厦门六中2008-2009学年高二下学期月考试卷
本试卷共10页 满分150分 考试时间 120分钟
A卷（共95分）
（注：此部分选择题答案要涂在答题卡上，否则无效）
I．听力（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
第一节：听下面5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，每段对话仅读一遍。
1. Why is the man wearing his sunglasses?
A. It’s sunny outside.
B. His eyes hurt in the light.
C. He looks cool with his sunglasses on
2. What will the woman probably do tonight?
A. Work.
B. Sleep at home.
C. Enjoy herself at a party.
3. When must the cameras be returned?
A By the next day.
B. Before 8 o’clock in the morning.
C. Before 8 o’clock in the evening.
4. What is Mary’s only hobby？
A. Staying in her room alone.
B. Tasting different kinds of food.
C. Reading something interesting.
5. What is the woman going to do tomorrow?
A. Stay at home.
B. See the doctor.
C. Leave the hospital.
第二节: 请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。每段对话或独白读两遍。
请听第6段段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. What did the speakers do last week?
A. They made a phone call.
B. The woman interviewed the man.
C. They had a dinner together.
7. What language can the man speak?
A. Spanish.
B. Japanese.
C. French.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. What is the man doing?
A. Making jiaozi.
B. Working on his website.
C. Talking to his friends on the internet.
9. Where do the man’s friends come from?
A. Canada. B. England. C. America
10. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A. At home.
B. At an internet cafe.
C. At a restaurant.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Why is the man tired?
A. He’s been bothered by someone.
B. He watched TV the whole night.
C. He has to give his bed to Susan’s brother.
12. What is the man’s attitude towards Susan’s brother?
A. He doesn't care.
B. He likes him very much.
C. He can’t stand him any more.
13. What do we know about Susan’s brother?
A. He eats a lot.
B. He lives with Susan.
C. He sleeps early.
请听第9段段材料，回答第14至第16题
14. What course is the man studying at the college?
A. Medicine.
B. Basic programming.
C. Advanced programming.
15. How much money will the man pay for the club?
A. &10 B. &20 C. &30
16. Which club will the man probably join?
A. The Film Club.
B. The Tennis Club.
C. The Theatre Club.
请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题
17. What can we learn from the news?
A. Nobody was killed.
B. 15 houses were badly damaged.
C. Over 200 people were made homeless.
18 How many people were badly injured?
A. 7. B. 9 C.10
19. What do we know about the farmer?
A. His house was destroyed.
B. One of his children was missing.
C. His wife was hurt by the falling walls.
20. What did the woman do when she saw her house shaking?
A. She tried to take something out.
B. She told her husband not to leave.
C. She rushed out with her children.
II．单选（共15小题，每小题1分,满分15分）
21. ---Is Peter still teaching?
---I’m afraid not. He is said ___the school already as he has become an manager of a company.
A. to have left B. to leave
C. to have been left D. to be left
22. No one can prevent the plan __________ .
A. from carrying out B. to be carried out
C. being carried out D. to carry out
23----Do you mind if I keep pets in this building? ---__________.
A. I’d rather you didn't ,actually B. Of course not, it’s not allowed here
C. Great! I love pets D. No, you can’t
24.I'd also like to _____ you on your good work in these two years.
A. congratulate B. celebrate C. wish D. hope
25.I don’t know who invented _______ telephone, it’s really _______ most useful invention.
A. the; a B. the; the C. a; a D. 不填；不填
26.She heard a scream, _______ brought her heart into his mouth.
A. it B. this C. that D. which
27 ---Which one will I choose?
---Well, you can take _______ of them; I’ll keep none.
A. both B. all C. any D. either
28. He desired that he_______ the right to vote.
A. had B. have C. has D. had had
29. I shall not believe it until I see it_______ myself.
A. for B. by C. of D. in
30. ---Why are you smiling at me? --- You look _______ in that hat.
A.annoyed B. absurd C. talent D. beneficial
31. It was a time_______she felt sorry for herself and depressed..
A. then B. that C.when D. which
32. After the war, a post office building was put up ________ there had once been a shop.
A. that B. which C. where D. in which
33. -- Did you have a good time at the party?
-- Thanks. I appreciated _________ to your home.
A. to be invited B. being invited
C. to have invited D. having invited
34. _________ from other continents for millions of years, Australia has many plants and animals not found in any other country in the world.
A. Being separated B. Having separated
C. Having been separated D. To be separated
35 . Nobody wants to___________ especially in public.
