2020-2021学年天津市耀华中学高二第一学期第一次月考英语试题(Word版) 听力
天津市耀华中学2020-2021学年高二第一学期第一次月考英语试题
一、听力：10分
第一节
1.What does the woman do?
A. A policewoman
B. A surgeon
C. A driver
2.How much time is left before they leave for the concert?
A. 10 minutes
B. 15 minutes
C. 40 minutes
3.What does the woman want to do?
A.Put an advertisement in the paper
B.Go downstairs to buy a newspaper
C.Check the paper for an advertisement
A. On Friday
B. On Saturday
C. On Sunday
4.What day does the conversation take place?
5.Why did the woman refuse the job?
A.Because she doesn’t like so many business tri ps
B.Because she cannot get much money from the job
C.Because she has got a good job offered by another company
第二节
6.What does the man say about the requirement of the job?
A. Age
B. Speed
C. Experience
7.How much money can the woman get in a day?
A. $24
B. $30
C. $48
8.What will the woman buy for her mother?
A. A skirt
B. A shirt
C. A sweater
9.What will the woman cook for her mother?
A. A Japanese dinner
B. A French dinner
C. A Chinese dinner
10.What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Brother and sister
B. Customer and salesman
C. Father and daughter
11.How many years younger is the daughter than the son?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
12.What do we know about the new house?
A. It’s large
B. It’s expensive
C. It’s empty
13.What’s the man’s son best at?
A. Football
B. Volleyball
C. Basketball
14.What is the woman’s problem?
A.She doesn’t know the way to the registration building
B.She missed registering for classes
C.She doesn’t know what classes to register for
15.Why are there always seats in the Psychology class?
A.Because it’s a big class
B.Because its professor isn’t cool
C.Because it’s a boring class
16.What class will the woman probably take?
A. Psychology
B. Chinese Literature
C. Chinese History
17.What kind of boy was Charles Darwin during his childhood?
A. Slow and naughty
B. clever and hard-working
C. naughty but clever
18.What was Darwin fond of doing when he was a young boy?
A.Giving names to the plants he saw
B.Planting colored roses
C.Collecting all sorts of things
19.When did Darwin return to Britain after the voyage?/
A. In 1831
B. In 1836
C. In 1842
20.How old was Darwin when The Origin of species was published?
A. 22
B. 42
C. 50
二、单选：10分
21.--- I don’t t hink I will win a lottery of 5, 000, 000 dollars in all my life.
--- Well, ______. Everything can happen.
A. you can never tell
B. you’re kidding
C. what you say
D. you made it
22.Rowling had spent years surviving _______ very little money before she became famous.
A. on
B. at
C. in
D. by
23._______ a lot of hard work and a touch of luck play a part, perseverance is the key to success.
A. When
B. While
C. Unless
D. Where
24.I think my friend Joanne deserves ________ the first prize because she is always the best.
A. winning
B. being won
C. to be won
D. to win
25.The Chinese women’s volleyball team’s perseverance ________ with an epic comeback against the defending champion Brail in the quarter-finals.
A. worked out
B. carried on
C. paid off
D. aimed high
26.---I hear Jane has gone to the Holy Island for her holiday.
--- Oh, how nice! Do you know when she ______?
A. was leaving
B. had left
C. has left
D. left
27.Stephen Curry has been inspiring people to value the fact ______ one can work every single day to get better.
A. so that
B. which
C. where
D. that
28.Ms. Chen is _______ and she has a strange way of keeping her students ______ in class.
A. amusing; interested
B. amused; interesting
C. amusing; interesting
D. amused; interested
29.Since parents advise children on so many things, they will probably be the first people _____ advice their children seek.
A. that
B. when
C. who
D. whose
30.It was announced that only when the fire was under control _______ to return to their homes.
A. the residents would be permitted
B. had the residents been permitted
C. would the residents be permitted
D. the residents had been permitted
三、完型：20分
It was a sunny day, and as a routine for years, I was shopping at my local supermarket. On that particular day, I had done about 2 weeks’ worth of shopping and
____31___ towards the counter to pay for my groceries. After the cashier had scanned my
items and I had bagged them up, she stated that the ____32___ was $150.
