1、英语广西省贵港市覃塘高级中学学年高二月考试题广西省贵港市覃塘高级中学2017-2018学年高二3月月考英语试题第一部分 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。例：How much is theshirt?A. 19.15. B. 9.15. C. 9.18. 答案是C。1. What does the woman want to do?A. Find a
2、place. B. Buy a map. C. Get an address. 2. What will the man do for the woman?A. Repair her car. B. Give her a ride. C. Pick up her aunt. 3. Who might Mr. Peterson be?A. A new professor. B. A department head. C. A company director. 4. What does the man think of the book?A. Quite difficult. B. Very i
3、nteresting. C. Too simple. 5. What are the speakers talking about?A. Weather. B. Clothes. C. News. 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, 各小题給出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、7 题。6. Why is Harry unwilling to join t
4、he woman?A. He has a pain in his knee. B. He wants to watch TV. C. He is too lazy. 7. What will the woman probably do next?A. Stay at home. B. Take Harry to hospital. C. Do some exercise. 听第7 段材料, 回答第8、9 题。8. When will the man be home from work?A. At 5:45. B. At 6: 15. C. At 6:50. 9. Where will the
5、speakers go?A. The Green House Cinema. B. The New State Cinema. C. The UME Cinema. 听第8 段材料, 回答第10 至12 题。10. How will the speakers go to New York?A. By air. B. By taxi. C. By bus. 11. Why are the speakers making the trip?A. For business. B. For shopping. C. For holiday. 12. What is the probable relat
6、ionship between the speakers?A. Driver and passenger. B. Husband and wife. C. Fellow workers. 听第9 段材料，回答第13 至16 题。13. Where does this conversation probably take place?A. In a restaurant. B. In an office. C. In, a classroom. 14. What does John do now?A. Hes a trainer. B. Hes a tour guide. C. Hes a co
7、llege student. 15. How much can a new person earn for the first year?A. $10,500. B. $12,000. C. $15,000. 16. How many people will the woman hire?A. Four. B. Three. C. Two. 听第10 段材料，回答第17 至20 题。17. How long has the speaker lived in a big city?A. One year. B. Ten years. C. Eighteen years. 18. What is
8、the speakers opinion on public transport?A. Its comfortable, B. Its time-saving. C. Its cheap. 19. What is good about living in a small town?A. Its safer. B. Its healthier. C. Its more convenient. 20. What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most?A. Busy. B. Colorful. C. Quiet. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，
9、满分40分） 第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）AIn America，where labor costs are so high，“do-it-yourself”is a way of lifeMany people repair their own cars，build their own housesSoon they may also be writing their own booksIn Hollywood there is a company that publishes childrens books with the aid of computersAlthough
10、 other companies also publish that way，this particular company is very unusualIt“personalizes”the books by having the computer make the reader the leading character in the storyHere is how they do itLet us say that your child is named JennyShe lives on Oak Drive in St Louis，has a dog named Spot，a ca
11、t named Tabby，and three playmates whose names are Betsy，Sandy and JodyThe computer uses information to fill out a story that has already been prepared and illustratedThe story is then printed with standard equipment as a hardcover bookA child who receives such a book might say，“This book is about me
12、”； the company therefore calls itself the“Me-book Publishing Company”Children like the me-books very much because they like to see in print their own names and the names of their friends and their petsBut more importantly，“personalization”has been found to be an important tool in developing enthusia
13、sm for readingMe-books are thus helping a child to learn how to read，by appealing to that natural desire to see his own name in print21Why do the children like the“me-books”？_ABecause the main characters are Jenny，her dog，her cat and her three playmatesBBecause the children will see familiar names i
14、n the booksCBecause in the USA“do it yourself”is a way of lifeDBecause the company that publishes the books is unusual22The books will develop the childrens interest in reading by_Ameeting natural desire of childrens Bthe interesting stories in themCthe computers well using Dfairies23Wecanconcludefr
15、omthetext_Aifyouwanttobewell-known，youmayturntothecompanypublishingthebooksBthatthecompanywillhavetodealwithalotofinformationCthattheothercompanieswillusethesamemethodDthatAmericanslike “doityourself”24What is the purpose of the passage？_ATo introduce Me-book Publishing Company BTo tell us about a w
16、ay of lifeCTo encourage people to“do-it-yourself” DTo tell us something about Me-booksBWhen I was little，Id see tons of bats flying around streetlights at night in my neighborhood in upstate New YorkBut Ill never forget the first time when I saw a bat up closeBy the time I turned 7，though，I noticed
