2014-2015学年上学期高二英语(外研版)期中测试Ⅱ(山东) Word版含答案

14-15学年外研高二上学期期中测试Ⅱ(山东)

Class: Name: Marks: 满分（150）

第一部分英语知识运用(共两节，满分55分)

第一节单项填空(共10小题；每小题1.5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。

1. —Don’t look down upon him. He must have his own advantage.

—______. Maybe where others are weak, he is strong.

A. That’s all right

B. You’re right

C. You’re welcome

D. It doesn’t matter

2. The training equips the students with ______ full understanding of first aid, which can make ______ real difference.

A. 不填; the

B. a; a

C. 不填; 不填

D. the; 不填

3. I ______ in Tibet for three years; if you go there for your holiday this summer, I’ll have my friends take care of you.

A. worked

B. had worked

C. work

D. was working

4. Though ______ after a day’s hard work, he still told his children stories until they fell asleep.

A. tire

B. to be tired

C. tired

D. tiring

5. We had tried every known method for such problems, but ______ of them worked.

A. neither

B. each

C. none

D. either

6. No one ______ be kinder; Mr. Zhang always tries his best to help those in need.

A. would

B. can

C. must

D. should

7. It’s generally believed that social changes that have been ______ b y new technology have great effects on people’s life.

A. brought about

B. brought up

C. taken up

D. taken over

8. The Greens stayed in Beijing for a week, during ______ time they visited places of interest here guided by me.

A. which

B. whose

C. that

D. when

9. How pleased Susan was ______ that she got first place in the competition!

A. hear

B. heard

C. to hear

D. having heard

10. We should talk about the things ______ children’s understanding i n a simple way.

A. over

B. beyond

C. above

D. under

第二节完形填空（共30小题：A篇10小题，每小题1分；B篇20小题，每小题1.5分；满分40分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从11 ~ 40各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Bobby Moresco grew up in a tough working-class neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. The bright lights in Broadway 11Bobby when he was a teen. He started taking acting lessons at 17. His father said, “12this craziness and get a job; you have a wife and daughter.” But Bobby kept working at it.

In 1983 his brother was 13. Bobby started writing as a way to ease his pain. Half-Deserted Streets which was 14on his brother’s killing opened at a small Off-Broadway theater in 1988.

His reputation 15, and he got enough assignments to move to Hollywood. By 2003, he was out of work when he got a call from Paul, who wanted to help write a 16about the country after September 11. The two worked on the script(剧本), but every film company in town turned it down.

Bobby believed so 17in the script that he kept pushing it. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a(n) 18. Crash slipped into the theaters in May 2005, and it became a 19and won the Oscar awards.

“If you have something you want to do in life, don’t think about the problems,” he says, “thin k about the ways to get it 20.”

11. A. confused B. educated C. bored D. attracted

12. A. Begin B. Stop C. Continue D. Keep

13. A. murdered B. beaten C. employed D. paralyzed

14. A. debated B. fixed C. printed D. based

15. A. stuck B. disappeared C. grew D. remained

16. A. letter B. film C. poster D. comedy

17. A. simply B. curiously C. carelessly D. strongly

18. A. chance B. career C. defense D. example

19. A. belief B. symbol C. success D. campaign

20. A. discovered B. done C. arranged D. designed

B

They say that opportunity only knocks once. But temptation seems to knock on my door 21. Even opening the door and letting it in don’t seem to make it 22. More temptations come along and the 23 goes on.

Those temptations that cause me the biggest 24are those that pull me away from being my best self. So I can 25the Swiss woman who was served dinner on an American flight. She opened up her 26— a delicious looking piece of chocolate cake — and 27put a generous layer of salt and pepper over it. A(n) 28flight attendant exclaimed, “Oh! It’s not necessary to do that!”

“But it is,” the woman replied, 29. “It keeps me from eating it.” She found a(n) 30to drive temptation away from her doorstep, at least for a 31.

The most persistent temptations in my life are distractions that keep me from 32what is in my best interest. I give up some much-needed exercise 33I “just don’t feel like it” today. Have you ever 34 like that?

You may want to 35that reading group, that difficult class or those music lessons. It’s easy to become distracted and get 36. Or maybe we say we just “can’t find the time” to spend with those 37 to us, such as family. We may want to do these things; it’s just that sometimes we need a push. Something great baseball player Hank Aaron once said can 38h ere. “My motto was to keep swinging,” he said. “Whether I was feeling 39or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging.”

Sometimes we just need to keep swinging. And if we tell 40that all we need to do today is to take one more swing, that may be enough.

21. A. then B. once C. forever D. again