2017年上期高二年级第二次月考试卷英语（试题卷）注意事项：1.本卷为衡阳八中高二年级文科实验班第二次月考试卷，分两卷。其中共72题，满分150分，考试时间为120分钟。2.考生领取到试卷后，应检查试卷是否有缺页漏页，重影模糊等妨碍答题现象，如有请立即向监考老师通报。开考前15分钟后，考生禁止入场，监考老师处理余卷。3.请考生将答案填写在答题卡上，选择题部分请用2B铅笔填涂，非选择题部分请用黑色0.5mm签字笔书写。考试结束后，试题卷与答题卡一并交回。预祝考生考试顺利第I卷 选择题（共100分）一.听力（每题1.5分，共30分）【已省略】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 Time for Kids (TFK) gets the great news on the coolest toys for 2014 at the 111th American International Toy Fair. Whats four days long, bigger than seven football fields, and filled with thousands of toys? Its Toy Fair 2014! Each year, hundreds of toy companies from across the country come together in New York City. All kinds of products are shown as a way to know whats to come in the new year. This years trends (款式) include oversize toys. “In 2014, everything is really big and really out there,” says Adrienne Appell, a toy-trends expert. Toy Fair is the largest toy trade show in the Western Hemisphere (西半球). Toy-store buyers go to the event to decide which toys they may want to sell during the holiday season. Members of the media, like TFK, go to the fair to report back on all the cool trends. Unfortunately, Toy Fair is not open to the public. This years Toy Fair was the biggest in its 111-year history. More than 1,000 toy companies showed products from simple card games to high-tech robots. “Larger Than Life” was a Toy Fair favorite. This trend is all about big toys with a big play value. Though it is all fun and games at Toy Fair, we saw lots of products making a push towards education, with STEAM. That stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. This trend includes word games. And of course, we saw some super cool, high-tech games. “Technology is always going to influence toys,” says Appell. “This year we saw lots of 3D games, and robots.” To know more information about the event, click (点击) here to watch the video.21. What can we infer from Toy Fair 2014?A. Toys are becoming more educational than fun. B. Robots are great favorites of buyers. C. Big toys will be popular this year.D. Simple card games will disappear on the market.22. Whats special about Toy Fair 2014?A. It is the largest. B. It is the longest. C. It sells all of its toys. D. Its held in New York City.23. Whats the best title for the text?A. Kids love toys B. Toy-stores in New York City C. Technology changes toys D. Time for toys24. The text is taken from a _.A. website B. newspaper C.magazine D. TextbookB Adults are happy to tell their children that crusts (面包皮) will give them curly hair, carrots will help them see in the dark, and spinach will make them strong. Even though adults know its not totally true, they think its good for their childrens health, a study had found. In a study about 31 per cent of adults said they once told their children the curly hair tale, and 36 per cent said theyd been told the same thing by their mother or father. Among the over-50s, almost half said theyd been promised curly hair if they ate their crusts. A quarter of the 2,000 adults questioned in the study told their children carrots would help them see in the dark. This could be true to some extent because of the high levels of vitamin A and beta-carotene in root vegetables. Another favorite among parents is that milk will make one strong. A third surveyed said their parents told them this, and about 29 per cent said they told their children the same thing. But while there is plenty of evidence to suggest milk is good for peoples health, there are also a lot of scientific papers saying it isnt.Thanks to Popeye, spinach is also fed to children, along with the idea that it will make them strong. While there is also some truth in this one, scientists now believe it is not the iron, but the inorganic nitrates (无机硝酸盐) that improve physical power. One in seven of the surveyed admitted telling their little ones that runner beans will make them run faster, which is nothing more than wordplay and has no basis in science. Almost one in five adults were subjected to the same tale in childhood.Just over one in 10 parents told their children green food would turn them into a superhero, and a quarter admitted hiding vegetables in meals. Lyndsay Jones, spokesman for Persil Washing Up Liquid, said, Its clear that the most persuasive stories about food are passed on from generation to generation. Our research shows that the ideas continue, and we tell our kids the same things our parents told us, even if theyre not always entirely true. Crusts may not make your hair curly, but theres plenty of research that says crusts contain more of the goodness than the rest of a loaf. Hopefully, as a result of our Cook with Kids promise, more parents will be encouraged to spend time with their children in the kitchen and teach them the truth about food.25.We can know from Par