河北省正定县第一中学高二英语8月摸底试题新人教版

河北省正定县第一中学2013-2014学年高二英语8月摸底试题新人教
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第一部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节单项填空（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）
1．We have various summer camps for your holidays, you can choose ______ based on your own interests.
A. either
B. each
C. one
D. it
2．______ good service, the restaurant offers different kinds of traditional Fujian dishes.
A. Far from
B. Apart from
C. Instead of
D. Regardless of
3．Tsinghua University, ______ in 1911,is home to a great number of outstanding figures.
A. found
B. founding
C. founded
D. to be founded
4．She has a gift for creating an atmosphere for her students ______ allows them to communicate freely with each other.
A. which
B. where
C. what
D. who
5．--Shall I inform him of the change of the schedule right now?
--I am afraid you ______,in case he comes late for the meeting,
A. will
B. must
C. may
D. can
6．The lack of eco-friendly habits among the public is thought to be a major ______ of global climate change.
A. result
B. cause
C. warning
D. reflection
7．The difference in thickness and weight from the earlier version makes the iPad
2 more comfortable ______.
A. held
B. holding
C. be held
D. to hold
8．--It's nice. Never before ______ such a special drink!
--I'm glad you like it.
A. I have had
B. I had
C. have I had
D. had I 9．Born into a family with three brothers, David was ______ to value the sense of sharing.
A. brought up
B. turned down
C. looked after
D. held back 10．Last month, the Japanese government expressed their thanks for the aid they ______ from China.
A. receive
B. are receiving
C. have received
D. had received
11．It was April 29,2011 ______ Prince William and Kate Middleton walked into the palace hall of the wedding ceremony.
A. that
B. when
C. since
D. before
12．--My teacher says she's canceling the class play. I just can't understand.
-- ________. You were looking forward to it.
A. It doesn't matter
B. It's very unwise of her
C. Don't worry about it
D. You must be disappointed
13．Mr Li required the computer equipment referred ______ used in every classroom.
A．should be B．have to be C．to be D．to being
14．______ was known to us all that Johnson had broken his promise ______ he would
give each of us a small gift.
A．As; which B．What; that C．It; that D．It; which
15．Evidence has been found through years of study ______ children’s early sleeping
problem is likely to continue when they grow up.
A．why B．how C．whether D．that
16．We live in an age ______ more information is available with greater ease than
ever before.
A．why B．when C．to whom D．on which
17．Some person ______ calling for you at the gate.
A．will be B．is being C．is D．are
18．To my ______, I passed the exam easily.
A．joy B．joyful C．joyless D．joyness
19．The child looked at me ______.
A．stranger B．strangely C．strange D．strangeless
20．______ speaking, I didn’t do it on purpose.
A．Honestly B．Honest C．Honesty D．Dishonest
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处
的最佳选项。

