英语是事实上的国际交流语言。精品小编准备了高二英语上学期第一次月考试题，具体请看以下内容。

第I卷  选择题(共100分)

一.听力(每题1.5分，共30分)

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，并标在试卷的相应位置。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。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does Jim do?

A. A teacher.           B. An officer.          C. A student.

2. What time did Suzy leave home?

A. 4:30.               B. 5:00.              C. 5:15.

3. What is the man’s suggestion?

A. Going to the concert. B. Going to see a show. C. Just walking around.

4. How long has the rain lasted?

A. 5 days.              B. 6 days.            C. 7 days.

5. What opinion do they hold on their chemistry course?

A. It’s well organized.  B. It is satisfactory.   C. It is unsatisfactory.

第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. Where does this conversation take place?

A. In a library.        B. In a school.       C. In a bookstore.

7. Why is William Shakespeare mentioned in the conversation?

A. He gave gifts to millions of people.

B. He was a very wealthy man in his times.

C. His signature is worth a lot of money.

听第7段材料，回答第8至11题。

8. What are the man and woman looking for?

A. A comfortable hotel.  B. A modern hotel.     C. An inexpensive hotel.

9. Whom did the man and woman ask for help?

A. A policewoman.     B. A waitress.         C. A passer-by.

10. Where could the man and woman find a hotel they needed?

A. In the next street.    B. Next to a bank.      C. Two-minute drive to the west.

11. Where did the conversation most likely take place?

A. In a street.         B. In a restaurant.       C. In a hotel.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What would the woman like to do this weekend?

A. Go climbing.       B. Go shopping.        C. Go fishing.

13. What does the man plan to do on Saturday?

A. Check his schedule.  B. Stay at home.        C. Help his sister move.

14. How will the man get in touch with the woman?

A. By making a phone call to the woman’s house.

B. By making a phone call to the woman’s mother’s house.

C. By making a call to her cell phone.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What is the woman doing?

A. Listening to music.

B. Seeing a film.

C. Writing a letter.

16. How long will the woman stay in Japan?

A. For a year.        B. For a month.      C. For two years.

17. What will the woman do before she leaves for Japan?

A. Read more Japanese novels.

B. Attend a language class.

C. Apply for a new program.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18.How many news headlines are broadcast?

A.4.             B.5.            C.6.

19.What happened early on Saturday morning?

A.A Russian rocket was sent up.

B.A tour bus slid off a highway.

C.Three aid workers were killed.

20.How many people were killed in the gas explosion?

A.At least 4.      B.About 30.      C.Over 40.

二.阅读理解(每题2分，共40分)

第一部分  阅读下面的文章，从每题后面所给的四个选项中选出正确的一项。

A

Researchers from France and Italy discovered that Canadian parents are less strict with their children than mothers and fathers in France and Italy.

“Our most important finding was the difference between Canadians and the others，” said Professor Michel Claes，the lead author of the study.“Canadians focus on independence and negotiation.On the other hand，Italians，for example，exercise more control.We found Canadians seem to focus on negotiation in case of a conflict.”

Claes said Canada，France and Italy were selected for the study because they share important cultural and social factors.“We chose French­Canadians because they share the same language as France，and originally came from France and share certain values.Italy was included because it was considered to have similar，strong and important family values，” he explained.

The researchers examined the emotional ties between parents and their children by questioning 1,256 students aged 11 to 19 years old.

Canadian students reported less control and more free actions，according to the study.Italian parents were stricter and French parents were somewhere in the middle.

Claes explains that the differences lie in education in Canada，France and Italy.

“North America has its own educational values，which promote individualization.Tolerance and comprehension are encouraged.Italy，on the other hand，promotes respect of authority，control，and the need for permission.” he said.

Children from all three countries described their mothers as warm and communicative.Italian and Canadian children had similar feelings about their fathers，and reported high levels of emotional ties.But French fathers were generally thought by their children to be more distant and cold.

“We were surprised by this，” Claes admitted.“It seems as though the relationships between French mothers and their children were becoming closer over time，while fathers maintain a form of distance and coldness，which is more of a source of conflict in France than in the other countries.”

1.Professor Michel Claes believes that Canada，France and Italy ________.

A.have the same family spirit

B.have some similar cultural traditions

C.have experienced some similar social changes

D.have experienced similar cultural developments

2.How did the researchers carry out the study ?

