高二英语（下）阶段综合测试四(Unit 17一Unit 18)
Ⅰ．单项选择(共20小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
从A、B、C和D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1.It was not a serious illness, and she soon it.
A. got over
B. got on with
C. got around
D. got out of it
2.I have done much of the work. Could you please finish in two days?
A. the rest
B. the other
C. another
D. the Others
3.The most important thing about cotton in history is part that it played in Industrial Revolution.
A. /; /
B. the; /
C. the; the
D. a; the
4. Such a camera can be _______ to take photos both in sunny days and in cloudy days.
A. adapted
B. fitted
C. suited
D. adjusted
5. I accept that he is not perfect, I do actually like the person.
A. While
B. Since
C. As
D. If
6.I don't think there is much sense them advice. They won't take it.
A. to give
B. to giving
C. in give
D. in giving
7.The pilot asked all the passengers on board to remain as the plane was making a landing.
A. seat
B. seating
C. seated
D. to be seating
8.Robert is said abroad, but I don't know what country he studied in.
A. to have studied
B. to study
C. to be studying
D. to have been studying
9.--How would you like your coffee?
-- .
A. It's well done
B. Very nice
C. One cup. That's enough
D. The stronger, the better
10. you are leaving tomorrow, we can eat dinner together tonight.
A. For
B. Now that
C. Once
D. When
11.If David carries on working like this, he'll sooner or later.
A. break down
B. break away from
C. break up
D. break out
12.I felt very disappointed when my repeated request that I join the club was __________.
A. replaced
B. resisted
C. rejected
D. removed
13. The young man always drives so carelessly. There is some _____ danger while he is driving.
A. secret
B. mysterious
C. potential
D. harmless
14.When I watched the film, I slowly became aware of the fact cultural differences couldn't stop people understanding each other.
A. which
B. where
C. whether
D. that
15.There came the news that the visiting team had gained a victory the home team with a score of 4 to 3.
A. against
B. toward
C. upon
D. over
16. I have invited 50 guests to the party, but actually _______ came.
A. twice more than
B. twice as much
C. twice as many
D. as many as twice
17. Protection of the environment is more than just a(n) _______ of discussing its problems. We need to take action to get rid of them.
A. thing
B. matter
C. incident
D. affair
18. When we offer these people jobs, we must ______ their abilities and skills so that they are all
fit for these jobs.
A. ask for
B. call for
C. allow for
D. send for
19 .I was told that there were about 50 foreign students Chinese in the school, most
were from Germany.
A.study; of whom
B.study; of them
C.studying; of them
D.studying; of whom
20. She was educated at Beijing University, ________she went on to have her advanced study
abroad.
A.. after which
B. from which
C. from that
D. after that
Ⅱ．完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
The child in the hospital bed was just waking up after having a throat operation. His throat 21 ,and he was afraid. However, the young nurse 22 By his bed smiled so 23 hat the little boy smiled back. He 24 to be afraid. The young nurse was May Paxton 25 e was deaf. May Paxton graduated 26 the Missouri School for the Deaf near the year 1909.Three years 27 she went to see Dr. Richardson about 28 nurse.Dr Richardson was one of the founders of Mercy Hospital of Kansas City. 29 had never heard of a deaf nurse. She told May that her 30 would be very low and that the work would be 31 . However, May said that hard work did not frighten her. Dr. Richardson was 32 her, and accepted May as a student nurse.
Dr. Richardson never 33 her decision. 34 ,she was so pleased with May’s work that she later accepted two other deaf women as student nurses. The 35 was Miss Marian Finch, who was hard of 36 .The second was Miss Lillie Bessie. These three were 37 “the silent angles(天使) of Mercy Hospital” during the 38 they worked there.
