1、上饶中学 20182019 学年高二第一次月考英 语 试 题（文理实验、重点、体艺班）考试时间：120 分钟 分值 150 分 命题人：朱紫红 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 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. How much of a discount did the woman get for her new coat? A. 20% . B. 30%. C. 50%.2 . Where does the co
2、nversation most probably take place?A. At a railway station. B. Outside a cinema. C. In front of a post office.3 . What is the most probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Colleagues B. Husband and wife. C. Classmates.4. What was the guy doing?A. Driving a car. B. Riding a bike. C. Gettin
3、g crazy.5. What is the conversation mainly about?A. Thursdays lecture B. A note for students. C. Notes from a lecture.第二节（共 15 小题，每小题 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 2 至 4 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 5 秒钟的时间阅读各个小题；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 和第 7 两
4、个小题。6 . What do we know about the man? A. He knows the neighborhood well. B. He lives in midtown.C. He thinks the apartments are expensive.7 . Where does the woman work?A. On 68th Street. B. On 63rd Street. C. On 58th Street.听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 和第 9 两个小题。8. Which is more expensive?A. The mans hat. B. The
5、 mans shirt. C . The mans jacket.9 . Where did the man buy his hat?A. In a department store. B. In a mall store. C. In a supermarket.听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至第 12 三个小题。10. What did the mans doctor advise him to do?A. Take more exercise. B. Join a club C. Take more rest.11. What does the woman think of going
6、 to the health club?A. Tiring. 考试时间：2018 年 10 月 1112 日B. Boring. C. Useful. 12. What should the man do according to the woman? A. Work out first. B. Go to the club with her. C. Take a swim before exercising听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至第 16 题四个小题。13. Why is the woman in the garden?A. To review her lessons. B. To
7、 enjoy some fresh air C. To wait for the man14. How many units will be included in the test? A. 3 B. 4 C. 6 15. What test will the speakers have?A. Geography. B. Language. C. History16. What are the speakers going to do after the conversation?A. Go back home and have a good sleep.B. Invite another f
8、riend to have dinner together.C. Go to the restaurant together.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至第 20 四个小题。17. When can people hear the speaker?A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.18. Which is the best show according to the speaker? A. The News. B. Nighttime. C. The Childrens Room.19. On which
9、 channel can people answer questions and get money?A. Channel(频道) Three. B. Channel Six. C. Channel Eleven.20 .What does the speaker most probably do?A. A newspaper reporter. B. B. A TV host or hostess. C. A radio manager.第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分 30 分）第一节 （共 15 题；每小题 2 分，满分 30）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A 、B、C、和 D
10、）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。APersonal RobotMake your parents and teachers happy!Are you having problems finishing your homework on time? Do you avoid tidying your room until your mom shouts at you? You dont need to worry if you buy a Mr. Helping Hand personal robot. Mr. H can be programmed to organize you
11、r homework. Your own personal robot will follow you around, putting away books and objects that you have left on the floor or bed.Mr. H also has these features (特点)weighs only 500 gramsincludes long-lasting batteriescomes with a 5-year guaranteeremembers simple instructionsOriginally (最初) sold for $
12、499. NOW ONLY $299PENGO WATCH CONTROLThis is a watch that James Bond would be proud to wear!This is NOT a watch for ordinary people!Your electronic PENGO WATCH CONTROL acts as a remote control for TVs and videos. gives you a daily weather forecast. reminds you when to hand in your homework. sets off
13、 a silent warning alarm when parents or teachers are near.Besides, your PENGO WATCH CONTROL will always tell you the time accurately!Originally sold for $199. NOW ONLY $99 For more information, click here.21. With help from a Mr.H, you can _.A. stop using batteriesB. get your room tidied on your way
14、 homeC. remember your teachers instructionsD. finish your homework on time22. If you buy a PENGO WATCH CONTROL now, you can save _.A. $99 B. $100 C. $200 D. $19923. Where would you be most likely to find the two texts?A.On a notice boardB. In a company brochure.C.On a teenage websiteD. In a college
15、newspaper.BThomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a ge
16、nius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understan
17、d them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.E
18、dison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he
19、 had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.24. Edison thought _.A. he could be happy if he was a geniusB. genius plays the most important part in ones successC. hard work could do better than geniusD. genius could do better than hard work25. Edison was _.A. very much in
20、terested in peoples secrets.B. interested in discovering the secrets of natureC. interested in changing peoples ideasD. uninterested in making people happier.26. In Edisons opinion, _.A. thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as helpB. peoples success lies mostly in geniusC.
21、hard work is the second important thing in making people successfulD. there are few secrets for him to discover later27. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies _.A. life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beingsB. Edison made 100 inventions in his lifeC. Edison was able
22、 to live and work for 100 yearsD. people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years workCMost children have ever heard their parents yell “sit up straight!”or “don“t slouch (无精打采)!”when they eat dinner. Nowadays, it is also heard around another activity-video games. Ten-year-old Owen ad
23、mits it takes him three to four hours a day to play games on his tablet computer. In addition, he plays for about two hours on the smart phone every day. As a result, he started suffering a severe pain in the neck around June or July. Whats worse, the pain has spread to the hand and back gradually,
24、which makes his mother Mezabin become concerned.The doctors note the number of young children with the chronic pain(慢性痛) in their necks, arms and shoulders is on the increase sharply in recent years. They are not aging, they havent had an accident, the blood reports are fine, their X-rays are fine.
