1、1河南省鹤壁市淇滨高级中学 2018-2019 学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题第 I 卷第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 30 分）省略第二部分：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。AWhy is pink or purple a color for girls and blue or brown for boys?The answer depends largely on cultural values as well as persona
2、l experiences. To the Egyptians, green was a color that represented the hope and joy of spring, while for Muslims, it means heaven. Red is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. In China, children are given money in a red envelope to bring good fortune in the New Year. For many nations, blue is a s
3、ymbol of protection and religious beliefs. Greek people often wear a blue necklace hoping to protect themselves against evils(灾祸).Peoples choice of colors is also influenced by their bodies reactions (反应)toward them. Green is said to be the most restful color. It has the ability to reduce pain and r
4、elax people both mentally and physically. People who work in green environment have been found to have fewer stomach aches.Red can cause a persons blood pressure to rise and increase peoples appetites(食欲). Many decorators will include different shades of red in the restaurant. Similarly, many commer
5、cial websites will have a red “Buy Now” button because red is a color that easily catches a persons eye.Blue is another calming color. Unlike red, blue can cause people to lose appetite. So if you want to eat less, some suggest that eating from blue plates can help.The next time you are deciding on
6、what to wear or what color to decorate your room, think about the color carefully.221.Muslims regard green as a symbol of heaven mainly because of their _.A. cultural values B. commercial purposesC. personal experiences D. physical reactions to the color22.Why will many commercial websites have a re
7、d “Buy Now” button?A.T o relax people physically.B. To increase peoples appetites.C. To encourage people to make a purchase.D. To cause a persons blood pressure to rise23.What color might help lose weight according to the text?A. Red. B. Green. C. Blue. D. Purple.24.Which of the following would be t
8、he most proper title for the text?A. Colors and Human Beings B. The Cultural Meaning of ColorC. Colors and Personal Experiences D. The Meaning and Function of ColorBAt exactly eleven Sir Percival knocked and entered, with anxiety and worry in every line of his face. This meeting would decide his fut
9、ure life, and he obviously knew it.“You may wonder, Sir Percival,“ said Laura calmly, “if I am going to ask to be released (免除)from my promise to marry you. I am not going to ask this. I respect my fathers wishes too much.“His face relaxed a little, but one of his feet kept beating the carpet.“No, i
10、f we are going to withdraw.(退出) from our planned marriage, it will be because of your wish, not mine.“Mine?” he said in great surprise. “What reason could I have for withdrawing?“A reason that is very hard to tell you,“ she answered. “There is a change in me. ”His face went so pale that even his lip
11、s lost their color. He turned his head to one side.“What change?“ he asked, trying to appear calm.“ When the promise was made two years ago, ” she said, “my love did not belong to anyone. Will you forgive me, Sir Percival, if I tell you that it now belongs 3to another person?”“I wish you to understa
12、nd,“ Laura continued, “that I will never see this person again, and that if you leave me, you only allow me to remain a single woman for the rest of my life. All I ask is that you forgive me and keep my secret.“I will do both those things, “ he said. Then he looked at Laura, as if he was waiting to
13、hear more.“I think I have said enough to give you reason to withdraw from our marriage, “ she added quietly.“ No. You have said enough to make it the dearest wish of my life to marry you,“ he said.25.How did Percival feel during his meeting with Laura?A. Angry. B. Calm. C. Nervous. D. Excited.26.We
14、can learn from the passage that .A. Laura had once promised to marry PercivalB. Lauras father wished to end her marriageC. Percival had been married to Laura for two yearsD. Percival asked to be released from the marriage27.The passage is probably taken out of .A. a novel B. a report C. a diary D. a
15、n essayCThe practice of students endlessly copying letters and sentences from a blackboard is a thing of the past. With the coming of new technologies like computers and smartphones, writing by hand has become something of nostalgic (怀旧的)skill. However, while todays educators are using more and more
16、 technology in their teaching, many believe basic handwriting skills are still necessary for students to be successful-both in school and in life.Virginia Berninger, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says its important to continue teaching handwriting and help chil
17、dren acquire the skill of writing by hand.Berninger and her colleagues conducted a study that looked at the ability of students to complete various writing tasks-both on a computer and by hand. The study, published in 2009, found that when writing with a pen and paper, participants wrote 4longer ess
18、ays and more complete sentences and had a faster word production rate.In a more recent study, Berninger looked at what role spelling plays in a students writing skills and found that how well children spell is tied to how well they can write. “Spelling makes some of the thinking parts of the brain a
19、ctive which helps us access our vocabulary, word meaning and concepts. It is allowing our written language to connect with ideas.” Berninger said.Spelling helps students translate ideas into words in their mind first and then to transcribe(转换)“those words in the mind written symbols on paper or keyb
20、oard and screen,” the study said. Seeing the words in the “minds eye” helps children not only to turn their ideas into words, says Berninger, but also to spot spelling mistakes when they write the words down and to correct then over time.“In our computer age, some people believe that we dont have to
21、 teach spelling because we have spell checks,” she said. “But until a child functional spelling ability of about a fifth grade level, they wont have knowledge to choose the correct spelling among the options given by the computer.”28.What makes writing by hand a thing of the past?A. The absence of b
22、lackboard in classroom.B. The use of new technologies in teaching.C. The lack of practice in handwriting.D. The popular use of smartphones.29.Berningers study published in 2009 _.A. focused on the difference between writing by hand and on a computerB. indicated that students prefer to write with a p
23、en and paperC. found that good essays are made up of long sentencesD. discussed the importance of writing speed30.Which of the following best shows the role of spelling?A. Spelling improves ones memory of words.B. Spelling ability is closely related to writing ability.C. Spelling benefits the transl
24、ation from words into ideas.D. Spelling slows down finding exact words to express ideas.531.What does “minds eye” in paragraph 5 mean?A. Window. B. Soul C. Picture D. Imagination.DTo take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians (基督教徒)ever cooked up. For them, the for
25、bidden fruit from Eden is evil (邪恶的). So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.What made it particularly terrif
26、ying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell (地狱 ). What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had brig
27、ht red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the
28、 most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her fathers house had been the “introduction of this wonderful new fruit or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an “evil fruit”.But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the
29、 tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. “What are you afraid of?” he shouted. “Ill show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fai
30、nted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.32.The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because .A. it made Christian evil B. it was the apple of EdenC. it came from a forbidden land D. it was religiously unacceptable633.What can we inf
31、er from the underlined part in Paragraph 3?A. The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down.B. There was little progress in the study of the tomato.C. The tomato was still refused in most western countries.D. Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato.34.What is the main reason for Robe
32、rt Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?A. To make himself a hero.B. To remove peoples fear of the tomato.C. To speed up the popularity of the tomato.D. To persuade people to buy products from his factory.35.What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To challenge peopled fixed concept of the tomato.B.
