高中二年级综合测试题(二).doc

高中二年级综合测试题 (二)
第一节 语法和词汇知识 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
1. — I’m afraid I can’t perform well in the interview tomorrow. — ______! You will make it!
A. Go ahead B. Cheer up
C. Congratulations D. Never mind
2. I know ______ Mr White, but not ______ handsome man you talked with just now.
A. a; the B. the; the
C. /; / D. a; a
3. You’d better send for a doctor right away. The baby’s body temperature isn’t ________.
A. common B. regular
C. usual D. normal
4. The government has been accused of not responding ______ to the needs of the homeless.
A. accurately B. appropriately
C. mildly D. gently
5. Whatever you do, you might as well ______ it, or else you might fail at last.
A. decide on B. go on
C. depend on D. concentrate on
6. The driving test was not difficult and your son should have passed it, but he ______.
A. hadn’t B. wasn’t
C. didn’t D. doesn’t
7. The reason for our failure was the _______ of enough time and money.
A. lack B. limit
C. use D. demand
8. No matter how often __________, the heavy smoker wouldn’t quit smoking.
A. to be advised
B. advising
C. advised
D. being advised
9. He was late for school because the bus he took _______ on the way to school.
A. broke down B. broke away
C. broke in D. broke off
10. — _____ the radio be repaired by him?
— No, I’d rather he ______ it repaired.
A. Will; has B. Can; had
C. Should; has D. Shall; had
11. _____ I have little in common with the honest man, I’d like to make friends with him.
A. While B. Because
C. Since D. However
12. No sooner _____ his talk than he _____ the workers.
A. he finished; surrounded all
B. did he finish; did surround
C. had he finished; was surrounded by
D. after he finished; was surrounded by
13. She thought ____ a great honor to be invited here to make a speech to us.
A. that B. this C. it D. it is
14. I _____ up here day by day for weeks now. You see, I _____ to give you a big surprise.
A. have been coming; hoped
B. have been coming; was hoping
C. have come; hoped
D. have come; was hoping
15. It’s suggested that the problem you referred to _______ at the coming meeting in a couple of days.
A. discussing B. being discussed
C. be discussed D. to be discussed
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Homework has been a part of students’ life from the beginning of formal school. However, the practice has sometimes been accepted and sometimes 16 , both by educators and parents. This has happened because homework can have both 17 and negative effects on children’s learning and attitudes towards school. Some educationists are of the 18 that homework should not be given to students. Giving homework 19 creating a school mania (癖好) in the home, too. 20 are of the view that five hours in the school is insufficient and it must be supplemented by some work at 21 . It is not the homework that is objectionable, 22 its nature and amount which 23 criticism.
But the importance and need of homework cannot be minimized, if it is of the right nature. It makes use of the 24 time of children, which 25 would be wasted. It may establish the 26 of working hard. We know that good assignments, completed 27 , can help children develop wholesome (健康的) habits and 28 . Homework can help parents learn about their children’s education and 29 both with their children and the schools. And it can encourage a lifelong 30 of learning. Homework can have many benefits for young children. It can 31 their understanding of schoolwork.
Homework can help students to develop study skills that will be 32 value even after they leave school. It can teach them that learning 33 everywhere, not just in the classroom. Homework can benefit children in more general ways 34 . It can develop positive character traits such as independence and responsibility. Homework can teach children how to 35 time.
16. A. received B. finished
C. rejected D. carried
17. A. positive B. great C. opposite D. important
18. A. suggestion B. view
C. plan D. dream
19. A. means B. keeps C. stops D. continues
20. A. The other B. Other
C. The others D. Others
21. A. class B. study C. school D. home
22. A. but B. so C. or D. and
23. A. results B. makes C. invites D. accepts
24. A. study B. spare C. exact D. play
25. A. however B. endlessly
C. wholly D. otherwise
26. A. custom B. tradition C. habit D. interest
27. A. successfully B. independently
C. attentively D. actively
28. A. dreams B. attitudes
C. ways D. bodies
29. A. change B. meet C. join D. communicate
30. A. love B. feeling C. hate D. dislike
31. A. improve B. add C. forget D. reduce
32. A. in B. for C. of D. at
33. A. takes place B. takes away
C. takes care D. takes up
34. A. as usual B. though C. as well D. either
35. A. take B. kill C. gain D. manage

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Heart surgeon Mehmet Oz was set to go. On the operating table lay a 50-year-old man, dying from heart failure. He was cold, and his chest was painted with sterilizing fluid (消毒液). In minutes, Dr Oz and his team would implant a mechanical pump to keep him alive until a donor heart could be found. The man, who was a manager in an agricultural company, was clearly terrified, knowing that he could die.
Just then someone called out. There was an urgent phone call for the surgeon. It was someone from the patient’s health insurance company. The company’s policy covered heart transplants, but not the cost of the mechanical pump. At the end of the operation, someone was going to owe some money and the insurers were insisting that it would not be them.
Dr Oz was confused. What was he supposed to do? Was he supposed to sacrifice this man’s life because no one knew who’d pay for the surgery? Luckily, the chairman of the hospital said he could go on with the operation. They’d figure out who’d pay later.
In the end, the surgery was a success, but the hospital got stuck with most of the cost. Between 2000 and 2003, seven in ten adults who were driven into debt by medical expenses had insurance at the time. In 2001, 42.5 million people in insured households paid 10% or more of the family’s net income in medical expenses. They are America’s underinsured, caught in a catch-22 — too well-off to qualify for government programs that support the poor, while not nearly rich enough to pay their health bills.
