2020-2021学年吉林省长春外国语学校高二下学期第二次月考英语试题 .docx

长春外国语学校2020-2021学年下学期第二次月考高二年级英语试卷出题人：审题人：第一部分 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。AJob for You!Family Alliance Meal DeliveryFamily Alliance is looking for people who can deliver hot Chinese meals one to two times a week for people with disabilities in north suburban Fairfield County.All applicants must have a driver's license and access to a car. Gas will be covered for each delivery.information, contact Charles Chen at or call 740-.Lancaster DesignWc provide full furnishings, like donated kitchen equipment and furniture items, for the new homes of people who were once homeless.Wc need people who can work at our warehouse （仓库）sorting and packing items to be delivered to families, repair donated furniture and more. Candidates will be matched with a task based on skill set.Interested? to or call 740-.Lancaster WeeklyWould you like the opportunity to earn extra cash close to home? If so we have a vacancy in our team which would suit you.Both adults and youngsters aged 13+ arc required to deliver our newspaper. You may have to cover some distance. Bicycles arc available if needed.For more information, call 740-.Parkview Nursing HomeCaregivers are wanted. We seek people who are patient and caring, and who have experience and interest in working with older adults.As part of the package, initial and follow-up training sessions are provided and accommodation is available if required.For more details, visit us al Unit 3 Park View Lane or contact Ellen White at 740-.1. Which job requires a driver's license?A. Delivering meals.B. Working at the warehouse.C. Delivering newspapers.D. Working at the nursing home.2. Which of the following is TRUE about the Lancaster Design job?A. Applicants are expected to design furniture.B. Work is arranged according to one's skill set.C. It favors applicants who arc homeless.D. It involves collecting furniture from homes.3. A middle-school student is most likely to be hired by .A. Parkview Nursing HomeB. Lancaster DesignC. Lancaster WeeklyD. Family Alliance Meal DeliveryBAbout five weeks ago, I noticed the skin of our pet lizard was growing dusty. It worried me. I reported the strange surface on the skin of the lizard to my husband and children the next morning. Seconds later, our lizard emerged from its tank with its old skin flowing behind it.I didn't think about it much until a morning last week when I knocked my favorite teapot off the table. It burst into hundreds of pieces. As 1 swept up the mess, I wondered why we had been breaking so many things over the months.The destruction started three months ago. It was my husband's birthday. He had just lost his job. The uncertainty was starting to wear on us, so I wanted to do something special."Let's make a cake for Dad!” I cried.My kids screamed with joy. We baked, iced and sprinkled for most of the day. Candles on the cake! Balloons on the walls! Flowers on the table!Two hours before my husband came back home from another job interview, my daughter climbed up to grab a glass vase from a high shelf. It fell and crashed beside the cake. Tiny pieces of glass were everywhere. She sobbed loudly as I threw the cake away. My husband had banana pudding for his birthday.Three days ago, the light in our living room suddenly went out. After several frustrating hours of unsuccessful attempts to fix it, my husband suggested watching the Michael Jordan documentary scries The Last Dance.The poignancy of Jordan retiring from his beloved basketball to playing baseball and what had pushed him to make such a tough decision took me by surprise. As I watched him take off his basketball uniform and replace it with a baseball uniform, I saw him leaving behind ihe layer that no longer served him, just as our lizard had. Neither of them chose the moment that had transformed them. But they had to live with who they were after everything was different. Just like us. I realized that we have to learn to leave the past behind.Humans do not shed skin as easily as other animals. The beginning of change is upsetting. The process is tiring. Damage changes us before we are ready. I see our lizard, raw and nearly new.Jordan said that no matter how it ends, it starts with hope. With our tender, hopeful skin, that is where we begin.4. What can we learn about the pet lizard from Paragraph 1?A. It got a skin disease.B. Its old skin came off.C. Its tank grew dirty.D. It went missing.5. Why docs the author mention The Last Dance in the passage?A. 1b define a concept.B. lb prove a theory.C. To develop the theme.D. To provide the background.6. The underlined part 'leaving behind the layer“ in Paragraph 8 can be understood as .A. letting go of the pastB. giving up an opportunityC. getting rid of a bad habitD. looking for a new jobWhat does the author most likely want to tell us?A. Past experiences should be treasured.B. It's not the