2021年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题

2021年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题
Ⅰ、语言知识及运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—15各题所给的A、B、C、D选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Twenty years ago, when I was nine, my family and some friends took a trip. During the trip some members of the group felt 21 , so we stopped at a small stand. Everyone lined up to buy their food. However, after I finished eating, I was still a little hungry and wanted some 22 . Soon I was sure my parents wouldn’t 23 me any candy. "I have to think of a plan," I thought. Then an old lady 24 to buy something she wanted, and would have to get back in line. I knew what I could do. So I rushed to her and volunteered my 25 . She 26 and gave me a $20 bill to get some chips.
When I reached the stand, I found nobody from our group was around. Then I spent the whole $20 buying the candy. I thought 27 , "I have almost bought all the candies for the next century!" But then, I 28 I should explain to the old lady why I bought no chips and where the whole bill had gone. Suddenly, an idea occurred to me. So I shouted, "I was robbed!" Upon 29 this, the old lady rushed to me to see if I 30 any harm. However, my parents just stayed behind, without any words. With so much candy being found in my bag, they knew I was 31 ！When my daddy
stared at me angrily, I knew I had to tell the 32 . As a result, I was
blamed and had to apologize to the old lady for my 33 action. Later, I had to work during the whole summer holiday to 34 the old lady back that $20. From this 35 , I learned a lesson. I also promised that I would never do it again in the future.
1．A. angry B. hungry C. bored D. exhausted 2．A. juice B. candy C. money D. chips
3．A. buy B. lend C. leave D. show
4．A. reminded B. remembered C. promised D. forgot
5．A. opinion B. service C. mind D. decision
6．A. argued B. considered C. agreed D. doubted
7．A. fearfully B. regretfully C. excitedly D. hopefully
8．A. hoped B. realized C. discovered D. approved 9．A. watching B. telling C. finding D. hearing
10．A. made B. received C. meant D. accepted
11．A. assisting B. joking C. lying D. stealing
12．A. condition B. truth C. situation D. case
13．A. humorous B. generous C. dishonest D. admirable
14．A. offer B. afford C. pass D. pay
15．A. experiment B. appointment C. punishment D. experience
第二节语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当
的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡上标号为16—25的相应
位置上。

