高二英语月考试题带答案.docx

1、高二英语月考试题带答案2016-2017年高二英语12月月考试题（带答案）新津中学高2015级高二12月月考英语试题 第I卷（选择题，共100分） 一、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 to New York? A. By car. B.By air. C.By train. 2. What can we lear

2、n from the conversation? A. The woman had a photo shop of her own. B. The woman developed all her photos all by herself. C. The woman developed parts of her own films. 3. What are the two speakers going to do tomorrow afternoon? AGo shopping. BReturn to the beach. C Pay a visit to Joe and Linda. 4.

3、What does the man mean? A. He doesnt understand pop music at all. B. He doesnt like pop music. C. He likes pop music very much. 5. What do we know about the man? A. He once visited Barcelona. B. He is going to Barcelona with the woman. C. He wishes the woman would go to Barcelona. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，

4、满分22.5分） 听下面5段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后面有几个小题，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。 6. What do we know about the man? A. He knows little about the English corner. B. He shows no interest in speaking English. C. He never talks with others in English. 7. Wha

5、t do people usually talk about at the English corner? A. Only English study. B. Anything interesting. C. Only current affairs. 8. What will people do if they cant be understood at the English corner? A. Do not say it any more. B. Go on to another topic. C. Explain it. 9. What is the probable relatio

6、nship between the two speakers? A. Driver and policeman. B. Taxi driver and passenger. C. Driving instructor and learner. 10. Whats the first thing the woman should do? A. Start the car. B. Fasten the seat-belt. C. Remember three things. 11. What do we know about the woman? A. She will meet the man

7、again three days later. B. She has broken some traffic rules. C. She has just had an accident. 听第 8段材料,第 12至 14题。 12. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Teacher and student B. Mother and son. C. Husband and wife. 13. Why didnt the boy attend classes last week? A. Because

8、he did not finish his homework. B. Because he liked playing computer games very much. C. Because he was having family problems. 14. Where was the boy last week? A. In his relatives. B. At home. C. In an Internet cafe. 听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。 15. What is the man going to do? A. See an accident. B. Have lun

9、ch. . C. Watch TV. 16. What did the woman see? A. She saw a car run over somebody. B. She saw a car almost run over somebody. C. She saw somebody walking a dog in the street. 17. How did the woman look out of the window? A. On purpose. B. By chance. C. Carefully,听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18. Whom is the sp

10、eaker talking to? A. His friends. B. A group of new students. C. A group of teachers. 19. What is the total number of the departments in the college? A. Six. B. Five. C. Four. 20. Where do the teachers in the English department mainly come from? A. England and America. B. America and Australia. C. A

11、merica and Canada. 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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A Although Americans are well known for getting down to business, Indians working in overseas teams, MNCs, and BPOs should know the importance of small talk. While Indians have a true interest in talkin

12、g to Americans and getting to know them, they also hesitate to do so for some reasons. Americans engage in less personal small talk than Indians. And the topics and questions used in English vary widely based on language differences and cultural differences. Here are three things to keep in mind whi

13、le you are trying to make small talk with your American clients and colleagues. Amencans love to ask about, and then complain about the weather. They may talk about how the weather prevented them from having fun or how the weather supported their outdoor events. You can talk about the weather with t

14、hem to begin a conversation. While talking, they always try to follow up on their answer by asking another open-ended question or make a statement, such as Wow, that sounds like fun ! or You went to St. Louis. In which state is that? Be creative in your questions. Feel free to ask one or two, but no

15、t very personal ones about relations. Stick to the facts or events that were already referred to. Sometimes, some words used in India will totally confuse an American. For example, Americans use the word weekend instead of holiday for Saturdays and Sundays ( non-working days) , and use the word vaca

16、tion or days off instead of out-of-station . Always be interested, optimistic and happy. Talk with a smile! Vary the sound of your voice. Do not sound like a computer. If you are unsure how you sound, a good tip is to record yourself and listen to it later. Doing this helps you know how your voice s

17、ounds, and if you dont sound as you want to be heard, it may be time to work on enhancing your voice. 21. For Indians, having small talk with American colleagues is . A. boring B. useless C. important D. interesting 22. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? A. What Americans like talking about in their

18、daily life. B. How Americans usually start a conversation with others. C. Why talking about the weather is good to begin a conversation. D. What people can say when having small talk with Amencans. 23. What does the underlined word enhancing in the last paragraph mean? A. Lowering. B. Replacing. C.

