高二英语下学期第一次月考复习练习

高二英语下学期第一次月考复习练习

一、阅读理解：

A

Do you want to travel to the New England Aquarium and experience it? If you are an aquarium super fan, I believe you must be interested in some information below.

Animal Encounter Programs

Dive into the water with a seal. Stand on top of the four storey Giant Ocean Tank to feed the animals. Go behind the scenes of your favorite exhibits. Whether you have an unquenchable curiosity about oceanic animals or you want a brand-new observation on popular exhibits, fascinating Animal Encounter Programs are designed for the Aquarium super fans. Call Central Reservations at 617-973-5206 to book your program.

Daily Performances

Don’t miss a day in the life of the Ne w England Aquarium. Be sure to catch our daily events, which include penguin feedings, seal training sessions, dives in the Giant Ocean Tank and live animal performances. Our daily schedule will tell you when and where to watch your favorite program. All programs are included with admission.

Special Programs

Join us for family activities at the Aquarium, where we explore the blue planet most days through art, animals and other activities. We focus on one animal every month with Blue Discoveries Family Day, from octopuses to whales. These activities are included with admission. For a fee, schools and other qualifying groups can also choose Explorer Classes for kids and special 3-D showings.

Virtual Tours and Videos

Before stepping foot in the Aquarium, explore some of our special exhibits and learn what to expect. Check out the Field Trip Orientation video before arriving with your group. The How to Be a Shark and Ray Whisperer video gives special instructions on how to best experience our shark and ray touch tank. The Blue Impact virtual tour highlights some of our exhibits as it explains the impact of climate change on oceans around the world. 1．Where is this text probably taken from?

A．A magazine. B．A guidebook.

C．A textbook. D．An academic article.

2．Which activity is NOT included with admission?

A．Penguin feedings. B．Seal training sessions.

C．live animal performances. D．Explorer Classes.

3．What’s the purpose of Virtual Tours and Videos?

A．To help visitors best experience the aquarium.

B．To draw attention to climate change on oceans.

C．To sell video disks of the aquarium to the visitors.

D．To give instructions on how to protect oceanic animals.

B

Anyone interested in easy ways to make a positive impact on their communities needs to lookno further than 12-year-old Danykah: Muck, a Michigan middle-schooler whose simple learning project is an inspiration to positive thinkers of any age. It all started with her way to school every school day. Every morning she would greet an old man in her neighborhood, who she still doesn't know his name, smiling or even simply offering a friendly word “hello”. And he would always nodand smile back. “It seems to considerably change the emotional energy around me in the community.”She noticed this in both directions, “That simple act can both change our entire day with how they greet me.”

Last spring, Muck brought an idea to her teachers. She provided them with a pile of sticky notes she had filled with brief-sometimes one-word-positive messages. She then asked the teachers to place the notes on students' desks before they arrived at school the next day. She also gave pre-filled sticky notes to the lunch staff and to school administrators including the principal. The idea was to make it easy for teachers, staff and students to regularly encounter reminders that they matter and are valued. “You are enough just being you,” reads one favorite note. Muck's idea could be just the thing in an office, an assisted living facility or even at home for asmall family.

“Low-cost” positive interact ions, like a friendly word offered to the postal worker or coffee shop servant, are shown by psychology researchers to build sympathy and abate loneliness. Ananonymous note sent into someone's inbox or stuck to their front door is perhaps the lowest-costconnection there is, with potential benefits beyond our imagination. Sometimes the small estencouragements have the biggest impact. What would you say on a sticky note to share with someone in your community?

4. What message does paragraph I convey?

A. Middle-schoolers are friendly to the elderly

B. A simple act of kindness makes a difference.

C. A community can be easily shaped by interest.

D. Learning projects can inspire positive thinkers.

5. How did Muck help people in her school?

A. By writing thank-you letters.

B. By means of sticking notices.

C. By talking with school leaders

D. By writing encouraging words.

6. What does the underlined word “abate” probably mean?

A.Measure.

B.Monitor.

C.Ease.

D.Stand.

