【高二月考】上海市洋泾中学2017年度第一学期高二英语第二次月考试卷 ...

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上海市洋泾中学2017年度第一学期


高二英语月考试卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A  
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill inthe blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For theblanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the givenword; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Anew study from the University of Japan has confirmed this，showingthat although pet cats are more than capable of recognizing their owner’s voicethey choose to ignore them --- for reasons that (1)_______________(root) in theevolutionary history of the animal. The study tested twenty house-cats in theirown homes, waiting until the owner was (2) __________  ___________ sight and then playing themrecordings of three strangers calling their names, followed by their owner andanother stranger.
When(3)_________ (hear)their names called, the cats displayed “orientating behaviour” (moving theirheads and ears about (4)___________(locate) where the sound was coming from)and (5)_________they showed a greater response to their owner’s voices thanstrangers’, they declined to move when called by any of the volunteers. “Thiscat-owner relationship is in contrast to (6)________with dogs.”
The study suggests thatthe reason for cats’ unresponsive behaviour (7)________ be traced back to theearly domestication of the species, contrasting with the relationship of humansto dogs.
Recent genetic analysis (8)_________(reveal)that the common ancestor of the modern housecat was Feils silverstris, aspecies of wildcat (9)__________ first came into contact with humans around9,000 years old, “Historically speaking, cats, unlike dogs, have not beendomesticated to obey humans’ orders. Rather, they seem to take the initiativein human-cat interaction.” This is what differs from the history of dogs andhumans, (10)________ the former has been bred over thousands of years torespond to orders and commands. Cats, it seems, never needed to learn.
【答案】1.are rooted   2.out of  3.heard 4.to locate   5.though   6.that  7.could   
8.hasrevealed    9.that   10.where
Section B  
Directions: Fill ineach blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used onlyonce. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A.action      B.admiration      C.adopted      D.changed       E.personal
F.  plain        G.practicality      H.published    I.recognized      J.unhappy
K.Social
Why People UsePseudonyms（艺名）
Youcan’t choose the name you are given at birth, but in many countries you canchange it legally when you reach adulthood. Of course, most people never changetheir names even if they feel____31____about them. However, some people do takethis course of ____32____—particularly artists! What makes an artist want tochange their name? Sometimes it’s for purely personal____33____reasons, such asthe Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile, Neftalii Reyes. He didn’t want hisfather to know he was writing poetry, so he changed his name to Pablo Nerudawhen he was a young man. At other times the reason may appear strange; take thecase of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, who wrote under 75 differentnames. The reason? “When I use a different name, I always write in a differentway,” he explained. In most cases, however, people do it for____34____,historical, political, or cultural reasons. Here are some of the most common.
Theperson’s real name is just too long and difficult to remember. Let’s be honest,Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as easy to remember as just ____35____“Madonna”.And short names are much easier to remember: William Bradley became Brad Pittand Edson Arantes do Nascimento became Pele.
Sometimes names are changed for marketing purposes.For example, if a name sounds too “foreign”, it may be changed to somethingthat is more ____36____in a market. So in the film world, Ramon Estevez ____37____the name Martin Sheen. Or maybe the artist’s real name doesn’t sound veryattractive—Chad Everett does sound a lot better than Raymond Cramton.      
    Artistssometimes choose the name of someone they admire. Robert Zimmerman changed hisname to Boo Dylan because of his ____38____ for the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.
Anotherreason may be ____39____：in the past, women foundit very difficult to get published. To avoid this situation, they sometimesgave themselves men’ s names. So the English author Mary Ann Evans becameGeorge Eliot, and she did get her books ____40____!
