湖南省常德市道河中学2022-2023学年高二英语期末试卷含解析

湖南省常德市道河中学2022-2023学年高二英语期末试
卷含解析
一、选择题
1. —Anything else to remind us?
—The photographer needs to charge up the digital camera every day as the battery ______ quickly.
A. shuts up
B. ends up
C. runs out
D. uses up
参考答案：
C
2. They waited at the bus stop and about five minutes later the bus they wanted along.
A. coming
B. came
C. to come
D. had come
参考答案：
B
3. Anyhow Robbie intended to _________him as his son.
A. realize
B. admit
C. acknowledge
D. recognize
参考答案：
C
33. —Did you see a girl in white pass by just now? — No, sir. I _____a newspaper.
A. read
B. have read
C. was reading
D. am reading
参考答案：
C
略
5. Though ________ behind and feeling awkward, Jack kept on running until he reached the finishing line.
A. leaving
B. having left
C. left
D. being left
参考答案：
C
试题分析：考查非谓语动词及句意的理解。

句意：虽然他被落在后面感到很局促不安，Jack坚持跑一直他到了终点线。

根据句意，主句主语Jack 是被落在后面，与前面非谓语动词形成被动关系，用过去分词表达，因此C正确。

考点：考查非谓语动词及句意的理解
6. .The man remained __________ he was and waited for his wife who was shopping in the market.
A.what
B. how
C.
who D. where
参考答案：
D
略
7. If we want to arrive at the village on time, we’d better_______
A. sweep up
B. speed up
C. call up
D. turn up
参考答案：
B
8. He always brings me a pretty gift ____ he comes to visit me.
A. by the time B every time C. sometimes D at times
参考答案：
B
9. The film was very boring, and there were only 20 people in the cinema ______.
A. above all
B. in all
C. after all
D. at all
参考答案：
B
略
10. delighted me most was my son was admitted to Beijing University.
A. That, what
B. That, that
C. What, that
D. What, what
参考答案：
C
11. Everything for the meeting except 15 chairs ___to the warehouse close to the meeting room.
A. have delivered
B. has delivered
C. has been delivered
D. have been delivered 参考答案：
C
12. To my delight, the students are recycling many things they _______ away in the past.
A. were throwing
B. will be throwing
C. would have thrown
D. had thrown
参考答案：
C
【详解】考查虚拟语气。

句意：让我高兴的是，学生们正在回收很多东西，是他们过去本来会扔掉的。

分析句子可知，空格所在句定语从句，是一个隐含的虚拟语气，in the past 相当于If they had been in the past，所以句子用虚拟语气，和过去相反用would have done。

