高中学生学科素质训练 高二英语同步测试（4）—SBII Unit 4 A garden of poems 本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分，共150分，考试时间120分钟。 第一卷（三部分，共115分） 第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers? A. Husband and wife. B. Mother and son. C. Friends. 2. How often does the restaurant offer its dinner specials? A. Twice a day. B. Twice a week. C. Once a week. 3. What are the two speakers talking about? A. A football team. B. A famous song. C. A singing group. 4. How does the woman feel? A. Overjoyed. B. Angry. C. Surprised. 5. What will the two speakers probably do? A. Go to see a film. B. Go cycling. C. Go sailing. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分， 满分22.5 分） 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6至7题 6. Why is the woman working so hard? A. She has to type up the report before 3 o’clock today. B. She has to improve herself. C. She has so many reports to write that she can’t have a rest. 7. What is the woman going to do after finishing her work? A. Take some medicines. B. Have a good rest. C. Go and see a doctor. 听第7段材料，回答第8至10题 8. Why can’t the woman make it tonight? A. She’s got to play in a concert. B. She’s going to see her doctor. C. She’s going to a concert. 9. When have they fixed to meet? A. At 7:00 tonight. B. At 6:45 pm on Friday. C. At 7:13 on Friday evening. 10. What’s the man planning to do for the dinner? A. Cook a new dish. B. Try using a new set of dishes. C. Have a very good cook prepare the food. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题 11. Where are the two speakers? A. At home. B. In a restaurant. C. At a wine shop. 12. At what time should Terry and Susan arrive? A. At 8:00. B. At 7:30. C. At 7:00. 13. What is the most probable reason why Terry and Susan are late? A. They got stuck in traffic. B. They went to buy a bottle of wine. C. They forgot about the invitation. 听第9段材料，回答第14至16题 14. What is the conversation about? A. Choosing a job. B. Doing shopping. C. Working in an office. 15. What’s the first piece of advice the man gives the woman? A. That she design interactive media. B. That she be a TV news director. C. That she be a novelist. 16. What’s the woman most interested in? A. A TV news director. B. A newspaper reporter. C. Computers. 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题 17. Who is the speaker? A. An official. B. A tourist. C. A guide. 18. When can you come if you want to see how bread was baked 200 years ago? A. On Sunday afternoon. B. On Tuesday morning. C. On Saturday afternoon. 19. Where did Sir Henry come from? A. England. B. The USA. C. France. 20. How many interesting places are mentioned here? A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. 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) 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 21. ---What do you want to do next? We have half an hour until the basketball game. ---______. Whatever you want to do is fine with me. A. It just depends B. It’s up to you C. All right D. Glad to hear that 22. Take care. You ________ burn your mouth. The coffee is hot. A. must B. can C. should D. might 23. You should try to get a good night’s sleep _________ much work you have to do. A. however B. no matter C. although D. whatever 24. — Will you please go to the hospital to see if he is all right? — ____ On a snowy night like this? A. Who? Me? B. Who? I? C. There, this is a joke. D. Come, not me 25. The discussion ______alive when an interesting topic was brought in. A. was coming B. had come C. has come D. came 26. Now more and more people have come to know the role that trees _____in our natural environment. A. do B. take C. play D. work 27. A well-written composition _______ good choice of words and clear organization among other things. A. calls on B. calls for C. calls up D. calls in 28. I thought the hotel was too expensive. _____, it was very close to the noisy main road. A. However B. Except C. Besides D. Still 29. The party last night was_____ success; we sang and danced until it came to ____end at twelve. A. 不填; 不填 B. a; the C. the; an D. a; an 30. ---In fact, I’m not used _____ to like that. ---Neither am I. A. to being spoken B. to be spoken C. being spoken D. to speaking 31. warmly for his work, he was too to fall asleep. A. Praising; excited B. To praise; exciting C. Praised, exciting D. Praised; excited 32. Eating too much fat can _______ heart disease and cause high blood pressure. A. result from B. contribute to C. attend to D. devote to 33. ________ with the size of the whole earth, the biggest ocean does not seem big at all. A. Compare B. When comparing C. Comparing D. When compared 34. ______ straight on and you’ll see a church. You won’t miss it. A. Go B. Going C. If you go D. When going 35. In order not to be disturbed, I spent three hours _____ in my study. A. locking B. locked C. to lock D. being locked 第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 Robert Frost was one of America’s best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came 36 in his life .He was forty 37 Americans began to read his poems and praise them. Once his 38 was set up, however, it grew stronger and stronger during the rest of his long life. His success came from 39 traditional forms of poetry with American words, 40 in a clearly American way. Frost 41 the same speaker for many poems, so the 42 poems formed a larger unity .He created this speaker carefully. He felt that his readers would believe his poems if he put the words into the mouth of a 43 person who lived in the country, not the 44 . Many people thought the speaker was Frost himself. In fact, the speaker was 45 person. Frost, the 46 , tried to become the imaginary person he 47 for his poetry. Robert Frost is always linked to the land of cold winters in the northeastern United States, the area called New England. 