end of the world if we break things.C. We should move on no matter what happens.D. Love of family helps us survive great hardships.CResearchers say they have translated the meaning of gestures that wild chimpanzees （黑猩猩）use to communicate. They say wild chimps communicate 19 specific messages to one another with a “vocabulary” of 66 gestures. The scientists discovered this by following and filming groups of chimps in Uganda, and examining more than 5,000 incidents of these meaningful exchanges.Dr Catherine Hobaiter, who led the research, said that this was the only form of intentional communication to be recorded in the animal kingdom. Only humans and chimps, she said, had a system of communication where they deliberately sent a message to another group member.“That's what's so amazing about chimp gestures,she said. "They're the only thing that looks like human language in that respect.”Although previous research has shown that apes and monkeys can understand complex information from another animaPs call, the animals do not appear to use their voices intentionally to communicate messages. This was a significant difference between calls and gestures, Dr Hobaiter said.Chimps will check to see if they have the attention of the animal with which they wish to communicate. In one case, a mother presents her foot to her crying baby, signalling: “Climb on me. The youngster immediately jumps on to its mother's back and they travel off together. 4tThe big message from this study is that there is another species （物种）out there that is meaningful in its communication, so that's not unique to humans,“ said Dr Hobaiter.Dr Susanne Shultz, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Manchester, said the study was praiseworthy in seeking to enrich our knowledge of the evolution of human language. But, she added, the results were “a little disappointing.“The vagueness of the gesture meanings suggests either that the chimps have little to communicate, or we are still missing a lot of the information contained in their gestures and actions,“ she said. "Moreover, the meanings seem to not go beyond what other animals convey with non-verbal communication. So, it seems the gulf remains.”What do chimps and humans have in common according to Dr Hobaiter?A. Using voices to communicate.B. Understanding complex information.C. Memorizing specific words.D. Communicating messages on purpose.7. What did Dr Shultz think of the study?A. It was inspiring but the evidence was unreliable.B. It was a good try but the findings were limited.C. It was well designed but poorly conducted.D. It was a failure but the methods deserved praise.8. What does the underlined word "gulf' in the last paragraph mean?A. Difference. B. Connection. C. Conflict. D. Balance.9. Which of the following is the best title for the text?A. Chimpanzees developed specific communication skillsB. Chimpanzee behaviour study achieved a breakthroughC. Chimpanzees: the smartest species in the animal kingdomD. Chimpanzee language: communication gestures translatedDThere is something to be said fbr being a generalist, even if you are a specialist. Knowing a litlle about a lot of things that interest you can add to the richness of a whole, well-lived life.Society pushes us to specialize, to become experts. This requires commitment to a particular occupation, branch of study or research. The drawback to being specialists is we often come to know more and more about less and less. There is a great deal of pressure to master one's field. You may pursue training, degrees, or increasing levels of responsibility at work. Then you discover the pressure of having to keep up.Some people seem willing to work around the clock in their narrow specialty. But such commitment can also weaken a sense of freedom. These specialists could work at the office until ten each night, then look back and realize they would have loved to have gone home and enjoyed the sweetness of their family and friends, or traveled to exciting places, meeting interesting people. Mastering one thing to the exclusion （排除）of others can hold back your true spirit.Generalists, on the other hand, know a lot about a wide range of subjects and view the whole with all its connections. They are people of ability, talent, and enthusiasm who can bring their broad perspective （视角）into specific fields of expertise （专长）.The doctor who is also a poet and philosopher is a superior doctor, one who can give so much more to his patients than just good medical skills.Things are connected. Let your expertise in one field fuel your passions in all related areas. Some of your interests may not appear to be connected but, once you explore their depths, you discover that they are. My editor Toni, who is also a writer, has edited several history books. She has decided to study Chinese history. Fascinated by the structural beauty of the Forbidden City as a painter, she is equally interested to learn more about Chinese philosophy. 