1、- 1 -成都外国语学校 2018-2019学年度上学期 12月月考高二英语试卷注意事项:1.试题分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。2.满分 150分，考试时间 120 分钟。3.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号准确无误地填写，填涂在答题卡规定的位置上；使用 2B铅笔填涂。4.考试结束后将答题卡交回，不得折叠、损毁答题卡。第卷 （选择题 共 70分）第一部分 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。AThere are many weird sp
2、orts that are present from around the world. From each region of the world, along with the very popular common sports, there are also those really popular but very weird kinds of sports. The Ultimate Test between Man and Horse:This indeed a very strange kind of sport that tests your stamina. You wil
3、l learn how to be agiler while competing against a horse. This game originated in Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells. This sport really has to do with strength. You will require great agility and strength in order to take part in this. Marathon human contestants are put to test against those mounted on h
4、orses. This is how the marathon testing takes place.Love Locked RaceThis is a sports event that was first introduced in Finland. This is all about a male competitor racing with a female in a certain way. There would be many obstructions and blocks on the way which would definitely bring you challeng
5、es. The person to win would have to finish the race without losing his - 2 -female partner in the course of overcoming the obstacles even for once. This race takes place really fast and the obstacles are set that way.Toe sportThis is yet another weird sport that welcomes you to use your toes. This i
6、s quite the same kind of sport that you used to play as a child which involved toe wrestling. This has now been turned into a major sport that even has a World Toe Wrestling Competition. It first originated in a pub of Derbyshire.The locals took this sport with great enjoyment and then made this so
7、popular that it soon had its own championship. The individuals who participate have only got to use their feet in locks but then this is tougher than it may sound.The Mud Pit Belly FlopThis is a kind of game where even the spectators get splashed in mud but in fact that is quite the fun. The very an
8、nual Summer Redneck Games in East Dublin brings about this game and brings about some of the greatest hubcap discus throws with it. This is also a great sport to show the strength and dexterity of your feet.1. Which sport requires couples to participate?A. The Ultimate Test between Man and Horse B.
9、Love Locked RaceC. Toe sport D. The Mud Pit Belly Flop 2. Which statement shows the popularity of the Toe Sport?A. It first originated in a pub of Derbyshire.B. The locals took this sport with great enjoyment.C. It has a World Toe Wrestling Competition.D. Even kids are fond of the sport. 3. What kin
10、d of people are likely to take part in the Ultimate Test between Man and Horse? A. People with agility and strengthB. People with companionsC. Marathon runners D. Horse riders- 3 -BThe evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get o
11、n with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past.” We were surpr
12、ised by just how positive todays young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “Theyre expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serv
13、ing them well. Theres more negotiation and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They dont want to rock the boat.”So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their chi
14、ldren as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. “I always tell them when Im going out clubbing. As long as they know what Im doing, theyre fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21,agrees.”Looking back on the last 10 ye
15、ars, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as Id done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible th
16、at the idea of teenagers rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaki
17、ng away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”4. The study shows that teenagers dont want to _- 4 -A. share family
18、 responsibilityB. cause trouble in their familiesC. go boating with their familyD. make family decisions5. Compared with parents of 30 years ago, todays parents_.A. go to clubs more often with their childrenB. are much stricter with their childrenC. care less about their childrens lifeD. give their
19、children more freedom6. According to the author, teenage rebellion_.A. may be a false beliefB. is common nowadaysC. existed only in the 1960sD. resulted from changes in families7. Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?A. Discussion in family. B. Teenage education in family.C. Harmony i
20、n family. D. Teenage trouble in family.CThe days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive.Some people say tha
21、t Man is naturally a hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely our earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks peo
22、ple will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important - 5 -thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. There are also those for whom hunting
23、in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opin
24、ion of yourself.The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives. One of them wrote.“You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animals own territory(领地)。You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular d
25、ay. This is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals, Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing - not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to f
26、eed your people.”I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears(矛) and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tiger-shoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used. The so-called hunters fired from tall trees
