1、2020-2021 学年度下学期八校月考 高二英语试题 命题人： 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，从每题中所给的四个选项中 选出最佳选项 A Non-Credit Courses The Pre-College Program offers non-credit courses. Students will experience college-level courses given by some of our college s leading experts and will receive writt
2、en feedback (反馈) on their work at the end of the course. Pre-College students will also receive a grade of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory and a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the program. All non-credit courses meet from 9:00 a. m.-11:30 a. m. daily and may have additional requirements
3、in the afternoons or evenings. COURSE: Case Studies in Neuroscience June 11 July 2 Leah Roesch Using student-centered, active-learning methods and real-world examples, this course is designed to provide a fuller understanding of how the human brain works. COURSE: Psychology of Creativity June 15June
4、 28 Marshall Duke Why are certain people so creative? Is it genetic (遗传的), or a result of childhood experience? Are they different from everyone else? This popular psychology course highlights the different theories of creativity. COURSE: Creative Storytelling June 21 July 3 Edith Freni This college
5、-level course in creative storytelling functions as an introduction to a variety of storytelling techniques that appear in different forms of creative writing, such as short fiction and playwriting. COURSE: Sports Economics July 19 August 1 Christina DePasquale In this course we will analyze many in
6、teresting aspects of the sports industry: sports leagues, ticket pricing, salary negotiations, discrimination, and NCAA policies to name a few. 1. Who is the text intended for? A. The general public. B. College freshmen. C. Educational experts . D. High school students. 2. Which course can you take
7、if you are free only in June? A. Sports Economics. B. Creative Storytelling. C. Psychology of Creativity. D. Case Studies in Neuroscience. 3. Whose course should you choose if you are interested in creative writing? A. Leah Roeschs. B. Edith Frenis. C. Marshall Dukes. D. Christina DePasquales. B. In
8、 my everyday life, I am on an ongoing journey to figure out different ways to reduce my carbon footprint on the planet. A carbon footprint is the measure of influence our activities have on the environment, in particular climate change. It is calculated by the amount of greenhouse gas we produce in
9、our daily lives. Fortunately, nowadays it is much easier to make eco-friendly lifestyle choices than, lets say, 20 years ago. But one question has been on my mind a lot lately: is it better to buy new eco-friendly products or used traditionally produced goods? After doing some research, I have decid
10、ed that some things are better new and others are better used. Let me try to explain. A carbon footprint is made up of two parts, the primary footprint and the secondary footprint. The primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions(排放)of carbon dioxide(CO2)from the burning of fuels, includin
11、g household energy consumption and transportation. The secondary footprint is a measure of the indirect CO2 emissions from the whole lifecycle of products we usethose related to their production and breakdown. Based on this understanding, we have a good deal of control and responsibility over our ca
12、rbon footprint. Things like dishes, clothes and furniture fall into the “secondary footprint” group, so less is more and we can focus on finding used goods to avoid the added production. However, for the car and the other appliances(设备)that we need we can go with new, energy-saving models. I heard s
13、omewhere that electronics and appliances give off 90% of their carbon footprint after they leave the factory. So it seems most reasonable to go for the energy-saving models. The main concern here is the amount of energy that goes into the making of new products and whether or not that extra carbon i
14、s worth the footprint the product will make once it gets to you. 4. What is the text mainly about? A. What appliances to buy to save energy. B. What a carbon footprint means in our life. C. How to identify different carbon footprints. D. How to make eco-friendly lifestyle choices. 5. What do we know
15、 about the secondary carbon footprint? A. It is related to our consumption of fuels. B. It is made when we are buying the products. C. It is less harmful than the primary carbon footprint. D. It is counted as ours though not directly made by us. 6. Which of the following helps reduce our carbon foot
16、print according to the author? A. Using second-hand textbooks B. Using old and expensive cars. C. Buying new but cheap clothes. D.Buying new wooden furniture. 7. The footprint underlined in the last sentence refers to the CO2 produced in _. A. using the product B. recycling the product C. making the
17、 product D. transporting the product C. I was always one of the kids who got picked on. If youd asked me, I would have told you I was against bullying(欺凌). But then one day I was chatting with my friends Maya and Lizzie, when Kristina came up, who was one of the bullies, so I prepared myself for mor
