高二英语竞赛题

高二英语竞赛题

满分100分

第一部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节 单项选择(共15题，每题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

1.Everyone in these country enjoys the same right＿＿religion, race or sex.

A. Regardless of B.in view of C.in spite of D.in case of

2.—What has made him upset resently?

--＿＿alone to face a troublesome milk case.

A. Left B.Being left C.Having left D.To leave

3.—What a successful Sping Festival Gala(春晚)! Who said we couldn‘t make it?

A..Let‘s kill the fatted calf B.Practice makes perfect

C.Action speak louder than words D.A golden key can open any door

4.The fog was so heavy this morning that drivers could hardly＿＿the things just ten meters away from them.

A.figure out B.took out C.make out D.rule out

5.Because of the financial crisis, quite a few companies are＿＿now.

A.in the black B.in the red C.as white as a sheet D.as dark as night

6.Mrs.Hanson,a housewife bent on getting ＿＿higher education,has been going to college, a few course at＿＿time,for 5 years.

A.a; a B.不填; the C.The; the D不填；不填

7.Studying alone,you are free to choose what to learn and when,＿＿you don‘t need others‘ agreement.

A.while B.if C.though D.as

8.—what’s up? You look down.

--I have piles of papers ＿＿ , but I type so slowly.

A. to be typed B.typed C.to type D.being typed

9.—Sorry indeed, I＿＿ to your birthday party if ...

--Forget it.I know you were out on business.

A. must come B.must have come C.would come D.would have come

10.—English, as a living-language, ＿＿ all the time.

--Right. Who know what it will be like in the years to come?

A.will change B.was changing C.is changing D.has changed

11.The black house is ＿＿of the pair.

A.the strongest B.strong C.the stronger D.stronger

12.If he the poem“Deer Park ”,he would have liked the poem Wang Wei in Tang Dynasty.

A. had read B.In honor of C.In term of D.In case of

13.Recently our school has introduced new personnel evaluating system with less emphasis on age ＿＿.

A. and more on ability B.than more on ability

C.and more ability D.than ability

14.Written in a hurry,＿＿.How can it be satisfactory?

A. The report is full of mistakes.

B.Sam made lots of mistakes in the report.

C.There are plenty of mistakes in the report

D.They found many mistakes in the report.

15.＿＿ is put in the report, the new machine will work twice as fast, thus reducing costs.

A. As B.While C.That D.What

第二节 完形填空（共20题，每题1分，满分20分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项

The requirements for high school graduation have just changed in

my community. As a result, all students hours of service will not receive a diploma. Service

learning is academic learning that also helps the community. of service learning include cleaning up a polluted river, working in a soup kitchen, or tutoring a student. service experience, students must keep a journal（日志）and then write a about what they have learned.

Supporters claim that there are many of service learning.

Perhaps most importantly, students are forced to think their own interests and become of the needs of others. Students are also able to learn real-life skills that responsibility, problem-solving, and working as part of a team. students can explore possible careers service learning.

For example, if a student wonders what teaching is like, he or she can choose to work in an elementary school classroom a few afternoons there are many benefits, opponents （反对者） problems with the new requirement. First, they the main reason students go to school is to learn core subjects and skills. Because service learning is time-consuming, students spend time studying the core subjects. Second, they believe that forcing students to work goes against the law. By requiring service, the school takes away an individual's freedom to choose.

In my view, service learning is a great way to to the community, learn new skills, and explore different careers. , I don' t believe you should force people to help others – the to help must come from the heart. I think the one that gives students choices: a student should be able to choose sixty hours of independent study or sixty hours of service. Choice encourages both freedom and responsibility, and as young adults, we must learn to handle both wisely.

