鄭州領航實驗學校第一次月考

　　高二英語試題

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　　1. 本試卷由三個部分組成。其中，第一和第二部分的第一節為選擇題。第二部分的第二節和第三部分為非選擇題。

　　2. 答卷前，考生務必將自己的姓名、準考證號填寫在答題卡上。

　　3. 回答選擇題時，選出每小題答案后，用鉛筆把答題卡上對應題目的答案標號涂黑。如需改動，用橡皮擦干凈后，再選涂其他答案標號?；卮鸱沁x擇題時，將答案寫在答題卡上，寫在本試卷上無效。

　　第一部分

　　閱讀理解（共兩節，滿分40分）

　　第一節 （共15小題每小題2分，滿分30分）

　　You probably know who Marie Curie was, but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson. Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?

　　Jane Addams (1860－1935)

　　Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank. Addams helped the poor and worked for peace. She encouraged a sense of community(社區)by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need. In 1931, Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

　　Rachel Carson (1907－1964)

　　If it weren't for Rachel Carson, the environmental movement might not exist today. Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world's lakes and oceans.

　　Sandra Day O'Connor (1930－present)

　　When Sandra Day O'Connor finished third in her class at Stanford Law School, in 1952, she could not find work at a law firm because she was a woman. She became an Arizona state senator(參議員) and, in 1981, the first woman to join the U．S. Supreme Court. O'Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.

　　Rosa Parks (1913－2005)

　　On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rasa Parks would not give up her seat on a bus to a passenger. Her simple act landed Parks in prison. But it also set off the Montgomery bus boycott. It lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil－rights movement. “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in，” said Parks.

　　1．What is Jane Addams noted for in history?

　　A．Her social work.

　　B．Her lack of proper training in law.

　　C．Her efforts to win a prize.

　　D．Her community background.

　　2．Who made a great contribution to the civil－rights movement in the US?

　　A．Jane Addams. B．Rachel Carson.

　　C．Sandra Day O'Connor. D．Rosa Parks.

　　What was the reason for O’Connor’s being rejected by the law firm?

　　Her lack of proper training in law.

　　B. Her little work experience in court.

　　C. The discrimination against women.

　　D. The poor financial conditions

　　4.What can we infer about the women mentioned in the text?

　　A．They are highly educated.

　　B．They are truly creative.

　　C．They are pioneers.

　　D．They are peace－lovers.

　　B

　　Climbing the corporate ladder (晉升) during my 32 years at Southern Bell (now?AT&T) never appealed much to me. But climbing telephone poles? Now that's a whole?different story.

　　In 1978, I became the first female lineman in Columbus, Georgia.? I really enjoyed?the work, and most of the men accepted me because I worked hard at it.? I think that at?first, they didn't think I could do it. But I got right in there and proved myself.

　　I was a lineman for about three years. Then l went on to work at other outdoor?jobs at the company before l retired in 1997.

　　I decided to become a lineman because I wanted to work outdoors. I was a tomboy?(假小子) as a child and even built my own tree house, so you could say I had a little?experience. My husband, William, encouraged me to give the job a try. After work, I?liked to drive around town and show him the wires I'd spliced (加固) that day.

　　People were surprised to see a female lineman. They'd say, “Look, that's a woman?up that pole." One day I heard a man say, “Oh, look, there's a telephone man-woman!"

　　Safety belts and hooks minimized the risk of falling, but concentration

　　was爀ssential.?Sometimes I felt a little nervous,erbut the guys told me I was less likely to fall if I?wasn't too confident. It helped that I was strong, because the cables and equipment are?heavy. I'm not sure every woman could have done what I did. 1 took a lot of pride in it.

　　5.When the author first became a lineman,??????????.

　　A. she was sure to be promoted

　　B. she loved it and went all out for it

　　C. she tried her best to convince her husband

　　D. she received immediate recognition from colleagues

　　6.What is needed to be a lineman according to the author?

　　A. Concentration and strength.

　　B. Confidence and patience.

　　C. Bravery and devotion.

　　D. Efficiency and talent.

　　7.Which of the following best describe the author's husband?

　　A. Outgoing and considerate.

　　B. Proud and demanding.

　　C. Adventurous and humorous.

　　D. Open-minded and supportive.

　　C

　　Motorists who used to listen to the radio or their favorite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.

　　A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of “melody roads”, which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.

　　The concept works by using grooves(凹槽). They are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. The melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.

　　Depending on how far apart the grooves are, a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, and designers are able to create a distinct tune.

　　Paten documents for the design describe it as notches “formed in a road surface so as to play a melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones.”

　　There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan—one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Reports say the system was invented by Shizuo Shinoda. He scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer before driving over them and found that they helped to produce all kinds of tones.

　　The optimal speed for melody road is 44kph, but people say it is not always easy to get the intended sound.

　　“You need to keep the car windows closed to hear well,” wrote one Japanese blogger. “Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward, while driving around 12mph [20km/h] has a slow-motion effect, making you almost car-sick.”

　　8. We can learn from the passage that the highness of notes is depended on _____.

　　A. how far the grooves are

　　B. how big the grooves are

　　C. the number of the grooves

　　D. the speed of the car

　　9. The underlined word “optimal” in the passage might mean ________.

　　A. fastest

　　B. possible

　　C. best

　　D. slowest

　　10. In order to hear the music well, you have to ______.

　　A. drive very fast

　　B. drive slowly

　　C. open the windows wide

　　D. keep the windows closed

　　11. What’s the best title of the passage?

　　A.A New Type of Music

　　B. Melody Roads in Japan

　　C.A Musical Road Surface

　　D.A New Invention in Japan

　　D

　　Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lipreaders too.

　　Florida scientists discovered that starting around age 6 months, babies begin shifting from the eye gaze(注視)to studying mouths when people talk to them.

