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2021届山西省沁县中学高二上学期英语第一次月考试题
答题时间：120分钟，满分：150分
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）
第一节(共15 小题；每小题 3分，满分45分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑。
A
What's the difference among the British Isles, Britain, the United Kingdom and England?
The British Isles is made up of two islands: one is called Ireland and the other Britain. Britain, or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands, and it is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England.
The United Kingdom is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is made up of Scotland, Wales, England, and also about one-sixth of Ireland, the northern part. The rest of Ireland is self-governing (自治的).
England is the largest, most populous (人口众多的), and generally speaking, the richest section. English people often use the words "England" and "English" when they mean "Britain" and "British". This sometimes makes the Scots and the Welsh angry. The Scots are very proud of their separate nationality. The Welsh also do not consider themselves as English, and they have a culture and even a language of their own. Ireland became part of the United Kingdom in 1801, but is soon grew discontented (不满的), and for forty years the "Irish Question" was a great headache for the British Parliament (国会) . At last, Ireland divided itself into two: Northern Ireland remained loyal (忠诚于) to the Crown (英国王室) , and in 1922 the rest of the country broke away to form the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland.
1. Which is the largest in the following?
A. The British Isles. B. Great Britain.
C. The United Kingdom. D. England.
2. The United Kingdom is mainly made up of .
A. 3 parts: Scotland, Wales, and England
B. 4 parts: Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland
C. 2 parts: the whole of Britain and Ireland
D. 2 parts: the whole of Britain and Northern Ireland
3.Strictly speaking, which of the following is WRONG?
A. "English" refers to people of England.
B. "The Scots" refers to people of Scotland.
C. "English" refers to all the people of the UK.
D. Only one-sixth of Ireland belongs to the UK.
4. Who will be glad if we use "England" when we mean Britain?
A. The British. B. People of England.
C. People of the Republic of Ireland. D. The Welsh.
B
Our neighbor said the storm lasted four minutes. The town houses are destroyed or damaged. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured.
On the day the tornado hit, there was no indication that severe weather was on its way. The first alert my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p.m., from some rolling text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel to our local Pensacola, Florida, station.
No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. We had three flights of steps to get to the relatively safe closet down on the first floor.
As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch whipped through the doorframe. It flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one step up, it would have stuck through us.
Finally, Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I grasped Jimmy’s arm as the tornado sucked the door open and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees and scalp(头皮) were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out the back of the house and into the bay.
All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over.
5. How was the old couple aware of the tornado?
A. They learned it from their neighbors who passed their house.
B. They learned it from some common indications before a tornado.
C. They found the news report forecasting the tornado on TV.
D. They found the tornado on top of them when they were upstairs.
6.We can infer from paragraph4 that ____________
A. The old couple was very grateful to the branch.
B. The old couple missed the branch very much.
C. The old couple was hit by the branch on the head.
D. The old couple was fortunate to have a narrow escape.
7. The passage is most probably taken from _______.
A. a brochure B. a novel C. newspaper D. a magazine
C
The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety.
That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.
Parbati Barua's father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up -- how to catch wild elephants.
Parbati hasn't always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old life. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase," she says.
But Parbati doesn't catch elephants just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man. " And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.
The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. "Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!
8.For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to_______ .
A. get long lasting excitement B. keep both man and elephants safe
C. send them back to the jungle D. make the angry elephants tame
9.Before Parbati studied in a boarding school,________ .
A. she spent her time hunting with her father
B. she learned how to sing love songs
C. she had already been called an elephant princess
D. she was taught how to hunt tigers
10.Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because __________.
A. they are caught and sent for heavy work
B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them
C. they are attacked and their land gets limited
D. dogs often bark at them and chase them
11. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India _________.
