江苏省新沂市第二中学2014-2015学年高二下学期月清检测（二）英语试题（无答案）

新沂市第二中学2014—2015学年度第二学期月清检测二
高二英语试题
（本卷满分100分，考试时间100分钟）
一．单项填空（15分）
1. There is no power like ________ power of confidence, and there is no student as competitive as
________ student who trusts his own abilities.
A. the; a B. a; the C. /; a D. the; /
2. In his remarks on childcare,Dr.Black ________the importance of being present,which is widely recognized by thousands of parents.
A.decided on B.relied on C.touched on D.took on
3.Jack bought a second-hand car for$400 last mouth________to and from work more conveniently
.A.to gonging B.having gone C.to go D.going
4.--Doctor Manette is a responsible surgeon with superb skills and never accepts any gift from his parents.
--No wonder he enjoys such a good________.
A.expectation B.intention C.reputation D.motivation
5.There is probably no field of human activity________our value and lifestyles are shown more clearly and strongly than they are in the clothes we wear.
A.as Bwhich C.when D.where
6.To the public’s delight ,a large number of government officials who________their power have been well punished
. A.ignored B.abused C.undertook D.countered
7.I’m delighted to have brought smiles and laughter to others and it was a(n) ________experience which I very much hope has inspired kindness in other
A.universal. B.complex C.alternative D.awesome
8.One of the biggest causes of the _______in the relationship between teenagers and their families is the struggle between personal desires and family expectations.
A.envy B.tension C.delay D.abence
9.--- What kind of room would you prefer ,a double one or single one?
--- A single one. And I’ll appreciate______more if it faces south.
A. one B.it C.that D.the one
10.Jack failed to _______his parents’expectations.They had always wanted him to be a doctor.
A.lead up to B. stand up to C.live up to D.look up to
11._______counts most in improving your English speaking skill is plenty of practice.
A. What B. That C.Whether D. Where
12.I’m ready to accept new challenges because I don’t want to live my life regretting all the things I ______ not do,or being just that little bit afraid.
A.dare B.could C.need D.should
13.Jack and Daivd agreed on moving the chat they started via Twitter to email________they could express themselves without the word count limit.
A.in case B.even if C.so that D.in that
14.—Look at the rubbish over there.Let’s pick it up.
----All right.Our city________more beautiful if people didn’t throw rubbish about.
A.had looked B.looked C.would have looked D.would look
15.—I’ll do everything I can to help you finish your college education.
----________I can never repay you for your kindness.
A.I hope not. B.I’d rather you didn’t.
C.I can’t thank you enough. D.Pardon me.
二．完形填空（20分）
The Conservative Party leader David Cameron has been elected British Prime Minister. Labor Party’s Gordon Brown, the 16 Prime Minister, had to 17 the tears as he said his goodbyes outside of 10 Downing St. And Cameron is the youngest UK prime minister in almost 200 years.
According to electoral rules, the leader of the party that wins a majority in Parliament becomes the new prime minister and forms the new government. If no party wins a majority, a coalition (联合) government 18 several parties may be formed. The head of the coalition party that 19 most seats in parliament probably becomes the new prime minister.
In Britain’s May 6 parliamentary 20 , Cameron’s Conservative Party won the most seats, but did not get a majority. After negotiations, with an agreement 21 between the Conservatives and the third-placed Liberal Democrats, a governing coalition was formed. [
Cameron has grown 22 a shy primary school student with 23 school reports into a famous political 24 . He is reportedly a 25 of King William IV (1765 –1837). Cameron studied at the elite Eton College, for centuries the school 26 the choice for the nation’s wealthiest people to send their male children to. He went 27 to Oxford University, where he graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics.
Once at primary school, Cameron had the poorest school report in the class. At Eton, Cameron was a problem boy. In 1983, he was suspected of taking drugs. He was punished, and 28 ordered to copy 500 lines of Latin text. He 29 the incident and worked harder.
Cameron was very 30 at Oxford. He captained the tennis team there. He was a member of a dining society. After graduation, he 31 politics. In 2001 Cameron became a member of Parliament and in 2005, at the age of 38, was elected the leader of the Conservative Party.
Now he has been elected the head of a country 32 deep economic troubles. At least 1.3 million people have been 33 in the serious financial crisis. British voters will be looking to see 34 the program his party has proposed to deal with the problem 35 do anything to help.
