安徽省舒城县千人桥中学20162017学年高二英语12月月考试卷

千人桥中学高二年级12月份月考英语试卷第一部分听力（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.Who is the man talking about?A.His girlfriend.B. His sister.C.His mother.2.What are they talking about?A.A traffic accident.B.A fire.C. A crime.3. Where does the conversation most likely take place?A. At a bookshop.B. At a kitchen.C. At a bank.4. Who was injured?A. GeorgeB. George’s wifeC. George’s wife’s father.5. What do we learn from the conversation?A. Tony could not continue the experiment.B. Tony finished the experiment last night..C. Tony will go on with his experiment..第二节（共15小题；每题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，每小题将给出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. Where does this conversation most likely take place?A.In the street.B. At the woman’s home.C.Over the phone.7. What is the woman going to do tonight?A. Help her sister with English.B. Meet her friend at the station.C. Go on an exhibition with her parents.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. When will the football competition end?A. On August 17.B. On August20.C. On August25.9. What do we know about the two speakers?A. They will both enter the competition.B. They both work hard at their lessons.C. They both enjoy swimming.10. Where will the football competition be held?A. In the city’s stadium.B. In the speaker’s school.C. In the park.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What probably is the woman?A. A driver.B. A teacher.C. A reporter.12. How long does it take the man to go to school by bike?A. About one hour.B. Half an hour.C. Fifteen minutes.13. What does the man think of the traffic in the city?A. Excellent.B. Terrible.C. Normal.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. How does the woman feel at the beginning of the conversation?A. Angry.B. Surprised.C. Sad.15. What size bag does the woman want?A. A 24-inch bag.B. A 29-inch bag.C. A 32-inch bag.16. When will the woman leave for Mexico?A. On Thursday.B. On FridayC. On Saturday .17. Where does the man work?A. At a mail order company.B. At an international travel service .C. At the airport information desk.听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Why did the man decide to leave the college in his second term?A. He didn’t like the big lecture classesB. He couldn’t afford further education.C. He was not interested in education.19. What does he think of his work experiences?A. They were personally rewarding.B. They should be part of school life.C. They gave him a chance to learn German.20. Where is the university he decides to go to in the end?A. In South Carolina.B. In Florida.C. In Ohio.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分，满分30分）AYears ago, many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cage . Small cages made it easy for people to see the animals, but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages. The cages are very big and open. They usually have plants and a little lake. The cages look like the animals’ habitats.Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals in the zoo and they protect animals in the wild. How do they do this? Zoos teach people how animals live in the wild. Zoos want people to help protect the animals’ wild habitats.Many plants and animals are going extinct. Mammoths, which are related with Asia elephants, arc now extinct. There are no mammoths in the world today. Scientists say that seventy-four different kinds of living things go extinct every day! Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.21. Zoos kept animals in small cages so that people can_______.A. protect themB. see them betterC. feed themD. save them22.Today, zoos keep animals_______.A. in bigger cagesB. in the wildC. in smaller cagesD. in the field23. A mammoth is a kind of _______ that has gone extinct.A. plantB. birdC. animalD. tree24. To protect animals, zoos_______.A. are trying to keep all kinds ofanimalsB. are trying to free the animalsC. teach people more aboutanimalsD. want people to feed the animalsBSingapore: A Fine CitySingapore welcomes tourists. When you come to visit Singapore, please keep the laws of this country. Here are some points that you must remember.SMOKING: Cigarette smoking is a danger to health. It is not allowed in lifts, cinemas, theaters, all government offices and on buses. If you break it, you have to pay fines of up to $ 1,000.LITTER: Singapore is the Garden City of Asia---clean and green. Dropping litter in public places is not allowed. You can be fined up to $ 500 for dropping litter ---even if it is only a piece of waste paper or a cigarette end.EATING OR DRINKING: In Singapore, when you take a subway or a bus, you are not supposed to eat or drink anything, or you'll be fined up to $ 500.RIDING: When you ride a bike across an underpass, please push your bike across the underpass, or you have to pay $ 1,000 for riding your bike.JAYWALKING*: You must always use the pedestrian crossing. You can be fined $ 50 for crossing the street less than 50 meters from a crossing. These laws are also for千中高二月考英语第2页 (共8页)children who are old enough to be in the street on their own.25.When you come to visit Singapore，you should remember to ___________.A. go shoppingB. keep the law of this countryC. go sightseeingD. visit some fantastic sights26.Singapore is a city with _________ according to the passage.A. cigarettesB. green plantsC. litterD. bikes27.What will happen if you drop a piece of waste paper in Singapore?A. You have to pick it up.B. You have to sweep the street.