高二英语12月月考试题 试题

一中2021-2021学年高二英语12月月考试题〔无答案〕
单位：乙州丁厂七市润芝学校
时间：2022年4月12日
创编者：阳芡明
第一卷 (一共100分)
第一局部听力〔一共两节，满分是30分〕
第一节听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项里面选出最正确选项。

1. When does the rainy season start?
A. In January.
B. In February.
C. In November.
2. What’s wrong with the man’s food?
A. It’s hot.
B. It’s salty.
C. It’s tasteless.
3. What is Jennifer learning in school now?
A. To make sculptures.
B. To take pictures.
C. To draw.
4. Which room has the man finished decorating?
A. The living room.
B. The bathroom.
C. The kitchen.
5. Where are the speakers?
A. At a hospital.
B. In a classroom.
C. At a ball field.
第二节听下面5段对话或者独白。

每段对话或者独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项里面选出最正确选项。

听第6段材料，答复第6、7题。

6. Where does Sam suggest going?
A. To a theater.
B. To a restaurant.
C. To a coffee shop.
7. How does Rita feel about the plan?
A. Excited.
B. Indifferent.
C. Disappointed.
听第7段材料，答复第8、9题。

8. What will Clark help Annie do?
A. Clean her apartment.
B. Water her plants.
C. Feed her dog.
9. What day will Clark go to Annie’s house?
A. On Monday.
B. On Thursday.
C. On Friday.
听第8段材料，答复第10至12题。

10. What was the program mainly about?
A. Horses and wars.
B. Horses from different countries.
C. Different uses of horses.
11. What seems to surprise the man?
A. People use horses for fun.
B. Horse races take place everywhere.
C. Horses are still used for hard labor.
12. What will the woman do this weekend?
A. Work on a farm.
B. Attend a wedding.
C. Go horse riding. 听第9段材料，答复第13至16题。

13. Where is the island?
A. It is in Asia.
B. It is in the Pacific Ocean.
C. It is off the coast of Europe.
14. Why did the man choose to go to the island?
A. It’s free of pollution.
B. It’s not far away.
C. It’s small.
15. What does the woman think of the island?
A. Beautiful.
B. Wild.
C. Unusual.
16. How many people live on the island now?
A. Eight.
B. Seven.
C. Six.
听第10段材料，答复第17至20题。