18、e insults. But nothing happened. Perplexed, I looked at her, only to hear that she was sorry for the way she had treated me, and that she wanted to be my friend. Despite Maya and Lizzies disapproval, I accepted Kristinas apology. Later that day, I sat with the popular girls for the 1 first time, fee
19、ling important, as if people were noticing me in a way they never had before. Afterwards, I started spending more time going around with my popular friends, laughing at other people, calling their names, and sometimes even pushing and shoving them. Then one day, Lizzie came up to me, accusing me of
20、saying something mean to Maya. I explained it was just a stupid joke, but we got into a fight, and she scolded me for acting like a jerk. Mad, I screamed at and punched her. She fell, tears welling in her eyes, yelled, “Youve become one of them-a bully!” and ran out of the school, crying. I just sto
21、od there breathing hard and staring at my fist. Apparently, I had become one of those Id always hated. I cried hard, keeping picturing scenes of what I had done, regretfully. I decided to apologize to Lizzie. But she turned her back on me. No one would talk to me. Then Kristina walked up to tease me
22、, “Where are your friends now, loser?” I felt like the loneliest person in the world. Then with the help of the counselor, I talked things through with Lizzie and Maya. I told them how sorry I was. I explained Id wanted to be popular so badly that I had forgotten how much they meant to me but that I
23、 was done with being popular now. Fortunately, they decided to give me another chance. 8. When Kristina came up, how was the author ready to react? A.To insult Kristina. B. To tolerate the bully. C. To stay with Lizzie and Maya. D. To wait for Kristinas apology. 9. What does the underlined “ Perplex
24、ed” in Paragraph 2 mean? A. Disappointed B. Delighted C. Puzzled D. Terrified 10. What did the author do after the fight with Lizzie? A. She was checking her fist. B. She cried for being the loneliest person in the world. C. She was drawing pictures about the things that had happened. D. She was det
25、ermined to make up with Lizzie. 11. What can be inferred from this passage? A. It took efforts to earn Lizzie and Mayas trust. B. Kristina enjoyed bullying popular students. C. The author was popular for being so bad. D. The author became a person she didnt like. D Chinese scientists recently have p
26、roduced two monkeys with the same gene, Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, using the same technique that gave us Dolly the sheep. These monkeys are not actually the first primates （灵长类） to be cloned. Another one named Tetra was produced in the late 1990s by embryo splitting, the division of an early-stage emb
27、ryo into two or four separate cells to make clones. By contrast, they were each made by replacing an egg cell nucleus with DNA from a differentiated body cell. This Dolly method, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer（SCNT）, can create more clones and allows researchers greater control over the edit
28、s they make to the DNA. Success came from adopting several new techniques. These included a new type of microscopy to better view the cells during handling or using several materials that encourage cell reprogramming, which hadnt been tried before on primates. Still, the research process proved diff
29、icult, and many attempts by the team failed. Just two healthy baby monkeys born from more than 60 tested mothers. This leads to many researchers pouring water on the idea that the teams results bring scientists closer to cloning humans. They thought this work is not a stepping stone to establishing
30、methods for obtaining live born human clones. Instead, this clearly remains a very foolish thing to attempt, it would be far too inefficient, far too unsafe, and it is also pointless. But the scientists involved emphasize that this is not their goal. There is now no barrier for cloning primate speci
31、es, thus cloning humans is closer to reality. However, their research purpose is entirely for producing non-human primate models for human diseases; they absolutely have no intention, and society will not permit this work to be extended to humans. Despite limitations, they treat this breakthrough a
32、novel model system for scientists studying human biology and disease. 12. What do we know about the technology called SCNT? A. It created the first two primates. B. It may contribute to editing the DNA. C. It can divide an early-stage embryo into several cells. D. It produced two cloned monkeys with
33、 different genes. 13. What does the author mean by “pouring water on the idea” in paragraph 2? A. Keeping a hot topic of it. B. Attaching no importance to it. C. Having a low opinion of it. D. Adding supportive evidence to it. 14. What is the scientists purpose to clone these monkeys? A. To prepare
