2015届高三第二次月考英语试题
本试题卷分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分120分，考试时间120分钟。
第I卷（共80分）
第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节：单项填空（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）
从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. -- Look! Here comes the bus and I have to go now. Thanks for coming to see me off. -- Goodbye, and, ________! A. congratulations B. cheer up C. all the best D. go ahead
2. The “Chinese Dream” is ________ dream to improve people’s well-being and ________ dream of harmony, peace and development. A. the; a B. a; a C. a; the D. the; the 3. The film star wears sunglasses. Therefore, he can go shopping without ________. A. recognizing B. being recognized C. having recognized D. having been recognized
4. Make sure the gas is turned off after a bath，which would _______ cause danger.
A. somehow B. meanwhile C. otherwise D. furthermore 5. Half an hour later, Lucy still couldn’t get a taxi _______ the bus had dropped her. A. until B. when C. although D. where
6. The famous star became excessively _______at newspaper reports about his personal life, which were really _______.
A. annoying, annoyed B. annoying, annoying C. annoyed, annoying D. annoyed, annoyed 7. — Can the project be finished as planned?
—Sure, ________ it completed in time, we’ll work two more hours a day. A. having got B. to get C. getting D. get 8. The couple started an attack against each other with words. A. shallow B. sharp C. pure D. neat
9. The desks and seats, which can be ________ the height of the children, can be used for a long period of time. A. adopted to B. adapted to C. applied to D. adjusted to 10. The past ten years great progress in China’s economic increase while many foreign countries are still suffering from financial crisis. A. witnessed B. was witness C. has witness D. had witnessed 11. Lily’s suit seemed not for the party as everyone present wore casual clothes. A. suitable B. available C. accurate D. convenient 12. It remains ________ whether Jim’ll be fit enough to play in the finals. A. seen B. to be seen C. seeing D. to see
13. Students expressed their deepest to the people who died in Sichuan earthquake. A. sympathy B. symptom C. symbol D. symphony
14. On September 18, Scotland held a public vote on whether the public were its independence from the UK.
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A. in need of B. in place of C. in honor of D. in favor of 15.It is well known that the Internet will let people have _______ to huge amounts of information from their own homes. A. appeal B. attention C. access D. approach 16. You'd better that sentence for the sake of consistence． A. cut down B. cut off C. cut up D. cut out 17. The government of Yongjia urged that measures to protect Nanxi River. A. should take B. be taken C. must be taken D. must take
18. I’m looking forward to the day _______ my daughter can read this book and know my feelings for her.
A. that B. which C. when D. as
19. The marriage based on money and lacking love________to break up sooner or later. A. bounds to B. is bound to C. is bounded D. is bound 20. The first thing I was all the vivid colors surrounding me. A. became aware of B. became aware C. aware of that D. aware that 第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从第21—40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。
I never questioned that this ambitious, intelligent woman, who had had a career before I was
born, would spend almost every lunch hour throughout my elementary school years just with me. Every day, she would be standing at the top of the stairs, smiling down at me with a look that suggested I was the only important thing on her mind.
One lunchtime when I was in the third grade will 21 stay with me. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had painstakingly practiced my 22 with me. But no matter how easily I 23 them at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word 24 from my head.
Finally, my teacher explained that she had written a narrator’s part to the play, and asked me to 25 roles. I didn’t tell my mother what had happened. But she 26 my unease, and asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.
It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine was turning green. We could also see yellow dandelions（蒲公英）popping through the grass. I watched my mother casually bend down. “I think I’m going to 27 all these weeds, leaving only roses in this garden.”she said. “But I like dandelions,” I 28 . “All flowers are beautiful — even dandelions.”
My mother looked at me 29 . “Yes, every flower gives 30 in its own way, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over. “And that is true of people too,” she added. “Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no 31 in that.”
32 that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled. “ 33 you will make a beautiful narrator,” she said, reminding me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her. “The narrator’s part is every bit as 34 as the part of a princess.” Over the next few weeks, with her constant 35 , I learned to take pride in the role.
