1、- 1 -高 2015 级 2016 年下期第二次月考英语试卷(全卷满分：150 分 完成时间：120 分钟)第一卷第一部分 听力(共两节，满分 30 分)做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。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 time is it now?A.7 :00. B. 7:30. C.
2、8:00.2. What will the woman probably do next?A. Call her neighbors.B. Call the fire department.C. Put out the fire.3. What was the weather like?A. Cloudy. B. Rainy. C. Snowy.4. Whats wrong with the man on the ground?A. He has a heart trouble. B. He has a car accident. C. He has a headache.5. What ca
3、n we know about the two speakers?A. They took the wrong bus.B. They lost their way.C. They couldnt find their map.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。每段对话或独自后有几个小题，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- 2 -前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出 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 6 至 7 题。6. H
4、ow is the man feeling now?A. Nervous. B. Confident. C. Excited.7. What does the man want the woman to do?A. To give him some advice.B. To prepare for the competition.C. To keep it a secret .听第 7 段材料，回答第 8 至 10 题。8. What has the man already packed in?A. A book B. A pair of shoes. C. An overcoat.9. Wh
5、at is the man preparing for?A. A visit to his grandfather.B. A travel abroad.C. A beach holiday.10. What does the man think of his mother?A. She is very helpful.B. She is worried too much.C. She is not easy to communicate with.听第 8 段材料，回答第 11-13 题。11. Whats the probable relationship between the spea
6、kers?A. Classmates.B. Father and daughter.C. Teacher and student.12. What probably caused Sophias failure?A. The universitys system lost her information.B. Her score was under the universitys requirement.C. She did not study hard enough.13. What does Sophia plan to do?- 3 -A. She plans to quit schoo
7、l.B. She plans to go to a vocational school instead.C. She plans to prepare for the exam next year.听第 9 段材料，回答第 14 至 16 题。14. How far is it from the airport to the hotel?A. It takes 25 minutes to walk from the airport to the hotel.B. It takes 25 minutes to take a taxi from the airport to the hotel.C
8、. It takes 15 minutes to drive from the airport to the hotel.15. How much should the woman pay if she reserves（预定） a single room for two days?A. 640 yuan. B. 480 yuan. C. 960 yuan.16. What can be known from the conversation?A. It is an international long-distance call . B. There is a shopping center
9、 in the hotel.C. The woman books one double room finally.听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。17.What does the author think of the dance Guanyin with 1， 000 Hands?A. Interesting. B. Beautiful. C. Difficult.18. How many hands are there in the dance actually?A. 40. B. 20. C. 1，000.19. How did Tai Lihua lose her he
10、aring?A. She lost her hearing from birth.B. It was caused by a car accident.C. It was caused by a high fever.20. Whats her fathers attitude towards Tai Lihuas disease?AHe gave up at last.BHe tried every way to help her.C. He considered her as a heavy burden.- 4 -第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第 1 节（共 15 小题；每
11、小题两分，满分 30 分）AHave you wondered why different animals or pests have their particular colours? Colours in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.Birds, especially seagulls are very fond of locusts (蝗虫), but birds cant easily catch locusts because locusts change their colours together with
12、the change of the colour of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But when crops are ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown colour as crops have. Some other pests with different colours from plants are usually easily found and eaten by their enemies. So they have to hide themselves
13、in terror for lives and appear only at night.If you study the animal life in any part of the world, you will find the main use of colouring is to protect them. Bears, wolves and other beasts move quietly through forests. They are usually invisible(cant be seen) to the eyes of hunters, because they h
14、ave the colour much like the bark（树皮）of trees.An even stranger act remains to be noticed. A kind of fish living in seas can send out a kind of very black liquid when it faces danger. While the liquid is over, its enemies cannot find it, and it quickly swims away. Thus, it has existed up to now thoug
15、h it is not powerful at all.21. This passage mainly talks about _. A. the change of colour in locusts B. animals or pests can dye（染色）themselves different colours C. how a certain sea fish protects itself D. the protective colour of animals and pests 22. Locusts are pests but they arent easily wiped
16、out by their enemies because_. A. they change colors with the crops B. they are dangerous to their enemies C. they fly very fast D. they are powerful enough 23. The pests that have different colours from plants usually appear at night because - 5 -_. A. they have the habit of coming out in darkness
17、B. their enemies can easily find them and eat them C. its easy for them to destroy plants in darkness D. birds take their rests when night comes 24. A certain fish living in seas has lived through millions of year because _. A. it is the most powerful in the sea B no other fishes can swim as fast as
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22、for you.- 6 -25. The text is meant to .A. leave a noteB. show a document(文件）C. carry an advertisement D. send an invitation26. What does the underlined part mean in paragraph one?A. Youll earn a good salary from this jobB. Youll arrive home just in time from this jobC. Youll succeed in getting this
23、jobD. Youll make others lives more meaningful with this job27. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?A. A girl cant get the position( 职位）B. You can get money from the positionC. You can get the position in 5 daysD. Free meals are available( 可得到的）CThe seven Harry Potter nove
24、ls are to be sold as e-books for the first time in October. Author J.K Rowling announced(宣布）the series would also be available as audio books through a new website, Pottermore.The website will also feature(使。 。 。有特色）new material which Rowling says she has been collecting for years. “ This is such a
25、great way to give something back to the fans who made Harry Potter such a huge success”, the author said.The Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies through Bloomsbury in Britain, and Scholastic in the United States. However, the e-books , which will be available in several langua
