高二上学期英语第一次月考试卷第21套真题

高二上学期英语第一次月考试卷

一、阅读理解

1. 阅读理解

My son was a second-grader. He went to school by bus every day. He was the first student on in the morning, as we were farthest from school, and the last student off in the evening. I was a teacher myself and it was a comfort to realize the school staff were all working as hard as I was to provide a safe learning environment.

One day I came home from work and waited for my s on to get home for a long time. Then I called the school. “Perhaps he’s just a bit late,” said the se cretary. “I will call the driver to see if those children are home.” A few minutes later, I answered the phone to hear that the other students were home. Then I called his friends’ parents, to see if perhaps he had gotten off at their stop to play. The ans wers were all “No.”

By that time, it was dark and I was scared. My home was in the mountain areas, and it was said that a wolf had come up somewhere. My husband wasn’t at home, so I forced myself to calm down and decided to go out to look for him. I was about to go out when the telephone rang; it was from the driver. “He’s okay,” I heard. “He was asleep on the seats in the back, under a couple of jackets. Since it’s dark, can he spend the night with my family?”

I was relieved and agreed. Since my son had a great adventure, the school

started giving a copy of the list to the driver, so he could check off the children’s names when they got off the bus. I think highly of the school for taking the cautionary step ahead; it is a sign of their concern for students, parents, and staff.

（1）From Paragraph 1 we learn that ________.

A . the author’s son went home by bus every after-noon

B . the author’s son came to school earlier than other students

C . the author’s home was farther than that of any other student

D . the author was a teacher in her son’s primary school

（2）At first the secretary thought ________.

A . the author’s son was still at school

B . the school bus would arrive in a while

C . the author’s son was at his friend’s home

D . there might be something wrong with the school bus

（3）T he author’s son probably spent the night _________.

A . in the bus

B . at his own home

C . at the driver’s home

D . in the secretary’s office

（4）The author wrote the text to ________.

A . praise the school for its quick action

B . thank the bus driver for his kindness

C . complain about the secretary of the school

D . show her concern for kids safety

2. 阅读理解

Tourism wasn’t as important as it is today. In the past, only people with a good deal of money could travel on holidays to other countries. More people

travel today than in the past because there is a growing middle class in many parts of the world; that is to say, people now have more money for travel. Special plane fares for tourists make travel less expensive and more attractive than ever before. One perso n doesn’t travel for the same reason as another. But most people enjoy seeing countries that are different from their own. They also like to meet new people and to taste new food.

Tourism causes many changes in a country and in people’s lives. People build new hotels and restaurants and train native men and women as guides to show visitors interesting places. There’re new nightclubs and other amusements. International tourism is clearly a big business.

（1）More people travel today than in the past because______________.

A . people have become interested in traveling

B . traveling today is easier than in the past

C . people now have spare money for travel

D . great changes have taken place in the world

（2）What makes travel more attractive than before?

A . Travel by air to other countries is much cheaper today.

B . More guides are being trained to show beautiful spots.

C . Modern telegraph lines make travel less expensive.

D . New hotels and restaurants have been built.

（3）Which of the following statements is true according to the article?

A . Tourism won’t bring any changes in people’s minds.

B . People have some trouble in making journey.

C . With the development of tourism, great changes have taken place in many parts in the world.

D . Tourism causes only some changes in clothing.

（4）What is the best title of the passage?

A . The Change of Tourism

B . Tourism

C . The Importance of Tourism

D . The Cause of Tourism Change

3. 阅读理解

Hundreds of years ago, a Roman army came north from England to make war on Scotland. The Scots, a brave people, love their country. They fought hard to drive the enemy out of Scotland. But there were too many of the Romans. It looked as if the Romans would win.

One night, the leader of the Scots marched his soldiers to the top of a hill. “We will rest here tonight, my men,” he said, “Tomorrow we will fight one more battle. We must win, or we will die.”

They were all very tired. So they ate their supper quickly and fell asleep. There were four guards on duty, but they were very tired, too, and one by one, they fell asleep.

