高二英语下学期第二次月考试题解析版

河南省平顶山市郏县第一高级中学2017-2018学年高二下学期第二次月考英语试题第一部分听力理解（略）第二部分阅读理解（百强校英语解析团队专供）（共2节，满分40分）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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。

ADuolingoCost: FreeThis language learning app offers courses in Spanish, French, Italian, Ger man and Portuguese. And it’s not all about reading and writing—it uses the phone’s microphone to test users’ pronunciation skills as well.LumosityCost: Free trial; $14 per month.Lumosity aims to improve user’s thinking abilities by using simple games an d tests that adapt to users’ cognitive.（认知的）levels to improve their memory and attention. The company says no two users will have the same experience. More than 18 million people have downloaded it.Daily artCost: FreeEach day the app presents a different-classic painting from storied artists such as Vincent Van Vogh and Monet. Even if you have known work, you may not know all the fascinating detailsthe app serves up on the back story of the art.Cost: $2.99 per month.Never again get embarrassed using the wrong word at a dinner party with this app. It has more than 120,000 questions that can help you learn over 12,000 words. Users can even battle their friends to see who the biggest word master is.Today’s documentsCost: Free.The U.S. National, Archives manages this educational app, which serves up a historical document or photo each day of the year. Past documents include everything from a letter by Woodrow Wilson creating Mother’s Day to a photo of Gerald Ford as a baby.1. Where must these apps mentioned in the passage be used?/A. On the computer.B. In the movie.C. In the car.D. On the phone.2. What can we know about the app Lumosity?A. It provides the same text.B. It can solve mental problems.C. It is very popular.D. It’s totally free.3. How much should you pay per year for using the app to learn words?A. $2.99.B. $14.C. $35.88.D. $168.4. Which would you download if you’d like to know more about the past?A. Today’s documents.B. .C. Duolingo.D. Daily art.【答案】1. D 2. C 3. C 4. A【解析】本文是一篇说明文。

文章主要对几个软件进行介绍。

1. 细节理解题，根据句子it uses the phone's microphone；More than 18 millio n people have downloaded it；等可以推测这些软件都必须在手机上使用，故答案为D。

2. 推理判断题，根据句子More than 18 millio n people have downloaded it可以推测，Lumosity很受人们的欢迎，故答案为C。

3. 细节理解题，根据 that can help you learn over 12，000 words 可知学习单词应使用Vocabulary．com，其收费为每个月﹩2.99，因此一年的收费为2.99*12=35.88。

故C正确。

..............................BAlmost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia.The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transp ort didn’t become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around. But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smoothsurfaces, roads wi th smooth surfaces weren’t going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand of them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modern road design.In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of road—a base layer of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At round the same time, metal hubs (the central part of a wheel) came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre（充气轮胎）in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads（柏油路）. As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster.5. What might explain why transport wheel didn’t become popular for some time?A. Few knew how to use transport wheels.B. Humans carried farming tools just as well.C. Animals were a good means of transport.D. The existence of transport wheels was not known.6. What do we know about road design from the passage?A. It was easier than wheel design.B. It imported after big changes in vehicle design.C. It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles.D. It provided conditions for wheel design to develop.7. How is the last paragraph mainly developed?A. By giving examples.B. By making comparisons.C. By following time order.D. By making classifications.8. What is the passage mainly about?A. The beginning of road design.B. The development of transport wheels.C. The history of public transport.D. The invention of fast-moving vehicles.【答案】5. C 6. D 7. C 8. B【解析】5. 推理判断题。