江苏省扬州中学高一下学期期末考试(英语)

江苏省扬州中学2009—2010学年度第二学期期末考试

高一英语试卷 2010.7

第一卷(选择题共85分)

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节, 满分35分）

第一节：单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. As is known to all, _______ strong and powerful China will certainly benefit _____ whole world.

A. a; a

B. the; a

C. the; the

D. a; the

22. You have to be a fairly good speaker to ________ listeners’ interest for over an hour.

A. catch

B. hold

C. improve

D. attract

23. --- Mom, I still want to watch the football match tonight.

--- The final exams are approaching. _____ you watch the football World Cup every night?

A. Must

B. Can

C. May

D. Need

24. --- Why is Jack always playing?

--- He has no ________ of time.

A. feeling

B. opinion

C. effect

D. sense

25. But for the fact that the firefighters _____ at the spot in time, more people ______ their lives

in the fire.

A. arrived; died

B. had arrived; would lose

C. arrived; would have lost

D. has arrived; could have lost

26. The house rent is increasing sharply nowadays. I’ve got about half the space I had five years ago

but I am paying _______ now.

A. as five times much

B. as much five times

C. much as five times

D. five times as much

27. --- _______ made her ashamed of herself?

--- ______ the lowest mark in her class.

A. What; Because she got

B. Was it what; Getting

C. What was it that; She got

D. What was it that; Getting

28. Yunnan province in China was attacked by such a terrible drought this early spring ________ few

people had experienced before, _______ made us worry about global climate changes.

A. that; that

B. as; which

C. which; it

D. when; as

29. Despite the fact that I had been told about the local people’s attitude to strangers, in no case ________

any rudeness.

A. did I meet

B. I met

C. had I met

D. I had met

30. Though my grandfather is in his eighties, he is still as _________ as a young man and hates sitting

around doing nothing all day.

A. enthusiastic

B. talkative

C. energetic

D. sensitive

31. --- What do you think of the jacket and the hat I wear today?

--- I don’t think this jacket _________ you and that your hat _______ this jacket perfectly.

A. suits; fits

B. meets; fits

C. matches; suits

D. fits; matches

32. Recently we held a discussion about what we shall use for power when all the oil in the world has

_________?

A. run out of

B. used up

C. given out

D. put out

33. Without facts, we can’t form a correct opinion, for we need to have actual knowledge _______ our

thinking.

A. which to be based on

B. which to base on

C. on which to base

D. which to base

34. I ________ to help you with your homework, but I couldn’t spare any time. I ________ a composition

last night and I’ll finish it today.

A. wanted; wrote

B. had wanted; was writing

C. have wanted; wrote

D. wanted; have been writing

35. --- How do you find the concert in the Beijing Grand Theatre last night?

--- _________. But the conductor was perfect.

A. I couldn’t agree more

B. I don’t think much of it