河南省实验中学2014---2015学年上期月考1

高二 英语 命题人：孙莹霞

（时间 120分钟，满分 150分）

注：试卷分为第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷，第Ⅰ卷答案涂在答题卡上，Ⅱ卷答案直接答在答题卡上。

第Ⅰ卷

第一部分 听力 （每小题1.5分）

第一节：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。

1. What does the woman want to do?

A. Return her shoes. B. Repair her shoes. C. Buy new shoes.

2. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At an airport. B. At a hotel. C. At a travel agency.

3. Who will probably decide the place to go?

A. The man. B. The woman. C. Harry.

4. What makes the man so happy?

A. Tom will play football with him. B. Tom will tell him the best news.

C. Tom’s father will play football with him.

5. What does the woman like to watch in her spare time?

A. Advertisements. B. TV plays. C. Art shows.

第二节

听下面5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，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8题。

6. Why is the woman so excited?

A. Her grandpa will cook for them. B. Her grandpa will come here.

C. Her grandpa will give her a valuable present.

7. How does the grandpa come here?

A. By plane. B. By bus. C. By train.

8. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The grandpa was independent.

B. The grandpa will arrive at 6 o’clock in the morning.

C. The speakers will book a room for the grandpa.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Which two countries will have a football game tonight?

A. Brazil and Japan. B. China and England. C. Brazil and England.

10. What is the man busy with recently?

A. His driving test. B. His final exam. C. His basketball training.

11. When will the game start?

A. 1:00 a.m. B. 1:00 p.m. C. 11:00 p.m.

听第8段材料，回答第12至13题。

12. What is the woman’s problem?

A. Her screen isn’t clear. B. Her printer doesn’t work.

C. Her computer has stopped working.

13. What is the cause of the problem?

A. The screen is too old. B. The printer has no ink.

C. The connector was loose.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. What’s the relationship between the speakers?

A. Landlord and tenant(房客) B. Agent and tenant. C. Agent and landlord.

15. What does the woman want the man to do?

A. To cut down the rent. B. To discuss with the landlord.

C. To do some repair work.

16. What is the man’s reply for the request?

A. He needs time to consider it. B. He thinks it is impossible.

C. He can’t decide it.

17. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The woman hasn’t made the decision yet.

B. The man doesn’t know how much the rent is.

C. The woman doesn’t think the house is good.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. How often is the lab class given?

A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Three times a week.

19. What is the result if one misses 3 lab classes?

A. He can’t graduate. B. He will get a low mark. C. He will be dropped.

20. What is forbidden in the lab?

A. Washing hands. B. Wearing short hair. C. Wearing large clothes.

第二部分阅读理解（本大题共20小题，每小题2分,共40分）

A

I passed all the other courses that I took at my university, but I could have never passed botany. This was because all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells, and I could never once see a cell through a microscope. This used to make my professor angry. He would wander around the laboratory pleased with the progress all the students were making in drawing the structure of flower cells, until he came to me. I would just be standing there. “I can’t see anything,”I would say. He would begin patiently enough, explaining how anybody can see through a microscope, but he would always end up angrily, claiming that I could too see through a microscope but just pretended that I couldn’t. “It takes away from the beauty of flowers anyway.”I used to tell him.“We are not concerned with beauty in this course,”he would say.“We are concerned with the structure of flowers.” “Well,” I’d say.“I can’t see anything.” “Try it just once again,” he’d say, and I would put my eye to the microscope and see nothing at all, except now and again something unclear and milky. “You were supposed to see a clear, moving plant cells shaped like clocks.” “I see what looks like a lot of milk.” I would tell him. This, he claimed, was the result of my not having adjusted the microscope properly, so he would readjust it for me, or rather, for himself. And I would look again and see milk.

I failed to pass botany that year, and had to wait a year and try again, or I couldn’t graduate. The next term the same professor was eager to explain cell-structure again to his classes. “Well,”he said to me, happily, “we’re going to see cells this time, aren’t we?” “Yes,sir,” I said. Students to the right of me and to the left of me and in front of me were seeing cells; what’s more, they were . Of course, I didn’t see anything.

