高二英语第二学期月考质检题（一）
2008-3-25
说明：本试卷共三部分，满分100分，时限70分钟。
第一部分 基础知识运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 完形填空 (共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将标号为1～10的该项涂黑。
We have an old musical (1)________. It is (2)________ a clavichord, (3)________was made in Germany in 1681. Our clavichord is (4)________ in the living room. It has (5)________our family for a long time. The instrument was bought by my grandfather many years(6)________. Recently it was(7)________ by a visitor. She tried to play jazz on it! She (8)________the keys too hard and two of the strings were broken. My father was (9)________. Now we are not allowed to touch it. It is (10)________ by a friend of my father's.
1. A.tool
B.thing
C. instrument
D.material
2. A.calling
B.made
C. called
D.names
3. A.it
B.that
C. which
D.the clavichord
4. A. keeps
B.stayed
C. kept
D. keeping
5. A.belonged
B.owned
C. belonged to
D.been belonging to
6. A.later
B.before
C. ago
D.future
7. A.bad
B.bought
C. damaged
D.ruined
8. A.strikes
B.beat
C. struck
D.beaten
9. A.fear
B.frightened
C. shocked.
D.afraid
10. A.reparing
B.fixing
C. being repaired
D.having rpaired

第二节：语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，根据上下文在下列短文空格处填入一个适当的词，或用括号中所给词的适当形式填空，并将答案填在答题卷标号为11~20的相应位置。
I entered the hotel manager's office and (11)_______(sit) down. I had just lost $50, (12)_______ (feel) very upset. 'I left the money in my room,' I said, 'and it's not there now.' The manager was (13)_______(sympathy), but he could do(14)_________. 'Everyone's losing money these days,' he said. He started to complain (15)__________this wicked world (16)_______ was interrupted by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put(17)_________envelope on his desk, (18)_______contained $50. She said (19)_______she had found it outside the gentleman's room. 'Well,' I said to the manager, 'there is still some (20)_______(honest) in this world!'
第二部分 阅读理解 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在
答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.
21 The writer's sister will be surprised ______.
A. when she comes to England B. when she sees the writer's new house
C. when she sees the writer D.when she leaves Nigeria
22 Some people will find the house strange because ______.
A.it is new B. it is modern C. it is' large D. it is old
B
Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'. This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field. Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.
23.The most remarkable thing about th
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