上海市同濟大學(xué)第一附屬中學(xué)2019-2020學(xué)年高二下學(xué)期第二次月考英語試題

1、- -上海市同濟大學(xué)第一附屬中學(xué)2019-2020學(xué)年高二下學(xué)期第二次月考英語試題n . Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper from of the given word; for the oth

2、er blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.We can always bear voices comparing the education systems in China and the US. It s true that there exist a lot of differences, but this cannot be an excuse (21)having a passive attitude toward studying in China.When I came back from the US last year

3、 and (22)(continue) my senior high school education in China, I sensed many great differences. I thought that school in China was too hard, and that we didn t do enough fun exercise (23)(run) around playground together. I was not patient enough and I couldnt help but cry to my mum. In short, I could

4、 not face the changes and the pressure.My mum had a long talk with me. After that, I realized that (24)high school life in China is harder, it can give us more. The pressure helps us learn the true meaning of competition before we step into society, which gives us a (25)(determine) heart and teaches

5、 us to step forward no matter what the reality is. It s like climbing a mountain, (26)might make you dizzy and nervous, but the top is always there waiting for you (27) you are strong enough to take one more step.Meanwhile, (28)easy life is not always good for us. Even some of my American Friends ca

6、ll (29) lazy Americans, because the school in the US is not always easy. When they go to college, they also need to work very hard. We complain mainly because we can t see the whole picture.Sometimes we just simply listen to others words without thinking about (30)theyare true. We cant always compla

7、in. Instead, we all need to understand that success takes efforts and tears.Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. availableB. contactC. publicD. announcedE. growingF. rangeG.

8、includeH. separatelyI. leaderJ. especiallyK. appearingKnowledge is free on the Internet at a small but _31_ number of colleges and universities. About 160 schools around the world now put free course materials on the web to the _32_. Recent additions in the United States _33_ projects at Yale, Johns

9、 Hopkins and the University of California, Berkeley.Berkeley said it would offer videos of lectures on YouTube. Free videos from other schools are _34_ at the Apple iTunes store.The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became an early _35_ with its Open Course Ware project, first _36_ in 2001

10、. Free lecture notes, exams and other resources are published at . Many exams even include the answers. Today, Open Course Ware offers materials from 1.800 undergraduate and graduate courses. These _37_ from Physics to Political Science. Visitors can learn the same things as MIT students learn. But

11、as the site points out, Open Course Ware is not an MIT education. Visitors receive no credit toward a degree. Some materials from a course may not be available, and the site does not provide _38_ with teachers. Still, MIT says that the site has had forty million visits by thirty-one million visitors

12、 from almost every country. Sixty percent of the visitors are from outside the United States and Canada. Students and educators use the site, including students at MIT. But the largest number of visitors, about half, are self-learners.Some professors have become well-known around the world as a resu

13、lt of _39_ online. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT, is _40_ popular. Fans enjoy his entertaining lectures. MIT Open Course Ware now includes materials for high school. The aim is to improve education in Science, Technology, Math and Engineering.in . Reading ComprehensionIV. Cloze.Direction:

14、 For each blank in the following passage there are four words marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrases that best fits the context.What is a vegan? What is veganism?Veganism is a type of vegetarian diet that 41 meat, eggs, dairy products and all otheranimal-derived ingredient

15、s. Many vegans also do not eat foods that are 42 using animalproducts, such as refined white sugar and some wines.Vegan 43 either a person who follows this was of eating, or the diet itself. That is, theword vegan can be an adjective used to describe a food item, as in,“ This curry is veganbe used a

16、s a noun, as in,“ Vegans like cookie, too. ”Although there is some 44 as to whether certain foods, such as honey, fit into a vegandiet, if you are cooking for other vegans, it is best to be cautious and _45_ these foods. Most vegans _46_ the definition of veganism to go beyond just food and will als

17、o avoid the use of all personal and household products tested on animals, and avoid _47_ and using all animal-derived non-food products, such as leather, fur and wool.What do vegans eat?This is perhaps the most common question about veganism. A vegan diet includes grains, beans, legumes, vegetables

