湖北省宜昌市金东方高级中学2015-2016学年高二9月月考英语试题

宜昌金东方高级中学2015年秋季学期9月月考高二英语试题命题：陈攀峰审题：熊万琼本试题卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。

满分150分。

考试时间120分钟。

★祝考试顺利★第一卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，现将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5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. What is the man speaker?A. A bank clerk.B. A passer-by.C. A driver.2. Where does the conversation probably take place?A. In the police station.B. In the post office.C. In thebooking office.3. How many physics classes a week are there in the new term?A. Two.B. Three.C. Four.4. What is the woman going to do?A. To see the man smile.B. To take a photo of the man.C. To take out the film.5. How does the man feel when knowing what he has done?A. Amazed.B. Upset.C. Terrified.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. How many kinds of games of football are there?A. 3.B. 6.C. 12.7. What does the woman like?A. American football.B. Basketball.C. Soccer.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. Who answers the telephone?A. Tom.B. Susan’s husband.C. Susan.9. When is Tom going to New Zealand?A. In two weeks.B. In a couple of months.C. In half a year.10. Where are they going to meet?A. At Susan’s.B. At Tom’s.C. In New Zealand.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. What’s the most probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Father and daughter.B. Classmates.C. Boss and secretary.12. What are they mainly talking about?A. The weather in the south.B. The coming Spring Festival.C. People affected by the bad weather.13. What will they most probably do next?A. Go to the south.B. Attend a meeting.C. Join the StudentUnion.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What’s the charge of the room with a membership?A. 22 dollars.B. 25 dollars.C. 28 dollars.15. How can one have a membership card?A. Pay 22 dollars to an international hostel.B. Stay in an international hostel for six nights.C. Just apply for it free.16. Where are the tourists’ brochures?A. Next to the kitchen.B. On the third floor.C. Above the kitchen. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Whom is the speaker speaking to?A. Students.B. Teachers.C. Reporters.18. How often does the Voice come out each week?A. Every other day.B. Every day.C. On weekends.19. What’s the best reason for taking the job according to the speaker?A. To learn to type.B. To enjoy oneself.C. To make somemoney.20. When are volunteers expected to start working?A. Tomorrow.B. Immediately.C. Next week.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、D）中选出最佳答案。

