山西省太原市第五中学2021-2022学年高二上学期12月月考试题+英语

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太原五中 2021-2022 学年度第一学期月考

高二英语

出题、校对：陶聪颖、王芳考试时间：2021 年12 月3日

第一部分基础知识（共 10 小题; 每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）

1. Anyone can’t leave school without the head teacher’s ______.

A. permission B. permit C. possibility D. prediction

2. New evidence has ______ the first witness’s account.

A. conducted B. contacted C. considered D. confirmed

3. Van Gogh was famous for his Sunflower, which was painted in three ______ of yellow.

A. ports B. shores C. shades D. stairs

4. Could you tell me what the letters stand ______ in the popular TV play which is being

broadcast?

A. for B. of C. with D. off

5. Jerry has been preparing carefully for the coming English test so that he can be sure of

passing it at his first ______.

A. rescue B. attempt C. purpose D. request

6. Some wild animals ______ and killed at such a speed that they will disappear from the

earth in future.

A. hunted B. have hunted

C. are being hunted D. had been hunted

7. Food supplies in the flood-stricken area ______. We must act immediately before there’s

none left.

A. are running out B. are being run out

C. have been run out D. will be run out

8. At the beginning of the year 2020, students never thought that they ______ such a long

vacation.

A. will have B. should have

C. are going to have D. would have

9. It is difficult to command a new skill, but once ______, it will benefit you for the rest of

your life.

A. obtaining B. obtained C. to obtain D. is obtained

10. When entering the office, ______.

A. Tom was seen sitting at a desk B. Tom was seen sat at a desk

C. we saw Tom sitting at a desk D. we saw Tom sit at a desk

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分 30 分）

第一节（共 10 小题; 每小题 2 分，满分 20 分）

Elephant reserve

Country: Thailand

This is a working vacation at a wildlife centre. Anyone can become a volunteer if

he/she agrees to help the elephant keepers with tasks.

Daily tasks

Gather the elephants at 6: 30 am. Take them to look for food in the forest. Clean the

enclosure(围场). Swim with the elephants in the lake in the afternoon. If volunteers want to

relax after work, they can watch satellite television.

How this vacation helps

If these elephants hadn’t been rescued, they would still be living on the streets of

Bangkok. The rural environment is much better for them than the urban environment where

there is lots of pollution.

Gorilla safari (旅行)

Countries: Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda

Departures(出发)：2-3 departures per month from Aug. to Dec.

If you’re lucky, you’ll see lions, elephants and rhinos during this safari. The highlight of

the trip is the opportunity to see gorillas in the mountain forests. However, you must be in

good health—if a gorilla caught a cold, it would be extremely harmful to its whole family.

How this vacation helps

There are only about 600 gorillas left in the world as human activity has reduced the

area where they can live. When you buy a ticket, this will pay for the protection of the

national park.

Polar bear watching

Area&Country: Arctic,Canada

Departures: sixty trips between Oct.1-Nov.19.

Every October and November groups of polar bears gather in Hudson Bay. As they are

normally lonely creatures, this is unusual. The bears wait for the ocean to freeze so that they

can hunt for seals, so this is the perfect opportunity to see them.

How this vacation helps

If the Arctic ice cap melts due to global warming, polar bears will be in danger. We give

a share of our profits(利益) to the charity that protects polar bears.

11. Which of the following is the task for elephant volunteers?

A. Take a bath for the elephants at 6:30 am.

B. Teach the elephants to swim in the lake.

C. Make sure the enclosure is clean every day.

D. Watch satellite television to learn knowledge about elephants.

12. What do we know about the gorilla safari?

A. You can set off in April to see gorillas.

B. You will get a cold in mountain forests.

C. To see lions in the mountain forests may be the best part of the trip.

D. Human activities have made the gorilla living area smaller.

13. When is the best time to watch polar bears?

A. October 10 B. September 30 C. December 24 D. August 10

An exhibition celebrates 100-year-old artist Zhou Lingzhao’s contribution to New China,

Lin Qi reports.