A. make fun of B. be made fun of C. making fun of D. be made fun
III． 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1. 5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The Hymnbook（赞美诗集）
I
watched attentively as my little brother was caught in the act. He sat in the
corner of the living room, a (an)
My father picked up his treasured book, looked at it 40 , and then sat down without saying a word．Books were 41 to him; he was a clergyman（牧师）and the holder of several 42 . For him, books were knowledge, and yet, he loved his 43 .What he did in the next few minutes was remarkable. Instead of punishing my brother, instead of 44 or yelling or shouting, he sat down, took the pen from my brother’s hand and then wrote in the book himself, alongside the 45 John had made: “John’s word 1959, aged two. How many times have I looked into your 46 face and into your warm, black eyes looking up at me and thanked God for the one who has now scribbled in my new hymnbook. You have made the 47 sacred（神圣的）as your brothers and sisters give so much to my life.” Wow, I thought: This is the 48 my father is giving?
From
time to time I take a book down―not just a cheesy paperback(劣质的简易平装书) but a(n) 49
book that I know I will have for many years to come－and
I give it to one of my children to 50 or write their names in. And
as I look at their 51 , I think about my 52 , and how he taught me about what
really
36．A．pen B．eraser C．apple D．toy
37．A．noticed B．hoped C．sensed D．expected
38．A．interesting B．strange C．delicious D．wrong
39．A．proudly B．fearfully C．bravely D．terribly
40．A．interestingly B．sadly C．worried D．carefully
41．A．nothing B．expensive C．valueless D．precious
42．A．companies B．degrees C．churches D．children
43．A．children B．books C．hymnbook D．workers
44．A．praising B．killing C．injuring D．scolding
45．A．hymnbook B．toy C．scribbles D．words
46．A．angry B．gray C．beautiful D．eager
47．A．family B．company C．pen D．book
48．A．answer B．reply C．thanks D．punishment
49．A．real B．thick C．interesting D．false
50．A．read B．scribble C．tear D．destroy
51．A．book B．pen C．dream D．artwork
52．A．brother B．childhood C．father D．children
53．A．matters B．exists C．leaves D．lies
54．A．society B．country C．organization D．family
55．A．smile B．laugh C．fear D．relax
IV阅读理解（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Most shoplifters agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. With the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help yourself to one or two little things and escape unnoticed. It is known, in the business, as “hoisting”.
But the hoisting game is not what it used to be, even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know if they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.
As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed at work and forced to attend a showing of their performance in court.
Selfridges was the first big
When the balls, called sputniks, first make an appearance in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to frighten shoplifters. Their somewhat ridiculous appearance, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.
It did not take long, however, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable respect. Soon after the equipment was in operation at Selfridges, store detective Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman secretly putting bottles of perfume into her bag.
“As she turned to go,” Chadwick recalled, “she suddenly looked up at the ‘sputnik’ and stopped. She could not possibly have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she must have had a feeling that I was looking at her.”
“For a moment she paused, but then she returned to shelves and started putting everything back. When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store.”
56．The sputniks hanging from the ceiling are intended ________.
A．to watch the most desirable goods
B．to make films that can be used as evidence
C．to frighten shoplifters by their appearance
D．to be used as evidence against shoplifters
57．The case last October was important because _________.
A．the store got the dresses back
B．the equipment was able to frighten shoplifters
C．other shops found out about the equipment
D．the kind of evidence supplied was accepted
58． The woman’s action before leaving the store shows that she _______.
A．was sorry for what she had done
B．didn’t want to take what she had picked up
C．was afraid she would be arrested
D．wanted to prove she had not intended to steal anything
B
Babies are not just passing idle time when they stare goggle-eyed at the television―they are actually learning about the world，U.S. researchers said. Parents may want to limit what their babies see on television，based on the study，said Donna Mumme，assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University in Boston，who led the research. “Children as young as 12 months are making decisions based on the emotional reactions of adults around them，” Mumme said in a statement. “It turns out that they can also use emotional information they pick up from television. This means that adults might want to think twice before they speak in a loud and harsh voice or let a baby see television programs intended for an older person. ”Mumme’s team already knew that babies watch other children and adults for information about the world. A mother urging her baby to eat some “yummy” soup or a brother crying in fear when a dog approaches can influence a baby’s reaction. Mumme’s team tested babies to determine if television has the same influence，showing actors reacting on a videotape to objects such as red spiral letter holder，a blue bumpy ball，and a yellow garden hose attachment. Babies aged 10 months or 12 months were later given the same objects to play with. Ten-month-olds did not seem to be influenced by the videos，but the 1-year-olds were. When the actors acted neutrally or positively to an object，the babies happily played with them. But if the actor had seemed afraid or disgusted，the babies would avoid the object.
59．The underlined word may probably mean______.
A．unpleasant B．cruel C．noisy D．upset
60．Which of the following is Mumme’s conclusion??
A．Small babies should not be allowed to watch television programs.?
B．Adults need to think twice before they act in front of small babies.?
C．TV programs provide small babies with all the information they need. ?
D．One-year-olds can be emotionally influenced by TV programs.?
61． Which of the following may the study lead to according to the researchers??
A．Parents may want to limit what their babies see on television.?
B．Actors may try to behave themselves well in front of babies.?