18、and _48_ or the nearly infinite number of foods made by combing them._49_, many vegan versions of familiar foods are available, so you can eat vegan hot dogs, ice cream, cheese and vegan mayonnaise along with the more familiar veggie burgers. Many foods are _50_ veganism, such as soy milk and tofu,

19、but many non-vegans also enjoy tofu, and you certainly do not have to like tofu in order to eat vegan.Vegans also eat many of the same common and _51_ every day foods such as a green salad, spaghetti, and chips and salsa which just about everyone eats. _52_, a vegetarian burrito （玉米煎 餅）without chees

20、e or sour cream would be vegan, a vegetarian Thai curry made from coconut milk is vegan, pasta with tomato sauce non-meat and non-diary sauce is vegan, and most breads are vegan.How can I become vegan?So you have decided to become vegan. But now what? Some people easily go from eating meat to vegan

21、right away, while others struggle with their new _53_, or choose to go to vegetarian first and then _54_ omit （去除） eggs and dairy. There is no right or wrong way to do it, but you maywant to learn about what s worked for other people. However, you do it, keep your _55_ in mind and remember why you a

22、re choosing to adopt a vegan diet.41. A. excludesB. includesC. involvesD. favors42. A. enjoyedB. consumedC. processedD. frozen43. A. protests againstB. refers toC. consists ofD. searches for44. A. analysisB. reasonC. debateD. comment45. A. cookB. chooseC. testD. avoid46. A. extendB. applyC. restrict

23、D. offer47. A. controllingB. purchasingC. distributingD. producing48. A. eggsB. cheesesC. hot-dogsD. fruits49. A. OtherwiseB. BecauseC. BesidesD. Thus50. A. separated fromB. ignored byC. associated withD. limited to51. A. cheapB. familiarC. deliciousD. healthy52. A. As a resultB. For exampleC. In a

24、senseD. In particular53. A. beliefB. missionC. commitmentD. trend54. A. slowlyB. easilyC. essentiallyD. normally55. A. goalB. requestC. responsibilityD. expenseSection BDirections: Read the following three passage. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of t

25、hem there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)It is one of the greatest mysteries of nature. In case you haven t noticed, all living things follow very definite, individual rhythms, all as regula

26、r as a clock, but what makes them regular?Though many scientists maintain that these rhythms are the result of some outside force like gravity or radiation or both, the results of most scientific researches agree with other scientists who believe that each living thing has its own built-in biologica

27、ltime clock.”Take the mystery of migration for example. Scientists can t really explain why many species of birds migrate in the autumn even though the temperature is still summery. The birds just seem to snub the comfortable weather that they are having. When a certain time comes, they travel south

28、 by the thousand. In spring time, they migrate northwards when though there probably is snow still covering the ground when they finally arrive. Something said go”, and they did.Animals that hibernate are obeying individual time clock, too. When thier clock indicates the time to take a winter s nap,

29、 they do, and nothing can stop them. At a certain time in the spring, they wake up and come out regardless of the weather outside.Plants appear to have yearly rhythms, such as the sprouting （發(fā)芽）of seeds, and they also have daily rhythms. Notice sometimes that plants raise their leaves in daylight an

30、d lower them at night.If you live along the California coast, you can easily observe a demonstration of this mysterious clock functioning regularly. There, from February to September, the highest tides occur exactly every fourteen and four-fifths days, and during these high tides, but at no other ti

31、me, small silvery fish called grunions surf-ride a wave to the beach. There the female deposits her eggs in the sand and the male, fertilitze them; then both hitch a wave-ride back to the sea. Exactly fourteen and four-fifths days later, never before or after, the tiny eggs hatch, and the high tide

32、carries the new habies out to sea.According to the passage, the mysterious thythms result from.the influence of gravity on living speciesthe effect of radiation on living speciesthe influence of a mysterious outer force on living speciesthe internal mechanism inside the living speciesThe underlined

33、word snub in the third paragraph probably means.A. fightB. ignoreC. symbolizeD. criticizeWhich of the following statments is NOT TRUE?Hibernating animals are obeying an internal time clock.The positioning of the leaves of some plants is due to the daily rhythms.The internal clock functioning is demo

