2020越秀区高二下英语期末考

广东省广州市越秀区2020学年高二下学期期末水平调研测试英语试题

Ⅰ.语言知识及应用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Last summer I was a volunteer at a shelter for the homeless, a place for homeless people to sleep at night. I wasn't working that summer and was __1__ only two classes in summer school, so I had some free time. Three nights a week, I __2__ in the kitchen of the shelter along with four other volunteers. We planned and __3__ for 45 people hot meals with vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit. The homeless pe ople __4__ this good food because many of them usually didn't eat well.

I __5__ this volunteer work, making __6__ with the four volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice elderly had __8__ with alc ohol or drugs while others only had bad __9__. One woman worked for almost 30 years for her __14__ and had to sleep in her car. Then she had to sell her car. Alone, __15__

1.

2．A.helped

3．A.ordered

4．

5．A.wanted

6．

7．A.struck

8．A.habits

9．A.luck

10．

11．A.old

12．A.went

13．A.partly

14．A.block

15．A.afraid B．unbearable C．dull D．awkward

第二节语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在标号为16～25的相应位置上。BEIJING—Worldrenowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China __16__ (attract) toprank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.

Oxford made its first __17__ (appear) at the China Scholarship Council's annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair, __18__ opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider __19__ Oxford can offer for __20__ academic and professional careers.

“The students came well prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance，”said Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make __21__ two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.

The University of Cambridge __22__ (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problemsolvers.

__23__ Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for __24__ best and brightest, Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation __25__ competition, except in their traditional annual boat race.

II. 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

第一节阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

A

It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. “I'm going to college, but I need a way to pay for it，” Deluca recalls saying. “Buck said, ‘you should open a sandwich shop.’”

That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years . After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn't cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.

But business didn't go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn't know how badly, because we didn't have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.

Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They'd meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘We are so successful; we are opening a second store.’” And they did—in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learnin g by trial and error.

But the partners' learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and hand deliver the checks to pay their supplies. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn't necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out，” Deluca says.

And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal，” Deluca adds.

Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimilliondollar restaurant chain.

26．Deluca opened the first sandwich shop in order to ________.

A．support his family B．pay for his college education

C．help his partner expand business D．do some research

27．Which of the following is true of Buck?

A．He put money into the sandwich business. B.He was a professor of business administration. C．He was studying at the University of Bridgeport. D．He rented a storefront for Deluca.

28．What can we learn about their first shop?

A．It stood at an unfavorable place. B．It lowered the prices to poor management.