26、ges, will be published through Rowlings Pottermore Publishing, rather than her print publishers which do not own the digital rights(数字版权） 。Pottermore went live on 31 July, Harry Potters birthday. Rowling told the BBC that the new material was being released(发布）online, rather than in a new book, - 7
27、-because she did not have “a new story”. “Most of this writing is material I generated(创作）while I was writing the books earlier,” she said. “ It s a background, and lots of details. Some of it is new stuff in reply to things fans have asked me over the years.”The site, which Rowling said she had bee
28、n working on for two years, promises to immerse(使沉浸于）users in the boy wizards world, offering opportunities for computer gaming, social networking(网络）to all users from October.Rowling told reporters at the London Pottermore launch she had an intention of writing an eighth Harry Potter book.28. What
29、would be the best title for this text?A. Harry Potter Series to Be Sold as E-booksB. J.K Rowling to Create Even Brighter FutureC. Pottermore to Offer New Material to Users D. The Online World to Take on a new look29. Which of the following is NOT included in J.K Rowlings new material?A. The answers
30、to some questions from her fansB. The background of Harry Potter novelsC. The details about Harry Potter novelsD. The plots of her future Harry Potter novels 30.The users can do all the following on the new website Pottermore EXCEPT .A. make friends online B. do the shopping onlineC. play computer g
31、ames D. watch Harry Potter films 31.What can be inferred from the text?A. More Harry Potter novels were sold in the US than in BritainB. Most of J.K.Rowlings new materials were written years before C. J.K.Rowling will write a new Harry Potter novel in the futureD. J.K. Rowlings e-books will be publi
32、shed by her print publishersDI am a good mother of three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to - 8 -laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make
33、marriage vows(誓言）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today. So heres what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion(提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.Get a life i
34、n which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who you love. And remember that love is not leisure(休闲）, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.It is so easy to waste our lives, ou
35、r days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learnt to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, t
36、oday, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned, and
37、by telling them this: read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion(激情）as it ought to be lived.32. It can be inferred from the passage that .A. the author spent all her time caring fo
38、r her childrenB. the author didnt try her best to work wellC. the author is a success in personal life D. the author likes traveling very much33. How did the author form her view of life?A. Through social experience B. Through an unfortunate experienceC. By learning her friends D. From her children
39、and husband34. Whats the authors attitude toward work?A. Do it well to serve others - 9 -B. Dont let it affect your real life C. Try your best to get a higher position and a payD. Earn enough money to make life better35. The best title of this passage probably is A. Love Your Friends B. Be A Good Mo
40、ther and WifeC. Dont Waste Time D. Live A Real Life 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Sam Herbert, 15, saved the life of a 55-year-oldstranger even though he himself was born with a poor condition.(1) He has had many operations on his heart since he was a baby and
41、it has reduced (减少) his strength as a result.The Derby schoolboy says, “I was walking down the street one evening in May when a man in front of me fell over. (2) “I put him in the right position, but his condition was starting to become worse and he stopped breathing. So I started CPR (心肺复苏法 ). Beca
42、use of my condition, I was worried I wouldnt have the strength to do it for very long. (3) He was breathing again before the ambulance (救护车) arrived.“When the doctors arrived, they said Id done the right thing. (4) We do lots of practice on first aid (急救) but I never thought Id have to use it in rea
43、l life.”In the life-or-death situation he was faced with, Sam acted bravely but also very quickly. “I will have to have more operations on my heart in the future. (5) Ive always done swimming, I have kept learning kung fu and Im about to climb mountains with my dad,” Sam says.A. Sam was born with a
44、weak heart. - 10 -B. I couldnt stop thinking about it. . C. He had really a very bad fallD. But I kept giving him CPRE. But Ive never let my condition hold me back. F. They told me if I hadnt helped him he probably would have died. G. There are hundreds of children who die from heart diseases. 第三部分
45、英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分）第一节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）I will never forget one thing, mainly because I learned the meaning of kindness then.A few years ago, I went running on a 41 day. It was my favorite activity because the 42 were so clean when it rained. 43 , I saw an old man with 44 clothes picki
46、ng cans out of a rubbish bin（垃圾箱）. When I ran past him, I didnt know 45 I should give him my umbrella. As I was thinking, I was still 46 . But I finally decided to give him my umbrella, as I knew he needed the umbrella much more than I needed it, 47 I ran back, gave him the umbrella and said, “You 4
47、8 this more than I do.” To my 49 , he took it with a big smile on his face and repeated, “Thank you! Thank you! God bless you.” I hadnt expected he would 50 it so much. I walked away feeling 51 . I turned back one last minute and 52 him still smiling. “It was just an umbrella,” I thought, not 53 tha
48、t it was the 54 that made him happy. He might feel that he wasnt 55 in the world.A few weeks later, when I was running on the same street on a bright sunny day, I 56 the same man who was in the same clothes sitting down resting. The only57 was my umbrella right beside him, looking like he 58 it. It was very clean and neatly placed. At that moment, I realized it didnt 59 that I c
