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1、河南省鹤壁市淇滨高级中学学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题2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 wel

2、l as personal 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,

3、 blue is a symbol 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 redu

4、ce pain and relax 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. Similarl

5、y, many commercial 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

6、are deciding on what to wear or what color to decorate your room, think about the color carefully.21.Muslims regard green as a symbol of heaven mainly because of their _.A. cultural values B. commercial purposes C. personal experiences D. physical reactions to the color22.Why will many commercial we

7、bsites have a red “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

8、 following would be the most proper title for the text? A. Colors and Human Beings B. The Cultural Meaning of Color C. 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 meeti

9、ng would decide his future 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 beatin

10、g the carpet.No, if 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 tha

11、t even his lips 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 to another person?”I wish you t

12、o understand, 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 waitin

13、g to 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 essayC The 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 mor

16、e 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 ch

17、ildren 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 longer e

18、ssays 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 brai

19、n active 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

20、keyboard 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 ha

21、ve to 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

22、 of blackboard 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 computer B. indicated that students prefer to writ

23、e with a pen and paper C. found that good essays are made up of long sentences D. 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 bene

24、fits the translation from words into ideas. D. Spelling slows down finding exact words to express ideas.31.What does “minds eye” in paragraph 5 mean? A. Window. B. Soul C. Picture D. Imagination.D To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians (基督教徒)ever cooked up.

25、For them, the forbidden 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 p

26、articularly terrifying 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 t

27、hat both had bright 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 exp

28、ert wrote that the 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 d

29、ay. The hero of the 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 toma

30、to. Some people fainted. 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 Eden C. it came from a forbidden land D. it was religiously unacceptab

31、le33.What can we infer 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

32、the main reason for Robert 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. T