迎新年高二英语竞赛题

迎新年英语竞赛题（考试时间60分钟，满分100分）第一节单项填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）1. In our factory there are 2,000 workers, two thirds of ____are women.A. themB. whichC. whomD. who2. People today should be punished for polluting the environment and must ______down too many trees.A. stop to cutB. stop from cuttingC. be stopped to cutD. be stopped from cutting3. He was ____ with the results of the exam, which can be seen from his ____smile.A. satisfied, satisfyingB. satisfied, satisfiedC. satisfying, satisfiedD. satisfying, satisfying4.Everybody in the village likes Jack because he is good at telling andjokes．A．turning up B．putting up C．making up D．showing up 5．Mary realized she ．A．was playing a joke about B．was making fun ofC．was being laughed at D．was made fun6. When help, one often says “Thank you．”or “It’s kind of you．”A．Offering B．to offer C．to be offered D．offered7. You made too many mistakes in your exam．You your lessons last night．A．mustn’t have prepared B．needn’t have prepared C．shouldn’t have prepared D．can’t have prepared8. People have always been curious ________ how living things on the earth exactly began.A. inB. aboutC. ofD. at9. Between the two generations, it is often not their age, ________ their education thatcauses misunderstanding.A. whichB. butC. asD. or10. This is the new plan all the scientists want to see ________.A. carried out C. carrying out C. to carry out D. carryout11. Last year, Linda made her brother did though he has a better job.A. twice as much money asB. twice as many money asC. two times money more thanD. twice as more money as12. — He is always strict his students.— That is why he is popular the students’ parents.A. with; forB. for; forC. to; toD. with; with13. He wanted to read more, so he asked his friend if there was _____ to read.A. something easy enoughB. something enough easyC. enough easy somethingD. easy enough something14. — I wish you could allow one of these beautiful toys, Dad.—I’m afraid you wouldn’t be allowed in your class.A. buying; keep itB. to buy; keeping itC. me buy; kept itD. buying; to keep it15. Jack the train as soon as it stopped; then to his joy he met an oldfriend on the train.A. took offB. got offC. got onD. got out of16．I wonder who our school would rather have part in the National CompetitionA．to take B．take C．taking D．taken 17．The man honest stole my pen．A．considered B．consider C．considering D．was considered18．Having arrived at the spot，they set out the old tomb．A．to dig B．digging C．to digging D．dug 19．The manager，it clear to us that he didn’t agree with us，left the meeting room．A．making B．having made C．who has made D．made 20．—she be in the laboratory？—She still be there；I saw her there an hour ago．A．Should；can B．Might；may C．Can；might D．Can；must第二节：阅读理解（共12小题；每小题5分，满分60分）ASchool education is very important and useful. In schools, students can get knowledge and education. Yet, no one can learn everything from school.The scientists, such as Edison, Newton, Galileo and Einstein, didn’t learn everything from school. They got a lot of knowledge outside school or in practice by themselves. A teacher, even he knows a lot, can’t teach his students everything.The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn, how to read and how to think. A good teacher with rich experience in teaching can teach his students the methods of study. Through these methods the students are able to learn and get lots of things by themselves.Usually it is very easy for students to remember some knowledge, but it is very difficult to use it for problems. If a teacher really shows the students the ability of how to use knowledge, it means the teacher has got lots of knowledge of his or her own. The success in learning shows he or she knows how to study.21. From this passage we know .A. a teacher can teach the students everything at schoolB. a teacher can’t teach the students everyth ingC. school education is really not important and usefulD. Edison learned everything at school22. A teacher’s job is .A. to help the students with their lessonsB. to teach the students everythingC. to show the students how to study by themselvesD. to help the students get high marks23. Which of the following is right?A. If we know how to learn, we can get a lot of knowledge.B. We can learn everything at school.C. The writer tells us that practice is more important for the students than learning.D. It is the only job for the students to get knowledge.BTime is very important in our lives. It organizes our everyday moments. However, time never had any importance in my life until I received a watch from my father that organized my life and made me more responsible.I received this gift on a gray-sky day. I had to go to the airport at 9:00 am to pick up my uncle Ali and take him to my father’s house. However, I was late because I was hanging out with my friends. Later on that day, around 11:00am, I remembered my uncle and went to the airport to meet him, but I was very late. He had left the airport and taken a taxi to my father’s house.I got to my father’s house at 2:00pm on the same day and looked at my angry father’s face. I fe lt ashamed at that moment. My father asked me to sit next to him where he handed me this watch as a gift. Then he said, “ Essa , did you have fun with your friends?” “Yes, father, and I’m sorry about not picking up my Uncle Ali,”I replied. He then said “W hat you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your actions. I hope today you learned something important, and this watch will be a reminder for you.”I learned a very important lesson from my father: to respect time and never be late to get someone. This watch is important to me, not because of its price, but because of the lesson that I learnt from it.24. The passage mainly tells us that_________________.A. it is good to admit a mistakeB.hanging out with a friend is a waste oftimeC.a watch can make people more responsibleD.being on time is veryimportant25. Time became important to Essa when ________________A.he was playing with his friendsB.he lost his watchC.he received a watch from his father C.he met his Uncle Ali26.We can conclude that at the end of the story Essa thought _________wasimportant.A.pleasing his fatherB.playing with his friendsC.being on timeD. thewatch27. What is the meaning of the underlined word “ashamed”?A.Very pleased.B.Embarrassed and guilty.C.AngryD. FrustratingCMany of the world’s pollution problems have been caused by the crowding of large groups of people into the cities. Supply for the needs of the people leads to further pollution. If the rapid increase of world population in countries continues at the present rate, there may be much greater harm to human beings. Some scientists speak of the increase in numbers of people as “population pollution”.About 2,000 years ago, the world population was probably about 250 million. It reached a billion in 1850. By 1930 the population was two billion. It is now three and a half billion. It is expected to double by the year 2010. If the population continues to grow at the same rate, there will be 25 billion people in the world a hundred years from now!Man has been using the earth’s resources more and more rapidly over the past years. Some of them are almost used up. Now many people believe that man’s greatest problem is how to control the growth of the population. The material supplies in the world will be far from enough to support the human population, if the present rate of increase continues. Already there is overcrowding in many cities and starvation in some countries. Should man’s population keep on growing so rapidly as before? Many people believe that human survival in the future depends on the answer to this question.28. The rapid increase in population is considered to be _____.A. an increase of resourcesB. population pollutionC. the development of mankindD. the present rate29. The world population will be _____ by the year 2010.A. 7 billionB. 250 millionC. 25 billionD. 3.5 billion30. It is very important for us _____.A. to use the materials in the worldB. to move into citiesC. to control the growth of our populationD. to support the human population31. If the present rate of increase continues, _____.A. the world is going to endB. the earth won’t be able to support the growing population in the futureC. pollution will have nothing to do with the rapid increasing populationD. there would be four billion people in the world a hundred years from now32. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. In 1850 the world population reached a billion.B. Man must fight a battle against population pollution.C. The world’s population is increasing with years.D. All of the earth’s resources are gone now.。