湖北省黄陂一中学年高二上学期月考英语试题.docx

1、湖北省黄陂一中学年高二上学期月考英语试题黄陂一中2017届高二年级12月月考英语试卷命题教师：高二英语组 审题教师：黄凯 本试卷共8页。全卷满分150分。考试用时120分钟。本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束后，只需将答题卡交回。第卷注意事项：1. 答第卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。2. 选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。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

2、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. Why doesnt the man open the door?A. He hasnt got the key. B. He has got a wrong key. C. The key doesnt work.2. What relation is the woman to Tom? A. His manager. B. His colleague. C. His girlfriend.3. What are the speakers main

3、ly doing? A. Having a party. B. Shopping. C. Cooking.4. What does the woman advise the man to do in the end? A. Wait for her in a park. B. Take a walk alone. C. Wait until she finishes a letter.5. What is the woman going to do? A. Go to a party. B. See a doctor. C. Look after her children. 第二节（共15小题

4、；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题。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。听每段对话或独白前，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，每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题.6. What is the woman thinking about? A. The English class. B. The exams. C. The coming holiday.7. What makes the man change his mind? A. He thinks hik

5、ing is tiring. B. He wants to be with the woman. C. He wants to keep away from the cold weather. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。8. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Classmates. B. Workmates. C. Club members.9. Why didnt the woman receive the mans e-mail? A. She changed her e-mail address. B. There

6、was a computer problem. C. He sent it to someone else by mistake.10. What did the woman do last Saturday? A. She attended a party. B. She went on a bike trip. C. She took part in a meeting.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题.11. When does the conversation take place? A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the e

7、vening.12. What did Peter think of poems? A. They are fun to read and easy to write. B. They are boring to read and hard to write. C. They are fun to read but difficult to write.13. What did the woman do when Peter was little? A. She read nursery rhymes to him. B. She asked him to recite poems. C. S

8、he taught him how to read poems. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题.14. What does the man think of the Science Club? A. It is funny. B. It is attractive C. It is not enjoyable.15. Why do so many students like joining the Drama Club? A. To develop their talent in drama. B. To perform another person. C. To be outstandi

9、ng on campus.16. What do we know about the man? A. He hates drama. B. He is a drama star. C. He is handsome 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题.17. Where do children play games after school? A. At home. B. On the street corner. C. At school18. What do old people do after breakfast? A. Read newspapers. B. Watch TV at

10、home. C. Go to car races. 19. How do young people go on outings at the weekends? A. By bike. B. By car. C. By train.20. What does the speaker mainly talk about? A. Living in Australia. B. Australians live a busy life. C. Different ways of enjoyment for Australians. 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

11、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。A Carmen Herrera: “Every painting has been a fight between the painting and me. I tend to win. But you know how many paintings I threw in the garbage? I wouldnt have anything were it not for my husband. He didnt have a hand in anything? But no,

12、 they say that behind every great man there is always a woman. Well, behind a great woman there is always a man. You need it, I was very lucky. You dont decide to be an artist; art gets inside of you. Before you know you are painting, you are so surprised. Its like falling in love.” Born in Cuba in

13、1915, Carmen Herrera lived in New York and Paris and eventually settled in New York where she lived till now. Through the years, she worked quietly and created a huge quantity of paintings. While living in New York in the 1950s, she made reductive, hard-edged abstractions that predate(早于) the works

14、of artists such as Lygia Clark in Brazil and Ellsworth Kelly in the US. Her works also proved her foresight as Minimalism and Op Art took hold in the 1960s, and with later developments in the works of American painters such as Brice Marden Agnes Martin, both of whom are represented in the collection

15、. It wasnt until 2004, at the age of 89, that Carmen Herrera sold her first painting; like many women artists of her generation, her works were overlooked despite her friendships and associations with great male artists like Barnett Newman. Now, however, the artist and her works are now receiving mu

16、ch- deserved attention in and beyond the US. Herreras paintings have entered the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Tate Modern; the Walkers acquisition is special in that.21. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? A. Carmen is addicted to drawin

17、g. B. Carmens husband objects to her drawing. C. Its easy for Carmen to be famous. D. Carmen sold her first picture at $1,000.22.What does the underlined sentence mean in paragraph 1? A. Carmen is successful finally. B. Carmen has sold her first painting. C. Carmen has a good husband supporting her.

