高二英语下册5月月考试题8

2018-2019学年度宜昌市一中高二年级5月考试英语试卷本试卷分为第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分第一卷（选择题共100分）注意事项：1．答第一卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号、考试科目用铅笔涂写在答题卡上。

2．每小题选出答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。

第一部分：听力（共20小题；每小题1.5分，共30分）第一节：（共5小题；每小题1.5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. Where will the woman probably go first?A. To a bank.B. To a cinema.C. To a supermarket.2. How much does the woman need to pay?A. $120.B. $132.C. $180.3. Why does the man want to change a room?A. He likes a bigger room.B. He wants a room with a good idea.C. He prefers a room on the sunny side.4. What are the speakers talking about?A. A meal.B. A lunch break.C. Working time.5. Who is Rosie?A. The speakers’ neighbour.B. The speakers’ grandmother.C. The speakers’ daughter.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5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，各小题将给出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、7题。

6. What does the man ask the woman to do?A. Visit his house.B. Help him with the move.C. Pack his things.7. What will the woman do on Saturday?A. Take care of her nephews.B. Have her hair done.C. Go to work.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What do we know about the man?A. He didn’t like the boss when he first met her.B. He does various things in his new job.C. He has learned a lot from his old job.9. Why does the man dislike his boss?A. She often criticizes him.B. She doesn’t think about his ideas seriously.C. She doesn’t allow him to express his opinions.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the man probably?A. An architect.B. An artist.C. An athlete.11. What is one of the advantages of the new stadium?A. It has first-class sports facilities.B. It can hold 8,000 people.C. It allows matches to go on in bad weather.12. What difficulty is the man experiencing now?A. Cutting down expenses.B. Meeting the deadline.C. Looking for materials. 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the woman’s opinion about the sixth sense?A. It is often wrong.B. It is useless for spotting a liar.C. It can be supported by body language.14. According to the woman, how do liars often behave?A. They move their arms a lot.B. They play their hair with a pen.C. They may keep eye contact for too long.15. When do people touch their mouth and face a lot?A. When they tell a white lie.B. When they feel ashamed of lying.C. When they realize they have hurt someone’s feelings.16. What does the man advise the listeners to do?A. Believe their sixth sense.B. Try to be comfortable when they tell lies.C. Pay attention to people’s body language.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How old is the speaker now?A. 24.B. 32.C. 42.18. What was one of the difficulties the speaker met?A. He had to live in a tent.B. There was only a single road.C. He couldn’t have enough food.19. What is the speaker’s new way to deal with the water problem?A. To collect enough rainwater to wash and cook.B. To get the fresh water from a well.C. To get a cleaning system for drinking water.20. Which is one of the reasons the speaker doesn’t want to leave?A. He hates to leave his friends in the village.B. He prefers the quiet and peaceful life.C. He pays low electricity and gas bills.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）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，并在答题卡上将该项黑。

