高二上学期第二次月考英语试题A卷 含答案.docx

1、高二上学期第二次月考英语试题A卷 含答案试卷类型：A卷 河北冀州中学2019-2020年高二上学期第二次月考英语试题A卷 含答案第一部分 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. What does the woman ask the man to do?A. Chop some vegetables.B. Put the vegetables in the sink.

2、C. Watch TV with her.2. What color is the furniture in the living room now? A. Yellow. B. Purple. C. Brown.3. What do we know about the woman?A. She knows nothing about fashions.B. She doesnt have too much money for clothes.C. She never cares about fashionable clothes. 4. Who is Roger? A. The womans

3、 child. B. The womans pet. C. The womans neighbor.5. Where might the speakers be? A. On the street. B. In a studio. C. In the womans office.第二节听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，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。每段对话读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What were the speakers doing? A.

4、Watching a basketball game in a stadium.B. Playing basketball.C. Watching a basketball game on TV.7. How do the speakers probably feel now? A. Excited. B. Disappointed. C. Confused.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. How long did the man stay in Bahamas? A. About 3 days. B. About 7 days. C. About 10 days.9. How is t

5、he womans pany going? A. Things are going quite well. B. It is just starting up. C. Just so-so.10. What will happen in the fall? A. The man will return to work.B. The woman will be able to take a vacation.C. The woman will have a baby.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. Why cant the woman buy an iPhone 5 today?A.

6、She hasnt enough money.B. They have all been reserved.C. They havent e out.12. What do people need to do after paying for their phone online? A. Pick it up the same day.B. Go to the store to line up immediately.C. Wait for the phone to be ready to be picked up.13. Whats option three according to the

7、 man? A. Buy the phone on the stores website.B. Buy the phone from an online retailer.C. Wait six months.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. Whats the relationship between the speakers? A. Host and guest. B. Father and daughter. C. Colleagues.15. What is the weather like now? A. Rainy . B. Cloudy. C. Sunny.16. Wha

8、t happened last year at the get-together? A. No one wanted to play any games.B. People just wanted to stay warm.C. They ran out of food and drinks.听第10段材料，回答17至20题。17. Why did the woman rent the top floor of an old house? A. She wanted a fortable place to study in.B. She wanted a sunny place to live

9、 in.C. She wanted a place for her friends to hang out.18. What did her friends do? A. They offered to share the rent.B. They set up a small library.C. They paid for the things they used.19. Who are the target customers of the study room? A. Businessmen. B. Experts. C. Students.20. What does the woma

10、n think of the room? A. Its a quiet place for her to read.B. Its a good way to earn money.C. Its more about a kind of lifestyle.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。AFood festivals around the worldStilton Cheese RollingMay Day is a traditional day for celebrati

11、ons, but the 2,000 English villagers of Stilton must be the only people in the world who include cheese rolling in their annual plans. Teams of four, dressed in a variety of strange and funny clothes , roll a plete cheese along a 50-metre course. On the way, they must not kick or throw their cheese,

12、 or go into their petitors lane. petition is fierce and the chief prize is a plete Stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones). All the petitors arc served with beer or port wine, the traditional acpaniment for Stilton c

13、heese.Fiery Foods FestivalThe Hottest Festival on EarthEvery year more than 10,000 people head for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They e from as far away as Australia, the Caribbean and China, but they all share a mon addictionfood that is not just spicy ,but hot enough to make your mouth burn

14、, your head spin and your eyes water. Their destination is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival which is held over a period of three clays every March. You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero pepperofficially the hottest pepper in the worldor any one of the thousands of products that are on sh

15、ow. But one things for sureif you dont like the feeling of a burning tongue, this festival isnt for you!La TomatinaThe Worlds Biggest Food FightOn the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts Ea Tomatinathe worlds largest food fight. A week-long celebration leads up to an exci

16、ting tomato battle as the highlight of the weeks events. The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoesofficial fight-starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd.The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50,000 kilograms of tomatoes have be