16. A. latest B. current C. former D. latter
17. A. hold back B. hold off C. hold on D. hold out
18. A. is made up of B. consisting of C. is composed of D. makes up of
19. A. holds B. takes C. includes D. contains
20. A. selection B. election C. conference D. negotiation
21. A. reached B. arriving at C. coming to D. establishing
22. A. with B. of C. from D. for
23. A. excellent B. poor C. average D. outstanding
24. A. people B. character C. image D. figure
25. A. son B. grandson C. relative D. descendent
26. A. is B. has been C. had been D. being
27. A. on B. up C. down D. out
28. A. otherwise B. therefore C. nevertheless D. however
29. A. survived from B. recovered from C. benefited from D.changing from
30. A. silent B. positive C. active D. enthusiastic
31. A. took to B. toot after C. took off D. took over
32. A. faced B. facing with C. faced with D. faces
33. A. laid off B. laid down C. laid aside D. laid out
34. A. that B. what C. if D. how
35. A. can B. should C. must D. need
三．阅读理解（30分,共15题，每题2分）
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Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I would almost always get up late the next morning. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity was almost always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed me that I was using the wrong strategy. The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail. There are two main schools (流派) of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both of them are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at set hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake and not being asleep. If your sleep is based on what your body tells you, you’ll probably be sleeping more than you need. Also, your mornings may be less predictable if you’re getting up at different times. The solution for me has been to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 am), but I go to bed at different times every night — sometimes at 9:30pm, and other times at midnight. Most of the time I go to bed between 10-11 pm. However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning is my way. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.36. According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ________.?A. people who stay up until the next morning.?B. people who get up early in the morning.?C. people who feel sleepy in the morning.?D. people whose productivity is the highest in the morning.37. Why did the author want to become a habitual early riser??A. Because he/she wanted to form the habit of going to bed early and getting up early.?B. Because he/she had found that his / her productivity was higher when he/she got up early.?C. Because he/she wanted to see which of the two main schools of thought on sleep patterns was right.?D. Because he/she was told the high relationship between success and rising early.38. The author experienced all the following EXCEPT ________.? A. going to bed after midnight ? B. getting up early occasionally? C. pressing off the alarm to go on sleeping D. asking scholars for advice on sleeping habits39. The passage is mainly about ________.? A. how to become an early riser ? B. how to have good sleep? C. wrong strategies for getting up early? D. main schools of thought on sleep patterns
B
Every evening, 15-year-old Rashida returns home from school, changes out of her uniform, and rushes to a neighboring farm to help her mother harvest vegetables．Her father is disabled, so the modest profit the two of them earn must cover food, clothing and other necessities for all seven children and their parents．Despite having precious little time to study, Rashida is one of the top students at her junior secondary school．But with so much responsibility on her small shoulders, she admits that it is sometimes hard for her to imagine a more promising future．
Last year, Rashida was invited to join 155 other girls at Camfed Ghana’s first Girls’ Career Camp, a program designed to inspire girls growing up in the country’s Northern Region to dream big, and to support them to pursue those dreams．“We organized this camp because we wanted to let girls know that even if they are struggling with poverty, their lives will not be defined by limitations,” says Dolores Dickson, Camfed Ghana’s Executive Director．
Over the course of five days, the camp led the junior and secondary school students through a range of experiences and career opportunities that were entirely new to them． Dr. Agnes Apusiga, a lecturer from the University of Development Studies, ran the workshop on goal-setting and career choices, describing the universities and training colleges in Ghana that could help them achieve their dreams．Participants then visited the University for Development Studies, where they toured the medical school and science labs．Another highlight was a workshop at the computer lab at Tamale Secondary School．Many of the girls had studied information technology from a book but had never before seen a computer．
“When the girls arrived at camp, they were not ambitious, because they didn’t have any idea what the world held for them,” says Eugenia Ayagiba, Project Officer with Camfed Ghana．“Many had scarcely traveled beyond their own villages.”
“I think the most important thing that happened at the camp is that we opened a window of hope for a group of girls coming from backgrounds of poverty,” says Eugenia．For Rashida, who has been laughed at in the past by her schoolmates because of her father’s disability, the experience was important．“She told one of the camp mentors（辅导员） that when she is at school, she often feels like a misfit, and she prefers to keep to herself,” says Eugenia．“But at the camp, it was different．She made friends with girls who have similar struggles．She took part in every single activity, every single game．On the last day, she said to her mentor, ‘The camp has challenged me to study hard．Now I see that there is light at the end of the tunnel.’”
