高二英语12月阶段性检测试题

山西省太原市第五中学2016-2017学年高二英语12月阶段性检测试题I. 阅读理解(共30分)第一节（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

AOn a Saturday night at home while relaxing with friends, a dog showed up at the house. In an attempt to find the legal owner and return the dog, we knocked on the door of the legal owner and an old man opened the door. This was the start of an interesting week.The old man sat down, made himself at home, and gifted us the dog. After a brief visit, he left, and we were now the proud owners of this dog. It takes experience and knowledge to know that our lifestyle can’t satisfy the needs of this dog; the owner that gifted us the dog was mismatched for him as well.Three attempts to return the dog to his old owner failed. (I think he was avoiding us.) Because our lifestyle didn’t allow us to give this poor dog the attention he needed, he disturbed the neighbors. They got involved. After we shared the story, they gained a new perspective and wisely stepped in to help us find a solution.One week later it was decided that dog would be picked up from us by the old neighbor. He would then return it to the previous owner who was more equipped to care for it.When faced with unexpected challenges in life, it helps to see everyone’s perspective.W e have to look at one another’s perspective to solve a problem with honesty, experience and knowledge. That’s the sign of a leader. Although the old neighbor typically has little to do with leadership, it did bring a neighborhood together to understand one another and work as a team to solve a problem.1. Why was the dog taken to the author’s home?A. T o find food to eat.B. To seek a proper owner.C. The author was friendly to him.D. The old man couldn’t feed him.2.What did the author find after he was gifted with the dog?A. He didn’t like the dog at all.B. He could deal with dog easily.C. The old neighbor was cheating him.D. It was unsuitable for him to keep the dog.3. What does the author intend to stress in the text?A. The value of team spirit.B. The smartness of the old neighbor.C. The importance of leadership skills.D. The need for calmness in front of challenges.BI was always blamed for watching too much cartoons. As I have said goodbye to my teenage, I shift to watching more movies to prove that I was a grown-up. Surprisingly, Ifound that movies have something in common with cartoons. They are unrealistic.Sometimes movies give people hope, including the hope of justice, the hope of tomorrow and almost everything else. A great number of people were once touched by certain movies. From time to time, movies try to deliver some decisive ideas to the audience. In this way, movies do cheer up many people to go on with their lives.It seems that there is a set formula in movies. We usually see the hero or heroine in the movies suffer a lot in the opening. Gradually and likely, the destination of them always comes to a turning point. So they have to struggle or make some important choices. Then the movie ends up with a happy finale. Or at least the hero finally manages to face his poor life with great courage somehow. However, when audience watch movies in the cinema, most of them just follow the story. Few of the m may ask, “Will it happen in the real life？”Movies are also imitating the real life. Thus a movie, just like a novel, can never be the same as the real life. The setting of a movie is so ideal that we could hardly find it out in reality. The moviemakers just try their best to persuade the audience to believe the story is true. In a word, it is all just make-believe.For quite a long time, I think that the adults’ world is realistic in the opposite way of the children’s cartoon. However, the movies from th e adult world turn out to be a made-up thing. At the very moment, I suddenly realize that movies are somewhat of the adult’s fairy tales or cartoons.To sum up, other than false comfort such as movies and tales, we are more in need of the maturity of mind, so that we can face our lives bravely and correctly.4. With time going on, the author shifts to watching more movies because he thinksthat_____.A．they give him hope of justice and tomorrow in lifeB．they are for adult and that he is now an adultC．they help him forget the real worldD．they are similar to cartoons he used to watch5．Which of the following is true about the type of movies the author mentions? A．The hero or heroine simply has met no difficulty at all.B．The hero or heroine is able to deal successfully with any problems. C．Sometimes there are cartoon characters in the movies.D．The audience know they are simply foolish stories.6．The underlined word “make-believe” in Paragraph 4 probably means_____. A．something imagined to be realB．something too ideal to believeC．a happy ending all the audience desireD．a belief that is based on facts7．According to the author, which of the following is the side effect of the movies? A．People may be confused by them.B．Movies can usually improve real life.C．Film fans just follow the movie stories.D．False comfort may mislead the audience.CTulips(郁金香) are the national flower of Iran and Turkey. The European name for the flower is a misuse of the Persian word for turban(头巾), a mistake probably arising in the common Turkish custom of wearing flowers in the folds of the turban. Alternatively, the misuse may have arisen because this eastern flower, when not yet in full bloom, looks like a turban. In Persia, to give a red tulip was to declare your love for someone. The black center of the red tulip was said to represent the lover’s heart, burned to a coal by love’s passion.Originally growing in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), tulips were imported into Holland in the sixteenth century. When Carolus Clusius wrote the first major book on tulips in 1592, they became so popular that the tulips in his garden were stolen from time to time. As the Dutch Golden Age grew, so did this colorful flower. They were commonly seen in paintings and at festivals. In the mid-seventeenth century, tulips even created the first economics bubble（泡沫经济）, known as “Tulip Mania”. At that time, tulips were so expensive that they were used as money until the market for them crashed.Today, Holland is still known for its tulips and other flowers, often sincerely called “the flower shop of the world.” Tulips are planted in great fields of beautiful color, and transform the landscape into a sea of different colors. Tulip festivals are held throughout the country in spring. However, the most well-known tulip festival is organized in the Noordoostpolder, a province in the central Netherlands, each year. Held in the middle ofthe tulip fields, this flower festival runs from late April to early May. The Dutch people took their love of tulips abroad when they settled, and tulips and tulip festivals are now found in New York and Michigan, where the connection to their Dutch roots is still very strong.8. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the first paragraph?A. The origin of tulips.B. The meaning of tulips.C. What tulips look like.D. How tulips were name d.9. What can we learn from the text?A. Carolus Clusius’ book made people import tulips into Holland.B. Holland is called “the flower shop of the world” because of the tulip.C. The tulip festival in the Noordoostpolder is sometimes held indoors.D. Holland is not the birthplace of tulips.10. What is the last paragraph mainly about?A. The Dutch people’s lo ve of tulips.B. Tulip festivals in Holland and abroad.C. Noordoostpolder, the tulip shop of the world.D. Tulips and the landscape of Holland.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。