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1、河南省洛阳八中2015-2016学年高二英语上学期第一次段考试题第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. So, I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn mone

2、y to pay the high schooling for me. They dont act in the romantic ways that I read in books or see on TV, and sending flowers to each other on Valentines Day is even impossible. One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I asked her if there was love between them. She paused her work and raised her head

3、 with surprise. Then she bowed her head and continued sewing the quilt. I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. After a few minutes she said,“Look at this thread. Sometimes it appears, but most of the time it disappears in the quilt. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It

4、can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but its really there and makes the quilt long-lasting.” I listened carefully but I couldnt understand her until the next spring. My mother suddenly got sick seriously and had to stay in the hospital for a one-month treatment. Every morning and dusk after she r

5、eturned from the hospital, my father helped my mother walk slowly on the country road. There were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees, and the sun gently glistened on them through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful picture in the world. Reading their eyes, I know they love

6、 each other deeply. From this experience, I realized that love was just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.21. The writer thought his parents life was not _ at first.A. trueB. great C. meaningfulD. romantic22. Valentines Day is a day for _.A. parents B. fr

7、iends C. relatives D. lovers23. What does the underlined sentence in the third paragraph suggest?A. There is beautiful scenery everywhere in the world.B. There is true life anywhere in the world.C. There is no love without beautiful flowers.D. There is true love between the writers parents.24. Which

8、 is the best title of this passage?A. Love doesnt exist every day. B. Love means flowers.C. Love can never be seen. D. Love is the thread of a quilt. Three people have been arrested for trying to sell Coca Colas secrets to Pepsi, according to the US Department of Justice. Two men of Georgia and one

9、man of New York have joined in the trick to sell the Coca Colas secrets to itsopponent Pepsi for $1.5 million. In May, Pepsi told Coca Cola that it had received a letter from a person calling himself “Dirk” offering very detailed and secret information about Coca Colas products for a fee, according

10、to the DOJ press release. The FBI got the secret men to look into the case. Ibrahim Dimson of New York and Edmund Duhaney and Joya Williams of Georgia were arrested in Atlanta on Wednesday without incident, and charged with unlawfully stealing and selling trade secrets. Williams was a Coca Cola empl

11、oyee. “Sadly, todays arrests include a person within our company,” said Coca Cola CEO Neville Isdell in an email to employees. “While this failure of trust is difficult for all of us to accept, it stresses the responsibility we each have to watch out in protecting our trade secrets. Information is t

12、he lifeblood (生命线) of the company,” Isdell continued. “As the health of our enterprise (事业) continues to strengthen, our ideas and our competitive data carry increasing interest to those outside our business.” A Pepsi spokesman said that the company was pleased to be of help in the investigation (调查

13、). “We did what any responsible company would do,” said the spokesman. “Competition can be fierce, but it must also be fair and legal.”25. The name “Dirk” used by the man who sent Pepsi a letter is _.A. trueB. false C. a pen nameD. famous26. What does the underlined part “a person” refer to?A. Ibrah

14、im Dimson. B. Edmund Duhaney. C. Joya Williams. D. Neville Isdell.27. What is the lesson of three mens trying to sell Coca Colas secrets?A. The Coca Cola company should strengthen the responsibility to protect trade secrets.B. The Coca Cola company shouldnt employ any new employees.C. The Coca Cola

15、company should fire some employees.D. The Coca Cola company should give the employees a rise.28. According to the passage, we can see the relationship between Pepsi and Coca Cola is _.A. terribleB. not so good C. friendlyD. uncertain People used to say “The hand that rocks the cradle (摇篮) rules the

16、world” and “Behind every successful man theres a woman.” Both of these sayings mean the same thing. Men rule the world, but their wives rule them. Most of the American women like making their husbands and sons successful, but some of them want more for themselves. They want good jobs. When they work

17、, they want to be better paid. They want to be as successful as men. The American womens liberation movement was started by women who dont want to stand behind successful men. They want to stand beside men with the same chance for success. They dont want to be told that certain jobs or offices are c

18、losed to them. They refuse to work side by side with men who do the same work for a higher pay. A liberated woman must be proud of being a woman and believe in herself. If somebody says to her, “Youve come a long way, baby.”, shell smile and answer, “Not nearly as far as Im going to go, baby!” The w

19、omens liberation movement is quite new, and many American women do not agree. But it has already made some important changes in womens life and in mens life, too.29. The underlined sentence “Behind every successful man theres a woman.” here means that _.A. the world is now ruled over by womenB. wome

