2016新疆高二上学期人教版高中英语月考试卷

   A long time ago there lived a poor slave whose name was Aesop. His face was white, but very homely. When Aesop was about twenty nine years old ,his master lost a great deal of money and was determined to sell his slaves. To do this, he had to take them to a large city where there was a slave market.

 The city was far away, and the slaves must walk the whole distance. A number of bundles(成捆的东西) were made up for them to carry. Some of these bundles contained the things they would need on the road. "Choose your bundles, boys," said the master. "There is one for each of you." Aesop at once chose the largest one. The other slaves laughed and said he was foolish. But he threw it upon his shoulders and seemed well satisfied. The next day, the laugh was the other way. For the bundle which he had chosen had contained the food for the whole party.

   "Aesop is a wise fellow," said his master. "The man who buys him must pay a high price.” A very rich man, whose name was Xanthus, wanted a servant. As the slaves stood before him he asked each one to tell what kind of work he could do. All were eager to be bought by Xanthus because they knew he would be a kind master. So each one boosted of his skill in doing some sort of labor. One was a fine gardener; another could take care of horses; a third was a good cook; a fourth could manage a household. "And what can you do, Aesop?" asked Xanthus. "Nothing," he answered. "Nothing? How is that?" "Because, since these other slaves do everything, there is nothing left for me to perform," said Aesop.

   This answer pleased the rich man so well that he bought Aesop at once, and took him to his home on the island of Samos. In Samos the little slave soon became known for his wisdom and courage. He often amused his master and his master's friends by telling funny stories. His master was so much pleased with him that he gave him his freedom.

21. Why did the slaves’ master want to sell his slaves?

A. Because the slaves didn’t work at all.

B. Because the slaves could be well paid.

C. Because the master was badly ill

D. Because the master was in need of money

22. It can be inferred from the text that Aesop chose the largest bundle because ____.

A. he was very strong.               

B. the bundle would be lighter and lighter.

C. the bundle would make him stronger. 

D. he was really foolish.

23. Why did these slaves want to be bought by Xanthus ?

A. Because he was very merciful.

B. Because he was very rich.

C. Because he lived in Samos.

D. Because he would set them free.

24. According to the text, Aesop ________.

A. was known for his hard work.                       B. didn’t like to work at all.

C. was good at telling stories.                  D. was tired of his courage.

When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper (护士助手) at a local hospital in my town. I volunteered about 30 to 40 hours a week during the summer.

    Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never has any visitors, and nobody seemed to care about his condition. I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, even though he responded with only an occasional squeeze (紧握) of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).

    I left for a week for a vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was gone. I didn’t have the courage to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might tell me he had died. So with many questions unanswered, I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year.

    Several years later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I realized who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was alive! I got up the nerve to ask him if he was Mr. Gillespie, and if he had been in a coma about five years ago. With an uncertain look on his face, he replied yes. I explained how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking to him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received.

    He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose (昏睡的), he could hear me talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. He thought it was an angel, who was there with him. Mr. Gillespie firmly believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive. Then he told me about his life. We exchanged a hug, said our good-byes and went our separate ways.

    Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death. As importantly, he has made a great difference in my life. I will never forget him and what he did for me: He made me an angel.

25. When the author volunteered at a local hospital, she        .

A. mainly helped the nurses with their paper work

B. made up her mind to become a nurse herself one day

C. spent most of her time taking care of a man in a coma

D. became friends with Mr. Gillespie’s visitors

26. The author didn’t ask where Mr. Gillespie had gone because        .

A. she knew for sure that he had recovered

B. she forgot all about him when she returned to the hospital

C. she had been concerned that he might stay in coma forever

D. she feared that he might have died

27. Judging from the article, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The author continued her volunteer work in the hospital until eighth-grade.

B. The author met Mr. Gillespie at a gas station several years later.

C. Mr. Gillespie recognized the author’s voice the moment he met her.

D. No one in the hospital believed that Mr. Gillespie would recover from his      coma.

28. Which of the following statements best summarizes the point of the story?

A. Those with faith in themselves will succeed.

B. If you spread happiness you will be happy yourself.

C. Respect people and they will try hard to improve.

D. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

As any homemaker who has tried to keep order at the dinner table knows, there is far more to a family meal than food. Sociologist Michael Lewis has been studying 50 families to find out just how much more.

