河南省驻马店市正阳县高级中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期第
一次素质检测试题
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
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 does the woman want to drink?
A. Water. B. Tea. C. Coffee 2. Where is Peter now most probably?
A. In the study. B. In the kitchen. C. In the bathroom. 3. What is the weather like now probably?
A. Cold. B. Warm. C. Hot. 4. What does the man think of the class?
A. Inspiring, B. Outdated. C. Practical. 5. What happened to the woman's watch?
A. It was stolen. B. It's broken. C. It was lent out.
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。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，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，回答第6、7题。 6. What is the woman doing?
A. Making a complaint. B. Reporting on her work. C. Confessing a mistake.
7. What can we infer about Frank?
A. He is the woman's colleague. B. He is not easy to get along with. C. He needs to sleep during lunch break. 听第7段材料，回答第8、 9题。 8. When will the man fly to Houston?
A. Next Monday. B. Next Tuesday. C. Next Wednesday. 9. What ticket does the man choose at last?
A. The first class. B. The business class. C. The economy class. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Why does the man want to buy Lily running shoes?
A. He wants her to exercise. B. She's very into sports. C. They're on promotion.
11. What’s the probable relationship between the speakers?
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A. Classmates. B. Husband and wife. C. Colleagues. 12. What will the man do this afternoon?
A. Go shopping. B. Play football. C. Watch TV 听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. What time is it now?
A. 9:20 a.m. B. 10:00 a.m. C. 10:40 a.m. 14. Why did Mrs. White call the police?
A. There was a theft. B. She quarreled with Wang. C. She smelled something suspicious
15. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a company. B. In a hospital. C. In a police station, 16. What does the man ask the woman to do in the end?
A. Sign some papers, B. Fetch him some water. C. Go over some documents.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. Why did the speaker come to China?
A. To study. B. To do business. C. To visit friend. 18. How long did the speaker stay in China?
A. About 2 weeks. B. About 10 weeks. C. About 3 months. 19. What did the speaker fail to find on her own?
A. Salad. B. Bread. C. Tomato sauce. 20. How did the woman understand what the speaker wanted?
A. By using hand gestures.
B. By asking for her son's help. C. By using a translator device.
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
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A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Fashionable Pigs
Piggy bank
Sometimes it's difficult to make ends meet. But here's a friend who can help. Try putting a coin in this piggy every day. Soon you will have a very heavy pig. Be careful, though, saving in a piggy bank may lead to heartbreak. You have to break some piggy banks when you need their help.
Pig dolls
This is a lovely pig, dressed in bright colors. He looks happy with his two cute fish friends with him. He will make a perfect playmate for you when you are feeling a little low or when you are bored with studying. Why not take him home and put him in your bed to keep you company?
Pig cotton slippers
Try them on and show off in front of your mother. She will be surprised. These
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cotton slippers are quite special. One slipper is black and the other white. They are cute, soft and warm. They will also keep your feet from getting dirty in your bedroom.
Pig clock
Even in the Year of the Pig you can't be too lazy. You still have to wake up to go to school each morning. This clock will help you avoid being pulled out of bed by your parents. Besides, who wouldn't love the pig's round face and healthy color? Just don't start copying his sleeping habit.
“Every little thing that you say and do, I'm hung up, hung up on you!” This is how Madonna's hit song, “Hung Up ” goes like this. For us, “you” could mean piglet (小猪). The Year of the Pig is already here. It is a good time to give yourself or your friends gifts related to(相关的) pigs. They might bring good luck. 21．If you feel lonely, you can choose _______.
A. piggy bank B. pig doll C. pig slippers D. pig clock 22．Madonna may be a _____.
A. pig B. writer C. singer D. film 23．What does the underlined phrase “make ends meet” mean?
A. To join to ends meet. B. To get just enough money for what one needs.
C. To save money. D. Not to have enough money.
B
Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The programme works because everyone's eyes are different. So in the future you won't have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You'll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.
The eye-recognition programme is already being tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Soon, this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.
However, scientists are working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell. We already have machines that can tell who you are from your voice or the mark made by your fingers.
Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don't change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the programme can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. Some programmes may only be right 51% of the time. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition. the future your computer will be looking you in the eye, so smile! 24. If you want to draw money from a bank, you will
A. remember the number B. tell the staff who you are C. look at the machine D. show your ID card
25. According to the passage, the eye-recognition programme is already being tested in some countries EXCEPT _________。
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A. USA B. UK C. Italy D. France 26. What can we infer from the passage?
