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山西大学附中10-11学年度高二12月月考英语试题09    

第一卷
第一部分 英语知识运用 (共两节，满分35分)
第一节 单项填空 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
1. The manager, greatly ______ my surprise, should turn down my request.
   A. to             B. in          C. for            D. with
2. The teacher stressed again that the students should not ________ any important details while retelling the story.
   A. bring out      B. let out        C. leave out      D. make out
3. The weather turned out to be fine yesterday. I ___ the trouble to carry my umbrella with me.
   A. should have taken B. could have taken C. needn’t have taken D. mustn’t have taken
4. She was leaning against a tree as if ______ for someone.
   A. waited           B. wait          C. to wait          D. waiting
5. ______ and short of breath, Andy and Ruby were the first to reach the top of Mount Tai..
   A. To be tired      B. Tired      C. Tiring       D. Being tired
6. A small plane crashed into a hillside five miles east of the city, ____all four people on board.
   A. get along          B. kills         C. killing         D. to kill
7. There is no doubt ______ smoking can seriously damage our health.
   A. that             B. whether         C. why            D. which
8. I’m stuck is used __________.
   A. when you have a good idea     B. when you go on talking without stop
   B. when you are thinking something is too easy
   D. when you can’t continue with something because it’s too difficult
9．—This TV program has a lively style and _____ young people.    — So it does.
   A. turns to          B. leads to          C. refers to            D. appeals to
10. You can’t imagine what great trouble the doctor had ______ the patient.
   A. treats           B. treating            C. to treat          D. treated
11. After graduation, she reached a point in her career ______she needed to decide what to do.
   A. that          B. what          C. which         D. where
12. While shopping, people can’t help ______ into buying something they don’t really want.
   A. persuading       B. to persuade       C. being persuaded      D. persuaded
13. In the first book, Lyra’s scientist father makes ______ possible to enter other worlds.
   A. it               B. this           C. that                D. one
14. They would rather I ______ there tomorrow.
   A. will go            B. go          C. had gone           D. went
15. The children talked so loudly at dinner table that I had to struggle ______.
   A. to be heard        B. to have heard       C. hearing      D. being heard
第二节 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)
A woman in her sixties lived alone in her little cottage with a pear tree at her door. She spent all her time taking care of the tree. But the children nearby drove her  16  by making fun of her. They would climb up her tree and then run away with pears,     17   “Aunty Misery” at her.
One evening, a passer by asked to    18     for the night. Seeing that he had an   19   face, she let him in and gave him a nice    20   . The next morning the stranger, actually a sorcerer (巫师), thanked her by grantingting (允准) her   21     that anyone who climbed up her tree  22   not be able to come back down until she   23  it.
     When the children came back to steal her   24  , she had them stuck on the tree. They had to beg her long   25  she gave the tree permission to let  26    go. Aunty Misery was free from the   27   at last.
One day another man    28    her door. This one did not look trustworthy to her,   29   she asked who he was . “I am Death, I’ve come to take you    30    me.” said he.
Thinking fast Aunty Misery said, “Fine, but I’d like to   31   some pears from my dear tree to remember the    32   it brought to me in this life. But I am too    33   to climb high to get the best fruit. Will you be so   34    as to do it for me?” With a deep sigh, Mr. Death climbed up the tree   35   and was immediately stuck to it. No matter how much he warned or begged, Aunty Misery would not allow the tree to let Death go.
16.  A. hopeless     B. painful       C. dull           D. crazy
17.  A. calling       B. shouting     C. announcing     D. whispering
18.  A. stay         B. live         C. hide           D. lie
19.  A. interesting    B. honest       C. anxious        D. angry
20.  A. gift          B. kiss         C. treat          D. smile
21.  A. suggestion    B. demand      C. permission     D. wish
22.  A. could        B. should       C. might         D. must
23.  A. permitted     B. promised     C. answered      D. declared
24.  A. branch       B. food         C. tree           D. fruit
25.  A. after         B. while        C. since          D. before
26.  A. it            B. them        C. him           D. her
27.  A. trick         B. question      C. trouble        D. difficulty
28.  A. stepped into   B. left for        C. stopped at       D. walked around
29.  A. so           B. but           C. although        D. because
30.  A. with        B. off           C. upon            D. for
31.  A. choose      B. pick          C. shake           D. hit
32.  A. honor       B. pleasure       C. hope            D. excitement
33.  A. light        B. short          C. old             D. thin
34.  A. proud        B. kind           C. fine            D. smart
35.  A. disappointedly B. cheerfully      C. unwillingly      D. eagerly
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)
A
When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously (同时的) about a variety of subjects, including children, men, careers and what' s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen -- they can’t do both -- and they don’t understand that women can. Besides, women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships -- not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen.
During the ad breaks, a man often asks a woman to explain the plot and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women, to read the subtle body language signals that reveal how the characters are feeling emotionally. Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group, they developed the ability to communicate successfully in order to maintain relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to relate the facts.
Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a means of bonding. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.