40. How many people are there in Rashida’s family?
A. Seven B. Eight C. Nine D. Ten
41. According to the passage, Camfed Ghana’s first Girls’ Career Camp is ．
A. a program to help poor girls to have ambition
B. a program to help poor girl students to get university education
C. a program to help poor girls to study hard D. a program to help the poor families
42. Why did the camp lead the students to visit universities and training colleges?
A.To show they are better than their school B.To encourage them to get good education.
C.To show them what they are like D.To get them to touch the advanced equipment there
43. What can we infer from the passage?
A.Rashida has become friends with her mentors
B.Rashida’s mentors has encouraged her a lot.
C.Rashida was sad because of her father’s disability.
D.Rashida has had her new dream since the camp.
C
The following are some important sights in New York.
American Museum of Natural History
Four floors of exhibition halls here include the world-famous fossil halls with their skeletons of enormous dinosaurs and other creatures; the culture halls, representing a variety of indigenous peoples; and mammal, bird and reptile halls. The renovated Milstein hall of Ocean Life showcases the profusion of life in Earth’s “last frontier”. Also here: Rose Center for Earth and space, with Hayden Planetarium and exhibits on Earth and our universe.
Open: Sunday-Thursday, 10:00-17:45; Friday-Saturday: 10:00-20:45
Empire State Building
At 102 stories tall, the Empire State Building commands an inspiring view of Manhattan. Each year, over 3.5 million people come here for the view from the 86th-floor observatory, where they can take in the sights of the city from a glass-enclosed pavilion or the encircling open-air promenade.
Observatory Hours: 8:00am to midnight daily. Last elevators go up at 11:15pm. Open daily 365 days a year.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (One of the greatest museums in the world)
It is impossible to “do” the entire museum in one day or describe everything you can see here. Go to the museum & spend some time in the Great Hall where you will find all types of help in many languages for planning your visit. If you can, get a guide before your visit or look at their website where you can plan well & learn about their many special exhibitions & programs.
Fee: $12 adults, $7 students & seniors, under 12 with adult free.
Open: Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday. 9:30-17:15; Friday-Saturday, 9:30-20:45.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
MoMA houses an outstanding collection of American & European paintings & sculptures from late 19th C. to present. Innovative in its definition of “art”, it was a pioneer in exhibiting film, photography, and industrial design. Its retrospectives can draw record-breaking attendance. A happy place to take small children, as strollers are allowed.
Open: Sunday-Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10:30-17:45; Friday, 10:30-20:15.
44. Varieties of ocean life are exhibited in _____________.
A. American Museum of Natural History B. Empire State Building
C. Metropolitan Museum of Art D. Statue of liberty
45. You can visit Museum of Modern Art at the following time EXCEPT _____________.
A. at 14:30 on Monday B. at 7:00 pm on Friday
C. at 10:40 on Wednesday D. at 12:00 on Sunday
46. Suppose you are a high school student, who is going to visit Metropolitan Museum of Art with your parents, your 70-year-old Grandpa and your 6-year-old younger brother, how much will you have to pay in total?
A. $42 B. $38 C. $45 D. $50
D
The HOPE IS A GAME--CHANGER PROJECT will deliver unbreakable soccer balls to kids who, all too often, see things horrible, broken and not survive the simplest of circumstances. The project started taking form well before anyone knew where it would lead –which is to test the power of like-minded people working together to turn inspiration into action.
Four years ago Bobby was in Rwanda offering help to the people there and taking photos of a child soldier named Moise with his “soccer ball”, which was a pile of rubbish tied together with a string. This “ball” was the only thing Moise could call his own --- no family, no home, no place to go. Forced to fight in the Congo and having killed three people at the unbearably young age of seven, the boy’s spirit was broken. And Bobby knew, as he took one photo after the next, that he’d never forget him. In fact, he returned the following year to tell Moise he had stayed deep within his heart ---but he was gone.