I___33___ into my back right pocket to grab the money to pay and noticed that there was no money there. I started to get __34____. I knew my purse was in the car and I was sure I had put the ___35____ in my back right pocket. I looked at the cashier with wet eyes and a __36____ look not knowing what to do. There were people behind me on the line. She told me to speak with the courtesy (爱心柜台). I ___37___ bitterly and said, “R eally? It’s ___38___. No one would hand that in!” But she ___39___ me to. “You never know...” she said.
I decided that there was no ____40___ in checking, so I walked up to a woman behind the counter and said, “ I have to ask, did anyone __41____ cash by any chance?” She asked, “How much?” My face then ___42__. “$200 in the form of one hundred dollar bills.”
I replied. She said, “____43___, yes, some did!” I was so ___44_____! “ Who? I want to thank her.” She pointed to a young girl about 10 years old and said, “ She did.”
I walked over to the mom and hugged her. She said, “It wasn’t me, it was my
___45___.” I said, “I know, I wanted to thank you both, ___46___ she found it. It’s because of you that I got this back.” I was so happy. I was almost in tears.
The next day at work, a person in another department ____47___ me tickets to the circus. He handed me 5 tickets. Almost ____48___ that young girl’s face appeared in my head. After work I went back to the supermarket and stopped at the courtesy counter and asked if she had any idea who that woman was. She smiled and said, “Yes, she is a friend of mine.” Then I asked her to do me a favor and pass along these 5 tickets t o her.
She told me that the family of the little girl who found my money was not rich, so they would really __49____ this. She also said that they had 3 children, so five was the
___50___ number of tickets!
31. A. developed B. retired C. headed D. showed
32. A. total B. percentage C. product D. luggage
33. A. looked B. searched C. checked D. reached
34. A. nervous B. curious C. particular D. serious
35. A. card B. grocery C. purse D. money
36. A. shocked B. confused C. inspired D. moved
37. A. smiled B. screamed C. cried D. blamed
38. A. reality B. evidence C. receipt D. cash
39. A. stopped B. encouraged C. discouraged D. promised
40. A. doubt B. need C. harm D. expense
41. A. turn in B. work out C. send for D. take away
42. A. broke up B. burst out C. lit up D. sent off
43. A. Eventually B. Actually C. Finally D. Unfortunately
44. A. interested B. worried C. absorbed D. surprised
45. A. daughter B. husband C. mother D. friend
46. A. because B. unless C. although D. while
47. A. offered B. borrowed C. produced D. lent
48. A. simply B. constantly C. previously D. instantly
49. A. reject B. appreciate C. ignore D. purchase
50. A. unique B.perfect C. official D. typical
四、阅读：30分
A
He’s a comedian, he’s an actor, he’s British and the whol e world knows him as the silent, black-haired character Mr. Bea n. That’s right, Rowan Atkinson.
Atkinson was born in Newcastle, England and was educated at Newcastle University and Oxford. While at Oxford, he met the writer Richard Curtis, who was studying there too, and they became friends. Curtis was the opposite of Atkinson. He had great love for words while Atkinson enjoyed nonverbal comedy. Together they began writing comedy reviews for the Oxford Playhouse. Shortly afterwards, Atkinson began appearing in smaller theaters in Edinburgh. After a show at the Hampstead Theater in 1978, he was offered a part in the BBC series Not the Nine o’clock News. This series got off to a slow start, but soon became a hug success, with Atkinson winning a BAFTA award for his work. However, being a very sensible man, Atkinson saw the whole acting job as a hobby, along with his growing interest in car racing.
Atkinson made his big-screen debut(初次亮相) in 1983’s unofficial James Bond film Never Say never Again. That same year Atkinson appeared in the BBC series called Black Adder. The main hero named Edmund, tries unsuccessfully to become King of England after accidentially killing his uncle Richard III during a fight. This was followed by three hugely successful sequels(续集) each set in a different era of England’ history. The Black Adder series was voted the Best Comedy Show of the Year in 1990. He then went on to create Mr. Bean. A walking disaster, Bean was purely physical comedy, the opposite of
Edmund. This character was a huge success and became another national treasure. In 1997 Bean came to the big screen. A few year later, Scooby Doo became a box office hit in the US in 2002. This was followed by Johnny English if 2003, a funny work of James Bond films.
