广东省阳东广雅学校学年高二上学期月考英语试题.docx

1、广东省阳东广雅学校学年高二上学期月考英语试题阳东广雅中学2015-2016学年度第一学期高二年级英语9月月考试卷 第I卷（选择题，满分110分） 第一部分：听力【共两节，满分30分） 第一节【共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 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. How will the woman go outing tomorrow? A. By bus. B. In the man s car. C .In her own ca

2、r.2 Who does the dress belong to? A. Susan. B. Janet. C. Susans friend.3 What is the woman going to do? A. Study for a flight. B. Have dinner with Jack. C. Pack for a plane trip.4 What are the speakers, talking about? A. Repairing machines. B Paying for tickets. C. Changing notes.5 What is the proba

3、ble relationship between the speakers? A. Classmates. B. Fellow workers. C Husband and wife.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 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。每段对话或独自读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. What is the woman telling her father about?

4、A. Her visit to Greenwich Village. B. Her sightseeing experience. C. Her plan for her holiday. 7. When is the woman going to see a show? A. On her last night. B, Next weekend. C. Tomorrow.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What do we know about the writer? A. He is a child. B. He was an assistant years ago. C. He wa

5、s born disabled.9. How does the man find the writer? A. Inspiring. B. Surprising. C. Satisfying.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How did the man get the car probably? A. He made it by himself. B. He bought it from a car store. C. He bought it from another person.11. What does the price of the car include? A. Al

6、l fees but no taxes. B. Free service for one year. C. A one month service agreement.12. What will the man probably do next? A. Test out the car by himself. B. Get the car keys for the woman C. Get the contracts ready to sign.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. When will the woman leave for vacation? A. August 5th.

7、 B. August 15th, C. August 25th.14. How long will the woman stay at the beach? A. Two weeks. B. One week C. Three weeks.15. What is the woman planning to do? A. Take a sunbath. B. Learn swimming. C. Have a volleyball match.16. What will the man do? A. Go with die woman. B. Do some sports. C. Take pa

8、rt of his vacation.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. Where can you most probably hear this talk? A. In a class of the Greek language. B. In a class of the French language. C. In a class of the English language.18. How long does the Class last? A. 11 weeks. B. 13 weeks. C. 15 weeks.19. What is the short - cut to

9、 learning words according to the speaker? A. Learning how words are formed B. Taking more courses. C. Reading basic words aloud.20. Why is the class popular? A. Its taught by Professor Morris. B. It helps to master some useful rules. C. It is not offered each term.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

10、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。 A The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety.That didnt stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injure

11、d several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.Parbati 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 eleph

12、ant round - up how to catch wild elephants. Parbati hasnt always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with 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 fife. Life in the city is too du

13、ll. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase, she says.But Parbati doesnt 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 man

14、y years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry : for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home 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

15、 the jungle be- fore they can kill.The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer 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 s

16、aid, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on die giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!21. For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to _ A. get long lasting excitement B. keep both man and elephants safe C. send them back to the jungle D. make the angry elephants tame22. Before

17、 Parbati studied in a boarding school, A. she spent her time hunting with her father B. she learned how to sing love songs C. she had already been called an elephant princess D. she was taught how to hunt tigers23. Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because _ A. they ar

18、e caught and sent for heavy work B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them C. they are attacked and their land gets limited D. dogs often bark at them and chase them24. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India _. A. people easily fall victim to elephants attack

19、s B. the man - elephant relationship is getting worse C. elephant tamers are in short supply D. dogs are as powerful as elephants BBig messaging apps abroadWhile WeChat is Chinas biggest mobile messaging app (应用软件) there are many equivalent apps in other countries that offer similar features.WhatsAp

20、p (US)Users: more than 300 million?Platforms: Android, 10S, Windows Phone, BlackBerryFeatures. Text chat, push-to-talk, file sharing, location sharingWith more than 300 million active users, WhatsApp is one of WeChats biggest competitors. Developed by two ex-Yahoo, employees in 2009, WhatsApp origin

21、ally focused on text chat, but onAug6 it also started push - to - talk service. Its noted for its accessibility, ease of use and the absence (没有) of adverts. The service is free for the first year, after which $ 0.99 (6. 06 yuan) is charged for a one -year subscription.Kakao Talk (South Korea)Users-

22、 more than 100 million Platform Android, iOS, W.ndo.s Phone. BlackBerry and Bada (an operate system developed by Samsung)Features. Text chat, group chat, push - to - talk, group calls, file sharingWith .ore than 100 million users in .ore than 230 countries, Kakao Talk is a multi - platform ( 多平台 ) t

23、exting application that allows users to send and receive messages for tree. With Kakao Talk, users choose from more than 250 animated emoticons and share them with friends.Line (Japan)Users: more than 200 millionPlatforms. Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and PCFeatures. Text chat, group chat

24、, push - to - talk, file sharing, location sharing, gaming, stickers. Linne tops the list of the most downloaded free apps in 52 countries. Apart from text and voice messaging , Line provides its users with more than 250 original stickers and emoticons to buy from ,. own shop. In the first quarter o

25、f 2013 alone. it made $ ,7 million just from stickers. The popular app also allows friends to battle each other in the LINE Game.25. The first paragraph of the passage is nsed to . A. introduce the most popular mobile messaging apps in China B. talk about new features in the latest mobile messaging

26、apps C. draw readers attention to various popular mobile messaging apps D. explain how mobile messaging apps have become so popular26. Compared with the other two apps, which of the following features makes Line stand out? A. Group mobile games. B. Free stickers and emoticons. C. Free download of th

27、e app. D. Text and group chat.27. One of the popular features of WhatsApp is that users . . A. can send and receive messages for free B can enjov live video chats within groupsC. dont need to worry about unwanted ads D. regularlv set free stickers and emoticons CChinese consumers crazy appetite for

28、luxury goods and services appears unstoppable, with just 2 percent of the Chinese population responsible for one-third of the worlds luxury items.As Chinas economic miracle develops, the market opportunities for all sorts of luxury goods and services are increasing. Luxury consumption in China now e

29、xtends way beyond well - known car. Clothing and jewelry brands. For example, the luxury jet market ,n China is the fastest - growing in the world, even outstripping that of the United States, with a market share of 25 percent. This trend appears to continue, with 20 to 30 percent growth expected in

30、 China, compared with only 2 to 3 percent in the US. But more important, Chinas luxury jet market growth represents a major development in the private consumption of luxury items. Chinas high - quality red wine market also provides evidence of the growth in private consumption of luxury goods. In 20

31、13, China became the largest market for red? wine? in the world, even overtaking the French, with 1. 86 billion bottles consumed in China last year. Over the past five years, Chinas red wine consumption has grown 136 percent.According to my ongoing consumer research in this area while working at the

32、 University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, public consumption of such expensive global luxury brands such as Prada and Armani is easily explained by the desire to gain face and publicly display social climbing through material possesses. On the other hand, it is self-reward that lies behind consumer motivation in this area Chinese consumer,