河北省承德市第八中学学年高二英语上学期第二次月考试题.docx

1、河北省承德市第八中学学年高二英语上学期第二次月考试题20142015高二年级上学期第二次月考英语试题 本试卷分为第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。满分150分，考试时间90分钟。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，回答第15小题。1.What is the man most likely to be?A.A housekeeper. B.A manager. C.A waiter.2.What is the relationship between the man and the woman?A.A hotel mana

2、ger and a tourist. B.A salesman and a customer. C.A professor and a student.3.How will the man get to Boston?A.By train. B.By car. C.By air.4.What can we learn from the conversation?A.The woman has missed her train. B.The woman will probably catch her train. C.The woman is often late for work.5.What

3、s most likely going on?A.They are having an important meeting. B.They are having dinner. C.They are having a party.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听第6段材料,回答第68小题。6.Whom is the woman disappointed in?A.The judges. B.The listeners. C.The speakers.7.According to the woman, how did most of the listeners feel a

4、bout the result of the competition?A.They were satisfied. B.They were astonished. C.They were worried.8.What do the man and the woman disagree on?A.Whose speech was meaningful. B.Whose pronunciation was better. C.Whose speech was better.听第7段材料，回答第911小题。9.Whats the girls name?A.Sharon. B.Sherry. C.Su

5、san.10.What is the most possible relationship between the two speakers?A.Classmates. B.Students on the same campus（校园）. C.Student and teacher.11.In what field is the woman majoring?A.Engineering. B.Computer science. C.Education.听第8段材料,回答第1214小题。12.How much more will they pay for their telephone call

6、s than last month?A.More than 3 pounds. B.Less than 3 pounds. C.10 pounds.13.Who do you think Jack is?A.Their son. B.Their father. C.The mans secretary.14.Why did Jack make so many telephone calls to London?A.His father was in London. B.His girlfriend was in London. C.His grandfather was in London.听

7、第9段材料,回答第1517小题。15.Why doesnt the man want the tickets for the front seats?A.Because they cost too much. B.Because they are too close to the stage.C.Because there are not enough tickets left.16.When will the man go to the theatre?A.Saturday night, October 21st. B.Sunday night, October 21st. C.Saturd

8、ay night, October 1st.17.Where are the seats the man booked?A.In Row 4. B.In Row 18. C.In Row 5.听第10段材料,回答第1820小题。18.Where did Zhou Xing graduate from university?A.In America. B.In England. C.In China.19.Which of the following is RIGHT?A.Zhou Xing is poor in written English. B.Zhou Xing is working n

9、ow. C.Zhou Xing is still a student now.20.Which of the following is NOT one of his hobbies?A.Reading novels. B.Seeing films. C.Listening to music.第二部分 阅读理解（共15小题。每小题2分，满分30分）第一节：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。 AThomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age.Th

10、ere are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light.But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius.“ There is no such thing as genius,”Edison said.He said that what people called g

11、enius was mostly hard work.But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker.From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature.Nature, he often said,is full of secrets.He tried to understand them;then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.Edison enjoyed thinking

12、. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he

13、 also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “ Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.21.Which of the fol

14、lowing is NOT true according to the passage?A. Edison invented the electric light. B. Many other people have changed Edisons life.C. Edison has changed the life of many other people.D. Few men in history can change other peoples life.22.Edison thought .A.he could be happy if he was a genius B.genius

15、 plays the most important part in ones successC.hard work could do better than genius D.genius could do better than hard work23.Edison was .A.very much interested in nature B.interested in discovering the secrets of natureC.interested in changing peoples ideasD.uninterested in making people happier

16、by discovering the secrets of nature24.In Edisons opinion, .A.thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as helpB.peoples successs lies mostly in geniusC.hard work is the second important thing in making people successfulD.there are few secrets for him to discover later25The last

17、 sentence in the passage most probably implies .A.life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beingsB.Edison made 100 inventions in his lifeC.Edison was able to live and work for 100 years D.People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years workBThese are some signs that you c