18、 D. Carmen thinks she has a gift for drawing.23. What is the key to Carmens success? A. Kindness B. Love for family C. Passion D. The museums helpB Since 1984, Philadelphia has been cleaning up its act. One by one, graffiti-covered walls are being changed into outdoor art. So far, more than 1,800 mu

19、rals（壁画）have been painted. Philadelphia now has more murals than any other American city. The walls that were once ugly with graffiti（涂鸦）are now covered with beautiful pictures of historical heroes and modern art, thanks to the Mural Arts Program (MAP). Its work makes schools and public places attra

20、ctive, and its citizens very proud. The program began as part of Philadelphias Anti-Graffiti Network. Jane Golden is the MAPs artistic director. When people ask me what our program is about, she says, I answer them with one word: hope. Each year, the MAP offers youth art programs and workshops. Some

21、 one-time graffiti writers even help paint MAP murals. The MAPs work, says Golden, is all about developing a sense of community（社区）When a neighborhood requests a mural, the MAP works with the people there to develop a message. Some messages have been Safe Streets, Love and Care, and Peace Walk. The

22、MAP receives up to 50 requests for murals each week. Last year, the workers painted 140 murals. The making of a mural enters peoples collective memory as an extraordinary, pleasant moment in neighborhood history. says Golden, who began as a muralist in Los Angeles.24. What is the Mural Arts Program

23、in Philadelphia aimed at? A. Helping the young find jobs. B. Protecting the neighborhood. C. Fighting against graffiti. D. Attracting more visitors.25How does the MAP decide on the message for a mural? A. By having discussions with people in the community. B. By seeking advice from the city governme

24、nt. C. By learning from the young graffiti writers. D. By studying the history of the city.26. Which of the following words best describes the work of the MAP?A. Difficult. B. Dangerous. C. Experimental D. Successful.27What can be the best title for the text? A. Love, from Graffiti Writers to Murali

25、sts B. MAP, a New Company in Philadelphia C. Jane, an Excellent Mural ArtistD. Hope, One Wall at a TimeC Many people believe that teaching children music makes them smarter, better able to learn new things. But the organizers of a new study say theres no scientific evidence that early musical traini

26、ng affects the intelligence of young people. An estimated 80 percent of American adults think music lessons improve childrens ability to learn or their performance in school. They say that the satisfaction for learning to play a new song helps a child express creativity. Researchers at Harvard Unive

27、rsity, however, have found that theres one thing musical training does not do. They say it does not make children more intelligent. Samuel Mehr is a graduate student at Harvards School of Education. He said it is wrong to think that learning to play a musical instrument improves a childs intellectua

28、l development. He says the evidence comes from studies that measured the mental ability of two groups of 4-year-olds and their parents. One group attended music class, the other went to a class that places importance on the visual artsarts that can be seen. The evidence there is no. We found no evid

29、ence for any advantage on any of these tests for the kids participating in these music classes, said Mehr. Samuel Mehr says researchers have carried out many studies in an effort to learn whether musical training can make children smarter. He says the results have been mixed. He says only one study

30、seems to show a small percentage increase in IQ, intellectual scores among students after one year of music lessons. He does not believe that IQ is a good measure of childs intelligence. He says researchers in his study compared how well children in the musical training group did on mental processin

31、g tasks or projects, then the results were compared to those of children who did not take lessons. There was no evidence that the musical training group did much better on the mental tasks than the other group. The researchers confirmed the results with a larger group of children and their parents.

32、Mr Mehr says music lessons may not offer children a fast easy way to gain entry to the best schools later of their life. But he says the training is still important for cultural reasons. In his words, We teach music because music is important for us.28. According to the new study, musical training_. Amakes childre