19、Improving. D. Examining. 24. Whats the writers purpose in writing the passage? A. To prove that having small talk is not very hard. B. To explain why Indians hesitate to talk with Americans. C. To show the differences between Americans and Indians. D. To tell how to make small talk with American cli

20、ents and colleagues.B Consider yourself warned. Sunday is April Fools Day, a day when you are encouraged to play tricks on loved ones and even the people you meet at the bus stop. Its a strange tradition, but how did it get started? Nobody is completely sure about the origin of this, the silliest of

21、 holidays. However, the urban legend experts at Snopes. com say that most experts owe it to Pope Gregory X, who, in the 1500s, gave the world the Gregorian calendar. In 1562, the Gregorian calendar moved the first day of the year from April l to January l. Word did eventually get around, but some pe

22、ople were a bit slow to hear the news. These folks continued celebrating the new year on April l , unaware that they were now three months behind the times. These April fools were tricked by those who knew it. The tradition eventually made its way to the US. And its still going strong. Over the past

23、 week, Web searches on April Fools Day jokes and April Fools Day tricks have more than doubled, and related lookups for easy April Fools Day tricks and April Fools Day jokes for work have also increased greatly. Bottom line: Keep your guard up, especially if somebody offers you a word search puzzle.

24、 Lookups for impossible April Fools Day word searches are up by 200%. But really, there is no way to be certain youll escape trickery because even companies are out to trick you on April l. In 1957, the BBC reported Swiss farmers were harvesting spaghetti(意大利面) from trees. And in 1996, Taco Bell too

25、k out ads in major newspapers announcing that the company had purchased the Liberty Bell and renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell. 25. What is the authors purpose of writing the text? A. To teach us how to avoid being tricked. B. To point out the best way to trick others. C. To introduce the history of

26、April Fools Day. D. To stress the importance of April Fools Day. 26. What can we know from Paragraph 3? A. April lst was once the first day of the year. B. April Fools Day was set by Pope Gregory X. C. April Fools Day has been celebrated for thousands of years. D. Started in the US, April Fools Day

27、is popular around the world. 27. From the 4th paragraph, we can learn that . A. people enjoy being April Fools B. April Fools Day is still very popular C. those tricks used on April 1 are much the same D. people like to celebrate April Fools Day online 28. The examples listed in the last paragraph a

28、re used to show . A. a modern farming technology B. what newspapers without ads are like C. how the Taco Liberty Bell got its name D. how some companies trick the publicC Twelve years ago, Rachel Miller was lost when it came to her son John. The 7-year-old was seriously disabled because of his autis

29、m(自闭症). Unable to speak, he withdrew from people at school and, worse, from his family. In March 2003, Miller was introduced to Jeff Hancock, a one-on-one therapist(治疗师) for people with autism. Hancoc k was hired to be Johns companion. The two would go people-watching at the mall on the weekend. Han

30、cock chatted throughout their trips, even though John couldnt talk back. Their relationship developed when Hancock introduced John to the Special Olympics. Whenever John was running or being active, he was smiling. When John turned 12, Hancock introduced him to track at the Special Olympics. For the

31、 first three years, the pair just observed the sport by watching practices and events. Hancock worked daily with John, showing him everything, including where to sit, stand and walk, so he would understand the flow of the events. Eventually, the lessons clicked, and John was off doing 50-meter sprin

32、ts. But as John got older, he got stronger and faster. At 16, he was jumping hurdles and doing 800-meter races. Miller started seeing her son as a serious athlete. In May 2014, Johns training brought him to the Special Olympics State Summer Games in Orlando. The 18-year-old was competing in the 800

33、meters and the 110-meter hurdles. As the 800 was setting up, Miller remembered, she pressed her face against the fence, anxiously waiting for John to compete. But as soon as the race started, all Miller saw was an athlete, her athlete. I just wanted to see the best performance. It seemed much more significant than whe