18、an see on the roads of Great Britain.Number one is a sign with the number thirty on it. When drivers see this sign they must not go at more than thirty miles an hour.We see this sign when we get to parts of the country where there are many houses and other buildings, for example, when we are getting

19、 near a town. Thirty miles an hour is the speed limit. Number two is sign for the end of the speed limit.We are out of the town now and may go at more than thirty miles an hour.Number three is a sign that we are near a crossroads, that is, a place where two roads cross. We must drive carefully.Numbe

20、r four is a sign that there is a bend in the road. Again, we must drive slowly and carefully.Number five is a sign that there is a hill and number six is a sign that the roads get narrow.Drivers must go slowly and carefully.Number seven has the word “school” on it.This is a sign that there is a scho

21、ol at the side of the a street or road. Perhaps there are children going to school or leaving school. So drivers must look carefully and go slowly until they are past the school building.Number eight is a sign with the letter P on it. The letter P is for “parking.” A parking place is a place where d

22、rivers may leave their cars. If the driver of a car wants to leave his car and go to the shops, he looks for this sign. Then he knows that he may leave his or her car there.26.Who will most probably read the passage?A People who drive badly. B People who are learning to drive.C People who drive well

23、. D People who drive carelessly.27.When a driver sees the sign number one, he must .A. always go at 30 miles an hour B. go at more that 30 miles an hourC. not go at more than 30 miles an hour D. stop 28.A driver must drive carefully when he gets to .A. a bend B. a crossroads C. a narrow road D. all

24、of them29.If a driver wants to leaves his car and go to the shops, .A. he can leave his car anywhere B. he can leave his car at the gate of any shopC. he must look for the sign with the letter P on it D. he can leave his car at the side of the street.30. Now, youthree drivers are driving side by sid

25、e along the road, if you see the No. six sign, you have to _.A. drive along one after one because the road is not wide enoughB. drive more slowly because of the speed limitC. drive more carefully because school children maycrossthe roadD. drive slowly because you have got to drive uphillCOne night i

26、n February 1962, John H. Glenn. Jr., flew over Australia. The man in the Mercury(水星) capsule（宇宙飞行容器）was alone, but friendly voices reached him by radio. On the dark land 100 miles below, he saw a sprinkling of light. They marked the city of Perth, where people had turned on their lights as a greetin

27、g to him.In Friendship7, Glenn radioed, “ The lights show up very well. Thank for everybody for turning them on.” His capsule raced on to the east.During his three orbits（绕轨道而行） of the earth, Glenn could always reach one of eighteen tracking stations. Some of them were on ship at sea. Others were in

28、 the United States.Many of the stations had been built with the help of other countries.These countries allowed Americans to bring in radio equipment and set it up. Without the help of such lands as Nigeria（尼日利亚）, Zanzibar（尚巴西，坦桑尼亚领土的一部分）, and Mexico, there would have been breaks in the worldwide ra

29、dio network.John H. Glenn. Jr., was the first America to orbit the earth. For his flight, the tracking network（跟踪网络） covered 60,000 route miles. Five hundred men worked in the stations along the route. Since his flight, the network has grown. Today, it covers more than 100,000 route miles and has ab

30、out one hundred stations. One-third of these stations are outside of the United States.31.This passage is mainly about .A talking to ships at sea around the world B breaks in the worldwide networkC the first American to orbit the earth D a satellite which fell into the ocean32. From the passage we c

31、an see that . A. Friendship7 stopped in Perth, Australia B. all tracking stations are inside the United StatesC radio equipment is important in space flight D. many people could see Glenn in his capsule when he made the flight33. During his flight Glenn could always .A. see lights turned on on the g

32、round B. reach ships at seaC .reach one of the tracking stations D. arrive at Mercury in his Friendship734.Why did people in Perth turn on the lights?A. They wanted guide him to land. B .It was too dark for them to see in the room.C. They wanted to see the Friendship7. D. They wanted to greet Glenn.35.Which of the following is not true?A Countries must work together to track satellite