河南省实验中学2020-2021学年高二上学期第一次月考英语试题-Word版含答案.docx

河南省试验中学2022---2021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.
其次节
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.

其次部分阅读理解（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 fruit punch(鸡尾酒), had a 38 percent higher risk than people who didn’t drink sweetened drinks. And all that extra sugar isn’t the actual problem. Researchers say that the artificial sweetener aspartame may be to blame.
The study found a link but could not surely determine whether sodas and other sweet soft drinks cause depression. Still, the results “are consistent with a small but growing body of evidence suggesting that artificially sweetened beverages may be linked to poor health outcomes.”
But there’s a bright side for those who can’t live without their daily sodas. Adults who drank coffee had a 10 percent lower risk of depression compared to people who didn’t drink any coffee, according to the study. “Our research suggests that cutting out or down on sweetened diet drinks or replacing them with unsweetened coffee may naturally help lower your depression risk,” said Chen.
28．What has the new study of more than 260,000 people found?
A. Sugary sodas aren’t good for the physical health of old people.
B. Americans have a special tooth for sweet foods.
C. Sweetened soft-drinks may increase the risk of depression.
D. Sweetened soft-drinks have important physical consequences.
29．What do we know about the process of the study?
A. About twenty-six thousand people participated in it.
B. The oldest participants were below 80 when the study was over.
C. Most of the participants had depression when the study was over.
D. The study lasted more than ten years from the beginning to the end.
30．It is implied in the passage that ______.
A. more research is needed to confirm the new findings
B. the new findings aren’t consistent with any previous findings
C. cutting one’s sodas intake will surely reduce one’s depression
D. the new findings won’t have an impact on people’s drinking habits
31．What should you drink in order to reduce the risk of depression?
A.Sodas. B.Unsweetened coffee.
C.Sugary coffee. D.Fruit punch.

D
Brazil is a federation that consists of twenty-six states and one federal district. The biggest majority of Brazil’s population belongs to the Christian religion and almost all of them are Catholics. This is something Brazil inherited being Portugal’s colony.
Historically, the country was a colony claimed by people from Portugal and this made Portuguese the official language. The Portuguese reached Brazil in 1500 and until that moment it was inhabited by semi-nomadic(半游牧的) people. The Portuguese changed Brazil into a country of slaves until 1800, when Maria I of Portugal came to live in Brazil. The Queen did not stay long in Brazil, but during the 20 years of royal presence a lot of changes occurred: commercial ports to United Kingdom were opened; Brazil stopped being isolated from other countries. So at the moment of getting the independence on the 7th of September, 1822, Brazil already had the potential to develop. The Brazilian Empire, Pedro I, abolished slavery in 1888 in the face of Princess Isabel. A lot of European people started coming to Brazil and the industry of the country started working. In the 19th and the 20th century as it has been said above foreign people immigrated to Brazil and basically 5 million European and Japanese people became the residents of Brazil. The beginning of the 20th century was especially marked by the immigration of a lot of Asian people: Japanese, Korean and Chinese immigrants. As a matter of fact Japanese people do not immigrate a lot, and the fact that the Brazilian-Japanese people are the largest Japanese minority in the world does astonish greatly.
The majority of the cultural inherits of Brazil are actually Portuguese, due to the fact that Brazil was Portugal’s colony for a very long time. The southern states mainly consist of European population and the north and the northeast consist of a mixed population including Africans, Amerindians and Europeans. Most of this population is Roman Catholic. No other country in the world has the same amount of Catholics. The modern tendency of Brazil is the growing number of people calling themselves Protestants. Around 7.4% of the population don’t believe any god. Some Brazilians, especially in the northern states are mixed Africans who prefer following the traditional African religions. Only 1.8% of the population chose Buddhism, Islam or Judaism.
Though Brazil always tried to maintain democracy, it was failed several times by the dictatorship（独裁） of Getulo Vargas. This fact could not affect the political situation in the country.
32. Brazil was ruled by Portuguese about ______.
A. 22 years B. 300 years C. 322 years D. 328 years
33. Who might block the development of Brazil?
A. Maria I B. Pedro I C. immigrants D. Getulo Vargas
34. The writer mainly tells us the ______ of Brazil in the passage.
A.