高中2014年高二英语下册期末测试卷答案解析

1 高二年级考试

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节 单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

21. Dave wanted to study till ________ midnight, but sleepiness

got_____ best of him.

A. 不填; the B. 不填; 不填 C. the; the D. the;

不填

22. At times, worrying is a normal________ to a difficult event or

situation—a loved one being_______ in an accident, for example.

A. response; injured B. reaction; wounded C. reply; hurt D.

reflection; died

23. If I hadn’t stood under the ladder to catch you when you fell,

you_______ now.

A. wouldn’t be smiling B. couldn’t have smiled C. didn’t smile

D. won’t smile

24. ________ the Internet is bridging the distance between people, it may

also be breaking some homes or will cause other family problems.

A. When B. If C. While D.

As

25. _______ today, he would get there by Saturday.

北京高二高中英语期末考试

班级:___________ 姓名：___________ 分数：___________

一、单项选择

1.Although it was hard at first, Jane came to enjoy _________ as a fashion designer.

A．work B．working

C．to work D．worked

2.It is well known that _________ air and water are harmful to people’s health.

A．pollute B．polluting

C．to pollute D．polluted

3.When I opened the door, I found the ground _________ by fallen leaves.

A．having covered B．to cover

C．covered D．cover

4.Only when I reached the café, _________ it was the same place I had been in last year.

A．did I realize B．I realized

C．I did realize D．realized I

5._________ tired, I closed my eyes and imagined lying on a beach in the sunshine.

A．Feel B．To feel C．Feeling D．Felt

6.It’s necessary to be prepared for a job interview. _________ the answers ready will be of great help.

A．Having B．Had C．Have D．Have had

1 外研版高二下学期期末考试

第一节 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Mr Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "if anyone asks for

me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week,

then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."

"OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these

words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out

and looked at it every now and then.

Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to

come and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.

The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at

第 1 页 共 7 页 高二下学期英语期末考试试卷（附答案）

一、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）（共4题；共30分）

1.阅读理解

We produce 500 billion of plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are thrown away polluting oceans, killing

wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Researchers have been

unsuccessfully looking for a solution.

The 16-year-old Canadian high school student, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has

discovered a way to make plastic bags degrade(降解) in as few as 3 months, a finding that won him first prize at

the Canada Wide Science Fair, a ＄10,000 prize, a ＄20,000 scholarship, and a chance to revolutionize a major

environmental issue.

Burd's strategy was simple: Since plastic does eventually degrade, it must be eaten by microorganisms(微生物)．If those microorganisms could be identified, we could put them to work eating the plastic much faster than