广东省龙川一中2012-2013学年高二12月月考英语试题

本试卷共10页，五大题，满分150分。考试用时120分钟。

一 听力理解。（每小题2分，共15小题，满分30分）

听下面几段对话或独白。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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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,每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

Conversation 1

1． What will the woman do this evening?

A． Have a class B．Go to the cinema. C．Pick up her sister

2．What does Mike like doing when he is free?

A．Watching movies． B．Playing the piano C．Doing sports.

Conversation 2

3. Where are the two speakers now?

A. On the street B. At a bookstore C. At a hotel

4. How will the man go to the bookstore?

A. By taxi B. On foot C. By bus

Conversation 3

5. What is the relationship between the man and the woman?

A. Husband and wife. B. Customer and waitress C. Neighbors

6.Where does the man want to go?

A. To an Italian restaurant B. To a Chinese restaurant C. To a supermarket

Conversation 4

7. Why does the man dislike joining tours?

A. Because he doesn’t like the fast pace

B. Because he doesn’t want to eat every meal with strangers

C. Both A and B

8. Which of the following does the tour the woman is talking about include?

A. Several free evenings B. A guide C. All the meals

9. What’s their final decision ?

A. To travel by themselves B. To join the tour C. To look for another tour

Conversation 5

10. What kind of furniture does the woman like?

A. Big furniture B. Expensive furniture C. Traditional furniture

11. What does the woman think of the bookshelf？

A. It is too narrow. B. It is ugly C. It is boring

12. What does the man think of the most important in design?

A. The function B. The form. C. The size.

Conversation 6

13. What are the two speakers going to do?

A. Attend a birthday party B. Have dinner in a restaurant. C. Attend a dinner party

14. What does the woman think of the wine from California?

A. It is good B. It is bad C. She has no idea

15. What do they choose at last?

A. A bottle of white wine B. A bottle of red wine C. A bottle of champagne.

二 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant(移植)her life was in constant 16 .

Both the mother and daughter knew that the chances were very small: finding a donor heart that 17 Maria’s blood type could take years. However, Carmen was determined to save her mother. She kept 18 hospitals all over the country.

Days stretched out. By Christmas, Maria had trouble 19 from one end of the room to the other. Carmen lost all hope. She fell into a 20 of the hospital, crying.

“Are you okay?” a man asked.

Carmen sobbed as she told the stranger her story. This middle-aged man was named Frank, whose wife, Cheryl, a tender and devoted mother of four lovely children, had been in hospital with a brain disease and wouldn’t 21 it through the night. Suddenly, an idea came to Frank’s mind. He knew Cheryl had always wanted to 22 something from herself. Could her 23 go to Carmen’s mother?

After reviewing the data, doctors 24 Frank that his wife’s heart was by some miracle a perfect fit for Carmen’s mother. They were able to 25 the transplant.

That cold night, when Cheryl was 26 dead, Frank came to knock at Maria’s door. She was 27 for Frank’s family as she had been doing every day recently. Though Maria had never met Frank before, they both felt a strange bond as they hugged and cried.

On New Year’s Eve, Carmen attended Cheryl’s 28 with Frank’s family, who were singing their favorite song “My heart will go on.”

One day later, on New Year’s Day, Maria 29 with Cheryl’s heart. Yes, Cheryl’s loving heart would go on, for it was 30 in another loving mother’s chest.

16. A. change B. danger C. disorder D. pain

17. A. matched B. replaced C. controlled D. cooperated

18. A. finding B. phoning C. touring D. interrupting

19. A. rolling B. running C. walking D. jumping

20. A. corner B. bed C. man D. nurse

21. A. put B. support C. pass D. make

22. A. save B. recycle C. donate D. separate

23. A. heart B. brain C. husband D. spirit

24. A. informed B. warned C. congratulated D. reminded

25. A. give up B. carry out C. search after D. put off

26. A. noticed B. predicted C. found D. declared

27. A. praying B. begging C. decorating D. singing

28. A. funeral B. operation C. performance D. anniversary

29. A. passed away B. woke up C. left behind D. dressed up

30. A. active B. alive C. necessary D. changeable

三 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的

词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3l-40的相应位置上。

Christmas Eve means a warm get-together with friends, a candlelight dinner, or perhaps a celebration at a pub for students. But, for Cai Yingjie, 31 unusual night has a different meaning: helping beggars and the homeless.

Cai, 32 is a student in journalism at Tsinghua, could be found at Beijing’s Wudaokou Light Railway Station that special evening. 33 she saw an old beggar, she took the cold, rough hands of the woman with her warm, clean hands, 34 (give) the woman some warm bread and helped her put on a pair of new gloves.

The woman was surprised for a few seconds, then burst into tears, saying “ 35 the first time I feel respected”.

Cai said, “A beggar’s life is even 36 (hard) today. That’s why I want to help them.”

They brought bread and gloves with them, and stopped to greet beggars and offer 37 some of the warm food. Each beggar greeted them 38 a look of surprise.

“I know the 39 (active) can’t help much, but it is meant 40 (show) our respect and care for beggars and the homeless who have been neglected for so long,” said Sun, head of the group.

?四、阅读 (共25 小题；每小题2分，满分50 分)

第—节 阅渎理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

(A)

Miss Gogers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them, “Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?”

Tom at once answered, “Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.” “That’s every good,” Miss Gogers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gogers said. “Yes, Kate.”

“I disagree,” Kate said. “Your brother would hear you earlier because when it’s 11 o’clock here it’s only 8 o’clock in Los Angeles.”

41.Miss Gogers was teaching her class_________.

A. how to telephone B. about electricity

C. about time zone(时区) D. about sound

42.Miss Gogers raised this question because she wanted to know whether______.

A. it was easy to phone to Los Angeles

B. her student could hear her from 75 feet away

C. her students had grasped her lesson

D. sound waves were slower than electricity

43.Tom thought that electricity was _________.

A. slower than sound waves B. faster than sound waves

C. not so fast as sound waves D. as fast as sound waves

44.Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______.

A. clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York

B. electricity was slower than sound waves

C. Tom was not good at physics at all

D. Tom’s answer had nothing to do with sound waves

45.Whose answer do you think is correct according to the law of physics?

A. Tom’s B. Kate’s C. Bath A and B D. Neither A nor B

(B)

Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the many colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.

In the early years, these school were much alike(*similar).Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.

In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training(训练)in Harvard’s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began teaching American history.

As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.

Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with(涉及)special fields of learning. There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer it all.

46.The oldest university in the US is _________.

A. Yale B. Princeton C .Columbia D. Harvard

47.From the second paragraph, we can see that in the early years,______.

A. those colleges and universities were the same

B. people, young or old, might study in the colleges

C. students studied only some languages and science

D. when the students finished their school, they became lawyers or teachers

48.Modern languages the Harvard taught in 1825 were ________.

A. Latin and Greek B. Latin, Green, French and German

C. French and German D .American history and German

49.As knowledge increased, colleges began to teach_______.

A. everything that was known B. law and something about medicine

C. many new subjects D. the subjects that interested students

50.On the whole, the passage is about___________.

A. how to start a university B. how colleges have changed

C. the world-famous colleges in America

D. what kind