AItaly is one country where beauty is prized more than any other virtue. That is, except in the small town of Piobbico, the self-declared World Capital of Ugly People. The road sign at the edge of the town even warns visitors that they are entering the ugly zone. People who consider themselves ugly have been gathering in Piobbico since the 1960s. That’s when Ugly Club president Telesforo Lacobelli established a dating agency for women who believed they were too ugly to attract husbands. Lacobelli believes that he is ugly himself because he has a short nose in a country where long or large noses have always been considered beautiful.People from around the world travel to Piobbico to tell their sad stories of ugliness. During the annual Festival of the Ugly, which occurs on the first Sunday of every September, hundreds of people gather in Piobbico’s town square to elect the pres ident of the Ugly Club. Lacobelli wins the election every year. The Ugly Club has over 20, 000 members. They carry ID cards that grade their ugliness from bearable to extreme. A prize is awarded to Ugly Club members who qualify as extremely ugly.The Ugly Club president insists that ugliness is a virtue. Since beautiful people get a lot of attention for their beauty alone, they have to work hard to prove their other virtues. Ugly people, on the other hand, are genuine and do not have to prove anything to anybody, according to Lacobelli.Lacobelli is a spokesperson for ugly people everywhere. He believes that the uglier one is, the better life can be. Though the club enjoys making fun of beauty, especially beauty contests, Lacobelli has a serious side as well. He believes that too many people suffer from financial and emotional pressures because they don’t meet society’s standards of beauty. The fact that beautiful people are more successful in the workforce is a problem that Lacobelli has attempted to bring forward to the Italian public and government.21. Piobbico is rather special in that .A. it is a very small townB. it is home to ugly peopleC. it receives no visitorsD. it is the capital of Italy22. Why is Lacobelli elected the president of the Ugly Club every year?A. Because he is the ugliest person in the whole world.B. Because his ugliness is always graded as bearable.C. Because he is a spokesperson for ugly people everywhere.D. Because he has won the members’ trust and a dmiration.23 Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Ugly people are most respected in Italy.B. The Festival of the Ugly is held every two years.C. Ugly people are unfairly treated in society.D. The uglier one is, the better life he or she lives.24. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. The Ugly Capital of the WorldB. The Ugliest Person of the WorldC. Festival of the UglyD. Beauty Contests Should be BannedA. provide students with greater control over the mediaB. link cultural information to recognizable plantsC. help the students to be familiar with educational programsD. help the students to deal with most of the environment issues26. Which of the following is true according to the poster?A. Evening workshops will be held at small restaurants with meals included.B. Workshops have nothing to do with the discussions held at SEB meetings.C. Faculty advisers can join the mixer without training experience.D. Participants have more than one option on Feb.5th than another night.27. You are a college student, interested in plants and good at taking TV pictures. Which of theEvening Workshops is most suitable for you?A. Collections for Botany.B. Botanical Film Making.C. Student Network.D. Society for Economic Botany.CThe extraordinary Eastgate Building in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, is said to be the only one in the world to use the same cooling and heating principles as the termite mound(白蚁堆).Architect Mick Pearce used precisely the same strategy when designing the Eastgate Building, which has no air-conditioning and almost no heating. The building—the country’s largest commercial and shopping complex—uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building of its size. The Eastgate’s owners saved $3.5 million on a $36 million building because an air-conditioning equipment didn’t have to be imported.The complex is actually two buildings linked by bridges across a shady, glass-roofed atrium(天井) open to the air. Fans suck fresh air in from the atrium, blow it upstairs through hollow spaces under the floors and from there into each office through baseboard vents(通风口). As it rises and warms, it is drawn out via ceiling vents and finally exists through forty-eight brick chimneys.During summer’s cool nights, big fans blow air through the building seven times an hour to cool the empty floors. By day, smaller fans blow two changes of air an hour through the building, to circulate the air which has been in contact with the cool floors. For winter days, there are small heaters in the vents.This is all possible only because Harare is 1600 feet above sea level, has cloudless skies, little dampness and rapid temperature changes—days as warm as 31℃ commonly drop to 14℃ at night. “You couldn’t do this in New York, with its hot summers and cold winters,” Pearce said.The engineering firm of Ove Arup&Partners monitors daily temperatures. It is found that the temperature of the building has generally stayed between 23℃ and 25℃, with the exception of the annual hot period just before the summer rains in October and three days in November, when a doorkeeper accidentally switched off the fans at night. And the air is fresh—far more so than in air-conditioned buildings, where up to 30% of the air is recycled.28. Why was Eastgate cheaper to be built than a conventional building?A. It was designed in a smaller size.B. Its heating system was less advanced.C. No air conditioners were fixed in.D. It used rather different building materials.29. What does “it” refer to in Paragraph 3?A. Heat in the building.B. Fresh air from outside.C. Hollow space.D. Baseboard vent.30. Why would a building like Eastgate Not work efficiently in New York?A. New York has less clear skies as Harare.B. Its dampness affects the circulation of air.C. Its temperature changes seasonally rather than daily.D. New York covers a larger area than Harare.31. The data in the last paragraph suggests Eastgate’s temperature control system_____.A. allows a wide range of temperaturesB. can recycle up to 30% of the airC. works better in hot seasonsD. functions well for most of the yearDMen are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cooking a more manly picture, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.According to the research by Prof. Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.Prof. Gershuny said, “The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend. There has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.”Women, who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes—a great fall, but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.Some experts have named these men in aprons as “Gastrosexuals (men using cooking skil ls to impress friends)”, who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.“I was married in 1974. When my father came to visit me a few weeks later, I was wearing an apron when I opened the door. He laughed,” said Prof. Gershuny. “That would never happen now.”Two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three times a week, even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table. Prof. Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a table—with many “family meals” in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room, and shared by family members. “The family meal has changed a lot, and few of us eat—as I did when I was a child—at least two meals a day together as a family. But it has survived in a different format.”32. What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?A. The improvement of cooks’ status.B. The influence of popular female chefs.C. The change of female’s view on cooking.D. The development of sexual equality campaign.33. What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?A. Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.B. Women spend much less time on cooking than before.C. It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.D. There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.34. How did Prof. Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?A. It has become a thing of the past.B. It is very different from what it used to be.C. It shouldn’t be advocated in modern times.D. It is beneficial to the stability of the family.35. Which is the best title for the passage?A. The Changes of Family MealsB. Equality between Men and WomenC. Cooking into a New Trend for MenD. Cooking—a Thing of the Past for Women第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。