17. Who are the announcements for?
A. The manager.
B. The employees.
C. The customers.
18. What time does the store usually close?
A. At five o’clock.
B. At eight o’clock.
C. At ten o’clock.
19. What item is free for another one if you buy one?
A. Women’s dresses.
B. Men’s suits.
C. Shoes.
20. What does the speaker suggest people do in the end?
A. Go to a café.
B. Leave the shop early.
C. Buy some music CDs.
第二局部阅读理解〔一共两节〕
第一节〔一共10小题；每一小题2.5分，满分是25分〕
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useful services for photographers and photography lovers.
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Join our club and enjoy a range of benefits. You’ll get invitations to our regular events, such as members’ film shows, exhibitions and talks by experts. You can apply for Full membership, Associate membership or Junior membership. Full membership includes free entry to all events and 10% discount when ordering equipment online. Associate membership gives you half-price tickets to events. Junior membership (proof of age required) allows youngsters to enjoy the benefits of Full membership. Costs (per year)：Full membership 20, Associate 12, Junior 10. Most new members joined as the result of recommendations from current members.
Advice Center
Take advantage of our Advice Center. Ask our panel of experts your questions about camera s and photography. Whether you’re looking for solutions to problems or fresh ideas for interesting photos, you’ll get response here. Simply email your questions ******************************************************************* to send you a reply by email within five days. Please note that since we can’t provide information about repairs to cameras, you should contact the manufacturer about these.
Competition
Our competition is held every year and is a great chance for new and experienced photographers to win one of our great prizes, which range from albums to keep your photos in to one-day courses or a set of state-of-the-art camera equipment. Entries can only be accepted from members. They can be sent in prints, on a CD or memory stick,
or by email. Please note that photos can’t be returned, so make sure you have copies. The topic — for example, wildlife, transport, people —is announced each year here on the website when the competition opens.
21. Which of the following is a proper price list for an event organized by Camera Club?
A.
B.
C.
D.
22. Which of the following CANNOT be obtained from the Advice Center?
A. Solutions to problems about photography.
B. Fresh ideas for interesting photos.
C. Response to club members’ questions.
D. Information about repairs to cameras.
23. What’s the requirement of the Competition?
A. Competitors must be experienced.
B. Competitors must have membership.
C. Competitors’ works must be sent by email.
D. Competitors must have spare copies of their photos.
B
It’s said that you don’t know a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. And you also don’t know what it’s like for older people to travel until you accompany one on a trip.
After flying with my elderly father from Washington, D.C. to L.A. in July, I began to realize that a companion has important tasks that can make a journey easier for older people. I booked nonstop tickets on JetBlue to avoid tiring, confusing connections, and we flew directly into small, manageable Long Beach Airport. Even though my father could walk, I arranged with the airline for wheelchair assistance, which meant we got on board first.
When I took him back to the airport for his return flight to Washington, I got permission from JetBlue to wait with him at the gate instead of saying goodbye at the security checkpoint. I wished he’d had a first-class seat and access to a comfortable airline club. Better yet, I wish I had flown with him both ways. As I watched the attendant wheel him to the lift that took him from the tarmac〔飞机跑
道〕to the plane, I felt like an anxious mom sending her child to school for the first time.
Things can go awry on a plane trip. And then there is the horrifying story about Joe and Margie. When they landed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a wheelchair attendant met them to help with a connection. But somehow Margie, who had Alzheimer’s disease, disappeared.
I didn’t need to worry about my father wandering away; at 82, his mind was sharper than mine. But his hearing was poor, so I worried about what would happen if he missed an important announcement. Fortunately, everything went just fine. Careful planning made the trip successful.
Next time I travel with a senior, I’ll know better. I hope there will be a next time.
24. Why did the man buy nonstop tickets?
A. His father was tired of flights.
B. He had important tasks to do.
C. He cared about his father.
D. His schedule was tight.
25. How did the author feel when seeing his father off?
A. Disappointed.
B. Delighted.
C. Worried.
D. Sad.
26. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Taking a trip does great good to seniors.
B. It is a pleasant experience to travel with seniors.
C. To have a long journey with seniors is unpractical.
D. A good arrangement ensures seniors to take a nice trip.
C
By trying to tickle(挠痒痒) rats and recording how their nerve cells respond, Shimpei Ishiyama and his adviser are discovering a mystery that has puzzled thinkers since Aristotle expected that humans, given their thin skin and unique ability to laugh, were the only ticklish animals.
It turns out that Aristotle was wrong. In their study published on Thursday, Ishiyama and his adviser Michael Brecht found that rats squeaked and jumped with pleasure when tickled on their backs and bellies. These signs of joy changed according to their moods. And for the first time, they discovered a special group of nerve cells. These nerve cells made this feeling so powerful that it causes an individual being tickled to lose control.
To make sure that he had indeed found a place in the brain where tickling was processed, Ishiyama then stimulated that area with electrical currents. The rats began to jump like rabbits and sing like birds.
“It’s truly ground-breaking,〞 said Jeffrey Burgdorf, a neuroscientist at Northwestern U niversity who reviewed the paper. “It takes the study of emotion to a new level.〞
Burgdorf has played a central role in our understanding of animal tickling. He was part of a team that first noticed, in the late 1990s, that rats made special noises when they were experiencing social pleasure. Others had already noted that rats
repeatedly made short and high sounds during meals. But the lab where Burgdorf worked noticed that they emitted similar sounds while playing. And so one day, the senior scientist in t he lab said, “Let’s go and tickle some rats.〞 They quickly found that those cries of pleasure doubled.
