1、新课标上学期高二月考1英语新课标上学期高二月考1英语2014-2015学年度上学期第一次月考高二英语试题【新课标】考试时间：100分钟注意事项：1答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息2请将答案正确填写在答题卡上第I卷（选择题）一、补全短文1. How to Be ConfidentWe are all human and have weaknesses. Even if your physical appearance or social skills arent what you wish they were, that doesnt have to stop you from bein
2、g confident. 1 _1. Make a list of special talents you have, or things you do that are goodmorally or otherwise. It doesnt have to be a specific skill； it can be an approach or an attitude that you hold through life. 2 _ Are you very patient with people? Do you always see the humorous side of things?
3、 Are you always there for your friends?2. 3 _When you feel strongly about something, speak loudly and clearly and make eye contact with people. People will judge you all the time ，and usually theyll misjudge you anyway, so why bother trying to live up to their opinions at all?3. Take care of yoursel
4、f. Eat a healthy diet and get enough exercise. Dont abuse your body, dont overload it, and dont deny it any of the things it needs. At the same time, dont obsess (沉迷)4 _ Those things are only band-aids and make-up. Confidence comes from within. In order to be confident ，you must value yourself and u
5、nderstand that your well-being is important.4. Improve your posture. 5 _ Dont drop your shoulders. Make sure that your back is straight, your shoulders are square, and your chest sticks out slightly (but stay loose, otherwise youll appear stubborn and nervous). Good posture also helps with deep brea
6、thing, which helps with feeling calm and relaxedA. But smiling at yourself in the mirror helps you to love yourself ，thus making you a bit more confident.B. Buying all the moisturizers (润肤霜），creams will not bring you closer to who you want to be.C. It is surprising how powerful the simple step of ta
7、king action can be.D. Do you always stay calm, cool and collected ，even in hurried situations?E. Having good posture can actually make you feel more confident.F. Know that you have important things to say and do.G. Heres how to believe in yourself.2. For the rest of March, a disease will sweep acros
8、s the US. It will keep kids home from school. 1 Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65 team US mens college basketball tournament (锦标赛). 2 Teams compete against each other in a single elimination (单局淘汰) tournament that
9、 eventually crowns a national champion.Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness. The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends. 3 Colleagues against bosses.Big name schools are usually favored to advanc
10、e into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little known universities.This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little known George Mason Uni
11、versity was one of the final four teams. 4 College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves. 5 About $ 4 billion will be spent gambling (赌) on the event. According to Media Life magazine, the event will bring in $ 500 million in adv
12、ertising income this year, topping the post season income of every US professional league, including that of the NBA. A. Husbands against wives. B. The players will go all out for the games. C. But that doesnt mean money isnt involved. D. College students will ignore piles of homework. E. People are
13、 willing to spend more money on watching it. F. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April. G. Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.第II卷（非选择题）请修改第II卷的文字说明二、单项选择 A. Having seen B. Seeing C. To see D. Seen4. Most of the people_ to the party were
14、famous scientists. ( )A. have been invited B. to be invited C. being invited D. invited5. When I was little, my mother used to sit by my bed, _ me stories till I fell asleep.A. having told B. telling C. told D. to tell6. They sat on the beach side by side silently, their eyes _ upon the sea.A. fixin
15、g B. fixed C. to fix D. having fixed7. I didnt have any trouble _ the old mans house.( ) A. to have found B. with finding C. finding D. to find8. After completing and signing it, please return the form to us in the envelope _ （ ）A. providing B. provided C. having provided D. provide9. Another bridge
16、 _ at the end of 2012 over LiuYang River will benefit many people. A. built B. being built C. will be built D. to be built10. When we saw the road _ with snow, we decided to spend the holiday at home. A. block B. to block C. blocking D. blocked11. _ at the party, we saw Ruth standing alone in the co