48 he came from the other side of the country, San Francisco, California. He was born there in 1874. He lived in California during his early 49 . This man who was born in the 50 and became linked with New England was named for the chief southern general in America’s Civil War. The general’s name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to 51 the general. Someone once asked another American 52 , Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The 53 thing, he said, was to have an 54 childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost’s childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very 55 writer. 36. A. soon B. late C. quickly D. early 37. A. since B. until C. before D. after 38. A. fame B. name C. poem D. family 39. A. working B. using C. putting D. uniting 40. A. spoken B. made C. built D. formed 41. A. thought of B. practiced C. used D. met 42. A. old B. separate C. famous D. excellent 43. A. common B. young C. wise D. grown-up 44. A. city B. village C. state D. continent 45. A. a famous B. a real C. an imaginary D. a historic 46. A. artist B. man C. lady D. officer 47. A. loved B. respected C. admired D. created 48. A. In this way B. Yet C. Though D. Therefore 49. A. childhood B. writings C. work D. paintings 50. A. East B. North C. West D. South 51. A. learn from B. know C. study D. honor 52. A. teacher B. writer C. painter D. leader 53. A. quickest B. worst C. best D. hardest 54. A. exciting B. interesting C. unlucky D. unhappy 55. A. good B. poor C. young D. gifted 第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A CARDIFF, Wales—Poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered Wales to celebrate the tradition of storytelling. “It might seem strange that people still want to listen in age of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again,” said David Ambrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festivals in Wales. “Some of the tales, like those of the Inuit from Canada, are thousands of years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time,” he said early this month. Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do throat singing, which has few words and much sound. Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively. Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving (coming back into use or existence) storytelling in Wales. “It came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions, and as all the Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here,” Ambrose said. 56. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling________. A. will be more popular than TV B. will be popular again C. started in Wales D. are in the hands of some old people 57. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn ________. A. about their life as early as thousands of years ago B. why they tell the stories in a throat-singing way C. how cold it has been where the Inuit live D. how difficult it is to understand the Inuit 58. According to the writer, which of the following is not true? A. Storytelling once stopped in Wales. B. Storytelling has a long history in Wales. C. Storytelling is always well received in Wales. D. Storytelling did not come back until 1993 in Wales. 59. The underlined works”in good hands”mean________. A. controlled by rich people B. grasped by good storytellers C. taken good care of D. protected by kind people B Fading beauty She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last for ever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, time is catching up with the Mona Lisa. The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre Museum (卢浮宫博物馆) where it is housed. “The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has changed shape since experts checked it two years ago,” the museum said. Visitors have noticed changes but repairing the world’s most famous painting is not easy. Experts are not sure about the materials the Italian artist used and their current chemical state (化学状态). Nearly 6 million people go to see the Mona Lisa every year, many attracted by the mystery of her smile. “It is very interesting that when you’re not looking at her, she seems to be smiling, and then you look at her and she stops,” said Professor Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University. “It’s because direct vision (视觉) is excellent at picking up detail, but less suited to looking at shadows. Da Vinci painted the smile in shadows.” However, the actual history of the Mona Lisa is just as mysterious as the smile. Da Vinci himself loved it so much that he always carried it with him, until it was eventually sold to France’s King Francis I in 1519. In 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre by a former employee, who took it out of the museum hidden under his coat. He said he planned to return it to Italy. The painting was sent back to France two years later. During World War II, French hid the painting in small towns to keep it out of the hands of German forces. Like many old ladies, the Mona Lisa has some interesting stories to tell. 60. What does the writer mean by “time is catching up with the Mona Lisa”? A. The painted woman is not so beautiful any more. B. Ageing is something that affects us all. C. The painting needs repairing. D. At such an old age, she is no longer popular. 