A. people easily fall victim to elephants' attacks
B. the man-elephant relationship is getting worse
C. elephant tamers are in short supply
D. dogs are as powerful as elephants
D
Do you have trouble trying to create the next big idea? Sometimes the answer isn't to just force an idea out of your mind. Instead, you might want to try sitting back, relaxing and letting your mind wander. Yes, you heard that correctly. If you are in need of a new idea, try daydreaming.
Researchers from the university of California, Santa Barbara, found an association between daydreaming and creative problem-solving. Their study includes having participants first do an “unusual-use task”. They had to try to come up with as many different ways to use an object as they could.
Then, the participants chose to do one of the following four things before doing the “ unusual-use task” again: complete a difficult task; complete an easy task; take a 12-minute break; or skip the 12-minute break and move right on to the task exercise again.
Surprisingly, the group that performed best was the one that completed the easy task. Many participants reported that they were daydreaming while performing the easy task. So the researchers believed that this daydreaming might have helped unlock their creativity.
But how could daydreaming help the brain come up with creative ways? The answer is something known as “unconscious thought”. Even when you are not actively working to solve a problem, it is still in the back of your mind. Your brain is still thinking about the problem, but in a much more subtle （不易察觉的） way.
When you daydream, your mind is allowed to think in ways it normally would not. Because it is free of control, it can create completely new and out-of-the-box ideas.
Great ideas never come easily, but that does not mean you always have to work hard to get them. Feel free to do what you want and let your mind wander.
12. The “unusual-use task” in Paragraph 2 means that participants .
A. complete an easy task B. complete a very difficult task
C. take a 12-minute break D. think of various ways to use an object
13. Why did the participants who completed the easy task perform best?
A They were not actively working to solve the easy task.
B They daydreamed and it helped them be more creative.
C They were daydreaming while performing the difficult task.
D They skipped the 12-minute break to complete the task again.
14. What does the underlined phrase “unconscious thought” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A . Your brain wander in a subtle way within your control.
B .Your brain knows clearly what you're thinking and doing.
C. Your brain is thinking about a problem outside of your awareness.
D．Your brain refuses to receive any information from the outside world.
15. The passage mainly wants to tell us that .
A. brainstorming is important to creative ideas
B. daydreaming is a way to improve creativity
C .problem-solving skills are important in our lives
D. the more we exercise brains, the more ideas we'll get
第二节 (共5小题；每小题3分，满分15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。
Hollywood movies are regularly filled with sex and violence. They can be exciting films but sometimes all you want is a little light-hearted entertainment.
Have you heard of Bollywood? All singing, all dancing and unrealistic, it is the perfect alternative to normal Hollywood movies. Bollywood is the Indian film industry, based in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. 16 Yet Bollywood is the largest producer of films in the world. This year the Indian Filmgare Awards, Bollywood's Oscars, turn 50 years old.
The typical Bollywood movie usually has the following ingredients: a cup of romance, a tea-spoon of comedy, a dash of international sight-seeing, served with a huge slice of singing and dancing. There will also be one brave hero, one beautiful heroine and one baddie. 17
Bollywood films are full of ideal things and free of daily worries. 18 The actors change clothes and locations within a single song. But the audience don't mind. To Indian movie lovers, especially the poor, such films are a gateway to heaven and the stars are their gods. The films take them to a magical world away from their everyday troubles. The films tell them the impossible is possible and that true love conquers all.
19 Behind the beautiful scenes, Bollywood still emphasizes traditional family values. In most films, if two lovers want to break an arranged marriage, they can't just run away. They must win over their parents.
Bollywood is a decent refreshing replacement for those over-stimulating Hollywood films. 20 They will take you to a brighter, cheerier and more colorful world, where it's still cool to dance around a tree and sing a love song.
A．Bollywood has gradually won its reputation on the world stage.
B．There is never any mention of politics, poverty or war.
C．Most Chinese school kids have probably never seen an Indian film.
D．Bollywood films are mostly comic romances with light-hearted incidental music.
E. Bollywood pays great attention to traditional values.
F．The result is a fun-filled musical.
G．So if you're tired of all that Hollywood actions, check out the following Bollywood films.
第二部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分55分）
第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每题2分，满分40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。
Raynor Winn and her husband Moth became homeless due to their wrong investment. Their savings had been 21 to pay lawyers’ fees. To make matters worse, Moth was diagnosed（诊断）with a 22 disease. There was no 23 , only pain relief.
Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a 24 journey, as they caught sight of an old hikers’(徒步旅行者）guide.
This was a long journey of unaccustomed hardship and 25 recovery. When leaving home, Raynor and Moth had just ￡320 in the bank. They planned to keep the 26 low by living on boiled noodles, with the 27 hamburger shop treat.
Wild camping is 28 in England. To avoid being caught, the Winns had to get their tent up 29 and packed it away early in the morning. The Winns soon discovered that daily hiking in their 50s is a lot 30 than they remember it was in their 20s. Raynor 31 all over and desired a bath. Moth, meanwhile, after an initial 32 , found his symptoms were strangely 33 by their daily tiring journey.
34 , the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they thought had 35 forever. "Our hair was fried and falling out, nails broken, clothes 36 to a thread, but we were alive."
During the journey, Raynor began a career as a nature writer. She writes, " 37 had taken every material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a(n) 38 written book. It had also given me a 39 , either to leave that page 40 or to keep writing the story with hope. I chose hope.”
21. A. drawn up B. used up C. backed up D. kept up
22. A. mild B. common C. preventable D. serious
23. A. cure B. luck C. care D. promise
24. A. business B. walking C. bus D. rail
25. A. expected B. frightening C. disappointing D.surprising
26. A. budget B. revenue C. compensation D.allowance
27. A. frequent B. occasional C. abundant D. constant
28. A. unpopular B. lawful C. attractive D. illegal
29. A. soon B. early C. late D. slowly
30. A. harder B. easier C. cheaper D. funnier
31. A. rolled B. bled C. ached D. trembled
32. A. struggle B. progress C. excitement D. research
33. A. developed B. controlled C. reduced D. increased
34. A. Initially B. Eventually C. Temporarily D.Consequently
35. A. gained B. kept C. wounded D. lost
36. A. sewn B. washed C. worn D. ironed
37. A. Doctors B. Hiking C. Lawyers D.Homelessness
38. A. well B. partly C. neatly D. originally
39. A. choice B. reward C. promise D. break
40. A. loose B. full C. blank D. missing
第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式
41.Moving to the country cured her the disease.
42. interested her most is the Summer Palace.
43. When deeply_________(absorb)in work, he always forgets all about eating or sleeping.
44.____his credit, he has admitted his mistakes.
45. Unluckily, she had all her money (steal) during the journey.
46. We would appreciate it if you could reply at your earliest __________(convenient)
47. It is no good _______(cry)over spilt milk.
48. The grand sight of Mount Huangshan is beyond ___________(describe)
49. God replied with a (puzzle) look, "What do you mean?
50. The doctor suggested that all the people from the area examined.
第三部分 写作（共35分）
第一节 短文改错（共10小题： 每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下短文。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
The winter holiday is coming, which made me excited. I have been looking forward to relax myself. I'd like to go skating, climb mountains and see several movie. I think I can play the basketball with my classmates. How a wonderful time I'll have during the holiday! However, my parents think different. They don't want me go out. They are afraid I'll be knocked down by a truck, fallen off a tree, or fight with others. Beside, they are afraid I will lose my way. I hate being treated like a bird keeping in a cage. To get more freedom, I will try to persuade them.
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华，是你们学校English Club的负责人。学校要组织英语课文诵读比赛（Textbook Reading Aloud Competition），请根据以下要点用英语写一份通知：
1.活动目的； 2.比赛时间及地点；
3.比赛规则（朗读三分钟；评委现场打分）； 4.奖项设置。
注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Notice
Boys and girls,
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