2022-2023学年安徽省芜湖市第二十四中学高二英语下学期期末试题含解析

2022-2023学年安徽省芜湖市第二十四中学高二英语下学期期末试题含解析 一、 选择题 1. I like a house with a beautiful garden in front, but I don’t have enough money to buy ____. A. one    B. it     C. this     D. that 参考答案： A 2. Not only __________ interested in football but _________ beginning to show an interest in it. A. the teacher himself is , all his students are    B. the teacher himself is, are all his students    C. is the teacher himself, are all his students    D. is the teacher himself, all his students are 参考答案： D 略 3. As students, we have many duties to perform, with improving our ability to learn _______. A. in special       B. in advance       C. in practice      D. in particular 参考答案： D 4. The reason______ he gave me for being late sounded_______. A.that, interesting   B. why, interesting   C. that, interested,  D.why,interested 参考答案： A 5. He spent          money on books and          his books are about space and satellite. A. a lots of; plenty of                   B. a good many; a great number of C. a large quantity of; a large amount of    D. a great deal of; a good many of  参考答案： D 6. They were lost at sea at the ___________ of wind and weather. A. mess B. mercy C. moment D. mixture 参考答案： B 【详解】考查名词。句意：他们在大海中迷失了方向，任由风和天气的摆布。A. mess混乱；B. mercy仁慈，摆布；C. moment时刻；D. mixture混合物。本句为短语at the mercy of 由…摆布，故选B。 7. Recently a survey ____ prices of the same goods in two different supermarkets has caused a heated discussion among citizens.  A. comparing        B. compared      C. compares       D. being compared 参考答案： A 略 8. Don’t be upset. I think Tom, rather than you, _______.          A. is to blame                 B. are to blame    C. is to blamed                    D. are to blamed 参考答案： A 9.  ---- How about the concert held in the Grand Theater last night?    ---- Well, to be honest, _________. Maybe it would have been better to stay at home.    A. it was very exciting                                            B. it couldn’t be better    C. I would rather attend it again                         D. I was desperately disappointed 参考答案： D 10. It’s reported that global warming is heating the planet twice as quickly as _____ feared. A. extremely       B. previously      C. preciously      D. eventually   参考答案： 11. It's the protection for trees that matters, ____ how many trees are planted. A. instead of        B. rather than       C. other than  D. or rather 参考答案： B 12. —You can take a walk daily if you want to keep healthy. —__________.     A. I’m glad you like it          B. Thanks for your advice     C. I like surfing the Internet      D. Well, that’s OK 参考答案：   C  13. I love the job of selling guitars. That's __________ my strengths meet my passions for music. A. what                       B. which                     C. where                     D. when 参考答案： C 略 14. Only after he realized the significance of mastering two languages __________ English carefully.     A. did he set about learning                         B. did he set out learning  C. had he set about learning                      D. had he set out learning 参考答案： A 略 15. Have you seen the film Titanic ,        leading actor is world famous? A.its        B.it's         C.whose    D.which 参考答案： C 二、 翻译 16. 完成句子：（每空一词，共10 小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 71. Afterwards，I ______ (假装)to be cheerful, but Hannah sensed something was wrong. 72.  It is our duty to try to _______ _______ _______（削减）production and reduce the number of things we make and buy. 73  If mankind ______ _______ （戏弄）nature in this way, we may be on our way to producing a real-life Frankenstein’s monster. 74.  He or she will act or speak like a well-known person in order to _____  ______  ________ (拿…开玩笑，取笑，嘲弄) that person. 75.  Each time, he performs his stand-up routine in front of millions of people when the show is broadcast  _______（现场直播） 76.  Crystal is popular with all age groups and has the ability to _______（逗笑，使 …  娱乐）people all over the world. 77.  ________（无论….什么）the reason, research shows that in the end, The English saying, ‘Lighter is the best medicine’ , may be true after all. 78.  Well,________ ________（万一）some of our views don’t know her story, Can you tell us a little bit about Sang Lan and who she is? 79.  San Lan was not ________ (意识到)of the change until it was too late. 80.  She was able to overcome her sorrow by being proud of the things she had _________.（完成，实现） 参考答案： 三、 阅读理解 17. It seems hard to watch someone yawn（打哈欠） and not to yawn ourselves. Even reading about yawning can make you do it. Now, a new study has found why yawning has such a powerful force.      Yawning when others yawn, the study suggests, is a sign of pity and a form of social connection. Kids don’t develop this deeply rooted behavior until around age four, the study found. Kids with autism (自闭症) are less likely to catch yawns. In the most serious cases, they never do. Yawning might help doctors to see whether the chi