7. The best title for the text is probably

A. What a friendly word means to a stranger

B. Never be bothered by negative thoughts

C. Brighten the community with positivity

D. How to build a harmonious community

C

One day, gardeners might not just hear the buzz of bees among their flowers, but the whirr of robots, too. Scientists have managed to turn an unassuming drone (无人机) into a remote-controlled pollinator (授粉媒介) by attaching horsehairs coated with a special, sticky gel to its underbelly.

Animal pollinators are needed for the reproduction of 90% of flowering plants and one third of human food crops. Chief among those are bees — but many bee populations in the United States have been in steep decline in recent decades. Thus, the decline of bees isn't just worrisome because it could disrupt ecosystems, but also because it could disrupt agriculture and economy. People have been trying to come up with replacement techniques, but none of them are especially effective yet.

Scientists have thought about using drones, but they haven't figured out how to make free-flying robot insects that can rely on their own power source without being attached to a wire. “It’s very tough work,” said senior author Eijiro Miyako, a chemist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. His particular contribution to the field involves a gel, one he’d considered a mistake 10 years before and stuck in a storage cabinet. When it was rediscovered a decade later, it hadn’t dried up or degraded at all. “I was so surprised because it still had high viscosity,” Miyako said.

The chemist noticed that when dropped, the gel absorbed an impressive amount of dust from the floor. Miyako realized this material could be very useful for picking up pollen (花粉). He and his colleagues chose a drone and attached horsehairs to its smooth surface to mimic a bee’s fuzzy body. They coated those horsehairs in the gel, and then controlled the drones over lilies, where they would pick up the pollen from one flower and then deposit the pollen at another one, thus fertilizing it.

The scientists looked at the hairs under a scanning electron microscope and counted up the pollen grains attached to the surface and found that the drones whose horsehairs had been coated with the gel had about 10 times more pollen than those that had not been coated with the gel.

Miyako does not think such drones would replace bees altogether, but could simply help bees with their pollinating duties. There’s a lot of work to be done before that's a reality, however. Small drones will need to become more controllable and energy efficient, as well as smarter, with better GPS and artificial intelligence.

8. What does the underlined word “viscosity” in Para.3 probably mean?

A. Hardness.

B. Stickiness.

C. Flexibility.

D. Purity.

9. We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. bees disrupt both agriculture and economy

B. scientists have invented self-powered robot insects

C. bees in the United States are on the edge of extinction

D. Miyako found the special feature of the gel by chance

10. A drone works best in picking up pollen when ______.

A. its body is made like a bee’s

B. its GPS works more efficiently

C.some flowers are coated with the gel

D. horsehairs with the gel are attached to it

11. According to Eijiro Miyako, the drones ______.

A. are not yet ready for practical use

B. may eventually replace bees in the future

C. are much more efficient than bee pollinators

D. can provide a solution to economic depression

D

World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Train Line

Last Wednesday, five hydrogen-powered trains began to make the 100-kilometer trip between Cuxhaven and Buxtehude in Germany. The trains make almost no noise and run without polluting. Germany is planning to replace many of its diesel (柴油) trains with hydrogen trains.

Currently, most trains run on diesel power. When diesel fuel is burned, it creates carbon dioxide and other polluting gases. These gases have helped create the climate crisis. That’s one reason why many countries are trying to find energy choices that pollute less.

Hydrogen is the simplest known element. It’s also very common—74% of the universe is made of hydrogen atoms. Pure hydrogen is a gas that burns easily. Hydrogen can be. used to create electricity by combining it with oxygen in a “fuel cell”. The chemical reaction wh ich takes place creates electricity. A fuel cell is like a battery that never runs down as long as it has hydrogen. The oxygen comes from the air around the train. The best part is that when a fuel cell creates electricity, it doesn’t create pollution. The only thing it gives off is water, which comes out as steam.

There’s a hydrogen station on the line to refuel the trains. But since the trains can go about 1,000 kilometers before they need more fuel, they only need to fill up once a day. The trains can go as fast as 140 kph—about the same as the diesel trains they are replacing.

