高三学月测试题(二).doc

高二第一学期英语月考测试题（二） 说明： 语法填空及写作的答案写在Answer Sheet的指定位置； 完型填空、阅读理解及信息匹配的答案涂在答题卡上； 信息匹配的E、F选项在填涂时分别以AB、CD代替，即如果选择E答案的，在答题卡上涂黑AB, 如果选择F答案的，在答题卡上涂黑CD。 附加题答案写在Answer Sheet的指定位置。 5．考试时间为120分钟，总分120分钟。 第一部分：语言知识及运用（共两节，满分35分） 第一节：完型填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-10各题所给的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项。 Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize fro scientific 1______. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something that caught my 2______. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.’ Being a little over thirty myself, I wanted to 3_____ with him. Nobody wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking 4_______ the ages of famous people and their discoveries. Ralph was 5_______. First I looked at some of the scientific discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different 6_______ fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that 7_______ to the Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 8_______ his word-changing theory of relativity. Well, enough of that. But why don’t best years come after thirty. After thirty, I 9______, most people do not want to take risks or try new ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picaso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty, 10_______ the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was ninety! Perhaps there is still hope for me. 1. A. invention B. progress C. experiment D. discovery 2. A. mind B. idea C. attention D. thought 3. A. disagree B. deal C. talk D. fight 4. A. for B. in C. up D. at 5. A. clever B. right C. different D. simple 6. A.. height B. size C. weight D. length 7. A. led B. fell C. stuck D. referred 8. A. said B. thought C. mastered D. pu