甘肃省兰州新区舟曲中学2020┄2021学年高二上学期第二次月考英语试题

本试卷分为第I卷，第Ⅱ卷和第Ⅲ卷三部分。满分150分，考试时间120分钟。

I．单项选择（每题1.5分，共10小题，满分15分）

（）1.Sometimes the same word has _____ meaning，which can be ________.

A．different slightly；confused B．slight different；confusing

C．slightly different；confusing D．different slight；confused

（）2._____ surprised us most was that with all his money, he _______ worry about a little thing like 5 cents.

A．It; could B．What; could C．What; should D．It; should

（）3. –Would you permit me ______here？

--Sorry, we don’t permit _____ here in the reading room.

A．smoking; smoking B．to smoke; to smoke

C．smoking; to smoke D．to smoke; smoking

（） 4. The teacher as well as the students who_____fond of football,_____ playing together. A．are; is B．are; are C．is; are D．is; is

（）5. You’d better take another flight to New York, for the AA 505 Flight ______ have been cancelled. But you should call the airport to make sure.

A．must B．might C．would D．should

（）6.-----You’re supposed to hand in the travel diary as soon as possible.

----I see. I’m going to______ until 11:30 p.m. once more.

A．cheer up B．put up C．turn up D. stay up.

（）7. Though difficult, I ________ him find a job, which made him very pleased.

A. tried to help

B. managed to help

C. tried helping

D. succeeded to help

（）8. You deserve a good rest _____ you’ve finished the work.

A．unless B．while C．now that D．even if

（）9. ---Would you like some fried rice？

---I would rather eat noodles _______ have fried rice.

A．that B．than C．what D．as

（）10. The notice came around two in the afternoon ________ the meeting would be postponed.

A. when

B. that

C. whether

D. how

Ⅱ.课文语法填空（共10小空，每小空1.5分。满分15分）

Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp 11. _______. She spent years observing and recording their daily activities. 12. _______ her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment. 13. _______, this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was 14. _______ for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first few months was 15. _______ allowed to begin her project. Her work 16. _______the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was 17. ______ chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps ate only fruit and nuts. She actually observed chimps as a group18. _____ a monkey and then eating it. She also discovered how chimps communicate 19. ______ each other, and her study of their body language helped her 20. ______ out their social system.

第Ⅱ卷

Ⅲ. 阅读理解（共两节，满分40）

第一节（共15小题，每题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Passage A

We’re one of the biggest ESL pro fessional organizations in Shanghai, China and we have 10 primary schools, 2 middle schools, and 5 kindergartens in Shanghai and 1 in Suzhou. For these schools, we only need oral English teachers.

We also own an international school whose name is Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary and Middle School. For this school, we need classroom teachers and subject teachers to teach Science, PE, and Music in English.

We prefer to hire experienced teachers with TESOL or Teacher’s Certificate. If you want to know more about us, please visit our website at .

●Dates and Durations

We need 1 teacher for every position as below:

1. Classroom Teacher Position in Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School （From

17th Feb 2009, 12 months）

2. Subject Teacher Position in Shanghai World Foreign Language Middle School （From 1st Sep 2009, 10 months）

3. Oral English teachers in Shanghai Changning Experimental Primary School （From 3rd March 2009, 3 months）

●Basic requirements for the Positions

1. Native English speakers for all of the above positions

2. Bachelor Degree at least （Position 1 and 2） with related teaching experience

3. TESOL or related certificate （Position 3）

●Working Conditions and Environment

The schools are the top schools in Shanghai with libraries and public computer rooms. Every teacher will have the office desk, free access to the Internet. We provide teaching materials and teaching guidelines.

●Salary, International Travel Allowance and Bonus

The salary ranges from 6,000 RMB to 10,000 RMB per month according to the position you apply for, which can ensure you have a comfortable life in Shanghai. We will offer you part or full international travel allowances depending on how long you will work for us. Generally, we will pay you a return ticket for one year contract.

（） 21. The ESL professional organization in Shanghai wants to take on_______. . A．some language teachers to work in Shanghai

B．some native English teachers to work in Suzhou

C．some language teachers to work in Suzhou

D．some native English teachers to work in Shanghai

（） 22. If you want to be hired as a classroom teacher by the above organization, you should________ .

A．speak several languages B．have Bachelor Degree

C．present good teaching plans D．know how to teach middle school students

（） 23. The passage is probably taken from a________ .

A．novel B．travel guide C．news report D．Website

Passage B

Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”

For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s

wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued（起诉） for her freedom.

While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.

Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants（后裔）. One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founders of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.

Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massac husetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part：“She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”

（） 24. What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1？

A．She was born a slave B．She was a slaveholder

C．She had a famous sister D．She was born into a rich family

（） 25.Why did Mumbet run away from the Ashleys？

A．She found an employer B．She wanted to be a lawyer

C．She was hit and got angry D．She had to take care of her sister

（） 26. What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new consititution？

A．She should always obey her owners’orders

B．She should be as free and equal as whites

C．How to be a good servant

D．How to apply for a job

（） 27.What did Mumbet do after the trial？

A．She chose to work for a lawyer B．She found the NAACP

C．She continued to serve the Ashleys D．She went to live with her grandchildren

（） 28.What is the test mainly about？

A．A story of a famous writer and spokesperson

B．The friendship between a lawyer and a slave

C．The life of a brave African American woman

D．A trial that shocked the whole world

Passage C

Several days ago, a Beijing-based IT company fired about 400 people overnight. No one had expected the job cuts, which broke with traditional ways of letting go of workers in China.

Moreover, what was special about this case was that the day before the 400 were fired, they all received from their boss a gift—the book “Who M oved My Cheese？”

The book—a bestseller in the US—is being used by men and women to deal with changes in their lives and work. Some large organizations, including Coca-Cola, Kodak and General Motors, ask their employees to read it in order to encourage them to be active towards changes.

Cheese is something related to everyone’s livelihood-Our jobs, the industries we work in, relationships and love as well.

With China’s official entry into the WTO, the whole nation will face up to more changes and challenges. So what we should do once this “cheese” on which we are so dependent is moved？

“Whatever challenges and changes we meet, we should face up to them bravely,” Jiang Hengwei, a civil servant said after reading the book.

Professor Zhang Yang in Renmin Univers ity of China agrees. “We should change our way of thinking. The coming competitive foreign companies and products provide us with great chances to learn from them and improve our own products to meet international standards and be more competitive.” “With hard work and wisdom, we will create a much larger and better piece of cheese.” Zhang smiled confidently.

（）29. The company in Beijing gave each of the 400 fired workers a copy of “Who Moved My Cheese”in order to_________.

A．be more competitive with foreign firms B．find an excuse for their job cuts

C．let the workers make a living on their own D．encourage the fired workers

（）30. The word “cheese” in the passage can refer to_________.

A．something we depend on B．a most important kind of food

C．challenges D．ways of life

（）31.From what Heng wei and Professor Zhang Yang said, we can know that their attitude towards the book is ________

A．negative B．supportive C skeptical D. sympathetic

Passage D

Astronomy is the oldest science known to man. Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about heavens. But the six planets that he could see with his eyes alone limited man.

The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago. They could see the size, color, and brightness of a star. They could see its place in the sky. They watched the stars move as he seasons changed. But the Greeks had no tools to help themselves study the heavens.

Each new tool added to the field of astronomy helped man reach out into space. Until there were telescopes, man did not know much about the moon. He did not know that the planet called Saturn （土星） had rings around it. His sight was so limited that he could not see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were only six planets. Pluto （冥王星）, the last of the nine planets to be discovered was seen until 1930.

Before the spectroscopes （分光镜）, man didn’t know what kind of gas was in the sun or other stars, without radio telescopes （射电望远镜）, we did not know that radio noise came from far in space.

Today, astronomy is a growing science. We have learned more in the past fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.

（）32. Thousands of years ago, people observed the stars with the limitation of their ____. A．eyesight B．land C．wealth D．knowledge

（）33. When the Greeks watched the stars, they could ____ .

A. know what the stars were made of

B. not see their places in the sky

C. watch the stars move as the seasons changed

D. help themselves study the heavens

（）34. Which of the following sentences is NOT true？

A．Astronomy is the oldest science that humans have known.

B．Astronomy is developing fast with the help of technology.

C．In the early 1700s, people didn’t know the existence of Neptune.

D．Over 2,000 years ago, the Greeks knew the planet Saturn had rings around it.

（）35. This passage mainly talks about _____.

A．tools used in astronomy

B．the development of astronomy in the last 50 years

C．Greeks’ achievements in astronomy

D．new tools and the development of astronomy

第二节（共5个小题，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。

36. ____You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessarily so, however. Anyone can become a better student if he or she wants to. Here’s how.

Plan your time carefully. When planning your work, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a schedule of your time. First your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide a good, regular time for studying. 37.____ A weekly schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you realize what is happening to your time.

Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No games, radios, or television. When you sit down to study, concentrate on the subject.

Make good use of your time in class. 38.____. Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes. Review the important points that your teacher has mentioned in class. If you know what your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material. 39._____ If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you’ll remember it longer.

Develop a good attitude towards tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember your new knowledge. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t be over worried.

40.___ .You will probably discover them after you have tried these.

A．There are other methods that might help you with your studying.

B．Don’t forget to set aside enough time for entertainment.

C．Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teacher says.

D．No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard.

E. Maybe you are an average student.

F. Make full use of class time to take notes of what the teacher says in class.

G. This will help you understand the next class.

Ⅳ.完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled （铺瓦的） ceiling and concentrating on the space

tiles in your life that are not missing.

leads to people becoming unhappy.

to make.