17、rner of the hall.AArriving BTo arrive CArrive DArrived12. Although _ by Harvard University wasnt far beyond his dream, he couldnt afford the tuition. Ahaving being accepted Bbeing accepted Cto have been accepted Daccepted三、单词拼写13. Kate was a_ in watching TVShe didnt notice the thief.14. People never
18、 trust him because he is always l_.15. gave him full _(说明) to enable him to find the house.16. He drew the _(结论) by building on his own investigation.17. We have all come to the c_ that she is the best doctor in the hospital. 四、完形填空18. Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten. As is 1_ . I w
19、ished her success. I was lying. What I actually wish for her is 2_ .I believe in the power of failure.Success is 3_ . Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time, which can 4_ be a problematical victory. First-time succes
20、s is usually a fluke (侥幸).First-time failure, 5 _ . is expected; it is the natural order of thingsFailure is how we learn. I have been told of an African phrase 6_ a good cook as “she who has broken many pots” If youve spent enough time in the 7_ to have broken a lot of pots, probably you know a fai
21、r amount about 8 _ .1 once had a late dinner with a group of chefs, and they spent time 9 _ knife wounds and bum scars. They knew how much credibility (信誉)their 10 _ gave them.I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper column. Each week I am 11 _ that one column is going to be the worst column of
22、 the week. I dont set out to write it; I try my best every day. 12 _, every week, one column is inferior (较差的)to the others, sometimes extremely so.I have learned to 13 _.that column ,A successful column usually mean that I am treading (踩踏)on 14 _ground, going with the tricks that work, or dressing
23、up popular ideas in fancy words. Often in my inferior columns，I am trying to 15 _ something Ive never done before, something Im not even sure can be done.My granddaughter is a perfectionist. She will feel her failures, and I will want to 16 _ her. But I will also, I hope, 17 _ her of what she learne
24、d, and how she can do whatever it is 18 _ next time. I probably wont tell her that failure is a good thing, because thats not a(n)19 _ you can learn when youre five. I hope I can tell her, though, that its not the end of the world. Indeed, with luck, it is the 20 _ .1.A. usual B. conventional C. exp
25、ected D. contradictory2.A. failure B. success C. sacrifice D. victory3.A. convincing B. demanding C. boring D. worthwhile4.A. seldom B_ often C always D. never5.A. on purpose B. at length C. in turn D. by contrast6.A. defining B. classifying C. describing D. viewing7.A. canteen B. kitchen C. dormito
26、ry D. corridor8.A. learning B. cooking C. gardening D. training9.A. competing B. counting C. displaying D. comparing10.A. endeavors B. failures C. wounds D. scars11.A. aware B grateful C. skeptical D confident12.A. Therefore B. Moreover C. Still D. Otherwise13.A. update B. review C. cherish D. adapt
27、14.A. similar B. tentative C. accessible D. familiar15.A. take in B. get through C. comment on D. figure out16.A. amuse B. comfort C. reward D, tease17.A. remind B. suspect C. inform D. cheat18.A. worse B. acuter C. better D. luckier19.A. trick B. experience C. truth D. lesson20.A. beginning B. dest
28、ination C, ending D. process19. To be or not to be.Outside the Bible (圣经)，these six words are the most famous in all the _1_ of the world.They were _2_ by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeares because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also f
29、or every_3_ man and woman.To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live _4_ and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely.A philosopher once wanted to know _5_ he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself _6_.He answered it by saying, “I t
30、hink, _7_ I am.” But the best _8_ of existence ever seen was given by another philosopher who said，“ To be is to be in _9_.”If this is true，then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive.To live abundantly means simply to _10_ the range and intensity of our relations._11_ we are so
31、 used to loving our routine.But apart from our regular _12_， how much are we alive? If you are _13_ only on your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent.If _14_ things are not concerned so farpoetry, music, pictures, sports, friendships, politics and international affairs you are _15_ .On the contrary, it is true that every time you _16_ a new interest even more, a new accomplishment you increase your power of life.No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of