A. The eye-recognition technology has taken the place of all other kinds of methods.
B. The eye-recognition programme can be up to 91% correct.
C. There are machines telling who you are from your finger mark.
D. Eye-recognition is better because people's eyes do change as they age： 27. Why does the author write this passage?
A. To tell people some ways of recognizing a person. B. To introduce the eye-recognition programme. C. To prove the eye-recognition programme useful. D. To encourage people to use the eye-recognition programme.
C
This is the age of being busy. Many of us live in busy places and have busy lives. Even the roads are busy as we try to get from here to there. Adults are busy going to jobs and taking care of their families. Kids are busy, too, going to school and doing a lot of homework after school and on weekends.
Busy isn't bad, necessarily. If you are not busy enough you might be bored. But if you are too busy you might break down. For example, if you have a soccer game that runs late on a school night and you haven't eaten dinner or done your homework, that's a not-so-fun kind of busy. We wanted to know what kids thought, so we did a Kids Poll about being busy with 882 girls and boys aged 9 to 13.
Almost all of them said they felt stressed because they were too busy. About half said they felt this way once in a while or some of the time. But 17% said they felt this way most of the time and 24% said they felt this way all the time! Oh dear, that’s no fun.
Only 4% of kids said they wanted less free time and 18% said they already had just the right amount. But, no big surprise, 61% of kids wish they had a lot more free time. If they had more time, most would spend it hanging out or playing with friends.
Often, adults plan large parts of a kid's day, especially during the school year. Kids can't tell their parents they'll be skipping school today to get more free time! But they can tell their parents they'd like to play a game or read a book during their free time instead of watching TV. 28. What do we know from the first paragraph?
A. The busy roads are caused by travelers. B. Many of us nowadays live a busy life. C. Adults must be easy without their jobs. D. Kids have no time to do homework.
29. The author shows the effect of being too busy by ______. .
A. giving an example B. telling a story
C. holding a game D. raising a question 30. What has the Kids Poll research shown?
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A. All of the kids felt stressed when they were too busy. B. The kids felt it was no fun doing the experiment. C. More than half of the kids hoped to have more free time. D. About 50% of the kids always felt stressed in their life. 31. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The reasons why people are too busy. B. The disadvantages of being too busy. C. How to plan kids' free time at weekends. D. Giving kids a right amount of free time.
D
Who decided that blue jeans and T-shirts are “cool” for kids to wear today? Who designs the clothes you see for sale in stores? All of these questions concern the world of fashion. Fashion refers to the styles of dress that are currently popular. Fashion goes beyond just clothes, though. It’s important for some people to wear only the latest fashions and styles. For others, though, keeping up with trends isn’t that important. The one thing that stays the same with fashion is this: it always changes!
In the 1960s and 1970s, hippies made bell-bottomed blue jeans popular. In the 1980s, Michael Jackson made parachute pants (降落伞裤) all the fashion. Now try to find these items in today’s clothing stores!
Why do fashions change? The answer is probably as simple as the fact that people change. Over time, the new replaces the old. People are influenced greatly by popular culture, including athletes, musicians, movie stars, as well as popular films, television shows, books and music. We are also influenced by the fashion industry’s advertising.
The stars of popular culture are always searching for a new angle to maintain (保持) their popularity. Often these new angles come in the form of new clothing or hairstyles. When people see these new styles, they often want to imitate their favorite stars. To do so, they seek out the latest fashions to make themselves look like the people they want to imitate. In this way, fashions evolve and change over time.
For years, clothes have been used to separate people into groups. Even today, brand-name clothing that is more expensive than other types of clothing can be used by some people to distinguish themselves from others.
Unfortunately, this can often have the effect of distancing certain groups from others. Don’t forget that it’s always OK to develop your own sense of style that is unique and separate from what the fashion world determines! Stay true to yourself and let your personality — not your clothes — speak for who you are!
32．The examples of bell-bottomed blue jeans and parachute pants in Paragraph 3 suggest that _____.
A. fashion always changes
B. stars are always influential
C. people have different dressing styles
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河南省驻马店市正阳县高级中学2019 - 2020学年高二英语上学期第一次素质检测试题44