故选C。

13. It rained last night and the flowers don’t need_____, so he ______water the flowers.
A. being watered; doesn’t need to
B. watering; needn’t to
C. to water; needn’t
D. to b e watered; doesn’t need to
参考答案：
D
略
14. —What do you think made Tom unhappy? —______his new bicycle again.
A. As he lost
B. Lost
C. Losing
D. Because of losing
参考答案：
C
15. He made another wonderful discovery , ____ of great importance to science.
A .which I think is B. which I think it is
C .which I think it D.I think which is
参考答案：
A
16. What the expert has said and done will be _________ to the department manager.
A.value
B. benefit
C. of valuable
D. of benefit
参考答案：
D
略
二、完型填空
17. 完形填空（每小题2分，共30分）
When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary. I was 21 to see that it was an English dictionary, also known as a monolingual dictionary. Although it was a dictionary intended for 22 learners, none of my classmates had one and, to be honest, I found it extremely 23 to use at first. I would look up words in the dictionary and still not fully understand the meaning. I was used to the 24 bilingual dictionaries, in which the words are 25 both in English and Chinese. I really wondered why my aunt 26 to make things so difficult for me. Now, after studying English at university for three years, I 27 that monolingual dictionaries are 28 in learning a foreign language.
As I found out, there is , in fact, often no perfect equivalence(对应) between two 29 in two language. My aunt even goes so far as to 30 that a Chinese "equivalent" can never give you the 31 meaning of a word in English! Therefore, she insisted that I read the definition(定义) of a word in a monolingual dictionary when I wanted to get a better understanding of its meaning. 32 , I have come to see what she meant.
Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a (n) 33 number of words, around 2,000, in its definitions. When I
read these definitions, I am 34 exposed to the basic words and learn how they are used to explain 35 and ideas. Because of this, I can express myself more easily in English.
21. A. worried B. sad C. surprised D. nervous
22. A. native B. non-native C. elementary D. advanced
23. A. difficult B. interesting C. handy D. practical
24. A. new B. familiar C. earlier D. ordinary
25. A. explained B. expressed C. described D. created
26. A. offered B. agreed C. decided D. happened
27. A. imagine B. recommend C. predict D. understand
28. A. natural B. better C. easier D. convenient
29. A. words B. names C. ideas D. characters
30. A. hope B. declare C. doubt D. tell
31. A. exact B. basic C. translated D. expected
32. A. Largely B. Generally C. Gradually D. Probably
33. A. extra B. average C. total D. limited
34. A. repeatedly B. nearly C. immediately D. anxiously
35. A. feelings B. phenomena C. issues D. objects
参考答案：
CBABA CDBAB ACDAD
略
三、阅读理解
18.
Alex Palmer Haley (1925—1992) became famous for the publication of the novel Roots, which traces (追踪) his ancestry (祖先) back to Africa.
Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York. His father was a teacher of agriculture and his mother was a music teacher. The family moved to the small town of Henning, Tennessee, when Haley was very young.
Haley did not do very well at school or university. During World War II, Haley enlisted (参军) in the Coast Guard. He started to write adventure stories to keep off the boredom, and thus became Chief Journalist. After 20 years of service, Haley left the Coast Guard to become a full-time writer. He produced his first major work The Autobiography of Malcolm X in 1965. It had great effect on the black power movement in the US.
As a young boy, Alex Haley first learned of his African ancestor, Kunta Kinte, by listening to the family stories of his grandparents.
Alex Haley’s quest (寻求) to learn more about his family history
resulted in his writing Roots. When Roots appeared in 1976, it
gained popular success, although the truth of the book faced criticism. In 1977 Roots won the National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. The book sold in one year more than million copies.
The book showed that the oppressed never became docile: Kunta Kinte suffered amputation (截肢) of a foot for his repeated attempts to run away. He valued his heritage (传统) so much that he never accepted the ways of his slave masters and insisted on being called by his real name Kinte, not by his slave name Toby.
Haley died on February 10, 1992. Roots
56. This text is ______.
A. an introduction to the novel Roots
B. an introduction to the writer of Roots
C. about how Haley traced his ancestry back to Africa
D. about the history of slaves in America
57. How did Haley start writing?
A. He learned literature in the university and was trained to write
B. He began writing adventure stories because of the boring life in the Coast Guard
C. He was the chief journalist working for a newspaper
D. He began writing the novel without any writing experience before
58. What was the effect of Roots?
A. It had great effect on the black power movement in the US
B. People didn’t believe the book was about a true story
C. It became a bestseller all over the world at once.
D. The book was a great success and won Haley money and prizes
59. The underlined word “docile” is close to the word _____.
A. successful
B. acceptable
C. obedient
D. valuable
参考答案：
56. B 57. B 58. D 59. C
19. 阅读下列短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项。

Not many years ago，a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five， he gave ￡ 12，000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness，many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection （注射）in my neck each evening.”he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
36. Johnson became a rich man through _________.
A. doing business.
B. making whisky.
C. cheating.
D. buying and selling land.
37. The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson __________.
A. had no children.
B. was a strange man.
C. was very fond of children.
D. wanted people to know how rich he was.
38. Many people wrote to Johnson to find out __________.
A. what kind of whisky he had.
B. how to live longer.
C. how to become wealthy.
D. in which part of the neck to have an injection.
39. The newspaperman ____________.
A. should have reported what Johnson had told him.
B. shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had.
C. was eager to live a long life.
D. should have found out what Johnson really meant.
40. When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening，he really meant that ______.
A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening.
B. he needed an injection in the neck.
C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well.
D. there was something wrong with his neck.
参考答案：
ACBDA。