Backstage on the night of the 36 , I felt nervous. A few minutes before the play, my
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teacher came over to me. “Your mother asked me to give this to you,” she said, handing me a dandelion. Just looking at it, knowing my mother was out there and thinking of our lunchtime talk made me 37 . I often 38 our lunchtimes together, tasting the happy moments 39 in the soft midday light. Over peanut-butter sandwiches and chocolate-chip cookies, I learned that 40 , first and foremost, means being there for the little things. 21. A. permanently 22. A. roles
23. A. conveyed 24. A. decreased 25. A. play
B. occasionally
B. scenes B. declined B. switch B. tear up
B. delivered
C. eventually C. lines C. dropped C. desert C. removed C. pick up
C. appreciated
D. gradually D. gestures D. grasped D. disappeared D. arrange D. ignored D. dig up D. suspected D. sensitively D. message D. shame D. Puzzled D. Then D. solid D. request D. celebration D. energetic D. hold on to D. bathed D. bravery
26. A. experienced 27. A. lift up 28. A. argued 29. A. casually 30. A. pleasure 31. A. sympathy 32. A. Satisfied 33. A. And
34. A. important
B. sensed
B. approved B. curiously B. entertainment
B. fortune B. Relieved B. So
C. confirmed C. seriously C. desire C. excuse C. But
C. Depressed C. complex
B. powerful
35. A. explanation 36. A. performance 37. A. impressive 38. A. look up to 39. A. occupied 40. A. ambition
B. encouragement B. competition
B. attractive B. look back on B. involved
B. confidence
C. instruction C. exhibition C. proud C. exposed C. love
C. hold out for
第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，共50分）
第一节：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，并在答题卷上将该选项标号涂黑。
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Sitting in the front row in her college classes carefully taking notes, Nola Ochs is just as likely to answer questions as to ask them. That’s not the only thing marking her off from her classmates at Fort Hays State University. She’s 95, and when she graduates on May 12th, it's believed she'll become the world's oldest person to be awarded a college degree.
She didn't plan it that way. She just loved to learn as a teenager on a Hodgeman County farm, then as a teacher at a one-room school after graduating from high school and later as a farm wife and mother.
“Even as I grew older, that enthusiasm for study was still there. I came here with no thought of it being an unusual thing at all,” she said.
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She's getting offers for television appearances, and reporters show up wanting to interview her. She says she enjoys it. “It brings attention to this college and this part of the state.”She added, “I don't think much of my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.”
Ochs started taking classes at Dodge City Community College after her husband died in 1972.After taking a class here and there over the years, she was close to having enough hours for an undergraduate degree.
At 5-foot-2, her white hair pulled into a bun (圆形发髻) , she walks energetically down hallways to classes with her books in a big handbag.
Students nod and smile; she's described as witty (睿智的) , charming and down-to-earth.“Everybody has accepted me, and I feel just like another student,” she said.“The students respect me.”An added joy for Ochs is that her 21-year-old granddaughter, Alexandra Ochs, will graduate with her.
Just like any other eager college graduate, the elder Ochs can't wait for life’s next challenge. “I’m going to seek employment on a cruise ship as a storyteller,” she said, smiling. The determined look in her eye leaves no doubt. She’s serious. 41. The first paragraph mainly tells us that Nola Ochs is______. A. hard-working B. successful C. different D. energetic
42. From the underlined sentence “She didn't plan it that way”, we know that Nola Ochs didn't ______.
A. mean to become the oldest college graduate B. want to stop learning as a young girl C. plan to be a farm wife and mother
D. really enjoy learning at such an old age 43. What's Nola Ochs' attitude towards her age? A. She feels sad about it. B. She is proud of it. C. She tries to fight against it. D. She pays little attention to it. 44. In the passage nothing is said about Ochs' ______. A. educational experience, B. relationship with others C. major subject D. physical appearance
B
Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties. Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.
The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions.
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They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
The researchers considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.
The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men. 45. What is the best title of the passage?
A. The older a person is, the more stressed he feels. B. The more lighthearted a person is, the happier he is. C. The older a person is, the more clever he grows. D. The older a person is, the happier he grows. 46. We can learn from the research that ________.
A. only when people get older, will they feel happier B. older people usually have no worries in their life
C. stress levels among the youngest are the highest of all D. older people are more likely to be thankful in life
47. According to the researchers, what is probably the reason why people grow happier when they get older?
A. When people get older, they can’t remember bad experiences. B. When people get older, they have no young children to care about. C. When people get older, they learn to adjust their feelings. D. When people get older, they don’t care about their feelings.
48. What do you think the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is? A. A Gallup organization. B. A popular science magazine. C. A university in New York. D. A research institution 49. What would the writer probably deal with in next paragraph? A. Advice to the young people on how to keep happy. B. Advice to the old people on how to live longer.
C. Why women at all ages are more sad, stressed and worried. D. Why people will grow happier with their ages.
C
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