2016-2017年高二下学期第二次月考英语试题及答案

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第I 卷阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A．Gone are the days when people used to be devoted to a job and enjoyed working at the same place during their lifetime. Nowadays, job hopping (跳槽) has become very common. But what has led to this tendency of frequent change in jobs among employees? Well, in most of the cases, it is boredom resulting from the routine job and lack of job satisfaction that disappoints people. Searching for better work opportunities is also one of the reasons for frequent change in jobs.But, is job hopping safe for employees?Actually, job hopping can either make or break the career of the person. On the one hand, it helps you learn new work skills because you'll come across many people who have the experience of working in many different work areas. Through working in different fields you would be exposed to various work fields and as a result, you would find the field that is best for you. Also, changing the job serves a good break and will keep you enthusiastic about the life and work.On the other hand, job hopping isn't something recommended because there are disadvantages associated with it. Very often employers are afraid of hiring employees with a history of too many job changes. This is because an employee with many job records is described as someone who cannot be trusted in the long run. Also the person is often considered as someone who lacks stability, focus anddedication (奉献), apart from sound knowledge of his work area. A person gains sound knowledge of a subject only after he works on it for a certain period of time.Therefore, you shouldn't change your job too frequently; job change is recommended only if you aren't satisfied with the job, or have issu es with the current job, or have got a better job opportunity.1. From Paragraph 1, we can infer that people in the past________.A．were more devoted to work than people today B．benefited a lot from the steadiness of workC．liked to do less challenging work D．preferred not to change job2．What does the underlined word “break” in Paragraph 2 mean?A．Interrupt.B．Destroy. C．Separate. D．Stop. 3．According to the text, job hopping has many advantages EXCEPT________.A．giving a good impression on the employer B．finding the fittest job for youC．learning new work skills D．keeping your interest4．What is the author's purpose in writing this text?A．To tell us the attitudes towards job hopping. B．To tell us on what condition we can change our jobs. C．To tell us to treasure the present jobs we do. D．To tell us the advantages and disadvantages of job hopping.B.There are lots of ways to educate yourself on the Internet. You can find photos, documents, and films on almost any topic you can imagine. And at , you can access lectures by artists, scholars, designers, technicians and others.TED began in 1984 as a conference that brought together individuals from the fields of technology, entertainment and design. It was intended to be a one-time event focusing on technology and design. The event ended up losing money, and it was six years before the founders tried it again. This time it worked, and since 1990, the TED conference has been an annual event.There are now two held every year, with topics as diverse as music, medicine, and money. Other specialized spin-off conferences address narrower issues.The TED website came from a desire to share the conferences with the world, to “offer free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers”，as the website puts it. The current version of the site was launched in April 2007, and contains videos of talks given at the TED conferences around the world. The talks are transcribed into hundreds of languages.The TED website is owned by the Sapling Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to fostering the spread of great ideas. The Sapling Foundation acquired TED in 2001.Since then, it has been focusing on using TED to broadcast ideas that might ch ange the world.TED, of course, isn't immune to criticism. It's been called elitist for its high ticket prices (more than 6,000 dollars in total)．It's been accused by a few people of censorship for not publishing their talks. One controversial speaker was upset about being criticized by the conference's host afterward.The complaints, however, seem to be relatively few for such a large, long-running organization. And accusations of elitism ring hollow when so much is given away for free on TED's website. Whatever its failings, TED is a source of inspirational information for those who seek it out.5．Which of the following statements is NOT true?A．The TED conference came after the success of .B．Two TED conferences are now held every year.C．TED talks are available in many languages.D．The Sapling Foundation owns .6．From the last two paragraphs, we can infer that________.A．it is accepted to all involved that some TED talks might not be publishedB．the host of the conference is one who plays a supportive role to the speakersC．TED is criticized for giving special treatment to the wealthy or powerfulD．the negative comments on TED greatly affect its reputation7．This author probably believes that________.A．TED is elitist B．TED is beneficial C．TED isn't important D．the TED website is the bestC.I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenage girl, and I couldn’t bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads. Coming across me wandering through the traffic, motorists probably would have to stop rapidly on their brakes. Apart from that, there were all sorts of disasters that used to occur on the way to and from work.One evening, I got off the bus about halfway home where I had to change buses, and as usual I ran into something. “I’m awfully sorry,” I said and stepp ed forward only to run into it again. When it happened a third time, I realized I had been apologizing to a lamppost. This was just one of the stupid things thatconstantly happened to me. So I carried on and found the bus stop, which was a request stop, where the bus wouldn’t stop unless passengers wanted to get on or off. No one else was there and I had to guess if the bus had arrived.Generally in this situation, because I hated showing I was blind by asking for help, I tried to guess at the sound. Sometimes I would stop a big lorry and stand there feeling stupid as it drew away. In the end, I usually managed to swallow my pride and ask someone at the stop for help.But at this particular evening no one joined me at the stop; it seemed that everyone had suddenly decided not to travel by bus. Of course I heard plenty of buses pass, or I thought I did. But because I had given up stopping them for fear of making a fool of myself, I le t them all go by. I stood there alone for half an hour without stopping one. Then I gave up. I decided to walk on to the next stop.8. The girl refused to ask for help because she thought_________.A. she might be recognizedB. asking for help looked sillyC. she was normal and independentD. being found blind was embarrassing9. After the girl got off the bus that evening, she_________.A. began to runB. hit a person as usualC. hit a lamppost by accidentD. was caught by something10. What was the problem with guessing at the sound to stop a bus?A. Other vehicles also stopped there.B. It was unreliable for making judgments.C. More lorries than buses responded to the girl.D. It took too much time for the girl to catch the bus.11. Finally the girl decided to walk to the next stop, hoping__________.A. to find people thereB. to find more buses thereC. to find the bus by herself thereD. to find people more helpful thereD.Why You Should Celebrate Your MistakesWhen you make a mistake, big or small, cherish(珍视) it like it's the most precious thing in the world, because in some ways, it is.Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.And that's only natural: most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, that we should try to avoid mistakes. We've been scolded when we make mistakes at home, school and work.Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world: they make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.By trial and error-trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes-we have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, make works of genius possible.Think about how we learn: we don't just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it. You don't just read about painting, or writing, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually...then you construct a model in your mind...then you test it out by trying it in the real world...then you make mistakes...then you revise the model based on the results of your real-world experimentation and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you've pretty much learned how to do something. That's how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new, because if you succeed in something, it's probably something you already knew how to do. You haven't really grown much from that success---at most it's the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey was made up of mistakes, if it's a good journey.So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.12. Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?A. Because mistakes make us suffer a lot.B. Because it's a natural part in our life.C. Because we've been taught so from a young age.D. Because mistakes have ruined many people's careers.13. According to the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?A. We should try to avoid making mistakes.B. We should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes.C. We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn.D. We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.14. The underlined word "toddler" in Paragraph 6 probably means __________.A. a small child learning to walkB. a kindergarten child learning to drawC. a primary school pupil learning to readD. a school teenager learning to write15. We can learn from the passage that __________.A. most of us can really grow from successB. growing and improving are based on mistakesC. we learn to make mistakes by trial and errorD. we read about something and know how to do it right away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能填入空白处的最佳选项。