期末语法填空试题

英语必修2（人教版）

语法填空（共五大部分，每部分20 分，每空两分，共100 分）

1 Cultural relics ( 20 分)

IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room 1 ________ (move) to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details 2 _______ it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.3 (sad),although the Amber Room was considered one

of the wonders of the world, it is now 4 ______ (miss).

In September 1941, the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a time 5 ________ the two countries were at war.Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able

6 ______ (remove) some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis

7 ________ (secret) stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven

8 ______ (wood) boxes.

9 ________ is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room 10 ______ (remain) a m ystery.

2 The Olympic Games ( 20 分)

AN INTERVIEW

Pausanias,who was a Greek writer about 2,000 years ago,has come on a magical journey 1 _____________ March 18th 2007 to find out

about the present-day Olympic Games.He is now interviewing Li Yan,a 2 ______________ (voluntary) for the 2008 Olympic Games.

P:How often do you hold your Games?

L:Every four years. There are two main sets of Games.the Winter and Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a regular 3

_______________ (base). The Winter Olympics are 4 _____________ (usual) held two years before the Summer Games.Only athletes 5 have reached the agreed standard for their event will be

admitted 6 ______ competitors.They may come from anywhere in

the world.

P: Winter Games? How can the runners enjoy 7_____ (compete)

in winter? And what about the horses?

L: Oh no! There are no running races or horse riding events. Instead there are competitions like skiing and ice skating which need snow and ice. That ' swhy they 8 ________________________ (call)the Winter Olympics. It 'ins the Summer Olympics 9 _________ you have the running races, together with swimming, sailing and all the team 10

_________ (sport).

3 Computers( 20 分)

WHO AM I?

Over time I have been changed quite a lot.I began as a 1 ______ (calculate)machine in France in 1642. Although I was

young I could simplify difficult 2 __________ (sum).I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years 3 ____ I was built as

an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator 4 _________ used cards with holes, I could "think" logically and produce 5 _____ answer quicker than any person. At that time it 6_______ ( consider) a technological revolution and the start of my "artificial intelligence". In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a "universal machine" 7 ______________ (solve) any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew 8 ______ (rapid) both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I had grown as 9 ____ (large) as a room, and I wondered if I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers.As time went by, I was made 10 (small). First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s.

4 Wildlife protection( 20 分)

HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WLDLIFE Daisy had always longed 1 ____ ( help) endangered species of