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1、1高二上学期第一次月考英语试题高二上学期第一次月考英语试题I 语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分 45 分)第一节 完形填空 (共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 115 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最 佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Some years ago, Houston airport faced a troubling customer-relations issue. Passengers were making a huge number of 1 about the long waits at baggage cla
2、im (行李提取处). In response, the airport managers 2 the number of baggage handlers. The plan worked: the average wait fell to eight minutes. But the complaints 3 despite the apparent success.4 , the managers undertook a more careful, on-site analysis. They found that it took passengers a minute to walk
3、from their 5 gates to baggage claim and seven more minutes to get their bags. Roughly 88 percent of their time, in other words, was spent standing around 6 waiting for their bags. So the airport decided on a new approach: instead of reducing wait time, it 7 the arrival gates farther away from baggag
4、e claim area. Passengers now had to 8 six times longer to get their bags. Complaints dropped to near zero. This story shows a general 9 : the experience of waiting is defined only partly by the actual length of the wait. Often the psychology of queuing is more 10 than the length of the wait itself.
5、Occupied time (walking to baggage claim) feels 11 than unoccupied time (standing at baggage claim). Research on 12 has shown that, on average, people overestimate how long theyve waited in a line by about 36 percent. This is also why one finds mirrors next to lifts. The spread of high-rise buildings
6、 after World War II led to complaints about lift 13 . The motive behind the mirrors was 14 to the one used at the Houston airport: give people something to 15 their time, and the wait seems shorter. 1. A. suggestionsB. questionsC. complaintsD. challenges 2. A. evaluated B. countedC. decreasedD. incr
7、eased 3. A. continuedB. disappearedC. doubled D. changed 4. A. Annoyed B. PuzzledC. DiscouragedD. Excited 5. A. exit B. landingC. arrival D. departure 6. A. uncomfortablyB. aimlesslyC. hopelessly D. impatiently 7. A. freedB. sent C. moved D. removed 8. A. wait B. walkC. wasteD. sit 9. A. principle B
8、. approachC. beliefD. reason 10. A. scientificB. interestingC. useful D. important 11. A. slower B. shorter C. more difficultD. more painful 12. A. figures B. baggageC. queuing D. standing 13. A. delaysB. qualityC. safety D. repairs14. A. devotedB. superiorC. familiar D. similar15. A. takeB. occupyC
9、. use D. value第二节 语法填空 (共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分)2阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为 1625 的相应位置上。There was once a small boy who would never get dressed when his parents told him to, 16 would he wear what they wanted him to. He preferred unusual clothes, but above a
10、ll, he liked taking his time. His parents were always in a rush, and wanted him to be much 17 (quick), but the boy didnt like this, 18 he would slow down even more.One day, his parents got so angry when he refused to dress, that they told him to go out without any clothes at all. 19 (amuse), the boy
11、 followed his parents out of the door. He held a belief 20 nobody could do anything to him. As the boy stood outside his house with nothing on, waiting for his parents car, along came the local pig farmer. The farmer, 21 was almost deaf, had very poor eyesight. Not only that, but also he 22 (forget)
12、 his glasses that day. When he saw the boys pink skin, he thought it was one of his pigs. Shouting and pushing, the farmer forced 23 into a pig cage.The boy begged him to stop but the deaf farmer couldnt hear. When found by his parents, the terrified boy never again wanted to be mistaken 24 anything
13、 other than a human being. Now hes the first 25 (get) dressed, and always looks neat. AThe future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare, if the findings of a study into childrens writing are anything to go by. Researchers who looked at the entries to a natio
14、nal competition found they were increasingly using American words such as garbage, trash can, sidewalk, candy, sneakers, soda, and flashlight.The stories, written by pupils aged 7 to 13, show how fairy cakes are referred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo. “Smart” is now often us
15、ed for “clever” and “cranky” for “irritable”.Television also has a powerful influence on childrens work, with Lady Gaga and Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names from TV cropping up repeatedly.3But pupils are let down by basic spelling, punctuation and grammar, according to the study by Oxford University Press (OUP), which looked at the entries to BBC Radio Twos “500 Words” competition.Children struggled to correctly spell simple words such as “does” and “clothes” and often failed to use the past tense correctly, frequently writing “rised” instead of “rose” o
