河南省洛阳八中学年高二上学期第一次段考试题 英语.docx

1、河南省洛阳八中学年高二上学期第一次段考试题 英语高二英语第一次月考2015 10 出题 安旭光 审题 李彩霞第一部分 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. So, I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very bu

2、sy trying to earn money to pay the high schooling for me. They dont act in the romantic ways that I read in books or see on TV, and sending flowers to each other on Valentines Day is even impossible. One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I asked her if there was love between them. She paused her wo

3、rk and raised her head with surprise. Then she bowed her head and continued sewing the quilt. I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. After a few minutes she said,“Look at this thread. Sometimes it appears, but most of the time it disappears in the quilt. If life is a quilt, then love s

4、hould be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but its really there and makes the quilt long-lasting.” I listened carefully but I couldnt understand her until the next spring. My mother suddenly got sick seriously and had to stay in the hospital for a one-month treatment. Every mornin

5、g and dusk after she returned from the hospital, my father helped my mother walk slowly on the country road. There were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees, and the sun gently glistened on them through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful picture in the world. Reading their

6、eyes, I know they love each other deeply. From this experience, I realized that love was just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.21. The writer thought his parents life was not _ at first.A. true B. great C. meaningful D. romantic22. Valentines Day is a da

7、y for _.A. parents B. friends C. relatives D. lovers23. What does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph suggest?A. There is beautiful scenery everywhere in the world.B. There is true life anywhere in the world.C. There is no love without beautiful flowers.D. There is true love between the w

8、riters parents.24. Which is the best title of this passage?A. Love doesnt exist every day. B. Love means flowers.C. Love can never be seen. D. Love is the thread of a quilt. Three people have been arrested for trying to sell Coca Colas secrets to Pepsi, according to the US Department of Justice. Two

9、 men of Georgia and one man of New York have joined in the trick to sell the Coca Colas secrets to itsopponent Pepsi for $1.5 million. In May, Pepsi told Coca Cola that it had received a letter from a person calling himself “Dirk” offering very detailed and secret information about Coca Colas produc

10、ts for a fee, according to the DOJ press release. The FBI got the secret men to look into the case. Ibrahim Dimson of New York and Edmund Duhaney and Joya Williams of Georgia were arrested in Atlanta on Wednesday without incident, and charged with unlawfully stealing and selling trade secrets. Willi

11、ams was a Coca Cola employee. “Sadly, todays arrests include a person within our company,” said Coca Cola CEO Neville Isdell in an email to employees. “While this failure of trust is difficult for all of us to accept, it stresses the responsibility we each have to watch out in protecting our trade s

12、ecrets. Information is the lifeblood (生命线) of the company,” Isdell continued. “As the health of our enterprise (事业) continues to strengthen, our ideas and our competitive data carry increasing interest to those outside our business.” A Pepsi spokesman said that the company was pleased to be of help

13、in the investigation (调查). “We did what any responsible company would do,” said the spokesman. “Competition can be fierce, but it must also be fair and legal.”25. The name “Dirk” used by the man who sent Pepsi a letter is _.A. true B. false C. a pen name D. famous26. What does the underlined part “a

14、 person” refer to?A. Ibrahim Dimson. B. Edmund Duhaney. C. Joya Williams. D. Neville Isdell.27. What is the lesson of three mens trying to sell Coca Colas secrets?A. The Coca Cola company should strengthen the responsibility to protect trade secrets.B. The Coca Cola company shouldnt employ any new e

15、mployees.C. The Coca Cola company should fire some employees.D. The Coca Cola company should give the employees a rise.28. According to the passage, we can see the relationship between Pepsi and Coca Cola is _.A. terrible B. not so good C. friendly D. uncertain People used to say “The hand that rock

16、s the cradle (摇篮) rules the world” and “Behind every successful man theres a woman.” Both of these sayings mean the same thing. Men rule the world, but their wives rule them. Most of the American women like making their husbands and sons successful, but some of them want more for themselves. They wa

