安徽省蚌埠市2017_2018学年高二英语8月月考试题20170815027.wps

20172017 年 8 8 月初月考新高二英语试卷 注意事项： 1. 本试卷分为第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II卷（非选择题）两部分，共 8 页。满分 150 分，考试 时间为 120分钟。 2. 作答选择题必须用 2B铅笔。作答第 II 卷时必须使用 0.5 毫米的黑色墨水签字笔书写在答 题卡（卷）上的指定位置，在其它位置作答一律无效。 第 I I 卷（选择题，共两部分，满分 8080分） 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 5050分） 第一节（共 5 5 篇 2020小题；每小题 2 2 分，满分 4040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 A If you have to attend a party or other social events where a lot of people will be present, do you feel confident that you will make a good impression on others? Or do you feel shy? In any case, you should increase your confidence at social events. Whenever you are meeting new people at any social event, you should wear proper clothes. Before you attend the event, try to find out how other people will be dressing. If everyone else is wearing business clothes, you should, too. If the event is informal, you should wear informal clothes so that you fit in. If you are going to meet people from a certain business or profession, try looking through a few professional magazines or checking on the Internet ahead of time to get some conversation ideas which are related to their fields of interest. This can prevent you getting tongue-tied at the event. When you are at the event, dont worry about whether or not other people you are talking with like you. Instead, try your best to find reasons to like them. When you are making conversation with people, be sure to keep good eye contact, and make your facial expression soft. Nod to show youre listening. Let your face and body relax so that you can make natural gestures. After the event is over, take a bit of time to think of your social performance and the conversation you had with people. Tell yourself exactly what you did very well at the event. For example, perhaps you made a big effort to really listen to the people you were talking with,or you may have asked several people some good questions that really got them talking. By doing so, your conversation confidence will gradually improve. 1. What should you find out before attending a social event? A. how other people will be dressing. B. a few professional magazines C. some conversation ide as D. reasons to like other people 2. What should you avoid in a social event according to the 4th paragraph? 1 A. Attending a party with your good friends B. Ignoring eye contact with others C. Wearing informal clothes and shoes D. Caring much about what others think of you 3. After coming back from a social party, we need to form the habit of _. A. Looking for the positive things in our performance B. Calling the host to show that we are thankful C. Communicating with the people we met once again D. Thinking about how to improve our social ability 4. What is the passage mainly about? A. How to take part in social events. B. How to believe in ourselves in daily life. C. How to be more confident at social events. D. How to get along with others at social events. B B Try this: For an entire day, forget about the clock. Eat when youre hungry and sleep when youre tired. What do you think will happen? You may be surprised to find that your day is much like most other days. Youll probably get hungry when you normally eat and tired when you normally sleep. Even though you dont know what time it is, your body does. These patterns of daily life are called circadian rhythms（生理节奏）, and they are more than just habits. Inside our bodies are several clocklike systems that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle. Throughout the day and night, our inner clocks direct changes in temperature, body chemicals, hunger, sleepiness and more. Everyones rhythms are different, which is why you might like to stay up late while your sister always wants to go to bed early. But on the whole, everyone is programmed to fell tired at night and energetic during the day. Learning about our body clocks may help scientists understand why problems arise when we act out of step with our circadian rhythms. For example, traveling across time zones can make people wake up in the middle of the night. Regularly staying up late can make kids do worse in tests. “There is a growing sense that when we eat and when we sleep are important parts of how healthy we are,” says Steven Shea, director of the Sleep Disorders Program at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston. One way to learn about how our body clocks tick is to mess them up and see what happens. Thats what neurologist（神经病学家）Frank Scheer and his workmates did in a recent study. Staying up night after night, their studies suggest, could make kids extra hungry and more likely to gain weight. And regularly sleep ing too little, Scheer says, may 2 be one cause of the recent increase in childhood obesity. 5. What will happen if you forget about the clock according to the passage? A. You will feel upset. B. You will behave normally. C. Your body will not know what time it is. D. You will probably get hungry more easily. 6. Mike feels energetic at 12 midnight while Tom feels sleepy. What advice would be given by the writer? A. Both should see a doctor B. Tom should see a doctor. C. Both should take it easy. D. Mike should have a watch. 7. How do Frank Scheer and his workmates study body clocks? A. By seeing what happens when they are messed up. B. By asking questions and collecting answers. C. By studying people traveling across time zones. D. By programming people with man-made clocks. 