吉林省长春外国语学校2020-2021学年高二下学期第二次月考英语W含答案.pdf
《吉林省长春外国语学校2020-2021学年高二下学期第二次月考英语W含答案.pdf》由会员分享,可在线阅读,更多相关《吉林省长春外国语学校2020-2021学年高二下学期第二次月考英语W含答案.pdf(13页珍藏版)》请在淘文阁 - 分享文档赚钱的网站上搜索。
1、 英语试题 第 1 页(共 10 页)英语试题 第 2 页(共 10 页)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 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。A Job for You!Family Alliance Meal Delivery Family Alliance is looking for people who can deliver hot Chinese meals one to two times a wee
2、k for people with disabilities in north suburban Fairfield County.All applicants must have a drivers license and access to a car.Gas will be covered for each delivery.Formoreinformation,*.Lancaster Design We provide full furnishings,like donated kitchen equipment and furniture items,for the new home
3、s of people who were once homeless.We 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?Submit your application to www.lancasterdesign.org or call 7
4、40-6119735.Lancaster Weekly Would 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+are required to deliver our newspaper.You may have to cover some distance.Bicycles are available if needed.For more
5、information,call 740-6538360.Parkview Nursing Home Caregivers are wanted.We seek people who are patient and caring,and who have experience 英语试题 第 3 页(共 10 页)英语试题 第 4 页(共 10 页)and interest in working with older adults.As part of the package,initial and follow-up training sessions are provided and acc
6、ommodation is available if required.For more details,visit us at Unit 3 Park View Lane or contact Ellen White at 740-6968399.1.Which job requires a drivers 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 abo
7、ut the Lancaster Design job?A.Applicants are expected to design furniture.B.Work is arranged according to ones skill set.C.It favors applicants who are homeless.D.It involves collecting furniture from homes.3.A middle-school student is most likely to be hired by .A.Parkview Nursing Home B.Lancaster
8、Design C.Lancaster Weekly D.Family Alliance Meal Delivery B About 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 wi
9、th its old skin flowing behind it.I didnt 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 I swept up the mess,I wondered why we had been breaking so many things over the months.The destruction started three months ago.
10、It was my husbands birthday.He had just lost his job.The uncertainty was starting to wear on us,so I wanted to do something special.“Lets 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 英语试题 第 5 页(共 10 页)英语试题 第 6 页(共 10 页)cake!Bal
11、loons 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 h
12、ad 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 series The Last Dance.The poignancy of Jordan retiring from his beloved bas
13、ketball 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 the layer that no longer served him,just as our lizard had.Neither of them chose the
14、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
15、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.
16、It went missing.5.Why does the author mention The Last Dance in the passage?A.To define a concept.B.To 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 past B.giving up an opportu
17、nity C.getting rid of a bad habit D.looking for a new job 7.What does the author most likely want to tell us?A.Past experiences should be treasured.B.Its not the end of the world if we break things.英语试题 第 7 页(共 10 页)英语试题 第 8 页(共 10 页)C.We should move on no matter what happens.D.Love of family helps
18、us survive great hardships.C Researchers 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
19、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
20、they deliberately sent a message to another group member.“Thats whats so amazing about chimp gestures,”she said.“Theyre 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 animals ca
21、ll,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
22、 foot to her crying baby,signalling:“Climb on me.”The youngster immediately jumps on to its mothers back and they travel off together.“The big message from this study is that there is another species(物种)out there that is meaningful in its communication,so thats not unique to humans,”said Dr Hobaiter
23、.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
24、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.”8.What do chimps and humans have in
25、common according to Dr Hobaiter?A.Using voices to communicate.英语试题 第 9 页(共 10 页)英语试题 第 10 页(共 10 页)B.Understanding complex information.C.Memorizing specific words.D.Communicating messages on purpose.9.What did Dr Shultz think of the study?A.It was inspiring but the evidence was unreliable.B.It was a
- 配套讲稿:
如PPT文件的首页显示word图标,表示该PPT已包含配套word讲稿。双击word图标可打开word文档。
- 特殊限制:
部分文档作品中含有的国旗、国徽等图片,仅作为作品整体效果示例展示,禁止商用。设计者仅对作品中独创性部分享有著作权。
- 关 键 词:
- 吉林省 长春 外国语学校 2020 2021 学年 下学 第二次 月考 英语 答案
限制150内