湖南省衡阳市八中学年高二英语上学期月考试题.docx

1、湖南省衡阳市八中学年高二英语上学期月考试题衡阳市八中2015年下学期高二第二次月考试题高 二 英 语 注意：本堂考试，时量：120分钟，满分150分。第卷第一部分 听力（共两节，每小题1.5分，满分30分。） 做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。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 is the woman probably?

2、 A. A secretary. B. A teacher. C. A guide. 2. What does the woman mean? A. She rarely fails the exams. B. She is preparing for the coming exams. C. She is a frequent visitor to the library. 3. Who is a language genius according to the speakers language teacher? A. The woman. B. The man. C. Jack. 4.

3、Where are the speakers probably? A. At a police station. B. At a cell phone shop. C. At a car repair shop. 5. How much will the woman pay for the book? A. 30 dollars. B. 28.5 dollars. C. 25 dollars. 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，选出最佳选项。请听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. When did the woman get thirty yuan a m

4、onth? A. At the age of 13. B. At the age of 15. C. At the age of 17. 7. What does the man advise the woman to do to get more pocket money? A. Study harder. B. Help to do some housework. C. Get a part-time job. 请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. What is the second question the woman asks? A. Whether she can get a ta

5、ble at 8:30. B. Whether Italian dishes are served. C. How many Italian dishes are on the menu. 9. What is the womans number? A. 5530-0318. B. 5513-0380. C. 5513-0318. 请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。 10. Why does the woman apologize? A. The mans flight has been cancelled. B. The mans flight has been put off. C. T

6、he mans flight has taken off. 11. How many times at least was the announcement made according to the woman? A. Once. B. Twice. C. Three times. 12. How will the man get to Washington? A. By bus. B. By plane. C. By cab. 请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is the woman probably doing? A. Reading a story. B. Wri

7、ting a book. C. Having a coffee. 14. Where is Maria originally from? A. Singapore. B. Britain. C. America. 15. What did Maria do in 1996? A. She went to New York for a break. B. She went to coffee bars quite often. C. She opened ten more coffee bars. 16. How many coffee bars does Maria have at the m

8、oment? A. 80. B. 85. C. 86. 请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. When did the speaker put her house up for sale? A. When she got a job in a company. B. When her husband became the general manager. C. When she became a housewife. l8. When did the speakers agent bring a couple to visit her house? A. At midnight. B.

9、 In the afternoon. C. In the morning. 19. Where did the speaker hear the man say something to his wife? A. In the bathroom. B. In the bedroom. C. In the kitchen. 20. What did the buyers think of the house? A. It was very tidy. B. It was big enough. C. It was like their own home. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

10、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。ABeing an astronaut sounds cool, doesnt it? In space, they get to do some pretty amazing things, like floating in zero gravity. However, there are also plenty of things that astronauts cant do because of their weightless environ

11、ment, and thats very sad. Whats worse, they cant even let their sadness show because its impossible to cry in zero gravity. Of course, astronauts can still produce tears. But crying is much more difficult in space, reported The Atlantic in January. Without gravity, tears dont flow downward out of th

12、e eyes like they do here on Earth. This means that when you cry in space, your tears have nowhere to go they just stick to your eyes. In May 2011, astronaut Andrew Feustel experienced this during one of his spacewalks. Tears, he said, dont fall off your eyeThey just kind of stay there. Besides makin

13、g your vision unclear, this can also cause physical pain. Back on Earth, tears are supposed to bring comfort to the eyes. But thats not the case in space. The space environment dries out astronauts eyes, and when tears suddenly wet the eyes, it can cause pain rather than comfort. My right eye is pai

14、nful like crazy. Feustel told his teammate during the walk. Since gravity doesnt work in space, astronauts need some extra help to get rid of the tears. Feustel chose to rub his eyes against his helmet to wipe the tears away. Another choice is to just wait When the tears get big enough they simply b

15、reak free of the eye and float around, astronaut Ron Parise told The Atlantic. There are lots of small things things like crying that we are so used to on Earth. We usually take them for granted, until they become a problem in a totally different environment, like space. There, astronauts cant talk