In his spare time Atkinson collects classic cars and takes part in races. He also writes for the British magazine CAR. He is a very shy man, and has managed to keep his private life, private.
51.How did Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson get to know each other?
A. They worked together for BBC
B. They met in the Oxford Playhouse
C. They starred in the same series
D. They went to the same university
52.According to the text, the BBC series Not the Nin e O’clock News _________.
A. brought Atkinson fame
B. became successful immediately
C. made Atkinson give up physical comedy
D. showed Atkinson’ s weakness
53.What do we know about Atkinson at the beginning of his career?
A. He kept writing comedies
B. He did not see acting as a job
C. He did not like physical comedy
D. He had an argument with Curtis
54.Which work would you recommend to someone who like humor mixed with history?
A. Black Adder
B. Mr. Bean
C. Johnny English
D. Not the Nine o’clock News
55.What can we learn from the text?
A.Atkinson often wrote plays for Oxford Playhouse.
B.Never Say Never Again was a box office hit.
C.Mr. Bean was voted the Best Comedy Show.
D.Atkinson dislikes showing his personal life.
B
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases these people are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone as a typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose wish is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U.S, Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿者), I had no hope at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used typewriter and felt like a real writer.
After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t got a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering. What if? I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadow land of hope, and anyone with a
dream must learn to live there.
56.The writer is meant to ________.
A.warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience.
B.advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer.
C.show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame.
D.encourage young people to pursue a writing career.
57.What can be concluded from the passage?
A.Genuine writers often find their work interesting and rewarding.
B.A writer’s success depends on luck rather than on effort.
C.Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation.
D.The chances for a writer to become successful are small.
58.Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career?
A.He wasn’t able to produce a single book.
B.He hadn’t seen a change for the better.
C.He wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year.
D.He found his dream would never come true.
59.“... people who die wondering, “what if?” (Line 3, Para 3) refers to “those_________”.
A.who think too much of the dark side of life
B.who regret giving up their career halfway
C.who think a lot without making a decision
D.who are full of imagination even upon death.
60.“Shadowland” in the last sentence refers to____________.
A.the wonderland one often dreams about
B.the bright future that one is looking forward to
C.the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reached
D.a world that exists only in one’s imagination.
C
Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized(把……归类) as “honor” help you create this life of good feelings.
Here’s an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.
Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home w ith a sense of sneaky (暗中的) excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty.
We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.
Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?
In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contr ast, bringing the error to the clerk’s attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable actions we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.
There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it’s started, it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.
61.According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our
__________.
A. friendly relationship
B. financial rewards
C. advertising ability
D. self-respect
62.The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to __________.
A. lying
B. stealing
C.cheating
D. advertising
63. The phrase “bringing the error to the clerk’s attention” (in Para. 5) means_______.
A. telling the truth to the clerk
B. offering advice to the clerk
C. asking the clerk to be more attentive
D. reminding the clerk of the charged item.
64.How will we feel if we let the clerk know the mistake?
A. We’ll be very excited.
B. We’ll feel unfortunate.
C. We’ll have a sense of honor.
D. We’ll feel sorry for the clerk.
65.Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?
A. How to Live Truthfully
B. Importance of Peacefulness
C. Ways of Gaining Self-respect
D. Happiness through Honorable Actions
D
In the kitchen of my mother’s houses there has always been a wooden stand(木架) with a small notepad(记事本) and a hole for a pencil.
I"m looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book I am recommending
to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it can"t be the same pencil. The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one.
"I"m just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years." I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. "You still use a pencil. Can"t you afford a pen?"
My mother replies a little sharply. "It works perfectly well; I"ve always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want to note down an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in these days. "
Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, "One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem I was working on."
This story, which happened before I was born, reminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is also a gifted mathematician. I feel embarrassed that I complain about not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks I recognize as mathematics. Those symbols have traveled
unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible exhibits at every meal.
