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1、1吉林省延边第二中学吉林省延边第二中学 2017-20182017-2018 学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试学年高二英语下学期第一次月考试题题注意事项：答案必须写在答题卡上，答在试卷上无效。本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分，本试卷满分 120 分。考试时间 90 分钟。第卷（选择题共 70 分）第一部分阅读理解（共 20 小题；满分 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A AA survey revealed the average Asian dad
2、spent one minute a day with his children. I was shocked. I mean, a whole minute? Every day? Get real. Once a week maybe. The fact is, many Asian males are terrible at kid-related things. Actually, I am one of them.Child-rearing(养育) doesnt come naturally to guys. My mother knew the names of our teach
3、ers, best friends and crushes. My dad was only vaguely aware there were short people sharing the apartment. My mother bought healthy fresh food at the market every day. My dad would only go shopping when there was nothing in the fridge except a jar of capers and a bay leaf. Then hed buy beer. My mot
4、her always knew the right questions to ask our teachers. My dad would ask my English teacher if she could get us a discount on school fees. My mother served kid food to kids. My dad added chili sauce to everything, including our baby food.The truth is, mothers have superpowers. My son fell off a wal
5、l once and hurt himself all over. I demanded someone bring me a computer so I could google what to do. My wife ignored me and did some sort of chanting phrase such as “Mummy kiss it better,” and cured 17 separate injuries in less than 15 seconds.Yes, mothers are incredible people, but they are not a
6、lways right. Yet 2honesty forces me to record the fact that mothers only know best 99.99 per cent of the time. Here are some famous slip-ups. The mother of Bill Gates: “If youre going to drop out of college and hang out with your nerdy friends, dont come running to me when you find yourself penniles
7、s. ” The mother of Albert Einstein: “When you grow up, youll find that sitting around thinking about the nature of time and space wont pay the grocery bills.” The mother of George W. Bush: “Youll never be like your dad, who became President of the United States and started his own war.”1. The tone f
8、or the writer to write the passage is _ .A. cruel B. disapproving C. humorous D. critical2. In Paragraph 2 the writer makes a comparison between mothers and fathers to prove that _ .A. females love kids more than males B. males are not good at child-rearingC. child-rearing is difficult both for fema
9、les and males D. my dad is not interested in child-rearing 3. What does the underlined word “slip-ups” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?A. Stories. B. Shortcomings. C. Disadvantages. D. Mistakes.4. The last paragraph is mainly developed by _ .A. providing different examples B. following the order of spa
10、ceC. making comparisons D. analyzing causesB.There are lots of ways to educate yourself on the Internet. You can find photos, documents, and films on almost any topic you can imagine. And at , you can access lectures by artists, scholars, designers, technicians and others.TED began in 1984 as a conf
11、erence that brought together individuals from the fields of technology, entertainment and design. It was intended to be a 3onetime event focusing on technology and design. The event ended up losing money, and it was six years before the founders tried it again. This time it worked, and since 1990, t
12、he TED conference has been an annual event. There are now two held every year, with topics as diverse as music, medicine, and money. Other specialized spinoff conferences address narrower issues.The TED website came from a desire to share the conferences with the world, to “offer free knowledge from
13、 the worlds most inspired thinkers”, as the website puts it. The current version of the site was launched in April 2007, and contains videos of talks given at the TED conferences around the world. The talks are transcribed into hundreds of languages.The TED website is owned by the Sapling Foundation
14、, a nonprofit organization devoted to fostering the spread of great ideas. The Sapling Foundation acquired TED in 2001.Since then, it has been focusing on using TED to broadcast ideas that might change the world.TED, of course, isnt immune to criticism. Its been called elitist(杰出人物的鼓吹者) for its high
15、 ticket prices (more than 6,000 dollars in total)Its been accused by a few people of censorship（审核机构） for not publishing their talks. One controversial speaker was upset about being criticized by the conferences host afterward.The complaints, however, seem to be relatively few for such a large, long
16、running organization. And accusations of elitism ring hollow when so much is given away for free on TEDs website. Whatever its failings, TED is a source of inspirational information for those who seek it out.5Which of the following statements is NOT true?AThe TED conference came after the success of .BTwo TED conferences are now h
