高一预备英语测试题
一、选择填空。20分
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
1．I enjoyed the movie very much．I wish I the book from which it was made． A．have read B．had read C．should have read D．am reading 2. —Do you know ____?—Sorry, I don't know.
A. where does Jimmy work B. where Jimmy works C. how does Jimmy go to work D. what does Jimmy do 3. “You’ve already got well， haven’t you？” she asked.
→She asked ________.
A. if I have already got well， hadn’t you B. whether I had already got well C. have I already got well D. had I already got wel 4. He asked， “How are you getting along？” →He asked _______. A. how am I getting along B. how are you getting along
C. how I was getting along D. how was I getting along 5. His father ________ to work in Hong Kong 3 years ago. A. sent B. was sent C. has sent D. has been sent 6. —Bill is ill. Do you know what's wrong with him?
—Poor boy. His illness is the ___ of eating unhealthy food.
A. result B. cause C. reason D. end 7. —Why did you come back so early?
—The English party has been ___ till next Friday.
A. put on B. put off C. put away D. put out 8.This is the hotel _______last month.
A. which they stayed B. at that they stayed C. where they stayed at D . where they stayed
9.0ur chairman hasn’t come yet．If he on time，we would have to put off the meeting．
A．should come B．would come C．shouldn’t come D．doesn’t come 10.This is one of the best films _______.
A. that have been shown this year B. that have shown C. that has been shown this year D. that you talked
二、完形填空。30分
Denny Crook was a famous photographer. He traveled all over the world, taking pictures for magazines and newspapers, and won many prizes.
“I’ll do anything to get a good photo,” he often said. “I’ll go anywhere at any time, even if it is (41).”
And he told the (42). He had photos of earthquakes, forest fires, floods and even wars. If something interesting happened, Denny went to photo it.
He was a married man and his wife often asked him to take her with him, but he always (43).”I’ll travel for my work, not for (44),” he told her . “You won’t enjoy yourself, and I won’t have (45) to look after you. Sometimes there’s not even
anywhere to (46), and I have to sleep outside. I often don’t have a good (47) or a bath for days. You won’t like it.”
“Denny, I’m not a child,” his wife didn’t (48). “I can look after myself. Please take me with you the next time you go overseas.”
Denny did not say anything, but he (49) about it, and when he was asked to go to Africa he said to his wife, “You can come to Africa with me if you want to. I’ve got to take photos of wild (50) there. It should be interesting and not too uncomfortable.”
His wife was very (51), and at first she had a very enjoyable time.
Then Denny went to off to (52) some lions to photo. His wife went with him, but before long they became separated. She walked down one path while he walked down the other.
Suddenly, Denny heard her (53). He ran back and saw her running toward him. A huge lion was chasing her.
Quickly Denny took his camera out of its case and (54) it at his wife and the lion. Then he shouted, “(55), woman! I can’t get you both in the picture!”
41. A. dangerous B. natural C. convenient D. impossible 42. A. lie B. reason C. news D. truth 43. A. allowed B. refused C. failed D. joked 44. A. wealth B. prize C. pleasure D. luck 45. A. money B. time C. interest D. ability 46. A. meet B. work C. shop D. stay 47. A. meal B. picnic C. room D. party 48. A. agree B. understand C. reply D. complain 49. A. worried B. forgot C. asked D. thought
50. A. land B. flowers C. animals D. people
51. A. confused B. excited C. surprised D. disappointed 52. A. find B. feed C. drive D. shoot 53. A. singing B. crying C. laughing D. cheering 54. A. threw B. fired C. showed D. pointed 55. A. Hurry up B. Look out C. Slow down D. Go ahead
三、阅读理解。10分
Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, \why that woman doesn't wash her window. It really looks terrible.\
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!
Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, \
Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
76. The writer couldn't see everything clearly through the window because_____.
A. the woman's window was dirty B. the writer's window was dirty
C. the woman lived nearby D. the writer was near-sighted
77. The writer was surprised that_____.
A. the woman was sitting by her window B. the woman's window was clean
C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon D. the woman's window was still terrible
78. \
A. I began to understand it B. it cheered me up
C. I knew it grew light D. it began to get dark
79. It's clear that _____.
A. the writer had never met the woman before
B. the writer often washed the window
C. they both worked as cleaners
D. they lived in a small town
80. From the passage, we can learn ______.
A. one shouldn't criticize others very often
B. one should often make his windows clean
C. one must judge himself before he judges others
D. one must look at others through his dirty windows
四、阅读理解填词。20分
One day Harvey’s wife was cleaning out a cupboard.
“Look at all these umbrellas,” Harvey’s wife said to him. “There are eight and they all b__(76)___.”
“I’ll take them all to the umbrella shop and have them repaired,” Harvey said. “They are too good to t__(77)__ away.”
Harvey took the eight umbrellas to the shop and l__(78)__ them there. The shopkeeper said, “They’ll be r__(79)__ tomorrow.”
That evening Harvey went home from the office by bus as he u__(80)__ did. He sat next to an old woman. She had an umbrella on the floor between the s__(81)__. When the bus reached his stop, he picked up her umbrella and stood up.
“Hey!” the woman said, “That umbrella b__(82)__ to me.”
“I’m so sorry.” Harvey said, giving it to her. “Please excuse me for taking your umbrella by m__(83)__.”
The next day he collected the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on the bus. As he sat down, a v__(84)__ behind said, “You have certainly had a s__(85)__ day!” He turned around and saw the woman whose umbrella he had almost taken the day before.
五、书面表达。20分
假设你是Li Ming, 请给你的美国笔友Tom 写一封 e—mail，介绍你的英语老师Mr. Lee。要点如下：
1.他40岁，有一个幸福的家；2. 性格外向，与学生相处很好；3. 他的课堂很有趣，课后常帮我们学英语；4. 不抽烟，非常喜欢运动，擅长下棋；5. 写一至两点其他同学对他的看法。 注意：
1.词数60—80，信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。2. 文中不要提及真实的校名和人名。
参考词汇：outgoing adj. 外向的 smoke v. 吸烟 chess n. 棋