陕西省延安中学2013-2014学年高一第二学期期中考试英语试题

陕西省延安中学2013-2014学年高一第二学期期中考试英语试题

（全卷100分时间100分钟）

第Ⅰ卷（选择题共70分）

第一部分英语基础知识（共三节，满分40分）

第一节：语音知识（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1. transported A .crowded B. argued C. waved D. caused

2. govern A. location B. income C. development D. project

3. sadly A. similarity B. human C. across D. range

4. disaster A. strike B. sandstorm C. sure D. opposite

5. fortunately A. worldwide B. forecast C. major D. worse

第二节：语法和词汇知识（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

6. Reading is _______ good habit. Stick to it and you’ll make _______great progress.

A. the; a

B. a; a

C. a;/

D. a; the

7. The manager entered the office and was happy to learn that four-fifths of the tickets_______.

A. was sold

B. had been sold

C.had sold

D. sold

8. The cost of living in the countryside is lower,________ the quality of life is higher.

A. while

B.since

C. though

D. however

9. ----Was it in France that you _____ French?

---- Yes, it was very wonderful to learn it in such a place.

A. take up

B. put up

C. turn up

D. pick up

10. All the workers except the manager _______to work for 12 hours a day.

A. expects

B. expect

C. is expected

D. are expected

11. The worst tornado of all time happened in 1925, _______ three US states.

A. to affect

B. affecting

C. affected

D. having affected

12. Just in front of our house_______with a history of 1000 years .

A. stands a tree

B. does a tree stand

C. a tree stands

D. a tree is standing

13. Before we moved into the new house, we bought many_______ .

A. furnitures

B. furniture

C. pieces of furniture

D. pieces of furnitures

14.----You are wanted on the phone.

---- . _______nobody knows I am here.

A. Although

B.But

C. However

D. So

15. Interestingly, the countries ______ give the most money are the Netherlands, Norway and

Sweden.

A. where

B. /

C. to which

D. that

16. I like getting up early in summer. The morning air is so good_______.

A. to be breathed

B. to breath

C.breathing

D. being breathed

17. ----The earthquake last night was really terrible?

---- . _______, no people were injured or killed and they escaped in time.

A. Unfortunately

B. Luckily

C. Hopefully

D.Sadly

18. It is not ____ you have said but what you have done ___ made us very disappointed.

A.that; what

B. what; what

C. what;that

D.that;that

19. After the long journey, the three of them went back home,________ .

A. hungry and tiredly

B.hungry and tired

C. hungrily and tiredly

D.hungrily and tired

20.---How did you find the TV programme?

---- _______.

A. By chance

B. Fascinating

C.Don’t worry

D.My brother helped me 第三节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳

选项。

Earthquakes are common; thousands of them happen each day. But most are 21 weak

to feel. During a 22 earthquake, there is often a great noise first. Then the earth 23 terribly and many houses 24 down. Railway tracks(轨道) break and trains go 25 lines;

a great many factories are 26 ; thousands of deaths are caused, and many more lose homes... 27 the great damage and deaths caused by the earthquake itself, 28 disasters

such as fires often 29 . So more buildings are destroyed and more 30 are caused.

We all know the 31 of a possible earthquake, and for centuries man has been making researches on earthquakes. More than 2,000 years ago, 32 , a Chinese scientist named Zhang Heng 33 a machine which could find out from which 34 the seismic (地震的) waves had come, and this machine is still 35 by scientists today. Now we know much

more about earthquakes and 36 they happen, but we still cannot 37 exactly when and where an earthquake will happen, and cannot 38 it from happening. So earthquakes are among the 39 disasters in the world.

No one can stop natural earthquakes. 40, scientists can help stop earthquakes from destroying whole cities and causing too many deaths.

( )21. A. very ( )22. A. big ( )23. A. jumps ( )24. A. get B. too

B. weak

B. moves

B. put

C. quite

C. real

C. shakes

C. set

D. so

D. small

D. breaks

D. fall