北京八中乌兰察布分校高二 第一次月考英语试题
（考试时间：120分钟 总分：120分）
注意事项：
1. 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。
2. 答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在本试卷相应的位置。 3. 全部答案在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。 第Ⅰ卷
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。
A
Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.
Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practised sewing machine.
Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.
To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.
( )1..According to the passage, Elias Howe was________. A. the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep B. much more hard-working than other inventors
C. the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked D. the only person at the time who knew the value of dreams ( )2.The problem Howe was trying to solve was________. A. what kind of thread to use
B. how to design a needle which would not break C. where to put the needle
D. how to prevent the thread from getting caught around the needle ( )3.Thomas Edison is spoken of because________. A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine B. he got some of his ideas from dreams C. he was one of Howe’s best friends D. he also had difficulty in falling asleep
( )4.Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because___. A. strange images are used to communicate ideas
B. images which have no meaning are used C. we can never understand the real meaning D. only specially trained people can understand them
B
When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes often. It is only when we can not see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.
People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing and reading, become nearsighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly. People who are farsighted face just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses too.
Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts（白内障）. Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.
When night falls, colors become fainter to the eyes and finally disappear. After your eyes have grown used to the dark, you can see better if you use the side of your eyes rather than the centers. Sometimes, after dark, you see a small thing to one side of you, which seems to disappear if you turn your head in its direction. This is because when you turn your head, you are looking at the thing too directly. Men on guard duty sometimes think they see something moving to one side of them. When they turn to look straight at it, they can not see it any more, and they believe they were mistaken. However, this mistake happens because the center of the eye, which is very sensitive in daylight, is not as sensitive as the sides of the eye after dark. ( )5.We don’t know that our eyes are of great importance until ________.
A. we think about our eyes B. we cannot see clearly C. we wear glasses D. we have to do much reading ( )6.According to the passage, a ________ is more likely to be nearsighted.
A. tailor B. doctor C. guard D. painter
( )7.People who are farsighted ________ .
A .cannot do a lot of close work without glasses B. can only see things that are very close to their eyes C. have difficulty reading a book if they hold it at arm’s length D. have the same problem as the nearsighted people ( )8. To see a small thing at night, it is better to look ________ .
A. with wide open eyes B. with half shut or narrowed eyes C. straight at it D .in a slightly different direction
C
Student participation(参与) in the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of the student in many courses. Some professors base part of the final grade on the student's oral participation. Although there are formal lectures during which the student has a passive role(i.e., listening and taking notes), many courses are organized around classroom discussions, student questions, and informal lectures. In graduate discussions the professor had a “manager” role and the students make presentations and lead discussions. The students do the actual teaching in these discussions.
A professor's teaching method is another factor (因素) that determines the degree and type of student participation. Some professors prefer to control discussion while others prefer to guide the class without controlling it. Many professors encourage students to question their ideas. Students who object to the professor's point of view should be prepared to prove their positions.
In the teaching of science and mathematics, the controlling mode of instruction is generally traditional, with teachers presenting formal lectures and students taking notes. However, new educational trends have turned up in the humanities and social sciences in the past twenty years. Students in education, society, and history classes, for example, are often required to solve problems in groups, design projects, make presentations, and examine case studies. Since some college or university courses are“ practical” rather than theoretical, they pay more attention to “doing” for themselves.
( )9．“Participation in the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of the
student” in many courses except in . A．science and mathematics B. the humanities and social sciences C. informal lecture courses D. discussion courses
( )10.From the passage we know that education in the humanities and society .
A. has not changed much
B. pay attention to students' studying instead of teachers' teaching C .is much more important than that of science and mathematics D. has become more practical than theoretical
( )11.The reason why some professors ask students to make presentations and lead
discussions is that .
A. these professors are often not well prepared before class B .these professors want to stress“ doing”
C. these professors want to test the students' abilities D. these professors are not willing to teach theory
( )12.Which of the following sentences is true according to the passage?
A. Student participation is not common in the classroom in many courses like society.
B. Some professors want to control the classroom discussion.
C. Some professors usually want the students to take part in the teaching of science and mathematics.
D. New educational trends have turned up in teaching of natural sciences such as chemistry.
D
“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.” “I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”
“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”