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1、2019-2020年高二英语8月月考试题注意事项：1. 本试卷分为第I 卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分，共8页。满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。2. 作答选择题必须用2B铅笔。作答第II 卷时必须使用0.5毫米的黑色墨水签字笔书写在答题卡（卷）上的指定位置，在其它位置作答一律无效。第I卷（选择题，共两部分，满分80分）第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节（共5篇20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AIf you have to attend a party or other social events
2、 where a lot of people will be present, do you feel confident that you will make a good impression on others? Or do you feel shy? In any case, you should increase your confidence at social events.Whenever you are meeting new people at any social event, you should wear proper clothes. Before you atte
3、nd the event, try to find out how other people will be dressing. If everyone else is wearing business clothes, you should, too. If the event is informal, you should wear informal clothes so that you fit in.If you are going to meet people from a certain business or profession, try looking through a f
4、ew professional magazines or checking on the Internet ahead of time to get some conversation ideas which are related to their fields of interest. This can prevent you getting tongue-tied at the event.When you are at the event, dont worry about whether or not other people you are talking with like yo
5、u. Instead, try your best to find reasons to like them.When you are making conversation with people, be sure to keep good eye contact, and make your facial expression soft. Nod to show youre listening. Let your face and body relax so that you can make natural gestures.After the event is over, take a
6、 bit of time to think of your social performance and the conversation you had with people. Tell yourself exactly what you did very well at the event. For example, perhaps you made a big effort to really listen to the people you were talking with,or you may have asked several people some good questio
7、ns that really got them talking. By doing so, your conversation confidence will gradually improve.1. What should you find out before attending a social event? A. how other people will be dressing. B. a few professional magazines C. some conversation ideas D. reasons to like other people2. What shoul
8、d you avoid in a social event according to the 4th paragraph?A. Attending a party with your good friends B. Ignoring eye contact with othersC. Wearing informal clothes and shoes D. Caring much about what others think of you3. After ing back from a social party, we need to form the habit of _.A. Look
9、ing for the positive things in our performanceB. Calling the host to show that we are thankfulC. municating with the people we met once again D. Thinking about how to improve our social ability4. What is the passage mainly about? A. How to take part in social events. B. How to believe in ourselves i
10、n daily life. C. How to be more confident at social events. D. How to get along with others at social events.BTry this: For an entire day, forget about the clock. Eat when youre hungry and sleep when youre tired. What do you think will happen?You may be surprised to find that your day is much like m
11、ost other days. Youll probably get hungry when you normally eat and tired when you normally sleep. Even though you dont know what time it is, your body does.These patterns of daily life are called circadian rhythms（生理节奏）, and they are more than just habits. Inside our bodies are several clocklike sy
12、stems that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle. Throughout the day and night, our inner clocks direct changes in temperature, body chemicals, hunger, sleepiness and more.Everyones rhythms are different, which is why you might like to stay up late while your sister always wants to go to bed early. But on
13、the whole, everyone is programmed to fell tired at night and energetic during the day.Learning about our body clocks may help scientists understand why problems arise when we act out of step with our circadian rhythms. For example, traveling across time zones can make people wake up in the middle of
14、 the night. Regularly staying up late can make kids do worse in tests.“There is a growing sense that when we eat and when we sleep are important parts of how healthy we are,” says Steven Shea, director of the Sleep Disorders Program at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston.One way to learn about how
15、 our body clocks tick is to mess them up and see what happens. Thats what neurologist（神经病学家）Frank Scheer and his workmates did in a recent study.Staying up night after night, their studies suggest, could make kids extra hungry and more likely to gain weight. And regularly sleeping too little, Scheer says, may be one cause of the recent increase in childhood obesity. 5. What will happen if you forget about the clock according to the passage?A. You will feel upset. B. You will behave normally.C. Your body will not know what time it is. D. You will probably get hungry m
