8202年新人教版高二英语上学期期中试题

上学期期中试题

高二英语2007.11

第Ⅰ卷(共105分)

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)

第一节：语法和词汇知识(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

21. Mr Brown stood up in defense of the 16-year-old boy, saying that he was not the one ________.

A. blamed

B. blaming

C. to blame

D. to be blamed

22. The girl looked at me with a ________ expression. Maybe the problem was quite ________ .

A. puzzled; puzzling

B. puzzling; puzzled

C. puzzled; puzzled

D. puzzling; puzzling

23. Ladies and gentlemen, now I will ________ the story where I finished the day before

yesterday.

A. keep up

B. take up

C. keep on

D. go on

24. The president spoke at the business meeting for nearly an hour without ________ his notes.

A. bringing up

B. looking for

C. trying on

D. referring to

25. ________ the reasons above, I found I was paying too much attention to the job.

A. Apart from

B. Except

C. Beyond

D. In addition

26. You should understand the traffic rule by now. You’ve had it ________ often enough.

A. explain

B. explaining

C. explained

D. to explain

27. People have always been curious ________ how living things on the earth exactly began.

A. in

B. about

C. of

D. at

28. Education in government colleges is very cheap, but if you go to the ________ college, it is

much more expensive.

A. personal

B. public

C. person

D. private

29. ________ from heart trouble for years, Professor Black has to take medicine with him

wherever he goes.

A. Suffered

B. Having suffered

C. Being suffered

D. Suffering

30. ________ in the regulations that you should not tell other people the password of your e-mail

account.

A. What is required

B. What requires

C. It is required

D. It requires

31. As the business woman in Norton, she made ________ her duty to look after all the other

people’s affairs in that town.

A. this

B. that

C. one

D. it

32. Between the two generations, it is often not their age, ________ their education that causes

misunderstanding.

A. which

B. but

C. as

D. or

33. ________ homework did we have to do that we had no time to take a rest.

A. So much

B. Too much

C. Too little

D. So little

34. She ________ persuade her husband to give up smoking, but her husband didn’t.

A. managed to

B. succeeded in

C. tried to

D. kept on

35. This is the new plan all the scientists want to see ________.

A. carried out C. carrying out C. to carry out D. carry out

第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)HJ〗

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

It’s Friday morning in the year 2027, and you’re running late. You got interested in watching the music video that was playing in the corner of your ____36____ mirror while you were

____37____ your teeth. How will you get to your office at Mega Giga Industries on time?

A ____38____ check of your Internet-connected machine ____39____ you your train which travels at speed up to 250 miles an hour ____40____ it electromagnetically runs above its guide track is a bit behind schedule, too. ____41____ you decide to drive your environmentally-friendly hydrogen-fuel cell car ____42____, that is; let your car drive you. It’s ____43____ to know the way, and it will get you there without speeding, getting lost, ____44____ crashing.

Sitting into your ____45____ chair, which changes colour to ____46____ what you’re wearing, you pick up ____47____ morning’s newspaper. Printed on ____48____ electronic paper, it quickly rewrites itself with today’s headlines. Now it’s time you ____49____ your big meeting. Oh! You’ve ____50____ your handwritten notes at home. No problem. The digital ink pen you

used has stored an electronic copy of what you ____51____.

Your wristwatch videophone suddenly rings. Your best friend’s face ____52____ on the organic screen ____53____ what you’re doing this weekend. Will you put on your 3D contact lenses (隐形眼镜) and play virtual (虚拟的) soccer with the US Olympic team? No, no. You tell your friend you are going to take the new nanotube lift 60，000 miles into space.

Could, things like this really ____54____ in just twenty years? The researchers who are now developing the technology required think so. The items mentioned here may be as ____55____ in 20 years as mobile phones and DVD players are today.

36. A. bedroom B. kitchen C. bathroom D. sitting room

37. A. setting B. cutting C. brushing D. showing

38. A. hard B. careful C. strict D. quick

39. A. tells B. asks C. introduces D. says

40. A. because B. that C. since D. if

41. A. Though B. But C. So D. Yet

42. A. above all B. still C. instead D. after all

43. A. told B. improved C. driven D. programmed

44. A. and B. or C. so D. but

45. A. home B. office C. car D. train

46. A. match B. satisfy C. suit D. fit

47. A. Sunday B. today C. tomorrow D. yesterday

48. A. reusable B. suitable C. clean D. new

49. A. are holding B. held C. are to hold D. hold

50. A. fetched B. left C. forgot D. put

51. A. has written B. wrote C. writing D. are writing