell his horse and start an independent enterprise of his own. They rented ten acres of poor stony land and launched into chicken raising. One inexperienced in such matters can have no idea of the many and tragic things that can happen to a chicken. It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny fluffy thing, then becomes naked, gets diseases, and dies. A few hens, and now and then a rooster, intended to serve Gods mysterious ends, struggle through to maturity. The hens lay eggs out of which come other chickens and the awful cycle is thus made complete. It is all unbelievably complex. Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so awfully disappointed. Small chickens, look so bright and in fact so awfully stupid. They are so much like people they mix one up in ones judgments of life. If disease does not kill them they wait until your expectations are thoroughly aroused and then walk under the wheels of a carriage. In later life I have seen how a literature has been built up on the subject of fortunes to be made out of the raising of chickens. It is intended to be read by the gods who have just eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is a hopeful literature and declares that much may be done by simple ambitious people who own a few hens. Do not be misguided by it. It was not written for you. Go hunt for gold on the frozen hills of Alaska, put your faith in the honesty of a politician, believe if you will that good will defeat evil, but do not read and believe the literature that is written concerning the hen. For ten years my father and mother struggled to make our chicken farm pay and then they gave up that struggle and began another. They moved into the town of Bidwell, Ohio and began the restaurant business, with the tiny hope of looking for a new place from which to start on our upward journey through life.24. Which of the following is the right order of what happened?a. Father got married to Mother, a school teacher.b. Father quitted working at Butterworths.c. My parents launched a business in Bidwell. d. Father socialized in town on Saturday eveningse. My parents started their job of chicken farming.A. d-a-b-e-cB. d-a-c-b-eC. d-b-a-e-cD. d-b-a-c-e25. By saying “Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms”, the author means that chicken farming _.A. is so complex that only philosophers can comprehend itB. gives you a philosophical insight into lifeC. exposes you to a complete circle of lifeD. allows you the time to judge the life 26. In the authors opinion, the literature about chicken raising _.A. is full of hope and positive energyB. proves the victory of good over evil C. persuades you to believe in politiciansD. tends to be blindly optimistic about its rewards27. Whats the authors attitude towards parents dream of rise to success?A. approvingB. optimistic C. skepticalD. indifferentCCooking Kills Four Million People a YearPolluted airborne particles（大气悬浮颗粒）kill 7 million people a year, reports the World Health Organization. That news may not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen images of chimneys in Beijing, Delhi or Mexico. But those factoriesor even the jammed roadways of modern citiesare not the biggest killer. Each year, some 4.3 million people die earlier than they should because of polluted air inside their homes, says the WHO. Whats causing the air inside peoples homes to be so poisonous that it kills around 11,000 people a day? Stoves. “Having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour.” says Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, whose research suggests that household air pollution from cooking killed between 3.5 million and 4 million people in 2013.Not all stoves cause this kind of harm. The ones Smiths talking about are those that the 3 billion people in the developing world use for heat and cooking, which burn solid fuels such as wood, coal, or crop waste instead of gas. The smoke from those fires produces harmful fine particles and carbon monoxide into homes. Poor ventilation then prevents that smoke from escaping, raising fine particle levels 100 times higher than the limits that the WHO considers acceptable.Breathing this air day in day out eventually causes a lot of diseases: more than a third of the 4.3 million die of a stroke, while a quarter die of heart disease. And around one-third of annual lung disease deaths worldwide are due to waste from coal stoves.Exposure tends to be extremely harmful for the people who spend the most time around the fireusually women and young children. In fact, the WHO reports that household air pollution almost doubles the risk for childhood lung disease. 28. According to Kirk Smiths research, _. A. factories are the biggest killer worldwide nowadaysB. burning 400 cigarettes an hour is extremely dangerousC. household air pollution from cooking is surprisingly harmfulD. some 4.3 million people die earlier each year than they should29. What should be the deadly killer in a household kitchen?A. Cooking smoke. B. Coal . C. Poor gas. D. Wood.30. The underlined word “ventilation” in Paragraph 4 probably means _.A. cooking B. airing C. burning D. cooling 31. The author intends to tell people _.A. how to avoid polluted air in their homes B. to stop cooking in the household kitchenC. how to prevent childhood lung diseases in householdD. to guard against household pollution from cookingD In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity （繁荣）. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people. I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求）of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten. However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which only values the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among those who are against competition are young people who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesnt matter because I really didnt try.” What is not usually admitted by them is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that ones self-respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to disappear can we discover a new meaning in competition. 32. What is the best title of this passage? A. Two Mistaken Beliefs about Competition B. Competition! What Self-respect Depends on C. New Meaning Found in Competition D. Competition! Why Friends Turn into Enemies 33. Why do some young people suffering from competitive pressures seek failure? A. Because they are aware that they will not succeed in competition. B. Because they dont think it worthwhile to compete with others. C. Because they are fed up with the great efforts needed to compete with others. D. Because they are afraid that they would not be valued if they lost. 34. Which of the following will the author probably agree with? A. One should treat competition as a life-and-death affair. B. One should make every effort to avoid competition. C. One should be given rewards after competing with others. D. One should get rid of the fear of failure in competition. 35. The true competitors and those with a desire to fail both believe _. A. ones dream can be achieved if he has mastered good communication skills B. ones self-worth comes from how well he performs in comparison with others C. ones failure happens when he is suffering from emotional problems D. ones success is based on how hard he has tried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。选项中有两项为多于选项。How to get motivated You must think positively no matter how big a challenge is. If you think positively you will feel better and will be able to overcome challenges in li