永州五中高二下期第二次月考
英 语 试 卷
时量：120分钟 分值：150分 命题人：李婧 审题人：杨芳莉 一． 词语互译 （30分）
1.喜剧 n. 3.正面的adj.
2.先前的adj. 4.表演 n. 6.保证vt. & n. 8..技术的adj. 10.愚蠢n. 12.参加vi. 14. 无声电影 18.想出，拿出 16. have affection for 20. 去世，亡故
5.鲜为人知的 adj. 7.格言，警句n. 9.增强，巩固v. 11.视觉的adj. 13. stand up for 15.拿……玩笑 17.trip over
19. 赶走，驱赶
二．单项填空 （15分）
21. If you always_____ others like that, you’ll lose all your friends at last.
A. tease B.play
C. play a joke with D. play a trick to
22. Influenced by the economic crisis, the rate of unemployment in big companies has risen in the last 3months, ______10 percent in average. A. have reached
B. reaching
C. to reach
D. to be reaching
23. _____ the waterfront of the city after sunset, you couldn’t help stopping and listening to the sweet silence, interrupted only by the screaming seabirds and leaving fishing boats. A. Followed
B. To follow
C. Following
D.Having followed
24. We all need ____ in our diet, which is good for our health.
A. difference B. experience C. various D. preparation 25. This articl may be some advice about how to____ oneself in society.
A.behave B. believe C. perform D. operate
26. The performer is ____ the audience by standing upside down..
A. amusing B. organizing C. arranging D. preserving 27. My son wants to be a painter, so he ____ drawing sice the year before last. A. practices
B. praciticed
C. has practiced
D. has been practicing
28. I regret ____ you that you can’t take part in the game. A. telling B. to tell C. to have told D. being told 29. Everybody got ____ when they heard the ____ story. A. shocked; shocked B. tshocking; shocking C. shocked; shocking D. shocking; shocked
30. The matter ____ now is of great importance to all the people present. A. discussed B. being discussed C. to be discussed D. discussed 31. The houses ____ by the company will be completed by the end of
this year.
A. being built B. tbuilt C. to be building D. to build 32. Here is the ____ place of the little hero _____ during the Anti-Japanese War. A. buried; killed B. buried; been killed
C. burying; killed
D. burying; being killed
33. Jenny hopes that Mr. Smith will suggest a good way to have her written English
_____ in a short times.
A. improved B. improving C. to improve D. improve 34. It was so cold that they kept the fire _____ all night.
A. to burn B. burn C. burning D. burned
35. A worker will be immediately fired if he is found ____ in the warehouse.
A. smoke B.smoking C. to smoke D. smoked
三．完形填空 （15分）
Mr. White is a member of his office. He‘s 36 and can easily deal with(处理) all kinds of matters. So he‘s always 37 more than his workmates. Of course he‘s often 38 and has no time to do the housework. His wife 39 him well and does
all at home.
40 ! Their daughter was hurt in a traffic accident last month and had to be 41 . Now Mrs. White has to look after her there 42 she can‘t go home. Mr. White often eats something in the restaurant. As he 43 did some cleaning, the rooms were all disorderly (零乱不堪) .
Yesterday morning, before Mr. White got up, the telephone 44 . He sat up to answer it. His friend told him to 45 an important telephone number down. But he could find 46 a piece of paper. He found there was much dust(灰尘) on the table and wrote the number on it. But soon he 47 it and went to work. Two hours later 48 came back and looked for a sweater for her daughter. Her husband came in while she was 49 the table. He couldn‘t 50 the number on the table and called out angrily , Who let you clean the table? 36. A. important 37. A. helped 38. A. busy 39. A. sees 40. A. Well
B. strong
C. good C. paid C. lazy C. misses
D. able D. asked D. happy D. takes care of
B. thought B. quiet B. knows B. Once
C. What‘s more D. Bad luck C. in bed C. while C. almost C. rang
D. in time D. and D. often D. called D. use
41. A. in hospital 42. A. but 43. A. not
B. outside B. or
B. never B. spoke
44. A. shouted 45.A. write
B. remember
C. understand
46. A. either a pen or C. both a pen and 47. A. forgot 48. A. he
B. neither a pen nor
D. not only a pen but
B. read
C. took
D. threw
B. his friend B. walking in B. listen to
C. his wife C. leaving C. see
D. his daughter D. cleaning D. write
49. A. brushing 50.A. find out
四 阅读理解 （30分）
（A）
Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time.
Why is more and more land becoming desert? Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
Some places on the earth don’t get very much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don’t let the wind blow the dirt away. When a little bit of rain falls. The plants told the water. Without plants, the land can become a desert much more easily. 51. Deserts _________.
A. get very little rain B. never have any plants or animals in them C. can all be turned into good land before long D. both A and B 52. Small green plants are very important to dry places because ___
A. they don’t let the sun make the earth even drier C. they hold water B. they don’t let the wind blow the earth away D. all of the above 53. Land is becoming desert little by little because ___ A. plants can’t grow there B. there is not enough rain
C. people haven’t done what scientists wish them to do D. scientists know little about the deserts
54. Which is the main idea of the first paragraph? A. Scientists know how to change desert into good land
B. Land is becoming desert faster than scientists can change it back into good
land
C. If scientists can bring water to desert, people can live and grow food there.
D. More and more places are becoming deserts all the time. 55. After reading this, we learn that ___
A. plants can keep dry land from becoming desert B. it is good to get rid of the grass in the deserts C. all places without much rain will become deserts D. it is better to grow crops on dry land than to grow grass
( B )
There is a saying that the British like a nice cup of tea in the morning and a nice cup of tea at night. And at half past seven, their idea of heaven is a nice cup of tea. They like a nice cup of tea with their dinner and a nice cup of tea time. and before they go to bed, there is a lot to be said about a nice cup of tea!
Sometimes it seems that no one like tea as much as the British do. But in fact, tea is liked in countries around the world. In China and Japan tea was first used as a medicine, many years later, people there drank tea as a beverage（饮料）.
People in the world like to drink different kinds of tea, green, black or red as some people call it. Served in different ways. But they all know that drinking tea is good for one’s health.
56. The main idea of the first paragraph is ________. A. how many cups of tea the British drink each day B. that the British like talking about tea C. that the British can’t live without drinking tea D. that tea is very important in the life of the British 57. The phrase “their idea of heaven”means ________.
A. the happiest thing for them B. their thoughts
C. their God D. the worst thing for them
58. The sentence “there is a lot to be said about a nice cup of tea”means ________. A. they enjoy drinking a nice cup of tea B. there is a lot of tea
C. they talk much about a nice cup of tea D. there is a talk while drinking tea 59. From the passage we know tea was used as a medicine ________many years ago.
湖南省永州市第五中学2011-2012学年高二第二次月考英语试题