16、to each other directly. They also cant eat or drink in normal ways. They cant even burp, because there is no gravity to hold the food down in their stomach. If they do burp, they just end up throwing up everything in their stomach, according to the UK National Space Center. Thus, perhaps its only sp

17、ace explorers who can honestly say: Gravity, youre the best.21. What can we conclude from Paragraphs 2 and 3? A. Astronauts are unable to feel sad in space B. Astronauts produce fewer tears in space C. Tears produced in space flow down more slowly D. Tears produced in space dont flow downward22. Wha

18、t effect do tears have on astronauts? A. They cause physical pain B. They bring comfort to them C. They make their vision clearer D. They float around and cause trouble23. What can the astronaut do to get rid of the tears? A. Rub his eyes against his helmet to let the tears float forwardB. Rub his e

19、yes by hand to let the tears float aroundC. Get the tears big enough to fall off his eyesD. Get the tears big enough to break away from his eyes24. Whats the second-to-last paragraph mainly about?A. Suggestions on how astronauts can stay comfortable in spaceB. Other basic things that are difficult t

20、o do in spaceC. Why burping is impossible in spaceD. Things that humans cant do without gravityBPrecision agriculture (精确农业) is a way of thinking about how to improve production and get more from existing resources. It often involves the use of technology. An example found mostly in wealthier countr

21、ies is a computerguided tractor. The computer does most of the driving. It uses signals from satellites in the Global Positioning System. GPS technology helps the tractor cut rows in straight lines and put the right amount of fertilizer in the right place.Jimmy Messick is a farmer in northern Virgin

22、ia, not far from Washington. He says the GPS guidance system makes it easy to come back later and plant the seed in his fields of corn. Because of the GPS guidance, Messick now pays half what he once did for fertilizer. Bruce Erickson is an agronomist (农学家) at Purdue University in Indiana. He says s

23、aving even a little bit of seed, pesticide or fertilizer leads directly to cost savings and less environmental damage.Raj Khosla is an agronomist at Colorado State University. He says farmers in the developing world can use precision agriculture even without hightech tractors. We do not necessarily

24、have to have complex, large machines to practice what could be done as simply as using bottle caps, Mr Khosla says. The idea is to use a bottle cap to pour a measured amount of fertilizer right next to each plant. It takes more work than simply throwing handfuls of fertilizer across a field. But Mr

25、Khosla says when researchers taught this bottle cap method to farmers in subSaharan Africa, they discovered that it was worth the extra effort if they could only afford a small amount of fertilizer. There was a huge difference, more than double, in terms of productivity, Mr Khosla says.Of course, ne

26、w technology is not always so cheap. But Mr Khosla says farmers could form a cooperative or combine their resources to pay for new equipment. He and other researchers worked with a farmer in India to precisely level his wheat fields. That kept the fields from developing wet and dry areas that reduce

27、d productivity. The farmer also added better fertilizer and insect control. As a result, he was able to grow almost three times as much wheat on the same amount of land. Mr Khosla says with the extra money the farmer made and a small loan, he bought his own precision leveler. And now, for a fee, he

28、offers that as a service to his neighbors and other farmers.25. With GPS technology, farmers can_.A. apply fertilizer precisely B. cut rows without using tractorsC. find the way to their fields easily D. connect with their family conveniently26. The example of the bottle cap method intends to show p

29、recision agriculture_.A. is worth the extra effort B. saves both money and timeC. takes more work than the traditional way D. can be put into practice without hightech tractors27. According to the passage the common advantage(s) about precision agriculture is (are) _A. reducing the amount of time an

30、d fertilizerB. saving both cost and human strengthC. solving the problem of pest and disease damageD. increasing productivity and protecting the environment28. We can conclude from the passage that precision agriculture_.A. has become a trend B. is a good investmentC. means extra but worthwhile work

31、 D. is an expensive and unpopular wayCGo on a slow jog for just five minutes a day and you may gain a few extra years of life. This is all according to an American study, which focuses on the effect of jogging on life span. According to the research, even a short period of time may improve your chan

32、ces of avoiding cardio ( 心的) and vascular (血管) diseases, which may lead to premature death.From a more traditional health perspective, five minutes sounds brave. But if it is energetic, intensive and the running steps are swift, why ever not? said a medical doctor Tommi Vasankari from the UKK institute, as he conside