重庆市杨家坪中学高一英语下学期第二次月考(6月)试题

重庆市杨家坪中学2014-2015学年度高一下期第二次月考英语试题考试时间：120分钟总分：150分第Ⅰ卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分钟）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 does the woman plan to do?A. Stay at schoolB. Visit her family.C. Go camping.2.What is the man doing?A. Applying for a job.B. Watching a movieC. Making a joke.3.Why can’t the speakers go on the trip?A. The man’s uncle died.B. The man got sick.C. Th e woman has to attenda meeting.4.What does the man mean?A. Benjamin is very honest.B. Benjamin often breaks his words.C. Benjamin is serious about his work.5.What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Classmates.B. Colleagues.C. Teacher and student. 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，每小题将给出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至7题。

6.What did the speakers eat when they were young?A. Very healthy bread.B. Bread made with no ingredients.C. Bread with a lot of artificial things in it.7.What does the man want to make?A. A pizza.B. A sandwichC. A whole loaf of bread. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8.Where did the man grow up?A. In the countryside.B. In a small town.C. In a city9.What do the speakers see in the street?A. Kids playing ball.B. Nice shops.C. A lot of trash.10.What was the main industry in the city before?A. ClothesB. GlassC. Cars.听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11.How does the woman feel about the man’s behavior at first?A. Understandable.B. Unbelievable.C. Unhealthy.12.What animals did the man’s friends have?A. Horses.B. PigsC. Sheep.13.What made the man decide to eat differently?A. He read about being a vegetarian.B. He saw a chicken being killed.C. He didn’t like his mother’s cooking.听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14.What kind of food does the man want to eat?A. ThaiB. Italian.C. Indian.15.What does the woman suggest first?A. Going to a big city to find the right spices.B. Looking around the local market.C. The man should learn how to cook the food himself.16.Where do the speakers live?A. In Australia.B. In America.C. In England.17.Who may the woman ask for help?A. The man’s brother.B. The man’s uncle.C. Her mother.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

`18. Which word can be used to describe the New York subway?A. OldB. BoringC. Slow.19.Why did Rosie Ruiz get on the subway?A. She was tired of running.B. She wanted to go home.C. She wanted to win a race.20.What happened in the 1960s?A. The trains ran much faster.B. The subway became dangerous.C. The trains started running underground.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中（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

