甘肃省天水市秦安县第二中学2015-2016学年高二英语上学期第三次月考试题.doc

甘肃省天水市秦安县第二中学2015—2016学年第一学期第三次月考试题高二英语试题 一. 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)‎ A ‎ We all need a vacation, whether with the entire family or your significant other. Unfortunately, many of us will not be able to follow through with vacation plans. But now, there is an alternative that is catching on (流行起来) rather quickly and it is called a “Staycation”. A staycation is just what it sounds like, a vacation but you stay at home. It might not sound interesting, but you can turn it into a fun and relaxing getaway.‎ Tell family and friends your plans. In their eyes you are truly on vacation and they only need to contact you in case of an emergency. ‎ Go outside; don’t let the kids sleep all day. Go out and birdwatch, go fishing, explore the parks and nature, take in all you can of the outside world. You can even have a relaxing day at the beach, soak in some sun, and let the kids go swimming. ‎ Go on a picnic; have the kids fly kites. Bring some bubbles, and have a nice day with the wind blowing in your hair. Watch as the kids run and play and enjoy the beautiful outdoors.‎ Camping is another fun way to have a staycation. If you have a camping ground in your area, you can go camping for a day or two and show the kids how it is to live right in the heart of Mother Nature.‎ Just remember, it really doesn’t matter where you decide to go, whether home or away. As long as you create quality time with your family you can strengthen the bonds that may have been pushed aside during all the long stressful work hours. Time is the most important thing you can give to your husband, wife and kids, enjoying every moment together, and you will have lasting memories in your hearts.‎ ‎1. What is mainly talked about in the passage?‎ ‎ A. The popularity of a staycation. ‎ ‎ B. The importance of a vacation. ‎ ‎ C. Where to spend your vacation this year. ‎ ‎ D. How to plan a staycation.‎ ‎2. You should tell family and friends your plans so that .‎ ‎ A. they will fully support you ‎ ‎ B. they will take care of your house ‎ C. they will contact you only when necessary 9‎ ‎ D. they can help you make preparations ‎ ‎3. Which of the following is NOT a good way to have a good staycation?‎ ‎ A. To sleep at home all day. B. To go out to watch birds.‎ ‎ C. To go to the parks. D. To relax on the beach.‎ B The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for the children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, four or five of whom lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has to take care of children, her work is lightened by modern living conditions.‎ This important change in women's life-patterns has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls took a full-time job after they left school. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school- leaving age is sixteen; many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry older, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to full-or-part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.‎ ‎24. At what age did most women marry around the 1890 according to the passage?‎ ‎ A. At about twenty-five B. In their earl fifties ‎ C. At the age of fifteen D. At any age from fifteen to forty-five ‎5. Many girls, the passage claims, are now likely to_______.‎ ‎　A. give up their jobs for good after they are married ‎　B. leave school as soon as they can ‎　C. marry so that they can get a job ‎　D. continue working until they are going to have a baby ‎6. When she was over fifty, a late nineteenth-century mother ______.‎ ‎ A. was usually expected to die fairly soon ‎ B. would expect to work until she died ‎ C. would be healthy enough to take up paid jobs ‎ D. was less likely to find a job even if she wanted to ‎ ‎7. Nowadays, a husband tends to_______.‎ ‎　A. play a greater part in looking after the children ‎　B. help his wife by doing much of the housework 9‎ ‎　C. feel dissatisfied with his role in the family ‎　D. take a part-time job so that he can help in the home C The best example of something is often called the "gold standard." It sets the standard against which other things are measured. In economics, the term describes how major trading nations once used gold to set currency values and exchange rates. Many nations continued to use the gold standard until the last century.‎ In the United States, people could exchange paper money for gold from the eighteen seventies until nineteen thirty-three. Then-President Richard Nixon finally disconnected the dollar from the value of gold in nineteen seventy-one. From time to time, some politicians call for a return to the gold standard.‎ In 1978, the International Monetary Fund ended an official gold price. The IMF also ended the required use of gold in transactions with its member countries. Since that time, gold prices have grown and continued to be high. But people keep buying. Some people are "gold bugs." These are investors who say people should buy gold to protect against inflation(通货膨胀).‎ People have valued gold for thousands of years. The soft, dense metal polishes to a bright yellow shine and resists most chemical reactions. It makes a good material for money, political power -- and, more recently, electrical power. If you own a device like a mobile phone or a computer, you might own a little gold in the wiring.