So the professor and I tried with every adjustment of the microscope known to man. With only once did I see anything but blackness or the familiar milk, and that time I saw, to my pleasure and amazement, something like stars. These I hurriedly drew. The professor, noting my activity, came to me, a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope. He looked at my cell drawing. “What’s that?”he asked.“That’s what I saw,”I said.“You didn’t, you didn’t, you didn’t!”he screamed, losing control of himself immediately, and he bent over and looked into the microscope. He raised his head suddenly. “That’s your eye!”he shouted.“You’ve adjusted the microscope so that it reflects! You’ve drawn your eye!”

21．Why couldn’t the writer see the flower cells through the microscope?

A. Because he had poor eyesight.

B. Because the microscope didn’t work properly.

C. Because he was not able to adjust the microscope properly.

D. Because he was just playing jokes on his professor by pretending not to have seen it.

22．What does the writer mean by “his eyebrows high in hope”in the last paragraph?

A. His professor expected him to have seen the cells and drawn the picture of them.

B. His professor hoped he could perform his task with attention.

C. His professor wished him to learn how to draw pictures.

D. His professor looked forward to seeing all his students finish their drawings.

23．What is the thing like stars that the writer saw in the last paragraph?

A. Real stars B. His own eye C. Something unknown D. Milk

24．In what writing style did the writer write the passage?

A. Realistic B. Romantic C. Serious D. Humorous

B

Do you scream on a roller coaster ride? You slowly climb up a steep slope until an almost vertical drop, and then... Ahh! Thrill-seekers like me are in luck because theme parks are pushing the boundaries of technology to create the fastest, tallest, scariest roller coasters the world has ever known.

Alton Towers in Britain opened the world's first 14-1oop roller coaster a few months ago, called The Smiler. Over in Abu Dhabi, Ferrari World claims to have the world's fastest one. Ferrari World's Formula Rossa ride sends out passengers from 0-240km/h in just 4. 9 seconds. During this rapid acceleration they experience G-forces only fighter pilots usually feel: Up to 4. 8G. The designer of several rides at Alton Towers, said: "While we can stand 6-8Gs for very short periods of time, ff we experience 5G for more than five seconds we're likely to "black out."

On modern roller coasters passengers experience about 3G in tight turns and loops. But while we may have reached the limit in terms of G-forces, there is no technological limit to how fast or how high roller coasters can go---it's all down to money. Alton Towers' The Smiler cost ~18m to build.

Some companies are finding other ways to keep us amused. There's a move towards indoor rides where the experience is improved by audio-visual technologies. For example, a company called Dynamic Structures is currently developing a "coal-mine-themed" ride for a client in Dubai that will combine speed and G-forces with 3D projection effects and robotics, which will trick your brain into thinking you're really falling.

I can't wait to enjoy this one. What about you: Do you like being upside down?

25. The underlined phrase "black out" in the second paragraph probably means ___

A. stop breathing B. lose consciousness for a short time

C. lose memory forever D. bleed to death

26．We can learn from the passage that __

A. all the theme parks are creating the fast roller coasters

B. the Smiler sends out passengers from 0-240km/h in just 4.9 seconds

C. it is unusual for fighter pilots to feel up to 4.8G

D. the more the money is spent, the faster the roller coaster can go

27．What is the best title for the passage?

A. The Fastest Roller Coaster B. The Smiler and G-forces

C. Screaming for Fun D. The New Technology

C

We know that sugary sodas aren’t good for our bodies. Now it turns out that they may not be good for our minds, either. A new study of more than 260,000 people has found a link between sweetened soft-drinks and depression, and diet sodas may be making matters worse.

Americans drink far more sodas than people in other countries— as much as 170 liters per person per year. But the impact of this study isn’t limited to the United States. “Sweetened drinks, coffee and tea are commonly consumed worldwide and have important physical consequences. And they may have important mental-health consequences as well,” study author Dr Honglei Chen said in a statement.

The study studied 263,925 people between the ages of 50 and 71. Researchers followed their consumption of drinks like soda, tea coffee, and other soft drinks from 1995 to 1996 and then. 10 years later, asked them if they had been diagnosed with depression since the year 2000. More than 11,3000 of them had.

Participants who drank more than four servings of sodas per day were 30 percent more likely to develop depression than participants who did not drink sodas at all. People who stuck with f