【答案】J A E K E    I C B G H
III.Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in thefollowing passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill ineach blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
"Ourplanet is running out of time. Modem man has treated it so badly that by 2050we will have used up all of its. Resources. The earth's population need to findtwo planets to live on as our forests and fresh water supplies disappear."
Thisis the ____41____ of a frightening report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF ), which experts will be discussing later this week in Geneva.
Butwill we really all be living in outer space fifty years from now? The answer isno. This is clearly ____42____.  The WWFare using this ____43____ image in the hope that it will draw attention to thefact that now, we need to take ____44____ the subject of how we treat ourplanet.
Thereport based on scientific data from across the world, reveals that more thanone third of the natural world has been ____45____ by humans over the pastthree decades. Some of the frightening ____46____ it presents include:
Since1970 the cod (鳕鱼) population of the world's oceans hasfallen from 264, 000 tones to less than 60, 000 tones. At this rates, the fishwill have ____47____ completely by 2030.
Between1970 and 2002 the plans already heavily damaged forests were reduced by afurther 12 percent. In places such as south East Brazil, less than 7 percent ofthe original forest ____48____ .
Asa way of ____49____ how much each country is responsible for the destruction ofthe planet, the report uses a system which it refers as "ecologicalfootprints ". Each country's"footprint"is calculated y lookingat how much it ____50____ of the Earth's residents and how much it pollutes theatmosphere in a year. From those figures experts can calculate. How much landis  needed to ____51____ one inhabitantof each country. The more land that is needed, the higher the higher thefootprint".  ____52____the report isparticularly hard on the developed countries of North America、Europeand Asia. At the top of the list is America with a footprint of 12.2 hectares(that's about 18 football pitches), almost twice the average for westernEuropean countries which is 6. 28 hectares. At the ____53____ of the list arethe African countries. In Ethiopia, for example, the"footprint"is 2hectares.
Themessage is ____54____. Unless people in the developed world start living in amore environmentally friendly way, fifty years from now there simply won’t be____55____resources to go round.
41.  A.knowledge          B. promise                C. conclusion                   D.symbol
42.  A.unrealistic                B. unfortunate               C. unarguable                D.uncertain
43.  A. popular                    B. dramatic                   C. positive                    D. abstract
44.  A.desperately               B. legally                      C. actively                    D. seriously
45.  A. destroyed                 B. conserved                 C. renewed                   D.discovered
46.  A. origins                     B. statements                 C. figures                     D. graphs
47.  A.gone away                 B. died out                    C. looked back              D. seen through
48.  A. remains                    B.disappears                C.starts                         D.insists
49.  A.summarizing             B. predicting               C.inquiring                  D.measuring
50.  A.saves                        B. consumes                  C.provides                    D. handles
51.   A.support                     B.benefit                     C. accept                     D.represent
52.  A. Similarity                 B. Additionally             C. Particularly               D.Unsurprisingly
53.   A. rate                         B. time                       C.bottom                     D.beginning
54.  A. old andout – of - date                                          B.hardand frightening
       C.new and real                                                        D.simple and clear
55.   A.prosperous                B. adequate                   C.elementary                D.extra
【答案】 C A B DA       C B A D B      A D C D B
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by severalquestions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choicesmarked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to theinformation given in the passage you have read.