I recently helped Bobby launch his new book The Power of the Invisible Sun which features a photo of Moise, his ball, and kids from war-torn areas around the world. All of his earnings go towards the HOPE IS A GAME-CHANGER PROJECT for the kids he visited over the past decade. They caught the emotional landscape from heartbreak to joy, but share the undeniable longing for recovery and hope.
Bobby and I share the unchangeable belief that delivering hope is really a game-changer, especially to a child. We believe that each indestructible ball will come to represent a lasting symbol of hope. A light no matter how small---The Power of the Invisible Sun.
This holiday season, I ask you to think about whether you are doing enough to help someone else in the world. Or as Bobby likes to put it, consider “taking a concrete baby step”, which added together, can create transformational change. It’s my great hope that the HOPE IS A GAME-CHANGER PROJECT will change the lives of children the world over --- one book, one ball at a time.
47. In the first sentence of the passage, the writer implies that _____________.
A. kids live an unsafe life in parts of the world
B. the balls sent to kids should be of good quality
C. young kids can not overcome the difficulties
D. kids intend to break their toys into pieces
48. The purpose of The HOPE IS A GAME-CHANGER PROJECT is to _____________.
A. send ball gifts to kids in poor countries B. collect money to help kids in need
C. comfort kids in war-torn areas D. offer kids help to change their lives
49. Which of the following about Bobby’s new book is TRUE?
A. It earned a lot of money to help kids like Mosie.
B. The photos inside reflected the kids’ hopeless life.
C. Its title shows the author’s belief to change the world.
D. It changed the life of the kids recorded in the book.
50. The underlined part in the last paragraph probably means _____________.
A. starting the first step as a baby does B. taking an active action from now on
C. making great changes step by step D. doing some small but good deeds
四．任务型阅读（10分,每题一分）
I used to be the messiest person alive. Over the years, through watching others and by trial and error, I have finally found ways to come up with plans, organize them and follow through with them.
Make an outline of everything you need to have and do to make your plan happen. Make a list of all of the steps that need to be accomplished and think about what needs to be done.
Detail everything thoroughly and read over it so you can start coming up with some mental solutions of how to carry out your plans.
You should ensure that if for some reason way one doesn’t work, you have way two and way three to lean back on. Therefore, different ways are needed at hand. It’s just a matter of being organized. Chances are that there is always more than one way of doing things, and chances are that if one of those ways doesn’t work, one of the other ones will.
Committing yourself to finishing at least part if not all of your plan at once is also necessary. It will show that you not only have initiative to get things rolling, but that you are interested in the results obtained with making the move to get everything done.
If you make a commitment to finish before a specific time, make sure that you carry that out, and be sure to do everything in the way you said you would, within the time-frame you set for yourself.
Don’t try to tackle more things all at a time. All that does is delay your progress, distract you and make you lose your interest, motivation and energy.
Carrying out an effective plan requires being as organized as possible. You will only achieve this by sticking to the order of the plan and not deviating or trying to do more at a time.
Last but not the least, you should never abandon things mid-project. It will only annoy everyone around you including yourself. Unfinished plans are a waste of time, energy and, in some cases, even money.
So, don’t be afraid of organization. The older we get, the more necessary it becomes to have the skills necessary to follow through with confidence and to be able to carry through plans in an organized and manageable way. It pays to be organized, after all.
Title: Tips on how to be (51)_________ in your life
Tips
Details
(52) _________
(53) _________ down your plan
◆List everything you need
◆List (54)_________ you will follow
To make your plan happen
Prepare three (55) _________ways to carry out your plan
To (56) _________ that you can have some other choices when one way doesn’t work
(57)_________ to finish at least part of your plan if not all
Do everything (58)_________ your own time-frame
To show yourself you are determined to get things started and caring about the results
Do one thing at once
Stick to the order of your plan
To save your interest, motivation and energy
Finish what you have started
To get your plan (59) _________out thoroughly.
(60) _________
You shouldn’t be afraid of organization because it’s really worthwhile.
五．书面表达 （共25分）
请根据你对下面漫画的理解, 以“Should we help the old who fall down on the street?”为题, 用英语写一篇作文。
你的作文应包括以下内容：
1．简要描述漫画内容；
2．分析不愿扶老人的原因, 至少两点；
3．你的观点。
注意：
1．参考词汇：肇事者： trouble maker
2．作文词数：150左右。
Should we help the old who fall down on the street?
As we can see in the picture, _______________