Lewis and his co-workers carried out their study by videotaping (录像) the families while they ate ordinary meals in their own homes. They found that parents with small families talk actively with each other and their children. But as the number of children gets larger, conversation gives way to the parents’ efforts to control the loud noise they make. That can have an important effect on the children. “In general the more question-asking the parents do, the higher the children’s IQ scores,” Lewis says. “And the more children there are, the less question-asking there is.”

The study also provides an explanation for why middle children often seem to have a harder time in life than their siblings (兄弟姐妹). Lewis found that in families with three or four children, dinner conversation is likely to center on the oldest child, who has the most to talk about, and the youngest, who needs the most attention. “Middle children are invisible,” says Lewis. “When you see someone get up from the table and walk around during dinner, chances are it’s the middle child.” There is, however, one thing that stops all conversation and prevents anyone from having attention: “When the TV is on,” Lewis says, “dinner is a non-event.”

29. The writer’s purpose in writing the text is to _________.

   A. show the relationship between parents and children

   B. teach parents ways to keep order at the dinner table

   C. report on the findings of a study

   D. give information about family problems

30. Parents with large families ask fewer questions at dinner because _________.

   A. they are busy serving food to their children

   B. they are busy keeping order at the dinner table

   C. they have to pay more attention to younger children

   D. they are tired out having prepared food for the whole family

31. By saying “Middle children are invisible” in paragraph 3, Lewis means that middle children _________.

   A. have to help their parents to serve dinner

   B. get the least attention from the family

   C. are often kept away from the dinner table

   D. find it hard to keep up with other children

32. Lewis’ research provides an answer to the question_________.

   A. why TV is important in family life

   B. why parents should keep good order

   C. why children in small families seem to be quieter

   D. why middle children seem to have more difficulties in life

   Why are so many people afraid to fail? Quite simply because we forget that failure is part of the human life and that every person has the right to fail. Every person is able to fight failure and finally succeed.

   Most parents work hard at preventing failure or protecting their children from the knowledge that they have failed. One way is to lower standards(标准). When a child finishes making a table, the mother describes it as “perfect” even though it doesn’t stand still. Another way is to blame others. If John fails in science, his teacher is unfair or stupid.

   There’s a problem with the two ways. It makes a child unprepared for life in the real world. Young children need to learn that no one can be best at everything, no one can win all the time, and that it’s possible to enjoy a game even when you don’t win. A child often feels terrible, of course, when he is not invited to a birthday party, or is not chosen into a football team. But parents should not say “It doesn’t matter.” quickly. The young should be allowed to experience failure and be helped to come out of it.

   Failure never gives people pleasure. It hurts both adults and children. But it can be really good to your life when you learn to use it. You must learn to ask “Why did I fail?” . Don’t blame anyone else. Ask yourself what you did wrong and how you can improve. If someone else can help, don’t be shy about asking them. Success just repeats what has been done. It is not as good a teacher as failure. You can learn how to give a good party from an unsuccessful one.

33．How do most parents prevent their children from failure?

 A. They don’t tell them that they have failed. 

 B. They give them some presents.

 C. They don’t blame others.        

 D. They help them to come out of failure.

34．Which of the following does a person need to learn when he fails?

 A. It’s impossible to enjoy a game if he misses it.     

 B. He is the worst of all.

 C. His teammates are not good enough.

 D. It’s natural not to win a game and no one can win all the time.

35．Which would be the best title for the passage?

 A. Learning from Failure                                  B. Ways of Preventing Failure

 C. Reasons of Failure                                      D. Getting Pleasure from Failure

Building Trust in a Relationship Again

Trust is a learned behavior that we gain from past experiences. 36___ Trust is a risk. But you can’t be successful when there’s a lack of trust in a relationship that results from an action where the wrongdoer takes no responsibility to fix the mistake.

Unfortunately, we’ve all been victims of betrayal. Whether we’ve been stolen from, lied to, misled, or cheated on, there are different levels of losing trust. Sometimes people simply can’t trust anymore. 37___ It’s understandable, but if you’re willing to build trust in a relationship again, we have some steps you can take to get you there.

l        38___ having confidence in yourself will help you make better choices because you can see what the best outcome would be for your well-being.

l        39___ If you’ve been betrayed, you are the victim of your circumstance. But there’s a difference between being a victim and living with a “victim mentality”. At some point in all of our lives, we’ll have our trust tested or violated.

l        You didn’t lose “everything”. Once trust is lost, what is left? Instead of looking at the situation from this hopeless angle, look at everything you still have and be thankful for all of the good in your life. 40___ instead, it’s a healthy way to work through the experience to allow room for positive growth and forgiveness.