20、n play an important role in mens life and workC. a man cant succeed without a woman in his officeD. a woman used to rule her husband30. Some American women wish to _.A. have the same chance for success as menB. get better jobs than the men working togetherC. earn more money than their husbandsD. dev

21、ote more to their work than to their families31. A liberated woman must _.A. take pride in her husbands successB. be fond of and devote herself to her childrenC. be proud of being a woman and trust herselfD. stand before or beside her husband32. What is the main idea of the passage?A. American women

22、s liberation movement.B. A woman behind a successful man.C. Women want to support their husbands.D. Women dont want to support their husbands. For many creatures, the danger of global warming is more than too much heat. You can get temperature-related effects that may not be what you expect. Slight

23、environmental change can affect physiological needs and weaken the ability of animals to keep a large enough population for them to live on even when the temperature rise is too mild to kill any creatures. Biologists usually dont know enough about an animal to assess (评估) the risk. Their knowledge c

24、omes largely from laboratory research on bits and pieces of a creatures physiology. This method doesnt tell how an animal as a living whole responds to climate change where it lives. Now, 10 years of research that joined laboratory study with field work has explained the decrease in the population o

25、f eelpouts, a kind of fish in the southern part of the North Sea. Drs Portner and Knust have shown that a mild rise in water temperature can reduce the waters ability to hold oxygen, and, at the same time, it increases the fishs need for more oxygen to keep active; otherwise, they will be killed or

26、have to move away. The researchers discovered that, over the past five decades, eelpout populations decreased when summer temperatures rose. They also found that warmer summers reduced eelpout population the following years. Danish scientists noted that “it remains difficult to determine that increa

27、sed temperature is the cause for the eelpout population decrease.” Yet they accepted the connection between temperature and population size as recorded in the field with the effect of temperature on the fishs oxygen needs as recorded in the laboratory. They found this connection between laboratory a

28、nd field data to be “persuasive”.33. It is implied in Paragraph 2 that biologists research in labs is _.A. uselessB. unscientific C. incomplete D. unimportant34. When it is hot enough, eelpouts will either die or _.A. try to take less oxygenB. swim to colder placesC. eat less and rest more D. go dow

29、n to sea bottom35. The eelpout population began to decrease _ years ago.A. 20B. 30C. 40D. 50第二节 （共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 Building Trust in a Relationship AgainTrust is a learned behavior that we gain from past experiences, 36._ That is a risk. But you cant b

30、e successful when theres a lack of trust in a relationship that results from an action where the wrongdoer takes no responsibility to fix the mistake. Unfortunately, weve all been victims of betrayal（背叛）. Whether weve been suffer from, lied to , misled, or cheated on, there are different levels of l

31、osing trust. Sometimes people simply cant trust anymore, 37. _Its understandable, but if youre willing to build trust in a relationship again, we have some steps you can take to get you there. 38. _ having confidence in yourself will help you make better choices because you can see what the best out

32、come would be for your well-being. l 39. _ If youve been betrayed, you are the victim of your circumstance. But theres a difference between being a victim and living with a “victim mentality”. At some point in all of our lives, well have our trust tested or violated（违反，侵犯）. l You didnt lose “everyth

33、ing”. Once trust is lost, what is left? Instead of looking at the situation from this hopeless angle, look at everything you still have and be thankful for all of the good in your life. 40. _instead, its a healthy way to work through the experience to allow room for positive growth and forgiveness.

34、A. Learn to really trust yourself. B. It is putting confidence in someone. C. Stop regarding yourself as the victim. D. Remember that you can expect the best in return. E. Theyve been too badly hurt and they cant bear to let it happen again. F. This knowledge carries over in their attitude toward th

35、eir future relationships. G. Seeing the positive side of things doesnt mean youre ignoring what happened. 第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分 45 分） 第一节 完型填空 （共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30分） 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和 D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。If failure is like a day without the sunshine, Ill still smile at it, as clouds may be danc

36、ing in the sky. Success does not 41 every person, just like the sun doesnt shine every day. Do you give up your plan to go hiking 42 because the weather isnt as good as you had hoped? No, of course not. I would rather go on trying no matter what I 43 and enjoy on the way to my destination (目的地). 44

37、, failure is like a naughty boy who plays with us on the way to our goals. Not only does he want to 45 us, but he wants to help us become braver. The more we 46 , the braver well be. If failure is the 47 without the moon, Ill still smile at it, as stars may twinkle on us still. 48 , we all like the