Dr.Richardson often 39 her faith in the girls’ ability to learn nursing. She wrote to May,“For three years, you have been with us… It is wonderful to me that no man. 40 or child ever,to my knowledge, made a complaint(投诉)against you…”
21.A.cut B.burt C.wounded D.darnaged
22.A.standing B.jurnping C.lying D.crying
23.A.shyly B sadly C.cheerfully D.weakly
24.A.continued B.began C.stopped D.forgot
25.A.for B.so C.and D.but
26.A.as B.from C.with D.in
https://www.doczj.com/doc/20505002.html,ter B.before C.ago D.then
28.A.seeking B.changing C.hiring D.becoming
29.A.You B.She C.We D.He
30.A.money B.check C .pay D.price
31.A.easy B.disappointing C.joyful D.difficult
32.A.angry with B.sagtisfied with C.sorry for D.ashamed of
33.A.regretted B.thought of C.liked D.believed
34.A.In fact B.In a hurry C.In surprise D.In public
35.A.one B.others C.first D.other
36.A.reading B.hearing C.listening D.writing
37.A.offered B.chosen C.told D.called
38.A.year B.month C.time D.term
39.A.spoke of B.said C.heard of D.noticed
40.A.person B.wornan C.boy D.girl
Ⅲ.阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,共40分)
阅读下列短文,从每所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D )中选出最佳选项
A
The wedding took place in a Birmingham hotel. The bride and her father arrived in a new black American sports ear. Her father looked nervous and uncomfortable in front of the cameras. The bride wore a silk wedding dress. She smiled nervously at the waiting photographers and went to room on the first floor where she met her future husband for the very first time.
Carla Germaine and Greg Cordell were the winners of a radio station's competition. The aim of the competition was to tlnd two strangers prepared to marry, without having met each other. Miss C.ermaine, 23, is a model. Mr Cordell, 27, is a TV salesman. They were among the two hundred people who entered for a peculiar "experiment" organized by BMRB radio in Binningham, England. Greg and Carla were among eight finalists who were interviewed live on radio. They took a lie detector(测谎仪) test and the station 'also spoke to their friends and family about their personalities. The competition judges included an astrologer(占星家) who declared that they were suited.
The couple celebrated their wedding with a wedding breakfast and a party for 100 guests in the evening, but not everyone shared their joy. Miss Gennaine's mother looked anxious throughout the wedding and Mr Cordefl's parents are reported to be less than delighted.
Organizations, including the marriage guidance service Relate, have criticized(批评) the marriage. As one person put it, "We have enough problems getting young people to take marriage seriously without this. Marriage should always be about love."
The couple are now on a Caribbean honeymoon followed by journalists. Their other prizes include a year's free use of wonderful apartment in the centre of Birmingham, and a car. But will it last?
41. How did the couple's parents react to the wedding?
A. The bride's mother shared their joy.
B. The bride's father felt uncomfortable about the wedding.
C. The bridegroom's parents were quite delighted.
D. The bridegroom's parents were not that joyful.
42. Some experts believe that .
A. marriage without the couple's meeting each other first ends up in failure
B. young people nowadays are too careless about marriage
C. taking a lie detector test can not solve all the marriage problems
D. most young people take marriage seriously except this couple
43. One of the prizes for the couple is .
A. to spend their honeymoon wherever they like
B. to use an apartment free for some time
C. to have a wedding dress free
D. to own an American sports car
44. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Two Strangers and a Wedding
B. A Wedding Based on Love
C. A Short-Lived Marriage
D. A Well-Matched Couple
B
People had known about steam power :for hundreds of years. But they did not know how to apply it to machines. About 300 years ago, some engineers discovered that they couldn’t use steam power to force water out of deep mines. This helped miners dig deeper than ever. But little more was done with steam power until one man, James Watt, discovered to make steam turn a wheel.
When he was a boy, James Watt's parents had scolded(责骂) him for playing with mechanical things. There were few advanced machines then And almost nobody could make a living by fixing them. So Wart's parents thought that playing around with machines was a waste of time. But someone asked Watt to repair a steam coal-mine pump. Watt fixed the pump and he began to build models of other pumps.
Once Watt had built his first steam engines, steam power was used to do many things. Machines were built that could weave(编织), grind(磨) flour, drive a boat or a train, and even make other machines.
Nearly anything that needed pushing or turning could be powered by steam. Within 50 years of Watt's invention, steam engines were producing and transporting things in ways that were impossible by hand, wind, or water power.
45. Steam power was not used to turn a wheel until
A. three hundred years ago
B. it was applied to the mining industry
C. James Watt grew into a very clever boy
D. James Watt found out a way of doing so
46. As a boy, James Watt
A. was fond of playing with mechanical things
B. was often scolded for playing with steam
C. was often scolded for playing with complicated machines
D. couldn't make a living by fixing complicated machines
47. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage'?