( A )

WasSherlock Holmes a real person? Not exactly, but Dr. Joseph Bell, the man who inspiredthe character of Sherlock Holmes shared many qualities with the famousdetective.Arthur Conan Doyle,the writer and creator of Holmes,met Dr.Bell in1877 at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.Conan Doyle was studying tobe a doctor and Bell was one of his professors.
Bellwas 39 years old when Conan Doyle first attended one of his lectures.He is saidto have walked with great energy.His nose and chin were angular and his eyestwinkled with intelligent humour. Bell,who was a brilliant doctor,liked writingpoetry,playing sport and bird-watching.
By the end of ConanDoyle’ s second year, Bell had selected him to serve as an assistant.Being on award with Bell,where he had plenty of opportunity to observe,only increasedConan Doyle’ s admiration for the great doctor.Amongst other things he was ableto witness Dr. Bell’s remarkable ability toquickly deduce（推断） a great deal about a patient.
Dr.Bell observed the way a person moved. The walk of a sailor,who had spent manyyears at sea, varied vastly from that of a solider. If he identified a personas a sailor, he would look for any tattoos（纹身）that might assist him inknowing where their travels had taken them. He trained himself to listen forsmall differences in his patient’s accents to help himidentify where they were from. Bell studied the hands of his patients becausecalluses（老茧）or other marks could help himdetermine their occupation.
ConanDoyle published the first Holmes story in 1887.His innovation in creating acharacter that would appear over and over in a series of self-contained storiesmeant that Holmes’s popularity grew with each book.Perhaps the most famous wasThe Hound of the Basketvilles,which has been made into several films.Soon thecharacter was so beloved that people refused to believe he wasn’t a realperson;letters addressed to “Sherlock Holmes,Consulting Detective” arriveddaily at Baker Street and Scoltland Yard,each begging him take on a real case.
56. Whatcan be learned about Dr.Joseph Bell from the passage?
A.          Heused to be a famous detective.
B.           Hefirst created Sherlock Holmes.
C.           Hetook interest in a variety of things.
D.          Helooked serious and unapproachable
57.    InParagraph 4,the author talks mainly about_____________.
A.          howDr Joseph Bell got to be liked by patients
B.           Whatkind of patients Dr Joseph Bell was good at treating
C.           Whatcontribution Dr Joseph Bell did to Conan Doyle ’s book
D.          HowDr Joseph Bell got clues about patients through observation
58.    Whydid the author mention letter addressed to Sherlock Holmes in the last paragraph?
A.          Toillustrate how popular Sherlock Holmes was.
B.           Totell readers where Sherlock Holmes actually lived.
C.           Toshow why readers refused to believe in Conan Doyle.
D.          Topresent a way Sherlock Holmes drew people’s attention.
59.    Whichof the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Dr Joseph Bell:the man who inspiredSherlock Holmes
B. How Conan Doyle created SherlockHolmes
C. Sherlock Holmes:the man who livesforever
D. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Joseph Bell
【答案】C D A D

(B)

WALKING   BACK

                                Everest  Blog
Day 1 --- Am I mad ?
  Ifirst heard of  “Show Racism the Red Card”when a friend asked me to sign a petition(请愿书)supporting their work. Basically, it’s an organization which uses professionalfootballers to help fight racism in sport and society. A few weeks later, heasked me if I wanted to do a bit more for them. I thought he probably meant forme to give money or do some voluntary work. But then he told me that a group ofabout 20 people were getting sponsored to play the highest ever game of rugbyat 5,140 meters on Mount Everest. Well, to cut a long story short, tomorrow I’moff to Nepal. Wish me luck.
Day 4 --- Uphill all the way
  We‟re making our way up tothe base camp — that‟swhere most climbers start their final climb to the top —and then, we‟ll play our game. There’sone thing I’ve learned pretty quickly. If you walk too fast at high altitude(高度), you get really short of breath. There’s not much oxygen, and you have todo  everything slowly. Today we startedout at 8 am. We had to cross three suspension bridges . One of them was so highthat you couldn‟t see the bottom. Then wewalked through some beautiful forest areas before we started a two-hour uphillhike to Namche Bazaar. It was really tough and most of us had headaches when wearrived. Tomorrow we’re going to have a rest day. I need one!
Day 11 --- The game
Todaywe played our game. It was supposed to be a “friendly”game, and last night, we had agreed we‟djust walk and not run. However, it was a really heated game and two playerswere even sent off. We only played for 14 minutes. I think someone would havegot hurt if we‟d played any longer! Myteam won and I scored the last try! Of course, none of this matters. What‟sreally important is that we did it and we’ve raised a load of money. It feelsamazing.
60. Accordingto the blog, the writer is most likely to be __________.
Ajournalist                     B. afootball player  
C. anexperienced volunteer        D. aprofessional mountain climber
61. By“Am I mad”, the writer means_________________.
A. Hewill climb to the top of Mount Everest without any sponsor
B. Heis really angry with the racism he sees and feels
C. Hisfriends don’t understand why he goes to Nepal
D. Hisdecision is too much beyond expectation
62. Whatdid the writer do on his journey?
A. Helost the “friendly” game because he didn’t want to hurt anyone.
B. Hedonated a load of money to help those in need after the game.
C. Heplayed a game 7 days after they arrived at Mamche Bzzaar.
D. Hehelped those who felt uncomfortable while on the way uphill.
【答案】B  D   C

(C)