16. A.spend B. gain C .complete D. save

17. A.and B. or C. but D. for

18. A. Subjects B. ideas C. Procedures D. Examples

19. A. With B. Before C . During D. After

20. A. diary B.report C . note D. notice

21. A.. courses B. benefits C . challenges

22. A.beyond B. about C. over

23. A. careful B. proud C. tired

24. A. possess B. apply C. include

25. A. Gradually B. Finally C.Luckily

26. A. through B. across C. of

27. A. So B. Thus C . Since

28. A.deal with B.look into C.point out

29. A. argue B. doubt C.overlook

30. A. much B. full C. less

31. A. cost B. pay C. care.

32. A. contribute B. appeal C. attend

33. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. Besides

34. A.courage B. desire C. emotion

35. A. decision B. purpose C. solution D. features D. in D. aware D. develop D. Hopefully D. on D. While D. take down D. admit D. more D. praise D. belong D. However D.spirit D. result

第二部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

A

Have you ever noticed the colour of the water in a river or stream after a heavy rainfall? What do you think caused this change in colour? It is soil that has been washed into the river from the riverbank or from t}le nearby fields．

Components of Soft

Soil is made up of a number of layers（层），each having its own distinctive colour and texture．The upper layer is known as the litter．It acts like a blanket．limiting temperature changes and reducing water loss．The topsoil layer is made up of small particles of rock mixed with rotten plant and animal matter called humus（腐殖质），which is black and gives the topsoil its dark colour．This layer is usually rich in nutrients，oxygen，and water．Below the topsoil is the subsoil，a layer that contains more stones mixed with only small amounts of organic matter．This layer is lighter in colour because of the lack of humus．Beneath the soil lies a layer of bedrock．

Soil forms from the bottom up．Over time bedrock is attacked by rain, wind，frost, and snow．It is gradually broken down into smaller particles in a process called weathering．Plants begin to grow，and rotten materials

enrich the topsoil．Most of the soil in Eastern Canada．for example．Was formed from weathered rock that was exposed when the ice disappeared l2．000 years ag0．

Water Beneath the Soil

Surface water collects and flows above the ground in lakes．ponds．and rivers．Once in the soil or rock，it is called groundwater．Gravity pulls groundwater through the soil in a process called percolation（渗透）．Eventually the water reaches a layer called the water table．Under this is bedrock through which water cannot percolate．

As water percolates downward，it dissolves organic matter and minerals from the soil and carries them to deeper layers．This causes a serious problem because plants require these nutrients for growth.

Soil pH

Soil can be acidic．neutral．or basic．The pH of the soil is determined by the nature of the rock

from which it was formed．and by the nature of t}le plants that grow and rot in it．

The acidity of rain and snow can lower the pH of the groundwater that enters the soil．By burning fossil fuels such as coal，oil and gasoline，humans have been contributing to higher levels of acidity in many soils．When fossil fuels are burned．gases are released into the air and then fall back to earth as acid rain．Acid soil increases出e problem of

carrying nutrients to lower soil levels．As nutrients are removed，soil is less fertile．Plants grow more slowly in acidic soil，and also become easily attacked by diseases．

36．The layer of soil that provides necessary nutrients for plant growth is called．

A．1itter B．topsoil C．humus D．subsoil

37．According to the text．which of the following is NOT true?

A．Soil forms from weathered rock on the earth surface．

B．The deeper layer of soil is darker in colour than t}le surface soil．

C．Air pollution is partially responsible for acid soil．

D．Groundwater tends to carry away nutrients for plant growth．

38．We can infer from the passage that the water table lies ．

A．between the topsoil layer and the subsoil layer

B．in the subsoil layer above bedrock

C．between the subsoil layer and bedrock

D．in the bedrock layer beneath the subsoil

39．The underlined word ―dissolve‖ is used to express the idea that organic matter and minerals from soil are ．

A．rushed away into the river

B．cleaned and purified by water

C．destroyed and carried away by water

D．mixed with water and become part of it

B

After nearly a decade of planning, the Egyptian Government has announced an ambitious plan to build the world‘s biggest museum devoted entirely to exhibiting the ancient relics（文物）.

Called the New Egyptian Museum, it will eventually house the largest collection of Pharaonic（法老的）monuments, including the solid gold death mask of Tutankhamun.

King Nebkheperura Tutankhamun remains the most famous of all the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. He lived over 3,300 years ago during the period known as the New Kingdom.

The museum also will house more than120,000 antiquities（ancient arts）from the 4th millennium（1,000 years）BC to the fall of the Roman Empire.