36. Dr Oz was confused and didn’t know what to do because ____________.
A. the patient’s health insurance company wouldn’t pay for the operation
B. the patient refused to pay for the operation
C. the cost of the operation was too high
D. there was no one caring for the patient
37. At last, who paid most of the cost of the operation?
A. The patient’s health insurance company.
B. The hospital.
C. The patient himself.
D. Dr Oz.
38. From the passage, we can learn that the American government programs support ____.
A. only the rich B. only the healthy
C. only the sick D. only the poor
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Yes, love is everywhere. Love is in me, love is in you and love is there in everything on the earth because love is God and God is love. Love provides us with the opportunity to have marvelous experiences. Scientifically it is difficult to state the causes of love. Still love can do miracles. It does not cost anything to share and give love. True love always multiplies itself and never reduces.
Now the question arises — how to tell true love from fake love. This question has a very simple answer. We can never know the real feeling of the other people, but we don’t need to worry about it. If our own feelings are true then it is definitely a true love. We do not need other people’s acceptance or approval for it. In love it matters only that we are ready to give. It is very easy to give love to others and we will always get many times more love in return. However, there is one condition, that is, our love should be free of any expectation.
The Indian God Krishna only loves and loves. He is a symbol of love and a picture of love itself. We usually run here and there in search of love and never find it but we forget to look at what is near us. Love is here in ourselves, only we need to give it to others. If you offer others love then they are not going to return hatred to you. They will also return love to you. Love is very simple, but still so many people are not able to understand it because they do not love themselves. First lesson in love is to love yourself.
39. By saying, “However, there is one condition, that is, our love should be free of any expectation.” in the second paragraph, the author means that ______.
A. loving others means getting love back
B. if you love others truly, don’t expect whether others love you or not
C. loving others means they will love you freely
D. loving others needn’t cost any money
40. Which of the following statements about love is NOT true?
A. It’s easy to tell whose love is really true.
B. The Indian God Krishna sets a good example to us in love.
C. If you offer others love, you’ll not get hatred from others.
D. Love can make us do wonders.
41. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Love can make you a rich man.
B. Giving love to others requires you to love yourself first.
C. If you love others, you can love yourself.
D. We often look for love around us.
42. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Love is everywhere and love is in everything.
B. The importance of love.
C. How to share your love with others. 　
D. The secret of love.
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On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States with a population of about three million. About 16% of the city’s population is black.
News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspapers everywhere in the United States. Bradley called his victory over Yorty “the fulfillment (实现) of a dream”. During his childhood and youth, people had kept telling him, “You can’t do this, or you can’t go there, because you are black.” Nevertheless, he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been the city’s mayor for three terms. Bradley had won 56.3% of the votes while Yorty had won 43.7%.
Los Angeles voters have had many opportunities to judge Thomas Bradley and to form an opinion of him. As the son of a poor farmer from Texas, he joined the Los Angeles police force in 1940. During his twenty-one years with the police he earned a law degree by attending school at night.
At the time of the Los Angeles election, three other American cities already had black mayors, but none of those cities had as large a population as Los Angeles. Besides, the percentage of blacks in those other cities was much larger. Cleveland, Ohio, was 35% black. In New York and New Jersey, 60% of the population was black when Kenneth Gibson was elected mayor of Newark in 1970. Thus the election of a black mayor in those cities was not very surprising.
In Los Angeles, thousands of white citizens voted for Thomas Bradley. They believed that he would be a better mayor than the white candidate (候选人). Bradley had spent forty-eight of his fifty-five years in Los Angeles. Last time Bradley lost the mayoral election to Yorty. This time Bradley won.
43. Which city had the smallest percentage of blacks among the cities with black mayors at that time?
A. Cleveland. B. New York.
C. Los Angeles. D. Newark.
44. From the passage, we can learn that people ______.
A. voted for Bradley because he had lived in Los Angeles for a long time
B. didn’t care whether Bradley was black or not when they voted
C. voted for Bradley to give him a chance to fulfill his dream
D. voted for Bradley because he had won the trust of people in Los Angeles
45. Bradley hit the front page headline because ______.
A. he was the first black mayor in history
B. he was the first black mayor in the south of the USA
C. he was the first black mayor of one of the largest cities in the USA
D. he was a poor farmer’s son who won an important election
46. From Bradley’s victory in the election we can infer that ________.
A. blacks had equal rights with whites in the USA
B. the situation of black people was improved than before
C. a black person could succeed easily in the USA by working hard
D. it is certain that someday the USA will have a black president
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In today’s working world, the high school diploma program has become the initial footstep in achieving a successful career. A high school diploma is a formal document issued to certify a candidate’s successful completion of a prescribed (规定的) secondary school program of studies.
It takes four years to complete the high school diploma program. The eligibility (合格) requirements for the high school diploma vary from state to state. A high school diploma is the minimum qualification for higher education and government jobs in the United States. The opportunities for a better job are extremely limited for one who has not earned a high school diploma. To be more specific, the high school diploma can qualify one for fruitful careers in science, education, health care, the travel industry, and the legal profession.
In some states, high school diplomas are differentiated by type such as a general diploma, an academic diploma, or a vocational diploma. A high school diploma is regarded as the minimum admission requirement for post-secondary education programs. When people apply for a green card or a US visa, a high school diploma is a valuable asset for immigrants into the United States.
There are several ways to achieve a high school diploma. One can get the diploma through traditional classroom study. It is best suited for individuals who enjoy face-to-face interaction with their teachers and classmates. In the United States, opportunities are provided for getting high school diplomas without attending classes at school. One can earn a high school diploma at home through a combination of online and correspondence classes.
Generally, the high school diploma programs do not have minimum age requirements. In order to get the high school diploma, the students must complete the coursework dictated by their school district. Curriculum (课程) varies from district to district. Before enrollment, a student counseling (咨询) service is recommended to most students.
47. This passage mainly talks about ____________.
A. how to get a high school diploma
B. how to make your caree