‎ The gold standard was the subject of one of the best-known speeches in American political history. William Bryan wanted the country to use both gold and silver as money. The idea was to devalue the dollar and make it easier for farmers to pay their debts. So he delivered a speech, which made him famous. He was a presidential candidate three times. But he never won.‎ ‎8. The underlined word “transactions” probably means “ ”‎ ‎ A. wars B. trade C. meetings D. conflict ‎ ‎9. After the IMF ended the official gold price, the gold prices .‎ ‎ A. stayed the same B. began to drop ‎ C. increased D. increased a little at first and kept drop ‎10. What’s the fourth paragraph mainly about?‎ ‎ A. The reason for valuing gold B. The history of the use of gold ‎ ‎ C. New function of gold D. How to obtain gold ‎11. We can learn from the last paragraph that William Bryan .‎ ‎ A. was once a farmer B. loved to collect gold ‎ C. was a famous political figure D. was a good at giving speeches D ‎ Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.‎ ‎ The largest study of the effects of aging on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.‎ ‎ “We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20--25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool 9‎ ‎ John Moores University in the UK.‎ ‎ “Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the aging process.”‎ ‎ What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.‎ ‎ “This gender difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.‎ ‎ They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.‎ ‎ The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.‎ ‎ The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.‎ ‎12. The text mainly talks about ______.‎ ‎ A. men’s heart cells B. women’s aging process ‎ C. the gender difference D. hearts and long life ‎13. According to the text, the UK scientists have known that ______________.‎ ‎ A. women have more cells than men when they are born ‎ B. women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat ‎ C. the female heart loses few of the cells with age ‎ D. women never lose their pumping power with age ‎14. If you want to live longer, you should ___________.‎ ‎ A. enable your heart to beat much faster ‎ B. find out the reason for aging ‎ C. exercise regularly to keep your heart healthy ‎ D. prevent your cells from being lost ‎15. We can know from the passage that __________.‎ ‎ A. the reason why aging takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out ‎ B. scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells ‎ C. the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss ‎ D. women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20‎ 第二节 ‎(共5小题；每小题2分, 满分10分)‎ ‎ Last month, students from one hundred and three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China. 16 ‎ ‎ Jerry Cain, coach of Stanford University Team, California, says “One of the programming problems was trying to figure out how to break a chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as ‎ 9‎ possible. 17 ”‎ ‎ The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty. 18 They designed ways to test their solutions. And they wrote needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanhai Jiaotong University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit. Stanford’s team solved five problems and finished in 14th place. Stanford was one of twenty-one American universities that took part in the contest this year.‎ ‎ 19 . It began in 1970 at Texas A and M University. The contest quickly became popular in the United States and Canada. It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and area contests.‎ ‎ The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computer Machinery Computer Science Conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to the world finals, now organized by IBM. Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions receive prizes and scholarships. 20 ‎ A. The competitors show great interest in IBM.‎ B. Then they figured out the requirements of each.‎ C. And that’s probably the simplest of all of them.‎ D. This competition is an opportunity to be recognized by famous universities from the world.‎ E. Three-person teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.‎ F. The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.‎ G. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment with IBM.‎ 三 完形填空 (每小题1分, 满分15分)‎ ‎ Mr White with his wife 21 now living at a small Italian hotel, 22 they had stayed in Italy for months on holiday. One night he went out for a walk 23 . It was late. The small street was dark and 24 . Suddenly he heard 25 behind him. He 26 his head and saw a middle-aged man with wild hair, who quickly walked 27 him. The man was nearly out of sight when Mr White suddenly found that his watch 28 . He thought it was the 29 man who had taken his watch, so he ran quickly after him and soon caught up with him. As he knew 30 Italian, Mr White had to ask the man 31 the watch in another way. He showed the man his strong arms and 32 to his watch pocket. The man thought a while and gave 33 watch to Mr White.‎ ‎ Mr. White returned home and told his wife 34 had happened. He was greatly surprised when Mrs. White pointed to the watch on the table. Now he found it was 35 that had taken the Italian’s watch.