For the first time, the entire 3,500 items from Tutankhamun‘s tomb will be displayed. Permanent exhibitions will include the royal mummies of Ramses II and III and other pharaohs and a large quantity of collection of Pharaonic jewellery.

Antiquities will be organized by theme rather than chronologically（编年地）. The four main themes will be: the land of Egypt; royalty and the state; arts of life and death; and scribes（文牍）and wisdom.

With building costs estimated near US$311 million, funding for the new museum will come from corporate sponsorship and charitable（慈善的）donations. The Egyptian Government is expected to pay one third of the final bill.

40.____ will build the world‘s biggest museum devoted entirely to exhibiting the ancient relics.

A. The Egypt government B. A corporate body

C. The charitable body D. The Egypt government and a corporate body

41.When you go into one exhibiting hall of the would-be museum, you‘ll see ____.

A. all the exhibits are arranged by the year

B. all the exhibits are arranged by theme

C. more than 120,000 Egyptian antiquities are on show

D. Pharaonic monuments of Tutankhamun and the royal relics

42.According to the passage, ____.

A. the most valuable relics that are to be displayed are 120,000

antiquities from the 4th millennium

B. 3,500 items of relics have been discovered from Tutankhamun‘s tomb

C. the Pharaonic monuments of Tutankhamun are the oldest relics

D. the royal mummies of Ramses II and III and other pharaohs will be

displayed for the second time

43.The best title of the passage should be ____.

A. Egypt‘s Ambitious Plan B. The World‘s Biggest Museum for the Ancient relics

C. Egypt to Construct New Museum D. Ancient Egyptian relics are to be Displayed

C

When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously（同时的）about a variety of subjects, including children, men, careers and what' s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen -- they can' t do both -- and they don' t understand that women can. Besides, women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships -- not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen.

During the ad breaks, a man often asks a woman to explain the plot and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women, to read the subtle body language signals that reveal how the characters are feeling emotionally. Since women

originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group, they developed the ability to communicate successfully in order to maintain relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to relate the facts.

Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a means of bonding. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.

There is no convincing evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girls' mothers talked them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr Michael Lewis, author Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to and looked at, baby girls more often than baby boys. Scientific evidence shows parents res the brain bias of their children. Since a girl' s brain is better organized to send and receive speech ,

we therefore talk to them more. Consequently, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually pointed to receive only short grunts in reply.

44.While watching TV with others, women Usually talk a lot because they

A. are afraid of awkward silence with their families and friends

B. can both talk and watch the screen at the Same time

C. think they can have a good time and develop relationships

D. have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands

45. After a vacation with her girlfriend, a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hours in order to A. experience the happy time again B. keep a close tie with her

C. recommend her a new scenic spot D. remind her of something forgotten

46. What does the author want to tell us most?

A. Women' s brains are better organized for language and communication

B. Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men.

C. Men do not like talking because they rely more on facts.

D. Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking.

47. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Women Are Socially Trained to Talk B. Talking Maintains Relationships

C, Women Love to Talk D. Men Talk Differently from Women

D

The man traveling in the back of the ambulance which thrust its way

through the streets of Baltimore that morning in 1967 had no business to be alive. By everything that was reasonable, and there were plenty of wasn‘t. As the people in the hospital pointed out after they had examined him, he was only slightly bruised. Yet he has just fallen 150 feet down a hotel lift shaft!

Unknown to the man, two things had occurred which were to affect his life that day. On the thirteenth floor of the hotel, somebody had carelessly left the lift gate open. Down in the basement, a pipe had burst and, before anyone could check the rush of water, it had flooded the bottom of the lift shaft to a depth of two feet.

Modern lifts have all sorts of fail-safe mechanisms to prevent accidents, but this was an ancient contraption（奇妙的装置）— unreliable, creaking, slow, hazardous（dangerous）, and suitable material for any scrap dealer who cared to take it away.

The man had plenty of things to occupy his mind that morning. He had overslept. The hotel had forgotten to call him and now he was late for an important business appointment. He dressed quickly, shaved hurriedly, grabbed his briefcase and hurried off down the hotel corridor.

