江西省靖安中学2019-2020学年高二英语上学期第二次月考试题
时间: 120分钟 分值:150分
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。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. How does the man usually get to his office?
A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. On foot. 2. What would the man like to drink?
A. Wine. B. Juice. C. Beer. 3. Where is the man now?
A. At home. B. In a restaurant. C. On his way. 4. Why was the man late?
A. He got lost. B. He missed the bus. C. He was caught in snow. 5. When will the film begin?
A. 7:00. B. 7:15. C. 7:20. 第二节(共15小题;每小题l.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。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 has the man been busy doing these days? A. Training waiters.
B. Running his new restaurant. C. Learning to cook Chinese food. 7. Who serves as a cook in the restaurant?
A. The man’s wife. B. The man himself. C. The man’s brother. 听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。 8. Where is the speakers’ apartment?
A. On the top floor. B. On the ground floor.
C. On the sixth floor.
9. What’s the house like?
A. It’s quite noisy. B. It’s well furnished. 10. What will the speakers do next?
A. Move to the house. B. Cook a meal. 听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。 11. Where is the man going?
A. To a restaurant. B. To another company. C. To a lunch meeting. 12. When will the man ring back?
A. During lunch. B. In the afternoon. C. Tomorrow. 13. What might be the relationship between the speakers?
A. Boss and secretary. B. Husband and wife. C. Teacher and student. 听第9段材料,回答第14至16题。 14. Why is the man at the shop?
A. To order a camera for his wife. B. To have a camera repaired. C. To get a camera changed. 15. What color does the man want?
A. Pink. B. Black. 16. What will the man do afterwards? A. Make a phone call. B. Wait until further notice. C. Come again the next day. 听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。 17. When did the rich use umbrellas?
A. On sunny days. B. On rainy days. C. On important days. 18. Who invented the first umbrella for use in the rain?
A. The Indians. B. The Egyptians. C. The Chinese. 19. When did the umbrella become popular in the west?
A. 400 years ago. B. In 1750. C. In the 16th century. 20. Where was the first umbrella shop? A. In England.
B. In New York. C. On a strait.
C. Orange.
C. Go to see the house.
C. It’s pretty small.
第二部分 阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节(共15小题,每小题两分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A
Many of the world’s most well-known people were once successful failures. Here are the stories of a few of them.
Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865)
Abraham Lincoln was one of America’s greatest leaders, taking the country through the Civil War(from 1860 to 1865). However, his life was never easy. He started numerous businesses that failed. He went bankrupt(破产) twice, and was defeated in 26 campaigns for public office. He later said, “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are satisfied with your failure. ”
Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890)
Van Gogh is one of the most famous and influential painters in the history of Western Art. He’s well-known for paintings such as The Starry Night, The Potato Eaters and Sunflowers. However, during his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only one painting for a very small amount of money. Despite this, he carried on painting, sometimes even going without food so he could complete his collection of over 800 known works.
Albert Einstein(1879-1955)
Albert Einstein won the Noble Prize in Physics in 1921. However, he wasn’t always considered as a “genius”. He didn’t speak until he was four, and couldn’t read until he was seven. His teachers and parents thought he was slow, so he was forced to leave school and couldn’t get into the Zurich Polytechnic School. He later famously said, “Success is failure in progress. ”
Stephen King(born 1947)
Stephen King is one of the best-selling authors of all time, but his first book, Carrie, was rejected by about 30 publishers. Eventually, Stephen threw it in the garbage can, but his wife fished it out and encouraged him to resubmit it, which he did successfully this time!
21.Who became famous all over the world after his death?
A. Abraham Lincoln. B. Vincent Van Gogh. C. Albert Einstein. D. Stephen King.
22. What was the main reason for Albert Einstein’s dropping out of school?
A. He was too slow to learn. B. He couldn’t speak or read. C. His teacher thought he was naughty. D. He didn’t obey the school rules.
23.Why did Stephen King throw his first book in the garbage can?
A.He found it of poor quality. B.His wife didn’t support him. C.He wanted to write a new one. D.He was refused again and again. 24.What do the people in the passage have in common?
A.They are all Americans. B.They all suffered failure before they succeeded.
C.They were all born in the same century. D.They are all known for their writings.
B
My wife and I were at a crowded grocery store not long ago. It was a weekday evening, cold and wet and tense. People were carelessly blocking aisles, complaining and cutting one another off with their carts.
Things got worse at the checkout line. The cashier scanned a man’s discount card, but he misread the savings on her screen as an additional charge. He decided she was acting deliberately and began to argue.
“She is being spiteful (恶意的) !” he yelled. “This is unbelievable.” Other customers looked away as the cashier tried to reason with him. She called a manager, who accompanied him to customer service. Shaken, she moved to the next customer in line.
We’ve all witnessed uncomfortable scenes like this in public places. The grocery scene was another example of how our trust in others has eroded. But it was also a teachable moment on how we can rebuild our faith-starting with just one person.
Back at the grocery store, my wife and I reached our uneasy cashier. I grabbed a bottle of water from a nearby cooler and handed it to her. “We felt bad about how that man treated you and wanted to buy this for you.” I said. Her face lit up, and we talked as she scanned our items. She told us she had been working that evening
through severe foot pain and would be having surgery later that week. We wished her well in her recovery, and she thanked us as we left.
Those are the balancing acts, the moments of responding social and emotional pain with healing, which will add up to restore trust among people. You can start that pattern in someone else’s life, even in a place as ordinary as the neighborhood grocery store.
25. Why did the man at the checkout line argue with the cashier?
A. The cashier called a manager to help her. B. Someone jumped the queue waiting to check out. C. There was something wrong with his discount card. D. He believed the cashier charged him more on purpose.
26.The underlined word “eroded” in Paragraph 5 probably means ________.
A. added C. faded
B. increased D. formed
27.The author bought a bottle of water for the cashier because ________.
A. he thought the cashier might feel a little bit thirsty B. he knew she had gone through much trouble recently C. he wanted to restore the trust between her and the man
D. he wanted to comfort her after the terrible experience just now
C
When she’s playing with her children, Sandra Kim’s phone is nowhere in sight. For instance, she puts it upstairs before going downstairs to play with her children. Kim, a stay-at-home mother of three children between the ages of 3 and 8, knows that whenever she uses her phone, her kids get upset. \we’re playing, I call my husband to tell him that I won’t be reached for a few hours, \
It's obvious that we are at a time when cellphones are causing trouble in relationships. A study asked college couples how dependent they were on their smartphones and how difficult it would be for them to go without their phones for a day. Those who felt that their partners were too dependent on their phones said they weren’t as satisfied with their relationship as those who considered their