1、高三高补班上学期第二次月考英语试题 含答案2019-2020年高三（高补班）上学期第二次月考英语试题 含答案第卷(共90分)第一部分听力(共两节, 满分30分)第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。1. What is the womans nationality? A. Australian. B. American. C. Indian.2. Why was the woman able to
2、 get an A on the test? A. She read the whole textbook. B. She reviewed all the notes. C. She attended every lecture.3. What does the man plan to do on the weekend? A. Host a dance party. B. Visit Bill with the woman. C. Help the woman with a party.4. When will the woman meet the man tomorrow?A. At 1
3、0:00 am. B. At 10:30 am. C. At 11:00 am.5. What do we know about the man? A. He worked abroad for a few years. B. He is planning to go to Canada. C. He wants to meet the woman again.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，
4、各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. What did the woman do a quarter of an hour ago? A. She left her purse on the table. B. She went to the restroom. C. She came back from the restroom.7. Where was the purse found? A. On the table. B. In the restroom. C. Under the table.听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. Who
5、invited the speakers for Thanksgiving last year? A. The mans brother. B. The womans sister. C. The mans sister.9. What does the woman ask the man to do? A. Go shopping with her. B. Cook a big turkey for her. C. Help her make some sandwiches.听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. What are the mans hobbies? A. Fishing
6、and collecting stamps. B. Reading and watching TV. C. Watching TV and collecting stamps.11. What does the man say about the woman? A. She is popular. B. She is bad-tempered. C. She lacks patience.12. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a library. B. By a lake. C. At a cinema.请听第9段
7、材料，回答第13至16题。13. What is the relationship between the speakers? A. Teacher and student.B. Interviewer and interviewee.C. Manager and clerk.14. Why did the man leave his previous job in the bank? A. His family moved to another place. B. He had never gotten a raise. C. He just wanted to make a change.
8、15. What are the mans best qualities? A. Hard-working and responsible. B. Faithful and energetic. C. Smart and capable.16. What do we know about the man? A. He worked for a private company for three years. B. He took a part-time course in Finance and Trade. C. He doesnt have much experience in sales
9、.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What did Don buy in the mens department?A. A gray suit and two pairs of trousers. B. A blue suit and two pairs of trousers. C. A gray suit and one pair of trousers.18. Where is the shoe department located? A. Opposite the mens department. B. Opposite the shirt department. C.
10、Opposite the sweater department.19. Why did Bob fail to buy a sweater? A. There were no sweaters in his size. B. There were no sweaters he could afford. C. There were no sweaters that looked good on him.20. How did Bob and Don go home? A. On foot. B. By bike. C. By bus.二、阅读理解 “Cleverness is a gift w
11、hile kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy theyre given after all. Choices can be hard.” Jeff Bezos.I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. Id never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea o
12、f building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and Id been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldnt work since most start-ups dont, and I wasnt sure w
13、hat to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, Id been a garage inventor. Id always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admi
14、red. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didnt already have a good jo
15、b.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didnt think Id regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always
16、 be haunted by a decision to not try at all.After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and Im proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.21What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?A. The greatly increasing usage of
17、 the Internet.B. The support of his wife.C. His dream of being an inventor.D. Millions of exciting titles.22We can know from the passage that _.A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the authorB. the author might not regret if he failed the ideaC. the author wanted someone else to try the ide
18、aD. the author might go back to his boss if he failed23Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Cleverness and KindnessB. The Starting of AmazonC. We Are What We ChooseD. Following My Passion A machine that takes sweat-laden (浸满汗水的) clothes and turns the sweat into drinking
19、water is in use in Sweden. The machine makes the clothes turn round quickly, heats them to remove the sweat, and then passes the steam through a kind of special material to make purified water.Since it has been brought into use, its creators say more than 1000 people have drunk others “sweat” in Got
20、henburg. They add the liquid is cleaner than local tap water.The device was built for the United Nations child-focused charity UNICEF to promote a campaign highlighting the fact that 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water.The machine was designed and built by the engineer Andreas
21、 Hammar, known locally for his appearances on TV tech show “Mekatronik”. He said the key part of the sweat machine was a new water purification part developed by a company named HVR.“It uses a technique called membrane distillation (膜蒸馏),” he told the BBC. “We use a special kind of material that onl
22、y lets steam through but keeps bacteria, salts, clothing fibers and other things out. They have something similar to the International Space Station, but our machine is cheaper to build. The amount of water it produces depends on how sweaty the person is, but one persons T-shirt typically produces 1
23、0ml, about a mouthful.”The device has been put on show at the Gothia Cup-the worlds largest international youth football tournament. Mattias Ronge, chief executive of Stockholm-based advertising agency Deportivo, said the machine had helped raise awareness for UNICEF, but in reality had its limitati
24、ons.“People havent produced as much sweat as we hoped right now the weather in Gothenburg is lousy,” Mattias Ronge said. “So weve equipped the machine with exercise bikes and volunteers are cycling like crazy. Even so, the demand for sweat is greater than the supply. And the machine will never be pr
25、oduced in large numbers, since there are better solutions out there such as water purifying pills.”24Which of the following is the disadvantage of the sweat machine?A. It takes too long for the machine to produce water.B. The amount of water the machine produces is rather limited.C. It costs a large
26、 amount of money to build the machine.D. The water processed by the machine is not clean enough.25UNICEF is mentioned in the text to _.A. show how the sweat machine worksB. explain why the sweat machine was inventedC. show the importance of the United NationsD. tell us who invented the sweat machine
27、26What did Mattias Ronge think of the sweat machine?A. It could only be used in summer.B. It did not work at all.C. It was not worth popularizing.D. The water it produced tasted sweet.27The text is written mainly to tell us that _.A. a machine which turns sweat into drinking water is inventedB. 780
28、million people in the world lack access to clean waterC. a better solution to purifying dirty water is discoveredD. the pill which turns dirty water into clean water is produced Is beauty something always positive? Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marri
29、ages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive（主管的） circle, beauty can become a disadvantage.While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder,
30、 it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability b
31、ut with factors such as luck.All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman i
32、n a traditionally manly position appears to lack the manly qualities required.This is true even in politics, “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently, ” says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates（候选人）. She asked 125