"Look, it's Baldy!" A boy shouted in my direction across the playground. Even
though I was used to regular insults (侮辱) because of the 21 on my head, it was 22 horrible to hear. I sighed as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old, I suffered serious 23 after a bowl full of hot
oil fell on my head. I was 24 to hospital and had to stay there for weeks while
the doctors 25 to save my life. "Holly's very 26 to be alive," they told Muro and
Dad. "But she'll be 27 with scars on her head, and of course her hair won't grow
there."
As a child, I cared much about my scars, so I 28 wore a scarf to cover them
up when I left home. 29 I didn't, people would call me horrible names like Baldy.
Although my friends were always comforting me, they never 30 understood how it
felt.
Then through the hospital I was 31 to a children's burns camp, where children
like me can get any help. There, I 32 14-year-old Stephanie, whose burns are a lot
more serious than mine. But she is so 33 that she never lets anyone put her down.
"You shouldn't 34 what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else, Holly," she 35 me. "And you don't need to wear a scarf because you look great 36 it!" For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who'd been through something 37 . So weeks later, at my 13th birthday party, 38 by her bravery, I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars. It felt amazing not having to 39 away behind my scarf.
Now, I am 40 of what I look like and much happier, because I have realized it is your personality (个性) that decides who you truly are.
21．A. hat B. scarf C. scars D. cuts
22．A. still B. just C. never D. seldom
23．A. hunger B. cold C. defeats D. burns
24．A. rushed B. led C. invited D. forced
25．A. learned B. fought C. returned D. decided 26．A. happy B. lucky C. lonely D. poor
27．A. pressed B. occupied C. left D. painted 28．A. possibly B. usually C. finally D. nearly
29．A. Although B. Since C. If D. Before
30．A. correctly B. roughly C. easily D. really
31．A. promoted B. introduced C. reported D. carried 32．A. met B. recognized C. remembered D. caught
33．A. honest B. strong C. active D. young
34．A. write down B. agree with C. pass on D. listen to 35．A. promised B. encouraged C. ordered D. calmed
36．A. in B. for C. without D. beyond
37．A. similar B. strange C. hard D. important 38．A. allowed B. required C. guided D. inspired 39．A. hide B. give C. keep D. put
40．A. sick B. aware C. tired D. proud
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）
A
Some people will do just about anything to save money. And I am one of them. Take my family’s last vacation. It was my six-year-old son's winter break from school, and we were heading home from Fort Lauderdale after a weeklong trip. The flight was overbooked, and Delta, the airline, offered us $400 per person in credits to give up our seats and leave the next day. I had meetings in New York, so I had to get back. But that didn’t mean my husband and my son couldn’t stay. I took my nine-month-old and took off for home.
The next day, my husband and son were offered more credits to take an even later flight. Yes, I encouraged—okay, ordered---them to wait it out at the airport to "earn" more Delta Dollars. Out total take: $1,600.Not bad, huh?
Now some people may think I'm a bad mother and not such a great wife either. But as a big-time bargain hunter, I know the value of a dollar. And these days, a good deal is something few of us can afford to pass up.
I've made a living looking for the best deals and exposing (揭露) the worst tricks.
I have been the consumer reporter of NBC's Today show for over a decade. I have written
a couple of books including one titled Tricks of the Trade: A Consumer Survival Guide. And I really do what I believe in.
I tell you this because there is no shame in getting your money's worth. I'm also tightfisted when it comes to shoes, clothes for my children, and expensive restaurants. But I wouldn’t hesitate to spend on a good haircut. It keeps its shape longer, and it’s the first thing peopl e notice. And I will also spend on a classic piece of furniture. Quality lasts.
41.Why did Delta give the author's family credits?
A. They took a later flight.
B. They had early bookings.
C. Their flight had been delayed.
D. Their flight had been cancelled.
42.What can we learn about the author?
A. She rarely misses a good deal.
B. She seldom makes a compromise.
C. She is very strict with her children.
D. She is interested in cheap products.
43.What does the author do?
A. She's a teacher.
B. She's a housewife.
C. She's a media person.
D. She's a businesswoman.
44.What does the author want to tell us?
A. How to expose bad tricks.
B. How to reserve airline seats.
C. How to spend money wisely.
D. How to make a business deal.
B
It happened to me recently. I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of our President.
A friend I was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his words, "a brilliantly (精彩地) written book". However, he then went on to talk about Mr Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar.
And it seems that my friend is not the only one. Approximately two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven't. In the World Book Day's "Report on Guilty Secrets", Dreams From My Father is at number 9, The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading, and as I'm not one to lie
too often (I'd hate to be caught out), I'll admit here and now that I haven't read the entire top ten. But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the book at number one, George Orwell's 1984. I think it's really brilliant.
The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in it. It says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky (I haven't read him, but haven't lied about it either) and Herman Melville.
Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to "impress" someone they were speaking to. This could be tricky if the conversation became more in-depth!
But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, people named J. K. Rowling, John Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story (I'll come clean: I do this and am astonished that 58 percent said they had never done so).
45.How did the author find his friend a book liar?
A. By judging his manner of speaking.
B. By looking into his background.
C. By mentioning a famous name.
D. By discussing the book itself.
46.By lying about reading, a person hopes to ________.
A. control the conversation
B. appear knowledgeable
C. learn about the book
D. make more friends
47.What is the author's attitude to 58% of readers?
A. Favorable.
B. Uncaring.
C. Doubtful.
D. Friendly.
C
When my brother and I were young, my mom would take us on Transportation Days.
It goes like this: You can't take any means of transportation more than once. We would start from home, walking two blocks to the rail station. We'd take the train into the city center, then a bus, switching to the train, then maybe a taxi. We always considered taking a horse carriage in the historic district, but we didn't like the way the horses were treated, so we never did. At the end of the day, we took the subway to our closest station, where Mom's friend was waiting to give us a ride home--our first car ride of the day.
The good thing about Transportation Days is not only that Mom taught us how to get around. She was born to be multimodal (多方式的). She understood that depending on cars only was a failure of imagination and, above all, a failure of confidence--the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels.
Once you learn the route map and step with certainty over the gap between the train and the platform, nothing is frightening anymore. New cities are just light-rail lines to be explored. And your personal car, if you have one, becomes just one more tool in the toolbox--and often an inadequate one, limiting both your mobility and
your wallet.
On Transportation Days, we might stop for lunch on Chestnut Street or buy a new book or toy, but the transportation was the point. First, it was exciting enough to watch the world speed by from the train window. As I got older, my mom helped me unlock the mysteries that would otherwise have paralyzed my first attempts to do it myself: How do I know where to get off? How do I know how much it costs? How do I know when I need tickets, and where to get them? What track, what line, which direction, where's the stop, and will I get wet when we go under the river?
I'm writing this right now on an airplane, a means we didn't try on our Transportation Days and, we now know, the dirtiest and most polluting of them all. My flight routed me through Philadelphia. My multimodal mom met me for dinnor in the airport. She took a train to meet me.
48.Which was forbidden by Mom on Transportation Days?
A. Having a car ride.
B. Taking the train twice.
C. Buying more than one toy.
D. Touring the historic district.
49.According to the writer, what was the greatest benefit of her Transportation Days?
A. Building confidence in herself.
B. Reducing her use of private cars.
C. Developing her sense of direction.
D. Giving her knowledge about vehicles.
50.The underlined word "paralyzed" ( in Para. 5 ) is closest in meaning to“____”.
A. displayed
B. justified
C. ignored
D. ruined
51.Which means of transportation does the writer probably disapprove of?
A. Airplane.
B. Subway.
C. Train.
D. Car.
D
I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn't think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy
a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start--there's a dark period in-between where you're neither one thing nor the other. You're out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you're too ashamed to say, "Well, I'm writing a novel, but I'm not quite sure if I'm going to get there." My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent(代理商) who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished
the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-haft years of no income,
just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal--that publisher turned
out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck--of fate, really. When you set out
to do something different, there's no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract(合同) of the publisher---to be a published writer---is unbelievably rewarding(有回报的).
52.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. I was waiting for good fortune.
B. I was trying to find an admirable job.
C. I was being aimless about a suitable job.
D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.
53.The author decided to write a novel _____.
A. to finish the writing course
B. to realize her own dream
C. to satisfy readers' wish
D. to earn more money
54.How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?
A. Disturbed.
B. Ashamed.
C. Confident.
D. Uncertain.
55.What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?
A. It pays to stick to one's goal.
B. Hard work can lead to success.
C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.
D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

