高二上学期英语第二次月考试卷一、完形填空1. 完形填空During my school days, I was one of those shy and distant kids who would just sit in a comer for an entire day. For me, my books were my 1_ world. Even during breaks, I used to just sit in a corner of the 2_ and see others play games. It was not as if I wasn’t interested in3_ others or making new friends, but I always felt lacking in energy when 4_ my peers. I always had an opinion that my advances towards new 5_ would be limited. And I just didn’t want to 6_ a rejection.Once during my English class, my teacher shared a7with us. It was about King Bruce and a spider. It revolved around a lost battle and talked about how King Bruce, despite losing the battle,8_ in the end. He was 9by a little spider. The little _10_ of the spider and the way it was taking rejections impressed me a lot. I was so surprised that I myself started 11_ the movements of spiders at home. Once, a spider took around an hour to reach the top of a wall and I 12_ knocked it down. To my _13__, within seconds it started making its _14up again.For me, this 15was a game changer. I realized that rejections are 16a failure. The world may mistreat me17I can stand up and start working again. There would be time when people would like and18me. At present, I 19mixingwith people, learning new things and making new friends. I think, there are just no such 20as rejections or failures as everything can change at any moment.（1）A . realB . newC . nextD . only（2）A . officeB . stationC . playgroundD . street（3）A . visitingB . watchingC . helpingD . joining（4）A . related toB . compared withC . separated fromD . turned to（5）A . friendshipsB . coursesC . teachersD . programs（6）A . avoidB . sufferC . causeD . fear（7）A . storyB . taskC . experienceD . song（8）A . failedB . wonC . leftD . refused（9）A . confusedB . hurtC . persuadedD . inspired（10）A . improvementsB . changesC . movementsD . advantages（11）A . adjustingB . observingC . showingD . guiding（12）A . cruellyB . angrilyC . luckilyD . bravely（13）A . delightB . surpriseC . amusementD . disappointment（14）A . progressB . wayC . webD . mistake（15）A . incidentB . researchC . troubleD . adventure（16）A . oftenB . sometimesC . neverD . ever（17）A . soB . thoughC . orD . but（18）A . trainB . meetC . appreciateD . remember（19）A . enjoyB . suggestC . imagineD . risk （20）A . approachesB . valuesC . thingsD . solutions二、阅读理解2. 阅读理解Mini Book ExcerptsBiographyWhen Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it… The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.J. D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth SlawenskiMystery“You’re a smart boy. Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only one who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it?” The boy was staring stubbornly at his lap again.A thought suddenly occurred to Annika, “Did you... You recognized the man in the car, didn’t you?”The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers. “Maybe,” he said quietly.Red Wolf by Liza MarklundShort StoriesShe wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t.You Are Free by Danzy SennaHumorDo your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times’s “amusement cycling” is the most fun you can have in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive in most cities?Happy And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle（1）What did Salinger do for his town?A . He built a car park.B . He tried to protect its land.C . He wrote some good novels.D . He rescued many townspeople.（2）The book You Are Free is mainly about .A . smart childrenB . happy daughtersC . different womenD . suffering mothers（3）Which book should readers choose, if they want to know something about Fun Times?A . Red Wolf.B . You Are Free.C . J.D Salinger: A Life.D . Happy And Other Bad Thoughts.3. 阅读理解Joy Mangano was 33 and divorced. She had three kids under age 7, and was hardly keeping up payments on her small two-bedroom home by working extra hours as a waitress. “There were times when I would lie in bed and think.I don’t know how I’m going to pay that bill,” Mangano says.But she had a special ability for seeing the obvious thing. She knew how hard it was to mop the floor. “I was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water, wringing out a mop,” Mangano says. “So, There’s gotta be a better way.”How about a “self-wringing” mop? She des igned a special tool you could twist in two directions at once, and still keep your hands clean and dry. She set out to sell it, first a few at flea markets.Then Mangano met with the media. But would couch potatoes buy amop? The experts on shopping TV were less than certain. They gave it a try, and it failed. Mangano was sure it would sell if they’d let her do the on-camera display. She said, “Get me on that stage, and I will sell this mop because it’s a great item.”So QVC, a multinational corporation specializing in televised home shopping, took chance on her. “I got onstage and the phones went crazy. We sold every mop in minutes.”Today she’s president of Ingenious Designs, a multimillion-dollar company, and one of the stars of HSN, the Home Shopping Network. Talking about the household invention, Mangano says, “It is as natural for me as it is for a parent to talk about their child.”（1）What is the first paragraph mainly about?A . Mangano’s small home.B . Mangano’s work experience.C . Mangano’s unhappy marriage.D . Mangano’s hard living conditions.（2）Mangano sold the mop successfully with the help of .A . HSNB . QVCC . couch potatoesD . experts on shopping TV（3）What does Mangano think of her invention?A . Special.B . Normal.C . Dissatisfied.D . Unbelievable.（4）What can we learn from the text?A . HSN is a business organization that sells goods on the Internet.B . The experts on sh opping TV were confident about Mangano’s mop.C . Mangano got the idea of self-wringing mop from her own experience.D . Mangano once had to work seven days a week to support her family.4. 阅读理解A device that stops drivers from falling asleep at the wheel is about to undergo testing at Department of Transport laboratories and could go on sale within 12 months.The system, called Driver Alert, aims to reduce deadly road accidents by 20%—40% that are caused by tiredness. Airline pilots can also use it to reduce the 30% of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue.Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband . The device, worn by drivers or pilots gives out a sound about every four minutes during a car journey. After each sound the driver must respond by squeezing the steering wheel . A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time between the sound and the driver’s response.Tiredness is directly related to a driver’s response time. Usually, a watchful driver would use about 400 milliseconds to respond, but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds, it suggests that the driver is getting sleepy.In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds, showing that the driver should open a window or stop for a rest. If the driver’s response continues to slow down, the sounds become more frequent until a nonstop alarm warns that the driver must stop as soon as possible.The device has been delivered to the department’s laboratories for testing. If the se tests, scheduled for six months’ time, are successful, the makers will bring the product to market within about a year.