33、 To give an explanation to peopled dislike of the tomato.C. To present the change of peoples attitudes to the tomato.D. To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence.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。Tips for Cooking on a Tight ScheduleFrom my e
34、xperience, there are three main reasons why people dont cook more often: ability, money, and time. _36_Money is a topic Ill save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight
35、schedule :1.Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when Im already hungry and theres nothing ready to eat. So think ahead of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials already? _37_2.Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a
36、meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread? _38_It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.73. _39_This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your tim
37、e is experimentation. It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.Hopefully that gives you a good start. _40_And dont le
38、t a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!A. Try new things.B. Ability is easily improved.C. Make three or four instead.D. Understand your food better.E. Cooking is a burden for many people.F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burd
39、en.G.A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，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，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。When I settled in Chicago, my new city seemed so big and unfriendly. Then I had a 41 problem and had to go to hospital for a 42 exam
40、ination.It seemed a small 43 compared to the one I was about to face, but things started to go 44 right from the beginning. Not having a car or 45 the city, I was depending on a couple of buses to get me from A to B. 46 Id left myself plenty of time, soon it was 47 I was going to be late, as I had m
41、istakenly boarded a bus that was taking me in the 48 direction.I 49 the bus and stood on the pavement not knowing what to do. I looked into the eyes of a 50 , who was trying to get past me. 51 , instead of moving on, she stopped to ask if I was 52 .After I explained my 53 to her, she pointed to a bu
42、s stop across the street, where a bus would take me back into the city to my 54 . Sitting there waiting, I felt 55 that 8someone had been willing to help. 56 , hearing a horn (喇叭) nearby, I looked up to see a car with my new friend 57 at me to get in. She had returned to offer me a 58 to the hospita
43、l.Such unexpected 59 from a passer-by was a lovely gift to receive. As I climbed out of the car at the hospital and turned to thank her, she smiled and told me not to lose 60 , for all things are possible.41.A.physical B. traveling C. social D. housing42.A.scientific B. final C. previous D. thorough
44、43.A.chance B. challenge C. success D. error44.A.wrong B. easy C. fast D. ahead45.A.leaving B. visiting C. knowing D. appreciating46.A.Although B. Since C. Unless D. Once47.A.strange B. necessary C. obvious D. important48.A.same B. right C. general D. opposite49.A.looked at B. waited for C. got off
45、D. ran into50.A.driver B. friend C. stranger D. gentleman51.A.Especially B. Surprisingly C. Probably D. Normally52.A.nervous B. excited C.OK D. dangerous53.A.idea B. motivation C. excuse D. situation54.A.appointment B. apartment C. direction D. station55.A.afraid B. grateful C. certain D. disappoint
46、ed56.A.Thus B. Then C. Perhaps D. Surely57.A.staring B. laughing C. waving D. shouting58.A.lift B. suggestion C. bike D. guidebook59.A.results B. news C. kindness D. appearance60.A.power B. faith C. touch D. support第二节（共 10 小题，每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。One morning, I was wa
47、iting at the bus stop, worried about 61 (be) late for school. There were many people waiting at the bus stop, 62 some of them 9looked very anxious and 63 (disappoint). When the bus finally came, we all hurried on board. I got a place next 64 the window, so I had a good view of the sidewalk. A boy on
48、 a bike 65 (catch) my attention. He was riding beside the bus and waving his arms. I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver, but he refused 66 (stop) until we reached the next stop. Still, the boy kept 67 (ride). He was carrying something over his shoulder and shouting. Finally, when we
49、came to the next stop, the boy ran up to the door of the bus. I heard an excited conversation. Then the driver stoop up and asked, “ Did anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop?”A woman on the bus shouted, “Oh dear! It is 68 (I)”. She pushed her way to the driver and to the little boy. Everyone on the bus began talking about what the boy 69 (
