河北省黄骅中学2018_2019学年高二英语上学期第一次月考试题.doc

1、- 1 -黄骅中学 20182019 年度高中二年级第一学期第一次月考英语试卷本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷两部分。第 卷 1 至 8 页，第卷 9 至 10 页。共150 分。考试时间 120 分钟。第卷（客观题 共 100 分）第一部分 听力理解(满分 30 分)第一节听下面 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. Where are the speakers probably going?A. A theater. B. A

2、stadium. C. A classroom.2. What are the speakers probably talking about?A. A holiday. B. A party. C. A meeting.3. What does the woman ask Jimmy to do?A. Take out the garbage.B. Visit his grandparents.C. Clean the kitchen floor.4. What will the man do this Saturday?A. Attend a party. B. Visit a frien

3、d. C. See a film.5. What did Jason think of his trip to Africa?A. Exciting. B. Boring. C. Tiring.第二节听下面 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。听下面一段对话，回答第 6 和第 7 两个小题。6. Whose birthday is it tomorrow?A. Annies. B. Mi

4、chaels. C. Lynns.- 2 -7. Why will John go to London?A. For a meeting.B. For a piano concert.C. For an international festival.听下面一段对话，回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。8. What are the speakers getting ready for?A. Timmys birthday. B. Christmas. C. New Years Day.9. What will the woman do later?A. Wrap the presents.B. S

5、end holiday cards.C. Go to the mall.听下面一段对话，回答第 10 至第 12 三个小题。10. Why does the woman talk to the man?A. To get a discount.B. To ask for his opinion.C. To learn more information.11. What color does the woman dislike?A. Red. B. Yellow. C. Blue.12. Whats the womans final decision?A. Take the purple dre

6、ss.B. Wait for the sales.C. Go to other stores.听下面一段对话，回答第 13 至第 16 四个小题。13. What do we know about the man?A. He is good at saving money.B. He thinks saving is unnecessary.C. He finds saving a little bit difficult.14. What percentage of allowance does the woman try to save?A. 10%. B. 30%. C. 50%.15.

7、 What does the woman say about saving?- 3 -A. Its a culture.B. Its very difficult.C. It brings surprises.16. What does the man hope the woman to do?A. Talk to her mother.B. Give him some advice.C. Get adapted to saving.听下面一段独白，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。17. How many rooms does Peter need?A. 2. B. 3. C. 4.18.

8、 Which meal is free of charge?A. Breakfast. B. Lunch. C. Supper.19. When will Peter check out?A. On August 10th. B. On August 11th. C. On August 13th.20. Who is probably the speaker?A. A tour guide. B. A hotel clerk. C. Peters secretary.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

9、的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ACWUThe communication unionHead of ResearchSalary:55. 271We are looking for a Head of Research to manage the CWU Research Department and Information Centre. You would be required to exercise control of all research work of the department and manage a team of three researcher

10、s and four support - 4 -staff. The person appointed would be expected to carry out research work of a strategic nature across the range of businesses in which the CWU has or seeks membership and to contribute to the strategic thinking and direction of the union as a whole. You will need: proven line

11、 management skills, especially in managing and motivating a team; good research skills, holding a good degree in a related subject or other similar experience; a high level of mathematical and calculating skills; the ability to produce high quality work under pressure; a commitment to and knowledge

12、of the trade union movement and social democratic politics; and knowledge and/ or experience of the postal and/ or telecommunications industry. To apply, please request an application pack by emailing hrcwu. org or by telephoning HR( Human Resources ) on 020 8971 7482. When applying please state you

13、r source. Closing Date for Applications: 4th August 2010Anticipated interview date: 17th August 2010No agencies please21. In which column of a newspaper could we find this advertisement?A. Arts. B. Sales. C. Jobs. D. News. 22. One of the duties of the person to be appointed is . A. taking charge of

14、research work. B. seeking membership for the trade union. C. managing a team of three or four members. D. running a telecommunications company. 23. If you want to apply for this position, you can do all EXCEPT . A. ask an agency for an application form. B. dial 020 8971 7482 for more information. C.

15、 email hrcwu. org for an application pack. D. send in your application before 4th August 2010- 5 -24. Which of the following applicants is most likely to be employed?A. A school teacher with a masters degree. B. A university graduate majoring in computer science. C. A director from a research centre

16、 with a masters degree. D. A clerk from a telecommunications company. BWhen Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesnt work out, youll have something to rely on. “ Mary responded in typical teenage fashion.

17、 From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course,“ she recalls. The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her mom,“ I dont know h

18、ow to use a computer,“ she admits. Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she ser

19、ves as international chairman. “I felt there was a need for a book like this,“ she says. “ I didnt want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when were self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease. “But she hasnt always practiced what she teaches. In her

20、book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years

21、 would pass before she realized she had to grow up -again-and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet. Although her disease has affected her eyesight and

22、forced her to the - 6 -sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. “Everybody on earth can ask, why me? about something or other,“ she insists. “It doesnt do any good. No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping

23、 others. Ive come to realize the importance of that as Ive grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be. “25. Why did Mary feel regretful?A. She didnt achieve her ambition. B. She didnt take care of her mother. C. She didnt complete her high school. D. She didnt follo

24、w her mothers advice. 26. We can know that before 1995 Mary A. had two books publishedB. received many career awardsC. knew how to use a computerD. supported the JDRF by writing 27. Marys second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her . A. living with diabetesB. successful show businessC. service

25、for an organizationD. remembrance of her mother 28. When Mary received the life-changing news, she . A. lost control of herself B. began a balanced diet C. meant to get a treatment D. behaved in an adult way CThe elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it.