17、en thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back. Then everyone heads down to the river to make friends againand for a much-needed wash!21. In the Stilton cheese rolling petition, petitors on each team must .A. wear various formal clothesB. roll a wooden cheese in their own laneC. ki

18、ck or throw their cheeseD. use a real cheese weighing about four kilos22. Where is the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival held?A. In New Mexico. B. In the Caribbean.C. In Australia. D. In China.23. The celebration of La Tomatina lasts .A. three days B. seven days 0C. less than three days D. more than seven

19、 days24. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. The chief prize for the Stilton cheese rolling petition is beer or port wine.B. More than 10,000 Chinese take pail in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival.C. Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival.D. An e

20、xciting tomato battle takes place at the beginning of La Tomatina.BWHATS the most important thing of life?Peoples answers vary greatly. For British scientist Robert Edwards，the answer is having a child.“Nothing is more special than a child，”he told the BBC.Edwards，the inventor of the In Vitro Fertil

21、ization(IVF)technologymore monly known as“testtube(试管)baby”technologypassed away on April 10 ,xx at the age of 87.Edwards changed the lives of millions of ordinary people who now rejoice(充满喜悦)in the gift of their own child，”said Peter Braude，professor at Kings College London.“He leaves the world a m

22、uch better place.”Edwards started his experiments as early as the 1950s，when he had just finished his PhD in genetics. At that time，much of the public viewed test-tube babies as“scary”，according to Mark Sauer，professor at Columbia University，US.Edwards and his colleague Patrick Steptoe faced opposit

23、ion from churches，governments and media，not to mention attacks from many of their fellow scientists.“People said that we should not play God and we should not interfere with nature，”Edwards once told Times. He said that he felt “quite alone” at the time.“But Edwards was a fighter，and he believed in

24、what he was doing，”said Sauer. Without support from the government，the two struggled to raise funds to carry on. And in 1968 they finally developed a method to successfully fertilize human eggs outside the body.The first test-tube baby was born on July 25，1978.Her name was Louise Brown. Despite peop

25、les safety concerns，Brown was just as healthy as other children.“IVF had moved from vision to reality and a new era in medicine had begun，”BBC mented.Ever since then，public opinion has evolved considerably. Couples who were unable to have babies began thronging(蜂拥)to Edwards clinic. Nowadays，Reuters

26、 reports，some 4.3 million other“test-tube” children exist. Edwards received a Nobel Prize in xx and was knighted(封为爵士)by Queen Elizabeth the following year.Before his death，Edwards was still in touch with Louise.“He is like a granddad to me，”she said in an interview with the Daily Mail.He is a grand

27、dad to millions, in fact.25What is the article mainly about?AThe first test-tube baby.BA new era in medicine.CThe inventor of IVF technology.DThe changes IVF technology has brought.26The writer quoted Peter Braude to _Ashow how difficult it was for Edwards to do his workBdescribe what kind of person

28、 Edwards wasCexplain why he is loved by all childrenDment on his achievement27The underlined word“opposition”in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to _Aattack BsupportCtest Dinfluence28What is the CORRECT order of events in Edwards life?aHe received a Nobel Prize.bHe struggled to raise funds.cThe fir

29、st test-tube baby was born.dHe was knighted by Queen Elizabeth .eHe succeeded in fertilizing human eggs outside the body.fHe started his experiments on IVF technology.Afebcad BfbecdaCfbecad DfedacbCSuccess is often measured by the ability to overe adversity. But, it is often the belief of others tha

30、t gives us the courage to try.J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series，began writing at the age of 6. In her biography, she remembers with great fondness when her good friend Sean, whom she met in secondary school, became the first person to encourage her and help build the confidence t

31、hat one day she would be a very good writer.“He was the first person with whom I really discussed my serious ambition to be a writer. He was also the only person who thought I was bound to be a success at it, which meant much more to me than I ever told him at the time.”Despite many setbacks, Rowling persevered in her writing, particularly fantasy stories. But it wasnt until 1990 that she first conceived the idea about Harry Potter. As she recalls，it was on a long train journey from London to Manchester that the idea of Harry Potter simply fell into her head.“To my immense frustration (沮丧