选项中有两项为多余
选项。

Business is the organized approach to providing customers with the goods and services they want. The word business also refers to an organization that provides these goods and services. Most businesses seek to make a profit (利润) -- that is, they aim to achieve income that is more than the costs of operating the business.
56 Commonly called nonprofits, these organizations are primarily nongovernmental service providers. 57 .
Business management is a term used to describe the techniques of planning, direction, and control of the operations of a business. 58 One is the establishment (制定) of broad basic policies with respect to production; sales; the purchase of equipment, materials and supplies; and accounting. 59 The third relates to the establishment of standards of work in all departments. Direction is concerned primarily with supervision (监管) and guidance by the management in authority. 60 .
A. Control includes the use of records and reports to compare actual work with
the set standards for work.
B. In this connection there is the difference between top management and operative management.
C. Examples of nonprofit businesses include such organizations as social service agencies and many hospitals.
D. However, some businesses only seek to earn enough to cover their operating costs.
E. The second aspect relates to the application of these policies by departments.
F. In the theory of business management organization has two main aspects.
G. Planning in business management has three main aspects.
第三部分写作（共两节，满分30分）
第一节短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。

每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(八)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I hardly remember my grandmother. She used to holding me on her knees and sing old songs. I was only four when she passes away. She is just a distant memory for me now.
I remember my grandfather very much. He was tall, with broad shoulder and a beard that turned from black toward gray over the years. He had a deep voice, which set himself apart from others in our small town, he was strong and powerful. In a fact, he even scared my classmates away during they came over to play or do homework with me. However, he was the gentlest man I have never known.
第二节书面表达（满分20分）
假定你是李华。

请你给笔友Peter写封信，告诉他你叔叔李明将去他所在城市开会，带去他想要的那幅中国画，同时询问他是否可以接机。

信中还需说明：
李明：高个子，戴眼镜
航班号：CA985
到达：8月6日上午11:30
注意：1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头语和结束语已为你写好。

Dear Peter,
How are you doing?______________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________
Looking forward to your reply. Yours,
Li Hua
高二英语开学考试试题答案
Ⅰ：1-5 CBCAB 6-10 BDCAD 11-15 BDCCD 16-20 BCABA
Ⅱ：21-25 CADAB 26-30 BCBCD 31-35 BABDB 36-40 CADAD
Ⅲ: A：41-44 AACC B：45-47 DBC
C：48-51 BADA D：52-55 CBDA
E：56-60 DCGEA
短文改错：1. holding→hold 2. passes→passed
3. much→well或clearly
4. shoulder→shoulders
5. toward→to或into
6. himself→him
7. be前加and 8. in \ fact
9. during→when 10. never→ever
作文：
Dear Peter:
How are you doing?
I’m writing to tell you that my uncle Li Ming is going to your city for a conference, and I’ve asked him to bring you the Chinese painting you’ve asked for before.
Also, I’d like you to do me a favor, Would you please meet my uncle at the airport and take him to his hotel since this is his first visit to the U.S.?Thank you in advance! His flight number is CA985, and it will arrive at 11:30 am, August 6. My uncle is tall and he is wearing glasses. And he will be in a blue jacket.
Looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
Li Hua。