（1）Driver Alert is a device that can .A . keep drivers asleepB . change drivers’ response accuracyC . reduce the possibility of accidentsD . protect drivers when accidents happen （2）What does the underlined word “fatigue” in Paragraph 2 mean?A . Illness.B . Tiredness.C . Carelessness.D . Impoliteness.（3）How does Driver Alert work?A . By being used as a nonstop alarm all the time.B . By squeezing the steering wheel on the way,C . By reminding or warning drivers if necessary.D . By being worn on drivers’ hands every moment.（4）What do we know about Driver Alert?A . It must be fixed on the driver’s cars.B . It aims to prevent drivers from sleeping.C . It has gone through testing at laboratories.D . It isn’t available to drivers at the moment5. 阅读理解Conventional wisdom says that hardship can make us old before our time. In fact, a new study suggests that violence not only leaves long-term scars on children’s bodies, but also changes their DNA, causing changes that are equal to seven to ten years of premature aging.Scientists measured this by studying the ends of children’s chromosomes , called telomeres , says Idan Shalev, lead author of a study published in Molecular Psychiatry.Telomeres are special DNA sequences which prevent the DNA in chromosomes from separating. They get shorter each time a cell divides, until a cell cannot divide any more and dies.Several factors have been found to shorten telomeres, including smoking, radiation and psychological stresses such as being treated badly when young and taking care of a chronically ill person.In this study, researchers examined whether exposure to violence could make children’s telomeres shorten faster than normal. They interviewed the mothers of 236 children at ages 5, 7 and 10, asking whether the youngsters had been exposed to domestic violence between the mother and her partner; physical maltreatment by an adult; or bullying. Researchers measured the children’s telomeres-in cells obtained by wiping the insides of their cheeks-at ages 5 and 10.Telomeres shortened faster in kids exposed to two or more types of violence, says Shalev. Unless that pattern changes, the study suggests, these kids could be expected to develop diseases of aging, such as heart attacks or memory loss, seven to 10 years earlier than their peers.Shalev says there is hope for these kids. His study found that, in rare cases, telomeres can lengthen. Better nutrition, exercise and stress reduction three things that may be able to lengthen telomeres, he says.The study confirms a small but growing number of studies suggesting that early childhood a adversity imprints itself in our chromosomes, says Charles Nelson, a professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.（1）The new study found that .A . hardship can change a child’s memoryB . violence can speed up achild’s agingC . violence leaves scars on a child’s mindD . hardship has an effect on a child’s mind（2）What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 3 re fer to?A . Telomeres.B . Children.C . Chromosomes.D . DNA sequences.（3）What can be inferred from the text?A . Violence can cause quick cell death in children’s body.B . Telomeres can help prevent chromosomes from separating.C . Children who have shorter telomeres have heart attacks later.D . Being treated badly will make a child’s telomeres shorten faster.（4）What is the best title for the text?A . Violence and TelomeresB . The Function of TelomeresC . Violence Makes Children AgingD . DNA Influences Chi ldren’s Growth三、七选五6. 任务型阅读Every boy and every girl expects their parents to give them more pocket money.________One main purpose is to let kids learn how to manage their own money. The amount of money that parents give to their children to spend as they wish differs from family to family. Timing is another consideration. Some children get weekly pocket money.________First of all, children are expected to make a choice between spending and saving. Then parents should make the children understand what is expected to pay for with the money. At first, some young children may spend all of the money soon after they receive it________By doing so, these children will learnthat spending must be done with a budget.In order to encourage their children to do some housework, some parents give pocket money if the children help around the home.________They believe helping at home is a normal part of family life.Pocket money can give children a chance to experience the three things they can do with the money.________They can spend it by buying things they want. They can save it for future use. Saving helps children understand that costly goals require sacrifice. Saving can also open the door to future saving and investing for children.A. Others get monthly pocket money.B. They can spend it by giving it to a good cause.C. Why do their parents just give them a certain amount?D. Some children are not good at managing their pocket money.E. Learning how to get money is very important for every child.F. Some experts think it not wise to pay the children for doing that.G. Parents are usually advised not to offer more money until the right time.四、短文填空7. 语法填空Starting in 1972, the National Park Service established a policy for forest fires called Natural Bum. It was true ________some forest fires, such as those which were caused by lightning were necessary for forests________ balanced ecosystems, so the fire should be allowed to burn________ , a big fire in Yellowstone National Park in 1988 caused this policy to be abandoned sincethe fire was initially allowed to burn yet soon out of control. As a result, the fire of 1988 destroyed much of Yell owstone, which is America’s ________ and most beloved national park. Massive areas of plants were destroyed, and large empty spaces and acres of burned and blackened trees greeted ________. The rivers and streams were choked with ash, and the ecosystem of the park was changed ________repair.In addition, great numbers of animals________ by the fires that burned out of control. The fires were driven by high winds________ as many as ten miles a day. Many small animals died in the flames. The fires’ rapid adv ances ________ the wildlife little chance to escape. Even today, few of these small forest animals have returned to live in the park. In the years immediately following the fires, the numbers of visitors declined________.五、短文改错8. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。