A.     Learn to really trust yourself.

B.     It is putting confidence in someone.

C.     Stop regarding yourself as the victim.

D.     Remember that you can expect the best in return.

E.      They’ve been too badly hurt and they can’t bear to let it happen again.

F.      This knowledge carries over in their attitude toward their future relationships.

G.     Seeing the positive side of things doesn’t mean you’re ignoring what happened.

     Mary will never forget the first time she saw him. He suddenly appeared in class one day, __61___(wear) sun glasses. He walked in as if he __62__ (buy) the school. And the word quickly got around that he was from New York City.

For some reason he sat beside Mary. Mary felt __63__(please), because there were many empty seats in the room. But she quickly realized that it wasn't her, it was probably the fact that she sat in __64__last row. __65__ he thought he could escape attention by sitting at the back, he was wrong. It might have made it a little ___66___(hard) for everybody because it meant they had to turn around, but that didn't stop the kids in the class. Of course whenever they turned to look at him, they had to look at Mary, __67__made her feel like a star.

 “Do you need those glasses for medical reasons？” the teacher asked. The new boy shook his head. “Then I’d appreciate __68__if you didn't wear them in class. I like to look at your eyes when I'm speaking to you. ” The new boy looked at the teacher for a few seconds and all the other students wondered __69__ the boy would do. Then he took __70__ off, gave a big smile and said, “That's cool.”

 At the airport, I looked closely at the face of my son, Daniel, his backpack by his side. We were saying good-bye. In a few hours he would be flying to France to  41  a different life. It was a transitional（过渡期的）time in Daniel’s life. I wanted to leave him some words of  42 . But nothing came from my  43  and this was not the first time I had let such a moment  44 .

    When Daniel was five, I took him to the school-bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. He looked at me -- as he did now. “What is it going to be like, Dad? Will I be okay? ” And then he walked up the  45  of the bus and disappeared inside. And the bus  46 . And I had said nothing.

    A decade or so later, a similar  47  appeared. I drove him to college. I tried to think of something to say to give him  48  and confidence as he started this new life. Again, words  49  me.

  Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those  50  opportunities. How many times have we all let such moments pass?

  My father and I loved each other. Yet, I always 51  never hearing him put his  52   into words and never having the memory of that moment. Now, I could feel my hands sweat and my throat 53  . Why is it so  54  to tell a son something from the heart?

  My mouth turned dry, and I knew I would be able to speak out only a few words  55 . “Daniel," I said, "if I could have picked, I would have picked you." That’s all I could say. I wasn’t sure he understood what I  56  . Then he came toward me and threw his arms around me. For a moment, the world and all its people faded away, and there was just Daniel and me. He was saying something,  57  my tears rolled down, and I couldn’t understand what he was saying. All I was  58  of was the stubble（胡茬）on his chin as his face pressed  59  mine. And then, the moment ended. What I had said to Daniel was clumsy. It was nothing. And yet, it was  60 .     

    文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

     增加：把缺词处加一个漏符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

     删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

     修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

     注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

           2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

   I’d like tell you something about your life in this boarding school．I stay in a dormitory with three other girls，all of them are kind and nice．We get on well to others and have become good friends．Living in a boarding school make me independent．I am confidence to take care of myself，wash the clothes，and clean the rooms，which I never did when at home．The classes here are very interesting and challenged．I’m still feeling a little dissatisfied with some other thing．The living conditions are not as good as it at home and the chance to get in touch with the outside world is limited．Anyway，I’ll get used to living here and hope everything will be more better soon.

    假如你叫张华，你的朋友Jenny 来信向你询问如何保持健康。请你给她发一封e-mail 提出建议，内容如下：

  1. 注意合理饮食

2. 保证充足睡眠

3. 坚持锻炼身体，多参加体育活动

注意：1. 词数100左右

        2. 可适当增添细节，以使行文连贯

        3. 开头不计入总词数

Dear Jenny:

     How nice to hear from you! In your letter you asked me how to keep healthy. _____________________________________________________________________