34、nstrated in the reproducing habits of grunions.The yearly hibemation is more because of the weather influence than the biological functioning. 59. The passage is mainly about.the rhythms of lifeB. the reasons of mysterious hibermationC. strange behaviors of species D. the timing for different events

35、 in the world of species(C)Recently, a case of lifeboat ethics occurred. On Aug. 4, Graham and Sheryl Anley, while boating off the coast of South Africa, hit a rock. As the boat threatened to sink, the husband got off, but his wife was trapped in the boat. Instead of freeing his wife and getting her

36、 to shore, Graham grabbed Rosie, their pet dog. With Rosie safe and sound, Graham returned for Sheryl. All are doing fine.Its great story, but it doesnt strike me as especially newsworthy. News is supposed to be about something fairly unique, and recent research suggests that, in the right circumsta

37、nces, lots of people also would have grabbed their Rosie first.We have strange relationships with our pets. We look after our pets with great love and better health care than billions of people receive. We speak to pets with the same high-pitched voices that we use for babies.As an extreme example o

38、f our feelings about pets, the Nazis had strict laws that guaranteed the kind treatment of the pets of Jews being shipped to death camps.A recent paper by George Regents University demonstrates this human involvement with pets to an astonishing extent. Participants in the study were told a situation

39、 in which a bus is out o control, bearing down on a dog and a human. Which do you save? With responses from more than 500 people, the answer was that it depended: What kind of human and what kind of dog?Everyone would save a brother, grandparent or close friend rather than a strange dog. But when pe

40、ople considered their own dog VS people less connected with them - a distant cousin or a hometown stranger - votes a favor of saving the dog came rolling in. And an astonishing 40% of respondents, including 46% of women, voted to save their dog over a foreign tourist.What does a finding like this me

41、an? First, it is that your odds aren t so good if you find yourself in another country with a bus bearing down on you and a cute dog. But it also points to something deeper: our unprecedented attitude toward animals, which got its start with the birth of kind - hearted societies in the 19th century.

42、We prison people who abuse animals, put ourselves in harm s way in boats between whales an whalers and show sympathy to Bambi and his mother. We can extend sympathy to an animal and feel its pain like no other species. But let s not be too proud of ourselves. As this study and too much of our histor

43、y show, we re pretty selective about how we extend our kindness to other human beings. 63. Which of the following is true according to the article?A. The story of the Anleys and their dog was too unique to be newsworthy.Most people surveyed choose to save their own dog rather than a human.It wa in t

44、he 19th century that human beings started to love their pets.Human beings are more and more concerned with animals nowadays.What is the function of the first of paragraph?A. To create a relaxing mood for readers.B. To present the theme of this essay straightly.C. To lead in the main topic of this es

45、say.D. To raise problems that will be solved later.The author mentions Nazi laws in the third paragraph.to show how cruel the Nazis were to the Jewsas an example to persuade people not to love petsto illustrate the strange relationship between human and petsas an example to display the kindness of t

46、he NazisWhat does the author mainly argue for?Pets are of great significance to us human beings.We should rethink about out attitude towards animals and mankind.It is kind of human beings to extend kindness to animals.We should be selective when showing attitude toward other human beings.Section CDi

47、rections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box.Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.During past millennia, craftspeople have created numerous exquisite figurines, which have had tremendous aestheti

48、c value.For millennia, the figurines have brought happiness to countless Chinese families.However, given the rapid industrial and technological development during the past several decades, clay figurines have been produced in a great number of molds with more complicated designs.As a resule, the pop

49、ularity of the art from has increased, both at home and abroad.So far, Fengxiangs clay figurines have been displayed in various cultural activities held in more than 30 countries, including France, Germany and the United States.Making clay figurines involves several complcated procedures, including

50、processing the new materials, designing the artworks, creating molds, and shaping, baking and painting.Turning clay into artMany residents bought clay figurines in the past, especially during festivals or holidays, as they believed the items would bring good fortune, ward off evil spirits and prevent calamities 67Multiple skills, such as paper-cutting, embroidering, carving and New Years painting, are usedto make the figurines. Local craftspeople use strong colors (such as bright red, light yellow and green) to create figurines, to convey people s blessings