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1、精校Word版届江西省抚州市临川区第二中学高一上学期第二次月考英语试题临川二中20192020学年度第一学期高一第二次月考 英语 试题（考试时间：120分钟试卷满分：150分）第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。第一节 （共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）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。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

2、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ABright Side did some research on many places throughout the world where you can buy a house for 1 dollar or for free!Roubaix, FranceIf you like France, Roubaix located in the north of France is just for you. The local authorities want it to be populated and attracti

3、ve. You can buy a small house in the industrial district for just $1. The buyer is supposed to live in this house for 3 years.Buffalo. USABuffalo offers whoever qualifies to buy a house for $1. All you need is to be a lawful citizen of the city and invest amount of money into its decoration. Doing t

4、his, the authorities are hoping to make the city beautiful again without spending money.Liverpool, Great BritainIn Liverpool, most of houses were abandoned (遗弃）by the working class during the years of unemployment. The government is trying to sell the houses for just $1. If you want to buy such a ho

5、use, it has to be your first deal on buying property（房产）.Candela, ItalyIf you still have any doubts about spending $1 on a house, you should know: the government will pay you some money, if you move to Candela. In order to be paid, you need to become a permanent（永久的）citizen and have an income of $75

6、00 per year. If moving alone, you will get $800, and if you are going with your family, the pay can be four times as much as only one person.For more information of other cities, please Click Here.21. Why do the authorities of Buffalo provide a house for people with 1$?A. To improve the lives of poo

7、r people. B. To make the city attractive at no cost.C. To solve the problems of employment. D. To attract people to the industrial areas.22. What is required to buy a house for 1 dollar in Liverpool?A. You need to be an unemployed citizen. B. You should live in the house for 3 years.C. It must be yo

8、ur first house purchase. D. You have to repair and decorate the house.23. How much money can you get if moving to Candela with a whole family?A. $3200 B. $9600 C. $800 D. $7500 BA bicycle may be seen by most people as just another vehicle(交通工具), but for many Londoners, cycling is a way of life. Acco

9、rding to an official UK government survey in 2017, about 570,000 bike journeys are made every day in London. In fact, almost half of the vehicles that pass over London Bridge each day are bikes.London introduced a public bike-sharing system in 2010. “There can be no doubt that our trusty bicycles ha

10、ve changed the way people get around our great city,” Johnson told The Guardian in 2015.In London, bikes are used for more than just taking short trips to and from the subway. No matter where you want to go in the city, taking a bike is usually the quickest and easiest choice.And its not just shared

11、 bikes that the government is encouraging people to ride. In many companies across the UK, the UK governments Cycle to Work scheme(骑行倡议) allows employees to buy a brand new bike without having to pay any tax(税). This means that its common to see many people cycling to and from work, and some employe

12、rs even provide workplace showers and lockers(储物柜) for their workers. More importantly, a cycle-friendly boss may let you off for being late if you rode a bike to work.Not only is it great for the environment and our body, cycling is also good for the mind. According to National Geographic Magazine,

13、 “Bike riding can improve peoples happiness.”24. How does the author show the popularity of cycling in London?A. By making comparisons. B. By giving examples.C. By using numbers. D. By using famous sayings.25. Whats Johnsons attitude toward the bike-sharing system in London?A. Supportive. B. Doubtfu

14、l. C. Disappointed. D. Uninterested.26. What can employees get from the government under the “Cycle to Work” scheme?A. Free bike-sharing services. B. A tax-free bike.C. Shorter working hours. D. Workplace showers and lockers.27. Whats the article mainly about?A. Cycling as a healthy way of life. B.