66.Why has the author"s mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?
A. To leave messages
B. To list her everyday tasks
C. To note down maths problems
D. To write down a flash of inspiration
67.What is the author"s original opinion about the wooden stand?
A.It has great value for the family
B.It needs to be replaced by a better one
C.It brings her back to her lonely childhood
D.It should be passes on to the next generation.
68.The author feels embarrassed for____________.
A.blaming her mother wrongly
B.giving her mother a lot of trouble
C.not making good use of time as her mother did
D.not making any breakthrough in her field
69.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A.The mother is successful in her career
B.The family members like traveling
C.The author had little time to play when young
D.The marks on the breadboard have disappeared
70.In the author’s mind, her mother is ______.
A. strange in behavior
B. keen on her research
C. fond of collecting old things
D. careless about her appearance
五、单词填空，根据句意或者所给提示用词语的正确形式填空：10分
71.Leave him alone. Apparently, he is not in the m_______ for joking.(没心情开玩笑)
72.Despite all his efforts, he was d________ by the student from another school in the contest.
73.The boy often plays a defensive game, waiting for his o________ (对手) to make a mistake.
74.We cannot g_______ the punctual arrival of trains in foggy weather.
75.What you have achieved is beyond our _________(预期)
76.She can tell the difference between the two belts by a ______ glance.(仅仅通过瞥一眼)
77.I really want to s________ this precious opportunity and further my study(抓住这个机会)
78.Nowadays new technology is being _________ to almost every industrial process.(被应用)
79.He became a millionaire o________, which was beyond our imagination.(突然，一下
子)
80.They discussed how to promote ________(合作) between the two companies.
六、短语填空根据句意选择正确短语并用正确形式填空：10分
81.Despite the extremely difficultly conditions, we are determined to __________ our task until we achieve success.
82.Suddenly the thin ice ________ and they all fell into the icy water.
83.My friend, life is full of ___________ and that is why we should always maintain a positive state of mind.
84.As soon as they reached the countryside, the scientists _________ to do their research.
85.The girl is really talented. She has won three high-school piano competitions _______.
86.The newly-found information has ________ the cause of this disease.
87.A little dog was wandering around the garden, with a chain _______ its neck.
88.__________ in playing basketball, Stephen Curry practiced day in and day out.
89.We are greatly _______ what you have done to help us out of the trouble.
90.When polishing up the article, he ________ some sentences and put in new ones.
七、阅读表达：10分
In the years of my growing up, Dad was strict with me. He made sure I made my bed and did my homework. He would call in advance to make sure there was no alcohol at the party. I got so angry with him for laying down the law. I would scream, “ I hate you!” Dad would yell back, “Good! I don’t care!” Deep down I knew he did.
One time at a party, I drank too much alcohol and got so sick. I said, “ Call my dad.” Next thing, Dad was carrying me to the car. I woke up the next morning, thinking I would definitely be criticized. As expected, I got a roasting, but I now understand why I need discipline.
Dad was 29 when he got his big roles in films. I had an early start at the age of nine with a role in a 1990s TV series, but it wasn’t until I finished film s tudies that I pursued my career as an actress. Like those early days for Dad, I faced lots of rejections. Working in such a competitive industry, I’ve sometimes thought, “ I can’t do this any more.”
Once, after a trip to Hollywood, I returned to Australia so depressed and spent months in my bedroom painting, listening to Eckhart Tolle’s music and trying to find myself again. Dad sat me down and said,“Alice, I know it’s hard, but it’s all about persistence(坚持不懈).”
Now I get to work with Dad a lot, which I love. We both passionate about acting, which comes from us being so interested in people. If it weren’t for Dad, I wouldn’t be
where I am today. He’s my biggest fan, and when you have that in your life you can go a long way.
56. What rules did Alice’s father set for her when she was growing up?(no more than 15 words)
57. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 mean?(no more than 5 words)
58. What did Alice’s father do when she felt depressed?(no more than 5 words)
59. According to the last paragraph, what do Alice and her father have in common?(no more than 10 words)
60. What do you think of Alice’s father? Please ex plain.(no more than 20 words)