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2016学年高二上学期寒假英语试题

第一卷(三大题，共115分)

第一部分：听力理解(共两节，30分  略)

第二部分  英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节  语法和词汇知识(共15小题，每小题1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。

21.----I’m going downtown.。       ----Come on, _______.

A. I’ll give you a lift    B. You are welcome   C. Don’t do that    D. Come with me

22.It was on the farm _____he spent his childhood _____he learned how to grow vegetables.

A. where, that         B. which, when       C. that, that        D. that, which

23.---- Ricky, why haven’t Billy been with us these days?

---- Oh, he is _________for next month’s 400m race.

A. standing out        B. taking up             C. backing out             D. working out

24.—What do you think of "Supergirl", the reality TV show?

— I can't help _____ it. I got _____ whenever I watched it!

A. to love, exciting     B. to love, excited    C. loving, exciting    D. loving, excited

25.----I’ve looked everywhere, but I haven’t found any black ink.

----Then, I’m afraid there is ________left.

A. nothing            B. no one            C. none            D. neither

26.The elderly need special care in winter, as they are_____ to the sudden change of weather.

A. sensitive           B. sensible           C. positive          D. curious

27.The careless driver has just been ____$10 for stopping his car at a sign that _____“NO          PARKING”.

A. punished, reads     B. fined, reads    C. punished, is written   D. fined, is written

28._______in having trade talks with a foreign company, she has stayed up for several nights.

A. Occupied        B. Being occupied    C. Having occupied      D. To occupy

29.My demand is that the information referred to in my report ____to Mr. Brown without         delay.

A. to be e-mailed    B. e-mailed        C. be e-mailed       D. being e-mailed

30.— You don't look well. Are you ill?

— No, the exam is coming and I _____ reading until midnight.

A. kept up         B. got up      C. stayed up        D. woke up

31.All the Harry Potter books by Joanne Rowling, a poor single mother _____ in Edinburgh,

_____ all over the world.

A. lives; are well sold    B. lives; sell well    C. living; sell well  D. living; are well sold

32.----- Look, Dad! A bear is now with me!

----- Nothing will happen _______you keep lying still.

A. as long as            B. as far as                C. unless                  D. until

33.I regret ______ that I’m too busy ______ in the talk.

A. to say, to participate                                 B. saying, participating

C. to say, participating                           D. saying, to participate

34.At this time of last year, part of Southeast Asia was struck by floods, from _____ effects the

people are still suffering.

A. that   B. whose C. those     D. what

35.----What bad luck that we ________ the football match in the last 3 minutes!

----And we ________ hard in the last 3 years.

A. had lost, trained                   B. were losing, had trained

C. have lost, have trained              D. lost, have been training

第二节：完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A B C D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

American cities are    36    other cities around the world. In every country, cities reflect the   37    of the culture. Cities contain the very   38    side of a society: opportunities for education, employment and so on. They also   39     the very worst parts of a society: violent crime, racial discrimination and poverty. American cities are changing, just    40    American society.

After World War Ⅱ， the population of   41     large American cities decreased;   ___42  , the population in many Sun Belt cities increased. Los Angeles and Houston are cities   43__ population increased. These population moving to and from the city reflect the changing values of American society.

During this time, in the   44    1940s and early 1950s, city people became wealthier. They had more children. They needed more    45    . They moved out their flats in the city to buy their own houses. They bought houses in the   46    , areas near a city where people live. These are areas without many offices or factories. During the 1950s the American “dream” was to have a house on the outskirts.

Now things are changing. The children of the people who    47    the cities in the 1950s are now adults. They,   48    their parents, want to live in the cities.   49   continue to move to cities in the Sun Belt. Cities are    50    and the population is increasing in   51    states as Texas, Florida and California. Others are moving to more   52     cities of the Northeast and Midwest, such as Boston, Baltimore and Chicago.

Many young professionals, doctors and lawyers are moving back into the city. They prefer the city   53    the suburbs because their jobs are there; they are afraid of the fuel shortage; or they just   54    the excitement and opportunities which the city offers. A new class is moving into the cities---a wealthier,   55   mobile class.

36.A.different from      B.similar to         C.better than            D.worse than

37.A.values                 B.worth                C.importance            D.expenses

38.A.well                    B.good                 C.better                   D.best

39.A.maintain              B.obtain                C.contain                 D.sustain

40.A.likely                  B.as                      C.while                    D.when

41.A.all                       B.most                  C.few                      D.much

42.A.but                      B.and                   C.however               D.although

43.A.its                       B.which                C.where                   D.that

44.A.late                    B.later                  C.lately                    D.latter

45.A.space                   B.spots                 C.time                     D.food

46.A.outskirts              B.downtown          C.districts                D.suburbs

47.A.moved to             B.left                    C.reached                 D.entered

48.A.likely                  B.like                   C.dislike                  D.unlike

49.A.Some                  B.All                    C.Several                 D.Lots of

50.A.stretching            B.widening           C.expanding             D.prolonging

51.A.such                    B.these                 C.those                    D.many

52.A.organized            B.famous              C.official                 D.established

53.A.than                    B.better than         C.rather than            D.to

54.A.win                     B.enjoy                 C.earn                     D.acquire

55.A.very                    B.and                   C.more                    D.or

第三部分：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 D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Do you know that a fast reader can get the ideas better than a slow reader can? Of course, you save time by reading fast, but this is not the main reason for fast reading. The main reason is that you understand better what you are reading when you read fast.

As your eyes move along the line of print, they make fixations (固定) or pauses. It is important that you see several words at a fixation. It is also important that your eyes leave a group of words quickly and move on to another group. The number of letters or words that you see at a fixation is called your eye span. Pay more attention to improving your rate of reading. With practice you can learn to read faster than you usually read.

The way in which you read always depends on what you are reading and for what purpose. You should know the different ways of reading so that you can apply whatever method that is necessary. Here are four ways of reading:

(1) Skimming is an important kind of reading. This method can be used when you wish to review something that you have forgotten. You can skim to get the main points.

(2) Rapid first reading and then rereading certain parts carefully is important. You may use this type of reading to study a science lesson or a history lesson.

(3) You need to do careful reading and rereading sometimes. This type of reading is necessary for making an intensive (精深的) study of your school subjects, solving Maths problems or reading directions.

(4) Rapid reading is used when reading stories for enjoyment. you may also do rapid reading when reviewing material that you already know well.

56. The main reason for reading fast is that you can _______what you are fast reading.

A. get the ideas       B. save time        C. understand better        D. learn well

57. The way of reading always depends on _______.

A. the method that you like                B. your reading material

C. your reading purpose                   D. both B and C

58. The underlined word "skimming" in the fourth paragraph means _______.

A. reading very fast                      B. looking carefully

C. reading only the main points             D. reading some parts of the material

59. Careful reading is an important kind of reading _________.

A. when you read a story for enjoyment

B. when you go over a lesson that you have already known well

C. when you read the directions before using a camera which is expensive

D. when you wish to find a lost place that you have read

B

Millions of years ago dinosaurs (恐龙) lived on the earth. In the days of dinosaurs the whole earth was warm and wet. There were green forests and they could find enough to eat. Later, parts of the earth became cold and dry. and the forests there died. Then dinosaurs could not find enough to cat. This must be one reason why dinosaurs died out.

We can guess another reason. New kinds of animals came on the earth. Some had big brains and were fast and strong. They could kill dinosaurs. There may be other reasons that we don’t know about yet. Scientists are trying to make more discoveries about dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs were of many sizes and shapes (形状).  Some were as small as chickens, while some were about 90 feet long.