Scholarsand students have always been great travelers. The official case for “academicmobility” is now often stated in impressive terms as a fundamental necessityfor economic and social progress in the world, and debated in the areas ofEurope, but it is certainly nothing new. Serious students were always ready togo abroad in search of the best teachers and the most famous academies; insearch of the purest philosophy, the most effective medicine, the likeliestroad to gold
Mobility of this kindmeant also mobility of ideas, their moving across borders, their simultaneousimpact upon many groups of people. The point of learning is to share it,whether with students or with colleagues; one thinks that only eccentrics haveno interest in being credited with a striking discovery, or a new technique. Itmust also have been comforting to know that other people in other parts of theworld were about to make the same discovery or were thinking along the samelines, and that one was not quite alone, faced by question, ridicule orneglect.
In the twentiethcentury, and particularly in the last 20 years, the old footpaths of thewandering scholars have become vast highways. The vehicle which has made thispossible has of course been the aeroplane, making contact between scholars evenin the most distant places immediately available, and providing for the veryrapid transmission of knowledge.
Apart from the vehicleitself, it is fairly easy to identify the main factors which have brought aboutthe recent explosion in academic movement. Some of these are purelyquantitative and require no further mention: there are far more centers oflearning, and a far greater number of scholars and students.
In addition one mustrecognize the very considerable increase of all kinds of subjects, particularlyin the sciences, which by widening the total area of advanced studies hasproduced an enormous number of specialists whose particular interests areprecisely defined. These people would work in some isolation if they were notable to keep in touch with similar isolated groups in other countries.
63.It can be concluded from the passagethat"academic mobility"_____.
A.meansthe friendship formed by scholars on the trip
B.isa program carried out by governments
C.hasbeen put great emphasis on in the world
D.meansgoing abroad in search of the best teachers
64.In the view of the author,if a scholar has a newidea about a particular thing he should________.
A.keepit a secret                       B.sellit for money      
C.abandonit without being proved         D.shareit with others
65.The underlined words “considerable multiplicationsof disciplines” in the last paragraph refers to_____________.
A.a great number of stricter teaching methods                  
B.boarder cooperation among scholars
C.enormous rules for academic studies                 
D.an increase in the number of fields of knowledge
66.According to the passage,travel is necessary forspecialists in that_____.
A.it is good for them to define their interestsprecisely
B.it is a good way for them to relax
C.it helps them avoid working in isolation
D.it can make them feel less lonely
【答案】C D D C
IV.Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarizethe main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words.Use your own words as far as possible.
Byalmost any measure, there is a boom in Internet-based instruction. In just afew years,34 percent of American universities have begun offering some form of distancelearning (DL), and among the larger schools,it's closer to 90 percent. If youdoubt the popularity of the trend, you probably haven't heard of the Universityof Phoenix. It grants degrees entirely on the basis of online instruction. Itenrolls 90,000 students, a statistic used to support its claim to be thelargest private university in the country.
Whilethe kinds of instruction offered in these programs will differ, DL usually signifiesa course in which the instructors post syllabi (课程大纲),reading assignments, and schedules on Websites, and students send in their assignmentsby e-mail. Generally speaking, face-to-face communication with an instructor isminimized or eliminated altogether.
Theattraction for students might at first seem obvious. Primarily, there's the conveniencepromised by courses on the Net: you can do the work, as they say, in yourpajamas (睡衣). But figures indicate that thereduced effort results in a reduced commitment to the course. While dropoutrates for all freshmen at American universities is around 20 percent, the ratefor online students is 35 percent. Students themselves seem to understand the weaknessesinherent in the setup. In a survey conducted for eComell, the DL division of ComellUniversity, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of theonline course to be as good as the classroom course.
Clearly,from the schools' perspective, there's a lot of money to be saved. Although someof the more ambitious programs require new investments in servers and networksto support collaborative software, most DL courses can run on existing orminimally upgraded(升级)systems. The more studentswho enroll in a course but don't come to campus, the more the school saves onkeeping the lights on in the classrooms, paying doorkeepers, and maintainingparking lots. And there's evidence that instructors must work harder to run aDL course for a variety of reasons, they won't be paid any more, and might wellbe paid less.
答案;
Online learning becomes more and morepopular. For students, they can laern whenever and wherever it is convenientfor them, but they hope its quality can be imoproved. For teachers, it can savemoney because they don’t need to pay for money for classroom and people workingin campus.