Now many singers and bands have little to do with good music. They know little about __16_ good music means. What is the cause?
Most of these singers so far 17 (see) music as a “job” be cause it is a good source of making money. And if you have a good 18 (appear) and also original or expensive clothes to show off at your concerts then your voice is not 19 important as it should be. The public will prefer to admire more the most interesting parts of your body and even forget that you are there __20 (show) your music skills, not your dancing, which is important too, but not at such a high level.
Therefore, many young girls on TV choose to wear the most provocative (挑
逗性的) clothes to catch attention, but when it es to singing they are in 21 plete mess and one doesn’t need to have an ear __22__ music to notice their lack
of talent.
However, the young generation should understand talent and a good voice matter more in their musical career. All the bands 23 have little to do with good music fail to be viewed as __24 (succeed) on stage. If a young man has a great voice and wants to bee a singer, he should take some special courses in this area, because they will help 25__ improve singing abilities.
Ⅱ、阅读（共两节，满分50分）
第一节：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面几篇文章，从媒体所给的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A
A woman renewing her driver’s license at the County Clerk’s office was asked to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself.
“What I mean is,” explained the recorder, “do you have a job, or are you just a …”
“Of course I have a job,” said Emily. “I’m a mother.”
“We don’t list ‘mother’ as an occupation… ‘housewife’ covers it,” said the recorder.
One day I found myself in the same situation. The clerk was obviously a career woman, confident and possessed of a high sounding title．“What is your occupation?” she asked.
The words simply popped out. “I’m a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk paused, ballpoint pen frozen in midair.
I repeated the title slowly, and then I stared with wonder as my statement was written in bold, black ink on the official questionnaire.
“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest,“Just what you do in this field?”
Coolly, without any trace of panic（恐慌，惊慌） in my voice, I heard myself reply, “I have a continuing program of research (what mother doesn’t）, in the lab and in the field (normally I would have said indoors and out). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in the humanities (any mother care to disagree?), and I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most careers and rewards are more of a satisfaction rather than just mon ey.”
There was an increasing note of respect in the clerk’s voice as she pleted the form, stood up, and showed me out.
As I drove into our driveway, buoyed up (依托) by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants---ages 13, 7 and 3.
Upstairs I could hear our new experimental model (a 6 month old baby), in the child-development program, testing out a new vocal pattern．
I felt proud! I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable (不可缺少的) to mankind than “just another mother.”
Motherhood…What a glorious career! Especially when there’s a title on the door.
26. What can we infer from the conversation between the woman and the recorder
at the beginning of the passage?
A. The woman felt ashamed to admit what her job was.
B. The recorder was impatient and rude.
C. The author was upset about the situation that mothers faced.
D. Motherhood was not recognized and respected as a job by society.
27. How did the female clerk feel at first when the author told her occupation?
A. curious
B. puzzled
C. indifferent
D. interested
28. How did the author feel when describing her job to the clerk?
A. calm
B. panic-stricken
C. confident
D. cool
29. Why did the woman clerk show more respect for the author?
A. Because the author cared little about rewards.
B. Because she admired the author’s research work in the lab.
C. Because she thought the author did admirable work.
D. Because the writer did something she had little knowledge of.
30. What is the author’s purpo se of writing the passage?
A. To show how you describe your job affects your feelings toward it.
B. To argue that motherhood is a worthy career and deserves respect.
C. To show that the author had a grander job than Emily.
D. To show that being a mother is hard and boring work.
B
No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada.
In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people: as we get older, many of us will bee less mobile, hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.
Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others bee disabled as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they bee. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period of disability in the form of a mental illness. All are affected by people's attitude towards them.
Disabled people face many physical barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends, imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps, or on to buses and trains. How would you cope if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers: prejudice can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability, not their disability, which counts.
31. The first paragraph points out that ________.
A. there are many disabled people in the world
B. the number of disabled people in India is the greatest
C. India has much more disabled people than Canada
D. it is impossible to get an exact figure of the world’s disabled people
32. The key word in Paragraph 4 is _______.
A. disability
B. ignorance
C. prejudice
D. barriers
33. The last word of the passage “counts” more probably means ___________.
A. is most important
B. is considered
C. is included
D. is numbered
34. Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Even the able-bodied many lose some of their body functions when they get older
B. There are about 10 percent disabled persons in the UK
C. The whole society should pay due attention to the barriers faced by the disabled people
D. There still exists prejudice against the disabled which results mainly from ignorance
35. It can be concluded from the passage that _________.
A. we should try our best to prevent disablement
B. both physical and mental barriers are hard to break down
C. we must take a proper attitude towards the disabled
D. the able-bodied people will never fully understand the disabled
C
Life is difficult.
This is a great truth because once we truly understand and accept it. Then life is no longer difficult.
Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they plain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, or even their nation.
What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness, or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are unfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
Yet, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious test that tells us success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, those things that hurt, instruct. It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to wele the pain of problems.
36. From the passage, it can be inferred that ______.
A. everybody had problems
B. we bee stronger by meeting and solving the problems of life
C. life id difficult because our problems bring us pain
D. people like to plain about their problems
37. The writer probably used just one short sentence in the first paragraph to _______.
A. save space
B. persuade readers
C. make readers laugh
D. get readers’ attention
38. The main idea of Paragraph 3 is that _______.
A. most people feel life is easy
B. the writer feels life is easy
C. the writer likes to plain about his problems
D. most people plain about his problems.
39. According to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve
in order to ____________.
A. encourage them to learn
B. teach tem to fear the pain of solving the problem
C. help them learn to deal with pain
D. teach them how to respect from problems
40. The saying from Benjamin Franklin “Those things that hurt, instruct” suggests that _______.
A. we do not learn from experience
B. we do not learn when we are in pain
C. pain teaches us important lessons
D. pain cannot be avoided
D
Whether we’re 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a child’s lie is different from an adult’s lie, and how the way we deceive changes as we grow.
“Parents and teachers who catch their children lying should not be alarmed. Their children are not going to turn out to be abnormal liar s,” says Dr. Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto and director of the Institute of Child Study. He has spent the last 15 years studying how lying changes as kids get older, why some people lie more than others as well as which factors can reduce lying. The fact that children tell lies is a sign that they have reached a new developmental stage. Dr. Lee conducted a series of studies in which they bring children into a lab with hidden cameras. Children and young adults aged 2 to 17 are likely to lie w hile being told not to look at a toy, which is put behind the child’s back. Whether or not the child takes a secret look is caught on tape.
For young kids, the desire to cheat is big and 90% take a secret look in these experiments. When the test-giver returns to the room, the child is asked if he or she looked secretly. At age 2, about a quarter of children will lie and say they didn’t. By 3, half of kids will lie, and by 4, that figure is 90%, studies show.
Researchers have found that it’s kids with better understanding abilities who lie more. That’s because to lie you also have to keep the truth in mind, which includes many brain processes, such as bining several sources of information and faking that information. The ability to lie —and lie successfully —is thought to be related to development of brain regions that allow so called “executive functioning”, or higher order thinking and reasoning abilities. Kids who perform better on tests that involve executive functioning also lie more.
41. What’s the pu rpose of children telling lies?
A. To help their friends out.
B. To get rid of trouble.
C. To get attention from others.
D. To create a popular image.
42. The underlined word “deceive” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “”.
A. tell lies
B. handle troubles
C. raise questions
D. do research
43. From the second paragraph we can know that .
A. which factors can reduce lying
B. why some lie more than others
C. it is normal for kids to tell lies
D. how lying changes as kids grow
44. It can be inferred from the passage that .
A. children’s lies are the same as adults’
B. the better kids are, the more they lie
C. the older kids are, the more they lie
D. kids always keep the truth in their mind
45. What is NOT included in the passage?
A. The reasons why kids tell lies
B. Which kind of kids tells more lies
C. Experiments about lying of young kids
D. What to do with lying children 第二节信息匹配（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

