2014-2015学年度上学期第一次月考

高二英语试题【新课标】

考试时间：100分钟

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第I卷（选择题）

一、补全短文

1. How to Be Confident

We are all human and have weaknesses. Even if your physical appearance or social skills aren’t what you wish they were, that doesn’t have to stop you from being confident. 1 _____

1. Make a list of special talents you have, or things you do that are good—morally or otherwise. It doesn’t have to be a specific skill； it can be an approach or an attitude that you hold through life. 2 _____ Are you very patient with people? Do you always see the humorous side of things? Are you always there for your friends?

2. 3 _____When you feel strongly about something, speak loudly and clearly and make eye contact with people. People will judge you all the time ，and usually they’ll misjudge you anyway, so why bother trying to live up to their opinions at all?

3. Take care of yourself. Eat a healthy diet and get enough exercise. Don’t abuse your body, don’t overload it, and don’t deny it any of the things it needs. At the same time, don’t obsess (沉迷)4 _____ Those things are only band-aids and make-up. Confidence comes from within. In order to be confident ，you must value yourself and understand that your well-being is important.

4. Improve your posture. 5 _____ Don’t drop your shoulders. Make sure that your back is straight, your shoulders are square, and your chest sticks out slightly (but stay loose, otherwise you’ll appear stubborn and nervous). Good posture also helps with deep breathing, which helps with feeling calm and relaxed

A. But smiling at yourself in the mirror helps you to love yourself ，thus making you a bit more confident.

B. Buying all the moisturizers (润肤霜），creams will not bring you closer to who you want to be.

C. It is surprising how powerful the simple step of taking action can be.

D. Do you always stay calm, cool and collected ，even in hurried situations?

E. Having good posture can actually make you feel more confident.

F. Know that you have important things to say and do.

G. Here’s how to believe in yourself.

2. For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school. 1 Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.

The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65 – team US men’s college basketball tournament (锦标赛). 2 Teams compete against each other in a single – elimination (单局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.

Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness. The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends. 3 Colleagues against bosses.

Big – name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little – known universities.

This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little – known George Mason University was one of the final four teams. 4

College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves. 5 About $ 4 billion will be spent gambling (赌) on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $ 500 million in advertising income this year, topping the post – season income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA.

A. Husbands against wives.

B. The players will go all out for the games.

C. But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involved.

D. College students will ignore piles of homework.

E. People are willing to spend more money on watching it.

F. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.

G. Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.

第II卷（非选择题）

请修改第II卷的文字说明

二、单项选择

A. Having seen B. Seeing C. To see D. Seen

4. Most of the people_____ to the party were famous scientists. ( )

A. have been invited B. to be invited

C. being invited D. invited

5. When I was little, my mother used to sit by my bed, ______ me stories till I fell asleep.

A. having told B. telling C. told D. to tell

6. They sat on the beach side by side silently, their eyes ______ upon the sea.

A. fixing B. fixed C. to fix D. having fixed

7. I didn’t have any trouble _________ the old man’s house.( )

A. to have found B. with finding C. finding D. to find

8. After completing and signing it, please return the form to us in the envelope _____ （ ）

A. providing B. provided C. having provided D. provide

9. Another bridge _____ at the end of 2012 over LiuYang River will benefit many people.

A. built B. being built C. will be built D. to be built

10. When we saw the road ______ with snow, we decided to spend the holiday at home.

A. block B. to block C. blocking D. blocked

11. ____ at the party, we saw Ruth standing alone in the corner of the hall.

A．Arriving B．To arrive C．Arrive D．Arrived

12. Although _________ by Harvard University wasn’t far beyond his dream, he couldn’t afford the tuition.

A．having being accepted B．being accepted C．to have been accepted D．accepted

三、单词拼写

13. Kate was a________ in watching TV．She didn’t notice the thief.

14. People never trust him because he is always l__________.

15. gave him full _____(说明) to enable him to find the house.

16. He drew the _____(结论) by building on his own investigation.

17. We have all come to the c_______ that she is the best doctor in the hospital.

四、完形填空

18. Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten. As is 1____ . I wished her success. I was lying. What I actually wish for her is 2____ .I believe in the power of failure.

Success is 3____ . Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time, which can 4____ be a problematical victory. First-time success is usually a fluke (侥幸).First-time failure, 5 ____ . is expected; it is the natural order of things

Failure is how we learn. I have been told of an African phrase 6____ a good cook as “she who has broken many pots” If you've spent enough time in the 7____ to have broken a lot of pots, probably you know a fair amount about 8 ____ .1 once had a late dinner with a group of chefs, and they spent time 9 ____ knife wounds and bum scars. They knew how much credibility (信誉)their 10 ____ gave them.

I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper column. Each week I am 11 ____ that one column is going to be the worst column of the week. I don’t set out to write it; I try my best every day. 12 ____, every week, one column is inferior (较差的)to the others, sometimes extremely so.

I have learned to 13 ____.that column ,A successful column usually mean that I am treading (踩踏)on 14 ____ground, going with the tricks that work, or dressing up popular ideas in fancy words. Often in my inferior columns，I am trying to 15 ____ something I’ve never done before, something I’m not even sure can be done.

My granddaughter is a perfectionist. She will feel her failures, and I will want to 16 ____ her. But I will also, I hope, 17 ____ her of what she learned, and how she can do whatever it is 18 ____ next time. I probably won’t tell her that failure is a good thing, because that’s not a(n)19 ____ you can learn when you’re five. I hope I can tell her, though, that it’s not the end of the world. Indeed, with luck, it is the 20 ____ .

1.A. usual B. conventional C. expected D. contradictory

2.A. failure B. success C. sacrifice D. victory

3.A. convincing B. demanding C. boring D. worthwhile

4.A. seldom B_ often C always D. never

5.A. on purpose B. at length C. in turn D. by contrast

6.A. defining B. classifying C. describing D. viewing

7.A. canteen B. kitchen C. dormitory D. corridor

8.A. learning B. cooking C. gardening D. training

9.A. competing B. counting C. displaying D. comparing

10.A. endeavors B. failures C. wounds D. scars

11.A. aware B grateful C. skeptical D confident

12.A. Therefore B. Moreover C. Still D. Otherwise

13.A. update B. review C. cherish D. adapt

14.A. similar B. tentative C. accessible D. familiar

15.A. take in B. get through C. comment on D. figure out

16.A. amuse B. comfort C. reward D, tease

17.A. remind B. suspect C. inform D. cheat

18.A. worse B. acuter C. better D. luckier

19.A. trick B. experience C. truth D. lesson

20.A. beginning B. destination C, ending D. process

19. To be or not to be.Outside the Bible (圣经)，these six words are the most famous in all the __1__ of the world.They were __2__ by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare's because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every__3__ man and woman.To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live __4__ and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely.A philosopher once wanted to know __5__ he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself __6__.He answered it by saying, “I think, __7__ I am.”

But the best __8__ of existence ever seen was given by another philosopher who said，“ To be is to be in __9__.”If this is true，then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive.To live abundantly means simply to __10__ the range and intensity of our relations.__11__ we are so used to loving our routine.But apart from our regular __12__， how much are we alive? If you are __13__ only on your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent.If __14__ things are not concerned so far—poetry, music, pictures, sports, friendships, politics and international affairs — you are __15__ .On the contrary, it is true that every time you __16__ a new interest — even more, a new accomplishment — you increase your power of life.No one who is