Zhou, who turned 100 earlier this year, is an artist whose contribution is legendary. His

portrait of China’s late chairman Mao Zedong hung on the outer wall of the Tian’anmen

rostrum (讲坛) in Beijing during the founding ceremony of the PRC on Oct 1,1949. Zhou was

the chief designer of banknotes for the 2-4 series of the renminbi. And he designed postal

stamps for the Year of the Dog in 1982 and 2018.

“He always kept a low profile ( 姿态),” Zhou’s friend says. “He could have bragged(吹嘘)

about working on such major projects, but he didn’t.” Despite his successful career, Zhou

remains modest.

Zhou, then 30, was selected to paint Mao’s portrait some 20 days before the founding

ceremony. He recalls that, because the portrait was 6 meters high and 4.6 meters wide, Zhou,

and his wife, Chen Ruoju, who’s also an artist, worked with the help of a scaffold ( 脚手架)

and climbed up and down and walked far away to monitor the work’s progress.

The portrait was based on a well-known black-and-white photo taken by Zheng Jingkang

that shows Mao smiling while wearing a hat, with his head slightly turned to one side.

Zhou recalls being asked to add the words “wei renmin fuwu” (serve the people) at the

bottom of the portrait. The couple completed the painting the day before the ceremony and

returned home late. When they were about to go to bed, officials in charge of the ceremony

visited and told them that, after seeing the portrait, then-premier Zhou Enlai and some other

leaders suggested removing the words.

“We rushed back to Tian’anmen Gate. With the help of spotlights, I climbed a long

ladder, erased the characters and added new layers of paint to it,” he recalls. “I climbed up to

repeat the revision many times. I finally finished the corrections. It was only few hours before

the ceremony.”

Zhou was among the crowd of people who attended the founding ceremony. “I saw the

portrait from afar. It looked OK. Then I heard other people saying the painting was good. At

that moment, I felt relieved and happy. I may never forget that my entire life.”

14. Which of the following is NOT Zhou Lingzhao’s contribution?

A. He ever designed the banknotes for the renminbi.

B. He ever designed the postal stamps for the year of Dog twice.

C. He ever did the portrait for China’s late chairman Mao Zedong.

D. He ever took a famous black-and white photo for Chairman Mao.

15. How can we best describe Zhou’s personality?

A. Humorous and honest.

B. Responsible and hardworking.

C. Fearless and open-minded

D. Knowledgeable and modest.

16. What made Zhou’s experience of painting Mao’s portrait unforgettable?

A. He improved greatly in his painting skills.

B. He successfully attended the founding ceremony.

C. He and his wife worked together to complete the portrait.

D. He devoted great efforts to the work with professional spirit.

The heavens opened at the weekend but initially the situation was not as bad as the

meteorologists(气象学家) had warned. But by Tuesday, the State Flood Control and Drought

Relief Headquarters realized the severity of the situation and raised the emergency response to

floods in Henan province to Level III.

From Saturday to Tuesday, Zhengzhou received 624 millimeters of rain, which almost

equals its annual average of 640.8 mm, indicating how severe the downpour is.

The meteorological department had warned of severe rainstorms before the downpour.

But, as some reports suggest, people tended to ignore them, because initially the downpour

was not as heavy as predicted. We know from experience, no matter which part of the world

live in, that weather forecasts are not always accurate. As a result, we often take weather-

men’s warnings with a pinch of salt .

But with the big advance in science and technology, why can’t meteorologists forecast

weather events accurately?

Perhaps because of clouds. Clouds have an enormous influence on Earth’s energy

balance, climate and weather. While some clouds help cool the Earth by reflecting some of the

sun’s energy, other clouds contribute to warming by absorbing(吸收) some of the energy that

the atmosphere release, and thus adjust the Earth’s average temperature. On the other hand,

weather plays a key role in accurately forecasting natural disasters such as heavy downpours,

hurricanes and tsunamis. But weather variations can occur suddenly, depending on the ever-

changing position and thickness of clouds.

It is the unpredictable movement of clouds that at times makes it difficult for

meteorologists and other scientists to create accurate, realistic computer simulations ( 仿真) of

the clouds and storms. The result: forecasts of severe weather events are not always entirely

accurate.

Unfortunately, global warming is making the movement of clouds and storms across the

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