A. To Watt, playing around with machines was a waste of time.
B. Nobody asked watt to repair steam coal-mine pumps.
C. When Walt was young, his parents didn't allow him to play with machines.
D. Fixing machines was beyond Watt's power.
48．Since the invention of James Watt’s steam engines，．
A．wind power has been of no use to man
B．water power has not been used any longer
C．everything has been able to be powered by steam
D．steam power ’has been widel y used
C
40 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sport was never heard of. But when the yearly games for the disabled were started at Stoke Mandeville, England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had been driven to England in 1939 from Nazi Germany, had been asked by the British government to set up an injuries centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London. His ideas about treating injuries included sport for the disabled.
In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fast. Teams now come from abroad to Stoke Mandeville every year. In 1960 the first Olympics for the Disabled were held in Rome, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games. Now, every four years the Olympic Games for the Disabled are held, if possible, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games, although they are organized separately. In other years Games for the Disabled are still held at Stoke Mandeville. In the 1984 wheelchair Olympic Games,1064 wheelchair athletes(运动员)from about 40 countries took part. Unfortunately, they were held at Stoke Mandeville and not in Los Angeles, along with the other Olympics.
The Games have been a great success in helping the progress of international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can’t enjoy sport. One small source(来源)of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee(委员会)to include disabled events at the Olympic Games for the able-bodied. Perhaps a few more years are still needed to persuade those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should be included. 49. The first games for the disabled were held______after Sir Ludwig Guttmann arrived in England.
A.40 years
B.21 years
C.10 years
D.9 years
50. Besides Stoke Mandeville,surely the games for the disabled were once held in______.
A.New York
B.London
C.Rome
D.Los Angeles
51.This text tells us that Sir Ludwig Guttmann______.
A.is an early organizer of the games for the able-bodied.
B.is welcomed by the British government
C.is an injured soldier
D.is from England
52.From the passage,we may know that the writer is______.
A.one of the organizers of the games for the disabled
B.a disabled person who once took part in the games
C.against holding the games for the disabled
D.in favour of holding the games for the disabled
D
The agriculture revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things：the invention of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture．Labor-saving machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce(not widely seen)。“In Europe，”said Thomas Jefferson，“the ob ject(purpose)is to make the most of their land，labor being more than enough．”It was in the United States．There-fore，that the great adventures in nineteenth—century agriculture machinery first came.
At the opening of the century，with the exception of a crude plow(铸铁犁)，farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural tools on their backs；by 1860，most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form．The most important of the easy inventions was the iron Dlow．As early as 1790 Charles Newbold of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a eastern plow and spent his entire fortune in introducing his invention．The farmers，however，were not interested in it，claiming that the iron poisoned the soil and the weeds grew．Nevertheless，many people devoted their attention to the plow，until in 1869 James Oliver of South Bend，Indiana，turned out the first chilled—steel plow．
53. What is the main topic of this passage?
A．rule need for all agriculture advances to help feed a growing population．
B．rule development of saver machinery demanded by the labor movement．
C．Machinery that contributed to the agriculture revolution．
D．New Jersey as a leader in the agricultural revolution．
54．The underlined word “ naturally ”in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to．
A. unsurprisingly B．gradually C．quickly D．safely
55．Which of the following Call be inferred from what Thomas Jefferson said in the first paragraph?
A．Europe was changing more quickly than the United States．
B．Europe had greater need of farm machinery than the United States did．
C．The United States was finally miring out of good farmland。
D．There was a shortage of workers on United States farms．
56．Why did the farmers reject Newbold’s plow?
A．Their horses were frightened by it．B．They preferred lighter tools．
C．It was too expensive． D.They thought it would destroy the land．
E
Have you ever dreamed of having a fashionable watch of great value?
A small watchmaker in Switzerland in 1922 designed the first automatic(自动的)watch to show the day, month, and date, Only seven of these splendid watches were ever made and these
watches were almost lost to history. Today, it is so hard to get an original (首批的) watch that some watch historians are even willing to offer $ 200,000 for one.
These watches attracted a lot of people for their splendid color, fashionable style, and new uses in the 1920s. The owners of the watches were admired and set apart from the crowd. Because the number of the original watches is very limited, owning such a watch will make you feel very special.
