高二英语单元能力过关测试题
Ⅰ.单项填空
1. Good technique in medicine means less pain and fewer deaths and, _____ it is our duty to master it.
A. altogether B. therefore
C. otherwise D. however
2. In the office I never seem to have time until after 5:30 p. m. , _____ many people have got home.
A whose time B. that
C. on which D. by which time
3. Tom’s mother kept telling him that he should work harder, but _____ didn’t help.
A. he B. which C. she D. it
4. _____ Kate and Joan who taught Tom the nice song last night?
A. Was it B. Were there
C. Will it be D. Must it have been
5. No matter what you say, I shall _____ my opinion.
A. carry out B. keep up
C. insist on D. stick to
6. Cleaning women in big cities usually get _____ by the hour.
A. pay B. paying C. paid D. to pay
7. With his money　　　, he couldn’t go home.
A. leaving B. missed
C. running out D. run out
8. Sometimes we are asked _____ the likely result of an action will be.
A. that we think B. what we think
C. what do we think D. that what we think
9. I don’t think _____ possible to master a foreign language without much memory work.
A. this B. that C. its D. it
10. We were in _____ when we left that we forgot the airline tickets.
A. a rush so anxious B. a such anxious rush
C. so an anxious rush D. such an anxious rush
11. The old tower must be saved, _____ the cost.
A. however B. whatever
C. whichever 　D. wherever
12. _____ more about university courses, call (920) 746-3789.
A. To find out B. Finding out
C. Find out D. Having found out
13. The World Wide Web is sometimes jokingly called the World Wide Wait because it _____ be very slow.
A. should B. must
C. will D. can
14.—People should stop using their cars and start using public transport.
— _____ . The roads are too crowded as it is.
A. All right B. Exactly
C. Go ahead D. Fine
15.—I’m afraid Mr Wood can’t see you 4 o’clock.
—Oh, _____I won’t wait.
A. no doubt B. after all
C. in that case D. in this way
Ⅱ.完形填空
Some personal characteristics play an important role in the development of one’s intelligence. But people fail to realize the importance of training these factors in young people.
The so-called “non-intelligence factors” (非智力因素) include 16 feelings, will, motivation, interests and habits. After a 30-year-follow-up study of 8 000 males, American psychologists (心理学家) 17 that the main cause of disparities in intelligence is not intelligence 18 , but non-intelligence factors including the desire to learn, will-power and self-confidence.
19 people all know that one should have definite objectives, a strong will and good learning habits, quite a number of teachers and parents don’t pay much attention to 20 these factors.
Some parents are greatly worried 21 their children fail to do Well in their studies. They blame either genetic (遗传的) factors, malnutrition (营养不良), or laziness, but they never take 22 consideration these non-intelligence factors. At the same time, some teachers don’t inquire into these as reasons 23 students do poorly. They simply give them more courses and exercises, or 24 criticize or laugh at them. After all, these students lose self-confidence. Some of them just feel defeated and 25 themselves up as hopeless. Others may go astray (迷途的) because they are sick of learning. 26 investigation of more than 1000 middle school students in Shanghai showed that 46.5 percent of them were 27 of learning, because of examinations, 36. 4 percent lacked persistence, initiative and consciousness and 10. 3 percent were sick of learning.
It is clear 28 the lack of cultivation of non-intelligence factors has been a main 29 to intelligence development in teenagers. It even causes an imbalance between physiological (生理的)and 30 development among a few stud
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