C．Babies may be allowed to choose what they see on TV.?
D．Scientists may stop ignoring babies’ emotional world. ?
C
How Much to Tip
You’re out to dinner. The food is delicious and the service is fine. You decide to leave a big fat tip: Why? The answer may not be as simple as you think.
Tipping, psychologists have found, is not just about service. Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiter’s choice of words, to how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the bill’s total. Even how much waiters remind customers of themselves can determine how much change they pocket by the end of the night.
“Studies before have shown that mimicry(模仿) brings into positive feelings for the mimicker,” wrote Rick van Baren, a social psychology professor. “ These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimics them.”
So Rick van Baren divided 59 waiters into two groups. He requested that half serve with a phrase such as, “Coming up!” Those in the other half were instructed to repeat the orders and preferences back to the customers. Rick van Baren then compared their-take-home. The results were clear---it pays to mimic your customer. The copycat waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group.
Leonard Green and Joel Myerson,
psychologists at
“That’s also a point of tipping,” Green says, “You have to give a little extra to the cab driver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you. If they weren’t there, you’d never get any service. So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there.”
62． These studies show that______.
A．tipping can be affected by physical reactions to many different waiter’s factors
B．people who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them
C．the mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as the other group
D．mimicry makes the mimicker feel bad
63． We know from the passage that the writer seems to______.
A．object to Mr Green’s idea about tipping
B．think part of Mr Green’s explanation is reasonable
C．give his generous tip to waiters very often
D．support the opinions of Mr Green and Rick van Baren about tripping
D
Pets are no strangers to the White House. Many of American Presidents have been animal lovers. In recent times, White House pets have been tame dogs and cats. Long ago, however, presidential pets, like our nation itself, were wilder!
In 1806, President Thomas Jefferson lived in the White
House. Passers-by often caught sight of his pet bears. Explorers had discovered
these fierce bears, caught a pair of small ones, and sent them to
By 1825, the bears were long gone from the White House
scene. Now, the building was home to President John Quincy Adams and his
crocodile. The green beast actually belonged to General Lafayette, a French
hero who had helped the
When President Martin Van Buren moved into the White House in 1837, he brought his tigers with him. At first, Van Buren said the tigers were his. The Sultan of Oman had sent the tigers when Van Buren was elected, so Congress argued that the tigers belonged to the American people. A fight over the tigers continued for months. In the end, Congress sent someone to seize the tigers and put them in a zoo.
Twenty years later, President James Buchanan received another valuable gift when he was in his first year in the White House. This time, the King of Siam sent several elephants! Buchanan had no desire to share his building with the big creatures, so he sent them to the zoo. Buchanan did, however, keep another gift ?a pair of birds. They were a fitting symbol of presidential power.
64．What similar political
effect did
A．The pets made them happy and gay.
B．It took them too much time to look after them.
C．It brought about dissatisfaction with them in Congress.
D．It made people believe that they were animal lovers.
65． The passage mainly tells us _______.
A．The president’s bear garden B．Historical American presidents’ pets
C．The White House as a zoo D．American presidents’ favorites
B卷（共55分）
（注：此部分题的答案要写在答题卷上，否则无效）
V．阅读下面短文，根据以下要求：1.汉语提示；2.首字母提示; 3.语境提示，在每个空格中填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。
（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
Once an American and a Frenchman decided to cross the
sea ______ France and England in a balloon in 1784. When they flew 1____________
high over the w______, they suddenly discovered a hole in the balloon. 2____________
What was _______(更糟糕)，the hole became bigger and bigger. The 3____________
air keeping the baloon ______ was escaping quickly and the balloon was 4____________
coming down.. ______(看到) this, the two men threw all their equipment 5____________
away to make the balloon l_______. It started to rise higher again.But 6____________
soon it again was too close to the water.
Finally , the men had no choice ______ to throw away most 7____________
of their clothes to save t______. The crowd was very 8____________
_______(吃惊的) to see this when the balloon landed in front of them. 9____________
_____ eager they were to know what their story was! 10____________
VI选词填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
根据所提供的语境，从方框中选择正确的短语填空完成句子，其中两个为多余项。
in the meantime，all in all，set aside，be scared to death，become aware of， junior to，
test out， take…seriously，leave… alone，as well as，out of the breath，all the best
1. When we climbed up to the top of the mountain, we were all ___________.
2. Once or twice he has had difficulty making decision on his own, but_____________ he is an independent man.
3.Let’s _______ our personal feelings for now, and get to our business.
4. She _______ when hearing the sound of explosion.
5. She _________ being followed by someone, so she began to walk more quickly.
6. You’d better _____your study _______, or you will feel sorry in the future.
7. He didn't mind _________ at home , for he knew his parents had to work to make money.
8. The work was difficult to do, __________ our patience.
9. He is ________ me by three years.
10. he had all his schoolwork to do,________ looking after his sick mother.
