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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上牛津英语高一下英语综合练习II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%):Section A (10%)Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other
2、 blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.English is (21) _ (widely) used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings (22) _ speak it. More than half of the worlds books and three quarters of international mail （23） _ (be) in English. Of all languages, English has th
3、e largest vocabulary perhaps as many as two million words. However, lets face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in (24) _ eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, (25) _ arent sweet, are meat. We take English
4、(26) _ granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them. And why is it (27) _ a writer writes, but fingers dont fing, grocers dont groce, and hammers dont ham? (28) _ the plural of tooth is teeth,
5、 shouldnt the plural of booth be beeth?How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next? So f
6、ar English, (29) _ (invent) by people not computers, (30) _ (reflect) the creativity of human beings. Section B (10%)Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. complicated B. seldom C. a
7、imed D. dangerous E. changeF. relative G. simple H. quality I. inexperienced J. ignore K. solution There are more than almost two million cars on the streets of Shanghai. Thats not a big number _31_ to the citys population of 23 million, but everyone agrees that traffic is a big problem here. And ma
8、ny people would argue that its not the number of cars on the road, but the _32_ of the drivers that is the main cause of concern. According to one survey, 37% of Shanghai drivers have less than three years of driving experience. Many of these drivers are middle-aged and have never operated machinery
9、 more _33_ than a washing machine. On the road, they drive fast when they should drive slow, _34_ use turn signals, and make right turns on red lights without stopping first. And in the past year, there have been several incidents that resulted in pedestrian deaths when _35_ drivers mistook the gas
10、pedal for the brake (刹车)pedal. There are new regulations _36_ at making it more difficult for people to get a drivers license, but that is only a partial _37_ to Shanghais traffic problems. What is really needed is a _38_ in drivers attitudes. There seems to be a lack of concern for safety on the pa
11、rt of drivers: their own safety and the safety of others. You can see this every day as drivers change lanes aggressively and _39_ pedestrians at crosswalks and intersections.A car is a great convenience, but it can also be a _40_ weapon. Drivers will have to realize that before Shanghais streets ca
12、n become truly safe.III. Reading Comprehension (24%)：Section A (15%)Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word and phrase that best fits the context. We often praise science. It explains the world and mak
13、es our lives _41_ through technology. One of the most exciting scientific _42_ is artificial intelligence (人工智能，AI). This is an area in which scientists are working on _43_ machines that think like humans. _44_ , one of the most famous scientists has a very dark _45_ about this type of technology. “
14、The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the _46_ of the human race,” said Professor Stephen Hawking to the BBC. Hawking is a well-known British physicist and the author of the bestselling science book A Brief History of Time. He gave his warning after _47_ on the technology he us
15、es to speak with. As Hawking _48_ from a serious disease called ALS, he needs an AI computer to _49_. The computer learns how Hawking thinks and suggests the _50_ he may want to use next. This is a basic type of AI, and is very useful, yet Hawking fears the possibility of creating technology that can _51_ or surpass (超过) human intelligence. And its easy to _52_ how terrible things may be. Many TV shows and films display big, killer machines that are far cleverer than us. “Humans, wh