8. What will the writer most probably talk about next? A. Other examples of what people will do when their body clocks go wrong. B. Medicines that can keep people from putting on weight. C. Why it is important to have a normal body clock. D. What circadian rhythms are. C C Each year, we are exposed to ten thousand ads on average. They try to sell us their products by using beautiful art, videos, images or slogans that are catchy. The most famous companies have highly popular logos that can be recognized by almost everybody. For those of you who have seen the movie Finding Forrester, there is that scene where Jamal walks up to some guy with a BMW and asks him what the car logo means. The man did not know the answer and since that day, whenever I see a famous company logo I try to find the meaning of it. Many think the horse on the Ferrari logo represents the horsepower of the cars they manufacture. The story behind it is far more interesting. During World War I, a pilot, Count Francesco Baracca, painted the horse on his airplane to bring him luck. He had it on his plane because it was the logo of his squadron（空军中队）. Baraccas mother then convinced Enzo Ferrari to put the logo on his racing cars in the early 1930s to bring good luck to the drivers. The logo the n stayed the same ever since. The yellow on the background represents the birthplace of Enzo Ferrari. Starbucks started in 1971, in Seattle. The mermaid（美人鱼）represented on the logo is now known by any coffee drinker. It is a mythological sea creature with the look of a female, the only difference being that they have a tail of a fish. The reason why Starbucks incorporated one in their company logo is that it was believed that 3 mermaids used to sing to sailors in order to make them walk away from their ship or to ground their ships. In the 1500s, spices, tea and coffee were popular merchandise to trade. So the mermaid in the logo of Starbucks is the one that “brings” coffee and tea to the stores. 9. The writer became interested in logos of some famous brands after _. A. he watched an attractive movie B. he saw a scene in a movie C. he walked up to some guy with a BMW D. he noticed some famous logos 10. Many companies use logos because _. A. people enjoy beautiful logos B. people are more likely to buy their products C. people can recognize the products more easily D. people are interested in the meanings of the logos 11. Which of the following is true according to Paragraph3? A. Starbucks was once a company trading spices, tea and coffee. B. Hearing mermaids sing, sailors would know the right direction. C. Starbucks has a history of more than five hundred years. D. The logo of Starbucks is believed to make the business years. 12. The underlined word “incorporated” in the third paragraph probably means _. A. included B. abandoned C. corrected D. designed D D Whats the biggest online shopping day in the world? Not Valentines Day. Not Cyber Monday or Black Friday. The winner is Chinas SinglesDay, celebrated on November11, or 11.11. SinglesDay began as a day for unmarried or uncoupled people to celebrate their lives. Single students, looking for an excuse to buy themselves presents, started it on November11,1993, reported The Guardian. It is symbolized by the four mumber ones in the date of November11 and is also called Double Eleven, in reference to the day it was started, said the BBC. It became a major shopping day in 2009. The CEO of an online shopping site -Alibaba- tried to increase sales at the e-commerce company. The CEO, Daniel Zhang, launched an annual online sale on that day, said Fortune. When it first began, “SiglesDay was very much an offline comfort to actual single people,”noted the website atlas Obscura.”A small group of students at Nanjing University are said to have chosen 11.11 as a day that singles could do activities like karaoke together.”It quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Last year, Alibaba sold more than $1 billion worth of products inthe first three minutes of the sales, reported Bloomberg News. Total sales on SinglesDay soared to $9 billion within 24 hours. Thats four times bigger than Cyber Monday in the U.S., which is the Monday after Thanksgiving and traditionally a big shopping day. By comparison, online sales in the U.S. last year on Black Friday were just $1.5 billion, 4 reported TechCrunch. Today, SinglesDay is very successful. Analysts say that this year, sales on Chinas SinglesDay will increase to a new high. In the U.S., Jennifer Wang, a co-founder of a company targeting Chinese-Americans, said, “We expect to have 3 million people coming to click Dealmoon for the SinglesDay launch.” Some observers think SinglesDay could catch on globally. 13. How did the author introduce the topic of the passage? A. By describing a holiday. B. By asking a question C. By making a list. D. By telling a story 14. Whats the second paragraph mainly about? A. How SinglesDay came into being. B. Why SinglesDay became popular. C. When SinglesDay was started. D. Who first celebrated SinglesDay. 15. Why did Chinas SinglesDay become a major shopping day? A. Because singles celebrated their happy lives on November11. B. Because students at Nanjing university took part in activities together. C. Because an annual online sale was started on that day by Alibaba. D. Because single students chose that day to buy themselves gifts. 16. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “soared”in Paragraph3? A. Increased sharply. B. Decreased quickly. C. Returned gradually. D. Appeared suddenly. E English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the worlds books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary-perhaps as many as two million words. However, lets face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweetmeats are candy, while sweetbreads, which arent sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes（自相矛盾的说法), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them. And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers dont fing, grocers dont groce, and hammers dont ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldnt the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese-so one moose, two meese? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next? 5