高二英语上学期期中试卷A
命题：韩旭云
本试卷分为第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分，考试时间120分钟。
第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分70分）
第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。
1. I’m so busy _____ my homework, so I can’t help_______ the house.
A. doing; to clean B. with; cleaning C. to do; to clean D.doing; cleaning
2. Please speak loud enough so as to make yourself ______ !
A. hear B. hearing C. to hear D. heard
3. ----Would you mind if I ______ here?
----_____. Go ahead.
A. smoke; No B. smoked; Sure
C. smoking; Of course not D. smoked; Certainly not
4. It disappointed his parents _______he had failed to pass the exam for _______third time.
A. why; a B. that; a C. when; the D. how; the
5. Never eat food that _______ , or you will get ill.
A. goes bad B. are bad C. has gone bad D. is going bad
6. Madam Curie didn’t care much for money and he never _______ money ______his research.
A. made; out of B. made; in C. got; out of D. took; from
7. ----I’d like to invite you to my party this evening.
----Thank you, but ______ I’ll have time I’m not sure at the moment.
A. that B. when C. though D. whether
8. I would like to buy a house which is modern, comfortable, and ______ , in a quiet place.
A. first of all B. in all C. above all D. after all
9. How did it _____ that the car fell off the bridge into the river?
A. come out B. come about C. come across D. come up
10. You can learn ______ you’re interested in more easily.
A. whatever B. however C. no matter D. whoever
11. I enjoy noodles______ by my mother, which taste very delicious.
A. cooked B. cooking C. being cooked D. being cooking
12. ----Have you decided when_______?
----Yes, tomorrow morning.
A. will you leave B. to be leaving C. are you leaving D. to leave
13. ----Is your cat afraid of me?
----A little. It’s not used to _______.
A. touching B. being touched C. touch D. be touched
14. The woman kept _____ close as she could ________ the children in order to give them a good protection.
A. so; to B. as; for C. as; to D. too; for
15. Tom came to China in 1982, by ______ time he had learnt to speak very good Chinese.
A. what B. that C. whose D. which
第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chooses to live alone far away from people in Blize. Her home is in a small village which can be 16 only by sea or air. After a 10-mile walk into the hills, one 17 reaches a piece of land and two small houses so 18 in the thick over—grown forest that only a 19 of people know Dorothea is there.
She lives 20 and totally alone 21 vegetables. Sometimes a local (当地的) man will come and cut 22 of for her and a group of soldiers will come 23 her and be greeted with the 24 of a cup of coffee.
At night, she lies in her little room with the dogs and cats on the floors and 25 for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French 26 she can find on her 27 . Sometimes she gets lonely but 28 of the time the animals and the radio are company (陪伴；伙伴) enough.
But recently the very things she had 29 to get free from so well have begun to 30 her. The peace of the forest has been 31 by the noise of earth-moving machines. What she once only heard of 32 on the radio is now on her 33 . Things began to change 3 years ago. The new main north-south road in Blize has 34 the forest only four or five miles away. “Now 35 people know I’m here,” she says, “I feel more and more uneasy (troubled or anxious) each day.”
16. A. arrived B. seen C. reached D. known
17. A. finally B. later C. firstly D. surely
18. A. hunted B. built C. hidden D. searched
19. A. handful B. lot C. deal D. number
20. A. happily B. sadly C. hardly D. disappointedly
21. A. grew B. gro
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