“The authors have been very adventurous,〞said Daniel O’Connor, a neuroscientist〔神经系统科学家〕 at Johns Hopkins University who studies touch. To him, that finding was very surprising.
“Why does the world literally feel different when you are stressed out?〞 he said. “This is the first step towards answering that question. It gives us a way to approach it with experimental rigor(严谨).〞
27. What contributed to huma ns’ being ticklish〔易痒的〕 according to Aristotle?
A. Their special skin.
B. Their social pleasure.
C. Their nervous system.
D. Their willingness to touch.
28. Why did the researchers make use of electrical currents?
A. To discover the special group of nerve cells.
B. To experiment on different animals.
C. To follow the process of tickling.
D. To prove their finding.
29. Which of the following statements will Jeffrey Burgdorf agree with?
A. The research process is full of risks.
B. The finding of the study is surprising and unbelievable.
C. The new discovery is beneficial for the study of emotion.
D. The finding of the study actually contradicts modern science.
30. What is the best title for the text?
A. The Life of Rats
B. How Rats Laugh
C. A Wonderful Scientist
D. A New Discovery about Rats
第二节七选五〔一共5小题；每一小题2分，满分是10分〕
The ability to stay positive is one of the most important skills for us. Why is this? The reason is that we will spend most of our lives setting and trying to achieve goals. Everyone has dreams. Everyone wants to know deep down inside that they were put here to do something great. ___31___ The second you set a goal, difficulties will begin to appear to stand in your way. Most people let these challenges rob them of the life they really want.
If you want to achieve greatness, if you want to experience the best life possible, then be prepared to get knocked down over and over. ___32___ This explains why there are so many people who have stopped trying to reach their dreams.
So how do you remain positive regardless of what type of challenge you are facing? It all comes down to how you choose to respond to any situation as well as what you decide to focus on. No matter how bad your situation is, you can always find something good in it.___33___
If you keep focusing on how bad you have it, how are things supposed to get any better? ___34___Of course it is. If this is true, why even bother thinking positively?
That is because if you do, you have a chance to make things better. If you don’t, things will usually get a lot worse.
Realize that challenges are a part of life. ___35___ It’s what makes reaching a goal worth it. If you were able to get everything you wanted without even trying, the victory wouldn’t taste as sweet.
A. Everyone will have to go through them.
B. Staying positive can be beneficial in many ways.
C. Staying positive during situations like this is not easy.
D. You can do things like reading positive books or listening to positive songs.
E .Is it possible to be positive and still have your circumstances get even worse?
F. However, the problem is that life is tough.
G. So what you can do is start focusing on what is good.
第三局部语言知识运用〔一共两节，满分是45分〕
第一节完形填空〔一共20小题；每一小题1.5分，满分是30分〕
I went with some colleagues from my office for a dinner in a very popular local restaurant. It was ___36___ business time and the restaurant was packed. We ___37___ found a table in a corner for three of us.
As soon as we sat down, we heard a crash when a cleaning boy ___38___ the floor with all the plates he was carrying. There was ___39___ and no one was saying or doing anything.
In a flash I remembered my ___40___ many years ago. Once, I ___41___ in the airport
because I had rushed there on my own on an empty stomach. I was picked up and taken care of by two ___42___. Now this was my chance to ___43___ it forward.
I ran to the young man’s side immediately, turned him on his back and screamed for someone to ___44___ a hot drink. Soon people started asking if I was a doctor.
I said I was not, ___45___ I was skillful at blacking out(晕厥).
The kid soon opened his eyes, ___46___ what had happened. I ___47___ him by saying it was OK and I had had a ___48___ experience. He had not eaten anything. I held the ___49___ drink to his mouth till he finished it and sat with him till he felt OK. By then the ___50___ had arrived. I asked her to give the kid something to eat. I offered to pay.
The manager was kind enough to refuse the ___51___ and agreed to make sure the kid ate before he went home. By the time all this was ___52___ it was getting late for my colleagues. We hadn’t ___53___ anything yet, so they decided to go home.
I slowly walked home, not hungry any more, feeling ___54___ for the opportunity I pay forward the ___55___ I had received many years ago.
36. A. peak B. local C. spare D. regular
37. A. actually B. finally C. eagerly D. gradually
38. A. kicked B. touched C. hit D. swept
39. A. silence B. danger C. doubt D. tension
40. A. adventure B. flight C. experience D. lesson
41. A. showed up B. walked around C. settled down D. passed out
42. A. friends B. strangers C. colleagues D. relatives
43. A. pay B. return C. take D. put
44. A. order B. buy C. serve D. bring
45. A. and B. so C. because D. but
46. A. knowing B. wondering C. ignoring D. arguing
47. A. reminded B. comforted C. answered D. encouraged
48. A. memorable B. personal C. similar D. common
49. A. cool B. refreshing C. sweet D. warm
50. A. customer B. manager C. waitress D. doctor
51. A. payment B. reward C. suggestion D. support
52. A. up B. away C. over D. behind
53. A. prepared B. demanded C. received D. ordered
54. A. ready B. anxious C. grateful D. comfortable
55. A. kindness B. honor C. inspiration D. service
第二节〔一共10小题，每一小题1.5分，满分是15分〕
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容〔1个单词〕或者括号内单词的正确形式〔不超过3个〕。

If you make a career choice while you are still in high school, you will save time and money in the long run. Students who do not plan ahead may delay starting college or take extra courses ____56____(give) themselves time to make up their ___57___(mind). U.S. News and World Reports ____58____(say) that the average annual tuition at a four-year college is $ 35,000. If you spend ____59____ extra year in
school, you may have to take out additional loans or pay extra money to cover the cost.
Choosing a career while you are in high school also gives you time to explore your ____60____(choose) industry. If you find a career ____61____ sounds interesting, you can follow someone in the field and see what it is ___62___(real) like to have that job. You can also apply ____63____ a chance to get an informal position related to your desired industry. This will help you build a professional network even before you graduate from high school. Professional contacts are very ____64____(value), especially when you are looking for a job in your field. If you do as much as you can to build a network ___65___ you are ready for a job, you will be more likely to succeed.。