The Romans were not asleep. Quickly they gathered at the foot of the hill. Slowly they went up the hill. Closer they came to the sleeping Scots. They were almost at the top. A few minutes more the war would be over. Suddenly, one of them put his foot on a thistle . He cried out and his sudden cry woke the Scots. In a minute they were on their feet and ready for a battle. The fighting was hard, but it did not last long. The Scots wiped out the Romans and saved Scotland.

The thistle is not a beautiful plant. It has sharp needles all over it. Few people liked it. But the people of Scotland liked it so much that they made it

their national flower.

（1）Hundreds of years ago, the Romans ____ .

A . came from the north through England to make war on Scotland

B . came to the north Scotland from England to make war on Scotland

C . came from the north of England to fight the Scots

D . came to the north from the south of Britain to fight the Scots

（2）At the shout of a Roman soldier, all the Scots who were asleep at the hill ____ .

A . began to fight the Romans hard

B . stood up without putting on their shoes and began to fight

C . woke and rose immediately, ready to fight

D . put their feet into their shoes at once and were ready to fight

（3）The result of the war is that ____ .

A . the Romans killed all the Scots

B . the Scots were defeated

C . the Scots were driven out of Scotland

D . the Scots defeated the Romans

（4）The Scots made thistle their national flower because thistle ____ .

A . is lovely, though not beautiful

B . gave them happiness

C . is a kind of useful plant

D . helped the Scots in wiping out the Romans

4. 阅读理解

Larry Bird was born in 1965 in a small town in the Middle Western State of Indiana. He was tall, and good at playing basketball. He attended Indiana State University. Bird led the team into the College Basketball Championship Game.

After completing his college studies, Larry Bird began playing professional basketball for the Boston Celtics. He remained with the Celtics for

all his professional career. During those 13 years, Larry Bird was named the Most Valuable Player of the Year three times. He scored more than 21, 000 points, and he played in 13 of the highest scoring games in his team’s history. Once he scored 60 points in just one game.

During his very successful basketball career, Larry Bird suffered a number of injuries. In 1989, he stopped playing because of pain in his feet. He returned in 1990, but the pain in his feet returned too. In the next two years he experienced more medical problems, and he missed many games.

Larry Bird did play on the Dream Team－the first Olympic Team with professional players. However, after winning the gold medal in Barcelona, he announced that he would retire from professional basketball. Larry Bird said he would have liked to play a little longer, but he could not because of his health problems. He also said it was a good time to leave the game. He wanted to be remembered as a winner.

（1）The underlined word “scored” in the second paragraph means ________.

A . lost

B . made

C . got

D . wrote

（2）When he returned to his team in 1990, ________.

A . he still had a lot of medical problems caused by the previous（先前的）injuries

B . he played in all the following games for his team

C . he had recovered from a number of injuries

D . He didn’t play for his team any more （3）Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A . Larry Bird began his career after his graduation from the college.

B . He

lost interest in playing basketball after he retired.C . Though he left the team, he didn’t feel too much regret.D . He thought it a right decision to leave the team.

二、任务型阅读

5. 任务型阅读

Are you simply moving through your day without fully living? I think many of us have done this. Everyone wants to fully live every day. ________So I’ve decided to share with you some ways to help you en joy every moment.

Sit in the morning. When you wake up, in the quiet of the morning, sit on the floor. I often use this opportunity to stretch . ________I also just sit, and focus on my breathing going in and out.

________I like to take breaks from work, and go outside for a slow walk. Pay attention to your breathing, to everything around you, to the sounds and light of objects.

Read in silence. Find a quiet time, and a quiet place, and read a good novel. Have no television or computers on nearby. And just put yourself in the world of the novel. It might seem difficult to let your mind move from the present into the time of the novel, but it’s a great practice in focus. ________ ________Each day, find someone you care about and be grateful for his existence. If you want, you can tell that person how thankful you are to him.

A. Walk slowly.

B. Work with focus.

C. Look at someone in a grateful way.

D. But this is easier said than done.

E. I feel every muscle in my body.

F. It’s a way of building something good into your life.

G. Also, I love a good novel more than almost anything else.

三、完形填空

6. 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C、D中四个选项，选出最佳选项。

After 22 years of marriage, I have discovered the secret to keep love alive in my relationship with my wife, Peggy. I started dating another woman.