38、moon, but should we ignore the stars? There is always something more important than 49 . In other words, we shouldnt only 50 on whether we succeed or fail. In fact, we learn a lot from failure. It is really helpful. The more we learn from failure, the 51 well be. If failure is a bird without 52 , Il

39、l still smile at it. Flying isnt the only thing a bird can do. If we cant be 53 by the wide blue sky, why dont we 54 adapting ourselves to the forest through our beautiful singing? Failure 55 us that we should believe in ourselves. We may fail in one area, but we may 56 in another. Maybe well find t

40、hat we have a talent for something we never knew about before. Who 57 ? Life is like a box of chocolates, and you 58 know what youre going to get. Just keep on trying. The process of trying is much more valuable than the 59 . Smile at 60 and smile at life.41. A. meet B. know C. Favour D. see42. A. e

41、ven B. still C. too D. just43. A. suffer B. hate C. dislike D. fear44. A. GenerallyB. Unluckily C. Actually D. Naturally45. A. beat B. change C. test D. frighten46. A. laugh B. cry C. play D. smile47. A. day B. night C. sky D. place48. A. In fact B. Of course C. In deed D. In turn49. A. aim B. joy C

42、. success D. work50. A. live B. focus C. depend D. base51. A. nicer B. healthier C. wiser D. younger52. A. legs B. feet C. teeth D. wings53. A. receivedB. accepted C. noticed D. covered54. A. try B. begin C. Appreciate D. enjoy55. A. suggestsB. insists C. reminds D. orders56. A. forget B. start C. s

43、tand D. achieve57. A. sees B. knows C. believes D. does58. A. never B. already C. usually D. always59. A. methodsB. success C. victories D. results60. A. defeat B. sorrow C. failure D. loss第二节 （共10个小题；没个小题1.5分，满分15）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的适当形式。A few days ago I landed at the Bombay Airport in

44、India and took a cab to my destination in South Bombay. I was enjoying the busy traffic with people rushing in every possible 61 (direct) when we got stuck at a very busy crossroads.As we waited for the signal to turn green, my eyes met up with 62 poor young boy, about 12 years old. He removed a pie

45、ce of bread from his pocket and took a bite. As he was about 63 (take) his next bite, a dog wagged (摇) his tail looking at him. 64 hesitation (犹豫), he sat down and put the bread on the road for the dog to eat. The dog sniffed the bread and walked away. The boy waited 65 he was sure the dog was gone,

46、 and then he picked up the bread and ate it! My heart 66 (cry) and wanted to walk up to the boy, 67 before I could open the door the signal turned green and our car drove away. I kept thinking about the boy. Later, during my evening meal, I realized that I was thinking of approaching the boy but nev

47、er did. I could have stopped the car and walked up to 68 , which again I never did.This poor little boy 69 had only one piece of bread shared 70 immediately with the dog, though he himself seemed to be very hungry.61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 说明：61题到70题的答案请写在答题卷相应的位置！答 题 卷 姓名 班级 考号 61. 62

48、. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 第三部分 写作（共两节，满分35分） 第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）My soccer coach retired in last week. I wanted to do anything special for him at his retirement party. My mum makes the better biscuits in the world, so I decide to ask her for help. Mum taught me some basic step of baki

49、ng. I insisted on doing most of the baking myself. I thought the biscuits were really well. My only mistake was that I dropped some on the floor after I was packing them up.At a party, my coach, with a biscuit in his mouth, asked surprisingly who made them and joked, “I might have to retire again ne

50、xt year just get some more of these biscuits.”My favorite picture at the party is of my coach and me enjoy the biscuits with happy laughter!第二节 书面表达 （满分25分）（100字）最近你给你的朋友Tom 写了一封信，内容如下：介绍了你新交的朋友Peter的相貌和性格特征、人品和其他特长爱好。 高二英语第一次月考 答案 出题 安旭光 审题 李彩霞21 -25 DDDDB 26-30 CACBA 31- 35 CACBD 36-40 BEACG41-45

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52、so I decide to ask her for help. Mum taught me some basic step of baking. I decided stepsinsisted on doing most of the baking myself. I thought the biscuits were really well. My only mistake was that I dropped some on the floor after I was good when/whilepacking them up.At a party, my coach, with a biscuit in his mouth, asked surprisingly whothe made them and joked, “I might have to retire again next year justget tosome more of these biscuits.”My favorite picture at the party is of my coach and me enjoy the biscuits enjoying with happy laughter!