高二英语选修8试题

第一部分：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)

1. George Washington was born in 1732 in a rich family in _______ is now the state of Virginia.

A. which        B. where              C. that           D. what

2. Pudong Developmental Zone is no longer a rural area ________ it used to be.

A. what     B. where      C. despite           D. there

3. It is _______ that he has been addicted to the drugs and has difficulty quitting it.

A. obviously       B. apparently       C. possibly        D. likely

4. Eventually he gave in to the wish of the ________.

A. most   B. majority   C.average          D. common

5. He‘d _________a volleyball court on the beach with stick.

A. turned out   B. marked out  C. made out    D. broken out

6.I’m told that you are going to Canada to have a three month further study. Don’t let such a good chance to improve your English _____ through your fingers.

A. ski      B. spreads         C. slips                  D. skip

7. Students sometimes support themselves by _______ of part- time jobs.

A. ways        B. help        C. means        D. assistance

8. Didn’t it ever ________to you that one day you wouldn’t be fired because of your carelessness?

A. dream         B. occur        C. expect           D. happen

9. Students sometimes support themselves by ______ of part time job.

A. ways  B. help    C. means    D. assistance

10. I have no _______ to the plan, so long as it would not cost too much.

A. refusal      B. comment      C. idea       D. objection

11. The reason why I didn’t go to France was __________ a new job.

A. because I got B. because of getting C.Igot   D. that I got

12. A dog ran in front of my mother’s car and she __________ stop very quickly.

A. ought to  B. had better  C. used to D. had to

13. I feel it an honour __________ to speak here.

A. to ask   B. asking C. to be asked D. asked

14. My goodness, look at the time! It’s nine o’clock already and I’m __________ at breakfast.

A. still    B. yet C. ever D. only

15. He swallowed his words so much that I can never __________ what he is saying.

A. make out B. catch up C. deal with D. listen to

第二节  完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分)

The Parking-Lot(停车场)Sweeper

Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. I was born in E1 Paso, Texas, and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.

Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how   16    we were to live in a great country with limitless opportunities. They  17     us with the ideas of family, faith and love.

I got my first  18     job when I was ten. My dad injured his back working in a cardboard-box factory and was retrained as a hairstylist. He   19    space in a little shopping center and gave his shop the flowery name of Mr. Ben’s Coiffure.The owner of the shopping center   20     my Dad’s payment for cleaning the parking lot three    21     a week, which    22    getting up at 3 a.m. Mom and I helped    23    dustbin and pick up rubbish by hand. It took two to three hours to clean the lot. I     24     sleep in the car on the way home.I did this for two years, but the lessons I learned have     25    a lifetime. I obtained discipline(自律)and the importance of work, and learned at a(n)    26    age the importance of balancing life’s competing interests——in my   27   , school, homework and a job. This   28     helped during my school years, when I worked 40 hours at a fast-food restaurant while taking a full    29    of college preparation courses.

The hard work   30    off. I attended the U.S. Military Academy and went on to    31

graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard.     32    , I joined a big Los Angeles law firm and was elected to the California state assembly(州议会). In these jobs and in everything else I’ve done, I have    33    forgotten those nights in the parking lot. The experience taught me that there is value in all work and that if people are working to  34     for themselves and their families, that is   35     we should honor.

16. A. important  B. different  C. competitive   D. fortunate

17. A. mixed     B. filled    C. piled D. left

18. A. true       B. new C. real D. good

19. A. hired      B. bought   C.cleaned D. created

20. A. reduced    B. afforde   C. collected D. charged

21. A. mornings   B. evenings  C.dawns D. nights