期末语法填空试题.doc

英语必修2（人教版）
语法填空（共五大部分，每部分20分，每空两分，共100分）

1 Cultural relics（20分）
IN SEARCH OF THE AMBER ROOM
    Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room 1______(move) to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details 2_______ it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room, and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.3_______(sad),although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now 4_______(miss).
     In September 1941, the Nazi army was near St Petersburg. This was a time 5________ the two countries were at war.Before the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able 6_______(remove) some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis 7______(secret) stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven 8________(wood) boxes. 9________ is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room 10_______ (remain) a mystery.

   2 The Olympic Games（20分）
AN INTERVIEW
Pausanias,who was a Greek writer about 2,000 years ago,has come on a magical journey 1_______March 18th 2007 to find out about the present-day Olympic Games.He is now interviewing Li Yan,a 2________ (voluntary) for the 2008 Olympic Games.
P:How often do you hold your Games?
L:Every four years. There are two main sets of Games.the Winter and Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a regular 3_______(base). The Winter Olympics are 4_______ (usual) held two years before the Summer Games.Only athletes 5_______have reached the agreed standard for their event will be admitted 6_______ competitors.They may come from anywhere in the world.
P: Winter Games? How can the runners enjoy 7______(compete) in winter? And what about the horses?
L: Oh no! There are no running races or horse riding events. Instead there are competitions like skiing and ice skating which need snow and ice. That’s why they 8_______(call)the Winter Olympics. It’s in the Summer Olympics 9_______ you have the running races, together with swimming, sailing and all the team 10________(sport).
3 Computers（20分）
WHO AM I?
     Over time I have been changed quite a lot.I began as a 1______(calculate)machine in France in 1642. Although I was young I could simplify difficult 2______(sum).I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years 3______I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator 4_____ used cards with holes, I could "think" logically and produce 5______answer quicker than any person. At that time it 6______( consider) a technological revolution and the start of my "artificial intelligence". In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about how I could be made to work as a "universal machine" 7_____(solve) any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew 8_____(rapid) both in size and in brainpower. By the 1940s I had grown as 9______(large) as a room, and I wondered if I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers.As time went by, I was made 10______(small). First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s.

4 Wildlife protection（20分）
HOW  DAISY  LEARNED  TO HELP  WLDLIFE
     Daisy had always longed 1______( help) endangered species of wildlife. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed. "Where do you want to go?" 2_____asked. Daisy responded immediately. "I'd like to see some endangered wildlife," she said. "Please take me to a distant land 3______I can find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater." At once the carpet flew away and 4______(take) her to Tibet.There Daisy saw an antelope 5______(look) sad. It said, "We're being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs. Our fur is being used to make sweaters 6______ people like you. As a result, we are now an 7______(endanger) species." At that Daisy cried, "I'm sorry I didn't know that.I wonder what is being done to help you. Flying carpet, please show me a place where there's some wildlife protection."
The 8_____(fly) carpet traveled so fast that next minute they were in Zimbabwe. Daisy turned around and found that she 9_______(watch) by an elephant. "Have you come to take my photo?" it asked. In relief Daisy burst into 10_____ (laugh).

5 Music（20分）
THE BAND THAT WASN'T
As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other 1______(music) to help them.So during the broadcasts they just pretended 2______(sing).Anyhow their performances were 3______(humor) enough to be copied by other groups.They were so popular 4______their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar 5______ them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs 6______ (write)by other musicians.7_____,after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing 8______(they) own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even 9______(popular) than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band broke up about 1970, but happily they reunited in 10______ mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrated their former time as a real band.

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