Good! The lift gate was open. The lift must be there. He need not press the button and wait while the large, clumsy（badly-made）lift hauled its way upwards. Without looking or thinking he stepped out into space The

lift cage was, in fact, one floor above him on the fourteenth. The world into which he had walked was a narrow space of not very fresh air, ending 150 feet below in two feet of dirty water.

The man descended（dropped）, making his journey to the ground at a speed he had never dreamed of. Confused patterns, whirling shapes, a rush of air, time enough to be afraid, split-second thoughts of death, then — crash.

Perhaps this gave him the record for some sort of high-diving act. No doubt in future he always looked before he leap. Certainly he learnt that this was no way to save time. The experts said that those two feet of water had saved his life.

48.How do we know that the story is true?

A. We are told the place and time. B. We are given plenty of details.

C. Lifts often go wrong. D. The man won a high-diving record.

49.By ‗had no business to be alive‘ the writer means that the man ____.

A. had missed his business appointment. B. was only just alive.

C. had done very little business. D. was alive and this was very surprising.

50.The word ―precedents‖ in paragraph 1 refers to ____.

A. other people who had had similar accidents. B. rulers of

countries.

C. the height which the man fell. D. the man‘s injuries.

第三部分：

第一节: 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题l分，满分l0分） 请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。

Communication Principles

How you see yourself can make a great difference in how you communicate．―Every individual exists in a continually changing world of experience of which he（or she）is the center‖．Many communication scholars and social scientists believe that people are products of how others treat them and of the messages others send them．But every day we experience the centrality of our selves in communication．A student．for instance，may describe a conflict with a teacher as unfair treatment：―I know my teacher doesn‘t like the fact that I don‘t agree with his opinions．and that‘s why he gave me such a poor grade in that class．‖The teacher might say the opposite．Each person may believe that he is correct and that the other person‘s view is wrong．

The concept of serf originates in communication．Through verbal

and nonverbal symbols, a child learns to accept roles in response to the expectations of others．You establish self-image。The sort of person you believe you are，by how others think of you．Positive，negative，and neutral messages that you receive from others all play a role in determining who you are．Communication itself is probably best understood as a dialogue process．Our understanding of communication comes from our interactions with other people．In a more obvious way．communication involves others in the sense that a competent communicator considers what the other person needs and expects when selecting messages to share．So，the communication begins with the self，as defined largely by others，and involves others，as defined largely by the self．

Communication Occurs almost every minute of your life．If you are not communicating with yourself（thinking，planning，reacting to the world around you），you are observing others and drawing inferences from their behavior．Even if the other person did not intend a message for you．you gather observations and draw specific conclusions．A person yawns and you believe that person is bored with your message．A second person looks away from you and you conclude that person is not listening to you．A third person smiles（perhaps because of a memory of a joke he heard recently） and you believe that he is attracted to you．We are continually picking up meanings from others‘ behaviors and we are

constantly providing behaviors that have communicative value for them．

More often than not，you may have hurt someone accidentally and you may have tried to explain that you did not mean that. You may have told the other person that you were sorry for your statement．You may have made a joke out of your rude statement．Nonetheless，your comment remains both in the mind of the other person and in your own mind．You cannot go back in time and erase your messages to others．Communication cannot be reversed（倒退），nor can it be repeated．When you tried to re—create the atmosphere，the conversation，and the setting，nothing seemed right．Your second experience with a similar setting and person made far different results．

第二节 书面表达（满分25分） 

某英文报正在征集有关中学生学习生活的文稿。普通高中新课程已在我市实施了三年，高中三年丰富多彩的学习生活给你留下了深刻印象。请你根据下表提示写一篇短文向报社投稿，介绍你的学习生活，谈谈自己的感想。 注意：

1. 开头语已给出，不计入总词数；

2. 可根据内容要点适当发挥，但不要逐条翻译；

3. 词数：120左右。

I‘m a Senior 3 student. Looking back on the three years‘ school life, I feel grateful for the help from my school, my teachers and classmates.