四川省成都外国语学校2019-2020学年高二英语12月月考试题
注意事项：
1、本试卷分第I卷和第II卷两部分。 2、本堂考试共120分钟, 满分150。
3、答题前，考生务必先将自己的姓名、学号填写在答题卡上，并使用2B铅笔填涂。 4、考试结束后，将答题卡交回。
第I卷（共70分）
第一部分阅读理解
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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Book Information
Children's Day is coming. Here is some information about children's books in our bookshop.
All I Want for Christmas Is You Writer: Mariah Carey Age: for 3-7 years Price: $17.99 A Bear's Year Writer: Kathy Duval Age: for 4-8 years Price:$18.99 It is one of the bestsellers. It brings When spring arrives, the mother bear and her kids Christmas joy to readers. Its beautiful wake up, and as the weather warms to summer, the lyrics(歌词) will bring that same holiday mother bear teaches her kids to fish. In autumn, spirit to readers in this picture-book about as food grows less, the family prepares for the a young girl whose wish is for a new little dog. coming winter. The Little Prince Writer: Exupéry.S The Only Child Writer: Guo Jing - 1 -
Age: for l1-14 years Price: $20.99 Age: for 5-9 years Price: $22.99 The little prince lives on a small planet A little girl is lost in the forest. And she alone. One day he decides to leave his planet follows a deer deep into the woods. She finds in search for the most important thing in his herself in a strange world. But both her home and life. At last he finds out the answer from a her family are very far away. How will she get fox of the Earth: the power of love. back there? 1.How much is All I Want for Christmas Is You? A.$17.99.
B.$18.99.
C.$20.99.
D.$22.99.
2.Who is the writer of A Bear's Year! A.Mariah Carey.
B.Kathy Duval.
C.Exupéry. S.
D.Guo Jing.
3.Which book is for the children of 11-14 years old? A.All I Want for Christmas Is You. C.The Little Prince.
4.The above information is about____.
A.Children's movies B.Children's toys C.Children's shoes D.Children's books
B
Honesty is the best policy. We may agree that admitting mistakes and behaving in a genuine way is the right way to lead our lives, but is there something in our human nature that makes us immoral? For example, in some shops and car parks you can find an honesty box — a box where you pay for something by putting money in it — but it relies on you putting the right amount of cash in. This relies on people being honest and not trying to cheat but it does provide a temptation to get away with not paying the full amount.
Philip Graves, a psychologist, suggests that this temptation is part of our evolution. He says, “We have evolved with the ability to be dishonest. It’s part of our evolutionary psychological make-up because if we can gain an advantage over the people around us, we have a greater chance of surviving.”
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B.A Bear's Year.
D.The Only Child.
So why do we place such importance on being honest if we benefit from being dishonest? It’s because it is selfish behavior. If everybody acted selfishly and dishonestly all the time, the world would be a very unpleasant place. As Philip Graves says, “There is a balance to strike between the extent to which we can feather our own nest, so to speak, and the risk of being ostracized (排斥) by the group.” So, for societies to work together we need to trust each other and therefore we need to be honest.
Being trustworthy with money is of course vital for an economy to survive. But being honest with words is another matter, saying what we think to someone can get us into hot water. However, a new anonymous messaging app has been designed that lets anyone with a link to your profile (简介) send you a message without knowing who it’s from. The app now has 300 million users which perhaps indicates how honest we really like to be — but in all honesty, do you want to know what people think about you? Is honesty always the best policy?
5.What does an honesty box require people to do? A.Get the change out of it freely. C.Donate the pocket money to others.
B.Put the correct amount of money in it. D.Pay a larger amount of money.
6.According to Philip Graves, being dishonest________. A.is a disadvantage C.is part of our evolution
B.should be advocated D.helps people survive
7.What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about? A.The reason for being honest. C.The outcome of selfishness.
C
As a kid,I wanted to be a naturalist. When I got to college, I chose what I thought was a more practical path, studying physics along with public policy. That combination led me to atmospheric sciences. Now I'm studying low clouds.
But I didn't really notice low clouds until I started my study at the University of Washington, in Seattle. That city had a lot of low clouds. I suddenly realized
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B.The benefit of being dishonest. D.The importance of group work.
how important their reflection of heat back into space was for Earth's climate. I continued studying how clouds at the University of Colorado in Boulder. There I earned my PhD.
Seattle's skies may be home to plenty of low clouds, but there are even better places to spot these little clouds. The greatest gatherings tend to occur off the coasts of places like Namibia, in Africa, and northern Chile. These places are home to some of Earth's driest deserts. And I like visiting such places.
The more I learned about these little clouds, the more fascinating I found them. I'm really interested in the various ways these low clouds respond to their environment. Because there are so many low clouds and they help keep Earth cool by reflecting(反射) heat, anything that affects them can also affect overall climate. It feeds back to the whole energy balance of the planet.
Lately I've been exploring how smoke that drifts(漂浮 )over clouds might change the way that these clouds absorb or reflect sunlight. Such smoke -from burning trees and grasses-can drift thousands of kilometers. If that smoke affects clouds, it might also affect climate. Last year, I spent a month on distant Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean setting up instruments to track the interaction(相互作用) between low clouds there and smoke from southern Africa.
I appreciate the diversity in my work. Besides the occasional trip to distant islands, I also teach and work with other scientists to better understand Earth's climate system. Along the way, I'm helping bring one type of low clouds to the attention it deserves.
8.What do we know about the author?
A.She learned three majors at the same time in college. B.She wanted to study low clouds when she was a kid C.She knew the importance of low clouds when in university D.She was always worried about climate change in the world
9.Why does the author like visiting places like Namibia and Northern Chile? A.Because she enjoys views of deserts. B.Because she loves visiting beautiful coasts.
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C.Because she has got tired of Seattle's skies.
D.Because they're great places for observing low clouds.
10.What was the author's purpose in spending a month on Ascension Island? A.To study smoke' s effect on low clouds causes of climate change.
C.To set up instruments for other scientists
D.To
study
the
B.To find the real
influence of low clouds on climate.
11.What does the underlined word\A.The fact of being very special
B.The fact of working by oneself
C.The fact of being respected by others D.The fact of including some different things.
D
Derek Rabelo is not the only surfer(冲浪手)to conquer Hawaii's famous pipeline big wave break ,but while all others use their sight to do it, this young professional surfer must rely only on his other senses. That's because he is completely blind
When Derek was born over 24 years ago, he got his name from Derek Ho, the first Hawaiian surfing world champion. A surfing enthusiast himself, Ernesto dreamed that his son would share the talent(才干) of his uncle, a professional surfer. Unfortunately, Derek was born completely blind, but this didn't stop his family from believing that he could do anything he wanted, even if that meant becoming a surfer.
At age 2, Derek received a bodyboard and the beaches of Guarapari, Brazil, became his backyard. He was always comfortable in the water and surfing was in his blood, but he didn't actually try riding a wave until he turned 17, when his father bought him a surfboard. His father taught him the basics and encouraged him to keep practising, but after successfully standing up on the surfboard, Derek knew he needed to become much better if he was going to achieve Emesto's dream and become a professional surfer. So he joined the Praia do Moroo surf school, where he studied under coach Fabio Maru.
Standing up on a surfboard and conquering small waves is one thing, while gathering the courage to take on Hawaii's board-breaking Pipeline is another. But
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四川省成都外国语学校2019_2020学年高二英语12月月考试题