‎ ‎21. A. is B. was C. are D. were ‎22. A. where B. which C. that D. who ‎23. A. separate B. lonely C. alone D. loneliness ‎24. A. noisy B. crowded C. silent D. quiet ‎25. A. voice B. sound C. feet D. steps ‎26. A. rose B. moved C. turned D. put 9‎ ‎27. A. past B. passed C. through D. over ‎28. A. had lost B. gone C. was missing D. had gone ‎29. A. very B. proper C. same D. just ‎30. A. much B. no C. enough D. little of ‎31. A. to lend B. to tell C. to return D. return ‎32. A. pointed B. listened C. shouted D. spoke ‎33. A. their B. the other C. the D. another ‎34. A. what B. that C. why D. how ‎35. A. he B. him C. himself D. herself ‎ 第二卷（共四部分，满分80分）‎ 第一部分、语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)‎ Keeping a diary in English is one of the 36 (effect) ways to improve our English writing ability. ‎ ‎ 37 (Compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes 38time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. If we 39 in this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many 40 . In the first place, 41 often happens that we have trouble finding proper words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English properly.‎ As far as I 42 (concern), my suggestion is that we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy 43 . Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher ‎ for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is 44 great use to keep a diary in English for 45 development of our writing skills.‎ 第二部分、单词拼写（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）‎ ‎46.What would you rather do-paint pictures,make _______(雕塑）,or design buildings?‎ ‎47.Who can _______(预测）what painting styles there will be in the future?‎ ‎48.They said that painters were careless and their paintings were ______(可笑的）‎ ‎49. Frick had a _________(偏爱) for pre-twentieth century Western paintings.‎ ‎55.List poems have a ________(灵活的）line length and repeated phrases.‎ ‎50.With so many different forms of poetry to choose from,students may ______(最终）want ‎ 9‎ to write poems of their own. ‎ ‎51.Do not be ________(失望的）if you have to try several times before you finally stop smoking.‎ ‎52.I also smoked and became ________(上瘾）to cigarettes.‎ ‎53.If you develop AIDS,your chances of (幸存）are very small. ‎ ‎60.He felt he had to make up his mind on every step instead of taking _____(冒险）‎ 第三部分、短文改错（10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）‎ 文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。‎ 增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧） ，并在其下面写出该加的词。‎ 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。‎ 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。‎ 注意: 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;‎ ‎2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。‎ A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, so two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw what deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they would be as well as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and try to jump up out of the pit in all their strength. The other frogs kept telling them to stop. Finally , one of the frogs gave up .He felt down and died . The other frog continued to jump hard as he could . Once again , the crowd of frogs shouted at her to stop the pain. He jumped even hard and finally made it. When he got out, ‎ the other frogs asked, “Didn’t you hear about us?” The frog explained to them that he was deaf.‎ 书面表达 (满分15分)‎ ‎ 假定你是李华, 太原国际马拉松赛将要举办, 现在正在招募志愿者, 你希望成为其中一员。请按要求用英文给组委会写一封申请信。内容应包括：‎ 1. 个人情况：年龄、性别、学历；‎ 2. 个人条件：英语好、善于交往、熟悉本地情况, 方便帮助别人；‎ 3. 承诺：提供最佳服务。‎ 注意：‎ 1. 词数100左右, 开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数 2. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯 生词：太原国际马拉松：Taiyuan International Marathon 9‎ Dear Sir/Madam,‎ ‎ My Name is Li Hua.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Yours ‎ ‎ Faithfully 英语参考答案 ‎1-5 DCAAD 6--10 DBBAC 11-15 CDCCB 16-20 ECBFG ‎21-25 BACDD 26-30 CACAB 31-35 CACAA 第一部分、语法填空 (共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)‎ ‎36. effective 37. Compared 38. less 39. persist ‎ ‎40. difficulties 41. it 42. am concerned 46.reach 44. of 50. the ‎ 第二部分、单词拼写（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）‎ ‎45.Sculpture 46.predict 47. ridiculous 48.Preferrence 49.fexible 50.eventually 51.disappointed 52.addicted 53.survial 53. Risks 第三部分、短文改错（10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）‎ A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, so two of them ‎ ‎ and fell into a deep pit(坑). When the other frogs saw what deep the pit was,‎ ‎ how they told the two frogs that they would be as well as dead. The two ‎ good ‎ frogs ignored the comments and try to jump up out of the pit ‎ ‎ tried in all their strength. The other frogs kept telling them to stop. ‎ with Finally , one of the frogs gave up .He felt down and died . The other 9‎ ‎ fell frog continued to jump∧ hard as he could . Once again , the crowd ‎ ‎ as of frogs shouted at her to stop the pain. He jumped even hard ‎ him harder and finally made it. When he got out, the other frogs asked, “Didn’t you hear ‎ about us?” The frog explained to them that he was deaf. ‎ ‎ 划掉about 书面表达范文：‎ Dear Sir/Madam,‎ ‎ My Name is Li Hua. Being a high school student in Taiyuan, I am very proud that the big event is to be held here. I would like to work as a volunteer for the Taiyuan International Marathon.‎ ‎ I'm a boy of seventeen years old. My spoken English is good enough to communicate with foreigners fluently. Besides, good communication is of great importance at this event. This, I think, is what I am good at. Most importantly, I'm familiar with Taiyuan, making it convenient for me to help others. Therefore, I'm suitable for serving the TIM.‎ ‎ If I could be offered this chance, I promise I would try to provide the best service for the TIM.‎ ‎ Yours ‎ ‎ Faithfully 9‎