英语属于印欧语系中日耳曼语族下的西日耳曼语支，并通过英国的殖民活动传播到世界各地。精品小编准备了高二下册英语单元检测题及答案，具体请看以下内容。

Ⅰ.单项填空

1.I recommended ________ an English­Chinese dictionary，which I thought would be of great help to his studies.

A.buying      B.bought

C.to buy       D.he bought

答案与解析：A　recommed doing sth 或recommened(that)sb(should)do sth。

2.I ________ to be quite afraid to live in that city，but now I have ________ to the life there.

A.used; been used    B.used; used

C.was used; got used    D.got used; been used

答案：A

3.I've heard ________ that Elizabeth is a tough businesswoman.

A.it        B.her

C.what        D.that

答案：A

4.—It's the second time that I ________ to Shanghai.

—What great changes!It's ten years since I ________ it last time.

A.have been; left     B.had been; left

C.am; had left      D.come; had left

答案：A

5.—Could I get something to drink?

—Sure，________.

A.be home yourself     B.make yourself at home

C.you could of course     D.you're requested

答案：B

6.We tried our best to make our garden ________ its surroundings.

A.fit in      B.fit in with

C.fit up with       D.to fit in with

答案与解析：B　make 后的不定式作宾补不带to;fit in with与……相适应。

7.After arriving in New York，the Chinese college student found it rather hard to ________ living on his own.

A.rely on       B.bring up

C.depend on       D.adjust to

答案：D

8.Jonathan received a promotion to the role of assistant manager and is the youngest person to ________ that post in this international company.

A.adopt      B.seek

C.occupy      D.abandon

答案与解析：C　occupy“占据”符合题意。adopt“领养”;seek“找寻”;abandon“抛弃”。

9.Since his retirement，having a walk along the river after supper has become part of his daily ________.

A.tradition     B.custom

C.convention     D.routine

答案与解析：D　每天晚饭后沿着河边散步对他而言已是惯例，routine“常规，惯例”。tradition“传统”;custom“习惯;风俗”;convention“协定;约定”。

10.His long service with the company was ________ with a present.

A.admitted     B.acknowledged

C.attributed     D.accepted

答案与解析：B　acknowledge“承认;答谢”。admit“承认”;attribute“认为;归因于”;accept“接受”。

11.If we can ________ this speed，we should arrive there in about two days.

A.keep up      B.keep on

C.keep to      D.put up

答案与解析：A　keep up“保持;坚持”。

12.I'm very glad that you come and see our new house when we have settled ________.

A.in       B.to

C.down      D.on

答案与解析：A　根据题意应为“搬进新居后安顿下来”。

13.I don't care what you think.________ I am concerned，what they did was wrong.

A.As well as     B.As far as

C.As much as     D.As often as

答案与解析：B　as far as sb.be concerned“就某人而言”，为固定搭配。

14.The old computer doesn't work.We must ________ a new one for it.

A.replace      B.instead of

C.substitute     D.take the place of

答案与解析：C　根据电脑坏了可推测，“我们换一台新的”，故用substitute“用……代替”;若用replace则应表达为replace it with a new one。

15.Sending Sandra a letter was ________，because her husband might intercept(截取) it.

A.out of question    B.out of the question

C.in question     D.of question

答案与解析：B　从because her husband might intercept(截取)it.来看，“给Sandra送信是不可能的”，故用out of the question。句意：给桑德拉寄一封信是不可能的，因为她的丈夫可能会给截取。out of question“的确，毫无疑问，一定，当然”;in question“在议论中，在谈论中”。

Ⅱ.完形填空

One windy spring day，I observed young people having fun flying their kites.Multicolored creations，various shapes and sizes __1__ the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing.As the strong wind blew against the kites，a __2__ kept them in check.

Instead of blowing away with the wind，they arose against it to achieve great __3__.They shook and pulled，but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow，facing __4__ and against the wind.__5__ the kites struggled and __6__ against the string，they seemed to be saying，“Let me go!Let me go!I want to be __7__!”They soared __8__ even as they fought the control of the string.__9__，one of the kites __10__ in breaking loose from it.“Free at last，”it seemed to say，“Free to fly with the wind.”

Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the __11__ of the unsympathetic wind.It dropped ungracefully to the ground and landed __12__ a mass of weeds.“Free at last”，free to __13__ powerless，and __14__ helpless along the ground，and to lodge lifeless against the first obstruction.

__15__ like kites we sometimes are!The Heaven gives us adversity (逆境)，__16__ and rules to follow __17__ we can gain strength.Restraint is a necessary opponent to the winds of opposition.We can never __18__ high enough to achieve our goals if we lose our necessary __19__ or the rules.

Let each of us rise to great heights，__20__ that some of the restraints that we may chafe under (因……而感到恼怒)are actually the steady force that helps us ascend and achieve.

1.A.covered    B.fled

C.floated     D.filled