17、nt good jobs. When they work, they want to be better paid. They want to be as successful as men. The American womens liberation movement was started by women who dont want to stand behind successful men. They want to stand beside men with the same chance for success. They dont want to be told that c

18、ertain jobs or offices are closed to them. They refuse to work side by side with men who do the same work for a higher pay. A liberated woman must be proud of being a woman and believe in herself. If somebody says to her, “Youve come a long way, baby.”, shell smile and answer, “Not nearly as far as

19、Im going to go, baby!” The womens liberation movement is quite new, and many American women do not agree. But it has already made some important changes in womens life and in mens life, too.29. The underlined sentence “Behind every successful man theres a woman.” here means that _.A. the world is no

20、w ruled over by womenB. women play an important role in mens life and workC. a man cant succeed without a woman in his officeD. a woman used to rule her husband30. Some American women wish to _.A. have the same chance for success as menB. get better jobs than the men working togetherC. earn more mon

21、ey than their husbandsD. devote more to their work than to their families31. A liberated woman must _.A. take pride in her husbands successB. be fond of and devote herself to her childrenC. be proud of being a woman and trust herselfD. stand before or beside her husband32. What is the main idea of t

22、he passage?A. American womens liberation movement.B. A woman behind a successful man.C. Women want to support their husbands.D. Women dont want to support their husbands. For many creatures, the danger of global warming is more than too much heat. You can get temperature-related effects that may not

23、 be what you expect. Slight environmental change can affect physiological needs and weaken the ability of animals to keep a large enough population for them to live on even when the temperature rise is too mild to kill any creatures. Biologists usually dont know enough about an animal to assess (评估)

24、 the risk. Their knowledge comes largely from laboratory research on bits and pieces of a creatures physiology. This method doesnt tell how an animal as a living whole responds to climate change where it lives. Now, 10 years of research that joined laboratory study with field work has explained the

25、decrease in the population of eelpouts, a kind of fish in the southern part of the North Sea. Drs Portner and Knust have shown that a mild rise in water temperature can reduce the waters ability to hold oxygen, and, at the same time, it increases the fishs need for more oxygen to keep active; otherw

26、ise, they will be killed or have to move away. The researchers discovered that, over the past five decades, eelpout populations decreased when summer temperatures rose. They also found that warmer summers reduced eelpout population the following years. Danish scientists noted that “it remains diffic

27、ult to determine that increased temperature is the cause for the eelpout population decrease.” Yet they accepted the connection between temperature and population size as recorded in the field with the effect of temperature on the fishs oxygen needs as recorded in the laboratory. They found this con

28、nection between laboratory and field data to be “persuasive”.33. It is implied in Paragraph 2 that biologists research in labs is _.A. useless B. unscientific C. incomplete D. unimportant34. When it is hot enough, eelpouts will either die or _.A. try to take less oxygen B. swim to colder placesC. ea

29、t less and rest more D. go down to sea bottom35. The eelpout population began to decrease _ years ago.A. 20 B. 30 C. 40 D. 50第二节 （共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 Building Trust in a Relationship AgainTrust is a learned behavior that we gain from past experiences, 36

30、._ That is a risk. But you cant be successful when theres a lack of trust in a relationship that results from an action where the wrongdoer takes no responsibility to fix the mistake. Unfortunately, weve all been victims of betrayal（背叛）. Whether weve been suffer from, lied to , misled, or cheated on

31、, there are different levels of losing trust. Sometimes people simply cant trust anymore, 37. _Its understandable, but if youre willing to build trust in a relationship again, we have some steps you can take to get you there. 38. _ having confidence in yourself will help you make better choices beca

32、use you can see what the best outcome would be for your well-being. 39. _ If youve been betrayed, you are the victim of your circumstance. But theres a difference between being a victim and living with a “victim mentality”. At some point in all of our lives, well have our trust tested or violated（违反，侵犯）. You didnt lose “everything”.