61.What makes the repair work difficult? A. The wooden panel is thin and old. B. No one knows exactly what materials were used to create the painting and how it might respond to treatment. C. The health of the painting is suffering. D. Experts can’t agree on how to carry out repairs. 62. What makes her smile so mysterious according to Professor Livingston? A. The materials the Italian artist used. B. The way she smiles. C. The way Da Vinci painted the smile. D. It plays a trick upon the human eye. 63. “Interesting stories” in the last paragraph probably refer to the following except ______. A. the painting’s experiences. B. the identity (身份) of the woman painted in it. C. how Da Vinci produced the painting. D. why Da Vinci loved the Mona Lisa so much. C Reading is the key to school success, and like any skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. A great athlete practices until he can play quickly, correctly, without thinking. Tennis players call that being in the zone. Educators call it automaticity (自动性). A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and get the meanings of the words. With practice, he speaks with fewer and fewer pauses and mistakes, reading by the phrase. With automaticity, he doesn’t have to think about getting the meanings of the words, so he can pay attention to the meaning of the text. It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in an Illinois school, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found automatic readers in the first grade who were reading almost three times as fast as the other children and scoring twice as high on comprehension tests. At fifth grade, the automatic readers were reading twice as fast as the others, and still outscoring them on correctness, comprehension and vocabulary. It’s not IQ but the amount of time a child spends reading that is the key to automaticity, according to Rossman. Any child who spends at least 3.5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will most probably reach automaticity. At home where the average child spends 25 hours a week watching television, it can happen by turning off the set just one night in favor of reading. You can test your child by giving him a paragraph or two to read aloud ― something unfamiliar but suitable to his age. If he reads aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, he probably is an automatic reader. If he reads hesitatingly (停顿地), one word at a time without expression or meaning, he needs more practice. 64. What’s the main idea of the passage? A. How to score high on comprehension tests. B. Reading is the key to school success. C. How to test your child’s reading ability. D. Automaticity is important for effective reading. 65. According to the writer, an automatic reader _________ . A. sounds out the letters B. pays attention to the meaning C. has a high IQ D. pays much attention to the structures of the sentences 66. A study shows that the automatic reader’s high speed _________ . A. costs him a lot of time B. doesn’t last long C. leads to his future success D. doesn’t affect his comprehension 67. According to the passage, we can infer that a bright child _________ . A. also needs practice to be an automatic reader B. always achieves great success in comprehension tests C. becomes an automatic reader after learning how to read D. is a born automatic reader D Confucius was born five hundred and fifty years before Christ. Unlike Jesus Christ, he did not bring words of God to the people. He was a clever teacher and a philosopher, looking for truth and wisdom. Most of his teaching was about life in this world. Confucius was very keen to give people good rulers. Someone asked him,” What does a country need?” Confucius answered, “Enough food, a good army, and a good leader.” The people then asked, “Which one is the most important?” Confucius answer, “An army is not very important. All men must die, so food is not the most important. But if the leader of the country is not good, then everything will be bad.” 68. A philosopher is a person who _____. A. does not like Jesus Christ B. teaches people something about God C. Seeks after truth and wisdom D. is more clever than most of other people 69. Jesus Christ ______. A. was born more than half a century earlier than Confucius B. taught people anything about God C. did not tell people anything about God D. was a philosopher sent by God 70. Confucius taught people all these things except ______. A. how to live in the world B. the importance of the leader of the country C. any ideas about God D. how t make good judgements 71. For Confucius a man_____. A. could not escape death B. would die if he didn’t have a good ruler C. was not important compared with food D. oug | 