There is no convincing evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girls' mothers talked to them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr Michael Lewis, author of Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to, and looked at, baby girls more often than baby boys. Scientific evidence shows parents respond the brain bias of their children. Since a girl’s brain is better organized to send and receive speech, we therefore talk to them more. Consequently, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually disappointed to receive only short grunts in reply.
36. While watching TV with others, women usually talk a lot because they           
A. are afraid of awkward silence with their families and friends
B. can both talk and watch the screen at the same time
C. think they can have a good time and develop relationships
D. have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands
37. After a vacation with her girlfriend, a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hours in order to              .
A. experience the happy time again    B. keep a close tie with her
C. recommend her a new scenic spot   D. remind her of something forgotten
38. What does the author want to tell us most?
A. Women’s brains are better organized for language and communication
B. Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men.
C. Men do not like talking because they rely more on facts.
D. Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking.
39. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Women Are Socially Trained to Talk        B. Talking Maintains Relationships
C. Women Love to Talk                     D. Men Talk Differently from Women
B
Happiness is associated with smiling. But do we always smile when we are happy?
During the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, Spanish researchers analyzed the facial expressions of 22 gold medal winners at the medal ceremonies. The researchers were surprised to see that these medal winners didn’t smile very much. In fact, throughout the different medal ceremonies, they only smiled about 10% of the time. But during the brief moment when the gold medal was put around their neck, the medal winners grinned (露齿笑) about 70% of the time.   
The researchers interviewed the winners they had watched to find out how they felt. All the winners interviewed said that they felt intensely(强烈的）happy throughout the ceremony.   
Though they were profoundly（衷心地）happy, they didn’t smile a great deal. The researchers concluded that smiling was not the automatic expression of happiness. The fact that the gold medal winners smiled much more when they were actually being given their medals could be explained because, according to the Spanish researchers, smiling was a form of communication between individuals. The happy athletes were smiling at the people who were giving them gold medals.    Perhaps we can support the findings of the Spanish researchers by making some observations of our own behaviors. When we are all alone, for example, do we smile at ourselves when we are happy? Probably not very often. If someone greets us with a friendly smile, do we respond with a smile? Yes, we probably do. When a friend gives us a beautiful present, will we show our appreciation with a smile? Yes, of course. But if we are sitting alone watching television, do we smile at a commentator (讲解员) who smiles at us?
40. How much of the time did the gold medal winners smile during the medal ceremonies?
   A. 10%.   B. 70%.   C. 22%.   D. 92%.
41. According to the passage, when did the athletes smile quite a lot?
   A. Throughout the medal ceremony.   B. When they were informed of their success.
   C. When the gold medal was put around their neck.  D. When their national flag was raised.
42. According to the passage, on which of the following occasions would we most probably NOT smile?
A. When we are sitting alone watching TV. B. When someone greets us with a friendly smile.
C. When a friend gives us a beautiful present.  D. When we feel intensely happy.
43. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The gold medal winners were too nervous that they would hardly smile at the medal ceremonies.
B. People will always smile automatically when they feel happy.
C. Smiling is a way of communication.
D. When the gold medal was put around their neck, the gold medal winners were smiling at the audience but not at those who gave the medal.
C  
It was a Sunday and the heavy storm had lasted all night.The morning after the storm,though, was beautiful:blue skies, warm air and a calm, inviting sea touching the shore gently. My father realised it was a good day for fishing and invited my sister and me to go with him.I was only 14 and fishing had never been my thing, but I decided to go all the same. I’m so glad I did.
On the road to the harbour we could see the terrible destruction on the coast,but the harbour itself was in fairly good shape.After all， it was protected by the arms of a bay that had only one tiny channel to the sea.As we got on board,we noticed two big humps (脊背) in the distance.
On approaching them, we saw it was a mother whale with her baby. We couldn’t believe it ——there aren’t any whales along the coast here.The storm must have driven them across the ocean into the bay, in which the still water was so badlly polluted that nothing could survive.
The little baby whale——actually as big as our boat——was obviously stuck and could not move.The mother dived under the water and came up suddenly, making big whirlpools(漩涡) and waves. “She’s trying to help her baby, but on the wrong side,”my father said. At this point, my father moved our boat in a semicircle to the other side and, heading the boat towards the baby whale, pushed it gently. With our several gentle pushes the big hump turned over and disappared under water.Then it swam up right beside its mum.They struggled in their desperate attempts to escape but missed the exit and started heading in the wrong direction.We hurried up to the whales and tried to lead them towards the bay channel. Showly, they let us lead them, some-times rising from the water right beside us to breathe——and to give us a trusting look with those huge eyes. Once they hit their first part of clean water flowing straight from the sea, the mum gave us a wave with her tail and off they swam into the distance.
In the excitement, it had felt like only a few minutes, but we had been with those wonderful animals for almost an hour and a half. That was the simple and lasting beauty of the day. Nearly four decades later, I still look back fondly to that golden day at sea.