Today, you are offered the same kind of watch with improvement. It has a 24-jewel mechanical(机械的) movement, the kind desired by watch collectors, The watchmaker has made the movement of the watch much more modern with an automatic rotor(上弦装置) so that the watch never needs to be wound by hand. The watch comes in a very beautiful case with a crocodile design on it. To get a watch in such a perfect design means to get a chance to know a piece of watch- making history and to wear such a watch will show your personal taste and social position.
You can get the watch either in person or by mail at an affordable price. You will also receive good service from the watch seller. If you are not satisfied with the watch after you get it, you may simply return it within 30 days. Don’t miss the chance to realize your dream.
57.The original automatic watches are valuable because .
A.the watches were made many years ago
B.the watches were made by a Swiss watchmaker
C.only rich people can afford the watches
D.only a few watches of the kind were made
58.Watch collectors want to get the improved watch, especially for its .
A mechanical movement B.splendid color
C.fashionable style
D.new uses
59.The purpose of the passage is to encourage the readers to .
A.buy the watch
B.return the watch
C.wear the watch
D. receive the service
60.The passage is probably taken from a .
A.report
B.magazine
C.text book
D.science book
IV.短文改错(共10小题，每小题1分;共10分)
What may be sound like noise to some people is 56. .
great music to others. Rock and roll is that kind music. 57. .
You either love it and hate it. Rock and roll is not always 58. .
played by a band. Performers of this music is often 59. .
called a "group". There are such many rock 60. .
groups that each one has to do something specially to 61. .
become famous. They try look and sound different 62. .
from all the others groups. Rock groups are so popular 63. .
that they do not give concerts in small theaters but in 64. .
parks or stadiums that thousands of fans can attend at the 65. .
same time.
V．书面表达(满分25分)
根据以下图画，写一篇英语短文，描述今昔通讯方式的变化，以及这些变化给人们生活带来的影响。
注意：1．词数：100左右
2. 生词：通讯：communicate(with sb．)vi. communication n．
阶段综合测试四(Unit 17一Unit 18)参考答案
1．A get over指“克服，摆脱(某种情绪)，从……中恢复过来”。
2．A another，the others均修饰可数名词，the other后加单数表示“两个中的另一个”，the rest(ofthe work)后可跟可数或不可数名词。
3．C play a part in…，part后接定语从句，表特指，需加定冠词。
4．D adjust 调节。
5．A “虽然我承认他不美，但我真的很喜欢这个人。”
6．D There is no sense in doing sth．为固定句式。
7．C remain作不及物动词，后接现在分词，过去分词及不定式作表语，接过去分词表示与主语是被动关系。
8．A be said to do sth．意为“据说……”，be said to have done sth．表示“据说做过某事”。9．D 意为“越浓越好”。
10．B for引导原因状语从句，不能位于句首，now that有“既然”的意思。
11．A break down此处意为“崩溃，垮掉”。
12．C “请求被拒绝了”。
13．C。14．D 15．D 16. D 17. B 18. C 19. D 20. A
21.B 22.A 23.C 24.D 25.C 26.B 27.A 28.D 29.B 30.C 31.D 32.B 33.A 34.A 35.C 36.B 37.D 38.C 39.A 40.B
41—45 DBBAD 45—50 ACDDC 51—55 BDCAD 56—60 DDAAB
56．去掉be 57．kind后加0f 58．arId→or 59．is→are 60．such→SO 61．specially—special 62．try后加to
63．others→other 64．√ 65．that→where
书面表达
One possible version：
1
People used to communicate with each other through letters and public phones. But nowadays they use mobile phones and the Internet instead. This change in communication has good effects on our life and work. Compared with letters and public phones, mobile phones and the Internet are faster and much more convenient. If you miss your grandmother, you just take out your phone and say "hello" to her. If you want to place an order with a foreign company, you can e-mail the message. It'll be a matter of minutes before you get their reply. Aren't we living in a smaller world? (101words)
2
More and more people rely on e-mail and mobile phones for communication rather than letters and public phones because the new tools seem faster and make work more efficient. However this change has bad as well as good effects, especially dependence on the Internet. Firstly, as we lack enough practice, we are losing the beauty of hand-written Chinese words which express the writer better while machine words all have the same looks., Secondly, our spelling becomes worse if we rely on the machine too much. Last but not least, the PC screen does harm to our eyes. I prefer the old way of communication even though it is much too slow in the eyes of many.（116words）