请阅读伦敦博物馆将要举行的系列讲座的基本信息：
A
Lecturer: Professor Jennifer Jenkins
The Million Women Study
Wednesday, 28 May xx - 6:00 pm
Museum of London
Subject: Health, Medical science
B
Lecturer: Professor Catherine Fisk
Women in Red
Tuesday, 4 March xx - 6:00 pm
Museum of London
Subject: Art and literature, History, Religion
C
Lecturer: Professor Michael Carroll
How modern scientific knowledge helps to prevent blindness
Wednesday, 26 February xx - 6:00 pm
Museum of London
Subject: Medical science, Vision and the eye
D
Lecturer: Professor Justin Hughes
Designing IT to make Healthcare Safer
Tuesday, 11 February xx - 6:00 pm
Museum of London
Subject: Disease history, Health
E
Lecturer: Professor Arti Rai
How the Earth Moves
Wednesday, 2 April xx - 1:00 pm
Museum of London
Subject: Astronomy, Science
F
Lecturer: Professor Koleman Strumpf
What’s Happened to Childhood?
Thursday, 6 February xx - 6:00 pm
Museum of London
Subject: 20th century history, Heritage, History 以下是上述系列讲座的简介。

请将讲座的简介与讲座的基本信息匹配起来。

46．This lecture about women in red considers the visual representation of the fallen women, whose fashionable dress in the nineteenth century had a moral dimension. It introduces the theme of the morality and modernity of fashion.
47．This lecture will draw on a national study of millions of women’s health in cooperation with Cancer Research UK and the National Health Service, aiming to answer many outstanding questions about the factors affecting women’s health.
48．This lecture focuses on puter and IT systems in hospitals, the sixth biggest killer ahead of road accidents, including mobile devices, what’s wrong with them and how they can be improved. Such problems are mon, and by no means limited to health care.
49．This lecture focuses on our spaceship Earth is in constant motion. This is
a story of our evolving understanding of the geography of Earth’s position
in space - a story of astrometry from the ancient Greeks to the most modern satellite, Gaia.
50．The new exciting technologies are likely to play an increasing role in eye-care.
What they are likely to achieve will be discussed in this lecture. Gene
treatment and other ways have all been studied as potential treatments for
a variety of eye diseases.
Ⅲ、写作（共2题，满分40分）
第一节：基础写作（共1题，满分15分）
【写作内容】
请根据以下内容介绍广东气候:
1.对比北方，广东的气候冬不寒夏不热，春秋连在一起，适宜居住。

2.全年温暖湿润，冬天最低温度为7摄氏度，最冷的1—2月份平均气温也有14摄氏度。

3.夏天最高温度只有36摄氏度，最热的6—8月份平均温度才28摄氏度。

4.每年的5月到10月是雨季。

5.但是，随着环境污染的日趋严重，广东也不时受到极端天气的影响。

参考词汇：摄氏度degree centigrade 平均的average 极端的extreme
【写作要求】
只能用5个句子表达全部内容。

【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。

第二节：读写任务（共1题，满分25分）
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

One day, Zeng’s wife decided to go out for shopping, but her little son insisted on going with her to the market. Thinking that she would e back very soon, and that the naughty boy would bring her a lot of trouble, she was unwilling to do so.
In order to persuade the boy to stay home, she told him, “Oh, e on, good boy, if you listen to Mom and then Mom will give you a present when I am back.”“What present are you going to give me, Mom?” asked the son.
“We haven’t eaten meat for a long time, so I will kill our pig and let you enjoy a big nice dinner.” The mother forted the boy when it happened that their pig was wandering in front of the house. Just at that time, her husband came back and heard what she said. Thinking of the nice meal, the boy gave in.
Not very soon, the mother came back, but what she saw shocked her. It was her husband who had killed the only pig of the poor family.
“Why did you kill it? You know that it is very important for my family.” she scolded him.
“I did that just for your promise!” Mr. Zeng answered.
1. 以约30个词概括这则中国寓言故事“曾子”的品质；
2. 以约120个词，从“曾子”或者“曾子之妻”的行为任选一个角度发表你的看法，
并包括如下要点:
(1) 你认为“曾子”或者“曾子之妻”的不同的做法对孩子的教育会导致的结果是什么样的，并说出理由；
(2) 叙述你一次诚实守信的经历，并谈谈你的感受。

1．可以使用实例来支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容论述，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
2．标题自定。

【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。

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