ALow­Cost Gifts for Mother’s DayGift No.1Offer to be your mother’s health friend. Promise to be there for any and all doctor’s visits whether a disease or a regular medical check­up.Most mothers always say “no need，” but another set of eyes and ears is always a good idea at a doctor’s visit. The best part? This one is free.Gift No.2Help your mother organize all of her medical records，which include the test results and medical information. Put them all in one place. Be sure to make a list of all of her medicines and what times she takes them. “Having all this information in one place could end up saving your mother’s life，” Dr. Marie Savard said.Gift No.3Enough sleep is connected to general health conditions. “Buy your mother cotton sheets and comfortable pillows to encourage better sleep,” Savard said. “We know that good sleep is very important to our health.”Gift No.4Some gift companies such as Presents for Purpose allow you to pay it forward this Mother’s Day by picking gifts in which 10 percent of the price you pay goes to a charity (慈善机构)．Gift givers can choose from a wide variety of useful but inexpensive things －many of which are “green”－and then choose a meaningful charity from a list. When your mother gets the gift，she will be told that she has helped the chosen charity.21．What are you advised to do for your mother at doctor’s visits?A．Take notes. B．Be with her.C．Buy medicine. D．Give her gifts.22．Where can you find a gift idea to improve your mother’s sleep?A．In Gift No.1. B．In Gift No.2.C．In Gift No.3. D．In Gift No.4.23．Buying gifts from Presents for Purpose allows mothers to________.A．enjoy good sleep B．be well­organ izedC．get extra support D．give others helpBIt’s a bicyclist’s dream: a bike that can’t be stolen. The Yerka, designed by three young Chilean engineering students, is the latest entry in a trend of bikes. They use their saddle seat as a lock. They can also use their handlebar（手柄）as a lock. But the inventors of the Yerka have made an improvement to it. The bike’s lower frame opens up into two arms that are then connected to the seat post and locked to a post, so thieves would have to destroy a Yerka to get it unlocked.“That’s why our motto is ‘A bike that gets stolen is no longer a bike’. What we have here is truly an unstealable bike,”said Cristobal Cabello, who came up with the design during a college engineering class with childhood friends Andres Roi Eggersand Juan Jose Monsalve.I n Chile and elsewhere in Latin America, the spread of cycling lanes, storage racks and bike share programs are encouraging people to change from cars to bikes , which are cheaper and environmentally friendly. Cristobal Galban said a study by his team in 2013 found that the use of bikes has doubled among Chileans in five years.T he main problem in Chile and elsewhere are the robberies. The most effective strategy commonly used in London today is to take the bike into the office with the rider. Other strategies involve using a bike that looks so unattractive that nobody will want to steal it. But now the Yerka can help solve the problem.N ow , while waiting for the patent（专利）to be approved and carrying out more tests, the team plans to raise funds. They’re also looking for a partner who can invest $300,000 needed to produce 1,000 bikes first that they hope will be sold by mid-2016.24. Which of the following is NOT true about the Yerka in Paragraph 1?A. It looks very attractiveB. It aims at not being stolenC. It leads the new trend of bikesD. It uses its saddle seat as a lock25. According to Cristobal Cabello, it can be inferred that the YerkaA. will be safe if it is fully usedB. will be broken if it gets stolenC. will be expensive if it gets repairedD. will not be stolen even if it is unlocked26. From the last paragraph, we can learn that the Yerka .A. doesn’t need a lot of moneyB. can’t be bought in the market yetC. will be popular with bike ridersD. will be affordable for ordinary people27. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Bikes in Chile can easily get stolenB. Chile is encouraging the use of bikesC. An expensive bike drew the world’s attentionD. Three Chileans designed an unstealable bikeCHorses are sensitive to the facial expressions and attention of other horses, including the direction of the eyes and ears. The findings, reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 4, are a reminder for us humans to look beyond our own limitations and recognize that other species may communicate in ways that we can’t, the researchers say. After all, human ears aren’t mobile.“Our study is the first to examine a potential cue(线索) to attention that humans do not have the ears,” says Jennifer Wathan of the University of Sussex. “Previous work investigating communication of attention in animals has focused on cues that humans use: body direction, head direction, and eye stare; no one else had gone beyond that. However, we found that in horses their ear position was also an important visual signal that other horses respond to. In fact, horses need to see the detailed facial features of both eyes and ears before they use another hors e’s head direction to guide them.”The new study also challenges the earlier held view that animals with eyes to the sides of their heads can’t gather information based on the direction of one another’ stare.Wathan and the study’s senior author Karen McCo mb took photographs to record cues given by horses when they were paying attention to something. Then Wathan and McComb use these photographs as life-sized models for other horses to look at as they chose between two feeding buckets. In each case, the horse in the photo was paying attention to one of the buckets and not the other. In some cases, the researchers also controlled the image to remove information from key facial areas, including the eyes and the ears.The researchers’ observations show that hor ses rely on the head direction of other horses to find food. However, that ability to read each other’s interest level is disrupted when parts of the face---the eyes and ears—are covered up with masks. The ability to correctly judge attention also varied depending on the identity of the horse pictured, suggesting that individual facial features may be important, the researchers report.28. What can we know from the first paragraph?A. Horses are the most sensitive animals.B. Researchers should have great creativity.C. People should learn to make their ears mobile.D. People should strengthen their communication with animals.29. The previous researchers focused on all the following EXCEPT______.A. body directionB. head directionC. ear directionD. eye direction30. Which of the following is WRONG according to the experiment?A. the horses in the photos the researchers used are as large as real horses.B. The researchers recorded horses’ reaction by means of photographing them.C. Horses’facial featu res may affect horses’ability to correctly judge attention.D. The horse pictured in the photograph was looking at both buckets at the same time.31. Before or during the experiment, the researchers_____.a. fed up the horsesb. got a camera readyc. take photos with horsesd. covered the eyes and ears of the horsesA. a, bB. b, cC. b, dD. a, cDYou never see him, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a megic book.They're known as the black box.When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine (潜水艇) detected the device's homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorderthat would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which became a requirement on all U.S. commercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the device （装置） was completely redesigned and moved to the back of the plane – the area least affected by impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落架舱). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations, and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments. Placed in an insulated ( 隔绝的) case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉. When in deep water, they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.32．In Paragraph 1，the author wants to say the black box_________.A. is an necessary device on an airplaneB. comes from a comic bookC. can prevent disastersD. can control the function of an airplane33．From the black box on the Yemeni airliner_________could be found.A. the scene of the crash and the degree of the damageB. the total number of passengers on boardC. data for analyzing the cause of the crashD. homing signals sent by the pilot before the crash34．Why was the black box redesigned in 1965?A. New materials became available by that time.B. The early models often got damaged in the crash.C. Too much space was needed for its device.D. The early models didn't provide the needed data.35．What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?A. There is still a good chance of their being recovered.B. There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.C. They have stopped sending homing signals.D.They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.第二节（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。