In many places, hydrogen-powered trains are a smart choice for replacing diesel trains. The city of Frankfurt, Germany has already ordered 27 of the hydrogen-powered trains. Other countries are also interested. France and Italy have ordered several of the hydrogen powered trains. Germany will replace up to 3,000 of its diesel trains with hydrogen- powered

trains.

12. Why do people develop hydrogen train?

A. To reduce noise.

B. To cut pollution.

C. To improve transport.

D. To solve the energy problem.

13. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?

A. Advantages of hydrogen.

B. The process of chemical reaction.

C. The unpolluted characteristic of hydrogen.

D. The popularity of hydrogen.

14. What can we infer about the hydrogen train from paragraph 4?

A.It travels 140 km on one refueling.

B. It should be refueled twice a day.

C. It goes faster than a normal train.

D. It needs very few hydrogen stations.

15. What does the author think of the future of hydrogen trains?

A. Uncertain.

B. Worrying.

C. Promising.

D. Difficult.

二、短文七选五：

Ask most people which day of the week they fear the most and the answer is likely to be Monday. The first day of the working week can make us depressed. ____1____ The most depressing day of the year is the third Monday in January, when it’s cold and dark outside. This day was named “Blue Monday” by psychologist Cliff Arnall. Even if there was little science behind Blue Monday, it’s probably true that the sound of our alarm clock on any Monday morning means the coming of a new working week and possibly the end of our weekend of fun. ____2___ It’s what psychologists call an emotional shift, and no other part of the week has a transition(过渡) like it.

Apparently, Monday means the end of weekend lie-ins. ____3____ According to a website, “If you can’t stand your job, then the Monday blues can be very real.” And it can be especially difficult to start another seemingly endless workweek. Your case of the Mondays can have a negative impact on your performance, productivity and the people around you.

____4___ Feeling a bit low shouldn’t be confused with more serious depression, caused by other factors. Claudia Hammond, an author and presenter, argues that this low feeling might be untrue. ____5____ She mentions an Australian study of how people reflected on their mood and found the day that scored the lowest was in fact Wednesdays. So, when Monday comes, maybe we should give it a second chance!

A．But is Monday as bad as we like to think it is?

B．What exactly makes us feel down remains unknown.

C．Weekends are definitely happy days in all countries.

D．That’s why the feeling is described as the Monday blues.

E．There is a strong cultural idea that we don’t like Mondays.

F．Our Monday mood can be based on a direct comparison to the day before.

G．It’s back to the routine and the realization that there are five days of working ahead.

三、完形填空：

I’ve been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I ___1___ a lost lamb when I was in the top field，near where a motorway cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its ___2___ , so I jumped out of the tractor to ___3___ it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother ___4___ , I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so ___5___ because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out. ___6___ Don had somehow made the ___7___move.

My heart froze in my chest as I ___8___ the tractor heading towards the ___9___ .I ran desperately but failed to _____10_____. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The _____11_____ thing I saw was Don’s face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I _____12_____ the fence and looked over. The tractor was

_____13_____against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously(奇迹般地) crossed the _____14_____ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn’t see Don, but as I

_____15_____ the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently _____16_____ , and dashed back to me.

The police _____17_____ and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn't quite believe my _____18_____ it turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been

_____19_____ .Don was given a special _____20_____ that night—I didn’t want him thinking I was angry with him.

1. A. dropped B. spotted C. carried D. returned

2. A. kids B. friends C. owner D. mother

3. A. ask about B. play with C. tend to D. run into

4. A. freed B. switched C. reunited D. examined

5. A. unexpected B. dangerous C. embarrassing D. difficult

6. A. Fortunately B. Generally C. Immediately D. Obviously

7. A. lamb B. vehicle C. seat D. fence

8. A. saw B. stopped C. remembered D. drove

9. A. crowd B. motorway C. field D. hill

10. A. take off B. catch up C. hold back D. get out

11. A. real B. best C. basic D. last

12. A. fixed B. noticed C. reached D. closed

13. A. resting B. running C. parking D. turning

14. A. sleep B. long C. rough D. busy

15. A. abandoned B. approached C. recognized D. repaired

16. A. unclean B. uncertain C. unhurt D. unhappy

17. A. arrived B. replied C. survived D. waited

18. A. ability B. dream C. luck D. idea

19. A. common B. confusing C. desirable D. awful

20. A. meal B. test C. job D. lesson

四、语法填空：

阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Tibet was a region I was desperate to see, ____1____ its remoteness and my inability to go delayed my journey. Last summer, my brother and I finally decided to take the trip.