27、or from the backs of trained elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.8. There is no more hunting in India now partly because_.A. it is dangerous to hunt thereB. hunting is already out of dateC. hunters want to protect animalsD. there are few animals left to hunt9. The
28、 author thinks modern hunters kill mainly_.A. to make the countryside safeB. to earn peoples admirationC. to gain power and influenceD. to improve their health- 6 -10. What do we learn about the big-game hunters?A. They hunt old animalsB. They mistreat animalsC. They hunt for foodD. They hunt for mo
29、ney11. What is the authors view on the tiger-shoots he has seen?A. Modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-faceB. Modern hunters should use more advanced weaponsC. Modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigersD. Modern hunters should put their safety firstDDiet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet
30、 pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psych
31、ologically and physically.Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to
32、jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale(秤)instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awarenes
33、s that we dont have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet
34、 foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means - 7 -we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients. Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet produc
35、ts may not be nutritional, and the chemicals that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we real
36、ize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.12. From Paragraph 1, we learn that _.A. diet products fail to bring out peoples potentialB. people have difficulty in choosing diet productsC. diet products are mis
37、leading peopleD. people are fed up with diet products13. One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _.A. try out a variety of diet foodsB. hesitate before they enjoy diet foodsC. pay attention to their own eating habitsD. watch their weight rather than their diet14. In Paragrap
38、h 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means _.A. losing weight is effortlessB. it costs a lot to lose weightC. diet products bring no painD. diet products are free from calories15. Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products _.A. are over-consumedB. lack basic nutrientsC.
39、 are short of chemicalsD. provide too much energy- 8 -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项。The wife-carrying World Championship has been celebrated in a small town in central Finland since 1992. In 1992, the people of the town decided to restart some long-forgotten traditi
40、ons. 16. _. He was said to only accept men as members of his gang who proved their worth in challenges. At that time, it was also a common practice to steal women from neighboring villages.17._. A large number of competitors, people, and journalists from Finland to Canada attend the Wife-carrying Wo
41、rld Championship every year.18. _. The Wife-carrying World Championship is held on a 253.3 meters long official track. The track has two dry obstacles and a water obstacle, about a meter deep. The wife to be carried may be your own, or your neighbors. The minimum weight of the wife to be carried is
42、49 kg. If she is less than 49kg, the wife will be given a heavy bag to carry. Each time a competitor drops his wife, that couple will be fined 15 seconds. 19. _. Alongside with the Wife-carrying World Championship, there is also a team competition. The distance is the same but three men in the team
43、carry the wife in turns. At the exchange point the carrier has to drink official “wife-carrying drink.” Then he may continue the race. 20. _.While the Wife-carrying World Championship is being held, there are bands playing music, a wife carrying dance and other forms of entertainment.”AThere are a f
44、ew basic rules.BPeople everywhere hold the event.CA special prize is awarded to the team.DDo you know how these traditions restarted?EThis event is becoming increasingly popular.FThe winner is the couple who complete the course in the shortest time.- 9 -GBack in the late 1800s, there was a robber ca
45、lled Rosvo-Ronkainen in that area.第二部分 完形填空（共 20题；每小题 1.5分，满分 30分）阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could _21_ tough subjects and really learn something. One such course w
46、as World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he _22_ in class.When I took the first exam, I was _23_ to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, _24_ English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained _25_.I decided
47、to try harder, although I didnt know what that _26_ because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I _27_ with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened patiently but wouldnt change his _28_.One more test before the final exam. One more _29_ to impr
48、ove my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time，_30_ the meaning of the word “thorough”. But my _31_ did no good and everything _32_ as before.The last hurdle(障碍) was the final. No matter what _33_ I got, it wouldnt cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the _34_ goodbye.I stopp
49、ed working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even _35_ myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once Id have _36_ with a test.A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into professor Jaynes office. He _37_ to be expecting me. “If I gave you the As you _38_, you wouldnt continue to work as hard.”I st