34、for their research on human cloning. B. To serve as a stepping stone to their reputation. C. To help with the study of human diseases. D. To raise money for holding an exhibition of novels. 15. What can we infer from the passage? A. Cloning humans is already on its way. B. New techniques seem to be
35、pointless. C. Society wont agree to clone another monkey. D. The success rate of cloning a monkey was not high. 2 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 A conversation with a good listener is like a good mealwe walk away feeling satisfied and happy. _16_ Here are 4 way
36、s to make your conversation partner feel like youre fully tuned in to their personal radio station. _17_ Making your conversation partner feel safe starts with two things: an open mind and keeping judgment to yourself. Just as immersing(沉浸) yourself in a novel requires suspension of disbelief, immer
37、sing yourself in listening requires suspension of opinions or advice. While judgments may appear into your head, set them to the side. Ask questions to follow your natural curiosity. When youre interested, ask questions. _18_ Ask for examples. Ask for details. Following your natural curiosity by ask
38、ing questions not only shows you are listening and interested, but almost always produces an interesting story. Listen with your whole body. In many a kindergarten classroom, teachers emphasize something called “whole body listening”. It goes like this: use your eyes to watch nonverbal(非语言), your br
39、ain to think about what is being said, your heart to feel emotions and keep the rest of your body quiet to show respect. But many of us lose it over time, especially as life gets busy. The result? We often try to multitask while listening. _19_ Validate（使生效）with simple phrases. Keep in your back poc
40、ket some validating words and phrases to show youve heard someone. “Of course.” “That makes sense.” “Naturally.” “Clearly.” “For sure.” _20_ In conversation, combining those little phrases: “Of course you feel that way.” or “That makes total sense.” doesnt necessarily convey agreement, but it does c
41、onvey something even bigger： acceptance. A. Create safety. B. Devote yourself to listening. C. Its appealing to talk about your own experience. D. We half-listen while getting things done or staring at a screen. E. Think like a journalist and ask what, when, where, why or how. F. But being a good li
42、stener goes way beyond just not interrupting or nodding your head. G. All of these statements confirm a persons experience or feelings as worthy and accepted. 第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节 满分 45 分) 第一节：完形填空 (共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分) 阅读下面短文， 从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、 B、 C 和 D)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。 A small airp
43、lane went down on Jan.4,2014 off the Southern California coast. The pilot said it never occurred to him that he wouldnt survive the _21_. “I was pretty _22_. you look at the situation and you realize this is what you have to _23_. I knew what I needed to do,” said David Prizio. Prizio said he and hi
44、s lone _24_ were flying at 6500 feet when the engine _25_ died. “I did some quick math and realized I wasnt going to make it to the _26_,” said Prizio. So he decided to _27_ and get the airplane down near some boats six miles northeast. “ I wanted to _28_in front of them,_29_ they would spot us.” Th
45、e rush of water broke the glass. He broke a finger but was otherwise _30_. His friend escaped injury. “We were lucky that the _31_was smooth and the plane didnt flip over,” Prizio said. Lifeguards and helicopter were quickly _32_ to the scene , but a small boat reached the pair_33_. Drew Naffziger w
46、as on his way to Catalina Island with his brother and wife when he _34_ the plane. “I told my brother, Hey, this plane is pretty_35_ and I dont hear an engine either. I think its going to crash.” The plane went into the water 100 yards from his boat. The wheels _36_first,and then its nose dipped in,
47、 sending its_37_ straight up in the air. The two men spent only minutes in the water. Naffziger_38_ them a life preserver and pulled them onto the boat. Naffzigers wife, a nurse, grabbed blankets to keep the two men_39_. Prizio said he would probably get another plane. “I was pretty nervous, but not
48、 so nervous that I wont _40_ again,”he said. 21.A. mistake B. anxiety C. crash D. illness 22. A. sorry B. angry C. eager D. calm 23. A. search for B. deal with C. look at D. talk about 24. A. passenger B. customer C. conductor D. brother 25. A. certainly B. suddenly C. possibly D. naturally 26. A. a
49、irport B. position C. station D. square 27. A. sit B. shout C. work D. try 28. A. finish B. wave C. land D. rest 29. A. admitting B. promising C. explaining D. hoping 30.A. disappointed B. relieved C. unhurt D. frightened 31. A. road B. skin C. yard D. sea 32. A. sent B. driven C. guided D. pushed 33. A. too B. first C. finally D. frequently 34. A. repaired B. spotted C. seized D. lifted 35. A. small B. old C. heavy D. low 36. A. changed B. fell C.