26、The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. - 7 -That didnt stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess. Parb

27、ati Baruas father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up - how to catch wild elephants. Parbati hasnt always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting wit

28、h her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old life. “Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase,“ she says. But Parbati doesnt

29、catch elephants just for fun. “My work,“ she says, “is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man. “ And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its hom

30、e in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill. The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant t

31、amer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. “Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans,“ she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!29. F

32、or Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to_ . A. get long lasting excitement B. keep both man and elephants safeC. send them back to the jungle D. make the angry elephants tame30. Before Parbati studied in a boarding school,_ . A. she spent her time hunting with her fatherB. she learned how to sing

33、 love songs- 8 -C. she had already been called an elephant princessD. she was taught how to hunt tigers31. Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because _. A. they are caught and sent for heavy work B. illegal hunters capture them and kill themC. they are attacked and thei

34、r land gets limitedD. dogs often bark at them and chase them32. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India _. A. people easily fall victim to elephants attacks B. the man-elephant relationship is getting worseC. elephant tamers are in short supplyD. dogs are as power

35、ful as elephantsDYoull probably never go to Mars or sing on the stage with the Rolling Stones. But if virtual reality (VR) ever lives up to its promise, you might be able to do all these thingsand many morewithout even leaving your home. Unlike real reality, virtual reality means simulating(模拟) bits

36、 of our world. Apart from games and entertainment, its long been used for training airlines pilots and doctors and for helping scientists to figure out complex problems such as the structure of protein molecules. Then how does it work?Close your eyes and think of virtual reality and you probably pic

37、ture something like this: a man wearing a wrap-around headset and data gloves wired(用线连接) into a powerful workstation or supercomputer. What makes VR different from an ordinary computer experience is the nature of the input and output. Where an ordinary computer uses things like a keyboard, mouse, o

38、r speech recognition for input, VR uses sensors(传感器) that find out how your body is moving. And where a PC displays output on a screen, VR uses two screens (one for - 9 -each eye), surround-sound speakers, and maybe some forms of touch and body feedback(反馈) as well.VR has been generally used by scie

39、ntists, doctors, dentists, engineers, architects, archaeologists, and the army for about the last 30 years. Difficult and dangerous jobs are hard to train for. How can you safely practice taking a trip to space, making a jump from an airplane, or carrying out a brain operation? All these things are

40、obvious applications of virtual reality.Like any technology, virtual reality has both good and bad points. Critics always warn that people may be addicted to alternative realities to the point of ignoring their real-world livesbut that criticism has been leveled at everything from radio and TV to co

41、mputer games and the Internet. Like many technologies, VR takes little or nothing away from the real world: you dont have to use it if you dont want to.33. What equipment do we need for virtual reality?A. a keyboard, a headset and a supercomputer.B. a headset, data gloves and a supercomputer.C. A he

42、adset, data gloves and a speech recognition.D. A keyboard, a mouse and a speech recognition.34. According to the passage, which is NOT the applications of VR?A. Entertainment B. Operations C. Scientific experiments D. School education35. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?A. The advantages of virtual

43、reality.B. The influences of virtual reality.C. The importance of virtual reality.D. The applications of virtual reality.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。- 10 -Hollywood movies are regularly filled with sex and violence. They can be exciting films but sometimes a

44、ll you want is a little light-hearted entertainment.Have you heard of Bollywood? All singing, all dancing and unrealistic, it is the perfect alternative to normal Hollywood movies. Bollywood is the Indian film industry, based in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. 36 Yet Bollywood is the largest produ

45、cer of films in the world. This year the Indian Filmgare Awards, Bollywoods Oscars, turn 50 years old.The typical Bollywood movie usually has the following ingredients: a cup of romance, a tea-spoon of comedy, a dash of international sight-seeing, served with a huge slice of singing and dancing. The

46、re will also be one brave hero, one beautiful heroine and one baddie. 37 Bollywood films are full of ideal things and free of daily worries. 38 The actors change clothes and locations within a single song. But the audience dont mind. To Indian movie lovers, especially the poor, such films are a gate

47、way to heaven and the stars are their gods. The films take them to a magical world away from their everyday troubles. The films tell them the impossible is possible and that true love conquers all.39 Behind the beautiful scenes, Bollywood still emphasizes traditional family values. In most films, if

48、 two lovers want to break an arranged marriage, they cant just run away. They must win over their parents.Bollywood is a decent refreshing replacement for those over-stimulating Hollywood films. 40 They will take you to a brighter, cheerier and more colorful world, where its still cool to dance arou

49、nd a tree and sing a love song.ABollywood has gradually won its reputation on the world stage.BThere is never any mention of politics, poverty or war.CMost Chinese school kids have probably never seen an Indian film.DBollywood films are mostly comic romances with light-hearted incidental music.E. Bollywood pays great attention to traditional values. - 11 -FThe result is a fun-filled musical.GSo if youre tired of all that Hollyw