安徽省合肥市第八中学高二英语下学期期末试题含解析

安徽省合肥市第八中学高二英语下学期期末试题含解
析
一、选择题
1. --- I wish I the meeting.
--- But you didn't.
A. attended
B. would attend
C. have attended
D. had attended
参考答案：
D
【学法指导】
wish 后面的虚拟语气只有三种情况，与现在事实相反，用did或者were；与将来事实相反，用could/would +动词原型；与过去事实相反，用had done。

2. The manager was unable to attend the meeting but he sent his assistant as a _____.
A. comfort
B. substitute
C. favor
D.draft
参考答案：
B
3. You shouldn’t be worried. You have done an excellent job and are ______to be admitted to the company.
A. willing
B. bound
C. lucky
D. ready
参考答案：
B
23. —Are you satisfied with what she has done?
—Not a little. It can’t be ________.
A. any worse
B. any better
C. so well
D. so bad
参考答案：
略
5. Look! The girl _____ in red on the stage is our headmaster’s daughter.
A. dressing
B. being dressed
C. dressed
D. to be dressed
参考答案：
C
6. With Hurricane Sandy ______ the US east coast, Obama had to cancel Wednesday's campaign events in order to focus on the rescue and response efforts for Sandy.
A. approach
B. approaching
C. approached
D. being approached
参考答案：
B
略
7. Many animals are in great danger because their habitats ____________.
A. are being destroyed
B. is being destroyed
C. are destroying
D. is destroying
参考答案：
A
8. The tourists, had enjoyed themselves so much in the botanic garden, were worn out
A. all of what
B. all of which
C. all of them
D. all of whom
参考答案：
D
9. There are three basic ways of ________ language to writing, and all known graphic systems use one or a combination of these.
A. committing
B. attaching
C. comparing
D. relating
参考答案：
commit ... to“托付；交付”。

commit sth. to writing“把……写下来”。

10. I was just about ______road ______a ship came to us.
A. traveling on;while
B. to travel on;while
C. to travel by;when
D. traveling by;when
参考答案：
C
考查固定搭配，用when引导的时间状语从句常连接：be about to do sth when…表示正要做某事，突然发生其他事，故选C。

11. ________, he knows a lot.
A. As he is a child
B. Child as he is
C. A child as he is
D. The child as he is
参考答案：
B
12. _______ about the economic crisis that he decided to look for more information about it.
A. So curious he was
B. So curious was he
C. Such curious he was
D. Such curious was he
参考答案：
B
13. — Do you know the key to _________ the problem?
— To take action at once.
A. being solved
B. solve
C. solving
D. solved
参考答案：
C
14. They sold their house for only 12,000 dollars, so the buyer got a wonderful . A．cost B．bargain C．amount D．value
参考答案：
B
15. Our class _______ of thirty-two boys and twenty-three girls.
A. composes
B. consists C conclude D. contains
参考答案：
B
16. Don’t take___________ for granted ___________everyone should adore you.
A. that; what
B. that; which
C. it; what
D. it; that 参考答案：
D
二、新的题型
17. Handwritten thank-you letters are such a simple way of making other people feel good, it is strange that so few people write them anymore. At work, a thank-you letter to employees is unbelievably effective. It costs little and has no side effects. The effort involved in writing letters very low. The pleasure on receiving them is very high. 31
Doug Conant, manager of Campbell’s Soup Company since 2001, knows the power of thank you letters. He said that every day he works with an assistant, searching the company for people deserving thanks. 32 Over the past 10 years he has sent 30,000 thank-you letters to his employees—more than 10 each day. The reward is huge: his company has remained one of the most successful in its field for years.
33 There seem to be three reasons. Firstly, chief executives(主管) running companies think their own work is more valuable than that of others. 34 Secondly, they aren’t close enough to the business to know who deserves thanks. Thirdly, they have forgotten the strange human truth that almost everyone would do almost anything in return for a few words of appreciation.
In these days of such bus y schedules and people running all over the place and trying to get ahead, sometimes we forget the simplest things in life are the most powerful and rewarding. You need to think to yourself about a time someone sent you a thank-you and how much it meant to you. 35
A.You may ask what side effects exactly mean.
B.He then writes them a thank-you letter.
C.This makes them an excellent way to reward and motivate staff.
D.Why are thank-you letters so important?
E.Always remember to “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you!”
F.But if these letters are so inspiring, why don’t more managers write them?
G.Since no one ever writes them thank-you letters they don’t write any themselves.
参考答案：
31-35: CBFGE
三、阅读理解
18. Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized（分类）as “honor” helps you create this life of good feelings.
Here’s an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.
Say a store clerk fails to charge（收费）us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.
Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?
In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate（证明；表明）that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk’s attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility（崇高，高贵）.
There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it’s started, it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.
65. According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our .
A. self-respect
B. financial rewards
C. advertising ability
D. friendly relationship
66. The author thinks that keeping silent about the unchanged item is equal to .
A. lying
B. stealing
C. cheating
D. advertising
67. The phrase “bringing the error to the clerk’s attention” in Paragraph 5 means .
A. telling the truth to the clerk
B. offering advice to the clerk
C. asking the clerk to be attentive
D. reminding the clerk of the prices
68. How will we feel if we let the clerk know her mistake?
A. We’ll be very e xcited.
B. We’ll feel unfortunate.
C. We’ll have a sense of honor.
D. We’ll feel sorry for the clerk.
69. Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?
A. How We Can Live Truthfully
B. The Importance of Peacefulness
C. Ways of Gaining Self-respect
D. Happiness through Honorable Actions
参考答案：
65-69ABACD。