AHarry is eighteen now. He studies in a middle school. His parents like him very much and hope he can become a famous man. So they often tell him to study hard and they do all for him. They call him at six in the morning, after breakfast his father takes him to school in a car and in the afternoon, as soon as the young man comes back, the super is ready. Of course, he never washes his colthes or goes to buy something in the shops.Once Harry’s father was sent to London on business, he would stay there for half a year. Leaving, he told his wife to take good care of their son. The woman had to get up earlier and did all what her husband did before. And two months later she was so tired that she was ill in bed. Now the young man got into trouble. He couldn’t do any housework. He had to do as his mother told him. Even he didn’t know whereto get on the bus!Yesterday Harry’s mother found his shoes were worn out and told him to buy a new pair in the shop. But he didn’t know how to choose. The woman had a sigh(叹息) and gave him a shoe pattern(鞋样) and told him to but a pair of shoes himself. With a policeman’s help, he found a shop. The shopkeeper was friendly to him. The man brought a lot of shoes and asked him to choose. When he was trying on a pair, suddenly he remembered something and took them off. The man was surprised and asked, “What’s the matter, young man?”“I’m sorry, I’ve left the shoe pattern at home!”21． always does some housework in the morning?A. Harry’s fatherB. Harry’s motherC. HarryD. Nobody22．Harry’s parents do all for him because ____.A. he’s too youngB. he has poor healthC. he’s always busy with his studiesD. they hope he spends all time on studies23．The woman had to look after her son by herself because ___.A.her husband wasn’t at homeB. she was stronger than her husbandC. she knew the young man wellD. she was freer than her husband 24．When the man was in London, ?A. Harry had to stay at homeB. Harry didn’t find the bus stopC. Harry fell behind in his classD. Harry wouldn’t go to schoolBEach time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. “Yes, honey. Of course.” She said.“Can we write him a letter?”She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, “Yes.”My heart jumped, “How? Does the mailman go there?” I asked.“No, but I have an idea.” Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for.“ Just wait, honey. You’ll see.” Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink.I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face.She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped the balloon string. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds.Later I realized, like the balloon , that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he’d persevere, dart up, and finallytranscend this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was he reditary. I prayed to be a balloon.25．When the girl asked her mother if they could write to her father, her mother . A．felt it hard to answerB．thought her a creative girlC．believed it easy to do soD．found it easy to lie26．When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she .A．jumped with joyB．became excitedC．started writing immediatelyD．was worried that it couldn’t be delivered27．In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like?A．An incurable diseaseB．An unforgettable memoryC．The hard time her father hadD．The failures her father experiencedCThere are several reasons for hair loss in women. However, in most cases, treatment is quite effective. Female hair loss patterns in women are not as easily recognizable as they are in men. A woman may experience it temporarily due to pregnancy or illness, although they may experience it for other reasons.Hair loss can be due to a variety of factors, including a genetic tendency (which is not genetically linked to just one parent—both parents contribute to the tendency to lose hair).Women who are experiencing hair problems seem to have more limited choices than men. There are some female hair loss treatments that are available such as the Tricomin System which is a topical treatment that is nutrition based. Shen Min for Women is another natural treatment that contains herbs ( 药草) that are said to stimulate(刺激) hair growth and even restore hair that is graying to its natural color.The majority of the popular, proven hair loss treatments are only intended for men and are not suitable for women. True, a woman’s hair issue is different from a man’s. The biological makeup is different and the needs are different. Women have different needs and their bodies react in different ways to environmental changes, physical illness and even the treatments that are available. There are many natural treatments such as vitamin and mineral supplements that are said to stimulate hair growth, but, for the most part, these claims are currently unproven.One of the first and most important factors to effectively treating is to get a diagnosis from a doctor. Talk to your doctor about any symptoms(症状) that you may be experiencing in addition to the thinning hair. Stress, weight loss or gain, illness and depression, all of these can be contributing factors.28. It can be learned from the 1st paragraph that ___________.A. usually hair loss is hard to healB. female hair loss is more common than the men’sC. women tend to suffer from hair loss during the pregnant periodD. only illness contributes to hair loss29. Which of the following statements matches the text about the two treatments?A. Both are to solve the problem of male hair loss.B. Tricomin System is effective in speeding the growth of the new hairC. Shen Min is an updated way of treating hair lossD. The former is nutrition-based, while the latter is medicine-based.30. The reasons for the differences between the female and male hair loss problemsdo not include _______.A. The biological structure and composition of the hairB. The wants and needsC. The reactions and responses to the outside changesD. The approach to taking exercise31. The natural treatments __________.A. include vitamin and mineral supplementsB. are applied to keep the hair healthyC. have been proved usefulD. are the most commonly-used waysDIt is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr. Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators(评论员) fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that, as the English weather is not at all exciting, the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that to an outsider, the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive. Bryson is wrong, he says, “because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena(现象).”The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English. Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. English weather-speak is a system of signs, which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. Rather, they are routine greetings, conversationstarters or the blank “fillers”. In other words, English weather-speak is a means of social bonding.32.The author mentions Dr. Johnson’s comment to show that________.A. most commentators agree with Dr. JohnsonB. Dr. Johnson is famous for his weather observationC. the comment was accurate two hundred years agoD. English conversations usually start with the weather33. What does the underlined word ”obsession” most probably refer to?A.A social trend.B. An emotional state.C.A historical concept.D. An unknown phenomenon.34.According to the passage, Jeremy Paxman believes that________.A. Bill Bryson has little knowledge of the weatherB. there is nothing special about the English weatherC. the English weather attracts people to the British IslesD. English people talk about the weather for its uncertainty35.What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?A. To explain what English weather-speak is about.B. To analyse misconceptions about the English weather.C. To find fault with both Bill Bryson and Jeremy Paxman.D. To convince people that the English weather is changeable.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。