A.By collecting answers of parents from Canada，France and Italy.

B.By collecting answers of children from Canada，France and Italy.

C.By questioning parents and their children from Italian Canadian families.

D.By  questioning  children  from  French­Canadian families.

3.According to Michel Claes，what mainly leads to the differences in parent­children

relationships among Canada，France and Italy?

A.Educational opportunities.

B.Traditional ideas.

C.Educational values.

D.Historical events.

B

When looking at Western Europe，we don’t usually think about poverty—but in fact，some people in modern—day Britain are so hard up that they can’t afford to buy food.

Back in 2008.the financial crisis caused a lot of unemployment.Then there were the cuts to the welfare system in 20 1 3 which added to the problem—and many British people fell into debt.It’s estimated that 500，000 people in the UK have turned to food banks，just to get by.

Steph Hagen，who works in a Nottingham food bank，says：“People do not go to a food bank because it's an open door.It’s a case where they go to it because they need to.With our food bank—we are an independent one.and we have limited stocks—everyone who comes through our door has no income.”

There are checks to make sure nobody is abusing the system.If a doctor or a social worker thinks someone needs to use a food bank—even for a short time—they can give them vouchers(凭证).Then the people in need take them along to the food bank and they get handouts for three days.

Churches and individual donors provide most of the food in the banks.But some businesses might help out too.

And what sort of food is offered in food banks? Hagen says：“Basically，we’ve got porridge.We do occasionally get fresh produce but it’s very rare，especially in the winter months.It’s like tinned fruit，tinned ready meals.We have to give out‘no-cooking’food parcels because people can’t afford the gas and electricity”.

Community spirit has a lot to do with food banks.Volunteers say they are a great meeting place for people who are lonely and depressed.And when facing a crisis，some beneficiaries might need to feed not only their belly—but also their soul.

24.According to the text，the food bank is a place_____.

A.which is funded by the government

B.where people can get food randomly

C.which helps poor people live through crisis

D.where there is enough food supplies

25.What does the underlined word“them”in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A.Systems.    B.Doctors.    C.Social workers. D.Vouchers.

26.Why do food banks mainly offer“no-cooking”food?

A.Poor people have no money for gas and electricity.

B.The volunteers hate to supply cooked food.

C.Food banks can’t afford cooked food.

D.This kind of food is easy to store.

27.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.Community spirit can cure those who are depressed.

B.Food banks benefit poor people mind and body.

C.People can have great fun in food banks.

D.Volunteers tend to feel lonely and depressed in food banks.

C

I’ve often wondered how exactly sleep, or lack of it, can have such an awful effect on our bodies and, guess what, how much we sleep switches good genes(基因) on and had genes off.

In the first half of 2013, the Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey found a direct link between hours spent sleeping and genes. Every cell in our bodies carries genetic instructions in our DNA that act as a kind of operating handbook.   However, each cell only “reads” the part of this handbook it needs at any given moment.

Can sleep affect how a gene reads instructions? It’s a question asked by Professor Derk-Jan Dijk at the University of Surrey. He set up an experiment and asked his volunteers to spend a week sleeping around seven and a half hours to eight hours a night and the next sleeping six and a half to seven hours.

Blood samples were taken each week to compare which genes in blood cells were being used during the long and short nights. The results were rather surprising. Several hundred genes changed in the amount they were being used, including some that are linked to heart disease, cancer, and Type 2 diabetes. Genes to do with cell repair and replacement were used much less.

Sleep restriction(six and a half to seven hours a night) changed 380genes. Of these, 220 genes were down regulated (their power was increased). Those affected included body-clock genes which are linked to diabetes(糖尿病). One of the most downgraded genes is that which has a role in controlling insulin(胰岛素) and is linked to diabetes and insomnia(失眠). The most upgraded gene is linked to heart disease.

So changing sleep by tiny amounts can upgrade or downgrade genes that can influence our health and the diseases we suffer from when we sleep too little.

The important message is that getting close to eight hours of sleep a night can make a dramatic difference to our health in just a few days through the way it looks after our genes.

28.What kind of relation is directly discussed in the passage?

A. Sleeping hours and changes of genes.      B. Sleeping hours and diseases.

C. Changes of genes and diseases.           D.Genes and health.