We set off at the Guangzhou train station and three days later, we arrived in Lhasa. The trip certainly took a while; however, we ____2___ (reward) with the most beautiful views and made friends along the way, all at a ____3____ (low) cost than flying.

We started our tour of Lhasa watching pilgrims(朝圣者)doing their morning prayers,

____4___(comprehensive) exploring the palace. We had an incredible lunch at one of the best restaurants in Lhasa, ____5____ offered a beautiful view overlooking the Jokhang Temple.

Then we started our journey to the Qomolangma base camp____6____ road from Lhasa. Along the way we stopped ____7____ (admire) the Yamdrok Lake. Its beauty was beyond

___8____(describe).

About a week later, we arrived. We stayed in a guesthouse just next to the base camp and after dropping off our luggage, ____9____ (head) straight outside to see the Mt. Qomolangma. The tip of the mountain emerged through the clouds, ____10____ (astonish) us with its unbelievable height. The clouds parted and we watched the sunset over the peak.

五、写作：

第一节

假定你是李华。你市最近天气变化大，许多市民都因此患了感冒。请你用英语给在你市留学的美国朋友Susan写封信，提醒他采取措施，预防感冒。内容包括：

1.关注天气变化，及时添加衣物；

2.适当运动，注意饮食；

3.避免与感冒患者接触。

注意：1.总词数80左右：2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Mike,

Yours,

Li Huar

第二节

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

The incident happened on Sunday at around 2:30 a.m. A car’s GPS system directed a group of teenage girls into the Pascagoula River. The car floated 25 yards into the river and then began to sink. The girls escaped to the vehicle’s rooftop where they shouted for help in fear. Corion Evans, a 16-year old high school student, heard their calls from nearby. Without a second thought, he immediately threw down his phone, removed his shirt and shoes, jumped into the river and swam out to them. His heroic act was soon reported and brought to the attention of the city government.

“I was just like, ‘I can’t let any of these folks die. They need to get out of the water’”, Corion recalled. “So, I just started getting them. I wasn’t even thinking about anything else.”

A strong and confident swimmer since childhood, Corion’s instincts (本能) kicked in when he heard the girls’ cries for help. With the ve hicle nearly out of sight and completely sunk into the water, he knew the situation called for quick action. He focused on the task of pulling the girls to safety as quickly as possible. Corion helped calm the panicked girls when he reached the girls. He swam and guided the first two girls safely back to shore.

“I was behind them trying to keep them above water and swim with them at the same time,” Corion recalled.

The third girl did not know how to swim and had remained on the car roof. When Corion turned back to help her, Officer Gary Mercer had already arrived on scene to assist. He jumped into the river before pulling off his uniform. However, at one point Mercer was bringing the girl to shore, she began panicking and caused him to go under swallowing some water. Then Mercer began struggling to stay afloat due to the heavy weight of his uniform and equipment on him.

“I turned around. I saw the police officer,” Corion recalled. “He’s in trouble. He’s going underwater, drowning, shouting, ‘help!’”

Corion swam as fast as he could toward them.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Corion was awarded certificate of commendation (奖状) from the city.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________

Keys:

一、阅读理解：

BDA BDCD BDDA BADC

二、短文七选五：

DF GAE

三、完形填空：

BDCCA DBABB DCADB CACDA

四、语法填空：

1.But/yet 2．were rewarded 3．lower 4．comprehensively 5．which 6．by 7．to admire 8．description 9．headed 10．astonishing

五、写作略