17、something strange：All the bats in my neighborhood had disappeared，and I wondered whyThen，three years ago，when I was 11and visiting the state fair，I learned what had happened to my towns batsA disease called“white nose syndrome”had killed 93percent of New York States batsI was horrifiedThen I wrote a
18、 letter to the host of an environmental program on the local radio station，asking if they could do a show on batsThey did!But I still wanted to find a way to educate people face to faceI reached out to a teacher I had in elementary school and asked if I could make a presentation to her classI descri
19、bed how bats help farmers by eating crop-damaging insectsIt went over so well that other teachers started requesting meOver the past three years，Ive talked in front of everyone from 5-year-olds to senior citizens! Many people think that bats are blind，and that they always carry diseases，but none of
20、that is trueThe more I present，the more I notice that I am changing mindsAnd while getting people to respect bats is pretty hard，getting them to respect me has been difficult tooWhen I first applied to host a booth （摊位） at a local street fair，the managers thought I was too youngBut I refused to take
21、“no”for an answerI continued to make my case，and they finally said yes! The best part is，I impressed them so much-100visitors on my first day-that they now invite me back every year25All the bats in the neighborhood disappeared because they_Awere killed by a disease Bmoved to another habitatCwere hu
22、nted by other animals Dhid in a place where people couldnt find them26The author wrote a letter to the host in order to ask them to_Adonate some money to save bats Bmake a radio program about batsCannounce new findings about bats Dfinish some questionnaires about the fair27How did the author save ba
23、ts？_ABy building a new home for them BBy volunteering to work in the wildCBy improving their living environment DBy educating people that they are beneficial28What does the underlined phrase“make my case”in the last paragraph mean？_Amake an impressive persuasion Blook into the matterCquarrel with th
24、em Dstick to the factsCMost people agree that honesty is a good thingBut does Mother Nature agree？Animals cant talk，but can they lie in other ways？Can they lie with their bodies and behavior？Animal experts may not call it lying，but they do agree that many animals，from birds to chimpanzees，behave dis
25、honestly to fool other animalsWhy？Dishonesty often helps them surviveMany kinds of birds are very successful at fooling other animalsFor example，a bird called the plover sometimes pretends to be hurt in order to protect its youngWhen a predator（猎食动物）gets close to its nest，the plover leads the predat
26、or away from the nestHow？It pretends to have a broken wingThe predator follows the“hurt”adult，leaving the baby birds safe in the nestAnother kind of bird，the scrub jay，buries its food so it always has something to eatScrub jays are also thievesThey watch where others bury their food and steal itBut
27、clever scrub jays seem to know when a thief is watching themSo they go back later，unbury the food，and bury it again somewhere elseBirds called cuckoos have found a way to have babies without doing much workHow？They dont make nestsInstead，they get into other birds nests secretlyThen they lay their eg
28、gs and fly awayWhen the baby birds come out，their adoptive parents feed themChimpanzees，or chimps，can also be sneakyAfter a fight，the losing chimp will give its hand to the otherWhen the winning chimp puts out its hand，too，the chimps are friendly againBut an animal expert once saw a losing chimp tak
29、e the winners hand and start fighting againChimps are sneaky in other ways，tooWhen chimps find food that they love，such as bananas，it is natural for them to cry outThen other chimps come runningBut some clever chimps learn to cry very softly when they find foodThat way，other chimps dont hear them，an
30、d they dont need to share their foodAs is mentioned above，animals behave dishonestly for survivalIs it OK to lie for us human？29The writer uses the three questions at the beginning of the passage to_Aask the readers to answer the questions Bdraw the readers attention to the topicCseek answers to the
31、 questions Dshow he is at a loss about the question30Which of the following is not an example of animals dishonest behaviors？_AA plover pretended to have a broken wing to protect its baby birdsBA scrub jay dug out its buried food and reburied it somewhere elseCThe adoptive parents feed their baby birds of cuckoosDA losing chimp starts fighting again after taking the winners hand31What is the common reaction
