山西省太原五中2015-2016学年高二上学期阶段性（10月月考）考试

太原五中2015-2016学年度第一学期阶段性检测

高 二 英 语

出题人、校对人：荆晋慧、申玲（2015.10）

I 单项选择。（每小题1分,共5分）

1. The natural resources, such as mine, forest, and hydro-power (水电) in that area have been _______ .

A. developed B. exploited C. improved D. expanded

2. Listen! If you want to get a good__________, you?d better stand on the top of the hill.

A. sight B. scene C. view D. look 3. I don't think _______ my father will agree to my plan.

A. that likely B. likely that C. it likely whether D. it likely that

4. It is thought that between the years 1550 and 1950 an average of one kind of living thing ______each year.

A. died from B. died out C. died away D. died of 5. He claimed ______in the restaurant last Sunday.

A. being badly treated B. to be treated badly C. to have been treated badly D. being treated badly

II 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分）

Stealing? I guess we were stealing. But in our 13-year-old brains the matter of ownership 6 occurred to us. We just wanted to 7 some strawberries in Mr. Jordan?s backyard. So we went 8 into his backyard.

When we started 9 his strawberries, all of a sudden Mr. Jordan came outside.

“What are you boys doing out here?” he 10 and tried to grab one or two as my friends rushed past him, but they were too 11 for the older gentleman to seize, and all the boys except me disappeared within seconds.

Speed was never my 12 .So I could just stand there and 13 whatever punishment would surely come my way from Mr. Jordan.

He marched me to my house and my mother criticized me. My friends gathered to celebrate their 14 and observe my capture. They 15 me about it for days afterwards, while all I could do was complain to my father about how 16 it was.

“I don?t think so,” Dad said. “You got the punishment you 17 .” “But what about other guys?” I asked.

Dad said, “You can?t 18 what happens to other people. You can only 19 what happens to you. You picked Mr Jordan?s strawberries that night, and you were punished for it. To me, that is completely fair.”

Then I couldn?t 20 my father?s words. 21 through the years I knew what he talked about. We didn?t come to earth with a 22 that life would treat us fairly.

Like Dad said, the 23 thing we can actually 24 is what happens to us. How we choose to respond to what happens to us is surely the 25 by which the quality of our lives will be measured whether or not we think it happens fairly. 6. A. ever B. never C. often D. sometimes 7. A. see B. plant C. water D. pick 8. A. carelessly B. sadly C. calmly D. secretly 9. A. destroying B. harvesting C. treating D. facing 10. A. smiled B. shouted C. doubted D. added

11. A. quick B. stupid C. kind D. tall 12. A. character B. luck C. choice D. strength 13. A. deny B. judge C. admit D. accept 14. A. unit B. escape C. life D. holiday 15. A. helped B. blamed C. teased D. supported 16. A. illegal B. impractical C. unfair D. unnecessary 17. A. deserved B. observed C. wanted D. imagined 18. A. ignore B. expect C. conclude D. control 19. A. face B. lead C. devote D. refuse 20. A. mark B. improve C. understand D. discuss 21. A. And B. Or C. So D. But 22. A. guarantee B. direction C. question D. form 23. A. common B. obvious C. only D. easy

24. A. look at B. deal with C. dream of D. take away 25. A. standard B. view C. value D. purpose

III阅读理解 （每小题2分，共20分）

A

Barbara McClintock was one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. She made important discoveries about genes and chromosomes(染色体).

Barbara McClintock was born in 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut. Her family moved to the Brooklyn area of New York City in 1908. Barbara was an active child with interests in sports and music. She also developed an interest in science.

She studied science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Barbara was among a small number of undergraduate students to receive training in genetics in 1921. Years later, she noted that few college students wanted to study genetics.

Barbara McClintock decided to study botany, the scientific study of plants, at Cornell University. She completed her undergraduate studies in 1923. McClintock decided to continue her education at Cornell. She completed a master?s degree in 1925. Two years later, she finished all her requirements for a doctorate degree.

McClintock stayed at Cornell after she completed her education. She taught students botany. The 1930s was not a good time to be a young scientist in the United States. The country was in the middle of the great economic depression. Millions of Americans were unemployed. Male scientists were offered jobs. But female geneticists were not much in demand.

An old friend from Cornell, Marcus Rhoades, invited McClintock to spend the summer of 1941 working at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It is a research center on Long Island, near New York City. McClintock started a temporary job with the genetics department. A short time later, she accepted a permanent position in the laboratory. This gave her the freedom to continue her research without having to teach or repeatedly ask for financial aid.

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