2022-2023学年湖南省湘潭市湘乡新湘路学区新湘中学高二英语上学期期末试题含解析

1、2022-2023学年湖南省湘潭市湘乡新湘路学区新湘中学高二英语上学期期末试题含解析一、 选择题1. _at the back of the temple is the Tianning Tower, which _154 metres into the sky, is the tallest tower of the kind in China.A. Located; rises B. Located; rising C. Locating; rising D. Locating; rises参考答案：B2. （原创）Follow your teachers advice, _ you wi

2、ll make great progress.A. or B. which C. that D. and参考答案：3. _the guide, the reporter entered the house of the farmer who is famous for helping other villagers get rich.A. Followed B. Being followed C. Following D. To follow参考答案：C4. -Hurry up! Jane and Alice are waiting for you downstairs.-I thought

3、they without me.A. went B. would go C. had gone D. go参考答案：C5. With the recent increase in tourism, our hometown has _ a new look in recent years. A. taken up B. taken on C. taken in D. taken off参考答案：B6. to sunlight accounts for the good preservation of the ancient paintings.A. Having not exposedB. N

4、ot having exposedC. Exposed notD. Not being exposed参考答案：D考查非谓语动词。句意：没有暴露在阳光之下是这些古画得以良好保存的原因。be exposed to意为“暴露在之下”。分析句子结构可知，“_to sunlight”是主语，accounts for是谓语部分，the good preservation of the ancient paintings是介词for的宾语。主语一般要用动名词，动名词的否定形式是在其前面加not，故D选项切题。B项时态有误。7. He got up late and hurried to his offic

5、e, _ the breakfast untouched.A. left B. leaving C. to leave D. leave参考答案：B略8. They are going to set up a monument _ the men who laid down their lives in defense of their country.Ain favour of Bin memory ofCin praise of Din search of参考答案：B句意：他们将树碑纪念为保卫他们的祖国而献身的人们。in favour of“有利于，支持”；in memory of“为了纪

6、念”；in praise of“为了称赞”；in search of“寻找”。9. There_quantities of apples in the basket and there was_equipment in the room.A.were;a great many B.was;quantites of C.was;a great deal of D.were;a quantity of参考答案：D10. The article opens and closes with two jokes, each _ the readers laugh. A. makes B. made C.

7、 making D. is to make参考答案：C11. I will pick you up at 6 tomorrow morning. So early! I _ then.A. will sleep B. will have sleptC. will have been sleeping D. will be sleeping参考答案：D12. She finds her new jobs very _ but she will never give it up.A. interesting B. regretful C. satisfying. D. stressful参考答案：

8、D13. It is a social problem that many people fail to _ enough money to last for the rest of their lives.A. set up B. set off C. set out D. set aside 参考答案：D14. _ development of nuclear weapon is _ threat to _ mankind.AThe; /; the BThe; a; / CA; /; the DA; a; /参考答案：B15. It was only in 1997 _ she compl

9、eted the first Harry Potter story, _ was also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.A. when; which B. that; which C. that; what D. when; what参考答案：B二、 填空16. 根据汉语用英语完成下列各句：（一格一词10分）1.Cant you _ your attention _ your research (集中) ?2.Yesterday his teachers _him_ cheating in the exam.(指责)3.Its S

10、pring Festival, we are _ _ go home. (渴望)4.Only when the war ends _ _live a better life.(只有当战争结束，他们才能过上较好的生活)5. _ is no doubt_ the plan will succeed.(毫无疑问，这个计划会成功的)。6.We are very happy, because our students all _ _ us.（我们很高兴，因为所有学生都认可我们）7.It was a good concert-I enjoyed the last song _ _（特别）.8.She of

11、ten_ out a sudden scream as if she _dying, in fact , nothing serious. (她常突然发出尖叫，好像要死似的，其实无大碍) .9.I saw a house _ _ a squire .（我看到房子向地主哈腰）10.This _（涵盖）5000 years of civilization from many parts of the world,_(包括) America, China, Egypt and other countries. 参考答案：1.concentrate on 2. accused of 3.eager t

12、o 4. can they 5. There that 6. approve of 7. in particular 8. lets were 9. bow to 10.covers including略三、 阅读理解17. If you want to become a fluent English speaker, you should take some advice :there are four skills in learning English. They are listening ,speaking ,reading and writing. The most importa

13、nt thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening. Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentences ,the meaning of the unfami

14、liar words ,etc.There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammar-or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to pre

15、pare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading ,you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading ,then you can catch up on your

16、 listening. Since you have lots of inputs(输入) in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening .For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if yo

17、u are good at listening, you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably(更好地) taking some notes.If you follow these pieces of advice , your speaking and writing will improve automatically(自动地)，and you can be sure that with a li

18、ttle effort they will become perfect.24According to the author , which should you improve first among the four skills?_AReading and listening BReading and writingCWriting and speaking DSpeaking and listening 25To improve your reading, when you read you should _.Alook up all the new words in the dict

19、ionary.Bthink about what you are reading activelyCspend more time studying grammarDcopy as many words and sentences as possible26The underlined words “come across” in paragraph3 probably be replaced by_Ameet by accident Bdiscover Cfind on purpose Dlook for27The author seems to agree with the view that _Aeveryone sh