4tI don't know where it will lead, but I'm excited I'm on this pursuit.,These expansions into new worlds help us by giving us new perspectives. Wc begin to see the interconnectedness of one thing to another in all aspects of our life, of ourselves and the universe. Develop broad, general knowledge and experience. The universe is all yours to explore and enjoy.10. To become a specialist, one may have to.A. narrow his range of knowledgeB. broaden his perspective on lifeC. know more about the societyD. avoid responsibilities at workThe specialists mentioned in Paragraph 3 tend to.A. enjoy meeting funny peopleB. travel around the worldC. spend most time workingD. treasure their freedomAccording to the author, a superior doctor is one who.A. should love poetry and philosophyB. is a pure specialist in medicineC. is fully aware of his talent and abilityD. brings knowledge of other fields to workWhat does the author intend to show with the example of Toni?A. Everyone has a chance to succeed in their pursuit.B. In-depth exploration makes discoveries possible.C. Passion alone does not ensure a person's success.D. Seemingly unrelated interests are in a way connected.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。You run into the grocery store to pick up one bottle of water. You get what you need, head to the front, and choose the line that looks fastest.You chose wrong. People who you swear got in other lines long after you arc already cheeked out and off to the parking lot. 16It turns out, it's just math working against you; chances are, the other line really is faster.Grocery stores try to have enough employees at checkout to get all their customers through with minimum delay. 17 Any small interruption a price check, a chatty customer - can have downstream effects, holding up an entire line.If there are three lines in the store, delays will happen randomly at different registers. Think about the probability: 18 So it's not just in your mind: Another line probably is moving faster.Researchers have a good way to deal with this problem. Make all customers stand in one long, snaking line called a serpentine line and serve each person at the front with the next available register. 19 This is what they do at most banks and fast-fbod restaurants. With a serpentine line, a long delay at one register won't unfairly punish the people who lined up behind it. Instead, it will slow down everyone a little bit but speed up checkout overall.20 It takes many registers to keep one line moving quickly, and some stores can't afford the space or manpower. So wherever your next wail may be: Good luck.A. Why does this always seem to happen to you?B. So why don't most places encourage serpentine lines?C. Some of them may have stood in a queue for almost an hour.D. The chances of your line being the fastest arc only one in three.E. How high is the probability that you arc in the fastest waiting line?F. With three registers, this method is much faster than the traditional approach.G. But sometimes, as on a Sunday afternoon, the system gets particularly busy. 第二部分 语言知识运用（共两布满分45分）.第一节（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入 空白处的最佳选项。For most people, having things stolen feels like an offence. Robbie Pruitt admitted that he got 21 when he discovered the theft of his mountain bike last September. But soon enough, his 22 took a turn. After letting go of his anger and frustration, he found himself on a road to sympathy 23 .For Pruitt, a keen bicyclist, the first thing to do was 24 his stolen bike. But when he went bike shopping, he found few available, which got him thinking: What if the 25 of bikes was Covid-19 related, and what if the person who'd taken his bike really needed 26_ to get to work?With that thought in mind, Pruitt 27 a plan and posted it on the community website. He 28 to fix bikes free of charge for anyone who needed it. He also asked fbr unwanted bikes, which he would repair again 29 . And then he would donate them t o folks who could truly use them b u t didn't have t h e 3（） to buy one.The day the post went live, Pruitt received thirty 31 bicycles. Then came more thcin 50032 for detailed information. By the end of 2020, Pruitt had repaired morethan 140 for donation or to be 33 to their owners.Pruitt tries to give his donations to families that are 34 struggling. 35 simply satisfying a material need, he has provided an opportunity fbr kids in his neighborhood to learn how to fix their own bikes.In addition to 36 skills, Pruitt's lessons teach teamwork, encourage self-worth, and promote feelings of community. 37. the kids have gained a sense ofaccomplishment.“It's a really great 38 fbr kids, " said a neighbor in an interview with the local newspaper. "Pruitt is certainly providing a 39 、but it's not just the bikes. It's the relationships in the commun