河北省邢台一中2013-2014学年高二下学期第二次月考

年级英语试题

命题人：孟春净

第I卷

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，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。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

What does the woman advise the man to do?

A. Work hard at his lessons. B. Go to sleep. C. Stay there and wait.

2. Why was the man late for the film? A. Because he had an unexpected visitor.

B. Because he had to take his son to the doctor.

C. Because his car broke down on the way

3. How much are the oranges?

A. 6 cents a pound. B. 16 cents a pound. C. 60 cents a pound.

4. Where may Bob be?

A. In the bedroom sleeping. B. In the office working.

C. At the lab sleeping.

5. When will the movie start?

A. It is already on. B. It will start at eight. C. It will start after eight o’ clock.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从每题所给的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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What will the man do in the evening?

A. Go to London. B. Meet somebody. C. See the woman again.

7. Where are the speakers?

A. In the street. B. In a hotel. C. In a taxi.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the woman intend to do?

A. Introduce the Star Club. B. Invite the man to do sports.

C. Invite the man to see a film.

9. What can we learn about the club?

A. People can skate there. B. It is open until midnight.

C. Three buses pass the club.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What will Mary’s mother receive for her birthday?

A. A shirt. B. A skirt. C. A plate.

11. Who’ ll cook the special dinner?

A. Mary. B. Mary’s friend. C. Mary’s mother.

12. Who will do the shopping?

A. Mary’s father and mother. B. Mary and her mother. C. Mary and her father.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

A. The history of cola. B. Soft-drink production.

C. Using cola as a drug.

14. How was cola originally sold?

A. A soft drink. B. As a medicine. C. As a cooking oil.

15. Why does the speaker mention John S. Pamberton?

A. He sold cola to doctors. B. He was a drugstore clerk.

C. he developed colas a drug.

16. How was the drug made into a soft drink?

A. By mixing it with special oils.

B. By heating it.

C. By adding soda water.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20 题

17. What did the wife want to do before their flight?

A. Do some shopping. B. have a good sleep.

C. have a business talk.

18. Where did the couple agree to meet?

A. At the hotel. B. At the airport. C. At a store.

19. What did the husband take with him?

A. All the money.

B. Their passports.

C. All the luggage.

20. What did the wife wear when going downstairs in the hotel?

A. A top and a blanket. B. A top and pants. C. A skirt.

第二部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

As Amy Paul choked(哽住) on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy’s hair until she woke up and called for help.

No one could explain their timely heroics.

Both pets were rescued by their owners in infancy---Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy’s husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.

As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple’s 14-year-old son was already unconscious. “Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound,” Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.

Amy Paul’s husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. “Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that’s what caused me to choke,” she recalled. “I couldn’t breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life.”

Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon.

21．Why did Amy Paul choke on a piece of apple?

A. She was too young to care for herself.

B. She didn’t peel the skin as usual.

C. The apple was too hard.

D. She had a big bite.

22．Winnie saved the lives of its owner’s whole family in an accident by __________.

A. jumping onto its owner B. calling for help

C. clawing at Cathy’s hair D. making some strange noises

23．Which of the following has the similar meaning to the underlined word “infancy” in Paragraph 4?

A. middle age B. youth C. babyhood D. agedness

24．What caused the carbon monoxide spreading through the house?

A. A pump breaking down. B. A driver breaking into the house.

C. The burning gas. D. The poisonous gas.

B

Work is a part of living—my grandparents understood that. They lived and worked on a farm that has been in my family for 150 years. They raised chickens for eggs, pigs and cattle for meat. Cows were kept for milk and the cream, from which Grandma made butter and cheese. What little yard they had became a garden.

The Depression, therefore, didn’t make much change in their lives. But it did bring an unending flow of men out of work, drifting from job to job, to the farm. The first to show up at the door of the kitchen was a man in rags. He took off his hat and quietly explained that he hadn’t eaten for a while. Grandpa stood watching him a bit , then said , “There’s a stack of firewood against the fence behind the barn (谷仓). I’ve been needing to get it moved to the other side of the fence. You have just about enough time to finish the job before lunch.”

Grandma said a surprising thing happened. The man got a shine in his eyes and he hurried to the barn at once. She set another place at the table and made an apple pie. During lunch, the stranger didn’t say much, but when he left, his shoulders had straightened. “Nothing ruins a man like losing his self-respect,” Grandpa later told me.

Soon after, another man showed up asking for a meal. This one was dressed in a suit and carried a small old suitcase. Grandpa came out when he heard voices. He looked at the man and then offered a handshake.” There is a stack of firewood along the fence down behind the barn I’ve been meaning to get it moved. It’d sure be a help to me. And we’d be pleased to have you stay for lunch.” The fellow set his suitcase aside and neatly laid his coat on top. Then he set off to work.

Grandma says she doesn’t remember how many strangers they shared a meal with during those Depression days—or how many times that stack of wood got moved.

25. When he was asked to move a stack of firewood, the first man who asked for a meal got a shine in his eyes for he was glad that .

A. he had found a good job

B. he would have something to eat

C. he would no longer suffer from the Depression

D. he would get what he wanted without losing his self-respect

26. The writer’s grandfather asked those jobless men to move the stack of firewood because .

A. he didn’t want them to have a meal free of charge

B. he had been needing to get it moved

C. he wanted to show them his kindness

D. he wanted to help them in his own way

27. The writer’s grandfather was all of the following but .

A. thoughtful B. kind C wealthy. D. sympathetic

28. The best title for the story would be .

A. Work—A Part of Living B. No Pains, No Gains

C. The Depression D. The Pleasure of farming

C

A culture’s values can be mirrored by its humor．Humor has been evaluated by many great minds such as Thomas Hobbes，who，in “On Nature”，disliked humor, “Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from sudden thought of feeling far better than others．”He thought humor to be a negative quality of human narrow-mindedness．

However, Mordechai Gordon，Ph. D of Education，insists，“Humor allows us to view the

world from an angle that is amusing rather than serious．” I agree with Gordon．Learning to look at the world through humor is important．

In the United States，every four years an election occurs．Without humor as a way to express their feelings，how else would Americans keep from clawing their eyes out and going the

way of lemming? Television shows like “The Daily Show” have become important parts of American culture．They are mothering the masses by metaphorically(隐喻地) airplane-ing politics into our mouths．They make politics fun．

Of course, politics is only one type of humor．Social humor helps people through the twists and turns of the human condition．American pop culture promotes an unhealthy self image．On the topic of self-image，Hari Kondabolu stands out．He has a joke about the popular musical group “The Pussycat Dolls”，describing their hit song “Don't Cha” as a negative representation of women．He points out an obvious offence in American culture．

A study from Loyola University of Maryland has shown that humor is one determining factor for selecting a mating partner．Amongst other things，mates look for an outstanding funny bone in a potential partner．

Of course，humor is not always used for good purposes．Humor can be linked to vulgarity (粗俗)and racism，but，like everything else，it has potential to unite human beings by allowing us to laugh at ourselves，our failures and our c