2013-2014学年度第二学期第一次月考试卷（二）

Passage 2

Mr. Hunt came from a poor family. He had three brothers and two sisters. His father worked hard but wasn’t paid much. And his mother did all the housework at home. They were both able but they couldn’t get enough money for their family.

Mr. Hunt was in school for only three years and he had to stop to help his parents though he was good at his lessons. When he was sixteen, he came to the city and began to work in a small factory. He learned from an old worker and became a skilled worker. The old worker liked him and married his daughter to him. The young man did not have his own house and had to live with his parents-in-law. His mother-in-law always thought he was poor and often chattered. So the young man tried to save everything and hoped to have his own house.

It was one fine Sunday. The old woman wanted to have a picnic on the top of the hill. She told Mr. Hunt to drive her car. But sometimes she told him to turn left and sometimes to turn right. The young man had to listen to her. At a crossing the lights were red but she made him turn left. The policeman stopped them and told the young man to give his license to him.

“If I did wrong, sir,” said Mr. Hunt, “It was my mother-in-law’s fault(过错). She was driving the car though she sat behind me!”

( )31. The Hunts were poor because ____.

A. they were lazy

B. they were too weak to work D. they weren’t able enough

C. they couldn’t make enough money

( )32. Mr. Hunt left the school because ____.

A. he didn’t like studying C. he wasn’t clever

B. his family was poor D. he hoped to stay at home

( )33. ____, so the old man married his daughter to him.

A. Mr. Hunt became a skilled worker C. Mr. Hunt was paid much in the factory

B. Mr. Hunt was friendly to him D. Mr. Hunt worked for six years there

( )34. The old woman was ____ to Mr. Hunt.

A. good

B. bad

C. friendly

D. useless

( )35. Which of the following is wrong?

B 阅读短文，根据短文内容，从所给的六个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文意思完整、连贯。

A. The old woman herself drove the car that day. B. It was the old woman’s fault.

C. Mr. Hunt hated his mother-in-law. D. The old woman told Mr. Hunt to run the red lights.

（有一项为多余选项） Passage 3

Scientists think that there has been life on Earth for millions of years. 36__________Why not?

The Earth, the moon, and the Sun are a small part of our galaxy. The Earth is a planet. 37_________ The Sun and its planets are called the solar system. There are more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. 38_________

39___________ Scientists have sent lots of spacecraft into space to explore our solar system.40____________

A. With so many stars in the universe, are we alone, or is there life out there in space? B. No one has discovered any life in space yet. C. But we haven’t found life on other planets yet. D. It goes around the Sun. E. And our Sun is only one of them. F. It is hard to understand how large the universe is.

IV. 情景交际 （本大题共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

根据对话内容选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，有两项为多余选项。 A. I think it’s beautiful. B. I hope I can go there for a visit. C. That’s great! D. What about you? E. Tell me about it. F. Would you like to go there? G.. That’s it. M: Hello. May I speak to Nancy? W: Hello. This is Nancy speaking.

M: Have you heard of the latest news about our school? W: No, not yet. 41____________

M: Our school will send some students to Singapore for a visit. W: Really? 42____________ M: Have you ever been there.

W: No. I’ve never been there. 43______________ M: I went there last summer. W: What do you think of the country? M: 44__________

W: 45___________ Thank you for telling me the news. M: You’re welcome.

第II卷 非选择题 （55分）

V. 完形填空 （二）（本题共12小题，满分20分）

A. 阅读下面短文，根据文意，用方框内所给词的适当形式填入相应的空白处，使短文意思完整。（每个词只

能用一次）（本题共8小题，每小题2分，满分16分） have / astronaut / information / write / finish / keep / already / solar system Dear Diary,

I’ve just 46 __________ reading a great book at school. I 47 __________ read anything as good as that for a long time! It is a book about the 48______________. It is so good that I’ve 49____________ asked the library to keep the next book for me! In the book, it says that 50 _____________ have been to Mars and even to Jupiter. I’ve never read that before! I think they’re 51____________ it secret!

I haven’t met anyone famous in my life but I hope one day I’ll meet a real astronaut. I’ve 52 ___________ to NASA to ask them for more 53______________ about astronauts and space. I hope they write back. They haven’t yet, but I’m sure they will soon. Best wishes, Mary

B. 阅读下面短文，在短文中的空白处填入适当的词，时其内容通顺 。（每空格填一词） （本题共4小题，每小题1分，满分4分）

The world witnessed（见证）one of the greatest climbing achievements（成就）in 1953, 54 __________ Tenzing Norgay from Nepal and Edmund Hillary from New Zealand climbed Mount Qomolangma for the first time. After a long and 55____________ climb, troubled by heavy snow, freezing wind and the lack of oxygen（氧气）, they finally 56___________ the top at 11:30 am on 29th May. They could 57___________ spend about fifteen minutes on the summit before they had to come down. But they remained heroes around the world for the rest of their lives.

VI. 阅读理解（二）阅读短文，回答所给问题。（本题共5小题，每题2分，满分10分） Passage 4

People have looked at the moon and written poems about it for thousands of years, but nobody expected to go there until 1961 when Yuri Gagarin made the first manned space flight.

Then the Americans decided to send a man to the moon. Apollo II took off on 16 July, 1969. The moon is 238,900 miles from Earth and the journey took four days. On 21 July, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. The astronauts in the pictures of the first moon landing isn’t Neil Armstrong. The photos show the second man to walk on the moon Buzz Aldrin. That’s because Armstrong took the photos!

There were six manned missions to the moon between 1969 and 1972, and 12 people have walked on the moon. No astronauts have been to the moon since 1972. We’ve learnt a lot about the moon because of these missions. For example,

we know that there’s no life there. Nothing has ever lived on the moon, but some scientists think that people will live on the moon one day. Life on the moon won’t e easy. It will be a difficult and dangerous place to live.

58. When did the first astronaut go to the moon? __________________________________________ 59. How far is the moon from Earth? ___________________________________________________ 60. How long did the Apollo II astronauts take to get to the moon? ____________________________ 61. How many astronauts have walked on the moon? _______________________________________ 62. Why will life on the moon be difficult. _______________________________________________

VII. 写（满分25分）

A. 句子翻译。（本题共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

63. 这鱼尝起来味道鲜吗？________________________________________________________________________ 64. 她也参加过许多演讲比赛。____________________________________________________________________ 65. 你已经写完这部小说了吗？____________________________________________________________________ 66．我们已经在月球上发现了水。__________________________________________________________________ 67. 自从有了电脑，我没做很多锻炼。______________________________________________________________

B. 书面表达（满分15分）

68. 李莉生病住院了，病情严重，需要花很多钱。由于家庭困难不能支付医疗费用，同学们去医院看望她，后来有人提议给报社写一封信，请求社会的帮助，后来…… 请以此为话题写一篇70词左右的短文。 要求：语法正确，语句连贯，字迹工整。

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