高中学生学科素质训练

新课程高二下学期英语

Unit 13 Aibert Einstein

Ⅰ、单项选择（每小题1分，满分20分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案.
1.______ he told me last night was really a great surprise to me.
A. That B. What C. Whether D. When
2.______ more countries can use natural energy in future remains to be seen.
A. That B. What C. Whether D. If
3.______ fuels like coal and oil cause a lot of pollution is certain.
A. That B. What C. Whether D. If
4.This is ______ Asia and Africa meet.
A. that B. the place C. where D. what
5.The trouble is ______ we are short of hands.
A. that B. what C. how D. why
6.We mustn’t keep him ______ outside in such cold weather.
A. wait B. to wait C. waiting D. waits
7.It is too late to go to the cinema: ______, it’s raining.
A. although B. besides C. except D. however
8.Don’t ______ your own idea. It doesn’t seem reasonable.
A. change B. stick to C. take hold of D. give up
9.We will stop here today and ______ the work tomorrow.
A. go on with B. go on C. go on to D. go on doing
10. By the time he ______ the railway station, the train ______.
A. got to , left B. reached, had left
C. arrived at, has left D. comes to, had gone
11. Alexander Bell invented ______ telephone.
A. a B. the C. / D. certain
12. When he was young, Edison ______ losts of questions.
A. was used to ask B. was used to asking
C. used to ask D. used to asking
13. Did Switzerland ______ in the First World War?
A. belong to sides B. leave sides
C. take sides D. move sides
14. The problem was so difficult that I couldn’t ______.
A. work out B. work it out C. work on D. work it on
15. My grandparents are ______ to live quietly in the countryside.
A. fond B. helpful C. like D. content
16. Is this the only way ______ the Capital airport?
A. leads to B. which lead to C. leading to D. led to
17. He was very pleased ______ the Nobel Prize ______ Physics.
A. to be won, of B. to have won, for
C. to win, at D. having won, on
18. What he said at the meeting proved ______.
A. to be truly B. being true C. true D. real
19. He first worked ______ a worker in the university, and five years later
he got ______ degrees.
A. as, a doctor’s B. for, doctor’s
C. as if, the doctor D. with, doctor’s
20. Are you content ______ what I have done?
A. by B. at C. for D. with
Ⅱ、完形填空（每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Drawing a picture is the simplest way of putting an idea down on paper. That is 1 men first began to write, six thousand years ago or
2 . The alphabet we now use 3 down to us over a long period of time. It was 4 from the picture-writing of ancient Egypt.
Picture—writing was useful in many 5 . It could be used to express ideas as well as 6 . For example, a drawing of a 7 meant the object “man”. 8 a drawing of a man 9 on the ground with a spear in him meant 10 .
Besides the Egyptians, the Chinese 11 the American Indians also developed ways 12 writing in pictures. But only 13 much could be said 14 . Thousands of pictures would have been needed 15
express all the ideas that people might have. It would have 16 many thousands more to express all the objects 17 to men. No one could
18 so many pictures in a lifetime. 19 could anyone learn the meaning of all 20 drawings in a lifetime.
1. A. when B. because C. where D. how
2. A. over B. more C. else D. later
3. A. went B. showed C. appeared D. came
4. A. developed B. discovered C. increased D. grown
5. A. sides B. colours C. ways D. meanings
6. A. stories B. animals C. objects D. subjects
7. A. creature B. being C. woman D. man
8. A. But B. For C. Besides D. Because
9. A. lies B. lying C. laying D. lain

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