44. The author says “I’m  so glad I did ” (in Para.2) because __________.
A. be witnessed the whole process of fishing
B. he enjoyed the beauty of the calm sea
C. he experienced the rescue of the whales
D. he spent the weekend with his family
45. The harbour survived the storm because of ____________.
A. the shape of the harbour             B. the arms of the bay
C. the still water in the channel          D. the long coast line
46. The mother whale failed to help her baby because__________.
A. she had stayed in the polluted water for too long
B. the whirlpools she had made were not big enough
C. she had no other whales around to turn to for help
D. the waves pushed her baby in the wrong direction
47. What is the theme of the story?
A.Saving lives brings people a sense of happiness.
B. Fishing provides excitement for children.
C. It’s necessary to live in harmony with animals.
D. It’s vital to protect the environment.
D
For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?
Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither is willing to admit .any responsibility for starting it . From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way , except oppositely . Both feel trapped.
In this article. I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over         unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends .Second, blaming, the goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right, It doesn’t matter what the topic is –politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg –the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority --- someone who actually knows something --- and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.
48. Why does the author compare the parent—teen war to a border conflict?
A. both can continue for generations.
B. Both are about where to draw the line
C. Neither has any clear winner
D. Neither can be put to an end
49. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?
A. The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict.
B. The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict
C. The teens accuse their parents of misleading them
D. The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents
50. Parents and teens want to be right because they want to ________.
A. give orders to the other           B. know more than the other
C. gain respect from the other        D .get the other to behave properly
第二节 (共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Muzak
The next time you go into a bank, a store, or a supermarket, stop and listen. What do you hear?   51   It's similar to the music you listen to, but it's not exactly the same. That's because this music was especially designed to relax you, or to give you extra energy. Sometimes you don't even realize the music is playing, but you react to the music anyway.
Quiet background music used to be called "elevator (电梯) music" because we often heard it in elevators. But lately we hear it in more and more places, and it has a new name "Muzak". About one-third of the people in America listen to "Muzak" everyday. The music plays for 15 minutes at a time, with short pauses in between. It is always more lively between ten and eleven in the morning, and between three and four in the afternoon, when people are more tired.     52
If you listen to Muzak carefully, you will probably recognize the names of many of the songs. Some musicians or songwriters don't want their songs to be used as Muzak, but others are happy when their songs are chosen. Why?   53
Music is often played in public places because it is designed to make people feel less lonely when they are in an airport or a hotel. It has been proven that Muzak does what it is designed to do. Tired office workers suddenly have more energy when they hear the pleasant sound of Muzak in the background.   54   Supermarket shoppers buy 38 percent more groceries.
55. They say it's boring to hear the same songs all the time. But other people enjoy hearing Muzak in public places. They say it helps them relax and feel calm. One way or another, Muzak affects everyone. Some farmers even say their cows give more milk when they hear Muzak!
    A. Some people don't like Muzak.
B. The music gives them extra energy.
C. Music is playing in the background.
D. Factory workers produce 13 percent more.
    E. Muzak tends to help people understand music better.
F. They get as much as $4 million a year if their songs are used.
G. Muzak is played in most of the big supermarkets in the world.
第二卷
第三部分　写作(共两节，满分25分)
第一节　短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Wise men don’t always act as wise as we think. At times
　　they maybe done something silly：Because we always think they
　　are well known，so the stories about their foolish acts are still
　　widely talked throughout the world in modern times. For example，
　　Beethoven, the great composer of Austria was said to have insisted
　　on paying a waiter in a restaurant for a dinner he has not eaten or
　　ever ordered; the British physicist Newton, while lived in London，
　　cut two holes in the two doors of his flat, one big, other small，
　　so as for his two cats to pass through them. He only thought the
　　bigger cat could not get through the smaller holes easily.
第二节　书面表达(满分15分)
下表是对某中学高二（1）班50个学生健康问题的调查表。请根据表格内容，综述学生当前存在的健康问题，并就中学生如何保持身心健康提出自己的建议。
问题类型 学习焦虑 逆反心理 缺乏交往 睡眠不足 缺乏锻炼 视力不佳
人数 35 20 15 40 25 35
比例 70% 40% 30% 80% 50% 70%
　　要求： 1．词数120左右 2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
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参考答案
单选1—5  ACCDB   6—10  CADDB  11—15 DCADA
完形16-20 DBABC   21– 25 DBADD   26 – 30 BCCAA   31– 35 BBCBC
阅读A: CBAC  B: ACAC  C: CBDA   D: BAC   E:CBFDA
短文改错 56.wise改为wisely   57.done改为do    58.去掉so
　　     59.talked后加about   60.正确   61.has改为had    62. lived改为living
　　63.other前加the     64.去掉them     65.holes改为hole
第四部分：书面表达
As is apparently shown in the chart above, many middle school students have problems both physically and mentally, with 70% of the students having learning anxiety as well as poor eyesight, and a larger percentage lacking sleep. Coming next is the lack of physical exercise. 40% of the students surveyed won’t obey their parents or teachers. In addition, Still fewer claim not to have enough communication with others. As far as I am concerned, we students should balance our physical exercise and studies. Just as a saying goes: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” without a sound body, one cannot achieve anything. However, too much attention has been paid only to studies.
Therefore, I suggest we be given less homework and more time for out-of-classroom activities to solve all the problems. Only in this way can we lead a happy and healthy life.