25、Facts have proved that the pain is from the poor posture while they are playing video games on smart phones or other electronic devices. 19-year-old student Nida feels pain in the finger which holds the weight of her smart phone most of the day. Nida almost uses her smart phone 24/7, which means 24
26、hours a day,seven days a week, or all the time.Health experts predict there will be not only physical but psychological and emotional problems resulting from the overuse of electronic devices. They encourage people to often take breaks and exercise from using computers, smart phones or other devices
27、. Stand up. Stretch the legs, back, shoulders and arms in all the possible directions. That is the most effective way and maybe the key to solving the problem completely. After all, the medication does not help sometimes.28. What is Mezabin worried about?A. Her son has no table mannersB. Her son doe
28、snt work hard at schoolC. Her sons physical problems get worse.D. Her son spends much money on video games.29. What do we know about the chronic pain?A. Adults dont have the problem.C. It is caused by the wrong body position.C. Using a heavy smart phone will cause it.D. Children with it usually have
29、 other diseases.30. According to health experts, _.A. people should stop using smart phonesB. the best treatment for the chronic pain is exercisingC.people must take medicine to cure the chronic painD. the chronic pain has nothing to do with ones mental health31. Where does the text probably come fr
30、om?A. A health reportD. B. A news storyC.A research planD. A business magazineDBirds enjoy a relatively slow rate of extinction(灭绝) but a new study suggests that rate might be severely underestimated(低估 ). Even worse, if human actions continue, bird extinction rates could skyrocket and 12 percent of
31、 the known bird species(物种 ) could be dying out by the end of the century.Presently there are 10,000 known bird species and an estimated 130 of those have become extinct since the year 1500, setting the extinction rate at about one species every four years.But according to Stuart Pimm of Duke Univer
32、sity, this rate fails to take into account three key points: The continual identification of extinct bird species from fossil remains; numerous “missing“ species not yet declared extinct; and the fact that present extinction rates were not calculated using the proper baseline date for when the speci
33、es was first described.Taking these points into consideration, the extinction rate is closer to one bird species per year, says Pimm, the leading author of the study. And the rate could be three times as high as that if not for recent bird preservation efforts.In previous centuries, bird extinctions
34、 took place mainly on islands as Polynesian peoples expanded into the Pacific or Europeans took over the Americas, wiping out birds along the way.In recent years, scientists are seeing an increased number of extinctions on continents, again because of human activities. Habitat destruction(栖息地毁灭 ), i
35、ntroduction of invasive species, and climate change combine to harm many bird species. Before human influence, the estimated rate of bird extinctions would have been only one species per hundred years, researchers estimate.Bird extinction rates are slower than that of most animals, mainly because hu
36、mans do more harm to other species and people take special efforts to protect birds. Still, if the present trends continue, the researchers estimate that the bird extinction rat e will continue to climb to as many as 10 species per year.32. The underlined word “skyrocket“ in the first paragraph mean
37、s.A. fly highB. appear soon C. increase quicklyD. change regularly33. According to Pimm, the extinction rate of birds is _.A. one species per hundred years B. one species every yearC. three species per year D. ten species every year34. What can we infer from the fifth and sixth paragraphs?A. Humans
38、have started destroying bird habitat in recent years.B. Humans are doing more harm to animals than to birds.C. Humans have made no effort to protect birds.D. Humans are responsible for the bird extinctions.35. What might be the best title for the passage?A. Humans Fighting against Bird ExtinctionB.
39、Humans Responsibilities for Bird ProtectionC. Bird Extinction Rates Far Worse Than RealizedD. Bird Extinction Occurring on Islands and Continents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，选项中有两项为多余选项。Some people get pleasure from picnics and tours. Others like to discuss various topics
40、 and find pleasure in it. But the reading of books provides us with such pleasure as we do not get from any other activity.Books are written by learned people. They contain the best experiences and thoughts of their writers. Writers put in their books not only their own ideas and feelings, but also
41、what they observe and find in society. _36_If we are in a good mood, our joy is increased by reading. _37_ They provide us with the best advice and guidance in our difficulties. Indeed, books are our best friends as they help us in our hour of need._38_ They entertain us in our spare moments. Good n
42、ovels, books on poetry and short stories, give us great enjoyment. At times we become so absorbed in our books that we forget even our important arrangements. Loneliness is no trouble for a reader._39_ They give us sound moral (道德) advice. It is through the reading of books that we learn what to lov
43、e and what to hate. The reading of good books develops and improves our character. It was the English author Bacon who said that reading makes a full man. No one can question the truth of this saying._40_ Some books are such that instead of doing any good, they do harm to the readers. So it is the r
44、eading of good books alone that presents us the greatest benefit.A. Books keep us amused.B. Books contain wisdom.C. When we are alone, books are our best friends.D. Books enable us to know the best of the colorful world.E. When we are in a bad mood, books comfort our troubled minds.F. But we cannot
45、get full advantage from reading, if our choice is not good.G. By reading books written by great thinkers, we come in contact with their minds.第三部分 知识运用第一节：完型填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. Her planes _41_ had been announced
46、 and they were standing near the door. He said to his daughter: “I love you, I wish you enough.”She said: “Daddy, our _42_ together has been more than enough.Your love is _43_ I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Daddy.” They kissed good-bye and she left.He walked over the window _44_ I was seated
47、. Standing there I could see he wanted to _45_. I tried not to interfere(打断) his _46_, but he welcomed me in by asking: “Did you ever say good-bye to someone _47_ it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,”I replied.Saying that brought back _48_ I had of expressing my love and _49_ for all my dad had done
48、for me. Knowing that his days were_50_, I took the time to tell him face to face how much he meant to me. So I knew what this man was _51_. When I asked why it was a forever goodbye, he said he was _52_ and her daughter lived much too far away. He guessed this departure might be the _53_ before his
49、funeral. When I asked him why they said “I wish you enough”, he explained that had been_54_ from other generations. His parents used to say it to _55_, by which they wanted other people to have a life filled with enough _56_ things to support them.“I wish you enough sun to _57_ your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish
