2017年上师大二附中高二月考英语试卷（含答案）
2016学年度第二学期高二年级月考2英语试卷
（满分150分，考试时间：120分钟） 2017年5月
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
It was at least two months (21) _____ Christmas when nine-year-old Almie Ro told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle. As Christmas drew (22) ____ (near), her dream for a bicycle emed to fade(逐渐消失), for she didn?t mention it again. We bought some beautiful story books for her and thought she would be happy to e them. However, on December 24, she said that she wanted a bike more than anything el.
It was just too late. We were busy with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last-minute gifts, (23) ______ (take) the time to lect the “right bike” for our little girl.
So, here we were Christmas Eve around 9:00 p.m, with Almie and her six- year-old brother, Dylan, in their beds. Now we (24) ____ only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child.
“ What if I make a little bicycle out of clay(泥) and write a note (25) _____ she could trade the clay bike in for a real bik e?” her dad asked.So he spent the next four hours patiently working with clay (26) _____ (make) a tiny clay bike. (27) _____ Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and (28) ______ (read) the note aloud.“Does this mean that I can trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?” (29) ______ (smile), I said, “Yes.”Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied, “I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made for me. I?d rather keep this than get (30) ______ real bike.” At that moment, we would have moved heaven and earth to buy her very bicycle in the world!
before; nearer; taking; could; that; to make; On; read; smiling; a
Section B
A.accounted
最终流放河汉B. average
C. continuous
D. rank
E. Link
F. comparison
捉害虫G additional H. associated I. risk J. confirmed K. effects
Television watching is an activity which is known to be harmful to health and is distinctfrom getting too little exerci. But a new study suggests its damaging effects may even ____31___ alongside tho from smoking and obesity. Rearchers who studied tel
evision viewinghabits in Australia calculated that people who watch for a(n) ____32 ___ of six hours a day shortentheir life expectancy by almost five years.
出山泉水They bad their calculations on data on the ___33___ between television viewing and deathfrom the Australian obesity and lifestyle study which involved l 1,000 adults aged 25 and over.Applying the findings to the whole population over 25, who are estimated to have watched 9.8billion hours of TV in 2008, they concluded that it __34___ for 286,000 years of life lost --equivalent to 22 minutes for each, hour watched. By__35___, smoking one cigarette is estimatedto shorten life expectancy by 11 minutes -- equivalent to half an hour of TV watching.
Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the authors from the University ofQueensland, say the figures suggest "huge loss of life may be ___36___ with too much TVviewing." The UK and other industrialized countries are likely to be similarly affected "given thetypically large amounts of time spent watching TV and the similarities in dia patterns." Therearchers add: "If the figures are __37___ and shown to reflect a cau
and effect relationship,TV viewing is a public health problem comparable in size to established behavioral riskfactors."
Rearchers from Taiwan University found even tho who did as little as 92 minutes'exerci a week,- equivalent to 15 minutes a day for six days a week -- reduced their __38___ of death by 14 per cent. Even this small amount of exerci could postpone one in six of alldeaths -- similar to the ___39__ of a stop-smoking programme. Each __40__ 15 minutes a dayreduced the death rate by a further 4 per cent.
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III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Meanness (being not generous and unkind) is one of human nature’s less attractive personality. But few people are completely, __41__ mean. Keith Waterhou, a journalist, explains why he’s thrifty (economical).
网贷东方理财
问道五子棋
I am thrifty, you are careful, he is mean. I am generous, you are extravagant (奢侈的), he ems to have money to burn. More probably we are each a bit of all the types. I know I am. I am a very generous prent-giver. I love buying prents – __42__ I hate buying wrapping paper. Whenever my own __43__ come in, I collect and save the wrappings and __44__ them from one year to the next.
hiredateThe same __45__ to stationery. I have never written on both sides of a sheet of paper in my life. I waste writing paper as if it __46__ on trees, and I cannot go into a stationer?s without buying up most of their envelopes in five different sizes. __47__, I will not buy paperclips, rubber bands or ballpoint pens. I assume that __48__ numbers of the will appear all by themlves.