One day Peggy said to me, “Life is too 1, you need to spend time with the people you love. You probably won’t believe me, but I know you love h er and I think that if the two of you spend more time together, it will make us2.

The “other” woman my wife was encouraging me to3is my mother, a 72-year-old widow who has lived alone since my father 420 years ago. Right after his death, I52,500 miles away to California and started my own life and career. When I moved back near my hometown six years ago, I promised myself that I would spend more time with mom. But with the 6of my job and three kids, I never got around to seeing her much 7family get-togethers and holidays.

Mom was 8and suspicious when I called and suggested the two of us go out to dinner and a movie.

We didn’t go anywhere 9, just a neighborhood place where we could talk. 10her eyes now see only large shapes and shadows, I had to read the

menu for both of us.

“I used to be the 11when you were little,” she said.

“Then it is time for you to relax and let me 12the favor,” I said.

We had a nice talk 13dinner, just catching up on each other’s lives. We talked for so long that we 14the movie.

“15was your date?” my wife asked when I got home that evening.

Nice...nicer than I thought it would be,’ I said.

Mom and I get out for16a couple of times a month. Sometimes we take in a movie, but 17we talk. Through the talks, I know what it was like for her to work in a factory during the Second World War. I know how she met my father there, and know how they 18the difficult times. I can’t get enough of these stories. They are 19to me, a part of my history.

Peggy was right. Dating another woman has20my marriage.

（1）A . easyB . difficultC . shortD . hard（2）A . closerB . longerC . happierD . easier（3）A . dateB . pleaseC . meetD . consult（4）A . passe outB . passed byC . passed downD . passed away（5）A . wentB . droveC . movedD . removed（6）A . pressureB . developmentC . demandD . loss（7）A . beyondB . withC . duringD . on（8）A . excitedB . annoyedC . delightedD . surprised（9）A . ordinaryB . fancyC . plainD . common（10）A . SinceB . WhenC . ifD . unless（11）A . workerB . waitressC . readerD . owner（12）A . awardB . returnC . turnD . answer（13）A . overB . withC . onD . across（14）A . forgotB . refusedC . missedD . abandoned（15）A . WhatB . WhoC . whereD . How（16）A . talkB . movieC . walkD . dinner（17）A . finallyB . merelyC . mostlyD . especially（18）A . went

throughB . got throughC . looked throughD . saw through（19）A . friendlyB . kindC . loyalD . important（20）A . ruinedB . damagedC . helpedD . affected四、语法填空

7. 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入适当的词（不超过三个）或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

The Internet has become part of young people’s l ife. ________report shows that 38% of students often use the Internet. Most of them get ________ information on the Internet and use the Internet ________ in their studies. But many students don’t use it ________a good way. Some play games too much, some v isit websites that ________shouldn’t look at. So bad things may happen ________students spend too much time on the Internet.

________is important for students to use the Internet properly. Now we have a textbook, ________uses many examples to teach students some good ways to use ________Internet. It gives useful advice.

Some students also make friends on the Internet. But if you want to have a face-to-face meeting ________your online friends, let your parents know and meet in a proper place.

五、短文改错

8. 文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2）只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Yang Li, a five-year-old girl living next door to me, very clever. Because

she is not old enough to go to the school, she often asks me to teach herself to read, write and draw. She studies hardly and soon she learns a lot. One evening last month I was doing my English homeworks when she came to my house. She asked me how I learned English. “You would find English a bridge for so much knowledge,” I said. She then wanted t o learn English, either. She has learned many English words so far but her parents are very grateful to me.

六、书面表达

9. 假设你是新华中学的学生刘超,德国一所学校将于今年暑假组织学生来你校访问。其间,将借住你家。请你代表全家写信给Roger欢迎他的到来,并告知有关事宜。信的要点如下

1）房间已经准备好,方便舒适

2）活动丰富:参观学校、游览市区、品本地美食

3）表达期待

注意:1）词数:100左右2）可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯

参考词汇:安排arrange