千中高二月考英语第3页 (共8页)C. You will be fined up to$500D. You will be told not to do it again.CTsunami is a natural disaster, which is a Japanese word that m eans“sea wave”.A tsunami is a huge sea wave that forms mainly in the Pacific Ocean area. People die and property is destroyed when a tsunami hits land. What causes these dangerous sea waves? Sometimes, tsunamis are caused when earthquakes take place underwater. Then, water begins to move up and down from the top of the ocean right down to the bottom. Waves begin to form, and each wave is called a tsunami.A tsunami is less than one meter high and can move at a speed of almost 800 kilometers per hour while it is far out in the ocean. But the tsunami rises much higher and moves more slowly as it comes closer to land.The weather bureau(气象局)warns people over the radio and television when a tsunami is heading for land. These warnings have helped save many lives.28.The Japanese word“tsunami” means.A. earthquakeB. sea waveC. ocean waterD. tornado（龙卷风）29.According to the passage ,a tsunami can be caused by .A. an underwater earthquakeB. heavy rainsC. waves hitting landD. tornado30.As the tsunami moves toward land, it .A. picks up more speedB. becomes far less dangerousC. rises higher and higherD. rises lower and lower31.According to this passage, .A. a tsunami can’t cause lots of troubleB. people can save their lives when a tsunami is comingC. the warning from the weather bureau can help people save their livesD. no one can escape when a tsunami is comingDNo one is sure how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids near Cairo. But a new study suggests they used a little rock 'n' roll. Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled them across the sand, the scientists say."Technically, I think what they're proposing is possible," physicist Daniel Bonn said.People have long puzzled over how the Egyptians moved such huge rocks. And there's no obvious answer. On average, each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck. The Egyptians somehow moved the stone blocks to the pyramid site from about one kilometer away.The most popular view is that Egyptian workers slid the blocks along smooth paths. Many scientists suspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds(滑板). Then they would have dragged them along paths. To make the work easier, workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or with the fat from cattle. Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects over sand.Evidence from the sand supports this idea. Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.However, physicist Joseph West thinks there might have been a simpler way, who led the new study. West said, "I was inspired while watching a television program showing how sleds might have helped with pyramid construction. I thought, 'Why don't they just try rolling the things?'" A square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides, he realized. That, he notes, should make a block of stone "a lot easier to roll than a square".So he tried it.He and his students tied some poles to each of four sides of a 30-kilogram stone block. That action turned the block into somewhat a wheel. Then they placed the block on the ground.They wrapped one end of a rope around the block and pulled. The researchers found they could easily roll the block along different kinds of paths. They calculated that rolling the block required about as much force as moving it along a slippery path.West hasn't tested his idea on larger blocks, but he thinks rolling has clear advantages over sliding. At least, workers wouldn't have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.32. It's widely believed that the stone blocks were moved to the pyramid site by ________.A. rolling them on roadsB. pushing them over the sandC. sliding them on smooth pathsD. dragging them on some poles33. The underlined part "lubricated the paths" in Paragraph 4 means ________.A. made the paths wetB. made the paths hardC. made the paths wideD. made the paths slippery34.Why is rolling better than sliding according to West?A. Because more force is needed for sliding.B. Because less preparation on paths is needed forrolling.C. Because sliding on smooth roads is more dangerous.D. Because rolling work can be done by fewer cattle.35.What is the text mainly about?A. An introduction to a possible new way of moving blocks to thepyramid site.B. An application of the method of moving blocks to the pyramid site.C. An argument about different methods of moving blocks to thepyramid site.D. An experiment on ways of moving blocks to the pyramid site.第二节（共5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填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。