牛津译林版2017-2018学年度笫二学期高二英语第二次月度检测试卷 - 图文

第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

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When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers I went at once to a shop where they sold toys for children. Being _36_ with the sound of a whistle that I had seen by the way, in the hands of another boy, I 37 all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle,but 38 all 1he family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, when I told of the 39 I had made, said I had given four times as much as the whistle was worth. They put me in mind of what good things I might have bought with the 40 of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation(烦恼).Thinking about the matter gave me more 41 than the whistle gave me pleasure. 42 ,this was afterwards of use to me, for the impression continued 43 my mind,so that often, when I was 44 to buy something I did not need, I said to myself.Don't give too much for the whistle,” and I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and 45 the actions of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who “gave too much for the whistle.”

If I knew a miser (守财奴）who _46_ every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow citizens and the joys of friendship, _47__gatiiering and keeping wealth-- “ 48 man,” said I, “ you pay too dear for yow whistle.” When I met a man of pleasure, who did not try to improve his mind or his fortune but 49 devoted to having

a

good time，perhaps __50_his health, “Mistaken man,you are

providing_51 for yourself, instead of pleasure; you are paying too dear for your whistle.” If I saw someone fond of__52__ who has fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine earrings, all above his __53_, and for which he had run into debt, and ended his career in a prison. “Also，” said I，“he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.” _54__, the miseries of mankind are largely due to their puffing a(n) 55 value on things - to giving “too much for their whistle.” 36. A. faced B.charmed 37. A.set aside

C.sympathized D. provided

B.put up C.handed over D. took over

38. A.disturbing B.attracting C.entertaining D. confusing 39. A.trouble B.attempt 40. A.rest

C.choice D. bargain

D.part

B. value C.majority

41. A. Satisfaction B.relief C.annoyance D. stress 42, A;Moreover B.Therefore it 43. A.out of B.on 44. A. tempted

C.however

D. Indeed

C.to D. from

B.determined C.forced D. persuaded

D.followed

45. A.took B.observed C.admired

46. A.turned against B.gave up C.cared about D. relied on 47. A.in case of B.instead of C.for the sake of D. in terms of 48. A.Wealthy

B.Poor C.Wise D. Innocent

49. A. merely B.similarly C.strangely D. positively 50.A.cherishing B.enjoying C. benefiting D. neglecting 51.A.inconvenience B.burden C.frustration D. pain 52.A.appearance B.wealth C.comforts D.necessities 53.A.demand B.fortune C.standard D.value 54.A.As a result B.By contrast C.On average D.In short 55.A.unexpected B.great C.false D.extra 第三部分：两读理政（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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A DINERS

TONY SOPRANO’S LAST MEAL

Between 1912 and the 1990s, New Jersey State was home to more than 20 diner manufacturers who made probably 95 percent of the diners in the U.S., says Katie Zavoski, who is helping hold a diner exhibt.What makes a diner a diner? (And not, say, a coffee shop?)Traditionally, a diner is bult in a factory and then delivered to its own town or city rather than constructed on-site. Zavoski credits New Jersey's location as the key to its master of the from “It was just the perfect place to manufacture the diners,”“We would ship them wherever we needed to by sea.”

VISIT “Icons of American Culture:History of New Jersey Diners,”

running through June 2017 at The Cornelius House/Middlesex County Museum in

Piscataway, New Jersey GOOD food, GOOD TUNES

Suzanne Vegans 1987 song “Tom‘s Diner” is probably best known for its frequently sampled “doo doo doo doo” melody ratner than its diner-related lyrics.Technically, it's not even really about a diner-the setting is New York City's Tom's Restaurant, which Vega frequented when she was studing at Barnard.Vega used the word “diner” instead because it “sings better that way,”she told The New York Times. November

18 has since been called Ws Diner Day, because on that day in 1981,the New

York Post's front page was a story about the death of

actor William Holden,In her song Vege sings:“I Open /Up the paper/There's a story/Of an actor/Who had died /While he was dringking.” LISTEN “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega MEET THE DINER ANTHROPOLOGIST

Richard J.S. Gutman has been called the “Jane Goodall of diners” (he even consulted on Barry Levinson's 1982 film,Diner).His book, American Diner: Then Now, traces the evolution of the night lunch wagon,- set up by Walter Scott in 1872. to the early 1920s,when the diner got its name (adapted from “dining car”)and on through the 1980s.Gutman has part of an exhibit in Rhode Island.

READ American Diner: Then & Now (John Hopkins University Press)

VISIT “Diners: Still Cooking in the 21st Centum” currently running at the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island 56. In what way is a diner different from a coffee shop? A.Its location. B. Its management.

C.From what it is built. D. Where it is constructed.

57. What do we know about Vega's 1987 song “Tom's Diners”？ A.It warns people not to drink.

B. It was inspired by Tom's Diner Day,

C.Its melody is preferred to its lyrics. D. Its original title was Tom’s Restaurant

B

And then there were nine

The past two decades have seen astronomers' catalogue of planets expand over two hundred times, as new techniques and better telescopes have found more than 2,000 of them orbiting stars other than the sun. But in the solar system itself, the list of

planets has actually shrunk,Pluto(冥王星) having been downgraded from that status in 2006. The number of the sun’s planetary companions has thus fallen from nine to eight.

Now, a pair of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology think they have evidence that will restore the sun's record to its previous value. Their analysis of objects orbiting in the Kuiper Belt(柯伊伯带)，a ring of frozen asteroids(小行星）that circle beyond the orbit of Neptune (and of which Pluto is now regarded as the largest member), suggests to them that something about ten times as massive as Earth has changed those orbits. If you knew where to look, this planet-sized object would be visible through a suitable telescope. And Konstanin Batygin and Michael Brown believe they do know.

As they write in the Astronomical Journal, they have analyzed the orbits of Kuiper Belt objects and found six that behave in a peculiar way. As the diagram shows, the points of closest approach of these objects to the sun, known as their perihelia(近日点)，almost coincide. Moreover, these perihelia all lie near the ecliptic(黄道）—plane of Earth’s orbit and also, approximately, that of the other planets—while the objects’ orbits are all angled at 30。below the ecliptic. The chance of all this being a coincidence, the two researchers estimate, is about seven in 100,000. If it is not a coincidence, it suggests the six objects have been guided into their orbits by the gravitational intervention of something much larger.

A computer analysis Dr Batygin and Dr Brown performed suggests this something is a planet weighing 5-15 times as much as Earth, whose perihelion is on the opposite side of the sun from the cluster, and which thus orbits mainly on the other side of the solar system from the objects its orbit has affected. This planet's perihelion would be 200 times farther from the sun than Earth’s， and the far end of its orbit might be as much as six times that distance away. This gives a search zone, and Dr Batygin and Dr Brown are using Subaru, a Japanese telescope, to perform that 3earch.