　　“In order to imitate you, the baby has to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound they're hearing，” explains psychologist David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University, who led the study. “It's an incredibly complex process.”

　　Apparently it doesn't take them too long to absorb the movements that match basic sounds. By their first birthdays, babies start shifting back to look you in the eye again ?unless they hear the unfamiliar sounds of a foreign language. Then, they stick with lipreading a bit longer.

　　In the experiment, David Lewkowicz tested nearly 180 babies, groups of them at ages 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 montths. How? They showed videos of a woman speaking in English or Spanish to babies of English speakers. A device tracked where each baby was focusing his or her gaze and recorded how long the gaze lasted.

　　They found a dramatic shift in attention: When the speaker used English, the 4month olds gazed mostly into her eyes. The 6 month olds spent equal amounts of time looking at the eyes and the mouth. The 8 and 10 month olds studied mostly the mouth. At 12 months, attention started shifting back toward the speaker's eyes.

　　It makes sense that at 6 months, babies begin observing lip movement, Lewkowicz says, because that's about the time babies' brains gain the ability to control their attention rather than automatically look toward noise.

　　But what happened when these babies used to English heard Spanish? The 12 month olds studied the mouth longer, just like younger babies. They needed the extra information to decipher (破譯)the unfamiliar sounds.

　　“It's a pretty interesting finding，” says University of Iowa psychology professor Bob McMurray, who also studies baby speech development. The babies “know what they need to know about, and they're able to draw their attention to what's important at that point in language development.”

　　12. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

　　A. Babies Learn to Talk from Hearing Sounds

　　B. Babies Learn to Talk by Reading Lips

　　C. How Babies Learn Language after Birth

　　D. Babies Can Understand a Foreign Language

　　13. When an adult talks to a 5 month old baby, the baby usually ______.

　　A. looks the adult into the eyes

　　B. watches the adult's lip

　　C. studies the adult's facial expressions

　　D. feels very excited

　　14. When babies are half one year old, what can they do?

　　A. They can control their attention.

　　B. They can recognize human faces.

　　C. They can play with toys.

　　D. They can tell parents from others.

　　15. We can infer that David Lewkowicz ______.

　　A. did the experiment on his own

　　B. teaches Spanish at Florida Atlantic University

　　C. invited a woman to speak English to babies

　　D. studies baby speech development

　　第二節 （共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）

　　根據短文內容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

　　第二部分　語言知識運用（共兩節，滿分45分）

　　第一節

　　完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

　　閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。

　　Ten years ago, a doctor told me something was wrong with my lung and I had to give up work at once and went to bed. I was totally 　21　and felt I was suddenly placed under 　22　of death with an indefinite reprieve (緩刑). After careful thought, I 　23　my affairs; then I went home and got into bed. But 2 years later, I left my bed and 　24　the long climb back. It was another year 　25　I made it.

　　I speak of this experience because these past years have 　26　me what to value and what to believe. I 　27　now that this world is not my oyster(牡蠣)to be opened but my

　　28　to be grasped.

　　I’ve also learned that it’s necessary to 　29　those little, all-important things I never thought I would 　30　before: the music of the wind in my favorite pine tree, the 　31　of sunlight on running water. I seem now, with some of the 　32　freshness of childhood, to hear and see. How well, 　33　, I recall the touch of the earth the day I first stepped upon it after the years in bed. It was like 　34　one’s citizenship in a world one had nearly lost.

　　Frequently, I 　35　myself that I need make notes of this 　36　I’m living in now, because in it I’m well, 　37　, doing what I like best. It won’t always be like this, 　38　I’ll make the most of it and be grateful. I

　　39　all this to that long time spent in bed. Wiser people come to this 　40　without having to acquire it the hard way. But I wasn’t wise enough. I’m wiser now, a little, and happier.

　　21. A. confused

　　B. shocked

　　C. determined

　　D. annoyed

　　22. A. trial

　　B. pressure

　　C. sentence

　　D. control

　　23. A. made up

　　B. set up

　　C. took up

　　D. cleared up

　　24. A. recalled

　　B. began

　　C. avoided

　　D. accepted

　　25. A. when

　　B. after

　　C. since

　　D. before

　　26. A. assigned

　　B. taught

　　C. treated

　　D. assured

　　27. A. admit

　　B. demand

　　C. expect

　　D. realize

　　28. A. knowledge

　　B. opportunity

　　C. attention

　　D. point

　　29. A. dismiss

　　B. list

　　C. define

　　D. appreciate

　　30. A. notice

　　B. record

　　C. remember

　　D. track

　　31. A. shadow

　　B. shake

　　C. play

　　D. feeling

　　32. A. damaged

　　B. recovered

　　C. faded

　　D. changed

　　33. A. in contrast

　　B. in return

　　C. for instance

　　D. by chance

　　34. A. maintaining

　　B. regaining

　　C. discovering

　　D. forgetting

　　35. A. remind

　　B. promise

　　C. advise

　　D. convince

　　36. A. country

　　B. moment

　　C. memory

　　D. inspiration

　　37. A. pleased

　　B. courageous

　　C. confident

　　D. strong

　　38. A. meanwhile

　　B. otherwise

　　C. however

　　D. therefore

　　39. A. apply

　　B. owe

　　C. contribute

　　D. adapt

　　40. A. awareness

　　B. agreement

　　C. comment

　　D. compromise

　　第二節 （共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

　　閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入1個適當的單詞或括號內單詞的正確形式。

　　Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg __41__ (recent) surprised Chinese students when he spoke to __42__ in Chinese. In a talk at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Zuckerberg spoke Chinese for about 30 minutes. __43__ his Chinese was far from perfect, students and faculty cheered his effort.