15、Londons public bike-sharing system.C. Why Londoners are encouraged to ride bikes. D. How cycling has become popular in London.CThe Nobel Prize in Literature, which has been awarded annually almost every year since 1901, netted（净赚）the winning author 747,000 pounds ($915,000), a medal and certificate,

16、 and the legal duty to deliver a lecture in Sweden at some future date. The winner was selected, as usual, by the Swedish Academy, which also picked a second laureate（获奖者）this year to make up for the fact that no prize was presented in 2018 because of a scandal（丑闻）. The Nobel Prize in Literature for

17、 2018 was awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic（百科全书式的）passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. She won last years Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights. Her representative works include Drive Your Plow

18、 Over the Bones of the Dead and Primeval and Other Times.The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 was awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity（语言的独创性） has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”. His representative work

19、s include Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Slow Homecoming and The Great Fall.Before the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature winners, there are also two nominees（被提名者）who have attracted much attention. Chinese people are keeping their eyes on nominee Can Xue. Can Xue, whose real name is Deng Xiaohua,

20、 was born in Central Chinas Hunan Province in 1953. She had a tough childhood working as a worker in a street factory for eight years. Her life experience has formed her own unique literary path. Cans books have been translated and published outside China. Frontier, published in the US in 2017, won

21、attention and applause from the West. The other hot guess is Japanese writer Haruki Murakami whose books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country. His work has rec

22、eived numerous awards. Internet users keep eyes on him in the Nobel Prize in Literature because he has become hot guess for years. His representative works include Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore and 1Q84.28. Why are two writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this year?To fill the prize ga

23、p of 2018. B. To attract more peoples attention. C. To inspire more outstanding writers. D. To satisfy the development of literature.29. What made Olga Tokarczuk win the Nobel Prize in Literature?A. Her high popularity. B. Her language skills. C. Her numerous works. D. Her writing style. 30. Which b

24、ook can you choose if you are interested in Peters style?A. Flights. B. The Great Fall. C. Frontier. D. Kafka on the Shore.31. Why do the Internet users pay close attention to Haruki Murakami?A. He has created hundreds of great novels. B. He has received lots of awards all the time. C. He has been s

25、upposed to win the prize for years. D. He has been recognized as the most popular writer. D Close to the North Pole, remote and rocky Plateau Mountain in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard seems an unlikely（不可能的）spot for any global effort to safeguard agriculture. In this cold and deserted enviro

26、nment, no grains, no gardens, no trees can grow. But at the end of a 130-meter-long tunnel cut out of solid stone is a room filled with humanitys most precious treasure, the largest and most diverse seed collection- more than a half-billion seeds. A quiet rescue mission（任务）is under way. With growing

27、 evidence that unchecked climate change will seriously affect food production and threaten the diversity（多样性）of crops around the world, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault represents a major step towards ensuring the preservation（保存） of hundreds of thousands of crop varieties. This is a seed collection,

28、but more importantly, it is a collection of the traits（特点）found within the seeds: the genes that give one variety resistance（抵抗力）to a particular pest and another variety tolerance（忍耐力）for hot, dry weather. Few people will ever see or come into contact with the contents of this vault. In sealed（密封的）b

29、oxes, behind many locked doors, monitored by electronic security systems, enveloped in below-zero temperatures, and surrounded by tons of rock, hundreds of millions of seeds are protected in their mountain fortress（设防的地方）. Frozen in such conditions inside the mountain, seeds of most major crops will

30、 remain viable for hundreds of years, or longer. Seeds of some are capable of keeping their ability to grow for thousands of years. Everyone can look back now and say that the Seed Vault was a good and obvious idea, and that of course the Norwegian government should have approved（批准通过）and funded it.

31、 But back in 2004, when the Seed Vault was first proposed, it was viewed as a crazy, impractical, and expensive idea. We knew that nothing would provide a definite guarantee（保证）. But we were tired, fed up, and frankly scared of the steady, greater losses of crop diversity. The Seed Vault was built b

32、y optimists who wanted to do something to preserve options so that humanity and its crops might be better prepared for change. The Seed Vault is about hope and commitment（承诺）about what can be done if countries come together and work cooperatively to accomplish something significant, long-lasting, and worthy of who we are and wish to be. 32. According to the passage, whats the Seed Vault ?A. Its a tunnel where the collected seeds are displayed.B. Its a stone room that contains the seeds of e